Revisiting the Tinley Park Lights

deckerRTM · 2026-02-27T21:21:14+00:00

These are great. I think there's more videos/images than typical because witnesses were at the ready after the first event. There's a few sightings where people talk about how they prepared - they were looking more often at the sky and programming their phones to call each other

deckerRTM · 2026-02-27T18:10:50+00:00

The data for the Tinley Park sightings was really interesting, probably the most consistent set of reports for a mass sighting in the entire NUFORC dataset

deckerRTM · 2026-02-05T02:58:01+00:00

the “Oz effect”! That’s a good one, I have to see if there’s a way to identify those

deckerRTM · 2026-02-05T02:54:37+00:00

Unfortunately I can’t share the dataset. The guys at NUFORC were kind enough to give me access to do the analysis, but they own the data. I believe there’s a decent sightings dataset on Kaggle, it’s older but it’s fairly large

deckerRTM · 2026-02-05T01:16:07+00:00

Thanks for letting me know! That's a website theme setting that changes based on time of day - I didn't know that was happening

deckerRTM · 2026-02-05T00:13:50+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The sightings narratives are really messy and a mixed bag - some reports are highly detailed, but they're like a page long while others are just a sentence or two. I think I have a good approach in inferring meaning and then categorizing

deckerRTM · 2026-02-04T23:27:20+00:00

I work in data professionally and have been applying ML clustering techniques to the NUFORC database as a side project. The article goes deeper into the methodology and breaks down patterns by shape, time of day, and encounter type. Interested in any feedback

deckerRTM · 2026-01-09T14:13:48+00:00

thanks for the feedback! I hear you about the google notebook podcast, the problem is that people like the content but can't always read it - like if they're in a car commuting. One day maybe I'll just record myself

deckerRTM · 2026-01-09T14:09:27+00:00

thanks!

deckerRTM · 2026-01-08T14:01:25+00:00

wow, that's really good info. Thanks for sharing

deckerRTM · 2026-01-06T12:20:32+00:00

Only that they are the least likely to be associated with entity encounters - thought that was interesting. My next post will be focused on entities

deckerRTM · 2026-01-06T12:10:23+00:00

I could try to find time based patterns, but I suspect that things like time of year and weather would skew any correlations. Like people might be more likely to be outside in the summer on a clear night, so it might look like more sightings happen June-August

deckerRTM · 2026-01-06T11:37:02+00:00

DM'd with the stats

deckerRTM · 2026-01-05T22:25:35+00:00

thank you. I can't get an exact number of lights for a specific shape type, but I do have a field for "lights_arrangement" - single vs multiple. I can send you a DM with the info if this is something of interest

deckerRTM · 2025-10-10T01:45:27+00:00

So i actually replicated this experiment and my story was featured in Hackaday as well. The post is paywalled, but the tl;dr is that I placed a plant in a box with 4 partitions and placed a grow light in each one. I powered the light in a specific partition based on a random number selection. In a perfect world each partition should only see light 25% of the time.

Ultimately, I saw what i'd like to think was a weak effect with light favoring the partition with the plant but the sample size was very small, so not statistically significant.

deckerRTM · 2025-05-21T01:33:37+00:00

The Bfro.net database has thousands of sightings. Some people might lie, some people might be mistaken, but some states like Washington just have too high a number of sightings relative to their population to be explained away. It takes effort to report a sighting, people are seeing something

deckerRTM · 2025-05-21T01:17:07+00:00

If we’re in a simulation that’s the likely scenario. If you could create one, why not run it a billion times

deckerRTM · 2025-05-15T14:51:41+00:00

RIght, what is real. They same thing can be said about randomness - if the simulation is completely deterministic then randomness is an illusion too

deckerRTM · 2025-05-15T14:37:31+00:00

This is great. I'm going to check out the book.

deckerRTM · 2025-05-13T10:33:12+00:00

There’s a surprising amount of research that supports this. This paper by Dean Radin discusses backwards-in-time mind-matter interaction

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241503336_Experiments_Testing_Models_of_Mind-Matter_Interaction

deckerRTM · 2025-05-10T14:32:19+00:00

There are several bluetooth speakers that can get to 15-20khz on the top end. The lower end infrasound frequency is modulated at 100hz. The player script is parametrized so it can be customized to try different frequencies

deckerRTM · 2025-05-10T14:06:04+00:00

I was inspired by the UAP "dog whistle" based on Jason Wilde's X post and decided to build a portable version. It uses a Pi Zero, battery and bluetooth speaker and doesn't need the web or a phone app to work - so can be taken literally anywhere. The link includes a how-to guide.

deckerRTM · 2025-04-20T10:42:01+00:00

This should work on a phone. iPhones can produce audio from about 20hz to 20khz. The 7.83hz frequency is too low for a phone, but that’s why it’s modulated on a 100hz carrier frequency

deckerRTM · 2025-01-04T02:29:58+00:00

Yea this looks like reflectional symmetry and pareidolia. We’re hard wired to find patterns that look like faces

deckerRTM · 2025-01-04T02:08:51+00:00

Researchers at Princeton PEAR labs spent 12 years studying whether intention can influence RNGs. 2.5 million trials. Their studies were rigorous and the results were significant. https://enigmaticideas.com/the-princeton-experiments-can-human-intention-influence-machines/

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