Early in 1888, a colorful green meteor appeared in the night sky
over Middleburg, Florida, 20 miles southwest of Jacksonville. Several
witnesses watched it hit the ground in an old cultivated farm field
south of town. Approaching the smoking crater, they found what
looked like "a 200-pound block of limestone."
A few months later, the mystery meteorite was exhibited at the
Sub-Tropical Exposition and then went on display in Jacksonville.
The stone was examined by a Dr. Hahn, who claimed to have found
"miniature fossils" of corals, crinoids and shells, "all of them of
microscopic size" in the rock. Dr. Hahn photographed these
microfossils of extraterrestrial life, wrote an article about them, and
published both in Popular Science 20-83. News of the Middleburg
meteor strike was reported in Science 11-118.
Dr. Hahn was roundly condemned by the scientific community
for such heresy. In Knowledge 1-258, Dr. Lawrence Smith wrote,
"Dr. Hahn is a kind of half-insane man, whose imagination has run
away with him." Dr. Smith, who never examined the actual meteor,
advanced the opinion that the fossils were actually "crystals of
enstatite."
The Middleburg, Florida meteor and Dr. Hahn were rescued from
oblivion by that indefatigable "foe of science," Charles Fort, who
wrote about them in his 1919 work BOOK OF THE DAMNED.
(See THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT, Dover Press 1974,
pages 79 and 80.)
"Science," Fort once said, "is a mutilated octopus. If left to
itself, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts."
(Editorial Comment: Will Dr. Hahn receive an apology from Organized
Crime...oops, I mean, Science now that, a century later, his pioneer
work has been vindicated? Don't hold your breath! Dr. Hahn will
receive his apology the day after the FBI apologizes to their so-called
"bombing suspect" Richard Jewell. Hey, who needs admissible
evidence when the Bureau has its "profiles?")
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