Category: History
Fire Balls From the Clouds
Fire balls from the clouds were seen over England in 1900. The article below goes into the different types of fire balls, including ball lightning….
Flaming Fire Ball Flashes Across Skies in 1919
Fire ball sighting were always reported in the newspapers in the past. They caused a great deal of excitement among people who often had little…
5 Bizarre Frozen Corpse Discoveries From the Past
Finding frozen corpses was once a very common occurrence. Men of the sea would get frozen on their ships, lost hikers would freeze in the…
Neighbor Planets Arouse Interest
Can the weather on neighboring planets predict the weather on earth? They seemed to think so back in 1920. Neighbor Planets Arouse Interest Venus, Mars,…
Unusual Shooting Stars from the Late 1800s
I have seen numerous shooting stars and, closer up, “fire balls” in the sky, but I have never seen ones that lit up the entire…
Mysterious Clouds of Light Seen in 1929
Science is constantly changing and, as the article below shows, it is often a struggle to change the minds of other scientists about what is…
Cayuga River Gives Up Its Dead in 1894
Cayuga River was once a dumping ground for dead bodies, according to this article published in 1894. River Gives Up Its Dead Cayuga Lake,…
Celestial Freak Mystifies Science
Published in 1913, Neujmin, a Russian astronomer credited with the discovery of a number of asteroids, spots something in space that cannot be labeled as…
Ancient Quarrels Over Venus Repeated
Is Venus inhabited by people or is it Mars? This article, published in 1911, seems to favor the idea that Venus is inhabited because so…
When Venus and Jupiter Were Mistaken for Hostile Airplanes
During World War I, two bright lights were spotted in the sky. In certain areas of France, the people believed the lights were from a…
