Arabia: Pointed object in the sky — 1479
A remarkable engraving highlights this observation. Lycosthenes notes that this object, which he calls a “comet,” was seen in Arabia, “in the manner of a sharply pointed beam.” The illustration shows that whatever was observed does not to conform to our knowledge of comets. However we should note that the illustration looks similar to drawings of the first multi-stage rockets built around the same time by Conrad Haas. We therefore doubt it was drawn in Arabia. Usually such drawings would have been provided by the printers, often taken from very different contexts. Fig. 9: Arabian “rocket”
Source: Case: W104