1491 aerial men encounter documented by Cardano. On August 13, 1491, seven beings made of air appeared in a scholar's study in northern Italy The witness was Girolamo Cardano, physician, mathematician, and scholar who counted Leonardo da Vinci as a friend The visitors wore shimmering purple and gold garments, claimed lifespans up to 300 years

Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), the renowned physician and mathematician who counted Leonardo da Vinci as a friend, recorded in his autobiographical works that seven beings of light once appeared to him, wearing shimmering purple and gold garments and claiming lifespans up to 300 years. He described them as teaching at an academy—one with 300 students, another with 200—while bound by a rigid law forbidding them from freely sharing knowledge with humans. The account was later cited by writer Jacques Bergier as ancient extraterrestrial evidence. ✨ Renaissance/Pseudoscience

Key Facts

  • On August 13, 1491, seven beings made of air appeared in a scholar's study in northern Italy
  • The witness was Girolamo Cardano, physician, mathematician, and scholar who counted Leonardo da Vinci as a friend
  • The visitors wore shimmering purple and gold garments, claimed lifespans up to 300 years
  • They said they lectured at an academy, one teaching 300 students, the other 200
  • They described a rigid law forbidding them from freely sharing knowledge with humans
  • The account was recorded by Cardano's son Dermo in the mid-16th century book De Subtilitate
  • Nuclear physicist Jacques Bergier later presented this as evidence of ancient extraterrestrial visitation
  • The clothing description matches ceremonial Roman dress, complicating the extraterrestrial interpretation