The Nuremberg Space Battle, 1561
In the dawn of the 14th April 1561, Nuremberg residents saw an aerial battle; which is believed today to be a mass sighting of celestial phenomena. There, they have seen a large black triangular object and a large crash outside of the city. Also, they have stated there were different types of shapes all over the sky such as hundreds of cylinders, spheres, and many other shapes. Here the shapes are seen by the Nuremberg residents: objects of various shapes like crosses, black spears, and tubular objects with several smaller, round objects emerged and darted around the sky at dawn.
All these information has been reported and stated in a news article printed in April 1561. It was texted by Hans Glaser which was a broadsheet, illustrated with a woodcut engraving. The text of the broadsheet gives the following description. (a translated description of the original one)
"In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates, and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise, there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes, there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes. These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun. Besides, the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth 'as if they all burned' and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke. After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west. Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows. Although we have seen, shortly one after another, many kinds of signs on the heaven, which are sent to us by the almighty God, to bring us to repentance, we still are, unfortunately, so ungrateful that we despise such high signs and miracles of God. Or we speak of them with ridicule and discard them to the wind, in order that God may send us a frightening punishment on account of our ungratefulness. After all, the God-fearing will by no means discard these signs, but will take it to heart as a warning of their merciful Father in heaven, will mend their lives and faithfully beg God, that He may avert His wrath, including the well-deserved punishment, on us, so that we may temporarily here and perpetually there, live as his children. For it, may God grant us his help, Amen. By Hanns Glaser, letter-painter of Nurnberg." (www.wikipedia.com)
the areal battle of 1561 over Nuremberg
Real or Fake?
According to author Jason Colavito, this was popularized among the present-day community after the publication of the book Flying Sources: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by Carl Jung. But Jung also expressed this incident as a natural phenomenon reported with a religious and military interpretation with an exaggerated description. According to Jung’s idea,
“A military interpretation would view the tubes as cannons and the spheres as cannonballs, emphasize the black spearhead at the bottom of the scene and Glaser's own testimony that the globes fought vehemently until exhausted. A religious view would emphasize the crosses.”
But when we are looking at the history several other incidents have been reported.
On Good Friday, 1554 another siege had happened
During the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
On July 27-28 and August 7, 1566, another celestial phenomenon occurred in Basel, as reported in a Flugblatt (an early form of a newspaper)
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