On Aug. 27, 1885, about 8:30 a.m., Mrs. Adelina D. Bassett and Mrs. L. Lowell in Bermuda witnessed “a strange object in the clouds, coming from the north.” They were somewhat alarmed, but watched it steadily for some time. “It was of triangular shape, and seemed to be about the size of a pilot-boat mainsail, with chains attached to the bottom of it. While crossing the land it appeared to descend, but, as it went out to sea, it ascended, and continued to ascend, until it was lost to sight high in the clouds.”
–The Book of the Damned, p.264 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)