As it turned out, it was apparently the likeliest of Internet phenomena: a prank.
Among the phenomena a news release for the show promises will be explored: "airborne fish".
"They researched these phenomena a lot, and they weren't all wrong," Mr. Moore noted.
Both were great observers, attuned to perceiving in familiar phenomena a significance that had escaped almost everyone else.
Hold your breath for a second, before this rarest of phenomena: a film as quiet as a tomb.
Most of the pieces begin as reports of natural phenomena – a lunar eclipse, famously – but Dillard is an observer of a distinctly philosophical or metaphysical bent.
In the 22nd minute he dribbled down the right before setting up that rarest of phenomena, a shot on target from Mikel.
Leibniz claimed that mental events were neither causes nor effects of any physical events they were simply "synchronized" by God with physical phenomena, a view known as "parallelism".
Played by Mr. Hoffman, he is the red-haired, round-faced, charismatic founder of that most Californian of phenomena, a psychologically sophisticated, and manipulative, cult.
I should say "if," because the first two Series here were prolonged by natural phenomena: a Biblical rainstorm in 1962 and a deadly earthquake in 1989.
Collections of stunningly odd phenomena — a unicorn horn (actually, a narwhal tusk), say, or a two-headed fetus, along with stuffed exotic animals and rare plant and mineral specimens — beggared comprehension, pending the triumph of scientific study.
