1665: Stralsund, Germany Sighting

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Date: April 8, 1665

Sighting Time: Around 2 pm

Day/Night: Day

Location: Stralsund, Germany

Urban or Rural: –

Hynek Classification: DD (Daylight Disc) Metallic or whitish object seen in the day.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  Several

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): Aerial ships and a saucer-shaped

Color of Object(s): The color is described as the darkening moon hovering over St. Nicolai’s church.

Number of Witnesses: Several

Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases – Europe (Las Vegas, Nevada: Nations Institute for Discovery Science, 1998), quoting Erasmus Francisci (1680), and Ordinariund Postzeitungen (No. 65) of April 10th, 1665. He also quotes from E. Buchner, Medi&ft Hexen, Geisterseher (16 Bis 18 JH), 42-43 (Munich: Albert Langen, 1926); Francisci, Erasmus. Der xvunder-reiche Ueberzug unserer Nider- Welt/Order Erd-umgebende (Nurnberg, 1680).The case is described in researcher Illobrand Von Ludwiger’s book Best UFO Cases – Europe published by the National Institute for Discovery Science in 1998. 1296770761299

Summary/Description: Aerial ships and a saucer-shaped object with dome were reported flying over the church of this town located near the Baltic Sea, and hovered there till evening. Witnesses were left trembling, with pain in their head and limbs. 

Several fishermen first reported seeing a big swarm of starling birds flying in the sky about 2 P.M., coming from the north over the sea. They changed to battle ships fighting one another. A lot of smoke developed. New ships kept appearing, small and big ones, and the battle lasted for a few hours. Once the initial vision had vanished, the scenario changed. Writer Erasmus Francisci (whose real name was Erasmus Finx) describes the
scene:

“After a while out of the sky came a flat round form, like a plate, looking like a big man’s hat…Its color was that of the rising moon, and it hovered right over the church of St. Nicolai. There it remained stationary till evening. The fishermen, worried to death, didn’t want to look further at the spectacle and buried their faces in their hands. On the following days they fell sick with trembling all over and pain in head and limbs. Many
scholarly people thought a lot about that.”

The Berliner Ordinari und Post Zeitungen also wrote about the vision: “One of these fishermen had been sick on his feet. All of the citizens who have observed this are reliable. Yesterday, Herr Colonel von der Wijck and Docter Gessman interrogated two of the 6 fishermen. May God change this miracle for the best.” German researcher Von Ludwiger adds:

“What the fishermen saw was a plate with a dome (man’s hat) orange in color (like the rising moon) which hovered motionless for a long time and acted on the witnesses as if they became sick from strong radiation. (…) Erasmus Francisci hesitated to believe this account, because he could not find a suitable explanation: ‘I read it at that time in the usual printed newspaper. But, to tell the truth, I didn’t believe in that story, and I thought the fishermen had fished it out of the air or from a deceived imagination….'”

Francisci reported this account because between 1665 and 1680 several battles took place between the Swedes and the Prussians, and the spectacle could be given the meaning of a sign for an imminent war. Francisci states (p. 625): “After the sea was colored with so much blood after that time, the affair now seems to me believable. What the disk-like thing means to the good city shouldn’t be hard to guess, if one remembers how the tower of St. Nicolai Church was destroyed in 1670 during wartime….'”