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If This Is Wednesday, It Must Be a Venusian- Title of a chapter in John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies (at least my edition), which itself is a take-off on the utterly forgettable late-60's flick If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium.
In it Keel cites his own research consisting of 700 UFO reports in 1966-67, a Dr. David Saunders of Colorado University---"several thousand sightings" and Saunders, Ballester-Orlando and Bonabot---700 sightings in 1950 in the US, Spain and Belgium. He then concludes that there is a periodicity to UFO sightings that clusters on Wednesdays.
Keel's veracity has certainly been called into question before, but at least in this case he made an attempt to provide some supporting statistical data that others have collected to support his claim.
I do not keep up with the UFO literature at all, essentially. Anybody know if this or any other patterns/cycles regarding correlating certain days of the week , months, moon phases, etc. with UFO reports has been (re)produced in research since then? Or refuted, for that matter?
If a pattern does seem to exist, any credible (well, reasonably ) theories out there as to why it might be so?
In it Keel cites his own research consisting of 700 UFO reports in 1966-67, a Dr. David Saunders of Colorado University---"several thousand sightings" and Saunders, Ballester-Orlando and Bonabot---700 sightings in 1950 in the US, Spain and Belgium. He then concludes that there is a periodicity to UFO sightings that clusters on Wednesdays.
Keel's veracity has certainly been called into question before, but at least in this case he made an attempt to provide some supporting statistical data that others have collected to support his claim.
I do not keep up with the UFO literature at all, essentially. Anybody know if this or any other patterns/cycles regarding correlating certain days of the week , months, moon phases, etc. with UFO reports has been (re)produced in research since then? Or refuted, for that matter?
If a pattern does seem to exist, any credible (well, reasonably ) theories out there as to why it might be so?