Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic  From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search     Several theories
for the widespread damage were postulated:    • Some thought
that a new million watt radio transmitter installed by the Navy
was producing waves that caused physical oscillations in glass;
• Some believed it to be the work of cosmic rays;   • Some
reporting seeing glass bubble form right before their eyes,
believing it to be the work of sand fleas;   • Some attributed
it to a shift in the Earth's magnetic field;   • Others blamed
supernatural phenomena such as "gremlins."[citation needed]
The "Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic" as it is called has
become a textbook case of collective delusion (not "mass
hysteria" as reported).[2] Although natural windshield pitting
had been going on for some time, it was only when the media
called public attention to it that people actually looked at
their windshields and saw damage they had never noticed before.
1. ^ Robert Bartholomew and Er