UFOs In Our History. Part 4. Correction.

[John Winston]

Subject: UFOs In Our History. Part 4. Jan. 27, 2012.

In this they mention Charles Fort.

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Gilgamesh
(Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, 5th king of the 1st Dynasty of Erech after
the Flood) presented Lugulbanda with the horns of the Bull of H-aven.
Around 3200 B.C. Menes was consolidating Upper and Lower Egypt, Sumer
was prospering, and then the Semitic peoples appeared on the scene with
Sargon (2550-2400 B.C.) conquering Erech (Uruk), Ur, E-Ninmar, Lagash, to
the mountains of Elam, Crete and uniting the area. Sargon, king of Agade,
vice regent of the g-ddess Ishtar, king of Kish, pashishu (a class of priest
who prepared and applied ointments) of the go- Anu, King of the Land,
great ishakku (chief priest) of the -od Enlil.

http://www.crystalinks.com/alexanderthegreat.htm
Alexander the Great had two UFO encounters that were recorded. During
his invasion of Asia in 329, while crossing a river, Alexander and his men
saw what was described as gleaming, silver shields in the sky. The
objects repeatedly swooped down at the soldiers, scattering men and horses
and creating quite a panic.
Seven years later, while attacking a Venetian city in the eastern
Mediterranean, observers on both sides of the conflict reported another
incredible event. Objects appeared in the sky. One of the objects
suddenly shot a beam of light at the city wall, crumbling it to dust. This
allowed Alexander's troops to easily take the city.

The following is a report taken from the North American Review,
3:320-322, 1816 - a report which the author E. Acharius was also taking
to the Royal Academy. The event took place over the village
Biskophsberga.

On the 16th of last May (1816), being a very warm day, and during a gale
of wind from south-west, a cloudless sky, at about 4 O'clock, p.m.,
the sun became dim, and lost his brightness to that degree, that he could
be looked at without inconvenience to the naked eye, (the sun) being
of a dark red, or almost bright color, without brilliancy.
At the same time there appeared at the western horizon, from where
the wind blew, to arise gradually, and in quick succession, a great number
of balls, or spherical bodies, to the naked eye of the size of the crown
of a hat, and of a dark brown color.
The nearer these bodies, which occupied a considerable though irregular
breadth of the visible heaven, approached towards the sun, the darker
they appeared, and in the vicinity of the sun, became entirely black.
At this elevation their course (speed) seemed to lessen, and a great
many of them remained, as it were, stationary; but they soon resumed their
former, and accelerated motion, and passed in the same direction with
great velocity and almost horizontally.
During this course some disappeared, others fell down, but the most
part of them continued their progress almost in a straight line, till they
were lost sight of at the eastern horizon.
The phenomenon lasted uninterruptedly, upwards of two hours, during
which time millions of similar bodies continually rose in the west, one
after another irregularly, and continued their career exactly in the same
manner (mentioned above).

No report, noise, nor any whistling or buzzing in the air was perceived.
As these bodies slackened their course on passing by the sun, several
were linked together, three, six, or eight of them in a line, joined like
chain-shot by a thin and straight bar; but on continuing again amore
rapid course (speed), they separated, and each having a tail after it,
apparently of three or four fathoms length, wider at its base where it
adhered to the ball, and gradually decreasing, till it terminated in a
fine point (tapered tails).
During the course, these tails which had the same black color as the
balls, disappeared by degrees.
The author goes on to state that some of the balls came to Earth near
one observer. As it neared the ground it lost its black color and became
hard to see until they reached the ground and again became more visible,
but this time as a ball of changing colors.
The people compared them to soap bubbles. These then disappeared
leaving a thin film: "....a scarcely perceptible film or pellicle, as thin
as a
cobwed, which (itself) was still changing colors, but soon dried up and
vanished.
Since this event took hours it was witnessed by all the people of the
village.

Strange Phenomenon at Orenburg
In late September 1824, people in Orenburg, Russia were puzzled when
they heard something clattering on the onion-shaped roof of the
Orthodox church. They soon discovered "little symmetrical pieces of
metal" falling from the clear blue sky. Months later, on January 25,
1825, the same phenomenon occurred again.
Samples of the material were gathered and sent to St. Petersburg (then
capital of Russia.)
In Oeuvres vol. 11, page 644, a scientist, M. Arago, noted that a chemical
analysis of the objects had showed them to be "70 percent red oxide of
iron, and sulphur, and loss (of mass) by ignition (combustion) 5 percent."
Amazingly the pieces of metal showed signs of having been manufactured.
The Orenburg "sky fall" attracted the attention of Prince Pavel Vasilyevich
Dolgorukii, the "librarian" of the mystic Brothers of the Inner Order.
This was an offshoot of the Lodge Harmonia, founded by Nikolai Novikov
in St. Petersburg in 1780. When Empress Catherine II suppressed the
M-sonic lodges of Russia in 1792 and jailed Novikov, Dolgorukii and two
brothers, Yuri and Nikita Troubezkoi, formed the Brothers of the Inner
Order.
They then set about collecting hundreds of books on alchemy, mysticism
and the paranormal, including works by the most notorious occultists of
the period.
The collection had a first edition Originalschriften des
Illuminatenordensekte by Adam Weishaupt and pamphlets by
Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and the ayatollah Shaikh Ahmed Ahsai.
After Dolgorukii's d-ath in 1838, the collection and perhaps a handful of
those mysterious Orenburg artifacts--passed into the possession of his
daughter, Mme. Nadyezhda de Fadeyev.
In 1846, about the time of the w-r between the USA and Mexico, Mme.
de Fadeyev's 15-year-old niece, Elena Petrovna von Hahn, spent the
summer reading all the mystical books in her deceased grandfather's
library.
Thirty years later, as the author/occultist
http://www.crystalinks.com/blavatsky.html
Helena Blavatsky, she hinted at the strange doings in Orenburg in
her book, The S-cret Doctrine...more than one Russian mystic
travelled to Tibet via the Ural Mountains in search of knowledge
and initiation in the unknown crypts of central Asia. And more than
one returned years later with a rich store of such information as
could never have been given him anywhere in Europe."
This trail, similar to the "Underground Railroad" for escaped b-ack
slaves in the early Nineteenth Century USA, led from St. Petersburg
and Moscow straight through Orenburg. The Dolgorukii collection
vanished sometime in the 1890s, after Mme. de Fadeyev's de-th.
Orenburg is located just south of the Ural Mountains 600 kilometers
(360 miles) east of Moscow. (See The Complete Book of Charles Fort,
Dover Publications Inc., New York, NY, 1974. The M-sters Revealed
by K. Paul Johnson, State University Press, Albany, NY, 1994, pages
19 to 22.)

Example of Earth Light
Bonnycastle, R. H.; American Journal of Science, 1837.
At a quarter past nine O'clock on Sunday night the eighth day of May,
in the present year (1837), my attention whilst regarding the heavens
was forcibly attracted to the sudden appearance due east of a shining
broad column of light.

At first, as my window overlooks the bay of Toronto and the low island
which separates it from the lake, I took this singular pillar of light
for the reflection from some steamboat on the clouds, but having
sought the open air on the gallery which commands a full view of the
bay and of Ontario.
I was convinced that the meteor was an effluence of the sky, as I
now saw it extend upwards from the eastern water horizon line to
the zenith, in a well defined, equal, broad column of white strong light,
resembling in some degree that of the aurora, but of a steady
brightness and unchanging body, whilst there were few or no clouds.
Ursa Major, then near the zenith, was situated with regard to this
column, at a quarter past nine as below, the column passing nearly
vertically between (z) and (H) [the author refers to the Greek letters
here].
There was no moon, as on that day it rose at 2h. 4m. consequently
it was dark, and the sky was not very cloudy the meteor was seen to
the greatest advantage as the night wore on.
It passed very slowly and bodily to the westward, continuing to
occupy the space from the horizon to the zenith, until the upper
part first faded slowly and then the whole gradually disappeared,
after it had reached nearly to due northeast.

A UFO Visits Ohio In 1858
Posted in The Ilustrated Silent Friend
Three years after the publication of Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass,
a mysterious miniature book appeared in the bookstalls of New York
City. Just large enough to fit in the palm, and easily hidden in a
gentleman's pocket or a ladys knitting bag, The Illustrated Silent
Friend, by William Earl, M.D., of 12 White Street, offered an
extraordinary variety of arcane information.

Part 4.

John Winston. joh...@mlode.com