Saucers Past Surveyed: From Irish Skies of 1910 to a Welsh Mountain Bivouac

THE INTERNET — A digest entry published by The Anomalist, and originally appearing on Isle of Wéired, offers readers a tour of unidentified flying objects of years gone by and their reported effects upon human beings. The entry is signed with the initials WM.

The tour begins in Ireland in 1910. According to the digest, Shane provides an illustrated rundown of a spectacular event there, which took place amid the general furor over the approach of Halley's Comet. The digest describes the event as an alleged visitation of something perhaps even stranger than the comet.

Next the reader crosses into Wales, where James Forrest asks whether a UFO crashed on a mountain. Forrest spent a night in a bivouac at the site of the 1973 incident nicknamed 'Roswelsh.' The digest calls his account balanced and says it is accompanied by austere photography.

The journey then moves to Australia. There, researcher Rhys Dalton-Morgan is said to recount how his grandfather saw a UFO at a secret test range, and to cover much of the UFO-related history of what the digest calls the Great Southern Land.

Sciencing's Daniel Meagher turns to the 1950s, when, according to his piece, the US military had scientists build a flying saucer. The digest finds his explanation of the effects involved grounded, though its application to UFOs perhaps somewhat imperfect, and it likens his opening experiments to the Avrocar.

The digest closes on a graver note with FATE magazine's piece on Heaven's Gate, described as an interesting sidelight to what became a horrible story.