CHAPTER XXV 



A FORMATION having the shape of a dirigible." It was report- 

 ed from Huntington, West Virginia (Sci. Amer., 115-241). 

 Luminous object that was seen July 19, 1916, at about eleven 

 p. m. Observed through "rather powerful field glasses," it looked 

 to be about two degrees long and half a degree wide. It gradually 

 dimmed, disappeared, reappeared, and then faded out of sight. 

 Another person as we say: it would be too inconvenient to hold 

 to our intermediatist recognitions another person who observed 

 this phenomenon suggested to the writer of the account that the 

 object was a dirigible, but the writer says that faint stars could 

 be seen behind it. This would seem really to oppose our notion 

 of a dirigible visitor to this earth except for the inconclusiveness 

 of all things in a mode of seeming that is not final or we suggest 

 that behind some parts of the object, thing, construction, faint 

 stars were seen. We find a slight discussion here. Prof. H. M. 

 Russell thinks that the phenomenon was a detached cloud of aurora 

 borealis. Upon page 369 of this volume of the Scientific American, 

 another correlator suggests that it was a light from a blast furnace 

 disregarding that, if there be blast furnaces in or near Hunting- 

 ton, their reflections would be commonplaces there. 



We now have several observations upon cylindrical-shaped bodies 

 that have appeared in this earth's atmosphere: cylindrical, but 

 pointed at both ends, or torpedo-shaped. Some of the accounts 

 are not very detailed, but out of the bits of description my own ac- 

 ceptance is that super-geographical routes are traversed by torpedo- 

 shaped super-constructions that have occasionally visited, or that 

 have occasionally been driven into this earth's atmosphere. From 

 data, the acceptance is that upon entering this earth's atmosphere, 

 these vessels have been so racked that had they not sailed away, 

 disintegration would have occurred: that, before leaving this earth, 

 they have, whether in attempted communication or not, or in mere 

 wantonness or not, dropped objects, which did almost immediately 

 violently disintegrate or explode. Upon general principles we think 

 that explosives have not been purposely dropped, but that parts 



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