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Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5)

Part 5 of Project Condign Volume 1: statistical figures (3-5 through 3-18) charting UAP report counts, colours, light activity, shapes, motion, time-of-day, monthly and annual trends, and correlations with thunderstorms, solar activity, and meteor showers across 1987-1997 UK sightings.

Brief

This chunk is a run of 15 statistical plates from Chapter 3 of DI55's Project Condign study, covering figures 3-5 to 3-18. The charts break down UK UAP reports from 1987-1997 by number of objects per event, colour (green and red dominant), light activity (flashing, rotating, flickering), shape (16 categories from disc and diamond to triangular and saucer), motion type, time of day, and month. Several plates correlate UAP report frequency against environmental drivers: days of electrical thunderstorm activity in 1988, sunspot number and solar flux in May-August 1996, and the Zenithal Hourly Rate of meteor showers in 1996. Figure 3-17 is a definitional glossary for meteoroid, meteor, micrometeorite, asteroid, meteor shower, and meteor storm, flagging the November 1966 Leonids storm and the predicted November 1998 return.

Metadata

Agency: UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
Release: 2006-05-15
Type: PDF • .pdf
Length: 15 pages
Classification: SECRET UK EYES ONLY
Programs: Project Condign
Tags: Project Condign, DI55, UK MoD, UAP statistics, UAP shapes, UAP colours, UAP motion, solar correlation, meteor correlation, thunderstorm correlation, 1987-1997

Key points

Figure 3-5 plots the number of UAP seen in each event for the 1987-1991 dataset, with the x-axis running from 1 to 9 objects per event.p.1
Figure 3-6 ranks UAP colours reported in 1996/1997: green, red, blue, pink, yellow, orange, silver, amber, white, grey, metallic, black.p.2
Figure 3-7 categorises UAP light activity as flashing, rotating, flickering, erratic, beaming, or no light/steady.p.3
Figure 3-8 enumerates 16 UAP shape categories logged in 1996/1997, including disc, diamond, cross, oblong, cylinder, mushroom, wheel, oval, domed, saucer, square, triangular, and 'object shape very bright'.p.4
Figure 3-9 breaks motion into bobbing, hovering, fast, spinning, stationary, slow, pulsating, climbing, and diving.p.5
Figure 3-10 correlates UAP activity with time of day across the 24-hour clock.p.6
Figures 3-11 and 3-12 chart monthly sighting trends per year across 1987-1993 and 1996-1997, with sighting counts reaching up to 140 in a month.p.8
Figures 3-13 and 3-14 compare days of electrical (thunderstorm) activity with days of zero UAP reports and with days when UAP reports did occur in 1988.p.10
Figures 3-15(a) and 3-16(b) overlay UAP event numbers (UAPN) against Sunspot Number (SSN) and Solar Flux for May/June and July/August 1996.p.12
Figure 3-18 correlates the Zenithal Hourly Rate of meteor showers with UAP reports across 1996, in 5-day steps.p.15

Verbatim

Meteoroid: Physical body (rock) in space before it enters the Earth's atmosphere and creates the flash of light, known as a meteor.
p.14
Meteor Storm: These occur about every decade. The most intense of which occurred last on November 17, 1966.
p.14
The 'Leonids' shower appears always in November, with varying intensity and is only so-named because it appears to come from the direction of the constellation Leo.
p.14
The next intense meteor storm, following the recent passage of the comet responsible, is due in November 1998.
p.14
The majority of the particles in the comet's trail are small and will not enter Earth's atmosphere, but even these, with the dramatic increase in hourly arrival rate can damage satellites.
p.14
Asteroid: Pieces of rock or iron, which mostly orbit the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
p.14

Most interesting

DI55 catalogued 16 distinct UAP shape categories from the 1996/1997 dataset, including 'object shape very bright' as its own classification when shape was indeterminable behind luminosity.
Green and red are the two most-reported UAP colours in the 1996/1997 UK dataset, ahead of the more iconic 'silver' and 'metallic'.
The study cross-references UAP report frequency against sunspot number, solar flux, thunderstorm days, and meteor shower Zenithal Hourly Rate, treating UAP reports as a time series to be correlated with environmental drivers.
Every page in this chunk carries four stacked classification banners (SECRET, UNCLASSIFIED, UK RESTRICTED, UK EYES ONLY), the canonical Condign cover sheet.
The glossary flags the November 1966 Leonids as the most intense meteor storm of the prior decade and predicts the next intense return for November 1998, written prospectively during the 1997-2000 study window.

Cross-references

PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 4)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 7)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 2)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 3)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 8)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 1)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 6)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)
PDFProject Condign, UAP in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 3 (pages 1–48, recommendations and conclusions)UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)

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Common questions

What is Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5)?: Part 5 of Project Condign Volume 1: statistical figures (3-5 through 3-18) charting UAP report counts, colours, light activity, shapes, motion, time-of-day, monthly and annual trends, and correlations with thunderstorms, solar activity, and meteor showers across 1987-1997 UK sightings.
What does Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) reveal?: Figure 3-5 plots the number of UAP seen in each event for the 1987-1991 dataset, with the x-axis running from 1 to 9 objects per event. Figure 3-6 ranks UAP colours reported in 1996/1997: green, red, blue, pink, yellow, orange, silver, amber, white, grey, metallic, black. Figure 3-7 categorises UAP light activity as flashing, rotating, flickering, erratic,…
Which agency produced Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5)?: Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) is a primary-source record from UK Ministry of Defence / Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55). Its original classification was SECRET UK EYES ONLY.
When is Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) dated?: Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) is dated 2006-05-15.
What programs and topics appear in Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5)?: Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) references Project Condign, DI55, UK MoD, UAP statistics, UAP shapes and UAP colours.
What does Project Condign, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, Volume 1 (Executive Summary, Chapters 1–5, Annexes A–F) (part 5) say, in its own words?: "Meteoroid: Physical body (rock) in space before it enters the Earth's atmosphere and creates the flash of light, known as a meteor." (source p. 14).

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