Saturn-Earth Alignments

Here we compare the sidereal longitude of Saturn and Earth, counting UFO sightings for each of 24 15-degree zones of relative position.

In "zone 12" the Sun, Earth and Saturn are aligned within +/- 7.5 degrees of sidereal longitude. Given a telescope, Saturn's rings are best seen then.

The spike at zone 22 is surprising. This results from a coincidence of 3 separate major UFO sightings waves in 1947 and 1957 in North America, plus 1954 in Europe.

Those events took place at different parts of the Earth year, and Saturn kept moving between them. In each case, Saturn was trailing Earth by about 150 degrees, though the background of distant stars was different.

Other waves from 1950, 1952, the 1960s and 1973 are scattered across the board.

The sharp UFO Wave of 1947 contributed 445 of the 1452 "zone 22" sightings, over 30.6 %

<== This display has all 1947 sightings removed. Zone 22 is still highest, but by much smaller margins. Here is a breakdown of sightings for the 'Z-22 anomaly':

June + July 1947: 445 events, mostly July
Sept + Oct. 1954: 229
November 1957: 178
February 1967 : 48
Febr + March 1968: 14
March 1969 only: 25 .. and so forth.

For Zone 22 (counting all years), the busiest months were July (455 records), October (230), November (122), September (122) ..

The busiest weekday was Monday (239) or 15% above average. Time of day for these sightings follows the typical Hourly Curve.

The local meridian distribution is scattered all over the sky.

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