List of Reported UFO Sightings - Classical Antiquity

Classical Antiquity

Date Name City, State Country Description Sources Hynek Scale
74 BC flame-like "pithoi" from the sky Phrygia Turkey According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when "all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies." Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithōi). The apparently silvery object was reported by both armies, wh 1
ca. 150 100 foot "beast" accompanied by a "maiden" Via Campana Italy On a sunny day near the Via Campana, a road connecting Rome and Capua, a single witness, probably Hermas the brother of Pope Pius I, saw "a 'beast' like a piece of pottery (ceramos) about 100 feet in size, multicolored on top and shooting out fiery rays, landed in a dust cloud, accompanied by a “maiden” clad in white. Vision 4.1-3. in The Shepherd of Hermas. 3
196 angel hair Rome Italy Historian Cassius Dio described "A fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus." He used some of the material to plate some of his bronze coins, but by the fourth day afterwards the silvery coating was gone. 2

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