Hi guys, today I’ll introduce an ancient Chinese record written over 1,600 years ago. It described
a fascinating encounter between the 1st emperor of China and otherworldly beings that traveled by a
highly advanced ship, which resembled a typical kind of UFO referred to as a flying saucer.
UFO sightings have been reported throughout history and in various parts of the world,
by ancient people who lived in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
These records from our distant past certainly arouse curiosity.
Some ancient depictions of flying objects were undoubtedly astronomical in nature,
probably comets, bright meteors and planets that can be seen with the naked eye,
or atmospheric optical phenomena such as lenticular clouds. An example is Halley's Comet,
which was recorded by Chinese astronomers in 240 BC and possibly earlier. However, we
cannot just assume that what our ancestors saw and recorded in their texts were all natural events.
Like today’s sightings, there appears to be a percentage of them that are inexplicable
and can’t be dismissed. What I’m going to present here is a piece of an ancient Chinese transcript,
which offers thought-provoking information worth pondering. Let’s get started.
UFO sightings during ancient times were typically interpreted as supernatural portents,
angels, or other religious omens. In the modern era it started as a fringe conspiracy
and today it is a serious topic of fact not fantasy. U.S. Navy pilots and other military
personnel have been seeing mysterious flying objects for decades. In April of this year 2022,
the Pentagon released over 1,500 pages of secret documents about a shadowy UFO program. These U.S.
government reports were made public through a Freedom of Information Act request. In May 2022,
Congress held a rare UFO public hearing featuring historic testimony from military officials.
Neither the ancient depictions nor modern sightings alone can be taken as conclusive
evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life. But they do, at the very least
raise the possibility that extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth likely for thousands of years.
Now, about the ancient Chinese record. Shi Yi Ji is a Chinese mythological / historical book
compiled by the Taoist alchemist Wang Jia who died in 390 AD. The title of the work
has been translated as Researches into Lost Records, or Forgotten Tales. The author,
Wang Jia was documented to have lived in seclusion on a cliff. He had hundreds of disciples. Since
he could foresee future occurrences, his predictions were treated as prophecies.
His work, Shi Yi Ji is usually considered to be based on apocryphal versions of
early legendary Chinese history. This book is deemed by classic historians to be beautifully
scripted about farcical myths. Because it contains details not written in the official chronicles,
and describes mystical beings and fairytale like alchemy stories, but it’s possible,
like other fantastical ancient epics, that these so-called tales might have been reporting real
historical incidents. For example, Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey on the Trojan War
were taken as a myth though later archaeological finds in Turkey suggest that the city of Troy
did exist. So the legendary ancient Troy was real. Thus the Trojan War was likely to be real too,
except that the immense scale of a 10-year siege narrated by Homer
most likely was exaggerated. The early writers used their words and understanding to paint a
portrait of past events and they certainly took artistic license as well. With this in mind,
let’s read some of the ancient Chinese text. In Chapter 4 of Shi Yi Ji, an extraordinary
meeting between the 1st emperor of ancient China and otherworldly beings was depicted.
Over 2200 years ago, the 38-year-old Qin Shi Huang conquered six kingdoms becoming the 1st emperor of
a united China. He was a powerful, ambitious and brutal emperor who ruled China from 221 to 210 BC.
During his reign, his generals greatly expanded the size of the Chinese state.
He is often recognized as the most significant emperor in Chinese history.
He designed the world-renowned terracotta warriors to guard his mausoleum.
He ordered the unification and construction of a great defensive wall to prevent invasions
from the northern nomadic tribes, which was a precursor to the current Great Wall of China.
It’s officially documented that later in his life; Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought
the fabled elixir of life to allow him to live forever. The emperor reportedly met deities with
incredible longevity, which might have attributed to his obsession with acquiring immortality.
He sent out fleets of ships on the East China Sea to search for the mythical island where supposedly
deities resided. He had no success and fell prey to many alchemists who offered him the so-called
magical supplements. It’s alleged he died from poisoning due to ingesting mercury pills,
made by his alchemists and court physicians, believing it to be an elixir of immortality.
He died at the age of 49. This chapter described an unusual meeting between
the emperor and a group of deities or celestial beings. Here is the relevant portion of the story.
The first emperor of Qin was pursuing immortality and there were people from Wanqu who came by a
ship shaped like a snail or whorl. This ship could go to the bottom of the sea without
being affected. People of this country were giants as tall as 10 zhang which is 23m/ 75’.
They wore animal fur and bird feathers as a disguise. The emperor spoke to one of them.
The visitor described when the heaven and earth was created as if he had seen it firsthand. The
visitor said: "When I was young, I used to travel ten thousands lis (2579 miles/ 4150km) a day.
After I grew old, I can stay put and see things clear in the universe. My country is 90,000 lis
(23,208 miles/ 37350 kms) away from where the sun sets. Over there a day equals 10,000 years here.
It’s usually cloudy and overcast, but when there comes a sunny day, the sky seems to
be cracked open and bright as ever. Then there are black dragons and phoenixes flying down.
At night, we burn a certain kind of stone for illumination. This stone comes from the burning
mountain where its soil and rocks are all clear and bright. This stone is brittle, by striking it,
it would break into small pieces shaped like millets. Each millet-sized stone can lite up
a room. In the past, Yandi (a mystical Chinese king) used this stone to start fire to cook food.
I’m offering this stone to you your majesty. If one throws it into a stream, then the water will
boil and foam up flowing down for dozens of miles. We called such streams burned pools. Qin Shi Huang
claimed these visitors were deities and became even more obsessed with his immortal pursuits.
Indeed, there are interesting points worth mentioning. 1st of all, the deity like beings came
by a snail or whorl shaped ship, which can travel underwater. This ship sounds like a flying saucer.
Ancient Hindu literatures also described certain flying machines called vimanas, that were able to
fly within the earth's atmosphere as well as into outer space and could be submerged underwater.
Besides the ancient Chinese and Indian texts, there are multiple modern resources reporting
UFOs going in and out of water. For instance, In October 2019, U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor
discussed a spooky sighting a fellow pilot revealed to him after they were both out of
the Navy. The eyewitness was based on the island of Puerto Rico. He saw a "dark mass"
underwater as he and his team retrieved a flying practice drone. The pilot described the object
as a “big” mass, “kinda circular,” and he was certain it wasn't a submarine.
There is also a 2019 leaked video from the U.S. navy that appears to show an unidentified flying
object diving into the ocean off the coast of San Diego, in a clip that officials say is authentic.
So it’s conceivable that the ancient Chinese alchemist’s writing of the snail shaped
ship submerging in water was not just someone’s wild imagination but perhaps a real vehicle.
The 2nd intriguing detail is that the visitors were giants and covered with animal fur and
bird feathers as disguises. The term “winged people” was used in ancient Chinese records
to represent celestial beings with wings and feathers that can fly. Purportedly they were
immortal deities and lived up in the sky. Speaking of deities with wings or animal fur in disguise,
I can’t help thinking of the many winged and animal gods from various ancient cultures.
In the ancient Egyptian religion, the god of death Anubis was portrayed as a jackal. The god of
kingship and the sky, Horus is in a falcon form. A major goddess Isis was often illustrated as a
deity with wings. In Mesopotamia, the Apkallu, the seven demigods sometimes were carved as half
man and half fish. The Sumerian goddess Inanna has wings; so does Ninurta, the son of the chief
god Enlil. In the Hindu religion, Hanuman is a god and the monkey commander. Demigod Garuda is shown
either in a giant bird form or an anthropomorphic birdman with wings. In ancient Greece,
there are numerous winged gods and goddesses who were vividly presented in their prolific art.
It’s intriguing how many ancient gods from different cultures were depicted with wings
or in animal forms. Was this meant to demonstrate certain traits or special powers of distinct gods?
Could it be that some god-like beings showed up in disguise
with part human and part animal appearances as mentioned in the ancient Chinese book?
The 3rd thing that caught my attention is that the celestial being told the emperor that on
his planet a day equals 10,000 years on Earth. 10k is likely figurative and not literal. This
is similar to a common idiom in ancient China: one day in the sky equals one year on Earth;
which means that whoever traveled to the sky where the deities are and stayed for a day would come
back to Earth to find that he or she stayed unchanged while others on Earth aged a year.
According to Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity, which was confirmed by experiments,
time indeed slows down for fast-moving space travelers, effectively keeping them young. This
is not about the perception of time but the rate of actual time. Astronauts and space travelers in
high-speed ships should have aged slower because their accelerated speed makes time slow down for
them. Planets that move in different speeds and are in various masses would not experience time
at the same rate as we do here on Earth. Time is relative and not a universal measurement.
Assuming certain people got on a spaceship to do interplanetary travel,
like the plot in the movie Interstellar. When they returned, depending on how long the trip is,
the relative velocity and how much the gravitational time dilation is,
it’s conceivable that the space travelers didn’t age much while others who stayed on Earth were
significantly older. So, the ancient Chinese idiom about time flies at different speeds,
much slower in the sky than on land could actually be based on facts. The question is how did ancient
people come up with this idea? I remind you that this conversation was written over 1600 years ago.
Did they just use their imagination? Is it too far fetched to think they heard it from
deity-like beings that were space travelers? The 4th piece of fascinating information
is about the miracle brittle stone that can be burnt to light up a room at night,
can be used to start fires, and make a stream boil and foam up. This stone was mined in the
land where the supreme beings came from and seems to have been used as a power and energy source.
What kind of special stone could that be? Was it something from another planet or can it be found
on Earth? I have thoughts on this element and I might present in a future video. On another note,
there are multiple accounts of strange moving bright objects in ancient Chinese writings. If you
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