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Sergeant W.H. Perry of the Signal Corps reported in Monthly Weather Review, July 1888, that common water-worn pebbles fell at Palestine, Texas on July 6, 1888. These were a formation not found near Palestine.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 176 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
The New York Sun of Dec. 6, 1930, reported that in El Paso, Texas, on June 19, 1929, a “deadly miasma” caused scores of people to drop unconscious in the streets.
–Charles Fort, Wild Talents, p. 853 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
According to the New York Sun and the New York Herald, on April 2, 11, 16 and 18, 1897, a mysterious light, like a powerful searchlight, was seen in the sky of Kansas City, Chicago, Evanston, Benton (TX) and finally in Sisterville, W. Va. The object associated with the light was variously reported as “shaped like a Mexican cigar… with great wings,” “two cigar-shaped objects with great wings,” and a “cigar-shaped, silken bag.” Brilliant red, white and green lights were seen below it. Prof. George Hough maintained that “the object seen is Alpha Orionis.”
–Charles Fort, New Lands, p.468-471 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
A lump of ice weighing four pounds fell in Texas on Dc. 6, 1893 (Scientific American, 68-58).
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p185 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
