"The UFO phenomenon, whatever it may be due to, has not changed much over two millennia."

Contrary to popular belief, the UFO phenomenon did not start in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold, but Arnold was the first widely-publicized modern incident. Here is Arnold's original drawing to the Army, top and side view: https://imgur.com/a/ETRrFB1 Note how closely it resembles a flying saucer, but this was before the term "flying saucer" was in the media, which means the "flying saucer hysteria" could not have influenced his report. Therefore, it's likley this original drawing is very close to what he actually witnessed. Years later, Arnold seemed to have been trying to distance himself from the "saucer mania," and added that one of the objects looked crescent-shaped, but that it could have been due to the angle it was at. He eventually had a drawing made of the "crescent" object and posed in front of it, which gathered enormous publicity, leading to the myth we all enjoy today that "flying saucers are a result of media hysteria and copycat reports."

Belated reports of other discs were seen prior to this, and this was part of the material later analyzed in the 1948 Estimate of the Situation. See Edward Ruppelt's book, chapter two, on that: https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/rufo/rufo05.htm

Prior to this in 1946, Sweden, ghost rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets

Prior to this, in the early 1940s, strange objects were reported to be darting around military aircraft. They were termed "foo fighters."

According to Nasa's Richard Stothers (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), "the UFO phenomenon, whatever it may be due to, has not changed much over two millennia" (click PDF). https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/st02710y.html He cites some choice examples, but you can find a lot more out there.

This thread has some examples of cigar/tic tac/egg shaped UFOs dating from the 1800s to modern times: https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/nh4l36/reminder_the_only_thing_new_about_the_tictac/

Another couple from the 17th century, America, balls of light darting around: https://www.history.com/news/americas-first-ufo-sighting

1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg, spheres, cigars, and an "arrowhead-shaped" black flying object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

Here's a very interesting luminous UFO that had a "door" that opened up from the 11th century, China, recorded by polymathic scientist Shen Kuo, who gathered reports of it: https://np.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/cjd2pk/11th_century_ufo_sighting_reported_by_chinese/

As for something disk-shaped specifically, quite a few historians, PhDs, etc appeared on a documentary about the 1917 flying "dull, silvery disk" incident here: Part 1 and Part 2. If you can make it past the first portion on the high strangeness that preceded the incident, the doc is well worth it.

Stothers cites another disk sighting in his paper, and you can find a few more throughout history, but overall, the UFOs seem to come in ~6 different main shapes, although there are outliers. The disc, the cigar/tic-tac, egg-shaped, spherical, triangular, and an often difficult-to-make out extremely luminous object. Regardless of what the phenomenon is, you would expect some variation of these year to year. Some are probably going to be more frequent than others. Activity will probably increase and decrease in various years.

For citations from the history.com article in case there is some skepticism of the claims made, here is the relevant passage from The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Abridged Edition. Here is another sighting from The History of New England, from 1630 to 1639 by John Winthrop, and a subsequent sighting is mentioned several paragraphs later.

Etc.

Thanks for reading.

Submitted December 10, 2022 at 10:57AM by MKULTRA_Escapee https://ift.tt/gumEkzf