Battle in the Skies of Nuremberg … 1561

Extraterrestrial event depicted over Nuremberg; April 1561

Reported by the Nuremberg, Germany Gazette

Woodcut by Hanns Glaser 1561

Nuremberg, Germany 1561:  Citizens living in this Middle age Europe community reported strange UFO’s battling over the skies of their town. In fact these events were chronicled in the local newspaper: the Gazette of the Town of Nuremberg. This was the first time such events were recorded in public records, such as a newspaper, and perhaps makes one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of Ancient Aliens.

One of the earliest documented sightings of aerial / flying activity took place on April 4, 1561 at the break of day over Nuremberg, Germany as described above. It was later called as a war in the heavens, with a wide variety of craft ranging from spheres to spear-like cylinders to crosses as well as "plates". The sky was described as being filled with the machines, clashing in battle for considerably more than an hour.   Numerous crafts that were shaped like a sphere but were not perfectly round were seen emerging from a cylindrical “mother ship”.  At or near the conclusion of the battle, a magnificent, black, spear-like super-ship of some kind came upon the scene which resulted in the immediate exit of all the opposing crafts.  The apparent victors then “flew into the sun”.

A very similar report occurred just five years later in Basle Switzerland.  On August 7, 1566, at dawn, many citizens of Basle (Switzerland), though frightened, witnessed for a  a period of several hours black spheres that were involved in a aerial battle, in the sky above their city.

A few modern day critics of such reports have proposed that the events witnessed were old World War II battles and that by some sort of slip in space and time allowed the 16th century town residents to witness an event that would not occur for another 400 years or so; this can only be described as a “stretch” of the facts that were seen by many local residents, at least in my humble opinion.  Other “debunkers” have attempted to explain the events over Nuremberg and Basel as meteor showers which just happened to last for more than an hour… In my view this theory is equally foolish.

First hand accounts clearly seem to indicate a much greater event then a simple meteor shower because the citizens of Nuremberg and Basel were reported to have perceived the “objects” / UFO’s as fighting one another. In fact the event left a deep impact on the citizens of Nuremberg who had there own theory about what actually took place: it was nothing more than a grave, yet divine symbol of the power of the Almighty God.

Here’s a translation of the report in the local paper on the following morning in the German community: “At the time when the sun rose, one saw many large black balls which moved at high speed in the air towards the sun, then made half-turns, banging one against the others as if they were fighting a battle, a great number of them became red and igneous (fire balls), thereafter they were consumed and died out.”(Gazette, Town of Nuremberg).

In fact people all across Europe were seeing strange things in the skies in those days. A report in 1520 tells of two burning suns being seen in Prussia, as well as a “burning beam” that landed, and shortly there after rose into the air and became circular in shape. Several Renaissance paintings show discs, elongated tubes, and other objects apparently hovering in the sky, some of which appear to be glowing.

What should we conclude from this?   In my view, since this “fight” was well documented and the descriptions leave little doubt about what was going on, combined with additional accounts of UFO's from throughout Europe at the time, it would seem that a war between opposing forces (not of this world) was apparently being fought in the skies above Northern and Central Europe throughout a large part of the 16th Century. Naturally these occurrences were taken during the era as some sort of omen from God.  It seems that almost anything deemed as disturbing or unnatural was thought to be the handiwork of God or the Devil throughout the middle Ages.

It seems to me that what happened is something the folks of the time simply couldn't explain. Modern experts today may attempt to explain such events, but are we really any closer to the truth?

Sources …

http://arcturi.com/AncientAliens/BattleOverNuremburg.html       

http://www.altereddimensions.net/aliens/NurembergUFOBattle.aspx http://isawaufo.lefora.com/2011/05/18/ufo-battle-over-nuremberg-1561/                                                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Himmelserscheinung_%C3%BCber_NC3BCrnberg_vom_14._April_1561.jpg