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   I've been looking more through some of the data for a random selection   
   of fairly remote objects in the solar system.  The 18 obj in my   
   initial set show possible unusual apparent magnitude changes now and then.   
      
   We are talking really dim objects but still visible from Keck that   
   tends to look in on known asteroids and comets often enough to get a   
   day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour plot of various parameters   
   including apparent brightness.   
      
   I've put these numbers for daily observations from 2006-2022 through a   
   program that spots unexpected changes in levels.  Essentially a fancy   
   filter that lets gradual day to day changes slide but when something   
   dims or brightens way more than normal over the space of days then the   
   plot twitches above/below a straight line.   
      
   The plots for the collection are at .   
      
   As the comment says, some of the objects show the limit sensitivity of   
   the instrument involves with parallel bands of values across the plot.   
   I.e. daily variations are more or less random noise that fall into   
   several "quanta" of measurement.   
      
   Other plots show a gradual brightening or dimming with anomalous   
   values starting way off the 0 ("normal") line and converging with 0   
   toward the rhs of the plot. This may (or may not :) be associated with   
   peri or aphelion of the relevant object. These things have an A of   
   >1000 AU and (therefore ;) high eccentricity. So approaching max or   
   min distance might tend to become a bit non-linear and therefore peak   
   the interest of my filter program at that point.   
      
   Yet other plots suggest short periods where there was a large   
   anomalous brightening and/or dimming of the relevant object.  But even   
   some of the other types show some points above or below the normal   
   noise levels that might be something interesting.   
      
   We have to ask ourselves what might change the apparent mag of an   
   asteroid or comet way out there past Pluto just one or 2 times in the   
   past 20y and only over a space of several days.   
      
   There would probably be a long list of possible things.  But on the   
   "special interest" list is something related to Our Friends From   
   Frolix 8 (TM; not necessarily friendly).   
      
   In other work I'm starting to see strong correlations between the   
   movements of some distant objects are "certain activity" reported   
   inside the Earth's atmosphere. Would it not be interesting if the   
   timing of some of these "glints" or whatever way out there in the   
   solar system coincided with that Earth-based activity (or basically   
   anything related to Earth e.g. cosmic rays, weather or temperature   
   variations at the poles).   
      
   Some people are looking for "tech signatures" around distant stars.   
   Some are even looking for the same kind of thing inside the solar   
   system.  (And of course some are checking out LEO).   
      
   Wouldn't it be interesting if some of these glints are signs of some   
   kind of tech in action way out there in the solar system.   
      
   Number crunching and data snaffling proceeds...   
      
   --   
   But what is true and I'm actually being serious here, is there are, there's   
   footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what   
   they are, We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not   
   have an easily explainable pattern.   
   -- Pres Barack Obama, "The Late Show", 2021   
      
   [Stigma:]   
   UFO encounter with US Navy warship was RIPPED OUT of ship's logbook after   
   mass sighting by 200 sailors, says witness   
   The Sun, 09 Jul 2022 10:25Z   
   US NAVY sailors were allegedly told to rip pages out of a warship's record   
   book detailing an encounter with a 40ft ball of ...   
      
   Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher proposes a secure mechanism for reporting UFO   
   activity   
   Washington Times, 08 Jul 2022 14:29Z   
   Rep. Mike Gallagher wants to set up a special reporting mechanism for   
   soldiers, contractors and others who want to report ...   
   [At present reporting UFO's even to the Pentagon's UFO unit could   
   result in jail for contravening NDA's that are part of employment or   
   service contracts.  The proposed laws would also ban retribution from   
   bosses or commanders, as the case may be].   
      
   My D-Day veteran grandfather was killed while chasing a UFO in his fighter   
   plane - it was covered up & we want answers   
   The Sun, 07 Jul 2022 10:08Z   
   THOMAS Mantell was a 25-year-old war hero when he was killed in a plane   
   crash after being scrambled to chase down a UFO - and almost 75 years on his   
   family are still desperate for answers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)