August 13, 2026

HMS Blonde

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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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Dossier-style illustration of Rev. Abraham Cummings encountering a luminous red-tinged globe transforming into a female humanoid figure with rays of light on a rural road in Sullivan, Maine, July 1806
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1806 Sullivan, Maine — The Nelly Butler Entity Encounter

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Dossier-style illustration of a long luminous plate-shaped object with an oval flame hovering over the Moscow Kremlin at night on September 1, 1808, as recorded in Senator Peter Poludensky's personal archive
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1808: Moscow, Russia — The Kremlin Luminous Plate

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