UFO Sighting, First on Record
Type: Daylight Disk
Place: Egypt
Date: Reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III
Thutmose (also known as Thothmes) III ruled Egypt jointly with his wife, his half-sister Queen Hatshepsut, from about 1501 Before the Common Era (BCE) and after his death as sole pharaoh from the year 1479 until 1447 BCE. Thutmose is widely regarded by historians as having been one of the greatest of all the rulers of ancient Egypt.
According to a papyrus allegedly found among the papers of a director of the Vatican's Egyptian Museum, "In the year 22, of the third month of the winter, sixth hour of the day… the scribes of the House of Life found there was a circle of fire coming in the sky… It had no head, the breath of its mouth had a foul odour. Its body was one rod (16.5ft/5m) long and one rod wide. It had no voice."
On hearing of the event, the pharaoh meditated on it, but after some days "these things became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of the heavens… The army of the pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after supper. Thereupon, these fire circles ascended higher in the sky toward the south…"
Assessment: The circular appearance of these objects, their peculiar mell and their silence are all paralleled in modern UFO reports. However, there are striking similarities between this account and the vision of Ezekiel (see UFOs In The Bible): the Vatican cannot trace the Tulli manuscript and suspects it was a fake.

Source: UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue by Peter Brookesmith (Blitz Editions)

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