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 (92f) "The Miracle of the Snow" Masolino Da Panicale Florence, Italy c. 1383-1440 AD A woodcut by Hans Glaser from Nurnberg, Germany, April 15, 1561, depicts a colorful cascade of objects in the sky, The scene was described by a local news writer. A similar event occurred on July 27, 28 and 7 August 1566 in Basel.  (92i) A wood cut found in Nurnberg Germany in 1561 On the date of April 21, 1897, Alexander Hamilton, a citizen of Kansas swore to an affidavit before witnesses that the following event occurred where: “he was awakened by noise among his cattle and when he went outside with two other men saw an airship descend gently towards the ground and hover within fifty yards of it.” According to the witness: “It consisted of a great cigar-shaped portion, possibly three hundred feet long, with a carriage underneath. The carriage was made of glass or some other |
transparent substance alternating with a narrow strip of some material. It was brilliantly lighted within and everything was plainly visible – it was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.” Upon seeing the witnesses, the pilots of the strange ship turned on some unknown power, and the ship rose about three hundred feet above them. Continuing: “It seemed to pause and hover directly over a two year old heifer, which was bawling and jumping, apparently fast in the fence. Going to her, we found a cable about a half inch in thickness made of some red material, fastened in a slip-knot around her neck, one end passing up to the vessel, and the heifer tangled in the wire fence. We tried to get it off but we could not, so we cut the wire loose and stood in amazement to see the ship, heifer and all, rise slowly, disappearing in the northwest. “Hamilton was so frightened he could not sleep that night: ‘Rising early Tuesday, I started out by horse, hoping to find some trace of my cow. This I failed to do but coming back in the evening found that Link Thomas, about three or four miles west of Leroy, had found the hide, legs and head in his field that day. He, thinking someone had butchered a stolen beast, had brought the hide to town for identification, but was greatly mystified in not being able to find any tracks in the soft ground. After identifying the hide by my brand, I went home. But every time I would drop to sleep, I would see the cursed thing, with its big lights and hideous people. I don’t know whether they are devils or angels, or what; but we all saw them, and my whole family saw the ship, and I don’t want any more to do with them’.” (44) This event happened in the late 1890s before we had any kind of flying machines that would resemble this. The only aircraft in the skies at the time were blimps. In a report by Brian Stross, an American Anthropologist from Berkeley, cited in Passport to Magonia, Stross writes about the Tzeltal Indians and their beliefs in the legend of little black beings, said to be about three foot tall and hairy, called the ?ihk’als or ikals. Stross writes: “About twenty years ago, or less, there were many sightings of this creature or creatures, and several people apparently tried to fight it with machetes. One man also saw a small sphere following him from about five feet. After many attempts he finally hit it with his machete and it disintegrated, leaving only an ash-like substance.” (45) Stross even mentions their ability to fly, attack people, and “carry a kind of rocket on their back and attack Indians,” with the ability to “paralyze” people who attempt to attack them. They are said to live in caves and the natives are afraid to enter them. (46) (44) Passport, p. 54-55 (45) ibid; Brian Stross, “The ?ihka’als,” Flying Saucer Review, XIV, 3 (May-June, 1968), p. 12 (46) ibid, p. 70 |
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