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height_o="265" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db6988275950b03e297533886c8085cfa8f90aaaf3db07af2d0002b563fb60ad/CE5-Category.jpeg" data-mid="77314233" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="CE5" data-caption="CE5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/249/i/db6988275950b03e297533886c8085cfa8f90aaaf3db07af2d0002b563fb60ad/CE5-Category.jpeg" /> https://unexplainable.events/1180-October-27-Japan-MA1-102 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:26:02 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1180-October-27-Japan-MA1-102 1180, October 27 - Japan &nbsp; &nbsp; “...Ancient Japanese records inform us that on October 27, 1180, an unusual luminous object described as an "earthenware vessel" flew froma mountain in the Kii Province beyond the northeast mountain of Fukuhara at midnight. After a while, the object changed its course and was lost to sight at the southern horizon, leaving a luminous trail.“ - Passport to Magonia, p. 4-5. https://unexplainable.events/1235-September-24-Japan-MA1-222 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:51:14 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1235-September-24-Japan-MA1-222 1235, September 24, Japan, MA1 222 &nbsp; &nbsp; “The date was September 24, 1235, seven centuries before our time, and General Yontsume was camping with his army. Suddenly, a curious phenomenon was observed: mysterious sources of light were seen to swing and circle in the southwest, moving in loops until the early morning. General Yoritsumc ordered what we would now term a "full-scale scientific investigation," and his consultants set to work. Fairly soon they made their report. "The whole thing is completely natural, General," they said in substance. "It is only the wind making the stars sway." My source of information for this report, Yusuke J. Matsumura, of Yokohama, adds sadly: "Scholars on government pay have always made ambiguous statements like this!".“ - Passport to Magonia, p. 5.&nbsp; &nbsp; I’m placing this in the 222 category due to the military status of the witnesses, an investigation being carried out, and the explanation literally involving a gross alteration of one parameter. https://unexplainable.events/1790-June-12-France-CE3-223 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:55:48 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1790-June-12-France-CE3-223 1790 June 12, France, CE3 223 &nbsp; &nbsp; “It crossed the dawn-lit French countryside in eerie silence, and the early-rising farmers stood in their fields and stared at it with wonder. At first they thought it was a giant hot-air balloon on fire and about to crash. As it swooped low over the skies near the village of Alençon, it begain to whistle. It slowed, rocked up and down as if it were out of control, and then plummeted down onto the top of a high hill. The grass and shrubbery burst into flames from the heat of the object. Crowds of farmers and villagers rushed up the hill to fight the fire.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When they reached the summit, they stopped. The fiery sphere appeared to be some kind of mechanical contrivance. A door on its side suddenly flew open. A man stepped out and looked around uneasily at the gathering crowd. Later, the witnesses described him as looking “just like us, except that he was dressed in strange clothes - very tight-fitting garments.” The man mumbled something no one could understand, and then he ran into some nearby woods and disappeared. He was never seen again. A few minutes later, his odd vehicle exploded in complete silence. Nothing was left except granules of metallic powder.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A few days later, Paris sent a police inspector named Liabeuf to the site to investigate. He found that the eyewitnesses included two mayors, a physician, and three other local authorities, in addition to dozens of peasants and farmers. All of their stories matched, detail for detail. Something very unusual had apparently happened at&nbsp;Alençon, but it was never reported to the French Air Force. And for very good reason... &nbsp; &nbsp; The incident occurred 178 years ago, at 5 a.m. on the morning of June 12th, 1790. There were only three or four hot air balloons in the entire world at the time. (The first balloon had been set up by Montgolfier brothers only eight years earlier.) What and who did these Frenchmen view on that distant date? Many of the details in Inspector Liabeuf’s report are uncomfortably similar to modern “flying saucer” accounts.” - Flying Saucer to the Center of your Mind, p. 149 https://unexplainable.events/1868-July-Chile-MA1-203 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:36:09 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1868-July-Chile-MA1-203 1868 July, Chile, MA1 203 &nbsp; &nbsp; “A strange “aerial construction” bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town, (Copiago). Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century.” - Passport to Magonia, p. 190 (referenced by Charles Fort.) https://unexplainable.events/1877-September-18-New-York-MA3-102 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 05:11:42 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1877-September-18-New-York-MA3-102 1877 September 18, New York, MA3 102 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Another kind of Man in Black haunted Brooklyn, New York, in 1877-80. He had wings and performed aerial acrobatics over the heads of the crowds of sunbathers at Coney Island. A Mr. W. H. Smith first reported these strange flights in a letter to the New York Sun, September 18, 1877. The creature was not a bird, but "a winged human form." &nbsp; &nbsp; This flying man became a local sensation and, according to the New York Times, September 12, 1880, "many reputable persons" saw him as he was "engaged in flying toward New Jersey." He maneuvered at an altitude of about one thousand feet, sporting "bat's wings" and making swimming-like movements. Witnesses claimed to have seen his face clearly. He "wore a cruel and determined expression." The entire figure was black, standing out sharply against the clear blue sky. Since he wasn't towing an advertising sign behind him, and since the primitive gliders of experimenters during that period rarely traveled far, and then usually downhill, the incidents are without explanation. &nbsp; &nbsp; Leonardo da Vinci studied the flights of birds in the fifteenth century and tried to build a manpowered ornithopter without success. Thousands of other basement inventors have worked on the idea since; constructing canvas wings that were moved by the muscles of the optimistic pilots. Most of these weird-looking machines became instant junk on their first test flights. And several overconfident types went crashing to their deaths when they leaped off cliffs and high buildings in their homemade wings. It was not until May 2, 1962, that a man really succeeded in flying under his own power. Mr. John C. Wimpenny flew 993 yards at an altitude of five feet in a contraption with rigid wings and a pedal-driven propeller at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in England. The principle of the ornithopter—propulsion through the birdlike movement of wings—has been known for centuries but no one has been able to make it work. No human, that is. Machines flying through the air with moving wings have frequently been sighted during UFO waves. But the UFO enthusiasts tend to ignore any reports which describe things other than disks or cigar-shaped objects.” - The Mothman Prophecies, p. 27-28. https://unexplainable.events/1880-July-29-Kentucky-MA3-202 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 05:48:04 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1880-July-29-Kentucky-MA3-202 1880 July 29, Kentucky, MA3 202 &nbsp; &nbsp; “According to the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, the winged man was busy in that area. Two men, C.A. Youngman and Bob Flexner, reported seeing "a man surrounded by machinery which he seemed to be working with his hands." He had wings or fans on his back which he was flapping rather desperately to keep aloft. The startled men watched him flutter unsteadily out of view.” - The Mothman Prophecies, p. 43. https://unexplainable.events/1896-Switzerland-AN3-443 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:04:17 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1896-Switzerland-AN3-443 1896, Switzerland, AN3 443 &nbsp; &nbsp; This is Aleister Crowley’s only entity encounter that he considered physical beyond a doubt. It is recounted in Magick Without Tears,&nbsp;in the chapter titled “Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye“. &nbsp; “It was in 1896, at Arolla in the Pennine Alps. I took my cousin, Gregor Grant, a fine climber but with little experience beyond scrambles, and in poor physical condition, for the second (first guideless) ascent of the N.N.E. ridge of Mont Collon, a long and exacting climb of more than average difficulty. I had to help him with the rope for most of the climb. This made us late. I dashed for the quickest way down, a short but very steep ridge with one decidedly bad patch, to the great snowfield at the head of the valley. At the bottom of the last pitch a scree-strewn slope, easy going, led to the snows. We took off the rope, and I sat down to coil it and light a pipe, while he wandered down. By this time I was as tired as 14 dogs, each one more tired than all the rest put together; what I call "silly tired." I took a chance (for nightfall was near) on resting 5 or 10 minutes. Restored, I sprang to my feet, threw the coiled rope over my shoulder, and started to run down. But I was too tired to run; I slackened off. &nbsp; &nbsp; Then, to my amazement, I saw of the slopes below me, two little fellows hopping playfully about on the scree. (A moment while I remind you that all my romance was Celtic; I had never ever read Teutonic myths and fables.) But these little men were exactly the traditional gnome of German fold-tales; the Heinzelmänner that one sees sometimes on German beer-mugs (I have never drunk beer in my life) and in friezes on the walls of a Conditorei. &nbsp; &nbsp; I hailed them cheerfully — at first I thought they were some of the local nobility and gentry of a type I had not yet encountered; but they took no notice, just went on playing about. They were still at it when I reached my cousin, sheltering behind some boulders at the foot of the slope; and I saw no more of them. &nbsp; &nbsp; I saw them as plainly as I ever saw anything; there was nothing ghostly or semitransparent about them. &nbsp; &nbsp; A curious point is that I attached no significance to this. I asked my cousin if he had seen them; he said no. &nbsp; &nbsp; My mind accepted the incident as simply as if I had seen Chamois. Yet even to-day when I have seen lots and lots of things more wonderful, this incident stands out as the simplest and clearest of all my experiences. I give myself full marks! &nbsp; &nbsp; "Why?" Isn't it obvious? It means that I am not the semi-hysterical type who takes wishphantasms for facts.” - Magick Without Tears, ch. LVII. https://unexplainable.events/1897-March-26-Iowa-MA2-203 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:18:15 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1897-March-26-Iowa-MA2-203 1897 March 26, Iowa, MA2 203 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Souix City, Aproximate date. &nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22km north of the town. He was dragged over 10m and fell as his clothes were torn.” - Passport to Magonia, p. 191. https://unexplainable.events/1897-April-12-Illinois-CE3-203 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:28:10 +0000 Unexplainable Events https://unexplainable.events/1897-April-12-Illinois-CE3-203 1897 April 12, Illinois, CE3 203 &nbsp; &nbsp; “Nilwood. On the property of Z. Thacker, 19km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Treeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf.” Chicago Times-Herald, April 14th, 1897&nbsp; &nbsp; “Girard, near Green Ridge. A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3km north of Green Ridge and 4km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north.” Chicago Times-Herald, April 14th, 1897 Chicago Record, April 14th, 1897 - Passport to Magonia, p. 192.