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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
267
Letter
from
Sir
Robert
Inglis
to
Col.
Sabine
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1849-17):
That,
at
3
P.M.,
Aug.
8,
1849,
at
Gais,
Switzerland,
Inglis
had
seen
thousands
and
thousands
of
brilliant
white
objects,
like
snowflakes
in
a
cloudless
sky.
Though
this
display
lasted
about
twenty-five
minutes,
not
one
of
these
seeming
snowflakes
was
seen
to
fall.
Inglis
says
that
his
servant
"fancied"
that
he
had
seen
something
like
wings
on
these--whatever
they
were.
Upon
page
18,
of
the
Report,
Sir
John
Herschel
says
that,
in
1845
or
1846,
his
attention
had
been
attracted
by
objects
of
considerable
size,
in
the
air,
seemingly
not
far
away.
He
had
looked
at
them
through
a
telescope.
He
says
that
they
were
masses
of
hay,
not
less
than
a
yard
or
two
in
diameter.
Still
there
are
some
circumstances
that
interest
me.
He
says
that,
though
no
less
than
a
whirlwind
could
have
sustained
these
masses,
the
air
about
him
was
calm.
"No
doubt
wind
prevailed
at
the
spot,
but
there
was
no
roaring
noise."
None
of
these
masses
fell
within
his
observation
or
knowledge.
To
walk
a
few
fields
away
and
find
out
more
would
seem
not
much
to
expect
from
a
man
of
science,
but
it
is
one
of
our
superstitions,
that
such
a
seeming
trifle
is
just
what--by
the
Spirit
of
an
Era,
we'll
call
it--one
is
not
permitted
to
do.
If
those
things
were
not
masses
of
hay,
and
if
Herschel
had
walked
a
little
and
found
out,
and
had
reported
that
he
had
seen
strange
objects
in
the
air--that
report,
in
1846,
would
have
been
as
misplaced
as
the
appearance
of
a
tail
upon
an
embryo
still
in
its
gastrula
era.
I
have
noticed
this
inhibition
in
my
own
case
many
times.
Looking
back--why
didn't
I
do
this
or
that
little
thing
that
would
have
cost
so
little
and
have
meant
so
much?
Didn't
belong
to
that
era
of
my
own
development.
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