Mysterious Fires and Lights

by Vincent Gaddis

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Status

Available

Call number

001.9

Genres

General Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Collection

Anomaly Archives

Publication

Dell Pub Co

Description

In "Mysterious Fires and Lights," veteran paranormal researcher Vincent Gaddis brings you:-The evidence for UFOs, with the latest testimony of Air Force specialists and lay observers.-The weird antics of ball lightning.-Human beings who have become human torches.-Electronic whirlpools.-Strange holocausts that have destroyed entire cities and cultures.-The mysterious "foo fighters" reported by airplane pilots.-Fires that burn but do not consume.-Bizarre cases of houses that have actually destroyed themselves.Never before has such a carefully researched book brought together so vast an array of startling occurrences. Dramatic new theories are presented, which may produce the vital key in breaking through the knowledge barrier separating us from a complete understanding of the plastic nature of reality.… (more)

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LibraryThing member melannen

A grand old-fashioned cabinet of curiosities, in the best Fortean tradition, full of odd facts and obscure anecdotes and unexamined weirdnesses. This book includes everything that could possibly be covered under the categories of "Mysterious Fires and Lights", from firewalking to foo fighters, from

well-known cases to obscure small-town newspaper reports. The section on recurring house fires is particularly interesting given the recent well-publicized case of Canneto di Coronia. And my only objection is that he saved spontaneous human combustion, the one thing that always gives me nightmares, for last.

It's meticulously cited, but unfortunately a great many of the citations are from places like True magazine and the columns of Frank Edwards, so you have to judge the veracity on your own. And while the sections that tell the stories of the mysterious events are always fascinating, when it comes time to speculate on what they are, he fails at science. Fails hard, even making allowances for being thirty years out of date. So read for the strange events, leave the theorizing to someone else.

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LibraryThing member BruceCoulson

A follow-up to Invisible Horizons, with the same type of Fortean events being detailed. Like many sequels, not quite as good; lacks the focus of the first book.

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