UFOs are just secret weapons , starting with boundary Layer control experiments by famous aeronautical engineer Ludwig Prandtl about 100 years ago.
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UFOs sightings go back hundreds - even thousands of years - long before your guy
Not when you look at the VOLUME of UFO report. Those ones going back supposedly hundreds of years are onsie-twosie sightings with some obvious physical explanations for them like ball lightning, meteors, and atmospheric inversions.
The BIG VOLUME of UFO reports started in 1947, just 2 years after the allies won world warII and snagged all kinds of wonderful aeronautical boundary layer control experiments.
In the 1890s there was a rash of sightings, with the max speed being 200MPH. If you were to tell me that 200MPH today was a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, you’d be laughed at. In 1947 the top speed was about 4,000 MPH, and if you were to tell me today that 4000mph is a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, you’d get laughed at AGAIN. Did the aliens come all across the galaxy just to learn how to fly faster?
There aren’t any UFO sightings before WWII.