1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
Real X-File ID: 5422
Report Date: 03/05/2020
Country: Germany
Place: Nuremberg
Fingerprints: Ancient historical records of extra terrestrial interaction
Existing Facts Sources: Document or report, Internet video (Youtube, Vimeo…)
Summary Report:
The 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg was a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or unidentified flying objects (UFO) above Nuremberg, Germany that was reported in a broadsheet news article printed in April 1561. The phenomenon has been interpreted by some modern UFO enthusiasts as an aerial battle of extraterrestrial origin.
Original Text:
“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.”
The broadsheet was illustrated with a woodcut engraving and text by Hans Glaser (1500 – 1573) who was a printer, block-cutter, woodcut tinter and publisher from Nuremberg in the Holy Roman Empire, known for printing broadsheets, some featuring woodcut illustrations.
The original medieval broadsheet can be viewed in the Central Library in Zurich. The broadsheets would not have been preserved if they had not been carefully collected and preserved by a contemporary from the 16th century: the Zurich pastor Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588). He received support from Zwinglis successor Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575).
There is still a heated debate in the scientific community about what these pamphlets really describe. Some speculate that it could have been an extraterrestrial event or some other celestial phenomenon such as an, at that time, unexplained atmospheric phenomenon or even a drug-induced experience or even a mass psychosis which could have been caused or induced by a fungus, growing on grain, that can cause hallucinations.
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Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
Facts Source Details:
Details of Document or Report: Medieval broadsheet news article, Hans Wolff Glaser, 04/14/1561
Details of Internet Video: Scott Allsop (from historypod.net),04/13/2015,https://youtu.be/b1sMKLrN4BI
Other Facts Details:
More than 500 medieval pamphlets exist and are safely stored in the Central Library in Zurich. One can access and study all these pamphlets at the following link: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/wick/nav/classification/1726382
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