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Real aliens and UFOs sightings history - part 4
A rare typeset book from 1493, now preserved in a museum at Verdun,
France, contains what may be the earliest pictorial representation of a
real alien and UFO in Europe. Hartmann Schedel, author of 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 towards 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. (Jacque Vallee, "UFO's
in Space: Anatomy of a Phenomenon", p.9)
A term equivalent to our "real aliens` flying saucer" was actually used by the
Japanese approximately 700 years before it came into use in the West.
Ancient documents describe an unusual shining object seen the night of
October 27, 1180, as a flying "earthenware vessel." After a while the
object, which had been heading northeast from a mountain in Kii
province, changed its direction and vanished below the horizon, leaving
a luminous trail. (Jacques Vallee, "Passport to Magonia", pp. 4-5)
Here is a classical description from "William of Newburgh's Chronicle"
of a real aliens` flying saucer seen in England toward the end of the 12th century:
"At Byland, or Begeland Abbey (the largest Cistercian abbey in
England), in the North Yorkshire Riding, while the abbot and monks
were in the refectorium, a flat, round, shining, silvery object
["discus" is the word used in the Latin account] flew over the abbey
and caused the utmost terror." [Harold T. Wilkins, "Flying Saucers
on the Attack", p. 185]
The first official investigation of a real aliens and UFO sighting occurred in Japan in
1235. During the night of September 24, while General Yoritsume and his
army were encamped, they observed mysterious lights in the heavens.
The lights were seen in the southwest for many hours, swinging,
circling, and moving in loops. The general ordered a "full-scale
scientific investigation" of these strange events. The report finally
submitted to him as the "soothing" ring of many contemporary
explanations offered for real aliens and UFO phenomena. In essence it read: "The whole
thing is completely natural, General. It is... only the wind making
the stars sway." (Jacques Vallee, "Passport to Magonia", p.5)
Many unusual celestial events were recorded in Japanese chronicles
during the Middle Ages. As in Western society, such occurrences were
usually considered "portents," often resulting in panics and other
social disturbances. Here are some examples:
"...on September 12, 1271, the famous priest Nichiren was about to be
beheaded at Tatsunokuchi, Kamakura, when there appeared in the sky an
object like a full moon, shiny and bright. Needless to say, the
officials panicked and the execution was not carried out. In 1361, a
flying object described as being 'shaped like a drum, about twenty
feet in diameter' emerged from the inland sea off Western Japan...
...on March 8, 1468, a dark object, which made a 'sound like a
wheel,' flew from Mt. Kasuga toward the west at midnight." [Jacgues
Vallee, "Passport to Magonia", pp. 5-6]
