From the other perspective.
There is a similar story told from the vantage point of the pilot in John Gribbin's book, "Timewarps," pg 158 in the hardbound edition, concerning Sir Victor Goddard, an aviator who in 1935 while flying an open cockpit aircraft in rain and cloud lost control and nearly crashed. He leveled out just before hitting the ground, and suddenly found himself flying in bright sunlight. He then flew across the Drem Airfield near Edinburgh, which at the time was supposedly a relic (read abandoned) of WWI. Goddard saw the field bustling with activity. Just as suddenly as it began, the vision vanished, and Goddard found himself flying in rain and cloud again.
<<< I am an amateur string theorist, among my passions is the study of the manifestation of physical reality and the structure of the universe. The following is an abstraction from my personal theory concerning such matters, on which I have given considerable thought over the years. >>>
I do not believe any of the conjectures put forth in the book "Timewarps" to explain these mysterious transgressions of time and space, but I do not disbelieve the testimony of the witnesses either. I believe such things can and do happen on occasion, however I think the answer lies in the possibility of the universe having multiple "canned" QM histories from which it may select the pathing of objects in the time-like dimension. As creatures who exhibit some measure of free will, we have a great deal more power to select our pathing in space-time based upon the course of action we choose to follow than an inanimate object would. We could regard ourselves as "fuzzy" quantum objects. If the universe does not contain an appropriate QM history that roughly corresponds to our choices, we may find ourselves in the position of creating a new QM history for ourselves. Likewise, we may find ourselves temporarily *transgressing a QM history which is incompatible with our own, at least until the machinery of the universe figures out that there has been a "glitch," and takes steps to correct it, or re-normalize the errant QM object into an appropriate and compatible QM history. A great number of seemingly paranormal occurrances can be explained by this "canned QM histories" approach. Another nice feature of the canned histories approach is that there are no violations of the fundamental conservation laws, whereas the "many worlds" approach to QM is perpetually violating all conservation laws by spontaneously "creating" new universes for every course of action possible. In the "canned histories" approach I suggest, only one history is selected and actualized at a time for any given QM object, which avoids the need to fabricate a new universe to accomodate every errant object. The downside is, occasionally there is a "glitch" in which a "fuzzy" QM object (such as you or I) makes an unsupportable choice and finds itself *transgressing into a realm that is incompatible with our collection of memories and experiences. But, the conservation laws remain intact, and given the choice between "borrowing" an incompatible history briefly, or violating the foundation laws of the universe, I think the universe opts for the former. So, we get some "quantum weirdness" manifesting in the "real world." (i.e. teleportations, temporal transgressions, live frogs entombed in stone, spontaneous human combustion, vanishings, miraculous appearances, rains of objects, phantoms, etc...) I personally feel it makes the "real world" a much more interesting place to be. Strange things can and do happen; free will, random action, QM and the housekeeping functions of the universe are probably to blame in many cases. Unfortunately, even though QM is an established feature of the universe, few people incorporate it in their paradigm of day to day reality, so these odd phenomena do not get the attention and credibility they deserve in mainstream science.
*(These transgressions are frequently accompanied by the sudden onslaught of a deep sense of opression, depression, or the feeling that the universe has somehow "split in two," depending on the interpretation of the victim/witness.)
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I'm afraid it may seem a bit dry by comparison, but its aimed at "serious" (read as "lacking imagination") investigators.