1806: Maine UFO|Entity Sighting

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|ENTITY SIGHTING REPORT

Date: July 1806

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Day/Night: evening

Location:  Maine

Urban or Rural: –

No. of Entity(‘s): 1

Entity Type: Humanoid

Entity Description: she grew up as large and tall as I considered that woman to be. “Now she appeared glorious. On her head was the representation of the sun diffusing the luminous, rectilinear rays every way to the ground. Through the rays I saw the personal form and the woman’s dress.”

Hynek Classification: CE-V (Close Encounter V) Voluntary bilateral contact between humans and extraterrestrials.

Duration:

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s): twelve rods distance

Shape of Object(s): white rock

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Source: C. J. Ducasse, Paranormal Phenomena, Science and Life After Death (New York Parapsychology Foundation, 1969); Abraham Cummings, Immortality Proved by the Testimony of Sense (Bath, Maine, 1826).

Summary/Description: In 1806 the Rev. Abraham Cummings set out to investigate the apparition of a ghost. A serious scholar with a Master’s degree from Brown University, he was sure the tales would turn out to be fraudulent. The philosopher C. J. Ducasse reproduces Cummings’ testimony as follows: “Some time in July 1806, in the evening, I was informed by two persons that they had just seen the Spectre in the field. About ten minutes after, I went out, not to see a miracle for I believed they had been mistaken. Looking toward an eminence twelve rods distance from the house, I saw there as I supposed one of the white rocks. This confirmed my opinion of their spectre, and I paid no attention to it.

“Three minutes after, I accidentally looked in the same direction, and the white rock was in the air; its form a complete globe, with a tincture of red and its diameter about two feet. Fully satisfied that this was nothing ordinary I went toward it for more accurate examination. 

While my eye was constantly upon it, I went on for four or five steps, when it came to me from the distance of eleven rods, as quick as lightning, and instantly assumed a personal form with a female dress, but did not appear taller than a girl seven years old. While I looked upon her, I said in my mind “you are not tall enough for the woman who has so frequently appeared among us!” Immediately she grew up as large and tall as I considered that woman to be. “Now she appeared glorious. On her head was the representation of the sun diffusing the luminous, rectilinear rays every way to the ground. Through the rays I saw the personal form and the woman’s dress.” Cummings wrote that the entity was encountered on scores of occasions, and in his report he included thirty affidavits from witnesses to prove it. In all cases a small luminous cloud appeared first and then grew until it took the form of the deceased woman. Afterwards it would take its exit in much the same way.