Midair Crash, July 1 2002

Early in the morning of July 1 2002, Henk Vietor sr. had a dream of an air crash:

I HAD THE DREAM IN MONACO AT 04.00 HOURS LOCAL MONACO TIME ON MONDAY MORNING 
JULY 1ST 2002. I SENT MY REPORT AT 05:30 HOURS LOCAL TIME SAME DAY TO NEW 
CENTRAL PREMONITIONS REGISTRY WITH AUTOMATIC COPIES TO NEWSGROUP ALT AND 
LISTSERV.GROUP PSL. 

[In the real tragedy] A DHL PLANE FLEW NORTH COMING OVER THE SOUTH OF FRANCE  
AND A RUSSIAN TUPELOV PLANE CAME FROM THE RIGHT HITTING THE PLANE AT THE 
RIGHT SIDE AT 35,000 FEET ABOVE LAKE CONSTANCE ON THE BORDER WITH 
AUSTRIA/SWITZERLAND AND THE SOUTH OF GERMANY. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT 
23:43 LOCAL TIME SAME DAY JULY 1ST 2002. (SO ABOUT 20 HOURS AFTER MY DREAM)

Given this information, I proceeded with an exploratory hypothesis that the EGG network might show deviations correlated with the crash, specifying a period beginning 15 min or half an hour prior to the crash, to a few hours after: from 21:15 to midnight GMT. The first figure below shows the outcome. For the larger context, we also assessed the whole day, shown in the second figure. While we do not want to overinterpret, it is notable that in addition to the sharp trend beginning just after 21:00, there is an unusual "bump" in the cumulative deviation beginning at 02:00 -- which corresponds to 04:00 in Monaco, the time of the apparently prenonitory dream.

Midair Crash, July 1 2002

Midair Crash, July 1 2002


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