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Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Notice who is looking out of the porthole. In this case, it appears that humans are the aliens.
Originally posted by ListenD
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
Notice who is looking out of the porthole. In this case, it appears that humans are the aliens.
Good catch. I've been researching the Philidelphia Experiment/Montauk Project lately and I've been running across info that suggests some ufo activity may actually be the product of future/past human time travel.
Originally posted by Irma
Notice the story name bottom right?
I think that's supposed to be a diving bell under the sea having some unwanted octopus attention.
Without reading it though, I could be wrong.
Originally posted by Mystic Technician
The Book of the Damned was published in 1919 ,
in it was a good section of UFO sightings.
Fort suspected that sightings of craftlike objects in the air indicated extraterrestrial visits to the Earth.
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
In fact, flying saucers featured in early 20th century pulp and science fiction were, more often than not, human vehicles.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Interesting Observation. Seems to be true. As if they had more confidence in humanity back in those days.
"Reports of UFOs were recorded in newspapers of the 19th century, among the most famous was written in the St. Louis Democrat, Oct. 19, 1865. That article appeared two weeks later in The Cincinnati Commercial, bringing more public awareness to UFOs. The account was of an old Montana fir trapper by the name of James Lumley who saw a..." source
Originally posted by jclmavg
In interviews after the incident Arnold consistently described the shape as saucer or disc-like.
These objects more or less fluttered like they were, oh, I'd say, boats on very rough water or very rough air of some type, and when I described how they flew, I said that they flew like they take a saucer and throw it across the water. Most of the newspapers misunderstood and misquoted that too. They said that I said that they were saucer-like; I said that they flew in a saucer-like fashion.
The picture you posted comes from Arnold's book many years later, and at that point Arnold claimed that only the leading object had a crescent shape. The others did not.
Originally posted by TravisT
Those are some cool looking covers. It would be cool to get a blowup of some of those, and put it in a nice frame. They would look good on my walls.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
I've got a couple here...
Originally posted by JustJoe
Well from my understanding, the Vedic writings dated to approx. 8000 years ago calls them Vimanas.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
(I see discs were more prevalent than I thought. Planes and Zeppelins/Blimps I can understand - but Discs?)
A Texan farmer, John Martin, used the term "saucer" 69 years earlier to describe the flying object he saw on a hunting expedition in the surroundings of Denison, Texas, on January 2, 1878