5 Bizarre Accounts From History of UFO Sightings (74 BC - 1896) // Primary Sources

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Extracts taken from:
Plutarch on Lucullus
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
Illustrated news notice of Nuremberg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_ce...
History of New England by John Winthrop
archive.org/details/winthrops...
Toen shōsetsu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-...
The San Francisco call. [volume], November 22, 1896, Page 13, Image 13
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
Art by Bilalerlangga.
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks
Image Credits:
Skull By Wapondaponda - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
00:00 74 BC The Mithridatic Wars
02:02 1561 Nuremberg
04:30 1639 Massachusetts
05:26 1803 Edo Japan
09:08 1896 Oakland, California

[@JohnSmith-de2mz]

Imagine if open full contact is ever made, aliens show us pictures or videos of ancient humans, wouldn't that be incredible?

[@jimkhana007]

Give us a true history lesson!

[@td370]

I’d care more about the footage than the aliens themselves lmao

[@similaritiesendhere]

Half of humanity would accuse them of being demonic for contradicting their holy books.

[@anniemaymcneely2013]

Well I would like to see all the weird old paintings that UFOs are in, from their perspective .

[@bendingunit2264]

Dude I’ve never thought about that!

[@thepeter3116]

I'm in the center of my youtube venn diagram

[@briaormead4239]

So you're the conspiracy theorist type?

[@thepinkpolarbear77]

Lmao when the first had account of Chinese accountants meeting Romans meet the ancient astronaut theorists I've peaked my algorithm

[@h0rriphic]

Likewise 😅

[@ReidHenderson]

I really feel like the Aliens are waiting until we are ready so they keep coming back to check on us. Probally keep wondering what's taking so dang long. Either we will be ready or kill each other off and then they might just occupy our planet with some other race of organism and wait again

[@RethinkRetro1]

I too am a fan of both real history and also crackpot nonsense ancient aliens crap.

[@lance-biggums]

I love how the old Japanese man invents a whole backstory for this "foreign princess exiled due to an affair with her lover" and jumps straight to the conclusion that of course her box must contain her lover's head. Guy was already writing anime plots in 1803

[@kaikart123]

The guy watch too much anime

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

Right?! I absolutely loved that part!!🤣👍

[@pt8208]

The real shame is that you have no better cultural context in which to miscatagorize.

[@Patrick.Weightman]

and everyone was apparently like "ohhh, obviously"

[@skyworm8006]

@@Patrick.Weightman well a trope is a trope

[@gankt]

One time I also found a ginger chick on a boat and much like these japanese guys, I just assumed she was a princess with a decapitated head in a box and sent her on her way

[@VoicesofthePast]

weve all been there

[@Greenman422]

As one does in those cases.

[@DevinDTV]

she just return to the sea to find her destiny

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@DevinDTV She belongs to the seas!

[@RookhKshatriya]

The Japanese are a strange folk.

[@carldorsey2604]

It’s kinda cool to think of something so crazy that two warring sides actually stop and gaze in the midst of battle just baffled at the sight before them.

[@mortalclown3812]

It's naive, I'm sure, but easy to long for a bit of cosmic interference in Earth's deadly present. Between the climate and nuclear midnight, we've definitely lost the damn plot. Here's to triage... before it's too late

[@rodolfosantana9015]

And at that moment they knew there was more to existance

[@darinarnold6976]

Nothing will ever top the old man and his incredibly detailed backstory that everyone just went with

[@Cipricus]

What do you propose? Aliens?

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

It's not a real event, just a made-up account. These women in strange boats are a very old concept in japanese folklore, originally they were in hollowed-out treetrunks. This version just updates the boat with a european woman and a british-style copper-clad boat with portholes.

[@ManPursueExcellence]

@@grimmer9253You took the words right out of my mouth, sort of. lol

[@filipbelciug]

At min 08:13 the old man plainly explained how his prior knowledge made him draw such conclusions. A similar event happened in the past and it fit the narrative very well. He even said 'this COULD mean...' implying it's just a theory. The old man had too advanced logic and deduction skills for the modern moronic youtube kids. Pay more attention next time

[@allrequiredfields]

​@@CipricusThat's the single most asinine false dichotomy I've ever heard. I'm almost impressed.

[@1three7]

I like how the old "wise man" just made up a complete story of royalty and murder about the red hair girl. Everyone was like. "Hmm yeah makes sense. She probably wants to be adrift in the ocean."

[@HistoryTime]

Mithradates was an inter-dimensional wizard. He chose the opportunity of the Roman invasion to return to his home planet

[@rayhamilton4775]

LOL

[@someperson7]

This apparition prevented a badly outnumbered Lucullus from suffering a defeat at the hands of Marcus Marius. The time bought by the withdrawal allowed Lucullus to interrogate a prisoner and learned Marcus Marius didn't have enough supplies for a protracted campaign. Lucullus used that information to avoid battle until Marcus Marius withdrew and Lucullus' forces were preserved. Lucullus then used those forces to break Mithridates' siege of Cyzicus. He then pursued the withdrawing army trapping and killing many at the Aesepus and Granicus Rivers. By the time it was all said and done Mithridates' force was 20,000 from its original 300,000. This apparition changed the outcome of the war.

[@gnosisdocumentaries4481]

Interesting interpretation 😂

[@raclark2730]

Good move. 🤣👍

[@PedanticNo1]

The History Channel, despite the name, is not a valid source.

[@85set05]

The Japanese one is a 'Unidetified Floating Object". The guy guessing what happened to the woman in it is really good at jumping to conclusions for an old man.

[@yaosio]

It's common for old men that fell out of a tree when they were 5 years old onto an old woman that cursed them with a limp leg to jump to conclusions.

[@peacelovebrad]

I know, like wtf are you talking about old dude? Do we need to see what's in YOUR box??

[@d4v0r_x]

the opposite of occam's razor

[@peacelovebrad]

@@xjohnny1000 He saw the movie Seven.

[@creativeconsciousness7392]

I thought so too. That was a really detailed and elaborate guess.

[@Buttface1981]

I visited a friend in Zurich around 2011 and went to the Zurich central library to see the original paper report. They had to go fetch it from storage, and I wasn’t allowed to photocopy them for fear of damage but I was allowed to photograph each page. It was great to hold the actual news article in person

[@alexsetterington3142]

Nice one Buttface

[@mortalclown3812]

Hey, thanks in advance for your forbearance in reading this. Your comment evoked one of my favorite memories... Decades ago, via a friend's kind favor, I had an hours long visit to the curators' library at Westminster Abbey. Two friendly cats lazed about - often right on top of the books: the logic being that the rodent policing they did far outweighed any perceived damage from their fur, etc. Between the smell of old pages, bindings and the slow blinks of the feline guards, time itself felt, well, wobbly. (Plus, I'm an old Yank who's always adored history for its own sake.) I guess these places mean as much as seed vaults to some of us. It's about more than what was written: it's proximity to our ancestors' richest inner lives. Paz y luz. ✨

[@andrewmcneil6668]

There was also an incident during a Viking siege of a French fortress. I believe they were described as "flying shields" and the Vikings withdrew on their account. It is in one of the annals of the time. Wish I could remember which one.

[@VirideSoryuLangley]

[776] [...] and the same day, while they [the Saxons] were preparing for another assault against the Christians who were living in the castle, the glory of God manifested itself above the church inside the fortress. Those who were watching in the square outside - many of which still live today - said that they saw something resembling two large flaming shields of reddish color moving above the church itself. [...] (Annales Laurissenses Maiores, in MGH SRG 6, p. 44).

[@jdshaman6448]

The story was fiction.

[@CChissel]

@@jdshaman6448 or possibly just a natural event. Meteors do come down in fiery blazes at times.

[@andrewmcneil6668]

@@VirideSoryuLangley Thank you! I knew I had read that somewhere within all the Annals and other documents I have collected over the years. So NOT during the Viking period but rather during the Saxon Wars. Thank you for posting that.

[@raclark2730]

@@jdshaman6448 A sceptic shaman well I never.🤔😉

[@VirideSoryuLangley]

There was also a case in medieval France, with 4 people abducted and then released in the middle of a town. They were accused of being spies or magicians, and the crowd was gonna lynch them, but they were saved by a local priest. I read about this event in Jacques Vallee's book "Passport to Magonia", in case anyone is interested.

[@jdshaman6448]

It was made up in the 1970's.

[@AwestruckOffRoadingAudioHertz]

@@jdshaman6448 facts. People like this read one thing from somewhere and think they stumbled across some "hidden knowledge" that everyone else needs to know. Meanwhile.. it was just a made up story. People these days dont' even bother fact checking before assuming belief.

[@VirideSoryuLangley]

@@jdshaman6448 Do you have a source on that? Vallee isn't the type of man to make things up.

[@jonchandler27]

@@VirideSoryuLangley he's just trolling every response mate

[@raclark2730]

@@jdshaman6448 Shows how little you know with that date.

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

I love how when he reads the American account he adopts his best attempt at an American accent.

[@user-wr2cd1wy3b]

Me too, I thought it was interesting where his Britishness bled out and where is American was spot-on, also great that given the chance to adapt not only the narrative but the voice, it was taken. That given, voices in the 1800's were a step away from the modern American, it was of course closer phonetically.

[@nuancedhistory9729]

Regarding the Mithridatic Wars one, I actually ran the math for how much energy a nickel-iron meteorite would impart if it was actually the size reported and it came out to 73 Tonnes of TNT, and my numbers were explicitly an underestimate (I simplified the volume to a double-cone rather than an amphora-shape and used a lower end entry velocity of around 18 km/s). It would have left a roughly 30 foot crater 5 feet deep and wiped out both armies if it had actually landed between them.

[@mrwtfwhy]

Plutarch casually resumes the narrative of the last Mithradatic War after giving the absolute bizarre addition to his account which ends with that unceremonious "This marvel happened at Phrygia" which reflects a level of unphasedness by the witnesses that is concerning in its implications

[@nuancedhistory9729]

@@mrwtfwhy Or it's a completely fabricated interjection by an author writing long after the events took place.

[@nicosmind3]

I assumed the "shape" was just it burning up in the atmosphere. Ie the latest asteroid that exploded in the skies of Russia left a trail and shape where a lot of it had exploded.

[@bluebird3281]

@@nuancedhistory9729 Or the author repeating what he was told. Plutarch wrote about Arabia and ridiculed some crazy story he heard about Arabia (I forget the exact thing) but he then started talking about how the frankincense in Arabia was guarded by little flying fire breathing snakes. Why he believed one crazy story and not the other I don't know, but I don't think he purposely made paranormal things up. He just gave his opinion on what he heard and for some reason the little dragon guard stories seemed credible.

[@vanivanov9571]

Between the armies doesn't necessarily mean falling in the middle of the field. More likely they saw it in the distance. If it was right above them coming down, it'd actually be hard for both armies to see it clearly.

[@nachgeben]

I love when people try to claim UFO sightings only started in the 1900s. This is great, thank you.

[@mormacfey]

They did start in the 1900s no one called it UFOs before that. Most people in the past had other names for it. A sign from God, a disaster (comet / bad star), etc. The term UFO (or "UFOB") was coined in 1953 by the United States Air Force (USAF) to serve as a catch-all. the USAF stated that a "UFOB" was "any airborne object which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object".

[@mattsmith5421]

These aren't even UFO sightings tho

[@thorts]

Anything you cant identity in the sky is a ufo but not necessarily an alien aircraft

[@lamalien2276]

Crop circles go way back too.

[@allrequiredfields]

​@@lamalien2276No, they don't. How the fuck do you not know about Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, who admitted to creating most of the crop circles that all started the late 70s.

[@Longshanks1690]

The CIA: Damnit, now we need to build time machines to cover all these ones up too!

[@uncannyvalley2350]

And that's where the sightings come from, we are trapped in an infinite time loop

[@marcobecking608]

The one from Japan is interesting. Thinking about it and understanding ocean currents, there are a few possibilities. There are cases where objects from Europe or Africa are found at coast of Brazil or Colombia. Most famously, is the guy that lost his surfboard in Hawaii and after 2 years de surfboard was found in the Philippines. That being said, there are two ocean currents that reach Japan. the North ecuatorial current (from mexico to Philippines to Japan) and the Oyashio Current (Siberia to Japan). Since Mexico is too far, it could be very plausible that the women is actually from a tribe of Siberia (it is close to japan). Maybe as a punishment or not, they put here in that 'boot' and she drifted with the current towards Japan in a few days.

[@chrisball3778]

It sounds like a boat of European design. It mentions metal plating on the underside and glass windows, which were both common features of European ships in 1803 (copper plating prevented fouling of the hull with shipworms), but might have seemed very strange to people in remote parts of Japan during the Edo period, when the country was under self-imposed isolation and trade with outsiders was restricted to only a couple of ports. If the woman was put out to sea again after consulting with the old man, then the drawings from the manuscript probably weren't drawn from life, so may be more representative of the fishermen's comparison of the boat to an incense burner rather than its actual appearance. She might have been a shipwreck survivor, or possibly the crew hid somehow because they knew about Japan's reputation for arresting and executing interlopers.

[@chrisball3778]

@Elvis Musso A balloon would not have had any metal or glass components. European (and some Asian) ships of the time had both. Victorian heiresses would not have been put on boats without very clear reasons. 'Good' manners were never exclusive to any social class. To this day, red hair is more common in Scotland and Ireland than anywhere else, and both the Scots and Irish were looked down upon by the English in 1803.

[@eurybaric]

​@Elvis Musso Interesting analysis mate. Can't help but wonder through all that though: did they ultimately pack her back in and sending her to her death?

[@eurybaric]

@Elvis Musso Optimistically being a good choice of word here!

[@gooby8953]

It was confirmed to be a sensationalist false story anyway, based off of previous westerners showing up in Japan. Still fun to think about

[@h5mind373]

My UFO encounter was much more recent (relatively speaking) as it occurred "only" 42 years ago. One frosty December night, my best friend and I were driving the 'short cut' road from one part of town to another. It passed through heavy forrest with no homes. Running parallel to the road were high tension power lines. As we drove along, I noticed multicoloured lights slowly flashing off to our left through the trees , over the power lines. There was a little side road which ran in that direction, so we decided to drive down and check it out. Recent snowfall made the way virtually impassible, so instead of getting stuck, we stopped partway in and trudged through the snow toward the lights. We saw a "classic" saucer shape, about 30 feet across, with lights revolving around the rim of the craft. It was silent except for a low humming. We were pretty freaked out, but figured, 'hey we've come this far', and got to within 100 feet of it. At that point, it's lights shut off and it went 'zip!' straight up and out of sight. Needless to say, no one believed a pair of imaginative teens.

[@jairoparra3682]

Here is mines and it took place in Jamaica Plain, MA many years ago when I was like a small boy maybe of nine years old . We were driving at night through the Forest Hills Cemetery then you could see this flying saucer hovering above in the sky and it made no sound. My father gets out of the car and he waved at them. But it slowly moved away and then you couldn't see anymore.

[@kaikart123]

I've seen strange lights several times in my life, but the most fascinating one was when our family were going to another city and we are in the middle of the forest we need to pass, and we saw this crimson fireball flying crossing the road from above the treeline to our left to the top of the treeline to our right. The flame was really clear and act weird like it was alive, it also emit no sound. We just said "wow look at that" and keep going, none of us really give a shit about what we just saw smh.

[@Pfyzer]

Mine was looking at the sky seeing a burst of light show, fast forward now, afterseeing SpaceX launches and bursting the atmosphere, i think it was a rocket

[@ACDZ123]

"One frosty Dec night " you sure you don't write fiction books ? 😅

[@mox3909]

One night when I was a small child my parents and I were driving alone on a highway, and this craft hovered close above us and matched out speed. I remember colored light all around, like it was being filtered through a prism or kaleidoscope, and I also remember my parents screaming in fear. It only lasted a minute, and then it was gone.

[@ieatpilli]

There has to be more of these sightings throughout history. Please do as many videos on this subject as you can. Please!

[@billblaski9523]

@@boganvogue6694 lol

[@aerystargaryenii2565]

Imagine the ones that were never documented or only seen by a handful of people.

[@tonymaiorano2749]

Watch " Religion and UFOs " by Tony Talking The Talk .

[@Iknowknow112]

Jacques Vallee has a book called *WONDERS IN THE SKY* where he indexes hundreds of reports like this from ancient times until the 1800's.

[@raclark2730]

Jacques Vallee's books open up a different view on such things, well worth a read.

[@Longshanks1690]

Therapist: It’s ok, Voices Of The Past doing an American accent isn’t real, he can’t hurt you. 9:10 :

[@iLLeag7e]

HIs accent isn't THAT bad. I heard a "beeeeen" where a "ben" should have been but I've heard much much worse

[@houselemuellan8756]

@@iLLeag7e It's a dated accent. Not an inaccurate one.

[@spearshaker7974]

Ever heard Sean Connery say therapist speaking of accents?

[@jayrome144]

Lmao nobody sounds like that here

[@jayrome144]

@@houselemuellan8756 nobody ever sounded like that here lol he sound like a dang ol redcoat

[@leggonarm9835]

Nuremberg sounds like a starfighter battle and the black arrow sounds like a capital ship.

[@leggonarm9835]

@JZ's Best Friend if it was shrooms it could have been a battle in another dimension lol.

[@indismart998]

I think it was a depiction solar eclipse.

[@egamIroriM]

The japanese one is actually very facinating, they even record down the symbol in the ship. The japanese always good at catching the details.

[@Norwegianization]

the symbol showed what?

[@egamIroriM]

@@Norwegianization 6:24 the japanese words beside the symbols only labels "the barbarian words found in the ship/boat"

[@Norwegianization]

@@egamIroriM why call it barbarian words?

[@egamIroriM]

@@Norwegianization basically according to chinese and japanese tradition in the ancient days, everyone outside comes from the unknown places they call them barbarians. Barbarians here means someone foreign that not observe the local values and cultures. The Portuguese and other westerners are called 'nanban (南蛮)' because they come from south ocean through Southeast Asia before the discovery of the new world. So seeing this 'woman' that comes from across the sea they just assume she is some sort of unidentified/unknown 'nanban'.

[@jayrome144]

@@Norwegianization it's like foreign or gaijin It's abnormal to be accepting of foreigners, it's not normal at all

[@Mamenber]

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and one of the most significant kings of Bohemia, recorded a paranormal encounter in his autobiography. Apparently, he and his friend were woken up by footsteps with no source, and saw a chalice spontaneously fall down and get thrown across the room. Eventually, the footsteps stopped. It's not very exciting and he only dedicated a single paragraph to it, but he was a smart man who wrote his autobiography decades later to set an example for his son, and there's not much reason to doubt his claims.

[@TheAncientMysteriesBeckon]

Funny. I’ve had the exact same thing happen to me. Except the cup was thrown at the other person. It flew off the ledge, and flew past shoulder. Quite a thing. That’s what happens when you live on cursed burial grounds, I suppose.

[@jdshaman6448]

Earlier Roman emperors left accounts of meeting Zeus.

[@Mamenber]

@@jdshaman6448 I know it sounds confusing, but the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire were completely different countries. Roman Empire was created by Romans, was pagan for most of its existence, and its fall marks the end of antiquity, while the Holy Roman Empire (later Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation) was created late into early middle ages and dissolved during Napoleonic wars, was almost entirely Christian, and consisted mostly of today's Germany. The Emperor I speak of lived in 14th century, 900 years after the fall of Roman Empire.

[@TheAncientMysteriesBeckon]

@@Mamenber Correct.

[@TheAncientMysteriesBeckon]

@@jdshaman6448 The last Roman Emperor to meet such a God was Flavius Claudius Iulianos. Emperor Julian, the Philosopher.

[@yaleyoon6856]

These kinds of topics are cool! Away from the mainstream and into the fun details and footnotes

[@jdshaman6448]

They are fictional. Fairy stories for adults.

[@yaleyoon6856]

No sht

[@Sam-gy3ok]

@@jdshaman6448 Why did the Pentagon release videos and acknowledge that they see strange flying craft flying unlike any other vessel of ours to the point they even had an inquiry? Obama has also acknowledged this on air and the inquiry acknowledged they cannot explain them by normal explanations. How do you explain ww2 foo fighters and the testimony of not an inconsiderable amount of pilots since? Or even some of these accounts (not all) regardless of their reliability are from genuine contemporary-ish historical sources. I'm not saying it's always aliens but these claims should be taken seriously.

[@raclark2730]

@@jdshaman6448 < afraid of the wild world of the unknown and mystical, yet claims the name Shaman.🤔

[@spaulding304]

@Graf von Losinj No one should ever believe in what the government, any government, tells you. After they declassified some 100+ files on UAPs, no one really cared because we already knew about them. The real question is why would they admit it now? Distractions, probably. Intimidation tactics against other enemy states, also likely. Or a test of how the populace would react to that kind of information coming from the government. Shocker, it was apathetic.

[@jarvis911]

This is my favourite channel on KZbin! I dont often see your vidoes on my feed so unfortunately you must not get the breaks you deserve with the algorythm but I really appreciate the effort you guys put into these.

[@ReynaSingh]

Thank you for sharing these videos. Always so interesting

[@timothykimemia5681]

People who really connect with history end up joining these particular kind of dots.Love it.

[@stephanieparker1250]

This is fascinating! More of videos like this, please!

[@darkhope97]

That one from Japan was nuts

[@theterminaldave]

Gotta love the old guy just making up stuff to suit his world view. Like "yeah that must be it."

[@someperson7]

@@theterminaldave IKR. Just completely pulling that out of thin air.

[@SwordTune]

Woman: Finally! I have reached land! Old Man: put her back where she belongs

[@willbass2869]

Just a bunch of old men getting drunk from sake rather than working their nets.....age old tale for the wives when they come stumbling home with empty baskets. Gotta have the 'princess' and forbidden love twist in the story so their wives don't beat them. Lol

[@mattsmith5421]

@Graf von Losinj it's very easy - Joseph Smith

[@mrhalos6770]

This channel is awesome! I’m so glad I stumbled across it! Thank you!!

[@HalfBakked218]

The KZbin algorithm has blessed me with finding this channel! Good stuff to sit, listen and learn!

[@sirrliv]

I'm curious if there are any surviving accounts of the Mystery Airship of Aurora, Texas in 1897. Supposedly a strange craft collided with a windmill and crashed to earth in this small town. Local people and even a member of the US Signal Corp managed to recover the bodies of the two pilots, who were said to resemble no human or known creature. Nonetheless, the townsfolk gave the pair a proper Christian burial. The wreckage of the spacecraft was abandoned down a disused well. So the legend goes, at least.

[@mormacfey]

Oscar Lowery, who had been eleven years old in 1897, said that he had absolutely no recollection of a crash of any kind. He expressed the strong opinion that the whole thing had been a hoax dreamed up by Hayden, who was trying to make the town a tourist attraction. Hayden lived in Aurora and was distressed to see the town's fortunes declining. Lowery said that the T. J. Weems, "the U.S. Signal Service officer" and astronomer mentioned in the original article, was really the town blacksmith and knew nothing about astronomy. Besides, said Lowery, Judge Proctor never had a windmill in the first place. He said that a lot of people had known that story was a hoax because Hayden discussed it with them.

[@jbweld6193]

Dig them up

[@Poodleinacan]

@@mormacfey sounds logical.

[@lenrely2033]

The story is true. The reason there was no recollection of a windmill on the property is it was the kind attached to the top of a barn. The pilot's grave has not been found because the stone marker with a crude carving of the airship was removed from the cemetery. The well is on a property where all of the grass growing around it was stunted and the owner grew a huge misshapen arm from drinking the water. The current owner had the well unsealed and tested revealing high amounts of aluminum, probably from the frame of the airship.

[@praevasc4299]

@@lenrely2033 And why should we believe what you're telling?

[@0therun1t21]

I love sending your videos to friends, I know exactly who will watch this one, thanks! The famous story from Japan is in the video game Okami, but it's a bamboo farmer instead of a fisherman and the story is a little different but still sad because everyone loved her and didn't want her to go, especially the bamboo farmer who took care of her like she was his grand daughter. I live where the last story takes place, cool! Edit- Please read the long posts below, I have been corrected in a most entertaining way, thanks!

[@0therun1t21]

@@alkatraz706 Yeah, it's a very emotional part of thel game, but it's also very beautiful. Here's the scene if you want to see. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZyYpZ14oah6hJI

[@patrickbush9526]

🛸 👽 🐸💭 Papa? ⛩👽🥡

[@patrickbush9526]

🛸 👽 🐸💭 Papa? 🥡👽❔

[@GonzaloDaveloza]

That is not based on the Utsuro-bune story, it is based in one of the most famous tales of Japan, the Taketori Monogatari, also known as Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, the tale of how a Bamboo Cutter founds a princess of the Moon after cutting a very particular bamboo shot.

[@0therun1t21]

@@GonzaloDaveloza Oh! Thank you, She did arrive and leave in a UFO in the game, so did they merge the stories? I know they play around a little with the history and legends in the game for originality.

[@gnosisdocumentaries4481]

Glad you're covering this interesting topic!

[@Moses_VII]

This video is incomplete. They forgot to mention when Vilgax landed on Earth and fought George Washington and a time-travelling Ben 10 in 1775. My historical source is Ben 10 Omniverse, A New Dawn.

[@davidevans916]

That “black spear” was definitely a Star Destroyer

[@jomarba2]

Love the japanese tale "-well it would be too expensive and time consuming to look further into this. So just put that woman back where you found her. - in the sea? -quite right my lad, in the sea she goes!"

[@ShaferHart]

8:08 my man "old man from the village" invented fan fiction jesus christ 😂

[@theterminaldave]

I bet this video will become one of the most popular entries for "voices of the past". I was hoping to hear the story recounted about a "person" who had been caught by the officials in either China or Japan, and was about to be boiled alive when he/it turned his body into a form of water and fire, and levitated into the air and said something to the effect of "no thank you".

[@jashardwallington]

What?

[@minimaitor1007]

I BET THIS VIDEO WILL BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ENTRIES FOR "VOICES OF THE PAST". I WAS HOPING TO HEAR THE STORY RECOUNTED ABOUT A "PERSON" WHO HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY THE OFFICIALS IN EITHER CHINA OR JAPAN, AND WAS ABOUT TO BE BOILED ALIVE WHEN HE/IT TURNED HIS BODY INTO A FORM OF WATER AND FIRE, AND LEVITATED INTO THE AIR AND SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF "NO THANK YOU"!

[@VirideSoryuLangley]

Interesting, never heard of that one. Do you remember where you read about it?

[@theterminaldave]

@@VirideSoryuLangley I tried googling it for an hour and could not find anything, I thought i remembered being a narration though, so it might have been a video or tv show.

[@kaltonian]

now that was interesting, im some what glad that it is not just our generations that also witnessed strange and unexplainable events and that they were recorded, the texts that were on the strange craft are brilliant in the sense that they wrote them down showing that they were indeed alien to us

[@---iv5gj]

The nuremburg people just witnessed my great fleet's space battle with the contingency, which happened in orbit above earth.

[@alonsocerva2596]

Stellaris dude

[@perrytran9504]

Lies. It was my first three corvettes' desperate attempt to destroy an asteroid heading for Earth.

[@Killergrayback]

Aggressive observation

[@asharpmajor6740]

There were a lot of sightings of "airships" in the southern parts of New Zealand around the same time, and also parts of Australia and South Africa, I seem to recall.

[@RogueReplicant]

And all over the US, including the Southwest during the heyday of the Wild West, which I think was the inspiration for Cowboys and Aliens.

[@skittlemetimbers481]

Would love to see more of this type of video. Thank you thank you

[@meduseld6610]

TREY the Explainer does a superb analysis on that Japanese UFO if anyone's feeling curious

[@PRH123]

Yes very curious, please send a link..? Will search for it now anyway :)

[@meduseld6610]

@@PRH123 Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moe0Z6F8Z8d9rdE

[@raclark2730]

I believe in elements of the unknown, but in this case I think its just a weird boat.

[@jdshaman6448]

good reply. It is all make believe.

[@guest273]

I can't even imagine people from 2000 years ago trying to understand and describe the concept of UFO's. That seems like something that would only happen once in a lifetime as well.

[@djimma5080]

Maybe the 3 wise men in the story of Jesus were wise for a reason, I suspect if there is any truth in that story then it's Jesus was hybrid made to guide us by a more advanced race but we nailed him to a cross.

[@cablecar10]

@@djimma5080 Jesus was just some dude

[@dustinbasurto7371]

@@djimma5080 Or Jesus was a mushroom spore grown in a hay manger by three enlightened fellows who carried with them; sanitizing and purifying agents along with a vessel of mycelium or mana.

[@maszkalman3676]

But you can see as time passed they more and more likely identified as a flying machine not just a magic object...

[@vincentsmit1935]

This is literally the point of the Heaven's Gate cult

[@KloKiller1]

Wait wtf. Didnt expect a crossover between two of my fav topics on this channel of all places.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon" - Ikkyū Sōjun (休宗純)

[@polishedpebble4111]

Dialecticism

[@flamencoprof]

The moon is perfectly visible from the foot of a mountain, we can all see it from there as well.

[@FREDDOGTHEBOSS]

Another great account from history is the France ufo sighting in 1608, theres a full news article about it from that time period with many witnesses seeing 3 luminous flying vessels flying and stopping on top of water with beings coming out of the ships to do several hours of work to it, the citizens watched them and the castle shot cannons at it with no effect to them

[@dr.veronica6155]

Sounds like the folks in Nuremburg witnessed a space battle and at the end saw a Star Destroyer show up to pick up the remaining fighters and get outta there. Probably something way less cool in reality, but this is my headcanon. And I love the old Japanese dude who came up with a whole narrative about the woman. I'm all for his version of the story. Make that a manga.

[@ruthanneseven]

I saw one up in Lake County CA. It was a clear dark night. Two large headlights were approaching me in the sky. It was completely silent. I thought, "If you can hear me, I'm not ready!" The last thing on my mind was grabbing my cell phone. I was transfixed. No way, I thought. In an instant, this flying thing was really high up, did an impossibly instant large "V" shaped flight path and zoomed out of sight. I was beyond shocked. I can really relate to what that guy said as to questioning one's sanity. I was perfectly sober. I made a discreet inquiry about it the next day. It was no surprise. "That's what they do." I was told. Wow. Open secret!

[@junior1497]

One night in the Bay Area, I saw some lights moving as if they were playing with each other. They were pretty highly up in the air. All of a sudden they disappeared

[@spaulding304]

Jealous. I hear stories, one coming from a Godly man but, I never have witnessed anything. He even drew out what he saw on paper. It had 5 lights, the middle was square-shaped and the 4 on the outside were rectangular-shaped, each parallel with all 4 sides of the middle square. He also explained the night with great detail. Him and his family weren't the only one's who pulled off the side of the road and saw it. It was the onlookers that made him stop in the first place. He said the thing took off out of sight after some time so they drove down the road for about 20-25mins the same direction they were already going and saw it again. I don't remember where he was though this story was told just over 6 years ago.

[@garygrinkevich6971]

Indeed.

[@baseddepartment285]

Could be a new aircraft prototype. Newer aircraft are really maneuverable

[@dominicm255]

more likely to be an actual aircraft don't you think... the most obvious answer is usually the right one....

[@Ssusan69]

Omg, I love it when he does the old timey American accent!! Something about it is so wholesome.

[@nd493]

UFO phenomena is well recorded across different civilizations and cultures. Surprisingly ancient phenomenon that cannot be easily explained.

[@nozrep]

oh dude nice job on the American affectation on the Oakland one! Not too shabby! you got those hard “r’s” real good!

[@VonMilk]

I'm really loving this it's a shame i can't rabbit hole this isn't much content out there 😭

[@BlackMasterRoshi]

the Nuremberg one in 1561 sounds like a major coronal mass ejection

[@Psychol-Snooper]

Or someone was into the schnapps.

[@LOLERXP]

Up until the arrow part

[@edwardwalker9253]

a black arrow though? and they came falling to earth smoking sounds odd

[@someperson7]

That's an interesting idea, but I can't find any record of one viewable from Earth with the naked eye. So it'd be difficult to say "this looks like that" because we don't really know what this or that actually looks like.

[@marioalbertocamposcamacho2743]

Likely the atmospheric optical phenomenon called parhelion or "sun dog", especially since was into what is know* as the "little ice age".

[@guillermozepeda9967]

There is another documented report from Japan, but the date escapes me. The time was during the Sengoku period, IIRC. Supposedly, a local daimyo had a strange sighting investigated by a team of bushi; it was perhaps the first recorded UFO investigation. I think I remember reading about it in one of Vallee's books? Passport to Magonia?

[@pugfugly1989]

Nuremberg 1561 is describing people frying their eyes while staring at a solar eclipse. I especially like the part where it gets descriptive about what it looks like when the rods and cones in your eyes literally explode and start to melt.

[@viciousyeen6644]

Now thats an explanation I never heard before!

[@Pfyzer]

Yea and people still look at a solar eclipse without protection

[@dameshamroc]

Hahahaha

[@cutekanjii]

What's the big black arrow like thing that then appeared afterwards then

[@pugfugly1989]

@@cutekanjii That' what you see when you burn away enough rods and cones in your eyes, it's blindness

[@robinsonsuarez6334]

Thanks for this. Not always easy to find these

[@Jean.Philippe.]

Please make one of Gil Pérez, the Spanish soldier in Filipinas that was teletransported right in the moment the Palace of the Captain General in Manila was being attacked by pirates and he suddendly appeared in the middle of Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor in 1593.

[@salsalero1277]

You tube channel, Yolo Camotes" has a great video about this incident.

[@Jean.Philippe.]

@@salsalero1277 I know but it would be good to have this amazing story covered in English too!

[@RogueReplicant]

@@Jean.Philippe. The English language translation of the original Spanish account is available on YT. The accounts of the Spanish clerks on both sides of the Pacific are consistent. The guy actually appeared in downtown Mexico City, right in the middle of the former Aztec plaza where "black magic" was performed.

[@taylorhubenthal17]

The Massachusetts 1639 account is quite fascinating how the beam of light changed into the shape of a pig and ran off down the river, using the power of shapeshifting to fool or confuse the onlooking men

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for sharing this that was very interesting.

[@bobbijokramm1976]

Thank u for this 💯

[@brunolerman2108]

Some english scholars have recently made a study about UFO sightings in the last 200 years or so. They found a pattern: the objects traits described by witnesses (shape, colors, size, movements) had a lot in common with how they were represented in media and popular culture by that time. Like the Roswell incident in 1947 was followed by many flying saucers sightings. Some years later they were shaped like cigars. Curious, ain´t it?

[@Pfyzer]

Sounds like missile tests

[@user-wr2cd1wy3b]

The old native Americans in the west heard word that there were strange floating fortresses out at sea, coming ashore. After the first of these were seen, it became more and more common to make these things up. The inhabitants were supposedly strange "men" with paler skin and bright white, orange or brown hair.

[@bigsarge2085]

Intriguing! Keep up the good work! And you've got a passable American accent.

[@livelearn5045]

Never heard or thought that before. Now I hope one day they do show us our past! Great comment x

[@NORTH02]

Rewatching this because of all the alien stuff coming out recently haha, excellent video!

[@Longshanks1690]

7:40 … Well that’s the most oddly specific explanation for that situation anyone at that time could possibly have come up with. I was half expecting it to end with the old man claiming he was the townsman and been looking for his lover for decades or something lol.

[@808bigisland]

Aloha, Re-translated the Nuremberg and Basel accounts. Oct 9th,22 we witnessed a battle between the dart and spherical drones. They stopped on top of an army base and then moved west and up. The dart was huge. Also seen the dart, cross, spheres and cylinders here on BI with many witnesses.

[@randyjohnson3412]

Subscribed. Love this channel.

[@germanicus1475]

I just love your voice lol. You bring life to the terror and bewilderment of those who wrote these eyewitness accounts. This is a comment on your channel in general

[@HumourDownUnder]

In 1909, New Zealand had similar sightings of 'airships'. Probably the same ones? An account of one such sighting: “It first came into our view from the east,” said the narrator,” and we thought it was a meteor or a falling star, but the light grew in brilliance. It moved about the hills above Kaitangata [177m, S46°15’, E169°54’] sometimes swooping down from a height of apparently 2000ft [610m] to about 1000ft [305m] and even lower. Then it would turn and make away towards the sea, or would dip completely out of sight behind the hills. It seemed to move with as much ease, and even grace, as a bird on the wing. The light carried was a strong and steady one, and whenever the ship, or whatever it was, turned, we thought we could see a dark, opaque body. Certainly we could see, without a doubt, the reflection of the light in the clouds. It was a white light with a reflector, just what would be used by an airship driven by an electric motor. When she was sideways on we thought we could see the reflection as of a black body above and below. It was a marvellously mystifying sight.

[@cid3384]

I was hoping to see the account of flying shields that followed Alexander the Great's army in 329 BC and supposedly dived down towards them during a river crossing.

[@jdshaman6448]

Look up the original Greek account. You will not find it since it never happened.

[@KageMinowara]

@@jdshaman6448 Do you have link to the original Greek account? I'd like to read it.

[@Mr.Obongo]

@@KageMinowara He doesn’t, JD is a troll that posts comments like this on any video ufo related.

[@cid3384]

@@jdshaman6448 Are you stating that you noticed a lack of record in the writings of Plutarch of the event or were you referring to the scribes of Eumenes? Did you read the Ephemerides in Greek and in which dialect was it written? If you read the translations from the 1930s, they are unorthodox, they were transliteration at times and summary at others, the only consistency seeming to be what Church and Academy would not scoff at.

[@jdshaman6448]

@@cid3384 i can read both Athenian and Boeotian Greek. i am expert in early Greek mathematical forms.

[@shaunyip2153]

Just when I thought this channel couldn't get more interesting.....😊

[@Brian-zo1ll]

This channel is a gem.

[@Canalbizarrof]

Oh man, your attempt at an American accent is so funny. Great video, as always

[@irishelk3]

I'm from Ireland. When i was around 7, back in about 98, myself and another boy, a neighbour, we're playing on our local green, when all of a sudden we looked up and there was a grey metallic disc flying slowly from west to east, broad daylight -- we screamed and ran home. I had absolutely no notion of ufos back then. Haven't really seen one since, but have experienced some paranormal moments in my home and in an ancient abbey up the road from me.

[@Kevin-rw4yw]

Where in Ireland 🇮🇪👀🤔?

[@irishelk3]

@@Kevin-rw4yw The Ufo, Swords, Dublin, the Abbey, county Louth, Mellifont Abbey, many ancient sites around there and energies, including our most famous national monument, Newgrange, magical area.

[@Kevin-rw4yw]

I've seen tic tacs n Ireland 🇮🇪👀😳

[@uncannyvalley2350]

One melted several mature trees at one place I lived, there was evidence of a massive downdraft but in a very confined area about 10 metres across. I asked the neighbor and without any clues he described a military jet taking off at 3am, but not being able to see anything. It was in a ravine and his house overlooked it, and was less than 100m from the scene, so he should've seem something. Pretty weird. Had another security guard tell me about lights that went under their dinghy in the bay, and a friend whose fisherman husband saw a craft land below his house and little people come out. Shit is whack yo

[@wattyler9806]

Ryan Air.

[@hondakubo9399]

This is so interesting 👌👽🚀🏹 Love ❤️ this channel so badly

[@jonnysith]

Wow thanks for this!

[@200131240]

The Nuremberg one kind of just sounds like what you'd see after staring at the sun too long

[@mormacfey]

It reminds me of a CME, ball lightning, etc. Normal atmospheric occurrences. They said balls came down burning the ground, but not crashing, colliding, impacting, etc.

[@nugsymalone1247]

Or, "somebody poisoned the water hole" lol

[@prince-solomon]

3:30 Good Guy Super Stardestroyer intervened in a battle between two alien invasion forces, who got into a dispute over who had rights to invade Earth, and terminated them all...protecting the Earthlings and their independence. Thank you Good Guy Super Stardestroyer!

[@andreas956]

Wow great video idea. Thanks.

[@5455jm]

Hey? Thank you, great presentation.

[@dougs7367]

The "Utsero Bune" craft reminded me of some sort of an escape pod.. maybe the lady was ejected from a larger vessel due to some tragedy or battle between alien vessels/UFOs The Nuremberg event, with its flying crosses (fighter planes?) battling one another and falling to the earth in flames sounded alot like a WW2 aerial battle witnessed from the ground. Maybe there was some sort of phenomena/time distortion that displayed a vision of a aerial conflict over 1940's Nuremberg.

[@creativeconsciousness7392]

The Nazis had a secret space program based on channelled information (research Maria Orsich, Vril society and Thule society) and one of the side effects of the torsion field craft they use is time travel. The red lensing effect around the sun does seem to indicate some kind of distortion between the observers and that light source.

[@francomarinetti4059]

@@creativeconsciousness7392 exactly

[@raclark2730]

@@creativeconsciousness7392 Time slip perhaps.

[@leoleboss9414]

The black spear could have been a V2 missile

[@kaikart123]

@@staywhite6332 there is no account for thunderous sound though

[@joandarc441]

I think I saw one back in 1412

[@Bornst3ll3r]

My buddy Eric saw one around then too

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

You too witnessed it? please tell not of it for the commoners may gather on it and ruin such a miracle

[@yaleyoon6856]

Hahahaha nice

[@PiggyFuktoy]

Cool about the 1896 event in Oakland. My first house was one built in 1885 in Central Oakland, then Brooklyn Township, later to become the first historic district in Oakland. So cool to imagine that my house and its residents at that time witnessed this

[@nickhancock4337]

The ancient peoples explenations of these things gave me a chuckle.

[@aleksander8497]

Fascinating. Ancient accounts are of particular interest if they were more unbiased than today.

[@prince-solomon]

" more unbiased than today." -> you're talking about reports from a time of extreme religious fundamentalism...sure, "unbiased"

[@aleksander8497]

You don't get it. UFO reports today are generally either excused away as anomalous occurrence or accepted by those wanting to believe in aliens. Ancient people believed in gods, but had no concept of aliens so less biased.

[@alanschlesinger2899]

Also, what makes any UFO reports from before the age of flight more interesting and intriguing is that they can't be explained away as "normal man made aircraft" seen at an odd angle as they often are today.

[@davidchurch3472]

Hitachi : a 'ko-ha-ko' sounds like the Welsh 'coracle', a round boat!

[@kurtbrendel6610]

I like imagining that the old man in the Japanese story was drunk or otherwise high on something strong when he provided that hilariously specific interpretation

[@christophertomasello1227]

Nicely done. The ending is particularly poignant. This is because it sets up SOP that we experience today.

[@davidevans3227]

earlier today i was literally wondering how come it's only in the last hundred years or so, alien sightings happen? thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x

[@pixelcount350]

Nope, There are more accounts dating back even earlier as well and in multiple different countries.

[@33Donner77]

Japanese story - it was common to set people adrift in earlier times, leaving their fates to the gods and Nature. Hundreds of babies were probably set adrift on the Nile, and one that was rescued was Moses.

[@utubeape]

LOL. You think the Royal house of Egypt who would have children with close relatives to preserve the bloodline would take in some random peasants baby?

[@uncannyvalley2350]

That story actually comes from the Epic of Gilgamesh, written before Egypt even existed, all the stories in the Bible are hand me downs and reboots of older myths, all based around astrology

[@33Donner77]

@@uncannyvalley2350 Perhaps, but what would people do without faith? From the prehistoric Nature figurines like the Venus de Willendorf, to Cromagnon burials, to the rise of a priest caste to keep village records of populations and harvests,, to explain what could not be explained, to respect humans more often than the local rulers, etc. In our electronic world, without religion would we become people like Bill Gates and Zuckerberg? (Gates grabbing the operating system from ignorant IBM employees, and copying the windows system of Steve Jobs. Zuckerberg grabbing the Facebook concept from the Winklevoss twins and paying them off with a relatively paltry settlement - and changing Facebook into a scourge of humankind.) Some form of meditation is needed, and it's not found in social media.

[@garygrinkevich6971]

I really appreciate getting weird with history =]

[@GalactusOG]

Fascinating!

[@jakedee4117]

I don't believe the Japanese one at all. Obviously if a member of a Starfleet pre-contact observation ship had a major malfunction and had to jettison into the Pacific ocean in a life-pod they would also have universal translation software on their laptop. So therefore false.

[@lawlerzwtf]

Clearly just some ancient or medieval weather balloons.

[@creativeconsciousness7392]

Swamp gas has been around since forever.

[@uningenieromas]

The one in Nuremberg is interesting. It is just like an air battle between aircrafts, modern aircrafts...

[@iainfenton4671]

From 4:00 to 4:20 with the voiceover description and music in the background it reminds me of Spaceship earth in EPCOT

[@jasoncarrillo430]

No one: . . . Some random kid on the street: gee whiz what's that 🤓