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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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According
to
Capt.
Banner,
it
was
a
cloud
of
circular
form,
with
an
included
semi-circle
divided
into
four
parts,
the
central
dividing
shaft
beginning
at
the
center
of
the
circle
and
extending
far
outward,
and
then
curving
backward.
Geometricity
and
complexity
and
stability
of
form:
and
the
small
likelihood
of
a
cloud
maintaining
such
diversity
of
features,
to
say
nothing
of
appearance
of
organic
form.
The
thing
traveled
from
a
point
at
about
20
degrees
above
the
horizon
to
a
point
about
80
degrees
above.
Then
it
settled
down
to
the
northeast,
having
appeared
from
the
south,
southeast.
Light
gray
in
color,
or
it
was
cloud-color.
"It
was
much
lower
than
the
other
clouds."
And
this
datum
stands
out:
That,
whatever
it
may
have
been,
it
traveled
against
the
wind.
"It
came
up
obliquely
against
the
wind,
and
finally
settled
down
right
in
the
wind's
eye."
For
half
an
hour
this
form
was
visible.
When
it
did
finally
disappear
that
was
not
because
it
disintegrated
like
a
cloud,
but
because
it
was
lost
to
sight
in
the
evening
darkness.
Capt.
Banner
draws
the
following
diagram:
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Text-books
tell
us
that
the
Dhurmsalla
meteorites
were
picked
up
"soon,"
or
"within
half
an
hour."
Given
a
little
time
the
conventionalists
may
argue
that
these
stones
were
hot
when
they
fell,
but
that
their
great
interior
coldness
had
overcome
the
molten
state
of
their
surfaces.
According
to
the
Deputy
Commissioner
of
Dhurmsalla,
these
stones
had
been
picked
up
"immediately"
by
passing
coolies.
These
stones
were
so
cold
that
they
benumbed
the
fingers.
But
they
had
fallen
with
a
great
light.
It
is
described
as
"a
flame
of
fire
about
two
feet
in
depth
and
nine
feet
in
length."
Acceptably
this
light
was
not
the
light
of
molten
matter.
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