Jacques Vallee's top-ten list of pre-20th-century UAO
Jacques Vallee's top-ten list of pre-20th-century unexplained aerial objects as noted in an article earlier this month on MSNBC : * July 7, 1015 : Objects emerge from "mother stars" over Kyoto, Japan. * Oct. 2, 1235 : Stars are seen circling over Japan. Astrologers say "it is only the wind making the stars sway." * June 3, 1277 : Chinese poet Liu Ying immortalizes flying-saucer sighting in a poem titled "Event Seen at Dawn." * Nov. 1, 1461 : The legal adviser to Philip III, duke of Burgundy, describes a bright object that spirals upward, spins around, rolls over "like a loose watch" and disappears. * 1513 : Michelangelo observes a triangular light with three tails of different colors. He even paints a picture of it, but the painting has not survived. * March 1638 : Puritan settler James Everell and two companions report seeing a bright object appearing in the sky above Massachusetts' Muddy River ... and experiencing the "missi...