Strange Globe Absorbs Water Over Brezeau, Holland (1810)
On the evening of September 19, 1810, between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM, a luminous aerial phenomenon appeared approximately a quarter of a league south of the small Dutch village of Brezeau (also spelled…
Narration
Over Holland's flat fields, scattered luminous fragments began slowly gathering impossibly.
Brezeau, Holland, September 1810 — a quiet village, open skies above.
For fifteen minutes, Brezeau residents watched the luminous globe coalesce to the south.
Fully formed, the luminous globe descended and drew the water surface upward.
The 36th volume of the Philosophical Magazine preserved the only surviving account.
Then the luminous globe rose silently from the disturbed water and vanished forever.