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From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:41:39 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:31:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Project 1947: DAY/NIGHT - More *U* Findings

>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:19:01 -0800
>From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
>Subject: DAY/NIGHT More *U* Findings.
>To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

>Larry Hatch is having some difficulty posting. Don't feel alone
>Larry, I am, too.

>--
>Jan Aldrich
>Project 1947
>http://www.iufog.org/project1947/

>Subject: More boring DAY/NIGHT *U* findings.
>Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 02:56 AM

>to: List Members
>from: Larry Hatch
>re: *U* Database findings.

>I recently sent in some findings about day versus night UFO
>sightings from the *U* UFO Database. Since then, I refined the
>statistical routine to subdivide the raw data by decades.

>The *U* Database has 16,575 sightings listed as of 28 JAN'98.
>Of these, 12,121 have 'known' time-of-day (plus or minus one hour
>to allow for Daylight Savings time and time-zone anomalies.)

>'DAY' is defined as the hours 1000-1600hrs. 'NIGHT' is defined as
>2200-0400hrs. These strict 6-hour periods are broad daylight, or
>dark of night, for most of the world, the year around. Sightings
>for all other hours are considered 'FRINGE', i.e. light or dark,
>dawn or dusk depending on latitude and season.

>Here's the raw data from the new routine:

>Date Period:       TOTAL       DAY       NIGHT   FRINGE

>ALL YEARS          12121      1464        4223     6434
>pre -1960           3353       709         869     1775
>1960 onward         8718       747        3340     4631

>These figures are now subdivided as follows:

>pre - 1900            50         8          14       28
>1900s    . . . .      90         9          35       46
>1910s    . . . .      23         2           9       12
>1920s    . . . .      13         5           3        5
>1930s    . . . .      21         4           5       12
>1940s    . . . .     576        180        100      296
>1950s    . . . .    2630        509        717     1404
>1960s    . . . .    2036        205        768     1063
>1970s    . . . .    3193        249       1267     1677
>1980s    . . . .    1270         97        459      714
>1990s    . . . .    2219        196        846     1177

>Note  the 1940s  when 'broad daylight' sightings outnumbered
>dark-of-night by a 9 to 5 ratio.

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

>-  Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>

Larry,

I would expect night sightings to outnumber day sightings by
a large margin.  First, because UFOs are easier to see at
night, and secondly because misidentifications would be much
more common at night.

Bob