Ancient Ufos

Finally, we couldn’t let pass the opportunity to remember two examples of “ancient UFOs” given by Jung. The first one comes from a Basel broadsheet, 1566 by Samuel Coccius. Writes Jung, “He reports that on August 7 of that year, at the time of the sunrise, ”many large black globes were seen in the air, moving before the sun with great speed, and turning against each other as if fighting. Some of them became red and fiery and afterwards faded and went out.”… The dark color of the Ufos may be due to their having been seen against the light of the rising sun. Some of them were bright and fiery. Their speed and irregular motion are typical Ufo features,”

The other is a Nuremberg broadsheet, 1561, with a more spectacular aerial show at sunrise on April 14, 1561. Once again Jung comments: “They saw “globes” of a blood-red, bluish, or black in a row, now and then four in a square, also some standing alone. And among these globes some blood-colored crosses were seen.” Moreover there were “two great tubes… in which three, four, and more globes were to be seen. They all began to fight one another.” This went on for about an hour. Then “they all fell… from the sun and sky down to the earth, as if everything were on fire, then it slowly faded away on the earth, producing a lot of steam.” Underneath the globes was a long object, “shaped like a great black spear.” Naturally this “spectacle” was interpreted as a divine warning.”

References:

- Wilkins, Harold T., Flying Saucers on the Attack, New York, Ace Star Books, 1967.

- Drake, Raymond W., Gods and Spacemen in Greece and Rome, New York, Signet Books, 1976.

- Valle, Jacques, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, London, Neville Spearman, 1966.

 - Jung, Carl G, “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies” in Civilization in Transition, Vol. 10 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

- Caligari2000, UFOs and Jungian Archetypes, available at socyberty.com/psychology/ufos-and-jungian-archetypes/