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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Kingston, Jamaica, on April 27, observers noted a recurring evening phenomenon in the Western Hemisphere, resembling a large fixed star or fire-balloon, ascending and descending for hours before fading.
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A remarkable phenomenon has for several evenings past been observed in the Western Hemisphere by many persons taken for a Fire-Balloon, sent up at a considerable distance from this town; whilst others pronounce it to be of the meteor kind; its first appearance is like a fixed star elevated about 25 degrees, but of much greater magnitude, seeming to be nearly equal to one eighth the diameter of the moon; it continues gradually ascending and descending, in a perpendicular line of 8 or 10 degrees, from about 7 o'clock till between 9 and 10, when it grows paler, till it totally disappears.
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Kingston, Jamaica
Event Date
April 27
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A remarkable phenomenon observed for several evenings past in the Western Hemisphere, taken by many for a Fire-Balloon sent up at a distance from town; others pronounce it a meteor. It appears like a fixed star elevated about 25 degrees, but much larger, nearly one eighth the moon's diameter. It ascends and descends perpendicularly 8 or 10 degrees from about 7 o'clock till 9 or 10, then pales and disappears.