The information on what we would today readily characterize with the familiar label of "UFO" was not so labeled in Fort's time. Visitors from another world were an even more radical concept in Fort's time than in our own and Fort's acceptance (and some would argue origination) of this explanation for many of the mysterious phenomena that he encountered in his years of research was many years ahead of his time. The reports that can (in my mind...and this website) be classified as "UFO" reports are very valuable in that they were collected long before our present "science-fiction" culture had taken hold of the western mind. By this I mean that it is far more difficult to dismiss these cases as simply being a result of people succumbing to the power of suggestion of the fiction media on the popular consciousness. Furthermore, with the understanding that reports identical to those made in our own time were being made all across the world by reliable witnesses long before Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting, more credence can be placed in our modern-day reports of UFO phenomena. This is basically the same principle employed by those who argue that UFO reports made by peoples of this world who are isolated from the modern world-culture are more difficult to dismiss than that of , say, a teenager in Arizona whose favorite television program is "The X-Files". Now, if that Arizona teen's report turns out to be identical to that of the more "reliable" rustic, and was made without any possibility of previous knowledge of the rustic's report, the teen's report would be given more credence by most researchers. In Fort's works it is possible to view all of the reports of phenomena we would classify as UFO phenomena as having been made by people whose testimony is as unquestionable as this mythical rustic's due to the fact that they had no exposure to our current world culture at the time of their sightings.

Due to the fact that reports of UFO phenomena most often tend to be rather sketchy, it is often quite difficult to classify them absolutely with regards to their observed characteristics. Therefore, if you are looking for a specific type of sighting and you don't find anything applicable listed where you think it should be, please look through some of the other categories and you may find what you seek. I have tried to be as straightforward in my classifications as I can be, but in some cases it seemed the decision of where to place some reports was a rather arbitrary one because they fit under more than one classification. Be especially aware that "Luminous Objects" were placed under the "Objects In The Sky" category rather than the "Lights In The Sky" category because they were apparently percieved by the experiencers as being solid objects that glowed rather than simply lights (I told you that some of the classifications were sort of arbitrary).Through the use of additional hyper-links in the text, I hope to have made navigation to the related information simpler and to have overcome some of the limitations of my classification system.