So I wondered, what are some other events that have been very well documented that are more rare than the thousands-to-millions of UFO encounters that weren't documented well?
There is a phenomenon I do find genuinely baffling, and it has to do with words or expressions. I'm sure we've all experienced this...yet I have never seen any scientific research on it.
The phenomenon is that of hearing a word or expression,
often for the very first time, only to hear the exact same word or expression in a completely different context sometimes just minutes or a few hours later.
For example, the very same day I got offered a computer job in the 'actuarial' department of a company.....
a word I had never heard before...the BBC News had a report on government 'actuaries' raising concern over some issue.
Or there's Feb 24th 2021, where a friend on Facebook introduces a physics idea by someone called Koopman....a pretty rare name. That same day...the Daily Mail had an article about the coronavirus, in which a Dr Marion Koopmans from the WHO comments on the coronavirus.
I have a list of such cases, some are truly bizarre and freaky and the above are fairly minor by contrast. Of course, the standard scientific explanation would be coincidence. But I then have to work out what are the chances of me going 40 years without hearing a word...only to hear it twice on the same day within hours. Clearly there
are specific odds for this, but this sort of synchronicity is not a rare event and one also has to wonder what are the collective odds of so many bizarre 'coincidences'.