对公共UAP观测和天空视图潜在的环境分析
R M Medina1, S C Brewer2, S M Kirkpatrick3
1Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA. richard.medina@geog.utah.edu.
Scientific reports
|December 14, 2023
概括
诸如光污染和云层覆盖等地理因素与未识别异常现象 (UAP) 的报道增加相关,也称为未识别飞行物体 (UFO). 更多的天空观测机会可能会导致更多的观测报告.
科学领域:
- 地理空间分析是什么?
- 大气科学 大气科学
- 科学的社会学科学社会学.
背景情况:
- 未识别的飞行物体 (UFO) 或未识别的异常现象 (UAP) 的目击在历史上被记录下来,引起了科学和安全方面的兴趣.
- 了解UAP报告需要检查潜在的因素,包括环境和人为影响.
- 之前的研究还没有广泛研究国家范围的地理关系与UAP观测.
研究的目的:
- 调查影响UAP观测报告数量的地理因素.
- 测试将天空视图潜力和物体存在变量与UAP报告频率联系起来的假设.
- 为分析个别UAP报告提供全国范围的背景.
主要方法:
- 利用贝叶斯回归模型分析了2001年至2020年间在连续的美国公开报告的98,000多起UAP观测事件.
- 对于天空视图潜力的内置变量:光污染,树冠和云层覆盖.
- 包括潜在物体存在的变量:飞机和军事设施.
主要成果:
- 在分析的变量和UAP观测频率之间发现了可信的相关性.
- 结果表明,天空观测机会的增加与报告的现象数量的增加有关.
- 该研究确定了与UAP报告相关的特定地理和环境因素.
结论:
- 地理和环境因素在UAP报告中发挥作用.
- 增加的可见性和观察潜力似乎影响了观测人数.
- 考虑到地理背景,对自然和基于人类的UAP解释进行进一步的研究是有必要的.
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