  Gravitational lensing of invisible streaming matter towards the Sun could be
the explanation of the puzzling solar flares and the unexplained solar emission
in the EUV. Assuming that this invisible matter has some form of interaction
with normal matter and that there exist preferred directions in its flow, then
one would expect a more pronounced solar activity at certain planetary
heliocentric longitudes. This is best demonstrated in the case of the Earth and
the two inner planets. We have analyzed the solar flares as well as the EUV
emission. We observe statistically significant signals when one or more planets
have heliocentric longitudes mainly between 230o and 300o. We also analyzed
daily data of the global ionization degree of the Earth atmosphere. We observe
a correlation between the total atmospheric electron content and the orbital
position of the inner three planets. Remarkably, the strongest correlation is
appearing with the phase of the Moon.
