Other Flying · Bayern, Deutschland · 1561
DEU-1561ID case-bea38bece2Added to map Oct 22, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Apr 14, 1561to the day
- Where
- Bayern, Deutschlandto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Many men and women witnessed a battle in the sky involving globes, arcs, and rods that fought each other before falling to earth.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Bayern, Deutschland
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Apr 14, 1561
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 22, 2026
- Case id
- case-bea38bece2
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Presence of the Shining Ones: Ball of light UAP/UFOs are active benevolent and malevolent interdimensional entities watching and manipulating the progression of mankind since the dawn of recorded history.
Reddit · 2023-10-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.