Medieval UFOs​? The Story of the "Flying Ship" over Ireland

You may have heard reference to a story told by the 13th-century cleric, Gervase of Tilbury, about a flying ship dropping its anchor in a churchyard, and the ensuing struggle between one of its sailors and the assembled crowd. There are actually many different versions of this story dating back to the middle of the 8th century CE, and together, they tell us a great deal about Medieval cosmology, and they even shed light on the modern UFO phenomenon. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=3375417 Donate on Paypal: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/support.html Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2is2A47FY58 Website: https://ThinkAnomalous.com Full sources & transcript: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/Flying-Ship-over-Ireland.html Facebook: https://facebook.com/ThinkAnomalous Twitter: https://twitter.com/Think_Anomalous Instagram: https://instagram.com/Think.Anomalous Check out more from our illustrator, V.R. Laurence: https://vrlaurence.com Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau. Illustration by V.R. Laurence (https://vrlaurence.com) Research by Jason Charbonneau Music by Josh Chamberland. Animation by Brendan Barr. Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland. Primary Sources: Agobard, Agobardus. 0901-1000. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Départment des Manuscrits. Latin 2853. Annals of Ulster (Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition). Compiled by Pádraig Bambury, Stephen Beechinor, trans. Mac Airt & Mac Niocaill. Breventano, Stefano. trattato delle impressioni dell'aere, raccolto da varij autori di filosofia. Pavia: Bartoli Girolamo, 1571. Gervase of Tilbury, Otia Imperialia, ed. and trans. S. E. Banks and J. W. Binns. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Annotated Edition, 2002. Houston Daily Post. Houston, Texas. April 28, 1897. Leabhar breathnach annso sis, The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius. Ed. trans. James Henthorn Todd, D.D., M.R.I.A.. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1848. Reliquiæ Antiquæ: scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, illustrating chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language. Ed. Thomas Wright and James Orchard Halliwell. London: John Russell Smith, 1845. The King's mirror (Speculum regale - Konungs Skuggsjà), trans. Laurence Marcellus Larson. London: Oxford University Press, 1917. This podcast uses sound effects downloaded from stockmusic.com.