Tulli Papyrus

In 1953, Italian Fortean Boris de Rachewiltz claimed to have found a 20 x 18cm papyrus document among the papers of Alberto Tulli, curator of the Egyptology department of the Vatican Museums, after his death. Rachewiltz wrote to Thayer, describing the document as an ancient testimony of flying saucers from the reign of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BCE), and providing a translation of "the best preserved and perhaps most interesting part": In the year 22, third month of winter, sixth hour of the day (. . . 2 . . .) The scrib[e]s of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire thtat was coming in the sky. (Though) it had no head, the breath of its mouth (had) a foul odour. Its body 1 "rod" long and 1 "rod" large. It had no voice. Their hearts became confused through it, they laid themselves on their bellies (. . .