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of the stationary object would not have been stationary, but would 

 have moved higher and higher with the setting of the sun. 



I have to think of something that is in accord with no other data 

 whatsoever: 



A luminous body not the sun in the sky but, because of some 

 unknown principle or atmospheric condition, its light extended down 

 only about to the clouds; that from it were suspended two triangu- 

 lar objects, like the object that was seen in Bermuda; that it was 

 this light that fell short of the earth that these objects intercepted; 

 that the objects were drawn up and lowered from something over- 

 head, so that, in its light, their shadows changed size. 



If my grope seem to have no grasp in it, and, if a stationary bal- 

 loon will, in half an hour, not cast a stationary shadow from the 

 setting sun, we have to think of two triangular objects that ac- 

 curately maintained positions in a line between sun and clouds, and 

 at the same time approached and receded from clouds. Whatever 

 it may have been, it's enough to make the devout make the sign of 

 the crucible, or whatever the devotees of the Old Dominant do in 

 the presence of a new correlate. 



Vast, black thing poised like a crow over the moon. 



It is our acceptance that these two shadows of Chisbury looked, 

 from the moon, like vast things, black as crows, poised over the 

 earth. It is our acceptance that two triangular luminosities and 

 then two triangular patches, like vast black things, poised like crows 

 over the moon, and, like the triangularites at Chisbury, have been 

 seen upon, or over, the moon: 



Scientific American, 46-49: 



Two triangular, luminous appearances reported by several ob- 

 servers in Lebanon, Conn., evening of July 3, 1882, on the moon's 

 upper limb. They disappeared, and two dark triangular appear- 

 ances that looked like notches were seen three minutes later upon 

 the lower limb. They approached each other, met and instantly 

 disappeared. 



The merger here is notches that have at times been seen upon 

 the moon's limb: thought to be cross sections of craters (Monthly 

 Notices, R. A. 5., 37-432). But these appearances of July 3, 1882, 

 were vast upon the moon "seemed to be cutting off or obliterating 

 nearly a quarter of its surface." 



Something else that may have looked like a vast black crow poised 

 over this earth from the moon: 



Monthly Weather Review, 41-599: 



