From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:01:14 -0500 Fwd Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:51:27 -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 -- >TO::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 t>o allow for Daylight Savings time and time-zone anomalies.) <snipped> >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. I realize your cases are those most likely to be unexplained, i.e. you have not put ALL sightings into your data base. HOWever, I woudl still like to see this with a selection inlcluded, such as the upper half of the strangeness/credibility index. Also, you might see if the sightings fall off in the latter half of the night, as you define it (as suggested by Vallee years ago). REASONS FOR MORE NIGHT SIGHTINGS: 1) people aren't as likely to look up in the day as at night 2) at night, these sightings are mostly night lights; moving lights against a dark background catch the attention more easily than distant objects moving through the bright sky background 3) True UFOS (TRUFOS) fly around mostly at night 4) (for the skeptics) people are more likely to make observational errors at night 5) reasons I haven't thought of
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