Bright stars seen through it, but not at the zenith, where it looked opaque. This is the only assertion of transparency (_Nature_, 27-87). Too slow for a meteor, but too fast for a cloud (_Nature_, 27-86). "Surface had a mottled appearance" (_Nature_, 27-87). "Very definite in form, like a torpedo" (_Nature_, 27-100). "Probably a meteoric object" (Dr. Groneman, _Nature_, 27-296). Technical demonstration by Dr. Groneman, that it was a cloud of meteoric matter (_Nature_, 28-105). See _Nature_, 27-315, 338, 365, 388, 412, 434. "Very little doubt it was an electric phenomenon" (Proctor, _Knowledge_, 2-419). In the London _Times_, Nov. 20, 1882, the Editor says that he had received a great number of letters upon this phenomenon. He publishes two. One correspondent describes it as "well-defined and shaped like a fish... extraordinary and alarming." The other correspondent writes of it as "a most magnificent luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo." 26 _Notes and Queries_, 5-3-306: About 8 lights that were seen in Wales, over an area of about 8 miles, all keeping their own ground, whether moving together perpendicularly, horizontally, or over a zigzag course. They looked like electric lights--disappearing, reappearing dimly, then shining as bright as ever. "We have seen them three or four at a time afterward, on four or five occasions." London _Times_, Oct. 5, 1877: "From time to time the west coast of Wales seems to have been the scene of mysterious lights.... And now we have a statement from Towyn that within the last few weeks lights of various colors have been seen moving over the estuary of the Dysynni River, and out to sea. They are generally in a northerly direction, but sometimes they hug the shore, and move at high velocity for miles toward Aberdovey, and suddenly disappear." _L'Annee Scientifique_, 1877-45: Lights that appeared in the sky, above Vence, France, March 23, 1877; described as balls of fire of dazzling brightness; appeared from a cloud about a degree in diameter; moved relatively slowly. They were visible more than an hour, moving northward. It is said that eight or ten years before similar lights or objects had been seen in the sky, at Vence. London _Times_, Sept. 19, 1848: That, at Inverness, Scotland, two large, bright lights that looked like stars had been seen in the sky: sometimes stationary, but occasionally moving at high velocity. _L'Annee Scientifique_, 1888-66: Observed near St. Petersburg, July 30, 1880, in the evening: a large spherical light and two smaller ones, moving along a ravine: visible three minutes; disappearing without noise. _Nature_, 35-173: That, at Yloilo, Sept. 30, 1886, was seen a luminous object the size of the full moon. It "floated" slowly "northward," followed by smaller ones close to it. "The False Lights of Durham."