Rome, Italy: Michelangelo’s flying triangle — 1513
The celebrated sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) observed a triangular light
with three tails of different colors. He painted a picture of it but this has not survived. According to Benedictine chronicler Benedetto Lushino’s book Vulnera Diligentis (second book, chapter XXII) Michelangelo saw a “triangular sign” one calm night. Fig. 12: Michelangelo It resembled a star with three tails, one silvery, the second one red, and the third fiery and bifurcated.
Source: Giovanni Papini, La vita di Michelangiolo nella vita delsuo tiempo (Milano: Garzanti, 1949), 198-200. Case: W117