Or maybe you think it was in 1949, when rancher Mac Brazel found a strange wreckage near Roswell, New Mexico, sparking rumors of a crashed alien spacecraft.
But the truth is that America’s first UFO sighting was way earlier than you think. It happened in 1639, when the Puritans were still settling in New England.
The story of America’s first UFO sighting was recorded by John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in his diary.
Winthrop was a devout Puritan who led a group of English immigrants to establish a “city upon a hill” in the New World. He was also a keen observer of natural phenomena and wrote about comets, eclipses, earthquakes and other events in his journal.
On March 1, 1639, Winthrop wrote about a strange incident that had occurred earlier that year, involving three men who were rowing a boat in the Muddy River near Boston. According to Winthrop, the men saw “a great light in the night sky” that moved and changed shape. Winthrop wrote:
“In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River,” Winthrop recorded in his journal on March 1st, 1639.
“When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about
three yards square; when it ran it was contracted into the figure of a
swine. It ran swift as an arrow toward Charlton [Charlestown] and up and
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