UFOs have been here for thousands of years

What would make me say that? Take a look at some of these bits of information from long ago and decide for yourself.

• Between 1561 and 1566 residents of Nuremberg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland witnessed spectacular displays of spheres, disks and tubes zooming about the sky and engaging in an aerial ballet. (The image is a woodcut, from the Wickiana collection, Zurich.)

• On August 7, 1566 citizens of Baslem (Switzerland) saw black spheres involved in a aerial battle with lasted for several hours. "...at the time when the sun rose, one saw many large black balls which moved at high speed in the air towards the sun, then made half-turns, banging one against the others as if they were fighting a battle out a combat, a great number of them became red and igneous, thereafter they were consumed and died out," wrote Samuel Coccius, the student in "crowned writings and liberal arts" who consigned the strange events in the city's gazette.

• From Egyptian hieroglyphics in a document dating back to 1500 B.C.: "A circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. After some days these things become more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun."

• An archbishop from France in the ninth century recorded the account of three men and a woman who were witnessed being placed down on Earth by an "aerial ship". The people said they have been abducted by "miraculous men" who showed them "unheard of marvels".

• A "bright ball of fire and light in a hurricane in England, Sept. 2, 1786. This phenomenon was visible for forty minutes. That's about 800 times the duration that the orthodox give to meteors and meteorites." –from Book of the Damned



• On April 4, 1561 in Nuremberg (Germany), men and women saw various objects in the sky, including balls "approximately 3 in the length, from time to time, four in a square, much remained insulated, and between these balls, one saw a number of crosses with the color of blood. Then one saw two large pipes, in which small and large pipes, were 3 balls, also four or more. All these elements started to fight one against the other." (Gazette of the town of Nuremberg). The event was said to last for about an hour and later was and dran by artist Hans Glaser in woodcut.

Ancient art and text are filled with stories like these. There are also Native American tribes who have stories of "little green men". I'll talk about a couple of those later. If you want to find out more, just do a search for "ancient ufos" and you'll find tons of stuff. I'll also post my favorite ones here in the future posts.