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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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"I
was
standing
on
the
corner
of
Church
and
College
Streets,
just
in
front
of
the
Howard
Bank,
and
facing
east,
engaged
in
conversation
with
Ex-Governor
Woodbury
and
Mr.
A.A.
Buell,
when,
without
the
slightest
indication,
or
warning,
we
were
startled
by
what
sounded
like
a
most
unusual
and
terrific
explosion,
evidently
very
nearby.
Raising
my
eyes,
and
looking
eastward
along
College
Street,
I
observed
a
torpedo-shaped
body,
some
300
feet
away,
stationary
in
appearance,
and
suspended
in
the
air,
about
50
feet
above
the
tops
of
the
buildings.
In
size
it
was
about
6
feet
long
by
8
inches
in
diameter,
the
shell,
or
covering,
having
a
dark
appearance,
with
here
and
there
tongues
of
fire
issuing
from
spots
on
the
surface,
resembling
red-hot,
unburnished
copper.
Although
stationary
when
first
noticed,
this
object
soon
began
to
move,
rather
slowly,
and
disappeared
over
Dolan
Brothers'
store,
southward.
As
it
moved,
the
covering
seemed
rupturing
in
places,
and
through
these
the
intensely
red
flames
issued."
Bishop
Michaud
attempts
to
correlate
it
with
meteorological
observations.
Because
of
the
nearby
view
this
is
perhaps
the
most
remarkable
of
the
new
correlates,
but
the
correlate
now
coming
is
extraordinary
because
of
the
great
number
of
recorded
observations
upon
it.
My
own
acceptance
is
that,
upon
Nov.
17,
1882,
a
vast
dirigible
crossed
England,
but
by
the
definiteness-indefiniteness
of
all
things
quasi-real,
some
observations
upon
it
can
be
correlated
with
anything
one
pleases.
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