593 BC
Ezekiel's Wheels (Ezekiel 1)
The Book of Ezekiel opens with the most famous 'flying machine' passage in the Bible. A priest deported to Babylonia, Ezekiel says he was standing among the exiles by the…
DocumentedScripture; no investigation
1803
Utsuro-bune, the Hollow Ship of Hitachi, 1803
In 1803, according to several Edo-period manuscripts, fishermen on the Hitachi coast of eastern Japan towed ashore a strange round vessel. The best-known version, in the…
DisputedNo official investigation; recorded in private miscellanies and…
1947
Maury Island, Puget Sound
Harold Dahl said that on 21 June 1947, three days before Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting, he was working a boat off Maury Island in Puget Sound when six huge…
Fabricated (admitted)FBI and Army Air Forces: fabricated (claimants admitted it); the B-25…