EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   
   - The data from (so far) 3000 stars being monitored for planetary   
   transits by the TESS space telescope have been stitched together to   
   form a movie of the whole sky.   
   - The sky is divided into 10x10 grid squares and several TESS stars   
   assigned to each square. The central flux is normalised to av=0 and   
   sd=0 and averaged for each square. The squares are assigned a color   
   value depending on "average anomaly" for each 2.4 hr period between   
   2018 and 2022 and the resulting 13k frames plotted, along with letters   
   for the positions of key planets.   
   - The resulting plot shows unusual large-area coordinated variations   
   in light intensity from the stars under observation. In particular   
   large regions with linear or line-like shapes appear from time to   
   time.  It's calculated even 5 dark squares from the characteristics of   
   the data should only show up around 20 times in 1 mn frames.  But   
   they show up dozens of times here in ~13k frames.   
   - Other patterns include regions of coordinated brightening of dozens   
   of stars under observation by TESS.  Since the stars are very distance   
   from each other we are forced to conclude such brightening may   
   represent bright objects that have briefly (or longer) passed between   
   the remove stars and the TESS telescope.   
   - Further rough calculations show some of the phenomena seen may   
   represent objects between the earth and moon travelling laterally   
   around 100 km/sec. Objects much further away than the moon might be   
   travelling slower. Objects closer to earth -- e.g. the 1000 km   
   observed by a group of Ukrainian astronomers in Kiev -- would indicate   
   a much higher speed 10x higher i.e. 1000 km/sec, a value comparable to   
   one they calculated for an object seen moving against the background   
   sky around 1000 km above the earth.   
      
      
   In an earlier post we looked at how light curves for 1000s of stars   
   targeted for planetary transit by the TESS space telescope also tend   
   to show variations that also appear in UFO activity as reported to the NUFORC.   
      
   As many stars brighten and dim according to the TESS data that has   
   been orbiting between earth and moon between from 2018 there is a   
   strong statistical correlation between the measured flux and certain   
   types of activity, particularly objects spotted over N Am and   
   described as "pale" or "pink".   
      
   We might interpret this as something blocking or enhancing the normal   
   flux from these stars, perhaps by an object that is moving between the   
   distant star and the TESS telescope. Some objects may be dark while   
   others seem to be brighter than the background of space.   
      
   These observations are similar to a report from a group of   
   astronomers at the Ukrainian Central Observatory that used a linked   
   pair of meteor cameras to image and measure objects seen at altitudes   
   up to 1000 km and moving at speeds from 5 to 300 km/sec.  They report   
   some of "many" objects were dark and others brighter than the   
   background of space or even the moon. Their observations were carried   
   out during daylight over central Ukraine.   
      
   As a next step we have created some movies that plot the anomalous   
   brightness of each section of sky seen by TESS over the period   
   2018-2022.  The sky is divided up into 10x10 deg grid squares and TESS   
   observations for several stars assigned to each grid. The flux of each   
   star is normalised to avg==0 and sd==1 before each square is averaged   
   over the time interval. Then each square is graphed on a density plot   
   and the sequence of frames at 2.4 hr granularity. The positions of the   
   moon, sun, key outer planets and an approx location of the Earth as   
   seen from TESS (other objects are located according to JPL's Horizons   
   s/w as seen from Mauna Kea) to see whether any "patterns" seem to   
   visually relate to a given planet or other bright object that may be   
   in the same section of sky as an "anomaly".   
      
   The first plot uses the TESS "central aperture" flux values for each   
   of the stars in its planetary transit "hit list".  The central pixel   
   shows only the star in question.  A second plot has been prepared of   
   the "background" around each star in the list.   
      
   Both plots show highly unusual patterns seemingly similar to those   
   seen by the Ukrainian astronomers.   
      
   We see long periods (of several days :) where "nothing is happening".   
   But then there are short periods where whole sections of sky seem to   
   go dark or bright in patterns that seem similar to lines.   
   Calculations show 5 adjacent squares (of 10x10 deg) should only become   
   anomalously bright or anomalously dark 20 times in 1 mn frames.   
   With moves around 13000 frames (i.e. 2.4-hour periods between   
   2018-2020) dozens of frames show line-like patterns dozens of times.   
   Dark areas seem to extent over many adjacent squares -- sometimes 100s   
   of adjacent squares -- mostly all going anomalously dark around the   
   same time in a period of sometimes hours and sometimes days.   
   Remember, each gird square contains several stars so the patterns   
   indicate "for some reason" 100s of stars have on average gone   
   anomalously dark (or bright) around the same time and then flipped   
   back to average flux also around the same time.   
      
   We might strongly suspect some object or possibly large groups of   
   objects possibly between the earth and the moon have passed between   
   TESS and the remote stars under observation.   
      
   Further calculations are underway to estimate the distance/size   
   relationship they may be responsible for the patterns of dimming and   
   brightening.  The dimming patterns might be assumed to be a dark or   
   near-black object or objects coming between a series of remote stars   
   and the telescope.  The angular size of e.g. the sun at 10 LY is   
   around .002 arc seconds.  From the% of flux that is "blocked"   
   we can calculate the angular size of an hypothetical object and then   
   plot its size vs suspected distance -- possible using the "average" distance   
   between objects in the earth-moon region (e.g. ~200k km) as a yardstick.   
      
   From the extent of dark regions seen periodically on the plots we can   
   also make estimates of at least the bounds of object lateral speed.   
   Roughly, if we see a dark region 100 deg wide over a period of 1 hour   
   we might roughly estimate a group of objects maybe 200,000 km away are   
   moving laterally around 100 km/sec -- slower if further away and   
   possibly much faster if closer.   
      
   The initial release of a detailed density plot based on the anomalous   
   changes seen in the central flux of groups of stars in 10x10 deg grids   
   across the sky, along with letters noting the positions of the sun (S)   
   and key planets are at .  The current   
   size of the movie has blown out to 30 MB and runs for several minutes.   
      
   A 2nd plot involving the "background flux" from around several stars   
   assigned to each grid square will be uploaded in the next day or two.   
   Further preliminary analysis of that plot will be posted later.  A   
   preliminary preliminary description is that it shows the same general   
   things the central flux anomaly shows but even more-so.   
      
      
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