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Researchers are only now beginning to untangle the cycles involved. For some unknown reason a high proportion of all these activities seems to occur on Wednesday and on the twenty-fourth of the month. This has been a stable factor throughout history. The biblical prophet Zachariah reported (Zachariah 1:7) an angelic visitation Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month’, circa 520 B.C. The most famous flying saucer sighting of modern times, that of private pilot Kenneth Arnold near Mount Ranier in Washington, occurred on June 24, 1947. Note that many of the events discussed throughout this book took place on the twenty-fourth of the month. Paranormal events also seem to duster around the tenth of the month- Early peoples were aware of these factors and linked them with the phases of the moon. They thought the full moon influenced human behaviour and produced lunacy. Appearances of DFOs and assorted apparitions do seem to increase during specific periods of the lunar cycle, and as noted in Chapter Two, the human mind does seem to be involved. Many of these things have been carelessly dismissed as hallucinations because only certain people can see these things at certain times. However, a great many factors are involved. Recent studies indicate that persons of high psychic potential, who experience prophetic dreams and flashes of extrasensory perception (ESP), are more prone to see these things than people with little or no psychic ability. Polls and tests conducted over the past century by assorted scientists indicate that about one third of the population possesses active or latent psychic abilities, They constitute our main body of TOO witnesses. The other two thirds have never had any personal experiences of tins sort and so. naturally enough, dismiss afl of this as utter rubbish. Two independent statistical studies of available UFO reports were conducted in 1970 and confirmed that the highest number of UFO sightings took place on Wednesdays. An amateur group, the American Flying Saucer Investigating Committee of Columbus, Ohio, ran a study of 929 UFO reports from the year 1968 and found that Wednesdays produced the greatest number - 152. A more elaborate professional computer study of 7,025 sightings from tie years 1921 to 1969 was carried out by Dr. David Saunders of Colorado University. He too found that the greatest number of sightings (1,077) occurred on Wednesdays. The lowest number in the Ohio study was 117 for Sundays; the lowest number in the Saunder's study was 903 for Saturdays. Although these are only pilot studies and much more work along this line will be necessary before any definite conclusions can be reached, it is obvious that these things are not random and sporadic but are governed by a definite time cycle of some sort. Factors of coincidence, innocent errors, misinterpretations of ordinary aircraft and mundane natural phenomenon, weather balloons, and so on must be filtered out. Another computer study of twelve hundred anomalies and unusual occurrences, sifted from the works of Charles Fort, was recently carried out by C. L Mallows of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Here it was found that a broader cycle of 9.6 years was seemingly involved. The conclusion is inescapable that these cycles of activity, which pass through our world like radio waves of enormous length, must have a common cause,’ Damon Knight explained in his book, Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained. The cause of the cycles, the controlling force that keeps them in synchrony, must lie outside the earth.'