Over the course of many hundreds of years, many different references to UFOs have accumulated, including photographic evidence. It is noteworthy that some famous historical figures spoke about contacts with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations.
In this list, you will learn about the earliest evidence for UFOs, documented by happy and terrified eyewitnesses.
10. Edmund Halley saw more than a comet
Astronomer Edmond Halley, who became the first person to point to Halley's comet, in his entire scientific career managed to observe 2 other unidentified objects that flew high above the earth several centuries ago.
The first incident occurred in March 1676. Then Halley wrote that it was "a huge body, obviously larger than the moon." The astronomer estimates that the object flew at an altitude of 64 kilometers directly above it. Halley also noted that the body made a sound similar to "the rumble of a cart rushing over stones." After observing the flight of a UFO for several minutes, the scientist calculated that the object's speed was over 15,500 kilometers per hour.
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9. Hike of Alexander the Great
In 329 BC, during a military campaign, Alexander the Great and his army crossed the river. It was then that his people saw in the sky silver shields with rings of fire around them. The objects several times dived in the air directly towards the detachment, until the war elephants and horses were so frightened that they refused to go further. Alexander and his army could not cross the river that day, and the group had to try again the next morning.
8. Wreck in Aurora, Texas, USA
In 1897, many years before the UFO crash in Roswell (Roswell, American city), another mysterious catastrophe occurred in the United States. At about 6 am in the town of Aurora, Texas (Aurora, Texas), an unidentified ship fell directly into the mill of local judge Proctor (Proctor). The object exploded into many small fragments. In the process of cleaning the wreckage on some of them, a supposedly alien writing resembling hieroglyphs was discovered.
Also at the scene of the accident was found and severely mutilated corpse of the "Martian pilot". The city authorities decided to bury him in their cemetery, where the creature, in theory, still rests under the soil. However, you will hardly be able to visit the grave, because someone stole a marker indicating the exact location of the "alien".
7. Alien battle in Marseille, France
On the evening of August 25, 1608, near the French city of Marseilles, people noticed a lonely spacecraft moving in the sky along a chaotic trajectory. At some point, the object hovered between heaven and earth, and two creatures emerged from it and began to fight each other. A similar scene was soon observed in the Nice area.
A similar UFO battle also took place a few kilometers away in another city - Genoa. According to the testimony of contemporaries, there was a heavy downpour of red throughout the next week. The memories of such a large number of people practically do not give rise to doubts, and what is especially interesting is that the same event was described by people who did not know each other who lived at a time when aircraft were not yet in use.
6. Celestial geometry and Nuremberg, Germany
On the morning of April 14, 1561, the citizens of Nuremberg had the opportunity to watch the incredible action right in the sky. According to the Germans, they saw two giant black cylinders launching black and blue spheres, blood-red crosses and white discs into the air. The show lasted about an hour and at the end some of the fantastic figures headed straight for the rising sun. Witnesses also reported seeing several objects fall outside the city.
A local newspaper then wrote something like the following: “The balls gathered in a row of three, sometimes formed a quadrangle, and some flew separately. Blood-colored crosses floated between them. Residents saw 2 huge pipes, which also had 3 or 4 balls. All these elements seemed to be fighting each other."
5. Battle in Basel, Switzerland
At dawn on August 7, 1566, the inhabitants of the Swiss city of Basel (Basel) saw the black spheres involved in an extraordinary aerial battle for a full 4 hours in a row.
Samuel Coccius, who described the incident in a city newspaper, said something like this: “When the sun had already risen, the townspeople saw large black balls moving at high speed towards the sun. At some point, they turned around and began to fight each other. During the battle, many of the balls turned red and exploded. It seems that in this way they died."
4. New Zealand has been observing UFOs for several weeks
For almost a month in the winter of 1909, news of the flights of unidentified aircraft of various sizes and shapes appeared in New Zealand newspapers. News reported on UFO sightings in completely different parts of the country. The places where these objects were most often seen became so popular that in the hope of seeing the ghost ships, people came here just to watch the night sky for hours.
The appearance of UFOs occurred both during the day and at night, but no one was able to approach these objects closer than 30 meters. According to official data, when these aircraft appeared in the skies of New Zealand, not a single simple aircraft should have been there. Judging by the numerous evidences, UFOs began their demonstrations in the southern part of the country, then moved north, and eventually headed towards Australia.
3. Boston case, Massachusetts
In 1639, the Americans noticed a strange light in the sky over Boston. The beam was traveling at high speed over the Charles River from Back Bay Fens to Charleston (Back Bay Fens, Charlestown). Governor John Winthrop even recorded this unique glow in his personal journal. Winthrop's testimony can be considered quite reliable, since he was a man of good reputation and high status.
The Governor wrote: “This year, James Everell, a teetotal and reserved man, and two of his other companions saw a bright light in the sky over the Muddy River. When the light died away, it suddenly flared up and became almost 3 meters in size, and then, with the speed of an arrow, rushed towards Charleston. For almost 2 or 3 hours, this beam took off and fell down. The men followed the unknown heavenly fire for one and a half kilometers, but in the end it disappeared from view in the same place where it was seen at the very beginning. Several other trustworthy people have told the same about the unusual light in the same place."
2. Eyewitnesses from Windsor Castle, England
In the evening at 9:45 am, August 18, 1783, 4 people were resting on the terrace of Windsor Castle. Suddenly they saw a luminous object in the sky. Descriptions of this phenomenon are very reminiscent of a meteor, except for the part in which eyewitnesses report the temporary hovering of the UFO and its multi-colored overflows. A year later, a report appeared in the scientific journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society confirming the words of the Windsor witnesses. The note was about an elongated cloud moving more or less parallel to the horizon. A luminous object was visible under the cloud, which soon took on the shape of a sphere. At first, the ball appeared pale blue, but then its brightness suddenly increased, and the object receded towards the east, blindingly sparkling. Then he changed direction and headed towards the southeast, again moving parallel to the ground. The light that the sphere emittedwas so bright that it illuminated everything around like the sun rising in the middle of the night.
1. Pharaoh Thutmose III also saw a UFO
There is speculation that the Tulli Papyrus is the oldest written evidence of UFO contact, documented in ancient Egypt. The papyrus includes records about Pharaoh Thutmose III (Thutmose), who ruled from 1504 to 1450 BC. According to the chronicles, the paranormal phenomenon occurred in 1480 BC.
The chronicles describe a divine disc of fire that suddenly descended from heaven. The sphere gave off "bad breath, but it had no head." The dimensions of the disc were 1 genus in length and 1 genus in width (ancient unit of measurement, approximately 46 cm). The confused scribes bowed before the fire and hastened to report it to Pharaoh. Thutmose ordered to observe the sphere, and he himself fell into deep thoughts about what had happened. A few days later, it was no longer a single UFO, but several celestial objects at once, which shone brighter than the sun itself. When the spheres rose high into the sky and disappeared from view, birds and fish fell to the ground. In order to appease the gods, Pharaoh ordered incense to be lit and ordered the scribes to write down the glow in their chronicles.
If your curiosity just inflamed, then here are 2 more incredible cases of past years:
Jose Bonilla's observations
In 1883, the Mexican astronomer Jose Bonilla saw an object in a hazy sky flying directly in front of the solar disk. As a result, against the background of the sun, he managed to count several hundred dark spots moving at high speed high in the sky. The astronomer carefully recorded and documented everything he saw, taking also several photographs. Bonilla believed they were UFOs, and did not try to find any other explanation for what happened.
Three years later, the collegium of the French Astronomical Journal put forward the assumption that the photographs show either birds or beetles running through the lenses of the camera. In 2011, three Mexican researchers offered a different version that sounds much better against the background of accusations of the French about the incompetence of their overseas counterpart. American astronomers believe that since in just 2 days Bonilla counted 447 objects in the sky, it could be an exploded comet.
Christopher Columbus
On October 11, 1492, while walking around the deck of the ship Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus saw "a light shimmering at a great distance from the earth." He hastened to call his colleague Pedro Gutierrez, who also witnessed the unusual glow. The beam disappeared and reappeared several times in the middle of the night, moving up and down, and constantly flashing.
4 hours after the incident, the sailors discovered America. Columbus later said that this mysterious light was a sign that they would sail to a new land and discover a land unknown until now.
Believe it or not all of the above is everyone's personal business. But just think, is it really so unlikely that somewhere in the middle of the vast expanses of space, residents of other planets are watching us? Are there really no other living beings in the world besides earthlings?