Did Early U.S. Colonists Encounter UFOs?
Pete Wiggin is a present-day UFO researcher who reads early colonial wills and land deeds to look for reports of UFO phenomenon during the early settling of the U.S. by Europeans. He found the following excerpt in the journal of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1588-1649:
“In this year (1639) one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran it was contracted into the figure of a swine:
Governor Winthrop’s journal entry goes on to say, “Diverse other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place.”
Carol Chapman
