…Astronomers might as well try to formulate the gambols of the sheep of Little Bopeep, as to try to formulate anything depending upon the satellites of Jupiter. Charles Fort, New Lands, p359 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Astronomers might as well try
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Super-geographical routes
M. Leverrier, according to L'Annee Scientifique, 1864-54, sent to the Academy three letters from witnesses who, on Oct. 10, 1864, had seen in the sky a long luminous body, tapering at both ends. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p292 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Super-geographical routes
Bright as Jupiter
The Year Book of Facts, 1845-278 has a report by Glaisher that something like a signal light was seen in the sky on Oct. 4, 1844. It was described as “bright as Jupiter, ‘sending out quick flickering waves of light.’” –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p288 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Bright as Jupiter
Weird and most extraordinary electric display
In L'Astronomie, 1891-312, is the report of the appearance, in the China Sea in October, 1891, of shafts or lances of light, similar to a searchlight and that moved in like fashion. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p277 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Weird and most extraordinary electric display
A great quantity of corpuscles
Fort quotes a story in Comptes Rendus, 23-832, about a tremendous red rain in France, Oct. 16 and 17, 1846. The explanation was that the rain was colored by matter swept up from the earth’s surface and then precipitated. But a later issue of the journal, 24-625, described the rain as “so vividly red and so blood-like that many persons in France were … [Read more...] about A great quantity of corpuscles