Ep.5 Burning Messengers: The Fiery Men of the Desert Sky

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Brief Encounters, the podcast where we sift through the ashes of the past … to find the sparks that just don’t fit. I’m your host, Nik. And tonight, we’re crossing scorching sands back to the Arabian Peninsula, in the year 1487. A time of caliphates and caravans, of mystics and merchants. But deep in the silence of the desert, something appeared. Not travelers. Not stars. Not sandstorms. But men—fiery men—falling from the sky. That’s right. In a strange and little-known report from 1487, travelers told tales of burning figures descending from the sky. Figures that glowed, pulsed with heat, and radiated terror. So, were these apparitions just hallucinations in the haze of heat? Or is this another case of humanity witnessing something … not from here?

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0:00.0	Burning Messengers, the fiery men of the desert sky.
0:15.3	Welcome back to brief encounters, the podcast where we sift through the ashes of the past to find the sparks that
0:22.9	just don't fit. I'm your host Nick and tonight we're crossing scorching sands back to the
0:29.0	Arabian Peninsula in the year 1487, a time of caliphates and caravans of mystics and merchants.
0:37.3	But deep in the silence of the desert
0:39.6	something appeared. Not travellers, not stars, not sandstorms, but men, fiery men, falling from the
0:47.9	sky. In this strange and little-known medieval report, travellers told tales of burning figures descending from above,
0:57.1	figures that glowed, pulsed with heat, and radiated terror. So were these apparitions just
1:04.1	hallucinations in the haze of heat? Or is this another case of humanity witnessing something,
1:11.8	not from here?
1:15.9	Let's mount up and ride into the sands of mystery.
1:22.4	Our primary source for this encounter comes from a series of Arabic and Persian travel journals,
1:25.1	passed down and copied over centuries.
1:34.3	They were never formal chronicles, but rather personal observations from merchants, mystics and desert scribes. One widely quoted version refers to an incident near what is now northern Saudi Arabia, along a major trade route used by caravans move in between Medina and Damascus.
1:48.3	Multiple travellers described seeing figures of flame descend from the sky.
1:53.6	They were man-shaped, but with glowing bodies, blazing eyes, and no visible means of descent.
2:00.0	No wings, no ropes, no fire from above, just,
2:04.6	appearing, floating, hovering, burning. These figures did not speak. They didn't attack,
2:11.6	but their mere presence incited panic, causing camels to bolt, goods to be abandoned, and entire caravans to re-root.
2:20.3	The descriptions were vivid, tall like men, but their bodies flickered like fire. Their skin was light,
2:28.3	almost invisible, and their shape shimmered with heat. They stood motionless above the sand,
2:36.2	then vanished in a flash brighter than the sun.
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