Iloilo City, Philippines: Moon-sized fireball followed by smaller globes moves north

At 9:00 p.m. a witness in Iloilo City, Philippines, saw the heavens suddenly light up as a fireball the size of the full moon became visible, moving toward the north. Smaller globes followed it closely. The objects moved more slowly than a meteor. The observation was published by Thomas Higgin under the title "Electrical Phenomenon" in Nature on 23 December 1886. 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.