On March 22, 1880, several brilliantly luminous objects were reported
seen at Kattenau, Germany. Sighted just before sunrise, they were
described as rising from the horizon and moving from east to west. The
account was published in the British Nature Magazine, Volume 22, page
64.

The next report in the file mentioned briefly a strange round object
seen in the skies over Bermuda. The source for this account was the
Bermuda Royal Gazette. This was in 1885. That same year, an astronomer
and other witnesses reported a gigantic aerial object at Adrianople,
Turkey. On November 1, the weird apparition was seen moving across the
sky. Observers described it as round and four to five times the size
of the moon.

This estimate is similar to the Denison, Texas, comparison with an
orange. The object would actually be huge to be seen at any great
height. But unless the true height were known, any estimate of size
would be guesswork.

On March 19, 1887, two strange objects fell into the sea near a Dutch
barkentine. As described by the skipper, Captain C. D. Sweet, one of
the objects was dark, the other brightly luminous. The glowing object
fell with a loud roaring sound; the shipmaster was positive it was not
a meteor.

In New Zealand, a year later, an oval-shaped disk was reported
speeding high overhead. This was on May 4, 1888. About two years after
this, several large aerial bodies were sighted hovering over the Dutch
East Indies. {p. 60} Most accounts described them as roughly
triangular, about one hundred feet on the base and two hundred feet on