I gathered these Ancient UFO sightings from different sources. The Bible Ufo Connection site: http://www.bibleufo.com/ufos.htm has the more or less I believe the complete compilation of Ancient UFO Sightings as early as man could record the encounters, though others from the compilation of Julius Obsequens in his book Prodigorium Liber.
I made a chronicle of UFO sightings from the first time man had declared and documented his encounters with the unidentified flying objects up to present personal accounts of individuals with these flying vehicles.
Although there are many theories that man had seen UFOs thousands of years back. The proofs to this claim are paintings, artifacts, sculptures and glyphs inscribed by early man depicting their encounters with the cosmic beings.
PROOF OF SIGHTINGS IN ANCIENT ARTIFACTS
First sightings of flying cylinders are believed to be during the existence of early man on Earth
This is based on some artifacts and paintings depicting such odd encounters of the UFOs during ancient times.
The Bible UFO Connection
45,000 BC China: There are rocks found in the Hunan province of China, which have carvings of “cylindrical objects resembling space craft”. Scientists said the carvings are believed to be during the time of the Neanderthals.
12,000 BC China: The Dropa, the name given to visitors from Sirius, came down from the clouds with their air gliders.
8000 BC Australia: The Aborigine believed in “dawn beings” from the stars. Australian aboriginal cave drawings depict celestial beings, with antenna and x-ray style drawings. They were very advanced in “aerodynamics”. The boomerang is identical to a modern day aircraft wing. Aborigine means “from the beginning”.
4000 BC The Sumerians from today’s Iraq had contact with extraterrestrial civilizations according to their text. The extraterrestrials also interbred with humans and traveled with them to the stars. The kings were taken to the stars by the extraterrestrials. Sumerian text coincides with “the book of genesis”. Their astronomy was highly developed. They had numbers with 15 digits! The Sumerians say extraterrestrials are from Mars, the star system Pleiades, and the star Sirius. Sumerian text shows drawings of solar system.
3000 BC China: From the book ” Memories of the Sovereigns and the Kings ” published in the 3rd century AD, in China, in the third millennium B.C., before the birth of Huang Ti or of Chi You , “sons from the sky”, would descend to Earth on a star which was the shape of a saucer.
2345 BC China: The, Hsui-nan-tzu, a Chinese classic there is a description of ten suns appearing in the sky.
2000 BC Peru’s pre-Incan civilization records the gods were from the star system Pleiades. Inca ruins have been found at 13,000 feet, with one stone weighing 20,000 tons. Legend tells of spaceships that came from the stars. Inca ornaments of “platinum” were found. Text reveals the Inca’s knew the earth was round.
1766 BC China: The Emperor Cheng Tang commissions Ki-Kung-shi to construct a flying chariot. After construction the aircraft was tested, reaching the province of Honan. The vessel was destroyed by imperial edict, as he Emperor feared the mechanism might fall into the wrong hands.
1500 BC Egypt: The Palace of Pharaoh Thutmosis III. Circles of fire are said to have hovered over the palace while fishes, winged creatures, and other objects rained down from the sky.
593 BC: The Ezekiel Encounter with the Chariots of Fire. Ezekiel witnesses an event which some writers have claimed sounds suspiciously like a UFO encounter. Josef Blumrich, former chief of the systems layout branch of NASA, set out to disprove such suggestions, however, from a careful analysis of the data available, he concluded that the vehicle described in the Bible actually was a UFO.
400 BC India: From the Mahabbarata. Blazing discs burned and destroyed an entire city and its inhabitants, before returning to the hand of Vishnu.
332 BC Phoenicia, Tyre: During the siege of the trade capital of Phoenicia by the Greeks a fleet of flying shields is described as plunged from the sky and crashed upon the city walls.
329 BC: Alexander the Great records two great silver shields, spitting fire around the rims in the sky that dived repeatedly at his army as they were attempting a river crossing. The action so panicked his elephants, horses, and men they had to abandon the river crossing until the following day.
223 BC Rome: “At Ariminium a bright light like the day blazed out at night; in many portions of Italy three moons became visible in the night time.” – Dio Cassius, Roman History, Book I
222 BC Rome: “Also three moons have appeared at once, for instance, in the consulship of Gnaeus Domitius and Gaius Fannius.” – Pliny, Natural History, Book II, Ch. 32
218 BC Rome: Glowing lamps were seen in the sky at Praeneste, a shield was observed at Arpi and in the Amiterno district, the sky was all on fire, and men in white garments appear.
217 BC :“At Faleri the sky had seemed to be rent as it were with a great fissure and through the opening a bright light had shone.” – Livy, History, Book XXII, Ch. 1
216 B.C. – Sightings of flying ships
The populace in Italy was astounded by the sightings of flying ships. During that time no one would believe and they have no idea what those objects were. They could only describe what they saw but no idea at all.
214 BC: “At Hadria an altar was seen in the sky and about it the forms of men in white clothes.” – Julius Obsequens, Prodigiorum Libellus, Ch. 66
213 BC Hadria: An ‘altar’ was seen in the sky, accompanied by a man in white clothing.170 BC Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports, “A remarkable spectacle of a fleet of ships was seen in the air at Lanupium.”
163 BC Formice: “In the consulship of Tiberius Gracchus and Manius Juventus at Capua the sun was seen by night. At Formice two suns were seen by day. The sky was afire. In Cephallenia a trumpet seemed to sound from the sky. There was a rain of earth. A windstorm demolished houses and laid crops flat in the field. By night an apparent sun shone at Pisaurum.” – Obsequens, Prodigiorum, Ch 114
122 BC Gaul: “In Gaul three suns and three moons were seen.” – Obsequens, Prodigiorum, Ch. 114
99 B.C. – Flaming torch and flying globe
It was reported that somewhere in Europe people saw a thing like a flaming torch fell in different places from the sky. There was also a sighting towards sunset, a round object like a globe, or round circular shield took its path in the sky, moving very fast from west to east.
90 B.C. – Flaming globe
People witnessed a falling globe of fire, of golden color, fell to earth, gyrating. When it reached the ground, the object then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth, and ascended into the sky. The flaming globe then obscured the disc of the sun, with its brilliance. It did some maneuverings and revolved towards the eastern quadrant of the sky.
85 BC “In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Caius Marius a burning shield scattering sparks ran across the sky. ” – Pliny, Natural History, Book II, Ch. 34 81 BC Spoletium: “Near Spoletium a gold-colored fireball rolled down to the ground, increased in size; seemed to move off the ground toward the east and was big enough to blot out the sun.” – Obsequens, Prodigiorum, Ch.
114 73 BC Asia Minor, Pontus: While Roman legions were engaged in battle near the Black Sea against King Mithridates a huge flaming object fell between the two armies. It was said to have a shape like a wine jar and was the color of molten lead.
66 BC “In the consulship of Gnaeus Octavius and Gaius Suetonius a spark was seen to fall from a star and increase in size as it approached the earth. After becoming as large as the moon it diffused a sort of cloudy daylight and then returning to the sky changed into a torch. This is the only record of its occurrence. It was seen by the proconsul Silenus and his suite. ” – Pliny, Natural History, Book II, Ch. 35
48 BC “Thunderbolts had fallen upon Pompey’s camp. A fire had appeared in the air over Caesar’s camp and had fallen upon Pompey’s … In Syria two young men announced the result of the battle (in Thessaly) and vanished.” – Dio Cassius, Roman History, Book IV 42 BC Rome: From Prodigia of Julius Obsequens, “Something like a sort of weapon, or missile, rose with a great noise from the earth and soared into the sky.”
12 BC Rome: A comet-like object hovered days over Rome for several then melted into flashes resembling torches.
9 BC Japan, Kyushu: Nine moons were seen in the night sky over the community.
60 AD Scotland: A ‘ship’ was seen speeding across the night sky at. 70 Josephus, from “Jewish War” Book CXI, “On the 21st of May a demonic phantom of incredible size…for before sunset there appeared in the air over the whole country chariots and armed troops coursing through the clouds and surrounding the cities.”
80 Scotland: Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports, “When the Roman emporer, Agricola was in Scotland, wondrous flames were seen in the skies over Caledon Wood, all one winter night. Everywhere the air burned, and on many nights, when the weather was serene, a ship was seen in the air moving fast.”
98 Rome: Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes, a medieval writer reports, “At sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at. It came sparkling from the west and passed over to the east.”
312 Constantine and his army all beheld in the heavens a luminous cross.. He claimed to have been shown a cross on the Sun as a sign from Christ that he would triumph over Maxentius.
393 A.D. – Luminous globe
A globe-like object was seen flying in the sky in the clear night of this year. This UFO sighting was mentioned in a book written by Professor Conrad Wolffhartk.
Prof. Wolffhart described a luminous globe which was soon joined with other globes of light, forming a triangular pattern and they maneuvered together.
398 Byzantine Empire: “A thing like a burning globe, presenting a sword, shown brilliantly in the sky over the city. It seemed almost to touch the earth from the zenith. Such a thing was never recorded to have been seen before by man.”
400 Egypt: Panodorus, an Egyptian monk wrote: “From the creation of Adam, indeed down to Enoch and to the general Cosmic Year 1,282, the number of days was known in neither month nor year but the Egregori (‘watchers’ or ‘angels’) descended to Earth in the general Cosmicm Year 1,000, held converse with men and taught them that the orbits of the two luminaries being marked by the 12 signs of the Zodiac are composed of 360 parts.”
457 France: Conrad Wolffart, known as Lycosthenese, a professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, from 1539, recorded that in 457 AD, over Brittany in northern France, ‘a blazing thing like a globe was seen in the sky. Its size was immense, and on its beams hung a ball of fire like a dragon out of whose mouth proceeded two beams, one of which stretched beyond France, and the other reached toward Ireland, and ended in fire, like rays.’
584 France: The Bishop of Tours in France, is perplexed by curious “domes and golden globes that raced across the sky”.
619 Japan: A bright object like a human figure was seen over the Gamo riverin Central Japan.
640 Japan: On the 7th day of the second month of Spring, a star entered the moon. (The Nihongi book two)
642 Japan: In Autumn, 9th day, 7th month, during the reign of the Empress Toyo-Tokaro-Ikashi-hi-Tarahishi-Hime a guest star entered the moon. (The Nihongi book two)
643 Japan: “Five colored banners and umbrellas shone in the sky, and descending, hung over the Temple to the sound of various music.”
650 India: One night in the hot season, they (Hariswami and his new wife) were laying on the roof of the summer house. The veil on the woman’s face slipped off in the night while a demi-god was seated in his car over head. His gaze suddenly fell upon her. The demi-god lowered the car and placed her asleep within. She was never seen again. (As told by Hariswami, translated from Hindu by J. Platts)
664 England, Barking near the Thames: At a monastery a great light appeared in the sky at night and shone over nuns who were singing in the burial-ground. They reported that it lifted up, moved to the other side of the monastery, and then ascended into the night sky. Priests said the light surpassed the brightness of day.
671 Japan: Flaming object was seen flying to north from many countries in Japan, one year before the war of the Jinshin.
674 England: “In this year a thin and tremulous cloud, a kind of rainbow, appeared at the fourth watch of the night on the fifth day before Easter, proceeding from the east, and turned into the colour of blood.”
679 Japan: Cotton like matter about 5 to 6 feet long fell all over Naniwa, former name of Osaka, and was drifted by the wind here and there.
746 England: ” Dragons were seen in the heavens” 747 China: Huge flame-breathing dragons were reported being seen in skies, accompanied by men in airships.
748 England: ” Ships were seen in the air with their men”763 Meath County: While King Domnall Mac Murchada attended the fair at Teltown ships were seen in the air.
776 Charlemagne’s castle at Sigiburg. As the Saxons were laying siege to the castle, flying shields that were reddish in color appeared in the sky and rained down fire on the attacking army.
793 England: ” …dragons were seen flying in the air”
796 England: ” In the same year small globes were seen about the Sun”
800 Peru: A theoretical date for the creation of the anomalous mass etchings known as the Nazca lines that resemble aerial landing strips in the Peruvian Andes
810 St. Gregory of Tours. “Alcuin, the secretary and biographer of Charlemagne, and author of the Vita karoli, states in his work that in 810 when he was on his way from Aachen, he saw a large sphere descend like lightning from the sky. It traveled from east to west and was so bright it made the monarch’s horse rear up so that Charlemagne fell and injured himself severely.”
840 France, Lyons: As he was coming out of the Cathedral Archbishop Abobard, saw a mob stoning three men and a woman alleged to have been seen alighting from a aerial ship.
842 France: Multicolored armies were seen marching in the sky…These sightings of infernal armies were nocturnal. They several times accompanied the siege of Jerusalem.
919 Hungary: An object like a flaming torch was seen in the sky, together with spheres, which flew over giving out a brighter light than the stars.
927 France: “In the town of Verdun, like the whole eastern part of France, saw fiery armies appearing in the sky. Flodoard’s chronicle reports that they flew over eastern Reims on a Sunday morning in March. Similar phenomena happened several times under King Pepin the Short, under Charlemagne, under Louis I, the Debonair. These sovereign’s capitularia mention penalties against creatures that travel on aerial ships.”
1015 Japan: Two objects were seen ‘giving birth’ to smaller luminous spheres over Japan.
1027 During August in Egypt, a number of “stars” were seen to fly over Cairo and the Nile Delta.
1034 Europe: A rare typeset book from 1493 contains what may be the earliest pictorial representation of a UFO. The book Liber Chronicarum, describes a strange fiery sphere, seen in 1034, soaring through the sky in a straight course from south to east and then veering toward the setting sun. The illustration accompanying the account shows a cigar-shaped form haloed by flames, sailing through a blue sky over a green, rolling countryside. This may be the first work that actually contains actual illustrations of UFO’s.
1113 England, Wessex: A group of churchmen from Laon in France were going from town to town in Wessex, bearing with them relics of the Virgin Mary, which they used to perform miracles of healing. At the coastal town of Christchuch, they were astonished to see a dragon come out of the sea, ‘breathing fire out of its nostrils.’
1133 Japan: A large silvery disk is reported to have come close to the ground.
1178 England: ” In this year appeared the wilde fyr such as no man before remembered: and moreover it did harm in many places.”
October 27, 1180 – Earthenware Vessel
Residents in Kii province sighted a flying “earthenware vessel”. It was reported to be moving towards northeast from a mountain in the province.
After a couple of moments of sighting, the flying pottery-shaped object changed its course and suddenly disappeared in the horizon.
12th Century Sighting – Disc-Like Object
A certain William of Newburgh describes a silvery, flat, shiny disc-like object sighted flying in the sky. Residents who saw it was frightened maybe because of it’s very advance technology of flying.
September 12, 1271 – Shiny Bright Object
A priest in Japan was spared of his life when a shiny, bright object suddenly appeared in the sky. The priest was about to be executed when the unidentified flying object emerged causing the executioners to panic.
November 4, 1322 – Pillar of Fire
A strange object appeared to be a “pillar of fire” was seen over the sky in Uxbridge, England. Witnesses described it has a size of a small boat and emitted bright red flames from the front and beams of light.
1361 – Flying Drum
A flying object was seen flying in the skies of the Western part of Japan. The object was described as a “flying drum” with a 20-foot diameter.
November and December 1387 – Fire in the Sky
An object described as a “fire in the sky, like a burning and revolving wheel was sighted in Leicester and Northamptonshire, England.
The flying objects emitted fire from above, and others in the shape of long, fiery beams.
November 1, 1461 – Flaming Iron Rod
People in Arras, France reported a strange flying object described as a large fiery iron rod.
March 8, 1468 – Dark Object
A dark object was seen flying toward the west from Mount Kasuga at midnight.
December 8, 1733 – Bright Silvery Object
A man identified only as Mr. Cracker saw a large, bright silvery object in the sky. He reported that the object was moving at fantastic speed and was clearly visible in the broad daylight. Two other gentlemen witnessed the same thing at the same time.
December 16, 1742 – Bars of Iron
A member of the Royal Society in London was about to cross St. Jame’s Park on his way home from a meeting when sighted a strange object flying in the sky.
The witness, who signed himself “C.M.” to remain his anonymity, described the object as large and bright moving slowly and flames coming out the back. It had a frame on one end, “like bars of iron.”
September 19, 1799 – A Ball of White Light
A strange object was seen around 8:30 p.m. in England. It was sighted as a “beautiful ball blazing with white light.”
It was reported to be moving with no sound and red sparks flew from it.
November 12, 1799 – Pillar of Fire
A large red pillar of was seen in the sky going south in Hereford, England. It was reported that the object made flashes of extremely vivid electrical sort. Other object were seen between 5 and 6 a.m. leaving luminous trails behind them.
November 19, 1799 – Ball of Fire
A “ball of fire” was seen passing in the sky over Huncoates and Lincolnshire in England.
September 7, 1820 – Lunar Objects
It was reported that during a lunar eclipse, “strange objects were seen flying and moving in straight lines. Their movements showed a military precision. From Biblical accounts to almost every pre-tech culture on earth, reports of aerial fleets in military-style formation have been recorded.
March 22, 1870 – Strange Cloud
A naval officer Captain F.W. Banner of the British ship Lady of the Lake, sighted a circular cloud with a semi-circle divided into four parts, and a central shaft running from the center of the circle and extending far outward and curving backward.
January 24, 1878 – Disk-shaped Object
A Texas farmer named John Martin reported his sighting of a strange object sailing across the sky. It was reported to be flying at great speed.
1879 to 1909 – Giant Luminous Wheels
Many people sighted a very strange objects in the sky described as “giant luminous wheels.” These giant wheels were sighted several times by the crew of the Vulture on May 15, 1879 while sailing in the Persian Gulf.
November 1896 – Lights and Airships
Mysterious light was first sighted moving rapidly from the Northeast and heading in a Southwesterly director. As it neared the Southern boundary of the city of Sacramento it turned directly toward the West and after passing the city went south, being distinctly visible for upward within 20 minutes.
Dear Sir,
Why aren’t we taught about these UFO type things at school instead of the mainly boring history about Good Queen Bess etc. It is far more interesting to see that the power and majesty of God’s power extends to the real possibility of God having created other sentient creatures on other worlds than on Earth. Yes perhaps in other Galaxies as well and not just in our part of the Milky Way Galaxy where Earth resides about one third of the way in from the inner edge of our Galaxy.
Richard Leschen