SKIES & SAUCERS
Spearhead Over Karlsruhe Recalls Nuremberg's Sky Battle of 1561
A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs argues that a 2023 video of a hovering, rotating dark object echoes a sixteenth-century woodcut.
KARLSRUHE, GERMANY — A video said to show a spearhead-shaped object over Karlsruhe, Germany, at 7 p.m. local time on October 1, 2023, has been put before the readers of r/UFOs, where a poster finds in it an echo of a woodcut printed four and a half centuries earlier.
According to the post, the footage was captured by another Reddit user. The author directs attention to a stretch between 00:12 and 00:16, in which the object is said to hold its position while rotating about its vertical axis.
The poster maintains that such a maneuver would be impossible for a delta-winged drone driven by rear propulsion. The author adds that a balloon or a kite also seems unlikely, though no measurements or further analysis are offered in the post.
The comparison drawn is to Hans Glaser's 1561 woodcut of Nuremberg, which the author describes as famous. The poster says it depicts a similar dark, pointed object. The post stops short of proposing what either object might be.
The post is brief and presents its conclusions as impressions rather than findings. Readers wishing to judge the matter are referred to the original video and the woodcut itself.