![]() In 2008, a study analyzed all of the scientific research that has been performed on the subject over the years to connect the dots. Many conspiracy theories have been formed about these “ skypunches,” including rumors of alien activity and secret rocket launches. Scientists have been pondering the same question for many years, since the first sighting was reported in the ’40s. I kind of tingled all over, because I knew I was fortunate enough to experience something that few people even knew existed.Have you ever looked up at an overcast sky and seen a hole where the blue sky is peeking through? Did you wonder what may have caused such a thing to form? You’re not alone. This may be because the lines are rather thin, and easy to miss. I was even more surprised that Corliss listed it as a highly rare occurrence. When I got home I opened up this book and read the paragraphs which applied to this particular phenomena, where lines divide the sky. The sighting was soon confirmed, as he also saw the lines, and he ran in to alert his wife. Finally I asked my host to come out, without any descriptive hints, to tell me what he saw up there (Just in case I was the nut). I wiped my glasses and looked away, but each time the lines appeared. These stretched like telegraph lines all across the sky, just as if the Egyptian sky goddess, Nut, was responsible. I stood on his back porch after the sun had set, and noticed two peculiar lines which seemed to be dividing the sky into three parts. Then there was another notable natural event, one which occurred while I was visiting a friends house. The square shaped sunset, which appeared on a Valentine's Day, generated so much interest that I wished I had brought along a camera. In that article I credited this book, and later received a nice letter from Mr. Although most of them were simply pleasant to watch, and not really that weird, on one occasion the round shape of the sun became a near perfect square! As I saw this from an area in San Francisco called the Sunset District, a local newspaper editor appreciated and published the sighting. I once kept a written log of the sunsets I saw, describing each day's display for a month. Different categories for sunsets are also defined. Some rainbows are doubled, some join clouds together, some connect with objects, some only seem to connect to objects. When you see rainbows, for example, you will be able to discern what's common or rare. ![]() ![]() This is not a book about unidentified flying objects, unless comets with halos will do, but it can be just as exciting to identify natural mysteries. At first you should just casually go through this book, getting a sense of all the things cataloged, because it will prepare you for noticing far more than what most people realize is happening over their heads. Inside the book are hundreds of other drawings, accompanied by clearly written text, to define and discuss many kinds of unusual occurrences. There are two types of lightening in the sky, and the Aurora Borealis, then a miniature rainbow emanates from each of the fingers spread out. The cover of my 1977 edition, on a hardback I have carefully covered with plastic, shows a hand upraised in the dark. I refer to this book whenever I see any of nature's best sky shows. And I didn't realize that it was about to become one of my most precious possessions. When I first noticed this Handbook Of Unusual Natural Phenomena, it was laying on a book shop's discount table.
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