Buendia, Cuenca, Spain — 5 March 1555
Hovering cross
On Tuesday March 5th 1555, in Buendia, in the Spanish province of Cuenca, many people saw an enormous object in the shape of a cross in the sky. It was stationary, floating next to a new calvary (a life-size representation of a crucifix on raised ground) erected by the Brotherhood of the True Cross. Seven other women saw it there. The Inquisition of Cuenca dispatched somebody to investigate the occurrence, but nineteen people described the sighting to notaries. We include this case because of its interest as an unidentified aerial phenomenon, though the religious significance of the case should not be ignored.
Source: William A. Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Princeton University Press, 1989), 186-7. Case: W146