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Assoe., 1849); verv brilliant hook-like form, seen in the sky at 

 Poland, Trumbull Co., Ohio, during the stream of meteors, of 1833; 

 visible more than an hour: large luminous body, almost stationary 

 "for a time"; shaped like a square table; Niagara Falls, Nov. 13, 

 1833 (Amer. Jour. Set., 1-25-391); something described as a bright 

 white cloud, at night, Nov. 3, 1886, at Hamar, Norway; from it 

 were emitted brilliant rays of light; drifted across the sky; "re- 

 tained throughout its original form" (Nature, Dec. 16, 1886-158); 

 thing with an oval nucleus, and streamers with dark bands and lines 

 very suggestive of structure; New Zealand, May 4, 1888 (Nature, 

 42-402); luminous object, size of full moon, visible an hour and 

 a half, Chili, Nov. 5, 1883 (Comptes Rendus, 103-682); bright ob- 

 ject near sun, Dec. 21, 1882 (Knowledge, 3-13); light that looked 

 like a great flame, far out at sea, off Ryook Phyoo, Dec. 2, 1845 

 (London Roy. Soc. Proc., 5-627); something like a gigantic trum- 

 pet, suspended, vertical, oscillating gently, visible five or six min- 

 utes, length estimated at 425 feet, at Oaxaca, Mexico, July 6, 1874 

 (Sci. Am. Sup., 6-2365); two luminous bodies, seemingly united, 

 visible five or six minutes, June 3, 1898 (La Nature, 1898-1-127); 

 thing with a tail, crossing moon, transit half a minute, Sept. 26, 



1870 (London Times, Sept. 30, 1870); object four or five times 

 size of moon, moving slowly across sky, Nov. i, 1885, near Adri- 

 anople (L 'Astronomic, 1886-309) ; large body, colored red, moving 

 slowly, visible 15 minutes, reported by Coggia, Marseilles, Aug. i, 



1871 (Chem. News, 24-193); details of this observation, and simi- 

 lar observation by Guillemin, and other instances by de Fonville 

 (Comptes Rendus, 73-297, 755); thing that was large and that 

 was stationary twice in seven minutes, Oxford, Nov. 19, 1847; listed 

 by Lowe (Rec. Sci., 1-136) ; grayish object that looked to be about 

 three and a half feet long, rapidly approaching the earth at Saar- 

 bruck, April i, 1826; sound like thunder; object expanding like a 

 sheet (Am. Jour. Sci., 1-26-133; Quar. Jour. Roy. Inst., 24-488); 

 report by an astronomer, N. S. Drayton upon an object duration of 

 which seemed to him extraordinary; duration three-quarters of a 

 minute, Jersey City, July 6, 1882 (Sci. Amer., 47-53); object like 

 a comet, but with proper motion of 10 degrees an hour; visible 

 one hour; reported by Purine and Clancy from the Cordoba Ob- 

 servatory, Argentine, March 14, 1916 (Sci. Amer., 115-493); some- 

 thing like a signal light, reported by Glaisher, Oct. 4, 1844; bright 

 as Jupiter, "sending out quick flickering waves of light" (Year 

 Book of Facts, 1845-278). 



