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- ↑ "Charles Fort: The original Art Bell". DangerousMinds. 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Personalities in Science Fiction: Charles Fort: His Objects Fade in the West", by Robert Barbour Johnson (If, July 1952).