UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

IIt seems that, for their part, the Gennan pilots had been persuaded that it was a case of
a secret U.S. weapon. A board of inquiry reportedly was even created in Berlin to study
the matter. IThe current explanation ofelectrical phenomena such as the Saint Elmo's fires is not
convincing because it does not take into account the diverse characteristics observed. The
files relating to the "foo fighters" seem to have been subject to military secrecy at least Iuntil 1949.
Many other sightings concerning much larger, cigar-shaped, disk-shaped, or sphere
shaped objects were recorded in both camps. I
From 1880 to 1900, "airships" over the United States and Great Britain
During these years, tens of thousands of witnesses sighted flying machines resembling Imodern dirigibles, which were not produced by factories until twenty years later. In most
cases, it was a matter offairly voluminous, fusiform, vessels equipped with powerful
searchlights, often emitting engine sounds, and, in some cases, even seeming to have Ipropellers.
In the United States, the majority of the sightings occurred between 1896 and 1897.
Other cases were reported, particularly in Spain, Germany, Sweden, and Russia. A Isecond wave [ofsightings] occurred at the turn of the century in Great Britain. . ::
The explanation that comes irruT1ediately to mind is that of true dirigibles (and right
away we think of craft of German origin). However, it has a hard time holding up to a Ithorough examination.
In actuality, in 1880, the technology of these craft was still in its infancy. It is true that
Colonel Giffard did conduct an initial test in 1852 with an elongated balloon equipped Iwith a very low-power steam engine. Then in 1885, Renard traveled several kilometers
for the first time, overflying Paris with a dirigible equipped with an internal combustion
engine, but it was still extremely slow and not very easy to fly. IIn fact, the first truly efficient aircraft were subsequent to 19 1O; however, even the
zeppelins built during World War I far from possessed the characteristics observed by the
witnesses to these phenomena. I
From Greco-Latin antiquity to the beginning of the in~ustrial age
Human beings in all ages have sighted phenomena in the sky that they considered, Irightly or wrongly, to be abnormal. It is true that our epoch naturally has a tendency to
doubt the accuracy ofancient testimonies, and especially so the further back into the past
wego. IDuring the first three quarters of the 19th century, chroniclers related several dozen
sightings of spheres and luminous wheels resembling present-day UFOs. The 18th century Iwas marked by one strange case. Goethe recounts, in fact, that in his youth, in I 768,
during a trip between Frankfort and Leipzig, he and two other witnesses saw a type of
large luminous tube positioned on the ground, surrounded by a multitude of small, very
bright, moving flames. I
In the 16th and 17th centuries, authors mentioned numerous sightings, not only in
Europe but also in America and Japan. Amo ng these, a few hold our attention due to their Ispectacular appearance and the multitude of witnesses. In the skies of Nuremberg, in
April 1561 , a large number of brightly colored spheres, disks, and "cigars" seemed to
wage a sort of battle that left a profound mark on the population and caused the Iauthorities great concern. A spectacle of the same kind took place in August 1566 in
Basel.
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