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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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One
of
the
most
astonishing
of
the
phenomena
of
"ball
lightning"
is
a
phenomenon
of
many
meteorites:
violence
of
explosion
out
of
all
proportion
to
size
and
velocity.
We
accept
that
the
icy
meteorites
of
Dhurmsalla
could
have
fallen
with
no
great
velocity,
but
the
sound
from
them
was
tremendous.
The
soft
substance
that
fell
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
was
carbonaceous,
but
was
unburned,
or
had
fallen
with
velocity
insufficient
to
ignite
it.
The
tremendous
report
that
it
made
was
heard
over
an
area
more
than
seventy
miles
in
diameter.
That
some
hailstones
have
been
formed
in
a
dense
medium,
and
violently
disintegrate
in
this
earth's
relatively
thin
atmosphere:
Nature,
88-350:
Large
hailstones
noted
at
the
University
of
Missouri,
Nov.
11,
1911:
they
exploded
with
sounds
like
pistol
shots.
The
writer
says
that
he
had
noticed
a
similar
phenomenon,
eighteen
years
before,
at
Lexington,
Kentucky.
Hailstones
that
seemed
to
have
been
formed
in
a
denser
medium:
when
melted
under
water
they
gave
out
bubbles
larger
than
their
central
air
spaces.
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
33-445.)
Our
acceptance
is
that
many
objects
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
but
that
many
of
them
have
disintegrated
violently.
This
acceptance
will
co-ordinate
with
data
still
to
come,
but,
also,
we
make
it
easy
for
ourselves
in
our
expressions
upon
super-constructions,
if
we're
asked
why,
from
thinkable
wrecks
of
them,
girders,
plates,
or
parts
recognizably
of
manufactured
metal
have
not
fallen
from
the
sky.
However,
as
to
composition,
we
have
not
this
refuge,
so
it
is
our
expression
that
there
have
been
reported
instances
of
the
fall
of
manufactured
metal
from
the
sky.
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