Ancient
Technology
Unexplained Aerial phenomena In Antiquity
Aerial Battle over Germany 1561
Illustration published in 1557 depicting a 1479 UFO sighting over Arabia, described as a "comet: at the timeReproduced in The Gods of Eden
/ Originally reported in Chronicles of Prodigies and portents [Out of Print]
/ Originally reported in Chronicles of Prodigies and
portents [Out of Print]
Aerial Battle over Germany 1561
Hans Glaser wood-cut from 1566, Five years after the event
Beginning at Dawn of April 14, 1561 the residents of Nuremberg , Germany witnessed a battle of epic proportions between warring factions of the stellar elite ,as hundreds of "crosses, globes and tubes" fought each other above the city.Small spheres and discs were said to emerge from large cylinders. These sightings were usually treated as supernatural portents, angels, and other religious omens. Some contemporary investigators believe them to be the ancient equivalent of modern UFO reports.
"the God-fearing will by no means discard these signs, but will take it to heart as a warning of their merciful Father in heaven, will mend their lives and faithfully beg God, that he avert His wrath, including the well-deserved punishment, on us, so that we may, temporarily here and perpetually there, live as His children." _Nuremberg Gazette
Similar events 1752 1783__ 1871
1566 Basel, Switzerland: Numerous black spheres were observed traversing the
sky at great speed near dawn. This was during the largest meteor shower of the year, the Persids, which
at times is very spectacular. It is possible that the meteor shower
produced the reported phenomena.
1577
Germany, Tubingen: "Objects came out of the clouds resembling large,
tall and wide hats and they landed in great numbers and in a variety of
colors." From Histoire des amans fortunez /1558 Pierre Boaistuan [Out of
Print]
French Medals from 1656 and 1648 appear to be depicting UFO sighting or a wheel like object in Renaissance France. The 1656 coins inscription reads 'OPPORTUNUS ADEST' which translates to 'It is here at an opportune time.' The flip side of the coin depicts a rain shower, so it is possible that 'It is here at an opportune time.' refers to the rain.
A similar coin was said to have been minted by Roman Emperor Pertinax in AD 193 ,
depicting a sphere with unusual antennae, similar to modern
satellites. No image of this coin is available, but my assumption is
that it was similar to "Glorification of the Eucharist" Painted in 1600
by Bonaventura Salimbeni.
It
hangs today in a church in Montalcino,
Italy. [Image Below] . These objects are quite common in ancient and
renaissance artistic symbolism ,and are representative of
"Creation Globe" . ..."many paintings present also the “wands” hold by
Jesus and the Father, which are frequently described as the antennas of
the sputnik. The first two are "The
Adoration of the Holy Trinity" (1640) by Johann Heinrich Schonfeld
and "
La Messe de Fondation de l'order des Trinitaires" (1666) by Juan
Carreno De Miranda. Both the paintings are displayed at the Louvre
Museum, Paris."
ART and UFOs
References : ART and UFOs / UFOindia.org / UFO Art Gallery
Also of interest http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Trinita_Caivano_r.jpg
Ancient Greek Coin allegedly depicting
a UFO between two suns
Atlantis: The Seven Seals
The Lolladoff plate from Nepal, shows a hovering disk-shaped object
in the center and a small humanoid beside it. It has been
estimated to hail from 7,000 BC. How this date was determined is
undetermined
3000BC From the book " Memories of the Sovereigns and the Kings " published in the 3rd century AD, in China, in the third millennium B.C., before the birth of Huang Ti or of Chi You , "sons from the sky", would descend to Earth on a star which was the shape of a saucer.
2345 BC
The, Hsui-nan-tzu, a Chinese classic there is a description of ten suns
appearing in the sky.
2000 BC Peru’s pre-Incan civilization records the gods were from the
star system Pleiades. Inca ruins have been found at 13,000 feet, with
one stone weighing 20,000 tons. Legend tells of spaceships that came
from the stars. Inca ornaments of "platinum" were found. Text reveals
the Inca’s knew the earth was round.
1766 BC China. The Emperor Cheng Tang commissions Ki-Kung-shi to
construct a flying chariot. After construction the aircraft was tested,
reaching the province of Honan. The vessel was destroyed by imperial
edict, as he Emperor feared the mechanism might fall into the wrong
hands.
Circa
1400 BC Egypt, The Palace of Pharaoh Thutmosis III. Circles of fire are
said to have hovered over the palace while fishes, winged creatures, and
other objects rained down from the sky. See
Aircraft: Ancient Egypt /
The Tulli
Papyrus
593 BC Ezekiel witnesses event which some writers have claimed sounds
suspiciously like a UFO encounter. Josef Blumrich, former chief of the
systems layout branch of NASA, set out to disprove such suggestions,
however, from a careful analysis of the data available, he concluded
that the vehicle described in the Bible actually was a UFO.
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
708 BC Durring the reign of Numa Pompillius , a bronze shield
fell from the sky and was revered by the pagan priests of Rome. -[Gods and Spacemen In Greece and Rome
400 BC India, from the Mahabharata
Alexander the Great
See
Alexander the Great - UFOs
332 BC Phoenicia, Tyre, a city-state. During a siege by the Greeks a fleet of
flying shields is
described as plunging from the sky and breaching the city walls. [Similar events 329 BC,
776 AD ]
329 BC Alexander the Great records two great silver shields, spitting
fire around the rims in the sky that dived repeatedly at his army as
they were attempting a river crossing. The action so panicked his
elephants, horses, and men they had to abandon the river crossing until
the following day. Gods and Spacemen in Greece and Rome
218 BC Rome. Glowing lamps were seen in the sky at Praeneste, a shield
was observed at Arpi and in the Amiterno district, of men in white
garments appear.
206 BC At Alba, two suns
170 BC Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports, “A
remarkable spectacle of a fleet of ships was seen in the air at Lanupium"
[Other reports by Conrad Wolfhart 80 AD
, 98 AD ]
99 BC Rome. In Tarquinia, there fell things like a flaming torch in
different places from the sky. Towards sunset, a round object like a
globe, or round or circular shield took its path in the sky, from west
to east.
90 BC "..At Aernarie, while Livius Troso was promulgating
the laws at the beginning of the italian war, at sunrise, there came a
terrific noise in the sky, and a globe of fire appeared burning in the
north. In the territory of Spoletum, a globe of fire, of golden color,
fell to the earth gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose
from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with
its brilliance. It revolved toward the eastern quadrant of the sky. "
History of Rome, XIV, Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index (Loeb Classical Library®)
85 BC Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia
73 BC Asia Minor, Pontus. While Roman legions were engaged in battle
near the Black Sea against King Mithridates a huge flaming object fell
between the two armies. It was said to have a shape like a wine jar and
was the color of molten lead.
42 BC Rome, from History of Rome, XIV, Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index (Loeb Classical Library®)
12 BC Italy, Rome. A comet-like object hovered days over Rome for
several then melted into flashes resembling torches
9 BC Japan, Kyushu. Nine moons were seen in the night sky over the
community.
60 AD Scotland. A ‘ship’ was seen speeding across the night sky at.
70 Josephus, from "Jewish War" Book CXI, "On the 21st of May a demonic
phantom of incredible size...for before sunset there appeared in the air
over the whole country chariots and armed troops coursing through the
clouds and surrounding the cities."
80 Scotland. Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports,
“When the Roman emporer, Agricola was in Scotland, wondrous flames were
seen in the skies over Caledon Wood, all one winter night. Everywhere
the air burned, and on many nights, when the weather was serene, a ship
was seen in the air moving fast.” [Other reports by Conrad Wolfhart
80 AD , 98
AD ]
98 Rome. Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports, “At
sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at . It came sparkling from
the west and passed over to the east.” [Other reports by Conrad Wolfhart
80 AD , 98
AD ]
312 Constantine and his army all beheld in the heavens a luminous
cross.. He claimed to have been shown a cross on the Sun as a sign from
Christ that he would triumph over Maxentius.
393 Strange lights were seen in the sky in the days of the Emperor
Theodosius. On a sudden, a bright globe appeared at midnight and shone
brilliantly near the daystar, (Venus). This globe shone little less
brilliantly than the planet, and little by little, a great number of
other glowing orbs drew near the first globe. The spectacle was like a
swarm of bees flying around the beekeeper, and the light of these orbs
was as if they were dashing violently against each other. They blended
together into one awful flame, and bodied forth to the eye as a horrible
two-edged sword. The strange globe, which was first seen now appeared
like the pommel to a handle, and all the little orbs, fused with the
first, shone as brilliantly as the first globe. [Originally
published in 1567 in Prodigiorium ac Ostentorum Chronicon [Out of Print]
later in - Flying Saucers on the Attack - 1954
398 Byzantine Empire. “A thing like a burning globe, presenting a sword,
shown brilliantly in the sky over the city. It seemed almost to touch
the earth from the zenith. Such a thing was never recorded to have been
seen before by man.”
"'The way was long, and as if enveloped in darkness,' explains Chu Yan,
a Chinese poet of the third century B.C. Chinese tradition narrates the
extraordinary adventure of Hou Yih, an engineer of the Emperor Yao, who
decided, 4,300 years ago, to go to the moon with a 'celestial bird.' In
the course of the flight, the bird indicated to the traveler the exact
movements of the rising, the apogee, and the setting of the sun. Hou Yih
thereafter explained that he 'sailed up the current of luminous air.'
Could this current have been the exhaust of a rocket? "'He no longer
perceived the rotary movement of the sun,' the narrator points out.
Effectively, contemporary astronauts have noted that, in space, it was
not possible to discern the diurnal passage of the sun. And what did the
Chinese engineer observe on the moon? He saw 'an horizon which appeared
frozen.' To protect himself from the glacial air, he built the 'Palace
of the Great Cold.' His wife, Chang Ngo, left to join him on the
satellite, which she described as 'a luminous sphere, brilliant as
glass, of an enormous size, and very cold.'"
664 England, Barking near the Thames. At a monastery a great light
appeared in the sky at night and shone over nuns who were singing in the
burial-ground. They reported that it lifted up, moved to the other side
of the monastery, and then ascended into the night sky. Priests said the
light surpassed the brightness of day.
747 China. Huge flame-breathing dragons were reported being seen in
skies, accompanied by men in airships.
763 Meath County. While King Domnall Mac Murchada attended the fair at
Teltown ships were seen in the air.
776 Charlemagne's castle at Sigiburg. As the Saxons were laying siege to
the castle, flying shields that were reddish in color appeared in the
sky and rained down fire on the attacking army. [Similar events
329 BC,
332 BC ] ]
810 St. Gregory of Tours. "Alcuin, ... biographer of Charlemagne,
and author of Vita Karoli Magni: The life of Charlemagne
840 France, Lyons. As he was coming out of the Cathedral Archbishop
Abobard, saw a mob stoning three men and a woman alleged to have been
seen alighting from a aerial ship.
919 Hungary. An object like a flaming torch was seen in the sky,
together with spheres which flew over giving out a brighter light than
the stars.
927 France. "In the town of Verdun, like the whole eastern part of
France, saw fiery armies appearing in the sky.
The 'Annals' of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966
1015 Two objects were seen ‘giving birth’ to smaller luminous spheres
over Japan.
1034 Europe. A rare typeset book from 1493, contains what may be the
earliest pictorial representation of a UFO. The book
Liber Chronicarum
1133 Japan. A large silvery disk is reported to have come close to the
ground.
1180 Japan. A term equivalent to our "flying saucer" was actually used
by the Japanese approximately 700 years before it came into use in the
West. Ancient documents describe an unusual shining object seen in the
night as a flying "earthenware vessel." The object, which had been
heading northeast from a mountain in Kii province, changed its direction
and vanished below the horizon, leaving a luminous trail.
1235 Japan. What might be called the first official investigation of a
UFO sighting occurred in Japan in 1235. During the night while General
Yoritsume and his army were encamped, mysterious lights were observed in
the heavens. The lights were seen in the southwest for many hours,
winging, circling and moving in loops. The general ordered a "full-scale
scientific investigation" of these strange events. The report finally
submitted to him has the "soothing" ring of many contemporary
explanations offered for UFO phenomena. In essence it read: "the whole
thing is completely natural, General. It is... only the wind making the
stars sway."
1239 England: Matthew of Paris: “On July 24 at dusk, but not when the
stars came out, while the air was clear, serene and shining, a great
star appeared. It was like a torch, rising from the south, and flying on
both sides of it, there was emitted in the height of the sky a very
great light. It turned quickly towards the north, not quickly, nor,
indeed, with speed, but exactly as it wished to ascend to a place high
in the air.”
1271 Japan. The Buddhist priest
Nichiren
was about to be beheaded at Tatsunokuchi, Kamakura, when there
appeared in the sky an object like a full moon, shiny and bright. The
officials panicked and the execution was cancelled.
1322 England, Uxbridge there was seen in the sky a pile (pillar) of fire
the size of a small boat, pallid and livid in color. It rose from the
south, crossed the sky with a slow and grave motion, and went north. Out
of the front of the pile, a fervent red flame burst forth with great
beams of light. Its speed increased, and it flew through the air.
1361 Japan a flying object described as being "shaped like a drum, about
twenty feet in diameter" emerged from the inland sea off the western
Japanese coast.
1387 England, the county of Leicester and in Northamptonshire. A fire in
the sky, like a burning and revolving wheel, or round barrel of flame,
emitting fire from above, and others in the shape of a long fiery beam,
were seen through a great deal of the winter.
1458 Japan. An object as bright as the full moon, followed by curious
signs, was seen in the sky.
1461 France, Arras. A fiery thing like an iron rod of good length and as
large as one half of the moon was seen in the sky for less than a
quarter of an hour. This object was also described as being "shaped like
a ship from which fire was seen flowing."
1468 Japan. A dark object, which made a "sound like a wheel," flew from
Mt. Kasuag toward the west at midnight.
1492 From "The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
1517 Romania, Moldavia: A large blue glowing disk appeared and remained in
the sky for some time.
1520 Erfurt, Prussia: Two burning suns were observed. The report says that a
great burning beam then landed, took off again and then became circular in
shape.
1528 Holland: From the Siege of Utrecht in Holland. “A cruel and strange sight
was seen in the sky, which terrified the townspeople and made the enemy think he
would get the city. It was the form of a Burgundian cross right over the city,
high in the sky, yellow in color, and fearful to behold.”
1529 Two burning suns were seen at Erfurt, Prussia. Then a great 'burning beam’
landed suddenly. It took off again into the sky, where it became circular in
shape.
1554 France: “There appeared, about the moon, a burning fire, emitting a great
noise, what seemed to be the point of a lance, turning form side to side, from
east to west, casting out flames on all sides.”
1577
Germany, Tubingen: "Objects came out of the clouds resembling large, tall and
wide hats and they landed in great numbers and in a variety of colors." From
Pierre Boaistuan, French chronicler of the unusual
1593 England, London: A "flying dragon" surrounded by flames was seen over the
city.
1606 Japan, Nijo Castle: A whirling ball of fire was seen hovering over the
castle.
1619 Switzerland, Fluelan: A prefect of a Swiss Canton saw a long, bright object
flying along a lake near Fluelen.
1643 England: From diarist, The Diary of John Evelyn 
1649 Germany, Hamburg: A fireball which "moved in bounds up and down" was
observed.
1663 Russia, Robozero: A fiery ball of light stopped over a lake at, The noisy
object gave out blue smoke and two beams of light projected ahead of it.
Fisherman on the lake were burned by the intense heat. The object disappeared
and returned again about one hour later. It was observed by many groups of
witnesses.
1676 Edmond Hally, the astronomer who discovered Haley's comet, could recall two
accounts involving unidentified crafts. His first experience was in March of,
when he saw a, as he said, "Vast body apparently bigger than the moon." He
estimated it at 40 mi. above him. He also stated that it made a noise, "Like the
rattling of a great cart over stones." After estimating the distance it traveled
in a matter of minutes, he came to the conclusion that it moved at a speed
greater than 9,600 m.p.h.
1686 Germany, Leipzig: A fiery ball of light was seen to travel east to west
before hovering some seven minutes in the sky at an estimated altitude of 30
miles. It was about half the size of the moon and gradually vanished from view.
1694 Wales, Montgomeryshire: “A fiery exhalation...a furlong broad” rose out of
the sea burning straw, hay and barns. Grass tainted, killing cattle, and skin
affected. The Diary of John Evelyn
November 4, 1697,Hamburg, Germany UFO Sighting depicted in this
artwork Objects were described as being "two glowing wheels".
1700 USA: In the US, there is an 18th century Indian legend about luminous
humanoid beings who paralyzed people with a small tube. In variations of these
tales, Indian women were even said to have married a couple of these "star
people".
1718 East Indies, Lethy Island: A large fiery mass fell and exploded on the
ground. Subsequently a jelly-like mass, silvery and scaly, was said to have been
found. [Similar events 1803
1819]
1731
• England, Sheffield: Thomas Short saw what he later described as 'a dark red
cloud, below which was a luminous body which emitted intense beams of light. The
light beams moved slowly for a while, then stopped. Suddenly it became so hot
that I could take off my shirt even though I was outdoors [this is the dead of
winter!]. This meteor was observed over Kilkenny, Ireland, where it seemed like
a great ball of fire. It was reported that it shook that entire island and that
the whole sky seemed to burst into flames.' The next afternoon, local manuscript
records show, this 'meteor' appeared over Romania: '...there appeared in the
west a great sign in the sky, blood red and very large. It stayed in place for
two hours, separated into two parts which then rejoined, and the object
disappeared toward the west.'
• Italy, Firrenze: Immediately before at earthquake a luminous cloud was seen in
the sky. It was watched until it disappeared over the horizon.
1733 England, Dorset, Fleet: Dec 8 - Reported by "James Cracker" of, a small
English town claims to have seen a
silvery disc fly overhead in broad daylight. Here is his eyewitness account:
"Something in the sky which appeared in the north but vanished from my sight, as
it was intercepted by trees, from my vision. I was standing in a valley. The
weather was warm, the sun shone brightly. All of a sudden it re-appeared,
darting in and out of my sight with an amazing coruscation. The color of this
phenomenon was like burnished, or new-washed silver. It shot with speed like a
star falling in the night. But it had a body much larger and a train longer than
any shooting star I have seen. Next day Mr. Edgecombe informed me that he and
another gentleman had seen this strange phenomenon at the same time as I had. It
was about 15 miles from where I saw it, and steering a course from east to
north."
1737 England, Sheffield: A dark red cloud was observed below which was a
luminous body, which emitted intense beams of light.
1741 England, London: Lord Beauchamp was in Kensington Gardens when he observed
a ball of fire in the sky. It seemed as if it was eight inches in diameter but
grew until it was about a yard and a half.
1742 England: An account by a Fellow of the Royal Society: “I was crossing St
James park when a light rose from behind the trees and houses, from the south
and west, which at first I thought was a rocket of large size. But when it rose
20 degrees, it moved parallel to the horizon, but waved like this (the speaker
drew an undulating line) and went on in the direction of north-by-east. It
seemed very near. Its motion was very slow. I had it for about half a mile in
view. A light flame was turned backwards by the resistance the air made to it.
From one of burning charcoal. That end was a frame like bars of iron, and quite
opaque in my sight. At one point on the longitudinal frame, or cylinder, it
issued a train in the shape of a tail of light more bright at one point on the
rod or cylinder; so that it was transparent for more than half of its length.
The head of this strange object seemed about a half a degree in diameter and the
tail near three degrees in length.”
1749 Japan: For four days three round objects were seen in the skies.
1751 Croatia, Agram: An iron meteorite crashes . The vapory cloud left by an
aerial explosion was visible for an hour before it entirely dissipated. After
the detonation took place, two masses of iron fell in the shape of chains welded
together.
1752 Sweden, Augermanland: Luminous spheres were seen coming
out of a bright cylinder in which spheres emerged from cylinders and engaged in
an aerial battle over the city [Similar events
1561 1752
1783 1871]
1758 England: From Cambridge to Ross-shire. A dazzling light as bright as day
seen over Britain Velocity was an estimated 30 mps; height over Cambridge 95
miles; over Inverness 30 miles. It seemed to descend obliquely towards the
earth, and then 'rose again with renewed splendor'.
1762 Switzerland, Lausanne: A huge spindle-shaped object was seen crossing the
sun by two different observatories and was observed by one astronomer nearly
every day for a month. An amateur astronomer and member of the Medicophysical
Society of Basel, Switzerland. On August 9, 1762, at Lausanne, Switzerland, he
observed it through a telescope crossing and eclipsing the sun. He was able to
observe this object almost daily for close to a month and managed to trace its
outline with a camera obscure and sent the picture to the Royal Academy of
Sciences in Paris. Unfortunately, his image no longer exists.
1768 Germany: The German poet, dramatist, author and scientist
Johann Goethe was
himself a witness to a strange luminous object. He was journeying from Frankfurt
to Leipzig by stagecoach. At one point the rough uphill track was so treacherous
from mud and rain that the passengers were forced to alight and follow on
behind! It was then that Goethe suddenly became aware of lights in the ravine
below them. Writes Goethe: All of a sudden, in a ravine on the right hand side
of the track, I saw a sort of amphitheatre, wonderfully illuminated. In a
funnel-shaped space there were innumerable little lights shining, ranged step-
fashion over one another; and they shone so brilliantly that the eye was
dazzled. But the sight was even more confusing because these objects did not
keep still, but jumped about here and there, as well as downwards from above!"
1777 France: French astronomer
Charles Messier
saw a number of dark round
objects in the sky.
1783
• England: The scientist Tiberius Cavallo
• England, Greenwich: An object was observed that ‘gave birth’ to eight
satellites, which disappeared slowly towards the Southeast. [Similar events 1561
1752 1783
1871]
• England, Sudbrooke: Several people saw a luminous object hovering in the
northeast at approximately 2200hrs. It emitted fixed flashes of light,
lightning, which lasted about 30 sec. The object then separated into 7/8 pieces
and traveled swiftly horizontally before disappearing in an arc like a rocket.
1786 England: A bright ball of fire and light lasting 40 minutes was seen in the
sky over southern England during a hurricane of wind.
1787 Edinburgh: A bright fireball light like the sun was seen traveling
horizontally through the sky at. It dropped a little, then rose again, bursting
behind a cloud.
* 1790 France. During the summer, Police Inspector Liabeuf witnessed and
investigated a large red globe as it flew over farmland. The globe landed and a
man came out and spoke in a language none understood. The globe then exploded
and the man disappeared. [* See Notes
1790 France]
1793 Northumberland. A bright oval light was observed in the sky over
for around five minutes. At first it appeared the size of Sirius.
1796 Germany, Dresden and Berlin. A bright light irregular in form and
the size of the moon was seen in the sky above. A large detonation was
heard and a dark bituminous substance fell to earth.
1799 England . A "beautiful ball blazing with white light" was seen. It
made no sound and red sparks flew from it.
1799 England, Hereford. A "large red pillar of fire" was seen in the sky
going south. It was preceded by "flashes of extremely vivid electrical
sort". Other objects were seen leaving luminous trails.
1799 England, Huncoates and Lincolnshire. A ball of fire passed in the
sky.
1803 A shooting star got larger and larger until it fell to earth
between Barsdorf and Freiburg in Silesia. A whizzing noise was heard as
it passed close to the ground before it landed and then lay burning.
Next day a jelly-like mass was found on the snow. [similar events
1718
1819]
1808 France, Piedmont. Formation of 'luminous discs' observed in the
sky.
1812 The war between the Russians, French and Germans, over the town of
Bucovina. ”Towards noon a large star with many rays appeared and in the
night she ascended higher and flew in the direction of the Russians;
afterwards she returned and went to the west, where the beams where
extinguished. Thus did the star reveal herself for four months.
Biblioteca Academiei, ”manuscris românesc [Out of Print]
1816 Edinburgh. Many people saw a large, luminous crescent-shaped object
flying over the city.
1819 United States, Amhurst, Mass. A white silvery fireball light
accompanied by a violent explosion was seen. Afterwards, a gelatinous
substance was said to have been found. [similar events
1718
1803]
1820 France, Embrun. A formation of flying objects crossed the French
town.
Francois Arago wrote of this date in the ‘Annales de chimie et de
physique’: "Numerous observers have seen, during an eclipse of the moon,
strange objects moving in straight lines. They were equally spaced and
remained in line when they made turns. Their movements made a military
precision."
1826 English Channel. Sailors in the Channel reported seeing a gray,
torpedo-shaped object flying overhead.
1831 Thuringia. It was reported that a brilliant luminous disc was seen
in the night sky.
1833 United States. A large, square, luminous object was seen for more
than an hour over Niagara Falls.
1836 France, Cherbourg. In this French coastal town what was a described
as a 'gleaming aerial vessel' was seen in the sky overhead.
1836 - In the town of Szeged (Hungary), near the Romanian border,
spherical lights and the appearance of what looks like a ”lady in white”
creates uproar in a part of the town. No further information or details.
- Ufo's From Behind The Iron Curtain
1842 Soviet Union, Orenburg. Small metal objects, perfectly hexagonal,
fell out of the sky after a "strange cloud" appeared. -Ufo's From Behind The Iron Curtain
1845 Italy. Astronomers at a Naples observatory recorded the appearance
of several luminous discs which left trails.
1846 United States. A 'luminous flying disc' was reported over this
eastern seaboard area.
1847 England, London. A spherical craft was spotted rising vertically
through the clouds.
1860 United States, Shreveport, Louisiana. "Our attention was called to
a strange light in the heavens. On going out into the gallery we had a
magnificent view of it. It appeared to the naked eye, about 300 yards in
length, extending from North to West appearing just above the tallest
trees. Its color was that of a red hot stove from the center beautiful
rays resembling those of the sun drawing water would ascend to a
considerable height, the whole presenting a very beautiful and sublime
appearance. We watched it for about an hour without perceiving it to
change any.
1868 Chile, Capiago an aerial construction was observed emitting light
with an engine noise.
1868 England, Oxford. Astronomers at Radcliff Observatory saw a
luminous object that moved quickly across the sky, stopped, changed
course to the west, then to the south, where it hovered for four
minutes, then headed toward the north.
1870 Atlantic Ocean. An object was seen from the ship Lady of the Lake
that appeared to be a light-gray colored disk that flew against the
wind.
1870 African coast. Capt. F.W. Banner and crew reported “A semi-circle
divided into four parts, and a central shaft...extending far outward &
curving backward emitted vivid shafts of light.”
1871 Meudon Observatory. Astronomer Trouvelot noted a number of objects
that resembled those witnessed at Nuremberg and Basel. Among the objects
he saw was a circle that first seemed about to fall, then descended
"like a disk falling through water."
1872 England, Banbury. At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack
flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low, it was
accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a
tornado, felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished.
1873 United States, Bonham, Texas. A huge cigar-shaped object swooped
low over the town of on two occasions and in broad daylight. It then
disappeared quickly to the east.
1874 Mexico, Oaxaca. Residents saw a huge, gently swaying,
trumpet-shaped object estimated to be 425ft long hovering in the sky for
six minutes.
1874 Prague. A Professor Schafarick saw "an object of such strange
nature that I do not know what to say about it. It was of a blinding
white and crossed slowly the face of the moon. It remained visible
afterwards."
1877 France, Vence. Reports of a "cloud cigar" "fiery spheres, extremely
luminous, came out of a cloud of peculiar shape and went slowly toward
the north for one hour.
1878 United States, Texas. John Martin, a farmer, spotted a fast moving
dark object high in the southern sky. When it passed overhead, he saw
that it was the size of a 'large saucer'. It continued on its way and
was soon lost to view. In recounting the event, a local newspaper
remarked, 'Mr. Martin is a gentleman of undoubted veracity and this
strange occurrence, if it was not a balloon, deserves the attention of
our scientists'.
1879 Persian Gulf. The S.S. Vulture crew reported, two luminous rotating
wheels, about 130 ft. across, seen above the water before diving
1880 Persian Gulf. The British steamer Patna
"I
...ask for an explanation of the following, which I saw when on board
the British India Company's steamer Patna, while on a voyage up the
Persian Gulf . In May, 1880, on a dark night, about 11:30p.m., there
suddenly appeared on each side of the ship an enormous, luminous wheel,
whirling around, the spokes of which seemed to brush the ship along. The
spokes would be 200 or 300 yards long, and resembled the birch rods of
the dames' schools. Each wheel contained about sixteen spokes, and,
although the wheels must have been some 500 or 600 yards in diameter,
the spokes could be distinctly seen all the way round. The
phosphorescent gleam seemed to glide along flat on the surface of the
sea, no light being visible in the air above the water. The appearance
of the spokes could be almost exactly represented by standing in a boat
and flashing a bull's eye lantern horizontally along the surface of the
water, round and round. I may mention that the phenomenon was also seen
by Captain Avern, of the Patna, and Mr.Manning, third officer.
"
1880 July, Russia, St. Petersburg. A large illuminated globe, accompanied by two smaller lights is seen to follow a ravine outside the city.
1880 August, France. A member of the French Academy observed a
glittering, white gold cigar-shaped object in the sky that had pointed
ends.
1882 England. A huge UFO, the first such phenomenon which was
characteristically saucer-shaped in Europe, was plainly observed by
numerous people in England and other parts of Europe during the night.
It was seen to travel in the sky at an approximate altitude of 130 miles
in an east-west direction. A number of eminent scientists witnessed the
object, among them being Dr E Walter Maunder, Greenwich astronomer;
English spectroscopist, J Rand Capron; Dutch astronomers Audemans and
Zeeman. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich published a report of the
conclusions reached by scientists, following the appearance of what had
been termed, "The Great Saucer". The report had this to say: "It
appeared to be well defined in body and the inference drawn was that it
was a meteor, not in the old vague sense of some object high in the
Earth's atmosphere, but in the sense of a solid cosmological substance,
disc-like in appearance, the orbit of which brought it within the
terrestrial atmosphere. But nothing could be more unlike the rush of a
great meteor or fireball, with intense radiance and fiery train. The
advance of this object, though swift, appeared to be orderly and
controlled. There was no sign of the compression of the atmosphere
before it, no hint that the matter composing its front part, was in
anyway more strongly heated than the rest of its substance, if
substance, indeed it possessed."
1883 Summer, Germany, Segeberg. A teacher and children at a school all
saw two fiery balls in a clear sky one day. The size of two full moons,
the objects traveled slowly together from north to south.
1883 August,
Mexico. Over 400 cigar-shaped and disc-shaped objects were reported
moving across the sun by a Mexican astronomer, Jose A. Y. Bonilla, at
the Zacatecas Observatory. His photographs represent probably the
earliest UFO pictures. Similar sightings occurred the following day.
[See
Fate Magazine January 2004]
1885 Adrianople, Turkey . From The Book of the Damned
1886 Turkey, Adrianapole. An oval-shaped object that spread a huge light
was observed west of the Turkish town. It moved slowly and lit up the
railway station with a brilliant glow.
1887 Cape Race. From L’Astronomie, "On November 12, 1887, at midnight,
near, a huge ball of fire appeared, slowly emerging from the ocean to an
altitude of sixteen to seventeen meters. This sphere started moving
against the wind and stopped close to the ship from which it was
observed. Then it rushed away in the sky and disappeared in the
southeast. The whole observation had lasted five minutes."
1888 Italy, Ragusa. From the ‘Memoirs’ of the Minor Brothers
1892 Poland. A phantom airship scare began appearing. As in later
'flaps' of this sort, the craft often appeared at night and were usually
equipped with powerful searchlights.
1893 North China Sea. The ship, H.M.S. Carolina was sailing in the North
China Sea, when a report from an officer of unusual light activity in
the sky came to the attention of Captain J.N. Norcross. The officer told
Captain Norcross that the lights appeared sometimes in a huge mass,
others spread out in unusual patterns. He said that they resembled
Chinese lanterns set between the masts of a ship. The next night these
strange lights reappeared but with a reddish glow and emanating small
amounts of smoke. UFO Exist!
1893 United States. A huge ‘wheel’ emanating noise appeared. It remained
motionless for fifteen minutes before departing.
1895 England, Oxford. A disk was seen rising above some trees and
disappearing into the east
1896 - 1897 Phantom Airship Wave USA
1896 United States, California. The phantom airship wave in the US
initially struck in California at the end of this year and into the
next. Soon sightings spread east as literally thousands of people
claimed to have seen the mystery craft and, on occasion met with the
strange gibbering occupants. Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
and other areas of the Midwest. On April 11, 1897, Walter McCann of
Rogers Park, a few miles north of Chicago, took a photograph of an
airship. The New York Herald, as well as the Chicago Tribune,
pronounced the photograph, "genuine and not a fake."
1897 Canada, British Columbia. Two Canadian fishermen spot a pear-shaped
craft flying south.
1897 United States, Aurora, Texas. From the April 19, Dallas Morning
News
'About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of were astonished at
the sudden appearance of the airship, which has been sailing around the
country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than
before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was
making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually
settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it
reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge
Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion,
scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill
and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. The pilot of
the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his
remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up
to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world. Mr. T.J. Weems, the
U.S. Army Signal Service officer at this place and an authority on
astronomy gives it as his opinion that the pilot was a native of the
planet Mars. Papers found on his person, evidently the records of his
travels -- are written in some unknown hieroglyphics and cannot be
deciphered. This ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to
its construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal,
resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver, and it must have
weighed several tons. The town is today full of people who are viewing
the wreckage and gathering specimens of strange metal from the debris.
The pilot's funeral will take place tomorrow.' From UPI, 1973, “A grave
in a small north Aurora, Texas cemetery contains the body of an 1897
astronaut who "was not an inhabitant of this world," according to the
International UFO Bureau. The group, which investigates unidentified
flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the
body. "After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts
for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he
was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge
J.S. Proctor's place, April 19, 1897," Hewes said. He was not an
inhabitant of this world." A few days later, another UPI account
datelined Aurora quoted a ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of
fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident. She said she
"had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers
recently." She said her parents had gone to the sight of the crash, but
had refused to take her along. She recalled that the remains of the
pilot, "a small man," had been buried in the Aurora cemetery. Not to be
outdone, the Associated Press, in a story datelined Denton, Texas,
reported "a North Texas State University professor had found some metal
fragments near the Oates gas station (former Proctor farm). One fragment
was said to be 'most intriguing' because it consisted of primarily of
iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties." The professor
also said he was puzzled because the fragment was "shiny and malleable
instead of dull and brittle like iron." The Aurora Cemetery Association
was successful in blocking the attempts to dig up the grounds in search
of the "Martian pilot."
1897 United States, LeRoy, Kansas. From a sworn statement dated 21
April, a prosperous and prominent farmer named Alexander Hamilton (Le
Roy, Kansas, U.S.A.) told of an attack upon his cattle at about 10:30 PM
the previous Monday. He, his son, and his tenant grabbed axes and ran
some 700 feet from the house to the cow lot where a great cigar-shaped
ship about 300 feet long floated some 30 feet above his cattle. It had a
carriage underneath which was brightly lighted within (dirigible and
gondola?) and which had numerous windows. Inside were six strange
looking beings jabbering in a foreign language. These beings suddenly
became aware of Hamilton and the others. They immediately turned a
searchlight on the farmer, and also turned on some power, which sped up
a turbine wheel (about 30 ft diameter) located under the craft. The ship
rose, taking with it a two-year old heifer, which was roped about the
neck by a cable of one-half inch thick, red material. The next day a
neighbor, Link Thomas, found the animal's hide, legs and head in his
field. He was mystified at how the remains got to where they were
because of the lack of tracks in the soft soil. Alexander Hamilton's
sworn statement was accompanied by an affidavit as to his veracity. The
affidavit was signed by ten of the local leading citizens.
1897 United States, Kansas City, Missouri. 10,000 residents saw a large
black ship hover over head, flash green-blue and white lights, then
moved straight up into space rapidly. Many other UFO sightings were
reported, describing cigar-shaped, metallic craft with either wings,
propellers, fins, or search lights. Bright lights were seen during the
night.
1899 South Africa. After alerting its telegraph offices to be on the
lookout for invading British aircraft, the Transvaal government was
inundated with sighting reports. Phantom airships, often equipped with
powerful searchlights, mysteriously appeared in the skies around. Of
course, neither aircraft nor airplanes were known to exist in Africa at
this time.
Ancient Aircraft & UFOs in Egypt
Ancient Aircraft & UFOs in India
Evidence of Ancient Nuclear War
The Electrical Ark of the Covenant
Evidence of Ancient Atomic Knowledge?
1790 France -"The earliest reference
to this case comes from an article published in 1966 by the late Italian
ufologist Alberto Fenoglio. A writer known to have made up many UFO
reports in his time, Fenoglio invented
the story about Inspector Liabeuf for a purportedly serious article
about UFOs in ancient history, published in the Italian magazine
Clypeus. This article, Antichi visitatori dal Cielo (Ancient Sky
Visitors)was widely distributed and translated into several languages.
The truth of the matter came to light way back in 1975 when the
brilliant Italian ufologist Edoardo Russo carried out an in-depth
investigation into Fenoglio’s claims . "
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/feb/m28-019.shtml
- 1290 England, Yorkshire. The Abbot and monks of Byland Abbey, (the
largest Cistercian abbey in England), were about to commence a meal when
one of the brethren ran in to announce a great portent outside. They all
ran outside and saw a large silver disc fly slowly overhead and caused
the utmost terror.
- Paul Thomas Flying Saucers through the ages
: "...in Yorkshire, a flat shining disk flew over the monastery of Byland. (Translater's note: There are grave doubts on the genuineness of this. Two Oxford undergraduates admitted to me in 1956 that they forged this document for a joke -- but there is nothing to prove that they really did so!) . See "The Condon report"
- Paul Thomas Flying Saucers through the ages
: "...in Yorkshire, a flat shining disk flew over the monastery
of Byland. (Translater's note: There are grave doubts on the
genuineness of this. Two Oxford undergraduates admitted to me in
1956 that they forged this document for a joke -- but there
is nothing to prove that they really did so!) . See
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