On pages 104-105 of the December, 1905 edition of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (Volume 19), which you can read here, we read this 1905 account of observations by about five witnesses of a strange spherical object in the sky:
"One correspondent (see 27o) reports that his attention was called, during the service, to a 'ball of light about the size of the moon,' with a slight mist over it. Then stars began to shoot out around it, the light rose higher and grew brighter but smaller. Another at the same gathering describes the light as a 'block of fire' rising from the mountain side and moving along for about 200 or 300 yards. It went upwards, a star 'shot out to meet it, and they clapped together and formed into a ball of fire.' The form changed into something like the helm of a ship. The appearance lasted about a quarter of an hour. This deponent went home to fetch his wife to see the light, but from his house he saw nothing, although the house faces the same mountain side. Returning to the square he again saw it (see 27i). A third witness says that the light was a ball of fire, 'glittering and sparkling,' and it seemed to be 'bubbling over' (27c). A Mrs. J. and her daughters saw the light at 12.30 a.m. as a ball of fire, white, silvery, vibrating, stationary. Mrs. J. also saw two streamers of grey mist emanating from the ball and in the space between them a number of stars (27rf)....Another witness, whose account lias not been written, described his vision to me as a ball of fire with 4 or 5 pillars of light on the left of the ball, the intervening space containing no stars. He was standing near the last-named witnesses. It will be sufficient here to point out that whilst all the witnesses saw a ball of fire, each saw something in connection therewith not mentioned by the others. All agree in thinking that the duration of the light was from 10 to 15 minutes, but whether 'vision ' minutes are of the same duration as those of solar time remains to be proved."
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