God-whales on April 27 and Naples on May 11

After finishing some other things I'd been reading, I returned today to Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. The last time I posted about that book was in "Ugly flying starfish" (April 20):

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"?

"Star-shaped" things appeared again yesterday, in "Commander Toad and the Dis-asteroid," because asteroid literally means "star-shaped." Bill tied this to the star-shaped island of Numenor (flooded, like the asteroid in the story), and the story also includes a star-shaped star:

As noted, that passage from Flying Saucers Have Landed caught my eye because of the date. April 27, 1584, was the date of John Dee and Edward Kelley's vision of a many-eyed Whale that represented God.

Today, reopening my epub of Flying Saucers after a fairly long break, I immediately ran across another reference to the April 27, 1863, sighting, some 40 pages after the one quoted above:

On 27 April 1863 Henry Waldner saw a similar procession [of flying disks] which he reported to Dr. Wolf, of the Zurich Observatory, who told him that a similar performance had been witnessed by Signor Capocci, of the Capodimonte Observatory, Naples, on 11 May 1845.

This must be a second reference to the same sighting, though the details are inconsistent. In the first telling, Dr. Wolf is the one who sees the saucers; in the second, the sighting is reported to him by someone else. Notice the "Naples, on 11 May." The first ever reference to Naples on this blog was published three days ago, on May 11, in "The secret rules of Wonderland."

Remember that the significance of April 27 is that it is associated with a vision of God as a Whale. Later today, I read this in Flying Saucers, commenting on possible motivations for governments to cover up UFO phenomena:

And if you were head of a slave state, and you learned one terrible day that there were greater gods in heaven than the ugly faces on your party posters, you would do anything to prevent the people finding out. For a big fish in a little pond can remain a big fish only as long as the little fishes know nothing of giant porpoise and ocean whale. The inopportune arrival of a mighty fish from the great beyond would reduce you to your proper size.

Here, "greater gods in heaven" and "ocean whale" are metaphors for the same thing: extraterrestrial beings of superhuman power.