That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

What happened finally, is that the press got wind of this and the scientific evidence grew to such a large mass that the evidence was pretty overwhelming, and then finally, government took action on this.

最终是先由新闻界得到风声,然后科学依据如雨后春笋般涌现,强而有力,势不可挡,最后终于让政府按耐不住,开始行动

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