Jun 1883
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Nature, Volume 28, Issue 712, pp. 173 (1883).
Physics
Scientific paper
WHILE watching the incessant play of vivid lightning during the progress of a thunderstorm which was raging close by in the country towards Novara, Arona being just on the northern limit, my wife observed the following curious spectacle, the account of which she wrote down immediately afterwards:-At 9.35 p.m. on Sunday, June 3, a meteor-like object was seen to pass apparently from south to north (window facing due east), coming from the side of the storm and disappearing behind a mass of cloud which capped the high hill of Monte Val Grande above Lago Varese. It was oblately spheroid in form and apparently about the size of a fire-balloon, and with the velocity of a rocket was travelling slowly, for it left no visible track. It was of a bright, clear, whitish yellow, with a bright, pale green colour showing on the northern side when it passed behind the dark cloud. It was about three times as high above the horizon as the low hills opposite Arona, and traversed an angle of 45° horizontally from the point where first seen to its disappearance. The next, day (June 4) when visiting friends at the Villa Frauzosine, near Tutra, we ascertained that this meteor-like body had also been seen by two or three persons who were sitting on a terrace watching the brilliant lightning to the south; they observed it moving also from south to north, disappearing behind the mountains to the northward.
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