Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs, UFOs, The Phenomenon)

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What are your thoughts on possible historical depictions of UFOs/UAP like "10 Historic Paintings That Clearly Show UFOs"? (listverse.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.no to c/uap@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You have to remember ancient people had about .000001% of a modern human's general knowledge and visual references when describing their experiences. Also there was no eye doctor so by adulthood a lot of people had untreated visual issues. Look at how ancient descriptions of manatees somehow became beautiful women with fins. Read descriptions of elephants by Romans seeing them for the first time thinking they were stone monsters. And that's all assuming people are sober and in reasonably good mental health.

Ancient accounts of 'UFOs' are no different than ancient accounts of angels or demons. There's reasonable evidence that they are descriptions of known phenomenon and zero evidence that they are paranormal.