Mysterious trenches are found throughout Russia and are estimated to appear three or four hundred years ago. Some of them are perfectly straight and form a picture that can be seen only from a plane. They remain a puzzle which hasn’t been solved yet.
You’ll never see this picture from the ground.
But satellite photographs show six-point figures with ideal proportions.
Some say that in these areas, electronic devices don’t work or work in an oddly way and even birds avoid these places. Those who pitch a tent here to stay overnight, experience headaches and insomnia.
However, some of such areas have been built on.
There are several hypotheses concerning the origin of these anomalies. According to one of them, these are space launching sites built by space aliens. Another hypothesis runs that they were built by Old Russians who knew ballooning and used pictures for navigation.
An attempt to balloon is described as taking place in 1731 but it wasn’t successful.
A lot of old legends tell about people who wanted to make wings for themselves to be able to fly. They were made of wood, suede, wires and feathers.
Some believe, that people used to fill these trenches with some sort of powder. After they lit it, smoke from the fire rose into the air copying the picture which could be seen from the ground.
via nnm.ru
Those are remains from ancient fortified positions. Look at a picture of any 16-17th century fortress!
they are 18th century fortresses , Europe is full of them
Those clearly look like defensive walls like they have been built in several other places. At least shortly after the invention of cannons, those structures have been quite common.
No mystery here, they are obviously fortresses. Similar structures can be found all over the world, dating from the 16th till the 19th century.
Just ancient forts, shape is typical.
Dear internet retards,
these are just remainders of so called “star fortification” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fort
Or you may believe that they are footprints of a giant star-feeted alien frog which frolicked there when the earth was young.
Yes, these things are TOTALLY unexplainable…
Probably ET did all of them in a summer vacances. Nothing to do with old temporary military camps, of course
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fort
Simply old fortifications…
The star shaped earthworks look like forts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fort
The original idea of Those angles where to catcs up bullets and splitters from artillery fire and make it possible to reach all walls and strategic points of defence with firearms from the inside (and not being hit by enemy fire), they where often made from standarized drawings like many other military buildings during this time, but in fact wery few of those are so well preserved in europe since they often where demolished or replaced with other buildings and therefor covered by landfills etc later in the early 1800 when most of them becom obsolete due to strategic reasons. Interesting pics, they are real masterpices of art i agree
I nominate this for most retarded post of 2011 on englishrussia.com
REALLY?
The Universe is too large and we are too unimportant… (Copernican Spacetime, Comrades). Magnetic anomalies are not uncommon, even here in Hicksville, TX. And if birds avoid a place, that must mean idiotic humans have polluted the place to a wasteland. Did enjoy the mention of the history of early flight in Russia, though. Poor dude in 1731 gave it a good try…
That’s easy… 300-400 year old… They’re forts.
Yes, those are forts, but they were clearly built by ancient Mayans to protect themselves from yeti attacks. Now we know the Mayans fled to Russia after their civilization in the Yucatan was over run by hordes of Yeti.
those who say they are forts are incorrect. They are obviously alien cosmodromes. You can see by the pixels that Google photoshopped them to look like forts.
are these people idiots? they’re 18th centrury star forts.
You ppl are all wrong! These are not forts. They are…..redoubts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoubt
I “doubt” it! But on “RE”consideration…you’re right!!
Common earthworks set up to give nice crossfire on the walls. What were the major battles fought in these areas. That would be far more interesting than goofy alien conspiracy theory.
yes, you can even see where the gates would’ve been
They are old earthwork forts made to give the defender an optimal angle on firing into the flanks of advancing armies. The larger more complex ones may have had stone walls but most likely were wood walls set up for large encampments. Anybody who remotely studies war between the 1600s even to late 1800s these are forts, no matter what technical name you want to give them. They are defensive positions built by men!