Found by Fort in Arago’s OEuvres, 11-576 and Annales de Chimie, 30-417, a description of objects seen by many persons in the streets of Embrun during the eclipse of Sept. 7, 1820. The objects moved in straight lines, “turning and retracting in the same straight lines, all of them separated by uniform spaces.”
–Charles Fort, New Lands, p394 (The Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)