CHRONOLOGY OF THE PARANORMAL AND SEMINORMAL
Version 2.0 (english edition)
Edited by J. Peter Lassila
This chronology includes events, which are counted the most notable
and relevant for the paranormal and seminormal research from the early
history to the present days. If you have the significant events on
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From prehistory to the middle age
~120000 BCE: Animistic faith rised among of Homo Neandertal.
~75000 BCE: First signs from animal cults, where animals perhaps
represented some kind of divinity.
~25000 BCE: Human culture and religions got started. Yet cave art of
this time covered the signs from myths, especially animal myths
related to half-humans and monsters.
~3000 BCE: Astrology evolving in ancient Sumer.
1470 BCE: Centre of the ancient Thera (the present Santorini) island
exploded when the local volcano erupted, which produce Atlantis-myth
or at least has strong influence to it, if we believe in present
general appreciation.
~1300 BCE: Moses, who will reach to general knowledge as the religious
prophet and producer of miracles, born in the Egypt.
~600 BCE: Scientific way to thinking began among of Jonian
pholosophers, who discuss also what is human soul and what happened in
miracles. First discuss about "extrasensory abilities" happened among
Plato's followers.
~600 BCE: Well-known eastern philosopher and mystic Laotse born. He
was claimed to live exceptional longevity, like many others who are
well know from their wisdom and long-sighted mind.
546 BCE: Chroisos, the king of ancient Lydia tested skills of oracles
and convinced that Delphoi oracle really had a paranormal ability to
make prediction from the future.
200 BCE. First known research about the acupuncture published in the
China.
6 BCE: Famous miracle maker and mythical prophet of Christianity,
Jesus of Nazareth born. Imperium of Rome crucified him 39 years later
because of his religious power.
~100: Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus described first known
poltergeist-like events.
~150: Claudios Ptolemy published his famous treatise about astrology
to make it more coherent instead of various different schools. Also
majority of the present (orthodox) astrologists founded their
astrological thinking on this study.
312: Constantine the Great saw ****ning cross in the sky, which had
drastic incluence in the prevalence of Christianity.
371: Spiritistic ouija-board used first time in the history, although
not in that name.
452: According to Damascios, after Attila lost the fighting in the
Rome, there were unexplained apparitions of solders and noises of
fighting around the town in couple of days. Similar events are told to
happen also in other crisis situations.
565: First registered sighting of Loch Ness monster happened, when
Saint Columbia had a lake monster encounter in the beach of Ness river
at his trip in the Scotland.
988: Witnesses told that Jesus statue of the Puceller's priory began
surprisingly crying just few moments before fire destroyed the city.
Similar miracles had told everywhere in the world from the early
history.
1136: The treatise about wizard Merlin's prophecy published. Few years
later published also Merlin's biography.
1179: Almost mythological clairvoyant and healer Hildegard died.
24. 9. 1235: Probably the first carefully studied UFO case in the
history happened when Japanese general Yoritsume's army observed
unexplained light phenomena in the sky. General set research group to
study this case and it offered the conclusion that they were only
stars, which sway in the wind.
10. 11. 1407: French queen Isabeu born illegitimate child, which
claimed to be well-known Jeanne d'Arc, virgin of Orleans. The history
told that she did many claimed miracles in the fights that ended
victory because of mysterious events and she got lot of publicity in
the opposition because of those occasions. Later she caught and burned
as the witch, although the Vatican canonize her 500 years later.
Modern history
1503: Well-known astrologer and fortune-teller, Michel de Nostradame
born.
1510: Saint Katarina died to lost of the blood when her body
temperature begin surprisingly grow and finally her blood, which was
leaked from her body, told to be so hot that anyone can't touch on it.
That description has some connections with spontaneous human
combustion (SHC).
1513: Piri Reis created his famous map, which include many unknown
areas of Antarthica and America.
14. 2. 1561: One of most famous early UFO case, where the citizens of
the Nürnberg, Germany get into abashed witnesses of strange phenomena
above the city, including lot of cross and saucer like objects. Case
had noted by the local media and artist.
7. 10. 1571: Pope Pius V got strong vision from victorious sea fight
of Lepanto, which had epochal infuence to western culture. First
messengers bring the message untill two weeks after, when they
descirbe events just like pope Pius V.
25. 10. 1593: First registered tele****tation case was claimed to
happened when Gil Perez, the guard of Manila's governor palace's
appeared among the day to the Mexico's Plaza Mayor. Description from
the case told that Perez says he was just moment before of the event
in the Philippines and he re****ted newest occasions in that area. He
was taken in the local prison, but he get free later when his
information can be ensured and Mexican inquisition reach also
witnesses, whose witnessed that he really was in his workplace just
moment before he appeared to the Mexico. In spite of the wide
prevalence of the story, newest information tells that case might be
only the urban legend, although parapsychologists know also other
claimed tele****tation cases like this.
1603: Joseph of Cupertino born. His claimed psychical gifts,
especially ability to levitation, confirmed after carefully
investigations by inquisition court, which accused he was guilty to
fraudulent plotting.
5. 8. 1608: Citizen in the Nizza, and few days later in the Genova,
Italy and Marseille, France told to be witnesses of the bright, oval
objects with the humanoid-alike occupants. In the Genova local
military unit try to shoot those objects with their cannons, but
objects had not even damage. Historical sources told also that some of
witnesses died when witnessers got into panic.
1609: Samuel de Champlain was the first noted witness, who makes some
entries about strange trembling Indian tent, which are connected to
prediction rituals. Some months later he was also first observer who
noticed a strange "monster" in the local lake, which will later named
according to him.
6. 9. 1612: First carefully studied poltergeist case begin in the
Burgund, France. Disturbances last about three months and they include
transition of the various objects, rain of the rocks and even
discussions with strange visitor.
1681: "Father" of modern parapsychology and one of the founders of the
Royal Society, Joseph Glanvill publish his careful investigations
about possible consciousness related anomalies. Central place in his
study had a Tidworth poltergeist, which was happened a few years
before. Glanvill also declare his notion, that existence of the God
could be proof for study occasions like this.
~1690: Acupuncture appeared to western country.
1710: Thomas Fuller – probably first individual who reached publicity
by the "idiot savant" – born in the Africa and sold in 14 year old to
slave in the America. Like many other savant of that kind, Fuller
managed amazing calculation, but he didn't surmounted even a modest
tasks, which were connected to outside mathematics.
1729: First noted "wild child", Wild-Peter, found at the forest near
Hannover, where he was survived by eating various plant from the
nature. Almost all cultures know cases where a childrens had grow up
with wild animals, especially with wolfs.
1743: Propably most notable occultist of the all time, count
Alessandro di Cagliostro born.
1770: Franz Anton Mesmer discovered a suggestion method, which he
named as animal magnetism because of his belief that human body have a
magnetic liquid that could cause various health problems when it get
into unbalance – and in his belief that method can fix that unbalance.
Later his method rised well-known as hypnosis. Although Mesmer usually
called as a father of hypnosis, similar methods had used by many
others before him.
1772: Well-known philosopher, mystic and claimed clairvoyant Emmanuel
Swedenborg died.
1776: First re****t about unknown animals in the central Africa
published, including claim that local natives and some of the
missionaries were detect dinosaur-alike animals in the jungles of
Congo. First expeditions to find living dinosaur from Congo travelled
to country for two hundred years later when those observations are
taken more seriously because of fresh findings of "living fossils".
The same re****t had also a description about "giraffe of jungles" that
actually found from the jungles of Congo in 1976 and named as Ocapi.
27. 2. 1784: Mythological count of Saint-Germain died.
12. 6. 1790: Probably first known claimed UFO-contact happened near
the city of Alecon.
1800-1849
1807: Concept of clairvoyance rise to public knowledge when so called
mesmerists (or hypnologists) notice that some persons who are in
"somnabulistic dream" or hypnosis has ability to make extrasensory
perceptions and some of them can do it also in the normal state of
consciousness. At the same time one of Mesmer's followers, Hector
Durville, make first carefully experiments about out of body
experiences those he carry out when his patient were in the hypnosis,
and he re****ted also so called silver rope, which was perceived by his
volunteer clairvoyant when his patients experienced OOBE.
1810: Samuel Hahnemann published the basic concept of homeopathy.
Later it noticed as a pseudoscience in the World science, but it
reached also very wide popularity.
16. 8. 1815: Probably greatest claimed miracle maker of 1800-ies,
Giovanni Bosco born.
1817: John and Lucy Bell's house is in the focus of strong poltergeist
phenomena almost three years. This was one of those cases that slowly
activate wide interest to parapsychology.
1821: Mary Baker Eddy born. She will rise later to public as
well-known faith healer and founder of the Christian Science.
1826: Central founder of spiritualistic movement, Andrew Davis born.
26. 5. 1828: Kaspar Hauser appeared from the nowhere to the Nürnberg
and reach world-wide publicity because of his strange life-story and
exceptional abilities. He dies five years later by unknown murderer in
the mysterious circumstance.
1831: Well-known psychic and the founder of theosophy, HP Blavatsky
born.
1837: Andrew Crosse begin his enigmatic experiments in his test-tube,
where he can create in the few weeks a punks-alike life-forms from the
crystal, whose include certain minerals and various chemical liquids,
where conducted also weak current. At the later experiment will repeat
by Michael Faraday and some other scientist, but Crosse himself was
however despised after those experiments, because people doesn't
believe his claim or if they do, they think that Crosse was take up a
position of the God, which was totally untolerate.
1841: Psychometry discovered by Joseph Buchanan.
1845: Teacher Emilie Sagée make a wide fuss among of Neuwelk's
resident when many of her school students and other resident in the
region witnessed for her sightings in the two places at the same time.
Later this phenomena was named as bilocation.
1846: French girl Angelique Cottin rise first carefully studied
individual, whose body had tend to draw on and move furniture and
other things without any natural explanation. Almost a century later
one "magnetic" woman apply to test of New York sceptics to winning
their open challenge, but they refused without any reason. In some
level, phenomenon has obvious connections to poltergeist, which have a
many similar quality like the duration and characteristic of the
"focus" person.
2. 2. 1846: One of the most famous fortean rain in the history
happened in the Paris when local house, that were ordered to pull
down, destroyed when huge rocks seems to crash down from the sky
without any natural explanation in spite of careful investigation.
Sources of time tells that phenomenon were witnessed by big guard and
a number of curious people, and its duration was three weeks at all,
including almost fifty of that rocks. Later similar phenomena all over
the world grew more famous by Charles Fort.
31. 3. 1848: Margaret and Kate Fox activated the great wave of
spiritism by their claimed communication with a ghost on their house.
In spite of impressively of events, those get into new light when
sisters confess that they produced lot of phenomena by fraud.
1849-1899
June 1851: French scientists had first carefully examined (fortean)
case where living animal been found inside of the rock, at this case
it was a toad inside of flint. Similar cases are regularly re****ted
all over the World, and two years later other early case reached
publicity via Scientific American magazine.
1852 – 1886: Physical medium Daniel Dunglas Home amazed the World by
levitation, lengthen of his body and other paranormal abilities. Even
many hard core sceptics confess that Home is one of those rare mediums
who didn't caught from fraud despite of many careful study with most
famous scientist.
1854: American professor Robert Hare, who was well know as opponent of
spiritism, reverse his attitude and anticipated the instrumental
transcommunication by building the machine to trying communication
between death and living. Year before there was produced also system
called psychograph, which was simple like a pen with mount and cycle
and it was used before ouija-board rised more common.
1854: Well-known physical medium at the end of 1800-ies, Eusapia
Palladino born.
1854: Famous physicist Michael Faraday begin to study spiritistic
phenomena and make clear obervation with his clever experimental
measures, that all so called table dance –phenomena, when he was study
them, could be explained by ideomotorical movements of the
participant's hands.
7 – 8. 2. 1855: Devil himself has claimed to walk in Devon****re,
England when there appeared almost two hundred kilometres trace of
hoof in the snow during only one night.
1858: Lourdes in France Pyrenes rise famous pilgimage place when
claimed that Virgin Mary was point this place to Bernadette Soubirou.
1861: William Mumler makes history by his ghost photos – first ones in
the world. He reached lot of publicity, but researchers didn't get any
of negatives related those photos and in the World of parapsychology
they reached publicity only as first possible photographical hoax.
1861: Philosopher, founder of anthroposophy and occultist Rudolf
Steiner born.
1863: Borley's parsonage built and later it rised famous as a greatest
haunted house in the England.
23. 3. 1865: President Lincoln re****ted to his friends about terrible
dream, where he was in his own funeral and participants answer to his
question that what is happened, that the president was get into focus
of assasination. Some days later Lincoln's dream really come true.
After a century some people also notice, that president Lincoln's and
president Kennedy's murders and life stories had many conspicuous
similarities, which rised one popular example of claimed
syncronicity-phenomenon.
8. 2. 1868: Well-known astrologer Evangeline Adams born.
16. 10. 1869: From farm of William Newell found amazing giant's mummy,
which proved as a fraud after few months and public show, which was
built from plaster.
1871: Sir William Crookes publish his revolutionary study from
abilities of Daniel Dunglas Home in the Quarterly Journal of Science.
This was only one, but probably most remarkable study on Home's
abilities.
1874: Pioneer of paranormal research, Charles Fort born.
1877: Well-known "sleeping prophet" or Edgar Cayce born.
1877: Friedrich Zöllner, German professor of astrophysics, believe
that phenomena in physical medium****p are involved with invisible
dimesions and he choice to test his hypotheses with medium Henry
Slade. Zöllner make his task to tie a closed loop, what is impossible
without paranormal intervention, probably with extra dimensions. In
spite of tigh experimental circumastances Slade succeed several this
kind of experiments and Zöllner thought that his view has a strong
position.
1877: Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed some kind of
channels on the surface of Mars. Issue rised public when well-known
astronomer Percival Lowell continues Schiaparelli's work in 1894 and
he convinced that the "channels" must be synthetic.
1878: Term "flying saucer" was used first time about UFO's.
1878-1879: One of the famous and most carefully studied poltergeists
in 1800-ies happened in Amherst, Canada, when a nineteen year old
Esther Cox overwhelm to focus in strong and violent ghostly
disturbances.
3.1.1878: Thirteen year old Lurancy Vennum's case grow the World's
first noticed event related to claimed walk-in phenomenon when her
body capture person who called herself as spirit of Mary Roff. Doctor
E.W. Stewens identify Mary Roff his girl who was previously died.
After that, "Mary Roff" lived with her "family" till Lurancy's person
return as predominant in half year later.
1882: Well-known medium Gladys Osborne Leonard born. In the light of
the evidence and the scientific progress, she was probably best
volunteer in the psychical research, which began in her case almost
the begin of her active medium****p and ended to her death. This kind
of intensive research proved also that the many claimed mediums are
not want to be tested, althought they used claimed powers to
commercial purpose – or if they want, many of them actually have not
any exceptional abilities or they are reach those only by fraud.
1882: F.W.H. Myers created the term "telepathy".
1882: The Society for Psychical Research founded in England as the
World's first research organization in parapsychology. Presidents of
this authoritative society were included ministers, Nobelists and
members of Royal Society.
1883: First official re****t about a strange light phenomenon in the
Marfa, Texas.
1883: First photo from claimed UFO was taken in Mexico when director
of Zacatecas observatory get a photo one of the strange object, whose
go over the Sun when he was study sunspot. In spite of cases like this
many of sceptics believe there is not any UFO-re****ts by professional
astronomer.
27. 8. 1883: Strongest volcanic eruption of the modern history
happened in the island of Krakatau. Several days before that behavior
of local animals was very exceptional, like in panic, and lot of
animals tried to go out of that area in any price at all. Animals'
possible ability to reach knowledge about catastrophical events before
they happened has tried to use, and in some cases is claimed to got
positive results.
1887-1889: Well-known skeptic, Richard Hodgson, who was investigated
also claimed medium Madame Blavatsky and re****ted he was catch from
the fraud, study well-known medium Leonore Piper in extremely tight
controlled experiments and evaluated that he had strong evidence for
genuine psychic ability of miss Piper and even evidence for life after
death as a result of his experiments. Other Piper-studies had also
similar conclusions.
1889: Term "parapsychology" created by Max Dessoir.
30. 11. 1896: Modern cryptozoology got started when someone found bulk
of huge sea animal with some tentacle (modern language call them as a
globster) in St. Augustine Beach, Florida. At the first it was
classified as a whale by the incredulous researchers, but few decade
later researchers noted in the tissue study that it really is a huge
octopus.
Spring 1897: First noted UFO-wave happened (mostly) in the USA.
1899: One of most famous "psi-stars" in our time, Wolf Messing born in
little village near to Varsova. Later his psychic abilities are tested
by Einstein, Freud and other well-known scientists, and his claimed
ability to give telepathic suggestions lead him to front of Stalin
from Nazi-Germany where he had huge reward on his head by Hitler
because of public prediction about dead of Führer.
1900-1929
1900: Archaeologist found so called Antikythera's mechanism from the
sunken ****p near the island of Antikythera. It was from year 80 BC,
but it had so complex technical construction that official
appreciation of history suppose that should be possible only after
1500 AC.
1901: So-called cross-correspondence experiment began when various
mediums claimed to receive messages from the famous dead
parapsychologist, like Frederich Myers, Henry Sidwick and Edmund
Gurney and those messages got a sense only when they read as a hole,
not like a different messages. This strange experiment last for years
and real starting point was a promise of late parapsychologist, who
declare that they try to communicate with living persons after they
death if it seems possible.
1901-1904: Numerate horse named Wise Hans amazing the World, although
soon researchers proved, that it can calculated only if it got some
visual tips from his owner or somebody else, as the case were been
also in other similar cases.
30. 6. 1908: Huge explosion in the Tunguska, Siperia fell lot of wood,
which generate later many UFO theories about incident. After few
decades research scientist believed that explosion caused from
explosion of little comet.
1916: Sir Oliver Lodge published his famous book about evidence of
life after death including discussions with his son via various
mediums, who was died in the first world war.
16. 12. 1916: Well-known prophet and healer Grigori Rasputin had a
violent death, after many attempt to murder him, which were all
mysteriously failed.
13. 5 - 13. 10. 1917: Series of mysterious events, called Fatima's
miracle, happened in Fatima, ****tugal with over hundred thousand of
witnesses at all.
1920: Reinhold Ebert created cosmobiology, his research method for
astrology. General opinion is however that the method is not valid or
it is a pseudo-science.
July 1920: Marinus Dykshoorn, only medium in the World, whom abilities
has confessed even governmental level, born in the Holland.
4. 1. 1922: Mathematician S. G. Soal get convinced about reality of
psi when he get into Gordon-Davis case as a witness.
November 1922: Archaeologist found Pharao Tutankhamen's tomb.
Exceptional many of them who were opened the grave died soon after
that and before event happened also lot of mysterious coincidence,
which makes curse of Pharao very popular topic.
12.10.1926: Shanti Devi born in India. Her claimed reincarnation
memories were first ones who got into focus of wide scientific study
when Gandhi set professional research group, which had a conclusion
that the memories are not result of any kind of the normal information
sources. Almost half a century after that Ian Stevenson began his
systematical research with possible reincarnation cases in University
of Virginia.
23. 11. 1926: Sathya Narayana Raju, known as Sri Sathya Sai Baba,
born.
8. 2. 1928: Two years after Harry Houdin's death began most
extraordinary series of events in the history of psychical research.
First Houdin's widow got the messages from claimed Houdin's mother via
medium Arthur Ford, which include code word that she were leaved to
Houdin and her wife only (as the evidence of life after death, if
there is anything) – and that code word was right one. Later she
received famous code from person, who claimed to be Houdin himself,
via also medium Arthur Ford. It was complex wholeness of words, whose
also produce one word via certain algorithm and this was all right.
Houdin's widow and her witnesses testify released, which was in
general opinion a strong evidence for paranormal phenomena and
survival after death. At the moment the World was amazed this
conclusion, but soon after Houdin's widow released his news began the
intense emphasis against her, and finally she was compelled to
withdraw her testify and also isolated to any publicity in this issue.
Other skeptics and parapsychologist were also leaved codes like this,
but after Houdin's case the enthusiasm about "final evidence" has
gone, probably for ever, and someone could even fear, for good reason
of coarse, the destiny of Houdin's widow.
1929: Gilbert Murray, a well-known professor from the Oxford
University become famous proponent of the parapsychology when he
publish his succesful experiments with telepathy. Public interest to
telepathy rising.
1930-1949
24. 6. 1931: Japanese Tomokichi Fukurai carry out first noted
experiment with so called thoughtography or psychical photography.
Well-known japanese clairvoyant Koichi Mita produce picture on the
film, which claimed to represent reverse side of the moon, and he can
make also new similar photo in the repeat experiment. When photos
later compared with the moon-photos by NASA, researchers found lot of
similarity.
1932: Parapsychology rise to academically admissible when J.B. Rhine
get permission to associate his parapsychology lab under William
McDougall's department of psychology in the Duke university.
1936: Cryptoarchaeology or study of exceptional findings in history
found new kind of enthusiasm via so-called Bagdad battery, which
origin is from 1800 years before Volta created his battery –
officially first time in the history. This discovery and the
phenomenon called electrolysis might be also the solution for the
problem of ancient gilt in certain problematical case.
1937: Journal of Parapsychology founded.
1939: Semyon Kirlian observe that certain electrical process can make
visible via film that later called as Kirlian photography and some
parapsychologists are interested use the method like this in their
research because of claimed (consciousness related) anomalies within
certain Kirlian-photos.
1942: Claimed sheep-goat-affect rised public in the world of
parapsychology when Gertrude Scmeidler discovered it in his research
and create the term for it. Later that topic is extensive investigated
by John Palmer.
1942: Term "psi" created to describe physical mechanism of possible
parapsychological phenomena or anomalistic cognition by Richard H.
Thouless and C. Weisner.
1943: USS Eldenridge claimed to disappear during so-called
Phipadelphia-experiment. It is later proven as urban legend, although
it had certain basis in circumstances of world war two – like
experiments on technology, which get ****ps "invisible" to torpedoes
and water mines. It is also known that USS Eldenridge actually was
disappeared in that certain day of experiments, but not because of
dematerialisation. It was on the trip at this day and as one of the
faster ****ps in this time it was back in the starting point during the
same day.
1944: Many people re****t so called foo-fighters which buzzing and
flying formation with Allied combat airplanes in European and Pacific
Theaters of War. Suggestions that they were Axis air weapons were
found unconvincing. Wave of similar phenomena was also in Finland at
1930-ies and continued in Scandinavia after WW2 as "ghost rockets".
5. 12. 1945: Flight number nineteen disappeared in the area, which had
later called as Bermuda's triangle and present Bermuda-myth begins,
although planes found in the bottom of sea at the several decides
later. According to recent research, there isn't exceptional number of
disappearing in this area.
June 1947: Physicians in the Zürich, Switzerland study famous fakir
Mirin Dajo, claimed survivor from various deadly situation. He was put
under several uncenventional experiments, which one he got a sword
through his body, including several im****tant organs as röntgen photos
shows. After the experiment he seems to recoved almost deadly organic
damage. Various similar abilities had also observed on mediums and
religious saints.
24. 6. 1947: Kenneth Arnold witnessed saucer-alike flying objects
above Mt. Ranier when he was flying in the area and based from the
description, term "flying saucer" began its conquest in the World
media.
2. 7. 1947: Most famous UFO crash in the history happened in the
Roswell, although it was probably some kind of secret military device.
22. 1. 1948: First official UFO research project, Project Sign, begin
by the motion of general C. Craigie. Later it changes to Project
Grudge and after that to Project Blue Book. Career of famous UFO
investigator J. Allen Hynek begins also from this project.
1949: Marcello Bacci makes some experiments with his tube-radio and
found inexplicable sounds and words in the recording, which seems to
be messages from individuals who were already dead or tell something
about life after death. Later phenomena got name instrumental
transcommunication (ITC), when it came more popular via experiments of
Friedrich Jürgenson and Konstantin Raudive. Bacci himself work later
as famous physical medium in the Italy.
1950-1959
1951: Healing began more popular around the World when it come again
legal in the USA and some other country.
1951: International Parapsychology Foundation founded.
1952: Famous psychiatrist CG Jung and Nobel-rewarded physicist
Wolfgang Pauli published they hypotheses, that some "unknown power"
force events sometimes differ to normal causality and leaded them to
meaningful coincidence. They named phenomena as a synchronicity.
1952: CIA started own research program to study extrasensory
perception (ESP).
July 1952: France Air Forces found official UFO investigation
committee, which replaced later as department of Defence Forces,
GEPAN, which co-ordinated network of officers, whose had a duty to
re****t any possible UFO-cases to them.
Autumn 1952: Coral and Jim Lorenzen founded in the Tucson the World's
oldest private UFO organization (APRO).
1953: American inventor T. T. Brown observe that certain system can be
levitated by conduct high-voltage to the device. Phenomenon could
explain mainly by ionisation, but evidently this is not whole truth.
Similar devices had later built also professor John Searl.
14 – 18. 1. 1953: Robertson's UFO panel meets to make sure, that all
UFO re****ts really are various misunderstanding. In spite of
Robertson's committee opinions and CIA's authority, many open-minded
scientist didn't so sure for that.
10. 3. 1953: Defence Force of United States of America publish guides
named JANAP 146, which define punishment to the military personnel and
authorities, who disclose their information about foreign devices and
other exceptional objects. Guides specify also UFOs.
July 1953: Albert K. Bender claim that he encountered two men in
black, who warned him to disclose his knowledge about "flying saucer".
Story started the modern MIB-myth.
1954: Freiburg's University in Germany opened the chair of
parapsychology, which received well-known parapsychologist Hans
Bender.
1954: Parapsychology laboratory at University of Duke began
significant series of experiments with possible animal-psi (ANPSI).
Experimental animal was the dog named Chris, which had a ability to
guess senders thought clearly above the pure change without any
possibility of normal tips.
1955: Michael Gauquelin published first articles his vide statistical
research on astrology, where he found the little correlation between
planets and some human groups. Especially so-called Mars-effect is
well-known related to his study.
Spring 1955: The World's first UFO research journal, Flying Saucer
Review start to come out.
1956: Matthew Manning born. He awake the wide interest in
parapsychologist circles about ten years old when he get into focus of
poltergeist's and had a ability of spoon bending. In the present day
he worked as healer.
1956: UFO research organization NICAP (National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena) founded.
13 – 14. 8. 1956: One of most significant visual-/radar case in the
UFO history happened between Lakenheath and Bentwaters in the England.
1957: Parapsychological Association founded. It associated to AAAS
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) member in 1969,
and after that it rised probably most significant organization in
parapsychology at international level with Society for Psychical
Research.
6. 1. 1957: Professor of parapsychology W. H. F. Tenhaeff began his
notable precognition experiments with well-known medium, or
"paragnost", Gerard Croiset.
22. 12. 1958: 450 pilot in the USA air force, who have seen UFOs one
time or more, protested via collective appeal against JANAP 146 guides
and politics which understate the UFO and related phenomenon.
1960-1969
1960: To resolves the mystery of snowman World Book Encyclopedia
financed expedition to Himalaya, which had directed by Desmond Doig
and Sir Edmund Hillary, who is well-known as first human who conquered
Mount Everest.
1960: Tzechoslovakia rised to focus of the world of parapsychology for
almost decide because of local "psi-star", Pavel Stepanek.
1960: Term "paranormal" used first time by French philosopher, CJ
Ducasse.
23.4.1960: Loch Ness monster rise to legendary name when Tim Dinsdale
got it his famous film and lake grow to continuous interest of
research in cryptozoology, where also Dinsdale himself is in central
position after he renounced his job as aeroplane engineer to became
full-time cryptozoologist in the Loch Ness. As his first job he
founded an office for investigation of Loch Ness monster, which
collected and study the monster re****ts.
1962: Thomas Kuhn published his famous book (Structure of Scientific
Revolutions) about scientific paradigms.
31. 1. 1963: Dermo-optical perception or "sight without eyes" rised to
interest of science when researchers published investigations of Rosa
Kulesova's case. Although phenomenon had reached wide publicity
before, for example via case of Benito Paz in year 1937.
22. 11. 1963: Jeane Dixon became famous via public prediction in
13.5.1956, where she told that the next president will be democratic,
who murdered before the end of his presidency. Prediction seems to be
real when John F. Kennedy murdered and Dixon rised to most famous
fortune-teller in the United States, where even many fails in the
public predictions didn't dim her star. Murder of the Kennedy
generated also lot of conspiracy theories – and surprisingly evidences
really are behalf of some kind of conspiracy, which certainly can't
tell all of the conspiracy theories.
1964: First experiment about possible telepathy during sleep begin in
New York.
1964: Russian psychic Nina Kulagina rised to focus of parapsychology
and also foreign researchers get at Soviet Union to test her claimed
psychokinetic abilities. Decade later, when Kulagina's abilities were
weakened, researchers studied similar abilities of Boris V. Ermolaev,
but then interest of western countries concerned mainly to their own
psychics, like Uri Geller.
1964: NICAP's re****t "The UFO evidence" is first wide scientific study
about UFOs.
1.6.1964: Claimed röntgen sight of Vera Petrovnas produced great
public interest all over the World. Forty years later also other
similar case from Russia reach also wide publicity.
1965: Joseph Rhine retire and his parapsychology lab moved outside of
University.
2. 2. 1966: Cleve Backster began his first experiments with plants
psi.
19.4.1966: Karl Nikolajev participated to famous telepathic
experiment, where the "sender" located in Moskova when Nikolajev
himself was as "receiver" in Novosibirsk, almost three thousand
kilometres from Moskova. This started the series of telepathic
experiments where the distance of sender and receiver was between few
kilometres and thousands of kilometres, and which generated one of
greatest parapsychology-boom in our time at Soviet Union, although it
was still very authoritarian country. Nikolajev himself was powerful
psychic, who claimed to get his special abilities only from very
rigorous training.
1967: First study about the power of prayer published. According to
researcher Robert Miller, praying accelerated grow of ryecrass.
1967: Jule Eisenbud published his study about abilities of Ted Serios,
who claimed to generate various photos in the film by power of his
mind, even from so called Faraday's cage. However, soon after when few
expert of photography technology publish their conclusions, that in
circumstances of Eisenbud's experiments photos could be produced by
the fraud, Eisenbud declared that Serios lost his abilities.
1967-68: One of most famous and most investigated poltergeist case
raged in the city of Rosenheim, West Germany in local lawyer's office.
Investigations were mainly co-ordinated by few physicists of Max
Planck Institute and parapsychology department of Freiburg's
University. Almost the same time happened also in Miami, where one
also very famous poltergeist case rised wide interest all over the
World.
20. 10. 1967: Bigfoot haunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin got
ape-alike animal to film in the Northern California. Later this film
rised most famous, even might not to better, evidence for the
existence of so called bigfoot.
1968: Roger Nelson founded his famous central precognitions central
register, which received re****ts of possible precognitive dreams.
1968: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) asked
two its technical committee to establish sub-committee for
investigation of UFO phenomenon. Later committee, including eleven
well-known scientist, opened conclusions of Condons committee to
question.
1969: Physician Helmut Schmidt publish his first wide experiments with
micro-psychokinesis, where are used computers and random event
generators. Results, where probality of pure chance were on average in
one to millions, are estimated most remarkable in the history of
parapsychology.
8. 1. 1969: Condon's committee publish re****t on UFO phenomenon, named
The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, after work of two
years. Re****t include only few case in the UFO history and 30% of them
stay without acceptable explanation and investigation of the phenomena
don't need any more recource.
17. 12. 1969: Project Blue Book closed.
26-27. 12. 1969: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of
Sciences) organized general UFO symposium in the Boston.
1970-1979
1970: Charles Honorton developed ganzfeld-method to his study for the
extrasensory perception (ESP). Later Honorton and his collagues got a
noticeable results when they used ganzfeld, but other hand sceptics
had criticized that there is also many researchers who try to repeat
the ganzfeld-experiments without any noticeable results. Honorton
himself died tragically in 1992 when he was prepare his doctoral
dissertation.
January 1971: UFO wave in the Pudasjärvi, Finland. Events had many
similarity with events in Hessdalen at decade later.
1972: Concept of channelling rised well-known when Jane Roberts and
Robert Butss publish they book, Seth Speaks. Channelling is new form
of mediumism, where person claimed to be contact with "highest
entities".
1973: Astronaut Edgar Mitchell take a part in the experiment, where
was purpose to test telepathy between the Earth and space.
1973: Psychic surgery or logurgy got the world wide publicity, but in
the exact study many of claimed healer got caugh in the fraud. Later
proved that Tony Agpaoa, who was grow very prosperous, used many trics
in his "surgery". For example, blood-like red liquid wasn't blood at
all, "kidney stones" were actually vulcanical stones and "fresh"
tissues were actually almost decaying.
1973: UFO organization NICAP closed and owner****p of they archives
transfer to Center for UFO Studies, founded by J. Allen Hynek in
december 1973.
January 1973: American Society for Psychical Research carry out the
study about out of body experiences (OOBE). Research director Karlis
Osis find almost hundred volunteer who had OOBE almost every month and
ask them to try make perceptions from certain place in possible
eksosomatic state. Many of them had OOBE in research period and they
descriptions from this place become noticeable proof for hypotheses
that person really can make extrasensory perceptions in the OOBE
state.
Spring 1973: Members of parapsychological society of Toronto claimed
to make a first succesful experiment to create an artificial
ghost-like phenomena.
1974: Uri Geller visiting around the World. In spite of his wide
reputation, researchers didn't take Geller case so serious because of
his refuses from most of well controlled experiments and he had to
confess also got caught in fraud. At the same time scientists like
John Hasted and C. Crussard leave Geller among his own media circus
and focusing to study other spoon penders, especially childrens, in
the tight controlled experiments and got lot of noticeable results.
1974: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) began experimental research
program for parapsychology with financial sup****t from the Pentagon.
16.11.1974: Terribly burnt Jack Angel awoke in his house trailer at
Savannah, Georgia and had to go hospital for two month. Seems like he
was burst into flames from inside his body without any outside damege,
even for near fire sensitive objects. Event rised most famous case
around so called spontaneus human combustion phenomenon.
28. 1. 1975: One of most famous UFO-swindler Eduard "Billy" Meier come
public as claimed extraterrestrial contacteer. Especially his claimed
UFO photos are well-known, but many of them are very obvious
forgeries.
1975: 186 prestigious scientists around the World take the astrology
as total flim-flam and just to make sure they disapprove it in their
shared statement.
Summer 1975: Ralph Wetzel generated the real scientific sensation by
his observation, that one peccary species is life and well in the
Paraquay and it was locals greatest delicacy, which had sold also to
markets of US and Europe, even although that it was believed to
deceased about eight thousands year before. This observation was one
especial case that proved we do not know very much life in the
outlying areas, which decrease also disdain of the cryptozoology.
1976: Famous healer Harry Edwards dies.
1976: Skeptical organization CSICOP (Committee for Scientific
Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal) founded in United
States. Later this organization expanded the World wide and after that
founded also many local skeptical organizations, like finnish Skepsis
in 1987.
1977: Betty ja Barney Hill's claimed UFO abduction from year 1961 come
public.
1977: Prestigious Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases publish two
Ian Stevenson's research article in same year, which were an
evaluation of evidence for so called reincarnation hypotheses. Later
many people and scientst saw this hypotheses as proved because of
Stevenson's work, although Stevenson himself is more cautious and
describe his work "only" remarkable.
1977: Michael Persinger released his well-known hypotheses, that
unexplained aerial lights are piezoeletrical phenomena from
geophysical process. This kind of phenomena are more typical in the
areas within strong geological tension.
13. 12. 1977: Great UFO discussion in United Nations general meeting
by intitiative of Grenada's prime minister. Meeting suggest that
members states take phenomena more serious and re****ted they possible
measures to UN.
November-december 1978: Many remarkable close encounters to
unexplained light phenomena happened in Australia and New-Zealand. One
veteran pilot disappear in area after his radio message about real
time UFO encounter. In New Year's Eve one TV-group among passengers of
freight airplane above of New-Zealand got in the film two of those
light when also flight control follow them with radar.
1979: Professor Robert Jahn, director of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering's department in the University of Princeton, opens famous
PEAR lab (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) to his department
for study of possible psychokinetic effect in electrical and
mechanical mahcines, or so called human/machine anomalies (HMA).
1979: Offices in United States had to publish many UFO related secret
documents because of new Freedom of Information Act from year 1976.
18. 1. 1979: House of Lords in UK parlament discussed UFO question for
three hours.
1980-1989
1980: Well-known dutch medium Gerard Croiset dies.
July 1980: France UFO Research Centre GEPAN published re****t, where
prove that UFO phenomena is part of technological, and its character
seems to be exceed level of our highest tchnology. In year later also
NATO publish re****t with same kind of conclusions.
August 1980: First conspicuous crop circles appear in Wilt****re,
England.
26. - 27. 12. 1980: Famous Rendlesham UFO case in Great Britain, where
witnesser were military officers. Two days later happened also United
States in so called Cash-Landrum case, where independent witnessers
saw unidentified flying object, which get into surrounded by military
helicopters and escape. Three individuals who were nearest the object,
or other words experienced close encounter of third degree, got later
similar symptoms than burn cases.
1981: Dutch professor emeritus of parapsychology, W. H. C Tenhaeff
dies. His follower in Ütrecht parapsychology unit was from year 1974
Martin Johnson and later his chair received parapsychologist Dick
Bierman.
1982: International society of cryptozoology founded. Cryptozoologists
study claimed obervations about unidentified animals and species that
is believed to disappear from the Earth. Earned income for
cryptozoologists could listed lot of discoveries and classifications
related to this kind of species. Althought famous Loch Ness monster is
a modern myth for many cryptozoologist, it isn't situation for many
other claimed animals, like Yeti or Bigfoot.
1982: Centre for UFO studies, CUFOS, had 70.000 UFO re****ts in its
computer registers and 20% of them need to additional study. At same
time organization has collected to data bases the tens of thousands
newspaper articles from all over the World. By millemium UFO
investigators has total over half million UFO re****ts.
1983: Communist party of China claimed to turn succesfully to services
of "qiqong-master" Zhang Baosheng when marshal Ye Jianyingin got sick.
Baosheng is China's most famous psychic and his claimed to own also
some kind of "röntgen sight" and ability to move objects by the power
of his mind, which called psychokinesis and tele****tation in Western
Countries. At this time Baosheng lives luxuriously at expense of
Communist Party after he make an agreement that he and his abilities
are lojal only for interest of China. In practice qi-term mean same as
western countries "psi".
1984: Psychology department of the Edinburgh University founded
parapsychology research unit and declare to open the chair of
parapsychology. Parapsychologist Robert Morris receive the office in
1985 and he worked as professor of parapsychology to his death in
august 2004.
From 1984: Project Hessdalen began three year after that locals began
saw strange light phenomena. Seems probably that observations related
to piezo-electrical phenomena. At present there is multifaceted
measuring station in the area.
February 1984: Soviet Union set national comission to study UFO
phenomena.
October 1984: Huge hole appear to the ground in the State of
Wa****ngton and huge piece of ground from the hole was about twenty
meter from the hole itself like it would tear up from the ground.
Similar events are re****ted all over the World.
29. 1. 1986: Famous and best documented claimed "UFO crash" happened
near Vladivostok in Russia, but results of study are mainly in secret
for an indefinite period.
1986: Famous UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek dies.
1987: Whitley Strieber began UFO abduction boom and one kind of person
cult by his books.
1988: William H. Spaulding from Ground Saucer Watch -organization
analyzed about one thousand claimed UFO photos by computer. His
opinion was that 605 of theme were a fake and about 350 were
misunderstanded identified phenomena.
1988: One of prominent UFO investigators in the World, Jacques Vallee,
got conclusion that UFO phenomena probably related to multiversum and
paraller dimensions.
1988: Coral Lorenzen dies and the World oldest UFO organization, APRO
end its activities.
1989: Foundantions of Physics -journal published wide analyses from
over eight hundred experiments related to claimed anomalous
intentional effect in microlevel physical systems
(micro-psychokinesis). Conclusion of article is that there is quite
obvious evidence for some kind of anomaly related to
micro-psychokinesis.
30. 9. 1989: News agency TASS releases, that UFO landed to the park in
city of Voronesh, but later study seems to proved that claimed event
is probably a fraud.
29. 11. 1989: Belgia's UFO wave, where thousands of people saw
triangle-like object flying on the area. Some of them got also photos
from the object, belgian fighters took after it and it observed also
in the radar.
From 1989: Crop circles grow to publicity for their full power.
Greatest number of the crop circles appeared in the Wilt****re,
England, what is also one of the World New Age -center, which is
coincidence that grow suspections in many researchers.
1989: Jose Pilon's research group got various prove from paranormal
phenomena when they study claimed hounted palacy of Linares near
Madrid.
1990-1999
1990: Famous parapsychologist Scott Rogo murdered at his home. At his
last years he was focused to study about claimed phone calls from the
death, so called electronic voice phenomena (EVP).
1991-1993: UFO wave of Mexico, where researhcers got data that
probably hundred of thousands people has make observations and related
to events they collected hundreds of claimed UFO photos and films. UFO
wave continuing also later years and in the may 2004 Air Forces of
Mexico makes radar detections from the strange, unidentified objects
and they got them also to the infra red film.
1992: Michael Persinger published his magnetic helmet, which can
produce various mystical experiences, for example feeling of presence,
kind of the out of body experience, abduction like experiences and
other strange feelings and hallucinations. Helmet produce also
religious experiences to some person. Persinger's opinion is that UFO
and related phenomena are produced by piezo-electrical fields.
October 1993: Famous parapsychologist Dean Radin founded Consciousness
Research Division to the University of Nevada to practice basic- and
application research of claimed psi.
December 1993: Energy-, research- and technology comission of European
Parlament discussed about motion, that EU should give financial
sup****t to pan-European UFO centre, SEPRA.
1994: Paranormal research and related activity move slowly to Internet
age as other aspect of the Society and public interest to physical
activity turn to downwards. Some organization, whose can't adapt to
new environment even close they activities.
1995: Senat of United States closed Project StarGate, the CIA's 24
year-old research program of psychic spying.
1995: Well-known skeptic Richard Wiseman start the psi research
program at department of psychology in the University of
Hertford****re, England. Also Susan Blackmore, who is famous sceptic,
start similar research in Bristol. Both of them got financial sup****t
to new Perrot-Warric fund which was obvious end up to control of
devoded skeptics.
1996: Albert Budden state, that various UFO experiences are side
effect of electro-magnetic pollution in the brain. He has similar
opinions than famous neuroscientist Michael Persinger.
20. 1. 1996: News agency told over the World that unidentified flying
object has crash in Varginha, Brasilia. Locals claimed that strange
incident started when they had to witness running humanoids in the
area and mysterious military operation where they seemed to hunt
something.
1997: MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) grew to world widest UFO
organization. It has over five thousand UFO investigator around the
World.
1997: Dean Radin published most comprehensive meta-analysis from psi
researches, which proved that psi seems to be exist. Even prestigious
journal Nature published book-review about Radin's study, where was
also noted the dangers of meta-analysis.
December 1997: Internationally most interesting project in the World
of parapsychology was getting started from general discussion in the
Freiburg's conference of information sciences. That was study of
possible psi effect related to global situation, especially
emotionally remarkable events, which was began at 1998 as Global
Consciousness Project in the University of Princeton, where working
also Robert Jahn's PEAR lab.
29.9 – 4.10.1997: Society for Scientific Exploration assemble the
panel of prestigious scientist to evaluating UFO phenomena. Chairman
of panel was famous astrophysicist Peter Sturrock and it had financial
sup****t from the Laurance S. Rockefeller fund. Society published
panel's work in the june 1998, where it recommended that any
self-respectful scientists should take a more serious attitude to UFO
phenomena.
June 1999: Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman published meta-analysis
that covered thirty newest Ganzfeld-study, which were done by ten
different researchers because of earlier remarcable results in the
Ganzfeld studies. However meta-analysis show, that there is not any
kind of sign that earlier positive results would repeated in the
newest research. Sceptics saw this proved that psi doesn't exist and
earlier studies had some unidentified methological weakness. Others
saw that so called failings in the study can be due to insufficient
measures in those research and if psi exist also researchers mind must
take into cinsideration as part of circumstances. Althought both sides
had a opinion that Ganzfeld has most remarkable method in the
parapsychology and many saw also that additional research needed.
16. 7. 1999: French general's COMETA-re****t published. It concentrated
to UFO phenomena relations to national defense. Re****t was result of
the work of prestigious COMETA-group, nominated by defence forces in
1995. Re****t's conclusion is that the extraterrestrial (ET) hypothesis
is in some UFO cases only sensible explanation and it evaluated, what
kind of things humand kind should be prepared in the future related to
UFO phenomena.
November 1999: Montague Keen, David Fontana and Arthur Ellison
published re****t from they and their collagues studies in Scole,
England, where happened most remarkable events of modern physical
medium****p.
From year 2000
February 2001: Sam Parnia's study about near death experiences (NDE)
published in presitigious Resuscitation journal, where Parnia proved
that hypothesis of real exosomatic state need to be taked seriously
and research should to be contiuned. Over two years later Peter
Fenwick started NDE research, which have – because of its clever
measures – chance to decisive prove related to this hypothesis.
May 2001: Philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom published his
famous simulation-argument and its basic idea released at same time
also in the Finland. As a result of this discovery, hypothesis that we
actually living in the simulation had giving totally new standpoint to
research of paranormal phenomena.
8. 5. 2003: University of Lund in Sweden released to open the Chair of
parapsychology and hypnology.
August 2003: Scientist in United States noticed that they can't find a
match from any identified animal when they study DNA in the furs of
Yeti kind animal, which locals claimet to saw in the Sumatra.
29. 9. 2003: Group called Yellow Bamboo released to pass preliminary
test of the million dollar challenge of James Randi by prove they
claimed paranormal abilities to deputy of Randi's fund in the
Philippines. After the sensational news Randi plead to little
technical weaknesses in the film from the event and disqualify the
result. However Randi released that group is welcomed to actual test
to the Florida, unlike in 1999 when he hadn't want to test claimed
noneating man. If Yellow Bamboo got the moneys for the Florida's trip,
it is sure that the many followed if group beated Randi himself.
20. 12. 2003: In the Hampton Court Palace, which claimed to be
haunted, security camera got a film from the strange human form who
opened the closed side door and then vanish, also from the local
security guard.
January 2004: At 1977 opened UFO Research Centre GEPAN, which was
replaced for the wider department SEPRA (Service d' Expertise des
Phénomenes de Rentrées Atmosphériques) in 1988, ordered to close. At
the same finished also activities of UFO research network, which was
covered the French police forces. Similar destiny had to undergo also
other governmental UFO research projects in the USA and UK.
2.9.2004: SETI@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
–project (Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
told to find possible signal from extraterrestrial intelligence. News
grow into World media, which rised much speculations where ET-contact
has told almost sure. Enthusianism decrease soon when researchers
noticed that the "signal" was only thing what was got into manual
check from the computer sieve, not absolutely sure ET-contact. Signal
don't get any sure explanation in the manual examinations, but seems
probably that it isn't ET-contat or if it was, that hadn't very good
quality for that. Scientists think this relatively short signal was
probably an accidental puls of information, whose are very likely in
great mass of random data. Modern SETI-research had been done from
1960-ies to present days and SETI-projects are sometimes received
similar unexplained signals, whose don't be repeated. This wasn't
first, and it will probably be also last time when those signal
candidate rised the World media as a news duck.
27.10.2004 Researchers found new human species named Homo Floriensis.
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