Celestial / Meteor or Meteorite

979AD

Event #436: A blood-red object is seen in the sky with rays of various colors

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/436

Geographical sites:

  • England (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #2635167)
    Geonames_icon United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland independent political entity Geocontext: Europe/London

Citations:

Text #537

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
[p. 85]

PDF URL: https://archive.org/download/anglosaxonch...

A. 979. […] That same year was seen a bloody cloud, oftentimes, in the likeness of fire; and it was mostly apparent at midnight, and so in various beams was coloured; when it began to dawn, then it glided away.

Text #538

Florence of Worcester. Chronicle
[p. 107]

PDF URL: https://archive.org/details/chronicleoffl...

978 […] A meteor was seen all over England at midnight, which was sometimes the colour of blood, and at other times fiery; it afterwards formed rays of light of various colours, and disappeared about day-break.

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