Dragons or UFOs?

The book I borrowed from a friend that inspired me to start this blog is called The Secret Country - More Mysterious Britain by Janet and Colin Bord. Although I have not read it from cover to cover I have dipped into it and found it be full of fascinating information on topics such as Ley Lines, ancient sites, Folk Lore, fairies and of course UFOs. The book is well written and uses evidence where appropriate to substantiate theories, whilst openly acknowledging that all most people can really do is speculate on these topics. I was interested to find a section in  called Dragons or UFO's? This is something that I alluded to in my last blog post. The books gives a few accounts from History of people seeing Dragons.

The idea that accounts of Dragons are actually UFO encounters might not be as fetched as it initially seems. The picture to above was taken of a UFO in North Carolina in December 2012.

Dragons or UFOs - Historical Accounts 

One incidence described in the book occurred in 1405 when a monk, John De Hokelowe talks about a towns encounter with a Dragon.

"Close to the town of Bures, near Sudbury, there has lately appeared to the great hurt of the countryside a Dragon, vast in body with crested head, teeth like a saw and a tail extending to enormous length. Having slain the shepherd of a flock, he then devoured many sheep. There came forth to shoot him arrows the workmen of the Lord on who's domain he had concealed himself. But the Dragons body being struck by archers remained unhurt, for the arrows bounced off its back as if it were iron or hard rock. Those arrows that struck the spine of his back gave out as they struck a ringing or tingling sound, just as if they had hit a brazen plate then flew far away off as per reason of the hide of this great beast being impenetrable. There upon in order to destroy him all the country people around were summoned. But when the dragon saw that he was again about to be assailed by arrows he fled into a marsh or mer and hid himself among the reeds nor was he anymore seen."  

In this account there are a lot of similarities with modern day UFO encounters. I can not ignore the description where the monk clearly talks about a head. teeth and a tail. This does not sound much like the modern day image of a flying saucer, although UFOs do of course come in all shapes and sizes. The description of the devouring of sheep is similar to reports of UFO cattle mutilations. There have also been reports of people shooting at UFOs and the bullets bouncing off which is similar to the experience of the archers in this account, shooting at a dragon that clearly seems to have metallic attributes. It is also strange how the dragon made his escape and was never seen again, something that is reminiscent of a UFO encounter.

The second account in The Secret Country give the Dragon a much more biological  feel. In this more recent account from the 1800s a group of people at a fair in Carmarthen saw a Dragon sitting on top of a castle ruin. Although this Dragon also had a hard outer shell these more resourceful villagers with more fire power shot it in its navel and saw it plunge into the river where its blood mixed with the water. This account seems to give the creature lots more biological attributes such as soft navel and blood. This could of course the UFOs week spot and something like fuel spilling into the water but this seems to be clutching at straws.

Whats Really Going On?

It seems to me that a few things are possible.

1) That Dragons were in fact biological creatures who's aggressive and fearsome nature made them hard to live along side humans so they were hunted and became extinct. This kind of thing has happened to thousands of species over human evolution and in my mind it is certainly a possibility. This would account for the many legends and stories of Knights killing dragons.     

2) Dragons were in fact UFOs being mistaken for biological creatures by people with no possible comprehension of a spaceship. It could also be the case that UFOs can shift there appearance. We certainly have modern day accounts of this.

3) That overtime stories that were meant for amusement, the teaching of moral principals or spiritual understanding have been diluted and there original message lost so they should not be taken literally.

In my mind all these factors are in play. Some probably are accounts of biological creates, whilst overs are really UFOs being mistaken for Dragons. I am sure if a Dragon flew past my window right now it would go on the records as a UFO. Time and legend have left us with intriguing mysteries to explore but there is no simple one explanation.



Another fascinating layer to all this is that Ley Lines have also been described as Dragons and there are many people who believe that Legends of old talking about dragon slayers are describing those who have mastered the Dragon lines or Kundalini serpent energy within themselves. I guess that is leaving it on a bit of a cliff hanger but I will leave the rest for the next blog.