EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- The annual cycle of phytoplankton growth closely correlates with
  UFO activity.
- Different types of planklton correlate differently with UFO
  activity suggestring some plankton are "attractive" and
  some "repellant" to UFOs.
- At least one interpretation of the data seems consistyent
  with UFO's being operated or associated with lifeforms that
  seem similar to mammals if not some type of humans.

One of the first things my various programs noticed since they started
crunching through UFO data months back is a curious strong correlation 
between sightings and atmospheric N2O -- "laughing gas".

N2O is well known to climate scientists because it is another
important greenhouse gas and capable of warming the planet if atm
levels increase.  But I had to look up what natural processes were
involved in releasing and absorbing it.

Apart from humans and their pesky industrial agriculture the big
source of N2O turns out to be ocean plankton.  Plankton blooms in each
hemisphere at different times of the year -- some plankton are
warm-loving, some cold-loving -- and more plankton generally means
higher levels of atm N2O.

Feeding this little tidbit into the AI database allowed it to
hypothesise various estimates for ocean plankton based on atm NO2
(lagging indicator), ocean surface temperatures, and polar ice
coverage. And -- big surprise -- these pseudo indexes of seasonal
plankton growth were highly predictive of UFO sightings.  The s/w
flagged as (pseudo)plankton bloomed in the N Hem UFO sightings in N
America increased; as the plankton bloomed in the S Hem sightings
decreased. Apparently a lot of UFO's were busy elsewhere at some times
of the year.

It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling that Our Friends might be buzzing
around farming the oceans. A problem if they are ET's. It's OUR DAMN
PLANKTON YOU BASTARDS! :)

OTOH if they are eating plankton then their physiology must be a bit
like ours. Maybe people (counting flying jellyfish and whatever else)
from maybe within the solar system all developed from the same stuff
and therefore can all eat carbon based life.

You might imagine if they were too different from earth chemistry they
should be able to easily manufacture food from "space dust" or
whatever else they could put into the nearest Acme Matter
Converter. :)

But the matter needed a closer look. What kind of plankton seems to
predict UFO activity best? Does it differ across UFO "types" (shapes,
color)? Is there some nice patterns showing how activity moves between
the N and S hemisphere over the seasons or years?

These are some of the questions we can ask the data.  The answers
might tell is whether the entities behind UFO activity are totally
alien, some kind of mammal, or maybe even some kind of human (and low
down on the totem pole of probabilities -- some group of modern humans
that just for some reason want to be left alone by the other 9 bn of us).

Scrounging around the web brought up some plankton data, but most of
it was rough. Scientists like to go out in boats and get water
samples and measure what kinds of bugs they find in the water, but
no-one much seems to have surveyed the whole ocean and tried to get a
good handle on how different types of plankton behaves season to
season.  The data I had to sign my life away to get hold of from
various sources certainly didn't lend itself to estimating weights in
different season across large chunks of water -- at best they told me
how many different species were found in a given year in some small
patch of water off southern Australia or the West Atlantic.

But then there are the NOAA satellites that get spectral readings day
by day for the whole planet.

It turns out one group has the data turned to look for ocean
chlorophyll and that can get a good read on how phytoplankton in bulk
has come and gone season by season, month by month over the past 10-20 years.

I jammed that data through my s/w and, yes, there was a very strong
predictive power from ocean chlorophyll and UFO activity.

And then I found
<ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/oceans/phytoplankton/>

This dataset is limited -- only for the 90s -- but it is daily, covers
the whole ocean as well as lakes to a granularity of 10s of kms, and
estimates surface density of several different types of phytoplankton.

And it produces some very very interesting patterns when rubbed up
against UFO sighting data.

The 4 groups of plankton covered by the dataset are:

prochlorococcus

  Prochlorococcus is a genus of very small (0.6 �m) marine cyanobacteria
  with an unusual pigmentation (chlorophyll a2 and b2). These bacteria
  belong to the photosynthetic picoplankton and are probably the most
  abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth.
  -- wiki

synechococcus

  Synechococcus (from the Greek synechos, in succession, and the Greek
  kokkos, granule) is a unicellular cyanobacterium that is very
  widespread in the marine environment. Its size varies from 0.8 to 1.5 \mu.
  -- wiki

flagellates

  A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like
  appendages called flagella. The word flagellate also describes a
  particular construction (or level of organization) characteristic of
  many prokaryotes and eukaryotes and their means of motion.
  -- wiki

diatoms

  Diatoms are a major group of algae, specifically microalgae, found in
  the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a
  significant portion ...
  -- wiki
  
Right out of the gate the different types show different affinity for
UFO activity (using as usual lightly corrected sighting data from NUFORC):


Phytoplankton	Transf		R2		Beta

diatoms		log		0.42952395	-0.816982
prochlorococcus	-		0.24137960	280.78 
synechococcus	log		0.10141215	-2.50767 
flagellates	-		0.00672999	60.3335 


In this study the different phytoplankton are averaged over the entire
earth incl land (because some live in lakes).  The units are mmol of
organic phosphorus per m2.  Normally species abundance slowly
oscillate between 0 and maybe 1 mmol P/m2 over the course of a year. 
The S Hem is the big reservoir for most phytoplankton and can
represent 10x to 100x more than available in the N Hem at certain
times of the year. At some times there are more phytoplankton in the N
Hem than the S Hem.

The data above does not break down concentrations by hemisphere, but
knowing that NUFORC sightings are 99% for the US allows us to
hypothesise that an increase in sightings corresponds with UFO's *not*
travelling to the S Hem and a decrease in sightings meaning UFO's are
more active in the S Hem and not buzzing so much around the US & Canada.

So 2 groups of phytoplankton seem to be of interest to the UFOs --
diatoms and synechococcus. The other 2 seem to be "UFO repellents".
E.g. prochlorococcus blooms seem to cause the UFO's to buzz around in
big numbers and other evidence suggests this is not a target of
possible harvesting operations. Which is nice.  prochlorococcus
produces 10% of the earth's atm O2. Monkey with that and we're all in trouble.

So either the UFO's people are O2 breathers or they just want to
preserve the biosphere for the rest of us.

The other "repellent" seems to be flagellates. Every 1 mmol P/m2 seems
to cause sightings to increase around the US/Canada rather than have
them zipping off to the S Ocean to harvest it for whatever reason.

And this is also interesting. flagellates come in many types but some
of the types are lower gut bugs and not to be (cough) taken
lightly. Others are responsible for "red ides". The effect of various
types range from nothing, to belly ache to sudden death. Dangerous if
you are a mammal.  I noticed a recent article that links them with ALS
in humans.

The distribution of "stimulus/response" illustrated by the little
table above is consistent with UFO's "being busy" some times of the
year when by coincidence certain types of plankton bloom mostly in the
S Hem.  They are less busy at other times of the year when other types
of plankton are blooming everywhere -- types that some earth animals
e.g.  mammals find to be disinteresting or lethal.

Are they Earth life? Mammals? Some kind of human even?

The data is of course still very ambiguous but the probability of real
ET's is getting less and the categories of some kind of earth life
incl some "lost" group of modern humans is ratcheted up a few points.

In subsequent posts we'll break down the data by region and UFO type
and see what patterns emerge. Expect e.g. black triangles to behave
like farm tractors and other types seemingly not influenced by the
annual cycle of plankton blooming.

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