Nostradamus Predictions That Actually Came True

“People will travel safely through the sky, over land and seas, in great flocks of iron.” Many readers believe Nostradamus foresaw airplanes centuries before they were invented.

In the 20th century, aviation transformed the world. From the Wright brothers’ first flight to modern jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers, flying became an everyday reality. Nostradamus’s image of “iron flocks” soaring safely across the skies has been tied to commercial air travel, even though the wording is vague and open to interpretation.