UFO in a classic painting? Unreal!

If aliens have been visiting this planet, it did not just start in the 1940s with Roswell, New Mexico's unfortunate crash. There is even a story about Christopher Columbus having seen an unidentified luminescent anomaly, but this 15th century painting shows us that we were not alone...

This painting is called “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino”. It was painted in the 15th century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary’s right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.

Upon closer inspection, the man seems to be looking away from the UFO, behind him and over his shoulder. Or, more likely, the notably out of place object may be imagined floating above the ground between them. From either perspective, could Mary be seen as blocking the two babies from the flying saucer’s view? Perhaps the dog glimpses the hovering object ~ with it’s mouth open, it could even be barking at it. But what is that dark, sparkling, disassembled figure beside them ~ a dwarf, or an ethereal being? A body, legs, head, and tail can be made out. Could this represent a type of alien, or demon? Also, Mary’s halo seems a bit shadowy ~ more like a vaporous disc than a ring of light.

The Crucifixion” and was painted in 1350. They are located above the altar at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.

Christian iconography or extraterrestrial UFO? You decide. The Madonna with Saint Giovannino can currently be found as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio, the town hall of Florence, Italy.