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It’s hard for us to judge how the ancient earthlings perceived the moon, since there is only scattered information about this, more similar to legends and conjectures. According to them, the Earth then it seems without the usual satellite, then she allegedly had them some.
But even the only moon today causes much scientific debate, not to mention the fact that they constantly find something completely atypical of the Earth’s natural satellite (assuming that academic information about him that we get from school benches are absolutely true). These are some obviously artificial structures, flying vehicles, although no one has yet mastered Selena, and much more.
It is noteworthy that the first man of modern times, who in XVII century saw on the moon something abnormal (that today we denoted by the abbreviation “UFO”), was an American preacher Cotton Mather (Cotton Mather).
To begin with, the telescope was invented in 1608, and that’s all, who had access to this fantastic device, rushed consider the universe, at least the closest to us celestial bodies, of which the moon was the most accessible for study.
Cotton Mather was one of the enlightened people of his time, having a significant impact on scientific and political thought America, as well as its literature. He was not just Christian a preacher and a religious moralist, but also a biologist, a physician, writer and publicist.
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Apparently, questions of the device were not alien to this worthy husband. Universe, if in 1668, looking at the moon through a telescope, he saw a light object flying over its surface, which hit Mather’s imagination, about which he left a record for posterity.
This record was not lost and today even became the property of a wide public – thanks to NASA, whose official website this message can be found in the chronological catalog of the lunar events.
Unfortunately, we don’t even know approximately what we saw Cotton Mather on that memorable night. In any case, quite It is noteworthy that the UFO, noticed on the moon, was the first to mention famous religious figure considering this mysterious phenomenon not from the position of God, but as a kind of astronomical fact.
Cotton Mather was the first but not the last to watch oddities on the moon
Subsequently, there were other researchers who noted on the moon all sorts of oddities. So, in 1821, the famous English astronomer John Herschel saw bright lights on her through a telescope. After of this he several times fixed bright objects on the moon, “burning like coals.” Recall that Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and known as an outstanding and very sober mathematician, not inclined to any fantasies.
Today, thanks to digital technology, watching the moon is like taking photos or videos of everything that happens there, maybe any layman. We’re no longer talking about official satellite imagery, which are posted on the websites of space agencies, map servers and so on. And the main conclusion that can be done on the basis of all these observations, as follows: people continue to see a lot of strange things on the moon …
And Cotton Maser, it turns out, was the first ufologist, or independent space explorer, as they now call these tireless seekers of truth. That’s just the modern title of virtual an archaeologist is not particularly suitable for him, but nothing can you do …
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