Oxford, England: A physicist puzzled — 19 March 1719
Very bright, whitish and blue object moving from the west in a straight line at 8:15 P.M.,
much slower than a meteor. Multiple witnesses all over England, including the VicePresident of the Royal Society, physicist Sir H. Sloane, who saw it travel over 20 degrees in “less than half a minute.” Although listed as a meteor, the slow speed is most curious.
Source: Sir Edmund Halley, “An Account of the Extraordinary Meteor Seen All Over England,” Philosophical transactions of the Royal society of London 30 (1720): 978-990. Case: W274