"Cliff Smith" <cliff(nospam)smith@ntlworld.com> wrote in
news:5IHeb.3879$RU4.42200@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net: 

"Knud" <Knud@nowhere.com> wrote in message

VTRusso wrote:

Could any of you non-believers please explain to me why ancient

artists

included in their artwork UFOs.

This is a good question- I'm still waiting for an intelligent answer

No ancient artists included UFOs in their artwork. That is a myth.
Modern UFO kooks like you just assume they must be UFOs because
the artists weren't kind enough to explain what they really are.
The plain and simple fact is that there are no unambiguous reports
of UFOs from any time before humans had the power of flight. UFOs
are modern mythology. HTH.

Like I said, "Intelligent."

Here's a site to check out:  Explain the 2 flaming, piloted objects
in the fresco called "The Crucifixion," please.

http://www.marsearthconnection.com/ancientart.html

Knud, only your preconceptions impose the descriptions "flaming" and
"piloted" on these objects. Look at them again, and see what is
actually there, rather than what you'd like to see. Two crudely-drawn
dark dome-like shapes, with faces inside, and triangular projections
pointing downwards. That's all. In no way do these resemble any
conventional flying vehicle, or anything that has ever been reported
as a UFO sighting, so why use the word "piloted"? 

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The one I was referring to was:
"These two objects are from part of a fresco entitled "The Crucifixion" 
and was painted in 1350. They are located above the altar at the Visoki 
Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia"

Specfically:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hurley/frescufo_compressed.jpg

As for (most) of the others, I agree, they could be a lot of things, 
including symbols, dreams, folklore, inside jokes, a slip of the brush, 
etc.  

But the one I was looking at shows a man piloting an egg-shaped craft 
over a city and things like that have not been invented, yet, let alone 
in 1350.

The best ones (which I apologize for not including in my first post) show 
flying "wheels" with beams of light emitting from them or other flying 
objects where the people in the paintings seem alarmed because of them or 
at the very least, stand watching (as if they were a recording of real 
events and not synbols/metaphors of something else.)
They deserve further investigation

http://ufoarea.bravepages.com/gallery_aas1.html