A triangular cloud appeared in a storm on Dec. 17, 1852, according to the London Roy. Soc. Proc., 6-276. It was about half the apparent diameter of the moon, and had a red nucleus and a long tail. It was visible for 13 minutes before the nucleus exploded. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p101 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Dislodged by storms
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Only a supposed thing
In Hampshire, England, either an iron cannon ball or a ‘large nodule of iron pyrites or bisulphuret or iron’ appeared after a thunderstorm upon a garden path. It was 'supposed’ to have fallen in September 1852. It was reported in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 3-147. The object was also written up in a letter to the London Times, from a chemist of Andover, Hants., … [Read more...] about Only a supposed thing
Only a supposed thing
In Hampshire, England, either an iron cannon ball or a ‘large nodule of iron pyrites or bisulphuret or iron’ appeared after a thunderstorm upon a garden path. It was 'supposed’ to have fallen in September 1852. It was reported in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 3-147. The object was also written up in a letter to the London Times, from a chemist of Andover, Hants., … [Read more...] about Only a supposed thing