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Flying creatures. Russia

ID #1653305174
Added Mon, 23/05/2022
Author July N.
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
09.1864
Location: 
Старая Ладога
Leningradskaya oblast
Russia

On one of the September days of 1864, the sexton of the cathedral, in Staraya Ladoga, was returning home tipsy. A fine autumn rain was falling. From time to time, the silence was broken by the whistling of the wings of ducks flying from Volkhov. The ducks scared Theodore. He crossed himself and remembered that nearby, in the dark, there was a high cliff to the river. Wouldn't fall...

And suddenly — the power of the cross is with us!— the "unclean" who appeared from nowhere ran right into him. He glowed and flapped his wings like a bird... In the morning, when he came to himself after a night meeting, the sexton told that the evil spirits tried to throw him from the high bank into the water. They believed him and did not believe him, knowing that it is a sin for a clergyman to "pawn too much."

But a few days have passed, and already other, quite sober people have testified: "evil spirits" have appeared in the district. She flies over the village on dark nights and glows all over. Rumors began to spread, one more ridiculous than the other. The old men spoke with apprehension about a possible war...

The unprecedented "firebird" inspired fear in the superstitious, until the first cold weather came and the ducks nesting on Volkhov flew south.

The reason for the unusual phenomenon was, as in all such cases, quite natural, although rare - microorganisms with bioluminescence living in animal feathers.

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The most likely explanation. The version, confirmed by the investigation

Luminescence

Luminescence is a non-thermal glow of substance that occurs after absorption of the excitation energy.

Luminescence of solids can be divided into the following types:

Photoluminescence is luminescence under the action of light (visible and UV range). She, in turn, is divided into:

  • fluorescence (life time 10-9-10-6 s);
  • the phosphorescence of (10-3-10 s);

Chemiluminescence is luminescence that uses the energy of chemical reactions;


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