Unidentified flying objects are not at all a sign of our days
UFOs are not at all a sign of our days. You can read about strange flying machines from many authors of the past, and also look at them in many paintings, frescoes, engravings and even icons, starting from the early Middle Ages.
However, such images are known and more ancient - these are bas-reliefs and petroglyphs, which are several thousand years old. Here are the most famous UFO images.
In the 15th century, Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) painted the painting Madonna and Saint Giovannino, which today hangs as part of the Lozere collection at Palazzo Vecchio. To the right above Mary's shoulder, a disk-shaped object is clearly visible in the sky.
Below there are a man and his dog looking at an object. Beams radiate from the object in all directions, resembling cilia on the eye.
In the painting by Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495), which is called "The Annunciation with St. Emidius" (1486) and hangs in the National Gallery in London, an oval, as it were, "fluffy" object is clearly visible, hanging in the air and also emitting rays on this times gold.
One beam is very long, descends from heaven, passes through a special window in the building and touches the head of the kneeling praying Mary. Above the head, the beam passes through the dove, around which the same golden rays.
A tapestry dating from around 1330 in the Notre-Dame Beaune Basilica (Burgundy, France) hangs in the air a strange thing that resembles a modern flat-brimmed hat with a round crown. Whether the rays are emanating from the "hat" is difficult to understand; after all, the tapestry is not painting.
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Another tapestry, Summer Celebrations, located in the Bavarian National Museum and created in Bruges in 1538, clearly shows several disc-shaped objects at the top of the trellis on the right and left. They also look like hats.
The Flemish artist Arent de Gelder (1645-1727), a student of Rembrandt, painted in 1710 the painting "The Baptism of Christ", which today hangs in the Cambridge Museum.
It also has a disc-shaped object in the sky with four rays that touch John the Baptist and Jesus. This "disc" differs from the previous two in its absolutely flat shape.
In the painting "Glorification of the Eucharist" by Bonaventura Salimbeni (1568-1613), painted in 1600 and located today in the Italian church of San Lorenzo in San Pietro, we see two figures sitting on the clouds. Between them is a natural … companion! Large bluish-silvery ball with antennae. The figures touch the antennas with their fingers, and a dove hovers above the ball.
Very interesting is the image made with paints on wood by the German artist Hans Glayser (1500-1573). In his own words, he captured "an incredibly terrible sight", which he saw in the sky over Nuremberg on the morning of April 4, 1561.
The graphic shows a black rocket-like object flying high over the city. According to the medieval text "Annals of Nuremberg", in the same year, but already on April 14, the inhabitants of this city observed dozens of blood-red, blue and black spheres in the sky next to the rising sun.
The amazing spectacle lasted more than an hour, and suddenly the spheres spewing fire began to fall to the ground, and then disappeared without a trace.
According to other sources, in April 1561 a large number of flying "plates", "crosses" and two huge cylinders appeared over Nuremberg, from which groups of balls flew out. At the same time, numerous spheres and discs were observed, colored in red, blue and black.
All of them staged a kind of air battle in the sky, horrifying the entire population of the city. After an hour, the objects began to descend and fall to the ground, destroying each other.
Something similar is reflected in a painting kept in one of the European museums. We can see black and red spheres appearing in the sky over the Swiss city of Basel on August 7, 1566.
A good half of the city's residents witnessed this event. The Annals of Basel mention that the balls moved at great speed, collided with each other, made sudden sudden movements or hovered motionless above the ground. Many researchers agree that it was an aerial battle.
According to city chronicles and Samuel Caucus, editor of a local newspaper, “spheres that thundered like thunder appeared in the sky at dawn, many of them gradually turned bright red, flames surrounded them that devoured and dissolved them, but some still continued to fly with a roar. across the sky. " According to other testimonies, large "inclined pipes" were observed in the sky, from which balls appeared.
At the same time, a large number of black spherical bodies were seen nearby flying at high speed towards the Sun. After a while, they made a half-turn and began to collide with each other, as if depicting a battle. Some of the objects turned fiery red and, as it were, “ate” (absorbed?) Each other.
In Basel, there is a book by Konrad Lykosfenes (1518-1561), a German encyclopedist called Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon (1557). The book describes a UFO sighting in Arabia in 1479.
The illustration literally depicts a cross-section of a rocket - long, with a sharp end, depicted horizontally among clouds and stars.
In Florence, in the famous church of Santa Maria Maggiore, there is a painting by Masolino da Panicale (1383-1440) "The Miracle of Snow". The painting depicts Jesus and Mary in a circle above a large cloud, and the rest of the sky below them is just a whole flotilla of flying saucers - at least 31 pieces.
On the image from the 12th century manuscript Annals of Lauriscense, the artist drew a textbook image of a satellite from children's books or postcards: a flying ball with round portholes, followed by three triangular trails, as well as a disc also with portholes surrounded by the same triangular rays.
The drawing depicts the siege of Sigiburg castle in France, where the Saxons surrounded the French and were ready to take the castle when the "flaming shields" hovered over the church. The Saxons thought the French were protected by these creatures and fled. This event happened in 776 and was well documented.
In the painting by Paolo Uccello (1396-1475) - La Tebaide, depicting the crucified Christ, we see a classic flying saucer. It differs from others only in color - reddish.
On the Crucifixion fresco, created around 1350 in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo, such "satellites" are even more clearly drawn.
Three rays emanate from the round ball, which is to the left of Christ, symbolizing flight, and inside the ball … a man of the type of an astronaut sits in a capsule. "Sputnik" flies, as it were, towards Christ. On the right, flying from Christ (also with a "passenger"), a stylized eight-pointed star is drawn.
Another 11th century fresco depicts a waiting flying saucer. The painting is called "A plate at the grave of Jesus" and is currently in the Vatican Museum.
One Hindu manuscript in a Japanese museum shows the multi-armed god Shiva. Shiva is as if exalted above ordinary people, over whose heads at least two disc-shaped apparatus hang, now resembling a Mexican hat with a high crown. In the "crown" there are porthole-type holes.
In an old Japanese engraving, we see three incomprehensible devices in the air: one is an oval type of disc, and the other two resemble a comma with a large head and tail.
In the 1803 Japanese illustration for the book Ume Net Chiri, we see a man, and next to him a disc-shaped apparatus standing on the ground. The book says about this apparatus - that it was made of metal and glass and had strange writing. The artist also depicted these letters.
In a European engraving of 1608, we see the siege of a fortress standing by the sea. On the waves swing (or hang over the waves ) at least three flying saucers, engulfed in flames. The sea is also burning.
Another engraving, dating from 1660 and illustrating the first full-fledged geographic atlas, The Spectacle of the Earth's Circle, republished in the 17th century by Admiral Blau, depicts the case of two Dutch ships witnessing two glowing balls in the sky. In the balls, we can clearly see the faces of some creatures.
An engraving from 1697 shows unidentified flying objects over Hamburg. These objects were described by eyewitnesses as two glowing wheels.
Incredibly interesting is a 1680 French token like a coin, which may have been used as a means of payment in games. It depicts something very strange - something like a wheel with spokes enclosed in a rim.
There are holes along the rim. Portholes? Something like an axle emerges from the center of the "wheel". Everything would be fine if this thing did not hang in the sky among the clouds! In this case, the axis directed towards the earth can be perceived as a beam. Although not a fact, maybe this is the design of the "plate".
No less strange is the inscription on the token - "It's here at the right time."
The token is also curious because it is no longer the Middle Ages. This is already the era of the Enlightenment, you can't attribute much to religion.
In the Georgian Cathedral of Svetitskhoveli (early 11th century) in Mtskheta there is a fresco depicting the crucified Christ. To the left and to the right of the crucified Christ, two strange things in the form of convex hemispheres with three "legs", reminiscent of a jellyfish, hovered in the sky under his hands. Under the dome of the hemisphere above the "legs" is an image of human faces in profile.
On the Georgian enamel miniature depicting St. George (15th century) and located in the Georgian National Museum of Art, there is a certain flying object with a body like a whirligig. Puffs of smoke erupt from the bottom of the apparatus. Or a couple?
In the Belgian Cathedral of Conti Dotremond there is a fresco depicting Moses as he receives the tablets. In front of Moses, three flying disc-shaped objects are clearly visible in the sky above. Moses raised his hands with the tablets clasped in them to the sky and turned his gaze to these three flying objects.
The petroglyphs in Kimberley, Australia, which are at least five thousand years old, depict the classic "green men": with triangular faces, huge eyes, a small mouth and no nose. Exactly what we are drawing now, depicting aliens.
Similar "aliens", but already in spacesuits with a round transparent helmet, are on the walls of the Italian cave Val Camonica and in Africa. The age of both images is 6-14 thousand years.
About Indian vimanas, ancient Japanese statuettes of Dogu, depicting people in spacesuits and other similar figurines of other nations, about images of helicopters and other aircraft on Egyptian frescoes and bas-reliefs, about ancient ceramic figurines depicting "flying saucers" you can not even mention - about them everyone knows.
What does all this mean? Some researchers believe that these are encrypted predictions and prophecies made by brilliant clairvoyant artists. Others believe that artists of the past simply saw what they then captured.
It is curious that there is no figurative vision in the paintings, everything is dry, clear, concrete. Plate. With rays. With a passenger.
But since all life in those days was saturated with religion, all these phenomena were attributed to manifestations of divine power - it is not for nothing that rays emerge from the "plates" that illuminate the saints, the Mother of God, Jesus, etc.