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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
351
In
the
Scientific
American,
40-294,
is
published
a
letter
from
Henry
Harrison,
of
Jersey
City,
copied
from
the
New
York
Tribune:
that
upon
the
evening
of
April
13,
1879,
Mr.
Harrison
was
searching
for
Brorsen's
comet,
when
he
saw
an
object
that
was
moving
so
rapidly
that
it
could
not
have
been
a
comet.
He
called
a
friend
to
look,
and
his
observation
was
confirmed.
At
two
o'clock
in
the
morning
this
object
was
still
visible.
In
the
Scientific
American
Supplement,
7-2885,
Mr.
Harrison
disclaims
sensationalism,
which
he
seems
to
think
unworthy,
and
gives
technical
details:
he
says
that
the
object
was
seen
by
Mr.
J.
Spencer
Devoe,
of
Manhattanville.
25
"A
formation
having
the
shape
of
a
dirigible."
It
was
reported
from
Huntington,
West
Virginia
(Sci.
Amer.,
115-241).
Luminous
object
that
was
seen
July
19,
1916,
at
about
11
P.M.
Observed
through
"rather
powerful
field
glasses,"
it
looked
to
be
about
two
degrees
long
and
half
a
degree
wide.
It
gradually
dimmed,
disappeared,
reappeared,
and
then
faded
out
of
sight.
Another
person--as
we
say:
it
would
be
too
inconvenient
to
hold
to
our
intermediatist
recognitions--another
person
who
observed
this
phenomenon
suggested
to
the
writer
of
the
account
that
the
object
was
a
dirigible,
but
the
writer
says
that
faint
stars
could
be
seen
behind
it.
This
would
seem
really
to
oppose
our
notion
of
a
dirigible
visitor
to
this
earth--except
for
the
inconclusiveness
of
all
things
in
a
mode
of
seeming
that
is
not
final--or
we
suggest
that
behind
some
parts
of
the
object,
thing,
construction,
faint
stars
were
seen.
We
find
a
slight
discussion
here.
Prof.
H.M.
Russell
thinks
that
the
phenomenon
was
a
detached
cloud
of
aurora
borealis.
Upon
page
369
of
this
volume
of
the
Scientific
American,
another
correlator
suggests
that
it
was
a
light
from
a
blast
furnace--disregarding
that,
if
there
be
blast
furnaces
in
or
near
Huntington,
their
reflections
would
be
commonplaces
there.
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