• plankton & ufos -- a (very) long-term relationship? (1/2)

    From MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, November 20, 2021 08:55:22
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
    - We use N2O as a proxy of historical UFO activity.
    - Comparing atm N2O data for the past 2000 years obtained from ice
    cores in Antarctica we see a variation in N2O that seems to
    correspond with planetary positions, notably Uranus.
    - We recall modern UFO sightings/activity also has a strong
    correlation with certain planetary positions, incl Uranus.
    - It may be modern UFO activity goes back a lot longer than 70y.
    - N2O data now goes back 800k years and, briefly, the same kind of
    patterns are also observed in that data although with less certainty
    as to when it might have started.


    In previous posts we've seen there seems to be a strong relationship
    between UFO activity and ocean plankton. In one post I showed UFO
    activity (we use the sightings database from NUFORC as a proxy of
    "global UFO activity") is predicted by plankton abundance. It seems
    when plankton is blooming in the N Hem UFO activity over N Am is high;
    when plankton is blooming in the S Hem UFO activity over N Am is
    low. Even more detailed analysis suggests the approx 6 major blooms
    around polar regions are "predictive" (aka "responsible") for
    shuffling UFO activity to different parts of the world at different
    times. Given the complex structure of the blooms -- each polar region
    sees one major bloom and 2 minor blooms each year; with the seasons in
    the Arctic and Antarctic offset by several months -- it seems almost
    impossible a corresponding variation in UFO sightings can not be
    causally related. While some of the variation is likely related to
    weather across the US -- and therefore e.g. related to who often sit
    out at night looking at the sky -- that can't explain all 6 bumps in
    the relevant datasets.

    And given plankton are responsible for some part of the variation in atmospheric N2O we may have a way to decide whether UFO activity is a
    recent thing or goes back 100s, 1000s or possible 100s of 1000s of
    years. We have data from ice cores that nowadays plot N2O over the
    past 800ky.

    We've looked at N2O data and UFO activity before. But, briefly, we can establish that atm N2O is highly predictive of UFO sightings across N
    America (and, we assume, "therefore" global UFO activity). Using the
    NUFORC data and modern N2O measurements we can perform the following
    timeseries regressions:

    N2O dataset UFO dataset Lag Filt Transf R2
    (m) (sd)
    mn2o_brw mvufo2020 12 1.5 - 0.49964528
    mn2o_Global mvufo2006 12 1.5 log 0.68380828

    These are the models with highest R2s for the different N2O and UFO
    dataseries. The 2006 series is the NUFORC dataset as monthly counts --
    with variance adjustment to allow for possible methodology change
    between the 1st and 2nd halves, and missing values substituted by the
    relevant means -- prior to 2006 when a web reporting form was implemented.
    The change saw major changes in patterns of reporting that may make it difficult to robustly combine the pre- and post-2006 parts of the
    dataset. The "2020" series is the post 2006 data upto the end of 2020.

    We see the 2006-2020 data is about 50% explained by atm N2O as
    measured at Barrow AK. It turns out different locations where N2O are
    measured differ, sometimes significantly, in their correlation with
    UFO activity.

    We also see the ~1940-2006 data is 68% explained by atm N2O averaged
    over the whole globe (the average of available stations during each
    year of the N2O data).

    The best correlation was found in both cases with a 12m lag.
    I.e. relating N2O data against UFO data in the same month of the NEXT
    year. Why there is a lag we might speculate relates to the seasonal
    nature of plankton in different parts of the world (probably most
    significantly in the Antarctic) vis a vis observation mostly occurring
    in North America.

    So the modern link between N2O and UFO activity seems clean.

    In this post we'll then look at the last 2000y via the N2O data from
    the "Law Dome" in Antarctica (a reading for almost every year in the
    past 2000). In a subsequent post we'll look at the N2O data from the
    EPICA Dome C that goes back 800ky (unf a density of only around 1
    reading per 8000 years -- a bit of a challenge to handle for this kind
    of work).

    While the various relationships we'll discuss below are all determined
    to be highly statistically significant via 2 tests we can't claim at
    this point anything has been shown to any significant degree of
    certainty. All these data studies are works in progress -- something
    that characterises most applied data science in industry, commerce and
    science. But we can claim they are highly suggestive and point at
    areas we might investigate further with other tools.

    The argument will run thus: UFO activity is predicted by seasonal
    plankton blooms. Plankton blooms produce additional atm N2O. Both UFO
    activity and atm N2O are predicted by the movement of certain
    planets. Looking at the historical N2O data from 1AD to the present (<kymhorsell.com/law2006_n2o.gif>) we can see at least 2 features.
    (a) There seems to be a periodic rise and fall in atm N2O before
    e.g. 1000 AD.
    (b) There is a very rapid up-tick in atm N2O starting around 1800.
    Climate scientists ascribe (b) to human intervention and the
    Industrial Revolution and modern industrial-scale agriculture and
    widespread fertilizer use.

    The (a) feature is more interesting. Given even in modern times there
    is an annual variation underneath the huge trend in N2O increase, we
    might suspect it could indicate something about UFO activity. Is the
    waveform from e.g. 1AD to e.g. 1000 AD related to "something" or is it
    just a random-walk of some kind?

    It turns out -- no, it is not totally random.

    Wouldn't it be interesting if the positions of e.g. the outer planets
    highly correlate with atm N2O from centuries back? Exactly how the
    distance between the Earth and Saturn might influence how much
    plankton grows in the ocean might be suspected ("farming"), but
    regardless of suspects it would be interesting.

    We can test each planet in turn to see how closely it's e.g. position
    in its orbit or distance from Earth correlate with the atm N2O we can
    see in the record.

    I'll assume here a sinusoid of the relevant frequency is a good enough
    proxy of planetary positions over centuries to draw conclusions from
    the results. The alternative is to develop very high precision solar
    system simulations that are valid over 1000s of years; something at
    least this author doesn't have that much time to write/adapt and debug. :)

    The periods of the relevant planets are as follows:
    Jupiter 11.86y;
    Saturn 29.46;
    Uranus 84.01;
    Neptune 164.8y.
    Setting up the relevant synthetic positions, including a time-shift
    adjustment to maximize the relevant matches, we find the R2's of
    appropriate timeseries regressions across the 2000y N2O dataset are as
    follows:

    Period Shift R2
    (y)
    84.01 4 .9988
    164.8 23 .1736
    29.46 66 .0104
    11.86 0 .0039

    A 2nd code made slightly different calculations and found the
    following results:

    84.01 5 .9935
    164.9 32 .9871
    29.46 34 .1236
    11.96 16 .0804

    The 2 result sets seem to point at the position of the (synthetic)
    Uranus as explaining almost all the year-to-year variation in N2O data
    in the Law Dome dataset. The 2 codes get quite different results for
    Neptune. One code says everything except Uranus is not a very good
    explanation for the N2O data. But the 2nd code says Neptune is roughly
    as good and the others are not.

    But there is the additional wrinkle that the planetary periods are
    known multiples of each other (Bodes Law) meaning the 2nd method may
    have fallen foul of a response to a harmonic of Uranus.

    The 2 methods together support Uranus as the major influence for the
    past 2000y of N2O data (apart from the rapid up-tick from the IR) with
    maybe Neptune a 2nd influence.

    In either case, it seems one possible explanation is that "something" associated with Uranus (maybe Neptune) has been influencing the growth
    of oceanic plankton on Earth for the past 2000y.

    Highly suggestive that the recent announcement that "the same type of
    UFO has been observed by (military observers) over the past 70 years"
    may be a wild under-estimate of how long the relevant relationship has
    been in operation.

    In a subsequent post we'll look at similar but less comprehensive data
    on atm N2O that goes back over several glacial cycles to about 800ky
    BCE. And, yes, similar findings will be noted. Another post may try to
    prove whether full-blown "ice ages" in the period have changed any
    patterns we observe "on average" over the 800ky.

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