{"collection":"Earth Mysteries","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_potp_potp12_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_potp_potp12_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_potp_potp12_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/earth/potp/potp12.htm","summary":"Herman Siemens--who was with Captain Hall on his last trip--writes about meteors on page 257 of Hall's book: \"We also saw numerous shooting stars, sometimes forming, as it were, a silver thread, from the point where they first appeared to that of disappearance; in a few instances I have seen small fireballs pushing out from them similar to those of a rocket.\"\nI have claimed, from the start, that meteors, or so-called shooting stars, are nothing but rocks thrown up from the earth by an exploding\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Phantom of the Poles: Chapter VIII. Meteors or Volcanic D...","tradition":"Earth Mysteries","translated_text":null,"word_count":836}