Proven phenomena?

Unexplained what? Wikipedia would go a very long way toward explaining much of that "unexplainable".Just a couple, off the top of my head:Sprites and jets are electrical discharges, like lightning, except they point up, not down."The Sirius Mystery", I presume, refers to Sirius being called a red star in some ancient Egyptian document. The only time the Egyptians were deeply interested in Sirius was when it rose before the Sun to signal the time for the Nile to flood. When celestial objects are near a clear horizon, they often look red: witness the Sun or the Moon. Sirius is no different - its blue light gets scattered nore than its red. So a "red Sirius" was what the Egyptians were looking for. The every-night white Sirius that was high in the southern sky was visible over half the year. A red Sirius before sunrise was important!

My guess is that an intrepid researcher of fundamentalist missionary stories could find this same story attributed to both places, as well as to "Africa." Generic "africa," not a specific country. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Off-topic banner.

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD