On Jan. 12, 1916, an explosion in the sky shook buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, accompanied by flashes in the sky. Reported in New York Herald, Jan. 13, 1916.
–Charles Fort, New Lands, p520 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Twenty-five bright flashes
Posted on November 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
About twenty-five bright flashes in rapid succession were seen in the sky of Cardiff, Wales, on Nov. 25, 1916, according to Arthur Mee in Eng. Mec., 104-239.
–Charles Fort, New Lands, p521 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Peasants and meteorites
Posted on September 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
September falls of meteorites/stones in storms:
St. Leonards-on-sea, England, Sept. 17, 1885 (Annual Register, 1885)
Sweden, Sept. 24, 1883 (Nature, 29-15)
Cardiff, Sept. 26, 1916, accompanied by lightning flash (London Times, Sept. 28, 1916)
Writes Fort: “It is said [in Science Gossip, n.s., 6-65] that, though meteorites have fall in storms, no connection is supposed to exist between the two phenomena, except by the ignorant peasantry.”
He further says:
“Peasants believed in meteorites.
"Scientists excluded meteorites.
"Peasants believe in ‘thunderstones.’
"Scientists exclude ‘thunderstones.’
"It is useless to argue that peasants are out in the fields, and that scientists are shut up in laboratories and lecture rooms. We cannot take for a real base that, as to phenomena with which they are more familiar, peasants are more likely to be right than are scientists: a host of biologic and meteorologic fallacies of peasants rises against us.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, pp101, 107 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
