Historic UFO Visitations In Past Ages

Historic UFO Visitations In Past Ages

Written and Edited by Bill Knell

It began in ancient times and never stopped. Lacking a written language, early humans drew things they saw. Most of these cave or wall drawings and etchings concerned common, everyday things like people hunting animals and so on. However, some show them reacting to the appearance of things in the sky, and people from the sky, that are odd and out of place for their time.

Native American traditions include stories about "Star People" or "Sky Beings" that appear in petroglyphs, legends, and oral histories across many tribes, such as the Hopi, Lakota, and Cherokee. These narratives describe beings from the stars interacting with humans, offering knowledge, providing rescue, or even being seen as ancestors.

Many petroglyphs found throughout the world resemble what today would be considered renderings of UFOs and Aliens.

Coins were found by a group of construction workers who were renovating a house in southern Egypt in modern times. The workers were digging in the basement when they came across a small box that was filled with coins. The coins were all made of bronze, and they were all in good condition. The coins were taken to a local museum, where they were examined by archaeologists.

The archaeologists dated the coins to the 1st century BC, and they determined that they were likely minted in Egypt. The coins also featured a number of symbols that are associated with ancient Egypt, such as the sun god Ra and the Nile River.

Some had what are obviously UFOs and Alien Heads cast into.them.

One of the coins has “OPPORTUNUS ADEST” engraved on the back, Latin for “it’s here in due time.” That means they’re coming back.

The ancient Romans were meticulous record keepers. That is why it's not surprising that they documented numerous incidents that can be interpreted as UFO encounters.

In 218 BC, according to Livy, a huge fleet of ships was seen in the sky near Rome.

Pliny the Elder writes that in 76 BC the flame of the star’s fire was to be seen in the sky, which fell to the size of the moon as it fell. Then he ascended back to heaven and transformed into light.

According to Plutarch of Chaeronea, an interesting phenomenon took place in 74 BC, before the battle between the armies of Lukullus and Mithridates VI in Asia. A large object in the sky between the armies appeared in flames, in the shape of a wine vessel (pithos) and in molten silver color.

Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer active in the 4th or early 5th centuries AD, during late antiquity. His sole known work is the Prodigiorum liber (Book of Prodigies), a tabulation of the wonders and portents (prodigia) that had occurred in the Roman Republic and early Principate in the years 249–12 BC. The text of Julius Obsequens frequently makes reference to unusual astronomical and meteorological events.

After the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting in 1947, Harold T. Wilkins, among others, interpreted Julius Obsequens as preserving ancient reports of UFOs. Wilkins was a respected British journalist often writing about ancient mysteries

During the Middle Ages when letter painting was available, interesting unexplained accounts appeared.

The April 1561 broadsheet by Hans Glaser described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or UFOs above Nuremberg (then a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire). The broadsheet, illustrated with a woodcut and text by Hans Glaser, measures 10.3 inches by 15.0 inches. The document is archived in the prints and drawings collection at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland.

According to the broadsheet, around dawn on 14 April 1561, "many men and women" of Nuremberg saw what the broadsheet describes as an aerial battle "out of the sun", followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and exhausted combatant spheres falling to earth in clouds of smoke.

The broadsheet claims that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders, and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead. The woodcut illustration depicts objects of various shapes, including crosses (with or without spheres on the arms), small spheres, two large crescents, a black spear, and cylindrical objects from which several small spheres emerged and darted around the sky at dawn.

The text of the broadsheet, translated by Ilse Von Jacobi, is as follows:

“In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large numbers, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes. These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun. Besides, the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth 'as if they all burned' and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke. After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west. Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows. Although we have seen, shortly one after another, many kinds of signs in heaven, which are sent to us by the almighty God, to bring us to repentance, we still are, unfortunately, so ungrateful that we despise such high signs and miracles of God. Or we speak of them with ridicule and discard them to the wind, in order that God may send us a frightening punishment on account of our ungratefulness. After all, 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 may avert His wrath, including the well-deserved punishment, on us, so that we may temporarily here and perpetually there, live as his children. For it, may God grant us his help, Amen. By Hanns Glaser, letter-painter of Nurnberg.”

The religious overtones were likely inserted to avoid possible censure or worse by powerful church authorities of the time.

Another famous observation with a similar religious overtone added is The Madonna with Saint Giovannino. It is a 15th-century Renaissance painting, attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, that features a mysterious disk-shaped object with rays in the sky, attracting the attention of a man and his dog.

In A.D. 1211 Gervase of Tilbury, an English chronicler of historical events and curiosities, recorded this bizarre story…

“There happened in the borough of Cloera, one Sunday, while the people were at Mass, a marvel. In this town is a church dedicated to St. Kinarus. It befell that an anchor was dropped from the sky, with a rope attached to it, and one of the flukes caught in the arch above the church door. The people rushed out of the church and saw in the sky a ship with men on board, floating before the anchor cable, and they saw a man leap overboard and jump down to the anchor, as if to release it. He looked as if he were swimming in water. The folk rushed up and tried to seize him; but the Bishop forbade the people to hold the man, for it might kill him, he said. The man was freed, and hurried up to the ship, where the crew cut the rope and the ship sailed out of sight. But the anchor is in the church, and has been there ever since, as a testimony.”

This account, unrelated to any other British legend or supernatural tradition, is (according to folklorist Katharine Briggs) "one of those strange, unmotivated and therefore rather convincing tales that are scattered through the early chronicles."

In a 9th-century Latin manuscript, Liber contra insulam vulgi opinionem, the Archbishop of Lyons complained about the French peasantry's insistent belief in a "certain region called Magonia from whence come ships in the clouds." The occupants of these vessels "carry back to that region those fruits of the earth which are destroyed by hail and tempests; the sailors paying rewards to the storm wizards and themselves receiving corn and other produce."

The archbishop said he had even witnessed the stoning to death of "three men and a woman who said they had fallen from these same ships." (Abductees?)