Nearly two millennia of the record — Roman shields to the Enlightenment sky, 0 C.E. to 1799
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0 C.E.- 1799 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
Byland Abbey, Nuremberg’s Aerial Battle & Edmond Halley’s Royal Society Report
This archive explores UFO sightings from 0 C.E. to 1799, a vast period of history where unidentified aerial phenomena were often interpreted as celestial omens or religious signs. Long before the era of modern flight, observers across the globe recorded strange lights and objects in the sky that defy easy explanation. This directory serves as a foundational resource for tracking these early historical encounters and the evolution of human aerial observation.
Nearly two thousand years of continuous documentation live in the fifteen archive pages below. A Roman chronicler records chariots and armed troops coursing through the clouds over Jerusalem in 70 CE. Byland Abbey’s monks watch a flat, round, silver discus glide over their refectory roof in 1290 — using the Latin word discus nearly seven centuries before “flying saucer” entered the language. Nuremberg wakes at dawn in 1561 to hundreds of spheres, cylinders, and crosses locked in aerial combat, documented in one of the earliest pieces of illustrated news journalism in history. A named Franciscan chronicler tracks a slow-moving red cloud through the streets of Besançon for two full hours in 1603. And by the early 18th century, Sir Edmond Halley — the astronomer for whom Halley’s Comet is named — is formally submitting an account of an anomalously slow-moving object to the Royal Society’s own Philosophical Transactions, corroborated by a second Fellow who timed it with his own watch.
0 C.E.- 1799 UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings
This era encompasses nearly two millennia of historical reports, from Roman “flying shields” to the strange celestial battles of the Middle Ages and the burgeoning scientific curiosity of the Enlightenment. Fifteen archive pages span this period in roughly fifty-year increments through the medieval and early modern centuries, narrowing to twenty- and even ten-year windows across the densely documented 16th and 17th centuries, each built to the same full-boat documentation standard — original sources cited, Hynek classifications applied where the record supports them, duplicate and contested claims flagged rather than silently merged, and factual corrections made openly where the evidence requires it.
- Sighting by Date: 1 CE – 499 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 500 – 899 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 900 – 1099 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1100 – 1199 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1200 – 1299 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1300 – 1399 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1400 – 1499 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1500 – 1549 UFO|UAP & ENTITY Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1550 – 1569 UFO|UAP & ENTITY Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1570 – 1599 UFO|UAP & ENTITY Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1600 – 1649 UFO|UAP & ENTITY Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date:1650 – 1669 UFO|UAP & ENTITY Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1670 – 1699 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date:1700 – 1749 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
- Sighting by Date: 1750 – 1799 UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
“Many men and women…saw a very alarming miracle…a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun…the globes began to fight one another as if engaged in a severe battle…”
Hans Glaser broadsheet, documenting the Nuremberg aerial battle, April 14, 1561
