The Nuremberg UFO Sighting of 1561

UFO sightings have been around for longer than you might think

‘The Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg’ by Hanns Glaser, 1561 (Wikimedia Commons — image resized by author)

Since the Space Race in the late 1960s, science fiction has formed a key part of popular culture and public imagination. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that the list of known UFO sightings is bottom-heavy with a substantial number of cases occurring in the last sixty years or so.