◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Nagora Disc
At about noon on 23 May 1971, near St. Lorenzen in Styria, the Munich musician Rudi Nagora heard a whistling hum and saw a silver disc zig-zag in front of the clouds. He took twelve photographs of it while his wife Hildegard looked on. Sceptics have argued the object was a thrown hubcap and investigators who examined the negatives dispute that, so this is the record of a set of photographs, not a verdict on what they show.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Nagora Disc is a reported UAP case near St. Lorenzen, Styria, Austria, 23 May 1971.
- Munich musician Rudi Nagora said a silver disc he saw near St. Lorenzen in Austria on 23 May 1971 stopped dead in the air, turned slowly while hovering and then appeared behind him.
- Nagora took twelve photographs of the disc on an Agfa box camera over about ten minutes, with his wife Hildegard present.
- Proponents say Nagora's photographs were analysed in Germany and America and showed no sign of trick photography.
- Sceptics Klaus Webner and Rudolf Henke of GWUP argued the Nagora disc was a thrown hubcap, a reading disputed by investigators who examined the negatives.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 2 distinct sources and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
23 May 1971
LOCATION
near St. Lorenzen, Styria, Austria · Austria
COORDS
47.47°N 15.37°E
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
2 distinct
CLAIMANTS
2
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
