Don,

I’m not sure how your post relates to the points I was making, or thought I was making.

“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… could be causing the UFOs, or in this case the lights, which are called “earthquake lights”…”

I do not know what you mean by “this case”. I assume your statement means that people had thought strange lights were the cause of earthquakes, but now it is thought to be the other way around, and I assume you do not mean that UFOs were actually causing earthquakes.

“In 1986, Persinger with John Derr, a leading US geologist, studied an outbreak of lights in the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington State…Scientific observations followed…”

An observation is neither scientific nor non-scientific.

“…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?”

I do not know what you mean by “that quake.” Perhaps you mean that that seismic activity and those sightings were related to a quake that followed?

“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.”

This is interesting, but I cannot see any irony.

“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?”

Yes, it could be. In fact, I think it is likely, if the lights are caused by electrical disturbances.

“Could it also be that what causes one also causes the other?”

For the same reason, very likely.

“Do they occur at the same time, or do they occur at different times and locations?”

This would be hard to investigate, because you would need independent detailed reports of light phenomena to compare with detailed logs of ear tones.

“Just because something isn’t understood… doesn’t mean it can’t happen…”

Absolutely. The converse is also true: just because you observe something happening, does not mean that you understand it.

“Many theories are set aside, ignored and said to be impossible because [underlying mechanisms are not] understood… The theory of plate tectonics was one such theory.”

My favorite example. One of the arguments against the validity of VAN research was the same: the underlying mechanism of ULF radiation origins is not understood. That is an irony.

“Petra… 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… It… came out 37.5 miles per second. I knew we were in trouble because I didn’t know of any sound that travels [at] 37.5 per second…

Well, I must apologize to John. I thought he had misunderstood the 37.5 miles per second as a speed, but now I see that that is how you are explaining it. But if you examine your formula, you will notice that it is not a speed. You are calculating 37.5 miles for every second of sound that Petra hears. That has nothing to do with speed. One wonders why the length of tone would indicate distance, but if that is what observations confirm, it would be worth pondering.

“…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.”

There is unnecessary confusion about the word “sound” as a perception and as a physical phenomenon. Electrophonic transduction would mean that the EM radiation is converted into either vibrations or directly into nerve impulses. She hears a sound, but there are no sound waves. The mechanism for this is not known, but there is some research being done on animals. It is not strange or implausible at all.

“Petra may get discouraged at times, but she isn’t a quitter. She will see it through no matter what the outcome.”

My suggestions were all aiming to facilitate communication to others about what her observations are, mainly because I am interested in them.

The origins of ULF EM radiation are obscure, and so is any mechanism of electrophonic transduction. There is not much point speculating too much about them It would be better to organize what goes on in-between -- the observations -- in such a way that sympathetic people can understand them, reflect upon them, and make use of them.

Ara