Part Ii. 34 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 504 34 The climacteric opposition of Mars, of 1909--the last in our records--the next will be in 1924-- Aug. 8, 1909--see "Quar. Jour. Met. Soc.", n.s., 35-299--flashes in a clear sky that were seen in Epsom, Surrey, and other places in the southeast...
Part Ii. 23 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 23 Upon the night of the 13th of July, 1875, at midnight, two officers of H.M.S. "Coronation", in the Gulf of Siam, saw a luminous projection from the moon's upper limb ("Nature", 12-495). Upon the 14th it was gone, but a smaller projection was seen...
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Part Ii. 30 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 30 Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania--then might I write largely enough for our subjects. Because...
Part Ii. 27 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 27 It may be that we now add to our sins the horse that swam in the sky. For all I know, we contribute to a wider biology. In the "New York Times", July 8, 1878, is published a dispatch from Parkersburg, West Virginia: that, about July 1, 1878, three or four...
Part Ii. 38 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 533 38 Feb. 7, 1922--an explosion "of startling intensity" in the sky of the northwestern point of the London Triangle ("Nature", Feb. 23, 1922). Repeating phenomena in a local sky--in "L'Astronomie", 36-201, it is said that, at Orsay (Seine-et-Oise), Feb...
Part Ii. 26 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 454 26 If a grasshopper could hop on a cannon ball, passing overhead, I could conceive, perhaps, how something, from outer space, could flit to a moving earth, explore a while, and then hop off. But suppose we have to accept that there have been instances...
Part Ii. 22 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 22 Explosions over the towns of Barisal, Bengal, if they were arial explosions, were continuing. As to some of these detonations that were heard in May, 1874, a writer in "Nature", 53-197, says that they did seem to come from overhead. For a report up...
Part Ii. 36 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 518 36 August, 1914--this arena-like earth, with its horizon banking high into a Coliseum, when seen from not too far above--faint, rattling sounds of the opening of boundaries--tawny formations slinking into the arena--their crouchings and seizures...
Part Ii. 28 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 465 28 Out from a round, red planet, a little white shaft--a fairy's arrow shot into an apple. June 10, 1892--a light like a little searchlight, projecting from the limb of Mars. Upon July 11 and 13, it was seen again, by Campbell and Hussey ("Nature"...
Part Ii. 32 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 32 Night of Dec 7, 1900--for seventy minutes a fountain of light played upon the planet Mars. Prof. Pickering--"absolutely inexplicable" ("Sci. Amer.", 84-179). It may have been a geyser of messages. It may be translated some day. If it were expressed...
Part Ii. 24 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 24 That through lenses rimmed with horizons, inhabitants of this earth have seen revelations of other worlds--that atmospheric strata of different densities are lenses--but that the faults of the wide glasses in the observatories are so intensified...
Part Ii. 20 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 20 Patched by a blue inundation that had never been seen before--this earth, early in the 60's of the 19th century. Then faintly, from far away, this new appearance is seen to be enveloped with volumes of gray. Flashes like lightning, and faintest...
Part Ii. 16 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 16 Upon page 287, "Popular Astronomy", Newcomb says that it is beyond all "moral probability" that unknown worlds should exist in such numbers as have been reported, and should be seen crossing the solar disc only by amateur observers and not by skilled...
Part I. 1 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 313 PART I 1 Lands in the sky-- That they are nearby-- That they do not move. I take for a principle that all being is the infinitely serial, and that whatever has been will, with differences of particulars, be again-- The last quarter of the fifteenth...
Part I. 5 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 338 5 Smugness and falseness and sequences of re-adjusting fatalities--and yet so great is the hypnotic power of astronomic science that it can outlive its "mortal" blows by the simple process of forgetting them, and, in general, simply by denying that it...
Part I. 10 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 10 Pseudo heart of a phantom thing--it is Keplerism, pulsating with Sir Isaac Newton's regularizations. If triangulation cannot be depended upon accurately to measure distance greater than a mile or two between objects and observers, the aspects of Keplerism...
Part I. 9 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 366 9 According to Prof. Newcomb, for instance, the distance of the sun is about 380 times the distance of the moon--as determined by triangulation. But, upon page 22, "Popular Astronomy", Newcomb tells of another demonstration, with strikingly different...
Part Ii. 14 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 396 14 And our own underground investigations--and whether there is something in the sky or not. We are in a hole in time. Cavern of Conventional Science--walls that are dogmas, from which drips ancient wisdom in a patter of slimy opinions--but we have...
Part I. 3 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 3 Southern plantations and the woolly heads of Negroes pounding the ground--cries in northern regions and round white faces turned to the sky--fiery globes in the sky--a study in black, white, and golden formations in one general glow. Upon the night of Nov...
Part I. 7 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 7 The three abstrusities: The aberration of light, the annual parallax of the stars, the regular, annual shift of the lines of the stellar spectra. By the aberration of light is meant a displacement of all stars, during a year's observation, by which stars...
Part Ii. 18 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 419 18 In a pamphlet entitled Wonderful Phenomena, by Curtis Eli, is the report of an occurrence, or of an alleged occurrence, that was investigated by Mr. Addison A. Sawin, a spiritualist. He interpreted in the only way that I know of, and that is...
Part I. 12 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 12 We try to have independent expressions. Accept that it is not distance that has held the stars in unchanging position, if occasional, abrupt change of position has been seen at the distance of the stars, and it is implied that the not enormously distant...
Part I. 6 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 6 "English Mechanic", 56-184: That, upon April 25, 1892, Archdeacon Nouri climbed Mt. Ararat. It was his hope that he should find something of archologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark. About the same time, Dr. Holden, Direct...
Part I. 2 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 2 "Prediction Confirmed!" "Another Verification!" "A Third Verification of Prediction!" Three times, in spite of its long-established sobriety, the "Journal of the Franklin Institute", vols. 106 and 107, reels with an astronomer's exhilarations. He might...
Part Ii. 15 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 15 One repeating mystery--the mystery of the local sky. How, if this earth be a moving earth, could anything sail to, fall to, or in any other way reach this earth, without being smashed into fine particles by the impact? This earth is supposed to rip space...
Part Ii. 19 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 19 We attempt to co-ordinate various streaks of data, all of which signify to us that, external to this earth, and in relation with, or relatable to, this earth are lands and lives and a generality of conditions that make of the whole, supposed solar system...
Part Ii. 13 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 390 p. 391 PART II 13 June, 1801--a mirage of an unknown city. It was seen, for more than an hour, at Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland--a representation of mansions, surrounded by shrubbery and white palings--forests behind. In October, 1796, a mirage...
Part I. 4 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 333 4 Nevertheless I sometimes doubt that astronomers represent especial incompetence. They remind me too much of uplifters and grocers, philanthropists, expert accountants, makers of treaties, characters in international conferences, psychic researchers...
Part Ii. 17 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 415 17 If we could stop to sing, instead of everlastingly noting vol. this and p. that, we could have the material of sagas--of the bathers in the sun, which may be neither intolerably hot nor too uncomfortably cold; and of the hermit who floats across...
Part I. 8 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 358 8 It is supposed that astronomic subjects and principles and methods cannot be understood by the layman. I think this, myself. We shall take up some of the principles of astronomy, with the idea of expressing that of course they cannot be understood...
Part I. 11 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 11 We have seen that some of the most brilliant inspirations of god-like intellects, or some of the most pestilential emanations from infected minds, have been attempts to account for the virtual changelessness of the stars. Above all other data of astronomy...
Part Ii. 33 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], p. 501 33 In Coconino County, Arizona, is an extraordinary formation. It is known as Coon Butte and as Crater Mountain. Once upon a time, something gouged this part of Arizona. The cavity in the ground is about 3,800 feet in diameter, and it is approximately...
Part Ii. 29 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 29 There have been published several observations upon a signal-like regularity of the Barisal Guns, which, because unaccompanied by phenomena that could be considered seismic, may have been detonations in the sky, and which, because, according to some...
Part Ii. 37 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 37 That the Geo-system is an incubating organism, of which this earth is the nucleus--but an organism that is so strongly characterized by conditions and features of its own that likening it to any object internal to it is the interpreting of a thing...
Part Ii. 21 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 21 Our data indicate that the planets are circulating adjacencies. Almost do we now conceive of a difficulty of the future as being not how to reach the planets, but how to dodge them. Especially do we warn aviators away from that rhinoceros of the skies...
Part Ii. 25 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 25 Exploding monasteries that shoot out clouds of monks into cyclonic formations with stormy nuns similarly dispossessed --or collapsing monasteries--sometimes slowly crumbling confines of the cloistered--by which we typify all things: that all developments...
Part Ii. 31 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 31 Cold Harbor, Hanover Co., Virginia--two men in a field--"an apparently clear sky." In the "Monthly Weather Review", 28-29, it is said that upon Aug. 7, 1900, two men were struck by lightning. The Editor says that the weather map gave no indicati...
Part Ii. 35 : * "New Lands", by Charles Fort, [1923], 35 "Unknown Aircraft Over Dover." According to the Dover correspondent to the London "Times" (Jan. 6, 1913) something had been seen, over Dover, heading from the sea. In the London "Standard", Jan. 24, 1913, it is said that, upon the morning of January 4...