Gunnersbury, England: Red object in Serpens flares and vanishes, seen in southern England
On March 17, 1877, at 9:55 p.m., a witness in Gunnersbury, West London, watched a red object in the constellation Serpens that brightened and dimmed and then suddenly disappeared; it was seen in many places in southern England.
Background
At 9:55 p.m. a witness in Gunnersbury, West London, saw a red object in the constellation Serpens. After 10 minutes he saw it increase and decrease in magnitude two or three times before it suddenly disappeared. The object was seen in many places in southern England and appeared one-half to one-sixth the size of the full moon. Fiery material was seen to fall along its track. Nature and The Observatory reported the event under the heading of a meteor. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.