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   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   
   - In the on-going hunt for (remote) locations with a strong connection   
     with observed UFO activity, we look at daily sea surface   
     temperatures correlated against daily UFO sightings.   
   - All major strong correlations lay in the S Hem in approx the 40S   
     band.  The strongest responses are found in a region around Easter Is.   
   - The only significant response from the N Hem is "Atlantis" -- a   
     point equi-distant from N Am, Europe and Greenland.   
   - On the Antarctic coast the only significant response is a volcanic   
     coastal region so remote it remains unclaimed by any country.   
      
      
   We've seen in previous posts that UFO activity seems to vary as sea-ice   
   changes in certain key areas of the Arctic.  They strength of the   
   association from place to place across the polar region seems to pick   
   out a path between N Russia and the NW of N America.   
      
   We can imagine that if at least some UFO's represent a group of   
   ultra-terrestrials that are based underwater around the N pole then   
   thick sea ice might affect their travel plans between home and remote   
   parts of the world they may be inclined to visit.  There is a simple   
   "mental model" that relates sea-ice and any change we might see in UFO   
   sighting data. More ice == harder travel.   
      
   This kind of relationship might be expected in other location-based   
   data e.g. cloud cover, temperature, rainfall, etc albeit it might be   
   harder to see why some of these might be inclined to affect how many   
   sightings of various objects are seen across N Am or other parts of   
   the world.   
      
   But if a strong correlation exists and seems localized to a small part   
   of the world some such affect is likely to be operating regardless of   
   whether the causal chain is obvious.   
      
   The patterns of which regions "light up" might still be informative   
   and/or look like patterns we have already seen. Enough of this and we   
   might suspect the regions where local weather effects seem to robustly   
   predict changes in UFO sightings some time later *might* be associated   
   with bases of operation of Our Friends (TM; not necessarily our friends).   
      
   We've looked at daily seaice data (as proxied by radar returns to   
   orbiting satellites). Let's take a look at sea surface temperatures as   
   measured by orbiting infra-red detecting satellites. These are similar   
   to radar data available on a daily basis. I scrounge mine from the   
   Australian BoM and have daily measurements from pole to pole since 2015.   
      
   As per the NOAA radar data this work will involve pixel-picking to   
   create a sea surface temperature time series for each small region of   
   the world, then robustly correlating each series against daily UFO   
   sightings (as usual I'm using the NUFORC data here).   
      
   Similarly with other data crunching of this type, the s/w is tuned to   
   discard suspicious-looking inputs rather than try to correct or   
   interpolate from other "quality" datapoints. If a region seems to be   
   suspiciously constant over the period 2015-2020 it will be ignored and   
   a "zero correlation" returned for that region to put on our summary map.   
      
   The results are available at . The page shows   
   a typical SST chart from the BoM along with the "correlation map" that   
   shows how each area (giant grid squares of around 2500 km in lng by   
   1250 km in lat) relate to the UFO sightings series. The R2's of the   
   relevant time-series regressions range from 0 through 80%. From the   
   map we can see the peak responses occur in a band around the "Roaring   
   40s" in the S Hem.  Some interesting responses also occur in a small   
   region of Antarctica.   
      
   The largest corr occurs in a patch of the S Pac apparently surrounding   
   Easter Island.   
      
   One of the few interesting areas that light up in the N Hem is a point   
   apparently equidistant from N Am, Europe and Greenland.   
      
   None of the big responses seem to come from inside the N polar circle   
   which might be a surprise considering how strongly that region   
   responded in respect of variations in sea ice. But the reason is   
   mundane -- the SST readings very far north or very far south are few   
   and far between and mostly get filled in by historical averages   
   because daily satellite data from those areas is thin on the ground.   
   Hence the SST series for polar regions, at least from this data   
   source, don't really represent daily SST at all. So there is no real   
   prospect it will correlate with data on UFO activity.  I was kinda   
   surprised the small red area showed up on the Antarctic coast (seems   
   to approx coastal and volcanic/mountainous section of Marie Byrd Land   
   -- an area so remote even by Antarctic standards it remains unclaimed   
   by any country).   
      
   --   
   Apophis, a Feared Future Earth Impactor, Just Flew Past Us   
   The Debrief, 8 Mar 2021   
   In 2004 when Apophis was initially discovered, astronomers were   
   concerned about its possible trajectory, which appeared to put it on a   
   collision course with Earth. Fortunately, the more than 300-meter-wide   
   space rock was detected early enough that we had time to prepare: the   
   possible impact wasn't expected to occur until 2029.   
   Based on existing data collected by NASA, the threat of a 2029 impact   
   with Apophis was eventually ruled out. Although its 2029 passage will   
   be close at just under 20,000 miles from Earth--placing its path   
   between Earth and the Moon--it is not believed that the asteroid will   
   represent a threat at that time.   
      
   Remote C.I.A. Base in the Sahara Steadily Grows   
   The New York Times, 09 Mar 2021 0:42Z   
   Washington. Deep in the Sahara, the C.I.A. is continuing to conduct secret   
   drone flights from a small but steadily expanding air base, even as the Biden   
   ...   
      
   Rare meteorite chunk traced by scientists to Gloucestershire driveway   
   The Guardian, 09 Mar 2021 01:20Z   
   'Dream come true' to locate first carbonaceous chondrite seen in UK, part of   
   fireball that caused sonic boom.   
      
   More contagious variant of COVID-19 found to be widespread in Houston   
   wastewater, city health officials say   
   KPRC Click2Houston, 09 Mar 2021 0:19Z   
   Houston. The Houston Health Dept announced Mon the UK   
   variant (B.1.1.7) of the virus that causes COVID-19 was found in most of the   
   city's ...   
      
   4.6-bn-year-old meteorite belongs to Earth's long-lost baby cousin   
   Livescience.com, 08 Mar 2021 21:25Z   
   A lonely meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than   
   Earth. The primeval space rock is about 4.6 bn years old, and is the   
   oldest known ...   
      
   Neanderthals disappeared from Europe earlier than thought, says study   
   Phys.org, 08 Mar 2021 22:25Z   
   Neanderthal fossils from a cave in Belgium believed to belong to the last   
   survivors of their species ever discovered in Europe are 1000s of years   
   older than ...   
      
   Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies   
   The New York Times, 08 Mar 2021 17:24Z   
   A few years ago, Sayaka Mitoh, a Ph.D. candidate at Nara Women's University   
   in Japan, was perusing her lab's vast collection of sea slugs when she   
   stumbled ...   
      
   Insatiable demand for cannabis has created a giant carbon footprint   
   Phys.org, 08 Mar 2021 16:22Z   
   It's no secret that the United States' $13 bn cannabis industry is big   
      
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