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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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But
numerousness
is
a
new
factor,
or
new
disturbance,
to
our
explorations--
A
new
aspect
of
inter-planetary
inhabitancy
or
occupancy--
Worlds
in
hordes--or
beings--winged
beings
perhaps--wouldn't
astonish
me
if
we
should
end
up
by
discovering
angels--or
beings
in
machines--argosies
of
celestial
voyagers--
In
1783
and
1787,
Herschel
reported
more
lights
on
or
near
the
moon,
which
he
supposed
were
volcanic.
The
word
of
a
Herschel
has
had
no
more
weight,
in
divergences
from
the
orthodox,
than
has
had
the
word
of
a
Lescarbault.
These
observations
are
of
the
disregarded.
Bright
spots
seen
on
the
moon,
November,
1821
(Proc.
London
Roy.
Soc.,
2-167).
For
four
other
instances,
see
Loomis
(Treatise
on
Astronomy,
p.
174).
A
moving
light
is
reported
in
Phil.
Trans.,
84-429.
To
the
writer,
it
looked
like
a
star
passing
over
the
moon--"which,
on
the
next
moment's
consideration
I
knew
to
be
impossible."
"It
was
a
fixed,
steady
light
upon
the
dark
part
of
the
moon."
I
suppose
"fixed"
applies
to
luster.
In
the
Report
of
the
Brit.
Assoc.,
1847-18,
there
is
an
observation
by
Rankin,
upon
luminous
points
seen
on
the
shaded
part
of
the
moon,
during
an
eclipse.
They
seemed
to
this
observer
like
reflections
of
stars.
That's
not
very
reasonable:
however,
we
have,
in
the
Annual
Register,
1821-687,
a
light
not
referable
to
a
star--because
it
moved
with
the
moon:
was
seen
three
nights
in
succession;
reported
by
Capt.
Kater.
See
Quart.
Jour.
Roy.
Inst.,
12-133.
Phil.
Trans.,
112-237:
Report
from
the
Cape
Town
Observatory:
a
whitish
spot
on
the
dark
part
of
the
moon's
limb.
Three
smaller
lights
were
seen.
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