Names / Person

Charles Fort

Person 25 stories, 1812 to 1953

A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature. 1919. In The Book of the Damned he reprinted accounts like the lights that shadowed HMS Caroline off Jeju and the USS Supply meteors, grouping them for their unison of movement. He made Bishop Michaud's torpedo-shaped fireball over Burlington a centrepiece. In the 1920s he tracked the pastor behind the Crawfordsville Monster to Michigan and wrote to him. The results appeared in Lo! in 1931, alongside the British phantom airships of 1909.

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Pro early
The Phantom Army of Haverah Park
June 28, 1812 · Haverah (Havarah) Park, near Ripley and Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 15 sources
17Thinly documented

Writer who listed the case in New Lands (1923)

Pro early
The Devil's Footprints, Devon 1855
February 8, 1855 · Exe Estuary, south-east Devon (Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth and over 30 places)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
33Partially documented
Pro early
The Metallic Flying Creature of Copiapó
March 17, 1868 · Mine near La Ternera, Copiapó, Atacama region
Chile
UAP · Creature · 11 sources
8Thinly documented

Writer who recorded the case

Pro early
The Lady of the Lake circular cloud
March 22, 1870 · North Atlantic, about 400 miles north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa (Lat. 5° 47' N., Long. 27° 52' W.)
International waters
UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources
19Thinly documented

Author who reprinted the case and Banner's diagram in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
Coggia's Slow-Moving Red Fireball over Marseille Observatory
August 1, 1871 · Observatoire de Marseille, Longchamp plateau, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône
France
UAP · Orb / light · 13 sources
21Thinly documented

Listed the case in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
The Bonham Sky Serpent and the Fort Scott Serpent
June 1873 · Near Bonham, Fannin County, Texas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
15Thinly documented

Retold both reports in Lo!

Pro early
HMS Vulture's Revolving Wheels of Light, Persian Gulf, 1879
May 15, 1879 · Persian Gulf, Lat. 26°26′ N, Long. 53°11′ E, aboard HMS Vulture
International waters
UAP · Other · 16 sources
22Thinly documented

Retold the case in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
"An Aerial Mystery": The Winged Man over Coney Island
c. 1880 · Coney Island, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
12Thinly documented
Maunder's "Strange Celestial Visitor": the auroral torpedo of 17 November 1882
November 17, 1882 · Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, with sightings across England, the Netherlands, Belgium and France
United Kingdom
UAP · Cigar · 25 sources
33Partially documented

Writer who included the case in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
The Brungle Creek Bunyip Carcass (1883)
c. 1883 · Brungle Creek, near Tumut, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
21Thinly documented

Writer who retold the case in Lo! (1931), naming Hoad as the finder

Pro early
The Charleston pebble showers
September 4, 1886 · News and Courier office, 19 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina
United States
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
26Thinly documented
Pro early
The Crawfordsville Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
26Thinly documented

Writer who traced Switzer and wrote about the case in Lo! (1931)

Pro early
The Crawfordsville Sky Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
UAP · Creature · 31 sources
23Thinly documented

Writer who traced Switzer and covered the case in Lo! (1931)

Pro early
The HMS Caroline "Chinese Lanterns" off Quelpart (Jeju)
February 24, 1893 · At sea, sixteen to seventeen miles south of Quelpart (Jeju Island), North China Sea
South Korea
UAP · Orb / light · 19 sources
24Thinly documented

Author who included the case in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
The SS Fort Salisbury Sea Serpent
October 28, 1902 · Equatorial Atlantic, south of the Gulf of Guinea (lat. 5° 31' S, long. 4° 42' W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
15Thinly documented

Included the case in Lo!

Pro early
The Grottendieck stone-fall, Sumatra 1903
September 1903 · Oil-company camp in the Sumatran jungle, Dutch East Indies (probably the Palembang region)
Indonesia
Paranormal · Other · 15 sources
19Thinly documented

Retold the case in Lo! (1931)

The USS Supply "Remarkable Meteors"
February 28, 1904 · Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles WSW of San Francisco (36°20′ N, 127°36′ W)
International waters
UAP · Formation · 16 sources
22Thinly documented

Anomalist who reprinted the report in The Book of the Damned (1919)

Pro early
The Hexham Wolf of Allendale, Northumberland, 1904
December 1904 · Hexhamshire and the Allen valleys, near Hexham and Allendale, Northumberland, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 1 photos
23Thinly documented

Wrote the classic account of the case in Lo! (1931)

Pro early
Bishop Michaud's "torpedo-shaped" fireball, Burlington, Vermont
July 2, 1907 · Corner of Church Street and College Street, Burlington, Vermont
United States
UAP · Cigar · 20 sources
34Partially documented

Author who featured the case in The Book of the Damned (1919)

The British Phantom Airship ("Scareship") Wave of 1909
March 23, 1909 · England, Wales and Ireland (Peterborough, East Anglia, Birmingham, Cardiff and Caerphilly, Belfast, Kingstown)
United Kingdom
UAP · Cigar · 36 sources
48Partially documented
The Brown Mountain Lights
September 1913 · Brown Mountain, Burke and Caldwell counties, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina
United States
UAP · Orb / light · 27 sources
42Partially documented
Pro early
The Chico Stone Falls: Rocks from a Cloudless Sky (1921-1922)
c. 1921 · J. W. Charge's grain warehouses beside the Southern Pacific tracks, near the depot at Fifth and Orange streets, Chico, Butte County, California
United States
Paranormal · Other · 13 sources
33Partially documented

Author who recorded the case in New Lands (1923)

Pro early
The Glacier Island "Monster in the Ice", Prince William Sound, Alaska
November 10, 1930 · Eagle Bay, Glacier Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 10 photos
48Partially documented

Writer who quoted the New York Sun report in Lo! (1931)

Pro early
The Macomb Mystery Fires at the Willey Farm
August 7, 1948 · Willey farm, near Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois
United States
Paranormal · Other · 15 sources · 1 photos
33Partially documented
The Tulli Papyrus: the "circles of fire" of Thutmose III
1953 · Vatican Museums, Vatican City (where the claim originated; the text names no place)
Vatican City
UAP · Other · 13 sources
16Thinly documented