Chaldan Monastery, Tibet Flying double hat — November 1661
This case was mentioned by researcher W. Raymond Drake in 1975, based on the diary of
a Jesuit father, Albert d’Orville: D’Orville, a Belgian, wrote about a fascinating sighting at Lhasa, Tibet: “1661 November. My attention was attracted by something moving about in the heavens. I thought it was some unknown species of bird which lived in that country, when the thing on approaching took an aspect of a double Chinese-hat (the classical conical straw-hats) and flew rotating silently as if borne on invisible wings of the wind. It was surely a prodigy, an enchantment. That thing passed above the city, and as if it wished to be admiredit completed two circles, then surrounded by mist it vanished, and no matter how one strained its eyes it could no longer be seen. “I asked myself whether the altitude where I was had not played some trick, however perceiving a lama not far away I asked whether he had seen it. After assenting by nodding his head, he said to me, ‘My Son, what you have seen is not magic. Beings from other worlds have for centuries sailed the seas of space, they brought intellectual illumination to the first people populating Earth, they banished all violence and taught men to love one another, but these teachings are like seed scattered on stone, which does not germinate. These Beings, all light, are well received by us and often descend near our monasteries teaching us and revealing things lost for centuries during the cataclysms which have changed the aspect of the world.‘” This would be a most interesting event if it had happened. Unfortunately the diary of Albert d’Orville does not seem to exist. We have come to the conclusion that the case is likely to be a hoax, first mentioned by a man named Alberto Fenoglio in a 1966 magazine entitled Non e Magia. It is quoted as authentic by several contemporary ufological writers and is widely reproduced all over Internet sites.
Source: Case: W506