The Ascent

The Illusion

The Escort

The Signal

Special Agent 707

The Transformation

Cemetery Sighting

August Flap

Manta Ray

Another Performance

Westchester Wing Sightings

Light Show

Weird Sound

Swamp Gas

Martin Story

Plasma Orbs

The Experiment

ETI Communication

Jibe Not

Laser Beam Encounter

It's Happening Again

Snaking Manta

The Signal

Possible contact with an ETI probe?

by Bruce Cornet, Ph.D.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

METHOD OF ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

CONCLUSION

DATA

CLUSTER ANALYSIS


INTRODUCTION

    On 10 August 1997 Cornet had his last encounter with an FT, at type of AOP or probe that had put on various performances for his cameras over the previous five years (volumes I-IV). The place was Sea Bright, NJ. The time was just after sunset. He was there in order to videotape conventional jetliners on approach to Kennedy airport to the north, and to capture on video various types of aircraft running lights for later study and comparison.  It was still twilight out, which enabled him to get the shapes or silhouettes of aircraft on video, along with their night lights.  Many jetliners on approach to Kennedy first approach the shoreline from the sea, then turn north at various points near or over the shoreline and intercoastal waterways.  One common turning point is over Sea Bright, NJ.  Swinging Bridge Park just south of the Rte. 520 bridge provided an idea place for Cornet to record these approaches, because he had unobstructed view to the east and north.

    The first observation that caught his attention after he spotted the FT (AOP) approaching the shoreline was that it turned south over the ocean, not north, and flew into the flight corridor of oncoming airtraffic going to Kennedy airport.  The second observation that caught his attention was its pattern of lights, which were identical to the pattern on FTs he had observed, videotaped, and photographically recorded at Pine Bush, NY (e.g. Volume III on triangular-shaped craft). The third observation that caught his attention was an unusual but distinctive pattern of strobes, unlike that of any conventional aircraft he had observed before.  Night lights are electronically controlled, on or off, and cannot be "intelligently" manipulated on aircraft unless specifically designed to do so. The fourth observation that caught his attention was the FT's slow rotation into a bank-angle as high as 100 degrees (past vertical).  A bank-angle greater than 90 degrees was held for at least ten seconds!  The FT then slowly rotated back to horizontal. 

    Implication: (as incredible as this may sound) the pilot wanted to present the belly of the FT towards the camera so that the pattern of strobes would be accurately recorded. 

    Such a banking maneuver, without turning, is virtually impossible for any conventional aircraft dependent on lift from its wings.   Similar stunts have been recorded by Cornet for other performances (see The Performance on Volume IV).   At the end of the performance (after completing the "signal" pattern) the FT turned sharply east and rapidly dove at least 2,000 feet, presumably to avoid oncoming airtraffic.  Cornet carefully watched this unusual event as he was videotaping it.   He saw the FT disappear into the distance as it traveled back out to sea below 1,000 feet altitude - not something a commercial jetliner would do on its approach to Kennedy airport.  Cornet has watched airtraffic that was placed in holding patterns by the control tower circle at higher altitudes, not lower altitudes.  Not long after the FT had made its rapid descent in altitude than a commercial jetliner approached from the south, close to the previous altitude the FT had been!

    Question: If this was a performance and the light flashes were some kind of signal, how did this probe know Cornet was there with camera and would videotape it?

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Because the color of the red strobe is dull and difficult to see on video, the color has been enhanced on the composite illustration above.

    A similar type of FT with alternately-strobing outer white lights may have been videotaped by Kenneth Mundell on 20 January 1999.  Ken said in an email posted to several newsgroups: "This video on my website taken not that far from a military base shows a UFO - triangular - with warning lights travelling sideways [see Vol. III on triangular-shaped craft]. This is proof that the governments and military are covering up knowledge of this 'technology' - as it has flashing lights on it." Is this evidence for secret military aircraft, or evidence of 'reverse stealth', where an FT tries to disguise itself as a conventional aircraft? You be the judge after carefully examining the evidence presented here.

    The signal pattern of the 10 October 1997 FT contains an intricate interplay between a red light and two white lights, which flashed in discrete patterns to produce clusters of flashes separated by intervals of no flashes. In addition, the spacing (number of video frames) between flashes was synchronized to Cornet's video such that the red strobe alternately fired every 29 and 88 frames.  And yet at key points in the sequence the interval between red strobes was 59 frames (the difference between 29 and 88). Based on the types of clustering and alternation of signals, the pattern appears to have been deliberate and under intelligent control. The data and descriptions given below document such an interpretation. There also appears to be mathematical progressions in parts of the sequence.

METHOD OF ANALYSIS

   The Camcorder used to videotape the FT was a 1996 Sony Handycam video Hi8 with 30x digital zoom and SteadyShot compensation, the same one used to videotape the 17 March 1997 performances by two FTs at Pine Bush, NY (see Volume III on triangular-shaped craft).

   The pattern of strobes was so unusual that Cornet paused and counted every frame on the video to obtain the data recorded below. He also captured (in digital format on his computer) every frame containing a strobe flash, as well as frames not containing flashes.  He counted slightly more than 1400 frames twice in order to establish and check the sequence of each light flash. If a strobe did not occur in a predicted place, Cornet ran the video in real time for that interval to determine if a strobe record occurred "between" frames (and therefore would not be seen when advancing the video frame by frame); in only one or two instances did this problem occur.  He then analyzed and graphed the pattern of signals to discover any recognizable "information" contained within the sequence.  He also sought counsel from a pilot and aircraft engineer so that he could rule out the possibility that the pattern of flashes was not the result of a malfunctioning electrical system. It was not. The unusual nature of this performance and the details which have been extracted by exhaustive analysis rule out misidentification, and place the burden of proof for an alternate and conventional interpretation squarely in the lap of the skeptic.

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    The reason the data are laid out in the format below is because there were three different lights flashing in coordinated patterns. The pattern created by the red strobe is used as a baseline, against which the pattern of white strobes is compared or correlated. The central red light flashed regularly or predictably with only occasional irregularity. When he examined a long sequence, he found that the interval between red flashes alternated between 29 frames and 88 frames - exactly.  Now, for this to happen so precisely, the timing of the flashes had to have been controlled. Furthermore, conventional strobes do not alternate in interval like this. Commercial strobes fire at only one interval, not two. If the red flashes were produced by two different lights, they had to have been next to one another and not discernible. Furthermore, their flashes had to have been coordinated, because getting two strobes with different flash intervals to fire that precisely requires coordinated control.

    The data below illustrate the alternate sequence of 29 and 88 frames between red strobes, which was occasionally broken by two 29 intervals in a row, i.e. an 88 interval is missing. This missing 88 interval usually occurs just before or after a sequence of white (outer) strobes.  In addition, there is sometimes a missing 29 interval with two 88 intervals appearing in sequence. The white strobes are denoted by the prefixes 'L' or 'R', which indicate which of the two outboard lights fired - the left one or the right one.  The spacing or timing of the white strobes is related to the sequence generated by the red strobe.  In other words, the white strobes are denoted by their place or position within the red strobe intervals. They are placed to the right of the interval in which they occur (see Data below). This method establishes the relationship of the white strobes within the red strobe baseline, but also shows how the white strobe sequences are demarcated by changes in the firing pattern of the red strobe. The number after the 'L' or 'R' denotes the number of frames from the last time the red strobe fired. For example, R11 indicates that the right white strobe fired 52 frames after the last red strobe within an 88 frame interval. An L67 indicates that a left white strobe fired 67 frames after the last red strobe.

ANALYSIS

    The pattern or cadence of the red strobe was broken by a missing 88 or 29 at certain key points in the overall pattern, implying that the break is controlled and important. Also, occasionally the interval will not be a 29 or 88, but a 59 - the exact difference between 29 and 88 (88 - 29 = 59)!  For this to happen on a commercial airline, it would require more than just a pilot flicking a switch. Such precise intervals relative to the cadence of the video (30 frames per second) indicated computer control, and therefore design and intent. Furthermore, the fact that 29 frames was selected instead of 30, which is a whole second of video time, implies that whoever designed this pattern recognized the number of frames recorded by conventional camcorders per second, and wanted to flag it without matching it. The reason for such suspicion is because, had the intervals of 30 and 90 been used, skeptics would have suspected a camera glitch or timing code problem with Cornet's camcorder. Speculation, yes, but valid speculation considering the unusual pattern that was recorded for 2 minutes and 23 seconds.

    When looking at the overall sequence of red and white strobes, and their patterns, a higher order pattern can be discerned. The white strobe sequences are clustered together, and separated by intervals when only the red strobe flashed. Furthermore, the length of each white strobe sequence progressively increases and then decreases, varying from 4 to 13 to 15 to 15 to 14 to 10 to 7. In addition, the first and last white strobe sequences are different from the five in the middle. Both begin with either the left or right white strobe flashing four times with no corresponding flash from the other white strobe. In the first sequence it is the right strobe which flashes. In the last sequence it is the left strobe. But three more flashes occur in that sequence at the end, and they alternate between right and left strobes.

    Interpretation or implication: The codes at the beginning and end represent something different.

    The other sequences each have a unique signature, created by one or the other white strobe firing consecutively at the beginning or end. In between, those strobes fire alternately. Aside from this difference, the only other difference is the length of the sequence or the number of times the white strobes fired.

   Interpretation or implication: Each of these coded sequences represent something different, with the possible exception that the two most similar sequences (15 flashes each) might represent the same symbol or character.

   If you examine the cadence of the white strobes, each fires at exactly 30 frames apart. That precision is extraordinary, considering that the red strobe fires only one frame less in time at 29. The left and right white strobes consistently fire 4 frames apart. That is why I reset the numbers to starting at zero in the second "blue" sequence of the Cluster Analysis at the end of this page, so that this detail would stand out. Thus, the outboard white strobes fired: da da, break, da da, break, etc.  Such a pattern is highly anomalous compared to the outboard (wingtip) strobe pattern on a commercial jetliner. Wingtip strobes on a jetliner are usually designed to fire in sync in order to avoid being distracting to other pilots.

CONCLUSION

    The red strobe pattern establishes a reference, as well as a means of recognizing the pattern as being designed for a purpose. The first and last white strobe sequences seem to bracket the five intermediate sequences, as if they represented the Capital and Period that bracket our language sentences. The differences in the lengths and patterns for the intermediate sequences might indicate different characters. The two 15 flash sequences in the middle differ only by there being two more consecutive left flashes at the beginning of the second one than at the beginning of the first one. If these sequences are coded for our English alphabet, for example, then perhaps the five intermediate sequences represent a five letter word.

    The similarity in length between the middle two sequences (15 flashes each) might indicate that they reference the same letter. If that is correct, then the FIVE letter word could be quite simple: "Hello."  There are other possible five letter words, which are equally plausible.  Then again, the communication might not have been a greeting, but a valediction, considering the fact that the FT departed and Cornet's sightings of FTs, AOP, and probes ended.  Since 10 October 1997 he has not had a single sighting.

Perhaps in the brief flash of the red and white strobes there was embedded a more detailed, higher rate (burst) of pulses that the camcorder was not able to detect.  This possibility suggests the need for a higher recording speed capability, much faster than 30 fps.  Burst communication of data at long intervals is not that unusual.  It happens with laser communications quite often.  A similar type of burst communication may have been recorded in 1992 by Cornet at the Jewish Cemetery, which is located between Pine Bush and Walden, NY (see The Face-Lift).   The "Hello" might contain an embedded optical code at 10,000 Hz, for example.  It is therefore important for the reader to realize that video cameras are insufficient in collecting AOP data.  Much more sophisticated technological equipment is required to be certain that we are not missing something.

    Even a "Hello." (Cap and period denoted) from a visiting probe would be of monumental importance by its implications, both for protocol and language. The last or seventh coded sequence might also stand for an exclamation mark (!).

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DATA

10 August 1997, Sea Bright, NJ.

Videotaped from Swinging Bridge Park at 8:50 pm - 8:53 pm.

8:50:03 - Beginning of video record.

At least 150 frames (5 sec) counted at beginning of video record without any indication of strobing.

Data: Pattern of Red Central and White outboard strobes, Left or Right.

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Video time is give for each firing of the central Red strobe, followed by the interval between Red strobes, which is given as the number of video frames.

8:50:09 - First red strobe detected.

29

8:50:10

29

8:50:11

57

8:50:13

33            Anomaly? due to CCD SteadyShot correction? and/or small size of target? After this frame,                      signal pattern becomes more regular.

8:50:14

29

8:50:15

29

8:50:15

    88

8:50:18

29

8:50:18

29

8:50:19

    88

8:50:22

29                     Zoomed out slightly for more stable picture.

8:50:23

29

8:50:24

29

8:50:24

        117           (88 plus 29 = 117)

8:50:28

29

8:50:29

29

8:50:30

    88

8:50:33

29

8:50:34

    88

8:50:37

29

8:50:38

        117           (88 plus 29 = 117)

8:50:42

29

8:50:43

    88

8:50:46

    88

8:50:49

29

8:50:50

    88

8:50:53

29

8:50:54

        117           (88 plus 29 = 117)

8:50:58

88

8:51:00

29

8:51:01

        117           (88 plus 29 = 117)

8:51:05

29                     Pattern becomes even more regular as FT begins to bank but not turn.

8:51:06

    88

8:51:09

29

8:51:09

    88

8:51:11

29

8:51:12

    88

8:51:15

29

8:51:16

    88

8:51:19

29

8:51:20

    88

8:51:23

29

8:51:24

    88

8:51:27

29

8:51:28

    88

8:51:31

29

8:51:32

    88

8:51:35

29

8:51:36

    88

8:51:39

29

8:51:39

    88

8:51:42

29

8:51:43

    88

8:51:46

29

8:51:47

29

8:51:48

    88     R52

8:51:51

29         R24

8:51:52

    88     R25 R55

8:51:55

29

8:51:56

    88

8:51:59

29

8:52:00

    88     L86

8:52:03

29         R02 L28

8:52:04

    88     R03 L29 R33 L59 R63

8:52:07

29         L01 R05 L08?

8:52:08

    59     R06 R36

8:52:10

29

8:52:11

29

8:52:12

    59

8:52:14

29

8:52:15

29

8:52:16

    59     L07 L37 R41

8:52:18

29         L08 R12

8:52:18

29         L08 R12

8:52:18

    88     L09 R13 L39 R43 L69 R73

8:52:21

29         L11 R15

8:52:22

    88     R16 R46

8:52:25

29

8:52:26

    88     L74

8:52:29

29         L16

8:52:30

    88     L17 L47 R51 L77 R81

8:52:33

29         L19 R23

8:52:34

    88     L20 R24 L50 R54 R84

8:52:37

29         R26

8:52:38

    88

8:52:41

    88     L84

8:52:44

29         L26

8:52:45

    88     L27 L57 R61 L87

8:52:48

29         R03 L29

8:52:49

    88     R04 L30 R34 R64

8:52:52

29         R06

8:52:53

    59     R07

8:52:55

29

8:52:56

29

8:52:57

    59     L35

8:52:59

29         L06

8:52:59

    88     L07 R11 L37 R41 L67 R71

8:53:02

    88     R13 R43

8:53:05

29

8:53:06

29

8:53:07

    59

8:53:09

29         L13

8:53:10

    88     L14 L44 L74 R78

8:53:13

29         L16 R20

8:53:14

FT drops below rooftop and out of sight.

CLUSTER ANALYSIS

Seven clusters analyzed by the interval or numbers of frames.

8:51:48

    88     R52

8:51:51

29         R24

8:51:52

    88     R25 R55

8:51:55

Cluster One: R52 R112 R142 R172

Starting at Zero: R00 R060 R090 R120

265 frames between clusters One and Two.

8:52:00

    88     L86

8:52:03

29         R02 L28

8:52:04

    88     R03 L29 R33 L59 R63

8:52:07

29         L01 R05 L08?

8:52:08

    59    R06 R36

Cluster Two: L86 R90 L116 R120 L146 R150 L176 R180 L206 R210 L214 R240 R270

Starting at Zero: L00 R04 L030 R034 L060 R064 L090 R094 L120 R124 L127 R154 R184

228 frames between clusters Two and Three.

8:52:16

    59    L07 L37 R41

8:52:18

29         L08 R12

8:52:18

    88     L09 R13 L39 R43 L69 R73

8:52:21

29         L11 R15

8:52:22

    88     R16 R46

8:52:25

Cluster Three: L07 L37 R41 L67 R71 L97 R101 L127 R131 L157 R161 L187 R191 R221 R251

Starting at Zero: L00 L30 R34 L60 R64 L90 R094 L120 R124 L150 R154 L180 R184 R214 R244

145 frames between clusters Three and Four.

8:52:26

    88     L74

8:52:29

29         L16

8:52:30

    88     L17 L47 R51 L77 R81

8:52:33

29         L19 R23

8:52:34

    88     L20 R24 L50 R54 R84

8:52:37

29        R26

8:52:38

Cluster Four: L74 L104 L134 L164 R168 L194 R198 L224 R228 L254 R258 L284 R288 R318 R348

Starting at Zero: L00 L030 L060 L090 R094 L120 R124 L150 R154 L180 R184 L210 R214 R244 R274

175 frames between clusters Four and Five.

8:52:41

    88    L84

8:52:44

29         L26

8:52:45

    88     L27 L57 R61 L87

8:52:48

29         R03 L29

8:52:49

    88     R04 L30 R34 R64

8:52:52

29        R06

8:52:53

    59     R07

8:52:55

Cluster Five: L84 L114 L144 L174 R178 L204 R208 L234 R238 L264 R268 R298 R328 R358

Starting at Zero: L00 L030 L060 L090 R094 L120 R124 L150 R154 L180 R184 R214 R244 R274

145 frames between clusters Five and Six.

8:52:57

    59    L35

8:52:59

29        L06

8:52:59

    88     L07 R11 L37 R41 L67 R71

8:53:02

    88     R13 R43

8:53:05

Cluster Six: L35 L65 L95 R99 L125 R129 L155 R159 R189 R219

Starting at Zero: L00 L30 L60 R64 L090 R094 L120 R124 R154 R184

175 frames between clusters Six and Seven.

 8:53:09

29         L13

8:53:10

    88     L14 L44 L74 R78

8:53:13

29         L16 R20

8:53:14

Cluster Seven: L13 L30 L60 L90 R94 L120 R124

Starting at Zero: L00 L17 L47 L77 R81 L107 R111

END

B. Cornet 1999