Here is a story which mobilized the police, the authorities and the University where mechanics and psychologists would have been more useful ... And the anecdote illustrates well the crazy drifts in which the human brain is capable of going astray.
It is the spring of 1954, on the northwest coast of the United States.
A worrying phenomenon emerges: Car owners report small holes, pits and dents in their windshields.
It started in Bellingham, 40 km north of Seattle, and then spreads south, says Alan J. Stein at historylink.org, an online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
The police initially believe in acts of vandalism, roadblocks are set up, soldiers are looking for the culprits in a nearby naval air base where cars riddled with these mysterious holes have been discovered.
On the morning of April 14, a Seattle daily put the strange phenomenon on the front page, and everything got carried away: on the night of 14 to 15
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