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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
331
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1861-30:
That,
upon
June
18,
1845,
according
to
the
Malta
Times,
from
the
brig
Victoria,
about
900
miles
east
of
Adalia,
Asia
Minor
(36
deg.
40'
56",
N.
Lat.:
13
deg.
44'
36"
E.
Long.),
three
luminous
bodies
were
seen
to
issue
from
the
sea,
at
about
half
a
mile
from
the
vessel.
They
were
visible
about
ten
minutes.
The
story
was
never
investigated,
but
other
accounts
that
seem
acceptably
to
be
other
observations
upon
this
same
sensational
spectacle
came
in,
as
if
of
their
own
accord,
and
were
published
by
Prof.
Baden-Powell.
One
is
a
letter
from
a
correspondent
at
Mt.
Lebanon.
He
describes
only
two
luminous
bodies.
Apparently
they
were
five
times
the
size
of
the
moon:
each
had
appendages,
or
they
were
connected
by
parts
that
are
described
as
"sail-like
or
streamer-like,"
looking
like
"large
flags
blown
out
by
a
gentle
breeze."
The
important
point
here
is
not
only
suggestion
of
structure,
but
duration.
The
duration
of
meteors
is
a
few
seconds:
duration
of
fifteen
seconds
is
remarkable,
but
I
think
there
are
records
up
to
half
a
minute.
This
object,
if
it
were
all
one
object,
was
visible
at
Mt.
Lebanon
about
one
hour.
An
interesting
circumstance
is
that
the
appendages
did
not
look
like
trains
of
meteors,
which
shine
by
their
own
light,
but
"seemed
to
shine
by
light
from
the
main
bodies."
About
900
miles
west
of
the
position
of
the
Victoria
is
the
town
of
Adalia,
Asia
Minor.
At
about
the
time
of
the
observation
reported
by
the
captain
of
the
Victoria,
the
Rev.
F.
Hawlett,
F.R.A.S.,
was
in
Adalia.
He,
too,
saw
this
spectacle,
and
sent
an
account
to
Prof.
Baden-Powell.
In
his
view
it
was
a
body
that
appeared
and
then
broke
up.
He
places
duration
at
twenty
minutes
to
half
an
hour.
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