“Research Log: Project Aurora. Log #26. Timestamp: Monday, 6 January, year 2014, 1:37PM. Location: Crystal Prep Laboratory.”

“I’ve been going over the data, and it’s absolutely extraordinary! I managed to capture the entire event involving the strange energy, from start to finish—the whole phenomenon seems to have lasted approximately a week, with a long series of smaller spikes in a slightly different but similar frequency, before a massive electro-magnetic surge of unknown origins. I’ve checked both waveforms against known phenomena, from solar activity to man-made interference to cosmic events, and it matches none of them. The program is still sorting through the database, but I’m fairly confident that I’m looking at an undocumented electromagnetic signature.

“That reminds me—the first event in October came with aurora like distortions in the local celestial sphere. Note to self: Check traffic cams and other forms of media for a matching distortion with the most recent event. Perhaps look to see if it interfered with any audio-visual broadcasts?

“I’ve already compared the waveform to several smaller manifestations of the phenomenon that have happened over the last few months, though without any of the visual effects. The waveform is identical in most of those cases, though with much smaller output. As noted in Log #13, the most active cluster of those prior to the most recent event was a series of five overlapping events in November.”

“Research Log: Project Aurora. Log #27. Timestamp: Monday, 6 January, year 2014, 6:23PM. Location: Home Laboratory.”

“Success! After copying the data to my removable drive, I’ve been looking at it here at home. Data from a number of traffic cams in the Canterlot area provide visual confirmation of the event. The footage is mediocre at best, given the angles involved and low resolution quality of the cameras themselves, but it appears to be a similar ‘rainbow colored’ aurora dispersing across the local area. I’m definitely ruling out an actual aurora borealis, simply because this phenomenon seems to occur below cloud cover. The interaction of charged particles with the Earth’s magnetic field lines happen above the clouds, not below.

“Addendum: Perhaps Sunset’s concerns about people covering this up are founded? In my attempts to narrow down the exact epicenter of the event, I’ve found several clusters of cameras whose data has been completely erased at the time frame in question. It might do to check the time of the original event as well, to compare. In the meantime, I’ll be tightening security for my systems, as a precautionary measure.”

“Research Log: Project Aurora. Log #32. Timestamp: Wednesday, 8 January, year 2014, 11:03AM. Location: Crystal Prep Laboratory.

“This is amazing. The amount of energy put out by this phenomenon was immense, and yet, it seems to have had only a mild affect on electrical devices. It also shows signs of having been absorbed into the surrounding terra firma, causing a reaction that was undetectable by human senses. The size of the tremors are localized—the epicenter is somewhere in the greater Canterlot area, which is not that large comparatively—and given our proximity to a major and well known fault line, most seismologists will likely overlook them as anything more than nominal background tremors. The only thing that makes them stand out enough to be connected is the timing and the similarity in waveforms…which should be impossible as seismic vibrations do not typically mimic electromagnetic waveforms—or vice versa. I should look into that. Note to self: get a search going on the interaction between seismic events and electromagnetic disturbances.”

“Research Log: Project Aurora. Log #34. Timestamp: Thursday, 9 January, year 2014, 3:54PM. Location: Crystal Prep Laboratory.”

“…I think I’ve got enough here to make a good case for using this as my semester project. Plenty of data and thorough checking has shown that whatever this event is, its an undocumented one, that has occurred numerous times over the last several months with varying degrees of intensity, at least two of which caused visible disturbances. I could very easily make an entire semester’s worth of work out of both studying what I’ve already found and looking to further identify the source that is causing this phenomenon.

“I’m preparing my notes for my presentation to Principal Cinch tomorrow. The appointment is at one o’clock. For the first time I feel more excited than nervous to talk to her—she’s always so…intimidating, but I feel like this is something she’ll be interested in, and she understands the value of secrecy in a new discovery.

“After she signs off on the project, the first order of business is building a much more precise set of monitoring devices, including a portable one, that focuses on this specific wavelength of frequencies rather than the whole electromagnetic spectrum. It’ll take a little ingenuity and creativity, but I’m fairly certain I can take the existing science behind the devices and refine them. In fact, maybe I can ask Sunny for a little help on that tomorrow night! She’s particularly clever when it comes to engineering and thinking outside the box, and she’s the only other person I’ve ever met capable of working out the advanced mathematics practically in her head!

“Maybe I can even ask her what she can remember that she saw in her guardian’s office, in the event that she can recall something that might help my research!”

So a bit of a look into Twilight's research. Hopefully its status as a series of recorded audiologs is at least mildly interesting.