Below is an 1871 newspaper account of an encounter with a mysterious orb, reported in the Marysville Daily Appeal, Volume XXIII, Number 24, 28 January 1871:
"The strange appearance was seen in the orchard adjoining which the house stands. It was at first like one of the India rubber balloons which we have often seen in our streets, with a brilliant light inside, by which the ball was illuminated, showing all the colors in distinct rings. That ball of light moved around, sometimes in one direction and then again in another; sometimes ascending higher than the top of the surrounding fir trees, and then coming to the ground again. Two or three times it changed its form, and, instead of being round and variegated in color, it suddenly took the shape of a fiery brilliant star. Two or three times it disappeared as if going into the ground, reappearing again in a moment at exactly the same spot....When the ball of light came near it the animal uttered the most unearthly screams of fright and ran away....The entire party, though they had not before manifested anything more than curiosity, were of course, greatly startled by this denouement and rushed recklessly into the bouse, nearly carrying the door off its hinges, one of them exclaiming, 'My God, it is as big as a lion!' Just as it had done on the former occasion, the ball of light then made a circuit of the house and taking a straight line, ascending gradually, it disappeared in the distance."
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