Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-08-27
Books mentioned on Short Stuff: 1561 Celestial Event
An amazing case of an early modern mass sighting of UFOs came in Nuremberg, Germany in 1561. Except it wasn’t that at all.
Josh Clark discussed Flying Saucers by Carl Gustav Jung and The Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringucci.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Flying Saucers
Flying Saucers by Carl Gustav Jung explores the mythology and psychic aspects surrounding modern unidentified flying object sightings.
Discussed“The reason why is because this was a forgotten event because again it just got mixed in with all the others. Um, it was a forgotten event in history largely that was plucked out of obscurity to be used as an example in a book about flying saucers or actually the mythology we create around things like flying saucers by”
Where to get it
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The Pirotechnia
Discussed“Another one is that in 1540, full 20 plus years before this event, um a man named Veninocio Berinio published Dea Pyrochnneia, which is the first book from Europe at least on how to prepare rockets, including using rockets in festivals, what we would call fireworks.”
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