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Originally Posted by Turtle
Hey Frank. Checking in. Say I noticed a spate of UFO reports this past week or so in the mainstream press and started thinking of you. Have you looked into any correlation to UFO sightings and earthquakes or earthquake lights? If not, what do you think of the idea?
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Earthquake "lights" are the result of ionization of the air over a seismic event, this caused by the massive current generated by that event. We only see the earthquake lights when the ionization is such that it generates visible light. Lesser seismic events could produce ionization products that would be visible in the infrared and ultraviolet regions, but we don't carry these type detectors around with us all the time. The infrared and ultraviolet ionization products would be visible before and during a big seismic event, but who is looking?
Power companies use infrared and ultraviolet detectors to identify ionization breakdown occurring at HV power insulators before they become so severe they are visible (usually indicating an insulator fault and pending short).
