Caranza near La Spezia, Italy: Disk changes color — 1546
A manuscript by the chronicler, Father Antonio Cesena, found in the public library at La
Spezia, tells of farmers reporting “a strange disk, changing from yellow to red, with red fireballs shining beneath it”. It was seen in two separate areas including the small village of Caranza, near Passo del Bocco “from time to time.” Cesena interpreted the sighting as a portent of the death later that year of Count LuigP Fieschi, the governor of Varese Ligure.
Source: Antonio Cesena, Relatione dell’origine e sucessi della terra di Varese (1558). The original manuscript is lost but a copy made in 1683 is still held by the Bibioteca della Societa Economica di Chiavari (ms. Z VI 29). Case: W131