the Mass Sightings: When Hundreds of People Saw Same Impossible Thing

You can call one witness a liar. You can call ten a mistake. What do you do with ten thousand?On one March night in 1997, thousands of people across Arizona - including the governor, a trained pilot - looked up and watched the same enormous, silent craft pass overhead. He mocked them on television. A decade later, he admitted he saw it too.In The Mass Sightings, the fourth of the Unseen Files, investigative writer Jonah Carlson confronts the events too large to be one person's mistake: - The Phoenix Lights - and the half of the case that has a real explanation, and the half that doesn't- Two hundred children and teachers who watched a structured craft in broad daylight - and were ordered to stay silent- The night a glowing object stalled car engines across a Texas town, one vehicle at a time- The two weekends radar over the U.S. Capitol tracked objects that the controllers swore were realThis is not a book that asks you to be impressed by big numbers. It is a book that refuses to be. Most mass sightings dissolve under the cold psychology of how crowds come to see one thing - and Carlson builds that explanation at full strength, conceding case after famous case, even a confirmed hoax.What survives - the daylight cases, the photographs, the radar that agreed with the crowd - is the small, hard residue where the easy answer runs out, and the only honest verdict is that something real was there, and we don't know what it was.The lone witness could always be doubted. A crowd is harder. Start reading.

Pages: 98, Paperback, Independently published