Editing Charles Fort (section)

===Fortean phenomena===

Examples of the odd phenomena in Fort's books include many occurrences of the sort variously referred to as [[occult]], [[supernatural]], and [[paranormal]]. Reported events include [[teleportation]] (a term Fort is generally credited with inventing),<ref>"Mostly in this book I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory force that I shall call Teleportation." in [http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/lo/lo02.htm Fort. C. ''Lo!''] at Sacred Texts.com. Retrieved January 4, 2009</ref><ref>"less well-known is the fact that Charles Fort coined the word in 1931" in Rickard, B. and Michell, J. ''Unexplained Phenomena: a Rough Guide special'' (Rough Guides, 2000 ({{ISBN|1-85828-589-5}}), p. 3)</ref> [[Raining animals|falls of frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials]],<ref name="ReadersDigest"/> [[spontaneous human combustion]],<ref name="ReadersDigest"/> [[ball lightning]]<ref name="ReadersDigest"/> (a term explicitly used by Fort), [[poltergeist]] events, [[List of unexplained sounds|unaccountable noises]] and explosions, [[Levitation (paranormal)|levitation]], [[unidentified flying object]]s, [[List of people who disappeared mysteriously|unexplained disappearances]], [[Unidentified submerged object|giant wheels of light in the oceans]], and animals found outside their normal ranges (see [[phantom cat]]). <!--Fort does not seem to have mentioned crop circles in his works, see http://www33.brinkster.com/cropcircles/askpoppy.html--> He offered many reports of [[out-of-place artifact]]s (OOPArts), strange items found in unlikely locations. He was also perhaps the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of [[alien abduction]], and was an early proponent of the [[extraterrestrial hypothesis]], specifically suggesting that strange lights or objects sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft.