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Mirabilis Annus Secundus - 20 March 1661, Canterbury, England - A Star with an opening
Identifier
029020
Type of Spiritual Experience
None
Background
A description of the experience
quoted in Wonders In The Sky - Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times - and Their Impact on Human Culture, History, and Beliefs - Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck
A very large "star" with an "opening" underneath, from which issued streams of fire was seen for thirty minutes.
Source: MIRABILIS ANNUS SECUNDUS; or, a second year of prodigies. Being a true and impartial collection of many strange signes and apparitions, which have this last year been seen in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the waters. Together with many remarkable accidents and judgements befalling divers persons, according to the most exact information that could be procured from the best hands; and now published as a warning to all men speedily to repent, and to prepare to meet the Lord, who gives us these signs of his coming... (London, 1662).