Cherbourg, France — 12 January 1836
Spinning disk whistles
- A “luminous body, seemingly two-thirds the size of the moon” was witnessed at 6:30 P.M. “Central to it there seemed to be a dark cavity.” The object was traveling at around half a mile per second at an altitude of 1000 feet or so and seemed to rotate on its axis. It cast shadows on the ground as it whistled past.
Source: Rept. British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 77 (1860). The object was not doughnut-shaped’ as many have written. Case: W371