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“Damned Data” includes strange phenomena and experiences which included reports of falls of strange things from the sky, strange things seen in the heavens, and strange disappearances. Fort was not just critical of the efforts of science to explain our reality, he was downright contemptuous of it. He would gleefully and fiendishly mock astronomers, meteorologists, and other scientists and their efforts to oa Y totais of it. He contemptuous pompous attempts to deny what they could neither understand nor explain. His notes were published as The Book of the Damned. Fort once remarked that the only conclusions he could draw from all 173 High Strangeness — Part Two either deny or explain away anomalous occurrences. He derided their his research, was that Earth was “owned” by some beings who we could neither see nor comprehend. He said: I think we’re property.