Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,alt.ufo.reports
From: kymhorsell@gmail.com
Subject: Spotting "anomalous light changes" with TESS

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TESS is a space telescope that orbits between the Earth and Moon.
Originally it was intended to spot planetary transits in the ~6000
target stars it was assigned when the mission took off in 2018.  But 
its unusual orbit also might provide a useful platform to spot "other
things" that might be moving around in the extreme foreground.  If
there are things moving in the space between the earth and moon then a
telescope that has taken millions of images over the past few years
should have a fair chance of seeing something -- if only a slight blip
in the light curve of one of the target stars that has nothing to do
with orbiting planets.

After analysing around 16 million images various patterns have turned up.  
There are anomalous dimming and brightening of stars to spare.
Other groups processing the data no doubt throw these "one off" events
away because they have no relevance to their interests.

But the anomalies tend not to be isolated to single stars -- it's
quite usual that stars in large parts of the sky brighten and dim
roughly together -- almost as if something had briefly passed between
the telescope and that region of the sky.

If you compare reports of unusual activity in the sky over the US and
Canada there are dozens of sequences that show as highly statistically
correlated. For certain types of phenomena stars mostly dim in unison when 
that kind of events has a brief maximum. For other types of phenomena stars 
in a region of the sky tend to briefly brighten when phenomena of that kind
reach a maximum.

And, more interestingly, if you lag the light curves by between -10
days and +10 days you find there are generally 2 values where "strange
activity" has the best match against the light curve.  It seems a
usual case sees the light curve twitch in some part of the sky a few
days before "strange activity" is reported on Planet Dirt.  Then a
few days after the activity is reported the light curve in approx the
same part of the sky twitched again in much the same way it did the
first time.

It's almost as if "something" came from a certain direction in space,
had a nice little visit, then departed again back along the same route.

While the full catalogue is getting rather long and tedious for mere
humans to comprehend, a micro sample is here <kym.massbus.org/redtriang.gif> 
showing reports of "flying Triangles with a red light" (the green curve) 
versus the light curve of stars in a certain 10x10 deg section of the sky 
as seen from TESS somewhere between E and M during the period 2018-2022.

We can see the bump in the green curve corresponds fairly closely with
a big dip in the kight curve over the same period.

It seems various types of aerial phenomena characteristically twitch the
light curve in certain parts of the sky. Phenomena described as "dark"
generally cause the light curve to dip; phenomena described as
"bright" cause the light curve to rise sharply over a short period as
(presumably) the relevant phenomena pass between the relevant star and
the TESS cameras.

Each stats model is tested for high significance in the usual 2 ways and
represent events that are less than 1 chance in 1000 possible due to just
lucky coincidence.

--
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

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