A Ball of Light Forms the Figures “1860” in the Sky Over Wayne County, Indiana (1843)

“It was reported that a panther had been seen at the Logan deadening (you know the place) and on the evening of the 19th. Jesse Fox, William and Lens Fox, David Bale, James Wilson, and William Cole, with some others repaired to the place to see if they could discover and kill the monster: but failing in this they retired to the house of Solomon Mendenhall at which place they stayed a short time, while there they discovered a ball rising from the east in an oblique line, and as it ascended it moved towards the west with great velocity until it was high in the heavens leaving a streak of light behind it, which, to the natural eye, had the appearance of being thirty or forty feet in length. This light remained stationary for about one minute; both ends then coming round formed a figure of 8, which figure also retained its position for the same space of time; it then was transformed into a figure of 6, which also remained for about a minute; it then was formed into a cypher or O, which remained for about a minute and disappeared.— Times and Seasons 5:2”