Unusual, mysterious incident occurred on June 27, in the village sottintsy Ust-Aldan ulus, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - as amended). During a thunderstorm in the area walked mini-tornadoes and local residents saw inside them silhouettes 20 galloping riders with the ancient weapon. The same thing happened the next day, but this time riders was only three.

Sasha Pavlov, the pupil of the 8 class of school № 2 in the city of Yakutsk, eyewitness:

- My friend, as usual, was walking through the village. At first I did not notice how the sky was enveloped in a thick dark clouds. The strong wind arose and began to drive dust. Then I corner of my eye saw the impending tornado, inside of which there were some dark figures. My friend looked closer and realized that these figures are the outlines of people on horses. There were about twenty. If they were moving in turn. We watched him for some time, until the tornado was hidden in the store "Uygulan of alias". We ran and told all the cousin of a friend. She was frightened, and we all ran home. The house grandmother said that it is a sign of something bad. I don't know what to think.

Today about three hours of the day, I again saw this phenomenon. This time the tornado was small, and the horsemen was two or three.

Alla Melnikova, a resident S. sottintsy, eyewitness:

I stood outside the shop. The wind came and picked up the dust all around became brown. Next were boys, they pointed me to a tornado that I saw two shadows. Looking closely, you can see that they are people, riding on horseback... No beliefs and predictions on this account do not know, so I don't know how to react.

Tornado - atmospheric vortex, which occurs in storm clouds, and extends down to earth in the form of a trunk or cloud hoses with diameter up to hundreds of meters. Inside formed cone air is constantly rising, simultaneously rotating, therefore, is a region with strongly rarefied air.

Still very difficult to determine the speed of the air inside the funnel. Under assumptions, it can reach 1500 km/H. Itself funnel is moving at an average speed 60 km/H.

In Yakutia, fortunately, tornadoes are rare and do not have such a destructive force, as for example in America. And in Russia the last tornado went through the territory near the town of Blagoveshchensk, lifting into the air cars and large trucks.

Before that, in October 2010, a tornado swept through the southern parts of the country. As a result, in the city of Sochi he threw on to land a big ship, on the Kuban put ashore river vessel.

As for the unusual spectacle, then one can choose explanation to taste any of it really kind of macabre omen, or just strange Mirage, an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere.

For observers of such a reflection is that together with the remote object (or a part of the sky) shows its virtual image is offset from the object.
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