From our review* of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).

*In the tradition of the great Charles Fort (even to coverage of frogs raining from the sky), the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977) collects eye-witness accounts of highly unusual natural phenomena beyond the reach of scientific explanation.  Square lunar haloes, multiple moons, kaleidoscopic suns, tornadoes with luminous clouds within their funnels, rocket lightning, massive pillars of light on the horizon, auroral "meteors," clouds radiating streams of lights like fireworks, mountain peaks that emit lightning and toss electric globes to one another, space fireflies, will-o'-the-wisps and ghost lights, phosphorescent wheels at sea, six rainbows at once, visible sound waves, sideways mirages, ghost echoes on the earth-moon path, conical snowflakes, slow-falling hail, black snow, fatal fogs, cloud arches, forked waterspouts and clouds connected by horizontal waterspouts, steam devils, "fog guns" or mistpouffers, musical thunder and musical snowflakes, non-lunar tides, rains of sand eels and turtles and toads and spider webs, and manna and brimstone from heaven.  The lavishly illustrated handbook illuminates a world so vastly bizarre that one could easily be convinced it addressed a distant planet and not our own.