Bednall-Green, England — 23 April 1661

Pillar containing lights

People saw a great pillar of fire with smaller objects (compared to “burning coals”) within it, and at 10 o’clock that night “several persons near Pickadilly saw strange fiery clouds and other objects very terrible to the spectators, from some of whose mouths we received the information”.

Source: Mirabilis Annus Secundus (1662). Case: W225