Beauvais sous Matha near Tors, France Flying Hat-shaped object — 1586
A brown “hat” with horrible red colors was observed flying close to the steeple shortly
before sunset. Fig. 18: Agrippa d’Aubigne The witnesses were the great French poet Theodore Agrippa d’Aubigne (1552-1630) and the Marquis de Tors. “The Marquis, lord of that place, took his guest to a garden, shortly before sunset, and they saw a round cloud come down over the hamlet of Beauvais-sous-Matha, with a color that was horrid to see, for which one is forced to use a Latin word: subfusca (dark brown). “This cloud resembled a hat with an ear in the middle, the color of the throat of an Indian rooster (…) This hat with its sinister sign came into the steeple and melted there.”
Source: Agrippa d’Aubigne, Histoire Universelle (1626), III, iv, ch. 3. Case: W164