The Monthly Weather Review of May 1877 reported a golden-yellow fall on Feb. 27, 1877 at Peckloh, Germany of “four kinds of organisms, not pollen.” The minute things, that Fort says “may have been symbols” were minute things shaped like “arrows, coffee beans, horns, and disks.”

Fort further says, “They may have been objective hieroglyphics–Mere passing fancy–let it go–”

–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 25 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).