Bet you never thought you’d see those two subjects in the same sentence! Welcome to the wacky world of ancient astronaut twaddle.
A reader recently sent me a link to this essay on the Chronicon Mirabilium blog: “Did Alexander the Great Really See UFOs?” It’s a good piece, as it injects some sanity into the paleobabbling and exposes another hole in the ancient astronaut “evidence” we’ve come to know and chuckle at.
There’s a nice follow-up on this by Antonio Huneeus on the OpenMinds blog:
http://www.openminds.tv/deconstructing-the-alexander-the-great-ufo-story/
Relevant in general (though he doesn’t mention Alexander) is Stothers’ paper on “Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity” in: The Classical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1 (Oct. – Nov., 2007), pp. 79-92.
Cheers!
Yes, I’ve read Stothers’ paper and blogged on it a couple times at UFO Religions. It offers no proof.
At this point mixing any historical event with UFOs wouldn’t surprise me . x) .