Documented sightings from the Pre-1900, sorted from most recent.
During the 1897 airship wave, a craft allegedly crashed into a windmill in Aurora, TX, with reports of a non-human pilot buried in the local cemetery.
Japanese fishermen in 1803 discovered a strange rounded vessel with crystal windows carrying a mysterious woman who could not communicate, documented in four separate Edo-period texts with illustrations resembling modern flying saucers.
Large black spheres were observed in the sky over Basel, documented in a gazette broadsheet similar to the Nuremberg event five years prior.
Residents of Nuremberg witnessed an apparent aerial battle of spheres, cylinders, and crosses, documented in a famous 1561 woodcut broadsheet.