ANTIQUES

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BC, CHINA:

Chinese legend talks of an alien base in the Kun Lun mountains used by "immortals who flew from their secret sanctuary to the stars."

BC, MIDDLE EAST, BIBLE:

Of course, everyone knows the famous "UFO quotes" from Ezekial in the Bible (verses 4 through 19, etc.) which I quote here only to be as thorough as possible:
"4. And I looked and beheld a whirlwind came out of the north a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance, they had the likeness of man… and the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of the flash of lightning…and when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up."

1,500 BC, EGYPT, PHARAOH THUTMOSE III:

In Egypt, the Pharaoh Thutmose III sees silent, foul-smelling circles of fire and flying discs in the sky.

329 BC, GREECE, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, VIA HIS HISTORIANS:

"...told of 2 strange objects in the sky that dived repeatedly at his army as they were attempting a river crossing. (Jaxartes River). The action so panicked his elephants, horses, and men they had to abandon the river crossing until the following day. They were described as great silver shields, spitting fire around the rims."

246 BC, IRAQ:

Primitive battery created in Iraq. Later to be found in 1938 by Dr. Wilhelm Konig in the basement of a Bagdad museum.

170 BC, LYCOTHENES, FROM MEDIEVAL REPORTER CONRAD WOLFHART:

At Lanupium, a remarkable spectacle of a fleet of ships was seen in the air.

99 BC, Rome, from Prodigia of Julius Obsequens:

When C. Murius and L. Valerius were consuls in Tarquinia towards sunset, a round object, like a globe, a round or circular shield, took its path in the sky from west to east.

90 BC, Rome, from Prodigia of Julius Obsequens:

At Aernarie, while Livius Troso was promulgating the laws at the beginning of the Italian war, at sunrise, there came a terrific noise in the sky, and a globe of fire appeared burning in the north. In the territory of Spoletum, a globe of fire, of golden color, fell to the earth gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance. It revolved toward the eastern quadrant of the sky.

85 BC, Rome, from Pliny, Natural History: Book II, ch 34:

"In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Caius Marius, a burning shield scattering sparks ran across the sky."

65 BC, GREECE:

Remnants of a metal "computer" found which calculates the positions of the sun and stars. It was found in Antikythera, Greece in 1900. It received a story in Natural History, 1962.

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.

70 AD, MAY 21, FROM FLAVIUS JOSEPHE "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 AD, Lycothenes, from medieval reporter Conrad Wolfhart:

When the Roman emperor 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 AD, Lycothenes, from medieval reporter Conrad Wolfhart:

At sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at Rome. It came sparkling from the west and passed over to the east.

398 AD, 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.