This video was brought back to my attention recently:

A fat, detailed UFO, floating (supposedly) for three nights over the Hatzor Kibbutz in Israel. I could think of a thousand and one calls for bullshit, but lets say it’s real. Dang…

Julius Obsequens, a Roman writer living in the 4th century, wrote in his book, “Liber de prodigiis“, a chronicle of wondrous occurrences and omens, that in the year 91 B.C., a strange thing was seen in the sky:

“At Aenariae, while Livius Troso was promulgating the laws at the beginning of the Italian war, at sunrise, there came a terrific noise in the sky, and a globe of fire appeared burning in the north. In the territory of Spoletum, a globe of fire, of golden color, fell to the earth gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance. It revolved toward the eastern quadrant of the sky.”

I just read this article about the deathbed affidavit by Walter Haut, who was the army public relations liaison at the Roswell Air Force base in 1947 when the so-called “Roswell Incident” occurred. After initially releasing that the army had recovered a strange craft, he issued a statement to the press that it was the wreckage of a weather balloon and that no strange alien ship had crash-landed in the desert. There was no UFO and no bodies either. It was just a weather balloon and some dumb hick farmer’s imagination.

Walter died last year, but before kicking the bucket, he made a sworn affidavit to be released after he passed away. In it, he states that the weather balloon explanation was indeed a cover story and that a strange craft was recovered as well as alien corpses. There was not one, but two crashes; the second having much more debris and bodies.

He described a meeting with the base commander and other high-ranking officers where they puzzled over pieces of strange material from the craft. He told of being taken to “Building 94″—one of the base’s hangers, where he was shown a metallic, egg-shaped craft about twelve to fifteen feet long and six feet wide with no windows, landing gears or features whatsoever. He saw two child-like bodies about four feet tall with oddly large heads, lying on the floor, covered with a tarp.

You can read a copy of the full affidavit here.

…something to ponder over your morning oatmeal.