I recommend that readers interested in the pseudo-subject of UFOs in old works of art check out this post on the Ancient Aliens Debunked blog. It’s a long and thorough debunking analysis of the famous “UFO” picture you see here. Pretty well done.
Nuremberg 1561 UFO Battle Debunked

wow, thanks for linking to this as well as your positive feedback. I am flatteredn probably the highest complement that I’ve had since david childress attacked my stone sphere blog in his magazine “world explorer”.
thanks again dr. heiser!
frank johnson
you’re welcome. I also discovered your stone spheres post. I’ll be posting and linking to that one as well.