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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
359
Nature,
May
25,
1893:
A
letter
from
Capt.
Charles
J.
Norcock,
of
H.M.S.
Caroline:
That,
upon
the
24th
of
February,
1893,
at
10
P.M.,
between
Shanghai
and
Japan,
the
officer
of
the
watch
had
reported
"some
unusual
lights."
They
were
between
the
ship
and
a
mountain.
The
mountain
was
about
6,000
feet
high.
The
lights
seemed
to
be
globular.
They
moved
sometimes
massed,
but
sometimes
strung
out
in
an
irregular
line.
They
bore
"northward,"
until
lost
to
sight.
Duration
two
hours.
The
next
night
the
lights
were
seen
again.
They
were,
for
a
time,
eclipsed
by
a
small
island.
They
bore
north
at
about
the
same
speed
and
in
about
the
same
direction
as
speed
and
direction
of
the
Caroline.
But
they
were
lights
that
cast
a
reflection:
there
was
a
glare
upon
the
horizon
under
them.
A
telescope
brought
out
but
few
details:
that
they
were
reddish,
and
seemed
to
emit
a
faint
smoke.
This
time
the
duration
was
seven
and
a
half
hours.
Then
Capt.
Norcock
says
that,
in
the
same
general
locality,
and
at
about
the
same
time,
Capt.
Castle,
of
H.M.S.
Leander,
had
seen
lights.
He
had
altered
his
course
and
had
made
toward
them.
The
lights
had
fled
from
him.
At
least,
they
had
moved
higher
in
the
sky.
Monthly
Weather
Review,
March,
1904-115:
Report
from
the
observations
of
three
members
of
his
crew
by
Lieut.
Frank
H.
Schofield,
U.S.N,
of
the
U.S.S.
Supply:
Feb.
24,
1904.
Three
luminous
objects,
of
different
sizes,
the
largest
having
an
apparent
area
of
about
six
suns.
When
first
sighted,
they
were
not
very
high.
They
were
below
clouds
of
an
estimated
height
of
about
one
mile.
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