Wonders in the Sky (67 page)

Fig. 34: Moscow phenomenon

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10 August 1809, London, Hatton Garden, England
Aerial ballet of dazzling lights

John Staveley reports he saw many objects moving around a black cloud: “They were like dazzling specks of light, dancing and traipsing thro' the clouds. One increased in size until it became of the brilliance and magnitude of Venus on a clear evening. But I could see no body in the light. It moved with great rapidity, and coasted the edge of the cloud. Then it became stationary, dimmed its splendor, and vanished. I saw these strange lights for minutes, not seconds. For at least an hour, these lights, so strange, and in innumerable points, played in and out of this black cloud. No lightning came from the clouds where these lights were playing. As the meteors increased in size, they seemed to descend.”

 

Source:
The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1809
2 (1811): 508.

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August 1810, Meklong, Thailand: Silver entity

A missionary and physician, Dr. Jacob Hazlitt, reported that he saw a man in silver clothing on a road outside Meklong. He described the skin of this humanoid as ‘gleaming' and added that the entity had only one eye.

According to writer Ahmad Jamaludin, there are abduction cases in Malaysia and Indonesia where the entities involved are thought to have stepped out of a coexisting world. The abductees themselves claim that they were taken to a different world “on the other side of our reality.” They were not subjected to medical examinations. No messages were given and the motive behind the abduction was never known.

When they returned home, the witnesses are said to have suffered the same side-effects as a typical UFO abductee, including temporary amnesia, extreme thirst, tiredness and emotional upset. The locals called these beings the
Bunian People
, but where the word ‘
Bunian
' comes from is unclear. They were said to dress in a similar way to the local people.

 

Source: Ahmad Jamaludin,
Alien Encounters
, No. 17, October 1997. Unfortunately the story is given without a precise original reference.

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September 1810, Thailand
Abduction by one-eyed humanoid

A woman claimed she was awakened by an unknown force one night and was surprised to hear that the surrounding area was devoid of animal sounds. Something was not right: Looking out the window, the lady beheld a strange humanoid in her back yard. She claimed that the being only had one eye and was dressed in a suit that seemed to be made out of metal. The episode ended with the woman claiming to have been abducted to a ‘palace of lights'.

 

Source: Ahmad Jamaludin,
Alien Encounters
, No. 17, October 1997.

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19 September 1810, Brezeau, Holland
Strange globe absorbs water

A remarkable incident occurred in the Dutch village of Brezeau. The 36th volume of the
Philosophical Magazine
reported that between 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M., “a luminous meteor appeared to the south, and about the distance of a quarter of a league from the small commune of Brezeau: persons who attentively examined it assert that it was nearly a quarter of an hour in collecting, floating over the place where it was first seen; and that when all its parts had united, it appeared all at once as a very considerable globe of fire, taking a northerly direction.”

The phenomenon “spread terror among the inhabitants of the village, who believed their houses would be burnt, and they themselves perish.” It was followed by thick fog. Curiously, “in crossing a river it absorbed water, of which some afterwards fell as rain.”

It is difficult to imagine a natural phenomenon with these characteristics. Its duration is also an anomaly, as it lasted forty-five minutes before turning into a column of fire and rising towards the sky.

 

Source: “Meteor seen in Holland”,
The Philosophical Magazine
36 (1810): 395-396.

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20 March 1812, near Manosque, France
Four entities inside lights

On the road from Villeneuve to Manosque, seven travelers in the coach to Digne were scared when they observed a luminous ball that hovered over the path close to the coach. The object split into four lights. Four human figures were seen, enclosed inside the objects, which looked like lanterns. Terrified, the travelers chose to stop at the inn of
Quatre Tours
rather than going all the way to Manosque.

 

Source: Louis-Joseph-Marie Robert,
Notice historique sur le tremblement de terre du village de Beaumont, département de Vaucluse, et examen des causes qui ont pu déterminer dans un pays non volcanique, 128 secousses successives dans 75 jours…,
(Aix: Augustin Pontier, 1812), 10.

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