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He saw a similar object on October 14, 1849, and there is still another sighting by him on February 18, 1850. On March 12, 1849, Lowe and Sidebotham watched for half an hour a small round black spot traversing the sun. On June 11, 1855, Ritter ad Schmidt, near Naples, watched, just before sunset and with the naked eye, a black body crossing the sun's disc. That the color, here, is always black is of not concern. That is the only color silhouettes against the sun could have, unless they had intrinsic brilliance per unit of apparent area much in excess of that of the sun itself. On September 12, 1857, at Wandsbeck, Ohrt saw a remarkable round spot near the north border or edge of the sun, at 1:00 PM, It had disappeared when the sun was next seen on the 14th. This thing was a little bit smaller in appearance than Mercury. On August 1, 1858, a circular, opaque body moving from east to west was watched for about one and a half hours in late afternoon by Wilson at Manchester, England. In 1859, Dr. Lescarbault, an amateur astronomer of Oregeres, France, announced that he had observed the passage of a body of planetary size across the sun on March 26. Dr. Lescarbault wrote to Le Verrier, knowing of Le Verrier's interest in intra-Mercurial planets. The cloak and dagger investigation and third degree imposed on the good doctor by Le Verrier is quite an incident. Le Verrier was convinced that this was a transit of "Vulcan," and predicted another transit for March 22, 1877. At that time astronomers of the whole civilized world were alerted, and an intense and eager watch was kept on that date, in order to confirm the existence of "Vulcan," and to verify Le Verrier's orbital computations. Nobody saw anything on March 22, 1877; and the whole idea g an intra-Mercurial planet has been pretty much broken down...but: what was it that these many good people really did see? Were these reputable astronomers deluded, mendacious or irresponsible? They were all highly intelligent people, educated and trained in the fields of astronomy and mathematics. Either you must say yes to one or more to the above charges, or these alert observers saw something round and solid —and it wasn't an intra-Mercurial planet. They will NEVER ALERT the WHOLE WORLD AGAIN, It would interfere with the petty squabbles between Nations & cause a common-bond of the Brother-hood of Man sort of Kinship to be realized. These Humans Love to implose their will, to Make War, too Well. Note how uniform the reports are as to the apparent size of these things: usually about the apparent size of Mercury; sometimes a bit larger, occasionally somewhat smaller. That implies either that the distances are usually about the same, or that these objects vary greatly in size. It seems a little more likely that both sizes and distances vary, but as or now this is debatable. We do have Pastorff's observation, and a few others, of large and small bodies seen simultaneously. It is our considered opinion that most of these things reported by astronomers as seen crossing the sun are of about the same size, and that they maintain a distance of about 150,000 to 175,000 miles from the earth for a considerable portion of the time. On March 20, 1862, a sharply defined round spot was watched in its progress across the sun for about twenty minutes by Lummis, of Manchester, and a friend. It was about one-half the apparent diameter of Mercury. On February 12, 1864, a spot 8" seconds of arc in diameter crossed the sun at a rate between that of Mercury and Venus. On May 6, 1865, a round black spot moving across the sun was watched by 141