What Did Medieval People Think of UFOs & Alien Life?

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

You could almost say that Medieval sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena are even more interesting than modern ones because the people of the time were unencumbered by the assumptions and baggage of modern times, interpreting them within the rather different knowledge base of the age.

[@dxer22000]

although they did have the baggage of religion

[@markschuler1511]

​@@dxer22000 BINGO! I think people as a general rule would keep such experiences to themselves for fear of being accused of consorting with demons...which would be a very real possibility.

[@brianSalem541]

People with unusual haircuts claim Ancient Aliens explain all such mysteries.

[@CountGrishnakh]

🔧​@@brianSalem541💀😂😭

[@PixelPhobiac]

So /everything/ was mysterious to them, also natural phenomenon

[@luenaiya]

This channel deserves way more views. It’s first class.

[@lochlanmuir2291]

First class is rare. The more views, the more common

[@alkohallick2901]

Is it?

[@bretfisher7286]

The sight of imagery suggestive of unearthly flying vehicles in medieval art has always fascinated me very much! Very much. There's no way I can know exactly what's being depicted, but obviously something very peculiar was seen.

[@Derpy1969]

This is debunked as just portrayals of the sun and moon. See the 4hr History Channel Ancient Aliens Debunked video. It will open your mind to how fabricated the claims of ancient Aliens are. We’re not saying it’s aliens. It’s just lies.

[@peterloohunt]

Or was IMAGINED.

[@OdeInWessex]

@@peterloohunt Amazing how people across the world and from different cultures imagine the same thing over and over again isn't it?

[@letsgobrandon416]

Some of the more iconic "UFO" depictions are simply us not understanding iconography of the time. There are exceptions, like the wood inlay of the commotion in the sky over Germany, but many of the "crafts" are iconographic depictions that would have been understood at the time as a symbolic representation and not a depiction of some flying unknown entity.

[@bretfisher7286]

@@letsgobrandon416 And how would you know that?

[@pipe2devnull]

Sister Scully: What day you Brother Mulder? Brother Mulder: I want to believe.

[@gavinc74]

As someone interested in UFO's and medieval times, really enjoyed this 👍

[@erikm8372]

That medieval Japanese drawing of a saucer is pretty ahead of its time…that’s interesting.

[@Robespierre-lI]

It's a fairly basic geometric shape

[@nicechock]

They are not saucers lol. Aliens dont exists. All ancient people made drawings of angels and the chariots of angels.

[@3Dirae]

@@nicechockyou think in the entire universe there is only life on earth? Lmao get a grip

[@Bingo_the_Pug]

@@nicechock On the contrary, the ancients seen UFO’s & thought they were angels from Heaven

[@da_partner]

I assume you’re referring to the Illustration at 6:20, which actually is a depiction of the “Utsuro-bune,” a hollow object that washed ashore in 1803 carrying a woman who couldn’t speak Japanese. Some ufologists interpret the craft as a UFO (of course)-but it was by no means a “flying saucer.”

[@FFTT]

Idea for next video: What did Medieval folks think of nuclear fission?

[@Emmaem111]

💀

[@MrToastOmnomnom]

They thought it healed you unironically and when people died from cancer and stuff they thought they weren't using enough so they used more. The founders died of cancer and skin rot.

[@PeachysMom]

ILY

[@bretfisher7286]

Yes, yes! And-- what did medieval people think of cappuccino? Of Velcro? Of French Bulldogs?

[@bretfisher7286]

😂

[@ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg]

When people see something they don't understand, they describe something they do understand. We still cannot be sure what the shields, wheels, crosses or chariots really were.

[@LamiNalchor]

Well, we can.

[@thelunn]

Litterally have ancient relics to look at in museums.

[@JZsBFF]

Such are the limits of language. Cheer up. Nowadays everyone has a camera within reach and I'm still waiting for a selfie with a LGM. So it's fair to assume that those medieval phenomenon were natural.

[@LamiNalchor]

@@JZsBFF Although, the image is false and many elements of 'AncientAliens' had been debunked plenty of times.

[@brianSalem541]

According to the History Channel, anything we can't explain must be related to Ancient Aliens. Case closed.

[@Italianjedi7]

You should do a video on Medieval futurism

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

Seconded, what ancient people thought the future would be like is a super interesting topic.

[@LiesandPolitics]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t really have any futurist ideas, futurism itself comes from a worldview based on progress and human potential, two ideas that weren’t prevalent until after the enlightenment

[@Italianjedi7]

@@LiesandPolitics True but the concepts of people flying, immortality, instant travel and talking with our minds are dreams that humans have always wanted.

[@willlastnameguy8329]

I just realized aliens might have literal video of people doing their things in the middle ages. How amazing would it be to see that video?

[@sylviaburns2995]

Middle ages had no such technology of , "video", albeit perhaps the alien might have, allegedly...

[@willlastnameguy8329]

@@sylviaburns2995 That's what I meant. The aliens might have recorded things. If they were there.

[@jnolasco24]

They might have recordings for all of human history. That would be a wild comp.

[@jotcw81]

Look into near death experiences and learn that everything is "recorded".

[@seantlewis376]

We'll have to ask them when they make official contact.

[@gustavjohansson8562]

What a pleasant surprise to see you uploaded earlier this week!

[@christopherwilson3242]

A really great episode. love the paintings and images.Really well done.

[@mattsavage9960]

Great video and important subject and information. Especially for those people who think this is just a modern day phenomenon. Even the ancient romans over 2,000 years ago were talking about flying shields that were so bright they believed these flying shields were on fire.

[@dudinjka]

Tumbnail is the fresco from Dečani, Serbian medieval monastery. It still stands, and the fresco is beautiful and in fairly good condition(and thumbnail is one of two "spaceships" on it)

[@tihoprskalo7719]

Average alien nerd. 🇧🇦🖖🏼

[@tristanburgos1]

Love your channel! Would love to see more content focused on Middle Age warfare if you get the chance. Maybe videos detailing specific battles or even just talking about the strategies that were used in war at the time💯

[@kerrross]

"A bizarre incident in Perthshire was reported in the Annual Register of 1767. It described a pyramid-shaped object over the River Ericht that moved "with great speed and disappeared a little above Blairgowrie", leaving a trail of destruction that included a partly destroyed house and bridge". This incident was quoted in an article published in the Greenock Telegraph on 9th August 2020 entitled "UFO Special: The seven strangest unexplained sightings in Scotland's skies".

[@richardmartin8998]

Typical. Probably some Stormtroopers had a few too many, took a Star Destroyer for a joyride and then realised that the local admiral will be super angry if it isn't back by morning.

[@FLAGMACHINE11]

​@@richardmartin8998Impossible, stormtroopers FAR predate the 1700's

[@richardmartin8998]

@@FLAGMACHINE11 that depends on your definition of "a long time ago"

[@iamtherealElite]

@@richardmartin8998yeah he’s still mad about that

[@Thearbiter96]

I try my best to keep an open mind about things in general, specifically this context, as well. Even considering my own internalizations and beliefs. But, being the very creative person I am in many ways, I love coming across content like this and learning historical views on bizarre and/or mythological topics because, my creativity is always ignited snd energized😇

[@ryanvilladsen727]

They had no clue it was just top secret American military aircrafts

[@villevuorinen6642]

Or weather balloons to be precise.

[@NemesisOgreKing]

@@villevuorinen6642 The light of Venus reflected off of swamp gas.

[@alkohallick2901]

Shut up.

[@nuclearfetusdismemberment9227]

I said chinese but why not.

[@jeffaltier5582]

Of all the ancient astronaut "evidence" out there, I find the medieval paintings to be the most interesting. Many are symbols, but there are a few that are flat out intriguing about whether something was really seen or not.

[@NCWildHeART]

There’s been lots of talk of soldiers seeing them during the GWOT too. It’s interesting they appeared to armies in the past too. “What are they up to now?” They must say to themselves as they look on so much death and destruction. Interestingly too Roswell was shortly after the atom bomb was dropped.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

Village Peasant1: Strange lights came over our pasture today! Village Peasant2: What did they want? Village Peasant1: Our cows apparently, they took them. Village Peasant2: I guess we'll just die, if not from starvation than from our lords who owned those beeves.

[@Daniel-jk7pe]

Ive become obsessed with all things ufo/extraterrestrial recently i love when it and history intersect

[@jordanbell4736]

8:39 "that look nothing like the clouds they have been claimed to be". If I wasn't watching a video on UAP, it wouldn't occur to me that those are anything but clouds. To me, they still look like clouds even in this context. The painting has a page on Italian Wikipedia, "Fondazione di Santa Maria Maggiore". it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondazione_di_Santa_Maria_Maggiore

[@BlueSkyCountry]

All right, that medieval painting showed a pretty accurate depiction of a one man orbital landing capsule like the ones in the novel version of Starship Troopers. Single use. No propulsion for relaunch so the astronaut will have to wait for a shuttlecraft to pick them back up.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

Wish youtube existed back then and recordings. Be great to see them

[@jbills3000]

I love subjects like these! UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation is ancient times! 👽

[@FLAGMACHINE11]

Modern day: 'That wasn't a UFO, it was probably swamp gas.' Middle ages: 'Forsooth I say, it is not a silver disc, or burning wheel. It was just god.'

[@tricivenola8164]

Have always thought life on other planets made sense. Can't believe we still don't know for sure.

[@briangibson2990]

The government's probably do

[@alexritchie4586]

Curiously, Gervase of Canterbury also recorded the now infamous incident in which a group of monks likely saw the Moon stuck by a large meteor, one of the very few times in human history when such a thing has been observed.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

You do realise "infamous " means "famous for the wrong reasons" ?

[@alexritchie4586]

@@captainsensiblejr. Nobody likes a pedant.

[@idiotnextdoor-izyferreel191]

Wonderfull young fella grate info and grate od cast. Keep up the good work. You’re buddy from Calgary Alberta Canada.😎😎

[@reinhardtnilsson7360]

Fantastic video!

[@DavidGrush]

The Nuremberg incident

[@JZsBFF]

Those Friday hangovers must have been hell!

[@jammerman28]

Very insightful video! Thanks for posting

[@sonfrieza]

Love the medieval Xbox logo at 9:25

[@violetlight1548]

It sounds like James IV might have encountered ball lightning. Probably a good thing he didn't touch it.

[@zombiebullshark3834]

I must be a bug because how could you not touch it

[@nicechock]

Oh yea because there is so much proof for that.

[@violetlight1548]

@@nicechock it's more likely than a UFO the size of a basketball

[@SlingerMarshall]

@@nicechock there's tons of video proof of ball lightning. I managed to catch it on one of our security cameras at work a few years ago..

[@FLAGMACHINE11]

​@@violetlight1548 Really? We know life exists, not ball lightning.

[@AndyReznov]

Hi mate awesome video I enjoy watching these first thing in the morning over a cuppa. Can I ask what the closing song was?

[@bacca_boi_2176]

It’s very interesting how many of the descriptions are similar from different cultures and times

[@loricarter2394]

At the beginning of 5:22, why did I think that the horse was wielding a weapon….?!?!?

[@kdvine91]

That was so informative and fascinating! Thanks for sharing ☺️

[@Xander_Zimmermann]

4:45 Those long cylindrical UFOs could be the same as the 'Tic Tac' UFOs spotted by the USS Nimitz in 2004.

[@pattyl3090]

Bonus on a Thursday. Ty

[@janerkenbrack3373]

The thing about unidentified Arial Phenomenon is that it is unidentified. This means that claiming they were ET is simply asserting personal belief to fill a hole in your knowledge.

[@susannahdyro9518]

Great seeing your channel going through a bad case of 🤧😷 flu you make it so much better thank you 😊

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

Do what?

[@seinfan9]

For those wondering, the thumbnail is not a depiction of someone in a spaceship. The moon and sun were regularly personified in art, and they were usually both present whenever a deity was present in the artwork to show that he had command of the known universe.

[@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd]

Aaaaaand that explains the random people inside of them how?? Your guess is a guess. What I’m most blown away with are these very detailed records of lights in the sky and orbs in the same crap people see today. That is very mind blowing for a thousand years ago.

[@three-stripes]

​@@MatiasGeraldoThe2ndHe's correct. This isn't a "one off" painting. There are numerous representations of the sun and moon like this in drawings and paintings of this period. Hundreds. 😂

[@jvharbin8337]

Good video bro 💯

[@infinitejest441]

Bruh

[@stevoplex]

I think they are all UFOs. Not aliens or angels or spirits. Just UFOs. (Except for the comet).

[@nicechock]

Wtf is an ufo? Its Hollywood scifi. Literally all ancient texts tell us they are chariot of angels. That is what they painted. We have zero proof of any ufos existing outside the scare nonsense fairytales media feeds us with help of go vs.

[@RainLightSeer]

Except for the comet, which was an alien, an angel and a spirit all in one 😅

[@sylviaburns2995]

UFO do not build themselves...

[@JZsBFF]

What do you mean by UFO? The term 'UFO' has become so vulgarized and associated with "alien spacecraft" that the Pentagon had to invent a new term: UAP, referring to all that's up/out there and not understood.

[@mw9297]

Angels and demons, monster, sprints, djinns, fairies, are cosmic beings

[@mirandadepriest9095]

The next video should be a poll video. Walk through the village interviewing people. I bet it will be surprising how many people don't know who the king is.

[@justmenotyou3151]

Good video.

[@bvierville1]

Good stuff

[@dalemoss4684]

There was also the "mowing devil" making crop circles; i recall a woodcut of it. And reports of sheep and cattle mutilations were often blamed on witchcraft

[@Chris-xd7iz]

Some years ago on a quiet summers Friday afternoon while at work alone I witnessed a large multicoloured dragonfly-like insect/object flying soundless through the open roller doors. It guided slowly and steadily with large translucent dragonfly wings the size of large bird wings. Its thorax was 4”-5” (100mm-125mm) diameter by 10”-12” (250mm-300mm) in length. It’s multicoloured thorax was a mix of orange, green and brown hues. After gliding in slowly for 20-30 seconds, it paused, as if to quickly check its surroundings, then it turn around and slowly flew out and disappeared into the sunshine. It was a shocking but surreal experience. I doubt it was an extraterrestrial UFO, but rather an inter-dimensional visitor, or perhaps a prehistoric out-of-time anomaly that momentarily crossed time itself from millions of years earlier. Personally, I’ve always strongly felt it was the latter.

[@WhoIsCalli]

Cool vid

[@PeterParker-kd9vs]

The first one just sounds like someone was playing a strategy video game and purchased 2 shields to protect the fort. Is this evidence that we are in a simulation?

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you.

[@tomdarco2223]

Right On nice video

[@TheRattyBiker]

BTW... UAP stands for _"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon"_ as they have been seen entering / travelling under water - not _"Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon"_ ....

[@tinygrim]

Thank you 👍😊

[@vampsith]

Oh hell yeah!! 👽👽👽

[@evolutionaryfield4091]

I can’t find anything about James IV of Scotland and a ufo, did you make it up?

[@billoak96]

Love this

[@TheBourbonWrench]

So, what are the other explanations for these sightings/lights/whatever? It’s easy in the modern day to blame a military craft or whatever, but wtf are we blaming it on back in the day? I’m genuinely curious, it’s crazy there’s this ancient texts about this stuff.

[@gwynn2528]

Its weird having been a new parent and seeing your baby do a crazy growth spurt, mentally or physically, from the time you put them to bed to the time you pick them up. Yeah, I get why they used to think babies were replaced by the fay in the night. Its bananas.

[@SC-tl3px]

Mediaeval times and UFOs, my two favourite subjects!❤

[@brianbernstein9761]

Correction: Halley's Comet arrived in April of 1066--months before the Battle of Hastings, not the night before. You are correct that it was interpreted as a bad omen that year, though.

[@LuDux]

There's an interesting documentary "High Crusades" that documents contact of medieval sommunity and aliens

[@SpamMouse]

Where can this be found?

[@LuDux]

@@SpamMouse OK I fess up, there's no such documentary. But there is book and movie more or less based on it, both can be found on youtube

[@DrGreenThumbNZL]

That picture looks just like the one turning sideways from that f18 footage

[@TL4546b]

I’ve actually been creating a videogame franchise with this similar concept. It’s set in modern times, but a more advanced and space age intergalactic (think the kind of setup in Star Trek or war hammer) because humans have always had contact with aliens, because in this universe there are completely new periodic table emergents, and one can (through use of wormholes) travel to alien planets. In the 1850s humans began harnessing it in spaceships to travel the galaxy, and mining it on celestial bodies (as it doesn’t really appear on Earth). However, in the franchise, every once in a generation or two, before the age of space travel, the element would be found on Earth, just frequently enough for people to know and have minor contact with the aliens and know they exist. Also humans are the dominant race because they were the first to invent wormhole spaceships. Also the moon landing happened while napoleon was still in power.

[@58singleman]

In the Old Testament of the Bible a UFO is described in the 1st chapter of Ezekiel. In some of the older versions of the Bible It was a great lighted wheel in the sky. Newer versions of the Bible play down the "lighted wheel" in the sky part. All do seem to report that the wheel landed near Ezekiel and some members of the crew exited and were described by Ezekiel.

[@VYBEKAT]

Once i saw multiple orbs moving in perfect unison changing directions instantly with no apparent inertia. Dont know how to explain it

[@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd]

This was very well done and very, very interesting. Thank you! These people were insane! But I definitely doubt that all of these stories are completely pulled out of their ass. Wild stuff.

[@JY-vh3be]

🖖

[@salmanmosharraf5847]

8:05 that is clearly sputnik being chased by apollo

[@LamiNalchor]

These illustrations often picked up in 'Ancient Aliens' do not ever depict aliens. The explanations can easily be found even in reliable KZbin videos.

[@hongpingmike]

can you research what happened to ther other 2 necronomicons after Ash got the one he needed.

[@Bambisgf77]

10:05 what happened to those babies?!? 😮

[@judithkhamblin8827]

Yes people describe what they see in the language and experiences of the time in which they live Interesting how many medieval paintings have “crafts” in the sky .....

[@LuDux]

8:30 Nimbo cumulos! ayayayayayay

[@nedkent5239]

Watch Bill & Ted’s Excellent Journey

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

Of course, something else to keep in mind…people had been dreaming of flying since…well, people existed…some of these may be representative of what people from the future might do, or angels might do, or imagined “superior” creatures might do…not that they are depicted as something they actually saw, but rather a symbolic way of showing a knowledgeable audience that these individuals in the picture are meant to be perhaps a special class of angels or people from the future, maybe their descendants or aspects of God…remember, medieval art wasn’t intended to be realistic as later art styles were…pre-renaissance…so, more about telling biblical stories…we discussed this in art history class in uni…they didn’t paint with visual perspective either

[@wordytoed9887]

What do *I* think of UFOs and Aliens?

[@bretfisher7286]

I don't know! What *do* you think of UFO's and aliens? 😂

[@matthewjohnson53]

​@@bretfisher7286 priceless

[@JZsBFF]

Do we want to know what you think of UFOs and aliens?

[@trevorgwelch7412]

" Goobly Goblins" 👽👽👽👽👽👽

[@Daniel-jk7pe]

So..what was the result of thr speech experiment?

[@onepcwhiz6847]

What happened to the babies?

[@JZsBFF]

The experiment failed and they roasted them, allegedly.

[@OliverMarron-m5n]

Interesting.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Next: Anglo-saxons and Quantum Physics

[@CrankyB1tsch]

"it's all hunger" - my grandpa, born in 1921

[@dxer22000]

i wasn't gonna say it was aliens......but it was aliens 🙃

[@JZsBFF]

Classic.

[@johncliffalvarez6513]

(9:04) Who…?

[@themetapod]

XD

[@martinphilip8998]

Some of the apparitions in Japan sound like the Northern Lights.

[@BriarRouge]

I’m terrified of UFOs and aliens so I really dislike this information. 😰

[@JZsBFF]

If an inhabitant of this planet has to worry about something then surely "invading aliens" ranks pretty low on that list.

[@benistingray6097]

There is really nothing to worry about, their here for thousends of years and are more or less just watching, if they wanted to do something they already would have. And if youre able to fly that easily through space, stuff like energy or ressources are definitly of no concern for them.

[@GrooveSpaceArk]

Did they like xbox or playstation?

[@Trismegistosquintoimperio]

Amazing how a medieval man confused meteorological balloons with supernatural signs. Simpler times indeed.

[@M167A1]

Medieval folks were no different from you and I. to your descendants. The idea of aliens will seem just as interesting as angels and demons do to us.

[@dasdabeatjunkie]

Sounds like alot of weather related incidences

[@tinahale9252]

A burning wheel. Hmmm this describes an angelic that is like a gyroscope and eyes everywhere

[@AltairEgo1]

So, if I'm to understand this, this celestial battle was actually some alien war over the earth's surface?

[@friendofvinnie]

Medieval madness 😂 that's being polite about it 😁

[@NoahNobody]

8:00 those are the sun and moon.

[@billbright1755]

What manner of sorcery might this be?

[@lightningspirit2166]

I think such a violent poor ridden stressfull time would have triggered any ones psychosis and ptsd....😅