Flames and lights over the Kremlin”

“First September 1808, to the 20,07 hours, in the smooth and seeded sky of stars, has taken place a phenomenon of incomparable beauty and rigor; the phenomenon was so large that nothing of similar never had been seen before. The event was accompanied from a sound more and more hard, while the luminous arc in the sky was increasing to the horizon, passing from 55 almost 90 degrees. Slowly it has been arrested between clouds, arranging itself in along over the Kremlin like thick long straight and compact a slab approximately 6,35 meters and 3,5 meters, formed to layers.

On the frontal edge, in direction the south-west, a flame oval has been revealed, its dimensions was approximately of two meters. The particularity of the flame was its consistency that can be only confronted to flames of alive phosphorus.

“As it floated in a sea of sparkles, the flame has illuminated all the atmosphere around creating the illusion of the light of the day; suddenly the flame is disappeared and the light is disappeared, but the luminous slab is remained where it was and enough uniform it has gone perpendicularly towards the high, reached stars until to remain visible for approximately two minutes when, without to disappear, it has gotten lost between clouds to an extraordinary height.”

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