UFO's In Earth's History

UFO's In Earth's History

The Historical Record of Planet Earth speaks of ongoing contact with extraterrestrials as
found in oral traditions, tablets, stone monuments, petroglyphs, and art forms found
throughout the planet. Many of these images could also be lenticular clouds.

Ancient Astronauts
Petroglyhs

Iraq

Reptilian looking entities found in Iraq - 5,000-4,500 BC.

 Sumerian Gods

Alien Gray Entity

Art Exhibit British Museum #52

Sumerian Gods - Scroll Through The Images

Figurines, Lizard-headed or Ubaid Style, clay, Ur (Ubaid culture), 5th millenium BCE,
h:13.6 cm From the Ubaid - Southern Mesopotamian Period, 5000 BCE - 4000
BCEFound in Ur. The Ubaid culture succeeded the Halaf at the end of the 6th millenium
BCE in southern Iraq, then spread throughout Mesopotamia. Ubaid culture is known for
painted pottery; large houses of tripartite plan for extended families; and lizard-headed
figurines of both male and female gender. Figurines such as the above examples are
typical. The figure on the left holds a baby on her hip and suckles it. The figure on the
right has incised stretch marks on her abdomen. It has been suggested that the brown-
painted dots and lines represent tatoos, and the clay pellets scarring. It is unknown if the
shape of the skulls represents actual head-binding.Similar Lizard-headed figurines have
been found at Eridu. Collon, Dominique. Ancient Near Eastern Art. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1995, pg 46.
Nepal
7,000 B.C. - The Lolladoff plate, discovered in Nepal, appears to show a hovering disk-
shaped object in the center and a small being, resembling an alien resembling an alien
gray, beside it. The circular pattern is reminescent of the spiraling movement of
consciousness - Golden Ratio - Sacred Geometry of creation.

Italy

This cave painting is c.10,000 BC and is from Val Camonica, Italy.

It appears to depict two beings in protective suits holding strange implements.

Kiev
 Strange suited figure found in Kiev. It dates to ca. 4,000 BC.

Mexico

7000 year old petroglyph discovered in the province of Querato, Mexico in 1966.
There are 4 figures with outstretched arms below a large oval object radiating what
appear to be beams of light.

Equador
 Ancient Figures in Space Suits

United States - Native Americans

Petroglyphs dating back thousands of years ago by ancient Indians in the American
Southwest. According to Indian folklore, two objects collided high in the sky and one
crash-landed in the region of Death Valley. Some men arrived (presumably in another
ship) and spent some time repairing the damaged craft and were observed by the local
Indians. The two images below may possibly depict the ship (left) used by the men who
came to repair the damaged craft. In comparing the two images, the one on the right
seems to depict structural damage around the edges and the bottom. Could it be the one
that allegedly crashed? The images are stills taken from an old TV series entitled "In
search of..." hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
 Sego Canyon, Utah. Estimated up to 5,500 BC.
Africa

6000 BC from Tassili, Sahara Desert, North Africa.

Tanzia
Two cave paintings from Tanzania. Both are estimated to be up to 29,000 years old. The
one on the left is located in Itolo and depicts several disc shaped objects. The other
painting is from Kolo shows four entities surrounding a women. Notice also the entity
looking down from inside some sort of box or object.

Australia
 Wandjina petroglyphs from Kimberley, Australia.
About 5,000 years old and may represent alien beings.
Gods - Link Between Australia and Egypt

China
This is an old Chinese illustration from a fictional book entitled "Illustrated Survey of
Weird Countries" (c.1400 A.D.) and had the following original caption: "Ji Gung Land:
The people could make flying cars that travelled far with a suitable wind. In Tarng's day
(c.1700 B.C.), Ji Gung people flying a car on a westerley reached Yew Jo. Tarng
dismantled their car so it could not be demonstrated to the people ... Later an east wind
came on which he had them fly the car back to their own country [5,000 km] west of our
gateway."

Japan

This is an artistic reproduction of a relief found in a labyrinth on the island Jotuo in the
Toengt'ing lake. An expedition took place in 1957 (two years before an earthquake in that
region). The expedition was led by professor Tsj'i Pen-Lai. They found various reliefs
showing "humans" in strange clothes which looked like astronaut suits (hose like objects
attached to the clothes). They also found a painting which apparently resembled the solar
system. The third and fourth circle (planet) were connected with a line. Also there were
ten planets (excluding the sun as planet). This connects easily to the theories about
Nibiru, planet X, etc.

Illustration depicting a sighting of a burning wheel in the year 900 over Japan.
1465 - Cigar shaped UFO - flaming girder seen in the sky during the reign of Enrico IV
From Notabilia Temporum by Angelo de Tummulillis

A wood cut from 1479 Arabia shows the appearance of a rocket ship complete with rivet
and metal and pointed front with stars gleaming in the background.
This is a tapestry called Summer's Triumph It was created in Bruges in 1538 and
presently resides at the Bayerisches National Museum. You can clearly see several disc
shaped objects in the top of the tapestry.

A wood cut found in Nurnberg Germany in 1561 depicts alarge dark missile with a many
others like it in the sky. Also depicted are globes, cylindrical space ships, and the sun.
Illustration depicts a sighting by two Dutch ships in the North Sea of an object moving
slowly in the sky. It appeared to be made by two disks of different size. The source for
this account is one of the books entitled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Admiral Blaeu.
These books were compilations of articles by different authors and consisted of detailed
accounts of long engagements at sea, cartography information, etc. The images of 2
cirlces meeting - the oval - link with Sacred Geometry and Archetypes
In France there was a coin minted in 1680 that shows a hovering disc shaped UFO with
what appears to be port holes or lights around the outer rim. Due to the fact that a coin
was minted depicting this UFO.

Vimanas - Ancient Aircraft in Egypt and India

In Egypt there exists a star clock for the Precession of the Equinoxes and an electric light
bulb that dates to 2600 BC. An electric battery was discovered in a rock carbon dated
approximately 500,000 years ago.
15th Century
Rome
 "Prodigiorum Liber"

Renaissance illustration of a UFO sighting in Rome detailed

in a book by Roman historian Julio Obsequens.

Germany

This picture shows a UFO sighting over Hamburg, Germany

The objects were described as 'two glowing wheels' -
November 4, 1697 - Wheels - Spoked Wheels.

Wheels - 12 around 1 - Alchemy Wheel - Wheel of Karma

The Cross - 'X' - 4 sections - 4th Dimension - Time

UFO'S in Religious Art

In this painting found on a wood drawer from furniture kept at the Earls D'Oltremond, in
Belgium, Moses is depicted receiving the tablets of the Ten Commandments, with
"flaming horns." Several equally flaming objects are in the sky before him. The date and
artist are unknown.

"The Baptism of Christ"

A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus -
Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, England - Painted in 1710 by Flemish artist Aert De
Gelder. It depicts a classic, hovering, silvery, saucer shaped UFO shining beams of light
down on John the Baptist and Jesus. What could have inspired the artist to combine these
two subjects?

17th century fresco of the crucifiction - Svetishoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia.

Note the two saucer shaped craft on either side of Christ.

"La Tebaide"

Painted by Paolo Uccello - circa 1460-1465.

 The picture on the right shows a red saucer shaped UFO seen near Jesus.
The painting hangs in the Academy of Florence.

Frescos throughout Europe which reveal the appearance of space ships in the skies
including this painting of 'The Crucifixion' - painted in 1350. It seems to depict a small
human looking man looking over his shoulder - at another UFO as if in pursuit - as he
flies across the sky in what is clearly a space ship. The leading craft is decorated with two
twinkling stars, one reminiscent of national insignia on modern aircraft. This paintng
hangs above the altar at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
"Glorification of the Eucharist" was painted by Bonaventura Salimbeni in 1600.

Today it hangs in the church of San Lorenzo in San Pietro, Montalcino, Italy.
Does the 'Sputnik satellite-like device' represent the Earth? Website

MARY
A fourteenth century fresco of the Madonna and Child depict on the top right side the
image of a UFO hovering in the distance. A blow up of this fresco reveals tremendous
details about this UFO including port holes. It seems to indicate a religious involvement
between UFO's and the appearance of the Christ Child.

This painting is called "The Madonna with Saint Giovannino". It was painted in the 15th
century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection
in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary's right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a
blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the
object.
 "The Assumption of the Virgin"

Painted circa 1490 by an unknown artist.

Saucer shaped "clouds" intrigue modern ufologists. Could so many have appeared in the
sky at one time? Or, are the hat shaped UFOs depicted so numerous here to -punctuate-
certain events as being particularly holy?

The Life Of Mary - 14th Century Tapestries

 1330

'The Magnificent' - Notre-Dame in Beaune, Burgandy

The painting above was done by Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495) and is called "The
Annunciation with Saint Emidius" (1486) and hangs in the National Gallery, London. A
disk shaped object is shining a pencil beam of light down into Mary's crown chakra. A
blow up of the object is next to the painting.
The picture above depicts Jesus and Mary on what appear to be lenticular clouds. The
painting is entitled "The Miracle of the Snow" and was painted by Masolino Da Panicale
(1383-1440) and hangs at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence, Italy.

Barry H. Downing's The Bible and Flying Saucers (1968)

The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is filled with accounts of encounters
with divine beings. Abraham and the 'smoking firepot' and a flaming torch that
appeared in the sky as a sign of acceptance of his sacrifice (Genesis 15:17), the
'pillar of cloud'by day and the 'pillar of fire' by night that led Moses and the
Israelites (Exodus 13:22), God landing on Mount Sinai in smoke, with a sound of
a trumpet before them (Exodus19:18-19), Elijah being 'carried up to heaven' in a
'chariot of fire' which created a whirlwind (II Kings 2:11), and of course, Ezekiel's
famous close encounter. (Ezekiel 1:1-28).

The New Testament likewise contains many familiar-sounding sightings.

Foremost is famous Star of Bethlehem which Matthew records that the Wise Men
- probably Zoroastrian astronomer-priests - followed till it came to rest over the
place where the child was (Matt. 2:9) - most unusual behavior for a supernova,
comet, or planetary conjunction!

The birth itself had been immediately announced by the appearance of a

messenger shining with the glory of the Lord to shepherds in the fields at night.
(Luke 2:9)

Downing, himself a minister, argues that many of the terms describing such
glorious and shining lights could be descriptions of UFOs. Even the shape
believed to be the Holy Spirit that was seen to descend like a dove at Christ's
baptism and the bright cloud at the Transfiguration, (Matt. 17:1-8) might have
been extraterrestrial craft. The men in shining clothes, such as those the disciples
believed were Moses and Elijah at the Transfiguration, would then have been their
occupants.

After the Crucifixion, yet another of these fellows came out of the sky, rolled the
stone away from the tomb and announced the Resurrection. And of course, at the
end of Jesus mission on Earth, he rose into the air and a cloud took him out of
their sight while two of those mysterious Men in White consoled the disciples
(Acts 1:6-11).

LENTICULAR CLOUDS - Painting done in 1420

 This fresco is located in the San Francesco Church in Arezzo, Italy.

ET's - Giants - In The Bible - Flood Stories

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the
sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants:
and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Deuteronomy 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites
call them Emims.

Deuteronomy 2:20-21 That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in
old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; A people great, and many, and tall,
as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them,
and dwelt in their stead:

Deuteronomy 3:11-13 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of
Ammon? Nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the
cubit of a man. And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by
the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites. And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave
I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was
called the land of giants.

Deuteronomy 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou
knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants,
that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Joshua 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south
side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the
mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the
valley of the giants northward:

Joshua 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to
the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the
giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

Joshua 18:16-17 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before
the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and
descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to
Enrogel, And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth
toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
2 Samual 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that
had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and
he also was born to the giant.

1 Chronicles 20:6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature,
whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and
he also was the son of the giant.

Other References to Giants

The Annunaki - Gods from the Skies - (Anak, Anakim, Anakites, Nephilim, Arba,
Rephaites). Anu, Pleiades, An, Anshar, Kishar, Antu, Ki, Gibil, Nusku, Gulu, Ninmah,
Nergal, Cuthah, Kuta, Gudua, Gudea, Imdugud, Ningursu, Danu.

Giants Before the Flood

Then the Elohim (Hebrew idiom of a plural of magnitude or majesty (Gen. 1:1), used of
heathen gods, or of angels or judges as representatives of God, Elohim is plural in sense
as well as form. It's etymology, the most likely roots mean either "be strong," or "be in
front," the power and preeminence of God; as to EL (Heb. 'el, God) it is a generic word
for God in the Semitic languages: Aramaic elah, Arabic ilah, Akkadian ilu. In the OT, el
is used over two hundred times for God. El has a plural, elim, occasionally elhm in
Ugaritic; but the Hebrews needed no plural, though a plural term, 'elohim, was their
regular name for God.

The root from which ‘el was derived may have come from 'wl, "to be strong"; from an
Arabic root 'ul, "to be infront of" as a leader from a Hebrew root ‘lh to which both ‘el and
‘elohim belonged, with the meaning "strong"; from the preposition el, "to be infront of";
and using the same prepositions, as putting forth the idea of God as the goal for which all
men seek.

A truly satisfactory theory is impossible, because ‘el and the other terms for God, 'elohim
and 'eloha, are all prehistoric in origin.) make their return in Genesis 6:2, when the "sons
of God" have intercourse with the "daughters of men," ..."and they took them wives of all
which they chose."

The results of this event beget Lamech (Heb. lemekh, meaning undetermined), father of
Noah, based his faith on the promised deliverance from the Adamic curse of Gen. 3:14-
19, he foresees, even if faintly, the coming of One of his seed (cf. 1 Chron. 1:3; Luke
3:36) who will remove that curse (cf. Rom. 8:18-25). Jared was Enochs' father, who
through tradition dictated to his son about 5800 B.C.

"The Lamentations of Jared" how Gods came to the earth and led astray his own tribe of
Adam and those tribes of Cain also.

From Adam to Noah there were seven major Patriarchs born, Noah being the eighth
person as shown in 2 Peter 2:5. Note that Cain and Abel are not counted for a total of ten,
but Seth was the first.

Uta-Napishtim (Babylonian Noah) was the tenth King of Babylon before the Flood. The
Sumerian King List mentions five cities existing before the Flood; Eridu, Bad-tinia,
Larak, Sippar, and Shuruppak.

The first king was Alorus, who ruled for 120 sari, or 432,000 years before the Flood
(note 162,000 years).

Abulim reigned for 28,800 years.

Abolga reigned 36,000 years.

Two more kings reigned for 64,800 years. These represented the five cities. While in
Eridu Kings from Heaven reigned for 64,800 years before the Flood.

If eight kings ruled for 241,200 years then the last five kings totaled 140,400 years.

A Chaldean priest, Berossos, writing in Greek ca. 289 B.C., reported that according to
Mesopotamian belief 432,000 years elapsed between the crowning of the first earthly
king and the coming of the deluge.

The early Sumerian king list names eight kings with a total of 241,200 years from the
time when "the kingship was lowered from heaven" to the time when "the Flood swept"
over the land once more "the kingship was lowered from heaven" (Thorkild Jacobsen,
The Sumerian King List, 1939, pp. 71, 77).

A Biblical analysis of the Masoretic text of the ages of the Patriarchs when their sons
were born shows only 1,656 years passed from the Creation to Adam's Fall until the
Deluge and Shem's fatherhood.
Genesis 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days..., when the sons of God came
in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men (Nephilim) which were of old, men of renown

"Sons of God appears to refer to angels (Job 1:6, 2:1 "a day when they came before
the Lord, and Satan was among them"):
Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together, and they all shouted for joy";
Psalms 89:6 "S who among them can be likened unto the Lord?"). Genesis 6:1-2
may likewise involve angels (in this case they are fallen ones) or they may be demon-
possessed individuals, but others view these "sons of God" as kings/rulers/princes.

Author W. Raymond Drake states that in the Kabalistic Book of Enoch the Giants
engendered by the Fallen Angels and daughters of men turned against mankind before the
Flood.

Noah and the Giants - Anakim / Anninaki - After the Floods

Noah's three sons may have brought with them wives, who were not pure descendants of
Adam but those of the Anakim (Heb. 'anaqim, sons of Anak, Heb. 'anaq, long-necked) or
possibly the Canaanites. Or else after Ham and Japheth eventually became the ancestors
of the "goyim," where they combined with the Anakim who survived the Flood.

The early Sumerian texts called them Anunaki, "those who came from heaven to earth."
The Anakim as in Genesis 6:4 they are the sons of the sons of God, they are called the
Nephilim (uncertain etymology) or giants (Heb. rapha, raphah, Heb. gibbor, mighty,
Rephaim of Canaan ancestor of Og, king of Bashan, Emims of the Moabites,
Zamzummims of Ammonites, Heb. murmurers, Zuzites (Zuzim) in Gen. 14:5) who were
of old, men of renown.

This cross breeding may be the reason why the ancestors believe that sexual relations
could affect one's health. One might even suspect that the Anakim were possibly the
Greek Gods of mythology "fallen angels" the original Hebrew "B1nai Elohim" some who
did not survive the Flood.

Genesis and the Talmud both suggest that the Giants, who resented God for destroying
their ancestors, meddled in the affairs of mankind.

Eventually Nimrod seen in Genesis 10:8-10 "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a
mighty one (first king) in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore
it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD." Nimrod (Heb. nimrodh,
assumed "rebel"), a descendent of Ham, was responsible for building the city of Babel
(Babylon).

This individual was the beginning of the kingdom in Babylonia, and he became the
founder of Nineveh and other cities in Assyria. He became distinguished as a hunter,
ruler, and builder. He lived for an undetermined amount of centuries after the Flood, and
was the grandson of Ham. He was a bold man, and of great strength of hand.

He persuaded men not to ascribe to God, in order to bring them into a constant
dependence upon his own power. He swore to build a tower too high for the waters to be
able to reach! Thus avenging himself on God for destroying their forefathers!

Many legends have grown up around the name of Nimrod, some claiming that he was
identical with "Ninus," an early Babylonian king or god (king of Assyria, founder of
Nineveh, known in history as Shamshi-Adad V of 811 B.C.). Again, some have
associated Nimrod with the building of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9). Others have
identified him with the ancient king of Babylonia, Gilgamesh (Akkadian Epic of
Gilgamesh, 5th king of the 1st Dynasty of Erech after the Flood), but there is no proof
that the two were identical. The Talmud stresses that while Esau (Heb. ‘esaw, hairy) spent
his days hunting and that an arrow from his bow killed the giant Nimrod (legends of
"Ninus" or "Gilgamesh"). Did Nimrod finally die after all this time from Genesis 10
through 26?

Also attributed to him and his people were the building of Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in
the land of Shinar. Asshur, son of Nimrod, built Nineveh, Rehaboth, Calah and Resen.

AFTER THE FLOOD

After the Flood in Sumer, Emmerkar, Lugalbanda (Lugulbanda) and Gilgamesh

(estimated at 3,000 B.C.), were among the first kings of the city of Erech. The second,
third, and fifth rulers of the First Dynasty of Erech, which followed the First Dynasty of
Kish, which received the "kingship" from heaven immediately after the Flood. Some
believe that this flood occurred in 4,000 B.C. and was a different one than compiled in
the Genesis account. Lugalbanda was a god and shepherd king of Uruk (Erech) where he
was worshipped for over a thousand years. Possibly the third king of Uruk after the great
flood. Gilgamesh (Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, 5th king of the 1st Dynasty of Erech
after the Flood) presented Lugulbanda with the horns of the Bull of Heaven.

Around 3200 B.C. Menes was consolidating Upper and Lower Egypt, Sumer was
prospering, and then the Semitic peoples appeared on the scene with Sargon (2550-2400
B.C.) conquering Erech (Uruk), Ur, E-Ninmar, Lagash, to the mountains of Elam, Crete
and uniting the area. Sargon, king of Agade, vice regent of the goddess Ishtar, king of
Kish, pashishu (a class of priest who prepared and applied ointments) of the god Anu,
King of the Land, great ishakku (chief priest) of the god Enlil.

Alexander the Great had two UFO encounters that were recorded. During his invasion
of Asia in 329, while crossing a river, Alexander and his men saw what was described as
gleaming, silver shields in the sky. The objects repeatedly swooped down at the soldiers,
scattering men and horses and creating quite a panic.
Seven years later, while attacking a Venetian city in the eastern Mediterranean, observers
on both sides of the conflict reported another incredible event. Objects appeared in the
sky. One of the objects suddenly shot a beam of light at the city wall, crumbling it to dust.
This allowed Alexander's troops to easily take the city.

The following is a report taken from the North American Review, 3:320-322, 1816 - a
report which the author E. Acharius was also taking to the Royal Academy. The event
took place over the village Biskophsberga.

On the 16th of last May (1816), being a very warm day, and during a gale of wind
from south-west, a cloudless sky, at about 4 O'clock, p.m., the sun became dim,
and lost his brightness to that degree, that he could be looked at without
inconvenience to the naked eye, (the sun) being of a dark red, or almost bright
color, without brilliancy.

At the same time there appeared at the western horizon, from where the wind
blew, to arise gradually, and in quick succession, a great number of balls, or
spherical bodies, to the naked eye of the size of the crown of a hat, and of a dark
brown color.

The nearer these bodies, which occupied a considerable though irregular breadth
of the visible heaven, approached towards the sun, the darker they appeared, and
in the vicinity of the sun, became entirely black.

At this elevation their course (speed) seemed to lessen, and a great many of them
remained, as it were, stationary; but they soon resumed their former, and
accelerated motion, and passed in the same direction with great velocity and
almost horizontally.

During this course some disappeared, others fell down, but the most part of them
continued their progress almost in a straight line, till they were lost sight of at the
eastern horizon.

The phenomenon lasted uninterruptedly, upwards of two hours, during which time
millions of similar bodies continually rose in the west, one after another
irregularly, and continued their career exactly in the same manner (mentioned
above).

No report, noise, nor any whistling or buzzing in the air was perceived. As these
bodies slackened their course on passing by the sun, several were linked together,
three, six, or eight of them in a line, joined like chain-shot by a thin and straight
bar; but on continuing again amore rapid course (speed), they separated, and each
having a tail after it, apparently of three or four fathoms length, wider at its base
where it adhered to the ball, and gradually decreasing, till it terminated in a fine
point (tapered tails).
 During the course, these tails which had the same black color as the balls,
disappeared by degrees.

The author goes on to state that some of the balls came to Earth near one observer. As it
neared the ground it lost its black color and became hard to see until they reached the
ground and again became more visible, but this time as a ball of changing colors.

The people compared them to soap bubbles. These then disappeared leaving a thin film:
"....a scarcely perceptible film or pellicle, as thin as a cobwed, which (itself) was still
changing colors, but soon dried up and vanished.

Since this event took hours it was witnessed by all the people of the village.

1824: Strange Phenomenon at Orenburg

In late September 1824, people in Orenburg, Russia were puzzled when they heard
something clattering on the onion-shaped roof of the Orthodox church. They soon
discovered "little symmetrical pieces of metal" falling from the clear blue sky. Months
later, on January 25, 1825, the same phenomenon occurred again. Samples of the material
were gathered and sent to St. Petersburg (then capital of Russia.)

In Oeuvres vol. 11, page 644, a scientist, M. Arago, noted that a chemical analysis of the
objects had showed them to be "70 percent red oxide of iron, and sulphur, and loss (of
mass) by ignition (combustion) 5 percent."

Amazingly the pieces of metal showed signs of having been manufactured. The Orenburg
"sky fall" attracted the attention of Prince Pavel Vasilyevich Dolgorukii, the "librarian" of
the mystic Brothers of the Inner Order.

This was an offshoot of the Lodge Harmonia, founded by Nikolai Novikov in St.
Petersburg in 1780. When Empress Catherine II suppressed the Masonic lodges of Russia
in 1792 and jailed Novikov, Dolgorukii and two brothers, Yuri and Nikita Troubezkoi,
formed the Brothers of the Inner Order.

They then set about collecting hundreds of books on alchemy, mysticism and the
paranormal, including works by the most notorious occultists of the period. The
collection had a first edition Originalschriften des Illuminatenordensekte by Adam
Weishaupt and pamphlets by Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and the ayatollah Shaikh Ahmed
Ahsai.

After Dolgorukii's death in 1838, the collection and perhaps a handful of those
mysterious Orenburg artifacts--passed into the possession of his daughter, Mme.
Nadyezhda de Fadeyev.
In 1846, about the time of the war between the USA and Mexico, Mme. de Fadeyev's 15-
year-old niece, Elena Petrovna von Hahn, spent the summer reading all the mystical
books in her deceased grandfather's library.

Thirty years later, as the author/occultist Madame ElenaBlavatsky, she hinted at the
strange doings in Orenburg in her book, The Secret Doctrine...more than one Russian
mystic travelled to Tibet via the Ural Mountains in search of knowledge and initiation in
the unknown crypts of central Asia. And more than one returned years later with a rich
store of such information as could never have been given him anywhere in Europe."

This trail, similar to the "Underground Railroad" for escaped black slaves in the early
Nineteenth Century USA, led from St. Petersburg and Moscow straight through
Orenburg. The Dolgorukii collection vanished sometime in the 1890s, after Mme. de
Fadeyev's death.

Orenburg is located just south of the Ural Mountains 600 kilometers (360 miles) east of
Moscow. (See The Complete Book of Charles Fort, Dover Publications Inc., New York,
NY, 1974. The Masters Revealed by K. Paul Johnson, State University Press, Albany, NY,
1994, pages 19 to 22.)

Example of Earth Light

Bonnycastle, R. H.; American Journal of Science, 1837

At a quarter past nine O'clock on Sunday night the eighth day of May, in the
present year (1837), my attention whilst regarding the heavens was forcibly
attracted to the sudden appearance due east of a shining broad column of light.

At first, as my window overlooks the bay of Toronto and the low island which
separates it from the lake, I took this singular pillar of light for the reflection from
some steamboat on the clouds, but having sought the open air on the gallery
which commands a full view of the bay and of Ontario.

I was convinced that the meteor was an effluence of the sky, as I now saw it
extend upwards from the eastern water horizon line to the zenith, in a well
defined, equal, broad column of white strong light, resembling in some degree
that of the aurora, but of a steady brightness and unchanging body, whilst there
were few or no clouds.

Ursa Major, then near the zenith, was situated with regard to this column, at a
quarter past nine as below, the column passing nearly vertically between (z) and
(H) [the author refers to the Greek letters here].

There was no moon, as on that day it rose at 2h. 4m. consequently it was dark,
and the sky was not very cloudy the meteor was seen to the greatest advantage as
the night wore on.
 It passed very slowly and bodily to the westward, continuing to occupy the space
from the horizon to the zenith, until the upper part first faded slowly and then the
whole gradually disappeared, after it had reached nearly to due northeast.

A UFO Visits Ohio In 1858

Posted in The Ilustrated Silent Friend

Three years after the publication of Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass, a mysterious
miniature book appeared in the bookstalls of New York City. Just large enough to
fit in the palm, and easily hidden in a gentleman's pocket or a ladys knitting bag,
The Illustrated Silent Friend, by William Earl, M.D., of 12 White Street, offered
an extraordinary variety of arcane information.

As the title page of the paperback copy I own informs the public, the Silent
Friend is A Complete Guide To Health, Marriage and Happiness, Embracing
Subjects Never Before Scientifically Discussed - With Magnificent Illustrations In
Anatomy Of The Lungs, Fistal Delivery, Monstrosities, Uterine Tumors,
Generative Organs, Deformities, Diseases, & C. Also, Valuable and Practical
Receipts In Medicine, The Arts, Etc. And in 382 pages printed in minute type, Dr.
Earl delivers a breathtaking range of quaint and curious lure. Sandwiched in
between advertisements for male safes [condoms] made of white Indian rubber,
and herbal cures for gonorrhea, were recipes for making wood more durable than
iron and practical advice for would-part-time mesmerists.

Of course, many books of the time dealt in similar subjects, but not quite with Dr.
Earls panache: "To transfer a pale and sallow face to one of beauty," he tells us,
"take one dozen common iron nails, about 2 inches long, one tablespoon of
extract of aloes hepatica, put these into a large bottle and poor upon them two
quarts of eider, cork them up tightly and shake them every day for one month,
then strain off the clear liquid, and of this take one table spoon upon rising and
going to bed, when all paleness will leave the face, and it will ultimately attain
beauty."

Whether this beauty is attained in life, or ultimately achieved upon the death by
poisoning of the patient, Dr. Earl fails to say. Among all the snake-oil clap-trap
contained in this entertaining bit of Americana is one entry that, in its strangeness,
and its use of specific names and places, stands out from the rest. On pages 253-
256, we find this startling entry:

"Do the Inhabitants of other Planets ever Visit this Earth? I propose in this
connection to make a few remarks on the following: Mr. Henry Wallace and other
persons of Jay, Ohio, have recently detailed to me the annexed. There are
thousands of such cases on record. These gentlemen state, that sometimes since
on a clear and bright day, a shadow was thrown over the place where they were;
this necessarily attracted their attention to the Heavens, where they one and all
beheld a large and curiously constructed vessel, not over one hundred yards from
the earth. They could plainly discern a large number of people on board of her,
whose average height appeared to be about twelve feet. The vessel was evidently
worked by wheels and other mechanical appendages, all of which worked with a
precision and a degree of beauty never yet attained by any mechanical skill upon
this planet.

Now, I know that thousands will, at this recital, cry humbug, nonsense, lunacy,
&c., but I know that there are other thousands who will read and reflect. It is for
these latter thousands that I write. Once upon a time there appeared a celebrated
reformer, who arose among the people and taught a new doctrine, that from its
reasonableness and its simplicity, electrified the hearts of the thinking people. But
the party who didnt think, and who hated reason, and new ideas, cried out, away
with him to the crucifixion. And they did crucify his body, but they have not yet
succeeded in crucifying the reason, and new facts and ideas that be taught.

In view, then, of the above, I venture to advance the following remarks: I believe
that the time will come when all of the inhabitants of all worlds or planets in the
solar system, will regularly visit each other when in the fullness or fruition of
things, an interchange of ideas and commodities, visiting and greetings between
the respective inhabitants of all worlds or planets, will be common and universal.
I believe that the grand aspirations of an advanced humanity on this earth, is not
without a good cause and a good reason.

I believe that when the respective atmospheres seen surrounding the different
planets in the solar system, indeed, of every part of the universe, shall have passed
into the highest condition of excellence and purity of which it is capable, that it
will then give life to a more exalted and finished condition of genera and species,
or inhabitants. That all of the planets are now inhabited by a kind of beings suited
to their respective planetary and electrical conditions, is, I think, certain. And that
the inhabitants of thousands of these worlds, that roll with eternal beauty
throughout the boundless regions of the immensity of space, have attained that
advanced condition in their planetary being, I have no doubt, whatever.

And that this ship which Mr. Wallace and others saw, was a vessel from Venus,
Mercury, or the planet Mars, on a visit of pleasure or exploration, or some other
cause; I myself, with the evidence at hand, that I can bring to bear on it, have no
more doubt of, than I have of the fact of my own existence. This, mind, was no
phantom that disappeared in a twinkling, as all phantoms do disappear, but this
aerial ship was guided, propelled and steered through the atmosphere with the
most scientific system and regularity, at about six miles an hour, though,
doubtless, from the appearance of her machinery, she was capable of going
thousands of miles an hour, and who knows but ten thousand miles an hour. What
can be more wonderful as an illustration, than the Electric Telegraph to connect
the old world with the new. And why then, may not the scientific geniuses of
other planets have done as much as ours have?
Besides this, if I had room, I could draw an argument from the electrical condition
of the media existing between the planets, to show that a body once in motion at a
given distance from a planetary body in space, will move with nearly the speed of
electricity till it meets again the resisting media, or atmosphere of another planet
or body in space. That all of this knowledge, and a million times more, may be
known to some of the exalted beings of other planets in space, I have no doubt.
But as I was saying, this aerial ship moved directly off from the earth, and
remained in sight, till by distance she was lost to the view. The foregoing is my
firm and decided conclusion and belief in this matter."

Dr. Earl lived on to publish a new, enlarged Illustrated Silent Friend, as well as
The Parent's Companion; On the diseases of infants and children; Woman; her
duties, relations and position; A medical and social work; Seven Causes of
Debility; and Moderate the pace that Kills; High pressure business life; all in 1878
and catalogued by the Library of Congress.

Of course, the crux of the matter is this: was there really a Henry Wallace of Jay,
Ohio? The most logical place to search would be the old census records for Ohio,
and this is exactly what I determined to do. Because of logistical difficulties (I
live half a world away), I contacted the Ohio Historical Society via the internet,
paid the requisite fee, included a self-addressed envelope with my written request,
and received, by mail the following letter dated April 21, 1999:

Dear Mr. Glass:

Regarding your request for information from the 1850 Census, please see the
attached materials. You will note that there are several "Henry Wallaces" listed in
the Index to the Federal Census of Ohio; unfortunately, none of them are listed in
a county that includes a town by the name of Jay. However, there is a town named
Jay in Erie County, which is just east of Lorain County. So we copied the Lorain
County listing for a Henry Wallace in the hopes that this was the man you are
interested in.

The appended pages included copies from the 1860 census of Ohio. I scanned
through the spidery and antique handwriting, and there he was! Henry Wallace of
Eerie County, and presumably of Jay, was number 549 in the records. His age in
1860 was 30 years old. He was married to Cloe, 28, and had a daughter named
Eva B who was 12 years and 8 months old at the time. Henry and his wife were
Irish; his occupation was listed as "Sailor." What is more, the entry just previous
to Henrys is for one David Wallace, 27 years old, and also from Ireland. He too
had a wife and a young daughter to support. Davids occupation is listed as "Ship
Carpenter."

Presumably, David and Henry were brothers and next-door neighbors in Jay.
Further perusal of the page indicates that their neighborhood was composed
primarily of sailors, millers, farmers and domesticsi.e., Henry and his family
 appear to have been members of the working poor of the time. Their position in
society was no doubt a difficult one, as was that of many Irish immigrants. Add to
this the probability that Henry Wallace was corresponding with Dr. Earl because
of a sexually-transmitted disease picked up during his sea-faring life, and an
interesting picture emerges: either the sailor was a consummate blarney artist
practicing his gift upon a big city snake-oil salesman, or Wallace was a simple
person telling the truth to one whom he--mistakenly--believed to be a man of
science.

The "other persons," Dr. Earl mentions above, may well have been from this
neighborhood of poor people in the small town of Jay, Ohio. No doubt Henry
Wallace never suspected that Dr. Earl would mention him by name in his odd little
book and thereby allow us to catch a glimpse of this poor man and those who
might have witnessed one of the most extraordinary sights any human could
behold. What thoughts could have run through their minds in the presence of an
airship hovering so near to the earth that it clearly exhibited its crew of giants and
the intricate machinery that made it fly? And then to watch it move grandly
through the air until lost from sight!

Magnolia UFO Sightings Database

July 1868 Copiago (Chile).

A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over
this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales
producing a me- tallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of
close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century.

Magnolia UFO Sightings Database

Dec. 07, 1872 Banbury (Great Britain). At King's Sutton an object 0100 hours resembling
a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was
accom- panied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling
trees and walls. It sud- denly vanished. (Fort 189)

May. 15, 1879 Persian Gulf. Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and
slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. Distance be- tween
the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. Witnesses aboard the ship
"Vultur" (Round up 17; Anatomy 12)

1880 Aldershot (Great Britain). A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and
shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The
apparition stunned them with something de- scribed as "blue fire." (FSR 61, 3; Magonia)
1880 Eastern Venezuela. A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky
and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in
spite of his terror. (Lor. III 2O6)

Capron, J. Rand; Nature, 1882 (Auroral "meteor" / UFO)

I happened to turn to the south, where the moon (with a very pronounced lumiere cendree
on its dark part) was nearly on the meridian, when I saw a spindle-shaped beam of
glowing white light, quite unlike an auroral ray, had formed in the east. As I looked this
slowly mounted from its position, rose to the zenith, and passed it, gradually crossing
apparently above the moon, then sank into the west, slowly lessening in size and
brilliancy as it did so, and fading away as it reached the horizon. The peculiar long
spindle shape, slow gliding motion and glowing silver light, and the marked isolation of
this cloud from the other portions of the aurora made it a most remarkable object, and I
do not recollect in any former aurora to have seen anything similar.

Strange Cylinder of fire

Symon's Monthly Meteorlogical Magazine, 1869

Our in Cheatham county [Tennessee] about noon on Wednesday - a remarkably

hot day - on the farm of Ed. Sharp, five miles from Ashland, a sort of whirlwind
came along over the neighbouring woods, taking up small branches and leaves of
trees and buring them in a sort of flaming cylinder that traveled at a rate of about
five miles an hour, developing size as it traveled.

It passed directly over the spot where a team of horses were feeding and singed
their manes and tails up to the roots; it then swept towards the house, taking a
stack of hay in its course.

It seemed to increase in heat as it went, and by the time it reached the house it
immediately fired the shingles from end to end of the building, so that in ten
minutes the whole dwelling was wrapped in flames.

The tall column of traveling caloric then continued its course over a wheat field
that had been recently cradled, setting fire to all the stacks that happened to be in
its course.

Passing from the field, its path lay over a stretch of woods which reached the
river. The green leaves on the trees were crisped to a cinder for a breadth of 20
yards, in a straight line to the Cumberland.

When the "pillar of fire" reached the water, it suddenly changed its route down the
river, raising a column of steam which went up to the clouds for about half-a-
mile, when it finally died out.
 Not less than 200 people witnessed this strangest of strange phenomena, and all of
them tell substantially the same story about it.

Personal note: What travels at tree-top level appearing as a "sort of flaming

cylinder" and that burns everything it nears for a great distance, and that is not
part of a storm, and is able to move in straight lines, and has so much sustained
heat that it can send up a vast cloud of steam for a distance of 1/2 mile once it
follows a river?

Noble, William; Knowledge, 1883

Can any of my brother readers of 'knowledge offer a feasible explanation of a

very remarkable phenomenon which I witnessed at 10h. 35m. p.m. on Tuesday,
August 28? I was just coming out of my observatory when, on the E. N. E. point
of the horizon beneath the Pleiades, I saw a bright light. My first thought was that
the moon was rising, but an instant's reflection sufficed to remind me that she
would not be up for the next two hours. As I watched the light becoming brighter
and brighter, I saw that it threw a kind of radial illumination upward, the effect of
which I have tried to reproduce in the accompanying rough little sketch.

As will be seen, a few distant cumulo-stratus clouds, close to the horizon, crossed
it. For a moment I imagined that I was viewing the apparition of a new and most
glorious comet; but, as I watched, the "tail" disappeared and what would represent
the nucleus flashed up brilliantly.

Then I made up my mind that some distant house, barn, or haystack was on fire,
and returned to the observatory for a 3 inch telescope, which I keep for looking
over the landscape.

Before I had time, however, to enter the door, every vestige of illumination
disappeared as suddenly as it had come into view, and after waiting in vain for
some time, I left the observatory and came into the house. I have diligently
inquired if there was a fire anywhere in this part of Sussex on the night of which I
am speaking, but there was none.

Magnolia UFO Sightings Database

Nov. 02, 1885 Scutari (Turkey). A luminous object circled the har- bor. Altitude: 5-6 m.
Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged
into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. (LDLN 48; Anatomy 14)

Nov. 12, 1887 Cape Race (Atlantic Ocean). A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out
of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew
against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast.
Duration: 5 min. (LDLN 48; Anatomy 14)
Mar. 28, 1897 Omaha (Nebraska). The majority of the population observed an object
arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came
to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it.

Apr. 01, 1897 Everest (Kansas). The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud
ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly
over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It was seen to rise up at
fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the
witnesses. At one point it re- mained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud,
which it illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. (FSR 66, 4)

Apr. 12, 1897 Nilwood (Illinois). On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of

Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the
craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward
the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Met- calf. (186;
Anatomy 12)

Apr. 12, 1897 Girard, near Green Ridge (Illinois). A large crowd of miners saw an
unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night
operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul Mc- Cramer, stated that he came
sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the ma- chinery. Traces
were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a
double canopy. It left toward the north. (186,187)

Apr. 14, 1897 Gas City (Indiana). An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the
property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to
stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before
the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. (188)

Apr. 15, 1897 Linn Grove (Iowa). A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north.
It seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe
Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they
found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings
and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to con-
ceal themselves. Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of
Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. (190)

Apr. 15, 1897 Howard-Artesian (South Dakota). A flying object coming closer and closer
to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright (FSR 66,4)

Apr. 15, 1897 Perry Springs (Missouri). A passenger train on the Wabash line, going
toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs
and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. After
Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, although the train was then
running at 65 km/h. (190)
Apr. 16, 1897 Downs Township (Illinois). Approximate date. While working in his field,
Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke
to him for a few minutes before leaving again. (191)

Apr. 17, 1897 Williamston (Michigan). At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver
in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and
suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a
repeti- tion of bellowings." One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his
hip. (196)

Apr. 19, 1897 Leroy (Kansas). Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the
cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigar- shaped
object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish
bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They approached within 50 m of it. It was
illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest be- ings"
the witness had seen, also described as "hid- eous." They spoke a language no witness
could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red
cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. (Anatomy 16; Ma- gonia)

Apr. 22, 1897 Rockland (Texas). John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked
furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5
m above ground. Elongated with protru- sions and blinding lights, it went dark when it
landed. Barclay was met by a man who told him his purpose was peaceful and requested
some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took
off "like a bullet out of a gun." (192; Magonia)

Apr. 22, 1897 Josserand (Texas). Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km 2400 east of Josserand
and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking
outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was
stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a
discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it
worked but could not follow the explanation. (193; Magonia)

Apr. 23, 1897 McKinney Bayou (Arkansas). Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana,
Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the
ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from
their looks one would take them to be Japs." (Farish, in Allende Letters (Award Special,
1968) )

Apr. 25, 1897 Merkel (Texas). People returning from church ob- served a heavy object
being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught
in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions
and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope
cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast.
The man was small and dressed in a light- blue uniform. (194; Magonia)
Apr. 26, 1897 Aquila-Hillsboro (Texas). Approximate date. A law- yer was surprised to
see a lighted object fly over. His horse was sacred and nearly toppled the carriage. When
the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible on the underside
of the dark object, which supported an elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to
the south, 5 km from Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he
saw the object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast
at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.

1909: Airship buzzes New Zealand Beach

New Zealand was repeatedly visited by UFOs, then known as "airships" in 1909. On
Saturday night (July 24, 1909), some half dozen boys were playing on the beach at Kaka
Point near Mr. Bates (residence) and saw a huge illuminated object moving about in the
air.

It appeared as if it was going to alight at Kaka Point. The light from it was distinctly
reflected on the roof of Mr. Fitzgerald's cottage. The boys thought it was being attracted
by their lantern and left it on the beach. The airship then glided around the rocks at the
old pilot station and nearly came in contact with them. It shortly afterwards disappeared.
The boys said it was as big as a house.

On Sunday night (July 25, 1909) the mysterious object again made its appearance at the
beach and was seen by Mr. George Smith and Mr. Poulter about 8:30. Mr. Smith viewed
it through a very powerful night glass. It was apparently over Mr. Aitkenhead's house
when he first saw it, but it glided high in the air and sailed north in the direction of
Kaitangata, swooping west and east and finally disappearing over the horizon.

About 10:30 Mr. Smith was called out by Mr. Poulter to see the airship which again had
made its appearance. This time it headed out to sea and eventually disappeared. As seen
through the glass, Mr. Smith said it appeared to be a fair size, dark superstructure with a
powerful headlight and two smaller ones (lights) at the side.

1954: UFO VISITS INDIA

One of the strangest UFO sightings in India occurred on September 15, 1954 at
Manbhum, in Bihar state. Ijapada Chatterjee was working in his office at the mica mine
outside Manbhum that day (he was the manager) when he heard the miners shouting.
Rushing outdoors, Chatterjee watched a saucer-shaped object descend to an altitude of
about 500 feet. The UFO hovered, then soared upwards at terrific speed, causing a
tremendous gust of wind. The object was seen over a mine which has supplied berylium
for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission."

Astronomers and Scientists have seen UFO's

From the MUFON Journals

Brian Zeiler reports more astronomers than generally realized have seen UFOs. The list is
compiled in a 1964 compilation of data from NICAP, a civilian UFO group with mostly
Ph.D.s on the board of directors. Very scientific, pragmatic, academic group.

On July 10, 1947, a top astronomer saw an elliptical object which hovered, wobbled,
ascended suddenly.

August of 1949, Clyde W. Tombaugh, astronomer saw a circular pattern of rectangular

lights, keeping fixed interval.

Summer 1948, Carl Mitchell, physicist saw three luminescent greenish discs one-second
apart, pass across sky from N to S. On March 20, 1950, Seymour L. Hess, meteorology
and astronomy saw a disc or sphere in apparent "powered" flight.

On August 3, 1951, Walter Webb, an astronomer saw a bright glowing light moving in
undulating path.

In 1952, W. Gordon Graham, astronomer saw an UFO "like a smoke ring, elliptical in
shape, and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis move overhead from
west to east.

On August 5, 1952, James Bartlett, astronomer saw during the daylight observation of
Venus a flight of two disks with a diameter about 30 minutes of arc; passed overhead and
turned east. Then two more disks with dome-like protrusions in center.

On June 11, 1954, H. Percy Wilkins, an astronomer saw two silvery objects "like polished
metal plates" moving against the wind. A third grayish oval arced across sky.

On November 25, 1954, Marcos Guerci, meteorologist saw two luminous objects
observed from airport; one apparently semicircular, other circular.

12/7/54 R. H. Kleyweg, meteorologist. Hemispherical disk tracked through theodolite.

11/1/55 Frank Halstead, astronomer. A cigar-shaped object followed by domed disk.

6/18/57 Henry Carlock, physicist. Observing sky with telescope; twice glimpsed UFO
with halo around it and "what appeared to be three portholes."

11/10/57 Jacques Chapuis, astronomer at Toulouse Observatory saw a maneuvering

yellow star-like object for 5 minutes. The UFO finally ascended straight up out of sight.

5/22/60, Observatory Staff Majorca . Triangular UFO about 1/4 apparent size of moon
sighted at 9:33 AM, spinning on its axis while on steady course.

3/16/61 R. J. Villela, a meteorologist in Antarctica saw a fireball-like object in low-level

flight.
5/20/62 C. A. Maney, a physicist with six others saw a maneuvering light, turn sharply,
and make sudden changes in speed. These reports cover only though 1964, so this should
annihilate the myth that astronomers and scientists don't see UFOs.

- Brian Zeiler and NICAP