Snow from the sky in August tell Pope Liborno where to build his church
Among the many evidences of a possible UFO sighting in the past, we do not have real documents in which the object is also visually described, but rather unreliable literary descriptions without even graphic support.
UFOs descriptions are present, albeit unofficially, in various canvases and paintings by authors contemporary with the event that triggers a very particular artistic expression, such as that of a clipeological sighting.
One of these famous paintings is "The Miracle of the Snow" by the painter Masolino da Panicale.
It represents a very strange event involving Pope Liborno (352-266 AD).
According to tradition, the Pope received orders from angels in a dream to build a new Basilica in Rome, in the exact place where a miraculous snowfall would occur. The next day, contrary to any weather forecast, a white substance similar to snow fell from the sky, despite it being a hot August day. The strange phenomenon occurred only in a limited area of Rome, where, precisely subsequently, the new church of S. Maria Maggiore was built.
In Masolino's depiction, we note the Roman pontiff who is about to indicate the exact perimeter of the future sacred construction, precisely in the area represented whitened by the miraculous snow, snow painted still in the act of falling from the sky. In the upper part there are Christ and the Virgin observing the scene from the heavens.
What was the cause of such an impossible snowfall?
In his work Masolino da Panicale offers us a detailed description of the event, representing the snow falling from a large "cloud", greyish in color with a shape similar to a cigar, under which other smaller clouds are represented. After careful observation of these, it was noticed that they do not appear like ordinary clouds, but have clear rather than vaporous features, they are then represented in pairs, with only their upper part illuminated. Most of the "clouds" in question are, strangely, equipped with domes.
The hypothesis that they could be cobwebs is to be excluded, agreeing with Allan Hendry who claims in his "Guide to ufology" that the cobwebs of migratory spiders are present especially in the month of October.
If, however, we compare the photo of a flying saucer taken over Siena while "cotton" or "Angel's hair" was falling in 1954 with the strange clouds of Masolino we can notice a certain similarity, which appears to us to be completely non-random.
Further comparisons may also be suggested with three well-known photographs taken by a Belgian postman, of a typical disc appearing during the day in Belgium (in the clouds over Namur) on 5 June 1955.
We know of various sightings of strange flying objects through testimonies that also occurred in the 15th century, we cite one here, that of an Italian historian from Forlì, Leone Cobelli:
"Eodem thousandth (1487 AD) pure of June, at night a beam appeared of fire. It came from Monte de Pogiolo to Forlivio at the end of the walls of the Rocca de Ravaldino. It was then disappeared on the coming morning. Then again in the beautiful morning another beam of fire appeared coming from Monte de Puzolo up to the Piacia: and this is clear to all the people of Forlove...".
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"… Eodem thousandth (1487), of Augustus. One morning two hours before a large star appeared which was coming from the mountain (Apennines) and was going towards Ravenna, it certainly looked like a butterfly flying through the air I saw it... Like the others. It certainly looked like a cartwheel, and it lasted about a bon miserere. Some say that more than half a hour earlier they had seen it on the mountain..."
This is the account regarding the eyewitness testimonies of Leone Corbelli present in his "Cronache Forlivesi", considering them or not "celestial signs" as he himself writes.
This type of apparitions in the more recent past are quite common in the writings, annals and accounts of authors contemporary to the celestial events mentioned. If we did not truly consider them as divine apparitions, miracles or expressions of divine power, such events could only be explained with the ufological method, after all there is much evidence and facts which, subjected to modern scientific and ufological knowledge, lead us to these conclusions.
