1868 October 7 Once more nocturnal London - in fact the whole of south-east England and northern France - was illuminated by the light of a bolide. One observer said that everything in St. Paul’s Churchyard was suddenly “as clear as day, the cathedral...standing out in bold relief against a brilliant sky, the lights in the gas-lamps being for the time invisible.” From the suburb of Wimbledon the bolide was seen as “a red ball emitting bright sparks, and having a flaming tail of great length.” The bolide exploded somewhere between the Channel and Paris, at least sixty miles up. There were rumors of meteorite falls in various parts of France, but nothing definite was found. [http://www.phenomena.org.uk/features/page24/page24.html]