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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
Nature,
27-84,
Capron
says
that
because
of
the
moonlight
he
had
been
able
to
do
little
with
the
spectroscope.
Color
white,
but
aurora
rosy
(Nature,
27-87).
Bright
stars
seen
through
it,
but
not
at
the
zenith,
where
it
looked
opaque.
This
is
the
only
assertion
of
transparency
(Nature,
27-87).
Too
slow
for
a
meteor,
but
too
fast
for
a
cloud
(Nature,
27-86).
"Surface
had
a
mottled
appearance"
(Nature,
27-87).
"Very
definite
in
form,
like
a
torpedo"
(Nature,
27-100).
"Probably
a
meteoric
object"
(Dr.
Groneman,
Nature,
27-296).
Technical
demonstration
by
Dr.
Groneman,
that
it
was
a
cloud
of
meteoric
matter
(Nature,
28-105).
See
Nature,
27-315,
338,
365,
388,
412,
434.
"Very
little
doubt
it
was
an
electric
phenomenon"
(Proctor,
Knowledge,
2-419).
In
the
London
Times,
Nov.
20,
1882,
the
Editor
says
that
he
had
received
a
great
number
of
letters
upon
this
phenomenon.
He
publishes
two.
One
correspondent
describes
it
as
"well-defined
and
shaped
like
a
fish...
extraordinary
and
alarming."
The
other
correspondent
writes
of
it
as
"a
most
magnificent
luminous
mass,
shaped
somewhat
like
a
torpedo."
26
Notes
and
Queries,
5-3-306:
About
8
lights
that
were
seen
in
Wales,
over
an
area
of
about
8
miles,
all
keeping
their
own
ground,
whether
moving
together
perpendicularly,
horizontally,
or
over
a
zigzag
course.
They
looked
like
electric
lights--disappearing,
reappearing
dimly,
then
shining
as
bright
as
ever.
"We
have
seen
them
three
or
four
at
a
time
afterward,
on
four
or
five
occasions."
London
Times,
Oct.
5,
1877:
"From
time
to
time
the
west
coast
of
Wales
seems
to
have
been
the
scene
of
mysterious
lights....
And
now
we
have
a
statement
from
Towyn
that
within
the
last
few
weeks
lights
of
various
colors
have
been
seen
moving
over
the
estuary
of
the
Dysynni
River,
and
out
to
sea.
They
are
generally
in
a
northerly
direction,
but
sometimes
they
hug
the
shore,
and
move
at
high
velocity
for
miles
toward
Aberdovey,
and
suddenly
disappear."
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