Spring-heeled Jack is endlessly fascinating because he's got such consistent contemporary documentation from the 1830s onwards, but then basically disappears from the historical record.
Could be the International Space Station transiting, honestly. ISS passes can look eerie if you're not expecting them - bright, silent, moving across the sky in surprising ways.
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