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SUBJECT: GUESS WHEN THE FIRST SAUCER WAS SIGHTED FILE: UFO3000
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Appearing in the San Jose News (not yet the Mercury-News), Monday, January 1,
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1968, page 102:
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`` GUESS WHEN THE FIRST SAUCER WAS SIGHTED
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Willowdale, ONT. (NEA) - What may have been the first reported
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sighting of unidentified flying objects over North America has been
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found in an 18th-century diary by the Rev. James. S. McGivern, S.J.,
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historian at Regis College.
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The incident is recorded under the date Oct. 12, 1796, in the
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diary of one Simeon Perkins, published by the Champlain Society.
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The extract reads:
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"A strange story comes from the Bay of Fundy that ships have
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been seen in the air. Mr. Darrow is lately come from there
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by land. I enquired of him. He stated that they were said
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to be seen at New Mines near Mr. Ratchford's by a girl
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about sunrise.
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"The girl cried out and two men who were in the house came
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out and saw them. There were 15 ships and a man forward
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with his hand stretched out. They made to the eastward.
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They were so near people saw their sides and ports. The
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story did not obtain universal credit, but some people
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believed it."
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Comments Father McGivern: "It is of interest that in the era of
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sail, the UFOs were reported in the form of ships, whereas today
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they are reported seen as exotic aircraft."
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{end of article}
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