August 13, 2026

Europe Sightings

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Dossier-style illustration of a luminous seated female figure and a glowing child watching over a kneeling novice in a candlelit Paris convent chapel on the night of July 18, 1830
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1830: Paris, France — Catherine Labouré’s Rue du Bac Nocturnal Contact

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Dossier-style illustration of a glowing humanoid fire entity walking across a Frisian field toward an ancient terp mound at night in 1827, watched by two witnesses
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1827: Tjerwerk, Friesland — The Fireball That Walked to a Burial Mound

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Dossier-style illustration of a large red-hot luminous body rising from the Pacific Ocean at dawn beside the Royal Navy frigate HMS Blonde on August 12, 1825, as recorded by naturalist Andrew Bloxam
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1825: Pacific Ocean — Andrew Bloxam’s HMS Blonde Fireball

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Dossier-style illustration of a large smoke-wreathed fireball transforming mid-shape over Portsmouth, Virginia harbor at night on July 25, 1813, with two witnesses looking up from the wharf
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1813: Portsmouth, Virginia — The Shape-Shifting Fireball Letter to Thomas Jefferson

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