I went to that website to see the references and footnotes that they used for the article. I couldn’t find any references. I see names in the article, I see places, dates and so on, but I see nothing that gives the connection to something “real” outside of someone simply writing this up as a piece of fiction... LOL...
I think this is what we are being subjected to here... just someone’s imagination in this article.
There are a lot of other strange stories around that we can get people, places, dates and other details for those stories and the references for it and find out how it was reported and/or investigated. So, just because it’s “strange” is not the problem. The problem is that there is no way to go back and check and verify each one of those details that the writer of the article is including in his writing....
And thus, that’s where people go wrong in reading these things. You never accept these kinds of things without the corresponding sources and other information about each one of these occurrences.
That’s how a reader is able to ascertain the validity and quality of the source...
The footnotes are in the magazine itself. The Fortean Times is a fun read from the UK.
Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. It was founded by Bob Rickard in 1973 to continue the work of Charles Fort (1874-1932).
Born of Dutch stock in Albany, New York, Fort spent many years researching scientific literature in the New York Public Library and the British Museum Library. He marshalled his evidence and set forth his philosophy in The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932).
He was sceptical of scientific explanations, observing how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and that inconvenient data was ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away. He criticised modern science for its reductionism, its attempts to define, divide and separate. Fort’s dictum “One measures a circle beginning anywhere” expresses instead his philosophy of Continuity in which everything is in an intermediate and transient state between extremes.
He had ideas of the Universe-as-organism and the transient nature of all apparent phenomena, coined the term ‘teleportation’, and was perhaps the first to speculate that mysterious lights seen in the sky might be craft from outer space. However, he cut at the very roots of credulity: “I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”