Brief Encounters: Ep.7 Roman Shields in the Sky

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik, and today we’re taking this series far back. Back to a time when the most powerful empire on Earth ruled under the watchful eye of the gods—or maybe… something else. Long before Roswell, airships, or even the word ‘UFO’ existed, the Romans were seeing things in the sky.

Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO sightings, the paranormal, cryptids, myths, and unexplained legends. From ancient sky wars to modern close encounters, each episode takes listeners on a journey through some of the most mysterious and compelling cases in human history. Whether it's a well-documented military sighting or an eerie village legend whispered across generations, Brief Encounters delivers each story with atmosphere, depth, and cinematic storytelling. Episodes are short and binge-worthy — perfect for curious minds on the go. In just 5 to 10 minutes, listeners are pulled into carefully researched accounts that blend historical context, eyewitness testimony, and chilling details. The series moves between eras and continents, uncovering not only the famous cases you've heard of, but also the forgotten incidents that deserve a closer look. Each story is treated with respect, skepticism, and wonder — offering both seasoned enthusiasts and casual listeners something fresh to consider. Whether it’s a 15th-century sky battle over Europe, a cryptid sighting in a remote forest, or a modern-day abduction report from rural America, Brief Encounters is your guide through the shadows of our world — and the stories that refuse to be explained.

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0:00.0	Roman shields in the sky. Rome wasn't built in a day, but some stories out of ancient Rome.
0:18.0	They've lasted 2,000 years and they're just as strange now as they were then.
0:23.6	Welcome back to brief encounters. I'm your host Nick and today we're taking this series way back.
0:30.6	Back to a time when the most powerful empire on earth ruled under the watchful eye of the gods, or maybe something else.
0:40.3	Because long before Roswell, before airships, before even the word UFO existed,
0:47.3	the Romans were seeing things in the sky, glowing shields, flying torches, beings in white robes.
0:55.0	Description so eerily familiar.
0:58.0	They could have come from a 21st century pilot report.
1:02.0	The Roman Empire was obsessed with signs from above, lightning, eclipses, comets.
1:09.0	These weren't just natural events. They were messages from the gods,
1:13.6	interpreted by special priests called augurs. Entire battles, laws and elections were decided
1:20.6	based on what appeared in the sky? But what happens when those things aren't celestial bodies? What happens when they move with intelligence or change course or land?
1:32.3	Let's rewind the scrolls.
1:35.3	Case 1
1:36.3	The Flying Shields of 100 BC.
1:39.3	Our first account comes from Titus Livius,
1:43.3	better known as Livy, one of Rome's most respected historians.
1:48.0	In his monumental work, Ab Urbi Condita, a history of Rome from its founding, he documents a strange
1:55.5	occurrence in 100 BC, in the sky, a round object, like a shield, moved across from west to east with a great
2:05.2	flash of light, a round, shining object, described as Eclipius, a type of Roman shield,
2:14.9	shaped like a disc, glowing, moving with purpose. This was no meteor. Romans knew
2:22.2	what meteors were. Case two. The Phantom Army, another bizarre moment, shows up in the works
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