1851: Cloud Object with a Giant Man seen in Howick, England?

THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY SIGHTING REPORT

Date: July 1851

Sighting Time:

Day/Night: early morning

Location: Howick, Northumberland, England

Urban or Rural: –

Entity Type:

Entity Description:

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): light cloud of pale mist of remarkable form

Color of Object(s):

Number of Witnesses: 1

Source: Th. Paijmans in Magonia data-exchange Quoting News of the World July 13 1851

Summary/Description: A local and highly respectable and intelligent farmer reported a most remarkable phenomenon. Walking over a hill on his farm early one morning, his attention was arrested by a light cloud of pale mist of remarkable form, being perfectly circular, slowly uprising from the neighboring valley. The sun was shining brightly around him from the other side and as the cloud gradually floated up still retaining its form, which was very like that of the halo often observed around the moon, he found it present an inner circle much smaller but well defined, and containing, as in a frame a human figure of most colossal proportions. Instead of standing aghast in the mute amaze of motionless horror, as many would have done, he saluted the specter with a bow, which was returned by the airy phantom with the utmost promptitude and civility. He then walked away for a little and on returning found the shadow still visible, which continued to bow and otherwise imitate every motion he made, thus proving it to be a reflection of his own form in the cloud (?).