Kerry L. Barger
ASIN: B00KYZJ3DG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 235
RECOMMENDED!! by the US Review of Books. According to a current list of reported UFO sightings, few documented reports exist from the time of classical antiquity until the 1940's. However, one of the first and most reliable descriptions of a mass UFO sighting was written by the historian, Josephus, following the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. He wrote the following: "There was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city...at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which lasted for half an hour. This light seemed to be a good sign to the unskillful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend those events that followed immediately upon it...before sunsetting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armor were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding ...