ANOMALY
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A JOURNAL OF FORTEANA
“FLYING SAUCERS” OR “FAIRY RINGS”?
"ing aura” ar not exuave with ha gonerton, We have had
many reports about tone. Avintorey postmasters; houeeives, ato:
Moblistein sack, tney” have een Teperted daring the last. twenty
‘ears {rom almost avery walk of lite: In many instances, that whieh
inad been thought to hea Aging saucer has, ups investigation, tnrned
nt tobe an aptia! ihadion «satelite, «weather balloon a sedeeton:
or something ‘rendsly explained. Tt seemm untoreunae,” however. 16
lasify tying saueers with the black panthers aad the’ eee serpeats,
Doth of which are routed in mistaken ifentifation or in the mids of
{hose’Tond af spoofs. To be site, n certain percentage cf chase report
Ing” eaucers are so, spoosing or too eredlole, However, ie mast De
Hraated, whtterer thelt Mlentity ‘is. (noone really Eaows), theae
Aisites or light Tu clreular form have not only Deen recorded by
ties of the hignest standing tor the past 150 year Dut also hae
feve tel cleariy isibie markt on various Selly, or forests, upon te
“sO oso from dark clouds the playful Mghtning springs,
Rives the drm oak oF PRINTS THE CATR WINGS
‘ais eoupiet ty taken fromthe Botanic Garden, a tong pocte (TS) Dy
rainay arly Gets grandtacher of the snont Heqieh
sketched at Shrewsbarye Baglandy the bisthpiace af the latter, Hie
Explanation of fe found ina footaate towards the end ot te Pocus of
“Shue is @ phenomenon, supposed to be eletre, which is yet un
accounted for? T'mean the Baltgerinas, as they" ave ated eb oftea
Seon on te eae Me usterous Gani of lightning wich occur
| Be ettom ie ever) "rom one siond co-anoster, Moist trees are the |
host treauent conductors of these. flashes of ightaing. “and: Tsim
Informed by "prehasers of wood that innumerable. trees are the
cpr and ltr Ethan ego pata prominence of
Imolater parts of grassy pining, Now this knob or corner of a coud,
In being attracted by the earth will beeome nearly eyllndtical, a loose
ool weal when den ait taio a thro sud wil sith the
Sion. Now ann atream of wlevtteity ‘displaces the” alt It" passes
fhvugn, Te {9 plata no pact of the grace can be burnt by it, but just
{he external ving of this eplinder, where the grass ean have’ access 10
fhe let since without aif nothidg' cam be edicined: This carta after
Iaving Deon ap calcined becomes a richer soil, and either fanguses oF
sg bluer grass for many years mark the place. ‘That lgataing displaces
fhe air in ite passugo Ie evinced: by the loud crack tut suseeede Is
which i owing to the sides of the aerial acum capping. owether
‘hen the ighteing - withdcawa, ‘Thiat nothing wil exleine without
tis wl anderen," érom the acids prodacedin the burang. of
Dblogtetie substances, and. may be agrotapiy seen by suspending
ayer on an leon prong. and putting it into the centre of te blase of
‘alicon farnace? it may’ be held there some reconds, td may be again
‘ididrawn, without fe being boent, it ft be passed quickly taco the
fame and out again, through the exizroat pact of it whteh is Iu cou |
fact with the alr. Tinow some cles of woany yards Waeter of this
Kina™near Poremack, tu Derbyehire, whieh aaatally Produce, large
white fungases and stronger geana and have done soy Tum Informe
ftbove thirty yeare, This taereared fertility ef the ground by eaicina!
fon or charring, and tte continuing to operate so many este, ie wel,
orth the attention of the farmer! and’ shows the wae of paring end
Durning new turt in agviculture, whieh produces its effect not 60
uch by he asties of the vegetable Abren, a by-charring the seit
‘whlch agneres to them.
"Thowe situations, whether from eisstence or from molstu
rere proper once to attract aud discharge a thunder-cloud,
Table again to experience the same, Hence mauy fairy-tings are often
Seon near each otter, elther without Intersceting each ether,
his summer in a garden tn ottinghamabire. or Interscting ewch
iter, az desesibed on Arthur's seat, neat’ laburgh ia the Talat
‘Peand. Voli pe
Tn quot the above, le may not be amiss to add that in the summer
cof sho alntiae Fatry-ring wae Giseovered at Jftrey, New Hampettre
find reported fully tn the ioeal Monadnock-Eedger aa having bees itt
{here Dy a Flying Saucer, The ting, apparent, had been made by the
Saucer, at or close to the ime when veveral Jaiiey residents seported ||
they had seen the Sayeer close to ts locaton.
RAPID DISORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN BODY
00 the night of the 10th of March, 1802, in one of the towns of the
suave of Massachusetts she body of an elderly wounaa wraporated. and
Aisappeared trom tome Inteenal and unknown cause, nthe duration
ff'ubout one hows 'and am hail. Past of the family hed gone to boo
And the rest were abroad. "The old woman Teuiuel awake te take Coes
of the nose. By and by one f the geand-ebildren eaite home, sud
Uiseovered the door near tho hearth tobe oh fre. An alarm wes de,
Tight Drouzht, and means taken to extingitan it, While these things
‘rere doing, some singular appencances were observed on the heen
Tha the contiguous floor. There was a sort of eeeasy soot So eae
‘with reniatas of a hutoan Yooy, and ah tiustal'auell I ehetnoee eh
ihe clothes were consumed’ and the srandaiother was missing Te wa
ftarat supposed she had, in attempting to Might her pipe of tetas,
failon tuto the fe, and been burned eo death: But on cossidariee Nee
finall the des saa and that so total & coustpton Coule eeeeeety
have Rappened if there tad been tet) tee’ ag much, ee Hence
Feason fo conclude thet this Iv another ease of that tpontancens an
Eemponton of the Haman body at which there sre several Intaness
‘THE COMET IKEYA-SEKI
Alscovorod in September 1955 by two Tapancss astronomers, came in
full view of Japanere and mld-Pacite cheervers on Geiobet Saas,
Good phoiogeapie of Ht were taken hy fhe Smithsonian Astropey tea
Odsertatory at Woomera, Australia” Other seating dee see gehe
from the NASA Ames Researeh Canter, were folled by the protinnor st
the comet and its 4mllion-mlleong tall to the brillanee of tha ast
1tald not collide with the wun or Go anyday much bue Oieageeae
OLD FARMER'S AIMANAC - 1967 EditionNew mystery... arrow in sea points west
This manmade arrow was
discovered underwater
off the Bahamas this
year. It measures 150
feet long and 70 feet
wide. Who put it there,
when end why remain
mysteries.
(Miami News, 4/14/73)
Photo by PINO TUROLLA
638/10 JOURNAL OF PopuLaR cuLrure Winter 1971
‘At base, anomalies are of two kinds: (1) anomalous objects (things oF
events), and (2) anomalous processes
clationships). An anomalous object
consists of the existence (or claimed existence) of some thing or event which
is somehow a deviation from the usual, credible order of things, e.g. the sight-
ing of an abominable snowman, a levitated fakir floating in the air, or a giant
sea serpent. An anomalous process, however, can consist of quite ordinary
things or events in some extraordinary conjunction. Thus, an occultist may
believe that a pin placed in a wax image will lead to the death of someone
(neither death nor wax images and pins themselves being extraordinary), or
that the position of the planets at certain times ean effect the personality
development of children born at certain places on the earth at those times
(planetary positions and children born with personalities in themselves being
ordinary events),
Anomalies can be further classified as being isolated or integrated with By Marcello Truzzi
cone another. Thus, some anomalies are quite singular and disconnected from
‘other anomalies. A typical example would be belief in the existence of an Un-
identified Flying Object. Though some groups have turned belief in UFOs into
an integrated anomaly by seeing flying saucers as vehicles piloted by angelic
spacemen,17 most believers in UFOs sce them as unexplained phenonomena
within an otherwise normal scientific world-view,
Integrated anomalies seem to mote often consist of process anomalies
than object anomalies. An occultist who believes in a set of magical processes
is often likely to accept (or atleast reserve judgment on) the credibility of
someone elses claim about other magical processes, but a believer in UFOs is
usually no more likely to accept the claims for a Loch Ness Monster than
those who disbelieve in UFOs, Since anomalous processes are usually based on
the inference of strange Causalities among otherwise ordinary events (events
the non-occultist would simply label as “coincidences”), the establishment of
such anomalies requires more evidence to convince the skeptical than might
the anomalous object. This has implications for the frequeney of belief in such
anomalies
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NOVEMBER 1973 the Professional Cranks’ Newsletter
1973 - A GREAT FORTEAN YEAR
Everything is happening at once! A major UFO flap began in Febr-
uary and is still continuing. Monsters and A.S.S. (Abominable
Swamp Slobs) have appeared in Pottstown, Pa. and Enfield, Ill.
The Enfield critter had three legs, which figures since the
chief witness was a crippled war veteran named McDaniel. (Another
McDaniel family was the center of the 1966-67 Mothman fracas in
W. Va., and the cover story of Anomaly 9 was about a man named
Mopaniga who encountered "the devil” inthe Catskill Mts. one
hundred years ago . Old-timers will recall that several different
unrelated people, all named Reeve(s), in scattered parts of the
country had UFO and monster sightings back in 1965-66. What's in
a name?) In Garland, Texas (home of the famed Varo Corporation)
a Blob...alive and growing...has appeared.
Several well-financed, well-equipped (including helicopters and
electronic gear) expeditions are exploring the northwest this
summer in serious efforts to track down and capture the elusive
Sasquatch, the legendary tall, hairy humanoid. One group already
claims to have taken new photos of the beast.
In Scotland, equally well-equipped groups are launching an all-
out attempt to solve the riddle of the Loch Ness monster. And in
Florida teams of scientists, including North American Rockwell's
massive and somewhat mysterious project, are stepping up their
investigations into the notorious Bermuda friangle...that area of
the Atlantic where so many ships and planes have vanished without
a trace.
Let's not leave out Lost Atlantis. Mrs, Maxine Asher raised
@ lot of money from a group of intrepid college students who
accompanied her to Cadiz, Spain to find Atlantis. Spanish
authorities were not enthused about the project and Mrs.
Asher departed with the money, leaving the students behind.
Lost Atlantis is still lost.
Lawyer F. Lee Bailey recently told the Treasury Department he has
a client who has located the long lost treasure of the Aztecs. It
is in a cave in the White Sands Proving Grounds. Bailey produced
some of the gold as proof. The government wasn't interested.
Finally, the sun has been misbehaving this year. Unusual magnetic
conditions prevail, probably accounting for some of the strange
things that have been happening. Both the U.S, and U.S.S.R. have
quietly sent a number of rocket probes to the sun to find out if
it is planning to blow up on us this year, If not, there is a
major comet which will bypass Zarth this December and put on a
sky spectacular. Maybe even kill us all.
It's going to be a great year.
- John A, Keel
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