Historical Testimonies...

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Objet: [ufonewswire] more historical observations of ufos[paul

Date: lundi 11 août 2003 00:03

In the Monthly Notices of the R. A. S., 11-48, there is a letter from the

Rev. W. Read:(1)

That, upon the 4th of September, 1851, at 9.30 a. m., he had seen a host of

self-luminous bodies, passing the field of his telescope, some slowly and some

rapidly. They appeared to occupy a zone several degrees in breadth. The

direction of most of them was due east to west, but some moved from north to south.

The numbers were tremendous. They were observed for six hours.

Henry Waldner (Nature, 5-304):(6) That, April 27, 1863, he had seen great

numbers of small, shining bodies passing from west to east. He had notified Dr.

Wolf, of the Observatory of Zurich, who "had convinced himself of this strange

phenomenon." Dr. Wolf had told him that similar bodies had been seen by Sig.

Capocci, of the Capodimonte Observatory, at Naples, May 11, 1845.

Hosts of small bodies -- black, this time -- that were seen by the

astronomers Herrick, Buys-Ballot, and De Cuppis, (L'Année Scientifique, 1860-25); vast

numbers of bodies that were seen by M. Lamey, to cross the moon (L'Année

Scientifique, 1874-62); another instance of dark ones; prodigious number of dark,

spherical bodies reported by Messier, June 17, 1777 (Arago's Oeuvres, 9-38);

considerable number of luminous bodies which appeared to move out from the sun,

in diverse directions; seen at Havana, during eclipse of the sun, May 15, 1836,

by Prof. Auber (Poey); M. Poey cites a similar instance, of Aug. 3, 1886; M.

Lotard's opinion that they were birds (L'Astronomie, 1886-391); large number

of small bodies crossing disk of the sun, some swiftly, some slowly; most of

them globular, but some seemingly triangular, and some were of more complicated

structure; seen by M. Trouvelet, who, whether seeds, insects, birds, or other

commonplace things, had never seen anything resembling these forms (L'Année

Scientifique, 1885-8); report from the Rio de Janeiro Observatory, of vast

numbers of bodies crossing the sun, some of them luminous and some of them dark,

from some time in December, 1875, until Jan. 22, 1876 (La Nature, 1876-384

Nature, 22-64:(10) That, at Kattenau, Germany, about half an hour before

sunrise, March 22, 1880, "an enormous number of luminous bodies rose from the

horizon, and passed in a horizontal direction from east to west." They are

described as having appeared in a zone or belt. "They shone with a remarkably

brilliant light."

acceptability of these data: In the London Times, Jan. 10, 1860, is Benjamin

Scott's account of his observation:(31) That, in the summer of 1847, he had

seen a body that had seemed to be the size of Venus, crossing the sun. He says

that, hardly believing the evidence of his sense of sight, he had looked for

someone, whose hopes or ambitions would not make him so subject to illusion. He

had told his little son, aged five years, to look through the telescope. The

child had exclaimed that he had seen "a little balloon" crossing the sun. Scott

says that he had not had sufficient self-reliance to make public announcement

of his remarkable observation at the time, but that, in the evening of the

same day, he had told Dr. Dick, F. R. A. S., who had cited other instances. In

the Times, Jan. 12, 1860, is published a letter from Richard Abbott, F. R. A.

S.: that he remembered Mr. Scott's letter to him upon this observation, at the

time of the occurrence