CHAMBERLAIN, HENRY - A NEW AND COMPLEAT HISTORY AND SURVEY OF LONDON, folio, rebound in half calf, 63 plates, 2 folding maps (one repaired), London [1770]

"Flying Saucer?" Part of the entry for 1764 on page 401 reads:-

About nine o`clock at night, on the eighth of October, a most extraordinary phenomenon appeared in the air over the city of London. At first a strong light was seen on the gravel and paved walks in the Temple, bright enough to pick up a pin; with surprise was encreased on the beholders looking upwards, when a globe of ruddy fire was seen descending from a great altitude over Temple-Bar, as large as the full moon a little after her rising; and taking its course obliquely towards the river Thames, as if it would have fallen therein; but coming low and over the same, it shot itself into a sheet of fire, with one edge turned towards the water, in form of a boy`s kite, with head, wings and tail, appearing half as long, and in one part twice as broad, as Fleet Street. It fell or vanished on the Southwark side of the water, in a yellow fire, to the surprise not only but all the watermen there on that part of the river, but of all the spectators, who declared they had never beheld the like appearance before.