Thunder was heard

Symons’ Met. Mag., 43-154, records that on July 2, 1908, at Braemar, flat pieces of ice fell. The sky overhead was clear and the sun was shining, but thunder was heard.

–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 187 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)

No balloon could be found

The New York Sun of Dec. 13, 1909, said that reports had come in throughout the autumn of 1908 of “a mysterious light that moved rapidly in the sky,” seen in various locations in Connecticut.

–Charles Fort, New Lands, p508 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).