Claimed sighting

From his bath, Henry Brougham saw his friend G--- sitting calmly on a chair. He wrote the whole thing down at once, dated 19 December.

On 24 April 1874 Schafarik of Prague watched a brilliant white object move slowly across the face of the moon and then away from it.

Postmaster Ziegler and several others watched a body take about an hour to cross the face of the sun. Dr. Brendel of Griefswald, Pomerania, sent in their report.

Half an hour before sunrise on 22 March 1880, a great many bright points of light rose over Kattenau, Germany, and crossed the sky east to west in a narrow band.

Two observers some distance apart in Marseilles each saw an unknown round body at the same point on the sun's edge.

On a still June night a yellow substance fell by the bucketful onto a ship in Pictou Harbour, Nova Scotia. Tests reported in the American Journal of Science suggested to one Mr. Blake that it might be insect eggs.

For more than an hour in June 1801, a mirage of a city nobody could name hung over Youghal, County Cork. Mirages of walled towns had been seen there in 1796 and 1797.

With the lights burning, Hahn, Kern and an inspector named Knetsch watched two napkins float up to the ceiling and knives and forks fly across the room.

Macpherson, staying in a shepherds' summer hut, said the ghost of Sergeant Davies, killed at Braemar in 1749, pressed him to bury its bones and named two Highlanders as its killers. The two men were tried for the murder.

Fearing something had caught fire, a witness in bed looked out and saw a golden-haired boy in white standing beside the bed.

A long, spindle-shaped body sat on the face of the sun and crept slowly across it, staying in view until it reached the edge on 7 September.

In 1835 Madame Mayer spent a night in a cell of the Weinsberg prison and, about midnight, saw a yellow light drift in, felt a cool draught and smelled decay.