Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Pilgrims and UFOs.
That's correct, Pilgrims and UFOs.
Now, I want to look at a couple of settings that happened Quebec
in 1639 and 1644, just to give you an idea of what things were
like back then. If we go to Wikipedia, it tells
us that the Massachusetts Bay Colony that existed from 1628 to
1691 was more formerly the colony in Massachusetts Bay and
that was an English settlement on the east side, North America
around the Massachusetts Bay, one of several colonies later
recognized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with
initial settlements on 2 natural harbors and surrounding land
about 15.4 miles apart. The areas around Salem and
Boston, the north of the previously established Plymouth
Colony, the territory nominally administrated by the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, covered much more of central New
England, including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was
founded by owners of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
including investors and the failed Dorchester Company, which
had established a short lived settlement on Cape Anne in 1623.
Now the colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt
at colonization. It was successful, with about
20,000 people migrating to New England in the 1630s.
The population was strongly Puritan and was governed largely
by a small group of leaders strongly influenced by Puritan
teachings. It was the first slaveholding
colony in New England and its governors were elected by an
electorate limited to Freeman, who've been formally admitted to
the local church and as a consequence of colonial
leadership, showed little tolerance for other religions
reviews including Anglican, Quaker and Baptist theologies.
We're told the colonists had good relationships with local
Americans. However, they did join their
neighbors colonies in the Pequot Wars from 1636 to 1638.
That kind of gives you the background. 20,000 people would
have been a lot I suppose just to move in this ten years or so.
So it's a kind of an up and coming place, but it's still
primitive by today's standards. I mean 1639, no running water,
no electricity, none of the comforts of modern life.
And the fact is that they just finished this war with the
Native Americans. Not to mention it seems like the
kind of place that might not be really conducive to UFO reports.
But that didn't matter. This fellow, he reported it and
it must have had enough of an impact on them that they felt
like they were just they had to do something.
Now we find out that the the report date on this was the
first one we're looking at was March 1639.
This first article that we're looking at comes to us from
foxnews.com and it's dated March 3rd, 2023.
It says meet the American who reported the first sensational
UFO encounters, Puritan leader John Winthrop.
Now he didn't have the experience, but he did take the
report. It says journals of colonial
leaders, a cornerstone of American scholarship, including
remarkable accounts of UFO encounters, even abduction.
That's that's getting pretty in some pretty deep area there.
This is. Unidentified flying objects
soared into American popular culture with the dawn of the jet
age of the 1940s. The post World War 2 flying
saucer craze still rivets the imagination.
It inspired movies, books, and subculture of UFO enthusiast and
turned remote, dusty Roswell, NM into a global destination of
paranormal pilgrimage. UFOs, it turns out, have
mystified Americans since the earliest days of colonial
settlement. The first UFO known encounter in
America was recorded in 1639 by Puritan leader and prolific
journal keeper John Winthrop, leader of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony and a foundation figure in the national pantheon.
Then it says Winthrop, sensational account of a great
light in the night was witnessed by a group of sober, discreet
and credible persons over Muddy River in Boston, a trickle of a
Creek that today wraps around American sports landmark Fenway
Park. Winthrop's leadership of the
fledgling Massachusetts colony shaped the destiny of the United
States. Established more than a century
after his death, he has a serious St. cred in academia.
Then it goes on, it says. John Winthrop's journal has long
served as a cornerstone of Massachusetts historical
scholarship. The Massachusetts Historical
Society writes in a recent look at the Pearson's UFO sightings.
He diligently recorded the events of his life, along with
the trials and tribulations of the people of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony during the 1st 19 years of his existence.
Buried among his prolific writings are words that suggest
a mystifying object may have abducted three men in a boat.
Winthrop reported two more UFO sightings over Boston Harbor in
1644. We'll get to those in a minute,
it says. Winthrop's incredible tales of
aerial phenomena in early America, long unknown, generated
sudden interest in recent years after federal government and
military officials admitted that it's been studying UFOs for
decades. And it says here, stories of
paranormal, unexplained and perhaps extraterrestrial
encounters long considered fringe conspiracy were
effectively mainstream. For academics and serious
analysts, that that's a little paragraph there that's not
really necessary. But they're pointing to the
government as an authority figure to show people that,
well, it's OK to talk about UFOs, and we're not going to
deperson you, just just another one of these little, I think,
Jedi mind tricks they like to do.
Few Americans were more serious than Winthrop.
He was a devout Christian and an industrious nation builder.
Despite the hardship of carving a new civilization from the
wilderness and governing a new society, he dutifully kept
almost daily records of life in the colony for nearly two
decades. One 2005 biography is titled
John Winthrop, America's Forgotten Founding Father.
His energy seemed prodigious and inexhaustible, PBS Frontline
said of Winthrop. Whatever he needed doing, he
tried to do it repeatedly. Elected governor, he was chiefly
responsible for maintaining civic and social order.
John Winthrop was born January 12th, 1587 or 1588 in Edwards in
Suffolk County, England to Adam and Anne Brown.
Winthrop, it tells us, goes on and says both his parents came
from prosperous families. According to various accounts,
he began journal keeping sixteen O 5 while still a teacher,
chronicling his growing devotion to Christ.
His faith was increasingly at odds with national sentiment for
King Charles the 1st and angelic and sympathetic to Roman
Catholicism. The throne in 1625.
Winthrop departed for the New World in the spring of 1630
aboard the Arabella with an expedition of Puritans to
establish in Massachusetts Bay Colony, about 35 miles north of
Plymouth Colony, settled by the Pilgrims in 1620.
Winthrop issued a message on the ship that is echoed through the
American history. And then he says it's
remembered. Today is a City upon a hill
sermon inspired by several biblical passages and then
delivered to a daring people fleeing decrepit Europe to
create a new world in service of Christ.
Now it goes on here and talks a little bit more about his
experience. And what I think we can get from
this is that this was a really religious society, a serious
society, And there's no way these guys would have reported
seeing this UFO unless they've seen it, especially the part
about the missing time. I mean, the fact is it would
have been just too dangerous for them.
It says once there was a part of an eerie UFO encounter on a
winter night in Boston, a sandwich between perfunctory
passages about business dealings with natives.
The subject turned suddenly and this year when James Everall, a
sober, discreet man, and two others saw a great light in the
night at Muddy River Winthrop Rd.
On March 1st, 1639. When it stood still, it flamed
up and it was about 3 yards square.
When it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine.
Now, see, they're describing this thing.
It's just ways that they can understand it.
It says when it stood still, it flamed up and was about 3 yards
square. When it ran, it contracted into
the figure of a squine. It ran swift as an arrow, toward
Charleston and up. About two or three hours they
would come down, and they're lighter.
That's a small barge, about a mile.
And when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back
against the tide to the place they came from.
Diverse other persons saw the same light after about the same
place. So this was a mass sighting at a
hearing of the encounter, the first, for the first time, UFO
researcher Nick Pope told Fox News Digital this week.
That's stunning. Well, we know that without Nick
telling us. And then it talks about Nick
Pope a little bit. It goes on, it says.
I think it speaks to the fact that those skeptics don't like
to admit, but most UFO witnesses like Everl and Winthrop, our
serious sober individuals post, said.
Several sources say Agnes Thaddeus a spark of swamp gas is
the likely cause of the light. Yeah, it's always easy to second
guess this stuff when you're not there, and then it goes on here
it says 1. Tharpe reported two more UFO
sightings in 1644. The first on January 18th, about
midnight three men coming in a boat to Boston saw two lights
arise out of the water near the North Point of Town Cove and
form. Like a man they went at a small
distance to the town and so did the South point and there
vanished away. A week later, another
supernatural encounter was seen by many.
He wrote A Light like the moon arose above the northeast point
in Boston and met the former at Nottles Island.
And there they closed in one and then parted and closed and
parted, divert and parted diverse times, and so went over
the hill in the island and vanished.
Sometimes they shot out flames and sometimes sparkles.
Winthrop never mentioned the events again.
His journal was not published until 1825.
The mysterious passages were ignored amid the insight into
colonial history called from his voluminous writings.
The eerie, unidentified objects remain a mystery today, yet come
from one of the most trusted sources of his time.
If you look at modern UFO accounts, they're often from
police officers, pilots, military personnel, radar
operators, Pope's head. It doesn't surprise me that you
had these very historical figures seeing these things.
It's a vindication of what we see today from government
officials and for military leaders, he said goes on.
It says John went through died of natural causes on March 26th,
1649. He was 61 or 62 years old.
Wow. Pretty cool and and so awesome
that he wrote this stuff down from, you know, almost 400 years
ago now. Now I want to take a look at
this other article about this. It's a little more in depth.
This is from Murfreesboro. This is Boro pulse.com.
Boro pulse.com. Pilgrims and Aliens.
Written by Cameron Parish. I'm not seeing a date on it
here. It says when it comes to
exploring, the unexplained UFOs are my favorite topic to
investigate. So in honor of Thanksgiving,
we'll look at some surprising evidence of extraterrestrials
that we find deep in America's past.
No, I'm not referring to the hundreds of Native American
counts. We have other worldly visitors.
Everybody knows that unless white folks write it down, it's
just mythology. Believe it or not, Pilgrims, the
whitest people ever were the earliest Europeans in North
America to record a number of UFO sightings.
The first known incident happened in 1639, just nine
years after the establishment of Plymouth Colony.
The report comes from The History of New England, 1630 to
1639, a book by John Winthrop, the Puritan and the first
elected governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His writings are considered the central source for the history
of the area. One night in March of 1639,
James Everall, a sober and discreet man and two companions,
boarded a small boat and set out for a trip on the Muddy River in
Boston. They had been moving downstream
for about a mile when the night's mysterious events began.
The three men were suddenly confronted with the appearance
of a huge bright light hovering in the sky.
The light flamed up as it hovered and appeared to be about
3 yards square. As they watched, the light
contracted into the figure of a swine and moved swift as an
arrow in the direction of Charlton.
For several hours, the light moved back and forth in the sky
between Arrow's location and Charlton.
When the light finally disappeared, the men noticed
that they had somehow been carried against the tide to the
place where they had embarked. Wait a second.
Either these pilgrims ate some magic mushrooms, or this matches
perfectly with what some modern UFO witnesses report with close
encounters. Winthrop's book offers us even
more strangeness to consider. Yeah, so imagine this.
They're they're taking this boat.
They see this UFO. They say Several hours pass.
They don't really know what happened and they find them back
where they started. They have no memory of rowing
the boat. Back up to.
Where they took off from? To me, that seems like the
classic case of abduction out. Where these guys can remember
what happened, We don't know because they don't tell us. 1639
I'm thinking Salem witch trials and all the rest might not have
been the safest thing for them to do.
In 1644, a rash of bizarre sightings was again reported in
Boston. The account says that mysterious
lights appeared about two weeks after the destruction of a ship
commanded by Captain John Chaddock, a pirate whose ship
was intentionally blown up in the harbor.
On several occasions, Bostonians saw a light resembling the moon
rise from the water near the site of the sunken ship that
emerged with an identical light and then separated again,
repeating this over and over while shooting out flames and
sparks. The people of Boston attributed
the light to the ghost of one of the dead sailors, A confessed
necromancer allegedly responsible for the ship's
destruction. According to with her, this
anonymous person had done some strange things by his art in his
way in his Ave. from Virginia hit her.
To make things even more strange, with the reports, all
the bodies blown up were found, but his, which never was.
Hence is left to be inferred that the master teacher of the
black art of necromancy took away the body as well as the
soul of his pupil at the moment of the catastrophe.
Well, now that is strange. It says a pirate whose ship was
intentionally blown up in a harbor.
Some apparently one of the guys on board blew it up.
They think that's weird. Or the strange lights, the
ship's destruction and alleged sorcerer whose body was never
recovered. Simply coincidence.
Even when examined separately, they are wildly fascinating
events with more investigation. Could the sorcerer have actually
been an extraterrestrial or time traveler sent to change the
course of history and then teleported after sinking the
ship? I'm not so sure about that.
But I think it's important that we have this, that we have this
sighting recorded there, and who knows how the ship was actually
blown up. I mean, the Pilgrims at the time
said, Oh yeah, it was blown up intentionally, but I mean, do we
actually really know that? In both these.
Cases I found to be very. Interesting, the 1 from 16. 39
seems like it just kind of sticks to the facts a little bit
more and. Reports what's happening.
Apparently you had. These three guys on this.
Barge and they're. Making a round.
Trip It sounds like there's a tidal current.
Coming in from. The Bay.
Pushing against them on the. Way down and they've.
Already made it. Down and they're coming on their
way back up, so they were. Against the tide.
On the way down and they're with the Tide on the way home, just
coasting home, they see. This UFO.
They're watching this thing and they say they're watching for
hours. And.
Clearly they've had missing time and when they.
Recover their senses. They're.
Back. From where they started, which
means they would have had to paddle.
All the way back to where they started from because.
They paddle. Down.
Drift back and on the way back home.
Drifting back up this river, I suppose they are saying this
UFO. Either way.
They they not. Only had to paddle back to where
they were found at, but they had to paddle against the.
Current there's no way they. Would have done that and not
remembered it. That's the whole.
Point so clearly something. Happened there in 1639 with
these guys. They saw this UFO.
They're watching it for hours, and then they wake up in a
different place from where they first saw it.
They were picked up and placed her clearly.
They didn't paddle. They didn't paddle back.
They wouldn't remember that And 16. 44 is a little bit
different. We have a couple different, you
know, takes on this one. They just kind of give you this
generic. Take of people seeing these
lights. You know, doing these crazy
acrobatics, almost like the Orbs do sometimes.
They're in Boston, and then in the other account, they blame it
on one of these pirates apparently blowing up their own
shed. The bad guy did it.
Kind of like today they can explain what happened.
So they associated with this ship that blew out.
Now where the ship? Blew up because.
There was gunpowder on board and it was ignited by mistake.
Or if somebody actually did it, who knows?
I mean these. Sorts of things you.
Know what? You could expect these kinds of
things to happen. I suppose back in the 1600s they
didn't certainly have the fire suppression that we did that we
do today. Both the cases I.
Think though. Or what I like about them is
they're just people. Telling what they saw.
And relating to us almost 400 years later that these.
UFOs were real then, and they're.
Real today. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning Over now.