Over many centuries of human existence, many cases of unusual precipitation have been recorded. And this is not only bloody rain, but also frogs, excrement, fish, salt, coins and banknotes falling on the ground. If in most cases the explanation is a large tornado, then the mystery of the bloody rains could not be solved for many years.

The very first mention of rain dates back to the 8th century BC. The ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch from Chaeronea was the first to try to interpret the phenomenon. He suggested that the water was colored due to the evaporated blood of killed soldiers after battles with Germany.

Eyewitness accounts have been recorded claiming that not only drops of blood fell from the sky, but also pieces of meat. The fact that there were neither clouds nor wind in the sky added to the fear of the people. It was mystical. The liquid taken for a primitive analysis, according to the specialist, turned out to be blood. But it would be wrong to believe the results of this examination, since the subsequent ones spoke about something completely different.

According to weather forecasters, one day bird blood fell from the sky. Presumably, a flock of birds was caught in such a strong wind whirlwind that it was torn into tiny pieces, hence the precipitation. But no one could explain why feathers, beaks and all other components did not fall to the ground along with this.

The last recorded rain occurred in 2001. This summer in India was periodically accompanied by unusual precipitation for 2 months. Local residents observed both red and yellow, black, green drops. During these years, scientists already had the opportunity to conduct a complete analysis of precipitation. It was initially assumed that the color of the shower was the result of a meteorite explosion, but this version was refuted after the results of the examination were made public. The culprit was spores of local algae caught in the rain. It was also revealed that there were no pollution, gases, or volcanic dust in the raindrops.

Due to the fact that it rained for a long time, algae grew with high speed and in large quantities. This contributed to the constant release of red spores into the atmosphere, and accordingly the coloring of precipitation throughout both months.

In Russia, bloody rain fell in 1891. IN Yaroslavl region, in Rybinsk. A pinkish cloud spread over the port, thunder struck, and the city residents were horrified by what they saw. The sky turned red from the water, every object was painted this color. One of the eyewitnesses guessed to take a sample from the river, which also became colored. But as soon as the container touched the water, the liquid acquired white. And then it was no longer suitable for research.
In October 2012, the weather service warned residents and visitors to Sweden that precipitation, popularly called “blood rain,” was possible. Dust particles from the sands of the Sahara fell into a thunderstorm front approaching the kingdom. Meteorologists hastened to reassure impressionable people that this phenomenon does not carry anything negative. It is not harmful to skin, cars or animals. The only trouble awaiting eyewitnesses of the phenomenon are bloody streaks on objects caught in the path of the downpour. The experts' forecast did not come true.

In 2012, at the resort of Sri Lanka, vacationers witnessed an unusual phenomenon.
It rained pinkish in the morning for two days. Drying puddles left reddish marks on the ground. The researchers were tasked with finding out the cause of the event. The answer could not be found in previous studies. The dust particles would not travel the distance from the Sahara to the island. The situation in India was also not suitable - algae does not grow in the surrounding area, releasing microorganisms into the atmosphere.

Even in our advanced age, with 3D films and incredible special effects, this phenomenon makes an indelible impression. What were the emotions of people who observed the phenomenon for the first time?!

There are many unusual and even frightening natural phenomena on the planet. One of them was “ bloody rain“, which was witnessed by residents of the Indian state of Kerala. Here it rained for a whole month, the color very much reminiscent of blood. This phenomenon was first recorded here from July 25 to September 21, 2001. Moreover, they claimed that people also saw rain of other colors (yellow, green and black). Bloody Rain and has previously fallen over different regions more than once, so the recent one is not an isolated phenomenon.

Bloody rain in history

In 582 bloody rain rained over Paris. Almost 10 centuries later, in 1571, it passed over Holland and flooded the surrounding area. the rain turned the houses and trees red.
Later, bloody rains fell over Europe in 1669, 1689, 1744, 1813.
In 1819, the effects of rain in Blankenberg, Belgium, were analyzed. Previously it was believed that the cause of rain is the sands of the Sahara, which are mixed with drops of water. The analysis showed that this version false, and cobalt chloride was found in the drops.
In America in the mid-19th century, there was evidence that it was blood that came from the sky, and human blood at that. Often such rains caused a burning sensation on the skin, and clothes could not be washed off. Sometimes the grass turned bright green after it, and sometimes it dried up.

Blood Rain: Theories of Appearance

After research in Kerala, it was discovered that the cause of red rain was red algae spores that mixed with the water.
However, there are other versions of the origin of the bloody rain: the paint of hawthorn butterflies or a parcel from outer space, because among the analyzed particles from Kerala, objects unfamiliar to science were found. According to scientists, they are associated with the Red Square Nebula, located 2300 light years from Earth.
Moreover, in 2012, a similar phenomenon repeated in India - bloody rain rained over the town of Kannur.
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Colored particles rainwater, which fell in southern India. The picture was taken under a microscope at 1000x magnification.

Trentepoly algae cells are arranged one after another, forming threads.

In the summer of 2001, rain with red droplets fell repeatedly over the Indian state of Kerala (the southern tip of the Hindustan Peninsula) for about two months. Local newspapers printed notes from correspondents and letters from readers surprised unusual phenomenon. The color of the water falling from the sky ranged from pink to bright red, comparable to the color of blood.

Physicist Godfrey Louis, who works at the University of Kottayam in India, and his student Santosh Kumar collected more than 120 such reports from newspapers and other sources and many samples of unusual rainwater from different parts of the state. Having placed the drops under a microscope, they saw in the water what gave it its red color: many round red particles with a diameter of 4-10 micrometers, about nine million per milliliter. After evaporating several samples, the researchers found that there were about one hundred grams of red sediment per cubic meter of water. According to Louis, during the several dozen episodes described in local newspapers, about five millimeters of precipitation fell per square kilometer of area affected by the rains. This is 500 thousand cubic meters of water, that is, 50 tons of red dust.

Maybe it's really dust? Fine sand blown by the wind is sometimes transported over long distances. It also comes in red. So, in July 1968, in the south of England, thin red sand from the Sahara fell with rain. Dust from the Sahara sometimes blows across Atlantic Ocean and to America. But, Louis believes, transfer from some remote areas can be ruled out, since during the two months that the red rains fell, the weather and wind direction changed more than once.

Under a microscope, the red particles do not look like sand, but like some kind of biological objects like cells or spores, round, with a concave middle and a thick wall. Chemical analysis showed the presence of 50% carbon and 45% oxygen (by weight) with small quantities sodium and iron, which resembles the composition of living cells. Are the red particles the spores of some fungus or pollen washed off trees and roofs by rainwater? This is impossible: red water also accumulated in buckets placed in open areas, far from trees and buildings. In addition, chitin is present in mushroom spores, as well as in the mushrooms themselves, but it was not found in the red rain particles.

Godfrey Louis put forward an unexpected hypothesis: red rains are associated with a meteor explosion in upper layers atmosphere over Kerala.

In the early morning of July 25, a few hours before the first “bloody” rain, residents of Kottayam and the surrounding area heard a loud bang. The glass in the windows shook. Judging by the results of a survey of those who heard the explosion, the meteor flew from north to south and exploded over the town. Louis suggests that it was a fragment of some kind of comet carrying extraterrestrial microorganisms. Some of them fell into the lower layers of the atmosphere and fell to Earth with rainwater.

His bold assumption fits into the mainstream of the so-called panspermia hypothesis, according to which life arose not on Earth, but somewhere in space, and in its primitive forms of certain spores or embryos, under the influence of light pressure, eternally migrates throughout the Universe on meteorites, comets, or simply in interstellar dust. So these disputes ended up on our planet, where, under favorable earthly conditions, they began evolution, which gradually reached man. The panspermia hypothesis emerged in the 19th century and was supported by many prominent scientists, such as Svante Arrhenius and Hermann Helmholtz. Then it was already known that some lower organisms could endure vacuum and cold close to absolute zero for a long time in a state of suspended animation, but science still knew nothing about hard cosmic radiation. True, the few supporters of panspermia these days argue that particularly resistant microorganisms can survive in the depths of a meteorite, under the protection of its material.

What other options can you suggest? Still, it cannot be completely ruled out that these are spores of some algae, pollen, or some unknown terrestrial microorganisms. Not all the flora and microflora of the Earth have been studied yet, especially in India.

Concave middle part rounded formations and red color are characteristic of mammalian red blood cells. But 50 tons of red blood cells per square kilometer is something too much. Not to mention that red blood cells are completely destroyed in rainwater after a few minutes: to maintain their integrity, they require a saline solution of the same concentration as blood plasma. Spectrometry of the mysterious red particles in the optical range showed that they absorb light most strongly at a wavelength of 505 nanometers and there is also a small absorption peak at 600 nanometers. Regular hemoglobin with oxygen attached gives an absorption maximum at 575 and 540 nanometers, and hemoglobin deprived of oxygen has one absorption band - about 565 nanometers. So if the particles of “bloody” rain are still erythrocytes, then they do not contain ordinary terrestrial hemoglobin.

Tropical Specialists botanical garden in Kerala they say that these may be spores of the terrestrial microscopic alga Trentepoly, common in India. The color of trentepoly cells is given by a pigment such as carotene. Algae forms on the bark of wet trees tropical forest red or yellow powdery coating. This assumption can be confirmed or refuted by comparing DNA. An analysis carried out in England, at the universities of Sheffield and Cardiff, made it possible to detect DNA in the mysterious particles, but it has not yet been possible to multiply it using the polymerase chain reaction method in order to study it in more detail.

In general, an terrestrial origin for red rain seems more likely. But even then the question arises: where did so much algae get into the sky? Is it really possible for a tornado that would selectively remove only algae from the bark of trees and lift into the sky, without capturing any pieces of the bark itself or the leaves of the crown?

Sometimes nature presents us with “surprises” that are very difficult to understand and explain. Some of them frighten, some surprise, but never leave you indifferent. All these natural anomalies and disasters only prove the power of Mother Nature and force us not to forget about her treachery and power.

New English term"brinicle" from "brine" ( ocean water) and "icicle" (icicle) denote a column of water in the ocean, saltier and denser than surrounding water, and very cold - colder than ice.

This ice column slowly descends from the surface of the ocean to the very bottom (here it is Southern Ocean) and freezes everything in its path, including the inhabitants of the ocean floor.

Cinematographers Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson pioneered a previously unknown phenomenon during their presence in Antarctica. Above the surface of the ocean, cameramen found ice stalactites, which burn through the depths of the ocean in the form of a stream of extremely cold (almost frozen) and very salty water. Scientists called this phenomenon "brinicles", and the operators who observed it dubbed this phenomenon " icy finger death."

The water of this jet has a much higher density than all the other ocean water surrounding it, and besides, the temperature of this jet is much lower, it is colder than ice, literally speaking. “Icicles of Death” are underwater stalactites. They received this name due to the fact that, forming at the bottom in places where impurities enter the water (these icicles are the center of crystallization), they kill on their way starfish and sea urchins.

Research by biologists has shown that the ice in the “icicles of death” is much more porous than in ice floes, and it carries salts to the surface of the sea.

Oceanographer Seelye Martin was the first to describe this phenomenon in detail in 1974. Now, a group of researchers from Spain has published a study on the composition and structure of brynicles, proposing a model for the mechanism of their formation. When salty ocean water freezes, it releases salt to form fresh ice. This excess salt saturates the water remaining on the surface of the ice and in cavities in the ice column.

The result is ice reservoirs containing a high-density, hypersaline solution with a very low freezing point: as salinity increases, this temperature decreases. If the ice cracks, this dense, heavy and extremely cold liquid begins to sink to the bottom in the form of such a deadly stream, freezing all living things in its path.

The Great Smog is a serious air pollution event that occurred in London in December 1952. During the anticyclone, which brought cold and windless weather, pollutants - mainly coal - accumulated over the city, forming a thick layer of smog. This lasted from Friday 5th to Tuesday 9th December 1952, after which the weather changed and the fog lifted.

Severe frosts forced power plants, the main fuel for which was coal, to work at full capacity. But besides this, there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions of fireplaces in London, also heated by coal. In the December days of 1952, the residents of London, in order to somehow warm themselves, did not spare coal, not knowing what this would soon turn into.

The fog, due to the accumulation of harmful substances, had a yellow-black color, for which it received the name “pea soup.” Due to the absolute calmness of the wind, the fog, or, more precisely, smog, hung over the British capital from December 5 to 9, 1952. Every day, due to the fact that concentration harmful impurities in the air increased, the situation rapidly deteriorated.

The investigation into the Great London Smog reached the parliamentary level, where terrifying figures were announced. According to the Ministry of Health, about 4,000 people became victims of the smog. Main reason deaths are problems respiratory organs. Even adults and healthy people they complained of lack of air, and for the elderly, chronically ill and infants, the Great Smog became fatal. Further research showed that various respiratory diseases associated with the effects of the Great Smog of 1952 were found in 100,000 people. During the first months after it total number victims increased to 12,000 people.

"Bloody" rains

The ancient Greek historian and writer Plutarch talked about the bloody rains that fell after big battles with the Germanic tribes. He was sure that bloody fumes from the battlefield permeated the air and turned ordinary drops of water blood red.

In 582, bloody rain fell in Paris.

In 1571, red rain fell in Holland.

Bloody rains were recorded by the French Academy of Sciences. In her scientific “Memoirs” it is written: “On March 17, 1669, a mysterious heavy viscous liquid fell on the city of Chatilien (on the Seine River), similar to blood, but with a sharp unpleasant smell. Large drops of it hung on the roofs, walls and windows of houses. Academicians racked their brains for a long time trying to explain what happened and finally decided that the liquid was formed... in the rotten waters of some swamp and was carried into the sky by a whirlwind!”

In 1689 it rained blood in Venice, in 1744 in Genoa.

In the early spring of 1813, a bloody rain suddenly fell over the Kingdom of Naples.

On August 17, 1841, people working in a tobacco field in Tennessee were very surprised to hear the sound of large drops hitting the leaves. Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the drops resembled blood and were falling from a strange red cloud.

In the March 1876 issue of Scientific American, you can read that on March 8, many people in Kentucky, USA, witnessed the fall of “meat flakes.”

The Italian Met Office determined the substance was bird blood, Popular Science News reported.

From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain periodically fell across the southern Indian state Kerala.

Throughout coastline carmine-red rains were falling, staining the clothes of local residents pink, burning the leaves on the trees and sometimes falling in scarlet showers.

In October 2012, red rain fell in Sweden.

Residents of the southern regions of Sweden could observe a strange natural phenomenon over the weekend – weather forecasters predicted “bloody rain”.

The name “blood rain” should not be taken literally. In theory, this plain water, only with an admixture of reddish dust from the Sahara Desert. According to information from the Swedish Meteorological Institute, this kind of precipitation is absolutely harmless to human health.

"Bloody Rain" in India.

For a whole month, residents of the Indian state of Kerala could witness with their own eyes a real Egyptian execution, in which, as you know, all the water turned into blood in an instant. For several weeks, the Indian lands were flooded with bloody rains, causing real horror to all local residents who observed this phenomenon. In fact, the culprit turned out to be no less terrifying natural disaster- a waterspout that sucked red algae spores from local water bodies, mixed them with rainwater into a frightening cocktail and brought them down on the heads of unsuspecting Indians.

The causes of red rain can be different, but in most cases they are quite understandable.

“Black Day” in Yamal 1938

This is one of those cases that neither astronomers nor specialists in other fields can explain. Geologists working on the peninsula talk about sudden darkness, which was also accompanied by complete radio silence: it was impossible to find a single station on the air. Having launched several signal flares, geologists were able to establish that extremely dense clouds were hanging above the ground at low altitude, preventing sun rays. There was no dust, no solid particles, or precipitation on the ground.

These strange clouds subsequently left no traces on the surface of the earth - neither precipitation nor dust. Geologists, using the light of signal flares, were able to determine that the darkening band widened by 200-250 kilometers and also moved from west to east. She crossed southern part Yamal and captured the Gulf of Ob. The darkness lasted about an hour and then cleared.

Similar cases were observed before the Yamal one. On May 19, 1780, in the middle of the day, suddenly “a black sheet covered the sky,” as eyewitnesses described it. On those days full moon appeared only after midnight - blood-red, then the stars began to appear and the usual picture of the world returned to normal. June 2, 1802 in Pacific Ocean The crew of the schooner "Eldorado" was caught in complete darkness during the day in complete calm; after half an hour the darkness dissipated. Sudden darkness in broad daylight has been recorded in 1884 in England, 1886 in Wisconsin and 1904 in Memphis (USA).

Such phenomena, due to their rarity and unpredictability, have not been studied at all.

Fire tornado is atmospheric phenomenon, which is formed when initially separate fires come together. The air above the fire heats up, its density decreases and it rises. From below, cold air masses from the periphery enter in its place. The arriving air also heats up. Oxygen leakage occurs. Stable centripetal directional flows are formed, spiraling from the ground to a height of up to five kilometers. A chimney effect occurs. The pressure of hot air reaches hurricane speeds. The temperature rises to 1000˚C. Everything that is nearby is “sucked” into the fiery tornado - it burns and melts. And so on until everything that can burn has burned.

One of the most bright examples such a phenomenon was the fire in Hamburg in July 1943. The bombing of Hamburg was a series of “carpet bombings” of the city carried out by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain and Air Force USA July 25 - August 3, 1943 as part of Operation Gomorrah. As a result of the air raids, up to 45,000 people were killed, up to 125 thousand were injured (estimates vary, numbers range from 37 to 200 thousand), about a million residents were forced to leave the city.

The greatest number of victims occurred on the night of July 28, when a huge fire tornado formed in the city. The number of victims that night is estimated at approximately 40 thousand people, most of whom were poisoned by combustion products. About 21 square kilometers of the city were destroyed in the fire.

The consequences of this phenomenon were extremely destructive due to the prevailing dry and hot weather, as well as blockages on the roads, which prevented fire brigades from reaching the fires. Due to the temperature difference, the hot air created a strong draft, literally sucking people into the fire. The speed of the storm's wind on the streets reached 240 km/h, and its temperature exceeded 800 ˚С. The asphalt burned due to the intense heat, and people in bomb shelters suffocated due to oxygen burnout, or burned alive.

Of course, such destructive fire tornadoes do not occur often, but one of them, in 1923 in Japan, lasted only 15 minutes and killed almost forty thousand people! In 15 minutes! That tornado arose after the Great Kanto Earthquake from massive fires, and was not only natural phenomenon, but its destructive power was colossal.

Fire tornado. Alice Springs, Chris Tangey, Australia, 2012

One of the most recent fairly large-scale fire tornadoes occurred quite recently, in early September in Australia, in the famous town of Alice Springs, the capital of central Australia.

A rare natural phenomenon called “blood rain” may occur in a number of areas of Sweden over the weekend, the Swedish online newspaper Local reported on Saturday, citing weather forecasters.

Forecasters use “blood rain” to describe a rare phenomenon when the precipitation has a pinkish-reddish hue. Scientists and meteorologists believe that this is due to the accumulation of dust from the Sahara Desert in raindrops, RIA Novosti reports.

Danish meteorologists reported that just such a thunderstorm front with dust from the Sahara could fall in “bloody rains” on Saturday and Sunday in the southern regions of its Scandinavian neighbor, Sweden.

According to the representative of the Swedish Meteorological Institute (SMHI) Jokim Langner, this phenomenon does not pose a danger, such rain will only leave reddish stains. “Bloody rain” previously occurred in Sweden at intervals of about five years, usually occurring in the spring, Langner noted.

The unusual phenomenon was first mentioned in Homer’s Iliad (8th century BC). Until the 17th century, people believed that blood was actually dripping from the sky instead of water, and this phenomenon was regarded as a bad omen, the newspaper notes.

Bloody rain. Harbinger of the Apocalypse

How terrible is the sight when, instead of the usual rain, an ominous stream pours from the sky - red as blood? It turns out that such bloody rains have happened hundreds of times in history - both in hoary antiquity and in times closer to us.

The ancient Greek historian and writer Plutarch talked about the bloody rains that fell after big battles with the Germanic tribes. He was sure that bloody fumes from the battlefield permeated the air and colored ordinary drops of water in

blood red color.

In 582, bloody rain fell in Paris. “For many people, the blood stained their dress so much that they threw it off in disgust, - eyewitnesses write.

In 1571, red rain fell in Holland. It flowed almost the whole night and was so abundant that it flooded the area for ten kilometers. All houses, trees, fences turned red. Residents of those places collected rain blood in buckets and explained the unusual phenomenon by the fact that it rose to the clouds of vapor from the blood of killed bulls.

Bloody rains were recorded by the French Academy of Sciences. In her scientific “Memoirs” it is written:

On March 17, 1669, a mysterious heavy viscous liquid, similar to blood, but with a sharp, unpleasant odor, fell on the city of Chatilien (on the Seine River). Large drops of it hung on the roofs, walls and windows of houses. Academicians racked their brains for a long time trying to explain what happened and finally decided that the liquid was formed... in the rotten waters of some swamp and was carried into the sky by a whirlwind!

In 1689, bloody rain fell in Venice, in 1744 in Genoa. The red rain caused real panic among the Genoese. On this occasion, one of the learned contemporaries wrote:

What the common people call bloody rain is nothing more than vapors colored with cinnabar or red chalk. But when it falls from the sky real blood, which cannot be denied, then this, of course, is a miracle created by the will of God.

In the early spring of 1813, a bloody rain suddenly fell over the Kingdom of Naples. The scientist of that time, Sementini, described this event in some detail, and we can now imagine how everything happened.

A strong wind had been blowing from the east for two days when local residents saw a thick cloud approaching from the sea. At two o'clock in the afternoon the wind suddenly died down, but the cloud had already covered the surrounding mountains and began to obscure the sun. Its color, at first pale pink, became fiery red.

Soon the city was plunged into such darkness that lamps had to be lit in the houses. The people, frightened by the darkness and the color of the cloud, rushed to the cathedral to pray. The darkness intensified, and the color of the sky resembled red-hot iron. Thunder rumbled. The menacing noise of the sea, although six miles distant from the city, further increased the fear of the inhabitants. And suddenly streams of red liquid poured from the sky, which some took for blood, and others for molten metal. Fortunately, by evening the air cleared, the bloody rain stopped , and the people calmed down.

It happened that not only bloody rains fell, but also bloody snow, as, for example, in France in the middle of the last century. This strange scarlet snow covered the ground with a layer of several centimeters. The people saw the bloody rains as a sign and reproach higher powers. Scientists said that water becomes like blood due to mixing with red dust particles of mineral and organic origin. Strong winds can carry these dust particles thousands of kilometers and raise them to great heights, to rain clouds.

It was noted that bloody rains most often occurred in spring and autumn. In the 19th century, about thirty of them were recorded. They also fell out in the 20th century, of course. But no one was afraid of them anymore.

How did I find out? Mr Godfrey Lewis(physicist from Mahatma Gandhi University), who managed to collect several samples of liquid that fell during the mysterious bloody rain that alarmed the residents of the Indian state. Kerala in 2001, the ominous color of the precipitation was due to the high content of mysterious particles. Covered with an unusually thick shell, these microscopic bodies, slightly larger than the average bacterium, were unlike anything that science had ever encountered.

Assumptions by opponents of the cosmic theory of the origin of bloody rain are that these are pieces of ocean algae, fungal spores, red dust brought from Arabian Peninsula, or even "a fog of blood cells produced by a meteor striking the cluster bats”, were shattered to smithereens by the results of the research of the Indian scientist. In laboratory tests, Lewis found that the particles could multiply in water at a temperature of 315°C, and contained no dust and certainly no traces of blood cells. Moreover, the particles are completely devoid of DNA, include almost half of the periodic table - carbon, oxygen, iron, sodium, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, hydrogen, nitrogen and other elements - and show an abnormally low phosphorus content.

All this led Lewis to believe that these were alien microorganisms brought to Earth in the core of a meteorite that exploded over India. A loud explosion and flash in the sky over Kerala on July 25, 2001, when the notorious rains began, was indeed seen by many residents of the state. Indirect confirmation of this theory is the discovery of potential traces of microorganisms in one of the Martian meteorites that fell to earth. True, no cometary substance was found among the samples taken by Lewis. The question also arises from the gigantic volume of red particles, of which at least 50 tons fell on the planet over the course of several days.

The discoveries of the Indian researcher caused the most heated debate in scientific circles. But neither the defenders of the version of alien rain nor their opponents yet have enough evidence to prove that they are right.

The article used materials from www.utro.ru

Bloody Rains

Common sense refuses to accept that in broad daylight, in calm, serene weather, from somewhere above, scalding hot or scalding cold scarlet liquid suddenly begins to flow, sometimes not in the form of precipitation, but in stormy foamy streams.

As a rule, this frightening phenomenon is accompanied by the ejection of pieces of flesh or pulp. Both have the characteristic smell of fresh blood. It is greedily eaten by cats and kittens, which, as is known, do not touch rotten meat, which indirectly indicates biological origin mysterious meteorological phenomena. The same thing is already directly confirmed by laboratory studies of mysterious fallouts, which confirmed that the sediments - blood, pulp and flesh, according to a stubborn pattern, have only the second group of human blood.

In particular, scientists from Peking University in 1998, after scarlet rains that fell over the northern provinces of the PRC, tested samples collected locally and came to exactly this conclusion.

It is a pity that not a word has been spoken about the heavenly miracle in the Celestial Empire since then.
The phenomenon, however, is not diverse, monotonous, and identical in all countries. Therefore, in order to get an idea of ​​it, let’s turn our attention to long-standing events in the USA and Russia, which is useful to do, because thanks to recent archival research, they have received a lot of interesting additions and clarifications.

America. North Carolina. The farm of retired cavalryman Thomas Clarkson in the vicinity of the town of Sampson. February 13, 1850. Cool afternoon. The family, not excluding young children, collects cow and horse dung in wheelbarrows, which are used to fire the stoves. Suddenly the silence is interrupted by a deafening sound coming from somewhere above. The children - a boy and two girls - are scared. They feel like someone is shooting a cannon right at them. They run headlong to their father, who shouts: “Guns are shooting from the sky. I don’t know where they’ll come from, but we’d better take refuge in the cellar!” Mrs. Clarkson faints because first, three heavy pieces of bony meat slide over her chest, and then she is literally filled with thick and sticky blood. Neighbor Neil Campbell, who is working on his plot, also falls under the bloody shower, which lasts at most a minute or two.

We must pay tribute to his resourcefulness. While Mr. Clarkson was evacuating his household, a neighbor, having determined that “brown-red water had hopelessly ruined a grazing area of ​​almost one hundred and fifty square meters,” dragged a tub, collected heavenly trophies into it, not forgetting to dump the slurry scooped out of the puddles there. When Mr. Clarkson returned, dressed in clean clothes, the neighbors watched in amazement for more than an hour as the withered grass, foliage of trees and bushes acquired a rich green color, as if there was no winter.

Having marveled enough, the neighbors took the tub to the local doctor, Mr. Robert Gray, who immediately assured that it was blood mixed with dirt.

To be sure, Mr. Gray poured a weak solution of wine vinegar into the tub, made several preparations, and, examining them under a microscope, assured that the neighbor’s trophy was of purely biological origin.

Moreover, the cellular structure of the drugs is not animal, but human. The reaction of the newspapers, which prepared a number of publications in hot pursuit, was ambiguous. Some called the farmers “colluding liars.” Others saw the reasons for the loss of flesh and blood “in executions by quartering, carried out by bandits right in the baskets of giant balloons.”

Both of these, of course, do not correspond to the real state of affairs. This was confirmed by another American bloody mystery that unfolded years later, on February 25, 28, 30 in Katham County, on the ranch of Samuel Beckworth, located relatively close to the estates of Clarkson and Campbell. This time, Beckworth's sister, Miss Susanna, was caught in a hot, brown rain shower. While watching workers harrow a freshly plowed field, she smelled a strong smell of blood, “just like what you get in a slaughterhouse.”

Rain immediately poured down, scarlet and dark red, soaking the girl’s corduroy jacket with what she took to be blood, and at the same time staining the fence of the cattle pen, like good paint. The grass, which was “literally washed,” became as fragile as glass. If anyone stepped on it, it crumbled into dust. Having heard from onlookers who attacked the ranch about frightening miracles, many perceived as harbingers of war or pestilence, North Carolina State University professor Francis Vanable immediately went to the site and, with the consent of the farm owner, Mr. Beckworth, took more than three hundred samples of soil supposedly soaked in blood. The samples were sent to Germany, to the University of Göttingen, which at that time had the best biological and chemical laboratories in the world, the equipment and methods of which made it possible to easily identify human blood and exclude the fact that it was taken from an animal. Gettingham, a former gold medal professor, identified human blood in the soil samples.

Back then they couldn’t determine blood type. Communicating with representatives of the press, Francis Vanable handed them copies of the conclusion of his German colleagues, frankly admitting that, faced with the fact of celestial bloodshed, he had no idea where the reservoir from which it poured came from behind the clouds. By the way, the incident in the vicinity of this farm, “when blood flowed and nothing fell,” is perhaps not the only one of its kind.

Similar wonderful events in late XIX centuries took place in Rybinsk, more precisely on one of the mooring landing stages of the Volga River, which stretches along the city for twenty kilometers. Based on a survey conducted on September 14, 1891 by police investigator N.I. Morkovkin, an amazing picture emerges. Red, blood-smelling liquid fell onto the surface of the great Russian river “in abundant stripes, and colored the water the color of boiled beets, which was witnessed by people waiting for the arrival of the steamer.” One of the passengers, a pharmacist at a local pharmacy G.S. Porokhov insisted on taking water samples to determine the chemical composition of the dye. This is where what happened happened. As soon as the water came into contact with the inner surface of the galvanized bucket, it instantly changed color, from dark red to milky white. Investigator Morkovkin, however, ignoring the color metamorphoses, persistently identifies the sediment as “natural, fresh blood, the smell of which could not be confused with anything else by the fifty sober respondents who were on the deck of the landing stage.”

A day later, another police officer, K.P. The publican was already dealing with the city's bloody rain, when the red liquid stained the clothes of passers-by and was not washed off when washed. In addition, when the liquid came into contact with open areas of the body, it burned painfully. The publican suggested that the toxic brown sediment was apparently carried in the clouds “from the chimneys of a dye factory.” Let it be so, but aniline and other paints never smell of blood.

The outstanding naturalist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was interested in celestial emissions of flesh and blood in the twenties of the last century, who connected the phenomenon with one of the planet’s responses to the harmful aspects of the moral and technological activities of civilization. This hypothesis has many supporters.

Alexander VOLODEV
"UFO" No. 5 2010