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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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

Research by Clark Murphy.

Music by Josh Chamberland.

Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland.

Illustration by V.R. Laurence (VRLaurence.com).

Main Sources:

Billig, Otto. Flying Saucers – Magic in the Skies. Schenkman, 1982.

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=NEBIS&CON_LNG=ENG&func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=005289279

Copy of translated text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg, https://paranorms.com/nuremberg-ufo

Copy of original and modernized text: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberger_Flugblatt_von_1561

Glaser, Hanns. “Glaser, Hans.” Zeno.org. http://www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Glaser,%20Hans

Johnson, Frank. “Nuremburg (sic) UFO ‘Battle’ Debunked.” AncientAliensDebunked.com. December 12, 2012.

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

Kurihara, Ken. Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany. Pickering & Chatto, Routledge. 2014, 2016. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864090088.

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.

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

Von Kevicsky, Colman S. "The UFO Sighting Over Nuremberg in 1561." Official UFO. January 1976, Volume 1 Number 5. Translation by Ilse Von Jacobi.

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