“…These views on conjunctions, novae, and comets also contend with other suggested hypotheses (and combinations thereof ) including meteors, bolides, meteor showers, eclipses (lunar and solar), twinkling stars, variable stars, single stellar risings (i.e., Sirius, Spica), single planetary risings (all classical planets and Uranus have been suggested), the transit of Venus, planetary discoveries, asteroid discoveries, constellations, aurora borealis, zodiacal lights, precession of the equinoxes (Stasiuk 1980), ball lightning, and UFOs (Downing 1970, 134). "Anything that has ever moved across the canopy of heaven, as well as much that has only existed in men's imaginations, has been dubbed the Star of Bethlehem" (Keller [1955(Keller [ ] 1995.…”