Book Excerpt: Commander J. Eliot Pringle’s USO Case Report

Source: waterufo.net

Text from the book, The Complete Books of Charles Fort:

“05-15-1879  

Report to the Admiralty by Capt. Evans, the Hydrographer of the British Navy:

That Commander J. E. Pringle, of H. M. S. Vulture, had reported that, at Lat. 26° 26' N., and Long. 53° 11’ E.--in the Persian Gulf--May 15, 1879, he had noticed luminous waves or pulsations in the water, moving at great speed (emphasis by waterufo.net). This time we have a definite datum upon origin somewhere below the surface. It is said that these waves of light passed under the Vulture. ‘On looking toward the east, the appearance was that of a revolving wheel with a center on that bearing, and whose spokes were illuminated (emphasis by waterufo.net), and, looking toward the west, a similar wheel appeared to be revolving, but in the opposite direction.’ Or finally as to submergence—‘These waves of light extended from the surface well under the water.’ It is Commander Pringle’s opinion that the shafts constituted one wheel, and that doubling was an illusion. He judges the shafts to have been about 25 feet broad, and the spaces about 100. Velocity about 84 miles an hour. Duration about 35 minutes.”

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Text by waterufo.net:

“This reference: The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 277, 
© 1974, from ‘The Book of the Damned,’ by Charles Fort, © 1919.

Original reference: Pringle, J. Eliot, ‘Report of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed at Sea,’ Nature, 20:291, 1879.”

The USO incident occurred near Bahrain.

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UFO News Article: “WHAT WAS IT? – A Man Descends from a Cloudless Sky.”

2 December 1879

(The South Kentuckian, Hopkinsville, Kentucky)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:
“In this sensational country, when startling events crowd one another thick and fast, what transpired in the presence of some unsophisticated country folk living in the eastern portion of this country a few days since, may not elicit more than a passing notice and, it may be, a sceptical sneer from the worldly reader. But knowing Abe Goodpaster, his wife and his aged mother to be honest, truthful reputable citizens, living a quiet, unpretending life and mixing little with the world, we think their story worthy of more than passing notice and therefore give it to our readers as told to us:

About a half an hour by sun on Friday evening, the 7th inst., Mrs. Goodpaster stepped from her house into the yard to hang out some clothes which she had been washing. The sky was a perfect azure blue and not a cloud was to be seen. Presently there appeared high up in the heavens an object of such unusual appearance that the attention of Mrs. Goodpaster was at once riveted. Slowly it descended to within twenty feet of the earth, seemingly about seventy-five yards distant and directly over a cleared field. Here it assumed the form of a man of majestic and commanding appearance. A series of graceful gesticulations with the hands were first gone through with and then the figure with bowed head assumed a devotional attitude. Somewhat recovered by this time from the wondering surprise which chained her to the spot, Mrs. Goodpaster rushed into the house and called her mother and several children into the yard all of whom saw distinctly that which we have described. The figure then mounted into the heavens and was soon lost from view.

Other persons in different parts of the neighbourhood saw an unnatural object in the sky the same evening, some of whom thought it was a balloon. We did not pretend to have a theory but are firmly convinced that Mrs. Goodpaster, her mother and children honestly believe they saw a man descend from the sky and then ascend again late Friday evening on the 7th of this month [most likely 7 November 1879]. They were so very loth to communicate that which they knew seemed so impossible that the news did not reach this place until a week after the occurrence.”

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UFO News Article: “A Miracle in Georgia”

14 August 1879

(The Intelligencer, Anderson, South Carolina)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“William Langley, a cotton planter, of Gwinnett County [Georgia], was standing in a field on his farm. Around him were several men, a woman and three children, all breaking the soil for cotton. The sky was clear and the air quiet, there being about both a hint of sultriness. The children had just stopped work and thrown themselves, tired as tired could be, on top of a pile of guano sacks, when a peculiar roaring was heard in the field. The sound bore some resemblance to that of an approaching train, but as no railroads were near, the workers looked at one another in amazement. In a moment they saw a small column not larger in circumference than a barrel skim rapidly along the ground. The wind column or spout appeared to be filled with dust, and in the centre contained what looked like a ball of fire. The mother rushed towards the children, who crouched low in fright, but before she could reach them the pile of guano bags, children and all, were scattered right and left. In its course, always eccentric, the column struck a stump fairly from butt to roots and tore it from the ground, the wood splitting into three pieces, and dropping twenty or thirty yards away. Mr. Langley was sucked in as the whirling thing bolted by and thrown into a ploughed gully some distance away. In the next instant the strange visitor had gone, passing up over the tops of trees. It was seen plainly by the ladies at the Langley House, appearing to them like the smoke that [rises] up in circular volumes from the smoke stack of a locomotive.”

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Wikipedia article: “Gwinnett County, Georgia”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwinnett_County,_Georgia

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UFO (USO) Article (Transcription): “Report of an Unusual Phenomenon at Sea”

(EliotsofPortEliot.com, UK)

EliotsofPortEliot.com presents Commander J. Eliot Pringle’s USO report.

J. Eliot Pringle was captain of the ship, HMS Vulture (Royal Navy).

The USO incident occurred in the Persian Gulf (near Bahrain) on 
15 May 1879, at 9:40 p.m.

http://www.eliotsofporteliot.com/transcriptions/misc/jep-phenomenon.html

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