Not Representations of UFO Warfare! - UFO Conjectures

Rich Reynolds and Quebec scholar-poet Bryan Sentes debate the purpose of two 16th-century German "broadsheets" (large sheets of paper that include text and illustrations). Various ufologists think these depict UFO events. Rich's inaugural September 8th piece and Bryan's Comments to it provide most of the background. As the string of ten separate posts between the two unfurls, Bryan challenges Rich's notion the broadsheets are only "editorial cartoons" allegorically representing the stresses of the Protestant Reformation. Sentes makes the generally accepted case the pictures show "in however a conventional, stylized manner what the accompanying text recounts." He asserts those accompanying texts' sightings descriptions and referencing of specific dates support actual events. Neither disputant regards the images as "real" (ET) UFOs; Bryan suggests anomalous weather phenomena, though he will allow the cause may be "indeterminate." Rich posts on the 9th, 10th, 17th (twice), and 20th; Bryan on the 9th (with There is Nothing Outside of the Context), 10th, 14th, and 18th. Rich describes areas of Hans Glaser's 1561 Nuremberg and Samuel Coccius' 1566 broadsheets he thinks have only religious import, including a "spear" in the Nuremberg document. Rich emphasizes that no other sources confirm these sightings, and claims evidence within the documents themselves undermines the occurrences' reality. Rich adduces Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck's Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times for a 1571 Czech report he believes confirms his position the scenes are fictional. Bryan uses the broadsheets' texts to reinforce his points; he also enlists an art historian to buttress his contention the works relate to real events. Bryan also mentions the Vallee/Aubeck work, which covers the broadsheets on pages 161-164. Those authors remark upon a 1503 Freiburg sighting that "The description of flying spears is a common reference to meteors and bolides in the atmosphere" (pp. 418f). Rich's September 20th post mortem says the "heated colloquy" was more two people "sustaining an argument" than trying to settle a question. But their conversation is more spirited than mean-spirited, and much superior to other examples elsewhere in today's ufology, where contests are more often of personalities than of ideas. And the mystery remains as to just what those 16th-century documents portray. (WM)

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