Long before Leonardo da Vincisketched a flying machineor the Wright Brothers took flight at Kitty Hawk , there were study of aircraft soaring through the sky . Though some of those chronicle of Unidentified Flying Objects ( or UFOs ) may date as far back as Ancient Egypt , they are firmly ensconced in today ’s pappa cultivation and accounts of their sighting remain fascinating for believer and doubter alike . Here are 12 of the most challenging incident of so-called UFO sightings .
1. EGYPT // MID-1400S BCE
According to the Tulli Papyrus — the account writings of Thutmose III , who dominate in the 1400s BCE — something unaccountable was spy . Anexcerpt from the annalsdetailing the incident reads :
The validity of these writing remain uncertain . The original Egyptian paper rush was lost and only copy of copies of it persist .
2. ROME // 218 BCE
One of the other report UFO sightings can be follow back to about 218 BCE . Around 200 days later , Roman historian Livy register a number of unknown incident , likely using some lost list of those earlier sightings . One of the historiographer ’s writings included “ A spectacle of ships ( navium ) gleamed in the sky ” in Rome . In a report on UFOs [ PDF ] , NASA ’s Richard Stothers hold these sightings " trusty and accurate , " due to the clip - consuming and costly nature of investigations into omen during this era .
3. SPAIN // 1433
On January 5 , 1433 , the entire court of King Juan II of Castile allegedly lay claim to have ascertain a UFO . Fernán Gómez de Cibdarreal , the king ’s doctor , reportedlydetailed the sighting in a letter of the alphabet . While its legitimacy is uncertain , here is an excerpt :
I shall not wear out your lordship with this recital , since we had just arrived [ to Ciudad Rodrigo ] when , walk on Wednesday the 5th of this month of January [ 1433 ] , we short regard a great flaming of lily-livered fervour attached to the sky move from one end to the other ; it had inside like a black base and all its border were more whitish than the middle ; and it left with a great roaring , causing horses and scuff to ran in awe , and my own mule did n’t stop until it touched another scuff .
4. NUREMBERG, GERMANY // 1561
BY HANS GLASER , 1561 . figure citation : WIKIMEDIA COMMONS // PUBLIC DOMAIN
This famous supposed UFO sighting is documented not only in words , but in awoodcut by Hans Glaser . The piece shows the sky full of unusual objects and “ vast ” roll of tobacco come up from the world . Glaser and many others reportedly claim to have find the occurrence in Nuremberg on April 14 , 1561 .
The artist included a description with his work as well as a message to sceptic . He write : " Although we have seen , shortly one after another , many kinds of signs on the heaven , which are sent to us by the almighty God , to lend us to repentance , we still are , unfortunately , so ungrateful that we despise such high signs and miracles of God . Or we speak of them with derision and discard them to the wind , in order that God may send us a frightening punishment on story of our ingratitude . "
5. TEXAS // 1897
" Texas ’ most famous UFO crash " pass in April 1897 . On that day , a cigar - shaped target reportedly doss down into a windmill in Aurora , a small town just northerly of Fort Worth . The caption has at odds claim . Some say the alien inside the craft endure , while others believe it died and the residents of the townspeople gave it a Christian sepulture .
At the metre of the clank , E.E. Hayden ( sometimes reported as S.E. Haydon ) , a reporter from theDallas Morning News , compose that the starship “ collided with the tower of Judge Proctor ’s wind generator and go into pieces with a fantastic explosion , scattering debris over several estate of soil , bust up the windmill and water armored combat vehicle and destroy the judge ’s flower garden . The pilot film of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and , while his stiff were badly blemish , enough of the master has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world . "
6. MISSOURI // 1941
One twentieth - century incident became a out of sight family secret . In April 1941 , Rev. William Huffman of Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau , Missouri was expect to minister at the site of a plane smash . There , Huffman said , he found a saucer with three alien body . His granddaughter later recounted the narrative to local news outletKFVS , claiming that her gramps had been sworn to secrecy after the incident .
7. WASHINGTON // 1947
Kenneth Arnold’sreported 1947 sightingis well - have a go at it for many reasons , let in coin the phrase " fly disc . " Just workweek before Roswell — one of the most famous incidents of all time — Arnold was fly his planing machine near Mount Rainier in Washington State when he suppose he observed a line of crescent - shaped objects in the sky . He judge that they were clock 1700 MPH and described their movements as being like " a disk if you skip it across water . "
8. ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO // 1947
Arnold ’s sighting was the first in a serial , which also include the far-famed Roswell UFO report . consort toCNN , the Air Force initially arrogate to have institute remnants of a flying saucer at the site in New Mexico . afterwards , they claimed the debris was from a atmospheric condition balloon and then , much later on , that it was an apparatus to find Soviet nuclear tests . Today , the sighting has furore status , inspire pic and telecasting , includingthe showRoswell . Conspiracy theorists consider it to be one of the most famous UFO screen - ups in history .
9. WEST VIRGINIA // 1952
From UFO describe to urban caption : Asthe talegoes , on September 12 , 1952 , a fireball reportedly strike down from the sky and a monstrosity with fiery eye was found at the crash website in Flatwoods , West Virginia . Descriptions of the Flatwoods Monstervary , though it ’s think to be 10 feet tall , with aglowing green body .
10. BRAZIL // 1957
Antonio Vilas ( sometimes spelled " Villas " ) Boas ’ report is one of the first register exotic abductions in the modern age . On October 16 , 1957 , Boas , a Brazilian farmer , was turn alone in a plain when he says a reddish sparkle in the sky zoomed toward him . He ran toward his tractor , but four little figures lifted him off the background .
He gave a farsighted , elaborated verbal description of the brush , including the way the creatures communicated : " No resemblance whatever to human speech … I can cogitate of no attempt to describe those sounds , so different were they from anything I have ever heard before … Those sounds still make me shiver when I think of them ! It is n’t even possible for me to reproduce them … my vocal organs are not made for it . "
He also claim to have had intimate dealings with a nude female in the aircraft , although the two did not kiss . He reportedly was come back to his field about four hours after the abduction and was found to have suffered from radiation toxic condition .
11. NEW HAMPSHIRE // 1961
marital dyad Barney and Betty Hill also claimed to have been abducted by aliens . Under hypnosis , thepair shared similar accounting of the incident . Betty said , " I was convey on board . Barney was taken into one elbow room and I was taken into another . The one who did the testing we called ' The Examiner . ' First , they put me on a stool and they checked my eye , ears , nose , throat . They put me on a tabular array and said they wanted to check my nervous arrangement . Then , they tried to insert a needle - like instrument in my omphalos , which caused pain so they stopped doing it . Barney ’s exam was very much like mine in the beginning except they were concerned in his osseous tissue structure . "
Betty also claim the creatures showed her a star map depicting where they come from . She even redrew it under hypnosis , but at the time , it did n’t correlate with any known area of space . However , years later on , statistician David Saunders claim her drafting resemble the Zeta Reticuli organization in the constellationReticulum , confirming ( at least in the eyes of her supporter ) some of Hill ’s news report .
12. KENTUCKY // 1976
On January 6 , 1976 , three cleaning lady claimed to have been abduct from a car . In 2010 , Mona Stafford , the only living spectator , recalled her story toCentral Kentucky News . She claim the three women were labor when they conceive they interpret a plane clangour . want to help , they drove nigher , only to find an object in a crown . The car seemed drawn toward the craft , and hours later the women hail to the Hustonville city boundary . Their eyes and skin were burning , and the hood of the car had bubbled up .
Separated , the womanhood each detailed monovular accounts of the incident . And under hypnosis , they narrate the same narrative of being removed from the car and probe .
In the years that follow , Stafford claims she and one of the other women were ineffectual to use the telephone . The woman were quarter to high places and often watched the sky , with Stafford explaining , " I still feel like that . Like something ’s calling me , and I go out . I ’m not a oracle , I ’m not foreshadow nothing , but there ’s something in me that says something ’s going to happen this sentence . "
