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The Strangest Day In Human History: UFO Battle Over Nuremberg

April 14th, 1561 — the day the sun turned blood-red

Winifred J. Akpobi
The Mystery Box
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5 min readOct 8, 2020

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Photo from Wikipedia (cropped by author)

Imagine waking up to see day only to find out that unknown and mysterious objects were fighting in the sky. And instead of seeing a bright-yellow sun–you see a red one.

The imagery that popped into your head is what occurred on the 14th of April in 1561 at Nuremberg, a small German city.

The incident is popularly known as the “1561 Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg” or “UFO Battle Over Nuremberg”. It is also one of the strangest days in human history and this is why.

It was around dawn that day that the people of Nuremberg saw the strangest items on the sky. These items consisted of various shapes, lines, and sizes–circles, cylinders, spheres, and every other thing that seemed odd. And it looked like those objects were wrestling — they suddenly launched and bounced around the sky.

The people described it as an “aerial battle” with the appearance of a huge black triangular object. It is known that there was a huge crash outside the city as well.

At that time, the term “UFO” (Unidentified Flying Object) was not popular and so the incident was extraordinarily weird. There were other…

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Winifred J. Akpobi
The Mystery Box

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