[Charles] Fort’s work  enacts rather than aestheticize the surrealist love of unfiltered data, what Fort calles “the data of the damned.” He has a whole book dedicated to things reported to have fallen from the sky, like blood, fish, charred remains, frogs, and thunderazes. These prodigies he explains through the agency of a Super Sargasso Sea, a major topic of interest for his proposed science of “Super-Geography.” This etherial sea is a sidereal flea market where floats

Derelicts, rubbish, old cargoes from inter-planetary wrecks; things cast out into what is called space by convulsions of other planets, things from the themes of the Alexanders, Caesars and Napoleons of Mars and Jupiter and Neptune; things raised by this earth’s cyclones: horses and barns and elephants and flies and dodoes, moas, and pterodactyls; leaves from modern trees and leaves of the carboniferous era–all, however, tending to disintegrate into homogeneous-looking muds or detritus, red or black or yellow — treasure-troves for the palaeontologists and for the the archeologists — accumulations of centuries — cyclones of Egypt, Greece, and Assyria — fishes dried and hard, there a short time: others there long enough to putrify —

[Miluteis, J. (2012) Failure, a Writer’s Life, Alresford: Zer0 Books, p. 13]