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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1877-152,
there
is
a
description
of
a
group
of
"meteors"
that
traveled
with
"remarkable
slowness."
They
were
in
sight
about
three
minutes.
"Remarkable,"
it
seems,
is
scarcely
strong
enough:
one
reads
of
"remarkable"
as
applied
to
a
duration
of
three
seconds.
These
"meteors"
had
another
peculiarity;
they
left
no
train.
They
are
described
as
"seemingly
huddled
together
like
a
flock
of
wild
geese,
and
moving
with
the
same
velocity
and
grace
of
regularity."
Jour.
Roy.
Astro.
Soc.
of
Canada,
November
and
December,
1913:
That,
according
to
many
observations
collected
by
Prof.
Chant,
of
Toronto,
there
appeared,
upon
the
night
of
Feb.
9,
1913,
a
spectacle
that
was
seen
in
Canada,
the
United
States,
and
at
sea,
and
in
Bermuda.
A
luminous
body
was
seen.
To
it
there
was
a
long
tail.
The
body
grew
rapidly
larger.
"Observers
differ
as
to
whether
the
body
was
single,
or
was
composed
of
three
or
four
parts,
with
a
tail
to
each
part."
The
group,
or
complex
structure,
moved
with
"a
peculiar,
majestic
deliberation."
"It
disappeared
in
the
distance,
and
another
group
emerged
from
its
place
of
origin.
Onward
they
moved,
at
the
same
deliberate
pace,
in
twos
or
threes
or
fours."
They
disappeared.
A
third
group,
or
a
third
structure,
followed.
Some
observers
compared
the
spectacle
to
a
fleet
of
airships:
others
to
battleships
attended
by
cruisers
and
destroyers.
According
to
one
writer:
"There
were
probably
30
or
32
bodies,
and
the
peculiar
thing
about
them
was
their
moving
in
fours
and
threes
and
twos,
abreast
of
one
another;
and
so
perfect
was
the
lining
up
that
you
would
have
thought
it
was
an
aerial
fleet
maneuvering
after
rigid
drilling."
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