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Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

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The TLDR cause was:

The windshield pitting epidemic was a case of collective delusion, where heightened awareness, media influence, and misattributed environmental factors led people to notice and misinterpret existing, ordinary damage as a mysterious phenomenon.

Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

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The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".

Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

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The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".

This happens all the time. See: drone sightings right now. Previously: Havana syndrome.
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