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   I've been seeing a few of these things lately:   
      
     Air Crash With Plane And UFO Is 'Only A Matter Of Time', Claims Politician   
     brudirect, 14 Aug 2022 07:09Z   
     Tim Burchett said a crash was 'only a matter of time' ...   
      
   But we have to probably understand what they're talking about is   
   "acknowledgement" rather than "happening".   
      
   Looking at UFO and air-crash per capita across US states since the data   
   began in the 70s sees this pattern:   
      
   States like:		#UFOsightings	air crash    Model   
   			per mn cap	per mn cap   
   Texas                     139.138      1.09214    -0.931167   
   Louisiana                 162.287      4.06789  -0.00450189   
   Mississippi               175.783      3.34187     0.535749   
   Alabama                   192.158      2.32627      1.19125   
   Virginia                  215.338      1.54621      2.11915   
   Tennessee                 233.777      1.21207      2.85728   
   Iowa                      255.565      2.35847      3.72946   
   Massachusetts             270.127      2.13314      4.31238   
   Wisconsin                 285.096      1.38372       4.9116   
   South.Dakota              310.946      2.39391      5.94639   
   Hawaii                     335.63      13.1523       6.9345   
   South.Carolina            351.185      1.57674      7.55717   
   Nevada                    371.864      8.30207      8.38496   
   Connecticut               401.693       3.8153      9.57903   
   Rhode.Island              421.283      4.73351      10.3632   
   Wyoming                   440.193      8.53087      11.1202   
   Arizona                   462.064      3.80781      11.9957   
   New.Mexico                540.979      10.0714      15.1547   
   Oregon                    571.113      2.73022       16.361   
   Alaska                    588.055      113.318      17.0392**(model 2sd under   
   actual)   
   New.Hampshire             604.594      3.92817      17.7012   
   Maine                     618.358      5.26582      18.2522   
   Montana                   664.118      8.71292       20.084   
   Vermont                   726.788      7.98668      22.5927   
      
   The linear model is this:   
   y = 0.0400305*x + -6.50092   
   x==num of UFO sightings per mn cap   
   y==number of air crashes per mn cap   
   beta in 0.0400305 +- 0.0447643   
   T-test: P(beta>0.000000) = 0.930548   
   Rank test: calculated Spearman corr = 0.652174   
   	Critical value = 0.485000 2-sided at 1%; reject H0:not_connected   
   r2 = 0.09680384   
      
      
      
   Interesting that Alaska is a 2 sigma outlier. None of the other states   
   are.  Just as if air crashes "for some reason" are very much higher   
   than we would normally expect in Alaska. I'm sure there is a totally   
   "rational" explanation. But eventually the evidence builds up and   
   scientists have to surrender to the truth that's been there all along.   
      
   If you want to narrow suspects down to types you can run the same   
   procedure for the dozens of different of UFO "types" (i.e. shapes,   
   colors, time-of-day seen, location, whether they are interacting with   
   other traditional aircraft incl fighter jets) and learn who to mostly   
   avoid. If you're an airline pilot.   
      
   But the stats seems to suggest 4% of aircraft/UFO encounters end in a   
   crash.  Not usually of the UFO. And the R2 says about 10% of   
   state-to-state variation in air crashes per capita is tracking just   
   the state by state UFO sightings data.   
      
   We can see the beauty part of making it hard to report these things by   
   firing pilots that "see things" for mental incompetence or drinking on   
   the job.  You can calculate how many people died because of this   
   policy. Don't worry.  No-one can be held liable for letting this   
   situation slide for 70+ years.   
      
   --   
   "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.   
   Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."   
   - Marie Curie   
      
   Aeroplanes Will Soon Crash With UFOs? Read On   
   CNN-News18, 13 Aug 2022 09:02Z   
   A new claim, by US Congressman Tim Burchett, has taken social media by   
   amusement. He recently stated that the day when UFOs ...   
      
   Tully saucer nests: X-Files event cements Far North as UFO mecca   
   Northern Territory News, 10 Aug 2022   
   THE discovery of mysterious "saucer nests" in 1966 catapulted the Far North   
   onto the world stage, made a celebrity of a ...   
      
   London UFO mystery: 279-year-old file found on 'first of its kind' sight   
   over Westminster   
   Daily Express, 11 Aug 2022 09:37Z   
   DESCRIPTIONS of what appears to have been a UFO flying over London were   
   found in a Royal Society Journal from 1746, back when ...   
      
   Pentagon creating UFO sighting investigation office   
   American Military News, 28 Jul 2022   
   The Pentagon announced last week that it is establishing an office that will   
   focus entirely on investigating UFO sightings.   
      
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