Supposed 61 Month Cycle Of Ufo Flaps

The Knowles family CE-II encounter with an ovoid-shaped UFO on the

Nullarbor Plateau in Western Australia January 20th was right on

target in terms of time and place, according to the 61-month wave

cycle first proposed by Dr. David Saunders back in 1971. At least

two other UFO encounters of major importance occurred that same

night in Australia and Tasmania.

If the indications are correct and this is not an isolated incident

but the beginnings of a major UFO wave, we will have to reconsider

the significance of this long-term prediction in terms of our

ability to predict and act upon the occurrence of this and future

UFO waves.

Dr. David Saunders first noticed the regularity in major American

UFO waves (1947, 1952, 1957 and 1967) in the early months of 1971

while working with the UFOCAT computer catalog at the University of

Colorado.

He determined that what distinguished these UFO waves from other,

possibly publicity-generated UFO waves, was the shape of their

distributions.

These were waves of UFO reports in which the frequency of daily

reports began building slowly, built to a crescendo, and then

diminished rapidly. These negatively-skewed UFO waves occurred

with a periodicity of five years, or more accurately 61-months, with

an accuracy in peak prediction to within a day or so (1).

Furthermore, another characteristic of these five-year waves was the

progressively eastward movement of their loci of activity.

The first wave crested in July 1947 and occurred predominantly in

the Pacific and Mountain States. The 1952 wave reached its peak in

late August 1952 with the majority of reports coming from Midwestern

States.

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