Event date: Jul 14, 1860
On Thursday morning July 12th at half past seven o’clock, a balloon was discovered by some of the inhabitants of this village, moving toward the east more than a mile above the surface of the earth, and was going very rapidly, altho’ there was not much perceptible wind stirring at the time. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and the brilliant point on the balloon twinkled like a star. From the rate and direction in which it was going it would soon have to descend or else be borne out to sea.
