Yelden, England: Bright object — 30 October 1660
A bright object seen in the sky for two hours by a credible witness. The record reads:
“Very early was seen a great Star which.. .gave so great a light, that some inhabitants here…could see to do business in the house by the light of it; one credible person here beheld it two hours together, and at last saw it turn into the perfect form of a Roman S, and then presently it divided in the middle, and one half went to the north-east, and the other to the south-west, and so by degrees disappeared.”
Source: Mirabilis Annus (1661). Case: W217