A Correlation Between the Bermuda Triangle and UFO Sightings
The Bermuda Triangle has an inverse relationship with UFO sightings per capita.
In a previous post, I considered whether there was anything unusual to the Bermuda Triangle that would correspond with specific whistleblowers who claim there are anamolous ancient UFOs buried underneath the waters. Another point to consider is whether there is a correlation between the distance from Bermuda to every other island or country under consideration. Although the triangle’s boundaries are usually considered nebulous we can use the cities: Miami, San Juan, and Hamilton as vertices on the triangle. Then Bermuda is the northernmost vertex on the triangle.
What about the distances between various islands and Bermuda? Traditional Euclidean distance may be too imprecise and isn’t suited to handling round polyhedra like the Bermuda Triangle so instead we will use Haversine distance. This function calculates the approximate distance between two points on a sphere, which the Earth is approximately. To calculate the distances I used a dataset I compiled by hand from the NUFORC and Google to merge the coordinates for each country and island with the UFO sighting data. Since NUFORC is an English language dataset I just used islands where the official or primary language is English.
When plotting the distance to Bermuda against the number of UFO sightings per 100k residents. A clear linear relationship forms between the distance and the number of sightings per capita.
The correlation is a strong negative correlation of around -0.84, which indicates UFO sightings per 100k residents increase substantially as you get closer to Bermuda. How can we approximate the exact relationship between distance to Bermuda and the number of sightings per capita? Linear regression can determine how the number of sightings per 100k residents changes with regard to the distance.
Using linear regression we get a slope of around -0.0082 and a y-intercept of around 21.87, meaning the line will be something like y = -0.0082x + 21.87 for every kilometer increase in the distance the number of sightings per 100k residents decreases by approximately 0.008, a slight decrease but substantial over hundreds of kilometers.
The trendline indicates a clear decrease in sightings per capita the further you get from Bermuda. The correlation doesn’t mean there is a cause in Bermuda but it could indicate some hidden factor influencing the results. This all coincides with what specific whistleblowers have said about the region. I’m not claiming that this is necessarily a hidden space ark in the triangle but it is strangely coincidental with the space ark hypothesis. Does anybody have any different ideas on the cause? I’d like to hear it, even from skeptics despite the data pointing to the space ark hypothesis. Here’s the notebook if you want to look at it.
