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• March 19: English botanist Sir Hans Sloane believes he sees a shooting star. I suddenly saw a great light in the sky towards the West. It shone with a much greater brightness than the Moon. He quickly realized his mistake, the object progressing much too slowly and in a straight line. The object had a singular shape: A kind of long luminous thread was attached in the middle of this meteor which resembled a pear tapered upwards. The lower part was spherical, but smaller than the full moon. It was white and blue in color, and its brilliance as dazzling as that of the sun in full daylight (...). It moved for about thirty seconds and disappeared about 20° above the horizon; behind it, it left a kind of faintly orange trail, a bit like a glowing coal. It seemed to sparkle, but it did not fall. I heard it was also observed in Oxford and Worcester?