John Geiger says that many people who experience the Third Man explain it as a religious experience.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

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