Today ufos are seen as part of a modern mythos. A thing brought about by the advent of space exploration and the technological revolution of the 20th century. Every year countless sightings are reported and recorded to be believed by those bold of enough to see past their horizon of perception and to be dismissed by the james randian skeptics that believe in planting their feet firmly on the ground in what evidence they deem to align with their understanding of scientific realities of nature. However long before Roswell, before space shuttles, or cars or radios, tv and even the internet their have been written accounts such as the so called “battle of Nuremberg”.
In a newspaper dated April 14th 1561 in Nuremberg, Germany a astonishing tale is told of a battle in the sky of ufos. even detailing black triangles and spheres being witnessed by onlookers and rumors were reported of a crash. The astonishing detail to those familiar with ufology is the description of a black triangle which fits very closely with many ufos sightings in the 20th and 21st centuries such as the phoenix lights incident in 1997. The following is a translation of the account
“”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.”
What you choose to believe my dear readers is upon your conscious but it can not be debated that the phenomenon known as UFOS is a 20th century construct brought to life solely by the overactive imagination of simpletons who saw what they wanted to see. The legends go back centuries based on this tale and possibly farther based on other events that files have yet to tackle. Thank you dear readers for giving me a gift you can not return. Your time.