What happened
Two women reported a "triangular" object about the size of a pilot-boat's mainsail. General J. H. Lefroy wrote to the London Times suggesting it was a partly deflated escaped balloon.
"triangular"The witness's own shape words
Witnesses
Mrs. Adelina D. Bassett and Mrs. L. Lowell
Explanation
Explanation proposed
Partly deflated escaped balloon (suggested at the time by Gen. Lefroy)
Sources
- resologist.netresologist.net
- sacred-texts.comsacred-texts.com
*Royal Gazette* (Bermuda), Sept. 8, 1885 London *Times*, Sept. 29, 1885 *Nature* 33:99 and