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THE meteor of August 26, referred to by Sir. Earle, was seen at Northwich by me, and noted as remarkable owing to the long continuance of the brilliant light in the sky. We had had thunder and lightning in the afternoon, but the clouds had cleared away, and the stars were visible through a faint haze. On entering my garden shortly after 10 p.m., I saw a most brilliant flash of what I took to be lightning. Not hearing any thunder, I looked to see from whence the flash had proceeded. I then saw, almost in the zenith, but a little to the west, a brilliant streak of light. This remained nearly stationary for perhaps half a minute, and then one end bent till the light assumed the shape of the letter J, or, according to a note made at the time, the shape of a hockey stick. Whilst this was taking place there was a manifest movement of the whole, as I thought, towards the west. In the space of two or three minutes the light faded away. The whole time, from the brilliant flash till the fading away of the phosphorescent light, could not have been more than three minutes. Perhaps the slight haze hid the light here sooner than at Gloucester.
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WARD, T. A Remarkable Meteor. Nature 50, 475 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050475b0
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