Editing List Of Report UFO Sightings (section)

==Classical antiquity==
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|{{nowrap|218&nbsp;BC}}
|ships in the sky
|[[Rome]], [[Italy (Roman Empire)|Italy]]
|[[Roman Republic]]
|[[Livy]] records a number of portents in the winter of this year, including ''navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse'' ("phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky").
|[[Livy]]'s ''[[Ab Urbe Condita Libri]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%2021.62&lang=original|title=The History of Rome, Book 21, Chapter 62|access-date=2014-10-08}}</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|{{nowrap|76&nbsp;BC}}
|spark from a falling star
|unknown
|Roman Republic
|According to [[Pliny the Elder]], a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended back up to the heavens and was transformed into a light.
|<ref>Pliny, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35], on Perseus</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|{{nowrap|74&nbsp;BC}}
|flame-like ''[[pithoi]]'' from the sky
|[[Phrygia]], [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]
|Roman Republic
|According to [[Plutarch]], a Roman army commanded by [[Lucullus]] was about to begin a battle with [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]] when "all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies. In shape, it was most like a wine-jar, and in colour, like molten silver." Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar ([[pithos]]). The apparently silvery object was reported by both armies.
|<ref>Plutarch, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Luc.+8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046 Lucullus, 8.6], on Perseus</ref><ref name="nasa">{{cite web|url=http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf|title=Stothers, Richard. "Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity" The Classical Journal 103.1 (2007) 79-92|publisher=The Classical Journal|access-date=2012-10-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022014623/http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf|archive-date=2011-10-22}} p. 87</ref>
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|196 AD
|[[Angel hair (folklore)|angel hair]]
|[[Rome]]
|[[Roman Empire]]
|Historian [[Cassius Dio]] described "A fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the [[Forum of Augustus]]." He used some of the material to plate some of his bronze coins, but by the fourth day afterwards, the silvery coating was gone.
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