The dawn of the record — Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Alexander's silver shields, B.C.E.
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B. C. E. UFO & Alien Sightings (BC) Archive
Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece & Alexander the Great’s Shields
This archive documents UFO sightings from the B.C.E. (Before Common Era) period, exploring the most ancient recorded instances of unidentified aerial phenomena. From the celestial “chariots of fire” in ancient texts to mysterious objects described by early historians in Egypt, Rome, and Greece, these accounts provide a fascinating look at how ancient civilizations interpreted sky anomalies. This directory serves as a foundational resource for those researching the deep historical roots of the UFO phenomenon.
The record opens deep in prehistory — a possible aerial landing-strip claim stretching back tens of thousands of years, contested cave art in Spain, and the earliest structures at Göbekli Tepe and Stonehenge. It moves through the Bronze and Iron Ages with Egyptian accounts of fiery discs recorded under Thutmose III, a burning shield crossing the sky over Rome in 214 BCE, and a fleet of ships seen in the air over Lanuvium in 173 BCE. It closes at the edge of the Common Era with one of the archive’s most frequently cited ancient accounts: Alexander the Great’s own historians describing two great silver shields that dove repeatedly at his army during a river crossing, panicking his elephants and horses until the crossing had to be abandoned until the following day.
B. C. E. UFO & Alien Sightings (BC)
This section covers the dawn of recorded history, featuring anomalous events interpreted through the lens of ancient mythology, religion, and early astronomy. Five archive pages span this period, organized chronologically from the earliest contested claims through the final centuries before the Common Era, each built to the same full-boat documentation standard as every other page in this collection — original sources cited, classifications applied where the record supports them, and corrections made openly where the evidence requires it.
“They were described as great silver shields, spitting fire around the rims.”
Historians of Alexander the Great, on two objects that dove at his army during the Jaxartes River crossing, 329 BCE
