Knott, Scotland: Armed men in the sky — 23 June 1744
Twenty-six witnesses, including a judge, observed a troop of armed men in the sky above
a hill: “A man named D. Stricket, then servant to Mr. Lancaster, of Blakehills, saw, one evening about 7 o’clock, a troop of horses riding leisurely along Souter Fell in Cumberland.” After he called his master, “Mr. Lancaster discovered the aerial troopers,” who became visible near a place called Knott. They were in sight for two hours and “this phenomenon was seen by every person (twenty-six in number) in every cottage within the distance of a mile.”
Source: Statement attested before a magistrate by Lancaster and Stricket on the 21st of July, 1745. See “Phantom Armies” in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel, November 1, 1871 citing A Folio of Apparitions and Wonders, preserved in the British Museum; also, Arminian Magazine, consisting chiefly of extracts and original treatises on universal redemption 18 (May, 1795): 244-245. Case: W287