phenomena

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Among the decades-worth of reports released in the files are dozens of individual claims of sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Another file summarizes statements from seven federal government employees who separately reported "several unidentified anomalous phenomena" in the United States in 2023.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Scientists can now investigate phenomena linked to high-energy physics and astrophysics, including black-hole thermodynamics and entanglement entropy scaling, within a laboratory setting.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Heuristics is the fancy term for the human readiness to shove phenomena into categories into which they don’t quite fit, mainly to economize on mental effort.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

In this book on human population movements since the end of the Ice Ages, the Austronesian expansion occupies a central place, as one of the most important phenomena to be explained.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond