Bern, Switzerland — 16 January 1721
Three globes emerge from a pillar of fire
At night, there “was perceived a great Pillar of Fire standing over the Mountains, near that City, to the Westward of its Fortifications, which advancing by little and little toward the City, burst at length, without making any great Noise, and then three Globes of Fire was seen to Issue out of it, which took each of them a different Way, and at length disappeared.”
Source: Anon., An account of terrible apparitions and prodigies which hath been seen both upon Earth and Sea, in the end of Last, and beginning of this present Year, 1721 (Glasgow: Thomas Crawford, 1721), 5-7. Fig. 30: Prodigies in Bern Case: W275