UFO Sightings
On November 17th of 1882, Edward Walter Muldaner reports a strange visitor that was Shaped like a disc or torpedo. The strange object was also seen by several other European astronomers.
On April 14th the skies over Germany were reportedly filled with a multitude of objects engaged in an aerial battle. Small spheres and discs were said to emerge from large cylinders.
In both the European and Japanese aerial theatres during WW2, balls of light and other shapes that followed aircraft were reported by several pilots.
On September 24, 1235, General Yoritsune and his army observed unidentified globes of light flying in erratic patterns in the night sky near Kyoto, Japan. The general's advisers told him not to worry, saying it was merely the wind causing the stars to sway.
On January 25, 1878, the Denison Daily News wrote that a local farmer reported seeing a large, dark, circular flying object resembling a balloon flying across the sky.
In both Europe and Japan during World War II, balls of light and other shapes that followed aircraft were reported by both sides.
On February 25, 1942, the U.S. Army detected unidentified aircraft both visually and on radar over the Los Angeles, California region.
In 1946, there were over 2000 reports of unidentified aircraft in the Scandinavian nations