Skywizard
2nd June 2014, 14:18
After reading a post by a member of another forum I found it interesting enough that I thought I would share the original post here. It was posted by jeeper3r a member of ATS.
jeeper3r's post:
After reading a rather intruiging document which is publicly available on official NASA servers (link below), I have come to the conclusion that the space agency itself considers some ancient UFO sightings to be equivalent to modern-day UFO reports and possibly of otherworldly origin.
In other words: this publication strongly suggests that certain ancient sightings, especially those with many witnesses, are not natural celestial phenomena but something entirely different altogether. This is noteworthy because the author, Richard B. Stothers (who unfortunately passed away in 2011), was an established astronomer and scientist with 200+ publications incl. subjects like stellar evolution, cometary impacts, Earth's magnetic reversals and many more. This makes him a quite credible person when it comes to excluding known & natural explanations from the equation.
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/nk538b04e9.jpg
In his paper "Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity" (PDF), R. Stothers presents a careful selection of reports about bizarre & puzzling aerial phenomena that can be traced back to a number of credible historical sources, eg. greek and roman chroniclers & historians such as Livy and Plutarch.
Among others, he references the following historical UFO descriptions:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/eu538b04fc.jpg
The most remarkable thing about Stothers' analysis is his background in astronomy and astrophysics which he applies to different cases in order to see to what extent they could represent comets, asteroids, bolides or other celestial phenomena.
But he also notes that especially the greek and roman scholars were well aware of things like mirages, eclipses, celestial impactors and their implications. That's why he refers to those specific sources, because he rightfully asserts that these chroniclers would only mention testimonies that were truly inexplicable at the time despite a high level of awareness regarding natural aerial phenomena.
Accordingly, R. Stother's own conclusions leave little to no room for speculation regarding the main message of his essay:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/gf538b04fe.jpg
In summary, I think that Stother's analysis is an important contribution in terms of documenting a phenomenon that displays a continuity throughout decades and centuries of human history. The parallels to modern-day UFO reports are IMO obvious and the fact that this publication is hosted on the nasa.gov domain shows that these ancient sightings are considered significant and important, even from an official standpoint.
A final question could be:
Does all this lead to historical reports now being a new "known variable" in the big UFO equation? Or can we still go ahead and interpret all these strange phenomena in the sky as hallucinations and misinterpretations by generations of intelligent & educated people throughout human history?
Above PDF Link: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/st02710y.html
Source: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1015506/pg1
peace...
jeeper3r's post:
After reading a rather intruiging document which is publicly available on official NASA servers (link below), I have come to the conclusion that the space agency itself considers some ancient UFO sightings to be equivalent to modern-day UFO reports and possibly of otherworldly origin.
In other words: this publication strongly suggests that certain ancient sightings, especially those with many witnesses, are not natural celestial phenomena but something entirely different altogether. This is noteworthy because the author, Richard B. Stothers (who unfortunately passed away in 2011), was an established astronomer and scientist with 200+ publications incl. subjects like stellar evolution, cometary impacts, Earth's magnetic reversals and many more. This makes him a quite credible person when it comes to excluding known & natural explanations from the equation.
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/nk538b04e9.jpg
In his paper "Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity" (PDF), R. Stothers presents a careful selection of reports about bizarre & puzzling aerial phenomena that can be traced back to a number of credible historical sources, eg. greek and roman chroniclers & historians such as Livy and Plutarch.
Among others, he references the following historical UFO descriptions:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/eu538b04fc.jpg
The most remarkable thing about Stothers' analysis is his background in astronomy and astrophysics which he applies to different cases in order to see to what extent they could represent comets, asteroids, bolides or other celestial phenomena.
But he also notes that especially the greek and roman scholars were well aware of things like mirages, eclipses, celestial impactors and their implications. That's why he refers to those specific sources, because he rightfully asserts that these chroniclers would only mention testimonies that were truly inexplicable at the time despite a high level of awareness regarding natural aerial phenomena.
Accordingly, R. Stother's own conclusions leave little to no room for speculation regarding the main message of his essay:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/gf538b04fe.jpg
In summary, I think that Stother's analysis is an important contribution in terms of documenting a phenomenon that displays a continuity throughout decades and centuries of human history. The parallels to modern-day UFO reports are IMO obvious and the fact that this publication is hosted on the nasa.gov domain shows that these ancient sightings are considered significant and important, even from an official standpoint.
A final question could be:
Does all this lead to historical reports now being a new "known variable" in the big UFO equation? Or can we still go ahead and interpret all these strange phenomena in the sky as hallucinations and misinterpretations by generations of intelligent & educated people throughout human history?
Above PDF Link: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/st02710y.html
Source: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1015506/pg1
peace...