“453 years ago on the day, one of my favorite woodcut engravings was published. Made by the letter-painter of Nuremberg, Hans Glaser, it was an attempt to depict the celestial phenomenon that had filled the Nuremberg sky, one morning at dawn in 1561. It became a mass sighting, and was described by the town residents as an aerial battle, with hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that filling the sky. Good night everyone.”

Words by Linda Dobke