09-??-1767   

SCOTLAND UFO REPORT FROM THE YEAR 1767    

       Ilias Chrissochoidis writes, "As a doctoral student in the Humanities, I've been spending much time reading 18th-century British periodicals. In one of them I have found a report of an unexplained phenomenon. I leave it to your judgment and experience to decide its merits as a UFO sighting. Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Sept. 8, 1767 follows:

       "We hear from Perthsire, that an uncommon phaenomenon was observed on the water of Isla, near Cupor Angus, preceded by a thick dark smoke, which soon dispelled, and discovered a large luminous body, like a house on fire, but presently after took a form something pyramidal, and rolled forwards with impetuosity till it came to the water of Erick, up which river it took its direction, with great rapidity, and disappeared a little above Blairgowrie. The effects were as extraordinary as the appearance.

       In its passage, it carried a large cart many yards over a field of grass; a man riding along the high road was carried from his horse, and so stunned with the fall, as to remain senseless a considerable time. It destroyed one half of a house, and left the other behind, undermined and destroyed an arch of the new bridge building at Blairgowrie, immediately after which it disappeared.

       As few appearances of this kind ever were attended with like consequences, various conjectures have been formed concerning it.

Thanks to Ilias Chrissochoidis Ph.D. candidate Stanford University                                        

This reference: Thanks to Filer’s Files #34, August 28, 2000 http://www.filersfiles.com/

The Annual Register*, 1767; Chronicle, pp. 127-128 under the heading of “Meteors”

*    This chronicle begun in 1758-59 as a digest of political, literary and social events. (this information from FSR Vol. 21, November 1975, p. 54-CF-)

Original source unknown “Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Sept. 8, 1767”     

UFOCAT PRN – 86898

UFOCAT URN – 076766 Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 63, ©1970

UFOCAT URN – 081385 Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 63, ©1970

UFOCAT URN – 065003 Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150) by Brad Sparks #002

                                        No date of publication.

UFOCAT URN – 086898 Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, November 1975, p. 54

UFOCAT URN – 177294 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry Hatch, # 00062 © 2002       

Europe – United Kingdom

Note: City/Town name of Coupar Angus is on the river Isla Cupar 30 km south and slightly to the east of this and not on the Isla River. The river Erick is now spelled Ericht.-CF-

River Ericht                   Latitude 56-34 N, Longitude 3-14 W (D-M)

Coupar Angus              Latitude 56-33 N, Longitude 3-16 W

Blairgowrie                   Latitude 56-35 N, Longitude 2-20 W

Cupar                           Latitude 56-19 N, Longitude 3-01 W

River Isla  ( 2 )             Latitude 56-32 N, Longitude 3-22 W, and

                                    Latitude 57-33 N, Longitude 2-47 W

Reference: United Kingdom Gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1950.     

UFO location (UFOCAT) Latitude 56.60 N, Longitude 3.35 W (D.%) [Blairgowrie]

                                     Latitude 56.55 N, Longitude 3.27 W (D.%) [Isle near Coupar Angus]