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AUFORA News Update
Tuesday, April 29th, 1997     http://www.aufora.org/
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1865 ANOMALOUS METEORITE
     from St. Louis Democrat, October 19, 1865

A Messenger from the Celestial Regions- A Stone Falls to the Ground with 
Characters Engraved Upon It

Mr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping 
at the Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement 
to us, and one, which if authenticated, will produce the greatest 
excitement in the scientific world.

Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September, he was 
engaged in trapping in the mountains, about seventy-five or one hundred 
miles above the great falls of the Upper Missouri, and in the 
neighborhood of what is known as Cadotte Pass. Just after sunset one 
evening he beheld a bright, luminous body in the heavens, which was 
moving with a great rapidity in an easterly direction. It was plainly 
visible for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into 
particles, resembling, as Mr. Lumley described it, the bursting of a 
skyrocket in the air. A few minutes later he heard a heavy explosion, 
which jarred the earth very perceptibly, and this was shortly after 
followed by a rumbling sound, like a tornado sweeping through the 
forest. A strong wind sprang up about the same time, but as suddenly 
subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a sulfurous 
character.

These incidents would have made but slight impression on the mind of Mr. 
Lumley, but for the fact that on the ensuing day he discovered, at a 
distance of about two miles from his camping place, that, as far as he 
could see in either direction, a path had been cut through the forest, 
several rods wide - giant trees uprooted or broken off near the ground - 
the tops of hills shaved off, and the earth plowed up in many places. 
Great and wide-spread havoc was every-where visible. Following up this 
track of desolation, he soon ascertained the cause of it in the shape of 
an immense stone that had been driven into the side of a mountain. 

But now comes the most remarkable part of the story. An examination of 
this stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it had been 
divided into compartments, and that, in various places, it was carved 
with curious hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr. Lumley also discovered 
fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark 
stains, as though caused by a liquid. He is confident that the 
hieroglyphics were the work of human hands, and that the stone itself, 
although but a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some 
purpose by animated beings.

Strange as this story appears, Mr. Lumley relates it with so much 
sincerity that we are forced to accept it as true. It was evident that 
the stone which he discovered was a fragment of the meteor which was 
visible in this section in September last. It will be remembered that it 
was seen in Leavenworth, in Galena, and in this city by Colonel 
Bonneville. At Leavenworth, it was seen to separate in particles or 
explode.


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