PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. U5 



2. 



Anonymous, Mercersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania, pp 

 iJo to 25. ' ff 



1. At 7.30 or V.45 P. M. 



2. Two or three seconds. 



3. First in the east; last in the south. 



4. First at 45^; last behind the U. P. Church. 



6. Like red-hot iron ; round, with train of sparks 



7. iSoise accompanying its passage like that of a hissing fire- 



cracker, or a loud hiss ; no noise or explosion of any 

 kind at the close. ^ 



3. 



^ R. F. Snoddy, Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, 



1. 8.30 P. M., railroad time. 



3. Not 2 seconds. 



3. First in the east ; last in the southwest ?. 



5. Like the sun, and white. 



6. About 2 seconds. . 



7. Rusl'ing noise with rolling sounds like an approaching 



thunder-storm. ^ 



4. 



^^W. F. Madlem, Ephratah, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, p. 



1. 7.47 P. M. 



2. 15 seconds. 



5. 



Prof. G. R. Rossiter, Marietta College, Ohio n 65 could 

 not learn that it had been seen by any one in that region.' 



6. 



F. A. Curtis, Newark, New Castle Co., Delaware pp 1-3 

 233, A. and B. ' i-f , 



1. A few minutes before 8 P. M., or 7.45 P. M., Philadelphia 



railroad time. 



2. 30 seconds. 



3. It passed very near the moon, a little south 



4 Overhead, a little to the south, "say, 30°"; last lost in 



haze near the horizon. 

 5. Much brighter than the moon ; a succession of flashes of 



white light formed the tail ; the head was of different 



colors, crim.son predominating. 



