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11 1 1890 the idaho avalanche silver city

10 30 1944 lorain republican elyria ohio

10 13 1911 littleton independent colorado but paris

 9 16 33 gloucestershire echo england



 TIMES OF INDIA RAJCOT INDIA 8 18 1927

times of india calcutta india may 17 1913

the straits times april 19 1936 malaysia

 The Salina Daily Union 29 Mar 1907, Fri  Page 1

the raleigh n.c.  minerva oct 24 1817

the goodland republic kansas dec 22 1905

the argus melbourne australia oct 16 1928

telegraph brisbane queensland aus. oct 30 1916

sheffield eve telegraph eb 15 1905 see wales

richmond river herald nsw aus feb 29 1916

 nevada st journal aug 3 1952 mojave california

Narrative of Expedition of American Squadron to China Seas and Japan Performed in 1852, 1853 1854 Under Commodore M.c. Perry

nairnshire mirror and gen advertiser scotland may 17 1845

lumberton robesonian n.c. june 27 1912

london weekly dispatch oct 15 1845 orange orb

lewiston maine daily sun sept 11 1937

leavenworth weekly times kansas nov 22 1894

kangaroo island courier south australia march 15 1919

june 20 1895 bath chronicle somerset england

JULY 13 1967 ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH MISSOURI

huron evening huronite s. dakota aug 5 1931

Hammond Indiana Times March 2 1936 pasco washington

guernsey comet, isle of guernsey, english channel jan 12 1836

fort fairfield review maine oct 25 1905

edinburge evening news midlothian scotland july 8 1905

daily plainsman roswell s. dakota june 4 1932

concordia daily blade kansas july 20 1906

charlotte observer n.c. june 9 1906

byron bay record nsw aus aug 21 1909

australian paper monaghan and fermangagh ireland may 24 1913

balonne beacon st george queensland australia march 25 1911

berwickshire news and gen advertiser northumberland england dec 10 1889

brooklyn daily eagle n.y. oct 12 1860 nebraska locale

1891 article

1830 newfoundland canada in the canadian naturalist page 1 

 12 18 1917 mansfield news ohio

 11 21 1877 juniata sentinel and republcan of pa. wales uk orb ufo

washington times d.c. april 2 1905 ergyn lights wales

xenia daily gazeyye ohio jan 28 1898 London England

weekly mail cardiff wales dec 26 1903

Wagga Wagga Advertiser NSW  Australia  Thursday 20 January 1910

 TIMES OF INDIA ORISSA INDIA MARCH 12 1913

times democrat new orleans la. jan 7 1913

the times philly jan 30 1892

The Telegraph Brisbane, Qld australia 1872 - 1947, Wednesday 16 February 1910

the recorder monterey virginia vol 50 no 14 april 6 1928

the record argus greenville pa. apr 17 1890

the evening post ny ny sept 6 1880

the argus melbourne aus may 29 1917

the age northwood victoria aus jan 9 1905

south coast times nsw aus jan 29 1915

san fran chronicle jul 22 1923

religio philosophical journal may 3 1879 location unknown

palladium Item Liberty Indiana sept 11 1940

ovens and murray advertiserbeechworth victoria aus mar 17 1906

newcastle sun nsw aus july 24 1925

newark daily advocate ohio may 25 1891

narracoorte herald australia oct 8 1909

mary borough chronicle hobart tasmania aug 14 1909

ludington daily news michigan jan 25 1926

logansport-pharos tribune  indiana may 1 1897

lenior topic n.c. march 11 1913

leavenworth times kansas sept 24 1908

la prensa agua dulce mexico nov 28 1931

idaho statesman boise aug 13 1917

HULL ENGLAND PACKET REPORT 1801

guthrie daily leader oklahoma sept 12 1901

greensboro patriot n.c. april 25 1872

evansville journal indiana april 8 1868

EAST OREGONIAN PAGE 1 NOV 24 1909

dubuque iowa telagraph herald nov 8 1911

daily concord standard n.c. aug 30, 1900

cornish and devon post cornwall england jan 28 1888

charlottestown guardian (vermillion bay) canada oct 18 1933

carrizozo outlook n.m. march 26 1920

ballarat star victoria australia may 13 1873

beloit daily call coffeyville kansas oct 28 1907

bluefield daily telegraph west virginia march 17 1935

brenham daily banner texas april 7 1903

 

 

1830 newfoundland canada in the canadian naturalist page 1.png

3 21 1891 article, source unknown, about 1676 Italy, march 19 1719 london object in orions belt, wales 1698

zanesville ohio herald apr 5 1873

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Nature - p.360

FIREBALLS

August 18, 1884

The following account I have received from a lady at Bruhl near Cologne, July 26: -- "8.22. A large fireball of scarlet fire almost as large as a harvest moon just sailed along and upwards, at a varying but mostly very rapid rate, until, at a great height, it remained for some minutes almost or quite stationary; then after some uncertain movements rose again, and rising, became smaller, until it finally disappeared. ... Every one who saw it seemed petrified with amazement." This is of interest from the long time that the ball was visible, and its being seen by several people. I described some time ago some fireballs which I saw slowly moving at a distance during a storm in Egypt, which were then put down as illusory results of a flash (NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 284), but now many similar cases have been lately reported. A large fireball, described as about a foot in diameter, was seen a few years ago near here; it struck a pavement, went over a low wall, moved across a wide lawn, and finally vanished in a wet ditch.

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STRANGE LIGHTS IN WALES --

April 17, 1875

A gentleman writes from Pwllheli, a coast town in Carnarvonshire, to the Field newspaper of Feb. 20, as follows: --

"Some few days ago we witnessed here what we have never seen before -- certain lights, eight in number, extending over, I should say, a distance of 8 miles; all seemed to keep their own ground, although moving in horizontal, perpendicular, and zig-zag directions. Sometimes they were of a light blue colour, then like the bright light of a carriage lamp, then almost like an electric light, and going out altogether, in a few minutes would appear again dimly, and come up as before. One of my keepers, who is nearly 70 years of age, has not, nor has any one else in this vicinity, seen the same before. Can any one of your numerous readers inform me whether they are will-o'-the-wisps, or what? We have seen three at a time afterwards on four or five occasions."

Surely we are not going to have a repetition of the "Fiery Exhalation" mentioned by Evelyn in his Diary, 2nd April 1694, and fully discussed in Gibson's continuation of Camden. These "Mephitic Vapours," as they were called, occurred on the same coast. 

A.R. 

Croeswylan, Oswestry.

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Force and Nature.

by Charles Frederick Winslow, M.D.

All general readers are familiar with the observations recorded by English tourists through the High Alps, of the electric light flashing from crags and icicles, accompanying even rains and mists, as I have already described similar phenomena to be generated in the sea. Both, and all these conditions, are more or less local and temporary; but they are secondary results of the fluctuating translations of telluric forces from interior regions to exterior ones, and vice versa, charging and discharging the envelopes of the planet, and displaying luminous phenomena by the subtle activity of such translations. 

The luminous marsh-gases (known as ignes fatui) afford another species of evidence, however insignificant their weight, upon possible causes of cosmic light. But such or similar will-o'-the-wisps exist not alone in marshes, and are not the only examples of spontaneous aerial combustion or luminosity that have been seen. So remarkable a phenomenon of this class was witnessed by myself in South America, in May 1865, that I am induced to give it permanent record in this connexion, inasmuch as so important a fact is not only a contribution to knowledge, but may also excite more active inquiry into the nature and causes of such spectral lights. At the time mentioned, I was engaged in a geological reconnaissance along the coast region of the province of Piura, Peru, accompanied by two American companions, and an Indian attendant. We halted one day at dark, about half way between the river Piura, or town of Sachura, and Point Aguja, within sound of the waves of Sachura Bay. The leaden sky and damp bleak wind common to that locality between sunset and sunrise were chilling us long before we made our beds on the drifting sand of that Sahara-like region. Sleeping little, I observed for much of the night that the cloudy sky only broke sufficiently to permit occasional glimpses of the stars. Toward morning it was more densely overcast, and bleaker than ever. Tired of discomfort, I summoned my companions before daylight in order to get breakfast and prepare for an early start. We had barely risen, when one of them, an old resident of Paita, exclaimed, "Why, doctor, there is the British mail steamer bound south." I looked westward, over the Bay of Sachura; and there, sure enough, apparently a long way off, were two bright orange-coloured lights, each with a conspicuous train, and one just ahead of the other, resembling the flames or light from two smoke-stacks. But, as I regarded them intently, I was struck with the rapidity and inequality of their motion, which seemed to increase and waver from moment to moment. They appeared, indeed, to be chasing each other. They were moving horizontally at almost the same level, only a few feet from the surface of the land or water, and with greater rapidity than it was possible for any steamer to move. At first, supposing them far off at sea, I was surprised at the quickness of their motion and transient variations of relative distance; and soon became convinced that they issued from no steamship's funnels, but were luminous objects of some sort, one following or chasing the other, not many thousand yards, perhaps feet, away. I called the attention of my companions to these points; and they came to similar conclusions. What were these lights? Our curiosity became intensely excited. They would vanish for a moment as the low dunes toward the bay intervened, and appear again moving swiftly southward, sometimes almost coming together, then separating, and never more than ten or fifteen feet apart, and each showing bright yellow luminous trains two or three feet long; both objects strongly brilliant, but not defined with clear outlines. In a word, they resembled large flaming torches without smoke in hot pursuit one after the other, just above the surface of the earth and sea. They were visible many minutes, and suddenly vanished, while yet in full blast, behind what I supposed to be a range of hillocks on the edge of the bay. Of course I was on the qui vive for the same or similar phenomena to reappear. We observed in all directions. Some minutes elapsed, when one of my companions detected and followed for a while a small bright light in the south-west. He traced it; but I failed to descry it, to his great surprise. I patiently watched, while my companions busied themselves in preparing for the journey. The grey of dawn was beginning to steal into the eastern night, and I beginning to despair, when to my great delight another luminous object appeared, approaching from the south-west and sailing toward the north, higher in the air than those before described; and almost immediately there appeared another slowly following, but not violently chasing the first, as in the former phenomenon. These strange objects swept along at different heights, without trains, appearing like large irregularly-shaped bladders of light, sometimes near each other, then far apart, rising and falling as if moved by currents of air, or more like slowly sailing birds, and changing their motions in all directions. In aspect they were at first yellow and bright; afterwards, as daylight advanced, growing paler and blueish white, like the fumes of phosphorus seen in the dark. They were more defined in form than the first, less intensely brilliant, yet apparently shapeless, and varying from six to fifteen inches in their various diameters. They were strange "spectral" lights without definite forms or proportions; at moments almost lost to sight, then reappearing again more brightly, and apparently having some relative connexion with each other, like that of gregarious birds. They were a long time visible, and finally were lost in the daylight. They appeared to float over both the shores and waters of the bay. What were they? I know not. The recollection of them is a marvel to me to this day...