Subject: Milk Colored Rain In Reno. May 6. 2008.
Here is a re****t on some milk colored rain that
fell in Reno, NV.
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Subject: Raining milk in Reno? What is this stuff?
Alrighty!!! All you super (souper) sleuths out
there. We have a real mystery on our hands in Reno,
NV.
This is from a WGEN reader in the Reno area - this
is something new to me so I am tossing it out to the
WGEN list and beyond. If anyone has any 'realistic'
thoughts on what this might be - let me know.
Area 51? Art Bell? or this government doing more
experiments on targeted areas?
Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
net
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Jackie,
Another weird thing .. It rained last night, leaving
a milky white residue on everything. No coverage in
media. I did a web search and the only thing I found
was a reference to it happening in New Mexico in
January. I couldn't get in their archives to get the
whole article or I'd give you the link. Have you heard
from others having this happen?
Randi
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Rainy Riddle Milky-White Showers Shake Up Silver City
Area
By Rene Romo
Albuquerque Journal Southern Bureau
LAS CRUCES
You've heard of the Milky Way. Now there's the milky
rain.
Scientists and others are trying to get to the bottom
of a meteorological mystery in southwestern New Mexico:
What caused the milky-white rain that fell last week
over a large swath of Grant County, from Silver City to
the Gila Cliff Dwellings?
"I don't know what it was, but it left a milky, white
residue on all the vehicles in town," said Lt. Eddie
Ortiz, 48, of the Grant County Sheriff's Department,
talking about the unusual Jan. 7 rainstorm.
"It was like someone spilled milk on your wind****eld
and it dried up," Ortiz said. "It was very weird, very
strange. I've lived here all my life, and I've never
seen anything like it."
The storm left the few carwashes in Silver City busy
for days as residents tried to remove the white residue
the storm left behind.
Efforts to analyze the mysterious rain began quickly.
Among those collecting samples were Gila resident
Russel Dobkins, the Gila Resources Information Project,
or GRIP, a Silver City-based environmental group and
the state Environment Department.
Rain samples were sent last week to laboratories at
the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in
Socorro and the University of Texas at El Paso. A New
Mexico State University professor was also enlisted to
examine weather patterns the day the white rain fell.
"This was an unusual event, and we are trying to
determine what caused it," said Environment Department
spokeswoman Marissa Stone.
Based on his own research, Dobkins, a biochemistry
student at Western New Mexico University, said the
white rain fell over a 200-square-mile area from the
Arizona border to the Mimbres Valley.
The rain apparently caused no permanent damage to
cars or other property, according to the sheriff's
department, and there have been no confirmed re****ts of
health problems resulting from the event.
But Allyson Siwik, a GRIP executive director, said
local residents want to know what turned the rain a
milky white in order to put any concerns to rest.
"There's definitely a buzz around town," Siwik said.
"We hope to figure out what it is and turn the
speculation into something based on science."
Paul Maynes, manager at the Silver City Auto Spa,
said he had heard speculation that dust from a
volcanic eruption in South America mixed with rain to
create the white appearance.
But Richard Aster, a seismologist and geophysicist at
New Mexico Tech, shot that theory down Tuesday.
"There is absolutely no credence to that," Aster
said. "There haven't been any large global events that
would have sent anything our way."
Thomas Gill, an associate professor of geological
sciences at UTEP, who is investigating the white rain
event, said he suspects that a dust storm or storms
that blew northeast into Grant County from the state's
Bootheel and southeastern Arizona were a "major
contributor to this phenomenon."
Gill said that chemical analyses could link the white
rain's content to dusty playas -- large dry lake beds
in the Bootheel area.
If that is the explanation, Gill said, it does not
diminish how unusual it was for rain to have formed
milky puddles in Silver City and the surrounding areas.
"I haven't really heard of milky rain before," Gill
said. "I've heard of dusty rain or muddy rain, but it's
usually not a milky color."
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Silver City's White Rain? Dust, Maybe
By Rene Romo
Albuquerque Journal; Journal Southern Bureau
LAS CRUCES A N-SA photograph taken from space might
be a key to unlocking the meteorological mystery of
Silver City's milky rain.
The image taken by a NA-A satellite on Jan. 7 -- the
same day the mysterious rain doused much of Grant
County -- shows a whitish plume of material flowing
under the cloud layer over a large dry lake bed south
of Willcox, Ariz., according to Joel Gilbert of the
University of Texas at El Paso.
The lakebed, known as the Willcox playa, covers 50 to
60 square miles and is about 120 miles southwest of
Silver City. A high-wind advisory was in effect in the
Willcox area on Jan. 7, and dust was blowing across the
area, according to the Arizona Department of Public
Safety.
"It looks like there's a plume of dust coming off the
Willcox playa, and the Willcox playa has been a
significant source of dust in the past," said Gilbert,
an environmental science coordinator who is part of a
group of scientists studying the milky rain.
"The plume looks like it was blowing in the right
direction to Silver City.
It's possible the dust seeded the rain clouds and
caused the precipitation in the first place."
Finding the cause of the white rainfall appears weeks
away, but the NA=A image "is the best evidence we have
so far," said Gilbert.
Cars and homes across Grant County were drenched with
the milky white rain that locals said they had never
seen before.
Concerns about what the strange rain contained
prompted some Silver City area residents to launch an
investigation that has drawn in researchers from the
New Mexico Tech, New Mexico State University, UTEP and
the state Environment Department.
Gilbert said his analysis of six rain samples
gathered from Silver City showed high levels of
calcium, which is "not too unusual" given the geology
of the Southwest.
Additional tests still must still be conducted.
Gilbert said he and other researchers are awaiting the
arrival of samples of residue left behind by the milky
rain for testing.
New Mexico Environment Department spokeswoman
Marissa Stone said that it will be perhaps two weeks
before material collected in air quality monitoring
devices is analyzed.
In addition, Gilbert said, getting soil samples from
the Willcox playa will be an im****tant part of the
effort to establish a link between the lakebed and the
rain that fell on Silver City.
The investigation, Gilbert noted, could be
compromised by one other factor -- the quality of the
rain samples collected from Silver City.
Some of the rain samples were collected from rooftop
run-off, others from rain gauges. Because the rainfall
probably mixed with other material while it was
collected, the samples might not accurately reflect
what fell from the sky that day.
"The data we are getting is still going to be
questionable," Gilbert said.
(JW As one of my friends commented on this
situation, "It looks like one of the things that
Charles Fort would have investigated, if he was still
alive.")
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Fort. May 9, 2008.
I have found that a lot of my friend who are open
minded have read about Charles Fort. He often wrote
about strange things falling from the clear sky such
as fish, frogs and periwinkles. I enjoyed his
writings. He would often tell of something that
happened but wouldn't explain what made them happen.
He would let you come to your own conclusion.
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CHARLES FORT: A Chronology
Born, Albany, NY., on 6th August.
- Aged 15. Wrote to Jules Verne for his autograph.
1892
- Aged 18. Left home to escape tyrannical father.
Worked on an NY newspaper.
1893
- Aged 19. Made editor of a Long Island paper. Quit
to hitchhike around the world.
- Aged 22. After travelling through Southern USA,
Scotland, Wales and London, he reached Capetown, South
Africa.
Contracted malaria. Returned to NY. Married Anna.
- Aged 23. Lived in Bronx in dire poverty. Survived
by small jobs, journalism, and broke chairs for
firewood. Wrote 10 novels and collected 25,000 notes,
but burned them.
1900
- Aged 26. Completed autobiography 'Many Parts'.
1905
- Aged 31. Fort, trying to sell his work, meets
magazine editor Theodore Dreiser. They become firm
friends.
1906
- Aged 32. Virtually a hermit, between home and NY
Public Library. Began 'grand tour' of scientific
journals.
- Aged 41. Writes 'X' and ' Y '. Dreiser encourages
him to begin.
1916
- Aged 42. Fort's luck turned. A modest inheritance
from an uncle allows him to concentrate on writing.
1919
- Aged 45. Dreiser gets his publisher to issue
1920
- Aged 46. In a depression, he burns his 40,000
notes. He and Anna stay in London for six months, then
back to NY.
- Aged 47. Move back to London in December. Stay for
eight happy and productive years. Works daily in
British Museum Library. NL published. Speaks at
Speaker's Corner for amusement.
1924
- Aged 54. First correspondence with Thayer.
- Aged 55. Back in Bronx from London.
1931
- Aged 57. published. Thayer and Sussman form Fortean
Society. Beginnings of illness.
1932
- Aged 58. Delivers Admitted to Royal Hospital, NY,
where he dies on 3rd May of "unspecified weakness",
probably leukemia.
1937
- Anna dies. They had no children.
CHARLES FORT: The Hermit of the Bronx
Charles Fort was born into a fairly prosperous family
of Dutch immigrants who owned a wholesale grocery
business in Albany, New York State. He was the eldest
of three brothers - the others being Clarence, and the
youngest, Raymond. Their mother died within a few years
of Clarence's birth and Fort's father married again
during Fort's teens.
Beatings by his tyrannical father helped set him
against authority and dogma, as he declares in the
remaining fragments of his autobiography Many Parts.
Escaping home at the age of 18, he worked as a re****ter
in New York City before hitch-hiking through Europe
"to put some capital into the bank of experience." In
1896, aged 22, he contracted malaria in South Africa
and returned to New York where he married Anna Filan
(or Filing), an English servant girl in his father's
house.
Fort and Anna settled down to a life of dire poverty
in a succession of tiny apartments in the Bronx and
Hell's Kitchen quarters of New York City. He took odd
jobs between infrequent sales of his stories (most of
which are now lost) to newspapers and magazines. At
times things were so bad the Forts had to use their
furniture for firewood. Where Anna "knew all her
neighbours' affairs", Fort himself had very few
friends. He virtually lived as a hermit, chasing
references at the library until it closed and writing
up his notes at home, pottering over them into the
night. Were it not for Anna's insistence that he
accompany her to the movies most evenings and the
visits from Thayer and Dreiser, he had no social life.
His books are full of little asides that shed light
on his daily life; for example, in (Ch.18) he says has
cut down on smoking and almost given up drinking his
home brewed beer because it went flat so quickly. His
concentration was quickly soured by doubt, which was
rare but drastic when it occurred, plunging him into a
depression. Twice, he burned his collection of tens of
thousands of notes because "They were not what I
wanted." Undaunted, he would begin his exhaustive
reading and note-taking all over again, but in a new
direction.
In 1921, the Forts set sail for London, where he and
Anna lived close to the British Museum (at 39A,
Marchmont Street). For eight years, he undertook his
'grand tour' of the Museum's holdings several more
times, at each pass widening his horizons to new
subjects and new correlations.
He began to think that space travel was inevitable,
sending letters to the New York Times on the subject
and even speaking on it at Hyde Park Corner.
Fort returned to New York in 1929, striking up an
acquaintance with Tiffany Thayer, with whom he had
corresponded. Thayer, a young and ebullient novelist,
often visited the Forts, talking into the night,
lubricated by home-brewed beer, surrounded by Fort's
collection of mounted specimens of giant spiders and
objects said to have fallen from the sky and the great
wall of shoe boxes where Fort's notes roosted.
Fort grew progressively blind. On 3rd of May 1932, he
was admitted to hospital suffering from "unspecified
weakness". He died within a few hours, apparently of
leukemia. He took notes almost to the end - the last
one said simply: "Difficulty shaving. Gaunt places in
face." After Fort died, Anna lost her interest in
living and survived him by only five years.
Several times in his books, Fort refers to
poltergeist-like events in their apartments in the
Bronx and in London; inexplicable noises would be heard
and pictures fell off walls. Dreiser once interviewed
Anna after Fort's death and asked her if she had had
any further strange experiences. She told him of
rapping sounds and voices and then said ...
"One afternoon [..] his aunt came over and she
annoyed me terrible about this money. She said I had no
right to it. I went to bed crying and in the night I
thought he was sitting on a little bench or couch [..]
He said: 'Hello, Momma,' and I was never so glad to see
anybody in my whole life."
Charles Fort is buried in the family plot in a
cemetary in Albany, New York.
DESCRIPTIONS OF FORT
We have very few descriptions of Fort. He was a
complex and private man, dedicated to his work. His
autobiographical fragments, Many Parts, reveal a
turbulent childhood through which he stumbled and
brawled, resisting parental authority and any other
imposition he thought unjust or foolish. Yet the key
elements of his later brilliance are all in place: his
powers of observation, his creative imagination, his
facility with words and descriptions, and even his
compassion for people who did not have his own inner
strength.
Fort was not averse to making his size work to his
advantage. Mr X found a letter by Raymond, Fort's
youngest brother, written sometime after 1937. Raymond
recalls Fort telling him of having to fight a duel with
a Frenchman in South Africa. As he knew nothing of
swords or pistols, Fort chose to fight with his fists.
Raymond wrote: "The Frenchman was pretty well battered
up as my brother knew how to use his fists and
possessed unbounded courage."
Part 1.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Fort. Part 2 of 2. May 9, 2008.
In part one of this article I said Charles Fort
re****ted in raining fish, frogs and periwinkles form
the clear sky. I looked up the definition of a
perwinkle and found three things.
1. It is a grown cover plant called Vinca. Which
has blue flowers.
2. It is a color similar to blue.
3. It is a snail or slug that is harvested and eaten
by some of the people in England other countries.
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For Tiffany Thayer, Fort was a jolly giant with "the
most magnificent sense of humor that ever made life
bearable for a thinking man." In his exuberant
introduction to BOOKS1 (1941), Thayer describes Fort as
nearly six feet tall, fair, and built like a walrus
with a matching moustache and spectacles as thick as
bottle-ends. "He was an anachronism in modern dress,"
thought Thayer who mentally placed Fort in the era of
swashbuckling Musketeers.
However, Thayer's Fort, "roaring at his subject" and
"packing a belly laugh in either typewriter hand", is
at odds with the "shy and introverted" hermit seen by
others, including Theodore Dreiser, Fort's oldest
friend.
They first met in 1905 when Dreiser was editor of
Smith's Magazine, and Fort was selling some of his
stories. Dreiser, an older and more established writer,
likened him to Oliver Hardy - "that unctuous,
ingratiating mood, those unwieldy, deferential,
twittery mannerisms were Fort's."
One of Dreiser's friends, Marguerite Tjader,
remembered Fort as "a low-set man, dark with a greasy
complexion, [with] scant black hair brushed over a
round dynamic head. His hands were fat and protruded
from filthy ****rt-cuffs under a dark nondescript suit.
In spite of all this, there was something fascinating
about him; he seemed utterly alive, carefree and
all-knowing as he talked."
Fort's biographer, Damon Knight, says Fort was "an
utterly peaceable and sedentary man [who] lived quietly
with his wife." By all accounts, Fort and Anna were an
odd couple, but they were devoted to each other.
According to Thayer, Anna lamented her husband's
unsocial bent, knew all her neighbours' affairs, and
organized their daily life with "skill and
imagination", in effect freeing Fort to follow his
star. Thayer said she never read Fort's books, nor
"ever dreamed what went on in her husband's head".
Aaron Sussman, then a young advertising executive who
became fast friend to the elderly Fort in his last
years, told Damon Knight of his visits to the Forts'
apartment in 1930. He recalled Anna as a "bustling
little hostess" who had "a lovely way of speaking to
you [making you] feel she was honored and grateful that
you had taken the time and trouble to come and see
her." To Sussman, Fort was "one of the most innocent
innocents I have ever met [..] a gentle man,
inveterately polite, very tender toward Anna." With his
deep voice and booming laugh, he gave Sussman the
impression of a great mind that had withdrawn from the
world, and yet "He always made you feel wanted; he was
delighted to see you, no matter how busy he was."
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES ABOUT FORT
There are only two substantial sources of
biographical information about Fort.
Fort's only auto biographical writing - a fragmented
manuscript called 'Many Parts' - concerns his childhood
in Albany up to his late teens. This was rescued by Mr
X, and published in Fortean Studies, Vol.1, 1994.
Damon Knight's biography Charles Fort: Prophet of the
Unexplained (Doubleday, 1970), which relies on 'Many
Parts' for Fort's early life.
Almost as interesting, though tangential, is Tiffany
Thayer's introduction to BOOKS1, which includes
fascinating asides about Fort.
There may be many other reminiscences of Fort buried
away in the literary archives of prominent Americans
and which have yet to be discovered by some diligent
researcher - perhaps you?. For example, see...
Mike Dash, 'Charles Fort and a Man Named Dreiser,'
Fortean Times (51:40-48).
Mr X, 'The Charles Fort - John Reid Correspondence',
INFO Journal (Autumn 1994).
Most of the facts recounted in these pages come from
these sources.
Jump to annotated bibliography of
http://www.forteana.org/html/fortsbooks.html
Charles Fort's writings.
http://www.forteana.org/
The Charles Fort Institute
Part 2 of 2.
John Winston johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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