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Did people report seeing UFOs before the 20th century?

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There is no consensus on what constitutes the first recorded UFO sighting in history.

Ancient texts like Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets, like those in the Šumma lu series and other divination texts, provide the first known recordings of potential UFO sightings.

In 1947 , amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying his plane around Mount Rainier in Washington in search of a crashed cargo plane.