Very good find, Timoothy. You know, I've actually wondered myself if the first people to mention "Saucer" actually meant ... flying saucer.

I think that even if they didn't really mean a saucer shaped ship, we now see that there are several sightings and photographs of silvery metallic discs that seem to just zoom in and out across the sky. So maybe they didn't really meant "flying saucers" in a literal sense, but it really doesn't matter now, does it? We know now that there ARE such crafts that resemble saucers.

In fact, if you read the Magonia database (assuming it's valid and correct) and the many recorded sightings throughout the centuries ... you can see that "UFOs" (and I use the term literally, as in, Unidentified Flying Objects) have been called MANY things. From plates to flying shields, to wheels and frisbees! (Ok, maybe not frisbees, )

History has many interesting events, read up some and you'll know what I'm talking about.

So my point is that extraterrestrial or not, objects that couldn't be possibly identified throughout history have been called MANY things

Be Well.

[edit on 18-9-2005 by Zeta_101]

[edit on 18-9-2005 by Zeta_101]