Notes on GPS app experiment to monitor CE4 Experiencer location

Ever since investigating and conducting hypnotic work on the "Flying Fisherman" close encounter case, I've been intrigued by the possibility of recording an experiencer's location during an abduction event. In this case, occurring in the late 1990s, the experiencer was in his fishing boat, which had a GPS tracker mounted on it. On several occasions, the tracker showed some anomalous readings - very anomalous - at the time the a missing time event occurred. (See case report at

http://www.explorewithhypnosis.com/FlyingFishermanCase.pdf). Unfortunately his GPS did not have an altitude measurement on it so it was never able to establish if or how the boat was taken from the lake surface. Regardless of the final result of this case, the concept of GPS tracking of a possible UFO abduction has intriguing possibilities. 

If experiencers could continuously run an active GPS device on their mobile phone, perhaps we could get similar results to the flying fisherman case but under more controlled conditions. In most phone GPS apps, the altitude is also recorded so we could establish whether an ascent and return took place. With such a tool, perhaps we could capture detailed data during an actual UFO abduction event. At the very least, this possibility now bears deeper exploration.  

Since a person's phone is usually in their proximity during most of their waking hours, it seems likely that it could record at least some unusual movement in the event. Thus I have been experimenting with various GPS tracking apps for the iPhone (and presumably Android). The goal is to determine feasibility of running an app on an experiencer's phone throughout the day.  

I would estimate the constraints on such an app to be as follows:

1) the app would have to run in the background reliably and without intervention. 

2) the app would need to have minimal battery drain on the phone, allowing the phone to run for an entire day without recharging. I would suggest less than 25% drain over a day of use on an iPhone 6s. 

3) the app would have to record latitude, longitude and altitude to tight precision. As a rough estimate it would be best to track the experiencer's location to within approximately 20 feet horizontally and approximately 20 feet altitude, with a measurement on the order of once every minute. 

These would likely be able to catch the events of a UFO abduction with sufficient precision to reliably catch any unexplained movements during the period of missing time. 

Previously, with my iPhone 4s, the battery capacity wasn't sufficient to run a precision GPS tracker app for an entire day. So I needed to wait until I had upgraded my iPhone. Now using the iPhone 6s, along with a battery reserve in the case I can run my phone in normal operation for most of the day with almost negligible effect on the battery. (Not including calls, GPS, music or extensive texting).

With this in mind I have tried several different GPS apps. For this experiment I chose the GPS Tracks app version 2.9.2. For the initial tests I set the app to track in high precision mode with all of the advanced features disabled. This included disabling sleep and auto-pause modes. 

I ran the app throughout the day for approximately 11 hours 45 minutes in the background. I found that after this test period the battery was drained down to below 25% over the test period. The Battery indicators on the iOS settings screen showed GPS Tracker took about 37% of the battery usage during that time. Thus these initial settings are probably still too much of a battery drain. (Note: I also spent considerable time using the music and messenger apps, which made up about 15% and 11% of the battery load throughout the day). 

The phone listed the measurement accuracy to within approximately +/-15 ft and altitude to within approximately +/-10 ft with a measurement every 10 seconds. The app user manual states that this should result in about 4 hours battery life (note: phone model and therefore battery capacity for this spec is not clear).  

My next objective will be to see how we can optimize the settings to provide less of a drain on the battery, yet still afford close enough tracking to catch any anomalous event. 

Medium precision takes a measurement once each 20 seconds, while low precision does so once per minute. In the case of a car traveling 60mph, this would result in  data point once each 1/3 mile and once per mile respectively. Either should be enough to capture the essential elements of an auto-stop UFO abduction.

I plan to update my blog with results of later tests. Stay tuned...