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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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One
of
them
was
photographed.
See
L'Astronomie,
1885-349.
The
photograph
shows
a
long
body
surrounded
by
indefinite
structures,
or
by
the
haze
of
wings
or
planes
in
motion.
L'Astronomie,
1887-66;
Signer
Ricco,
of
the
Observatory
of
Palermo,
writes
that,
Nov.
30,
1880,
at
8:30
o'clock
in
the
morning,
he
was
watching
the
sun,
when
he
saw,
slowly
traversing
its
disk,
bodies
in
two
long,
parallel
lines,
and
a
shorter,
parallel
line.
The
bodies
looked
winged
to
him.
But
so
large
were
they
that
he
had
to
think
of
large
birds.
He
thought
of
cranes.
He
consulted
ornithologists,
and
learned
that
the
configuration
of
parallel
lines
agrees
with
the
flight-formation
of
cranes.
This
was
in
1880:
anybody
now
living
in
New
York
City,
for
instance,
would
tell
him
that
also
it
is
a
familiar
formation
of
aeroplanes.
But,
because
of
data
of
focus
and
subtended
angles,
these
beings
or
objects
must
have
been
high.
Sig.
Ricco
argues
that
condors
have
been
known
to
fly
three
or
four
miles
high,
and
that
heights
reached
by
other
birds
have
been
estimated
at
two
or
three
miles.
He
says
that
cranes
have
been
known
to
fly
so
high
that
they
have
been
lost
to
view.
Our
own
acceptance,
in
conventional
terms,
is
that
there
is
not
a
bird
of
this
earth
that
would
not
freeze
to
death
at
a
height
of
more
than
four
miles:
that
if
condors
fly
three
or
four
miles
high,
they
are
birds
that
are
especially
adapted
to
such
altitudes.
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