1984, Cairo, Egypt. Albert Tully's eyes lit up when he saw an old papyrus in a local shop. Judging by its appearance and numerous damage, it is very ancient. As it turned out later, this papyrus became a real find for ufologists.
Tully was in charge of the Egyptian department of the Vatican Museum. Not being a great specialist in Ancient Egypt, he nevertheless immediately realized that the papyrus belongs to the time of the pharaohs and is certainly of great scientific interest. Unfortunately, he could not buy the rarity, because the owner of the shop asked for an excessively high price. True, the Egyptian kindly allowed the Italian professor to copy the text.
Alberto Tully could not independently translate the papyrus and turned for help to the generally recognized expert on Ancient Egypt, the Italian prince Boris Rachevilts, the author of the fundamental works "The Art of Ancient Egypt" and "Customs and Rules of the Ancient Egyptians." And although there were many gaps and gaps in the copy of the old papyrus from Cairo, Racheviltz coped with the difficult task brilliantly.
Alberto Tully's intuition did not disappoint. A very valuable document really fell into his hands, which, according to the translator, dates back to the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1504-1459 BC). The uniqueness of the papyrus was also given by the fact that it described a rare atmospheric phenomenon, which many ufologists consider the first documented case of a UFO visit to our planet in human history.
The Tully Papyrus, as this amazing document began to be called after the death of its owner, reads:
“In the 22nd year, in the third month of winter, at the sixth hour of the day, the scribes of the House of Life saw a fireball in the sky … A fetid breath escaped from his mouth, but he had no head and he was silent. Its dimensions were approximately the genus in length and the same width (46 m). At the sight of this diva, the scribes were frightened and fell down … When the ball left, they went to the palace of Pharaoh and told about what they had seen in the sky.
His Majesty ordered … To observe the ball … And he himself began to reflect on its meaning and meaning. He commanded that an entry be made on the scroll of the House of Life. A few days later, the same balls appeared in the sky in great numbers. They eclipsed the sun with their radiance and brilliance. The balls moved freely in all four directions … The army, led by the pharaoh himself, watched them for a long time. All this happened after dinner. Then they climbed even higher and withdrew to the south, and fish and birds began to fall from the sky. Never since the founding of our Earth has no one seen such a miracle …
To appease the Earth, the pharaoh ordered to bring incense to the altar of Amon-Ra and to light it … Everything that happened that day, he ordered to be recorded in the annals of the House of Life, so that the memory of this will remain forever."
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Of course, the main question that arises after reading Tully's papyrus: how authentic is it? History knows a lot of skillful forgeries, and it is not surprising that many had doubts about the reliability of the amazing document.
Alas, it is impossible to prove the authenticity of the papyrus, because it, or rather, its copy, disappeared shortly after the death of Alberto Tully. Now everyone is dealing with the translation of Racheviltz and forced to take his word for it. The Vatican invariably responds to all requests from ufologists that there is no Tully papyrus in the museum. Jeanfranco Nolli, director of the Vatican Museum, believes that after the death of the professor, the papyrus, along with the rest of the property of the deceased, passed to his brother, Monsignor Augusto Tulli.
The property of the priest after his death was snapped up by numerous heirs. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find out who got the papyrus. Most likely, experts believe, the owner of the copy of Tully's papyrus simply threw it away, considering it a worthless piece of paper.
Skeptics argue that Alberto Tully did not find the original of the papyrus in the Cairo shop, but the same copy as he had. When copying, as you know, random errors can creep in, which can sometimes change the meaning of the text.
However, historians, having analyzed the style and grammar, as well as numerous cross-references to the events described in other documents during the reign of Thutmose III, tend to consider it to be genuine. The author of the fake, without a doubt, must have had extensive knowledge of the history and customs of Ancient Egypt.
The first and main suspect for this role, according to opponents of the authenticity of the Tully papyrus, is Boris Rachevilt. Ufologists logically object: why did a noble aristocrat and a world-famous historian need to risk his high reputation in high society and the scientific world?
But even if we take on faith that the papyrus is not genuine, it is not at all necessary that the author and his contemporaries encountered a UFO. According to one of the alternative theories, the speech in the Tully papyrus may be about the release of plasma caused by the electrical instability of the earth's atmosphere. This hypothesis is to some extent confirmed by the fact that the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for "fireball" can also be translated as "a round object that emits strong heat." As for the rest, Rachevilts' translation is flawless.
Whether alien guests arrived or did not arrive during the reign of Thutmose III, they could confirm reports of fireballs in other documents of that time, but they are not. At least in those papyri that are kept in museums and libraries and with which historians can work.