Is it? Then what about a the witness seeing a green-yellow flame rising up there during the night, from the other side of the river?

Drunken with Jägermeister, or what? And so much more. Some points are listed in the german wiki-article I linked.

I tend to think about that sort of ridiculing the other way around. As ignorance.

Oh, also Franz Yussuf Strauß, err... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strau%C3%9F

https://taz.de/Franz-Josef-Strauss-und-die-Gelueste-auf-eine...

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/kalter-krieg-als-die-us-ar...