Read Bonilla's 1885 report and worked out how far away his 'bodies' could be

Found the original article in a scan of L'Astronomie (1885) on the Internet Archive. Bonilla says that on his photograph the body was in focus and the Sun was not. With his 16 cm telescope that is only possible if the body was within a few km (certainly within about 25 km), so the 2011 comet-fragment idea (538-8,062 km away) does not work; small birds or insects fit the sizes and speeds. Qingyang: the 1557 local history and the proofread court record could not be reached; left as noted.