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|    Skywatcher to MrPosti...@kymhorsell.com    |
|    Re: a model of UFO navigation -- where a    |
|    10 Feb 22 09:43:48    |
   
   From: jimmyw836@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 8:17:55 PM UTC-5, MrPosti...@kymhorsell.com   
   wrote:   
   > 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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