On Dec. 19, 1903, a rain of lavender-colored substance fell at Oudon, France, according to Bull. Soc. Met. de France, 1904-124. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p39 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Debris from inter-planetary disasters
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As if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable
On Nov. 16, 1910, a “meteor” appeared almost at the moment of totality of an eclipse of the moon, according to Eng. Mec., 92-430 and Nature, 85-118. The account in Nature reports that the object may have come from just below the eclipsed moon, ‘from an apparent radiant,’ according to an observer at Naas, Ireland. La Nature of Nov. 26 that same year … [Read more...] about As if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable
As if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable
On Nov. 16, 1910, a “meteor” appeared almost at the moment of totality of an eclipse of the moon, according to Eng. Mec., 92-430 and Nature, 85-118. The account in Nature reports that the object may have come from just below the eclipsed moon, ‘from an apparent radiant,’ according to an observer at Naas, Ireland. La Nature of Nov. 26 that same year … [Read more...] about As if to make the date of the eclipse more memorable
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
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