London and Dover, England — 15 July 1385
Three lights join as one
On July 15th 1385 “at London and likewise at Dover, there appeared after sunset a kind of fire in the shape of a head in the south part of the heavens, stretching out to the northern quarter, which flew away, dividing itself into three parts, and travelled in the air like a bird of the woods in flight. At length they joined as one and suddenly disappeared.”
Source: C.E. Britton, A Meteorological Chronology to A.D. 1450 (London: H.M.S.O., 1937), 149; also noted by John Malvern, a monk of Worcester, who certainly contributed to the Polychronicon (begun by Ranulph Higden, a monk of Chester), but continued the chronicle only as far as 1377. Case: W082