F rom the deck of the American clipper ship Shooting Star, sailors watched a mysterious and unsettling scene.Describing the incident in 1854, off the coast of Java, Indonesia, the captain wrote ...

In one account from 1854, the captain of the American clipper ship Shooting Star described the scene off the coast of Java, Indonesia: "The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered ...

Star Clipper is a small cruise ship but a big sailing ship and a clean ... masts moved against a backdrop of stars; now and then a shooting star would glow and flame out. We dropped anchor ...