Mysterious Fires and Lights : Their Weird Manifestations, the Evidence for Their Occurrence, and the Latest Theories to Explain Them

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Mountains that blaze, fireballs, flying saucers and fire falls, the amazing antics of globular lightning, luminous flying objects, fire walkers and fire makers, human salamanders, the light that located a wrecked plane, the cinder woman, electro-magnetic whirlpools, human lightning rods, Ozark spook lights, fires that don’t burn, and spontaneous human combustion. These comprise only a random sampling of all the vast panorama of unusual events concerned with fire, flames, and haunting lights that is explored in this volume. Mr. Gaddis has carefully researched and documented hundreds of bizarre events that have happened and are continuing to happen all around us, and provides possible answers to the mysteries of their occurrence. The book begins with an appraisal of UFO’s, carefully evaluating testimony of Air Force specialists and lay observers with respect to recent “sightings.” It also studies the nature of the strange globes of tight called “Foo Fighters” that appeared In the sky during World War II and the Korean conflict. There is a dramatic account of the night of holocausts that covered seven states in veritable storms of fire—including the famous conflagration that destroyed half of the city of Chicago. Also interesting are the stories of poltergeist incendiaries responsible for the outbreak of fires in many different parts of a house at one time. Then there are the bizarre tales of spontaneous human combustion—instances where people have been cremated at temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit while objects nearby were not even scorched. It all adds up to a fascinating venture into the Unknown—an area of phenomena that baffle the experts and, in some instances, at least, appear to defy rational explanation. AuthorCurrently a resident of the Los Angeles area in Southern California, Vincent H. Gaddis has had a successful career as a newspaperman and author. He was born in Miamiville, Ohio, and graduated from Olivet College. His first newspaper post was as a reporter for the Warsaw (Indiana) Times, and he later became news editor of Radio Station WRSW in Warsaw. For several years he was a United Press and Religious News Service correspondent, before turning to free lance writing. He has since sold hundreds of articles to more than seventy national publications including Coronet, True, and Science Digest. He is the author of Invisible Horizons, a book about the mysteries of the sea. Mr. Gaddis is a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C., and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in Tucson, Arizona.