About the strange illusions that sometimes occurs on the Volga, in the last century, wrote A. F. Leopoldov in the book “Notes of the Samara region”. In 1927 year N. A. Steppe recorded in those places the following legend:

“And when it rises in the East over the river, the sun, visible above the river palaces and city walls a Peaceful city. And he stands in the old way, and waiting for when the wealth of his people would need... peaceful city - this is the main Palace of Princess Volga. Here its warehouses, different rooms. And in them something which she, Princess, did not put. ...The Princess saves accumulated guards...”

Here we need to introduce some clarity. Princess - the one that Stenka Razin drowned. And he is represented in local legends as angry dwarf who everyone will see.

"Boat Stenka Razin had not fly. So it gold, silver, pearls Yes diamonds that she had grown in the land at the very top of the mast. But the owner runs around the boat, trying to pull, rave, but can do nothing".

Stop, where did this come from? What flying boat? The legends, however, suggests that Stenka this was, but if I can believe legends? Of course, at these words, many will want to link these stories with a certain type of flying dishes, but the reality here, as in many other cases, it may be much more amazing.

The fact that these legends sometimes have an amazing sequel. Proud Cyrus-Corners (in Russian legends his name is Peaceful city) sometimes appear above the river in the vicinity of Lada as surprisingly bright and unusually clear Mirage. But even in this there would be nothing incredible, but a Mirage is an optical phenomenon that shows more or less distorted things that are not actually in the place where we see the image Mirage. The strange thing is, places that show us the Volga mirages, it seems there is not only around, but also anywhere in the world.

This “city” (some witnesses called it “the temple”) is a dome, surrounded by an openwork turrets. Environment it varies - some see it on the Bank of the water (a lake or the sea, others on the edge of the cliff, and others on the hillside.

Observed Cyrus-Corners for a long time and quite often (local residents say that it is visible at least once a month), but the first documented case of Mirage refers to the 60-th years. Author observations wished to remain anonymous:

"Out of the fog rose city. He shone different colors, like night rainbow, descended to the ground. Ascended above the night the river walls and towers, wonderful and colorful, though a handful of jewels was thrown with a starry sky on the earth. But it was obvious that many marvelous towers were destroyed, and from many of the palaces were left in ruins. And all this vision entangled some tangle feelings, someone hatred, blind, and pressottawa.

It seemed as if time other worlds reigned here. We thought we heard a strange pulsing sound a funeral song, skimming over the waves and on this magical city. The sound was soft and gentle, it became violent and caused pain. The sound grew, became unbearable, and the idea faded. But the feeling of horror was not lost. And in the glow of this city, all that was just a legend for our familiar world was very real, creating fear and terror.

The city disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. But we from this night the trouble began. The expedition began to ache."

August 9, 1990, at 22:20 on the Zhiguli on the North-East of Vasilievsky island, was observed a huge red ball. N. Busin gives the following sequence of its evolution: "Ball. Then the red circle, like a ring. Next glowing object." N. Torskaya: "Like a spider in the center "moon" red-orange color. "The Orb went dark on his background began to appear volume greenish image. They quickly replaced each other. Attempts to fix this phenomenon on the film sensitivity 250 units were unsuccessful. Then there was a classic "flying saucer", with a pair of dual lights located on the vessel and equidistant from the middle. Then "plate" disappeared and reappeared a crystal. It "unfolded" wonderful Tower. The huge dome was in the sky, and over it went up, and they come back up, a certain construction, if dialed from a variety of thin convex lenses. This tower had inverted reflection in greenish ripples "heavenly water", which occupied the lower part of this strange world.

This image was the last one at 23:00 ball disappeared. But before that, we felt a crushing opinion, some anxiety, as if coming from the depth of centuries. What was it? We immediately remembered stories about lost somewhere in the Zhiguli the Temple of Griffins Riphean Gorge and on Tower Green Mages of the moon. It is supervised by accident. Again, a special search yields no results. Accidental eyewitnesses tell about the huge dome with many large and small towers. They are covered with creeping plants and trees growing right out of the walls. The dome is very heavy. His vast object exerts on the ground, causing water and making moist soil even the strongest heat...”

Zhiguli mirages are amazingly bright and clear, and that gave rise to the hypothesis about the work of some ancient mechanism. The mechanism of this or not, but there are sometimes these descriptions:

“Already on the way back, when he returned to the shore, erupted over the Zhiguli storm... Suddenly in black clouds appeared almost a perfect square hole. Along the perimeter ran a red light, as we thought, fired from somewhere out of the ground. Then in heavenly window, as if on the TV, there was bright color image. It was a landscape of sea Bay, surrounded by low hills covered with strange and intense violet color, forest. And over the sea stretches pale, almost white sky. The image slowly shifted, as if transferring it to the "live" turned clockwise. We are all waiting for the same appears on the "screen" openwork towers crowned with domes. But, alas, their't seen him. Sustainable picture we saw about fifteen minutes, then she began to slowly TouchNote...”.

And here is another observation: Breaking desert hills were raised above the ground pier. The reflection of the moon trembles in its metal cells, and somewhere far below the noisy Volga. In complete silence on the overpass sweep the soar silver bullet, followed by another. They soar in the air and fly away to the stars. Passes a moment, the platform starts to flicker and disappear. And again only desert hills rise above the river".

Not touching the complex question of the validity of messages (such observations very much - it is possible to doubt any of them, but it's hard to ignore them all) set a first come to mind are the question - “what happened”? This stage it is appropriate would look in a fantasy novel forties or fifties of our century, when it was assumed that the spacecraft will launch with similar platforms. But when the technique was able finally to realize such runs, the idea of the overpass was already discarded!

However, mirages and tradition (as an example we can cite, for example, dogankoy mythology), does not always correspond to present views on the technology. Sometimes they are ahead of them, and this is quite reasonable and clear, and sometimes, as in this case, clearly lagging behind. Such observations are not even fit into the framework of assumptions about the transfer of information back in time - since neither in the past nor in the future cannot be transferred not constructed pier.

Samara regional ethnographer Yakovlev told in the past century that in the Zhiguli mountains appear from time to time some strange white substance. "The people not the people, the animals are not animals. God knows what! One man saw them, without memory ran home and Prokhorov some time, died. A place that is surrounded by mountains covered with forests and earlier here there was a road." (the Fund 85/246. Legends of the Samara region. Samara scientific and local lore society.)

Such creatures appear from time to time in anomalous zones “of the first kind”. In Perm ' anomalous zone, for example, they are called “Minotaurs”.

As in most of the areas, there is a Zhiguli place, visiting which in a suitable (or more precisely the wrong time could disappear forever. Old legends say that this place is celebrated two burning candles. Later the witnesses speak of the pillars of the white cold light that inspires horror ("Wings of Motherland" 9 - 1990; "Anomaly" 1990 p.12).

“They appear close group of two to heel pieces of different colors and brightness. Especially observed green. Their height varies from one meter to five, a diameter of about two meters. On land there are often above the hills on a clear moonless night.

In addition to the light of the posts here are other luminous objects: balls and pseudomona. Balls often appear in group of five balls. Four large and bright, the fifth - small, mobile, he appears and disappears. According to some sources balls occur most often to the South, Samara. ("Wings of Motherland" T9, 690, S. 30; "Anomaly",1990, p.12.)”

Near the village of “Small Ryazan” is the entrance to the so-called “cave Razin”. Legends say that moves from it stretch on all Lada is and allowed famous ataman appear and disappear suddenly. It is quite natural that speculations communication mirages and caves - but check them difficult: the entrance to the cave is filled up.

Related mirages-ghosts with a cave or no, to name displayed Mirage image Cyrus-Angles, Peaceful or mages Tower Green moon - you still have to admit that there's got to be the source, the real structure that we see in the Mirage. Where it is - on Earth or in another world, as some researchers? Storytellers mention pale, almost white sky above Cyrus-Angles, but a Mirage may slightly change color gamma of the image. On the other hand, architecture, judging by the sketches, very similar to buildings made with hands of men.