Durham, Saint Leonard, England — 1320
Luminous phenomenon over a the burial site
Upon the death of the Abbott of Saint Gregory monastery, an unknown object (“a great light”) lit up the sky over his burial site in Saint Leonard. Later it came lower, moved away and disappeared. The symbolic meaning of this event leaves its connection with ufology open to debate.
Source: Robert de Graytanes, Historia Dunelmensis. As published in Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores tres (London-Edinburgh: Publications of the Surtees Society, 1839). Case: W074