The Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon of 1561: A Battle in the Sky, or a Trick of the Light?
About 6 min readAt dawn on 14 April 1561, the people of Nuremberg watched spheres, crosses, and cylinders fight in the sky for over an hour. A printer named Hans Glaser recorded it in a broadsheet that still survives — and the argument over what it shows has never ended.