Geneva, Switzerland — 9 April 1620
Flying hats and men in black
“Two suns were seen, one red and the other one yellow, hitting against each other (…) Shortly afterwards there appeared a longish cloud, the size of an arm, coming from the direction of the sun, which stopped near the sun, and from that cloud came a large number of people dressed in black, armed like men of war. Then arrived other clouds, yellow as saffron, from which emerged some ‘reverberations’ (?) resembling tall, wide hats, and the earth was seen all yellow and bloody. The sun became double and it all ended with a raift of blood.
Source: Effroyable bataille apergue stir la ville de Genesvre le dimanche des Rameaux dernier… (brochure published in 1620) cited in Les Soucoupes chez Heidi (GREPI, 1977). Case: W181