Roman UFO

 It is no doubt man has played a certain part in the research and creation of UFOs. Going back to the ancient Romans we see multiple sources of documented UFO encounters, while later on in Germany and Russia we see men develop methods of their own, for space travel. While most people associate ET with UFO were going to take an actual look at the earliest people to encounter them, to the specific men who put their time an energy into space travel research before it was even a thing.

While most UFO we see or talk about today, are known to be from some sort of human origins, there are some that are still hard to explain. Oddly enough there were multiple of these encounters in Italy during the Roman empire, and many of these were well documented. There are Egyptians hieroglyphs at the Temple of Seti in Markaz Al Belina, Egypt with what appears to be flying objects, as well as another story about a set a scrolls found at the Temple of Amun in Sudan, which document UFOs as well. This isn’t the best documentation of a UFO sighting, since the original published translation of the were found to be fraudulent. It is very hard to decipher old ancient Egyptian UFO sighting claims, but the Romans are different.

If we look at ancient man, the Romans would be the people who are recorded as being the first people to see UFOs, with their first recorded encounter happening 218BC when Livy, a well know Roman historian witnessed phantom boats gleaming in the sky, during the military build up to the second Punic War. Maybe they were visitors from the future, who supported Rome. During this time a war was going to break out between the two supporting powers of the Mediterranean of the time. The Roman were also fighting Carthage, which were a group of Semitic people.

In 76BC another UFO sighting was recorded by an ancient astronomer, Pliny the Elder, who recorded a meteor shower, but the falling objects were said to grow about the size of the moon and then shrink back in size, almost like the object came in, and then went back away. This was before the Third Mithridatic War. Three years later another ancient roman UFO sighting happened during the war, before Pontus’s defeat. Plutarch, a Roman philosopher stated, "the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies", with objects shaped like “wine jars.”
It would only be 8 more years, until another UFO is seen be Romans, in 65BC, just before First Jewish–Roman War, by Flavius Josephus. This war started as a Jewish rebellion against their Roman occupation, would lead to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, which the Jews are still trying to replace to this day.

It’s rather interesting that all these times before a Jewish defeat in war, the Romans were visited or watched by UFOs.