Around 6 or 7 p.m., I was reading Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. Specifically, I was reading the second chapter of the part written by Leslie, which is called "The Flying Saucer Museum" and consists of a long list of what we would now call UFO sightings, but which occurred before the modern UFO era. Most of the individual entries in this list have nothing to make them memorable, but I did notice this one:
1863 April 27th. Zurich Observatory. Dr. Wolf sees large number of shining disks coming from East. Some have tails, others are star-shaped.
This entry got my attention partly because of the date (April 27, the date of Dee and Kelley's whale vision) and partly because of the confusing description. How can "disks" be "star-shaped"?
At about 1:00 this morning, I was browsing /pol/ -- /pol/, not /x/ -- and found a thread asking, "So aliens are ugly flying starfish?" with this illustration:
The crown-of-thorns is notable for being a rather "ugly" starfish:
The first reply on the /pol/ thread suggests an answer to the question of how the same object could be both round and star-shaped:
it doesn't stay the samethey usually go between 3 different formsthe default form is a perfect sphere
The name crown-of-thorns obviously alludes to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In the above picture, the cross hairs around the "ugly flying starfish" suggest a Christian cross. Specifically, they suggest the "cross potent" or "Jerusalem cross," the central element in the Five-fold Cross of the Crusaders:
That word five-fold is closely associated with starfish, which are among the few animals to exhibit five-fold radial symmetry.
Note added: Here's a bit of Synlogos feed poetry, funny in its own right but also relevant to Bill's symbolism of octopuses and spiders (not necessarily with the usual count of eight appendages) representing the "whore of all the earth":
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