Nurnberg 4 April 1561
At dawn of April 4, in the sky of Nuremberg, Germany, the citizens of the city saw a very alarming spectacle in the sky above their town. Various objects were involved, including balls "approximately 3 in length, from time to time, four in a square, much remained insulated, and between these balls, one saw a number of crosses with the color of blood. Then one saw two large pipes, in which small and large pipes, were 3 balls, also four or more. All these elements started to fight one against the other." (Gazette of the town of Nuremberg).
Some planes have crashed. As a result of religious interpretation, medieval artists interpreted fuselages and wings as crosses, and rockets became tubes full of balls.
The events lasted one hour and had such repercussions that an artist, Hans Glaser, drew a woodcut of it at the time. It describes two immense black cylinders launching many blue and black spheres, blood red crosses, and flying discs. They seem to fight a battle in the sky, it also seems that some of these spheres and objects have crashed outside the city. Note that two people seem to be witnessing a crash of at least one of these flying object.
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