XPost: alt.ufo.reports   
   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In alt.ufo.reports MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com wrote:   
   > There are 3 types of volcano.   
   > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   
   > - Similar to a prev study, we look at the distribution of UFO sightings   
   >  from the major ~50 volcanoes across the USA.   
   > - Surprisingly the volcanoes break down into 3 groups.  (a) Those have   
   >  have "no effect". (b) Those that attract UFO sightings with a power   
   >  law around r^(-.25). (c) Those that repel UFO sightings with a   
   >  power law around sqrt(r).   
   > - We've seen the sqrt(r) law before with respect to US AFB.  It can be   
   >  interpreted to mean someone is wary of something flying under   
   >  continuous acceleration (transit time proportional to sqrt(r)) like   
   >  a missile. Or another UFO.   
   > - The power law r^(-.25) is a bit of a puzzle. It doesn't exactly jive   
   >  with some volcanoes being "home bases" for UFO activity.  That   
   >  would be r^(-2). It may suggest UFO's have a flying pattern that   
   >  weights longer distances approximately r^1.75.  Why that pattern is   
   >  not obvious. But if you have access to machinery that can   
   >  super-cruise all day long you probably don't use much it to cruise   
   >  your own street.   
   ...   
      
   While I'm here I'll add this addendum.   
      
   I had an unusual visit today. Not only does it take some gumption to   
   drive 50 mi into Australia's "virus central" region to visit,   
   but the visitor was a mathematician and also not totally dismissive   
   of UFO's, esp in light of recent publications in TIME which he seems   
   to read. :)   
      
   We were talking about this mathematical model that seems to suggest   
   some volcanoes seem to "repel" UFO sightings.   
      
   He immed suspected the modeling s/w had just latched onto   
   one group of volcanoes, that happen to mostly be off the main AK coast,   
   and assigned them a special property and the idea they were   
   different from the US48 volcanoes that seemed to have a different   
   "law of attraction".   
      
   So I had to cook up something fast. And the first thing worked.   
   Running the model backwards you can ask according to the UFO sightings   
   data where would volcanoes that seem to repel sightings be?   
   The sightings data scattered over the US landscape is like charges creating   
   an electric field, where in the field are the repellant bits?   
      
   So running the model backwards we plotted out where the repellant   
   volcanoes would most likely be.   
      
   They all turned out to be around Alaska.   
      
   So it's not that the AI simply got distracted by the latitude   
   of some volcanoes and assigned them a special property by mistake,   
   the whole region up there has this property. Plus a couple of other odd   
   cases in Oregon and Hawaii.   
      
      
   The plot is here .   
   The green crosses are the locations that "should" have a UFO-repellant   
   volcano according to how the total distribution of UFO sightings   
   lays, and the blue cirles are where they are actually located.   
      
   Reasonable match.   
      
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