10 Historic Paintings That Clearly Show UFOs - Listverse
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Many ancient wall paintings are said to show flying objects and visitors from outer space. But these images also appear in classic, commissioned pieces of

While the provided list is more of an example than anything, I have the impression there is countless historical records of possible sightings - From ancient descriptions of legendary flying fire chariots to paintings containing objects surprisingly similar to modern descriptions of UFO’s.

We know people describe unknown events with the best words they have. Modern examples can be when firescene investigations get testimonies that “The fire jumped from seat to seat”. Does fire even have legs to jump with? I would not be surprised if ancient stories about “wheels within wheels” or “Flying chariots of fire” could be describing events they simply didn’t have words for.

With all of the stories that could be interpreted as ancient stories of UFO’s, even if just a small percentage of the are real - It would mean the UFO phenomenon have interacted with earth for at least thousands of years.

What is your thoughts on this, anything to it? Do you have different estimates? Do you think the phenomena started in 1947? Is it all just a pop-cultural mediaindustrial hoax complex?

  • Spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.noOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s a great example. I’ve seen it before but forgot how detailed it was and how many saw it.

    There’s a surprisingly good chance that the whole aliens thing is a phantom in the human gestalt

    Absolutely. And it doesn’t even have to be a social phenomenon, I’m not dismissive of social engineering as cover ups for i.e. hyperadvanced but very human military technology.

    There’s a long line of explanations based mostly in the knowledge or superstition of the time, revised with every new bit of knowledge or commonly accepted superstition. My conclusions might very well be a product of this.

    I’d still argue there’s a difference in the approach of “modern” historians, investigators and the likes. Where we used to have a belief, confirmed by observable phenomenons, we (or at least more than before) now have a lack of belief with our worldview built upon observable phenomenons and verification through reproducibility.

    Yet we’re in the intersection between the differing worldviews; I think those who hold the possibility of extraterrestrial, intelligent origins for unknown phenomenons are closer to the truth than those who know it’s aliens.

    There’s still a lot of superstition in modern Ufology.