First ever UFO spotted above Britain has been found

As Mr Mortimer watched the object, he believed its path had brought it directly over the Bloomsbury district of London, passing over Queen’s Square and making its way in the direction of the canal adjacent to it. 

Mr Mortimer said that he “lost sight of it over the Haymarket.”

Describing the way it moved, he wrote: “Its motion was so very slow, that I had it above half a minute in view; and had time enough to contemplate its appearance fully.”

He drew a diagram showing the weird object, 

Based on this diagram, Mr Mortimer explains the mechanics of the object as follows:

A: seemed to be a light flame, turning backwards from the resistance the air made to it.

“BB: a bright fire like burning charcoal, enclosed as it were in an open case of which the frame CCC was quite opaque: like bands of iron.

“At D issued forth a train, or tail of light flame, more bright at D, and growing gradually fainter at E, so as to be transparent more than half its length.

“The head,” he concluded, “seemed about half a degree in diameter; the tail near three degrees in length, and about one-eighth of a degree in thickness.”