On July 7, 1877, according to the Kilburn Times, about two bushels of clinkers (cinders) fell during a storm. The pieces, ranging in size from a walnut to a man’s hand, were on display at the Kilburn Times office. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 111 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974) … [Read more...] about Can be seen at the Kilburn Times office
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Leverrier and Vulcan
Monthly Notices, 20-98, tells that in 1859, an amateur astronomer named Dr. Lescarbault, of Orgeres, France, announced that he had seen, on March 26 of that year, “a body of planetary size cross the sun.” He contacted the astronomer Leverrier (discoverer of the planet Neptune), who cross-examined him, to his satisfaction, and called this body “Vulcan.” … [Read more...] about Leverrier and Vulcan
Leverrier and Vulcan
Monthly Notices, 20-98, tells that in 1859, an amateur astronomer named Dr. Lescarbault, of Orgeres, France, announced that he had seen, on March 26 of that year, “a body of planetary size cross the sun.” He contacted the astronomer Leverrier (discoverer of the planet Neptune), who cross-examined him, to his satisfaction, and called this body “Vulcan.” … [Read more...] about Leverrier and Vulcan
Objective hieroglyphics
The Monthly Weather Review of May 1877 reported a golden-yellow fall on Feb. 27, 1877 at Peckloh, Germany of “four kinds of organisms, not pollen.” The minute things, that Fort says “may have been symbols” were minute things shaped like “arrows, coffee beans, horns, and disks.” Fort further says, “They may have been objective … [Read more...] about Objective hieroglyphics
Objective hieroglyphics
The Monthly Weather Review of May 1877 reported a golden-yellow fall on Feb. 27, 1877 at Peckloh, Germany of “four kinds of organisms, not pollen.” The minute things, that Fort says “may have been symbols” were minute things shaped like “arrows, coffee beans, horns, and disks.” Fort further says, “They may have been objective … [Read more...] about Objective hieroglyphics