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Strange: January Fortean Events
Page numbers refer to: The Complete Books of Charles Fort.
New York: Dover, 1974.
| Jan
1 |
1860 - Third fall of reddish rain in exact same quarter of
Siena (see also Dec. 28, 31, 1860)
- p40 [Year Book of Facts, 1861-273] |
| 1921 - Several irregular, black objects that "looked
like pieces of burnt paper" crossed the sun - p525 [Eng.
Mec., 112-276] |
| Jan 2 |
1887 - Detonations heard in the sky, Oroville, CA - p535 [Monthly
Weather Review, 1887-24] |
| Jan 3 |
1865 - Second sighting of red lights on Mars (previously seen
in Oct 1864) - p426 [C. R., 85-538] |
| 1869 - Sound of six or seven reports, "as if of heavy
guns far away", Harlton, Cambridgeshire - p437 [Nature,
30-19] |
| Jan 4 |
1910 - Unknown airship, with lights, seen over Dover and over
the Bristol Channel - p512 [London Times, London Standard] |
| Jan 5 |
1892 - Light in the sky (part of series of sightings from
Dec-Apr every 27th night), Lyons, NY - p451 [Scientific American,
May 7, 1892] |
| Jan 6 |
1818 - Unknown body crossed the sun, observed for three and
a half hours - p393 [Quar. Jour. Roy. Inst., 5-117] |
| Jan 8 |
1704 - Earthquake "preceded" by a violent tempest,
England - p240 [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1852] |
| 1840 - Sounds like cannonading, listed as "earthquakes,"
one of 247 such occurrences in same place between 1839 and 1841,
Comrie, Scotland - p405 [Edin. New Phil. Jour., 32-107] |
| 1867 - Garrison startled from sleep by what was supposed to
be an earthquake and a sound like thunder, followed by darkness,
sky covered with black smoke or clouds, and fall of brownish
ashes; another "frightful" shock half an hour later;
sighting of dark column of smoke in direction of Klamath Marsh;
no report of volcanic eruption, Fort Klamath, OR - p437 [Smithson.
Miscell. Cols., 37-Appendix, p71] |
| Jan 9 |
1869 - Loud report heard and shock felt, near Colchester,
Essex, 30 miles from Harlton (see Jan 3, 1869); extraordinary
vibration, described as being like a gunpowder explosion, a
big thunder clap, and a little earthquake, South Lopham, Norfolk
- p437 [London Times, London Standard] |
| 1873 - Fall of cinders on deck of a lightship - p73 [Proc.
Of the London Roy. Soc., 19-122] |
| Jan 10 |
1869 - "Extraordinary meteor" seen in the sky, Weston-super-Mare,
near Bristol; five hours later three shocks felt said to have
been earthquakes - p438 [Chudleigh Weekly Express] |
| Jan 12 |
1836 - Sighting of a luminous body, seemingly two-thirds size
of the moon, rotating on an axis, with a central dark cavity,
Cherbourg, France - p274 [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1860-77] |
| 1910 - Airship seen and heard at 9 a.m., Chattanooga, TN;
also reported in Huntsville, AL (also seen on the next two days)
- p510 [New York Tribune, Jan 13] |
| 1916 - A "shock" felt, buildings shaken, flashes
seen in the sky, Cincinnati, OH - p520 [New York Herald,
Jan 13] |
| Jan 13 |
1869 - Explosion in the sky, Brighton - p438 [Rept. B.
A., 1869-307] |
| 1910 - Airship seen and heard, Chattanooga, TN (also seen
on previous and next days) - p510 [New York Tribune,
Jan 15] |
| Jan 14 |
1860 - Fall of irregular-shaped pieces of solid ice of different
dimensions, up to the size of half a brick, in a thunderstorm,
upon Capt. Blakiston's vessel - p186 [London Roy. Soc. Proc.,
10-468] |
| 1862 - Fall of black rain, Slains, Scotland - p29 [Rev. James
Rust. Scottish Showers] |
| 1910 - "Mysterious white aircraft" seen and heard
about noon, Chattanooga, TN (also seen on previous two days)
- p510 [New York Tribune, Jan 15] |
| Jan 15 |
1869 - Something frightened flocks of sheep (see Jan 9, 13,
1869), Swaffham, Norfolk - p438 [London Standard] |
| 1877 - Fall of snakes after localized ("in a space of
two blocks") violent rainstorm, Memphis, TN - p93 [Monthly
Weather Review] |
| 1902 - Fall of a meteor near Crater Mountain, AZ - p502 [Amer.
Jour. Sci., 4-21-353] |
| Jan 16 |
1898 - Sighting of something like a cloud that dimmed and
blotted out stars in the constellation of Perseus (sighted again
on Jan 24) - p380 [Monthly Notices, 58-334] |
| Jan 17 |
1857 - Fall of cinders in showery weather, farm near Ottowa,
IL - p76 [Amer. Jour. Sci., 2-24-449] |
| 1913 - Object "larger than the Willows airship"
seen in the sky about 5:00 p.m., leaving a trail of dense smoke,
Cardiff, Wales - p513 [London Times, Jan 21] |
| Jan 18 |
1798 - Dark body of apparent size of Mercury seen crossing
the sun - p202 [Monthly Notices of the R. A. S., 20-100] |
| 1835 - Fall of small friable vesicular masses, from pea-size
to walnut-size, Lobau - p70 [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1860-85] |
| 1913 - Something "that was lighted or that carried lights"
seen moving rapidly in the sky again, Cardiff, Wales; later
reports said it carried a brilliant light that had been seen
in Liverpool; list in the Standard of cities where the object
was seen - p513 [London Times, Jan 21, Jan 28, London
Standard, Jan 31] |
| Jan 20 |
1850 - Fall of caterpillar larvae after a snowstorm, Warsaw
- p97 [All the Year Round, 8-253] |
| 1860 - Sound "resembling discharge of a gun high in the
air" heard, near Reading, Berkshire, England - p408 [London
Times, Jan 24] |
| 1891 - luminous object or meteor in the sky, fall of stones
from the sky and earthquake, Italy - p244 [L'Astronomie,
1891-154] |
| 1911 - Fall of black rain, Switzerland - p28 [Nature,
85-451] |
| Jan 22 |
1882 - "Obscuration" at 10:30 am, so that person
on opposite side of street could be heard but not seen; not
a fog, London - p234 [Nature, 25-289] |
| 1898 - Sighting of an unknown body between Venus and Mars
during a total eclipse of the sun, Viziadrug, India - p489 [Jour.
Leeds Astro. Soc., 1906-23] |
1904 - F4 tornado leveled the northern part of the town of Moundville
in Alabama a little after midnight, killing 36 people. The tornado
reportedly glowed with a phosphorescent glow. [source: The Weather
Notebook; not listed in Fort] |
| 1911 - Fall of very friable (50% of its soluble in water)
carbonaceous substance, Rajpunta, India - p77 [Records Geol.
Survey of India, 44-pt 1-41] |
| Jan 23 |
1880 - Something like a luminous cable or a shining wall seen
on the moon in Aristarchus - p443 [L'Astro., 1885-215] |
| Jan 24 |
1849 - Fall of insects or black larvae, Lithuania - p97 [Trans.
Ent. Soc. Of London, 1871-183; Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,
1849-72] |
| 1891 - Fall of saucer-sized snowflakes, Nashville, TN - p19 |
| 1898 - Sighting of something like a cloud that dimmed and
blotted out stars in the constellation of Perseus (first sighted
on Jan 16) - p380 [Monthly Notices, 58-334] |
| 1913 - Further reports of brilliant lights in the sky, Cardiff,
Wales - p513 [Cardiff Evening Express, Jan 25] |
| Jan 25 |
1825 - Fall of little symmetric objects of metal, Orenburg,
Russia (second fall of these objects; 1st in Sept 1824] - p178
[Quar. Jour. Roy. Inst., 1828-1-447] |
| 1894 - Brilliant light seen in the sky, explosion heard, quake
felt, Llanthomas and Clifford; half hour later, similar occurrence,
with illumination so brilliant that for half a minute everything
was almost as visible as by daylight, near Hereford and Worcester,
Stokesay Vicarage, Shropshire - p476 [Symons' Met. Mag.,
29-8, Nature, 49-325] |
| 1913 - Yet more reports of lights in the sky: "...this
evening, the lights grow bolder. Streets and houses in the locality
of Totterdown were suddenly illuminated by a brilliant, piercing
light, which, sweeping upward, gave many spectators a fine view
of the hills beyond", Cardiff, Wales - p513 [Cardiff
Evening Express, Jan 25] |
| Jan 27 |
1912 - Sighting of "an intensely black object" on
the moon, estimated to be 250 miles long and 50 miles wide,
resembling "a crow poised, as near as anything" -
p211 [Popular Astronomy, 20-398] |
| Jan 29 |
1860 - Body of apparent size of Mercury seen crossing the
sun - p201 [Nature, 14-505] |
| 1910 - Luminous object, thought to be Winnecke's comet, seen
near Venus, Manila Observatory - p510 [New York Tribune] |
| Jan 30 |
1847 - Fall of larvae and snow, the Eifel - p97 [Trans.
Ent. Soc. Of London, 1871-183] |
| 1868 - Fall of fist-sized mass of burning sulphur, Pultusk,
Poland - p68 [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1874-272] |
| 1869 - Fall of larvae in a snowstorm, Upper Savoy, France
- p97 [Flammarion. The Atmosphere, p414; La Science
Pour Tous, 14-183] |
| Jan 31 |
1686 - Fall of substance like charred paper, Norway &
other parts of northern Europe - p57 [Kirkwood. Meteoric
Astronomy, p66] |
| 1890 - Fall of "incalculable numbers" of larvae,
some black, some yellow, in a "great tempest", Switzerland
- p97 [L'Astronomie, 1890-313] |
| 1915 - A "symbolic-looking formation," six or seven
white spots arranged like the Greek letter Gamma, seen on the
moon, in Littrow - p519 [Eng. Mec., 101-47] |
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