Scientific American

Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Jersey City astronomer Henry Harrison at his brass telescope on a rooftop observation platform in April 1879 tracking a large glowing circular bell-shaped object stationary over New York City at calculated altitude of 80 to 100 miles, with Scientific American Vol 40 Issue 19 masthead inset and a discarded telegram form representing Asaph Hall's non-response from the US Naval Observatory

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New York Sightings

1879: UFO Mothership Seen Over New York City

Published: March 29, 2015 | Updated: May 25, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1879: UFO Mothership Seen Over New York City On the night of April 12–13, 1879, Jersey City astronomer Henry...

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Split-panel intelligence archive illustration showing left half a closed wooden hut near Maracaibo Venezuela on October 24 1886 being illuminated through its sealed walls by a brilliant exterior light during a tropical thunderstorm while nine family members are struck simultaneously by vomiting and swelling, and right half US Consul Warner Cowgill standing in a colonial hospital ward nine days later documenting the survivors whose skin has ulcerated while the surrounding trees have simultaneously withered outside the window

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Venezuela Sightings

1886: Maracaibo, Venezuela Incident

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 21, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1886: Maracaibo, Venezuela Incident On the night of October 24, 1886, during a rainy and tempestuous night near Maracaibo,...

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Scientific American

1879: UFO Mothership Seen Over New York City

1886: Maracaibo, Venezuela Incident

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