Dorset UK, December 8, 1773

December 8, marks 235 years since Mr. Cracker of Fleet, a small township in Dorset, England said that he saw this “flying saucer” in broad daylight in one of the first recorded ‘modern age’ UFO sightings.

“Something in the sky which appeared in the north, but vanished from my sight, as it was intercepted by trees, from my vision. I was standing in a valley. The weather was warm, the sun shone brightly. On a sudden it re-appeared, darting in and out of my sight with an amazing coruscation. The colour of this phenomenon was like burnished, or new washed silver. It shot with speed like a star falling in the night. But it has a body much larger and a train longer than any shooting star I have seen… Next day, Mr. Edgecombe informed me that he and another gentleman had seen this strange phenomenon at the same time as I had. It was about 15 miles from where I saw it, and steering a course from E. to N.”

I’m sure Mr. Cracker would be excited to know they are still being seen over Dorset.
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