Fw: Red Rain

>>Wow have any of you heard of this? Comments?

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=3DEducation&F=3D1&id=3D8530
Red rain may prove life came from outer space
6/3/2006>>

People who are amazed by this might find the books by Charles Fort,
written about 80 years ago, of interest. Fort collected such stories;
there are myriads (literally) of them from all over the globe. I think
the "Fortean Society" still is in business.

I have a collection of Fort's books, published in 1941 under the title
"The Books of Charles Fort." An introduction by Tiffany Thayer then "The
Book of the Damned*" (1919), "New lands (1923), " "Lo!, (1931)" and "Wild
Talents" (1932). There is also an index. 1122 pages of "facts." Falling
stones, UFOs, soot and ashes dropping from the sky, fires that consumed
persons without damaging the surroundings, sudden cures, the strange
recovery of Honus Wagner, the man who couldn't be hanged, sea serpents
seen in the sky, disappearances, peach-colored rain in Giessen, Germany.
etc. He has many instances of "red rain."

Any one -- or a few -- are easily discounted as hoaxes or mistakes. I
have always felt that Charles Fort found too many to overlook. Something
is going on. But as to what, I have no clue.

* Damned facts, not damned people. Facts that are, because they do not
"fit," are considered "outliers" and usually ignored.

Burgy

(Sometimes wrong; never in doubt)
Received on Mon Mar 20 12:02:51 2006