@polibius
Charles Fort was the precursor to Vallée. Fort speculated that humans were being influenced/prepped for something through strange anomalies. #ForteanPhenomena became a way of categorizing events & activities, such as #UFOs
You may find this of interest. 🙂 - https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/

@d4doome @sfphotogirl The idea slipped into #UFO speculation - #folklore - #mythos. #Sciencefiction #SpeculativeFiction ##ForteanPhenomena
* European aristocrat, spiritualist medium Countess Zoe-Wassilko-Serecki - posited that UFOs might actually be “creatures from the stratosphere.” She suspected they were specially adapted to live in such an extreme environment, & sustained themselves on forms of raw energy.*

No mention of #ConanDoyle in the article. 🤔 😄
https://theobservermagazine.substack.com/p/the-phantom-flyer-in-nope