From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:36:02 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:02:33 -0400
Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting - Clark


>From: John Harney <magonia.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:57:17 +0100
>Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting

>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:44:02 -0500
>>Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting

>>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
>>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:09:56 -0500
>>>Subject: Re: Chiles-Whitted Sighting [was New Mexico Governor]

>>>>From: Christopher Allan <cda.nul>
>>>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>>>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:25:11 +0100
>>>>Subject: Re: New Mexico Governor Rekindles Roswell

>>This illustrates a common problem in trying to evaluate UFO
>>reports. Witnesses make the reports, usually giving the time,
>>(as defined by an officially recognised time zone, sometimes
>>advanced one hour for "summer time"), or GMT (Greenwich Mean
>>Time, also referred to as Universal Time or Zulu Time).

>Ideally the times of UFO reports would all be recorded in GMT
>together with date, latitude and longitude. It would then be
>easy - assuming the reports were stored in a computer data base
>- to calculate the local apparent time, from which relevant
>astronomical information could be calculated.

I am happy to agree entirely with John on this important point.

Jerry Clark