10-29-2005, 12:44 AM
Greetings
I just found this whilst browsing...
"Gods and Spacemen in Greece and Rome" by W. Raymond Drake (Sphere 1976) pages 115-116 quotes an Italian Alberto Fenoglio from "Clypeus" Anno 111, #2 (in turn quoting Giovanni Gustavo Droysen's "Storia di Alessandro il Grande") which Drake translates as:-
"One day there appeared over the Macedonian camp these "flying shields", as they had been called, which flew in a triangular formation led by an exceedingly large one, the others were smaller by almost a half. The unknown chronicler narrates that they circled slowly over Tyre while thousands of warriors on both sides stood and watched them in astonishment. Suddenly from the largest "shield" came a lightening flash that struck the walls, these crumbled, other flashes followed and walls and towers dissolved, as if they had been built of mud, leaving the way open for the besiegers who poured like an avalanche through the breeches. The "flying shields" hovered over the city until it was completely stormed then they very swiftly disappeared aloft, soon melting into the blue sky".
However, by the time of the Indian campaign the spaceships seem to have turned against Alexander. Drake quotes Frank Edwards (in "Stranger than Science" by Pan Books) who quotes an undisclosed source and claims:-
". tells of two strange craft that dived repeatedly at his (Alexanders) army until the war elephants, the men and the horses all panicked and refused to cross the river where the incident occurred. What did the things look like? His historian describes them as great shining silvery shields, spitting fire around the rims. things that came from the skies and returned to the skies"
from [url:11012lo6]http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.catherine/wargames/macedon.htm[/url]
This is also mentioned elsewhere and that Alexander was not the first to see them.
Now i am a believer in UFOs and know there are many descriptions of ancient craft from India called Vimanas and others mentioned in the writings of the ancients.
What do you think?
regards
Arthes
I just found this whilst browsing...
"Gods and Spacemen in Greece and Rome" by W. Raymond Drake (Sphere 1976) pages 115-116 quotes an Italian Alberto Fenoglio from "Clypeus" Anno 111, #2 (in turn quoting Giovanni Gustavo Droysen's "Storia di Alessandro il Grande") which Drake translates as:-
"One day there appeared over the Macedonian camp these "flying shields", as they had been called, which flew in a triangular formation led by an exceedingly large one, the others were smaller by almost a half. The unknown chronicler narrates that they circled slowly over Tyre while thousands of warriors on both sides stood and watched them in astonishment. Suddenly from the largest "shield" came a lightening flash that struck the walls, these crumbled, other flashes followed and walls and towers dissolved, as if they had been built of mud, leaving the way open for the besiegers who poured like an avalanche through the breeches. The "flying shields" hovered over the city until it was completely stormed then they very swiftly disappeared aloft, soon melting into the blue sky".
However, by the time of the Indian campaign the spaceships seem to have turned against Alexander. Drake quotes Frank Edwards (in "Stranger than Science" by Pan Books) who quotes an undisclosed source and claims:-
". tells of two strange craft that dived repeatedly at his (Alexanders) army until the war elephants, the men and the horses all panicked and refused to cross the river where the incident occurred. What did the things look like? His historian describes them as great shining silvery shields, spitting fire around the rims. things that came from the skies and returned to the skies"
from [url:11012lo6]http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.catherine/wargames/macedon.htm[/url]
This is also mentioned elsewhere and that Alexander was not the first to see them.
Now i am a believer in UFOs and know there are many descriptions of ancient craft from India called Vimanas and others mentioned in the writings of the ancients.
What do you think?
regards
Arthes
Cristina
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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The Hoplite Association
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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