Over five years after the Nuremberg mysterious sky phenomenon, an almost identical sighting was made in the skies of the Swiss city of Basel. The Basel Pamphlet of 1566 describes unusual sunrises and similar dog fights between alien crafts. According to Samuel Coccius, on 27-28 July and 7 August, many local witnesses in Basel reported seeing three celestial phenomena.
Celestial phenomena were said to have "fought" together in the form of numerous red and black balls in the sky before the rising sun.
The report is discussed among historians and meteorologists. The phenomenon has been interpreted by some ufologists to be a sky battle between unidentified flying objects (UFO).
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| Basel Pamphlet of 1566 (Image credit: Wikipedia) |
The report read:
"It happened in 1566 three times, on 27 and 28 of July, and on August 7, against the sunrise and sunset; we saw strange shapes in the sky above Basel.
During the year 1566, on the 27th of July, after the sun had shone warm on the clear, bright skies, and then around 9 pm, it suddenly took a different shape and color.
First, the sun lost all its radiance and luster, and it was no bigger than the full moon, and finally it seemed to weep tears of blood and the air behind him went dark. And he was seen by all the people of the city and countryside. In much the same way also the moon, which has already been almost full and has shone through the night, assuming an almost blood-red color in the sky.
The next day, Sunday, the sun rose at about six o'clock and slept with the same appearance it had when it was lying before. He lit the houses, streets and around as if everything was blood-red and fiery.
At the dawn of August 7, we saw large black spheres coming and going with great speed and precipitation before the sun and chattered as if they led a fight. Many of them were fiery red and, soon crumbled and then extinguished."
The Basel Pamphlet depicts spherical phenomena in the skies for which there is still no scientific explanation. This event cannot have been some kind of delusion, however, since there are other reports of similar sightings in contemporary literature. In this case too, these celestial phenomena are interpreted as a divine omen. The author of the pamphlet is calling on his audience to repent and pray for divine assistance against the Turks.
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