For many years people saw that there was connection between lights, earthquakes and UFOs. In this case the lights were the UFOs and they were causing some of the earthquakes. Well it now seems that the earthquakes, or the very earth itself could be causing the UFOs, or in this case the lights, which are called “earthquake lights” for the lack of a better name.

In 1986, Persinger with John Derr, a leading US geologist, studied an outbreak of lights in the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington State. Fire wardens on the reservation saw huge orange light balls floating above rocks, as well as smaller "ping-pong balls" of light bounding along ridges. Glowing clouds and subterranean rumblings were also noted during this period. The fire wardens took photographs of the lights and triangulated the positions using radios. Scientific observations followed: Derr and Persinger showed that the Yakima lights were seen most often in the vicinity of the fault-riddled ridges that cut across the reservation and with Satus Peak, the general area of a surface rupture and one of the stronger earthquakes in the region during the 13 years covered by the study. Successive reporting of lights occurred in the seven months preceding the biggest earthquake of the studied period. Regional seismic activity also increased during the times in 1972 and 1976 when most sightings were reported. Could that quake have been the Nisqually quake?

The irony of the Yakima case is that the reservation is adjacent to the part of the Cascades Mountains where pilot Kenneth Arnold saw the flight of nine glittering objects in 1947 that initiated the flying saucer era. In fact, Arnold landed his plane at Yakima airfield shortly after his encounter.

Could it be that Petra and others hear the “earthquake lights” or that the “earthquake lights” are the visual aspect of what Petra and others hear? Could it also be that what causes one also causes the other? Do they occur at the same time, or do they occur at different times and locations?

Just because something isn’t understood, believed, can’t be explained, tested, or seen, or heard by many doesn’t mean it can’t happen, doesn’t happen, or won’t happen. Many theories are set aside, ignored and said to be impossible because it wasn’t understood or believed just to name a few reasons. The theory of plate tectonics was one such theory. Look at it now.

Petra and couple of others heard the “chatter” in the Cholame area. They named it “deep, dark and ugly” for the lack of anything else to call it. At the time they could only guess that it was the San Andreas Fault in the area of Parkfield or a little further to the south. She heard the Nisqually quake although at the time she didn’t know it. That quake was the break I needed to get the number of miles per second. As soon as got the figure of 37.5 miles per second I threw that away and did the math again. It still came out 37.5 miles per second. I knew we were in trouble because I didn’t know of any sound that travels and 37.5 per second. Still don’t know of any either. I’m not sure it’s a sound she hears, but more like a vibration, which in turn excites something in the ear, or nerve endings, which in turn makes the sound.

Petra may get discouraged at times, but she isn’t a quitter. She will see it through no matter what the outcome. Take Care…Don in creepy town