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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1860-82,
the
phenomenon
was
reported
from
Syria
and
Malta,
as
two
very
large
bodies
"nearly
joined."
Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1860-77:
That,
at
Cherbourg,
France,
Jan.
12,
1836,
was
seen
a
luminous
body,
seemingly
two-thirds
the
size
of
the
moon.
It
seemed
to
rotate
on
an
axis.
Central
to
it
there
seemed
to
be
a
dark
cavity.
For
other
accounts,
all
indefinite,
but
distortable
into
data
of
wheel-like
objects
in
the
sky,
see
Nature,
22-617;
London
Times,
Oct.
15,
1859;
Nature,
21-225;
Monthly
Weather
Review,
1883-264.
L'Astronomie,
1894-157:
That,
upon
the
morning
of
Dec.
20,
1893,
an
appearance
in
the
sky
was
seen
by
many
persons
in
Virginia,
North
Carolina,
and
South
Carolina.
A
luminous
body
passed
overhead,
from
west
to
east,
until
at
about
15
degrees
in
the
eastern
horizon,
it
appeared
to
stand
still
for
fifteen
or
twenty
minutes.
According
to
some
descriptions
it
was
the
size
of
a
table.
To
some
observers
it
looked
like
an
enormous
wheel.
The
light
was
a
brilliant
white.
Acceptably
it
was
not
an
optical
illusion--the
noise
of
its
passage
through
the
air
was
heard.
Having
been
stationary,
or
having
seemed
to
stand
still
fifteen
or
twenty
minutes,
it
disappeared,
or
exploded.
No
sound
of
explosion
was
heard.
Vast
wheel-like
constructions.
They're
especially
adapted
to
roll
through
a
gelatinous
medium
from
planet
to
planet.
Sometimes,
because
of
miscalculations,
or
because
of
stresses
of
various
kinds,
they
enter
this
earth's
atmosphere.
They're
likely
to
explode.
They
have
to
submerge
in
the
sea.
They
stay
in
the
sea
awhile,
revolving
with
relative
leisureliness,
until
relieved,
and
then
emerge,
sometimes
close
to
vessels.
Seamen
tell
of
what
they
see:
their
reports
are
interred
in
scientific
morgues.
I
should
say
that
the
general
route
of
these
constructions
is
along
latitudes
not
far
from
the
latitudes
of
the
Persian
Gulf.
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