Jason Colavito has a worthwhile post on this infamous "proof" for UFO visitation. The whole idea of a "UFO Battle" derives from the woodcutting shown here (courtesy of Wikimedia commons). Jason's post tells you a few things about the origins of the woodcut that the UFO community won't tell you, so have a look!
Personally, it looks more like "Battle of the Gum Drops and Pez Dispensers" to me.
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That’s one good reason to conclude we aren’t dealing with alien visitors. Think about it. If aliens were really visiting the planet during the last 100 years, would their craft really evolve from propeller-powered dirigibles to anti-gravity? Wouldn’t...
This post over at Blue Blurry Lines is a must-read (and must-see visuals) for anyone interested in UFOs. It’s pretty conclusive proof that the photo is real, but has misunderstood and misused. Here’s the photo (just as you’ll usually see it):
Breaking news … Sigh. Please don’t send this to me or post it on social media where I’ll see it. It’s fake, folks. Here’s the video. Watch it and you’ll see something very odd (not the “UFO”) that tells you it’s a...
Robert Hastings recently posted an essay that intertwines these two familiar UFO research topics:Â UFOs Filmed Hovering Over U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Storage Area: Important New Revelations about the Paul Bennewitz Affair. The connection? In a sentence: “....
This film documentary is about UFO incidents involving multiple military witnesses at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. It is based on the research of Robert Hastings, one of the serious people in ufology. The documentary — widely praised for the quality of the...
I recently found an article on how the recent YouTube Ad / Monetization policies have rocked the “Secure Team 10” UFO Hoax site and came across a list of “related links” that was too interesting to pass up. Seems the UFO Hoaxing community (and...
Colavito can’t even be bothered to paraphrase someone else’s translation of the woodcut’s text, one translation of which can be found here http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/1561-ufo-battle-over-nuremberg/ which sure doesn’t sound like a description of sun dogs, either! I found the translation in under a minute, and more time and effort would probably secure a transcription of the original, which I COULD translate if I had the time right now. In any case, the woodcut arguably supports neither the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis nor a casual debunking. And let’s not even begin to reflect on the problematics of interpreting visual and textual representations from the Renaissance!
Last line — well said!