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## Overview
- **Source**: [Wikipedia Ufo Sightings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings)
- **Incident Type**: #sighting
- **Incident Date**: 7Â BC
- **Reported Date**: unknown
- **Author**: Wikipedia
- **Location**: A​SRoman Republic; Phrygia, Asia
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## Summary
According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when "the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies". Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos).
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