Back in the spring of 1826....a German scientist (of sort) turned in a observation paper revolving around a UFO seen in the Saarbrücker Rastpfuhl area.
The Rastpfuhl? In those days, it would have been a farming district about a mile NW of the center of Saarbucken.
The guy who observed the UFO and wrote the report? Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni. The guy is fairly well known for work done on acoustics, and you'd rank him in the top twenty German scientists of period.
I started looking at this story, which was hyped-up to some degree in 2021.
So.....there are two problems with the story and the way it's told.
The original report by Chladni? You can no longer find a copy of the report anywhere. Parts of the discussion were reported in a 1827 British publication (The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art” of the Honorable Royal Institution of Great Britain).
But as you dig through everything.....the day that Chladni put on his report and still noted today.....is 1 April. Yes, April Fools day.
The odds that this was a sophisticated 'joke' in 1826? Well.....you don't know.
If you want the basic story? You can go here and review the story in about ten minutes.
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