UFOs over Nuremberg, 1561

Ever wonder where the banner image on our website and social media pages comes from? It's a composite image based mostly from a 16th-century woodcut depicting a UFO sighting over Nuremberg, in modern-day Germany. As well as producing a captivating illustration, the sighting is a good example of an early-modern "wonder-sign," long before the term UFO ever entered the lexicon, and before anyone suspected extraterrestrial culprits.


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Main sources:

Billig, Otto. Flying Saucers – Magic in the Skies. Schenkman, 1982. http://worldcat.org/oclc/7671913, https://books.google.com/books?id=FT7....

Glaser, Hanns. “Himmelserscheinung über Nürnberg vom 14. April 1561”. April 14, 1561. Zurich Zentralbibliothek [ZB PAS II 12:60].
Record of preserved document in Network of Libraries and Information Centers in Switzerland:
https://opac.nebis.ch/F/?local_base=N....
Copy of translated text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_ce..., https://paranorms.com/nuremberg-ufo.
Copy of original and modernized text:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürnber....

Glaser, Hanns. “Glaser, Hans.” Zeno.org. http://zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Glaser,+....

Johnson, Frank. “Nuremburg (sic) UFO ‘Battle’ Debunked.” AncientAliensDebunked.com. December 12, 2012.
https://web.archive.org/web/201212141....

Jung, Carl. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. USA: Princeton University Press, 1959 (1978). https://archive.org/details/flyingsau....

Kurihara, Ken. Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany. Pickering & Chatto, Routledge. 2014, 2016. http://worldcat.org/oclc/864090088, https://books.google.com/books?id=0np..., https://play.google.com/store/books/d....

Magin, Ulrich. “A UFO in the Year 1561?” In Investigating the Impossible: Sea Serpents in the Air, Volcanoes that Aren't and Other Out of Place Mysteries, 7 - 13. Anomalist Books, 2011. https://amazon.com/INVESTIGATING-IMPO....
German version: http://ufo-information.de/images/PDF/...

Vallée, Jacques and Chris Aubeck. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Anomalies from Antiquity to Modern Times. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, 2009.
https://archive.org/details/JacquesVa....

Von Kevicsky, Colman S. "The UFO Sighting Over Nuremberg in 1561." Official UFO. January 1976, Volume 1 Number 5. Translation by Ilse Von Jacobi. https://amazon.com/Official-UFO-Janua....

Video source:

“Watch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots.” CNBC Television, April 28, 2020. YouTube video, 1:20.    • Watch the Pentagon's three declassifi...  .

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