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From: "Larry Hatch" <larryhat@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:30:07 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 09:59:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Project 1947: DAY/NIGHT - More *U* Findings

>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:23:46 -0800 (PST)
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
>Subject: Re: Project 1947: DAY/NIGHT - More *U* Findings


>>>>[....]

>>>> I have no ready explanation for the steady drop
>>>> in the ratio of day sightings since 1940, and
>>>> invite discussion.

> Alright, it's time to mention the possible explanation that
> remains unspoken until now.  Since, according to a recent
> poll, more Americans think that UFO aliens are more
> intelligent than we are, by and large, than those who think
> they're less intelligent, the following explanation needs to
> be included:

> It's in accordance with the aliens' own planning.
> The aliens in charge wished to get us up to speed
> on [their] craft ..relatively quickly -- to the point where
> some 50% of the population would realize it was
> occurring for real.  So they could at first permit a lot
> of daytime sightings in so doing.
> But they didn't wish to suddenly escalate that up to
> 80 or 90%, because that would quickly snowball to
> 100% whereupon even science, the open government
> and the conservative news media would then realize
> the alien presence.  .. extreme panic and chaos ..
> would ...  suddenly be upon us.

> Instead the aliens wished to extend the 50% belief
> level for a couple generations .. to get used to it all,
> discuss it, hash it out, etc.,  [ snip ]

> ..  by then our sciences, especially astronomy, would
> have advanced enough to allow the idea of habitable
> alien planets within the galaxy/universe to become
> plausible and commonplace  ..  they couldn't continue
> with so many daytime sightings.

<big snip>

> ..  nighttime [sightings] would keep the subject in
> people's minds without causing the belief level to soar
> past 50%.

<snip>

> Why leave alien intelligence out of the picture?
>   Jim Deardorff

Jim:  I certainly did not intend to leave alien intelligence
out of the picture, and your interpretation is as good as
any I have heard ..  including some which hold that the
nearly 3-to-1 shift ( even greater if we compare the 1940s
to subsequent decades)  can be attributed entirely to
completely earthly effects.

I wish there were some statistical way to take the raw
figures, and separate objective (i.e. UFO caused) from
subjective ( earthly or /observer oriented) influences.

I suspect this is impossible, due to the many factors
involved.    Jan Aldrich has correctly pointed out that
there were a lot of surplus blimps (etc.) used for
advertising purposes.

I cannot rule out the possibility, however, that those
responsible for "true" (i.e. completely mysterious)
UFOs, have had some change of plan, priority or
agenda .. perhaps they indeed decided UFOs were
simply being "seen too much".

-  Larry Hatch.