Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this intelligently written and rational book (a rare phenomenon in UFO literature), Klass describes the scientific detective work that led him to decide on the probable cause of most previously unexplained UFO sightings. The enigmatic, incandescent objects, he concludes, are really a family of atmospheric phenomena that include not only coronas but ball lightning, St. Elmo's fire and "Foo Fighters," the same luminous globs that tailed World War II military aircraft. Klass seems resigned to the fact that it will take more than his well-documented evidence to shake dedicated saucer believers out of their state of UFOria...
...Center, Sorokin said: "Since governments, big foundations, and better brains seem to be absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
...have been extensively if carelessly investigated by photographic experts who failed to detect them in fraud. It is only fair to note that these early spirit photographers seem to have operated largely by their own lights, without anything resembling scientific control, and that even confirmed believers in psychic phenomena doubted their results, suggesting an ample variety of ways that a middling to clever fraud could have hoodwinked an observer in the many phases of picture-taking and development that made up 19th century photography. Many of the pictures themselves appear to a McLuhanized eye to be patent fakes, double exposures...
Nowhere is this more apparent than at Expo 67, which is plugged almost everywhere into an array of far-out, ear-frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
...England, apartment, the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike found his clocks stopped at 8:19-the hour corresponding to the time when his son, James Jr., had shot himself to death in New York City two weeks earlier. The strange coincidence, according to Pike, was accompanied by other unexplained phenomena: his books were mysteriously moved from place to place; clusters of safety pins appeared "where they had not been before, all open to the position that the hands of a clock...