Summary of article posted to other group.   
      
   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   
   - In a similar way to modeling UFO interplanetary movements to   
     "explain" the rise and fall of sightings over time, we can use the   
     distance from putative bases on earth to predict the sighting   
     density of objects across e.g. the USA.   
   - Assuming the sighting density per state population is related to   
     some power of the distance from given points on earth, we can locate   
     a small number of points where these models are both statistically   
     relevant at high confidence and also explain a large part of the   
     state-to-state differences in sightings.   
   - For Triangle UFO's (as an example) the pre 2006 and post 2006 data   
     from the NUFORC database allows us to double check the relevant   
     "best models". They are found to both include regions along the   
     Antarctic coast as well as small areas along the Arctic coast.  No   
     other points on earth explain all the data.   
   - We find the power law in the "best case" relating straight-line   
     ("great circle") distance from the Antarctic to each US state is a   
     power of around 4. I.e. the states *further* from the particular   
     site in the Antarctic see more sightings per cap than those closer.   
   - This not only implies the objects are not appearing randomly over   
     the US like a bunch of tourists, but there appears to be a   
     considerable amount of loitering over the relevant destination   
     areas.   
   - The data is consistent with Triangles flying direct to certain   
     areas they find interesting and loitering longer on average in   
     regions further from their "home base" than those closer.   
      
   (Other posted articles at ).   
      
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