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eyes upluried, three boaters watched uneasily as a glowing object flitted across the sky. was it a drone? a rocket? a jet? not possible - the strange incident happened nearly three centuries before the first successful airplane was invented. the 1639 account of the sighting comes from the diary of john winthrop. he was the governor of the massachusetts bay colony at the time. the diary entry describes the unusual situation three men found themselves in while rowing their boat through the muddy river. the lighted object, winthrop wrote, alternately stood still and flared, then darted across the sky, and contracted into the figure of a swine. the strange, pig - shaped object remained visible for a few hours, shooting back and forth across a distance of about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers). then, it mysteriously faded away - untraceable and unforgotten. once their attention returned to their task, the men were startled to discover they were now a mile (1.6 kilometers) upstream. they had no recollection of rowing against the current, winthrop wrote. that part felt entirely unexplainable, though - their boat could have been carried by wind or a reverse tidal flow. or the men may have just been so fascinated by the sight above them that they didnt notice their movement. the boaters werent the only witnesses to the extraordinary event, according to winthrop. other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place, he wrote. five years later, winthrop recorded a report of another incidence of lights like the moon, rising from different places, then joining together as one before parting again. over and over, the lights joined and parted, he wrote - sometimes shooting out flames and other times appearing to disappear. this time - question 1 what is this article primarily about? a. flying machines and special effects in the massachusetts bay colony b. the first reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in whats now the u.s. c. the personal diary entries that john winthrop wrote about rowing up the muddy river d. gas catching fire from decaying matter found in the marshlands around boston

Explanation:

The article describes a 1639 sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) from John Winthrop's diary and mentions another incident five years later. It focuses on early reported sightings of such objects in what is now the U.S.

• Option A: The article is not about flying machines (as the first successful airplane was invented much later) or special effects.
• Option C: While it uses Winthrop's diary, the main focus is not just on his diary entries about rowing but on the UFO sightings.
• Option D: There is no mention of gas catching fire from decaying matter in the text.

Answer:

B. The first reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in what's now the U.S.