Ancient Technology

Unexplained Aerial phenomena In Antiquity

 

Aircraft in Ancient America

Aerial Battle over Germany 1561

 

Ancient Aircraft & UFOs in Egypt

Ancient Aircraft & UFOs in India

   
Illustration published in 1557 depicting a 1479 UFO sighting over Arabia, described as a "comet: at the time

Reproduced in The Gods of Eden / 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 by Zoltan Simon

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 Blazing discs burned and destroyed an entire city and its inhabitants, before returning to the hand of Vishnu.  See also Ancient Nuclear War

 


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[Similar events 332 BC, 776 AD ]
 



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. "In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Caius Marius, a burning shield scattering sparks ran across the sky." 

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®), “Something like a sort of weapon, or missile, rose with a great noise from the earth and soared into the sky”

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, states on his way from Aachen, he saw a large sphere descend like lightning from the sky. It traveled from east to west and was so bright it made the monarch's horse rear up , Charlemagne fell and injured himself severely, he's dead in four more years"

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 reports that they flew over eastern Reims on a Sunday morning in March. Similar phenomena happened several times under King Pepin the Short, under Charlemagne, under Louis I, the Debonair. These sovereign’s capitularia mention penalties against creatures that travel on aerial ships."


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, [commonly known as Hartmann Schedel: Nuremberg Chronicle (Taschen Jumbo Series)] describes a strange fiery sphere, seen in 1034, soaring through the sky in a straight course from south to east and then veering toward the setting sun. The illustration accompanying the account shows a cigar-shaped form haloed by flames, sailing through a blue sky over a green, rolling countryside. This may be the first work that contains actual illustrations of UFO's.

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." Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez while on the deck of the Santa Maira, observed, "a light glimmering at a great distance." It vanished and reappeared several times during the night, moving up and down, "in sudden and passing gleams." It was sighted 4 hours before land was sighted, and taken by Columbus as a sign they would soon come to land.

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 . “I must not forget what amazed us exceedingly the night before, namely, a shining cloud in the air in a shape resembling a sword, the point reaching to the north. It was as bright as the moon, the rest of the sky being very serene. It began about 11 at night and vanished not till about one, being seen by all the south of England.”

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 was a witness to a sighting that also stunned Royal guests at a celebration to mark the birth of the 15th son of King George 111 and Queen Charlotte. A luminous object appeared from beneath a cloud and soon became brilliantly lit before coming to a halt. According To Cavallo"s account of the incident: "This strange sphere seemed at first to be pale blue in color, but its luminosity increased and soon it set off again towards the east." Even though the sun was shining the object is said to have lit up everything on the ground and eventually disappeared with a terrific explosion!
• 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 By Charles Fort and originally reported in ‘L’Astronomie’: by M. Mavrogordato [Out of Print],  "On November 1, at 9:30pm, there was seen, west of Adrianople, an elongated object giving off a strong luminosity. It seemed to float in the air and its apparent disk was four or five times larger than the full moon. It traveled slowly and cast light on the whole camp behind the station with a brightness about ten times greater than a large electric bulb. In the morning, at dawn, a very luminous flame, first bluish, then greenish, and moving at a height of five to six meters, made a series of turns around the ferryboat pier at Scutari. Its blinding luminosity lighted the street and flooded the inside of the houses with light." 

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, “Luminous bodies were seen flying through the sky in lines for one hour.”

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!, Paris Flammonde

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.

 

 

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UFO Hoaxes

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"



 

Pierre Boaistuan

Histoire des amans fortunez   1558

Histoires Prodigienses, 1561

"Among all things that can be contemplated under the concavity of the heavens, nothing is seen that arouses the human spirit more, that ravishes the senses more, that horrifies more, that provocates more terror or admiration than the monsters, prodigies and abominations through which we see the works of nature inverted, mutilated and truncated.” - Pierre Boaistuan, Histoires Prodigienses, 1561
 


 

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