From: Gildas Bourdais <GBourdais@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:12:22 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:52:05 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Re: Sunspots and UFOs: Part 2 [Waves] - Bourdais


 >Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:53:54 -0700
 >From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
 >Subject: Re: Sunspots and UFOs: Part 2 [Waves] - Young
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@sympatico.ca>

 >>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>Subject: Sunspots and UFOs: Part 2 [Waves]
 >>To: updates@sympatico.ca

 >>>From: Jean-Luc Rivera <JLRIV1@aol.com>
 >>>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
 >>>Fwd Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 05:19:42 -0400
 >>>Subject: UpDate: Re: Sunspots and UFOs: Part 2 [Waves]

<snip>

 >>>Your remark is absolutely correct but if there was such a famous
 >>>correlation, the psychosociologists still have to explain why
 >>>there was no such wave between 1960 and 1962, when the war
 >>>became very nasty in Algeria, French generals tried to seize
 >>>power and one million people came back to France in a few days.
 >>>The trauma was far more important than in Indochina.

 >>Jean-Luc, Larry, Greg, et al.:

 >>Thanks, makes sense. Of course, 1952 wasn't 1962 in terms of
 >>public perceptions or attitudes toward UFOs. I did notice some
 >>smallish bulges on Larry's histograph, today, at:

 >>http://www.jps.net/larryhat/YDAY54.html

 >>from April to May (Dien Bien Phu fell on May 8) and in late July
 >>(the Indochina War ended on the 20th), but the big bulge later
 >>in the year probably is something different.

 >>I wonder what the French UFO sightings were like from '60 to
 >>'62?

 >Hello Bob et al:

 >The period 1960-1962 was slow pretty much everywhere, France is
 >no exception.

 >For the 36 month period Jan 1960 through Dec 1962 I list only 22
 >sightings in France!

 >Compare that with the _single_ year 1954, 474 events listed in
 >France .. or even more outstanding, 336 in the single month of
 >October 1954 ( 336 in France alone ).

 >Comparing October 1954 ( 336 events/month ) to the average for
 >1960-1962 ( 22 events/36 months) I get a rate of 0.611 sightings
 >per month.  Thus UFO sightings, as listed here, came in at a
 >rate 550 times as high in October 54, compared to the 1960-1962
 >average.

 >I think we can drop the " North Africa war jitters " explanation
 >for the great non-waves of 1960-1962.

 >War-jitters, like El Nino, is a nice pat answer for anything the
 >experts cannot figure out properly. I am reminded of "the wind
 >making the stars sway" or "swamp gas". Maybe this relaxes people
 >so they can sleep better.

 >All of 1960 was a period of high sunspot activity (as defined
 >here), plus a couple of months in 1961.


I have another explanation:

In 1960-1962, the French were stressed and depressed that they
could not even see UFOs.

Gildas Bourdais