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SUBJECT: WHAT DO EARTHQUAKES AND UFOS HAVE IN COMMON? FILE: UFO2460
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Reprinted from Omni Magazine -!- August 1993
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WHAT DO EARTHQUAKES AND UFOS HAVE IN COMMON?
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Look! A strange light! Is it a UFO from outer space? No, it's electricity from
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the earth.
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John Derr, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Albuquerque, New
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Mexico, has determined that the phenomena glimpsed in many UFO sightings may
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actually be balls of electricity related to earthquakes. Derr and Michael
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Pensinger, a professor at Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, tapped into
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a database of UFO sightings compiled by the Center for UFO Studies and
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cross-correlated the sightings with reports of seismic activity. "When we
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started looking at it area by area, certain patterns began to emerge," he says.
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For example, residents of New Mexico reported UFO sightings in 1951 and 1952
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within 60 miles of the epicenters of three temblors measuring 4 to 5 on the
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Richter scale that occurred less than a year later.
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"Earthquake lights" tend to be basketball-sized globes of glowing electricity
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generated by crushing rock or changes in ground-water flow related to
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underground pressure. They can appear for months before and months after
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earthquakes.
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"Sightings that can best be explained as earthquake lights are objects seen at
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ground level or objects in the sky that have a discontinuous path," Derr
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explains. "Our statistics suggest that eighty percent of such sightings could
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be geophysical in origin."
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"There's been a lot of anecdotal information regarding phenomena and
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earthquakes, but I haven't seen anything that really documents it very well,"
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says Jim Mori, a seismologist with the Geological Survey in Pasadena,
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California. "During the June 1992 earthquakes in Los Angeles, there was a lot
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of arcing of electrical transformers. Certainly those aren't earthquake lights,
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but in some situations, it may provide a good explanation of what people saw.
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However, in the 1989 San Francisco quake, some electromagnetic waves were
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recorded minutes before it started."
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Omni Magazine -!- Don Vaughan
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UFO BBS Comment: Anyone interested in further reading on these geophysical
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light phenomena should see the following........
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"Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena" W. R. Corliss
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1977...Sourcebook Project
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"Earth Lights Revelation" Paul Devereux
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1989...Sterling Publishing
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"Earth Lights" Paul Devereux
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1982...Turnstone Press
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