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From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:42:44 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 19:57:18 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'


> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:24:07 -0500
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: "Steven J. Powell" <sjpowell@access.digex.net>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'

> The _only_ thing we presently know is that there _is_ a reliable,
> statistically significant, and very interesting concurrance.

Uh - but that's *not* true, John. That's the whole point. When you
examine how the stats were fudged, there *is* no such correlation.

> My _personal_ opinion is that geomagnetic activity probably does explain
> the great majority of _simple_, short-duration, non-descript DDs and NLs.

I can't say that I agree with your opinion, but it's yours to hold.

When we actually look at the NL and DD data, there are very few that
appear to be explainable as EM activity. Airplanes and fireballs,
maybe, but not EM activity.

> Which is fine anyway since by definition these simple, short-duration and
> non-descript DDs and NLs don't look good in a high-detail multi-observer
> database and (hopefully) aren't the stuff we want to explain/understand first.

Oh, I don't know about that. If we can't understand the basic and
overwhleming majority of UFO reports, I wonder how ufology can come to
terms with more complex cases.

> I should also point out that the best UFO flaps on record are probably _not
> in any way_ connected with geomagnetic activity: Gulf Breeze, Belgium,
> Bentwaters, the 1947-era, Husdon Valley, (and others I can't remember right
> now).

... although Devereux explained the Welsh Revival flap as due to EM
activity (Earth Lights), for one.

- Chris

PS: Heed Pat's warning, John! Have you ever had that feeling you were
being watched ... ;)


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Chris Rutkowski - rutkows@cc.umanitoba.ca
(and now, also: Chris.Rutkowski@UMAlumni.mb.ca)
University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Canada