1810 – 1824: UFO & Alien Sightings

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Date: August 1810
Location. Amherst, Massachusetts
Time: unknown
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported (Webster, N).
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980

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Date: August 1810
Location. Outside Meklong, Thailand
Time: unknown
Summary: On a road outside the city Dr Jacob Hazlitt, a missionary, reported that he saw a man dressed in silver clothing. He described the skin of the humanoid as “gleaming” and that the entity had only one eye.
Source: Ahmad Jamaluddin

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Date: September 1810
Location. Meklong Thailand
Time: night
Summary: Awoken by an unknown force one night, a local Siamese woman was surprised to hear that the surrounding area was devoid of the usual animal noises. Looking out the window, the woman beheld a strange humanoid in her backyard. She claimed that the humanoid had only one eye and was dressed in a suit, which 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 Jamaluddin

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Date: September 1810
Location. Brazeau, Holland????
Time: between 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.
Summary: A remarkable incident occurred in the Dutch village of Brazeau. The 36th volume of the Philosophical Magazine reported that between 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M., “a luminous 208 meteor appeared to the south, and about the distance of a quarter of a league from the small commune of Brazeau: 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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Date: 1811
Location:   Antwerp, Belgium
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Summary: An object was observed. Metallic traces found
Source: Delaire, J. Bernard UFO Register Volume 2 (1971) Data Research, Oxford, 1971

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Date: 1811
Location:   Heidelberg, Germany
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Summary: Fall of a gelatinous substance, after the explosion of a meteorite, near Heidelberg.
Source:  Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

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Date: September 1811
Location. Chimney Rock Pass, North Carolina
Time: afternoon
Summary: Several Rutherford County mountaineers reported the “Specter Battle of Chimney Rock Pass.” The principal witnesses, an elderly farm couple living in the deepest part of the ravine, described a battle between “two opposing armies of horse-men, high up in the air all mounted on winged horses.” The “battle” lasted 10 minutes after the commander of one army cried “Charge!” the two armies dashing into each other, thrusting and hacking, the ring of their clashing swords audible, their blades glittering and flashing in the setting Sun’s rays. When one army was routed and left the field, the shouts of the victors and wails of the defeated were plainly heard. On subsequent evenings, the old couple and three “respectable men” visiting them again saw the “specter troopers”, but not in battle.
Source: T Peter Park, The Anomalist # 10

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Date: 1811: Creature Spotted near Corphine, Kintyre, Scotland

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Date: November 7 1811
Location:    London England
Time: 20:50
Summary:  An unidentified object was sighted, that had an unusual appearance or performance. One object was observed by one male witness (Forster
Source:   Philosophy Magazine

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Date: November 21 1811
Location:  Charleston, South Carolina
Time: 15:00
Summary:  One object was observed.
Source: Contact U.K.

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Date. March 20 1812
Location: Between Manosque & Villeneuve d’Apert, France
Time: night
Summary: Several persons traveling by couch during the night of the earthquake saw what appeared to be a luminous balloon, which flew over them and seem to divide itself into 4 fiery pieces. At this point the stunned travelers saw around them four men carrying lanterns, locked hand to hand and dancing around the couch.
Source: Pierre Delval Contacts of the 4th type

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Date: April  1812
Location: Manosque, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d’Azur, France
Time: 20:00
Summary: Luminous globes over road. four figures with lights seen inside. An object was observed. Occupants of the craft were seen. One luminous ball was observed by seven witnesses on a road for two minutes
Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit

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Date: 1812: Phantom troops seen in the sky in Havarah Park, England

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Date. 1812
Location: Bucovina, Romania
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Summary: The war between the Russians, French and Germans, over the town of Bucovina. ”Towards noon a large star with many rays appeared and in the night she ascended higher and flew in the direction of the Russians; afterwards she returned and went to the west, where the beams where extinguished. Thus did the star reveal herself for four months.
Source:  Contact U.K.

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Date: 1813: “Immaculate” seen near Leipzig, Germany

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Date: 1814: Portgordon, Scotland Mermaid Sighting

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Date: July 25 1814
Location. Portsmouth, Virginia
Time: 1600
Summary: Carpenter Edward Hansford wrote to Jefferson on July 31, 1813 to describe the object which he and a Baltimore citizen named John L. Clark had witnessed: “A Ball of fire as full as large as the sun at Maridian (sic) which was frequently obscured within the space often minutes by a smoke emitted from its own body, but ultimately retained its brilliancy, and form during that period, but with apparent agitation. It then assumed the form of a turtle which also appeared much agitated and as frequently obscured by a similar smoke. It descended obliquely to the West, and raised again perpendicular to its original hite (sic) which was on or about 75 degrees. ” Edward Hansford lived in Norfolk County during the Revolutionary War, working on forts erected by the Commonwealth. In 1802, he was appointed harbormaster for the District of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Source: “Edward Hansford to Thomas Jefferson, July 31, 1813” in The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence, 1651-1827. Library of Congress, Digital Archive “American Memory”

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Date: 1814: Mermaid off the West coast of Scotland

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Date: September 5, 1814
Location. near Agen, France
Time: 11 A.M.
Summary: At 11 A.M., by clear sky and as a stiff breeze was blowing, a slow moving, perfectly round white object with a grayish center appeared at great height northwest of the town. Although first described as a “cloud,” it became completely stationary in spite of the wind and remained in that position until about noon, when it suddenly sped off to the south, revolving on its own axis, and emitting rumbling noises that culminated in an explosion. A shower of stones was released, after which the “cloud” stopped again, and slowly faded away. The explosion was heard throughout the region and terrified the inhabitants?
Source: Annales de Chimie et de Physique 25, tome XCII, Oct. 1814; Philosophical Magazine & Journal 44 (1814): 316 and 45 (1815): 23-26.

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Date: 1815: Little creatures spotted in Ilkley Moor, England 

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Date: January 15 1816
Location. Gallardon, Beauce, France
Time: twilight
Summary: 33-year old ploughman Joseph Martin was in the fields collecting horse manure when he heard a voice challenge him from behind; at first he turned around and did not see anything. Afraid he picked up his pitchfork and again heard the voice, this time more insistent. This time when he turned around he distinctly saw a strange figure, which he described as a small caped man, with a hat and a clear frock coat. The stranger ordered Martin (addressed him a “my friend”) to go to Tileries and ask an audience with King Louis XVIII and speak to him on the stranger’s behalf. As night fell, the stranger vanished. Martin goes home and tells his wife what had occurred, she makes fun of the situation and advises him to down to the cellar to fetch some cider.
Once in the cellar the short caped stranger who tells him to trust him because he is “an Angel of God” again confronts Martin. The supposed angel formulated a secret message for him to present to the King. The next morning Martin tells the abbot of Laperruque about the encounter and this one recognizing Martin’s excellent reputation in town, passes the information over to higher authorities. On April 2 Martin is granted his audience with the King, which lasts for about an hour. The message has given to the king has remained secret to this day, but the next morning King Louis XVIII abdicated and along with the Duke of Angouleme went in exile to England never to return.
Source: Louis Pauwels, “Martin of Gallardon”

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Date: October 1816
Location. Edinburgh, Scotland
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Summary: Many people saw a large, luminous crescent-shaped object flying over the city. Many objects, about 300 feet across, were observed
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

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Date: 1817
Location. Adams, Robertson County, Tennessee
Time: daytime
Summary: In the early 1800’s John Bell moved his family from North Carolina to the Red River bottomland in Robertson County, Tennessee, setting in a community that later became known as Adams. Bell purchased some land and a large log home for his family. The Bells quickly made many friends and gained prominence in the community. John Bell acquired additional land and cleared a number of fields over the next several years. One day in 1817, John Bell was inspecting his cornfield when he encountered a strange-looking animal sitting in the middle of a cornrow. Shocked by the appearance of this animal, which had the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, Bell shot at it several times without any apparent effect. The animal then vanished. Bell thought nothing more about the incident—at least not until after dinner. That evening, the Bells began hearing “beating” sounds on the outside of their house. These mysterious sounds continued with increased force each night. Bell and his sons often hurried outside to catch the culprit but always returned empty handed. The noises were soon followed by more problems. The Bell children began waking up frightened and complaining of sounds much like rats gnawing at their bedposts. It wasn’t long until the children began complaining of more terrifying things—having their bed covers pulled and their pillows were tossed onto the floor by a seemingly invisible force.
Source: The Bell Witch Legend of Tennessee

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Date: May 1817
Location. Atlantic Ocean
Time: 1400
Summary: Witnesses on board the ship “Leonidas” sailing from New York to Havre France reported seeing around two in the afternoon at a distance of about half the ship’s length, they saw a strange fish. Its lower parts were like a fish; its belly was all white; the top of the back brown, and there was the appearance of short hair as far as the top of the head. From the breast upwards it had a near resemblance to a human being and looked upon the observers very earnestly. It apparently remained in sight all afternoon.
Source: Jerome Clark, Unexplained!

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Date: September 25, 1817
Location: Amhurst, Massachusetts
Time: 6:25 P.M.
Summary:At 6:25 P.M. three travelers who had just visited the roman monument near Lanuejols and were going through the “Causse de Mende” to reach that town saw in the south-southeast (towards Villefort) a luminous object, “reddish in color, in the shape of a disk three or four times larger than the full Moon.” It disappeared 2 or 3 minutes later. The sky was hazy and a fine rain was falling.
Source: Le Midi Libre, 25 September 1954. We have not traced an earlier source.

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Date: September 25, 1817
Location. France
Time:
Summary: One red disc was observed by three witnesses on a farm for over three minutes.
Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit

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Date: October 1817
Location. Tower Of London England
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Summary:  An object was observed. Physiological effects were noted. One object, about 3 inches across, was observed by two witnesses, a married couple, at a castle for two minutes (Swifte).
Source: FSR

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Date: 1818
Location: ???????????
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Summary: In 1818, a geologist named Dr. Edward D. Clarke was looking for fossils in a chalk quarry 270 feet underground. Dr. Clarke found some fossilized sea urchins and newts. He dug three well-preserved newts out and placed them on paper in the sun. To his astonishment, they began to move around. Two of the newts died shortly, but the third remained lively and was released into a pond. Dr. Clarke claimed the newts were unlike any other living at the time and were an extinct species unknown to science.
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Date: 1819
Location. Steyr, Oberosterreich, Austria
Time:
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object, the size of the moon, was observed by one male witness at a mountain for over four minutes (Schoen).
Source:  Flying Saucers Magazine

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Date: August 13, 1819
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
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Summary: A white silvery fireball light accompanied by a violent explosion was seen.  Afterwards, a bad-smelling object covered in a “cloth-like nap” fell in Amherst, Massachusetts. Upon removing the nap, Professor Rufus Graves found a “buff-colored, pulpy substance”. When exposed to the air, it became a “livid color resembling venous blood”.
Source:  Delaire, J. Bernard UFO Register Volume 2 (1971) Data Research, Oxford, 1971

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Date: 1820
Location. Embrun, France
Time:
Summary: A formation of flying objects crossed the French town.  Francois Arago wrote of this date in the ‘Annales de chimie et de physique’: “Numerous observers have seen, during an eclipse of the moon, strange objects moving in straight lines. They were equally spaced and remained in line when they made turns. Their movements made a military precision.”
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Date: 1820
Location. Hopkinton, New Hampshire
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Summary:At dusk a young man was followed home in a patch of forest called “The Lookout” near Putney Hill (also known as Gould Hill) for almost two miles by several glowing balls. They would stop whenever he stopped to look back at them, and then resume their movement as he started walking again, but never came closer than within 50 feet. Such glowing balls had been seen in the area since 1750, moving slowly in mid-air, so one may suspect a natural phenomenon. The date given here is a rough estimate.
Source: Charles Chase Lord, Life and Times in Hopkinton, N.H. (Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1970).

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Date: Spring 1820 (March 20?)
Location. Manchester, New York
Time: afternoon
Summary: Mormon spiritual leader Joseph Smith, 15-years of age at the time, said that he had gone out into the woods to meditate after a particular harrowing day. As he headed toward a hill near his home: “Immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me.” He could not speak as thick darkness gathered around him. Moments later a pillar of light descended gradually until it fell upon him. His next memory was of seeing two “personages” that were glowing brightly and stood above him in the air. They called him by name and introduced themselves as father and son.
Source: The Pearl of Great Price, by Joseph Smith – History 1:5-8, 14-19, 22.

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Date: September 7, 1820
Location: Embrun, France
Time: night
Summary: Astronomer Francois Arago, director of Paris observatory, reports that “numerous people have seen, during an eclipse of the moon, strange objects moving in straight lines. They were equally spaced and remained in line when they made turns. Their movements showed military precision.”
Source: Francois Arago, Oeuvres Completes de Francois Arago (Paris, 1857), v. 11, 575-8; “Etoiles filantes en plein jour”, in Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vol. 30 (1825): 575-8.

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Date: 1821
Location: Robertson County, Tennessee
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Summary: Close encounter with a craft and its occupants. An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by one male witness (Bell).
Source: FSR

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Date: October 23 1822
Location: Berlin, Germany
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Summary: Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two disc pass in front of the face of the Sun.
Source: Hatch, Larry

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Date: September 21 1823
Location. Manchester, New York
Time: night
Summary: According to Joseph Smith the most important visitation happened on this date.He discovered a light appearing in his room, which continued to increased until the room was lighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at his bedside, standing in air, for his feet did not touch the floor. The entity had no shoes but wore a loose white robe that shone so brightly that Smith declared that he did not “belied that any earthly thing could be made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant.” The figure introduced himself as Moroni a messenger sent by God. Moroni had a message for the young man. Smith had been chosen to translate part of the scriptures then would let the world know the true story of the American continent. All he had to do was to dig them up at a particular spot on the Hill of Cumorah, where they had lain buried for centuries, and translated them into English. Adding a few quotes from the Old Testament for good measure, mainly about ancient prophesies that were shortly going to be fulfilled. Moroni then left. This is how Joseph Smith described the moment that this happened: “I saw the light in my room gather immediately around the person of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so until the room was again left dark, except just around him: when, instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right into heaven, and he ascended until he entirely disappeared.” A little while later, on the same night, the “angel” reappeared in Smith’s room.According to the visitor, the future was grim, and “great desolations by famine, sword and pestilence” would be coming. Having related those things, he again ascended as he had done before. The mysterious Moroni appeared again that night.
Source: Virtually Strange.net

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