EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   
   - Some NASA videos show unusual glowing and gyrating objects --   
     dubbed "space worms" -- apparently seen in LEO.   
   - We look for similar descriptions in UFO databases and find about a   
     dozen reports that could be a similar thing, but inside the atm. We   
     of course cant be sure they are the same thing as depicted in the   
     videos.   
   - An AI s/w compares the appearances of the rare "sky worms" with   
     1000s of public data series and concludes the distance of Saturn   
     from the Earth (or the sun) "looks closest" to the pattern of worm   
     sightings.  If Saturn is nearer the sun and/or nearer Earth the   
     sightings of "sky worms" are significantly more common.   
   - Warming of the Antarctic has another stat sig effect on worm   
     sightings.  The warmer the ocean nr Pine Island seems the lower the   
     chance of someone reporting a sky worm.   
      
      
   Generally the program "NASA Unexplained Files" breaks down into 3   
   categories. Nothingburger. Total hype. Heard It.  But like UFO reports   
   about 10% of the segments in the program are interesting and something   
   I hadn't heard.  So color me awake after an ep shown here in AUS   
   recently featured (2) sightings of "space worms".   
      
   At first the clips seemed to be mundane. A brightly glowing object was   
   showing gyrating in freefall. No idea of scale but the voiceover   
   implied it was in the 1m range. At first sight they looked like a   
   glowing segment of hoop off a barrel. Rotations on more than one axis   
   deceptively made it look like what otherwise seemed to be a solid   
   piece of metal was wiggling.   
      
   But then you have to ask. Why the heck is it rotating so randomly?  In   
   freefall it can spin around an axis or 2 but you'd imagine it should   
   be at a constant rate and there should be no sudden changes of   
   principal axis. Maybe it was getting "blown" by thruster exhaust or   
   something. But why was it not being pushed?  How could a thruster make   
   it chance axis of rotation (only)?  The objects in question didn't   
   seem to understand basic physics. And after a couple mins maybe it   
   seemed each object -- I think one was seen from the ISS and one was   
   seen from a shuttle -- was really squirming and twisting.   
      
   Anyway. Odd.  So I had to look at objects in the NUFORC database that   
   seemed to be a simpler kind of thing, but seen in the atm. And there   
   were some.   
      
   We've looked at "sky snakes" in a previous post. Some of those were   
   quite large. More like "sky dragons". But the search this time has to   
   include a term like "worm" and words like "bright" and   
   "squirming". The search found about a dozen reports that matched.   
      
      
   Year		Number of "bright wiggling worms" (NUFORC)   
    1951         1   
    1984         1   
    2006         1   
    2007         1   
    2009         1   
    2010         1   
    2012         1   
    2015         1   
    2019         1   
    2020         1   
      
   As we might have expected with the conjunction of keywords in the   
   match there are only a few cases. Maybe too few to analyze? The s/w   
   says nope, it's enough.  By judicious transformations and adjustments   
   it found a lot of statistically robust hits.   
      
   The first thing the programs did was transform from an "amplitude" to   
   "time" domain -- the time between events. It can then interpolate to   
   get missing values over the period 1950-2020. And as an extra buffer   
   against spurious correlations it de-trended the result to make sure   
   something that simply had a trend matching the maybe-decreasing   
   interval between worm sightings would show up as significant.   
      
   After some think time the list of data series in its database that   
   seemed to "look like" the interval between worm sightings was:   
      
      
   Data series		Lag(y)		R2   
   minsaturn-rg		3		0.60017680   
   maxsaturn-r		3		0.58663540   
   saturn-RA		6		0.40759873   
   ant-110			5		0.33723232   
   storms-60		6		0.32789591   
   minpluto-elong		4		0.27958512   
   arc-20			2		0.21851052   
   ufo-Fireball		3		0.17982348   
   n2o_smo			6		0.15996883   
   co2			6		0.13157377   
   maxaravgNTemp		6		0.12885376   
   stormseg-90		2		0.12703668   
   ch4			2		0.12043987   
   ufo-Flash		3		0.10755787   
   minuah_lsSoPolLand	3		0.09677787   
   ufo-OR			1		0.09244783   
   maxgreenland		2		0.08791635   
   minaravgEquat		1		0.06784570   
   maxxflare		2		0.06393038   
   sdaravgNHocean		4		0.04810107   
   nh			2		0.04202290   
      
   So the "best explanation" it found was the annual minimum distance   
   between Saturn and Earth ("the geocentric range", rg) delayed by 3   
   years. The model shows that for each AU Saturn is closer to Earth   
   during a year the next "sky worm" is seen around 4 years sooner than   
   average between sightings (about every 7 years).   
      
   The 2nd item in the table, above, says the next most important   
   explanatory factor is the distance between Saturn and the sun.  That   
   model also shows for each AU closer Saturn's max distance from the sun   
   over a year the next sighting of a "worm" is around 4 years sooner   
   than average.   
      
   The magnitude of the correlation and the lag for both of the best   
   cases is the same. There's nothing like getting the same result with 2   
   different sets of data -- even if they both belong to the same planet. :)   
      
   The 3rd place in the table is also about Saturn -- it's apparent   
   position in the sky this time.   
      
   In 4th place is the sea surface temperature at approx the longitude of   
   Pine Island in Antarctica. That model suggests for each deg C warmer   
   the ocean surface in that region is the time to the next sighting of a   
   worm is increased by 16 years -- the equivalent of Saturn moving 4 AU   
   further away.   
      
   Finally, it seems Fireball UFO's have some effect on worm sightings.   
   For each Fireball seen (in the NUFORC database) the interval to the   
   next worm sighting is increased slightly. Either "worms" and   
   Fireball's are "the same thing" and either identified as one or the   
   other, or maybe Fireballs scare away "sky worms".   
      
   Other factors down the list have a quickly diminishing influence on   
   the sightings.   
      
   The correlations suggest these objects may be drifting from or via   
   Saturn and possibly take several years to make the journey.  Falling   
   into the Earth's atmosphere at the end of the trip might seem   
   natural. But how they might be (if they are indeed the seem kind of   
   thing) the glowing objects seen in the NASA videos -- apparently in   
   Earth orbit -- is another puzzle.   
      
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