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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
307
We
weakly
drop
a
hint
to
the
aeronauts.
In
the
Scientific
American,
33-197,
there
is
an
account
of
some
hay
that
fell
from
the
sky.
From
the
circumstances
we
incline
to
accept
that
this
hay
went
up,
in
a
whirlwind,
from
this
earth,
in
the
first
place,
reached
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
and
remained
there
a
long
time
before
falling.
An
interesting
point
in
this
expression
is
the
usual
attribution
to
a
local
and
coinciding
whirlwind,
and
identification
of
it--and
then
data
that
make
that
local
whirlwind
unacceptable--
That,
upon
July
27,
1875,
small
masses
of
damp
hay
had
fallen
at
Monkstown,
Ireland.
In
the
Dublin
Daily
Express,
Dr.
J.W.
Moore
had
explained:
he
had
found
a
nearby
whirlwind,
to
the
south
of
Monkstown,
that
coincided.
But,
according
to
the
Scientific
American,
a
similar
fall
had
occurred
near
Wrexham,
England,
two
days
before.
In
November,
1918,
I
made
some
studies
upon
light
objects
thrown
into
the
air.
Armistice-day.
I
suppose
I
should
have
been
more
emotionally
occupied,
but
I
made
notes
upon
torn-up
papers
thrown
high
in
the
air
from
windows
of
office
buildings.
Scraps
of
paper
did
stay
together
for
a
while.
Several
minutes,
sometimes.
Cosmos,
3-4-574:
That,
upon
the
10th
of
April,
1869,
at
Autriche
(Indre-et-Loire)
a
great
number
of
oak
leaves--enormous
segregation
of
them--fell
from
the
sky.
Very
calm
day.
So
little
wind
that
the
leaves
fell
almost
vertically.
Fall
lasted
about
ten
minutes.
Flammarion,
in
The
Atmosphere,
p.
412,
tells
this
story.
He
has
to
find
a
storm.
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