reply to post by Skyfloating
I thought you may have an interest in this as well.
Also in a book published in 1998 From Other Wolds it comes up with another case, that is also lesser known because of where the documents are kept
(The Nice city's archives). This is supposed to have happened in Nice or what was known as Nizza back in 1608.
From the book:
At around 8pm on Aug 5 1608 people of Nice saw 3 luminous shapes over the Baie des Anges, heading at high speed toward their city. Arriving in front
of the citadel which overlooked the harbor, the 3 objects suddenly stopped and began to man oeuvre slowly at about 1 meter over the water. The low
altitude and the slowness of their movement meant the watchers could examine the strange arrivals in detail. What they saw changed their curiosity
into anxiety.
The machines were of long oval shape, flattened and topped with a sort of mast. Hovering almost motionless, they caused the water beneath them to
seethe, giving off a dense orange yellow vapour accompanied by an infernal noise. From one of the machines a living being emerged, followed by a
second. They were approx human in appearance, dressed in a kind of red outfit with what seemed to be silvery scales. Their heads were huge, and now
luminous circular openings took the place of eyes. Holding two tubes attached to a kind of harness vertically in their arms, they plunged into the
water up to their hips and proceeded to move round their machine for a couple of hours. Then, toward 10pm, the two visitors got back into their
machines and with a formidable rumbling all 3 raced off toward the east, becoming in a few seconds three little luminous points in the starry sky.
For the people of Nizza, these portents could only be a warning from God. Terrified they processed through the streets carrying the figure of Jesus,
praying and imploring forgiveness for their sins, unitl the next day dawned with no further sign from their mysterious visitors.
But the visitors had not gone far. On Aug 22, they appeared further round the coast, at Genova. But the Genovese, who had heard what had happened at
Nizza, reacted more violently. From the citadel, a salvo of artillery fired volleys toward the 3 craft. They did not cause the slightest damage and
fired some 800 cannon balls at the crafts. They cased no distraction to them at all. However, it seems that the gunfire did discourage the occupants
for none emerged into the open on this occasion.
After about and hour, on of the machines left its companions and positioned itself over the town. The populace went into panic and many injuries
followed. Several deaths were reported. Some were trampleded by the crowds, others overcome by fear, but some also died as a result of radiations
emitted by the vessel. Then, after a while, the machine rejoined th others, and they took off toward the east at top speed.
Aug 25, a single vessel appeared above Martigues, a fishing village close to Nizza, and manoeuvrings overhead for an hour and a half. Two people got
out, similar in appearance to the two who had been seen at Nizza. They flew round their craft. It seemed to the watchers as though they were engaged
in a kind of airborne duel.
This was the last manifestation of the machines. But the following week there were abundant falls of colored rain in the area, a read rain like blood.
It was certainly taken to be blood by the locals, who saw it as a warning from God, as an unusual event was interpreted at the time. A more prosaic
explanation is that the local soil, rich in bauxite, has a red dust which may have been stirred up by the machines. For forty days churches were
packed with crowds begging to be spared whatever disaster the mysterious machines might portend.
These entries in the local archives, from which these accounts are taken, are couched in the language of the time.