1 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:05,500 Hello, and welcome to the program UFO warning. 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:08,600 In this episode. We're talking about the 1639, 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Boston UFO, sighting. That's correct. 1639. 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,400 Boston, UFO, sighting, this might have even been the first 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,200 recorded UFO sighting in the New World, by one of the white 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,300 settlers. Now this article comes to us 7 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:29,600 from celebrate boston.com title says first UFO sighting in 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,800 American Rika. Muddy river, 1639. 9 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:37,200 And 1639, America's first UFO was sighted over the Charles 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,500 River in Boston lights, sped back and forth across the 11 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,900 Charles River from Back Bay fens to Charleston. 12 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,100 Governor, John Winthrop made an entry in his journal regarding 13 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,900 the strange event. The primary witness was 14 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:56,300 described as a man of good reputation activity and estate 15 00:00:56,300 --> 00:01:00,700 in Boston. Says quote and this year, one 16 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:04,400 James everal, a sober discreet, man. 17 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:09,900 And two others saw a great light in the night at muddy river. 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,200 When it Stood, Still it flamed up and it was about three yards 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,000 square when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,800 swine are run as Swift as an arrow towards Charleston. 21 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:29,300 And so up and down for about two or three hours, They were coming 22 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:32,800 down in their lighter about a mile, that's your boat and when 23 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,500 it was over they found themselves carried quite back 24 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:42,100 against the tide to the place. They'd come from diverse others 25 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,900 credible. Persons saw the same light after 26 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:49,900 about the same place. So you have these three fellows 27 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:53,400 in this boat going, trying to make the way at the river. 28 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,000 They see this. About a probably about a 10 foot 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 square of light in the sky. It must have not been that far 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,400 from him. It describing how it kind of 31 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,500 fading in and out. And when it left it, it left at 32 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,699 a high rate of speed, not only that, but it was cited by other 33 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:11,500 people. So, I suppose, this was our 34 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:15,300 first mass UFO sighting. It says, Muddy River is located 35 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:19,200 at Back Bay fens opposite Cambridge Massachusetts and 36 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,000 diagonally across from Charlestown. 37 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:25,400 Back, Back Bay wasn't filled in at the time and a large. 38 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:28,300 Area of Open Water existed in the river. 39 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:33,100 That was then called Broad Bay. The distance to Charleston would 40 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:38,500 have been more than two miles. James Savage added at the added, 41 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:42,900 the following footnote about the sighting in his early edition of 42 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:45,700 Winthrop Journal journal and 1825. 43 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,500 It says, this account of an igneous, fatuous or pale light 44 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,800 over marshy ground. May easily be believed on 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,500 testimony. Less respectable than that, 46 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:01,900 which was adduced some operation of the devil or other power. 47 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:05,700 Beyond the customer agents of nature, was probably imagined by 48 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:09,900 the relators and it hairs of that age and The Wonder of being 49 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:14,000 carried, a mile against the tide became important cooperation for 50 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,900 the imagination. Perhaps, they were wafted carry 51 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:21,300 lightly during the two or three hours of astonishment for so 52 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:25,400 moderate Distance by the wind, but if this suggestion be 53 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:28,600 Ejected. We might suppose that the Eddie 54 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:33,500 or Whirlpool Whirlpool flowing always and our River contrary to 55 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:37,600 the tide in the channel rather than the meteor carried their 56 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:40,400 lighter back. The little boat. 57 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:47,700 So this is amazing. Even in 1825 we have the bunkers 58 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:52,200 and Skeptics these fellows just told you that this is 1639, 59 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,300 okay? The actively burning people at 60 00:03:55,300 --> 00:04:00,400 the For being witches, would imagine that. 61 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,400 This is not something that we just want to make up say, saw 62 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,000 this UFO. Okay, at apparently a pretty 63 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,800 close range. He says it's about 10 foot 64 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,000 square. He describes how it expands in 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,399 light and then how it changes shape, how it races across the 66 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,800 sky. This one on, for a period of two 67 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,899 or three hours. And while they're watching this 68 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:28,200 thing, their boat, Floats back against the tide. 69 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:32,000 So they've been rolling forward. I suppose an attempt to get to 70 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,400 the other side of the river, but while they're watching this 71 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,300 thing, not rowing. They're carried in the opposite 72 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:43,900 direction in which they should be going very strange. 73 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,300 So here we go ahead, 200 years later. 74 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,800 And, you know, and we have our early Skeptics saying. 75 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,900 Well, there must have been at Whirlpool. 76 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,100 The wind must have been blowing. We don't know how these guys 77 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:59,000 ended up back, where they're at, as far as I'm concerned. 78 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,400 These people could have they could have had a lost time 79 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:04,500 experience, who knows what happens? 80 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:07,600 But we know that they watch thing for about two hours and 81 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,800 the boat Was moving against the tide, so something was moving 82 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,000 that boat. It says Witnesses, also stated 83 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,700 that the lights contracted into the shape of a swine. 84 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,600 Muddy river, the Hamlet, eventually became the separate 85 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,600 town of Brookline, pigs and other cattle were stored there 86 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,600 during summer while corn was growing in Boston. 87 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,300 It is safe to do so that the UFO Witnesses had seen or heard some 88 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:37,400 swine on the same day, they observe the great light, the 89 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,300 slights resembled a common animal making it probable is 90 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:48,100 Saul - fatuous Mirage phenomena in the darkness boy, you know 91 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:50,500 Theta had History Channel back in 1825. 92 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:54,100 This guy would have been right on at talking smack about these 93 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:57,200 UFO. Observers in any case the event 94 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,900 was observed by divers. In other words, many people and 95 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:05,400 noteworthy enough for the Puritan Governor to document it 96 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:10,500 in his private journal in 1644, the first UFO, sighting occurred 97 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,000 over Boston, Harbor, and then A major UFO sighting. 98 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,100 Took place at New Haven, Connecticut and 1647. 99 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,800 So these things were going, these things are going on all 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,700 over the place and whether this fellow in 1825 wants to 101 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:29,300 recognize what happens or not. The fact is this first sighting 102 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:36,600 that we see in 1839 is a just Kicking the whole thing off, 103 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:40,300 over the next eight years. Then you have multiple sightings 104 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,900 in this General vicinity. Now there's another article 105 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:51,300 about this from history.com. It says America's first UFO, 106 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:56,200 sightings and then it goes on here, says on March 1st. 1639, 107 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:01,100 John Winthrop opened his diary in which he recorded the trials 108 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:04,400 and triumphs that is Philip Puritans as it made a new life 109 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,500 in America as the governor of the Massachusetts Bay. 110 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:12,400 Colony, put pen to paper, he began to recount a most unusual 111 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,200 event better recently, caused a stir among the English 112 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,100 immigrants. When I went there I wrote that 113 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:22,500 earlier in the year. James everall. 114 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,500 A sober discreet, man. And two. 115 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:30,300 Others have been rowing a boat in the muddy river, which flowed 116 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:33,200 through swampland and emptied into a Tidal Basin. 117 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,300 And the Charles River, when they saw a great light in the night 118 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:42,800 sky, when it Stood, Still it flamed up and was about 3 yards 119 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,200 square, the governor, the governor reported and when it 120 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,000 ran it was It into the figure of a swine over the course of two 121 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,100 or three hours. The Boatman said that the 122 00:07:54,108 --> 00:08:00,200 mysterious light ran as Swift as an arrow darting back and forth 123 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,200 between them and the village of Charleston, a distance of 124 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,700 approximately two miles divers. Other credible persons saw the 125 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,400 same light after about the same place when they're batted. 126 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,000 So this is this is something that this tells you that this 127 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,000 would have cost. Quite a stir, you know? 128 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,800 1639, no one's calling anybody on the cell phone. 129 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,700 Nobody's calling anybody on the phone period. 130 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:29,300 If you want to tell somebody something you have to walk there 131 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:33,200 and tell him and so this would have been big news, so it's not 132 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,000 surprising to me that the governor made it mention of this 133 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,400 in his diary. The governor wrote that when the 134 00:08:40,408 --> 00:08:42,799 strange Apparition finally faded away. 135 00:08:43,299 --> 00:08:47,000 The three Puritans in the boat were stunned to find themselves? 136 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:54,600 1 mile Upstream as if the light had transported them there, One 137 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,500 mile Upstream. Now, you know, if you're rolling 138 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:05,000 a johnboat upper river, you know, it's a little bit of work. 139 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:10,600 So you would have known whether or not you rode that boat a mile 140 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,900 up the river, okay, you would have known that. 141 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,500 So they were stunned. You have to wonder, were they 142 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:20,400 being transported there as they were watching this thing? 143 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:22,700 Or did they actually have missing time? 144 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,500 It says the me, Men had no memory of their rowing against 145 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:29,900 the tide although it's possible. They could have been carried by 146 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,500 the wind or a reverse tidal flow. 147 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:36,300 Now, you're just throwing stuff out there, then mysterious 148 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,700 repositioning of the boat could suggest that they were unaware 149 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:44,700 of part of their experience. Some researchers would interpret 150 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,600 this as a possible alien abduction. 151 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,800 If it happened today, rice jock, male and Chris, aw, back and 152 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,600 wonders in the sky unexplained. Real objects from Antiquity to 153 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,000 Modern Times. Some have speculated that the 154 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,100 Curious glow could have been an ignis. 155 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:06,000 Fatuous, a pale light that can appear over Marshland at night, 156 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,100 due to the combustion combustion of gas from, decomposed organic 157 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:13,000 matter. If winter support was correct, 158 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,500 however, the light was not rising from the swamp, but 159 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,500 shooting across the sky making that explanation on liking 160 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,900 unlikely, not unlikely and making that explanation. 161 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,900 Impossible. An odd sight returned to the 162 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:30,300 skies, a box and five years later, according to another 163 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:36,000 entry in with the starter, dated January, 18th 1644 about 164 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,600 midnight, three. Men coming to go to Boston. 165 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,300 Saw two lights arise out of the water. 166 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:47,000 You know, the North Point of the Town Cove and form, like a man 167 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,000 and went at a small distance to the town and so to the South 168 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,100 Point and their vanished away. Wow. 169 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,300 Sam situation. They're in a boat, they see, two 170 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,800 lights come out of the water. Okay. 171 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,000 Inform like a man. So apparently these lights came 172 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,600 together, took on the shape of a human and then when a small 173 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,900 distance to the town, so I'm assuming they just levitate it 174 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:19,100 there. And then it says, they vanished 175 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:24,900 away, excuse me a week later went there broke another 176 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:28,400 unexplained slusho event occurred over Boston. 177 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:32,000 Brr. A light like the moon arose 178 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,800 about the new about the Northeast point in Boston and 179 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,400 met the former at Noddles Island. 180 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:44,000 And there they closed in one and then parted and closed and 181 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,100 parted diverse times. And so, on over the hill and the 182 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:53,100 island and vanished, sometimes I shot out Flames, sometimes 183 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,700 Sparkles. This was about eight of the 184 00:11:55,700 --> 00:11:58,400 clock in the evening and was seen by many. 185 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:03,800 That must have just been spectacular if we spoke to see 186 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,700 this. This is a light, a light like, 187 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:11,700 the moon, this is, this is a large UFO arose, about the 188 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:17,500 Northeast point in Boston and met at the former at Noddles 189 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:21,300 islands of the watch, the same travel across the sky, and where 190 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:27,700 they closed in one, and then parted and closed and parted 191 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,200 diverse times. And so, on over the hill in the 192 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,600 island and vanished, this is one of these strange situations 193 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,900 where we see these UFOs joined together. 194 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:43,400 Fuse. Come apart, rejoin. 195 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,400 It's obviously not a mechanical creation doing this, as some 196 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,100 sort of plasmas, some sort of energy. 197 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,100 Goes on. I says about the same time a 198 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,100 voice was heard upon the Water between Boston and Worcester 199 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,600 calling out in a most Dreadful manner. 200 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:08,900 Boy, boy, come away, come away and it suddenly shifted from one 201 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:12,100 place to another a great distance about 20 times. 202 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:18,400 He was heard by diverse Godly persons about 14 dies, after the 203 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,600 same voice and the same Dreadful manner Was Heard by others on 204 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,800 the other side of the Town tour. Bottles Island. 205 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,700 So this just goes from being a UFO experience to being a 206 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:32,500 paranormal experiences. Very strange. 207 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:38,000 It says, unlike the 16 39 UFO Winthrop had to explanation for 208 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,400 the latest luminescence, over his City, upon a hill, the 209 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,400 governor noted, that the bizarre spectacle was seen near the 210 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,800 location where a vessel Captain by John chaddock had exploded 211 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,300 months earlier after a sailor accidentally ignited. 212 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,900 And gunpowder aboard the ship. The captain was not a board at 213 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:03,200 the time, but the blast killed five crew members went there, 214 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,000 noted that Rescuers had recovered the bodies of all the 215 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,700 victims except for the man believed responsible for the 216 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:12,100 Calamity. A sailor who professed the 217 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:16,200 ability to communicate with the dead and who was suspected of 218 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,700 murdering his master and Virginia. 219 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,400 Wow, the hand of the devil was thought to have taken possession 220 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,600 of the body. And it was a haunting voice of 221 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,000 the sailors ghost that was said to have a company. 222 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,900 The strange vision of the old UFO that mystified Boston, that 223 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,800 is really strange. So we have a couple different 224 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:43,200 the courage to happen, but a lot of paranormal stuff, a lot of a 225 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,000 lot of UFO phenomena types of happening there in Boston, back 226 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,500 in the early, 1600s It just goes to show that you know they 227 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,100 couldn't call them drones back then they couldn't call them 228 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,800 high-tech vehicles. From one of our adversaries at 229 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,000 that time frequently, people just would assume that they were 230 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,500 some sort of satanic apparation or maybe in this case. 231 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:15,300 This, this was some sort of a haunting but the fact is that 232 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,600 this phenomena, whatever it is that's been happening in this 233 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,100 country. For at least 400 years and 234 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:27,800 probably long before white, the white settlers showed up. 235 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:32,500 Until next time, this is UFO morning over and out. 236 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:25,700 For at least 400 years and probably long before white, the 237 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:30,300 white settlers showed up. Until next time, this is UFO 238 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:32,500 morning over and out.