Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium — 29 October 1726
Terrifying objects CD
About nine o’clock at night and for two consecutive hours were seen in the sky “horrible and strange meteors” that came among the clouds like lightning and disappeared in the same way. Their aspect was most terrifying. In the absence of a more complete description, we cannot exclude the notion that witnesses may have observed an aurora borealis.
Source: J. Nauwelaers, Histoire de la Ville de Vilvorde, vol. 2 (Paris, 1941). Case: W276