Interpreted religiously at the time, more recently some have considered the event an early sighting of extraterrestrial beings — the witnessing of some kind of alien spaceship battle occurring in the Bavarian skies. Although one, perhaps, shouldn't entirely rule out such a far-fetched interpretation, it is more likely that what the good people of Nuremberg witnessed that morning, and subsequently elaborated upon, was a natural meteorological phenomenon — possibly "sundogs", or to give them their scientific term, "parhelia". This atmospheric phenomenon is a kind of halo created by sunlight interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere: normally appearing as two coloured patches of light to the left and right of the Sun. This mysterious event, and its depiction in Glaser's broadsheet, would go largely unmentioned until the twentieth century, when it appeared in Carl Jung's 1958 work Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.