"Bang!...Bang!..." The two opponents fired almost simultaneously. Fifty meters away, a passing cow was shot in the back for nothing.It has nothing to do with things. Neither opponent hit the other. Who are these two dueling gentlemen?have no idea.If they knew, maybe their names would be handed down to future generations.All that was known was that the older of them was British and the younger was American.However, if it is necessary to mark the spot where the innocent ruminant just ate the last grass, it is easy, on the right bank of Niagara Falls, not far from the suspension bridge between the United States and Canada, just downstream of the falls 3 The place.

The Englishman walked up to the American and said: "I still think it is." "No! Yes!" The other retorted. Seeing that another quarrel was about to break out, a witness to the duel, perhaps for the safety of the animals, interrupted: "Even if it's "The Song of the Reign" and "The Great British Yankee," let's eat our lunch." This mixing of the titles of American and British songs was unanimously accepted.So the Americans and the British went back to the left bank of Niagara Falls and went to have lunch together at a restaurant on the neutral ground between the two falls.The traditional boiled eggs, ham, and cold roast beef seasoned with delicious sauerkraut have been laid out in front of them.Fragrant teas were also placed on their tables one by one. The rich fragrance of the fragrant teas would even envy the world-famous Niagara Falls.That being the case, let's not bother them.Besides, the possibility of talking about them in this story is also very slim.

Is the Englishman right, or the American right?Hard to say.In any case, the duel showed that people in the New World as well as in the Old World were fascinated by that elusive phenomenon.It has been almost a month, and it has made all people bewitched, as the saying in praise of mankind says: "Look up to the sky." Yes, since the appearance of man on the earth, people may still Never before have I looked at the sky so closely. The night before there had indeed been a brass horn playing over the Canadian land between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.Those who heard it said it was either "Yankee Doodle" or "Great Britain."This was the source of the previous quarrel.Maybe it wasn't either of these patriotic songs at all, but no one doubted the anomaly of this strange sound: how did it seem to come down from Earth?

Is some cherub or great ambassador blowing a heavenly trumpet? ... Could it be some merry balloonist blowing that sonorous instrument that is blown so loudly? impossible!There were neither balloons nor balloonists in the sky at that time.What appeared under the firmament was a singular phenomenon, the nature of which was neither understood nor its source.Today it appeared over the Americas, and 48 hours later it flew over Europe, and eight days later, it flew over Asia, and over China's Celestial Empire.This brass trumpet blows wherever it goes, if it is not the trumpet of the Last Judgment Day, what is it?

All nations on earth, whether kingdoms or republics, are disturbed to some degree by this.It has become very important to put everyone's mind at ease as soon as possible.If you heard some strange and unexplained noises in your own home, wouldn't you immediately try to find out the cause?If you can't find out the reason, won't you leave this house of yours and move to another house?Yes, for sure!But now this house is the earth on which we live, and there is no way for us to leave it and move to the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, or any other planet in the solar system.So it's just a matter of finding out what's going on, which of course means what's happening in the atmosphere, not what's happening in the vastness of space where there's no air, because without air, there's no sound.Since there is a sound (it's still the copper horn!), it means that this phenomenon occurs in the atmosphere; the higher the altitude, the lower the density of the atmosphere, and the thickness it covers on the earth's surface does not exceed 2.

Thousands of newspapers and periodicals immediately grasped this issue, and this issue immediately became the focus of many newspapers and periodicals. They discussed it from different aspects, or clarified some facts, but this made people more confused.Reporting news, true or false, intimidating or comforting their respective readers.In this way, they both widen the circulation and enthral the already captivated people even more.The result has been political failure but satisfactory business.What exactly is going on? Overwhelmed, people turned to all the observatories in the world for advice.If the observatory can't explain it, what's the use of it?What is the use of astronomers who can divide a planet even a hundred trillion far miles away into two or three parts, if they cannot tell what causes cosmic phenomena within a few kilometers?

So, on these beautiful summer nights, countless ones of all kinds—big ones, small ones, monoculars.The binoculars are all aimed at the sky, how many eyes are stuck behind the eyepieces of these telescopes of different strengths and specifications?It is impossible to estimate.There are hundreds of thousands to say the least.There are probably 10 or even 20 times more stars seen in the sky than with the naked eye. Such a spectacle has never been seen before, perhaps even when a solar or lunar eclipse is observed at the same time from all places on the earth. Many observatories have responded, but all are very simple and vary.Thus began the civil war in academia in the last weeks of April and the first weeks of May.

The attitude of the Paris Observatory was very cautious, and all its departments did not express their opinions.They frankly admitted that the mathematical astronomy room did not bother to observe at all, the meridian observation room found nothing, the physical observation room saw nothing, the geodesy room saw nothing, the meteorological room saw nothing, and the calculation room saw nothing. saw nothing.The Montsouris Observatory and the Saint-Maur Geomagnetic Station are equally frank.The Bureau of Longitude has the same respect for truth.Didn't say, the French are "". The attitude of the provinces is more positive.Perhaps in the night sky from May 6th to 7th, there was indeed a bright light generated by electricity that lasted no more than 20 seconds.Similar bright lights have also appeared on the southern peaks between 9:00 and 10:00 pm; between 1:00 and 2:00 am at the Weather Observatory of Biy de Dome; This light was observed on Mont Vendou in the province; it appeared at three or four in the morning in Nice; in the Lenoir-Alpes between Annecy, Bourget and Lake Leman, it was at dawn. This light is only seen when the sky is white.

Obviously, one cannot deny all these observations.It is certain that in this short period of several hours, different platforms must have observed this kind of bright light one after another.This may be emitted by several light sources passing through the Earth's atmosphere.If it is the same light source, this light source must be able to move at a speed of nearly 200 kilometers per hour. So, is there anything out of the ordinary that no one has seen in the air during the day? there has never been. Someone must have heard the sound of the horn through the atmosphere, right? From morning to evening, the brass trumpet never rang at all.

In the United Kingdom, opinions are divided.There is no consensus among observatories.Although the Greenwich Observatory and the Oxford Observatory agree that "there is nothing," their views are quite different. "It must have been a visual error," said one. Another said: "That must have been caused by a hearing error". So they started arguing again and again.Either way, it must be an illusion. The dispute between the Berlin Observatory and the Vienna Observatory came close to complicating their relationship.Russia, through the director of the Berkova Observatory, proved to them that both sides were right; the difference in judgments on the nature of this phenomenon was entirely due to the differences in opinions of each person.What is impossible in theory may happen in practice.

In Appenzell, Switzerland, Sautis Observatory, Rigi Plateau, Gabrisch District.The Observatory of St. Gozel, the Observatory of St. Bernard, the Observatory of Rillier, the Observatory of Sampron, the Observatory of Zurich, Tyrol, the Observatory of Somblik in the Alps, we cannot verify this It is undoubtedly a wise move to reserve their own views on phenomena. But observers at the Vesuvius weather station in Italy, the Etna Observatory at the former Casa Ingles, and Monte Cavo did not hesitate to conclude that it was a physical phenomenon, because they had See it as a whirlpool of gas on a certain day, and a shooting star on another night.As for what it was, they had no idea. In fact, scientists have begun to tire of this mysterious thing, but those humble and ignorant people are still obsessed and feared by it.According to the wisest laws of nature, such persons, whether past, present, or future, will constitute the great majority of the world.Had it not been for the night of the 26th to the 27th at the Kontokaino Observatory in Finnmark, Norway, and the night of the 28th to the 29th at the Isfjord Observatory in Spitsbergen, both the Norwegians and the Swedes It has been confirmed by coincidence that in the Northern Lights, there has been a monster in the sky like a giant bird, and astronomers and meteorologists don't have to worry about it long ago.Although its structure was difficult to determine at that time, at least one thing is indisputable: it once ejected many particles like a bomb explosion. In Europe, people are more than happy to believe the observations from Finnmark and Spitsbergen observatories.However, the fact that the Swedes and the Norwegians were able to reach a consensus on such an ordinary issue is the most extraordinary thing about this matter. In South America, from Brazil, Peru to La Plata; in Australia, from Sydney, Adelaide to Melbourne, all the observatories, especially the Australians, laughed at this so-called discovery. All in all, only one director of the Meteorological Office is positive about this question, despite all the sarcasm that an answer to it might invite.This is a Chinese, the director of Xujiahui Observatory.This observatory was established on a plain less than ten leagues from the sea, where the view is wide and the air is pure. "What you're talking about is probably just an aircraft, a flying machine," he said. This is simply a joke! If the debates in the Old World were raging enough, it is not difficult to imagine the situation in the New World, which has the largest area in the United States. Everyone knows that Americans have always been straightforward in doing things, going all the way to the end and reaching the goal.Therefore, all the observatories in the United States expressed their opinions to each other without hesitation.The reason they didn't throw binoculars at each other's heads was because they were afraid they would have to find new binoculars when they needed one. The Washington Observatory in the District of Columbia, the Cambridge Observatory in Massachusetts, and the Dartmouth University Observatory in Connecticut and the Ang Arbor Observatory in Michigan have been at loggerheads over this issue.The issue they disputed was not the nature of the object being observed, but the precise time when that object was observed.Although the trajectory of this mysterious moving object was not high above the horizon, they all believed that they saw it on the same night, at the same time, at the same minute, and at the same second.With such distances from Connecticut to Michigan, and from Massachusetts to the District of Columbia, the simultaneous observation of this object from both places seemed impossible. Dudley of Albany, New York, and West Point of West Point published a record of the object's latitude and longitude coordinates, thereby contradicting the opinions of their colleagues. It was later discovered that these observers were mistaken. What they saw was an asteroid passing through the middle atmosphere, and it could not be the flying object everyone was talking about.And, how could an asteroid blow its horn? As for the horn, it would be a waste of effort to insist that the loud and clear sound of the horn heard with one's own ears was an illusion of hearing.In this case the ear is not necessarily more error-prone than the eye.People must have seen it and heard it.On the dark night of the 12th to the 13th, observers at the Yale campus of the Sheffield University of Technology recorded a short sentence of the music, in R major, four beats, every note and every beat were exactly the same. "Whoa!" said the jokers, "what band in France is playing in the air?" Just making a joke doesn't mean the question has an answer.So says the Boston Observatory, founded by the Atlantic Steel Company.In academia, the observatory's views on astronomy and meteorology have come to gain weight. Also speaking at this time was the Cincinnati Observatory.This observatory is located on Mount Lucourt and was established in 1870 by Mr. Kigur's generous donation. It is famous for its double-star micrometry technology.Its director solemnly declared that it must be a certain object, a certain moving body, which appeared in different places in the atmosphere within a relatively close time, but the nature, volume, speed, and orbit of this moving object cannot be determined for the time being. Just then, the New York Herald, a paper with a huge circulation, received a letter from an anonymous reader: "It should be recalled that some years ago, in the southern state of Oregon, the two heirs of La Began de La Grinara, the French doctors Saran and Stallerstadt of Franceville, A fight between Mr. Schulz, a German engineer in the city. "People will not forget the terrible missile that Mr. Schulz fired to destroy Franceville. If this missile hits, this French city will definitely be razed to the ground. "It will be recalled that, owing to the uncalculated initial velocity of this missile, which came out of the muzzle of the gigantic cannon, it flew out at a velocity sixteen times greater than that of an ordinary cannonball; that is, at 150 leagues per hour, so that It couldn't fall back to the ground and became a meteor in an endless flight around the earth. "Why isn't the object everyone's talking about the objectively existing missile?" What a clever reader of the New York Herald!So what's up with the brass? ... Mr. Schultz's missiles don't have brass horns on them! So, all these explanations explain nothing, all these observers are inaccurate. The hypothesis of the Director of Xujiahui Observatory has not been denied.But this is a Chinese fan's point of view! ... Don't think that the public in both the old and new continents are tired of talking about it.No!The debate became more and more heated, and it was impossible to reach a consensus at all.However, there have been periods of lull during the period.After a few days, the object, whether it was a shooting star or something else, was never heard of or heard of the trumpet sounding in the sky.Could it have fallen somewhere on earth where it was hard to find its traces, say into the sea?So is it lying on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, or on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean?what is the problem? However, from June 2nd to 9th, a series of new situations appeared one after another. It is absolutely untenable to explain that this is a cosmic phenomenon. In eight days, on the spire of St. Michael's Tower in Hamburg, on the tallest spire of St. Sophie Mosque in Turkey, on the metal top of the bell tower of Rouen Cathedral, at the end of the Munster Valley in Strasbourg, in the United States On the head of the Statue of Liberty at the mouth of the Hudson River and on the Washington Monument in Boston, on the roof of the Chinese Guangzhou 500 Arhat Temple, on the top of the 17th floor tower of the Indian Danshuer Temple, and the cross of St. Peter's Church in Rome Paul's Church in London, England, the tip of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the 300-meter lightning rod erected during the Paris Exposition in 1889, all of these inaccessible summits have a flag flying . The banner was made of a black tulle, decorated with stars, and in the center was a golden sun.

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