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WERE THERE ALIENS away. American Pies In The Skies
In 1271, south of Yokohama, Japan, a As soon as Columbus sailed into the American
BEFORE ROSWELL? priest was scheduled for execution. As waters UFO sightings may have begun. One
authorities prepared to behead the man, a bright, night, from the deck of the Santa Maria,
You Be The Judge!
round object appeared in the sky, terrifying Columbus saw what he called, “a light
everyone. The execution was canceled. glimmering at a great distance,” which came in
In 1947, an alleged UFO crash site in And, just a few years ago, Chinese and out of sight throughout the night.
Roswell, New Mexico, fueled curiosity scientists discovered an ancient, high-altitude Skipping all the way ahead to 1896, a
about who or what lives among the stars pyramid in Qinghai Province” they’re now “winged cigar” with a giant headlight on it was
investigating the possibility that it was an
(in the universe, not Beverly Hills). But spotted over California, spawning a rash of
ancient extraterrestrial observatory! cigar-ship sightings across the country during
UFO sightings predate the Roswell
the next few years.
situation by thousands of years.
Friends, Romans...And Little Green And in 1897, the Dallas Morning News
Men nonchalantly reported that a strange airship
Poetic License To Fly? From 31 B.C. to A.D. 450, the ancient Romans downed in Texas was apparently piloted by a
Ancient Hundu scripts make frequent mention covered a lot of ground - and a lot of UFO-prone man from Mars, whose only documentation was
of both complex flying machines and a sky as well. In 218 B.C. over Rome, there were composed of strange and indecipherable
technologically advance, nonhuman race that reports of glowing lamps, phantom ships, and hieroglyphics.
created them. A lot of people think these ancient shields in the sky. Roman historian Titus Livius
documents are laughably fictional and fantastic, (59 B.C. - A.D. 17) once reported seeing men in Aliens Have A Cow
but others are not so sure. The ancient Sanskrit white clothes flittering around in the sky above In one especially bizarre before-Roswell
poem Mahabharata mentions flying discs called Rome. American sighting, Alexander Hamilton of
Vimanas, or “celestial chariots,” that come in a Another Roman claimed to see “a globe Leroy, Kansas, heard a noise amid his cattle on
variety of makes and models, from huge SUV- of fire” in the sky around 900 B.C. And the April 19, 1897. He came out of his house, with
like affairs for carrying troops and weapons, to Roman scholar Pliny the Elder once observed his son and a friend, to see in the sky what
single person aircraft. According to the ancient that “a burning shield scattering sparks ran looked like a bizarre, elongated cigar - a football
poem, humans were not allowed to use them – across the sky at sunset from east to west.” field in length - with a clear cabin underneath.
only these divine, advanced non-humans. Central Europe has had its share of Red ropes dangled low from the cabin,
sightings too. In England, a “fire in the sky, like almost touching the ground, and a painfully
Asian Aliens a burning and revolving wheel, or round barrel bright searchlight probed the the area. Hamilton
The sun is not the only thing that has come up in of flame,” was reported in 1387 in more than claimed to see six “hideous” beings inside the
the East. From Malaysia to Japan, myriad UFO one country. cabin. The ropes snatched up one of his cows,
sightings have occurred throughout Asia. In In the 1600s, a long, cylindrical craft was and the craft flew away. While Hamilton was
1066, a giant pearl was reported to have seen flying over Italy, Switzerland, and known for telling tall tales, the cow did turn up
emerged from a Chinese lake. It was said to have Scotland. Independently, crowds of people in butchered (and not by a professional) in his field
hovered for a moment, while a small door each of these countries reported the sighting. the next day. []
opened to reveal a brilliant light, before flying