The Mysterious Orbs of Egryn

 Below is a remarkable news article that appeared in a 1905 edition of the Washington Times. You can read the full article using the link here. 

Below are some excerpts from the article:

"Wherever this woman preaches at night in church, in a hovel, or in the open fields there hang suspended in the air a great orb of fire which can be seen for miles around. It does not burn steadily, but flashes suddenly into prominence, and as suddenly vanishes....A belated farmer driving rapidly toward the chapel suddenly observed a glow in the sky that seemed to hover over the little church, while a great ball of light appeared high in the heavens and vanished almost immediately. Amazed, he described what he had seen to the worshipers, but the glow was gone when the meeting was dismissed....Half a dozen balls of fire of various hues began to blaze in the-air above the chapel...Usually these are seen as balls of fire of various sizes, ranging from globes apparently six inches in diameter to huge discs having all the appearance of gigantic motor car light. Some burn with a brilliancy that sends a radiating glow far out on the atmosphere; others seem to cast no radiance whatever, though the intensity of the light concentrated in them is such that any attempt to look fixedly upon them speedily tires the eyes...

The special correspondent of the London Express, who was sent down to investigate the manifestation for his paper, asserts that on the night he watched from the hills, a mile away from the church, and while half a dozen lights were gleaming high above the roof, a remarkable globe of fire, with nine distinct radiations, materialized apparently only a hundred yards in front of him, hung for a full minute, as timed by his watch, and then disappeared
completely. Within thirty seconds another globe of similar size and character leaped into being some 300 yards back of him, and at the moment of its disappearance a curious gleam that seemed to be, and yet he declares he didn't feel it was, a ray of light shot
directly in front of him as he stood in the middle of the road with bare fields on either side, leaped back and circled
completely around him, disappearing with the same suddenness that marked its materialization, and with no explanation possible, to his mind, for its existence."

A similar account is given in the Los Angeles Herald here. In that account we read this:

"Under these circumstances a special correspondent of the Dally Mail was sent to investigate the matter. He has
seen the lights, and says of them:
'At 7 o'clock in the evening I made
my way through Egryn, watching the
black hillside. I walked back again
across the lonely meadow, and saw
nothing. At 8 o'clock I had decided
that the whole thing was a local superstition."

"Half an hour later my views were
changed. At 8:15 I was on the road
side, walking from Dyftrin to Egryn.
In the distance, about a mile away, I
could, see the three lighted windows
of the tiny Egryn chapel, where service was going on. It was only a

touch of light in the miles of country
side. Suddenly, at 8:20, I saw what
appeared to be a ball of fire above the
roof of the chapel. It came from nowhere and sprang into brilliance and did not move."