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A fall of a gelatinous substance occurred after the explosion of a meteorite near Heidelberg in July 1811, according to Chladni’s account in Annals of Philosophy, n.s., 12-94.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 50 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Fort records falls of viscid substance in connection with meteoritic phenomena, as cataloged by R. P. Greg, in the years 1652, 1686, 1718, 1796, 1811, 1819 and 1844. In the Report of the British Association, 1855-94, Greg writes that on the night of Oct. 8, 1844, two people near Coblenz saw “a luminous body fall close to them. They returned next morning and found a gelatinous mass of grayish color.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p49 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
