Hello, and welcome to the program UFO warning.
In this episode. We're talking about the 1639,
Boston UFO, sighting. That's correct. 1639.
Boston, UFO, sighting, this might have even been the first
recorded UFO sighting in the New World, by one of the white
settlers. Now this article comes to us
from celebrate boston.com title says first UFO sighting in
American Rika. Muddy river, 1639.
And 1639, America's first UFO was sighted over the Charles
River in Boston lights, sped back and forth across the
Charles River from Back Bay fens to Charleston.
Governor, John Winthrop made an entry in his journal regarding
the strange event. The primary witness was
described as a man of good reputation activity and estate
in Boston. Says quote and this year, one
James everal, a sober discreet, man.
And two others saw a great light in the night at muddy river.
When it Stood, Still it flamed up and it was about three yards
square when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a
swine are run as Swift as an arrow towards Charleston.
And so up and down for about two or three hours, They were coming
down in their lighter about a mile, that's your boat and when
it was over they found themselves carried quite back
against the tide to the place. They'd come from diverse others
credible. Persons saw the same light after
about the same place. So you have these three fellows
in this boat going, trying to make the way at the river.
They see this. About a probably about a 10 foot
square of light in the sky. It must have not been that far
from him. It describing how it kind of
fading in and out. And when it left it, it left at
a high rate of speed, not only that, but it was cited by other
people. So, I suppose, this was our
first mass UFO sighting. It says, Muddy River is located
at Back Bay fens opposite Cambridge Massachusetts and
diagonally across from Charlestown.
Back, Back Bay wasn't filled in at the time and a large.
Area of Open Water existed in the river.
That was then called Broad Bay. The distance to Charleston would
have been more than two miles. James Savage added at the added,
the following footnote about the sighting in his early edition of
Winthrop Journal journal and 1825.
It says, this account of an igneous, fatuous or pale light
over marshy ground. May easily be believed on
testimony. Less respectable than that,
which was adduced some operation of the devil or other power.
Beyond the customer agents of nature, was probably imagined by
the relators and it hairs of that age and The Wonder of being
carried, a mile against the tide became important cooperation for
the imagination. Perhaps, they were wafted carry
lightly during the two or three hours of astonishment for so
moderate Distance by the wind, but if this suggestion be
Ejected. We might suppose that the Eddie
or Whirlpool Whirlpool flowing always and our River contrary to
the tide in the channel rather than the meteor carried their
lighter back. The little boat.
So this is amazing. Even in 1825 we have the bunkers
and Skeptics these fellows just told you that this is 1639,
okay? The actively burning people at
the For being witches, would imagine that.
This is not something that we just want to make up say, saw
this UFO. Okay, at apparently a pretty
close range. He says it's about 10 foot
square. He describes how it expands in
light and then how it changes shape, how it races across the
sky. This one on, for a period of two
or three hours. And while they're watching this
thing, their boat, Floats back against the tide.
So they've been rolling forward. I suppose an attempt to get to
the other side of the river, but while they're watching this
thing, not rowing. They're carried in the opposite
direction in which they should be going very strange.
So here we go ahead, 200 years later.
And, you know, and we have our early Skeptics saying.
Well, there must have been at Whirlpool.
The wind must have been blowing. We don't know how these guys
ended up back, where they're at, as far as I'm concerned.
These people could have they could have had a lost time
experience, who knows what happens?
But we know that they watch thing for about two hours and
the boat Was moving against the tide, so something was moving
that boat. It says Witnesses, also stated
that the lights contracted into the shape of a swine.
Muddy river, the Hamlet, eventually became the separate
town of Brookline, pigs and other cattle were stored there
during summer while corn was growing in Boston.
It is safe to do so that the UFO Witnesses had seen or heard some
swine on the same day, they observe the great light, the
slights resembled a common animal making it probable is
Saul - fatuous Mirage phenomena in the darkness boy, you know
Theta had History Channel back in 1825.
This guy would have been right on at talking smack about these
UFO. Observers in any case the event
was observed by divers. In other words, many people and
noteworthy enough for the Puritan Governor to document it
in his private journal in 1644, the first UFO, sighting occurred
over Boston, Harbor, and then A major UFO sighting.
Took place at New Haven, Connecticut and 1647.
So these things were going, these things are going on all
over the place and whether this fellow in 1825 wants to
recognize what happens or not. The fact is this first sighting
that we see in 1839 is a just Kicking the whole thing off,
over the next eight years. Then you have multiple sightings
in this General vicinity. Now there's another article
about this from history.com. It says America's first UFO,
sightings and then it goes on here, says on March 1st. 1639,
John Winthrop opened his diary in which he recorded the trials
and triumphs that is Philip Puritans as it made a new life
in America as the governor of the Massachusetts Bay.
Colony, put pen to paper, he began to recount a most unusual
event better recently, caused a stir among the English
immigrants. When I went there I wrote that
earlier in the year. James everall.
A sober discreet, man. And two.
Others have been rowing a boat in the muddy river, which flowed
through swampland and emptied into a Tidal Basin.
And the Charles River, when they saw a great light in the night
sky, when it Stood, Still it flamed up and was about 3 yards
square, the governor, the governor reported and when it
ran it was It into the figure of a swine over the course of two
or three hours. The Boatman said that the
mysterious light ran as Swift as an arrow darting back and forth
between them and the village of Charleston, a distance of
approximately two miles divers. Other credible persons saw the
same light after about the same place when they're batted.
So this is this is something that this tells you that this
would have cost. Quite a stir, you know?
1639, no one's calling anybody on the cell phone.
Nobody's calling anybody on the phone period.
If you want to tell somebody something you have to walk there
and tell him and so this would have been big news, so it's not
surprising to me that the governor made it mention of this
in his diary. The governor wrote that when the
strange Apparition finally faded away.
The three Puritans in the boat were stunned to find themselves?
1 mile Upstream as if the light had transported them there, One
mile Upstream. Now, you know, if you're rolling
a johnboat upper river, you know, it's a little bit of work.
So you would have known whether or not you rode that boat a mile
up the river, okay, you would have known that.
So they were stunned. You have to wonder, were they
being transported there as they were watching this thing?
Or did they actually have missing time?
It says the me, Men had no memory of their rowing against
the tide although it's possible. They could have been carried by
the wind or a reverse tidal flow.
Now, you're just throwing stuff out there, then mysterious
repositioning of the boat could suggest that they were unaware
of part of their experience. Some researchers would interpret
this as a possible alien abduction.
If it happened today, rice jock, male and Chris, aw, back and
wonders in the sky unexplained. Real objects from Antiquity to
Modern Times. Some have speculated that the
Curious glow could have been an ignis.
Fatuous, a pale light that can appear over Marshland at night,
due to the combustion combustion of gas from, decomposed organic
matter. If winter support was correct,
however, the light was not rising from the swamp, but
shooting across the sky making that explanation on liking
unlikely, not unlikely and making that explanation.
Impossible. An odd sight returned to the
skies, a box and five years later, according to another
entry in with the starter, dated January, 18th 1644 about
midnight, three. Men coming to go to Boston.
Saw two lights arise out of the water.
You know, the North Point of the Town Cove and form, like a man
and went at a small distance to the town and so to the South
Point and their vanished away. Wow.
Sam situation. They're in a boat, they see, two
lights come out of the water. Okay.
Inform like a man. So apparently these lights came
together, took on the shape of a human and then when a small
distance to the town, so I'm assuming they just levitate it
there. And then it says, they vanished
away, excuse me a week later went there broke another
unexplained slusho event occurred over Boston.
Brr. A light like the moon arose
about the new about the Northeast point in Boston and
met the former at Noddles Island.
And there they closed in one and then parted and closed and
parted diverse times. And so, on over the hill and the
island and vanished, sometimes I shot out Flames, sometimes
Sparkles. This was about eight of the
clock in the evening and was seen by many.
That must have just been spectacular if we spoke to see
this. This is a light, a light like,
the moon, this is, this is a large UFO arose, about the
Northeast point in Boston and met at the former at Noddles
islands of the watch, the same travel across the sky, and where
they closed in one, and then parted and closed and parted
diverse times. And so, on over the hill in the
island and vanished, this is one of these strange situations
where we see these UFOs joined together.
Fuse. Come apart, rejoin.
It's obviously not a mechanical creation doing this, as some
sort of plasmas, some sort of energy.
Goes on. I says about the same time a
voice was heard upon the Water between Boston and Worcester
calling out in a most Dreadful manner.
Boy, boy, come away, come away and it suddenly shifted from one
place to another a great distance about 20 times.
He was heard by diverse Godly persons about 14 dies, after the
same voice and the same Dreadful manner Was Heard by others on
the other side of the Town tour. Bottles Island.
So this just goes from being a UFO experience to being a
paranormal experiences. Very strange.
It says, unlike the 16 39 UFO Winthrop had to explanation for
the latest luminescence, over his City, upon a hill, the
governor noted, that the bizarre spectacle was seen near the
location where a vessel Captain by John chaddock had exploded
months earlier after a sailor accidentally ignited.
And gunpowder aboard the ship. The captain was not a board at
the time, but the blast killed five crew members went there,
noted that Rescuers had recovered the bodies of all the
victims except for the man believed responsible for the
Calamity. A sailor who professed the
ability to communicate with the dead and who was suspected of
murdering his master and Virginia.
Wow, the hand of the devil was thought to have taken possession
of the body. And it was a haunting voice of
the sailors ghost that was said to have a company.
The strange vision of the old UFO that mystified Boston, that
is really strange. So we have a couple different
the courage to happen, but a lot of paranormal stuff, a lot of a
lot of UFO phenomena types of happening there in Boston, back
in the early, 1600s It just goes to show that you know they
couldn't call them drones back then they couldn't call them
high-tech vehicles. From one of our adversaries at
that time frequently, people just would assume that they were
some sort of satanic apparation or maybe in this case.
This, this was some sort of a haunting but the fact is that
this phenomena, whatever it is that's been happening in this
country. For at least 400 years and
probably long before white, the white settlers showed up.
Until next time, this is UFO morning over and out.
For at least 400 years and probably long before white, the
white settlers showed up. Until next time, this is UFO
morning over and out.