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people have been seeing orbs and disk shaped objects in the sky since the beginnings of recorded history.
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List of reported UFO sightings - Wikipedia
| ca. 1440 BCE | Fiery disks | Lower Egypt | Ancient Egypt | According to the disputed Tulli Papyrus, the scribes of the pharaoh Thutmose III reported that "fiery disks" were encountered floating over the skies. The Condon Committee disputed the legitimacy of the Tulli Papyrus stating, "Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake."[1] | [2][3] |
Classical antiquity
| Date | Name | City, State | Country | Description | Sources |
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| 218 BCE | ships in the sky | Rome, Italia | Roman Republic | Livy records a number of portents in the winter of this year, including navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse ("phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky"). | Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri[4][5] |
| 76 BCE | spark from a falling star | unknown | Roman Republic | According to Pliny the Elder, a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended back up to the heavens and was transformed into a light. | [6][5] |
| 74 BCE | flame-like pithoi from the sky | Phrygia, Asia | Roman Republic | According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when "all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies. In shape, it was most like a wine-jar, and in colour, like molten silver." Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos). The apparently silvery object was reported by both armies. | [7][5] |
| 196 CE | angel hair | Rome | Roman Empire | Historian Cassius Dio described "A fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus." He used some of the material to plate some of his bronze coins, but by the fourth day afterwards the silvery coating was gone. |
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