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SCOTLAND UFO REPORT FROM THE YEAR 1767
Ilias Chrissochoidis writes, "As a doctoral student in the Humanities, I've been spending much time reading 18th-century British periodicals. In one of them I have found a report of an unexplained phenomenon. I leave it to your judgment and experience to decide its merits as a UFO sighting. Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Sept. 8, 1767 follows:
"We hear from Perthsire, that an uncommon phaenomenon was observed on the water of Isla, near Cupor Angus, preceded by a thick dark smoke, which soon dispelled, and discovered a large luminous body, like a house on fire, but presently after took a form something pyramidal, and rolled forwards with impetuosity till it came to the water of Erick, up which river it took its direction, with great rapidity, and disappeared a little above Blairgowrie. The effects were as extraordinary as the appearance.
In its passage, it carried a large cart many yards over a field of grass; a man riding along the high road was carried from his horse, and so stunned with the fall, as to remain senseless a considerable time. It destroyed one half of a house, and left the other behind, undermined and destroyed an arch of the new bridge building at Blairgowrie, immediately after which it disappeared.
As few appearances of this kind ever were attended with like consequences, various conjectures have been formed concerning it.
Thanks to Ilias Chrissochoidis Ph.D. candidate Stanford University
This reference: Thanks to Filer’s Files #34, August 28, 2000
http://www.filersfiles.com/The Annual Register*, 1767; Chronicle, pp. 127-128 under the heading of “Meteors”
* This chronicle begun in 1758-59 as a digest of political, literary and social events. (this information from FSR Vol. 21, November 1975, p. 54-CF-)
Original source unknown “Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Sept. 8, 1767”
UFOCAT PRN – 86898
UFOCAT URN – 076766 Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 63, ©1970
UFOCAT URN – 081385 Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 63, ©1970
UFOCAT URN – 065003 Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150) by Brad Sparks #002
No date of publication.
UFOCAT URN – 086898 Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, November 1975, p. 54
UFOCAT URN – 177294 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry Hatch, # 00062 © 2002
Europe – United Kingdom
Note: City/Town name of Coupar Angus is on the river Isla Cupar 30 km south and slightly to the east of this and not on the Isla River. The river Erick is now spelled Ericht.-CF-
River Ericht Latitude 56-34 N, Longitude 3-14 W (D-M)
Coupar Angus Latitude 56-33 N, Longitude 3-16 W
Blairgowrie Latitude 56-35 N, Longitude 2-20 W
Cupar Latitude 56-19 N, Longitude 3-01 W
River Isla ( 2 ) Latitude 56-32 N, Longitude 3-22 W, and
Latitude 57-33 N, Longitude 2-47 W
Reference: United Kingdom Gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1950.
UFO location (UFOCAT) Latitude 56.60 N, Longitude 3.35 W (D.%) [Blairgowrie]
Latitude 56.55 N, Longitude 3.27 W (D.%) [Isle near Coupar Angus]
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