Almost
noon local time. You had blood drawn for Dr. G., your nephrologist, who you
will see on Thursday. On Friday you see your regular doctor, Dr. M. both every
six months, with your endocrinologist, Dr. B., every three months. So, after
this week you have a break until Dr. B. in very early October. Carol has been
working on washing/drying and ironing clothes all morning, you did your forty
minutes of exercises and played and/or napped with Jadah earlier. – Such is
your morning so far. – Amorella
1204 hours. I need to check my email then work on the stats for that
second chapter. After that, chapter thirteen awaits my scrutiny. I apologize
sometimes and always try to thank Carol for washing my clothes; I don’t like
her to waste her time ironing my shirts and pants. I would just as soon do my
own clothes but she doesn’t want me to use the washer; she is afraid I’ll break
it. I used to wash and dry the clothes when Kim was little and I don’t mind
folding (I do this once in a while). I would rather do the whole thing wash/dry
and fold. When I did it there was next to nothing to iron because I hung it up
immediately out of the dryer. That’s how I remember it anyhow. That was in our
old house on Majken Place. I had set up the washer and dryer across the back of
the garage, putting a wall in first and insulation. I worked well. I had plenty
of room to do the work and a folding table as well as hanger space – very
organized. Now we have a fancy washer without a tumbler and it dries clothes
too much before the dryer – I think it wrinkles them more – the worst thing is
there is little space to fold but Carol likes it because it is on the first
floor and she can iron in the kitchen. Kim gave herself plenty of space on the
second floor of their new house for a real laundry room. I am proud of her
organizing skills. We didn’t have much of a choice to change things in our
house but Carol does love the first floor laundry so that is fine.
What
are you doing, orndorff? – Amorella
1221 hours. I was just thinking and writing without the thought of it.
What
does this show you about how it is living with you? – Amorella
1222 hours. I don’t know. I don’t say much about the laundry except
thank you and I am usually not happy about saying it because I would rather do
it myself but don’t. Carol is nice to put up with me. Mom used to say that I
should never get married because I would be too hard to live with (that was
when I was an adolescent) – she taught me to iron my clothes because she didn’t
think I would get married. I try not to get in anyone’s way around the house. I
do what Carol wants to do most of the time. We get along. I am better off not
saying much no matter what situation I find myself – that is, except for the
classroom. Then I talked too much I suppose. The keyboard allows me to think
out loud without making any noise. I like that.
You
had a late lunch at Cracker Barrel and are now sitting in the shade of the
trees on the hill at the far north end of Pine Hill Lakes Park while Carol
walks in the shade of the park’s north woods. Doug sent you an intriguing
article on a UFO sighting and pictures taken with an excellent camera. You are
sensitive to speculation but to you it is one of the best photos that has been
under governmental scientifically analyses. – Amorella
1513 hours. The photo appears to show some physics going on; that some
of the heat is coming from the craft itself. I will post the article and photo
when home. Now time to work on the chapter two stats.
1602
hours. We are home. I have the data for the first two chapters of book two.
** **
GMS STATISTICAL DATA FOR GREAT MERLYN’S
GHOST TWO
Ch. 1 – Piecemeal
Words -
3061
Sentences - 232
Words per Sentence – 12.9
Sentences/Paragraph – 2.5
Passive Sentences – 2%
Flesh Reading Ease - 100.0 %
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level – 1.1
Ch. 2 – Family
Words - 3124
Sentences - 281
Words per Sentence – 10.3
Sentences/Paragraph – 2.1
Passive Sentences – 2%
Flesh Reading Ease - 100.0 %
Flesh-Kincaid
Grade Level – 0.3
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On
entrepreneurdenDOTcom I found a Reading Ease interpretation: 90 -100 easily
understood by an average 11 year old student. What the Grade Level test does
not seem to take into account is the number and percentage of complex words – unless
the score 0.0 – 30.0 is best understood by university graduates. Yikes! If
this is the case then mostly university graduates would be likely readers. I
trust this is not the case. The books are set (at least in my mind and
experience) for better upper level high school and college readers. If
nothing else the stats show a consistency in chapter grammar; so it is worth me
using this for that alone.
Below
is the article Doug references plus photographs and graph.
** **
Government Officials Go On the Record'
Chile Releases Official Study
on UFO Photos
Posted: 07/04/2014 11:40 pm EDT Updated: 07/06/2014
5:59 pm EDT
The government office
investigating UFOs in Chile has released an analysis of two high quality photos
showing what appear be genuine unidentified flying objects above a remote
copper mine. The office, known as the CEFAA (Committee for the Studies of
Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), is located within the Ministerial Department of
Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), the equivalent of our FAA, under the jurisdiction of
the Chilean Air Force. It is responsible for the analysis of selected reports
of unexplained aerial phenomena in Chilean airspace, most of them from pilots
and aviation personnel.
The photos were taken at the
Collahuasi copper mine, more than 14,000 feet above sea level in the Andean
plateau in the far north of Chile. An extremely remote location with low oxygen
levels and unusually clear skies, the area is desolate and inhospitable. The
Collahuasi mine produces copper concentrate, copper cathodes and molybdenum
concentrate from three open-pit mineral deposits. (Click here
for a map).
Four technicians -
professionals specializing in electricity, electronics, and fluid control -
were working there in April, 2013. They witnessed a disc-shaped object which
approached slowly and was present for more than an hour, moving around in
different positions and hovering at about 2000 feet. One technician took
pictures with his Kenox Samsung S860 camera. The strange object made no sound,
and eventually moved away towards the East.
The witnesses decided not to
tell anybody because of the negative associations they had with UFO sightings,
and therefore had every intention of always keeping the sighting private. But
some months later, the photographer casually showed the pictures to the chief
engineer at the mine, who asked for copies. The engineer sent the images to the
CEFAA in February, and provided the agency with information reported to him by
the witnesses. He too has requested anonymity.
Chile's meteorological office
at the DGAC confirmed that there was an absolute clear sky at that time, and
that there was no possibility of lenticular clouds. All other meteorological
phenomena have been ruled out by Chilean officials as a possible explanation.
CEFAA officials told me they
determined that there were no drones operating near the mine. "People in
that zone know about drones," said Jose Lay, international affairs
director for the CEFAA. "Fishing companies use drones and they make a lot
of noise. This was definitely not a drone." DGAC officials also ruled out
any experimental aircraft, planes, weather balloons, or anything else that
could explain the incident.
With all conventional explanations
eliminated, the CEFAA staff determined that the photos were worthy of analysis.
The results of this study, conducted by a leading CEFAA analyst at the DGAC
Meteorological Office, was released on July 3rd and is posted on the CEFAA website.
The report states that the
witnesses described the phenomenon as "a flattened disc, of brilliant
color, with a diameter of 5 to 10 meters [16 to 32 feet]. It performed
ascending, descending and horizontal movements in short lengths, about 600
meters above the ground." The witnesses had the impression that the object
was under intelligent control.
1. The first image, enlarged and filtered, shows a solid object reflecting the sunlight, the report states. It adds that the object could be emitting it's own energy as well, due to the high temperature shown in the image (the black area).
2. The second photo shows the
object in a different position in the sky. (The CEFAA does not know the time
sequence between the two images.)
3. The text on this
diagram of the enlarged second image indicates lines where very soft rays were
reflected from an "extremely luminous half sphere." The analyst
concludes that the object "emitted its own energy that does not coincide
with the natural sunlight which is also reflected off the object." At
noon, the brightness underneath could not have been caused by the sun, which
was reflected off the top.
The study concludes that
"It is an object or phenomenon of great interest, and it can be qualified
as a UFO."
Despite the strength of this
analysis, the CEFAA staff recognize the limitations of the Collahuasi case.
"The witnesses were not willing to cooperate," Jose Lay told me.
"We tried to contact them, and we got no reply. So we treated the material
just as we have treated several others of the same or similar nature: we file
them for future reference or comparison purposes. That's all we can do in this
case."
Retired General Ricardo
Bermudez, director of the CEFAA, says "We recognize that this is the
determination of only one CEFFA analyst among several. So we still must be
cautious." He has called a meeting of the CEFFA scientific committee,
composed of high level specialists from laboratories and universities, for next
week. Although they are not expert visual photo-video analysts, the opinion of
this distinguished group, which supports the work of the CEFAA and assists with
investigations when needed, could shed further light on the case.
The South American media has
shown great interest in these images. In the US, retired Navy physicist Bruce
Maccabee, a well known photo analyst, has this to say: "In the second
image there appears to be a very bright hemispherical shape, convex downward...
possibly a UFO enveloped in a cloud of vapor." He notes that additional
data is needed to determine more, but that it is clear that the object moved
"a considerable distance" between the two photos.
"This is clearly not a
normal thing seen in the sky (bird, plane, cloud, etc.)," added Dr.
Maccabee in an email. "That makes it either the real thing - UFO - or a
hoax, and it doesn't appear to be a hoax, although the inability to question
witnesses does reduce the credibility. Certainly this case is worthy of further
study."
It is indeed unfortunate that the
four witnesses have not been willing to speak to the authorities, who could
guarantee them anonymity. But even so, these images are important because they
were studied by a government agency with access to the pertinent information
needed for a proper analysis. That in itself is unusual. I commend the CEFAA
for taking on cases such as this. The experts there conducted a serious
investigation, and then released the information to the public, with no
reservations about acknowledging the possible existence of a UFO, since that is
warranted.
Selected and edited from Huff Post,
Weird News, 8 July 14.
I was able to find the photos from
other sources:
Photo 1:
1. The first image, enlarged and filtered, shows a solid object reflecting the sunlight, the report states. It adds that the object could be emitting it's own energy as well, due to the high temperature shown in the image (the black area).
Photo 2:
2. The second photo shows the object in a different position in the sky. (The CEFAA does not know the time sequence between the two images.)
Diagram:
3. The text on this diagram of the enlarged second image indicates lines where very soft rays were reflected from an "extremely luminous half sphere." The analyst concludes that the object "emitted its own energy that does not coincide with the natural sunlight which is also reflected off the object." At noon, the brightness underneath could not have been caused by the sun, which was reflected off the top.
** **
1652
hours. Real or not, the commentary would no doubt be similar. The world being
as it is it is most likely a misunderstanding of a natural object or an
outright hoax. It is interesting nevertheless. I like the sense of science use
by the Chilean government. What else can one do but study it first and make a
reasonable statement on what appears on the camera and on the witnesses
involved describe. I like the physics observed nevertheless – I write fiction I
may find use for the information in my imagination. Doug has always been good at spiking my wonder and imagination. Thank you, my friend.
Post,
orndorff. - Amorella
1946 hours. I mowed 80 percent of the yard; Carol just went out to mow
the rest. Tim mowed earlier and didn’t leave me much choice. I thought about
waiting until tomorrow morning but the house blocks the north and east yard
which is most of it. It’s still humid and a bit warm but I can’t imagine
tomorrow being much different. It will be good to have it mowed for another
week. I decided not to work on chapter thirteen until tomorrow.
Post.
Relax, boy. You’re retired. – Amorella
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