Time Anomalies : Ancient Toy Helicopters & Roman Death Rays ??

Lamont Wood talked about historical oddities– inventions and artistic anomalies
that were seemingly ahead of their time. For instance, a 1460 painting that shows the baby Jesus holding a toy helicopter, and a number of medieval and Renaissance paintings that appear to have what we would call flying saucers. In regards to the latter, he suggested that we are imposing our own visual vocabulary on these works, and the artists may have been depicting the divine presence, through inserts in the sky, and rays of light.

There are many examples of technology and beliefs appearing decades—even centuries before they supposedly originated. The Apollo Program was outlined a century before it happened. A painting from the Middle Ages shows a flying toy helicopter. We’ve found ancient Greek computers and heard stories of Roman death rays. The Pacific Front of World War II was described 16 years before the war started.

The existence and documentation of these and many other events and anomalies impossibly ahead of their time are beyond dispute. Out of Place in Time and Space delves deeply into these impossibilities, showcasing:

Objects, beliefs, and practices from the present that show up in the past, long before they were supposedly invented.

Personal careers that appear to have been founded on knowlege of the future.

Roman-era machines that were hundreds of years ahead of their time.

UFOs, never officially documented in any time period, yet still showing up in medieval paintings.

As a journalist and freelance writer of wide experience, Lamont Wood is familiar with the
sometimes arbitrary distinction between cause and effect, and the subsequent gulf between what happens, what is experienced, what gets written, and what is understood. He has been freelancing for nearly three decades.