tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98109462024-03-13T13:38:26.588+01:00UFO FOTOCAT BLOGSince year 2000, FOTOCAT is an in-progress project owned and managed by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, with the purpose to create a catalog of world-wide UFO photo events. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-55970551768156807022024-03-11T20:42:00.060+01:002024-03-12T21:26:22.589+01:002024/MARCH/15 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English
language editing: Martin Shough.</span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
catalog contains 12,855 entries up to December 31, 2005. The rest up
to a total of 13,124 entries are composed by general cases from
Argentina (to 2006 year-end) and Spain (to 2008 year-end), plus ball
lightning reports (worldwide), military-related events, and landing
events (sourced from Spain), which are date unlimited for entry
purposes.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Print
Book:</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>
Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
hard copy has just been released of a book that collects the complete
c</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">orrespondence
that I exchanged with the Spanish ufologist and writer Antonio Ribera
over 35 years. A few months ago, I published a free edition on the
internet. This print version has been published by UPIAR (Turin,
Italy) as a 700-page, softcover, A-4-sized volume, with black &
white and color photographs, dedicated to readers who prefer having a
book in their hands and not on the screen, as well as for collectors
and libraries. The book is in Spanish.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">See
the book announcement for the digital and hard editions here:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/115513886/Book_Announcement_Anuncio_de_libro"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/115513886/Book_Announcement_Anuncio_de_libro</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
book can be purchased through this link:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204">https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A
short presentation of the book in English by Gian Paolo Grassino in
UAPcheck:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.uapcheck.com/news/id/2024-02-08-the-history-of-spanish-ufology-in-the-letters-between-antonio-ribera-and-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos">https://www.uapcheck.com/news/id/2024-02-08-the-history-of-spanish-ufology-in-the-letters-between-antonio-ribera-and-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and
in the CISU web site, in Italian language:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/la-storia-dellufologia-spagnola-nelle-lettere-tra-antonio-ribera-e-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/">http://www.cisu.org/la-storia-dellufologia-spagnola-nelle-lettere-tra-antonio-ribera-e-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
Italian translation of the book’s Foreword is found herewith:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/introduzione-al-volume-la-mia-corrispondenza-con-antonio-ribera/">http://www.cisu.org/introduzione-al-volume-la-mia-corrispondenza-con-antonio-ribera/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
the first eight months, it has had 1,043 online views and 341
downloads, which are satisfying figures for a UFO history book in
Spanish language.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMtbk8GTyk-Awkf9csPWain4CVG8-dh8W4QC-cdOq_OnHZ_G3MPvsvwB7MbP9P5snU1_Wdm45EfS8kgZlJO5rgEB-J8yzhiND_338cD1R1xTJPyDHVo7QTlejF0I11-FAUUGnDUH7QPj0XJ-c5BwdC6eDVC3_9whi6gKJj2qn4DB6NznZeODc/s8552/Ribera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="8552" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMtbk8GTyk-Awkf9csPWain4CVG8-dh8W4QC-cdOq_OnHZ_G3MPvsvwB7MbP9P5snU1_Wdm45EfS8kgZlJO5rgEB-J8yzhiND_338cD1R1xTJPyDHVo7QTlejF0I11-FAUUGnDUH7QPj0XJ-c5BwdC6eDVC3_9whi6gKJj2qn4DB6NznZeODc/s320/Ribera.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
author at home holding his latest book.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPevp0NyjD9Na2jNIgEAl8urVOgFfopg4cE5uli3Jau0oBBxp0br6gxLWfsVgj1wc437K7rfSL-ntO2RuRbvmdMeTXL54xfARyxX6outU06ar09JI1WMIewWJ_YwwXSd6zNeDhMEJDR76rdX_8C7JaBzdr84zOsTOyKmyk2iQDYWf739X3SCj/s2691/Moises.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="2691" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKPevp0NyjD9Na2jNIgEAl8urVOgFfopg4cE5uli3Jau0oBBxp0br6gxLWfsVgj1wc437K7rfSL-ntO2RuRbvmdMeTXL54xfARyxX6outU06ar09JI1WMIewWJ_YwwXSd6zNeDhMEJDR76rdX_8C7JaBzdr84zOsTOyKmyk2iQDYWf739X3SCj/s320/Moises.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">V.J.
Ballester Olmos (left) with Claudia Moctezuma and Moisés Garrido
proudly show a book that results from their joint cooperation.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk160745122"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Publishing
history: this book was published in May 2023 as a free online PDF in
the Academia.edu resources, to be accessed through this link:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Simultaneously,
UPIAR Publishing House from Turin (Italy) released two hard print
editions (black & white, and color), to be acquired from: </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNnq_VsxiQLorXj-gBlxH9okz_734C3HNvl6SHdUPCJ0uJLEoW1-p4hOe_RPKrfYSbbetxF6xlqf1PLH4zDi6-QIF6hqgakVRliREhFpCPjpK3i_6j_kgyBZvRlHjkzQ8W4_D2QfLJ0RnodW9QoBiZh8cRjGDYThUimcPvFJaSWpx1_wHQ-1F/s2504/Cover%20Backcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="2504" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNnq_VsxiQLorXj-gBlxH9okz_734C3HNvl6SHdUPCJ0uJLEoW1-p4hOe_RPKrfYSbbetxF6xlqf1PLH4zDi6-QIF6hqgakVRliREhFpCPjpK3i_6j_kgyBZvRlHjkzQ8W4_D2QfLJ0RnodW9QoBiZh8cRjGDYThUimcPvFJaSWpx1_wHQ-1F/s320/Cover%20Backcover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">New
book reviews continue to appear, for example:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Ulrich
Magin, “How reliable are eyewitnesses?,” published in German
journal </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skeptiker</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
4/2023, pages 197-198. Tr</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">anslated
and summarized from German:</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Many
areas of uncertain knowledge, such as parapsychology, UFO research,
or cryptozoology [even in mainstream disciplines like meteorology or
zoology], depend to a greater or lesser extent on the reports of
eyewitnesses, which the respective investigator then evaluates. …
Things are different now, because Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos and
Richard W. Haiden have published an anthology that examines the
question of the reliability of witness statements, particularly
regarding UFO research. … Eyewitness accounts are an uncertain
business, and that reality cannot be constructed with mere words from
people who have observed something … The volume contains several
articles that specifically assess the reliability of verifiable
reports. … I would like to select a few of the many very good
contributions: In the case studies, Wim van Utrecht shows how the
well-known “travel effect” of the low moon in Poland mutated into
a UFO landing; … Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez … documents how missile
launches in the Atlantic Ocean that occurred hundreds of miles from
the Canary Islands led to UFO reports … [in following book’s
sections, we find] Dr. Jean-Pierre Rospars analysis of 300 eyewitness
reports about bolides and re-entries … The result is devastating …
there were stark deviations in the color, duration and direction,
distance and height of the objects … [Just to mention a couple
more], Jochen Ickinger presents many empirical studies on memory and
memories, or Dr. Matthew J. Sharps describes how and why memories
morph over time, change, and ultimately become unreliable</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Another
review by German researcher Ulrich Magin has been published in
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Zeitschrift
für Anomalistik</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Journal of Anomalistics), </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Vol.
23, No. 2, 2023,</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">pages
444-449.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Some
quotes from it:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The
telephone book-sized and heavy volume is the first academic monograph
to deal exclusively with the value and disvalue of eyewitness reports
in anomaly studies, especially UFO research. … The authors are
anchored on the entire spectrum of UFO discourse-from radical
skeptics to critical observers to UFO supporters as well, everything
can be found, with skeptical and critical opinions clearly in the
majority. … The case studies section include particularly
illuminating empirical studies … the Psychological Perspectives
section largely revolved around the problem of so-called abductions,
with authors who often work at university psychology departments …
the Eyewitness Testimony section contains many interesting papers,
from Borraz’s examination of perceptual-psychological constants, or
Bullard’s detected optimistic criteria in anomalous UFO cases …
in Empirical Research we read Peiniger’s experiments, Kelley-Romano
& Douglass investigation on memory distortion, Rospars’
analysis of proved eyewitness limitations seeing bolides and
reentries, Campo’s essay on missiles taken as UFOs, or Robé’s
work on UFO imagery related to TV or comics. … In the Metrics and
Scaling section, measurements of subjectivity and reliability are
proposed. The final section touches upon epistemology in UFO
research. … I can recommend the book as worth reading…very
instructive. </i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_444_Magin_Rez_Ballester-Olmos.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_444_Magin_Rez_Ballester-Olmos.pdf</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(in German)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Online views to date: 5,988. Downloads: 1,525. A good coverage by the time being.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk160357814"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Important
Achievement: Papers from the </u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>Reliability</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
Volume Available Separately on Zenodo</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
Danny Ammon</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
57 papers by 60 authors from 14 different countries were published in
May 2023. To further increase the chances of these valuable resources
being recognized, the individual papers have now been made available
separately on Zenodo. It is an EU-funded online storage service for
open science, hosted by CERN</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Each
paper has been uploaded as a separate PDF and enriched by metadata
such as authors, abstract, keywords, and a respective DOI. Especially
DOIs</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
improve the citability of each paper. Zenodo can now be used to
search and filter for authors, keywords, etc. from the book. The
complete overview of the book can be browsed here: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.subjects.subject%3A%22The%20Reliability%20of%20UFO%20Witness%20Testimony%22&l=list&p=1&s=20&sort=oldest">https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.subjects.subject%3A%22The%20Reliability%20of%20UFO%20Witness%20Testimony%22&l=list&p=1&s=20&sort=oldest</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Following
is a list of citations of all papers including their new DOI.</span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Foreword:
Newman, Leonard S. <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592977">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592977</a></span></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: normal;">Introduction:
Ballester-Olmos, Vicente-Juan with Richard W. Heiden.</span></span></h2>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592951">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592951</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section I Case Studies</span></h2>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Ballester-Olmos,
Vicente-Juan. “Memory Games: A False Recall Episode”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10580727">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10580727</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Callahan,
Tim. “The Phoenix Lights: The Fallibility of Human Perception and
Memory”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10580806">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10580806</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Carlson,
James T. “Missile Flights and Fantasies”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581175">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581175</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Huston,
Peter. “Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price &
Others”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581221">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581221</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Keul,
Alexander G. “Investigating Ball Lightning Eyewitness Reports”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581262">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581262</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Maillot,
Éric, and Jean-Michel Abrassart. “Very Close Encounter with a UAP
in Levitation”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581276">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581276</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Maugé,
Claude. “The Real Raël, UFO Contactee and the Last Prophet”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581298">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581298</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Myers,
Craig R. “The Mufon-ian Candidate: The Gulf Breeze UFO Case as
Political Contest”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581328">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581328</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Nickell,
Joe. “The Pascagoula Abduction: A Case of Hypnagogia?”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581338">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581338</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Oberg,
James. “Misinterpretations of Fireball Swarms from Satellite
Reentries”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581353">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581353</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Palmer,
Susan J. “When Testimony Becomes Testament: The Case of Raël, UFO
Prophet, and the Question of Witness Reliability”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581370"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581370</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Posner,
Gary P. “The Legendary Cash-Landrum Case: Radiation Sickness from a
Close Encounter?”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581488"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581488</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Printy,
Tim. “The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool's Gold?”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581534"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581534</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Ruesga
Montiel, José. “The Changing Case of Próspera Muñoz: An
Abduction Remembered over 41 Years?”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581678"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581678</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Van
Utrecht, Wim. “Lunar Terror in Poland: A Doctor's Dilemma”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581701"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581701</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Watson,
Nigel. “On the Credibility of the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction
Case”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581722"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581722</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Young,
Robert R. “Metamorphosis: Claimed Witness Accounts of the Great
Lakes Fireball of December 9, 1965”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581741"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581741</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section II
Psychological Perspectives</span></h2>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Albright,
Thomas D. “On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581767"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581767</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Conesa-Sevilla,
Jorge. “Close Encounters of the "other" Kind: On the
Psychology of "alien Abductions".
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581790"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581790</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Dodier,
Olivier. “Dissociation and Alien Abduction Allegation”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581805"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581805</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Forrest,
David V. “Alien Abduction: Takeaways”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581815"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581815</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">French,
Christopher C. “Hypnotic Regression and False Memories”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581820"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581820</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Krippner,
Stanley. “Aliens, UFOs, and Personal Schemas”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581831"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581831</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Lansley,
Hélène, and Thomas Rabeyron. “Clinical Approach to UFO Sightings
and Alien Abductions”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581843"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581843</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Maugé,
Claude. “Manuel Jimenez and the Perception of UFOs: Hypotheses and
Experiments”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582128"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582128</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Meena,
Subhash, and Surabhi Das. “Cognition and Memory Distortion Behind
UFO Testimonies”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582136"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582136</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Perrotta,
Giulio. “Clinical Evidence in the Italian Phenomenon of Alien
Abduction”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582143"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582143</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Scribner,
Scott R., and Gregory J. Wheeler. “From "I Witnessed…"
to Established Hypothesis: UFO Cultures and Contexts”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582154"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582154</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Sharps,
Matthew J. “Forensic Cognitive Science and the UFO Phenomenon”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582163"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10582163</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section III On Witness
Testimony</span></h2>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Borraz
Aymerich, Manuel. “UFOs: The Role of Perceptual Illusions in the
Endurance of an Empirical Myth”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588234"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588234</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Bullard,
Thomas E. “Calibrating the Instrument: How Reliable Is Eyewitness
Testimony?”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588354"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588354</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Campo
Pérez, Ricardo. “Bizarre Accounts: Remarkable Missile Sightings
from the Canary Islands in the 1970s”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588466"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588466</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Da
Silva, Luiz Augusto L. “Some Considerations About the Behavior and
Reliability of UAP Eyewitnesses”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588540"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588540</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Delaval,
Marcel. “UFO Myth Propagation Before the Arrival of Social
Networks”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588608"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588608</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Haines,
Richard F. “Witness Reliability: Accuracy - Reliability of Pilots -
Personal Honor”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588756"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588756</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Ickinger,
Jochen. “Memories Are Not Documentaries: The Weakest Link in the
Chain of UFO Evidence”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588816"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588816</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Magin,
Ulrich. “Three Simple Tests of Eyewitness Reliability”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588893"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588893</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Mavrakis,
Daniel. “Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony in Extreme Close
Encounters: "abductees" & "contactees"”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588950"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588950</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Noll,
Richard. “Satanists, Aliens and Me”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588980"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588980</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Passot,
Xavier. “The UFO Testimony Reliability from 2000 GEIPAN Reports”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589126"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589126</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Plaza
del Olmo, Julio, “Data Are Worth a Thousand Accounts”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589170"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589170</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Suenaga,
Cláudio Tsuyoshi. “The Objectivity of Witnesses and the
Subjectivity of Testimonies”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589247"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589247</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">White,
Luise. “Aliens Are Good to Talk with”.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589308"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589308</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section IV Empirical
Research</span></h2>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Berché
Cruz, Carles. “Alien Delusions: Some (real) Clinical Cases”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589352"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589352</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Kelley-Romano,
Stephanie, and Amy Bradfield Douglass. “Memory Distortion in a
Social Judgement: People Who Report Contact with Aliens Are More
Susceptible”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589412"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589412</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Peiniger,
Hans-Werner. “It Was as Large as the Full Moon”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589469"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589469</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Peiniger,
Hans-Werner. “When a Fire Balloon Transforms into a UFO”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589530"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589530</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Raduga,
Michael. “Bedtime Alien Abduction Stories: A Checklist to Detect
Its Dreaming Nature”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589735"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10589735</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Robé,
Raoul. “Fantasy Imagery and UFO Testimonies”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590031"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590031</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Rospars,
Jean-Pierre. “Abilities and Limitations of Eyewitnesses Assessed on
Atmospheric Entries of Meteoroids and Artificial Satellites”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590202"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590202</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section V
Anthropological Approach</span></h2>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Cabria,
Ignacio. “Inside a Spaceship: Cognitive and Social Aspects of an
Alien Contact”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590274"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590274</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Dumerchat,
Frédéric. “Alien Big Cats and UFO Testimonies: Similarities and
Questions”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590316"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590316</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reis,
Carlos. “Belief in Aliens and the Imaginary: A Transdisciplinary
Approach”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590351"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590351</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section VI Metrics and
Scaling</span></h2>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Ballester-Olmos,
Vicente-Juan, and Miguel Guasp. “Measuring the Subjectivity of UFO
Testimony”. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590403"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590403</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Leduc,
Marc. “The Reliability of the UFO Sighting Story”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590461"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590461</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Section VII
Epistemological Issues</span></h2>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Ares
de Blas, Félix. “On the Fallacy of the Residue”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590527"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590527</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Martins,
Leonardo B. “Scientific Case Studies: Research Guidelines for
Dealing with the Lack of Reliability of UFO/UAP Testimonies”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590566"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10590566</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Danny Ammon is a medical data science and healthcare interoperability
specialist at Jena</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">University Hospital
(Germany). Since 2008, he is the second chairman of the Gesellschaft
zur</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Erforschung des UFO
Phänomens (GEP) and extended board member of the Society for</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Anomalistics (GfA). He is
also active in the EuroUFO.net community and an affiliate member in
the</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Society for UAP Studies.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/zenodo-guide"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://www.openaire.eu/zenodo-guide</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.75cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.75cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ballester
Olmos UFO Bibliography, 1965-2023 Updated</u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">I
have updated my personal research bibliography 1965-2023 and uploaded
it to Academia.edu for those interested. It covers nothing less than
59 years of non-stop work that has produced 13 books and nearly 600
publications. Click here:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/113605314/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/113605314/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Official UAP Scene in America</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">October
2023. Since Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the head of AARO, is retiring from
the Federal Government in December, after nearly 18 months on the
job, Timothy A. Phillips assumed the duties of the Deputy Director
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8jm693d"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y8jm693d</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Kirkpatrick has dictated some exit interviews, with a liberty he did
not enjoy while working for the Department of Defense. Therefore, his
statements are particularly revealing. I have selected some and
quoted interesting remarks. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Lara
Seligman, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Politico</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">,
November 12, 2023: </span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/12/sean-kirkpatrick-ufos-pentagon-00126214"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/12/sean-kirkpatrick-ufos-pentagon-00126214</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
whistleblowers are an interesting bit. We’ve had greater than 30
people now come in to talk to us. We have investigated every single
one of them, every single story, every lead that provided any
substantive evidence for us to go after. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>David Grusch is a unique instance
in that he has refused to come and share any of that information. We
still can’t get him to come in. I’ve got five different people
who have gone to talk to him to get him to come in. And the answers
have always been everything from “We’re not cleared” to “It
would jeopardize his whistleblower protections”</i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If
I go back to the fundamental definition of a UAP [unidentified
anomalous phenomena] that we had written into law, it is an unknown
object that is not initially understood by the sensor or the people
observing it. That doesn’t mean that it’s not understandable.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">People
are subject to optical illusions, sensors are subject to being fooled
or spoofed or even just having errors.</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Here’s
What I Learned as the U.S. Government’s UFO Hunter,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
January 19, 2024. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick does a devastating critical
analysis of both policy makers and media about UFOs: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The
conspiracists’ story goes something like this: The U.S. has been
hiding and attempting to reverse engineer as many as 12 UAP/UFOs from
as early as the 1960s and perhaps earlier … During a full-scale,
year-long investigation of this story … (told and retold by a
small group of interconnected believers and others with possibly less
than honest intentions—none of whom have firsthand accounts of any
of this), AARO discovered a few things, and none were about aliens.
First, no record exists of any president or living DOD or
intelligence community leader knowing about this alleged program, nor
any congressional committee having such knowledge … Second, this
narrative has been simmering for years and is largely an outgrowth of
a former program at the DOD’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP),
which was heavily influenced by a group of individuals associated
with businessman and longtime ufologist Robert Bigelow … The report
demonstrates that many of the circulating allegations described above
derive from inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures of legitimate
U.S. programs or related R&D that have nothing to do with
extraterrestrial issues or technology.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbXxt_AxcyrUXDkq63I5ydmv_v-pb8D-2xwzL3bWGEVXn59skZyplUYk_ZpV9n8WvQ-2G-1ac_tAOaK8yGXXhOKe7YhnCVkmL24pLdfv9guCMOHS9x6Q-n2QWUQpQeBlH9kh-oQvppESVKudRuQdhYDAtoPeL7uwIFvDLTgDk5GGbR4tlhe1L/s957/Kirkpatrick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="957" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbXxt_AxcyrUXDkq63I5ydmv_v-pb8D-2xwzL3bWGEVXn59skZyplUYk_ZpV9n8WvQ-2G-1ac_tAOaK8yGXXhOKe7YhnCVkmL24pLdfv9guCMOHS9x6Q-n2QWUQpQeBlH9kh-oQvppESVKudRuQdhYDAtoPeL7uwIFvDLTgDk5GGbR4tlhe1L/s320/Kirkpatrick.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of DoD’s AARO (July 2022-October 2023). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
January 23, Peter Bergen’s podcast interview to Dr. Sean
Kirkpatrick,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-the-pentagon-really-hiding-crashed-alien-spaceships/id1685702585?i=1000642602121"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-the-pentagon-really-hiding-crashed-alien-spaceships/id1685702585?i=1000642602121</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[On
the weird claims by whistleblower Grusch]: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
core group of people have influenced him, have told him this
information … He may have misinterpreted things that people have
said, or he may have just fallen to the influence of what these folks
have been telling him.</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
January 27, Dr. Sean Kirpatrick’s declaration to Richard Luscombe,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Guardian </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">on
January 27, 2024, </span></span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>It is basically a religion, a
religious belief that transcends critical thinking and rational
thought.</i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">February
5. Daniel Vergano & Jeffery Delviscio of Sci. Am.’s “Science,
Quickly” podcast interview Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, </span></span></span><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-governments-former-ufo-hunter-has-a-lot-to-say/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-governments-former-ufo-hunter-has-a-lot-to-say/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Congress’s
concern is that there was a program that they did not have insight
into, and that is not the case. What we’ve found is that everything
that’s been named or identified has a legitimate oversight
committee. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
very much clarifying synthesis of all the above has just been
delivered by </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>New
York Post</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
reporter Steven Greenstreet on February 7: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RUoYqBewC8"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RUoYqBewC8</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
December 22, 2023, new UAP provisions were added to the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024. Fortunately,
it did not include a number of aberrant mandates that the UFO-alien
lobby in the Congress and Senate wished to have materialized. A good
analysis is that of investigative journalist Douglas Dean Johnson,
“Quick guide to UAP-related provisions in the final FY 2024
National Defense Authorization Act” (December 13, 2023),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/quick-guide-to-uap-related-provisions-in-the-final-fy-2024-national-defense-authorization-act/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/quick-guide-to-uap-related-provisions-in-the-final-fy-2024-national-defense-authorization-act/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Yet
others feel UAP legislation should be even tighter: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/space-force-says-documents-on-fastwalkers-and-slowwalkers-all-exempt-from-disclosure/#google_vignette"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/space-force-says-documents-on-fastwalkers-and-slowwalkers-all-exempt-from-disclosure/#google_vignette</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the last months, the AARO web site has added lots of interesting
documents and papers to its contents. Now it has become an essential
consulting source for the historian and the researcher:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.aaro.mil/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Congress
hunts for illegal UFO programs as the media shrug, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4367689-congress-hunts-for-illegal-ufo-programs-as-the-media-shrug/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4367689-congress-hunts-for-illegal-ufo-programs-as-the-media-shrug/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Or
an updated list of congresspersons who believe in the stories of
multiple UFO crashes and the devices and occupants retrieved that
supposedly are under secretive custody of America for decades: these
are misguided dreamers that should focus on people’s needs, not on
science fiction beliefs. On this very same issue, the Congresspersons
beliefs that connect with UFO advocacy, read this from the British
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Mail</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(if you do not have an ad blocker installed):</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4yuarv2m"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4yuarv2m</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">More
on the whistleblower corner. “UFO Whistleblower Kept Security
Clearance After Psychiatric Detention,” an eye-opening article by
Ken Klippenstein in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Intercept</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
August 9, 2023:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/ufo-david-grusch-clearance/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/ufo-david-grusch-clearance/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Jason
Colavito writes a new post with insightful remarks: “Avi Loeb Says
the Messiah Is an Alien; Plus: David Grusch's UFO ‘Spiritual
Awakening’," in his blog</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-says-the-messiah-is-an-alien-plus-david-gruschs-ufo-spiritual-awakening"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-says-the-messiah-is-an-alien-plus-david-gruschs-ufo-spiritual-awakening</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It
defines well what’s in the mind of those who create mils of hits in
social media, video media and press headlines lately. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
January 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General
released the Unclassified Summary of Report No. DODIG-2023-109,
“Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena,” August 15, 2023. The stated objective was to determine
the extent to which the DoD, Military Services, Defense agencies, and
Military Department Counterintelligence Organizations took
intelligence, counterintelligence, and force protection actions to
detect, report, collect, analyze, and identify unidentified anomalous
phenomena: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/22ujvems"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/22ujvems</span></span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBbfxRVRJjjlgbumbUi1FHvjb-f37njWtQm4h_N7v5bP1XMnPoQjfoAYKVLoH1AbCjfPTtBMsAYENayi3LfO7-FgKt00RbxCfbZCfIY7DpwfBX02UACL6HiKbPQkGGCzu9peKf6gB2cLuiDgqV4R37vX1lvUZYkL0XyNhlmAIUOXVOzqsQzpC/s1024/inspector%20general.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="791" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBbfxRVRJjjlgbumbUi1FHvjb-f37njWtQm4h_N7v5bP1XMnPoQjfoAYKVLoH1AbCjfPTtBMsAYENayi3LfO7-FgKt00RbxCfbZCfIY7DpwfBX02UACL6HiKbPQkGGCzu9peKf6gB2cLuiDgqV4R37vX1lvUZYkL0XyNhlmAIUOXVOzqsQzpC/w154-h200/inspector%20general.png" width="154" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Howard
Altman, in </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
January 25, 2024, entitles a review article as “Watchdog Says
Pentagon’s UAP Response May Pose Threat To National Security,”
and says that “The Pentagon’s Inspector General slammed the
department’s dealings on the issue of UAPs in a scathing previously
classified report.” Read it in full here:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.twz.com/watchdog-says-pentagons-uap-response-may-pose-threat-to-national-security"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.twz.com/watchdog-says-pentagons-uap-response-may-pose-threat-to-national-security</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Social Studies section of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Intelligencer
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
January 31, 2024 carried a timely article by essayist and novelist
Nicholson Baker with a key title: “No, Aliens Haven’t Visited the
Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?” It is one
of the various illuminating and meaningful essays listed above on the
antecedents of the current alien hunt in the United States. Another
must-read:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Breaking
News! On March 6, 2024, AARO has released for open publication
(unclassified) a 63-page “Report on the Historical Record of U.S.
Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Volume I,” dated February 2024. It is worth a deep study, in the
meantime, this is the report’s stated conclusion:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>To
date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any
sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence a
classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress.
Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result
of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena. Although many
UAP reports remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional,
quality data were available, most of these cases also could be
identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHk6WWN6P5TBk0Jnc6CopCNOhXriDYIgQ85tWTQfZOIRo0fMUkzb594wRoC25hbkcQNUghcoSTLP2Uki8XPjddMl6R0vWjfIt9rJx45vCbfIYUA6TcqWllEsyJsBdzZOMSOfeiub5gMQ01VmhyphenhyphenVZ6UZytadtZprJq0PkZvVqXuJ_DomOfZAtbR/s811/portada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="811" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHk6WWN6P5TBk0Jnc6CopCNOhXriDYIgQ85tWTQfZOIRo0fMUkzb594wRoC25hbkcQNUghcoSTLP2Uki8XPjddMl6R0vWjfIt9rJx45vCbfIYUA6TcqWllEsyJsBdzZOMSOfeiub5gMQ01VmhyphenhyphenVZ6UZytadtZprJq0PkZvVqXuJ_DomOfZAtbR/w200-h170/portada.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Of
course you can find errata and minor historical data faults, here and
there, about a “phenomenon” that has developed over 80 years, but
remember that AARO has only had barely 13 months to fulfil the U.S.
Congress mandate to do such a big investigation and deliver a report
(incidentally, this is still an unfinished symphony, Volume II is yet
to appear). The overall importance of this report is </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><u>what
it has not found</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">,
therefore objectively negating the claims of the whistleblowers and
others alleging that all successive United States governments since
1947 have hidden UFO/alien evidence. I would heartily advise the
reader to pay attention to Section II, the Executive Summary, pages 7
to 11, faithfully reproduced next:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored
research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of
a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>.</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);"> All
investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded
that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the
result of misidentification. Although not the focus of this report,
it is worthwhile to note that all official foreign UAP investigatory
efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG
investigations.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.49cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="font-family: times;">Although
many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, AARO assesses that
if more and better quality data were available, most of these cases
also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or
phenomena. Sensors and visual observations are imperfect; the vast
majority of cases lack actionable data or the data available is
limited or of poor quality.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: times;">Resources
and staffing for these programs largely have been irregular and
sporadic, challenging investigatory efforts and hindering effective
knowledge transfer.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="color: #141414;">The
vast majority of reports almost certainly are the result of
misidentification and a direct consequence of the lack of domain
awareness; there is a direct correlation between the amount and
quality of available information on a case with the ability to
conclusively resolve it. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private
companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
AARO determined, based on all information provided to date, that
claims involving specific people, known locations, technological
tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the
reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate.
Additional claims will be addressed in Volume II</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><i><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">.</span></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">
AARO successfully located the USG and industry programs, officials,
companies, executives, and documents identified by interviewees. In
many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG classified programs
well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in
the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the
interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with
alien and extraterrestrial activity. AARO has reached the following,
high confidence conclusions related to:</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.49cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>UAP
Nondisclosure Agreements (NDA):</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
has found no evidence of any authentic UAP-related NDA or other
evidence threatening death or violence for disclosing UAP
information.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>A
CIA Official Allegedly Managed UAP Experimentation: </b></span><span style="color: #141414;">The
named, former CIA official was not involved in the movement of
extraterrestrial technology. The same former CIA officer signed a
memo rejecting a claim made by interviewees that he managed the
movement of and experimentation on off-world technology.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>Alleged
UAP Intelligence Community Document:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> An
alleged 1961 Special National Intelligence Estimate that was
“leaked” to online sources and suggests the extraterrestrial
nature of “UFOs,” is inauthentic.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: times;">“<span><b>Aliens”
Present During a DoD Technology Test:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
reviewed information related to an account of an interviewee
overhearing a conversation about a technology test at a military
base where “aliens” allegedly were observing, and AARO judges
that the interviewee misunderstood the conversation.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>Claim
That a Military Officer Touched an Off-World Craft</b></span><span style="color: #141414;">:
An interviewee claim that a named former military officer explained
in detail how he physically touched an extraterrestrial spacecraft
is inaccurate. The claim was denied on the record by the named
former officer who recounted a story of when he touched anF-117
Nighthawk stealth fighter that could have been misconstrued by the
interviewee, though the named former officer does not recall having
this conversation with the interviewee.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>Test
of Off-World Technology:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> An
interviewee claim that he witnessed what he believed to be the
testing of extraterrestrial technology at a USG facility almost
certainly was an observation of an authentic, non-UAP-related,
technology test that strongly correlated in time, location, and
description provided in the interviewee’s account.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>UAP
Disclosure Study:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> Interviewees’
claims that between 2004 and 2007 the White House requested a
research institute in Virginia study the theoretical societal
impacts of disclosing that UAP are extraterrestrial in origin; AARO
confirmed the study was conducted, but it was not requested by the
White House.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><b>Named
Companies Allegedly Experimenting on Alien Technology:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
has found no evidence that U.S. companies ever possessed off-world
technology. The executives, scientists, and chief technology
officers of the companies named by interviewees met with the
Director of AARO and denied on the record that they have ever
recovered, possessed, or engaged in reverse-engineering of
extraterrestrial technology.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>Experimentation
on Alleged Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Sample:</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
has concluded that a sample from an alleged crashed off-world
spacecraft that AARO acquired from a private UAP investigating
organization and the U.S. Army is a manufactured, terrestrial alloy
and does not represent off-world technology or possess any
exceptional qualities. The sample is primarily composed of
magnesium, zinc, and bismuth with some other trace elements, such as
lead. This assessment was based on its materials characterization. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP
reverse engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not
exist; are misidentified authentic, highly sensitive national
security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology
exploitation; or resolve to an unwarranted and disestablished
program</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><i><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">.</span></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">
AARO created a secure process in partnership with the highest-level
security officials within the DoD, IC, and other organizations to
research and investigate these programs; AARO was granted full,
unrestricted access by all organizations. It is important to note
that none of the interviewees had firsthand knowledge of these
programs—they were not approved for access to nor did they work on
these efforts—which likely resulted in misinterpretation of the
programs’ origins and purpose.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.49cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><b>The
interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic
sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or
unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs
outside of secure facilities presents ahigh risk of exposing
national security information.</b></i></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: times;">One
named program was a UAP-related Prospective Special Access Program
(PSAP)called KONA BLUE that was proposed to the Department of
Homeland Security(DHS) and supported by individuals who believed the
USG was hiding off-world technology. The program was never approved
by DHS and its supporters never provided empirical evidence to
support their claims.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="color: #141414;">In
2021, without sufficient justification, the scope of an IC
Controlled Access Program was expanded to protect UAP
reverse-engineering. This program never recovered or
reverse-engineered any UAP or extraterrestrial spacecraft. This IC
program was disestablished due to its lack of merit. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
assesses that the inaccurate claim that the USG is
reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is hiding it from
Congress is, in large part, the result of circular reporting from a
group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the
lack of any evidence</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>.</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);"> AARO
notes that although claims that the USG has recovered and hidden
spacecraft date back to the 1940s and 1950s, more modern instances of
these claims largely stem from a consistent group of individuals who
have been involved in various UAP-related endeavors since at least
2009. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="color: #141414;">Many
of these individuals were involved in or supportive of a cancelled
DIA program and the subsequent but failed attempt to reestablish
this program under DHS, called KONA BLUE. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
assesses that UAP sightings and reports of these sightings to USG
organizations and claims that some UAP constitute extraterrestrial
craft and that the USG has secured and is experimenting on
extraterrestrial technology have been influenced by a range of
cultural, political, and technological factors</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>. </b></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">AARO
bases this conclusion on the following factors:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.62cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk160903537"></a>
<span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">• <span> The
aggregate findings of all USG investigations to date have not found
even one case of UAP representing off-world technology. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.62cm;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">•</span></span><span><span style="color: #141414;"> None
of the programs mentioned by interviewees are UAP reverse-engineering
programs, and all the authentic programs have been properly notified
and reported to Congress through the congressional defense and/or
intelligence committees.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.62cm;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">•</span></span><span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
has no evidence for the USG reverse-engineering narrative provided by
interviewees and has been able to disprove the majority of the
interviewees’ claims. Some claims are still under evaluation.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.62cm;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);">•</span></span><span><span style="color: #141414;"> AARO
determined that a piece of metal alleged to be recovered from an
off-world spacecraft is ordinary, of terrestrial origin, and
possesses no exceptional qualities.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>Several
factors—domestic and international—most likely influenced
sightings, reports, and the belief by some individuals that there is
sufficient proof that some UAP represent extraterrestrial
technology</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>.</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);"> AARO’s
examination of the historical context of UAP investigations from 1945
to the present reveals that these factors—some common to and
distinct between the earlier era of UAP investigations (pre-2009) and
the modern era (post-2009)—undoubtedly influenced the direction of
these investigations, the volume of and spikes in sightings, and the
overall public interest, concern, and debate. These periods are
divided into pre- and post-2009 timeframe because this is the year of
the standup of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application
Program (AAWSAP) and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
(AATIP) efforts. Prior to AAWSAP/AATIP there was about a 40 year gap
in UAP investigation programs since the termination of Project BLUE
BOOK in 1969.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.49cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: times;">Common
contextual factors between earlier and modern investigations include
a rapidly evolving and dynamic national security environment,
concern about technological surprise, intense secrecy related to
government military programs, public interest in UAP, perceived
bureaucratic barriers, and the persistent lack of quality data.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #141414;">Some
contextual factors that were distinct between earlier and modern
investigations include: differences in the level of public trust in
the government; the large volume of popular culture content related
to UAP; the perception within some segments of the population that
the USG is hiding extraterrestrial technology; unauthorized
disclosures of classified programs mistaken for UAP observations;
the proliferation of online sources that reinforce these beliefs;
the impact that social media has had on circular reporting; and the
rapid spread of misinformation. </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #141414;"><i><b>AARO
assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have
represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and
operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth
technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms</b></i></span><span style="color: #141414;"><b>.</b></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 248, 250);"> From
the1940s to the 1960s especially, the United States witnessed a boom
in experimental technologies driven by World War II and the Cold
War.</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #141414;"><span style="font-family: times;">Many
of these technologies fit the description of a stereotypical
Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). It is understandable how observers
unfamiliar with these programs could mistake sightings of these new
technologies as something extraordinary, even other-worldly.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: times;">Along
with these conventional technology research areas, the USG started
the Manhattan Project in 1942. This program operated in secrecy and
led to the establishment of several “secret cities” across the
United States to support the development of the nuclear bomb. Any
misunderstanding stemming from the intense secrecy surrounding this
and similar programs could have been misconstrued for other efforts.
</span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>A
Major UAP Paper from Top German Investigators</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UAP
Research in Germany: Single Case Studies, Data Management,
Understanding of “Strangeness,” by Danny Ammon, T.A. Günter,
André Kramer and Hans-Werner Peiniger, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Anomalistics</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 23 (2023), pp. 302–323:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_302_Ammon_etal.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_302_Ammon_etal.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
abstract reads: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Unidentified
Aerial/Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have become a serious research topic
in the last years. Beyond the current efforts of U. S. government
agencies, NASA, and several research institutions, data on UAP have
been collected for many decades in private research organizations
world-wide. However, the status of the work in Germany in particular
is little known internationally. This paper presents the current
state of knowledge and lists key issues regarding research on UAP.
Using the example of the largest research organization in Germany,
the “Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO-Phänomens – GEP e.V.”
(Society for the Study of the UFO Phenomenon), this paper describes
how lay research or citizen science can contribute to addressing
these key issues. Conducting individual case studies for data
collection, requirements-driven research data management and the
theoretical development of basic definitions of “UAP” as well as
“anomalies” and “strangeness” are identified as core factors
for progress in UAP research, for which increased international
cooperation between all institutions involved will be required in the
future.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Invited
Paper</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Analysis
of the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt</u></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
Elevation Dataset</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Henk
Kalfsbeek and Wim van Utrecht </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(January
2024)</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Abstract:
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Claimed
elevation in UFO sighting reports is overestimated in nearly 90% of
cases. For large stimuli like the Moon, the median value of this
overestimation is by a factor of 3, whereas for minor stimuli like
planets it is around 2.3 times. This follows from a study of a set of
252 UFO sighting cases for which it was possible to compare witness
reported elevation with the true elevation.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
paper presents a brief summary of a recent Belgisch UFO-meldpunt
investigation of the reliability of elevations reported by witnesses.
For this modest study, we used 231 sightings that were reported
directly to the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt, 20 cases from the COBEPS</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
files and 1 from the literature</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
In all these cases, the reported UFOs could be attributed to a known
cause, often an astronomical one. Therefore, we were able to compare
the estimated elevations with the true elevations of the objects that
were misinterpreted. In most cases the elevation estimations were
obtained from the witnesses through a standard questionnaire,
supported by an explanatory drawing of what is meant by “elevation”.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">For
each of the total of 252 observations the following data were
considered: </span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Identified
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">object
(descriptor)</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Estimated
elevation E (in degrees)</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Actual
elevation F (in degrees)</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Difference
(Delta: E – F, in degrees)</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Percentage
difference [100x(E/F-1), in %]</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li></ul>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0EmfxNA16BJwbrR5VRTrCWND2BvfWC2EYxZD2hKgbvf2JSPyzaW3oEDaKtUv8tMZBKsGGUs41uT0jNi4qLCmpAbPNA1Q4wDuS4DZwgOkpQ1Z_NYeofSxLjK2KOz0wQYjeqqj-KGLhuLhP1JiZhx0B81m9Aopn14fhjY_6KHc2fjhQAc49J8P/s362/grafico.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="314" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0EmfxNA16BJwbrR5VRTrCWND2BvfWC2EYxZD2hKgbvf2JSPyzaW3oEDaKtUv8tMZBKsGGUs41uT0jNi4qLCmpAbPNA1Q4wDuS4DZwgOkpQ1Z_NYeofSxLjK2KOz0wQYjeqqj-KGLhuLhP1JiZhx0B81m9Aopn14fhjY_6KHc2fjhQAc49J8P/w174-h200/grafico.png" width="174" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From
this overall collection of 252 observations a number of subsets was
extracted, each containing the same set of data as above, as follows
(name: number of cases):</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Moon:
20 </span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Venus:
85 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Celestial
body (incl. Jupiter, Mars, Sirius, Capella, Vega, meteor, etc.): 91</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Other
(incl. ISS, airplane, rocket gas/fuel plume, Starlink, contrail,
etc.): 56</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Delta>0
(estimated elevation larger than actual): 217</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Delta<0
(estimated elevation smaller than actual): 35</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">0
– 5 (actual elevation 1° to 5°): 25</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">5
– 10 (5° to 10°): 58</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10
– 30 (10° to 30°): 152</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">30-50
(30° to 50°): 29</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">50
– 75 (50° to 75°): 8</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">75
– 90 (75° to 90°): 2</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">All
without Moon: 232</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Without
outliers (percentage differences >800% excluded): 242</span></span></span></p>
</li></ol>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
the overall dataset and each of the above subsets, the following
characteristic quantities have been calculated and compared: mean
percentage difference, its standard deviation, its median value, the
fraction of Delta<0 cases. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
results are shown in the following Table:</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6rrH3MUaklvU7_aNNHQoldl6WyAu4NiMgMeR8NN_VyhyD3-f-Xom3-95gjqaGHNxxWBt8LTRoeSa9zmcbx5RSoAyA0NyEs7K7U3rw3xf2WzaLekazYrPQgDaUkkdb8S4wKwCWc__zD7CufnKCWpTfJ3UA_EMv9P5RUyhSRL7kPyZXIhto1QW/s1350/tabla.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1350" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6rrH3MUaklvU7_aNNHQoldl6WyAu4NiMgMeR8NN_VyhyD3-f-Xom3-95gjqaGHNxxWBt8LTRoeSa9zmcbx5RSoAyA0NyEs7K7U3rw3xf2WzaLekazYrPQgDaUkkdb8S4wKwCWc__zD7CufnKCWpTfJ3UA_EMv9P5RUyhSRL7kPyZXIhto1QW/w640-h269/tabla.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Looking
at the data (sub)sets and their characteristics listed above, we note
that:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="nl-BE" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: justify;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
standard deviations (of the percentage differences) are large
compared to the mean values. This indicates that we are dealing with
a somewhat heterogeneous, dispersed dataset.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="nl-BE" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: justify;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are relatively many high values (asymmetric right-skewed
distribution) and some extreme outliers on the right side of up to
30 x overestimation of the elevation (2 Moon cases). So, we see
that, in general, percentage overestimations with higher values are
relatively more frequent than those with lower values.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="nl-BE" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The
impact of this skewness and the outliers on the mean values is
evident from the fact that, for the vast majority of subsets, the
mean value is (much) larger than the median value. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p lang="nl-BE" style="line-height: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is also noted that overestimation of elevation occurs much more
frequently than underestimation: in approximately 88% of the total
of cases. It appears that the elevation of the Moon was almost
always overestimated, while that of objects at 30-50° height was
(relatively) the most underestimated.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Because
of the large spread in the data, inter-subset comparison of the
numerical values of the mean percentage differences and the standard
deviations is cumbersome. In such circumstances, it often makes more
sense to compare the median values for each subset. The corresponding
column in the Table above suggests: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: justify;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The smaller the object,
the less the overestimation of elevation (compare the moon and other
phenomena).</span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: justify;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The higher in the sky,
the smaller the overestimation elevation.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The
magnitude of percentage underestimations of elevation is (much)
smaller than that of percentage overestimations.</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally,
given the large dispersion of values in the dataset, it is
interesting to compare the mean, standard deviation and median for
the following three selections: (1) all 252 data points; (2) all
cases without the Moon; and (3) everything (including the moon) but
excluding outliers. Here, cases where the percentage difference is
more than the sum of the mean and 1.8 times the standard deviation of
the entire 252 set (i.e., > 800%) are considered as outliers:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1):
205% - 334% - 131% (average, standard deviation,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">median,
respectively)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2):
176% - 224% - 122%</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3):
155% - 158% - 122%</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
shows that the much higher elevation overestimations of the Moon
strongly influence the results for the dataset as a whole. The Moon
is clearly a special case. To a lesser extent, this also holds for
Venus, which contributes significantly to the considerably higher
mean of (2) compared to (3).</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Belgisch UFO-meldpunt - Belgian UFO Reporting Center
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufomeldpunt.be/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufomeldpunt.be</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
COBEPS – Comité Belge d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cobeps.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cobeps.org</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Van Utrecht, W., “Lunar Terror in Poland,” in V.J.
Ballester-Olmos & R.W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
UPIAR (Turin), 2023, pp. 205-219, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
For example, a value 0% means that there is no difference between
the estimated elevation and the actual elevation. A value of 100%
indicates an overestimation by a factor of 2. A value of 200% means a
factor 3, and so forth.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Feedback</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">This
paper was presented as a working document to EuroUFO, a fundamentally
European group of UFO researchers. It elicited an extremely
interesting discussion, a few comments from which I am including here
as an added value appendix. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Hansjürgen
Köhler (CENAP, Germany): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>These
are results that we can only confirm in the active case
investigation. In the past we had a project where we had the size of
the Moon and Sun determined using the CM measurement with our arm
outstretched. Here too, the results were similar. Here is the second
evaluation of our 2023 case intake and a look at the list of 807
cases.</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Jean-Marc
Wattecamps (COBEPS, Belgium): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
IFO give information about the witness capacity in real observation
condition. I did a similar exercise a few years ago: “Estimation de
l’élévation de lumières nocturnes par les témoins d’observation
de Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (PAN).</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Edoardo
Russo (CISU, Italy): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Most
interesting a paper: it is a statistical confirmation of what most
(serious-minded and rational) UFO investigators have long known, but
this way we've got more formal a confirmation.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Martin
Shough (England): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
suggested correlations (a) between increasing apparent angular size
(e.g. star; Venus; Moon) and elevation-overestimation, and (b)
between true angular proximity to the horizon and
elevation-overestimation are both noteworthy. It would be interesting
to consider how these effects relate to one popular explanation of
the “Moon illusion” according to which angular proximity to the
horizon is said to be proportional to perceived linear proximity to
the observer and thus to exaggerated apparent diameter.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Claude
Maugé (France): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>For
his Ph.D. thesis in Psychology and for the GEPAN, Manuel Jiménez
did perform a few experiments which can have some interest for the
subject. Some indications are contained in my own paper in The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony.</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Michael
Vaillant (France): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>I
think that, unfortunately, psychophysics (or the psychology of
perception) is not a very well-studied subject (even if it is an old
one). Even if it is possible to imagine many nice experiments. I did
complementary work in 2015 for horizontal directions. Also very
quickly. My aim was to calculate and characterize (mu, sigma) the
average error made by the "human machine" with respect to a
known direction of displacement. This is very important when we have
to judge whether an error is acceptable or not when testing whether a
hypothesis is correct. Does this star fit with the witness's
observation? As far as directions are concerned, I
have used a case from 2015 which includes more than 200
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">observations</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i> and
where the exact position of the phenomenon is known because it was
recorded by the cameras of MeteorAstronomie. In fact, the difference
between the trajectory computed by humans with the one given by a
camera was relatively small. It would be interesting if you had
results on error margins for other descriptive variables (e.g.,
colours, magnitude, apparent size, angular velocity, etc.). I have
done other empirical research on them. These kinds of measurements
are integrated in the "UAP Check" software (the one used at
GEIPAN) because it uses the typical error margin to assess if a
descriptive variable is plausible. It could be interesting to
gather the studies we have regarding our discussion about finding a
common ground for databases and analysis practices / methodologies.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Jochen
Ickinger (Germany): </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>I
also see this as a very important topic. IFO cases offer the
opportunity to calibrate the accuracy of the testimonies made, as we
know what the stimulus was. With unidentified sightings, we
ultimately never know how accurate the information is or whether we
have a witness who actually provides more accurate information than
others. In addition to the perception experiment, which is also part
of the recent compendium, the GEP has also dealt with the accuracy of
celestial directions given by eyewitnesses, which is published in
their journal, available in the AFU archive (pages 188-190).</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I
also consider mass sightings of identified objects to be of interest,
as here we additionally see how the same object is described by
several witnesses. Gian Paolo Grassino from the CISU discussed this
in the context of the mass sighting of a stratospheric balloon over
the Piedmont in 1985 and also compared the witness sketches, which
are very widely scattered.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Jochen
Ickinger: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>I
looked into the subject of the creation of composite sketches in law
enforcement in connection with the frequent UFO drawings made by
investigators. There are two things to bear in mind: Firstly, these
are trained investigators who do this, so not just anyone, and
secondly, you basically know what object you are depicting, namely a
person, whereas with UFOs/UAPs you don't know what was seen at that
moment. There is a study on the reliability of such drawings that
found: “However, composite sketches are often not very successful:
statistically, the resemblance of the sketches resulting from such
efforts to the actual perpetrators is rather low.” </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>This
is related to the specific issue of perpetrator identification that
is discussed in forensics. There are apparently no studies available
on the general question of the creation of drawings by an
investigator in the presence of the witness, as in the case of UFO
sightings. However, we have the problem here that the outcome is
always the result of mutual interaction, even if there is close
coordination between the investigator and the witness. I talked about
this with the forensic psychologist Dr. Matthew Sharps from the
University of Fresno, CA, who confirmed this and said: “The
drawings, (...) depend on the verbal retrieval powers of the given
witness, and on the artistic abilities of the investigator. (...) The
interaction between the investigator and witness would also(...)
absolutely be expected to influence the ultimate account, and the
subsequent drawing, very strongly." The UFO researcher Richard
Haines also saw in his conclusions to his own drawing experiments:
"... the need to have eyewitnesses draw what was seen.” </i></span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span>
</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>As
a result, investigators should avoid making their own drawings, even
in the presence of the witness, and always encourage the witness to
do so without being influenced.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/22608-ufo-forschung-cenap-veröffentlicht-die-tatsächlichen-ufo-identifizierungen-von-2023-in-deutschland/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/22608-ufo-forschung-cenap-veröffentlicht-die-tatsächlichen-ufo-identifizierungen-von-2023-in-deutschland/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
J. M. Wattecamps, “Estimation de l’élévation de lumières
nocturnes par les témoins d’observation de Phénomènes
Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (PAN),"
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/33b6z7pu"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/33b6z7pu</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Claude Maugé, “Manuel Jimenez and the Perception of UFOs:
Hypotheses and Experiments," in V.J. Ballester-Olmos & R.W.
Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
UPIAR, Turin, 2023, pp. 313-330,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3kwckxhm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3kwckxhm</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20(GEP)/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20180%20-%202008%2006.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20(GEP)/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20180%20-%202008%2006.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
G.M. Davies & T. Valentine, “Facial Composites: Forensic
Utility and Psychological Research,” in R. C. Lindsay </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>et
al.</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Handbook
of Eyewitness Psychology</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Erlbaum, 2007, pp. 59–86. Cited in M. Pfundmair, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Psychologie
bei Gericht</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Berlin: Springer (Berlin), 2020, p. 105.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
R. F. Haines, “What Do UFO Drawings by Alleged Eyewitnesses and
Non-Eyewitnesses Have in Common?,” in R. F. Haines (ed.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Scarecrow (Metuchen), 1979, pp. 358- 395.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>City
Agog Over Strange Object in the Sky</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Under
that dramatic headline, Phoenix’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Arizona Republic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of Friday June 30, 1950 published an article signed by Jim Blakeslee
on “something” that caught the attention of thousands of
Phoenicians on the previous day’s afternoon. A brilliant white
object was sighted in the western sky and stayed in that position for
more than three hours. “Some thought it was a flying saucer. Others
thought it was a weather balloon.” What makes this minor sighting
particularly interesting is this, the reporter wrote, “Dr. William
A. Rhodes, research engineer, 4337 North 14</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
street, watched the object through an 80-power telescope lens. He
said it looked like a balloon, but unlike anything he had ever seen
before.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjUSlrjgsHQ8xH-Lq1z5JvUbwFW04DCTjWIZPIzX8INv0yG3E5O8vGNNEWe4pOwW8wgIBmR8q35hP31mmETPFg-HH6r5f6HwDbKaXMyYX2QWKq4Gm6MMw-f_0fKSwT3XgLkubpnuOfX02rQiXNIbnQIV0tVIS-1q7CPYvVOX2IxcFun-guPSu/s919/Arizona.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="919" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjUSlrjgsHQ8xH-Lq1z5JvUbwFW04DCTjWIZPIzX8INv0yG3E5O8vGNNEWe4pOwW8wgIBmR8q35hP31mmETPFg-HH6r5f6HwDbKaXMyYX2QWKq4Gm6MMw-f_0fKSwT3XgLkubpnuOfX02rQiXNIbnQIV0tVIS-1q7CPYvVOX2IxcFun-guPSu/s320/Arizona.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
object moved almost due westward and it was at a “tremendous
height,” but here the estimates differ. One of the observers was
Capt. Bob Rent, a pilot of American Airlines, who placed it west of
Wickenburgh at 6 p.m. He, and fliers from Williams Air Force Base and
Luke Field, calculated the object was “at 50,000 feet or higher”
[15.2 km]. However, for Dr. Rhodes, “using time of sunset at
Phoenix and time the sun’s rays last touched the object, figured
the thing was between 50 and 62 miles high [80 and 100 km,
respectively] and 225 miles west of Phoenix.” That altitude is over
the stratosphere, the zone of the atmosphere where balloons usually
shift (50 to 80 km of height). I suspect it was a miscalculation as
the object could have perfectly been a large balloon of the </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Skyhook
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">type,
being experienced at the time to carry heavy instruments. The same
day, June 29, 1950, around the same timeframe, another high in the
sky object was observed by multitudes over Denver, Colorado.
Fortunately, it was photographed from the High Altitude Observatory
of Harvard University and University of Colorado, at Climax, 4:30
p.m. It was clearly identified as a </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Skyhook</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
balloon.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>
</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Those
magnificent balloons were manufactured by General Mills. The first
launch took place in September 1947 and “in the succeeding 10
years, over 1,500 </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Skyhook</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
flights were made.”</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
They generated lots of UFO sightings.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaon4tcTjohUiCkVFdPVfsURskTXnemSAQlbvLxis6NQ6ATnnuaXjRfSa3FTwG8ZTo-mATWgja6mJfifztWUxyHB061OOYkp5Rbv8m8koDDHO6ndY5yCeaXVJyA1QZjUMyf0QIeAd-Ew0jjdXzEyEpiYiEhdklrAORpCncB722BvoK4mxHNFgN/s822/Climax.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="822" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaon4tcTjohUiCkVFdPVfsURskTXnemSAQlbvLxis6NQ6ATnnuaXjRfSa3FTwG8ZTo-mATWgja6mJfifztWUxyHB061OOYkp5Rbv8m8koDDHO6ndY5yCeaXVJyA1QZjUMyf0QIeAd-Ew0jjdXzEyEpiYiEhdklrAORpCncB722BvoK4mxHNFgN/w200-h148/Climax.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
reason why I am selecting this apparently irrelevant observation is
because of one of the persons involved, William Albert Rhodes.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span>
</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">It
is boringly known that the first “flying saucer” sighting in
history took place in the State of Washington in June 24, 1947,</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
when businessman Kenneth Arnold, while piloting a </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cessna</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
airplane, saw a chain of nine flying objects that “looked something
like a pie plate that was cut in half with a sort of a convex
triangle in the rear.”</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">5
</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Although
this shape is not exactly the established profile of the flying
saucer image that instant headlines </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">bearing
that picturesque term</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
created in the societal collective imagination to stay for decades,
millions of people have declared having seen such flying “saucers”
all over the world. Thousands of flying discs have been photographed
as well, but none displaying the primal flying object’s shape
described by Arnold … except by the two unique photos taken by
William Rhodes from Phoenix two weeks later, on July 7, 1947.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJ_IcuZBKzl80QyKp0Q2fg9D-nwCzYUxcE3IKQSgmT_OJLxtzYog39QnAgduGiCS4t6Ybr4Z-Vd3tK3jL99A8V7YSvbJfWe76hA3TcqlhUT0AgUMYjYBtiGyjtr5nNhI5ultd9K8MxEG6P7vFjGi2hcdvu6O9sjgArOIEMDFcN5bjxTSmcJ78/s6916/Rhodes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3992" data-original-width="6916" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJ_IcuZBKzl80QyKp0Q2fg9D-nwCzYUxcE3IKQSgmT_OJLxtzYog39QnAgduGiCS4t6Ybr4Z-Vd3tK3jL99A8V7YSvbJfWe76hA3TcqlhUT0AgUMYjYBtiGyjtr5nNhI5ultd9K8MxEG6P7vFjGi2hcdvu6O9sjgArOIEMDFcN5bjxTSmcJ78/s320/Rhodes.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Courtesy
of Rob Mercer. Original prints found in the early 2000s in a garage
auction owned by former 2</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
Lt. Carmon Marano, staff member of the USAF UFO project Blue Book in
the late 1960s. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
my opinion, these pictures have never been diligently analyzed and
some surprise can shows up when it is properly done. The reason why
these are practically the only UFO photos on record depicting a shape
like that portrayed by Arnold, inclines me to think that these could
be fakes inspired by the actual description made by Arnold by a quite
eccentric inventor. I admit it is a conjecture, and it must be
confirmed or refuted by a scientific probe of the stills. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Donald H. Menzel, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Flying
Saucers</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1953, pp. 26-27.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_balloon</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Albert_Rhodes"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Albert_Rhodes</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/9668731/mt-rainer-washington-blank-page-1-us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.fold3.com/image/9668731/mt-rainer-washington-blank-page-1-us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Martin Shough, “The Singular Adventure of Mr Kenneth Arnold,”
2010, </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Arnold%20analysis2.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Arnold%20analysis2.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Annual
Report by the UFO Desk of the Argentine Air Force</u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
2023 report by the Aerospace Identification Center (CIAE) of the
Argentine Air Force, under the management of Commodore Rubén Lianza
is available here:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe-ciae-2023.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe-ciae-2023.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">82
reports received, analyzed and solved in 184 pages: 22 cases from
optical origin, 19 cases with biological causes, 13 cases due to
aeronautical explanations, 12 cases astronautical, 11 cases
astronomical and 5 cases with various causes. Incoming cases dated
from year 2010 to 2023. A highly recommended piece of work (in
Spanish). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_tqFdlLPX3YdhkRjr4CQrf3_WXWh1Uk3rKrmj8wluS_kySiIlXDp528sEOpdN9t8EK4-FUUH4IsRLHoPjrO0Zvb7zDnPxRUq4IxT1vgDoCDzD65z1nIuUnVdbYMkBorlHttJSlIpncrbwUbqCtvCFPjiI-pGjcf5KxhDQ-28ksGnbDMFDomS/s770/Platillo%20Posadas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="770" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_tqFdlLPX3YdhkRjr4CQrf3_WXWh1Uk3rKrmj8wluS_kySiIlXDp528sEOpdN9t8EK4-FUUH4IsRLHoPjrO0Zvb7zDnPxRUq4IxT1vgDoCDzD65z1nIuUnVdbYMkBorlHttJSlIpncrbwUbqCtvCFPjiI-pGjcf5KxhDQ-28ksGnbDMFDomS/w400-h234/Platillo%20Posadas.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
image of a flying saucer submitted becomes a simple lens flare.
Posadas (Misiones, Argentina), November 14, 2023. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
In December 2023, R. M. Medina, S. C. Brewer & S. M. Kirkpatrick
published the paper “An environmental analysis of public UAP
sightings and sky view potential,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
Reports</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
13, 22213 (2023), </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49527-x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49527-x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
abstract reads: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sightings
of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unidentified anomalous
phenomena (UAP) have been reported throughout history. Given the
potential security and safety risks they pose, as well as scientific
curiosity, there is increasing interest in understanding what these
sighting reports represent. We approach this problem as an important
one of the human experience and that can be examined through a
geographical lens: what local factors may increase or decrease the
number of sighting reports? Using a Bayesian regression method, we
test hypotheses based on variables representing sky view potential
(light pollution, tree canopy, and cloud cover) and the potential for
objects to be present in the sky (aircraft and military
installations). The dependent variable includes over 98,000 publicly
reported UAP sightings in the conterminous United States during the
20-year period from 2001 to 2020. The model results find credible
correlations between variables that suggest people see more
“phenomena” when they have more opportunity to. This analysis is
one of few investigations of UAP sighting reports at a national scale
providing context to help examine individual reports. Given that
these objects are labeled unidentifiable in the personal sense, there
are many natural and/or human based explanations worth exploring.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Eric Maillot, "Analyse clinique de la RR3 de Valensole (Premiere
Partie) – Etat de stress psychotraumatique." Abstract: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
publication supports the hypothesis of a complex misunderstanding
which allows us to understand the psychological mechanisms at play in
what was described as a “close encounter of the third type”
(RR3-CE3). The strangeness of the testimony made the national and
international media reputation of this UFO event, which remained
officially classified “unexplained” by GEIPAN. A moment of banal
reality would have brought back to the witness the memory of a
traumatic, anxiety-provoking situation experienced during the Second
World War. This key moment of observation would be the trigger for
acute psychotraumatic stress which would have altered his awareness
of reality and his motor skills. The unusual aspect of the event
would then only originate from the dissociative disorders that the
witness suffered at the time and their consequences in the month that
followed. Seen from this angle, the strangeness surrounding various
details of the story is explained and the real triggering stimulus,
envisaged in the days that followed as being the crew of a military
helicopter, finds its place.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLfCQJcVaZScDoj-n7PxZC9WRUjbdZjE/view"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLfCQJcVaZScDoj-n7PxZC9WRUjbdZjE/view</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Robert M. Powell, Larry Hancock, Laiba Hasan, Sarah Little, Robinson
Truong and Tobi Kamoru, “The Reported Shape, Size, Kinematics,
Electromagnetic Effects, and Presence of Sound of Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena from Select Reports, 1947-2016,”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nicap.org/match/MADAR_101/ReptShapeSizeKineticsE-M(SCU).pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nicap.org/match/MADAR_101/ReptShapeSizeKineticsE-M(SCU).pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Work
with unfiltered case catalogs will always produce trash results if
aimed to alleged UAP observables. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Dr. Tim Lomas, a psychology research scientist in the Department of
Epidemiology at Harvard University, has published the essay entitled
“A global picture of unidentified anomalous phenomena: Towards a
cross-cultural understanding of a potentially universal issue,”
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>International
Social Science Journal</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
28 December 2023. Abstract: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Over
recent years, the issue of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) has
increasingly captivated attention and even concern, as reflected in
the US military establishing a UAP Task Force in 2020. However, the
discourse and debate around this important topic are beset with
misunderstandings and a general lack of knowledge and information.
One prominent point of contention is the claim or insinuation that
this is a uniquely Western concern, and even one exclusively centred
on North America. Crucially though, this is an incorrect assumption
and perhaps reflects the Western centrism to which academia is
liable. To redress this issue, this paper reviews the publicly
available information on the prevalence of UAP sightings and reports
worldwide, showing that, even if these are heavily biased towards the
United States, this is nevertheless a global phenomenon. The
discussion concludes though by noting that this is a very poorly
understood topic – despite the dawning recognition of its
importance – and much more work is needed to better ascertain its
cross-cultural dynamics.
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12484"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12484</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
“Semiotic scaffolding and flying saucers,” by Professor Fabio
Regattin (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy): </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/51527318/Semiotic_scaffolding_and_flying_saucers"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/51527318/Semiotic_scaffolding_and_flying_saucers</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The problem of the definition of UAP,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Abstract:
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>NASA
intends to study UAPs, using calibrated sensors. But how is that
done? What does NASA have to look for to detect UAPs? What ARE the
properties of UAPs that allow to detect them? How can one identify a
"real UAP" and not confuse it with a star, the moon, a
plane, or a balloon? The problem of the scientific study of UAPs
begins with the very definition of the problem. After nearly 80 years
of UFOs (now UAPs), there is no valid scientific definition of what
the "phenomenon" is about. And it is impossible to conduct
a proper scientific study without one.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Kevin Randle, “UFO Crash Retrievals: Three with Explanations,”
January 15, 2024:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2024/01/ufo-crash-retrievals-three-with.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2024/01/ufo-crash-retrievals-three-with.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Beatriz Villarroel, “The Vanishing Star Enigma and the 1952
Washington D.C. UFO Wave,” </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Debrief</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
January 21, 2024,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-vanishing-star-enigma-and-the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-wave/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-vanishing-star-enigma-and-the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-wave/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
“Testing Alcubierre's Warp Drive,” subtitled </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Proponents
of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster
than light travel possible. Here's why it can't exist</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
science writer Brian Dunning-of Skeptoid-dismantles this conjecture:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/21/inside-small-welsh-town-home-uks-wildest-ufo-conspiracy-20128524/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/21/inside-small-welsh-town-home-uks-wildest-ufo-conspiracy-20128524/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Not new (published October 2000) but worthy of consideration: Dr.
Steven Novella, “UFOs: The Psychocultural Hypothesis,” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(11)
</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>SUNlite</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 16, No. 2, March-April 2024: </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite16_2.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite16_2.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(12)
Because UFOs (sorry, UAP) are accepted topics in mainstream journals
today, we must be ready to expect garbage, no matter if signed by
scientists, nor they are skeptical in nature. One example:
“Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life,
Fourth State of Matter,” by R. Joseph, C. Impey, O. Planchon, R.
Gaudio, M. Safa, A. Sumanarathna, E. Ansbro, D. Duvall, G.
Bianciardi, C. Gibson, and R. Schild, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Modern Physics</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
2024, 15, 322-376, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2024.153015"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2024.153015</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Manuel
Borraz’s comments on this paper: “</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
just found that the footage</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
of NASA's Space Shuttle 75th mission (STS-75), one of the relevant
examples upon which the paper builds its case</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
was widely discussed in the past and satisfactorily explained.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
For example, there is a short but conclusive analysis by James
Oberg,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
and also a discussion of the objects' movements.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5
</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Apparently,
the mysterious objects would have nothing to do with alien ships nor
the fourth state of matter, but with urine. Not even non-human
urine.”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notes</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2)
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb67zM1Sh-Q"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb67zM1Sh-Q</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(3)</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/STS-75_incident"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/STS-75_incident</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(4)</span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rense.com/general/stsd.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://rense.com/general/stsd.htm</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/the-proving-grounds/conspiracy-theories/114413-"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/the-proving-grounds/conspiracy-theories/114413-</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(13)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">“’</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Witness’
credibility implodes for Jacques Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale,”
by Douglas Dean Johnson,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/witness-credibility-shredded-for-vallee-trinity-tale/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/witness-credibility-shredded-for-vallee-trinity-tale/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(14)
Jean-Marc Wattecamps, “Incertitudes dans la détermination des caps
d'objets lumineux par des témoins oculaires,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">”</span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9c74kb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p9c74kb</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(15)
Johns Hopkins University, “Interstellar signal linked to aliens was
actually just a truck,” March 7, 2024,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(16)
Is this the largest “UFO” in the world? Do not miss reading this
paper (in Spanish) by Jaime Servera and Julio Plaza del Olmo: “Caso
12 de marzo de 1997: Atlántico frente a la costa gallega”:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/110623492/Caso_12_de_marzo_de_1997_Atlántico_frente_a_la_costa_gallega"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/110623492/Caso_12_de_marzo_de_1997_Atl%C3%A1ntico_frente_a_la_costa_gallega</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>UFO
percezioni, credenze, stereotipi: Gli aspetti psico-sociali del
fenómeno</u></i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Title
translated as “Perceptions, Beliefs, Stereotypes. The Psycho-Social
Aspects of the Phenomenon”. A brand new book, by Italian
psychologist Chiara Russotto, is at hand. Foreword written by Edoardo
Russo. Chiara writes:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>What
brings people to claim they have seen a UFO or believe they have been
abducted by aliens? The key is that of the Psycho-Social Hypothesis,
according to which a phenomenon does not exist in itself but exists
to certain psychological mechanisms: our perceptions, expectations,
and beliefs, our cultural background and personal history, but also
specific psychological, genetic, and neurological predispositions:
all elements that influence, consciously or not, our reading of
'reality'. This is a psychological analysis of a fascinating and
multifaceted subject that invites reflection on the need for man to
believe in transcendent phenomena, often because, but not only, it
provides meaning to human life. The author's aim, then, is to trigger
an awareness of these mechanisms and encourage the use of critical
thinking in reading certain phenomena, not excluding their existence.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Available
through Amazon: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mrhvdyky"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mrhvdyky</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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the Alien: An Introduction to Exosociology</u></i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Published
June 2023 by Springer (Wiesbaden), 295 pages, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ISBN
978-3658413163. Authors: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Andreas Anton, a researcher at the Institute for Frontier Areas of
Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany. He teaches
at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg. And Dr.
Michael Schetsche, teaches as an extraordinary professor at the
Institute of Sociology at the University of Freiburg: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Aliens</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
new book by Luis R. González is about f</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">lying
saucers and UFO comics in Spain:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://appleheadteam.com/producto/alienigenas-carpetovetonicos-ilustrados-vol-1-platillos-y-marcianos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://appleheadteam.com/producto/alienigenas-carpetovetonicos-ilustrados-vol-1-platillos-y-marcianos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Science of Weird Shit</u></i></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Subtitled
“Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal,” this is the latest book
by Dr. Christopher C. French, Emeritus Professor & Head of the
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology,
University of London. </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Available
from The MIT Press:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048361/the-science-of-weird-shit/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048361/the-science-of-weird-shit/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">
(</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● “<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
límites de la ufología” (The limits of ufology)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">● “<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
sola narración. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Varios
dibujos” (One sole narrative but several drawings)</span></span></span></span></p>
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astronómicos” (Astronomical UFOs), on 1963 and 1965 pictures from
Argentina.</span></span></span></p>
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book review by Javier Cavanilles of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
the latest book by Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez.</span></span></span></p>
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ovni de Mongolia” (The Mongolia *UFO*)</span></span></span></p>
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literaria” (Literary criticism). </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
the book by Artur Homs.</span></span></span></p>
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on “Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)
witnesses”, by Ignacio Cabria.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>PERSONAL
LOG</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">On
February 23, researchers Moisés Garrido and Claudia Moctezuma from
Alicante and Gustavo Doménech from Alzira came to Valencia city to
visit me and meet with my colleagues Jaime Servera, Juan A. Fernández
Peris, Carlos González and Juan Pablo González. During a most
cordial and extended reunion, we discussed UFOs, ufology, people,
books, and much more. More details in the Spanish section of this
blog.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Moisés
Garrido has posted a biographical chronicle of this meeting in his
own blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://elblogdemoisesyclaudia.blogspot.com/2024/03/reunion-historica-con-la-escuela.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://elblogdemoisesyclaudia.blogspot.com/2024/03/reunion-historica-con-la-escuela.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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left to right: Carlos, V-J, Jaime, Juan Antonio, Gustavo, Claudia y
Moisés.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">From
left to right: Gustavo, Moisés, Juan Pablo, Jaime, Claudia, V-J y
Juan Antonio.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Eric Maillot (France), Francis
Ridge (NICAP, USA), Ignacio Cabria (Spain), Dan Vergano (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
USA), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos Verdes, Mexico), Edoardo Russo
(CISU, Italy), Gian Paolo Grassino (UPIAR, Italy), Alejandro
Agostinelli (Argentina), Javier Resines (Spain), Dr. Luis Cayetano
(USA), Claude Maugé (France), Kay Coggin (USA), Luis E. Pacheco
(Stratocat, Argentina), Manuel Borraz (Spain), Luis R. González
(Spain), Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez, and Terry Colvin (Thailand). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
(</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">UFOs:
The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The above books are also available in
the second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3huztte7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3huztte7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25hxsdvd"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/25hxsdvd</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/8b3pvzyj"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/8b3pvzyj</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">TODO
COLECCIÓN:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yy6wx5se"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yy6wx5se</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b>UFOs and Government</b></i><b>
</b>(with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B.
Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la
Antártida en 1965</b></i> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C.
Victorio), (UFO Sightings in Antarctica in 1965), 2013
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with Wim van
Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(with
M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(editor) (with R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(My correspondence with Antonio Ribera), 2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2024/MARZO/15
(ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González.</span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>BASE DE DATOS
FOTOCAT </b></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
catálogo contiene 12.855 entradas hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2005,
que es la fecha general de cierre. El resto, hasta un total de 13.124
casos, está compuesto por informes de Argentina (hasta finales de
2006) y de España (hasta finales de 2008), más informes
fotográficos y en video de rayos globulares (mundiales) y de eventos
relacionados con los ejércitos y casos de aterrizaje (solo de
España), que no tienen límite de fecha a efectos de entrada en el
catálogo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</u></i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Acaba
de publicarse la versión en papel de un libro que recoge la
correspondencia cruzada con el ufólogo y escritor español Antonio
Ribera a lo largo de 35 años. Hace unos meses publiqué una edición
gratuita en Internet. Esta versión impresa ha sido publicada por
UPIAR (Turín, Italia) como un volumen de 700 páginas, tapa blanda,
tamaño A-4, con fotografías en blanco y negro y en color, dedicado
a aquellos lectores que prefieren tener un libro en sus manos y no en
la pantalla, así como para coleccionistas y bibliotecas. Se puede
adquirir aquí:</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Este
es el anuncio oficial del libro, en las dos ediciones, digital y
física:</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBgzvXQnAeum1YqlajOYiYYS6P3hqgBbHd06sdr8bjKelu6MuW3dMA4xMolpaYdPDK2w36Oft0zhQPhJVb_60kDzCmKeCyO4FdLmYuNI5d8OAJetJYZW4vEdAjj08O731A_N-Zh4PatG_wU-R8hKCi8AgPYoYn3d6toxK4_0FTbg0mMAm3a8P/s856/Anuncio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="593" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBgzvXQnAeum1YqlajOYiYYS6P3hqgBbHd06sdr8bjKelu6MuW3dMA4xMolpaYdPDK2w36Oft0zhQPhJVb_60kDzCmKeCyO4FdLmYuNI5d8OAJetJYZW4vEdAjj08O731A_N-Zh4PatG_wU-R8hKCi8AgPYoYn3d6toxK4_0FTbg0mMAm3a8P/w278-h400/Anuncio.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A
esta fecha, la obra ha recibido 1.043 visitas online y 341
descargas.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmn0tT65EchoYoav2HABNkoSx46PWpCGB1aOmguUm2YhivxoTWb7LuKFy50Frm58tYXaNboHnSxByXQehiJdn5EmAE6iW1gDGhFydCsMUrDlPJg0l-gwklWsWVpjZy3LgQZKa8K5P1PpsuhRciVN4H74IKd4eHc2Qtar_U1nAiD5xazEt77tU/s8504/Ribera1%20Moises.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="8504" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmn0tT65EchoYoav2HABNkoSx46PWpCGB1aOmguUm2YhivxoTWb7LuKFy50Frm58tYXaNboHnSxByXQehiJdn5EmAE6iW1gDGhFydCsMUrDlPJg0l-gwklWsWVpjZy3LgQZKa8K5P1PpsuhRciVN4H74IKd4eHc2Qtar_U1nAiD5xazEt77tU/w400-h145/Ribera1%20Moises.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">A
la izquierda, el autor, con la obra. A la derecha, Ballester Olmos,
Claudia Moctezuma y Moisés Garrido, con un ejemplar del tomo. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
ufólogo, escritor y ganador del Premio Planeta de novela en su
edición de 2017 Javier Sierra Albert, cuya documentación resultó
fundamental en la culminación de esta obra, ha tenido la gentileza
de compartir con sus 200.000 seguidores en la red “X” (antes
Twitter) este expresivo “tuit”: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCCDvHtIwDlCm0gBeLmiZlaQb6DmsIS-Y-W5xaFljul2LTEwbOS7-k4MgRPxwy1IlnlEJjFIouIEPu8SWRLlCa2-D5KWmwb1g0_pv1VC-1ZcnOi7S6i2zgS3dcp75cG40lnBK8ilIe5sD3msNVKpM641HAe3iZYMcXLxKOHQ-UqKZQ_qcg_sx/s1714/Sierra.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="1014" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCCDvHtIwDlCm0gBeLmiZlaQb6DmsIS-Y-W5xaFljul2LTEwbOS7-k4MgRPxwy1IlnlEJjFIouIEPu8SWRLlCa2-D5KWmwb1g0_pv1VC-1ZcnOi7S6i2zgS3dcp75cG40lnBK8ilIe5sD3msNVKpM641HAe3iZYMcXLxKOHQ-UqKZQ_qcg_sx/s320/Sierra.png" width="189" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gracias
a Manuel Carballal, la web de “El Ojo Crítico” también se ha
hecho eco frl libro:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://elojocritico.info/la-correspondencia-entre-antonio-ribera-y-ballester-olmos-ahora-en-libro/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://elojocritico.info/la-correspondencia-entre-antonio-ribera-y-ballester-olmos-ahora-en-libro/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(La fiabilidad del testimonio del testigo ovni)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lanzado
en mayo de 2023 como PDF a descargar gratuitamente desde la
plataforma Academia.edu, se accede a esta obra desde el siguiente
enlace:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Y
en forma de libro físico, la editorial UPIAR de Turín ha publicado
dos magníficas ediciones en papel (blanco & negro y color) que
se pueden comprar desde aquí: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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últimas reseñas en revistas especializadas son: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">Ulrich
Magin, “How reliable are eyewitnesses?”, </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skeptiker</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
4/2023, páginas 197-198. Y </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">Ulrich
Magin, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Zeitschrift
für Anomalistik</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Vol.
23, N.º 2, 2023,</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">páginas
444-449.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_444_Magin_Rez_Ballester-Olmos.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_444_Magin_Rez_Ballester-Olmos.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver
más información de estas reseñas en la sección en inglés de este
blog.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta
obra ha recibido, hasta hoy, 5.988 visitas online y se ha descargado
1.525 veces.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gracias
aI investigador alemán Danny Ammon, los 57 trabajos de este gran
volumen de más de 70 páginas se han descargado individualmente en
la plataforma del CERN Zenodo. Cada trabajo tiene su propio DOI y son
accesibles por separado, para lectura y referencia. La sección en
inglés de este blog contiene una relación de los mismos con su
correspondiente enlace particular. La lista completa se encuentra
aquí; </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.subjects.subject%3A%22The%20Reliability%20of%20UFO%20Witness%20Testimony%22&l=list&p=1&s=20&sort=oldest">https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.subjects.subject%3A%22The%20Reliability%20of%20UFO%20Witness%20Testimony%22&l=list&p=1&s=20&sort=oldest</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Bibliografía
de investigación Ballester Olmos 1965-2023 </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">He
actualizado mi bibliografía personal de investigación, de 1965 a
2023, nada menos que 58 años de trabajo, 13 libros y cerca de 600
publicaciones. Se halla en este enlace:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/113605314/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2023">https://www.academia.edu/113605314/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2023</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los
límites de la ufología</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Al
principio de todo fueron los platillos volantes. Los de mi generación
lo tenemos muy claro. Y todo surgió tras una inmisericorde operación
de prensa en los Estados Unidos después del avistamiento de Kenneth
Arnold en junio de 1947, cuando un empresario pilotando un pequeño
avión privado vio una bandada de objetos volantes que no eran ni
platillos ni discos, pero a raíz de que así los llamaron los
periódicos, la gente comenzó a “ver” platillos volantes. A
partir de entonces hubo un contagio generalizado, que se hizo
mundial. De objetos volantes se pasó a los contactados, a los
aterrizajes de naves y a la aparición de pilotos humanoides saliendo
de ellos. Además de innumerables noticias en los medios de
comunicación, diarios y semanarios, apareció la literatura
oportunista y un filón para las editoriales, a quienes les importaba
un comino si era realidad o ficción. Y les siguió el cine, con
cientos de películas de extraterrestres. Y la televisión, con
programas de entretenimiento basados en los ovnis y, en la
actualidad, con canales que una vez fueron serios y divulgativos como
History, Discovery o DMAX, proyectando cientos de episodios con
historias cada vez más aberrantes. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Todo
ello ha creado un estado de opinión que, sumado a la atención que
recientemente desde los Estados Unidos se ha dedicado al tema de los
ovnis, ahora rebautizados como fenómenos anómalos no identificados
(FANI), ha puesto de moda de nuevo el falso concepto que equipara los
ovnis a astronautas extraterrestres que nos visitan. Llevamos así 80
años. Y sin la menor prueba material. Una creencia sin evidencia es
un mito y posee la misma naturaleza que una fe. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Reconozco
que resulta difícil encarar racionalmente este asunto cuando te han
inseminado previamente con informaciones que avalan la binomial
creencia anterior. Se parte de una base equivocada. Y, en mi
experiencia, se tardan años en liberarte de esas presunciones
maravillosistas. Hasta que, después de años de estudio, encuesta
sobre el terreno, conocimiento del testigo y explicar casos que
parecían irreductibles, llegas a la convicción de que no hay ovnis
extraterrestres. Siempre habrá un remanente de avistamientos que no
se logren aclarar: los observadores no han percibido bien el
fenómeno, o lo han trasladado mal al investigador, o la
investigación es mejorable. Hay cada vez más causas para la
confusión: miles de tipos de objetos aéreos construidos por el
hombre, datos erróneos de sensores aéreos, aves, fenómenos
meteorológicos, cuerpos astronómicos, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo
cierto es que en este asunto uno no puede ser equidistante. O crees
en los ovnis extraterrestres o estás convencido de que no hay nada.
En mi opinión, en esta materia la equidistancia o es ignorancia, o
es una posición interesada. Otras posturas intermedias son pura
retórica pseudocientífica, con menor bagaje que las propias
observaciones ovni. O el fruto de la pura indecisión de llegar a una
conclusión definitiva, que de ninguna manera debe importar si es
negativa porque no supone haber perdido el tiempo en su estudio sino
el alcance de un convencimiento y de una seguridad que, desde allí,
te permite ver la globalidad del problema con un discernimiento
manifiesto.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
ahí que niegue cualquier valor a lo que se llama “paraufología”,
que han sostenido (con tantas denominaciones y definiciones como
proponentes) muchos autores. Se trata, a mi juicio, de un artificio
argumental ilusorio -aunque bienintencionado, añado inmediatamente-
equivalente a hacerse trampas en el solitario. Es el fruto de
advertir que la procedencia extraterrestre de los ovnis -que es la
base del fenómeno desde su inicio- es falaz y, al tiempo, no querer
afrontar la conclusión que diáfanamente se deriva: que nos
enfrentamos a un mito contemporáneo alimentado por los medios de
comunicación. Algunos investigadores, incapaces de alcanzar la
solución más sencilla (siguiendo el principio de la navaja de
Occam), esto es, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>que
no hay ovnis inexplicables</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
postulan alambicadas tesis con conceptos y proposiciones retóricas,
conjeturas más cercanas a la literatura que a la ciencia, que evitan
darse de bruces con la cruda realidad de los hechos (en este caso, la
ausencia de hechos anómalos). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Yo
entiendo que pueda resultar duro darse cuenta de que no hay ninguna
prueba material o categórica de que los ovnis vienen de otros
mundos, tras sostener durante años la creencia extraterrestre.
Probablemente algunos teman alcanzar ese principio aristotélico por
el que la naturaleza aborrece el vacío, a esa demostración de haber
perdido miserablemente muchos años de su vida persiguiendo una
utopía, una arcadia feliz, una teoría falsa. Y, como reacción, o
sencillamente porque sinceramente se piensa que “si no hay ovnis
extraterrestres algo desconocido debe haber”, se propone, exhibe o
desarrolla una alternativa ficticia pero que analítica o lógicamente
(aunque sea un absurdo) complazca filosóficamente al proponente: no
hay ovnis de Marte, pero alguien o algo crea un fenómeno insólito y
excepcional que algunos sujetos experimentan o creen experimentar. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
verdad es más simple: cuando eliminamos los errores de observación
(~60%) y los fraudes (~30%), entonces los episodios calificados como
“encuentros cercanos”, la aparición de “humanoides” o las
“abducciones”, esto es, los casos aparentemente irresolubles que
dan carácter de anomalía al fenómeno, son puras creaciones
mentales del “testigo”. Buscando una etiología para este
fenómeno (siempre me estoy refiriendo a los relatos de la más alta
extrañeza, como los que acabo de citar), he desarrollado el concepto
AED (1) (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>alien
encounter disorder</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
trastorno del encuentro extraterrestre, que sería una experiencia
cognitiva creativa y personal, semejante a una alucinación
momentánea pero extremadamente selectiva. Compete a psicólogos y
psiquiatras dar con la clave de la producción de dicha situación
subjetiva. En suma, un proceso mental propio que no necesita de
dudosos y ambiguos sistemas externos que lo creen. Es psicología
corriente (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>mainstream</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
pura y dura. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Looking for an Etiology: AED”, en
“Introduction”: V.J. Ballester Olmos & Richard W. Heiden
(eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
UPIAR (Turín), 2023, pp. 9-18.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592951">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10592951</a>
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">y
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Una
sola narración. Varios dibujos</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hace
poco, el investigador granadino Antonio Salinas pedía en la lista
Anomalist 2.0 información sobre un presunto avistamiento ovni
ocurrido en la localidad de Cogollos Vega, el 5 de febrero nada menos
que del año 1938, en plena Guerra Civil española. Al recopilar mi
documentación del caso para remitirla, me chocó que a pesar de que
había una única fuente de información del caso, aparecieran
distintos dibujos hechos por unos y otros. Ante una misma
descripción, ¿son muy diferentes entre sí las varias
interpretaciones gráficas, me pregunté? Veamos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">ADIASA
fue el nombre de un grupo de estudio de ovnis formado por varios
jóvenes sevillanos a principio de los pasados años setenta. A él
acudió una persona que en la fecha citada dijo pertenecía a un
batallón que defendía el estratégico Peñón de la Mata, situado
en dicho municipio granadino. Alrededor de las 6:30 de una limpia
mañana, varios soldados vieron a lo lejos un objeto “silencioso y
majestuoso” que a unos 250 metros de altura fue acercándose a su
posición hasta deslizarse sobre sus cabezas. Por sus laterales
despedía vapor y parecía poseer “una pequeña cola”. Calculó
su tamaño como de “un metro y medio aproximado de radio”. Del
narrador solo sabemos que perdió una pierna tres días después en
el curso de la guerra.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
la entrevista al supuesto testigo se desprende lo siguiente sobre la
apariencia del objeto</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>:
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Parecía
un sombrero mexicano, cubierto de aluminio mate. Sus extremos
formaban ángulos rectos. Visto casi por debajo, tenía la forma
exacta de una rueda de carro. En el centro del mismo, donde nacían
todos los radios, tenía como la lente de una cámara fotográfica y
daba sensación de profundidad. En los lados del objeto, podía
observarse como unas ventanillas negras con los lados curvados</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>”.
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Al
informe de ADIASA, publicado en 1972, 34 años después de los
hechos, lo acompañaba este dibujo realizado por el propio testigo:</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7gF9DwXJA5jrt9duuR1SKr52yefX7lA4YDwSVjK9enQJwoTBTW5PYbeMC0ICnHTkzTrNAzJwUXRAAVAC1tHeao6zMRWhdl2X8arEeO0hnFJ4nBSrY2wX2feQ2de2v026iLlzfyc33jnJqzS-3Ah-fyrVhAAM_9jVJtKEoItWvJhpuqLc_XdQ-/s1422/adiasa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="1422" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7gF9DwXJA5jrt9duuR1SKr52yefX7lA4YDwSVjK9enQJwoTBTW5PYbeMC0ICnHTkzTrNAzJwUXRAAVAC1tHeao6zMRWhdl2X8arEeO0hnFJ4nBSrY2wX2feQ2de2v026iLlzfyc33jnJqzS-3Ah-fyrVhAAM_9jVJtKEoItWvJhpuqLc_XdQ-/w200-h127/adiasa.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Por
cierto, dado que se desconoce la identidad del mismo, a todos los
efectos es un informe de fuente anónima, lo que le resta cualquier
valor. Y, aunque afirma que otros soldados vieron lo mismo, solo
tenemos su palabra y nada más. En mi opinión personal, el relato
puede ser falso, ya que el narrador busca una coartada justificando
la falta de nombres de otros testigos aludiendo a las dramáticas
circunstancias en las que el fenómeno acaeció. Además, el supuesto
testigo solicita no se haga pública su identidad (¿por qué? Hay
millones de observaciones ovni atestiguadas con nombres y apellidos)
y aporta un detalle que se puede corroborar -seguramente refutar- y
es que “alguno de sus compañeros publicó en el diario </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ABC</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
de Sevilla una extensa nota en la que narraba esta misma
observación”. Sin embargo, durante muchos años se ha procedido a
una intensa búsqueda de noticias de ovnis en la prensa sevillana y
jamás se ha encontrado nada semejante a este incidente.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pongamos
de manifiesto ahora las diferentes ilustraciones generadas por esta
observación, hechas por los investigadores que la leyeron
posteriormente, y comparémoslas con la imagen original, que es la
razón de ser de esta breve nota. En 1980, el destacado estudioso
sevillano José Ruesga Montiel escribió una serie de reportajes
sobre ovnis para el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ABC</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de Sevilla. En la edición del 12 de diciembre de 1980, se publicó
“Granada, 1938”, un artículo dedicado al caso, basado en la
única información existente, el informe de ADIASA. El dibujante del
periódico, “Calderón”, realizó tres ilustraciones. Una de
ellas muestra el ovni. Aparentemente, según me indica Ruesga al leer
el borrador del presente escrito, “nunca pretendió ser un reflejo
fiel del texto”. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfDnxWpFrwKFPjpbdp-i467D0phw18PKG8sRzSbO96KVlh8wgzx1QkYsgLmQcxJKt6XWnGSsthDJ7uAAhFWKjg_-JXVlTFXHCP56n7mElpu1BuLbcT-MerGJdfmmSc19rjmqQ71rw9g4yMMCjV26O5ezX_HrjOMZ-OSSby24wvdyBynj171Sg/s359/ABC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="359" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfDnxWpFrwKFPjpbdp-i467D0phw18PKG8sRzSbO96KVlh8wgzx1QkYsgLmQcxJKt6XWnGSsthDJ7uAAhFWKjg_-JXVlTFXHCP56n7mElpu1BuLbcT-MerGJdfmmSc19rjmqQ71rw9g4yMMCjV26O5ezX_HrjOMZ-OSSby24wvdyBynj171Sg/w200-h111/ABC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
los años ochenta, el investigador catalán del CEI Joan Plana
Crivillén redactó una síntesis del informe de ADIASA y aportó un
dibujo de su pluma.</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgrcUUH3jX1ATEYQ6ulMgy8CrZj75QilJUNRq5Rmj4NxNbXJnswpXAzBQwRrEq2OxqbfssSm0rNMcTgmct-K4H3ho8XKL6atvGDQAETbU_JcFqvCeiyWQwSBekcEtUrWewsEgVZpsbuRJ1G63sjNMAHe81aZ1uVNU8CfMb5ddeYeF_4MSQaHo/s530/Plana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="530" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgrcUUH3jX1ATEYQ6ulMgy8CrZj75QilJUNRq5Rmj4NxNbXJnswpXAzBQwRrEq2OxqbfssSm0rNMcTgmct-K4H3ho8XKL6atvGDQAETbU_JcFqvCeiyWQwSBekcEtUrWewsEgVZpsbuRJ1G63sjNMAHe81aZ1uVNU8CfMb5ddeYeF_4MSQaHo/w200-h183/Plana.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
1989, parte de esta información llegó a Salinas, quien regularmente
ilustra los avistamientos para, como me ha señalado, “dar un
sentido visual” a los mismos. Seguidamente incluyo los dibujos que
hizo de planta y alzado del supuesto objeto.</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7568OCwmDE3jxFbvWyU7hvV2jn4n78Q1eoYPcjVFojlqxPSF12jdx24OVIKmsxOhGhVe_icGxQ6_IzJbOIYpCm8c-8UKwHSFBIvqJP2ffFaLg12ZGoNu2E7o-W4SwFT8SoiavfOYXL_fXMST-a9Qico-R6SSWLikRbIa_vzQP59bWQAcjErUz/s1700/Salinas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1700" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7568OCwmDE3jxFbvWyU7hvV2jn4n78Q1eoYPcjVFojlqxPSF12jdx24OVIKmsxOhGhVe_icGxQ6_IzJbOIYpCm8c-8UKwHSFBIvqJP2ffFaLg12ZGoNu2E7o-W4SwFT8SoiavfOYXL_fXMST-a9Qico-R6SSWLikRbIa_vzQP59bWQAcjErUz/w400-h164/Salinas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
los años noventa del pasado siglo comencé a estudiar los casos ovni
con participación de militares en servicio. Estudié la posibilidad
de que la observación se relacionara con la aparición de un bólido
procedente de la radiante α-Aurígidas, la cual se activa
precisamente cada 5 de febrero a las 5 horas GMT (6 hora española),
produciendo meteoros muy lentos y bólidos, meteoros excepcionalmente
brillantes. ¿Se trató de una confusión con un bólido de gran
magnitud, embellecido por la impresión creada, la situación en la
que se hallaba y el paso del tiempo? Por ello me comuniqué con
Manuel Borraz, autor de excelentes análisis de avistamientos ovni,
quien calificó de “verosímil” una relación con dicha lluvia de
estrellas, citando al respecto los trabajos de Kronk (1). Por el
contrario, esta hipótesis les parece “arriesgada” tanto a Joan
Plana como a Antonio Salinas, pero no debemos olvidar que no es la
primera vez que un suceso natural de esas características da pie a
la concepción del encuentro con un ovni espectacular (2,3). Por su
parte, Ruesga consideró en su día que se trataba de “una encuesta
bastante incompleta hecha muchos años después del suceso y que la
información disponible no nos permite localizar al testigo”.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
último, en febrero de 1998, Iker Jiménez publicó en la revista
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enigmas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
dentro de una serie dedicada a la “prehistoria OVNI”, una breve
reseña de este caso, acompañada de un dibujo de creación propia.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qQv_UAswzJsTWqJ2j2uRsq1iigXXJRv2RMIUJqtR0KYwOqkZ2656kgR0wtVpLM7rN8c8Vism62E7TpSQj0nrR0P69fyUMNoMiRb7P_TmCBqiGsDwqqp_OmhJFj4jOXmQWTjvEs2eATmhUBoozjrLb6GFq6oGLQTEWfAN7zbEhdGic95Ue4_G/s489/Iker%20J.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="489" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qQv_UAswzJsTWqJ2j2uRsq1iigXXJRv2RMIUJqtR0KYwOqkZ2656kgR0wtVpLM7rN8c8Vism62E7TpSQj0nrR0P69fyUMNoMiRb7P_TmCBqiGsDwqqp_OmhJFj4jOXmQWTjvEs2eATmhUBoozjrLb6GFq6oGLQTEWfAN7zbEhdGic95Ue4_G/w200-h82/Iker%20J.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Se
trata de revisar, en este ejemplo al azar, la variabilidad de
representaciones de un fenómeno “observado” a partir del relato
de un testigo. Vemos que, salvo la excepción del ilustrador
periodístico, los dibujos de los ufólogos se corresponden bastante
bien unos con otros y básicamente siguen las líneas del original,
aunque con algunas variabilidades.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">¿Ocurre
lo mismo con los dibujos de los testigos con respecto a los fenómenos
que observan? Parece que no, pero habría que verificarlo con
avistamientos que hayan sido explicados, como bólidos, globos sonda,
reentradas, dirigibles, aviones, etc., con muestras suficientemente
amplias de dibujos hechos por los observadores para compararlos con
la forma y apariencia de los objetos y fenómenos reales. Lo sugiero
como trabajo pendiente para la ufología española.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Gary W. Kronk, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Meteor
Showers. A Descriptive Catalog</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Enslow Publishers (Hillside, New Jersey), 1988.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Fiasco ufológico: El caso del
Polvorín de Talavera (1976)”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(II), Nº 9-10, septiembre-diciembre 1990, pp. 117-121,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb3z5wy5"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yb3z5wy5</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Y </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Nº 11, 1991, p. 102, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7ylmbdw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y7ylmbdw</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Tim Printy, “December 1996 Yukon UFO revisited”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUNlite</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
marzo-abril 2014, pp. 10-19,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite6_2.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite6_2.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El
ovni más grande de mundo</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Uno
de los aspectos más desconcertantes y al mismo tiempo reveladores de
la variada naturaleza de eso que hemos equivocadamente dado en llamar
“fenómeno” ovni es su tamaño. Los hay diminutos y enormes. Ya
sé, ya sé, que el sector crédulo de los aficionados dice que los
primeros son sondas de rastreo y los segundos naves portadoras. En
lugar de ver en esa disparidad uno de los muchos elementos que
apuntan a su inexistencia, idean argumentos de ficción para no tener
que lidiar con lo que es obvio a todas luces. Este prefacio es a
cuenta del penúltimo ejemplo de verdadera investigación, un
extraordinario trabajo de análisis de Jaime Servera y Julio Plaza
del Olmo: “Caso 12 de marzo de 1997: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Atlántico
frente a la costa gallega”, disponible aquí:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/110623492/Caso_12_de_marzo_de_1997_Atlántico_frente_a_la_costa_gallega"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/110623492/Caso_12_de_marzo_de_1997_Atl%C3%A1ntico_frente_a_la_costa_gallega</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Esta
magnífica pieza de encuesta y de análisis comienza así: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Miércoles
12 de marzo 1997. Son las 04:14 UTC y el vuelo AEA118 de Nueva York a
Madrid, operado por un B757-236 (EC-FEE), está sobrevolando las
aguas del océano Atlántico a 39.000 pies de altitud. Se encuentra a
50 millas náuticas de la costa gallega cuando su tripulación avista
en el horizonte un resplandor blanquecino que destaca sobremanera en
la noche estrellada. … Lo que ven entonces es una mega–estructura
de forma circular con dos luces muy fuertes en el centro, como dos
focos que lo alumbran todo con una luz blanca, percibiéndose una
especie de nube alrededor. No aparece nada en el radar del avión. </i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Lo
que observan es corroborado desde otro vuelo. El comandante del AEA
entrega un breve informe al director de operaciones de Air Europa. 22
años después de los hechos, el piloto ya jubilado concede una
primera entrevista al programa de TV </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuarto
Milenio</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
a raíz de la cual se inicia un extenso proceso de recopilación de
datos, repetida comunicación con todos los afectados en primera
persona, comprobaciones técnicas, estudio de los parámetros, repaso
de distintos fenómenos naturales que pudieran explicar la
observación, etc.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Le
lectura de este trabajo es un paseo -una verdadera lección- por
todos los vericuetos de la investigación científica aplicada a los
avistamientos ovni, un verdadero proceso de verificación y
contrastación de datos, ajeno a creencias e ideas preconcebidas. Lo
que hace especial a esta observación es, como describe el piloto en
su informe a su compañía: “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">UN
CÍRCULO (COMO LA ISLA DE GRAN CANARIA TOTALMENTE ILUMINADO), (CON
MUCHA LUZ) Y CON DOS FOCOS MUY FUERTES EN MEDIO.TODO ESTE RESPLANDOR
SE VEÍA A TRAVÉS DE UNA LIGERA CAPA DE NUBES (CALIMA O HUMO)
PERFECTAMENTE DELIMITADO</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">”
¡Del tamaño de Gran Canaria, una isla cuya superficie es de
1.560km</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">!
Esta deja pequeña a la nave de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Independence
Day</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Lo cierto y verdad es que la información aportada a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Pegaso</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
por un vuelo de Iberia temporalmente coincidente con el de Air Europa
consigna un tamaño como “una plaza de toros o el doble”. La
diferencia es más que significativa. Por cierto, el radar militar
tampoco registró nada. Otro punto destacable, por sus implicaciones
negativas, es que no hay ningún otro avistamiento ovni en la región,
marítimo, terrestre o aéreo, que se pudiera correlacionar con lo
observado desde el aire por el AEA. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
pesar de que el ánimo de los investigadores “ha sido
exclusivamente el de buscar alguna hipótesis lógica y demostrable
que encajara como posible explicación al fenómeno observado por los
testigos” desde la aeronave, la única propuesta que los autores
plantean como hipótesis razonable “sería la de un par de barcos
con sus cubiertas iluminadas. Sus luces, al transmitirse por la
niebla se difuminan creando una gran mancha. Posteriormente, las
excelentes condiciones de la atmósfera ayudan a que la luz se
transmita con poca pérdida de intensidad”. Desgraciadamente,
habiendo pasado tantos años desde lo ocurrido resulta de todo punto
imposible confirmar esta razonable hipótesis. Pero, repito, este
trabajo debería servir de obligado texto para una clase de Ufología
101.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ovnis
astronómicos</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
2 de diciembre de 2024, el ufólogo argentino Antonio Las Heras
publicó un artículo en el bonaerense </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diario
Popular</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
titulado “A 60 años de una extraordinaria observación OVNI”
(1). Sucintamente, narraba que el 16 de noviembre de 1963 centenares
de personas observaron en la ciudad argentina de Mar del Plata el
veloz desplazamiento de un objeto alargado como un "cigarro”,
avistado por varios periodistas y numeroso público. Al parecer, el
fenómeno emitía luces blancas y azuladas y fue visto durante 15
minutos. “Todos coinciden en que era más veloz que cualquier avión
o artefacto construido por humanos que les fuera conocido”,
escribe Las Heras. El hecho aconteció entre las 00:30 y las 00:45
horas. El ovni fue observado estático casi todo el tiempo,
balanceándose suavemente. Finalmente, salió vertiginosamente
disparado en dirección norte, desapareciendo en pocos segundos. Otro
testigo describió el fenómeno como una luz (siempre se habla de
objeto cuando solo se observa una lucecita) “en el horizonte …
que despedía destellos fosforescentes de variados colores. Tras
permanecer largo rato inmóvil, inició veloz carrera perdiéndose
rápidamente en la lejanía”. Como evidencia, se aporta esta
fotografía que, en el más elemental ABC de la ufología, muestra el
rastro nocturno de un cuerpo astronómico. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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confusa nota periodística incluye también el facsímil de un
recorte del diario </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Capital</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Mar del Plata, con unas grandes ampliaciones de fotos de luces
presuntamente extrañas. Pero lo más extraño aquí es que el
periódico está fechado el 14 de julio de 1968, así que esas
imágenes carecen de relación con el caso citado. Son puramente de
relleno. Una práctica poco rigurosa, por cierto.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Centrémonos
en la fotografía y en los datos del avistamiento. El “ovni en
forma de cigarro” es sencillamente el trazo luminoso dejado por un
astro con el fondo nocturno que se ha fotografiado con una exposición
de varios minutos, algo elemental y bien sabido. Aquel día y en
aquella hora el planeta Júpiter se hallaba a la vista muy brillante
(magnitud -2,78), en dirección noroeste (azimut de 305º) y altitud
de 33º sobre el horizonte. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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comentarios a añadir por parte del investigador vasco
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga. Uno, que la imagen de la foto está
invertida. En el hemisferio sur el descenso de Júpiter hacia su
ocaso es de derecha a izquierda, al revés que en el hemisferio
norte. Esta debería ser la dirección real del rastro que dejó el
planeta en el negativo fotográfico (2).</span></p>
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señala Victorio Uranga, “la rápida desaparición del “ovni”
la pudo provocar alguna nube que ocultó al planeta paulatinamente,
dando la sensación de alejamiento rápido”. Algo más que
probable.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
ejemplo archiconocido de ese tipo de fotografía pseudo ovni
astronómica, precisamente también en Argentina, es la serie que
obtuvo </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Carlos
Ernesto Díaz, periodista de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Mundo</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Buenos Aires) el 16 de julio de julio de 1965 en esta ciudad, a las
18:45 horas. En este caso, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">se
trata del rastro dejado en la placa fotográfica por dos planetas,
Venus, a la derecha, más bajo y mucho más brillante (altura angular
2º 39’, magnitud -3,8, azimut 292º) y Mercurio, a la izquierda,
más alto (altura 4º 30’, magnitud de 0,4 y azimut 290º). Ambos
astros estaban situados en dirección WNW, en donde se hallaban los
supuestos “ovnis” (3).</span></span></span></span></p>
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cientos de casos explicados de esta manera (4,5). El corolario de
esta noticia es lamentable: en la actualidad, cerca de 80 años
después del incidente Arnold, todavía se toman por ovnis simples
avistamientos astronómicos.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.diariopopular.com.ar/general/a-60-anos-una-extraordinaria-observacion-ovni-antonio-las-heras-n758483"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.diariopopular.com.ar/general/a-60-anos-una-extraordinaria-observacion-ovni-antonio-las-heras-n758483</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/sale-el-sol-por-el-este-en-el-hemisferio-sur.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/sale-el-sol-por-el-este-en-el-hemisferio-sur.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Argentina,
el año 1965 en fotos</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39623170/ARGENTINA_EL_ANO_1965_EN_FOTOS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/39623170/ARGENTINA_EL_ANO_1965_EN_FOTOS</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
páginas 14-17.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “¿Una nave extraterrestre sobre
Galdakao?”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/10/una-nave-extraterrestre-sobre-galdakao.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/10/una-nave-extraterrestre-sobre-galdakao.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “AstroOVNIS”, en </span></span></span></span><a href="https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2017_08_25_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2017_08_25_archive.html</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Informe
anual CIAE 2023</u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
enero se publicó el informe de investigación que elabora anualmente
el Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) de la fuerza aérea
Argentina, bajo la rigurosa dirección del Comodoro Rubén Lianza:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe-ciae-2023.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe-ciae-2023.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
correspondencia personal, Lianza nos indica: “Cabe destacar que el
pasado año fue en el que más casos hemos recibido y resuelto (82).
Sólo 16 casos quedaron sin ser dados de alta para análisis por no
haber recibido el Formulario de testimonio o alguna evidencia que
sirva de objeto de estudio (foto o video), pese a los reiterados
pedidos hechos a los testigos para que nos envíen el material
faltante. Como curiosidad, también 2023 fue el primero, en 9 años
(contando los de CEFAE) en el que hemos recibido una foto
deliberadamente adulterada (caso Puerto Pirámides, página 131) y
que nos dejó una enseñanza importante.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe consta de 184 páginas y distribuye los casos analizados de
la siguiente forma: 22 de origen óptico (reflejos internos o
externos), 19 de causas biológicas (aves, insectos, hojas), 13 de
causas aeronáuticas (aviones, globos y drones), 12 de causas
astronáuticas (satélites </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y Estación Espacial Internacional), 11 de causas astronómicas
(estrellas, planetas, la Luna), 5 de causas diversas, incluyendo un
fraude. Lógicamente, la mayoría de los 82 casos estudiados
corresponden al año 2023 pero hay bastantes otros casos ocurridos
entre 2010 y 2022. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
lectura de este trabajo, que recomiendo sin ambages, debe constituir
un ejercicio de gran utilidad para el ufólogo investigador porque
aporta las claves para la resolución de casos que, a primera vista,
parecen extraños al testigo (incluso al experto).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NOaehApMxHWdjVX70UwUFu9lXgwWrUbYCdiHfsWIsQIWgsBFivdeB5KEFEqZy3flNMnZTx9c8axzIAPDv_BSLLkMHKeWOovpg-HVJRTPUC1oiIXCk0PbNQCTp2LULWT59u0rPDkd9mCzzy5-i7JY6-s-QOsA-bxD6TBeLSHHcwzGgAQhprGe/s770/Platillo%20Posadas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="770" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NOaehApMxHWdjVX70UwUFu9lXgwWrUbYCdiHfsWIsQIWgsBFivdeB5KEFEqZy3flNMnZTx9c8axzIAPDv_BSLLkMHKeWOovpg-HVJRTPUC1oiIXCk0PbNQCTp2LULWT59u0rPDkd9mCzzy5-i7JY6-s-QOsA-bxD6TBeLSHHcwzGgAQhprGe/s320/Platillo%20Posadas.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Lo
que la Fuerza Aérea Argentina recibe como la foto de un verdadero
platillo volante se resuelve como un simple reflejo óptico.</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Posadas,
14 de noviembre de 2023.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Aspectos
psicológicos en los testigos de fenómenos anómalos no
identificados</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gabriel
G. De la Torre, “Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous
phenomena (UAP) witnesses”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>International
Journal of Astrobiology</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
diciembre de 2023, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2n5b27c5"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://tinyurl.com/2n5b27c5</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Es
raro que un académico español entre en el polémico asunto de los
ovnis (antes platillos volantes y ahora con el más serio marchamo de
UAP). Javier Resines nos informó del artículo en la lista
“Anomalist 2.0” y, a raíz de ello, el antropólogo Ignacio
Cabria tuvo a bien hacer unos comentarios (que, por cierto, fueron
recibidos con aplausos por algunos miembros de la comunidad médica
del citado foro) que reproduzco a continuación:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>He
sabido por este artículo del interés de Gabriel G. de la Torre,
profesor de psicología en la Universidad de Cádiz, en el tema ovni.
En internet veo que tiene una amplísima lista de artículos en
revistas académicas sobre neuropsicología, psicología espacial y
muchas otras cosas, pero no sobre ovnis. Y por la lectura de este
artículo actual, tampoco parece que tenga conocimiento de la
literatura científica sobre el tema. Me llama la atención que
dedique la introducción a los proyectos oficiales norteamericanos de
investigación sobre los UAPS, cuando la temática del artículo es
una encuesta sobre la psicología de testigos de ovnis. Mirando la
bibliografía que cita, casi nada tiene que ver con el objeto de su
investigación. Solo la cita de Swami es un precedente de su estudio,
cuando hay muchísimas más que no parece conocer. Así, no extraña
que ponga frases como "...the scientific community has rejected
with some specific exceptions, e.g. the Hessdalen Project in Norway
(Teodorani, 2004) the study of these phenomena for many years..."
¡Hessdalen, que no tiene nada que ver con una investigación en
ciencias humanas! O esta otra: "UAP has strong psychological
components that have obviously been neglected to this date".
Desde hace más de cincuenta años ha habido intentos de analizar el
componente psicológico del fenómeno. Mi libro Ovnis y ciencias
humanas (1), que se encuentra gratis en internet en mi sitio en
Academia.edu, tiene más de doscientas referencias científicas hasta
el año 2000, y docenas de ellas son sobre psicología o psicología
social. Además, existen más de doscientas tesis doctorales sobre el
tema ovni, la mayoría en ciencias humanas. Pero yo diría que lo más
importante se ha escrito en estas dos últimas décadas, y nada de
ello está en ese artículo. Pero en relación al contenido del
estudio, que es lo más importante, encuentro fallos metodológicos.
Para empezar, no se explica cómo se hizo, ni dónde, la selección
de los participantes en la encuesta. De los pocos datos que se dan,
lo evidente es que la muestra no es representativa de la sociedad, y
por ello se llega a conclusiones que creo que no son replicables. Y
precisamente por esa falta de base teórica sobre investigaciones en
ciencias humanas, tampoco hay en el artículo comparativas con otras
investigaciones, que serían tan necesarias.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
poner las cosas en perspectiva, al profesor Gabriel de la Torre no se
le conoce otra incursión en el tema ovni que ésta, lo que, sin
embargo, no evita que aparezca como miembro del consejo de redacción
de una de las tantas revistas y organizaciones surgidas al calor de
la aparente (seguro que temporal) y, para mí oportunista, aceptación
científica del tema ovni (perdón UAP) en ciertos sectores que
divulgan (previo pago). Hablo de la revista </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Limina</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://limina.uapstudies.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://limina.uapstudies.org/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
los conocedores de la ufología, algún nombre del equipo de
redacción le retrotraerá a una posición pro extraterrestre de esta
polémica. En mi opinión, la bibliografía del citado trabajo es
sesgada y la muestra usada forma parte de un grupo de creyentes en
torno a SETI, otra de las nuevas organizaciones que orbitan en torno
a la "vida extraterrestre". Aparte de que es un error de
partida empezar a estudiar los UAP y someter el artículo a una
revista de astrobiología (¿por qué no a una profesional de
psicología, porque habría sido aceptado?) Pero, para mí, es el
error más grave está en la conclusión, que viene a decir que los
supuestos testigos de ovnis devienen en obsesos de los mismos, pero,
eso sí, nada patológicos, benignos. Cuando lo cierto es al revés,
que personas con ciertos trastornos cognitivos son los que dicen
tener los encuentros más dramáticos con ovnis (obviamente no me
estoy refiriendo a las muchas confusiones bienintencionadas). Creo
que un buen antídoto a tales posiciones parciales y sesgadas sería
la atenta lectura de la obra internacional de 2023 </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2).
Pero a partir de ahora y durante varios años, hasta que el
departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos diga que “aquí no
hay nada de alienígenas, esta es mi última palabra y todos ustedes
son unos crédulos de tomo y lomo”, habrá que aguantar mucha
literatura equívoca en todos los medios. ¡Paciencia!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1)
Ignacio Cabria, </span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I_Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS_pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I_Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS_pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
V.J. Ballester-Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
UPIAR (Turín), 2023, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Johns Hopkins University, “Interstellar signal linked to aliens was
actually just a truck,” 7 de marzo de 2024,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
R. M. Medina, S. C. Brewer & S. M. Kirkpatrick, “An
environmental analysis of public UAP sightings and sky view
potential”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Scientific
Reports</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
13, 22213, diciembre de 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49527-x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49527-x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Eric Maillot, "Analyse clinique de la RR3 de Valensole (Premiere
Partie) – Etat de stress psychotraumatique." Un momento de
realidad banal habría devuelto al testigo el recuerdo de una
situación traumática y angustiosa vivida durante la Segunda Guerra
Mundial. Este momento clave de observación sería el desencadenante
de un estrés psicotraumático agudo que habría alterado su
conciencia de la realidad y sus habilidades motoras. Un pensamiento
muy en línea con mi modelo AED.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLfCQJcVaZScDoj-n7PxZC9WRUjbdZjE/view"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLfCQJcVaZScDoj-n7PxZC9WRUjbdZjE/view</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
Robert M. Powell, Larry Hancock, Laiba Hasan, Sarah Little, Robinson
Truong & Tobi Kamoru, “The Reported Shape, Size, Kinematics,
Electromagnetic Effects, and Presence of Sound of Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena from Select Reports, 1947-2016”,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nicap.org/match/MADAR_101/ReptShapeSizeKineticsE-M(SCU).pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nicap.org/match/MADAR_101/ReptShapeSizeKineticsE-M(SCU).pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
opinión crítica: los trabajos realizados con catálogos sin filtrar
siempre producirán resultados basura en cuanto a presuntos
“observables” UAP. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
El Dr. Tim Lomas, un psicólogo de Investigación del departamento de
epidemiología de la Universidad de Harvard ha publicado un ensayo
titulado: “A global picture of unidentified anomalous phenomena:
Towards a cross-cultural understanding of a potentially universal
issue”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>International
Social Science Journal</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
28 de diciembre de 2023, </span></span></span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12484"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12484</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
“Semiotic scaffolding and flying saucers,” por el profesor Fabio
Regattin (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia): </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/51527318/Semiotic_scaffolding_and_flying_saucers"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/51527318/Semiotic_scaffolding_and_flying_saucers</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The problem of the definition of UAP”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Resumen:
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
NASA tiene la intención de estudiar los UAP utilizando sensores
calibrados. ¿Pero cómo se hace eso? ¿Qué tiene que buscar la NASA
para detectar UAP? ¿Cuáles son las propiedades de los UAP que
permiten detectarlos? ¿Cómo identificar un "auténtico UAP"
y no confundirlo con una estrella, la Luna, un avión o un globo? El
problema del estudio científico de las UAP comienza con la
definición misma del problema. Después de casi 80 años de ovnis
(ahora UAP), no existe una definición científica válida de qué se
trata el "fenómeno". Y es imposible realizar un estudio
científico adecuado sin uno.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Kevin Randle, “UFO Crash Retrievals: Three with Explanations,” 15
de enero de 2024,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2024/01/ufo-crash-retrievals-three-with.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2024/01/ufo-crash-retrievals-three-with.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Beatriz Villarroel, “The Vanishing Star Enigma and the 1952
Washington D.C. UFO Wave”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Debrief</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
21 de enero de 2024,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-vanishing-star-enigma-and-the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-wave/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-vanishing-star-enigma-and-the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-wave/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
“Testing Alcubierre's Warp Drive.” Subtitulado: “Los defensores
de las visitas extraterrestres a menudo afirman que el viaje de
Alcubierre hace posible viajar más rápido que la luz. He aquí por
qué no puede existir”, el escritor de ciencia Brian Dunning -de
Skeptoid- desmantela ese tipo de conjetura: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/21/inside-small-welsh-town-home-uks-wildest-ufo-conspiracy-20128524/" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/21/inside-small-welsh-town-home-uks-wildest-ufo-conspiracy-20128524/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(11)
Aunque esta referencia no es reciente (se publicó en octubre del año
2000), vale la pena tomarla en consideración: Dr. Steven Novella,
“UFOs: The Psychocultural Hypothesis”, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUNlite</i></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="color: #1d2228;">,
volumen 16, Nº 2, marzo-abril de 2024,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite16_2.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite16_2.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
Porque la temática ovni (lo siento, UAP) ahora es bastante aceptada
por algunas revistas convencionales, tenemos que estar preparados
para encontrar mucha basura, no importa que los trabajos publicados
estén firmados por científicos, ni que sean de corte escéptico. Un
ejemplo lo hallamos aquí: “Extraterrestrial Life in the
Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter,” por
nada menos que esta cohorte de coautores, R. Joseph, C. Impey, O.
Planchon, R. Gaudio, M. Safa, A. Sumanarathna, E. Ansbro, D. Duvall,
G. Bianciardi, C. Gibson y R. Schild, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Modern Physics</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2024, 15, 322-376, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2024.153015"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2024.153015</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Manuel
Borraz ha escrito estos oportunos comentarios acerca de este trabajo:
“Acabo de descubrir que las imágenes (1) de la misión número 75
del transbordador espacial de la NASA (STS-75), uno de los ejemplos
relevantes sobre los que se basa el artículo (2), fue ampliamente
discutida en el pasado y explicada satisfactoriamente (3). Por
ejemplo, disponemos de un breve pero concluyente análisis de James
Oberg (4) y también de una discusión sobre los movimientos de los
objetos (5). Al parecer, los misteriosos objetos no tendrían nada
que ver con naves alienígenas ni con el cuarto estado de la materia,
sino con la orina. Ni siquiera orina no humana”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notes</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2)
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb67zM1Sh-Q"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb67zM1Sh-Q</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(3)</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/STS-75_incident"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/STS-75_incident</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(4)</span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rense.com/general/stsd.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://rense.com/general/stsd.htm</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/the-proving-grounds/conspiracy-theories/114413-"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/the-proving-grounds/conspiracy-theories/114413-</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">“’</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Witness’
credibility implodes for Jacques Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale,”
escribe Douglas Dean Johnson,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/witness-credibility-shredded-for-vallee-trinity-tale/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/witness-credibility-shredded-for-vallee-trinity-tale/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
Jean-Marc Wattecamps, “Incertitudes dans la détermination des caps
d'objets lumineux par des témoins oculaires</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">”,</span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9c74kb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p9c74kb</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(16)
Dr. Heriberto Janosch González, </span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">“</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿El
alienígena del Dique La Florida llegó en un cohete japonés?”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2024/01/26/el-alienigena-de-dique-la-florida-llego-en-un-cohete-japones/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2024/01/26/el-alienigena-de-dique-la-florida-llego-en-un-cohete-japones/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(17)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Los ovnis del 12 de agosto de 1975”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2024/01/los-ovnis-del-12-de-agosto-de-1975.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2024/01/los-ovnis-del-12-de-agosto-de-1975.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
“UAP Research in Germany: Single Case Studies, Data Management,
Understanding of “Strangeness”, por Danny Ammon, T.A. Günter,
André Kramer y Hans-Werner Peiniger, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Anomalistics</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
volumen 23 (2023), pp. 302–323:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_302_Ammon_etal.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/JAnom23-2_302_Ammon_etal.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>El
dossier de </u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>Pueblo</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
infatigable tándem formado por Moisés Garrido y Claudia Moctezuma
sigue brindando </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>gratis
et amore </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">documentación
histórica y biográfica a los aficionados y estudiosos. Lo penúltimo
que han sacado a la luz es un amplio dossier que recoge la extensa y
variada colección de noticias e informaciones ovni publicadas a lo
largo de su historia por el diario madrileño “Pueblo”. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mega.nz/file/vUU2UaYT#D122uPAEz32eWHn1mpSrsghbXRoDsgyewp025bPck4U"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://mega.nz/file/vUU2UaYT#D122uPAEz32eWHn1mpSrsghbXRoDsgyewp025bPck4U</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Entre
otras cosas, fue curioso reencontrarme con algunas entrevistas mías
o artículos dedicados a congresos a los que asistí.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Félix Ares de Blas, Juan José Benítez y V.J. Ballester Olmos,
Mérida, 20 de abril de 1981. Tiempos de conversación que pronto se
abortaron unilateralmente. Derecha: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">En
su sección “Experiencia ovni”, el periódico pueblo dedicó un
espacio a mi libro con Miguel Guasp </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Plaza & Janés, diciembre de 1981).</span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>El
ovni de Mongolia </u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Nota
a cargo del Dr. Ricardo Campo)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hace
casi un año, la red de noticias china Zhongtian
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.hk01.com/article/849326"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.hk01.com/article/849326</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
publicó un pequeño reportaje sobre la observación de unas luces
misteriosas divisadas el día 19 de diciembre de 2022 desde diversas
localidades del interior de Mongolia. Al primer vistazo, es obvia la
naturaleza del fenómeno: se trata de la enésima aparición de
rastros luminosos en el crepúsculo producto del lanzamiento de
cohetes o misiles a centenares de kilómetros de los observadores.
Veamos algunas de las imágenes reproducidas en la noticia:</span></span></span></span></p>
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la nota, el personal de la oficina meteorológica local y los
expertos en astronomía especularon unánimemente con que no se
trataba de nubes ni de un fenómeno meteorológico, mientras que
algunos testigos comentaron en Internet que, al desaparecer la luz,
percibieron “el olor a azufre que queda después de los fuegos
artificiales”. Pura sugestión la de esos testigos. Más atinada
estuvo la citada oficina, que añadió que la escena fue provocada
por el lanzamiento de un satélite artificial. Las especulaciones más
sensatas apuntan a que se trató de la nube producida durante la
trayectoria seguida por el lanzamiento de un cohete, o la reentrada
de un fragmento de nave espacial. Otros, menos informados, indicaron
que fue debido a un meteorito que cayó a tierra y provocó un
incendio. Algunos testigos sugirieron que se trataba de una prueba de
interceptación antimisiles en etapa intermedia, y también que se
habían observado muchos fenómenos luminosos celestes a lo largo de
ese año.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Nos
llamó la atención este caso por su semejanza con uno de los más
conocidos sucesos de este tipo de la ufología española: el “ovni
de Canarias”, el suceso del 5 de marzo de 1979, divisado desde todo
el archipiélago canario y fotografiado a placer desde diversas
localidades de las islas. Compare el lector las dos imágenes de
arriba con estas dos obtenidas desde las cercanías de la localidad
de Puerto Rico (Gran Canaria) el anochecer de la citada fecha por el
fotógrafo profesional Antonio González Llopis:</span></span></span></span></p>
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parecido es asombroso, y no es casualidad. En dos de mis últimos
libros, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Canarias. Historia y análisis de una creación periodística</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(2.0 Books, Ediciones Idea, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2019;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mryba33x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mryba33x</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
y </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Coliseo Sentosa, Chile, 2023; </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc47r7am"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yc47r7am</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
incluí, a modo de comparación, numerosos ejemplos internacionales
de este tipo de fenómenos idénticos al suceso canario. Una
justificación psicológica de algunos relatos muy creativos del
5/3/79 y del igualmente popular “ovni de Gáldar” (22/6/76,
Canarias) puede leerse en “Bizarre Accounts: Remarkable Missile
Sightings from the Canary Islands in the 1970s”. En </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
V.J. Ballester-Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (eds.), pp. 419-432
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588466"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10588466</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña
invitada</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Javier
Cavanilles es periodista y coautor de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
caras de Bélmez</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(RiE, 2007) y </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Tarot ¡Vaya Timo!</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Laetoli, 2009). Ha desarrollado una amplia carrera vinculada a la
divulgación del pensamiento escéptico, de la que destaca su blog
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Desde
el más allá (Más o menos)</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
publicado en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Mundo</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
entre 2009 y 2012 o el podcast </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Más
Allá (pero no tanto),</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
en Plaza Radio (2018-2022). Amablemente ha aceptado mi invitación de
escribir para este blog una recensión del último libro del Dr.
Ricardo Campo: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de 346 páginas, publicado por Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa en 2023 y
que, a mi juicio, es altamente recomendable. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm; text-align: left;">
<span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/06/el-ovni-de-galdar-de-ricardo-campo.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/06/el-ovni-de-galdar-de-ricardo-campo.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>El
ovni de Gáldar: caso cerrado</b></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
Javier Cavanilles</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ricardo
Campo Pérez disecciona la construcción de uno de los incidentes más
famosos de la ufología patria y lo convierte en una </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>master
class</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
aplicable a cientos de casos sobre el funcionamiento del
misteriodismo </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Empecemos
por el final. El único ‘pero’ que se le puede poner a este libro
es que, lamentablemente, es difícil que llegue al público que más
provecho podría sacarle. Los convencidos de la realidad del fenómeno
de los platillos volantes —hoy UAPs— lo evitarán, y harán bien,
para poder mantener su fe en el mito. Los escépticos, por su parte,
disfrutarán de hasta la última línea de este excelente trabajo.
Pero esa amplia zona gris que oscila entre ambos bandos, que
encontraría en este volumen una argumentadísima explicación que
les haría inclinarse hacia los segundos, es difícil que llegue a
saber de su existencia. Las grandes editoriales buscan nichos de
mercados, y el de los creyentes es tan amplio que se puede imprimir
cualquier delirio con escaso riesgo de perder dinero. El de los
escépticos no es tan numeroso, pero suficientemente militante como
para permitir amortizar una edición. Pero para los neutros no hay
mercado. Una lástima teniendo en cuenta que Ricardo Campo Pérez ha
firmado un libro que, no es exageración, merece un hueco en
cualquier biblioteca dedicada a esta temática, lo más cerca posible
de clásicos de la talla de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Roswell:
Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Karl T. Pflock.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
los amantes de la ufología en España, el llamado caso Gáldar (una
pequeña ciudad al noreste de Gran Canaria) del 22 de junio de 1976
forma parte </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">de
esa santísima trinidad que incluye también el suceso canario del 5
de marzo de 1979 (otro misil norteamericano) y el “caso Manises”
(Valencia) del 11 de noviembre de 1979 (este </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">último
es, probablemente, el más conocido para el público en general). Esa
noche, cientos de testigos —en tierra firme y en el mar, en Gran
Canaria y en el resto del archipiélago, civiles y militares—
vieron en el cielo lo que </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Eco de Canarias </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">describió
como «un objeto luminoso, semejante a una luna llena que fue
aumentando de tamaño rápidamente hasta llegar a lo más alto del
cielo, convirtiéndose en una especie de niebla o gran humareda». A
día de hoy no es </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>spoiler</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
recordar que lo que en un primer momento muchos interpretaron como
una posible nave extraterrestre era en realidad un misil </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Poseidón</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
disparado por un submarino de la Navy de Estados Unidos.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1usYrOIVPPXHl1moxAq4l0G1OizgPKc7cF8F4svZaNbgNlQCOkA4HU9aCAqUduSWhuiEvamVh19Bfsn1fvTWQCPXYFMBNnFvP5UrRjrvYYyqCbefSGYPHoHEPzhg7X-nLPnEGY4Clo8VsEwyZIs7_uRcwHl9YxEzpCpBeHBLaLbxbJo6ivMab/s900/G%C3%A1ldar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="574" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1usYrOIVPPXHl1moxAq4l0G1OizgPKc7cF8F4svZaNbgNlQCOkA4HU9aCAqUduSWhuiEvamVh19Bfsn1fvTWQCPXYFMBNnFvP5UrRjrvYYyqCbefSGYPHoHEPzhg7X-nLPnEGY4Clo8VsEwyZIs7_uRcwHl9YxEzpCpBeHBLaLbxbJo6ivMab/w127-h200/G%C3%A1ldar.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero
lo importante de este libro no es recrearse en un caso que cualquier
buen aficionado conoce, sino la disección que el autor realiza de
cómo el avistamiento de un fenómeno absolutamente inusual lleva a
los testigos a plantearse todas las posibles respuestas, y de cómo
el relato inicial va transformándose con el tiempo, mientras algunos
van saltando de clavo ardiendo a clavo ardiendo al que agarrarse para
mantener la hipótesis extraterrestre. En este sentido, aquí lo
importante no es la exhaustiva recolección de datos de todas las
fuentes posibles —que se agradece— sino su análisis. No estamos
ante la descripción de un hecho sino ante su autopsia; no es tanto
el qué creía la gente, sino el cómo se les hizo creer. Esos
detalles son mucho menos conocidos y, desde luego, los que dan
verdadero peso a la obra.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reducir
el incidente Gáldar a unas luces en el cielo de origen incierto es
no entender cómo se crea, muchas veces de manera artificial, un
suceso ufológico. Gáldar es también el caso en que unos ‘testigos
muy humildes’ —no pueden faltar— vieron una nave con forma de
esfera transparente, con dos tripulantes de unos dos metros de altura
y vestidos con unas túnicas rojas, de un campo de cebollas
chamuscado por culpa de los chorros de escape de la nave, o del
intento del Ejército de Aire por intimidar a los testigos, como si
de Hombres de Negro se tratara.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Aunque
en los primeros días la prensa local barajó algunas hipótesis
razonables aunque equivocadas —un meteorito o un volcán sumergido
que entró en erupción—, la irrupción de la ufología
sensacionalista asumió el reto de reescribir un relato más al gusto
de sus lectores que se acabó convirtiendo en la versión canónica
de los hechos. Y, como es habitual, al ritmo de los testimonios
cambiantes de personajes como el médico Francisco Julio Padrón, con
unas ansias de protagonismo a la altura de su dudosa credibilidad.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Si
hay alguien que podría escribir este libro —y, de hecho, así ha
sido— es el veterano ufólogo Ricardo Campo Pérez a quien nadie en
su sano juicio podrá negarle las credenciales</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(doctor
en Filosofía, uno de los estudiosos con mayor bagaje de
investigación sobre el terreno de nuestro país, y autor de varios
libros sobresalientes). No solo es un ufólogo riguroso, y que en
esta disciplina tiene más mili que el Capitán </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Garfio,
sino que lleva años estudiando este caso en concreto. Además, en su
caso no cabe alegar que es un escéptico de salón —que haberlos
haylos, y son muchos— sino que puede presumir de haber entrevistado</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
in situ </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">hasta
el último de los testigos </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">de
este caso</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Si, como hacen algunos, la unidad básica de la investigación
ufológica son los kilómetros recorridos, no hay uno en toda la isla
que el autor dejara de transitar en busca de un testimonio más.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Una de las claves del misteriodismo es </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>congelar</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
el momento. Aunque hayan pasado décadas del evento inicial, los
especialistas del gremio intentan siempre trasladar al lector al
momento original, olvidando todo lo que ha ocurrido desde entonces
hasta la fecha en que publican su información. Sin embargo, ese
‘hecho original’ nunca existió. Es el resultado de una
evolución, en la que aparecen y desaparecen testigos según lo que
aportan al relato que se va construyendo; los datos que más apoyan
la teoría paranormal se consolidan mientras los que la refutan se
pierden en el olvido. El resultado no es tanto ‘qué ocurrió
realmente’ sino ‘cómo nos gustaría que hubiera ocurrido’.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ahí
reside precisamente interés de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
como ejemplo de fenómeno paranormal. El completísimo análisis
histórico y cronológico de los hechos es lo que permite explicar el
suceso más allá de lo ocurrido aquel 22 de junio de 1976. No es tan
importante el avistamiento masivo de una luz en el cielo de origen
desconocido, sino el largo camino que tuvo que atravesar hasta
convertirse en el enésimo incidente que solo admite la hipótesis
extraterrestre como respuesta.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Se
puede argüir —y es cierto— que es el mismo proceso que sigue
cualquier noticia. Pero hay una gran diferencia: un periodista
honesto busca la conclusión definitiva, que lo más parecido a la
verdad sea la conclusión final. Nuevas revelaciones pueden modificar
lo que se creía como definitivo. Pero el periodismo del misterio
parte de la conclusión de que el hecho es paranormal o carece de
explicación convencional (en este caso, que era una nave
extraterrestre), y todo lo que se interponga en el camino deja de
tener interés o se condena interesadamente al olvido. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
ejemplo, la importante desclasificación del expediente del Ejército
del Aire en 1994. De ser así, no </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">hablaríamos
hoy del caso Gáldar sino diríamos que «la espectacular luz
observada en 1976 fue un misil </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Poseidón</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">»,
tal y como publicó el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diario
de Avisos</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de Tenerife en 2001, con motivo del decimoquinto aniversario del
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>incidente</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Pero solo hay que darse un garbeo por la red para ver que la
evidencia no ha servido para atajar las hipótesis más
descabelladas. Cada vez que un investigador serio ha intentado poner
fin a las especulaciones han proliferado los misteriodistas para
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sostenella
y no enmendalla</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Igualmente
interesante de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
es cómo desmonta uno de los grandes mecanismos la ufología menos
rigurosa para reconvertir cualquier suceso en un presunto desafío a
la ciencia</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
lo excepcional </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">de
cada acontecimiento, que necesita apenas un mínimo de sustancia que
le distinga con la etiqueta de ‘incidente’ para elevarlo de
categoría. Campo Pérez dedica una parte de su libro a remontarse al
origen de los ovnis de bola transparente, cuyos antecedentes más
lejanos se remontan a fecha tan tardía como 1937, una década antes
del seminal caso Arnold, y que aparece en la revista </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Amazing
Stories. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
Lomo del Pino (Gran Canaria), entre 1958-59, ya se había visto un
ovni de estas características —que quizás sirvió de modelo—,
las mismas descritas en Sagrada Familia (Brasil, 1963) o Lakeland
(Florida, 1968) y más tarde en Valais (Suiza</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
1978</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
o Sommerécourt (Francia, 1983). ¿Mintieron entonces los testigos
que aseguraron ver esas naves redondas transparentes con dos seres en
su interior? La explicación que propone el autor es mucho más
interesante y deja poco margen de duda.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
es, en definitiva, un libro valiente, de los que llama a las cosas
por su nombre, riguroso, y ameno que no deja piedra por remover. Una
obra, en definitiva, que no decepcionará a los escépticos y que los
creyentes deberían leer para comprender que otra ufología es
posible.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Crítica
literaria</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
investigador y autor chileno Diego Zúñiga ha comentado el libro del
andorrano Artur Homs </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>¿Distorsión
o paraufología? Historia de un reset </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">fallido
(1) en un capítulo de su podcast “La Biblioteca Ufológica”, que
realiza junto a otro notable experto, Sergio Sánchez:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/T0-XPGSNQlA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/T0-XPGSNQlA</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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raíz de esta información, el estudioso y destacado escritor Chris
Aubeck les ha felicitado por el </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">video
y ha añadido lo siguiente: “Me recuerda a algo que escribí hace
unos cuatro años. Yo diría que la “teoría” de José Antonio
Caravaca (que “</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">un agente
externo desconocido, inteligente e independiente al ser humano”
intenta influir en los asuntos humanos) se parece bastante a la de
Charles Fort, y a la de Jacques Vallée. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Fort creía
en algo que llamaba “orthogenesis” que esencialmente significaba
que una inteligencia externa influía en la evolución de la
mentalidad humana. Tenemos un resumen de su idea, expresado en la
obra de su amigo Theodore Dreiser:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
totalidad puede haberse originado, de algún modo, en otro lugar,
elaborada de antemano, por así decirlo, en el cerebro de algo o
alguien y ahora está siendo dirigida ortogenéticamente o
químicamente desde algún lugar; proyectada en una pantalla, por así
decirlo, como una película en movimiento, y nosotros meras imágenes
de puntos, meras imágenes construidas por células, como las
películas, solo que somos telegrafiados o teleautografiados desde
otro lugar.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mwdxnxfy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://tinyurl.com/mwdxnxfy</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">compararlo
con la “teoría” de Caravaca:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Y
después de un análisis detallado de cientos de eventos, hemos
concluido que los encuentros cercanos de OVNIS son el producto de una
elaborada «arquitectura psíquica» que surge como consecuencia de
la conexión entre un agente externo desconocido y la psique de los
testigos. Y como resultado de esta conexión se «proyecta» una
imagen tridimensional, indistinguible de la realidad que la rodea,
que puede interaccionar (en ocasiones) físicamente con el medio que
la rodea y ser observadas por más personas. Aunque debemos tener
claro que la mayor parte de esta escenografía se construiría a
partir del material psíquico que el agente externo extrae de la
psique de los observadores (recuerdos, aficiones, cultura, etc.)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://caravaca101.blogspot.com/2019/10/teoria-de-la-distorsion-de-lo-global-lo.html">http://caravaca101.blogspot.com/2019/10/teoria-de-la-distorsion-de-lo-global-lo.html</a></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Comparemos
seguidamente estas teorías con las ideas de Jacques Vallée:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Lo
que nos dicen es que han visto un platillo volador. Es posible que lo
hayan visto o que hayan visto una imagen de un platillo volador o que
lo hayan alucinado bajo la influencia de la radiación de microondas,
o puede que hayan sucedido varias cosas. El hecho es que los testigos
estuvieron expuestos a un evento y como resultado experimentaron una
alteración altamente compleja de la percepción que les hizo
describir el objeto u objetos que figuran en su
testimonio.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> (</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufoscoop.com/jacques-vallee-ufo-control-system/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufoscoop.com/jacques-vallee-ufo-control-system/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
observamos, tienen muchos puntos en común. Que cada cual saque
sus conclusiones. Lo que es evidente es que al analizar los casos de
alta extrañeza nos vemos abocados a una disyuntiva, o se trata de un
fenómeno realmente anómalo de naturaleza desconocida (pero para el
que no hay pruebas materiales ni evidencia científica) o simplemente
es una fantasía producto de la mente humana, procedente del espacio
interior, esto es, del propio testigo. Yo me decanto por la segunda,
de ahí haber invertido tres años en la concepción y edición de un
volumen de 700 páginas sobre la fiabilidad del testimonio (2).</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Prácticamente
desde el inicio de la investigación del fenómeno ovni, muchos
estudiosos han tratado de poner nombre al proceso por el cual el
narrador de un avistamiento extremo ha generado espontáneamente una
visión misteriosa, espeluznante, un aparente vehículo
extraterrestre en su cercanía, a veces rodeado de pilotos
humanoides. Hace la friolera de 34 años, yo mismo hablé del
“síndrome de transgresión de la realidad” en uno de mis libros
(3).</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Muchos
eruditos autores han examinado hace años este estado que conmina a
la proyección de una suerte de intra imágenes falsas que
distorsionan la realidad, como Pinvidic (4), Martin Kottmeyer (5),
Maugé (6) o Toselli (7), por citar solo algunos. Apropiarse de ese
concepto o darlo como teoría propia y nueva es, como poco,
desacertado y no ético. </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-XPGSNQlA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-XPGSNQlA</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Artur Homs, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>¿Distorsión
o paraufología? Historia de un reset fallido</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
El autor (Andorra), 2023, </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/¿Distorsión-paraufología-Historia-reset-fallido/dp/B0CKPV64PD"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/%C2%BFDistorsi%C3%B3n-paraufolog%C3%ADa-Historia-reset-fallido/dp/B0CKPV64PD</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
UPIAR, 2023, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Juan A. Fernández Peris, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1987, páginas 367-371,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
T</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">hierry
Pinvidic (ed.), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNI,
vers une Anthropologie d'un Mythe Contemporain</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Heimdal, 1993.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Martin S. Kottmeyer, en Ronald D. Story (ed.), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters: A Definitive,
Illustrated A-Z Guide to All Things Alien</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
New American Library, 2001.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Claude Maugé, "Une approche de la 'théorie réductionniste des
ovnis'", 2004,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rr0.org/time/2/0/0/4/01/Mauge_TRC/index.html"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://rr0.org/time/2/0/0/4/01/Mauge_TRC/index.html</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Paolo </span></span></span></span><a href="https://rr0.org/people/t/ToselliPaolo/"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Toselli,</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:
"L'examen des cas d'objets volants identifiés (OVI): le facteur
humain", en T. Pinvidic, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">op.
cit., páginas </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">280-301.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Alienígenas
carpetovetónicos ilustrados. Vol. 1: Platillos y marcianos</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Luis
R. González publica </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Alienígenas
carpetovetónicos ilustrados. Vol. 1: Platillos y marcianos,
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://appleheadteam.com/producto/alienigenas-carpetovetonicos-ilustrados-vol-1-platillos-y-marcianos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://appleheadteam.com/producto/alienigenas-carpetovetonicos-ilustrados-vol-1-platillos-y-marcianos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Esta
obra ya se ha granjeado algunos comentarios muy positivos, como vemos
aquí:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/navedelmisterio/status/1761422563287380109?s=20"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/navedelmisterio/status/1761422563287380109?s=20</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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percezioni, credenze, stereotipi: Gli aspetti psico-sociali del
fenómeno</u></i></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Escrito
por la psicóloga italiana Chiara Russotto y con prólogo de Edoardo
Russo, “Percepciones ovni, creencias y estereotipos: Los aspectos
psico-sociales del fenómeno”, acaba de ver la luz. Escribe la
autora:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>¿Qué
lleva a la gente a afirmar que han visto un ovni o a creer que han
sido abducidos por extraterrestres? La clave es la Hipótesis
Psicosocial, según la cual un fenómeno no existe en sí mismo sino
que existe debido a ciertos mecanismos psicológicos: nuestras
percepciones, expectativas y creencias, nuestro trasfondo cultural y
nuestra historia personal, pero también aspectos psicológicos,
genéticos, y predisposiciones neurológicas: todos esos elementos
influyen, conscientemente o no, en nuestra lectura de la "realidad".
Se trata de un análisis psicológico de un tema fascinante y
multifacético que invita a reflexionar sobre la necesidad que tiene
el hombre de creer en los fenómenos trascendentes, muchas veces
porque, pero no sólo, proporciona sentido a la vida humana. Mi
objetivo es, pues, generar conciencia sobre estos mecanismos y
fomentar el uso del pensamiento crítico en la lectura de
determinados fenómenos, sin excluir su existencia.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Disponible
en Amazon: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mrhvdyky"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mrhvdyky</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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the Alien: An Introduction to Exosociology</u></i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Publicado
en junio de 2002 por Springer (Wiesbaden), tiene 295 páginas, con
ISBN 978-3658413163. Sus autores, el Dr. Andreas Anton, investigador
del Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health de
Friburgo (Alemania) y el Dr. Michael Schetsche, profesor en el
Instituto de Sociología de la Universidad de Friburgo:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Science of Weird Shit</u></i></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Subtitulado
“Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal”, éste es el último libro
del Dr. Christopher C. French, profesor emérito y director de la
unidad de investigación de psicología anómala del departamento de
Psicología de la Universidad de Londres. Publicado por T</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">he
MIT Press: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048361/the-science-of-weird-shit/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048361/the-science-of-weird-shit/</span></span></span></a></p>
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contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">
(</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">● “<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">The
Official UAP Scene in America”. Lo último que acontece en el
panorama oficial sobre los UAP en los Estados Unidos. Con mucho, lo
más destacable es la publicación la semana pasada en la web del
AARO de la versión desclasificada del “Report on the Historical
Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena (UAP). Volume I”: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
quien no hable inglés, le aconsejo fervientemente que no deje de
leer este rápido comentario que acaba de escribir J</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ulio
Plaza del Olmo, señalando lo más relevante del informe, que se
encuentra en el Resumen Ejecutivo: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaro-2024-sin-noticias-de-grusch.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaro-2024-sin-noticias-de-grusch.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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of the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt Elevation Dataset”, trabajo escrito
por H. Kalfsbeek y Wim van Utrecht especialmente para este blog.</span></span></span></p>
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Agog Over Strange Object in the Sky”. La ciudad de Phoenix,
Arizona, emocionada por la presencia durante horas de un objeto
extraño en el cielo en 1950.</span></span></span></p>
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PERSONAL</b></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
El periodista y escritor valenciano Javier Cavanilles me visitó hace
poco para hablar de nuestros comunes intereses. Aquí está
fotografiado en mi estudio. Días después fuimos juntos a un
concierto de música country, para variar.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Moisés Garrido va digitalizando varias entrevistas mías en
televisión de los años noventa. Esta procede de Tele Cantabria, a
raíz de un simposio organizado por la Fundación Anomalía,
Santander, 11 de octubre de 1991. Versa sobre el proceso de
desclasificación de los archivos ovni del Ejército del Aire
español. Para curiosos de la historia de la ufología patria, y
nunca mejor dicho: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtMpxvVooks"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtMpxvVooks</span></span></span></a></p>
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El “23F” de 2024 hubo otro asalto, pero esta vez programado.
Moisés Garrido, investigador desde hace décadas, y su compañera
Claudia Madrid Moctezuma, que conforman un indisoluble equipo de
documentalistas orientados a la preservación de la cultura ufológica
nacional, tuvieron la amabilidad de visitarme en Valencia,
acompañados por Gustavo Doménech. Al medio día nos encontramos en
mi domicilio, donde efusivamente recordamos que no nos habíamos
visto en persona desde hacía nada menos que 25 años. En el curso de
este emotivo encuentro, primeramente les entregué un ejemplar del
libro </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
una obra en la que su papel digitalizando y editando antiguos
materiales que tanto yo como Javier Sierra habíamos aportado,</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ha
resultado proverbial y fundamental en la producción de un -me atrevo
a calificar- volumen precioso e histórico (1). Seguidamente les hice
entrega de una pequeña herencia ufológica compuesta por once
archivadores A-Z que contienen información de prensa sobre Ballester
Olmos desde 1965 hasta nuestros días, así como los manuscritos de
varios trabajos publicados hace años. Asimismo les hice donación de
los manuscritos originales encuadernados de tres de mis libros. Nadie
mejor que ese magnífico binomio para retener, preservar y -en el
futuro- difundir tan enorme bagaje documental. Tras una agradable
comida, los llevé al edificio donde tuvimos la sede del CEONI entre
1968 y 1973, en el campus universitario de Blasco Ibáñez. A
continuación nos reunimos con algunos de mis colaboradores
valencianos, Juan A. Fernández Peris, Jaime Servera y Carlos
González. Durante varias horas repasamos los trabajos de unos y
otros y debatimos sobre el fondo de nuestro mutuo interés, los
ovnis. Siguió una cena en un magnífico restaurante asiático, donde
se nos unió Juan Pablo González, gestor del CUCO (catálogo que
combina más de dos docenas de bases de datos de casuística). En
resumidas cuentas, fueron doce intensas horas de conversación,
intercambio de libros, informes y, lo que fue mejor, ideas, siempre
en el más cordial de los ambientes. Existan los ovnis o no (seguro
que no), su investigación vale la pena por momentos como este.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moisés
ha escrito una extensa crónica-biográfica de este encuentro en su
blog:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://elblogdemoisesyclaudia.blogspot.com/2024/03/reunion-historica-con-la-escuela.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://elblogdemoisesyclaudia.blogspot.com/2024/03/reunion-historica-con-la-escuela.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1)
Desde julio de 2023, el libro se puede descargar de forma gratuita en
formato PDF del siguiente enlace de Academia.edu: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">En
enero de 2024, la editorial UPIAR (Turín, Italia) ha publicado una
edición en papel de tapa blanda, en formato A4, ilustrado con
fotografías a blanco y negro y color (ISBN: 9791281441057). El libro
se puede adquirir a través del enlace:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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el salón de mi casa, de izquierda a derecha, Gustavo, Claudia,
Vicente-Juan y Moisés, posando tras una pila de archivadores con
material biográfico, manuscritos de tres de mis primeros libros y
dos ejemplares de mis últimas obras.</span></p>
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Garrido (a la izquierda) y Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, delante del
edificio (ahora en rehabilitación) que fue sede del CEONI entre 1968
y 1973, los colegios mayores Luis Vives y Alejandro Salazar.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Carlos, V-J, Jaime, Juan Antonio, Gustavo, Claudia y Moisés. Derecha: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Durante
la cena, de izquierda a derecha, Gustavo, Moisés, Juan Pablo, Jaime,
Claudia, V-J y Juan Antonio.</span></p><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
Y, como siempre, algunas recientes instantáneas de mis adorados
nietos.</span></p>
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Fernando, en el chalet de La Eliana. Derecha: Con Ma</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">tías.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Lucas y Matías, viendo alguna peli en la tele. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Derecha: Con
Lucas y Matías en plan abuelo total.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Eric Maillot (Francia), Francis Ridge
(NICAP, EE. UU.), Ignacio Cabria (España), Dan Vergano (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
EE. UU.), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos Verdes, Méjico), Edoardo
Russo (CISU, Italia), Gian Paolo Grassino (UPIAR, Italia), Alejandro
Agostinelli (Argentina), Javier Resines (España), Dr. Luis Cayetano
(EE. UU.), Claude Maugé (Francia), Kay Coggin (EE. UU.), Luis E.
Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Manuel Borraz (España), Luis R.
González (España), Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez y Terry Colvin
(Tailandia). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy4s_HxsLa3LnJAISa1VPyPA3BfIIHTpggfnP0UsM4lyJ9WrcBMoy2E1wUmyYXQXGb4qkT9zbGp61bzjG7YAcFZvaQYLUTYjlrGDkwpS9v7w-Ax4Fj39_c2r9iBW9pYxHM5ijChqnWc1yhPixyCnx4cG7o-DiiTxuV4dNclNK98nDq95YmoIQ/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy4s_HxsLa3LnJAISa1VPyPA3BfIIHTpggfnP0UsM4lyJ9WrcBMoy2E1wUmyYXQXGb4qkT9zbGp61bzjG7YAcFZvaQYLUTYjlrGDkwpS9v7w-Ax4Fj39_c2r9iBW9pYxHM5ijChqnWc1yhPixyCnx4cG7o-DiiTxuV4dNclNK98nDq95YmoIQ/w640-h110/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Plaza
& Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3huztte7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3huztte7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25hxsdvd"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/25hxsdvd</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/8b3pvzyj"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/8b3pvzyj</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">TODOCOLECCIÓN:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yy6wx5se"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yy6wx5se</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMNH54EsGiSMzokzh52zm_pImd4mP00d1_nHBbfhZ4yfLeNfu-UlZG0r84M4dI7gLhwol4vu1KcjrGIypZrMQZTeavnSeO9-Vsk1ET2N6GX6J82AuX5JyNT_FIzSoQRAIWmchwkNfdk3i2thFVSAP89hA5xBQxwbX670L5pKu-1hwL6k2pCMH/s3657/LIBROS2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="3657" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMNH54EsGiSMzokzh52zm_pImd4mP00d1_nHBbfhZ4yfLeNfu-UlZG0r84M4dI7gLhwol4vu1KcjrGIypZrMQZTeavnSeO9-Vsk1ET2N6GX6J82AuX5JyNT_FIzSoQRAIWmchwkNfdk3i2thFVSAP89hA5xBQxwbX670L5pKu-1hwL6k2pCMH/w640-h130/LIBROS2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>UFOs
and Government</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(editor) (con R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
2024</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Yu Gothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=204</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-22545968591758626142023-12-15T00:12:00.004+01:002023-12-17T19:35:46.895+01:002023/DECEMBER/15 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English
language editing: Martin Shough.</span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
present-day FOTOCAT warehouse is both physical and digital. There is
a 26-column data matrix on a computer catalog in the form of an Excel
spreadsheet. It synthesizes the material information contained in
documents, reports, investigations, press clippings, articles, case
analyses, photography, etc. collected for every single case, kept in
chronologically ordered individual folders, within hundreds of
portfolios stored in large cabinets in a dedicated room. To date, the
database gathers 13,115 entries, mostly for a period ending December
31, 2005.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjec_g5FKvWAAbDd4u6EOfqA7uXkFJlOO2XfASxYTqo8M7nGF4jdibYf_WP3hvXOAthSm-GgRBCYW8ypwWIvfjp3o5-6OmYx21CMJrlKVfTtAU6bci2_PLhTKZ-l_9yd8W0j_7FdAYq9f_pxQ_FDBMhajBMIJWsg62KuPk3p5hUMV-DrTw5jxnT/s9347/Tr%C3%ADptico.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="9347" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjec_g5FKvWAAbDd4u6EOfqA7uXkFJlOO2XfASxYTqo8M7nGF4jdibYf_WP3hvXOAthSm-GgRBCYW8ypwWIvfjp3o5-6OmYx21CMJrlKVfTtAU6bci2_PLhTKZ-l_9yd8W0j_7FdAYq9f_pxQ_FDBMhajBMIJWsg62KuPk3p5hUMV-DrTw5jxnT/s320/Tr%C3%ADptico.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Partial
view of the FOTOCAT warehouse.</span></span></div>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHw9dFrClZ9iQJuBgfDCuriqLS4H49PIDK_KhT8xmamGAqGwOdVy9fz7A8bYijhaiW_O2C1XYPH3c9_92bViU5-zamsDTuUDNEtOF17zJTHuGbTcTHibQN1WGw-mlDXqy5aMqfXCrBZEb96LikeIX5vRE3BKxy6joqBRkD0pVJsQp6jr88BqS/s1755/Reliability.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1241" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHw9dFrClZ9iQJuBgfDCuriqLS4H49PIDK_KhT8xmamGAqGwOdVy9fz7A8bYijhaiW_O2C1XYPH3c9_92bViU5-zamsDTuUDNEtOF17zJTHuGbTcTHibQN1WGw-mlDXqy5aMqfXCrBZEb96LikeIX5vRE3BKxy6joqBRkD0pVJsQp6jr88BqS/w141-h200/Reliability.jpg" width="141" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Praise
for this book (May 2023) continues, to be added to quotes already
listed in this blog’s prior update:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Recommended
edition,” as per </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
International Journal of Ecopsychology</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk147516905"></a><span style="color: black;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
valuable resource,” Ray Ward, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Skeptical Intelligencer</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023, pp 9-10,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/resources/Intelligencer/Vol%2026%203.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/resources/Intelligencer/Vol 26 3.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
an amazing resource!,” Charlie Wiser.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Readers
will delight in the fascinating case histories presented in </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
… sixty experts examine these questions in depth and insightfully.
These cases teach us a lot about how people come to believe that they
have experienced bizarre events that may not have even happened.”
Post on the homepage of GWUP (Society for the Scientific Study of
Parasciences, Germany), October 1, 2023,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2s4y96k7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2s4y96k7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">British
veteran UFO scholar John Rimmer of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Magonia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
fame has signed a book review published in the December 2023 issue of
the celebrated journal </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Fortean
Times (</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">#438,
50</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
anniversary issue): “Virtually every single essay in this
collection is interesting, and they provide valuable insight into the
way UFO phenomena are perceived, processed and recorded.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Phenomena
Magazine</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
#175, November 2023, page 28, says: “It’s all here and some of
the conclusions will undoubtedly be unwelcome, but need to be said.
This book … is an almost essential reference tool for anyone who
takes UFOs and the attendant phenomena seriously. Highly
recommended.” </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Several
professional journals have demanded the book for review and we look
forward to having them published in due time. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to Dr. Gary Posner, in order to push knowledge about </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Reliability</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">references
to the book have been added to the following 13 Wikipedia entries
(English edition): Cash–Landrum incident, Pascagoula
Abduction, Raël, Phoenix Lights, Ufology, Gulf Breeze UFO incident,
Barney and Betty Hill incident, Alien abduction, Ball lightning,
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis, Kecksburg UFO incident, Hypnagogia, and
Hypnosis. See: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/UFO-Witness-book-Wiki" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/UFO-Witness-book-Wiki</a>
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(the
mention in Richard Noll's entry had already been added).</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Readership
news up today from the online access. Hardly seven months after the
book’s release, it has had 5,200 views and 1,350 downloads. Plus
the hard book sales from publisher UPIAR. Our objective is being
fulfilled.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
book is available for free from Academia.edu at this link:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a>
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">And
a 711-page softbound, A-4 print copy can be purchased in two editions
(black & white, and full color) from UPIAR:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZ4AhS8AhIOzN0An8N6kuxoDMz7-UDt-LobJciGnegq7BARWBkrupnTKVtk_6s9HbsRSGRDzlq4Bq_K0c9WI5m7Hzp3TJLpvg_Z1yX-YsuDnC2GLz9YeT-28it_xjJYwvvv7FGjLDzVzYDSkmwBFLGUpupm6xnYhrCSTYXzBygPzIMKhAutSy/s1064/chiste.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="984" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZ4AhS8AhIOzN0An8N6kuxoDMz7-UDt-LobJciGnegq7BARWBkrupnTKVtk_6s9HbsRSGRDzlq4Bq_K0c9WI5m7Hzp3TJLpvg_Z1yX-YsuDnC2GLz9YeT-28it_xjJYwvvv7FGjLDzVzYDSkmwBFLGUpupm6xnYhrCSTYXzBygPzIMKhAutSy/s320/chiste.jpg" width="296" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Adapted </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for
the publication of </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">French
researcher Raoul Robé</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">–with
a pinch of humour–</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pat </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oliphan’s
celebrated 1967 cartoon: a couple of aliens from a saucer seize
copies of the book, while in the UPIAR office someone with a FOTOCAT
notebook yells to them, “It’s too late, sirs, the book has been
downloaded over 1,300 times!</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Pending
a forthcoming print version of this book (title translates as “My
correspondence with Antonio Ribera”), this is a 750-page book
released free of charge July 2023 through Academia.edu at:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
volume in Spanish, it collects my letter exchanges with prominent
writer and ufologist Antonio Ribera from 1966 to his death in 2001,
with photographs illustrating our meetings with UFO mandarins Aimé
Michel and Jacques Vallée, travels or symposia we shared, and more.
This tome has received 900 views and was downloaded 300 times to this
day. It is a small piece of national UFO history. See this blogsite
for September 2023 for a long list of plaudits from all sides of the
UFO movement in Spain:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk151848586"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBBaSEjCLQ2rgu6xXaJbyqg83C9Brz6MINVr1DIkcuzZkMWxpsxdKNkPMI1JR-JE0l3kIY8eZghQK-lYmqUhVY3IhpMuhJc-wdIAaotyZqSqzy40tbSfdNe-uUILM1iBO8x43SDZiqgBRjxilry9cPQDqQErcmxonw6tFEWXoQoB6BNY9gyyJ/s2865/Ribera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="2865" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBBaSEjCLQ2rgu6xXaJbyqg83C9Brz6MINVr1DIkcuzZkMWxpsxdKNkPMI1JR-JE0l3kIY8eZghQK-lYmqUhVY3IhpMuhJc-wdIAaotyZqSqzy40tbSfdNe-uUILM1iBO8x43SDZiqgBRjxilry9cPQDqQErcmxonw6tFEWXoQoB6BNY9gyyJ/s320/Ribera.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Latest
Press Interview</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Spanish
journalist Luis Alfonso Gámez did interview me, and it was massively
distributed by the Vocento publishing group on October 2, 2023:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.elcorreo.com/ciencia/espacio/ovnis-mito-creado-partir-literatura-prensa-cine-20230927003502-ntrc.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.elcorreo.com/ciencia/espacio/ovnis-mito-creado-partir-literatura-prensa-cine-20230927003502-ntrc.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9z46F4pLQqXyG3G92ZcWi4o_C-Wd8hgswi_iuNK2AAuyTegXNDR4voYP7ZHSuhniNuqSvuNgePmsoj5PlIF9N696FrJCr3-Hy99jZXuYWia7ozVJ8felsfimH0cBVEGwn_CtxVQxKlrV_Im_NIw3YmoFa4LwrXIqaqoUFBOCHerY6uZZX25L/s2050/Ballester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2050" data-original-width="1548" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9z46F4pLQqXyG3G92ZcWi4o_C-Wd8hgswi_iuNK2AAuyTegXNDR4voYP7ZHSuhniNuqSvuNgePmsoj5PlIF9N696FrJCr3-Hy99jZXuYWia7ozVJ8felsfimH0cBVEGwn_CtxVQxKlrV_Im_NIw3YmoFa4LwrXIqaqoUFBOCHerY6uZZX25L/s320/Ballester.jpg" width="242" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Interview
to V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
Correo</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
October 15, 2023. Photograph by Manuel Molines.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFOs
AND NASA: THERE IS NO RELIABLE DATA, BUT WE STILL WANT TO INVESTIGATE
THEM</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">V.J. Ballester Olmos</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/107167561/UFOs_and_NASA_There_is_No_Reliable_Data_But_We_Still_Want_to_Investigate_Them">https://www.academia.edu/UFOs_and_NASA_There_is_No_Reliable_Data_But_We_Still_Want_to_Investigate_Them</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Last
year, NASA commissioned a panel of 16 scientists as an Independent
Study Team on UAPs, to which they dedicated nine months. (1)
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is really a biased term
promoted by influenced ideological interests of certain U.S. senators
and congressmen, of what in the fifties of the last century were
called UFOs. In 1947 they were the famous flying saucers, which in
1946 were called ghost rockets, in World War II they were
“foo-fighters”, mysterious airplanes were named in the 1930s,
mystery airships were between 1908 and 1918, phantom balloons from
1899 to 1902, phantom airships during the North American wave of
1896-1897, mysterious visitors in 1883, or the great French balloon
fear of 1789, for example. A sequence of aerial phenomena that has
frightened the world's population for more than 200 years, on every
occasion interpreted in accordance with the aeronautical culture of
the moment and, always, with a substratum of panic or uncertainty.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Yesterday,
September 14, 2023, NASA released the report resulting from said
study. Its initial objective was to provide “potential methods for
studying unidentified anomalous phenomena.” But to be 100 percent
truthful, their Statement of Tasks included, among others: “What
types of scientific data currently collected and archived by NASA or
other civilian government and held by non-profits and companies
entities should be synthesized and analyzed to potentially shed light
on the nature and origins of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena?”,
“What other types of scientific data should be collected by NASA to
enhance the potential for developing an understanding of the nature
and origins of UAP?”, “What basic physical constraints can be
placed on the nature and origins of UAP?”, “What civilian
airspace data related to UAPs have been collected by government
agencies and are available for analysis to (a) inform efforts to
better understand the nature and origins of UAPs, and (b) determine
the risk of UAPs to the National Air Space (NAS)?” Let's check if
this report meets the goals they set for themselves.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
final report, of 33 pages (2), may be partially disappointing only if
we expected presentation and analysis of cases. That is, some
documented evidence of examples of anomalous UFOs/UAPs. Because there
isn't. It clearly states that “this is not a review of previous UAP
incidents.” Its Executive Summary notes: “The study of
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) presents a unique scientific
opportunity that demands a rigorous, evidence-based approach.
Addressing this challenge will require new and robust data
acquisition methods, advanced analysis techniques, a systematic
reporting framework and reducing reporting stigma. NASA – with its
extensive expertise in these domains and global reputation for
scientific openness – is in an excellent position to contribute to
UAP studies within the broader whole-of-government framework led by
the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a name="_Hlk146106679"></a><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
simple words: there are anomalous phenomena that cannot be explained
(supposedly they would then show and demonstrate examples of them),
their study has great scientific potential (I hope they will explain
why), it demands a rigorous study and always based on evidence (I
could not agree more), they quote again the never-existing but
fashionable “stigma” of reporting UFO cases (when there are
millions of reports around the world coming from all walks of life),
and it positions NASA as a competitor of AARO (the UAP office of the
U.S. Department of Defense) (3) for researching UAPs (I guess, as
long as it is accompanied by additional and generous government
funds). If A. Dumas said «Cherchez la femme!», now I'm afraid that
the motivation is «Cherchez the money!»</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
report describes the state of UFO information (let's use the
classical terminology) and notes that the analysis of case data is
hampered by poor sensory calibration and by the lack of multiple
measurements, sensor metadata, and baseline data. The “evidence”
that UFO promoters, enthusiasts and gullible people claim to exist is
very poor. The best events (the rarest ones) are explainable, a
process that has been well documented over the past 76 years.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACq4OBASEcFf4-rK573tMLDwofja4t84IPCWIpzoadolyHTQAcURHSR0REznEPHb47VsfcyOaoxb2uRM7etqLlNiJuST04tzrjokJVzWCuPfH3-JG_wgLyAK9sxjiTpicSVozjb7K3hL9fQusdEoZbiWnxsihv18oZRvk1pthyZjHHgZt2Az6/s651/NASA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="613" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACq4OBASEcFf4-rK573tMLDwofja4t84IPCWIpzoadolyHTQAcURHSR0REznEPHb47VsfcyOaoxb2uRM7etqLlNiJuST04tzrjokJVzWCuPfH3-JG_wgLyAK9sxjiTpicSVozjb7K3hL9fQusdEoZbiWnxsihv18oZRvk1pthyZjHHgZt2Az6/w188-h200/NASA.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
the panelists, all of them rookies to UFO research, which, like
everything, would require a prior knowledge of the subject,
artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms are
essential tools to identify apparently strange events such as UAPs.
However, the report rightfully indicates that </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>these
powerful techniques will only work on well-characterized data
gathered with respect to strong standards</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
which is exactly what ufology has been unable to provide to date.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a name="_Hlk146107940"></a><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">They
state: </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Finally,
the threat to U.S. airspace safety posed by UAP is self-evident</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
And they must remain content with this. Where has the risk to
aviation been–not just in the United States, but around the
world–all these years? Birds, lightning, drones, balloons, even
out-of-control missiles, do represent objective risks, but UFOs? One
would expect a list of extraordinary cases to support such a claim.
Yet no, you will not find them in this report. But NASA next proposes
deepening–surely with federal funding–the Aviation Safety
Reporting System (ASRS), which NASA administers for the Federal
Aviation Agency (FAA).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">From
the very Foreword itself, the reader is partially surprised. On one
hand, it says that “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are one
of our planet’s greatest mysteries. Observations of objects in our
skies that cannot be identified as balloons, aircraft, or natural
known phenomena have been spotted worldwide.” That is true, but a
precision is required, that many “unidentified” for the gullible
sector of ufology are subject to resolution for skeptical researchers
and analysts. That is, probably there are no unexplainable phenomena
after all. However, the report adds a very substantial statement:</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
“</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">high-quality
observations are limited.” And it continues with an important
paragraph:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Despite
numerous accounts and visuals, the absence of consistent, detailed,
and curated observations means we do not presently have the body of
data needed to make definitive, scientific conclusions about UAP.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">An
outstanding, unprecedented decision derived directly from this study
is that, for greater coordination with the UAP Office of the
Department of Defense (AARO: All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office),
which has a strong military and intelligence character, NASA will
appoint a Director of UAP Research, who will centralize
communications and mutual leverage of information and resources with
the government UAP initiative.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
crux of the matter in evaluating the significance of this problem
lies in its nature. For example, quoting from the NASA report:
“Recently, many credible witnesses, often military aviators, have
reported seeing objects they did not recognize over U.S. airspace.
Most of these events have since been explained, but a small handful
cannot be immediately identified as known human-made or natural
phenomena.” The key here is “recently,” which indicates that
incoming data is now generated by social media. In the last few years
there has been an explosion of videos and testimonies, many of them
initially leaked to the media by those responsible‒believers in
extraterrestrial UFOs‒from the U.S. Navy UAP Task Force
(2018-2021), which preceded the AARO. These cases, which have been
strongly questioned by skeptical, scientific analysts, do not
represent the “true” UFO phenomenon, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">if
one ever exists. These were sightings by pilots, out of the hundreds
collected, that essentially differ from the type of occurrences that
has led to the popular consciousness of extraterrestrial UFOs: close
encounters, landings, presence of humanoids, and abductions. NASA has
no idea about those. And what it also ignores is the psychological
and sociological perspective of the “phenomenon” and the mediocre
reliability of human testimony, an aspect that 60 academic authors
have just studied in an international volume of more than 700 pages.
(4)</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
report rightly insists:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>It
is increasingly clear that the majority of UAP observations can be
attributed to known phenomena or occurrences … this includes
eyewitness reports, which on their own can be interesting and
compelling, but are not reproducible and usually lack the information
needed to make any definitive conclusions about a UAP’s
provenance.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">NASA's
self-assigned role is to provide “a rigorous, evidence-based,
data-driven scientific framework.” And to do so, it presents
resolutions consistent with the eight cardinal points of its founding
purposes. I will highlight some of them.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Regarding
scientific data collected by NASA that would be relevant to UAP
research, it only ambiguously cites the existence of “a variety of
existing and planned Earth- and space-observing assets, together with
an extensive archive of historic and current data sets, which should
be used to address the challenges of detecting and/or understanding
UAP.” The document alludes to its fleet of space satellites which,
unfortunately, lack the resolution to detect “relatively small”
objects such as UAPs. Indeed, it appears that the robot portrait of a
UAP is a round, white, translucent object between 1 and 4 meters in
diameter. (5) Doesn't this remind you of the profile of a balloon? It
also mentions other promising technological capabilities for
scrutinizing UAPs, such as the NEXRAD Doppler radar network,
geostationary satellites, large-scale sky surveys based on
telescopes, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), etc. NASA again defines
the data available on UAP to date as “observations initially
acquired for other purposes, which often lack adequate metadata and
are not optimized for systematic scientific analysis.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Regarding
data stored by the private sector or the industry, the report does
not say anything about it either, except to propose the
implementation of sophisticated sensors and observation systems from
the ground or the space that could be used to capture elusive
phenomena such as UAPs. Here, the space agency again lays out
criteria and postulates itself for the job when it states that
“robust data calibration is vital, and here NASA again can play an
important advisory role.” The panel’s study already advances that
this will be expensive: “Although a substantial investment, the
standardization of collected information via well-crafted calibration
will make it possible to carry out a rigorous scientific
investigation into UAP. NASA’s experience in this area will be
essential,” it adds. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">When
referring to other types of information to be collected about UAPs,
NASA is cautious (I suspect that it is thinking of the now famous
three videos of the U.S. Navy) and it indicates that “data
signatures are vast … [yet] it is imperative to set clear evidence
thresholds to avoid errors, especially with automated methods.” For
the umpteenth time, the poverty of available information is evident
when the panel highlights that “at present, gathering data on UAP
is hampered by sensor calibration challenges and a lack of sensor
metadata.” That necessary calibration is described as critical to
eliminate what frequently takes place in recent UFO/UAP reports
collected by the U.S. Department of Defense: false positives, which
are due to errors in the image-capture sensors.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
section on analytical techniques to be used in the assessment of the
nature and origin of UAPs emphasizes the potential of artificial
intelligence and machine learning but it insists‒as it could not be
otherwise‒that applying good tools to bad data is inefficient. In
the language of the present century, it invokes to the «garbage in,
garbage out» of early computer experts when it writes: “However,
the effectiveness of AI and ML in studying UAP depends critically
upon the quality of the data … At present, UAP analysis is more
limited by the quality of data than by the availability of
techniques.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
report proposes three approaches to the analysis of alleged
anomalies. The first would be to build a model of the typical UAP and
eliminate what does not fit with such characteristics. But the
authors are well aware of its difficulty: we do not possess‒not
even close, I rush to add‒any “consistent description of the
physical characteristics of UAP.” But there is more, I am willing
to stress: such consistency will never be found, because there is not
a single UAP phenomenon but rather a gross aggregate of false
observations, a set of absolute entropy. That model doesn't work. The
second formulation is more classic: consists of modelling the
background properties and look for anything that deviates from that
model. This is the approach that UFO researchers have followed for
decades, until it was verified that the supposed anomalies lacked
patterns and that each supposedly unusual phenomenon reflected
personal tendencies of the observer (especially in the most extreme
and closer cases).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">A
third avenue for scientific study would be to correlate NASA's
extensive databases with locations and times of UAP events (actually,
we have been successfully doing that for years in order to explain
UFO cases), but the report adds, not unintentionally, that “NASA's
expertise in AI and ML will allow it to make a prominent
contribution.” The space agency rightly advises and, at the same
time, sells itself well: “Proper curation and integration of data
are also critical for enabling scientific analysis … NASA, with its
expertise in data calibration, management, and advanced analysis is
well-positioned to take a central role in these efforts within the
whole-of-government framework to assess UAP.” The only thing
missing here was to request directly: increase our budget!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Regarding
the determination of the basic physical limitations that can be
imposed on the nature and origins of UAPs, another of the panel's
mandates, the text reflects on what is known about conventional
flying objects in terms as far as range of speeds and accelerations,
for example, to be matched with those of the UAP, but here it is
recognized that the biggest problem is knowing exactly the distance
between the observer and the UAP, a variable of enormous uncertainty
in UFO reports. The NASA document is crystal clear:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><i style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; text-align: justify;">Observations
of UAP to date are inconsistent and do not adhere to similar
characteristics.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Regarding
the availability of UAP-related aerospace data collected by
government agencies, NASA is posited as a key player. After noting
the existence of the data accumulated by the Federal Aviation Agency,
it notes that they are not optimized for this UAP search function,
the report concludes that “the collection of data is sparse,
unsystematic, and lacks any curation or vetting protocols” and it
offers advice based on NASA’s experience in methodology, data
analysis and organization. Thus, this sentence:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><i style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";">Although
such eyewitness reports are often interesting and compelling, they
are insufficient on their own for making definitive conclusions
about UAP.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">To
counteract this deficiency, the panel states that a promising
solution involves exploiting the structure of the Aviation Safety
Reporting System, managed by NASA for the FAA and which since the
mid-1970s has received nearly two millions of reports on all types of
air operations. NASA understands that it is in an optimal position
to apply this “confidential, voluntary, non-punitive reporting
system” for UAP data collection. Additionally, the space agency
affirms that its experience in the development of tools for air
traffic management can also be focused on the acquisition of UAP data
and provide critical assistance in the identification and evaluation
of new safety systems.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Finally,
the chapter of conclusions and recommendations summarizes all the
above, among which the following stand out:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>We
recommend that NASA plays a prominent role in the whole-of-government
effort to understand UAP by leveraging its extensive expertise to
contribute to a comprehensive, evidence-based approach that is rooted
in the scientific method. </i></span></span></span><i style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; text-indent: 0cm;">At
present, the detection of UAP is often serendipitous, captured by
sensors that were not designed or calibrated for this purpose, and
which lack comprehensive metadata. Coupled with incomplete data
archiving and curation, this means that the origin of numerous UAP
remain uncertain.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">In
conclusion, NASA claims to be a uniquely essential agency to
contribute to a solid and systematic approach to studying UAPs, about
which it says nothing regarding their nature, except to point out the
low quality of the data existing today. In my opinion, NASA has
found a new niche for future funding from the U.S. Government and
does not want to miss the opportunity.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
NASA does not suspect‒it lacks historical knowledge‒is that the
most relevant information is the verbal accounts from supposed
eyewitnesses from the ground (requiring more psychologists than
astronomers for their evaluation), and that when all the systems and
sensors they recommend are finally applied, for example to sightings
by aviators, they will find conventional aerospace, astronomical and
even biological solutions. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">It
is true that the report generally offers what it promised: a roadmap
for contemporary research into the phenomenon, a series of
indications as to what to do and how from now on. The document may be
exciting for newcomers to the study of this topic. But it is still
frustrating that, after seven decades of acute phenomenology, we
still have to start from scratch. Ultimately, in my opinion, NASA is
moving away from its fundamental objective, the study of space (most
UFOs are observed in the lower atmosphere, if not near the ground),
but I realize that it is a financial opportunity that the agency
cannot waste.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">In
summary:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Abadi Extra Light, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>Existing
UFO (UAP) data is not scientific in nature</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Abadi Extra Light, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>NASA
has decided to advise and investigate UAPs (I assume with extra
funds)</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>Not
the slightest hint of comment on the popular UFO/alien association</b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Acknowledgment</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:
To Steve Roberts for editing. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a name="_Hlk152494930"></a>
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><u>References</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Chris Aubeck, “The Needle in the Haystack:
Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May 2023,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf">https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/">https://www.aaro.mil/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and R.W. Heiden (Eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
UPIAR (Turin), 2023,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “The 2023 U.S. Senate UAP Hearing,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Breaking
news: NASA appoints a director for UAP Research:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director/">https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Related
to the NASA study, position and plans for future research, the
Spanish physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo has written a very insightful
essay that analyzes the epistemological side of the problem. In
summary, the author says:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>NASA
intends to study UAPs, using calibrated sensors. But how is that
done? What does NASA have to look for to detect UAPs? What ARE the
properties of UAPs that allow to detect them? How can one identify a
"real UAP" and not confuse it with a star, the moon, a
plane, or a balloon? The problem of the scientific study of UAPs
begins with the very definition of the problem. After nearly 80 years
of UFOs (now UAPs), there is no valid scientific definition of what
the "phenomenon" is about. And it is impossible to conduct
a proper scientific study without one</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
advise all UFO researchers to reads it in full. It is titled “The
problem of the definition of UAP,” and can be accessed here: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/107764500/The_problem_of_the_definition_of_UAP</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE
AARO UAP REPORT FOR FY 2023</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">V.J.
Ballester Olmos</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/108573577/The_AARO_UAP_Report_for_FY_2023">https://www.academia.edu/108573577/The_AARO_UAP_Report_for_FY_2023</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrQ468ZIllVxlT0xSN8jq5QcXzYBc0Ac0dS2bDYZCFP7GQ5_USuhxv86k0lHyG6C-7UGGvijnh4_i12Vpck2JQ6JV9lW4hUYAYeUq6FjVGrEj9VJHv4Dz1orelD26eGkuvWO-EGH7fcAtXf-LE0FFbTsL48wShyphenhyphentx2LgEKPwXZp4wvjl4AuSp/s1440/AARO%20portada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1275" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrQ468ZIllVxlT0xSN8jq5QcXzYBc0Ac0dS2bDYZCFP7GQ5_USuhxv86k0lHyG6C-7UGGvijnh4_i12Vpck2JQ6JV9lW4hUYAYeUq6FjVGrEj9VJHv4Dz1orelD26eGkuvWO-EGH7fcAtXf-LE0FFbTsL48wShyphenhyphentx2LgEKPwXZp4wvjl4AuSp/w177-h200/AARO%20portada.jpg" width="177" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
October 17, 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
(ODNI), jointly with the Secretary of Defense (U.S. Department of
Defense), released</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
the “Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified
Anomalous Phenomena” (1) through the website of the All-Domain
Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).</span></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">This
article aims to review the released Report. Highlighted quotes from
the Report, to be commented upon, will appear indented, in italics.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
public, unclassified version </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">consists
of 16 pages and</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">is
divided into six chapters:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Executive
Summary</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
FY 2023 Annual Report covers UAP reports received from 31 August 2022
to 30 April 2023, a total of 291. The total number of UAP reports
accumulated by AARO from 2019 to 2023 equals 801. The Report
recognizes “a strong but shifting collection bias,” due to the
preponderance of incoming incidents from “restricted military
airspace.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>During
the reporting period, AARO received no reports indicating UAP
sightings have been associated with any adverse health effects.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
above quote derives directly from one of the 17 specific elements
dictated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2023 (Public Law 117-263, enacted 23 December 2022),</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">which
the AARO Annual Report is mandated to address, and certainly proceeds
indirectly from the impact left to credulous lawmakers by the myth of
flying saucers and UFOs of the past century, when literature</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and movies encouraged reports of “close encounters,” including
landings and creatures in whose imagined environments the supposed
witnesses suffered biological effects from their proximity. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Many
reports from military witnesses do present potential safety of flight
concerns.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Source Sans Pro;">“<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Potential”
concern is far different from actual danger. Impression of danger is
a quite subjective notion. A pilot can estimate an object to be at a
dangerous range, while objective measurements can determine it to
have been many more miles away. Without automated, recorded data
corroborating that UAPs pose a real menace to aviation, this aspect
of the problem seems far from established fact.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>There
are some cases where reported UAP have potentially exhibited one or
more concerning performance characteristics such as high-speed travel
or unusual maneuverability.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">How
much is “some”? 50%? 1%? 0.1%? </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Defining
the significance of such cases requires quantification, and the
exhibition of abnormal flight features must be objectively
demonstrated. We need detailed accounts of such cases for independent
probing.</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">That
these above-stated safety concerns are far from definitive is
understood when the Report indicates that “AARO … continues to
work closely with its DoD and Intelligence Community mission partners
to identify and attribute any objects found in these cases.” </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";">The
Report goes on to say:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>The
continued volume and unidentified nature of most UAP is a direct
consequence of gaps in domain awareness.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
means that the AARO analysts are starting to comprehend the volatile
nature of UFO phenomena, recognizing that radar, optical and infrared
sensors generate artifacts and show effects, like parallax, IR flare,
etc., that denaturalize the original substance of the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">sightings.
Research on UFO observation has proved that the human factor (2,3) is
an important component in the sighting process.</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">AARO
is foreseeing the future when the Report advances that</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Based
on the ability to resolve cases to date, with an increase in the
quality of data secured, </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>the
unidentified and purportedly anomalous nature of most UAP will likely
resolve to ordinary phenomena</u></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
(Emphasis added.)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Not
a surprise for those who have been researching UFOs for over 50 years
and have travelled the trail AARO is now roaming.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">II.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Scope
and Assumptions</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">This
Report has been jointly prepared by AARO and ODNI’s National
Intelligence Manager for Military Integration (NIM-MIL) and puffs out
its chest by listing up to 32 different offices, agencies, centers,
administrations, laboratories, councils and services with which it
has been coordinated, including NASA, NSA, DIA, NGA, FBI, NOAA, FAA,
and, of course, the Army, Navy, USAF and the Space Force. It is odd,
however, that neither NORAD nor CIA is explicitly included.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">AARO,
while acknowledging that “a wide range of factors can influence the
observation and detection of UAP,” assumes that the observer’s
recollection and reporting of events is accurate and that sensors
operate correctly. These are debatable principles, but for the sake
of establishing initial assumptions, these are acceptable. Having
said that,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>AARO
and NIM-MIL recognize that many reports are probably the result of
sensor artifacts, equipment error, misidentification, or
misperception.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">That
is the conclusion skeptic-prone UFO researchers have been holding for
years. Determining the magnitude of these “many” and, above all,
analyzing in detail those reports that have thus far eluded an
explanation, require full availability of the data. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">III.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>UAP
Reporting is Increasing Across the U.S. Government, and the
Implementation of Improved</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><u>Analytic
Processes is Revealing Trends</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">For
the benefit of interested scholars, we present the historical tally
of reports received by AARO:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyzLWlHFA9o7r5y_Oi7nS-chBXBnIujhlKdUUZ9FZY5XBUKHfMpVuLZQEH2WTmDFBbKlC-NkwKmEIEsXzbTunCOh9Ucr3Zt1hDbj35xDYVgH8a5gCZ38Ghr2jxqH7-GeRm5AX8Pfdm-jWyRumtzqqgab15YwvciTyNUAuD0jgVos7TqS1FhcD/s1183/Gr%C3%A1fico.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="1183" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyzLWlHFA9o7r5y_Oi7nS-chBXBnIujhlKdUUZ9FZY5XBUKHfMpVuLZQEH2WTmDFBbKlC-NkwKmEIEsXzbTunCOh9Ucr3Zt1hDbj35xDYVgH8a5gCZ38Ghr2jxqH7-GeRm5AX8Pfdm-jWyRumtzqqgab15YwvciTyNUAuD0jgVos7TqS1FhcD/w503-h58/Gr%C3%A1fico.jpg" width="503" /></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the “Overall Trend Analysis” section in this long-titled chapter
of the Report, one would expect what it foreshadows, but we find
neither Overall, nor Trend nor Analysis. It merely provides the bare
number of events collected in the preceding eight months: 290 cases
were sightings from aircraft or air platforms and one from the
maritime domain. “No transmedium or space domain UAP reports were
submitted to AARO.” Frankly, in the absence of any complex
statistical study, the period for figures should have extended
throughout one complete year, 1 September 2022 to 30 August 2023
(close to a fiscal year). Doing so would have reflected, even more
dramatically, the marked growth</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
in reporting: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">during
the 18-month range covered by the 2022 Report, on average 20 cases
per month were collected, whereas in the eight-month range for the
2023 Report, the number was 36 per month, almost double!</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Obviously,
this increase in pilot sightings is</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">due
to </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
heightened</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">awareness
issue in military and civil aviation today. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
I see it, the motivation for this added attention is artificially
planted and may generate false consequences. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
almost total preponderance of reported sightings being airborne is
not only the result of a “shifting collection bias.” It is a
distinct class of phenomena being reported,</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">which
is </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">not
representative of the 75-year history of the UFO phenomena, during
which the number of observations from aircraft, though important, has
been relatively minimal in proportion (~0.01%). Thus, this skewed
sampling does not address the core of what UFOs are, as far as their
nature and origin, assuming a phenomenological continuum. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
“Geographic and Safety Trends Coming into Focus” section contains
charts, graphs </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
figures</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">exclusively
for the reports submitted from 31 August 2022 to 30 April 30, 2023,
which is a very narrow window. Incredibly, in 53% of the cases, UAP
morphology was “Not reported”! (See pie chart below.) The
next-largest group is 25% for “Orb, Round, Sphere”; however, the
numbers in the 1996-2023 plot on the AARO website (7) indicate that
this category amounts to 47%. And back to the FY 2023 Report, leaving
aside the 5% for “Ambiguous Sensor Contact,” the remaining 17</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">%
of objects detected or observed</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">are
represented by as many as</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">six
different shapes!</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfRdULe1S_94p-eaP_zL_nBsMMKkrtKJo30lYQp_lINZ-vgJ8fxfAzkc9OgbEkA9e3YNXk3kEBlaDvY3_MCVmvAFPyWV3pq-yypfww8UwIolqBAvQKT7ZAKFgr14nF3hx_epsNbMNgmsVnkqBVNG-YyzaAxcRK-1lC6wZ1O5-X4cRGz02QrwB/s428/gr%C3%A1fico.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="428" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfRdULe1S_94p-eaP_zL_nBsMMKkrtKJo30lYQp_lINZ-vgJ8fxfAzkc9OgbEkA9e3YNXk3kEBlaDvY3_MCVmvAFPyWV3pq-yypfww8UwIolqBAvQKT7ZAKFgr14nF3hx_epsNbMNgmsVnkqBVNG-YyzaAxcRK-1lC6wZ1O5-X4cRGz02QrwB/s320/gr%C3%A1fico.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span lang="en-US">Another
significant feature of these pilot UAP that differs from historically
typical UFOs has to do with light, or should we say with the absence
of it; in the 291 AARO cases, 79% had no lights. As per the Report’s
“UAP altitudes” bar graph, approximately 40% </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">were
spotted at about 7,500 meters (20,000-25,000 ft).</span></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">
And the geographical distribution is atypical: in addition to local
military testing and training areas in the Pacific (California
off-shore) and the Atlantic (Florida off-shore), the other two noted
high-intensity regions are the Middle East and Korea, which
undoubtedly is only because they are intelligence targets of the
United States.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the section</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
“Increased FAA Reporting Shifting Geographic Collection Bias and
Morphology Trend,” we learn that of the more than 100 incidents
coming from the Federal </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Aviation
Administration, “the vast majority concern sightings of
unidentified lights without specific shape.” This basically means
that the observation of lights discloses no shapes and the
observation of shapes discloses no lights.</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
But the major disclosure of this section reads, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>None
of these reports suggest the UAP were exhibiting anomalous
characteristics, maneuvered to an unsafe proximity to civil aircraft,
or posed a threat to flight safety to the observing aircraft.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Yet,
recall how in chapter I of this Report we find this:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";">Many
reports from military witnesses do present potential safety of flight
concerns.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Why
the difference in risk versus no risk between military and civil
aviators</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">?
Is this a slip in the Report’s writing, or a difference in
perception? If the latter, as military pilots are not as used to
flying in company, might they tend to exaggerate the risk when
spotting other craft unexpectedly?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Having
said that, it would be tragic—or comical—if, based on UFO
stories, the United States Government were to introduce elements of
fear for international aviation. Fortunately, this has not happened.
And I expect it never will.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Another
myth-related aspect of UFO narratives is the effects that UFOs
allegedly exert on the human body. As transmedium and space objects,
AARO has been pushed to study possible events of this type. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Yet
another section title of this Report reveals “No
Health/Physiological Impacts from UAP Incidents Rep</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">orted.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
section titled</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
“Data and Intelligence Sources Received Through Various
Intelligence Channels” is summarized as this: “AARO’s analysts
scour multiple classified and unclassified databases to identify any
existing data on each UAP </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">case
… the</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
amount and variety of technical data produced will increase,
facilitating more and better analytic fidelity.” Seems they are
doing a good job.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IV.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>AARO
Program Updates</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">An
important preliminary conclusion from the “Analytic Division”
section is put forward:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>AARO’s
analytic efforts are confirming that only a very small percentage of
UAP reports display interesting signatures, such as high-speed travel
and unknown morphologies.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
expect to someday </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">read
a veritable technical</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
report documenting examples of such “interesting signature”
events, that is, what ufology calls “high strangeness” cases, for
independent evaluation.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>The
majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate
ordinary characteristics of readily explainable sources, while a
large number of cases in AARO’s holdings remain technically
unresolved because of a lack of data.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">This
finding mirrors our own, long-time investigation. No-data reports are
no-value reports. We do not contest that AARO is approaching the
rarest events with objectivity and rigor. From my perspective, it is
naive to believe that “modeling and simulation [will] validate
analyses and the underlying theories” and that “peer reviewing
those results” will help with reaching valid conclusions. But this
naivety is a step they will have to cross in the course of this
research. At some future point in time, AARO will realize that there
is not a coherent set of anomalies.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Under
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
section titled</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
“Operations and Collections Division,” the Report mentions the
development of reporting standards, acquisition or mission-specific
sensors, and guided integration of UAP data</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
And the input under “Science and Technology Division” discusses
the establishment of a plan to identify</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
systems “to detect, track, and characterize UAP,” like a campaign
aimed to </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">calibrate
sensors for measuring</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
balloons, drones, and natural phenomena. In my view, this byproduct
could be a practical contribution to real science.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
last section of this chapter, titled “Strategic Communications
Division,” just notes accomplishments in this field: the open
Congressional hearing of “21 March 2023</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">”
(a dating mistake here</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">t</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">he
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee open hearing, chaired by Senator
Gillibrand, at which AARO’s director Dr. Kirkpatrick testified,
took place on 19 April 2023) (8,9),</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ARO’s
public-facing website (7), and “classified collaborating mechanisms
to encourage cooperation on UAP investigation and research among
government agencies.” They have to sell what they have done.
Bravo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">V.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Way
Forward</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;">“<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
space and maritime domains need to be fully integrated into AARO’s
processes,” they say. In my opinion, those domains will only
constitute sources of additional garbage. But seen from a positive
perspective, if AARO does eventually integrate all possible domains,
its final conclusion will hopefully address all possible origins for
UAP as well. And we will celebrate that. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is here where the Report points out that “collaboration with Space
Force, U.S. Space Command, NRO, and NASA is well underway.”
Good—they are integrating NORAD, a source of many space and
high-altitude unidentifieds over the years</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
whose data will thus become available</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">for
scrutiny.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">VI.
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Appendices</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
had previously criticized the acute lack of case investigation
reports. In “Appendix A: Case Closure Report,” we read, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“Attached</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is a pilot example of the result of AARO’s full-phase analytic
process.” The case resolution and accompanying unclassified
analyses will be published on AARO’s website. At the time of this
writing, October 25, 2023, this still has not been released. The
published case essentials describe it as a 2021 event </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">occurring
in the western United States, consisting of “equidistant lights
that flew at a relatively constant pace” and which presented a
potential incursion into restricted military airspace. Captured by
infrared sensors, the case was resolved as the lights of a commercial
airplane up to 300 nautical miles away from the sensor, transiting a
known flight corridor between major airports in the region. The
mistake made by pilots here was</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
to grossly underestimate the actual distance to the object. (See the
following illustration).</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUDaJi96MNWdILTDsM2T-I0jqp2GK9m_2u2CJvY6DNunr3I6LymtTlAnfuojQXgXkcdn6oDNhEbPNr8VjinIuH6TKvhkRbl-gvnhnaVDKmAEwZ48ahNbC9fklaIhHsSEjRgosfqHXX8rEtY7Xr-Zx1auBJ0kpwoWvarGfXTSXt8nO3kAJdW4em/s700/foto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="700" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUDaJi96MNWdILTDsM2T-I0jqp2GK9m_2u2CJvY6DNunr3I6LymtTlAnfuojQXgXkcdn6oDNhEbPNr8VjinIuH6TKvhkRbl-gvnhnaVDKmAEwZ48ahNbC9fklaIhHsSEjRgosfqHXX8rEtY7Xr-Zx1auBJ0kpwoWvarGfXTSXt8nO3kAJdW4em/s320/foto.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
AARO Report closes with “Appendix B: Glossary of Terms.” Reading
it out of context, one enters into the realm of science fiction with
terms like “Spaceborne UAP” (anomalous detections over 100 km
height), “Seaborne UAP” (anomalous detections below sea level)
and “Transmedium UAP” (anomalous detections that transit more
than one domain). All classifications are attached to preconceptions.
AARO’s case division is situational (space, atmosphere, sea, or
interchangeable) while the standard classification in ufology is
observational (nocturnal lights, daylight discs, radar-visual, close
encounters of the first, second and third kind) (10).</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">My
closing assessment:</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Is
this the kind of report we had expected from AARO? No. In that
regard, it is </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">somewhat
disappointing—a report simple in content that</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
looks like a brief, administrative, bureaucratic paper, with a
minimum of information and no case investigation, instances of
anomalous cases, technical information, or statistical analysis. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Having
collected 801 UAP reports from the best possible sources, AARO still
has not produced any solid, worthwhile examples of aerial anomalies. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
the other hand, we are contemplating how basic findings emerge,
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">findings
which</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">—at
least so far—</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">are
in</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
line with what we have anticipated in previous essays (9,11).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">To
Julio Plaza del Olmo, Manuel Borraz, and Douglas Dean Johnson for
comments. To Gary Posner, for assistance with editing.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro; font-size: x-small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.14cm; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.16cm;">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/FY23_Consolidated_Annual_Report_on_UAP-Oct_2023.pdf?ver=BmBEf_4EBtMRu9JZ6-ySuQ%3d%3d">https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/FY23_Consolidated_Annual_Report_on_UAP-Oct_2023.pdf?ver=BmBEf_4EBtMRu9JZ6-ySuQ%3d%3d</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
William K. Hartman, “Process of Perception, Conception, and
Reporting,” in Daniel S. Gillmor (ed.), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Scientific
Study of Unidentified Flying Objects</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.
E.P. Dutton (New York), 1969, pp. 567-590. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
V.J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.
UPIAR (Turin), 2023. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)</span></span></span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></sup><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)</span></span></span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></sup><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">V.J.
Ballester Olmos and Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The 2022 Annual Report
on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, A </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Review,”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena%20_A_Review" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review</a></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/">https://www.aaro.mil/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
<a href="https://youtu.be/gFmbMG6nKU4">https://youtu.be/gFmbMG6nKU4</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">V.J.
Ballester Olmos, “The 2023 U.S. Senate UAP Hearing,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">J.
Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience. A Scientific Inquiry. Henry Regnery
Co. (Chicago), 1972.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Chris Aubeck, “The Needle in the Haystack:
Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May 2023,” </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023">
https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
AARO UAP Footage</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Last
May I wrote the article </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“The
2023 U.S. Senate UAP Hearing,” reviewing the intervention of Dr.
Sean Kirkpatrick (director of AARO) before the Subcommittee on
Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Armed Services, on April 19, 2023. There, with the apt analytical
collaboration of engineer Manuel Borraz and physicist Julio Plaza del
Olmo, footage taken by a drone’s camera in July 2022 in an
undisclosed location in the Middle East, classified as
“unidentified,” was studied and we reached the conclusion that
the images were compatible with the flight of a balloon of a size
between 12.5 cm to 37.5 cm:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikcAkiK4zwv1ApoQaRQ4cib5NY7KmBCFS_llvUXm3zjVPeEm6pP-EYRxUFu_-VTuKJqBF69vUy6Gl7SBkUT35um6THNzCiZqcvW5QcBfh1yhQQKTav_YOryDWRY9MSASevnLoVewmWvbC5gK-Ck_R2OwpRY0XUJHUXJlPHPKKY8j1_lztFWWgS/s903/esfera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikcAkiK4zwv1ApoQaRQ4cib5NY7KmBCFS_llvUXm3zjVPeEm6pP-EYRxUFu_-VTuKJqBF69vUy6Gl7SBkUT35um6THNzCiZqcvW5QcBfh1yhQQKTav_YOryDWRY9MSASevnLoVewmWvbC5gK-Ck_R2OwpRY0XUJHUXJlPHPKKY8j1_lztFWWgS/s320/esfera.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Now,
Nathan Patin, adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Logan
Williams, a data scientist for Bellingcat, have published their
report “Isn’t That A Balloon? Deflating a DoD UFO Video,” with
a fine analysis of this video that they</span></span><span style="color: #292a2b; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">
geolocated to an area northeast of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.
According to their size calculations, “the object has a maximum
diameter of approximately 0.43 metres [43 cm] or smaller.” And they
add as a conclusion:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #292a2b;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">A
balloon is consistent with what we see in the video. They can be
spherical, they can appear metallic (particularly those made of
foil), and they can float in the air. … Further supporting the
balloon hypothesis is the video’s coinciding </span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">with Eid
al-Adha</span></span></span><span style="color: #292a2b;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">,
one of the two major holidays in Islam. The video is time-stamped
July 12, 2022, the last day of the three-day holiday that year. Eid
in Syria, as in other parts of the Muslim world, is celebrated with
gifts, including balloons. Photos and videos from past Eid al-Adha
</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">celebrations
in Damascus and Deir
ez-Zor show</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #292a2b;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">
balloons were present.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAi0Bi35QJ-l13diNcRJai-_F-S8xaAWwgf0DCmUBrg6cgMZZ18dVAyDzz_bhkKgpxO5awNKXvkd46u3zSZMgHIQw8C_hax_7RN3kthj6_mte4VhGa0DHhIFndDBh52uwo6J-rSMGoBcLThqg1sAmepP0isKZ3NGeqGwxXF0tAgAYw64gYhIvm/s1059/globo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1059" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAi0Bi35QJ-l13diNcRJai-_F-S8xaAWwgf0DCmUBrg6cgMZZ18dVAyDzz_bhkKgpxO5awNKXvkd46u3zSZMgHIQw8C_hax_7RN3kthj6_mte4VhGa0DHhIFndDBh52uwo6J-rSMGoBcLThqg1sAmepP0isKZ3NGeqGwxXF0tAgAYw64gYhIvm/s320/globo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Without
the huge resources of the United States Department of Defense,
independent researchers have convincingly identified the nature of
the object as a simple balloon. However, the “Cases – Official
UAP Videos” section of the AARO website shows this video as
follows: “This clip was taken by an MQ-9 in the Middle East, and
while AARO assesses the object in the clip is not exhibiting
anomalous behavior, the object remains unidentified.” If they plan
to typify as “unidentified” every object unless—this case, for
example—the exact name of the street vendor of the little balloon
is known (or his shoe size, for that matter), I am afraid the number
of unidentifieds will be artificially very high. As far as this event
is concerned: if data match with a balloon in dynamics, shape and
dimension, it is enough evidence to call it identified. Period.
Otherwise, one is inflating the percentage of “unknowns” in the
final statistics, which sounds a very bad practice, because for the
public and the media “unidentified” is equal to “anomaly”,
which is far from the truth!.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white !important; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AARO BREAKING NEWS. On December 1, 2023, AARO updated its website by adding the new item “Case Resolution Reports” within the web’s CASES section. It contains three study reports: “Atmospheric wake”, videos captured on 2022 and 2023 in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea showing what seem to be the atmospheric trail left by a UAP. It was simply an aircraft, the “wake” being a sensor artifact. “Southeast Asia Triangles”, footage of six triangles that becomes fishing nets on the ocean surface. And “Western United States”, a video recorded in 2021 in a U.S. military airspace that can be explained as an aircraft 300 NM away from the sensor which shot the images.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" href="https://www.aaro.mil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.aaro.mil/</a></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Assembled
News on the U.S. UAP Government Scene</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AARO
director’s Sean Kirkpatrick held an open, off-camera press briefing
on October 31, 2023. Presented by Sue Gough, from Defense Press
Operations, the official transcript is found here:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4j8v2ph6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4j8v2ph6</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
behalf of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Howard Altman posed some questions. In this article he vouches his
personal views about the roundtable: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/balloons-no-ufos-found-by-satellites-shoot-down-video-coming-says-aaro-chief"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/balloons-no-ufos-found-by-satellites-shoot-down-video-coming-says-aaro-chief</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UAP:
The Search for Clarity,” was a conference held at The Hayden Center
for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security (Arlington,
Virginia) on November 15, 2023, where Dr. Kirkpatrick also
participated. Good to listen: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlihF-GL2Ck"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlihF-GL2Ck</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Hayden
Center’s recap may be found here, as written by Joseph Kiliany: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/2023/11/30/event-recap-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-the-search-for-clarity-event-recap/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/2023/11/30/event-recap-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-the-search-for-clarity-event-recap/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Some
clarifications from Kirkpatrick’s intervention are worth
mentioning:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>It
does not mean that the phenomena are not understandable. It just
means that initially, they don’t know what it looks like, what it
is, or what it’s doing … Most of these </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>things
turn out to be very prosaic things that we can identify … </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(out
of the ~800 cases reported to AARO) </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>only
2 to 4 percent necessitate an in-depth investigation … </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>If
you’re asking me, is there something that is really, truly
anomalous that we don’t know what it is yet and I don’t know what
to do with it yet, </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(the
answer is)</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
no … I can tell you for certain we have absolutely no evidence that
anything matches the extraterrestrial hypothesis. We have no evidence
of any of that.</i></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLDQhcPEkQYdYumxm2FN6y2dEmwL8IIT0LnVRv4TVmW7rn9SJibokkjBqzZRxd9pjqol4VmWLrCoRxDtQR9Hh1zWNcQWzuqxuLpT_ZJetGcSnvFVBV_5mYa__aGrDcabglugEQ6wUAr0zj0kJ1e6UrBkrFUWQVkoldsL4mhUnaTp96Tzgg0mg/s998/kirkpatrick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="998" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLDQhcPEkQYdYumxm2FN6y2dEmwL8IIT0LnVRv4TVmW7rn9SJibokkjBqzZRxd9pjqol4VmWLrCoRxDtQR9Hh1zWNcQWzuqxuLpT_ZJetGcSnvFVBV_5mYa__aGrDcabglugEQ6wUAr0zj0kJ1e6UrBkrFUWQVkoldsL4mhUnaTp96Tzgg0mg/w200-h183/kirkpatrick.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Regarding
whistleblowers, Dr. Kirkpatrick said that all of the information
learned in these investigations is compiled into a two-part report,
with the first volume scheduled for release in December 2023.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Unexpectedly,
Dr. Kirkpatrick plans to leave the UFO office and retires from
service in December 2023. Everything points to intolerable pressure
and criticism from certain media and social networks supporting the
wild idea that the U.S. government knows about aliens and secretly
practices reverse engineering on these cosmic spacecraft. Although
Kirkpatrick has affirmed to </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Politico
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">that
he has accomplished everything he said he was going to do, I am
afraid he cannot be fully sincere about his real motives because of
loyalty to his organization. The naming of Kirkpatrick’s successor
will indicate the ideological direction AARO will take in the coming
months and years. You can read the official Department of Defense
communique and a couple of other commentaries here:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">DoD:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mr4a299j"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mr4a299j</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Politico:
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/07/pentagon-ufo-boss-00125883"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/07/pentagon-ufo-boss-00125883</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Daily Mail</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3a5nbbjz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3a5nbbjz</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the tide of nonsense we see day after day in the U.S. regarding UAP,
from press to Congress, occasionally the fresh air of common sense
and reason emerge. Please don’t miss investigative reporter Art
Levine’s articles in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Washington Spectator,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
“Spaceship of Fools,” July 20, 2023, and “UFO Tales and Witness
Credibility Falling Apart After Congressional Hearings,” September
8, 2023,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/ufo-tales-falling-apart-after-hearings/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://washingtonspectator.org/ufo-tales-falling-apart-after-hearings/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
a complementing source, I’d suggest listening to this chat between
Dr. Luis Cayetano and that prize-winning journalist: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcV_JRVVqw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcV_JRVVqw</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Billy
Cox dissects the content of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Inside
the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
AAWSAP’s chief James Lacatski’s second collaboration with
co-authors Colm Kelleher, a biochemist, and journalist George Knapp.
In “A glimmer of light from the black world,” the subtitle “But
is ex-AAWSAP director James Lacatski telling the truth?,” already
signals the tone of the reviewer. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-glimmer-of-light-from-the-black"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-glimmer-of-light-from-the-black</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Author
and researcher Jason Colavito shows bright writing again when
breaking down personalities who are having a disproportionally high
influence in Congress UAP-related activities, in posts like “David
Grusch Says Ufology Returned Him ‘Full Circle" to His Lapsed
Faith’,” and “Chris Mellon's Incoherent UFO Analysis Reveals a
Millennialist Salvation Fantasy,” posts you can find in the two
following links:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-says-ufology-returned-him-full-circle-to-his-lapsed-faith"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-says-ufology-returned-him-full-circle-to-his-lapsed-faith</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellons-incoherent-ufo-analysis-reveals-a-millennialist-salvation-fantasy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellons-incoherent-ufo-analysis-reveals-a-millennialist-salvation-fantasy</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">For
God’s sake, in whose hands is the future of UFO/UAP investigation
in the USA?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Shall
the circle be broken? For some critics, the U.S. Department of
Defense continues to be secretive as far as UAP is concerned. The
Black Vault wrote last October: “This battle for transparency
highlights a broader narrative of governmental secrecy. Each denial
and every newly introduced exemption underscores the substantial
hurdles faced in shedding light on the unknown, particularly
concerning phenomena that captivate public interest and imagination.”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-amplifies-ufo-secrecy-yet-again-additional-exemptions-reinforce-law-enforcement-claim/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-amplifies-ufo-secrecy-yet-again-additional-exemptions-reinforce-law-enforcement-claim/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
reminds me of the posture of Philip Klass regarding the secrecy
applied to certain UFO cases, it is not the UFOs themselves that
deserve secrecy but the information sources, the transmission modes,
the intelligence process incurred, the technology involved, etc.
Klass wrote something about some highly redacted declassified NSA
documents in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Skeptical Inquirer </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Fall
1989) and in the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Skeptics
UFO Newsletter </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(January
1997):</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1989/10/22165235/p70.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1989/10/22165235/p70.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN43.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN43.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Don’t
get me wrong: I am for full disclosure as well. I hope in the end
there will be a good compromise between openness and the Nation’s
integrity. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Poster
child” David Grusch keeps on telling his story to everybody that
wants to hear, but not everybody believes him. Read the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Caller</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">’s
editorial of November 24, 2023 by Kay Smithe: “Not Even Joe Rogan
Can Make This UFO ‘Whistleblower’ Sound Convincing,”</span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/24/joe-rogan-experience-ufo-whistleblower-david-grusch-not-convincing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/24/joe-rogan-experience-ufo-whistleblower-david-grusch-not-convincing/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Bad
Science by Avi Loeb</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Harvard
University has produced geniuses and also some misguided scientists
(for example, gullible psychiatrist John Mack, of abduction fame).
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who seems to be capitalizing current
efforts to find life in the universe (and UFOs in the Earth
environment as well) has written articles and books with ostensible
findings on alien megaships in the deep space and extraterrestrial
debris under the ocean’s waves. Recently, the following article
revealed a perfectly mundane origin for the extravagant claims by
Loeb: “Anthropogenic Coal Ash as a Contaminant in a
Micro-meteoritic Underwater Search,” by Patricio A. Gallardo,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Research
Notes of the American Astronomical Society</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 7, Number 10, October 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad03f9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad03f9</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Also
read this vulgarization of the scientific paper: Ethan Siegel,
“Harvard astronomer’s “alien spherules” are industrial
pollutants,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Big
Think</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
November 14, 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/harvard-astronomer-alien-spherules/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/harvard-astronomer-alien-spherules/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Border
Patrol Goes Rogue</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the latest update, this blog provided some reference information on a
series of alleged UAP videos disseminated by the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(scroll down to “’Rubber Duck’ FLIR Footage”). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">After
a detailed investigation, reporter Billy Cox has contributed many
additional details and shows internal emails that “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">reflect
dissention over UFO policy” at the very least. Quite illuminating
material to read that makes evident that things are not what they
appear at the very start. </span></span></span><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/border-patrol-goes-rogue"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/border-patrol-goes-rogue</span></span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgtI6XEXoKo_7yXNKO_7YM47l-mMulCMRTsoxWIzvMxQuU-w3gHkqi02gXX1uuAkBEkCOZz4KmmjxFV87ZbLABZgUVPzQ1dFnA9ESDnpo8QCTULtUcNHMiYI5FiFlDi7m9SehhLRnn3JQxTzVwHQFvuYw2Pat7DzA5OJjEbjgDm99-kRBqJJs/s1280/pato.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1280" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgtI6XEXoKo_7yXNKO_7YM47l-mMulCMRTsoxWIzvMxQuU-w3gHkqi02gXX1uuAkBEkCOZz4KmmjxFV87ZbLABZgUVPzQ1dFnA9ESDnpo8QCTULtUcNHMiYI5FiFlDi7m9SehhLRnn3JQxTzVwHQFvuYw2Pat7DzA5OJjEbjgDm99-kRBqJJs/s320/pato.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">The
Rand Corporation UFO Report</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Completed
in May 2023 and released after it underwent security review with the
Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, the Rand
Corporation has just published a 53-page report entitled “Not the X
Files. Mapping Public Reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Across
America.” It is authored by Marek N. Posard, Ashley Gromis and Mary
Lee. In the Conclusion section, it reads:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
most consistent—and statistically significant—finding from our
models was for reports of UAP sightings in areas within 30 km of MOAs
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[Military
Operations Areas].</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
According to the FAA, “MOAs are established to contain
nonhazardous, military flight activities,” including air combat
maneuvers, air intercepts, and low-altitude tactics. Given this
association, we suspect that some of the self-reports of UAP
sightings to NUFORC are authorized aircraft flying within MOAs.
However, it was beyond the scope of this research to confirm the
context of these UAP self-reports beyond their documented locations
in the NUFORC database. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[It
also recommends:] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Greater
transparency in how sightings are collected, investigated, and used
may also help mitigate the conspiracy theories that have long
surrounded aerial phenomena.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
monograph analyzed a database of 101,151 UFO reports from 1998 to
2022. The data were collected by the National UFO Reporting Center
(NUFORC), a private UFO call center originally established 1974 and
directed by Peter Davenport since 1994. The report also indicates
that their analyses “should not be interpreted as an endorsement of
any individual report or the overall quality of data that NUFORC has
made publicly available.” It can be accessed here: </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2400/RRA2475-1/RAND_RRA2475-1.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2400/RRA2475-1/RAND_RRA2475-1.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
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Article</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Wim
van Utrecht (Turnhout, Belgium, 1959) has distinguished himself in
the arena of scientifically oriented UFO research in Europe. He is
the curator of the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Caelestia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
website (</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.caelestia.be/index.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.caelestia.be/index.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
which focuses mainly on natural phenomena and man-made objects prone
to cause UFO reports. In 2007, together with Frederick Delaere, he
set up the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt, a reporting center that monitors
UFO reports in Belgium. He has authored numerous investigative
reports and four books, including </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Belgium
in UFO Photographs </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">–
Vol. 1 (UPIAR, 2018, with V.J. Ballester-Olmos) and </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Redemption
of the Damned </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">–
Vol. 1 and Vol. 2</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Anomalist
Books, 2019 and 2021, with Martin Shough). Van Utrecht lives in
Antwerp. Besides UFOs, his interests include art, photography, and
eccentric meteorological phenomena. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:wim.van.utrecht@skynet.be"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">wim.van.utrecht@skynet.be</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbymN9cQbMQ2cS3-DRYtJJy0qI43g3N5xCl6TuOIma3nNS3oMzK8zTx5Wp3PzyUTHu7idAEfZ-5Qshveqwi9ZJtqRviIelTQgL9rWLTSW4xqrpb4PzAizlHrnQZe47wu7EOj-eTVfzMWugyKk8Fols7vKvUKZTPM-NWwdJcvoTf0ZjykB2m39/s2989/Van%20Utrecht.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2645" data-original-width="2989" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbymN9cQbMQ2cS3-DRYtJJy0qI43g3N5xCl6TuOIma3nNS3oMzK8zTx5Wp3PzyUTHu7idAEfZ-5Qshveqwi9ZJtqRviIelTQgL9rWLTSW4xqrpb4PzAizlHrnQZe47wu7EOj-eTVfzMWugyKk8Fols7vKvUKZTPM-NWwdJcvoTf0ZjykB2m39/w200-h177/Van%20Utrecht.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>Some
notes on an unexplained UFO sighting from Corsica, France</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Wim
van Utrecht</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
author is indebted to his long-time correspondent and fellow-skeptic
Marc Hallet for calling his attention to this 9-year-old UFO report
case from Zonza, Corsica. Details of the sighting and the
investigation can be found at
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/cas/2014-08-08968"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/cas/2014-08-08968</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
summary, it concerns a single-witness report that mentions the slow
overflight of a dark circular mass with lights in its center,
preceded and followed by rows of groups of smaller objects. The
incident reportedly took place in the early hours of August 28, 2014
at a camping site in Sainte-Lucie de Porto-Vecchio. A police report
(</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>procès-verbal</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
was drawn up in the evening of the same day by the office of the
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Gendarmerie
Nationale</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
at Sainte-Lucie de Porto Vecchio. The report was forwarded to GEIPAN
on September 2</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">nd</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
The witness was interviewed on September 5</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
and a standard eyewitness questionnaire was filled out on October
3</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">rd</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
After having investigated all the available data, GEIPAN concluded as
follows: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Even
if certain aspects of the eyewitness testimony suggest otherwise, at
the end of the investigation, it turns out that this sighting does
not fit well with the most frequent misinterpretations (aircraft,
satellites, clouds, light shows). The case was found to have a
certain degree of strangeness, but the displacements observed do not
reflect an intentional character. </i></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">From
the GEIPAN report, it would seem that all the possible explanations
were covered, but that’s not the case. Prominently absent is the
possibility of a balloon. In fact, a silent, slow moving circular
object is pretty much what a manned gas balloon looks like when
seen from below at night (see image on the right, borrowed from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ballon-zeberli.ch/en/ballonfahrt-buchen/gas-balloon-night-ride-flight"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ballon-zeberli.ch</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
showing a nocturnal gas balloon flight). The observed lights in the
center of the circular shape may have been anticollision lights
attached to the basket, but also flashlights or headlamps belonging
to people in the basket. A spherical gas balloon is favored over a
hot air balloon because it is to be expected that, during the
approximately 10-minute-long observation, a flame would have
illuminated the balloon’s envelope at least once, revealing its
typical inverted pear shape. The time of day, given as approximately
5 a.m., is another element in favor of a gas balloon.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAMlyiSk5pn9hCHgX4oJ-rMt0OMMboEx3XVooM5bS87kdfYOc9DlZHsyAupCCQc0wCyPoJXL3UP5QquXp1KDpuzx0JocpNUgDjnaXKaU6DmO4lGVvfr5MYtz-HLaCV9dKy0-ddVPi1PndfwxKlnekfPn_aRebFoDncN2wP_PwgN1E_sCqGLQd/s908/Figure1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="908" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTAMlyiSk5pn9hCHgX4oJ-rMt0OMMboEx3XVooM5bS87kdfYOc9DlZHsyAupCCQc0wCyPoJXL3UP5QquXp1KDpuzx0JocpNUgDjnaXKaU6DmO4lGVvfr5MYtz-HLaCV9dKy0-ddVPi1PndfwxKlnekfPn_aRebFoDncN2wP_PwgN1E_sCqGLQd/s320/Figure1.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">A
major flaw in the GEIPAN report is where the French investigators
write that the direction in which the phenomenon travelled (“from
Conca to Sardaigna,” i.e. from north to south) is incompatible with
the calm wind blowing from the northeast (“Léger vent de Nord Est
incompatible avec le déplacement observe”). There are four
objections that can be raised to that statement.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Firstly,</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
there is the fact that the direction of the wind at higher altitudes
need not be—and almost never is—identical to the wind direction
near the ground. Weather stations typically measure wind data at a
spot 10 meters above the ground. This also goes for the station at
Porto Vecchio. (1) Unfortunately, no upper-air soundings are
available for South Corsica.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Secondly</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
it is nearly impossible for any observer to give a precise estimate
of the flight trajectory of an object that is seen high up in the sky
(estimated elevation of the phenomenon is given as 55°). It becomes
even trickier to do so if the view is obstructed by trees. The GEIPAN
report mentions in that regard that “the witness was forced to
raise his head to see the phenomenon between some trees” (original
text: “le témoin a été obligé de lever la tête pour apercevoir
le phénomène entre des arbres”). Despite what the witness wrote
in the questionnaire, namely that there were “no obstructions”
and that he “could see it from the start to its disappearance,” a
figure included in the report seems to confirm that the object was at
one time moving “between some trees.” (2)</span></span></span></span></p>
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when low in the sky, it is impossible to estimate the exact flight
path of an object that moves in a straight line and is visible in
only a segment of the sky. Knowing the precise azimuths for the
beginning and the end of sighting will help, but it will still be
insufficient to reconstruct the exact flight path. As illustrated in
the diagram below, an object seen in an eastern direction, as was the
case here, may have travelled in many different ways. As such, the
estimated north-to-south path does not contradict an object carried
by a northeast wind.</span></span></p>
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the weather data obtained by GEIPAN is for 04:00 a.m., i.e. one hour
before the sighting occurred. In fact, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>freemeteo.nl</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
tells us that, at 05:00 a.m., the wind was blowing from the NNE at
Porto Vecchio, not NE.</span></span></span></span></p>
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fourth</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
the same online weather site informs that at 5 a.m. on August 28,
2014, the wind direction and speed varied significantly for the
different weather stations in Corsica. We plotted the wind direction
and speed for each station on a map, which resulted in the figure on
the left.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Considering
the western wind at Sari-Solenzara and the north-northeastern wind in
Porto-Vecchio, a wind blowing from the north is exactly what one
would expect since the village of Zonza is located in between these
two locations. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
short, there is every possibility that the phenomenon DID travel with
the wind. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">But
a balloon flight over Corsica at 5 o’clock in the morning, is that
realistic? Well, it certainly is not unthinkable: gas balloons travel
hundreds to even thousands of kilometers, meaning that they fly
during the day as well as during the night.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Interestingly,
from July 13 to August 27, 2014, the yearly International Hot Air
Balloon Grand Prix was held at Todi (see
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.balloonevents.info/ballooning/107-italy/2014">https://www.balloonevents.info/ballooning/107-italy/2014</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
Todi is in the heart of Italy. Next to hot air balloons, a gas
balloon may have taken off from Todi in the evening of the festival’s
final day. If that were the case, an eastern wind would have taken it
towards Corsica. According to freemeteo.nl, on August 27</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
at 9:50 p.m. (latest available data for that day), the wind was
blowing from the east at 7 km/h at Perugia (some 35 km north of
Todi). Before 9:50 p.m., it came from the west and southwest. So, if
a balloon was launched at Todi around 10 p.m. on the evening
preceding the day of the sighting, it would have drifted towards
Corsica and taken a southern direction when encountering the northern
winds that prevailed over the southeast coast of the island.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Equally
interesting to note, is that the 58</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
edition of the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race was held on August 30,
i.e. only two days after the day of the sighting. On the evening of
the 30</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
17 hydrogen-filled balloons lifted off from the hippodrome in Vichy,
France. A couple of them crossed Corsica and Sardinia. See
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.zoomdici.fr/actualite/et-vous-vous-avez-vu-un-ballon"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.zoomdici.fr/actualite/et-vous-vous-avez-vu-un-ballon</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://alerte-radiosondes.blogspot.com/2014/08/"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://alerte-radiosondes.blogspot.com/2014/08/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
where this tracking map can be found: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwewSpZxLqLp0mWxhRacHz8wOyb3JvOSJb45alxZAdq-B-OedcrVg2IUk2-y1tYwQ_SfbM6kvdmS3hICLZpR9ypv8fIcxudkAaWVVQguEm9R5SKGBhmfV-ifnPM7PYbtSu5w3gM-FRx0DCux6ok-lQhBGhtm6JMWSj5_6_kaktfIk_MnDH3zV/s1218/Figure5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1218" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwewSpZxLqLp0mWxhRacHz8wOyb3JvOSJb45alxZAdq-B-OedcrVg2IUk2-y1tYwQ_SfbM6kvdmS3hICLZpR9ypv8fIcxudkAaWVVQguEm9R5SKGBhmfV-ifnPM7PYbtSu5w3gM-FRx0DCux6ok-lQhBGhtm6JMWSj5_6_kaktfIk_MnDH3zV/s320/Figure5.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
map shows five balloons crossing Corsica with four of them landing in
Italy on August 31, and one Polish balloon passing just south of
Sainte-Lucie de Porto Vecchio. Six other balloons travelled past
Sardinia towards Sicily.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
not the right day nor the right time, and we are prompted to ask
ourselves if the date reported by the witness may not have been in
error? Alas, it cannot have been as the witness reported the incident
to the gendarmerie on the evening that followed his early morning
sighting, i.e. on August 28</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Worse still, the five balloons that participated in the Gordon
Bennett race and crossed over central and South Corsica arrived there
just after midday, not one hour before dawn. Still, the above
information illustrates that the idea of a gas balloon is by no means
far-fetched. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
what about the rows of dark shapes positioned in front and at the
back of the circular object? It should first be pointed out that not
everything is clear about these smaller objects. The image bottom
left shows a drawing made by a police officer during the witness’s
visit to the gendarmerie on August 28</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
The sketch on the right was made by the witness himself during the
GEIPAN in situ inquiry of September 5</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67f5_J4uT1Qw9MBSyx8b3By_HIfMzFGt9q6ynZQJ4QZH0YD2fncJs17jJXruHqROXXsUYOiKBByogcJc-5nJNDUu-d0Me-gSDRSrFBvbgYPwwCX3HiQooimFGEl6WUjsbIGmCgHo6sWgznN1MAgIXCgNO6Q3ZNRSnR1E5R4T2z48sSyvkN8WZ/s2827/Figure6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1562" data-original-width="2827" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67f5_J4uT1Qw9MBSyx8b3By_HIfMzFGt9q6ynZQJ4QZH0YD2fncJs17jJXruHqROXXsUYOiKBByogcJc-5nJNDUu-d0Me-gSDRSrFBvbgYPwwCX3HiQooimFGEl6WUjsbIGmCgHo6sWgznN1MAgIXCgNO6Q3ZNRSnR1E5R4T2z48sSyvkN8WZ/s320/Figure6.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">It
is clear from these drawings that the witness experienced
difficulties in describing the exact positions of these groups and
rows of dark objects. In the same vein, the GEIPAN report states:
“the witness is not affirmative on the triangular shape”, “he
cannot say of how many objects each group consisted,” and “is not
sure anymore if there were two groups or only one”. As to the shape
of these smaller objects, the witness stated in the CNES-GEIPAN
questionnaire: “I drew triangles, but I’m not certain of the
shape”. So, more realistically, what the witness saw would have
looked something like this:</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4zJH07JZE7-hi6X87DjCwun3TmzPued4_U6tCwgjj6vGLsaelZUWavw1P68ZlnafLIQT7J2zBjS_WzZFL0yN3Z4Kss-jZBiOdiYhWpdfxboN0r89jHdlcPPwkD4PPuPjtROcYA0_K-4P8eiEYLn84tWkAoEQCIRZCBHN8b7dSgS7t50NLQDX/s1030/Figure7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1030" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4zJH07JZE7-hi6X87DjCwun3TmzPued4_U6tCwgjj6vGLsaelZUWavw1P68ZlnafLIQT7J2zBjS_WzZFL0yN3Z4Kss-jZBiOdiYhWpdfxboN0r89jHdlcPPwkD4PPuPjtROcYA0_K-4P8eiEYLn84tWkAoEQCIRZCBHN8b7dSgS7t50NLQDX/w200-h188/Figure7.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Could
it be that the small, dark objects were birds flying in V formations?
It is not uncommon for balloon pilots to go in pursuit of a flight of
geese, or to have geese follow a balloon, especially in the early
morning hours. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Sans Pro";"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">See
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Source Sans Pro";"><a href="https://www.flywithbirds.com/product/balloon-flight-with-birds/w"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.flywithbirds.com/product/balloon-flight-with-birds/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.shomler.com/other/balloons/geese.htm"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.shomler.com/other/balloons/geese.htm</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
which websites have these images:</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNjmJ9vxD6uXiiHFlCcsiaFVuV4gWgrkO7vEaPZjMg3YNlI5GsxPu0pfwDXkDpfSri1RGmGOetx5zS6x_7J8CMQTLjnPDxkkTMRpg630RpbZp7Rpa_gZntxLyAcd-1ED0MlwlT4-5bnYAMI6hz30YNm4QWvkJibygoMEHWb5rcs7AieB-hTh2/s2346/Figure8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1934" data-original-width="2346" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNjmJ9vxD6uXiiHFlCcsiaFVuV4gWgrkO7vEaPZjMg3YNlI5GsxPu0pfwDXkDpfSri1RGmGOetx5zS6x_7J8CMQTLjnPDxkkTMRpg630RpbZp7Rpa_gZntxLyAcd-1ED0MlwlT4-5bnYAMI6hz30YNm4QWvkJibygoMEHWb5rcs7AieB-hTh2/s320/Figure8.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
we would need a larger group of birds, more like in this image
borrowed from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/geese-flying-formation"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/geese-flying-formation</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRwi1O5SjTU2Ki5QUzvMWLjQYncyTH0Hu9-h_QsAfVi2q8Rzdnocf-g0yLgIk6lQ0KbceF4U6EloMQAIu-e8VnbNS0AGn_KhoCaEbqty-2Fjq8dK9qpmMCyXy3_Bv6QCg4dZ5XAGTofuyTK2Li5LfrfDGkrQ7WilxHItqXCvHZ8zkHlGI1lxr/s538/Figure9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="538" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRwi1O5SjTU2Ki5QUzvMWLjQYncyTH0Hu9-h_QsAfVi2q8Rzdnocf-g0yLgIk6lQ0KbceF4U6EloMQAIu-e8VnbNS0AGn_KhoCaEbqty-2Fjq8dK9qpmMCyXy3_Bv6QCg4dZ5XAGTofuyTK2Li5LfrfDGkrQ7WilxHItqXCvHZ8zkHlGI1lxr/s320/Figure9.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">So,
did the witness see a tall balloon accompanied by birds? The idea is
hard to prove and bound to remain just a theory, but it’s
definitely a possibility that should have deserved consideration by
the GEIPAN team.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="nl-BE" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1) See
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://weatherspark.com/y/62103/Average-Weather-in-Porto-Vecchio-France-Year-Round"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://weatherspark.com/y/62103/Average-Weather-in-Porto-Vecchio-France-Year-Round</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Also
note that, while the witness thought it likely that the object was
actually ball-shaped, it is depicted here as a flat disc seen in
perspective.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Isaac
Koi’s New AI Tool</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">The
British lawyer and UFO scholar Isaac Koi (a pen name, to protect his
work as an attorney-at-law) has developed his third UFO chatbot. It
has been called "Dave, a name elected as a gesture of respect to
journalist and UFO researcher Associate Professor David Clarke: </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://isaackoidata.blogspot.com/2023/11/new-ufo-chatbot-dave-better-i-think.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://isaackoidata.blogspot.com/2023/11/new-ufo-chatbot-dave-better-i-think.html</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Back
in December 2018, he created and shared the first UFO chatbot, one by
the name of "Robert," after (now passed away) Robert Moore.
"Robert" attempted to respond to raw reports of basic UFO
sightings by asking some questions and suggesting possible solutions
for them. "Robert" utilized logic set out in flowcharts
published in the updated version of the book </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">UFO
Study</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
"Robert" used the IBM Watson Assistant framework of
Artificial Intelligence which, in particular, allowed natural
language to be used to chat with this chatbot. I very favorably
reviewed that on my March 2018 blogsite. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">More
recently, on 1 April 2023, Koi shared a new toy with the UFO
community: "Jenny". This was the first chatbot focused on
UFOs that used ChatGPT to answer questions and summarize information
to assist with UFO research and investigations. This time, its name
was a tribute to British ufologist Jenny Randles. Koi’s third UFO
chatbot "Dave" uses ChatGPT version 4, most recently
released by OpenAI, and is also intended to give critical evaluations
and potential explanations of UFO sightings. "Dave" has
been instructed to reflect, in particular, the work of Jenny Randles,
J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Richard Haines, and Mick West.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Koi
says: “Unfortunately, I think OpenAI currently only makes such GPT
creations available to those that pay for "ChatGPT Plus"
membership. Of course, I'd prefer to make this new evolution of a UFO
chatbot available without charge.”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here's
a direct link to “Dave”:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LUQvGeeIm-dave-ufo-analyst"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LUQvGeeIm-dave-ufo-analyst</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
reply to serious comments by Spanish researcher Manuel Borraz, on
"imaginative" and unreliable results from the Open AI
GPT-3.5 model, where incredibly detailed but absurd responses are
provided, on April 1, 2023 (no pun intended), Koi remarked: “</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">"Jenny"
does indeed have the problem that afflicts chatbots based on
ChatGPT3.5 (and, it seems, ChatGPT4 and other chatbots) of
"hallucinating" details that are completely imaginary and
confidently stating detailed facts that are completely wrong …
which obviously reinforcing OpenAI's own warnings about not relying
on the answers given by ChatGPT chatbots. In short, I think that
ChatGPT3.5 (and ChatGPT4) chatbots are useful in providing broad,
general summaries. Rewriting and developing those summaries can save
a considerable amount of time compared to starting with a blank sheet
of paper. However, when you ask more detailed questions then you
start getting answers that are just factually wrong.” </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This
tool is very useful, provided you are an expert in the subject about
which you are requesting information. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Looking
for a Chinese UFO Photograph</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Belgian UFO organization SOBEPS compiled a catalogue for UFO
photographs with hundreds of entries. One of the lines was for a
sighting dated October 28,1967 in China, where someone by the name of
Chou Key-Hai photographed a UFO in the “morning” (dawn, early
morning?) Thanks to the flow of information disseminated by Jim Oberg
we can find that one of the Russian FOBS flight test program launches
took place at 13:15 GMT hour on that day
(</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/soviet_1967_wave.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/soviet_1967_wave.pdf</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
pages 84-87). The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) was a
warhead delivery system developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FOBS
rockets were upgraded ICBMs that had enough extra power to place
their warhead into low Earth orbit, when the warhead would then fire
its own engine to swerve down into the atmosphere uprange of the
target. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
resulting visual effect is a crescent shaped form where the
forward-facing rocket engine plume hits the thin upper atmosphere,
exciting gas molecules to glow along that impact boundary.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJYA3D2QcUOnd8ZTzVhM2LROvJPex88gJ3PU3y6FhLx8_5PPQMp7ObshOHrRXDU51SSYwRtDFe85Wb8pLohnZwLD8xe087MAD_GBHE2OueKuv0o3eAxyiXtuQdjJb_wEFzJzESODI1bofUpeEPN5RpYA_GjrRhSqW9Js-Dg1TV1qrZsiX2bXR/s480/China.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="304" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJYA3D2QcUOnd8ZTzVhM2LROvJPex88gJ3PU3y6FhLx8_5PPQMp7ObshOHrRXDU51SSYwRtDFe85Wb8pLohnZwLD8xe087MAD_GBHE2OueKuv0o3eAxyiXtuQdjJb_wEFzJzESODI1bofUpeEPN5RpYA_GjrRhSqW9Js-Dg1TV1qrZsiX2bXR/w127-h195/China.jpg" width="127" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Typical
FOBS re-entry appearance. Credit: Jim Oberg.</span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
happened about an hour and a half following the launch (14:45 GMT),
after one circuit of Earth. The missile was launched from a
military launch pad at the Baykonur Space Center in Kazakhstan (also
called “Tyuratam”), the same 200-kilometer-wide installation from
which Sputnik and all subsequent cosmonaut missions, as well as lunar
and interplanetary probes, took off from, in a timing for </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">post-sunset
in the re-entry region. Re-entry visual effects started about 22:45
hours Beijing/Shanghai local time. If the UFO picture allegedly taken
that day in China showed the type of image predicted above (a
luminous crescent moon), and the timing matched, it is reasonable to
attribute it to the Russian space test. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
spectacular visual effect of a 'crescent' was seen across regions of
Russia around the lower Volga River, at the end of the vehicle's
first pass around the planet, well short of Chinese territory. But
farther downrange and a few minutes later, another component of the
original launch rocket may well have been passing within sight of
observers in northeastern China, perhaps firing its own rocket motor
to also drop out of orbit and distract defensive systems from the
actual warhead. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Until
now, we have been unable to find any Chinese ufologist versed on 1967
UFO sightings who might be familiar with this episode, and who could
contribute the image the picture depicts in order to check if this
alternative solution is viable or not. Assistance from Chinese
ufologists is sought. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Last
From Klass</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
this field of ours, Philip J. Klass (1919-2005) needs no
introduction. Some people liked to call him the top arch debunker.
For me, he necessarily just balanced much of the rampant
irrationalism in ufology. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Klass"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Klass</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
couple of years before he died, Klass donated his collection of UFO
photographs to the FOTOCAT project of yours truly. Today, just as a
curiosity, I am bringing here something I recently found misplaced
among his assorted set of slides, during an archive’s curating
session. One of the slides he shipped to me had no date or location
marked on its frame. I scanned it and emailed him asking what it was.
A true UFO? Where? Who took it? For my surprise, on February 9, 2003
he replied to say: “Now have viewed slide. Believe it shows a “UFO”
which is internal/overhead train light. Pix was taken by me during
trip to/from Davos, Switzerland.” I wonder if this image would be
now in the annals of UFO evidence if taken by another person. It is
merely an anecdote, but many people like to be aware of such personal
stuff.</span></span></span></p>
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UFO Sightings of November 18, 2023</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Italian
UFO researcher Paolo Toselli, informed about massive UFO sightings on
the evening of Saturday, November 18</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of a strange bright cloud that appeared in the sky, having been
observed from several European nations, at least France, Italy,
Portugal and Spain. The explanation came immediately: it was the
(announced) test of the launch of the M51.3 ballistic missile from
the French range of Biscarosse, on the Atlantic Ocean. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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are links to some published news:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/22276-ufo-forschung-leuchtphänomen-durch-m51-3-rakete-über-südfrankreich-und-spanien/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/22276-ufo-forschung-leuchtphänomen-durch-m51-3-rakete-über-südfrankreich-und-spanien/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/100065015289255/posts/️poco-fa-dai-cieli-del-nord-ovest-è-stato-fotografato-questo-al-momento-non-sapp/721544760022694/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/100065015289255/posts/%EF%B8%8Fpoco-fa-dai-cieli-del-nord-ovest-è-stato-fotografato-questo-al-momento-non-sapp/721544760022694/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/11/france-successfully-test-fires-new-m51-3-slbm/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/11/france-successfully-test-fires-new-m51-3-slbm/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk152928415"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>APRO
Archives Recovered</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the nineteen sixties in the United States, NICAP and APRO were two
major competing UFO organizations. Over the years, both societies
gathered together immense archives of UFO reports. Lack of them would
mean an irreparable loss in the cultural heritage of ufology.
Fortunately, NICAP files were happily saved by The J. Allen Hynek
Center for UFO Studies: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cufos.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://cufos.org/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">After
the death of the two APRO founders and directors, Jim and Coral
Lorenzen, the large APRO files somehow fell into the hands of Tina
Choate and Brian Myers, two individuals living in Sedona, Arizona. It
is not an exaggeration to say that the APRO files were held captive
for many years, completely inaccessible to any other U.S. UFO
researcher. When everybody thought that that gold mine of UFO history
was lost forever, fate intervened. By 2021, Tina passed away at the
age of 76. As Mary Castner has reported in the “Project 1947”
internet forum list, it seems that Brian “no longer wanted to haul
the files around and started looking for a home for them.” Finally,
Brian decided to donate the archives to the National UFO Historical
Records Center (NUFOHRC), based in New Mexico (</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nufohrc.org/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nufohrc.org/</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
On November 28, 2023, NUFOHRC’s director Dave Marler released a
formal press announcement to inform that “The Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization (APRO) was one of the oldest and largest
civilian UFO research organizations in the world. The research files
of this organization have been transferred to the National UFO
Historical Records Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.” That has been
a wonderful achievement and I congratulate to all those who have
contributed to make it happen.</span></span></span></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">See also this illustrated article on NUFOHRC:</span></span></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/ufo-document-and-research-collection-growing-in-new-mexico/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/ufo-document-and-research-collection-growing-in-new-mexico/</span></span></a></div>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“The
National University of Mexico responds to Jaime Maussan about the
Nazca mummies presented in the Mexican Congress” (in Spanish),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wired.com/articulos/tras-las-momias-de-nazca-la-comunidad-cientifica-se-pronuncia-en-la-unam-sobre-la-vida-extraterrestre"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wired.com/articulos/tras-las-momias-de-nazca-la-comunidad-cientifica-se-pronuncia-en-la-unam-sobre-la-vida-extraterrestre</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Keith Kloor, “How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs,”
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
August 25, 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealthy-ufo-fans-helped-fuel-fringe-beliefs/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealthy-ufo-fans-helped-fuel-fringe-beliefs/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
The latest about “Trinity”, by investigation journalist Douglas
Dean Johnson: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">And
Jacques Vallée’s reply: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4tzxd5m3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4tzxd5m3</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Greg Eghigian and Christian Peters,</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
“I</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">t’s
Time to Hear from Social Scientists about UFOs.” Whether or not
UFOs exist, we need to pay attention to how they are influencing our
politics and culture. In </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
American,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
October 2, 2023, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-hear-from-social-scientists-about-ufos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-hear-from-social-scientists-about-ufos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Tim Binnall,</span></span> “<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Man
Claims UFO Sighting Featured on New Canadian Coin Was an Accidental
Hoax,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/man-claims-ufo-sighting-featured-on-new-canadian-coin-was-an-accidental-hoax/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/man-claims-ufo-sighting-featured-on-new-canadian-coin-was-an-accidental-hoax/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
follow-up of this can be found in these two other articles: Darron
Kloster, “Duncan UFO sighting depicted on new coin was a 'party
trick',” in</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/duncan-ufo-sighting-depicted-in-new-coin-was-a-party-trick-7806515"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/duncan-ufo-sighting-depicted-in-new-coin-was-a-party-trick-7806515</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and “'I don't think they'll arrest me now': Island barber helped
make 'UFO' that became legendary in Duncan,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/i-dont-think-theyll-arrest-me-now-island-barber-helped-make-ufo-that-became-legendary-in-duncan-7821040"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/i-dont-think-theyll-arrest-me-now-island-barber-helped-make-ufo-that-became-legendary-in-duncan-7821040</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
UFOs and Intelligence: A Timeline. The encyclopedic compendium by
bibliographer and author George M. Eberhart has been updated, October
10, 2023, with no fewer than 959 pages of chronological entries of
UFO events, related developments, and consulting sources. Go to: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Flying
Saucerers</span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks
to Isaac Koi, the excellent book </span></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Flying
Saucerers </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by
David Clarke and Andy Roberts is freely available online. Described
as a social history of ufology, the introduction to this book
includes the following explanation of the viewpoint of the authors:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);">...
the subject of UFOlogy is not actually about UFOs. There are no UFOs
to study, only reports of UFOs and the component parts of a sighting
when it becomes resolved, for example an aeroplane or kite is
misperceived as something extraordinary. This is a fascinating
subject in itself but is the study of perception, not UFOs. If it is
anything, UFOlogy is about the people who see, investigate, and write
about UFOs. UFOlogy is created by the interplay of these three
groups, and we scrutinise this complex relationship in </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);">Flying
Saucerers</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);">.
Of course, this labyrinthine interaction begs the question: ’Have
UFOlogists created the entire UFO phenomenon themselves?’</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You
can download the book from this link: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3cjtwtee"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://tinyurl.com/3cjtwtee</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">This
is the title of the latest book by prolific writer and researcher
Chris Aubeck, a 421-page, highly illustrated, and fully referenced
paperback that “takes the reader on a deep dive into Arnold's own
first-hand accounts and, for the first time, presents evidence that
we might have been chasing the wrong flying objects all along,” the
Amazon’s sidenotes say. In his own announcement, the author
reports:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">After
70+ years of disc-shaped UFO lore, there has never been a better time
to re-examine the roots of this enduring image. In my new book, I
critically analyze Kenneth Arnold's historic 1947 sighting and his
subsequent encounters to reveal how the saucer became so entrenched
in modern ufology. By studying Arnold's original interviews and
reports, I show how and why his account transformed from
crescent-shaped objects to the archetypal disc-shaped craft over
time. I also examine how Arnold's word choices, as well as those of
the journalists who first interviewed him, led to confusion about the
objects' true shape. Additionally, I compile a unique catalog of all
his later sightings.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key
insights include: cataloging accounts of disc-shaped objects
throughout history, tracing the evolution of Arnold's story from
crescents to saucers, and demystifying the origins of the term
"flying saucer" itself. Aubeck candidly asks: “did you
know the phrase was already common decades before Arnold, and was
used in military training during World War II?” Aubeck states that
“while my conclusions may ruffle feathers, this book takes a fresh
look at an iconic image.” This is a most welcome book and, for what
it’s </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">worth,
I do recommend it. The book can be purchased from:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJXBM1CZ">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJXBM1CZ</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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Book Review</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ignacio
Cabria (Santander, Spain,1955) is a graduate in Cultural Anthropology
at the University of Barcelona. He holds an M.A. in Social
Anthropology and another M.A. in International Cooperation, both at
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He worked in Spanish embassies
and in international cooperation for development in Mozambique,
Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He
is author of three books on UFOs and ufology: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Entre
Ufólogos, Creyentes y Contactados: Una Historia Social de los Ovnis
en España</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
(1993), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ovnis
y Ciencias Humanas </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2002),
and</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Historia Cultural de los Ovnis en España 1950-1990</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
(2022). His M.A. thesis in social anthropology dealt with a Spanish
contactee group: Valores, Símbolos y representaciones en una
Experiencia de Contacto Extraterrestre: el Grupo Aztlán. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He
has contributed one of the 57 papers to the large volume </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
(UPIAR, 2023). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro; font-size: medium;"><b>FLYING
SAUCERS FROM NAZILAND</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;">
<span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Author:
Maurizio Verga - </span></span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";">Reviewer: Ignacio
Cabria</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4H3J71/">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4H3J71/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Italian
researcher Maurizio Verga has specialised in the history of beliefs
about extraterrestrials and the protohistory of UFOs. On the first
topic he published in 2020 an expanded version of his book </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Terra
chiama Marte</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">, which deals
with the attempts to communicate with the Martians that took place in
the first decades of the 20th century. In the same year 2020 Verga
decided to publish in English, for an international audience, a book
on the beginnings of UFOs in 1947, entitled </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Flying
Saucers in the Sky</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">. In it
he sought the first interpretations of the phenomenon as visitors
from Mars.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In
2023 he launched, also in English, a work he has been working on for
many years, devoted to the rumours and theories about the supposed
terrestrial origin of flying discs, and more specifically as an
invention of Nazi Germany during World War II. Its title is </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Flying
Saucers From Nazi Land: The Real Story of the Nazi UFOs</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
and covers the period between 1947 and 1954. The author announces
here a forthcoming second volume. For this work, he has primarily
scoured the international press of the time in order to develop a
social history of the beginnings of the theories that the Nazis had
built secret weapons such as large circular craft. In addition to his
in-depth personal research, Verga has benefited from the
collaboration of colleagues from other countries in the contribution
of press reports, in which I have had the pleasure of collaborating
with clippings from the Spanish press.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">From
his study, Maurizio Verga has concluded that the authors who have
written about the alleged Nazi flying saucers have relied on
unreliable press reports, have quoted each other to make their
sources more credible and have given rise to a persuasive legend
resistant to critical analysis. He points out that, with the
exception of three books published in 2022, all other authors who
have referred to Nazi secret weapons inventions have taken rumours
and unverified, error-ridden news stories at face value. The true
fact is, according to Verga, that there are no historical records of
any Nazi circular craft inventions before the flying saucers made
their appearance in June 1947.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">The
book begins by looking for the causes of the legend in the scientific
and war culture of the 1940s. Since the beginning of World War II,
the Western public had been absorbing the idea that the Nazis had
developed advanced weapons technology. Observations by Allied pilots
of an aerial phenomenon they called foo-fighters, and reports of
"flying bombs" that in 1946 took to the skies over Europe,
were attributed to secret Nazi weapons. From the end of World War II,
books, news, and rumours about the discovery in German archives of
documents relating to fantastic secret weapons projects were
published in the press in the Allied countries. The German public was
an avid reader of anything to do with marvellous weapons made in
Germany. As the book says, "they were a good subject for
thinking that, although they had lost the war, they were the most
advanced country in the world and had the best science and
technology. Stories and rumours could appear and spread unchecked
because no denial could come from official archives confiscated by
the Allies and still in their hands for many years" (p. 120).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Added
to this was the rumour that Hitler had not died in his bunker in
Berlin, but had escaped alive in a submarine, taking his plans with
him, and had settled in Patagonia or Antarctica. Surveys reveal that
after the war about half the population of Western countries believed
that Hitler had survived the takeover of Germany and was hiding
somewhere remote, and curiously Spain was mentioned as one of his
possible destinations. Press sensationalism was a driving force
behind the gestation of the secret weapons legend.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">When
flying saucers appeared in the United States in June 1947, the first
assumptions were that they were highly advanced American or Soviet
vehicles. Although from the beginning there was speculation about a
Martian origin of the flying saucers, the hypothesis of a terrestrial
origin seemed much more reasonable. Already in those early days, in
July 1947, some technicians claimed to have been involved in the
design of disc-shaped craft during the last world war. But it was
from March 1950, with a wave of flying saucer sightings in different
countries, that those who claimed to have witnessed the invention in
the 1940s, or to have been its inventors, came into the limelight.
The respected Italian engineer Giuseppe Belluzzo appeared in the
newspapers claiming to have seen plans for a secret disc-shaped
weapon in 1942. It was this news, according to Verga, that sparked
the legend of Nazi flying saucers, for within days several
individuals were appearing in the European press claiming to be the
inventors of such devices. This was nothing new. In previous waves of
aerial craft, such as those of 1896 or 1909, some alleged designers
of such craft had been unveiled. For Verga, the idea that the Nazi
flying saucers were the creation of a single inventor was naïve and
romantic (a "technological fairy tale", he calls it),
conveying the old and outdated idea that a scientific breakthrough
could be the work of a lone genius inventor.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Spurred
by the news about Belluzzo, a statement was published in Germany by
an engineer named Rudolf Schriever, who claimed to have designed a
vertical take-off flying disc in 1942. According to him, the plans
had been stolen by Soviet troops during the occupation of Germany.
Verga considers Schriever to be one of the key players, if not the
main one, in the evolution of the legend. His flying disc scheme has
since been replicated and adapted to new theories and has gained
prominence with the renewal of the Nazi UFO "myth" since
the 1980s. The possibility that the flying saucers might be the
product of the Nazis' advanced technology successor to the V-2 bombs
was the most appealing of the terrestrial origin hypotheses. After
all, the exodus of German scientists to the United States and the
Soviet Union to work on new aviation and astronautical technologies
made such a suspicion perfectly possible. According to some, the
flying saucers seemed to exemplify the power of the Third Reich.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">A
common description of flying saucers in the 1950s was that of a
rotating disc, and the rotation was assumed to be linked to the
source of their energy. And since the jet propulsion engine was a
state-of-the-art creation, the first proposals for flying discs were
based on the jet engine (antigravity was still reduced to science
fiction and would take time to become the mainstream proposition). At
the time, numerous newspapers and magazines showed artistic
illustrations of the possible structure and operation of these
hypothetical spacecraft.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Spain
played a significant role in this evolution of the Nazi saucer
legend. Maurizio collects the news and reports from the Spanish press
in those days of March and April 1950 about the beginnings of the
phenomenon in Spain. As I pointed out in my </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
(1)</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">, in those reports the
Martian hypothesis alternated with the Nazi hypothesis and other
stranger speculations to explain the phenomenon. Verga mentions the
now famous photo taken in Mallorca by the photographer Enrique
Hausmann in April 1950, which some of us explained at the time as a
fraud made with a fireworks grinder, stressing that the image became
an international reference on the shape of flying saucers. Through
these accounts we see how purely speculative chronicles, such as the
one published in the Madrid daily </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Pueblo</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
on 14-4-50 about the possibility that the saucers were being
manufactured by Nazis hiding in the Black Forest (Germany), gave way
to more elaborate stories, taken as true in other foreign newspapers,
in a chain of disinformation.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">In
1954 the international press carried claims by the German Andreas Epp
that he had given the Nazis a model of a saucer-shaped craft in 1941
and invented another that was tested in Prague. In 1958 Epp sought
funding for a project for the construction of a saucer-shaped
apparatus which he called Omega-Diskus, receiving wide press coverage
(also in Spain). Verga considers the whole trajectory of this
character to be a collection of lies and misinformation.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">In
an appendix, Maurizio deals with a collateral issue to the flying
saucers, that of the alleged manufacture by the Nazis, at the end of
the war, of an atomic bomb. Some authors even located a plant for the
production of nuclear weapons and other devices in various parts of
Spain. This news would later support the idea of Nazi flying saucers
and would have inspired the well-known report by Canadian journalist
Lionel Shapiro in November 1947 on the alleged construction of
saucers in Franco's Spain.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Each
theme is outlined in the book with a recapitulation of its most
important points, its main actors, and the correlations between them,
and even more interesting is the author's commentary on the less
convincing elements of each theory, in a healthy exercise of
scepticism. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">In
short, this is a thorough work of historical documentation, far
removed from the fantastic speculations that have so far clouded the
subject of terrestrial flying discs. This book will be an
indispensable source for a complete history of the theories,
speculations, and legends about the origin of flying saucers.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Notes</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1)
Ignacio Cabria,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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you Miss from the Spanish Edition</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"> (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">)</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
aterrizaje literario inédito de 1957” (An unknown literary landing
from 1957)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Igor Kalytyuk (Ukraine), José Luis
Ramírez (Spain),Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos Verdes, Mexico),
Alejandro Agostinelli (Argentina), Ulrich Magin (Germany), Luis E.
Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina),</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Wim
van Utrecht </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Caelestia,
Belgium), Julio Plaza del Olmo (Spain), Roger Glassel (Sweden), Juan
A. Fernández Peris (Spain), Luis R. González (Spain), Milton W.
Hourcade (UAPSG, Uruguay), Mikhail Gershtein (Russia), Paolo Toselli
(CISU, Italy), Emili Santamaría (Spain), Jaime Servera Spain), Tim
Printy (USA), Mary Castner (USA), Isaac Koi (England), Maurizio Verga
(CISU, Italy), Ignacio Cabria (Spain), and Jan Aldrich (USA).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1HivUOoh04M4mI3Te5axMgZkD94xMyJOdNUG4tfnQC0YZpTVkUdJTJCYYzgWKKXe42v7xNcNMG7zxUyvo6DDEiN-4lrwhps3RdPtm21l4rBvOTXnBoO23By4J6Q9MBdcCknXda966wljsWVxZ6DUi6JcEiujLtrj8G62QGaN4H4Rz9lrZzjZ/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1HivUOoh04M4mI3Te5axMgZkD94xMyJOdNUG4tfnQC0YZpTVkUdJTJCYYzgWKKXe42v7xNcNMG7zxUyvo6DDEiN-4lrwhps3RdPtm21l4rBvOTXnBoO23By4J6Q9MBdcCknXda966wljsWVxZ6DUi6JcEiujLtrj8G62QGaN4H4Rz9lrZzjZ/w640-h110/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><b>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
(</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">UFOs:
The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The above books are also available in
the second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3x9272a7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3x9272a7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3vb29uss"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3vb29uss</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4f3pnhd9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4f3pnhd9</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">TODO
COLECCIÓN: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4r555h6y"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4r555h6y</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqg0XVyHDXNWeaMRCFq4__J4Dm6U9KDyUgddF6D-j_VaPnLC8JyhfJWBe3wADR8DV_71nV3gNjJIsXvkyYFP0XvgPRLle7vg5hPUZj65KPFnQ13fWn0FqKUNhgqh5q2ODNd_zrlOw-v00V-t780Qfr6XOisTHfPA0s1V81xIQQ0YOdxY6Q0oX/s3657/LIBROS%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="3657" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqg0XVyHDXNWeaMRCFq4__J4Dm6U9KDyUgddF6D-j_VaPnLC8JyhfJWBe3wADR8DV_71nV3gNjJIsXvkyYFP0XvgPRLle7vg5hPUZj65KPFnQ13fWn0FqKUNhgqh5q2ODNd_zrlOw-v00V-t780Qfr6XOisTHfPA0s1V81xIQQ0YOdxY6Q0oX/w640-h130/LIBROS%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The
First Catalogue</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b>UFOs and Government</b></i><b>
</b>(with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B.
Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></i></span><span lang="es-ES"> (with
M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), (UFO Sightings in
Antarctica in 1965), 2013 </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with Wim van
Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(with
M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(editor) (with R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(My correspondence with Antonio Ribera), 2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2023/DICIEMBRE/15 (ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González.</span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
repositorio FOTOCAT es tanto físico como digital. Se compone
primeramente de una base de datos de 26 campos en forma de hoja de
cálculo de Excel. Ésta sintetiza la información material contenida
en documentos, informes, investigaciones, recortes de prensa,
artículos, análisis de casos, fotografías, etc. recopilados para
cada caso, guardados en carpetas individuales ordenadas
cronológicamente, dentro de cientos de archivos almacenados en
grandes armarios en una habitación dedicada a este propósito. A la
fecha, la base de datos reúne 13.115 entradas, la mayoría
correspondientes al período que finaliza el 31 de diciembre de 2005.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dd78XvW8CojKd4yt3XGAVLbm3UMOQ2EmoUmm64hvWruCm-TIHeEfukmp0Gqfr0GG_XdnW7VsZ7kb8I55GJHLiLPvkh83iq_WN7x21_58DLC1f2G0wVc_EMnnafy5yHmeYmpaThvm34YLSK92SuBrmCpV2wfGI5YimlsraTcD_Z0un9Vf0b0S/s9347/Tr%C3%ADptico.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="9347" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dd78XvW8CojKd4yt3XGAVLbm3UMOQ2EmoUmm64hvWruCm-TIHeEfukmp0Gqfr0GG_XdnW7VsZ7kb8I55GJHLiLPvkh83iq_WN7x21_58DLC1f2G0wVc_EMnnafy5yHmeYmpaThvm34YLSK92SuBrmCpV2wfGI5YimlsraTcD_Z0un9Vf0b0S/s320/Tr%C3%ADptico.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Vista
parcial de los archivos FOTOCAT.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony </u></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(La
fiabilidad del testimonio del testigo OVNI)</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiG5vBmOY_W1Rm3C0PkN8ytqd3ZZ2D_rEk4XNUCoorObhTyQhesGr0h7iAdpP5jDojN6JUVYOVVzab1_6pm56jZIdoKloVtITOSdzhXQiRCH9KJ5ecPojjYlu90DlzujQZTkiG2k0fdtevLP6TThAurnDUUwhJEOVyFCsspZg17D1-mV_7jkyB/s1755/Reliability.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1241" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiG5vBmOY_W1Rm3C0PkN8ytqd3ZZ2D_rEk4XNUCoorObhTyQhesGr0h7iAdpP5jDojN6JUVYOVVzab1_6pm56jZIdoKloVtITOSdzhXQiRCH9KJ5ecPojjYlu90DlzujQZTkiG2k0fdtevLP6TThAurnDUUwhJEOVyFCsspZg17D1-mV_7jkyB/w141-h200/Reliability.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Varias
publicaciones profesionales de psicología están pendientes de
publicar reseñas del libro. A medida que se conozcan, las citaré. A
continuación cito nuevos comentarios elogiosos de este libro,
publicado el pasado mes de mayo, a añadir a todos aquellos que ya
reseñé en la anterior edición de este blog.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
edición recomendada”, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
International Journal of Ecopsychology</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
valioso recurso”, Ray Ward, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Skeptical Intelligencer</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023, pp 9-10, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/resources/Intelligencer/Vol%2026%203.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">https://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/resources/Intelligencer/Vol 26 3.pdf</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¡Que
expediente tan sobresaliente!”, Charlie Wiser.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
lectores se deleitarán con las fascinantes historias presentadas en
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
… donde sesenta expertos examinan estas cuestiones en profundidad y
perspicazmente. Esos casos nos enseñan mucho acerca de cómo la
gente llega a creer que ha experimentado sucesos bizarros que incluso
pueden no hacer ocurrido”. Página web de la GWUP (Sociedad para el
estudio científico de las paraciencias, Alemania), 1 de octubre de
2023,</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2s4y96k7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2s4y96k7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
veterano erudito y estudioso británico John Rimmer (fundador de
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Magonia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
ha firmado una recensión en el número de diciembre de 2023 de la
famosa revista </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Fortean
Times (</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">correspondiente
a su 50 aniversario): “Virtualmente cada uno de los ensayos en esta
colección es interesante y juntos proporcionan información valiosa
sobre la forma en que los fenómenos ovni se perciben, procesan y
registran”. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Phenomena
Magazine</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
#175, noviembre de 2023, página 28, señala: “Todo está aquí y
algunas de las conclusiones indudablemente no serán bien recibidas,
pero necesitaban ser dichas. Este libro es una herramienta
prácticamente esencial de referencia para cualquiera que tome con
seriedad los ovnis y fenómenos relacionados. Es altamente
recomendado”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gracias
al Dr. Gary Posner, se han añadido menciones al libro en las
siguientes 13 entradas de la enciclopedia W</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ikipedia
(en inglés): Cash–Landrum incident, Pascagoula abduction,
Raël, Phoenix Lights, Ufology, Gulf Breeze UFO incident, Barney and
Betty Hill incident, Alien abduction, Ball lightning, Psychosocial
UFO hypothesis, Kecksburg UFO incident, Hypnagogia e Hypnosis. Ver:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/UFO-Witness-book-Wiki" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/UFO-Witness-book-Wiki</a>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Estos
son los datos más recientes de audiencia </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>online</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
hasta hoy. Apenas han transcurrido siete meses desde la salida del
libro y ha tenido ya 5,200 visitas y 1,350 descargas, más las ventas
en papel de la editorial. De momento, nuestros objetivos se van
cumpliendo. Recordamos que este volumen puede encontrarse sin cargo
alguno en el siguiente enlace:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Asimismo,
un tomo impreso en tapa blanda de 711 páginas en tamaño A-4 puede
adquirirse en dos ediciones (blanco & negro y color) a través de
la editorial UPIAR: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1jvF_m6mR_wOYtiJFb2zFy5EkTjAMtLfnB1UCGPjuG13pmiQ1oujFw_rgTmVE8fBepiRadj5dGhyphenhyphen987-44klQvwMv4g1meXI_ePKmfgMlbL50m_wqS3MModxFNaXC5rGwgpOPcn55mj1EEANpPVo0iY0RzQlrRJyHIt3_Z2SlL9Rh8ovG8St/s1064/chiste.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="984" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1jvF_m6mR_wOYtiJFb2zFy5EkTjAMtLfnB1UCGPjuG13pmiQ1oujFw_rgTmVE8fBepiRadj5dGhyphenhyphen987-44klQvwMv4g1meXI_ePKmfgMlbL50m_wqS3MModxFNaXC5rGwgpOPcn55mj1EEANpPVo0iY0RzQlrRJyHIt3_Z2SlL9Rh8ovG8St/s320/chiste.jpg" width="296" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Basado
en el famoso dibujo cómico creado por Pat </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Oliphan
en 1967, el ufólogo francés Raoul Robé ha hecho una adaptación a
la salida del libro </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
con una pincelada de humor:</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
dos alienígenas </span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">secuestran
un montón de copias del libro llevándolas a su platillo, mientras
en la oficina de UPIAR, alguien con una libreta de FOTOCAT les grita
“¡Es muy tarde señores, el libro ya se ha descargado más de
1,300 veces!” </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
la espera de una versión impresa, este libro de 750 páginas se ha
publicado de forma gratuita en julio de 2023 a través de
Academia.edu en este enlace:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
volumen recoge mis intercambios epistolares con el destacado escritor
y ufólogo Antonio Ribera desde 1966 hasta su muerte en 2001, con
fotografías que ilustran nuestros encuentros con los “mandarines”
Aimé Michel y Jacques Vallée, viajes o simposios que compartimos,
entre otras. Este tomo ha recibido 900 visitas </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>online
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">y
se ha descargado 300 veces hasta hoy. Refleja una porción de la
historia ovni nacional. El pasado mes de septiembre, nuestro blog ya
publicó una larga lista de aplausos recibidos de todos los ámbitos
del movimiento ovni en España:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2023_09_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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entrevista</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrevista
de Luis Alfonso Gámez a su seguro servidor publicada durante el mes
de octubre pasado para la cadena de medios del grupo editorial
Vocento: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.elcorreo.com/ciencia/espacio/ovnis-mito-creado-partir-literatura-prensa-cine-20230927003502-ntrc.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.elcorreo.com/ciencia/espacio/ovnis-mito-creado-partir-literatura-prensa-cine-20230927003502-ntrc.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Aquí
la redacción preparada por Alejandro Agostinelli en Argentina:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2023/10/04/nasa-vs-uap-sin-datos-fiables-los-quiere-investigar-igual/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2023/10/04/nasa-vs-uap-sin-datos-fiables-los-quiere-investigar-igual/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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a V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Correo</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
15 de octubre de 2023. Fotografía de Manuel Molines.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LOS
OVNIS Y LA NASA: NO HAY DATOS FIABLES PERO QUIERE INVESTIGARLOS </b></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;">
</span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/107616782/LOS_OVNIS_Y_LA_NASA">https://www.academia.edu/107616782/LOS_OVNIS_Y_LA_NASA</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">El
pasado año, la NASA comisionó un panel de 16 científicos como
Equipo de Estudio Independiente sobre los UAP, al que ha dedicado
nueve meses (1). Los Fenómenos Anómalos No Identificados (FANI en
español, UAP en inglés) son una denominación sesgada promovida por
manipulados intereses ideológicos de ciertos senadores y
congresistas norteamericanos, de lo que en los años cincuenta del
siglo pasado eran ovnis. En 1947 eran los famosos platillos volantes,
que en 1946 eran llamados cohetes fantasma, en la Segunda Guerra
Mundial fueron “foo-fighters”, aviones misteriosos se denominaban
en los años treinta, dirigibles fantasma fueron entre 1908 y 1918,
globos fantasma de 1899 a 1902, dirigibles desconocidos durante la
oleada norteamericana de 1896-1897, visitantes misteriosos en 1883, o
el gran miedo francés de 1789, por ejemplo. Una secuencia de
fenómenos aéreos que ha asustado a la población mundial desde hace
más de 200 años, en cada momento interpretados de acuerdo con la
cultura aeronáutica del momento y, siempre, con un sustrato de
pánico o incertidumbre.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ayer,
14 de septiembre de 2023, la NASA difundió el informe resultante de
dicho estudio. El objetivo inicial del mismo fue de aportar “métodos
potenciales de estudio de los fenómenos anómalos no identificados”.
Pero, para ser cien por cien veraces, su Declaración de Tareas
incluía, entre otras: “¿Qué tipos de datos científicos
actualmente archivados por la NASA u otras entidades gubernamentales
civiles deberían sintetizarse y analizarse para arrojar luz sobre la
naturaleza y los orígenes de los fenómenos anómalos no
identificados”, “¿Qué otros tipos de datos científicos
debería recopilar la NASA para mejorar el potencial de desarrollar
una comprensión de la naturaleza y los orígenes de la UAP?”, “Qué
limitaciones físicas básicas se pueden imponer a la naturaleza y
los orígenes de los UAP?”, “¿Qué datos del espacio aéreo
civil relacionados con los UAP han sido recopilados por agencias
gubernamentales para (a) comprender mejor la naturaleza y los
orígenes de los UAP, y (b) determinar el riesgo de los UAP para el
espacio aéreo nacional?” Comprobemos si este informe cumple con
las metas que ellos mismos se establecieron. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe final, de 33 páginas (2),</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
puede ser parcialmente decepcionante sólo si esperábamos
presentación y análisis de casuística. Esto es, alguna prueba
documental de ejemplos de ovnis/UAP anómalos. Porque no la hay. </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Su
Resumen Ejecutivo señala: “ El estudio de los fenómenos anómalos
no identificados (UAP) presenta una oportunidad científica única
que exige un enfoque riguroso y basado en evidencia. Abordar este
desafío requerirá métodos nuevos y sólidos de adquisición de
datos, técnicas de análisis avanzadas, un marco de presentación de
informes sistemático y reducir el estigma de la presentación de
informes. La NASA, con su amplia experiencia en estos dominios y su
reputación global de apertura científica, se encuentra en una
excelente posición para contribuir a los estudios de UAP dentro del
marco más amplio de todo el gobierno liderado por la Oficina de
Resolución de Anomalías en Todos los Dominios (AARO).”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Interpretación
en román paladino: existen fenómenos anómalos que no se pueden
explicar (supongo que seguidamente mostrarán y demostrarán cuáles
son), su estudio tiene gran potencial científico (espero que
expliquen por qué), demanda un estudio riguroso y siempre basado en
evidencias (no podría estar más de acuerdo), vuelve a citar el
nunca existente pero de moda “estigma” de informar casos ovni
(cuando hay millones de informes en todo el mundo procedentes de
todos los estamentos posibles), y se postula como competidor de la
AARO (la oficina UAP del Departamento de Defensa de los EE. UU.) (3)
en sede para la investigación del fenómeno UAP (supongo que siempre
que venga acompañada de nuevos y generosos fondos gubernamentales).
Si A. Dumas dijo aquello de </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">«</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cherchez
la femme</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">!»,
ahora </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">me
temo que la motivación es</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
«</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cherchez
the money</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">!»</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">El
informe describe el estado de la información ovni (usemos la
terminología clásica) y señala que el análisis de los datos de
los casos se ve obstaculizado por una mala calibración de los
sensores, la falta de mediciones múltiples y la falta de datos de
base. Yo añadiría, entre otros. La “evidencia” que los
promotores, entusiastas y crédulos de los ovnis sostienen que existe
es muy pobre. Los mejores sucesos (los más raros) son explicables,
un proceso que se ha documentado cierto en los últimos 76 años.</span></span></span></p>
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los panelistas, todos ellos bisoños en investigación ovni, que,
como todo, requiere un conocimiento previo de la materia, la
inteligencia artificial y los algoritmos de aprendizaje automático
son herramientas esenciales para identificar sucesos aparentemente
extraños como los UAP. Sin embargo, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";"><span lang="es-ES"><i>estas
poderosas técnicas sólo funcionarán con datos bien caracterizados
recopilados siguiendo estándares estrictos</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";"><span lang="es-ES">,
que es exactamente lo que la ufología ha sido incapaz de aportar
hasta el presente.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Afirman:
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Finalmente,
la amenaza a la seguridad del espacio aéreo estadounidense que
representan los UAP es evidente.</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Y se quedan tan tranquilos. ¿Dónde ha estado el riesgo a la
aviación -no sólo en Estados Unidos, sino en todo el mundo- durante
todos estos años? Aves, rayos, drones, globos, incluso misiles
fuera de control, sí representan riesgos objetivos, pero, ¿los
ovnis? Uno esperaría un listado de casos extraordinarios de ese tipo
para respaldar tal afirmación. No, no los encontrará en este
informe. Pero la NASA a continuación propone profundizar -seguro que
con fondos federales- el </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Sistema
de Notificación de Seguridad Aérea q</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ue
la agencia aeroespacial administra para la Agencia Federal de
Aviación (FAA). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Desde
el mismo Prólogo, uno queda parcialmente sorprendido. De un lado,
dice que “los fenómenos anómalos no identificados (UAP) son uno
de los mayores misterios de nuestro planeta. Se han observado en todo
el mundo observaciones de objetos en nuestros cielos que no pueden
identificarse como globos, aviones o fenómenos naturales conocidos”.</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Eso
es cierto, pero requiere una precisión, que muchos “no
identificados” para el sector crédulo de la ufología son sujetos
a resolución para investigadores y analistas escépticos. O sea, que
probablemente no hallan fenómenos inexplicables en realidad. Sin
embargo, el informe añade una afirmación muy contundente: “las
observaciones de alta calidad son limitadas”</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
continua con un párrafo sustancial:</span></span></span></p>
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<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>A
pesar de los numerosos relatos y elementos visuales, la ausencia de
observaciones consistentes, detalladas y bien analizadas significa
que actualmente no tenemos el conjunto de datos necesarios para
sacar conclusiones científicas definitivas sobre los UAP.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
importante decisión derivada directamente de este estudio es que,
para la mayor coordinación con la Oficina UAP del Departamento de
Defensa (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AARO:
Oficina de Resolución de Anomalías en Todos los Dominios</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
que tiene un marcado carácter militar y de inteligencia, la NASA
nombrará un director de Investigación UAP, que centralice
comunicaciones y mutuo apalancamiento de información y recursos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">El
quid de la cuestión de evaluar la trascendencia de este problema
radica en su naturaleza. Por ejemplo, para la NASA: “Recientemente,
muchos testigos creíbles, a menudo aviadores militares, han
informado haber visto objetos que no reconocieron sobre el espacio
aéreo estadounidense. La mayoría de estos eventos han sido
explicados desde entonces, pero unos pocos no pueden identificarse
inmediatamente como fenómenos naturales o provocados por el hombre.”
La clave aquí es “recientemente”. Yo diría mediáticamente. En
los últimos años ha habido una inflación de videos y testimonios,
muchos de ellos inicialmente filtrados a los medios de comunicación
por los responsables -creyentes en ovnis extraterrestres- del grupo
de trabajo UAP de Defensa, que precedió al AARO. Esos casos, que han
sido fuertemente cuestionados por analistas científicos de corte
escéptico, no representan el ”verdadero” fenómeno ovni. Son
avistamientos de pilotos, de los cientos que existen, que difieren de
la esencia de lo que ha llevado a la conciencia popular de los ovnis
extraterrestres: encuentros cercanos, aterrizajes, presencia de
humanoides y abducciones. De eso, la NASA no tiene la menor idea. Y
lo que también ignora es la perspectiva psicológica y sociológica
del “fenómeno” y la mediocre fiabilidad del testimonio humano,
aspecto que 60 autores académicos han estudiado en un reciente
volumen internacional de más de 700 páginas (4).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">El
informe insiste, con razón:</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cada
vez está más claro que la mayoría de las observaciones de UAP
pueden atribuirse a fenómenos o sucesos conocidos</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
… </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>se
carece de la información necesaria para sacar conclusiones
definitivas sobre la naturaleza de un UAP. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
papel que la NASA se ha autoasignado es proveer “un marco
científico riguroso, basado en evidencia y datos”. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
para ello presenta las resoluciones consistentes con los ocho puntos
cardinales de sus propósitos fundacionales. Resaltaré algunos de
ellos. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Acerca
de los datos científicos recogidos por la NASA que serían
pertinentes para la investigación de los UAP, sólo se cita
ambiguamente la existencia de “una variedad de activos de
observación de la Tierra y el espacio, junto con un extenso archivo
de conjuntos de datos históricos y actuales, que deberían usarse
para abordar los desafíos de detectar y/o comprender los UAP”. A
continuación alude a su flota de satélites espaciales que,
desafortunadamente, carecen de la resolución para detector objetos
“relativamente pequeños como son los UAP”. En efecto, parece que
el retrato robot de un UAP es un objeto redondo, blanco, translúcido
y de entre 1 y 4 metros de diámetro (5). ¿No le recuerda al perfil
de un globo? También menciona otras prometedoras capacidades
tecnológicas para escudriñar UAPs, como la red de radares Doppler
NEXRAD, satélites geoestacionarios, estudios a gran escala de cielo
basados en telescopios, radar de apertura sintética (SAR), etc. La
NASA nuevamente define los datos disponibles sobre UAP hasta la fecha
como “observaciones inicialmente adquiridas para otros fines, que
carecen de la información adecuada y no están optimizados para un
análisis científico sistemático”. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En
cuanto a datos almacenados por el sector privado o la industria, el
informe tampoco dice nada acerca ello, excepto proponer la
implementación de sofisticados sensores y sistemas de observación
desde tierra o el espacio que pudieran servir para la captación de
elusivos fenómenos como serían los UAP. Aquí, la agencia espacial
nuevamente expone criterios y se postula cuando afirma que “una
calibración sólida de los datos es vital, y aquí la NASA
nuevamente puede desempeñar un importante papel de asesoramiento”.
Y ya puntualiza que será caro: “Aunque se trata de una inversión
sustancial, la estandarización de la información recopilada
mediante una calibración bien diseñada permitirá llevar a cabo una
investigación científica rigurosa sobre los UAP. La experiencia de
la NASA en este ámbito será fundamental”, añade.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
se alude a otros tipos de información a recoger sobre los UAP, la
NASA anda con pies de plomo (yo me barrunto que está pensando en los
ya famosos tres videos de la Marina de los EE. UU.) e indica que “las
signaturas de datos son amplias (pero) es imperativo establecer
umbrales de evidencia claros para evitar errores, especialmente con
métodos automatizados”. Por enésima vez, se evidencia la pobreza
de la información cuando el panel pone de manifiesto que “en la
actualidad, la recopilación de datos sobre los UAP se ve
obstaculizada por los desafíos de calibración y la falta de
metadatos de los sensores”.</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Esa
necesaria calibración se califica de crítica para eliminar lo que
actualmente se está dando con frecuencia en los informes ovni/UAP
recopilados por Defensa: los falsos positivos debidos a errores de
los sensores que captan imágenes. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
apartado sobre técnicas científicas de análisis a emplear en la
valoración sobre naturaleza y origen de los UAP hace hincapié en la
potencialidad de la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el aprendizaje
automático (AA) pero insiste -como no podía ser de otra forma- en
que aplicar buenas herramientas a datos malos es ineficiente. En
lenguaje de este siglo, apela al «</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>garbage
in, garbage out</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">»
de los primeros informáticos cuando escribe: “Sin embargo, su
efectividad depende críticamente de la calidad de los datos … en
la actualidad el análisis de los UAP está más limitado por la
calidad de los datos que por la disponibilidad de técnicas”. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe plantea tres enfoques para el análisis de anomalías. El
primero sería construir un modelo del UAP típico y eliminar aquello
que no cuadre con tales características, pero los autores son
conscientes de su dificultad: no se dispone -ni de lejos, añado- de
una “descripción consistente de las características físicas de
los UAP”. Pero hay más, agrego: nunca se encontrará tal
consistencia, porque no hay un fenómeno UAP único sino que es un
agregado de falsas observaciones, un conjunto de entropía absoluta.
Ese modelo no sirve. La segunda formulación es más clásica:
modelar las propiedades</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
d</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">e
fondo y buscar cualquier cosa que se desvíe de ese modelo. Este es
el enfoque que los investigadores de ovnis hemos seguido durante
décadas, hasta comprobar que las supuestas anomalías carecían de
patrones y que cada fenómeno pretendidamente inusual reflejaba
tendencias personales del observador (sobre todo en la casuística
más extrema y cercana). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
tercer camino para el estudio científico sería correlacionar las
extensas bases de datos de la NASA con localizaciones y horas de
sucesos UAP (bueno, eso es lo que hemos estado haciendo para explicar
casos de ovnis toda la vida), pero el informe añade, no sin
intención, que “la pericia de la NASA en IA y AA le permitirá
hacer una contribución destacada”. La NASA acertadamente aconseja
y, al tiempo, se vende bien: “</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
contrastación e integración adecuadas de los datos también son
fundamentales para permitir el análisis científico. La agencia
espacial, con su experiencia en calibración de datos, gestión y
análisis avanzado, está bien posicionada para tener un papel
central en estos esfuerzos para investigar los UAP dentro del marco
gubernamental”. Sólo le ha </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">faltado
solicitar directamente: ¡incrementen mi presupuesto! </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Sobre
la determinación de las limitaciones físicas básicas que se pueden
imponer acerca de la naturaleza y los orígenes de los UAP, otro de
los mandatos del panel, el texto reflexiona sobre lo que se sabe
sobre los objetos volantes convencionales en cuanto a rango de
velocidades y aceleraciones, por ejemplo, a contrastar con las de los
UAP, pero aquí se reconoce que el mayor problema es conocer
exactamente la distancia entre observador y UAP, una variable de
enorme incertidumbre en los informes ovni. El documento de la NASA es
taxativo:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Las
observaciones de UAP hasta la fecha son inconsistentes y no se
adhieren a <span> </span><span> </span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>características similares.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En
cuanto a la disponibilidad de datos aeroespaciales relacionados con
UAP reunidos por agencias gubernamentales, NASA se postula como actor
fundamental. Tras señalar la existencia de los datos acumulados por
la Agencia Federal de Aviación (FAA), nota que no están optimizados
para esta función de búsqueda de UAP, colige que “la recopilación
de datos es escasa, poco sistemática y carece de protocolos de
contrastación o investigación” y ofrece su capacidad de consejo
en base a su experiencia en metodología, análisis de datos y
organización. Así, sentencia:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Aunque
estos informes de testigos oculares suelen ser interesantes y
convincentes, son insuficientes por sí solos para sacar conclusiones
definitivas sobre los UAP.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
contrarrestar esta deficiencia, el panel sentencia que una
prometedora solución pasa por la explotación de la estructura del
Sistema de Notificación de Seguridad Aérea (ASRS),</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
la </span></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">NASA</span></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">administra
para la FAA y que desde mediados de los años setenta ha recibido
cerca de dos millones de informes sobre todo tipo de operaciones
aéreas. NASA dice estar en una posición óptima para aplicar ese
sistema “confidencial, voluntario y no punitivo” para la
recolección de datos UAP. Complementariamente, la agencia espacial
afirma que su experiencia en el desarrollo de herramientas para la
gestión del tráfico aéreo puede también focalizarse en la
adquisición de datos UAP y proveer una asistencia crítica en la
identificación y evaluación de nuevos sistemas de seguridad. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Finalmente
el capítulo de conclusiones y recomendaciones viene a resumir lo
anterior , entre las que destacan las siguientes:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: #231f20;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Recomendamos
que la NASA desempeñe un papel destacado en el esfuerzo de todo el
gobierno para comprender los UAP, aprovechando su amplia experiencia
para contribuir a un enfoque integral, basado en evidencia y
arraigado en el método científico. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>En
la actualidad, la detección de UAP suele ser fortuita, capturada por
sensores que no fueron diseñados ni calibrados para este propósito
y que carecen de metadatos completos. Sumado a un archivo y una
conservación de datos incompletos, esto significa que el origen de
numerosos UAP sigue siendo incierto.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
conclusión, la NASA sostiene ser una agencia imprescindible única
para contribuir a un enfoque sólido y sistemático para estudiar los
UAP, de los que nada dice en cuanto a su naturaleza, a excepción de
señalar la baja calidad de los datos existentes a día de hoy. En
mi opinión, la NASA ha encontrado un nuevo nicho para próximas
financiaciones por parte del Gobierno estadounidense y no quiere
perderse la ocasión. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Lo
que la NASA no sospecha -le falta conocimiento histórico- es que la
información más relevante son relatos verbales de supuestos
testigos oculares desde el suelo (y que requieren más psicólogos
que astrónomos para su evaluación) y que cuando todos los sistemas
y sensores que recomiendan se apliquen, por ejemplo para los
avistamientos de aviadores, encontrarán soluciones convencionales
aeroespaciales, astronómicas e incluso biológicas. Al tiempo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Source Sans Pro;">
<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
verdad que el informe ofrece lo que prometió: una hoja de ruta para
la investigación contemporánea del fenómeno, una serie de
indicaciones sobre qué hacer y cómo de ahora en adelante. El
documento puede ser ilusionante a los recién llegados al estudio de
este tema. Pero no deja de ser frustrante que -después de siete
décadas de fenomenología aguda- haya que partir de cero.
Finalmente, en mi opinión, la NASA se aleja de lo que es su objetivo
fundamental, el estudio del espacio (la mayoría de los ovnis son
observados en la baja atmósfera, si no cerca del suelo), pero
comprendo que es una oportunidad financiera que no pueden
desaprovechar.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En resumen:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>Los
datos ovni (UAP) existentes no tienen carácter científico</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>La
NASA ha decidido asesorar e investigar los UAP (supongo que con
fondos extra)</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>Ni
el menor atisbo de comentario a la asociación popular
ovnis/extraterrestres</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Chris Aubeck, “The Needle in the Haystack:
Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May 2023,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf">https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/">https://www.aaro.mil/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y R.W. Heiden (editores), </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
UPIAR (Turin), 2023,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “The 2023 U.S. Senate UAP Hearing,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Últimas
noticias: la NASA nombra un director permanente de investigación
FANI (UAP):
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director/">https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
relación con el estudio de la NASA, su posición y los planes de
futuras investigaciones, el físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo ha
escrito un ensayo muy revelador que analiza el lado epistemológico
del problema. En resumen, el autor plantea lo siguiente:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">La
NASA se ha propuesto estudiar los UAPs usando sensores
calibrados. Pero, ¿cómo se hace eso? ¿Qué tiene que buscar
concretamente la NASA para detectar UAPs? ¿Cuáles serían las
características propias de los UAPs que permitan detectarlos? ¿Cómo
se puede identificar un "UAP de verdad" sin
confundirlo con una estrella, la luna, un avión, o un globo? El
problema del estudio científico de los UAPs comienza con la misma
definición del objeto de estudio. Después de casi 80 años de ovnis
(llamados ahora "fenómenos" anómalos no identificados),
todavía no existe una definición científicamente válida de cuál
es "el fenómeno" que hay que estudiar. Y sin ella es
imposible llevar a cabo un estudio científico correcto.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Recomiendo
a todos su lectura completa. Se titula “La NASA reinventa la
rueda”:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2023/09/la-nasa-reinventa-la-rueda.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2023/09/la-nasa-reinventa-la-rueda.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><b>THE
AARO UAP REPORT FOR FY 2023</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/108573577/The_AARO_UAP_Report_for_FY_2023">https://www.academia.edu/108573577/The_AARO_UAP_Report_for_FY_2023</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe UAP del AARO para el año fiscal 2023”. Este trabajo se
encuentra en la sección en inglés de este blog y en el enlace
arriba indicado.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxePE-mMpw5z6zv4p6YHtClARtyZ3f7O5_-79_pGoDUqBUxw7lGG1duH4_NBFNRZdhhXHmaf0ofXMHAuaskyA3myMydmDIWqCKWNJsRFWXdm1Qu2L81Lb7rVwDCtDiI2eSwmyb3LBxEFH48GJtQ6f9PEGAysW24Rpbq2hOQJoaDgSGzzy8IsU/s674/AARO_gr%C3%A1fico.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="674" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxePE-mMpw5z6zv4p6YHtClARtyZ3f7O5_-79_pGoDUqBUxw7lGG1duH4_NBFNRZdhhXHmaf0ofXMHAuaskyA3myMydmDIWqCKWNJsRFWXdm1Qu2L81Lb7rVwDCtDiI2eSwmyb3LBxEFH48GJtQ6f9PEGAysW24Rpbq2hOQJoaDgSGzzy8IsU/w400-h176/AARO_gr%C3%A1fico.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
imágenes UAP del AARO</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
mayo pasado escribí el artículo “The 2023 U.S. Senate UAP
Hearing” (La audiencia UAP de 2023 en el Senado de los Estados
Unidos), en el que pasé revista a la intervención del Dr. Sean
Kirkpatrick (director de AARO) ante el Subcomité de Amenazas y
Capacidades Emergentes del Comité de Servicios Armados del Senado de
EE. UU., el 19 de abril de 2023. Allí, contando con la capacidad de
análisis de Manuel Borraz y Julio Plaza del Olmo, se estudió una
filmación tomada por la cámara de un dron en julio de 2022 en un
lugar no revelado del Medio Oriente, imágenes calificadas como “no
identificadas” pero sobre las que llegamos a la conclusión que
eran compatibles con el vuelo de un globo de un tamaño entre 12,5 y
37,5 cm de diámetro:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LVp5bdbq699JX9fkHBCEbYadCcc3nwUDbj6hsdVl5aeZ3NJ-UUt6vGui0UKCjBSPbbxZxVda-zjt5KeyPMIiIV1P-WNmTzkk_6Gp-rV1fA00x-BsXyJCbcSPvUnHG_5tRN813aHN97HnpCJG4SaEqJ3tlU6j0ottaGDpDoUUNFz_Sqtfo4fN/s903/esfera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LVp5bdbq699JX9fkHBCEbYadCcc3nwUDbj6hsdVl5aeZ3NJ-UUt6vGui0UKCjBSPbbxZxVda-zjt5KeyPMIiIV1P-WNmTzkk_6Gp-rV1fA00x-BsXyJCbcSPvUnHG_5tRN813aHN97HnpCJG4SaEqJ3tlU6j0ottaGDpDoUUNFz_Sqtfo4fN/w250-h320/esfera.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ahora,
Nathan Patin, profesor adjunto de la Universidad de Georgetown y
Logan Williams, científico de datos de Bellingcat, han publicado
este informe: “¿No es eso un globo? Desinflando un video ovni del
Departamento de Defensa”, con un fino análisis de este video que
geolocalizaron en un área al noreste de la ciudad siria de Deir
ez-Zor. Según sus cálculos dimensionales, “el objeto tiene un
diámetro máximo de aproximadamente 0,43 metros [43 cm] o menos”.
Y añaden como conclusión:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Un
globo concuerda con lo que vemos en el vídeo. Pueden ser esféricos,
pueden parecer metálicos (particularmente los hechos de papel de
aluminio) y pueden flotar en el aire. … Un apoyo adicional a la
hipótesis del globo es el hecho de que el vídeo coincide con Eid
al-Adha, una de las dos festividades más importantes del Islam. El
vídeo tiene la fecha del 12 de julio de 2022, el último día
festivo de los tres días de ese año. El Eid en Siria, como en otras
partes del mundo musulmán, se celebra con regalos, incluidos globos.
Hemos encontrado fotos y vídeos de celebraciones pasadas de Eid
al-Adha en Damasco y en Deir ez-Zor que muestran globos.</i></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxZC2s3E8-3WRym6koGFUZqZw0e62YEFI2tADsqYe4zU7ul5Px7CFU90QYInc9FvTrEkt2RO6qq2UpQnyo57iCsnLxkW-qwbjyN2Lmh-lMWSQDDHWXsNTDBT1A4-oCyMduXfrU6cTQX-GrFdKntWzXcovW4X-Hv9Rr5bIWwwgvIUPhyngbu3m/s1059/globo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1059" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxZC2s3E8-3WRym6koGFUZqZw0e62YEFI2tADsqYe4zU7ul5Px7CFU90QYInc9FvTrEkt2RO6qq2UpQnyo57iCsnLxkW-qwbjyN2Lmh-lMWSQDDHWXsNTDBT1A4-oCyMduXfrU6cTQX-GrFdKntWzXcovW4X-Hv9Rr5bIWwwgvIUPhyngbu3m/s320/globo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sin
los enormes recursos del Departamento de Defensa de los Estados
Unidos, varios investigadores han identificado independientemente y
de manera convincente la naturaleza del objeto como un simple globo.
Sin embargo, la sección "Casos - Videos oficiales de UAP"
del sitio web del AARO todavía muestra este video de la siguiente
manera: "Este clip fue tomado por un MQ-9 en el Medio Oriente, y
mientras el AARO evalúa el objeto en el clip como que no muestra un
comportamiento anómalo, el objeto sigue sin identificarse”. Así
que, si pretenden tipificar como “no identificado” todo objeto a
menos que –en este caso, por ejemplo– se sepa el nombre exacto
del vendedor ambulante del globo pequeño (o su talla de zapato, para
el caso), me temo que el número de “no identificados” será
artificialmente muy alto. Y en lo tocante a este suceso
concretamente, si los datos coinciden con un globo en dinámica,
forma y dimensión, es evidencia suficiente para considerarlo
identificado. Punto. De lo contrario, parece que se quiera aumentar
el índice de “incógnitas” en las estadísticas finales, lo que
es una muy mala práctica, porque para el público y los medios, “no
identificado” equivale a “anomalía”, ¡lo cual está muy lejos
de la verdad!.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NOTICIAS DE ÚLTIMA HORA DEL AARO. El 1 de diciembre de 2023, AARO actualizó su sitio web agregando el nuevo elemento “Informes de resolución de casos” dentro de la sección CASOS de la web. Contiene tres informes de estudio: “Estela atmosférica”, vídeos captados en 2022 y 2023 en Oriente Medio y el mar Mediterráneo que muestran lo que parece ser el rastro atmosférico dejado por un UAP. Era simplemente un avión, siendo la "estela" un artefacto producido por el propio sensor. “Triángulos del Sudeste Asiático”, imágenes de seis triángulos que se convierten en redes de pesca en la superficie del océano. Y “Western United States”, un vídeo grabado en 2021 en un espacio aéreo militar estadounidense que se puede explicar como un avión a 300 millas del sensor que consiguió las imágenes. Ver: </span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" href="https://www.aaro.mil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.aaro.mil/</a></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Noticias
recientes en el panorama UAP del Gobierno de los EE. UU</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Sean
Kirkpatrick, director del AARO, celebró una conferencia de prensa
abierta pero sin cámaras el 31 de octubre de 2023. Presentada por
Sue Gough, de Operaciones de Prensa de Defensa, la transcripción
oficial se encuentra aquí: </span></span></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4j8v2ph6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4j8v2ph6</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
nombre de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Howard Altman planteó algunas preguntas. En este artículo da fe de
su opinión personal sobre la mesa redonda:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/balloons-no-ufos-found-by-satellites-shoot-down-video-coming-says-aaro-chief"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/balloons-no-ufos-found-by-satellites-shoot-down-video-coming-says-aaro-chief</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
otro lado, “UAP: búsqueda de claridad”, fue una conferencia
celebrada en el Centro Hayden de Inteligencia, Política y Seguridad
Internacional (Arlington, Virginia) el 15 de noviembre de 2023, donde
también participó el Dr. Kirkpatrick. Fue muy interesante:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlihF-GL2Ck"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlihF-GL2Ck</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Quisiera
resaltar algunas de las clarificaciones de la intervención de
Kirkpatrick:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Esto
no significa que los fenómenos no sean comprensibles. Simplemente
significa que inicialmente no sabemos qué aspecto tienen, qué son o
qué están haciendo... La mayoría de estas cosas resultan ser cosas
muy prosaicas que podemos identificar... (de los ~800 casos
reportados a la AARO) sólo entre el 2 y el 4 por ciento requieren
una investigación en profundidad... Si me preguntas, ¿hay algo
realmente anómalo y que aún no sabemos qué es y todavía no
sabemos qué hacer con él?, (la respuesta es) no... Puedo decirles
con certeza que no tenemos absolutamente ninguna evidencia de que
algo coincida con la hipótesis extraterrestre. No tenemos pruebas de
nada de eso.</i></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLr74tqkX9H0gARMQ9nq3KyGIQlXn2KmfDwqpPfmbPUCGc2jQH81WVT8xrFXd1IabODiowa3xDgu5R-xDIoofD_eUjEmCmh8UYub_d4NvyDsR5BjRQdtmhZIdp7EKJBYvRIqW5K6cxeGs_AYzuTcraRYwnLSIFnEUj28ny8JP7ESHC986onrj/s998/kirkpatrick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="998" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLr74tqkX9H0gARMQ9nq3KyGIQlXn2KmfDwqpPfmbPUCGc2jQH81WVT8xrFXd1IabODiowa3xDgu5R-xDIoofD_eUjEmCmh8UYub_d4NvyDsR5BjRQdtmhZIdp7EKJBYvRIqW5K6cxeGs_AYzuTcraRYwnLSIFnEUj28ny8JP7ESHC986onrj/w200-h183/kirkpatrick.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
lo que atañe a los “whistleblowers” (denunciantes), el Dr.
Kirkpatrick dijo que toda la información obtenida en estas
investigaciones se ha recopilado en un informe de dos partes, y el
primer volumen está programado para publicarse en diciembre de 2023.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Inesperadamente,
se ha conocido que el Dr. Kirkpatrick planea dejar la oficina de
ovnis y se retira del servicio en diciembre de 2023. Todo apunta, en
mi opinión, a la presión y críticas intolerables recibidas por
parte de ciertos medios y redes sociales que apoyan la descabellada
idea de que el gobierno de Estados Unidos sabe de la existencia de
extraterrestres y practica secretamente ingeniería inversa sobre
naves venidas del cosmos. Aunque Kirkpatrick ha afirmado a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Politico</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
que ha logrado todo lo que dijo que iba a hacer, me temo que no puede
ser completamente sincero acerca de los verdaderos motivos por
lealtad a su organización. El nombramiento del sucesor de
Kirkpatrick indicará la dirección ideológica que tomará AARO en
los próximos meses y años. El comunicado oficial del Departamento
de Defensa y un par de comentarios más se pueden leer aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">DoD:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mr4a299j"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mr4a299j</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Politico:
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/07/pentagon-ufo-boss-00125883"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/07/pentagon-ufo-boss-00125883</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Daily Mail</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3a5nbbjz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3a5nbbjz</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
esta marea de sinsentidos que vemos día tras día en los EE. UU. con
respecto a los UAP, desde la prensa hasta el mismísimo Congreso,
emerge ocasionalmente el aire fresco del sentido común y la razón.
No se pierda, amigo lector, los artículos del periodista de
investigación Art Levine en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Washington Spectator</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
“Spaceship of Fools”, del 20 de julio de 2023, y “UFO Tales and
Witness Credibility Falling Apart After Congressional Hearings”,
del 8 de septiembre de 2023:</span></span></span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">y </span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/ufo-tales-falling-apart-after-hearings/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://washingtonspectator.org/ufo-tales-falling-apart-after-hearings/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
como una fuente complementaria de racionalidad, sugiero atender esta
conversación entre el especialista y crítico Dr. Luis Cayetano con
el anteriormente citado reportero:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcV_JRVVqw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcV_JRVVqw</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">También
Billy Cox analiza el contenido del libro </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Inside
the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Dentro
del programa ovni encubierto del gobierno de EE. UU.: Revelaciones
iniciales), la segunda colaboración del jefe del AAWSAP de la DIA,
James Lacatski, con los coautores Colm Kelleher y George Knapp. En
una reseña titulada “A glimmer of light from the black world”
(Un centelleo de luz procedente del mundo oscuro), ya el subtítulo
adelanta el tono descreido del articulista: “¿Pero dice la verdad
James Lacatski, exdirector del AAWSAP?”:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-glimmer-of-light-from-the-black"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-glimmer-of-light-from-the-black</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
su parte, el autor e investigador Jason Colavito vuelve a mostrar una
escritura brillante al analizar personalidades que tienen una
influencia desproporcionadamente alta en lo relacionado con los UAP y
el Congreso. Así lo apreciamos en estos recientes artículos en su
blog: “David Grusch dice que la ufología le devolvió la fe
perdida” y “El incoherente análisis sobre ovnis de Chris Mellon
revela una fantasía de salvación milenarista”. Ambos “posts”
se encuentran en estos enlaces: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-says-ufology-returned-him-full-circle-to-his-lapsed-faith"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-says-ufology-returned-him-full-circle-to-his-lapsed-faith</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellons-incoherent-ufo-analysis-reveals-a-millennialist-salvation-fantasy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellons-incoherent-ufo-analysis-reveals-a-millennialist-salvation-fantasy</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
la vista de estas lecturas, yo no puedo dejar de preguntarme: Por
Dios, ¿en qué manos está el futuro de la investigación ovni en
los Estados Unidos de América?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
algunos críticos, el Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos sigue
siendo reservado en lo que respecta a los UAP. La web </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Black Vault</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
escribió en octubre pasado: “Esta batalla por la transparencia
pone de manifiesto una narrativa más amplia de secreto
gubernamental. Cada denegación y cada nueva exención subraya los
importantes obstáculos que se enfrentan para arrojar luz sobre lo
desconocido, en particular en lo que respecta a fenómenos que
cautivan el interés y la imaginación del público”:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-amplifies-ufo-secrecy-yet-again-additional-exemptions-reinforce-law-enforcement-claim/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-amplifies-ufo-secrecy-yet-again-additional-exemptions-reinforce-law-enforcement-claim/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
sé, no sé. Esto me recuerda la postura de Philip Klass respecto al
secreto aplicado a ciertos casos de ovnis; no son los ovnis en sí
los que merecen secreto sino las fuentes de información, los modos
de transmisión, el proceso de inteligencia seguido, la tecnología
involucrada, etc. Klass escribió algo sobre algunos documentos
desclasificados de la NSA y que aparecieron extremadamente
censurados, en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Skeptical Inquirer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(otoño de 1989) y en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Skeptics
UFO Newsletter</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(enero de 1997):</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1989/10/22165235/p70.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1989/10/22165235/p70.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN43.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN43.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">No
me malinterprete, amigo lector: yo también estoy a favor de una
revelación absoluta. Espero que al final haya un buen compromiso
entre la apertura y la integridad de la nación.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
“niño de moda”, como ha sido llamado David Grusch, sigue
contando su historia a todo el que quiera oírla, pero no todo el
mundo le cree. Léase el editorial del </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Daily
Caller</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del 24 de noviembre de 2023, firmado por Kay Smithe: "Ni
siquiera Joe Rogan puede hacer que este 'denunciante' OVNI suene
convincente":</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/24/joe-rogan-experience-ufo-whistleblower-david-grusch-not-convincing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/24/joe-rogan-experience-ufo-whistleblower-david-grusch-not-convincing/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>La
mala Ciencia de Avi Loeb</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
Universidad de Harvard ha producido genios y también algunos
científicos confundidos (por ejemplo, el crédulo psiquiatra John
Mack, famoso por su obsesión con las abducciones). El astrónomo de
Harvard Avi Loeb, que parece estar capitalizando los esfuerzos
actuales para encontrar vida en el universo (y también en ovnis
cercanos a la Tierra) ha escrito artículos y libros con hallazgos
ostensibles sobre mega naves extraterrestres en el espacio profundo y
desechos extraterrestres bajo las olas del océano. Recientemente, el
siguiente artículo ha revelado el origen perfectamente mundano a
contrastar con las extravagantes afirmaciones de Loeb: “Anthropogenic
Coal Ash as a Contaminant in a Micro-meteoritic Underwater Search”,
por Patricio A. Gallardo, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Research
Notes of the American Astronomical Society</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Volumen 7, Número 10, octubre de 2023: </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad03f9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad03f9</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Alternativamente,
pueden leer la magnífica vulgarización del anterior trabajo
científico escrita por Ethan Siegel, “Harvard astronomer’s
‘alien spherules’ are industrial pollutants” en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Big
Think</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
14 de noviembre de 2023:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/harvard-astronomer-alien-spherules/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/harvard-astronomer-alien-spherules/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El
informe ovni de la Rand Corporation</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Completado
en mayo de 2023 y publicado después de una revisión de seguridad
por parte de la Oficina de Prepublicación del Departamento de
Defensa, la Rand Corporation acaba de publicar un informe de 53
páginas titulado “No son los expedientes X. Mapeo de informes
públicos sobre fenómenos aéreos no identificados en América”.
Sus autores son Marek N. Posard, Ashley Gromis y Mary Lee. En la
sección de conclusiones leemos:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
hallazgo más consistente (y estadísticamente significativo) de
nuestros modelos fue el de informes de avistamientos de UAP en áreas
dentro de un radio de 30 km de las MOA </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[Military
Operations Areas]. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Según
la FAA </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[Federal
Aviation Administration]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
“los MOA se establecen para contener actividades de vuelo militares
no peligrosas”, incluidas maniobras de combate aéreo,
intercepciones aéreas y tácticas de baja altitud. Dada esta
asociación, sospechamos que algunos de los informes de avistamientos
de UAP a NUFORC son aviones autorizados que vuelan dentro de MOAs.
Sin embargo, estaba más allá del alcance de esta investigación
confirmar el contexto de estos informes de UAP más allá de sus
ubicaciones documentadas en la base de datos del NUFORC. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Asimismo
recomienda: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Una
mayor transparencia en la forma en que se recopilan, investigan y
utilizan los avistamientos también puede ayudar a mitigar las
teorías de conspiración que durante mucho tiempo han rodeado a los
fenómenos aéreos.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
monografía analizó una base de datos de 101.151 informes de ovnis
desde 1998 hasta 2022. Los datos fueron recopilados por el Centro
Nacional de Informes OVNI (NUFORC), un centro privado de llamadas
sobre ovnis establecido originalmente en 1974 y dirigido por Peter
Davenport desde 1994. El informe también indica que sus análisis
“no deben interpretarse como un respaldo a ningún informe
individual o a la calidad general de los datos que NUFORC ha puesto a
disposición del público”. Se puede acceder aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2400/RRA2475-1/RAND_RRA2475-1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2400/RRA2475-1/RAND_RRA2475-1.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrKfbDDxdk6Kbiw05BzFLvUtWTu8CXnrVM7MK6F8YPjGTWHfQ_3AmbDhCc57CQhMXffaOK_CLvHdQZt7_5mhlR9z6gJye8wQKJfIFE90YQqJnamR6A26YJ9fZuSUWBW7xIsD0tv42On4I4kUt8VKQo6mVvT7udCE623yRBGpzyOka-UcDCjwb/s1500/Rand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1050" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrKfbDDxdk6Kbiw05BzFLvUtWTu8CXnrVM7MK6F8YPjGTWHfQ_3AmbDhCc57CQhMXffaOK_CLvHdQZt7_5mhlR9z6gJye8wQKJfIFE90YQqJnamR6A26YJ9fZuSUWBW7xIsD0tv42On4I4kUt8VKQo6mVvT7udCE623yRBGpzyOka-UcDCjwb/w140-h200/Rand.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Artículo
invitado</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Some
notes on an unexplained UFO sighting from Corsica, France</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Wim
van Utrecht</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Se
encuentra en la edición en inglés del presente blog.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizroCd8WuzNYRNrm9-dppyNyFL5BXE7dRW7ES7i36cKaZ3xlYupg8jm2lVgnIXLkJUKPzCpYxmx_NwkT9dzjbGSxijW9CrD1xvBzYsejbqan0avFYBu-kT4jQNr3tIdx5rW6zkcyncXTORSqdSNn4CN_3JzQaSQRcVMeZWuGFV2d-Gm-kUs7sp/s2989/Van%20Utrecht.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2645" data-original-width="2989" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizroCd8WuzNYRNrm9-dppyNyFL5BXE7dRW7ES7i36cKaZ3xlYupg8jm2lVgnIXLkJUKPzCpYxmx_NwkT9dzjbGSxijW9CrD1xvBzYsejbqan0avFYBu-kT4jQNr3tIdx5rW6zkcyncXTORSqdSNn4CN_3JzQaSQRcVMeZWuGFV2d-Gm-kUs7sp/w200-h177/Van%20Utrecht.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Wim
Van Utrecht, Caelestia, Bélgica.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Un
aterrizaje literario inédito de 1957</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
uno cree que ya tiene toda la información sobre este singular tema
de los ovnis, aparece algo que has pasado por alto y que, gracias a
los esfuerzos de recopiladores de noticias tan eficientes como Juan
Antonio Fernández Peris, podemos recuperar para el acervo documental
de lo que hemos dado en llamar fenómenos ovni (sí, fenómenos, en
plural). Fernández Peris (Valencia, 1959) es uno de los
investigadores españoles que más encuesta de campo ha hecho.
Miembro destacado de la Agrupación Valenciana de Investigaciones
Ufológicas (AVIU) (1976-1986), coautor de la </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ovnis
(1) y autor de la memorable obra </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Expediente Manises </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2),
en la actualidad está estudiando todos y cada uno de los más de 500
casos recogidos en toda la Comunidad Valenciana y que conforman el
CATVAL (Catálogo de Observaciones OVNI en la Comunidad Valenciana).
La futura monografía que albergue esos análisis será histórica,
tanto para la ufología valenciana como para la nacional.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1JxFOE-mVu6noQXSIZNe9YXdOFcndblKGObYDcZHg3KObhFZqovaILARWvLsMXR8Nh8ppp1H9d8DXA9ra3FqHOW2PU2Q_AjoW2tYEU4PVM7qXhg81a8UMz461s-oeE2HAf0Tr4Ig7eEj5ftM4weL_jAE4indXVUR2h_2-56FNkERyBckdQHz/s1080/Juan%20Antonio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1080" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1JxFOE-mVu6noQXSIZNe9YXdOFcndblKGObYDcZHg3KObhFZqovaILARWvLsMXR8Nh8ppp1H9d8DXA9ra3FqHOW2PU2Q_AjoW2tYEU4PVM7qXhg81a8UMz461s-oeE2HAf0Tr4Ig7eEj5ftM4weL_jAE4indXVUR2h_2-56FNkERyBckdQHz/s320/Juan%20Antonio.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Juan
Antonio Fernández Peris (a la derecha de la foto) y Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos, en el estudio del segundo.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Uno
de los casos recuperados por Fernández Peris en un proyecto de
búsqueda planificada en internet de historias de ovnis en Valencia,
Castellón y Alicante, ocurrió el 27 de diciembre del año 1957 en
Elda, comarca de El Vinalopó Medio (Valencia). Lo dio a conocer el
semanario </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Valle
de Elda</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
número 70, del 28 de diciembre de 1957. Este decano de la prensa,
que sigue publicándose en nuestros días, llevó nada menos que en
su portada de aquel día un sensacional titular: “¡¡Un gran
platillo volante toma tierra en las afueras de Elda!!”. La
entradilla ya aventuraba un suceso extraordinario: “Dos testigos
presenciales nos hablan del formidable artefacto y de sus extraños
tripulantes extraterrestres”. Decía el texto de inicio que el día
27 circulaban rumores de que a las siete de la tarde un “monstruoso
artefacto” cruzaba los cielos eldenses a gran velocidad,
desapareciendo en dirección a la cuesta llamada del “Reventón”,
siendo visto por multitud de ciudadanos que aseguraban que la forma
del aparato era la de “una seta gigantesca, aunque no podían
asegurar si el pie de esta era materia sólida o estaba formada por
un escape de gases del bólido”.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Los
reporteros destacados regresaron a la redacción algo defraudados. El
objeto, de un color que oscilaba del gris al verde, había pasado
despidiendo un silbido prolongado seguido de un gran silencio;
¿habría sido todo fruto de una sugestión colectiva? Dudaban
incluso de publicar la noticia, cuando esa noche dos señores se
presentaron en el domicilio social del periódico, manifestando haber
visto “aterrizar al “platillo volante” de marras”. Se trataba
de D. José Sanchiz Beltrán y D. Fernando Navarro Vera, ambos
naturales de Elda. El primero, mecánico y el segundo zapatero. Sin
hacerse de rogar, narraron el suceso que les tocó en suerte
presenciar personalmente. El amplio reportaje recoge minuciosamente
su testimonio. Aquí solo reseñaré una parte de este, al pie de la
letra.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Regresábamos
de Alicante, cuando, al iniciar la bajada del “Reventón”, vimos
con sorpresa cómo un punto luminoso que flotaba sobre Elda se iba
agrandando por momentos dirigiéndose hacia nosotros con alarmante
velocidad. Perdimos el control de la moto en la que viajábamos y
sólo un brusco frenazo nos libró de un accidente. Sin dar crédito
a nuestros ojos, a los pocos segundos pudimos comprobar que la
fantástica bola de fuego pasaba por encima de nuestras cabezas a
pocos centenares de metros de altura y se perdía en dirección a la
“Peña Badá”. Cuando nos recobramos, ambos acordamos dejar la
moto en la cuneta y acercarnos en aquella dirección, ya que nos daba
la impresión de que aquel disco de fuego había tomado tierra no muy
lejos de donde nos encontrábamos. Efectivamente, al poco rato de
caminar escondiéndonos por entre las peñas por lo que pudiera
aguardarnos, vimos posado, muy cerca de la indicada peña, un enorme
cuerpo de color gris oscuro con las características trazas de un
platillo volante, tal como lo conocemos por lo que nos han pintado en
los periódicos. Había cesado todo ruido y el silencio era
aterrador. La gran masa semiesférica parecía privada de toda vida e
irradiaba un gran calor aun a !a distancia a la que nos
encontrábamos, como si el metal que la compusiera estuviese al rojo
vivo. Con precaución nos fuimos acercando, atreviéndonos a lanzarle
una piedra que quedó desintegrada en el acto. Conteniendo la
respiración vimos abrirse a los pocos minutos una escotilla en su
parte más elevada, de la que salió una procesión de minúsculos
hombrecillos de constitución análoga a la nuestra, aunque de un
color amarillo y de talla no superior a los sesenta centímetros. Con
una rapidez y precisión francamente maravillosa se dividieron en
tres grupos, uno de los cuales se dedicó a hacer acopio de piedras,
que iban metiendo en unos sacos que llevaban consigo; el segundo
grupo se dedicó a cortar uno de los corpulentos árboles que crecían
por las cercanías y finalmente, el tercero, tras extrañas
pesquisas, volvió a la nave del espacio. Inmediatamente que hubieron
regresado los ultraterrenos seres al platillo, éste se elevó
verticalmente otra vez por los aires, perdiéndose de nuestra vista a
los pocos segundos. Nos acercamos al lugar en el que había estado
posado y pudimos comprobar la existencia de un extenso cráter de
pequeña profundidad en el que la tierra estaba como cristalizada. Es
inútil deciros la enorme sensación que hemos experimentado al
presenciar esta extraña visita. Como todo el mundo, habíamos oído
hablar de los platillos volantes, pero jamás habíamos dado crédito
a semejantes noticias considerándolas paparruchas…</i></span></span></span></p>
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la redacción, esta revelación causó el efecto de una bomba e
inmediatamente decidieron preparar un buen reportaje y personarse en
el lugar del aterrizaje para verlo con sus propios ojos. De hecho
organizaron una pequeña expedición, provistos de linternas y
acompañados del conocido fotógrafo eldense Manuel Catalán. Según
escriben, hallaron las señales del aterrizaje del “artefacto”:
“La tierra aparecía cristalizada y convulsionada como si hubiera
sido sometida a una aterradora temperatura. A pocos metros, un tronco
de árbol del que sólo quedaban unos veinte centímetros, aparecía
cómo si el resto hubiera sido arrancado de un formidable mordisco”.
Después de prometer nueva información próximamente, se cerraba el
reportaje de aquel 28 de diciembre. Fecha que, como cualquier lector
hispanohablante sabe, corresponde al día de los Santos Inocentes,
día proclive a las bromas e informaciones falsas, las conocidas
“inocentadas”.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Porque
de eso de trató, como revela el siguiente número del semanario el 4
de enero de 1958. Bajo el título “El platillo volante de la pasada
semana” se reconoce la noticia inventada, como comprendieron la
inmensa mayoría de los lectores, pero “aunque cueste creerlo
-continúa la información de </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Valle
de </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Elda-
y como prueba de que todavía en este siglo materialista y escéptico
quedan almas ingenuas y crédulas, tenemos noticias de que fueron
bastantes lo que cogieron la moto y marcharon al Reventón a ver con
sus propios ojos lo que quedara del extraño suceso”. Lo cierto y
verdad es que el relato estuvo bien elaborado y lo situamos en el
plano de lo anecdótico y como muestra de que, ya en 1957, los
“platillos volantes” (luego los ovnis y ahora los FANI) formaban
parte de la cultura social en nuestro país. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y J.A. Fernández Peris, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Plaza y Janés, S.A. (Barcelona), 1987,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Juan A. Fernández Peris, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>E</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>l
Expediente Manises</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Fundación Anomalía (Santander), 2000. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk146117025"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
“</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La UNAM
le responde a Jaime Maussan sobre las momias de Nazca presentadas en
el Congreso mexicano,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wired.com/articulos/tras-las-momias-de-nazca-la-comunidad-cientifica-se-pronuncia-en-la-unam-sobre-la-vida-extraterrestre"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wired.com/articulos/tras-las-momias-de-nazca-la-comunidad-cientifica-se-pronuncia-en-la-unam-sobre-la-vida-extraterrestre</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Keith Kloor, “How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs”,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
25 de Agosto de 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealthy-ufo-fans-helped-fuel-fringe-beliefs/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealthy-ufo-fans-helped-fuel-fringe-beliefs/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Lo último sobre “Trinity”, por el periodista de investigación
Douglas Dean Johnson: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
la respuesta de Jacques Vallée: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4tzxd5m3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4tzxd5m3</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Greg Eghigian y Christian Peters, “It’s Time to Hear from Social
Scientists about UFOs.” Tanto si existen los ovnis o no -dicen-
necesitamos prestar atención al modo como estas creencias
influencian nuestra política y nuestra cultura. Publicado en
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Scientific
American </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
mes de octubre de 2023, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-hear-from-social-scientists-about-ufos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-hear-from-social-scientists-about-ufos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Tim Binnall,</span></span><span lang="es-ES"> “</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Man
Claims UFO Sighting Featured on New Canadian Coin Was an Accidental
Hoax”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/man-claims-ufo-sighting-featured-on-new-canadian-coin-was-an-accidental-hoax/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/man-claims-ufo-sighting-featured-on-new-canadian-coin-was-an-accidental-hoax/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
otros dos reportajes complementarios sobre este Famoso avistamiento
que ha resultado ser provocado por un bromista: Darron Kloster,
“Duncan UFO sighting depicted on new coin was a 'party trick'”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/duncan-ufo-sighting-depicted-in-new-coin-was-a-party-trick-7806515"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/duncan-ufo-sighting-depicted-in-new-coin-was-a-party-trick-7806515</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y “'I don't think they'll arrest me now': Island barber helped make
'UFO' that became legendary in Duncan”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/i-dont-think-theyll-arrest-me-now-island-barber-helped-make-ufo-that-became-legendary-in-duncan-7821040"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/i-dont-think-theyll-arrest-me-now-island-barber-helped-make-ufo-that-became-legendary-in-duncan-7821040</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
“UFOs and Intelligence: A Timeline”. Se trata de una cronología
enciclopédica que su autor, el bibliógrafo y autor George M.
Eberhart, me pidió subiera a Academia. El pasado octubre ha sido
actualizada, con un total de 959 páginas de sucesos ovni ordenados
por fecha y abundantes referencias. Decididamente, una muy buena
fuente de consulta: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Platillos:
En busca del origen de los ovnis discoidales</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Este
es el título del último libro del prolífico escritor e
investigador Chris Aubeck, un libro de bolsillo de 421 páginas, muy
ilustrado y con todas las referencias que “lleva al lector a una
inmersión profunda en los relatos de primera mano del propio Arnold
y, por primera vez, presenta evidencia de que podríamos haber estado
persiguiendo los objetos volantes equivocados todo el tiempo”,
dicen las notas al margen de la edición de Amazon. En su propio
anuncio, el autor informa:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Aunque
casi han desaparecido de los medios de comunicación, los platillos
volantes siguen siendo el símbolo más icónico de los ovnis. Este
libro presenta una investigación en la que se rastrea indicios de
fenómenos aéreos con forma discoidal desde la antigüedad hasta los
momentos previos a la era platillista. Se repasa el famoso
avistamiento de Kenneth Arnold en 1947, a quien se le atribuye haber
acuñado la expresión «platillo volante». Sin embargo, aquí se
revela por primera vez que este término ya formaba parte de la
cultura popular décadas antes. ¿Los pilotos de la Segunda Guerra
Mundial avistaron Foo Fighters discoidales? ¿Tenían forma de
bumerán los primeros ovnis de la era moderna? ¿Influyó la ciencia
ficción en las descripciones actuales de ovnis? A pesar de que los
platillos han sido reemplazados por nuevas formas y diseños, este
libro ofrece un recorrido histórico que ayuda a entender el origen y
evolución de este símbolo tan enigmático de la ufología</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Capítulos
clave incluyen la catalogación de relatos de objetos en forma de
disco a lo largo de la historia, el rastreo de la evolución de la
historia de Arnold desde la forma de medialuna hasta la de los
conocidos platillos y la desmitificación de los orígenes del
término "platillo volador". Aubeck se pregunta con
franqueza: "¿sabías que la frase ya era común décadas antes
de Arnold y se usó en el entrenamiento militar durante la Segunda
Guerra Mundial?" Aubeck afirma que “si bien mis conclusiones
pueden irritar a más de uno, este libro ofrece una nueva mirada a
una imagen icónica”. Este es un libro muy bienvenido y yo
personalmente lo recomiendo. Se puede adquirir en: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Platillos-busca-origen-OVNIs-discoidales/dp/B0CLZ6YHHK"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.amazon.es/Platillos-busca-origen-OVNIs-discoidales/dp/B0CLZ6YHHK</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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invitada</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ignacio
Cabria (Santander, 1955) es licenciado en Antropología Cultural por
la Universidad de Barcelona, con Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en
Antropología Social y máster en Cooperación Internacional, ambos
por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Trabajó en las embajadas
de España en cooperación internacional para el desarrollo en
Mozambique, Argentina, República Dominicana y Filipinas. Es autor de
tres libros sobre ovnis y ufología: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Entre
Ufólogos, Creyentes y Contactados: Una Historia Social de los Ovnis
en España</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(1993), </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Ovnis
y Ciencias Humanas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(2002) e </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Historia
Cultural de los Ovnis en España 1950-1990</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
( 2022). Su trabajo de investigación para la obtención del DEA en
Antropología Social versó sobre un grupo de contactados españoles:
“Valores, símbolos y representaciones en una experiencia de
contacto extraterrestre: el Grupo Aztlán”. Ha contribuido con uno
de los 57 artículos del gran tomo </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(UPIAR, 2023). Cabria ha sido muy amable con nosotros al escribirnos
una reseña de este último libro de Maurizio Verga.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Reseña
de </b></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Flying
Saucers from Nazi Land</b></i></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,
de Maurizio Verga</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Ignacio
Cabria</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
investigador italiano Maurizio Verga se ha especializado en la
historia de las creencias sobre los extraterrestres y en la
protohistoria de los ovnis. Sobre el primer tema publicó en 2020 una
versión ampliada de su libro </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Terra
chiama Marte</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
que trata de los intentos de comunicación con los marcianos que se
llevaron a cabo en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. El mismo año
2020 Verga se decidió a publicar en inglés, para un público
internacional, un libro sobre los inicios de los ovnis en 1947, que
se tituló </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucers in the Sky</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En él buscaba las primeras interpretaciones del fenómeno como
visitantes de Marte.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
2023 ha lanzado, también en inglés, una obra en la que ha venido
trabajando durante muchos años, dedicada a los rumores y teorías
sobre el supuesto origen terrestre de los discos voladores, y más
concretamente como un invento de la Alemania nazi durante la II
Guerra Mundial. Su título es </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucers From Nazi Land: The Real Story of the Nazi UFOs</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
y cubre el periodo entre 1947 y 1954. El autor anuncia aquí un
próximo segundo volumen. Para este trabajo ha escudriñado sobre
todo en la prensa internacional de la época a fin de elaborar una
historia social de los inicios de las teorías que afirmaban que los
nazis habían construido armas secretas como grandes naves
circulares. Además de su profunda investigación personal, Verga ha
contado con la colaboración de colegas de otros países en la
aportación de noticias de prensa, en lo cual he tenido el gusto de
colaborar con recortes de la prensa española.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">De
su estudio, Maurizio Verga ha llegado a la conclusión de que los
autores que han escrito sobre los supuestos platillos volantes nazis
se han basado en noticias de prensa poco fiables, se han citado unos
a otros para hacer más creíbles sus fuentes y han dado lugar a una
leyenda persuasiva y resistente al análisis crítico. Destaca que,
con la excepción de tres libros publicados en 2022, el resto de los
autores que se han referido a los inventos de armas secretas nazis
han dado por ciertos rumores y noticias sin verificar y plagadas de
errores. El hecho cierto es, según Verga, que no existen registros
históricos sobre ningún invento nazi de nave circular antes de que
los platillos volantes hicieran su aparición en junio de 1947.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro comienza buscando las causas de la leyenda en la cultura
científica y bélica de los años cuarenta. Desde los comienzos de
la II Guerra Mundial el público occidental fue asimilando la idea de
que los nazis habían desarrollado una tecnología armamentística
avanzada. Las observaciones por pilotos aliados de un fenómeno aéreo
que llamaron </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>foo-fighters</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
y las noticias sobre “bombas volantes” que en 1946 surcaron los
cielos de Europa, se atribuyeron a armas secretas nazis. Desde el
final de la II Guerra Mundial, en la prensa de los países aliados se
publicaron libros, noticias y rumores sobre el descubrimiento en los
archivos alemanes de documentos relativos a proyectos de fantásticas
armas secretas. El público alemán era ávido lector de todo lo que
tuviera que ver con armas maravillosas hechas en Alemania. Como se
dice en el libro, “eran un buen tema para pensar que, aunque se
había perdido la guerra, eran el país más avanzado del mundo y
tenían la mejor ciencia y tecnología. Historias y rumores podían
aparecer y propagarse sin control porque ningún desmentido podía
venir de unos archivos oficiales confiscados por los aliados y aún
en sus manos por muchos años” (p. 120).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Se
sumaba a ello el rumor de que Hitler no había muerto en su búnker
en Berlín, sino que había escapado con vida en un submarino
llevándose consigo aquellos proyectos y se había instalado en la
Patagonia o en la Antártida. Se recogen aquí las encuestas que
revelan que después de la guerra aproximadamente la mitad de la
población de los países de Occidente creía que Hitler había
sobrevivido a la toma de Alemania y se encontraba escondido en algún
paraje remoto, y curiosamente España era señalada como uno de sus
posibles destinos. El sensacionalismo de la prensa fue un motor de la
gestación de la leyenda de las armas secretas.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
los </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>flying
saucers</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
aparecieron en Estados Unidos en junio de 1947, las primeras
suposiciones fueron que se trataba de vehículos muy avanzados de los
norteamericanos o los soviéticos. Aunque desde el principio hubo
especulaciones sobre un origen marciano de los platillos volantes, la
hipótesis de un origen terrestre parecía mucho más razonable. Ya
en aquellos primeros días, en julio de 1947, algunos técnicos
afirmaban haber participado en el diseño de naves en forma de disco
durante la pasada guerra mundial. Pero fue a partir de marzo de 1950,
con una oleada de observaciones de platillos volantes en distintos
países, cuando cobraron más protagonismo los que afirmaban haber
sido testigos de este invento en los años cuarenta o haber sido sus
inventores. El respetado ingeniero italiano Giuseppe Belluzzo salió
en los periódicos asegurando haber visto en 1942 los planos de un
arma secreta con forma de disco. Fue esta noticia, según Verga, la
que desató la leyenda de los platillos volantes nazis, pues a los
pocos días aparecieron en la prensa europea varios individuos
afirmando ser los inventores de esos aparatos. No era nada nuevo. En
previas oleadas de naves aéreas, como las de 1896 o 1909, se dieron
a conocer unos supuestos diseñadores de aquellas naves. Para Verga,
la idea de que los platillos volantes nazis fueron la creación de un
inventor único era ingenua y romántica (un “cuento de hadas
tecnológico”, lo denomina), pues transmitía la idea antigua y
obsoleta de que un gran avance científico podía ser obra de un
solitario inventor genial.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Espoleado
por la noticia sobre Belluzzo, se publicó en Alemania la declaración
de un ingeniero llamado Rudolf Schriever, que decía haber diseñado
en 1942 un disco volante de despegue vertical. Según él, los planos
habían sido robados por las tropas soviéticas en la ocupación de
Alemania. Verga considera a Schriever uno de los actores clave, si no
el principal, en la evolución de la leyenda. Su esquema del disco
volante ha sido después replicado y adaptado a nuevas teorías, y ha
ganado importancia con la renovación del “mito” del OVNI nazi a
partir de los años ochenta. La posibilidad de que los platillos
volantes pudieran ser el producto de la avanzada tecnología de los
nazis sucesora de las bombas V-2 resultó la más atrayente de entre
las hipótesis del origen terrestre. Después de todo, el éxodo de
científicos alemanes a Estados Unidos y a la Unión Soviética para
trabajar en nuevas tecnologías de aviación y astronáutica hacían
perfectamente posible esa sospecha. Según algunos, los platillos
volantes parecían ejemplificar el poder del Tercer Reich. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
descripción habitual de los platillos volantes de los años
cincuenta era la de un disco rotatorio, y la rotación se suponía
vinculada con el origen de su energía. Y dado que el motor de
propulsión a chorro era una creación de la última tecnología, las
primeras propuestas de discos volantes se basaron en el motor a
reacción (la </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>antigravedad</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
estaba aún reducida a la ciencia ficción y tardaría en hacerse la
propuesta dominante). En la época numerosos periódicos y revistas
mostraron ilustraciones artísticas sobre la posible estructura y
funcionamiento de aquellas hipotéticas naves.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">España
ocupa un papel no desdeñable en esta evolución de la leyenda de los
platillos nazis. Maurizio recoge las noticias y reportajes de la
prensa española de aquellos días de marzo y abril de 1950 de los
inicios del fenómeno en España. Como señalé en mi </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990 </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
en aquellos reportajes se alternaba la hipótesis marciana con la del
origen nazi y otras más extrañas, para explicar el fenómeno. Verga
hace mención a la ya famosa foto realizada por el fotógrafo
mallorquín Enrique Hausmann en abril de 1950, que en su día algunos
explicamos como un fraude elaborado con un molinillo de fuegos
artificiales, destacando que la imagen se convirtió por entonces en
un referente internacional sobre la forma de los platillos volantes.
A través de estos relatos vemos cómo crónicas puramente
especulativas, como la que publicó el diario madrileño </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Pueblo</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
el 14-4-50 sobre la posibilidad de que los platillos se estuvieran
fabricando por nazis ocultos en la Selva Negra (Alemania), dieron
lugar a historias más elaboradas y dadas por ciertas en otros
periódicos extranjeros, en una cadena de desinformación.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En
1954 la prensa internacional difundió las afirmaciones del alemán
Andreas Epp de haber entregado a los nazis en 1941 un modelo de nave
en forma de plato y haber inventado otra que fue experimentada en
Praga. En 1958 Epp buscó financiación para un proyecto de un
aparato en forma de plato que llamó Omega-Diskus, recibiendo amplia
cobertura de prensa (también en España). Verga considera toda la
trayectoria de este personaje un conjunto de mentiras y
desinformación.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En
un anexo, Maurizio trata un tema colateral a los platos voladores,
como es el de la supuesta fabricación por los nazis, al final de la
guerra, de una bomba atómica. Algunos autores incluso situaron en
diferentes puntos de España una planta de producción de armas
nucleares y otros artilugios. Estas noticias servirían luego para
apoyar la idea de los platillos volantes nazis, y habrían inspirado
el conocido reportaje del periodista canadiense Lionel Shapiro, de
noviembre de 1947, sobre la supuesta construcción de platillos en la
España de Franco.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cada
tema es esquematizado en el libro con una recapitulación de sus
puntos más importantes, sus actores principales y las correlaciones
entre ellos, y aún más interesante es el comentario que hace el
autor sobre los elementos menos convincentes de cada teoría, en un
sano ejercicio de escepticismo. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">En
resumen, estamos ante un profundo trabajo de documentación
histórica, alejado de las especulaciones fantásticas que han
embarrado el tema de los discos voladores terrestres hasta ahora.
Este libro constituirá una fuente imprescindible a la hora de
elaborar una historia completa de las teorías, especulaciones y
leyendas sobre el origen de los platillos volantes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Notas</span></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1)
Ignacio Cabria,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dirección
para adquirir el libro: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4H3J71/">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4H3J71/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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contenidos en la sección en inglés</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"> (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">)</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Border
Patrol Goes Rogue” (sobre un video registrado por la Patrulla de
fronteras)</span></span></span></span></p>
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Koi’s New AI Tool” (La nueva herramienta de Inteligencia
Artificial de I. Koi)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Looking
for a Chinese UFO Photograph” (Buscando una foto ovni en China)</span></span></span></span></p>
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from Klass” (Lo último de Klass)</span></span></span></p>
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UFO Sightings of November 18, 2023” (los últimos avistamientos
ovni en Europa)</span></span></span></p>
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Archives Recovered” (finalmente se han recuperado los archivos del
APRO)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Flying
Saucerers” (bibliografía, libro de Clarke y Roberts, ahora
disponible en línea)</span></span></span></span></p>
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PERSONAL</b></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Moisés
Garrido y Claudia Moctezuma han colgado en su canal de YouTube una
entrevista mía en Torrente TV (Valencia) en 1987. Hablé, entre
otras cosas, de mis inicios en la ufología, de la importancia del
estudio serio y científico del fenómeno ovni y del análisis que
realicé con Juan A. Fernández Peris de cientos de encuentros
cercanos con ovnis en España. Para quien tenga curiosidad:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erXBrwKcRFQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erXBrwKcRFQ</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Como siempre, las inevitables pinceladas personales, el reciente
quinto cumpleaños de mi nieto Matías, rodeado de su hermano Lucas,
de su primo Fernando y de sus tres primitas. Y en la misma fiesta,
una foto de grupo, con mi esposa, hijos y parte de la gran familia.</span></p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Igor Kalytyuk (Ucrania), José Luis
Ramírez (España), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos verdes, Méjico),
Alejandro Agostinelli (Argentina), Ulrich Magin (Alemania), Luis E.
Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina),</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Wim
van Utrecht (Caelestia, Bélgica), Julio Plaza del Olmo (España),
Roger Glassel (Suecia), Juan A. Fernández Peris (España), Luis R.
González (España), Milton W. Hourcade (GEAFI, Uruguay), Mikhail
Gershtein (Rusia), Paolo Toselli (CISU, Italia), Emili Santamaría
(España), Jaime Servera (España), Tim Printy (Estados Unidos), Mary
Castner (EE. UU.), Isaac Koi (Inglaterra), Maurizio Verga (Italia),
Ignacio Cabria (España) y Jan Aldrich (EE. UU.) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5Vt8SLYTFeiixTIL6BeMINDDFWwUypCOqCrd38zvh9RAxkOTRBR-XpNXGfLx856XVmyyj5kLdyrY45IhWQtdyVOGxyUPVGDs3MlWtoLAPi7N8ulIbD6Vh2gBFyn6BGsgP-KZZxJHPfwwxyfhzDj0qx4zQdkGYfe18nfZ9vG-9Pqq71vOdsxd/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5Vt8SLYTFeiixTIL6BeMINDDFWwUypCOqCrd38zvh9RAxkOTRBR-XpNXGfLx856XVmyyj5kLdyrY45IhWQtdyVOGxyUPVGDs3MlWtoLAPi7N8ulIbD6Vh2gBFyn6BGsgP-KZZxJHPfwwxyfhzDj0qx4zQdkGYfe18nfZ9vG-9Pqq71vOdsxd/w640-h110/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Plaza
& Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3x9272a7"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3x9272a7</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3vb29uss"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3vb29uss</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4m9f7ac3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4m9f7ac3</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">TODOCOLECCIÓN: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4r555h6y">https://tinyurl.com/4r555h6y</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>UFOs
and Government</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(editor) (con R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-51899037500272601982023-09-15T23:43:00.092+02:002023-09-19T23:24:04.795+02:002023/SEPTEMBER/15 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">English
language editing: Martin Shough.</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Latest
Book: My Correspondence with Antonio Ribera</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Released
online July 2023. Thanks to Moisés Garrido and Claudia Moctezuma,
who conducted an excellent scanning and editing job, as well as to
writer Javier Sierra, who contributed invaluable archives, I have
just compiled a 750-page PDF monograph titled </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(My correspondence with Antonio Ribera). Ribera was a renowned
ufologist of international prestige. I had an intense, albeit
intermittent correspondence with him from 1966 until 2001, the year
he passed away. Beyond our letters, we shared experiences and
journeys. The monograph includes an introduction (pages 5 to 16), the
original copies of our letters, related documents, and sheets
containing photographs from our meetings and the congresses we shared
(pages 17 to 711). It also contains one appendix with memorials
written by Garrido and Sierra (pages 712 to 718), and another
featuring all the personal dedications that Ribera inscribed in his
books to me (pages 719 to 744). This work is a historical account of
two seasoned Spanish figures involved in UFO investigation, published
with the aim of preserving the local “UFO culture”. This PDF book
(in Spanish) can be downloaded for free from the following
Academia.edu link:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB6wXK63shatFtyG5kNLPk2ZoU8m-afT4UgR4VmvIt_3ejAQ5Z0ZK1wbraV7rg31sKTz_jTTkYOgfl-Jbt-7HtLKmpuhk9FN_KYntAPKtEbOz-cDxbQ1cX6jv1sFsJQhgJyiCozb4GkvJlERMSi--7jpJ3Sk6r9_MOsuYsud5SGQXD2-bhbNW8/s3507/Ribera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB6wXK63shatFtyG5kNLPk2ZoU8m-afT4UgR4VmvIt_3ejAQ5Z0ZK1wbraV7rg31sKTz_jTTkYOgfl-Jbt-7HtLKmpuhk9FN_KYntAPKtEbOz-cDxbQ1cX6jv1sFsJQhgJyiCozb4GkvJlERMSi--7jpJ3Sk6r9_MOsuYsud5SGQXD2-bhbNW8/w141-h200/Ribera.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
less than 60 days from the book’s release, the online PDF in
Spanish has already had over 750 views and it has been downloaded
more than 250 times. This is some of the feedback received from UFO
students: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Opera
magna</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(Javier Sierra). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Excellent
job</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(José Juan Montejo). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>A
great contribution </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(David
Cuevas). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>A
hard copy, imprescindible</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(Luis Alfonso Gámez). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>An
unrepeatable recovery work </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Javier
Resines). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Excellent,
wonderful (</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
Heriberto Janosch). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Pure
gold </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Diego
Zúñiga). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Extraordinary
work </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Carlos
González). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Impressive
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Marcos
Antonio Benítez). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Great
work </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Juan
José Sánchez-Oro). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Priceless
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Julio
Arcas Gilardi). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>An
essential epistolary compilation</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(Ignacio Cabria). </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A
priceless trip to our UFO history </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Manuel
Carballal), </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Historically
important collection of documents </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Edoardo
Russo), </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A
milestone in the history of ufology in Spain</span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Jaime Servera), </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The
best tribute that nobody has been able to do to our admired Antonio
Ribera</span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Gema Lozano). </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Beautiful
and necessary ‘declassification’ </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Alejandro
Agostinelli). </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Essential
for historians of Spanish ufology</span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Dr. Ricardo Campo).</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><i>Congratulations
</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Patricio
Abusleme). </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">An
important contribution to the history of Spanish ufology </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Miguel
Guasp).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
am glad to announce that a hard print edition will be published in
the coming months by the Italian publishing house UPIAR.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
May 2023 the release was announced of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
a large volume in size (21x29 cm, 711 pages) and content (57
chapters, 60 authors from 14 countries). Edited by V.J.
Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden, it was published both in
online format through Academia.edu and in print by UPIAR (Turin,
Italy). The book is privileged with a foreword by Dr. Leonard S.
Newman and contains praise blurbs by four distinguished academic
authorities: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Dr. Steven Jay Lynn, Dr. Henry
Otgaar, and Dr. Benjamin E. Zeller. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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book explores, investigates and debates about the validity of the
human testimony when dealing with reports of unidentified flying
objects (before called flying saucers, nowadays named UAPs), both in
the theoretical and real-life perspectives. A truly academic endeavor
that is certainly here to stay for a number of years as a scholarly
piece of high-class information, research, knowledge and discussion
on this important subject matter.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Book
reviews usually take time, but some selected initial comments from
both chapter writers, readers and journals follow (one criticism
included): </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks
much and best of luck with the book. </span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr.
Elizabeth Loftus. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Congratulations
on publication of the book! </span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Benjamin E. Zeller. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">You
have poured a lot of energy, creativity, and time into it. Y</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>our
work will stand the test of time and remain a standard reference
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Richard Haines. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Awesome.
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Dr. Christopher C French. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">An
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Xavier Passot. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>It
constitutes a generational advancement from Carl Sagan and Thornton
Page's 1972 work UFOs: A Scientific Debate. You have shepherded a
significant work.</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Dr. Scott R. Scribner. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>My
deepest appreciation for your own work in this area and especially
the monumental accomplishment in getting this massive publication
done.</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Dr. Gregory J. Wheeler. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>An
impressive new book on UFO witness Testimony. </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Curt
Collins. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">V-J
Ballester Olmos and Richard Heiden have made a great effort to
materialize this extensive work</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">.
Milton Hourcade. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">It
will become the foundation stone of an emerging field of
psychological and social analysis of the UFO phenomenon. </span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Steve
Roberts, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The
Skeptic</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">,
Vol. 43, No. 2, June 2023, p 57. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>It seems a very substantial addition to the UFO literature.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> David Halperin. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>This work is mandatory acquisition and reading</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Internal Bulletin of the Omega Centauri Network </i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(Brazil), #3, 2023. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The debunker’s bible? </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR"><i>Les Mystères des ovnis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> blogsite, anonymous. </span></span></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">B</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>allester-Olmos
and Heiden’s volume deserves notice. The collection is bracingly
interdisciplinary, comprehending the social, physical, and biological
sciences … Marshalling fifty-seven varied researchers in this way
is as impressive as promising … Ballester-Olmos is a hard-working
and productive researcher; those who pass over his contributions to
the field do so at their own peril. </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Bryan
Sentes,
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://skunkworksblog.com/2023/06/16/the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-technology-on-the-planet/">https://skunkworksblog.com/2023/06/16/the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-technology-on-the-planet/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>The
utility of forensic psychology and forensic cognitive science should
not be underestimated.</i> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
subject matter experts who contributed to the Ballester-Olmos &
Heiden volume tend to concur … most of us go along rather strongly
with the demonstrable fact that perception and interpretation of UAPs
or UFOs is rooted in identifiable psychological processes, many of
which have already been characterized to a significant degree. </span></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
</span><span style="color: #2c2d30;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">MatthewJ. Sharps, </span></span><span style="color: #2c2d30;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Psychology
Today</i></span></span><span style="color: #2c2d30;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
June 5, 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202305/psychology-and-the-flying-saucer-people">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202305/psychology-and-the-flying-saucer-people</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But
apparently even experts are wrong. This is particularly relevant
where accounts from eyewitnesses are relied upon - in court, in
cryptozoology, in UFO research. On the question of how reliable
eyewitness reports are in UFO research, a comprehensive scientific
book has just been published in English by UPIAR publishing house,
which is of course also of great relevance for cryptozoologists</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
Ulrich Magin,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://netzwerk-kryptozoologie.de/zuverlaessigkeit-von-augenzeugen/">https://netzwerk-kryptozoologie.de/zuverlaessigkeit-von-augenzeugen/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OWE59_j2toeMj787URDEdRaRY09z-me6hffG8i1U7JDbwb8Dgf8nVxx34Rq3BYHHJtlyGjjwmnd0tbmPJEMEz5eNw2mhDWLeUksYkC3pwjkeQqkytpAC7VYnakBQiOSSuENi5YRcUtEUcWbvAA5B1QlpOv4wHuZdznuQp7IQeYrskE8X34A0/s640/libro.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OWE59_j2toeMj787URDEdRaRY09z-me6hffG8i1U7JDbwb8Dgf8nVxx34Rq3BYHHJtlyGjjwmnd0tbmPJEMEz5eNw2mhDWLeUksYkC3pwjkeQqkytpAC7VYnakBQiOSSuENi5YRcUtEUcWbvAA5B1QlpOv4wHuZdznuQp7IQeYrskE8X34A0/w200-h200/libro.webp" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">It
is a tough read for one sitting and just skimming through the
chapters gave my brain an overload … Each author gave their own
views on the subject and each had a lot to say. Eventually, it all
blurs together. It is akin to reading the encyclopedia. … The book
is a wonderful reference that should be in any UFOlogical library …
I am saying this because the wealth of opinions inside this tome
makes it worthwhile resource. </span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tim
Printy, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite15_4.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite15_4.pdf</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">,
page 20.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This
book is an important antidote to the UAP frenzy going on in the USA …
Given that the reliability of UFO witnesses is mainly approached from
a psychosocial perspective, ufologists might dismiss this volume as
the ultimate in debunkery and scepticism. Yet, as Dr. Newman puts it
in the Foreword: "Skeptics are knowledge-seekers. Admittedly,
our knowledge often leads us to conclusions that are uncongenial to
believers…" Whatever you believe, this is an essential
reference book for anyone interested in understanding this subject
beyond the realms of sensational headlines and TV documentaries.
</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nigel
Watson, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Magonia
Review</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">,
July 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence.html">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence.html</a>;
<a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence_13.html">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence_13.html</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thanks
for all your work on the book project, and for making it so freely
available. </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Barry Markovsky. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>You
really made a great work! My feeling is that it will become a
reference book not only in ufology. The positive “skeptical”
approach of the book deserves praise (“mérite des éloges” in
French) and it represents the originality of this publication. </i></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Marcel
Delaval. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Most
UFO evidence is witness testimony. Most of it, then, depends on the
perceptions and conceptions, memories and communicative skills of
fallible humans. Despite the central importance of the human
observer, witness reliability has too often remained a peripheral
consideration. Not any longer. The Reliability of UFO Witness
Testimony treats this very issue in over 700 pages, authored by
dozens of international scholars with diverse approaches and areas of
expertise, applied to particular cases and the general problem. Do
all UFOs dissolve into mirages when examined closely enough? Not
necessarily, but most do. For proponent and skeptic alike, this book
provides an invaluable map through the labyrinth of human
shortcomings as observers of UFOs, a necessary understanding of how
the observer can go wrong whether the things observed are
conventional or ultimately anomalous. </i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
Thomas E. Bullard. </span></span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;">An
important book</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;">. Kevin Randle.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
do not have the time or the appeal to follow up all the sources that
have covered this book. At least, over a dozen in English, French,
German and Spanish did it, probably many more. What I do know is
that, at the time of writing, this book has got more than 4,100
online visits, over 1,100 actual downloads, and hard copy sales for
collectors approaching 100 units, mailed to all parts of the world.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This large volume is available online from:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And as a print book from: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMrP4HTTb2kI5scxzWn33J05dLRXyNQECgPapFuIasLfMkhtNTDfIEI8RsqM71D7bvpjgDFzd5BRadtbhbZSkT6w46W6qsQphIJJBX3ZXre1qPHUBjj4Bm15ttBUfxhrsZVuR5z0SAV3RmK-5NMA95Lqv-AsGbUZh-BPZtq81d3xqeXpExrl-n/s701/reliability%20volumes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMrP4HTTb2kI5scxzWn33J05dLRXyNQECgPapFuIasLfMkhtNTDfIEI8RsqM71D7bvpjgDFzd5BRadtbhbZSkT6w46W6qsQphIJJBX3ZXre1qPHUBjj4Bm15ttBUfxhrsZVuR5z0SAV3RmK-5NMA95Lqv-AsGbUZh-BPZtq81d3xqeXpExrl-n/w150-h200/reliability%20volumes.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">Interview
in a Brand New UFO Magazine</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
first issue (September 2023) of a new Spanish PDF UFO publication
contains an interview with yours truly in pages 4 to 7. Directed by
José Luis Ramírez Lagares, it is titled </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Revista
de Ufología </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Ufology
Revue) and can be downloaded for free from here: </span></span></span><a href="https://revistadeufologia.blogspot.com/2023/09/revista-de-ufologia-n-1-ano-1.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://revistadeufologia.blogspot.com/2023/09/revista-de-ufologia-n-1-ano-1.html</span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2liszSYdStzI4vxf0FLUG2i4ofWk-4Axjsw2Uxu6AJXVXEIzNO00P_Ux9_I1f_7KJ8ftl9clzMKbXQ6vz0PgEIP0pPVEETp0RYVmt5fM5D99dX7MwPcPLg-qvXGVi06N2CDT6z7TDuFPWJrCQ_Upur8aZJlMIMPEsH97U3_vYmZkUcgltTzOE/s1755/Entrevista.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1241" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2liszSYdStzI4vxf0FLUG2i4ofWk-4Axjsw2Uxu6AJXVXEIzNO00P_Ux9_I1f_7KJ8ftl9clzMKbXQ6vz0PgEIP0pPVEETp0RYVmt5fM5D99dX7MwPcPLg-qvXGVi06N2CDT6z7TDuFPWJrCQ_Upur8aZJlMIMPEsH97U3_vYmZkUcgltTzOE/w141-h200/Entrevista.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk142684288"></a>
<span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
UFO Whistleblower Hearing</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">V.J.
Ballester Olmos</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Chris Aubeck</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Julio Plaza del Olmo</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">FORMAL
LINK FOR BIBLIOGRAPHY CITATIONS:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
United States Congress's House Oversight Committee was established
"to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of
the federal government and all its agencies.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Within its structure is the Subcommittee on National Security, the
Border, and Foreign Affairs.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
This subcommittee decided to convene a UFO hearing, suggesting that
national security, public safety, and government transparency are at
stake.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Rumors
of pressure from Pentagon brass against the hearing, NASA officials
pulling out, AARO rejecting participation, and potential witnesses
not clearing their political backgrounds with the Committee's
investigator's check, overshadowed the preliminary proceedings of the
meeting.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
don't know whether to label it as ridiculous or shameful. Under the
guise of a bipartisan initiative, the real scenario is a group of
mostly Republican politicians seemingly trying to undermine the
Democrat administration, using the tenuous pretext of UFOs this time
around.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Whether they are naive, misinformed, driven by ideology, or simply
gullible remains unclear. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Three
individuals testified on July 26, 2023, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">before
those United States Congress lawmakers.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">8,9</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Two of them, D. Fravor and R. Graves, have extensively discussed
their UFO experiences on TV shows and in interviews over the years.
The third, D. Grusch, has recently risen to media prominence with a
slew of sensational—and certainly fantastical—claims.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">So,
the immediate and pressing question is: did they reveal anything new?
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
simple answer is no. Matt</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">er-of-factly,
all that effort was pointless. To begin with, what was the intention
of this hearing? </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">First
and foremost, it was</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">an
attempt to highlight alleged secrecy and lack of transparency by the
U.S. Government on the UFO subject. Then, to excite </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">the
audience of the pro-UFO movement by affirming that UFOs (UAP as they
are called today, after the terms flying saucer and UFO </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">lost
their novelty</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">)
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">persistently
pose threats to US national security</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
UFO narrative has been in the spotlight in the last few years in the
United States, and the topic generates interest, with critiques of
the Government’s cover-up being particularly palatable to the
public. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">two-hour
and 17-minute hearing can be summarized as follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk141686106"></a>
<span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Retired
US </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Navy
Commander and longtime UFO enthusiast, David Fravor, once again
detailed</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
his first-hand</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
well-known UFO sighting </span></span><span style="color: #141414;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on
November 14, 2004</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
while dispatched from the USS Nimitz carrier, 110 miles off San
Diego, California. He described a "tic-tac" shaped UFO that
moved in a way that baffled aviators. Infrared airborne footage
related to this event was released in 2017. The footage was initially
claimed to demonstrate unusual flight characteristics, such as sharp
acceleration. However, experts have since dismissed these claims and
assessed the object in the video as likely being a conventional
aircraft.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">10,11,12</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk141686365"></a><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2)
Former military pilot Ryan </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Graves
was flying an F-18 near Jacksonville, Florida on January 21, 2015,
operating from the USS Roosevelt carrier, when another of the three
infamous “Navy UAP FLIR videos” was captured, colloquially
referred to as “Gimbal.” The footage displays a peculiar rotation
of the target that puzzled the pilots. However, experts have shown
this rotation to be an artifact of the gimbal mechanism</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
used for tracking the target, and they believe the footage merely
depicts a conventional aircraft.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">14,15</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Graves did not record this video, as he was in a different plane at
the time, but he claims to have seen the “fleet of UFOs” when
viewing recorded video on the radar screen, sometime after the
incident. Furthermore, he has reported a few second-hand sightings of
UFOs that resemble a black cube enclosed in a transparent sphere.
During his testimony, which was replete with second-hand accounts, he
shared that a colleague once nearly collided with a UFO. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Experience
in factual UFO investigation has repeatedly shown the following
sequence: a pilot reports encountering a UFO during flight. Many,
wrongly assuming that pilots are exceptional observers, are left
stunned. Indeed, when a pilot with countless hours in advanced
fighter jets recounts an event of such scale and apparent drama, it
resonates strongly, particularly to laypeople. But when the sighting
undergoes thorough and impartial scrutiny, the object often gets
identified as an airplane, balloon, drone, bird, or planet. The pilot
or the equipment simply erred. It's undeniable that individuals from
all walks of life—farmers, clergy, military personnel, and so
on—observe objects or lights in the sky they cannot identify,
usually due to their limited knowledge or other causes. Pilots are no
exception; they can both mis-observe and misreport. Over 1,300 UFO
sightings by pilots are recorded in the annals of ufology. However,
dispassionate research proves that well-documented and properly
briefed air encounters tend to lead to full rational explanations, or
reasonably match naturally occurring phenomena or man-made objects.
Those that remain debatable are likely due to a lack of comprehensive
information. For example, the latest examination of the most
comprehensive database of airborne UFO sightings, where 55 cases were
meticulously reviewed, produced the following findings:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">16</span></sup></span></span></p>
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David Grusch, a former intelligence officer</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
“member</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
of the UAP Task Force from 2019 to 2021</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">17</span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
and … from 2021 to April 2023 at the National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency,” allegedly </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reporting
to the UAPTF and AARO.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Recently,
Grusch has shot to media fame by amazing claims such as that the
United States possesses several extraterrestrial craft resulting from
crashes and have been covertly reverse engineering their technology
for years. The current hearing was keenly awaited, with bated breath,
as many wondered what new details he might divulge</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">to
the congressmen and congresswomen, eagerly assembled for this very
testimony, in the company of two opening acts? On a side note, Grusch
was backed-up by two fellow guardians of the faith: George T. Knapp,
an American television journalist, conspiracy theorist and believer
in the paranormal, and Jeremy Corbell, a documentary filmmaker who
accessed UFO footage leaked from the UAPTF, promptly broadcasted as
evidence of extraterrestrial presence, only to be later debunked by
down-to-earth analysts</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19</span></span></sup></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQfYE_-T6W0eRke1pNHgZpx3monpeIc1GWuubn9jkS4drjgB8y3RVqN8Px13i0yp0OwWcZSsR9ZzehXSXDQkHxmMJjCp_q1JZwnn-kCWnrYaUSCOfcoBvYSLCSTY_WqwuJxwzYXxB_49Cg4vPj9vUvxIt1TG6fu41MhX6r74BxEw1VZ7A0Y5I/s885/audiencia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="885" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQfYE_-T6W0eRke1pNHgZpx3monpeIc1GWuubn9jkS4drjgB8y3RVqN8Px13i0yp0OwWcZSsR9ZzehXSXDQkHxmMJjCp_q1JZwnn-kCWnrYaUSCOfcoBvYSLCSTY_WqwuJxwzYXxB_49Cg4vPj9vUvxIt1TG6fu41MhX6r74BxEw1VZ7A0Y5I/s320/audiencia.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">David
Grusch. Behind him, Knapp and Corbell.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
core of his declaration is the existence of a “multi decade UAP
crash retrieval and reverse engineering program” in the United
States, to which very conveniently he was denied access when
requested it. He stated he had “personal knowledge” of people
harmed or injured in efforts to cover up extraterrestrial technology,
but when pressed for details by Anna P. Luna (R-FL), he simply talked
about “concerns based on the interviews I conducted.” Grusch
affirmed he personally “suffered retaliation” because of his
decision to report to his superiors. When cross-examined, he
described it as “brutal and very unfortunate.” He avoided
elaborating so as not to</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">compromise
a whistleblower investigation against him that was underway. However,
he noted the existence of an “active, planned reprisal activity
against myself … from certain senior leadership at previous
agencies I was associated with,” which he called “administrative
terrorism.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">20</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
He also shared the belief that people had been murdered by
concealing alien secrets, and said: “I directed </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>people
with that knowledge</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
to the appropriate authorities.” [Our emphasis] Additionally, he
mentioned hostile activity caused by alien technology to humans. He
reiterated his vague claim about the Government’s “multidecade
campaign to disenfranchise public interest” in UFOs. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Grusch
labeled his belief that the Government is in possession of UAPs as
“absolute” (based on … “interviewing over 40 witnesses over
four years.”) He applied the term “non-human” to alleged U.S.
Government awareness of alien evidence occurring since the “1930s”
(incidentally, this is something that scholarly ufologists had
written off as a fake years ago.)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">21,22</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Particularly, when Nancy Mace (R-SC) naively asked if we have the
bodies of pilots of this craft, he affirmed that “biologics came
with some of these recoveries. Yeah …Non-human, and that was the
assessment of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>people
…I talked to</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
that are currently still on the program.” [Our emphasis]</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Grusch
also presented theoretical arguments to offset the awkward issue of
saucer crashes</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">raised
by Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO) during an excellent
interrogation: “multi dimensionality … the framework … called
the Holographic Principle. It both derives itself from general
relativity and quantum mechanics … you can be projected from higher
dimensional space to lower dimensional.” Clearly, this individual
is deeply immersed in the concepts found in hypothetically
speculative papers produced by the AAWSAP.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
This person is materially living in Wonderland! Few specifics can be
found in Grusch’s discourse, which conveniently shields him from
direct rebuttal. However, he did mention something about saucer
recoveries that can be ascertained or refutable: “the recoveries
predate a lot of our advanced programs.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">From
our perspective, the overarching tone of the majority of Republican
comments was one of credulity, likely swayed by recent media
narratives. For us, the standout portion of the hearing was when Mr.
Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) stepped in, bringing a higher level of rigor
and skepticism to the proceedings. He presented pointed questions
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">that
could get Grusch into trouble if his replies were finally proved
false. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Grusch
found a way out, though, by frequently claiming that the information
in question was “confidential.” For instance:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
… </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">have
you met with people with direct knowledge … of non-human origin
craft? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:
Yes, I personally </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>interviewed</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
those individuals. [Our emphasis]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
… </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">have
you met with people with direct knowledge … about advanced
technologies that the US. Government has?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:
I was </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>briefed</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
to the preponderance of the Defense Department’s, both space and
aerospace compartment of programs.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do
you have knowledge that there are programs in the advanced tech space
that are unsanctioned?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes,
I do.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Q:
…when you say that they’re above congressional oversight, what do
you mean?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:
Complicated question … there’s some I would call it abuse here …
congressional oversight of conventional special access programs. So
I’ll use title 10 … However, the Gang of Eight is … supposed to
be notified if a … unacknowledged SAP is created …</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
don’t want to cut you off, but how does a program like that get
funded?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A:
I will give you generalities. I can get very specific in a closed
session. But misappropriation of funds, and,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Q:
does that mean that there is money in the budget that is said to go
to a program, but it doesn’t, and it goes to something else?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes,
I have specific knowledge of that.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do
you think US Corporations are overcharging for certain tech they’re
selling to the US. Government and that additional money is going to
programs?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Correct.
Through something called IR&D. [Independent Research &
Development] </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Let’s
talk about satellite imagery … do you have direct knowledge …
that there are satellite imagery of these events?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
… </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
personally reviewed both [at NGIA] what we call overhead collection
and from other strategic and tactical platforms that were I could not
even explain prosaically...</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
… </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Crash
imagery?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
can’t discuss that in an open session.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Q:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do
you have any information that the US government is involved in a
disinformation campaign to deny the existence of certain UAPs? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A:
I can’t go beyond what I’ve already stated publicly in my News
Nation interview because it touches other sensitivities.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Grusch’s</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">prepared
statement raised several questions, but his responses were
consistently evasive, often resorting to a go-to phrase: “I can’t
discuss that publicly” (not to mention his pretentious style of
replying to simple questions).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">24</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
His laconic responses often left an aura of mystery. Essentially, his
main excuse for not divulging more information was that he could “go
to jail for revealing classified information,” even though he had
already discussed the matter in TV interviews.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Examination
of his testimony under oath reveals that it is based on information
given to him by third parties. When asked whether he saw the
spacecraft and the bodies, his answer was either non-committal or
negative. He did not share any piece of the “compelling evidence”
he claims to have received, and he did not name any sources, timing,
or locations, either. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
are confident this gentleman trusts his sources. However, we question
the legitimacy of their claims and seriously doubt that his bold
statements hold any merit</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.
Notably, the legend of UFO crashes and alien bodies in the custody of
the United States has been a longstanding narrative in UFO
literature, filled with countless uncorroborated and unverified
tales.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">25</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On
the oft-discussed topic of stigma, the three "witnesses"
were specifically asked if they faced any repercussions from their
superiors after reporting their encounters with a UAP. Both pilots
Fravor and Graves answered “No”. Star witness Grusch had to
reply: “I’ve actually never seen anything personally.” A
witness of what, then? Of hearsay and rumors, as will be proved when
it is duly investigated.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Reflecting
on this hearing, one might have anticipated a more skeptical stance
from the Congress representatives. Ideally, lawmakers should uphold a
degree of discernment and criticality. However, they appeared merely
to seek validation of the assertions already made by their
"witnesses", seldom challenging or interrogating their
statements. Whenever Grusch was pressed for details, he demurred. No
one censured him even when he made grave accusations about "harmful
and aggressive activity" and “colleagues allegedly injured”
by both the UAPs and the "Federal Government". How can
elected officials remain so unperturbed when presented with such
alarming claims?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These
politicians must possess an extraordinary level of resilience to
calmly endure Grusch's public derision. He basically said, "I
can't give information in public.” Then why was he even summoned to
testify? Grusch openly ridiculed the Congress members with palpable
arrogance. He loves to show he is privy to unique information. The
simple, straightforward question: do you believe our government has
made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials? is answered as
“Something I can’t discuss in public setting.” It's a classic
case of casting aspersions and then evading responsibility.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
ill-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">designed
hearing was clearly redundant and ineffective. This wasn't solely
because the UFO stories shared by the three testifying witnesses were
already public knowledge, but also because the stated goal—that the
Government establishes a protocol for safely reporting UFO
sightings—had previously been announced as the primary objectives
of the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Indeed,
the Pentagon’s UFO department had designated this objective as the
"authorized reporting mechanism and public guidance,"
originally scheduled for rollout in March 2023.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">26</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But
as a reader, you would rightly ask us: what's our assessment of these
sworn statements? </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Regarding
pilot-related UFO incidents, we've already established that after 76
continuous years of sightings—from land, air, and space—no
presented case has proved to be irreconcilable with human-made flying
vehicles. True evidence isn't mere chatter: it is tangible proof. And
such irrefutable proof is noticeably absent. We understand the power
of dreams. But certain dreams do not come true.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
for Grusch's grandiose declarations, they're questionable and
problematic. They boil down to mere hearsay. He just relayed claims
told to him by others. Nothing presented is verifiable, with no
palpable or documented evidence. It’s clear that he had been fed
false information that he has uncritically accepted. We perceive this
as a monumental misstep by the U.S. Congress in their dealings with
the UFO subject, UFO proponents, the UFO lobby in the American
Congress, impressionable politicians, and a media frantically
pursuing viewership. Yet</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">a
seemingly pyrrhic victory by Grusch and the UAP lobby, who've
momentarily secured a potent platform for such baseless testimonies.
But time puts everyone in their place.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk141686901"></a><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">What
has this session truly accomplished? It has merely amplified a set of
extravagantly dubious claims. Claims that AARO must now meticulously
dissect and disprove. Could this be the reason behind the delay of
their 2022 annual report, initially expected in July 2023? The
Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough rapidly challenged Grusch’s
allegations by specifically stating that the Pentagon does not have
“any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any
programs regarding the possession or reverse engineering of
extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist
currently.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">27</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
This aligns with the official statement from the Pentagon when these
allegations first emerged in early June 2023.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">28</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(See “Pentagon Response” caption below).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
wouldn't certainly want to be in Dr. Kirkpatrick's shoes, but an
immediate response has been released that places AARO on a collision
course with Grusch's unsubstantiated claims.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">29</span>
</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Indeed,
24 hours later, AARO’s chief released a compelling letter defending
his team’s transparency and setting the record straight. As
couldn’t be otherwise, this was defined both by Dr. Kirkpatrick and
by the Pentagon as “personal opinions” expressed in his capacity
as a private citizen.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">30</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(See “Hearings and Transparency” document).</span></span><span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
most remarkable words by Kirkpatrick are that the “central source …
[certainly Grusch] has refused to speak with AARO” and that</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">“the
information reportedly provided to the Congress has not been provided
to AARO”. Kirkpatrick is crystal clear saying that they have not
yet found any evidence of secret programs or evidence about the
recovered crafts and biological remains claimed during the hearings. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">An
accurate recap for the depositions of the three declarants appears in
a chat between Mick West and Steven Greenstreet:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">31 </span></sup></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David
Fravor: he claimed to have had a 5-minute encounter with the “Tic
Tac” UFO while flying off San Diego, but his wing pilot, Alex Anne
Dietrich, twittered it was just an ”8-10 seconds visual.” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ryan
Graves: he did not see a UFO himself. Updated radar systems
implemented in their aircraft during 2014-2015 detected anomalies
“every day” when in the W-72 military training area off the coast
of Virginia. Sightings of a “cube inside a clear sphere” could be
smaller Chinese spy balloons from nearby Cuba. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David
Grusch: “very disappointing … he did not say anything new.. A
second-hand or n-hand testimony. As for most congresspeople: “they
did not understand the situation.”</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u>: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks
are due to Edoardo Russo (CISU, Italy), Dr. Luis Cayetano
(ufologyiscorrupt blogsite, USA), and Mick West (Metabunk blogsite,
USA).</span></p>
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Douglas D. Johnson. Document borrowed from:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations</span></span></span></a></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UFO
FOTOCAT Project: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Author,
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Wonders
in the Sky</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
(with Jacques Vallée), </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Alien
Artifacts From Antiquity to 1880</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(3)
Research physicist</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/about/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/about/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/national-security/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/national-security/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(6)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Matt
Laslo, Ask A Pol website</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(7)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For
example, here is an extract from the introduction by Mr. Glenn
Grothman, Chairman (R-WI): “…despite these offices being
established [AARO and the NASA independent study], there lies a
pressing demand for government transparency and accountability …
The Biden administration handling of the Chinese spy balloon that
violated US. Air space is one example how the government is not
prepared for these. The Biden Administration’s description of
events has shown that the government continues not to be forthright
… Yet we have seen little clarity from the Biden administration. We
must demand transparency from the Department of Defense, our
intelligent community, and our defense industry on the UAP work.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(8)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hearing
online viewing:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(9)
Hearing transcript:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://picdataset.com/ai-news/full-transcript-of-subcommittee-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://picdataset.com/ai-news/full-transcript-of-subcommittee-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(10)
J. Plaza del Olmo, “The FLIR1 Video,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(11)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mick
West, “Nimitz FLIR1 “tic tac” UFO video – No Sudden Moves!” </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(12)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Luke
M. Herrington, “Cutting the Chaff: Overlooked Lessons of Military
UAP Sightings for Joint Force and Interagency Coordination,”
National Defense University Press, July 7, 2023,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3447233/cutting-the-chaff-overlooked-lessons-of-military-uap-sightings-for-joint-force/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3447233/cutting-the-chaff-overlooked-lessons-of-military-uap-sightings-for-joint-force/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(13)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(14)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mick
West, “Gimbal UFO – A new analysis,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(15)
On the same day, during the COMPTUEX military exercise, another U.S.
Navy pilot captured video footage of a different UFO, later named “Go
Fast”. During NASA’s UAP live-streamed meeting in May 2023, Dr.
Joshua Semeter, a professor of computer engineering and director of
the Center for Space Physics at Boston University, analyzed the
footage. Contrary to the initial belief that the object was flying
low and fast, Dr. Semeter concluded that it was actually at a high
altitude and moving slowly, characteristics consistent with a
balloon. Refer to: V.J. Ballester Olmos and Chris Aubeck, “The
Needle in the Haystack: Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May
2023,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(16)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tim
Printy, “The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool’s
Gold?” in V.J. Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
UPIAR (Turin), 2023, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(17)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Surprisingly,
this employment at the UAPTF is not included in his bio: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GruschD-20230726.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GruschD-20230726.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(18)
U.S. Navy’s UAPTF (2018-2020), DoD’s UAPTF (Aug 2020-2021),
DoD’s AOIMSG (Nov 2021-2022), and DoD’s AARO (July 2022 to date).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(19)
The influence of these people on some congressmen’s background is
profoundly alarming. From the statement by Mr. Tim Burchett (R-TN):
“I know I saw it in the crowd there. George Knapp. My buddy. Jeremy
Corbell. They’re not witnesses, but they’ve provided some
statements on this subject. And I seek unanimous consent to enter
those statements into the record.” From our perspective, the
information provided to the House seems dangerously biased.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(20)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Compare
the opposite treatment received by the two pilots (actual UFO
witnesses) and Mr. Grusch. At the question by Mr. Jamie Raskin
(D-MD), Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee: “Can you
describe your experience after you decided to come forward and go
public with your experience?” Graves simply decided to report his
own experience without any further problem, and Fravor was treated
“very well.” Only a stigma for liars?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(21)
Giuseppe Stilo, “Fascisti su Marte,” </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>UFO</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
August 2003, pp 32-39,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-no-grazie/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-no-grazie/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
English translation:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-no-thank-you/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-no-thank-you/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(22)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Massimiliano
Grandi, "I "files fascisti" sotto esame,” </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>UFO</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
July 2004, pp. 44-47,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-il-parere-dellarchivista/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-il-parere-dellarchivista/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">English
translation:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-a-professional-archivists-opinion/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-a-professional-archivists-opinion/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(23)
A precursor to the UAPTF. DIA’s Defense Warning Office, Advanced
Aerospace Weapon System Application Program (AAWSAP, nicknamed AATIP)
funded with $22 mils, outsourced to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space
Studies (BAAS), 2008-2012, an output of 38 Defense Intelligence
Reference Documents (DIRD), </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Adia-files-207723%20"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Adia-files-207723%20</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(24)
For example. Question: “if we wanted to find out more … where
would we go to find the files?” Answer: “I could potentially give
you a vector on that.” Or when using “my personal leadership”
instead of “me.” Come on, dude!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(25)
Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A case
study of alleged UFOs and occupants in military custody,“ in Walter
H. Andrus (ed.), </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>MUFON
UFO Symposium Proceedings</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
(Seguin, Texas), 1978, pp 77-105,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.scribd.com/document/298409397/1978-Mufon-Symposium#"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.scribd.com/document/298409397/1978-Mufon-Symposium#</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(26)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">V.J.
Ballester Olmos, “The Pentagon UAP Study 2023,”</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(27)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nomaan
Merchant and Tara Copp, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Time</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
July 29, 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://time.com/6299432/the-ufo-congressional-hearing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://time.com/6299432/the-ufo-congressional-hearing/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(28)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">NewsNation,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSj7QsHRxHQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSj7QsHRxHQ</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
June 6, 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(29)
Tim McMillan and Micah Hanks, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The
Debrief</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
July 28, 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/director-of-pentagons-uap-investigations-challenges-claims-made-in-recent-uap-hearing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/director-of-pentagons-uap-investigations-challenges-claims-made-in-recent-uap-hearing/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(30)</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Howard
Altman, The War Zone, “Pentagon UFO Boss Fires Back At
Whistleblower Allegations,” July 28, 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(31)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EDyZvv3D3ws"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/EDyZvv3D3ws</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>In
the Wake of the Congressional UAP Hearing</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1.
More on Grusch. Every piece of information on an individual claiming
such aberrant, proofless stories must be taken into account, like
this: </span></span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/ufo-david-grusch-clearance/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/ufo-david-grusch-clearance/</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
expected, the TV channel that prompted the original “whistleblower”
interview with Grusch suggests it is a “smear campaign from the
intelligence community”. In my view, this person was grossly
manipulated by his UFO-obsessive partners and will finally destroy
his reputation when his claims are exposed as simply false.
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXq7DHEqCc"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXq7DHEqCc</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
Debrief</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> on this: </span></span><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-struggles-of-a-whistleblower-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-latest-uap-revelations/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-struggles-of-a-whistleblower-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-latest-uap-revelations/</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Knowing
what UFOs (or UAPs) are, or should I say what they aren’t, will
take time, but proof that Grusch’s assertions are completely bogus
will be found relatively soon. From then on, we will be able to
determine which sources are reliable and which are not.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2.
Jason Colavito’s blogsite: “UFO Roundup: Gillibrand Hasn't Seen
Aliens, but on Fox News UFOs Are Demons,” a quite illuminating
entry here:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ufo-roundup-gillibrand-hasnt-seen-aliens-but-on-fox-news-ufos-are-demons"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ufo-roundup-gillibrand-hasnt-seen-aliens-but-on-fox-news-ufos-are-demons</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3.
The tasty Tic Tac video. It has already been explained away as a
probable aircraft. The YouTube channel “Found and Explained”
program proposes that it was an operation to test aviators and
newly-installed equipment in the course of flight exercises in
restricted, military range areas: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3c6pyLWzqc"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3c6pyLWzqc</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4.
Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp as influencers to Congress members
on UFOs: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKtI91TdRjQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKtI91TdRjQ</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">5.
Jason Colavito, “David Grusch Works for Garry Nolan and Chris
Mellon, New Document Shows,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-works-for-garry-nolan-and-chris-mellon-new-document-shows"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/david-grusch-works-for-garry-nolan-and-chris-mellon-new-document-shows</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6.
Mick West on David Grusch’s allegations: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhMMhW-JN0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhMMhW-JN0</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">7.
For the curious, the David Grusch timeline: </span></span><a href="https://www.papooselake.org/the-updated-bob-lazar-timeline"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.papooselake.org/the-updated-bob-lazar-timeline</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">8.
Chris Mellon also lobbies the U.S. Congress on UFOs: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellon-becomes-ozymandias-talks-benefits-of-alien-threat-to-humanity"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellon-becomes-ozymandias-talks-benefits-of-alien-threat-to-humanity</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">9.
Compass Rose Attorneys Formally End Association with UAP
Whistleblower David Grusch, Christopher Plain writes in </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
Debrief</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/compass-rose-attorneys-formally-end-association-with-uap-whistleblower-david-grusch/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/compass-rose-attorneys-formally-end-association-with-uap-whistleblower-david-grusch/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">10.
Researcher Douglas D. Johnson writes: Received from DoD spokesperson
Sue Gough: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>To date, AARO has
not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that
any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of
extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist
currently</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">. </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From:
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1665869928547713024"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1665869928547713024</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">11.
Jason Colavito’s revealing blog entry “UFO "Whistleblower"
Has Suspiciously Close Ties to the Usual Suspects,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ufo-whistleblower-has-suspiciously-close-ties-to-the-usual-suspects"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ufo-whistleblower-has-suspiciously-close-ties-to-the-usual-suspects</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">12.
John Greenewald, Jr, in The Black Vault, explores the "UFO
Whistleblower" story. Watch this:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64B6r6HsL58"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64B6r6HsL58</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">13.
Charlotte Klein’s “Why </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
New York Times</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
Washington Post</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, and
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Politico</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Didn’t Publish a Seemingly Bombshell Report About UFOs,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/ufo-report-media"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/ufo-report-media</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">14.
Those UFO advocate Congress members are caught up in a network of
disinformation, rumors and plainly false information on Government
concealing of UFO-alien programs. See what they believe in this
article by Marik von Rennenkampff,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4101345-non-human-intelligence-schumer-proposes-stunning-new-ufo-legislation/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4101345-non-human-intelligence-schumer-proposes-stunning-new-ufo-legislation/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">15.
While </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The Washington
Spectator</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> on July 20, 2023
set the record straight in a more critical fashion, fortunately:
“Spaceship of Fools,” by Art Levine,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">16.
On July 31, 2023, senior astronomer Seth Shostak published in The
SETI Institute’s news weekly the article “The truth is out there.
But this UFO ‘whistleblower’ likely doesn’t have it,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/hrkscpxw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/hrkscpxw</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">17.
The scene in Canada. After some prior Government statements claimed
to be ambiguous by interested parties, finally the Canadian
Government released </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">this
particular declaration: </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>We
can confirm that the Canadian Armed Forces </i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(CAF)/</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
Department of National Defence </i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(DND)</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
have never had any possession of any UAP materials. </i></span></span></span><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2023/06/recent-canadian-correspondence-about.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2023/06/recent-canadian-correspondence-about.html</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">18.
On February 2023, the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada,
reported establishing Sky Canada Project, “to enquire how UAP
reporting is managed in Canada and recommend improvements, if
necessary.” Marking a difference with the neighbor USA, this
project is out of the DND and CAF. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23692834-sky-canada-project-ocsa?responsive=1&title=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23692834-sky-canada-project-ocsa?responsive=1&title=1</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Dr.
Kirkpatrick Talks Again</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On
July 21, 2003, ABC News Live Prime (15 million subscribers) devoted
an 8.43 minute segment to an interview in the Pentagon to Dr. Sean
Kirkpatrick, director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in late July. They call
it an exclusive interview, I call it a spoiled and wasted interview.
It must be difficult to accomplish an interview with the “Pentagon’s
top UFO investigator” and, I would add, top UAP figure in the world
today. However, the conversation conducted by Devin Dwyer, unless it
is an abridged format cut from some extended per-pay platform, was
very simple. Checking the transcript (thanks to Chris Aubeck), out of
1382 words, hardly 421 were exactly questions and answers, the rest
was just filler. This is the body of the interview, Dr. Kirkpatrick’s
words in italics, followed by my remarks:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>I'm
a long-term intelligence officer, scientist and military officer. </i></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
What keeps you up at night?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Technical surprise and that
could be adversary technical surprise or extraterrestrial technical
surprise</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">If
the question is rhetorical, even sensationalist, the reply is naive.
With just one year on the job, how does he dare to advance either of
these two surprising, unexpected options as a solution for the UFO
phenomenon? If it weren't dramatic, the situation would be laughable:
the United States Government appoints a UFO investigator to figure
out if the country is under surveillance by foreign powers! Russians
and Chinese must be cackling. But make no mistake: I am fully
convinced that AARO will perform a magnificent work in the analysis
of military-sourced UFO reports (listen, it constitutes but a petty
part of the whole phenomenon, and not a representative one!) But, at
the same time, based on the phenomenology that has emerged since
1947, it is perfectly conceivable that there will be no technical
surprise, that is, most examined cases will be “characterized”
(their terminology), only a minor portion will be related to foreign
intelligence activity, and no signs of any UAP/ET relationship will
be found. I give AARO five years maximum to reach that position. But
I can understand that Kirkpatrick also wishes to keep up the suspense
(probably he does believe what he is saying, as well). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Q:
It's a big job </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Yes</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
journalist now does not pose any query but raises an assertion that
is naturally corroborated. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
What's the most common misconception people have of UAPs or of the
work you're doing?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>That they're all the same
thing and they're all extraterrestrial and neither of those are true
… we have to go through the rigor of taking each one matching it
against our known objects and known catalogs and then reviewing that
peer reviewing that making sure that everybody's in agreement.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That
appears to be an abbreviated, cropped interview, pieces of missing
talk must be in the middle. Anyway we could interpret that he is
claiming that (1) there is no single common explanation for the UAP
reports collected by AARO, and that (2) this is not extraterrestrial.
I agree with both points. There are multiple origins and natures for
UAP reports, and all of them are conventional, manmade or natural.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
What's your best guess of what happened there?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>It's really hard to guess on
this and I don't like to guess</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
is about the “tic tac” airborne incident of November 14, 2004
which occurred some 110 NM SSW off San Diego, California. A probable
aircraft combined with camera motion for some analysts. Good to see
that Kirkpatrick is not willing to give the journalist the headline
he is seeking.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
So have you hit a dead end with this one then?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The more things that I see
that resemble a Tic Tac then I can get more and more information
about what that is</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Facing
the reporter’s insistence, the only recourse is a general response
to say that more identical events are needed to weigh its real
strangeness. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q.
So that two to five percent which are anomalous incidents which
you're still looking into, could potentially be extraterrestrial
activity?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>So we are going to follow
our data and our investigations wherever it goes right so I have a
full range of hypotheses</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
So you can't rule it out</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><u>I can't rule it out but I
don't have any evidence that says that yet</u></i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(My emphasis).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kirkpatrick
is as restrained as possible, not to allow the journalist to round
off his write-up. But he cannot state the ETH is out of order yet
because he would be marked as skeptical and, therefore, lame for this
job. I’d venture he is totally honest as far as his thoughts in his
responsibilities at AARO.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
You can say categorically you've seen no convincing, confirmable
evidence it's intact spacecraft kept by the US government</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"> <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>No,
I have seen nothing that leads me to that conclusion</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is crystal clear. Do you hear Mr. Grusch?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"> <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Q:
Is it possible there is some secret program that you're just not
aware of?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"> <span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>I
don't think so, I have access to anything and everything I need</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I
hope some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, polluted
with UFO ideas, realize how high and clear is this statement from the
one who has the need to know. It is the type of question that
paranoid</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">conspiracy
theorists would ask. Kirkpatrick’s reaction is straightforward and
needs no interpretation. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
Why do you think these whistleblowers are coming forward?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
Well, one I think the recent law which extended whistleblower
protections to them and named AARO as the authorized disclosure
Authority, uh opens the door for them to come and tell us exactly
what they think they saw or know about </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
Do you believe them?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
I believe that they believe what they're telling me, and my job is
not to, it's not a question of belief, right, it's a question of what
can I go research</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Impeccable.
Everybody is entitled to their beliefs but unless they do not show
incontrovertible evidence to back up their claims, they remain mere
worthless beliefs.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>So
a lot of these allegations crop up again and again over </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">That
new sentence followed a commentator’s off voice on the recent
legislation to force the U.S. Government to publicly release any UAP
records created in the last 25 years. Kirkpatrick refers to the
“Government Disclosure” myth that pops up every few years
assuring that the United States President will go public confessing
they have aliens in a Pentagon pantry. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Q:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Do
you think extraterrestrial life is out there?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>I
think it's statistically unrealistic to think it isn't. I mean given
the vastness of the universe…</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Of
course, who says no to that one? But the matter of fact is that life
in the universe has nothing to do at all with the UFO phenomenon. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q:
Are you going to find it on your watch?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A:
W</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>ell,
wouldn't that be fun and that would be probably the best outcome of
this job</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Another
circus question. Every ufologist in their believer stance dreamed of
proving the flying saucer-alien equation. Kirkpatrick still shows
historical ignorance on the true UFO phenomenon (he is inundated by
recent UAP reports from pilots and other technological platforms),
otherwise he would not hazard to think that finding ET life signs in
UAP reports is an option. Well, maybe it's better that way. He will
receive less pressure from believers and will be able to work in
peace. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
ABCN online brief program is located here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpLXP0poug"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpLXP0poug</span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyJxM9dAw4uPOYSGKvs_WjwFgV9juoy7QnVUDUKQPR7cSYJk6OfXv0qFq6C0SLRggnPyUr0StzWwotWp6HKkpRCO6DcJrjbekti2exPB6loVfX5C1n9bVHIPL2axq0v1xrD1Rlb18iX7Io7j-7mmOcQ6AVVHgZUTTv8xytOmXFndQXKoh1K7K/s1032/Kirkpatrick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="1032" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyJxM9dAw4uPOYSGKvs_WjwFgV9juoy7QnVUDUKQPR7cSYJk6OfXv0qFq6C0SLRggnPyUr0StzWwotWp6HKkpRCO6DcJrjbekti2exPB6loVfX5C1n9bVHIPL2axq0v1xrD1Rlb18iX7Io7j-7mmOcQ6AVVHgZUTTv8xytOmXFndQXKoh1K7K/s320/Kirkpatrick.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I
perceive lots of pressure on Dr. Kirkpatrick’s work. The research
of a collection of stories that formally started with the flying
saucers of 1947, that were non-stop preceded by the 1946 ghost
rockets, the 1942-1945 foo-fighters, the 1930s mystery airships, the
1908-1918 war scare ships, the 1899-1902 phantom balloon scare, the
1896-1897 phantom airships, the 1883 mystery visitors, or the 1789
France balloon fear (just to name “UFO” waves in the last 200
years) is a very complex investigation and it demands time,
tranquility and peace of mind. I am afraid that AARO is not working
under those parameters. One example is this:</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">
“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Hicks
takes direct oversight of Pentagon’s UAP office,” </span></span><a href="https://defensescoop.com/2023/08/30/hicks-takes-direct-oversight-of-pentagons-uap-office-new-reporting-website-to-be-launched/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://defensescoop.com/2023/08/30/hicks-takes-direct-oversight-of-pentagons-uap-office-new-reporting-website-to-be-launched/</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Breaking
News: on August 30, 2023, AARO has launched its website here:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.aaro.mil/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Only
one quick comment: the three “Navy videos” (Tic-Tac, Gimbal and
Gofast) appear as examples of encounters with “unexplained
anomalous phenomena (UAP),” unlike others are explicitly noticed as
“the object remains unidentified” or <span style="background-color: white;">“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white;">unknown
object.” To anyone’s interpretation. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3sdBbfoPUBJlbEpr2sUP1HbbK_s1RKDVqea5hqb7bMOpl7w7LtR9IGOLEEGdbvGp2Edk1RXAR_1wjuHXmOluBj0qdosrT0jGGs0HQ6zlY3h_wbMEQXVhLFf3UFhdbcbtPm6pHD7mtlWleZohleIY2wcRvQ8S8ezhv-rKv9O2aMMn061QMTl9V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1895" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3sdBbfoPUBJlbEpr2sUP1HbbK_s1RKDVqea5hqb7bMOpl7w7LtR9IGOLEEGdbvGp2Edk1RXAR_1wjuHXmOluBj0qdosrT0jGGs0HQ6zlY3h_wbMEQXVhLFf3UFhdbcbtPm6pHD7mtlWleZohleIY2wcRvQ8S8ezhv-rKv9O2aMMn061QMTl9V" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>More
UAP-Related Legal Changes Boosted by the U.S. Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence (SSCI)</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As
timely and precisely reported by Douglas Dean Johnson last June, the
Senate Intelligence bill was an early reaction to unconfirmed rumors
about “non-earth origin or exotic UAP material" and gave
holders six months to make it available to AARO. Selected quotes
from Johnson’s extremely detailed and informative article follow:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
new UAP provisions are part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Intelligence
Authorization Act (IAA, S. 2103), which was approved unanimously by
the Senate Intelligence committee in a closed-door session on June
14, 2023 … it was posted on the Internet early on June 24. The new
UAP language (found in Section 1104 of the bill) would require </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>any
person currently or formerly under contract with the Federal
Government that has in their possession material or information
provided by or derived from the Federal Government relating to
unidentified anomalous phenomena that formerly or currently is
protected by any form of special access or restricted access</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
to notify the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
(AARO) within 60 days of enactment, and to provide within six months
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>a
comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified
anomalous phenomena material</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
possessed and to make it available to the AARO director for
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>assessment,
analysis, and inspection</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">."</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Intelligence committee legislation … [also provides] that if such a
person complies with the notification and make-available deadlines,
then </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>no
criminal or civil action may lie or be maintained in any Federal or
State court against any person for receiving </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">[UFO]</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>
material or information</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">."</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
seven-page committee amendment that is now Section 1104 of the bill
was sponsored by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). It was
co-sponsored by Senators Michael Rounds (R-SD), John Cornyn (R-Tx.),
and Marco Rubio (R-Fl).”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Besides
the … requirements for UAP-related information and hardware, S.
2103 contains a sweeping prohibition on any future direct or indirect
funding for any special-access program (SAP) activity related
to </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">unidentified
anomalous phenomena</span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> …
unless the programs have been </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">formally,
officially, explicitly, and specifically described, explained, and
justified to the appropriate committees of Congress, congressional
leadership, and the Director</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
[of AARO]."</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
UAP provision also contains a ‘Sense of Congress’ subsection,
which asserts that </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">due
to the increasing potential for technology surprise from foreign
adversaries and to ensure sufficient integration across the United
States industrial base and avoid technology and security
stovepipes...the Federal Government must expand awareness about any
historical exotic technology antecedents previously provided by the
Federal Government for research and development purposes</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
‘Sense of Congress’ language provides justification for a
substantive requirement, in this case it is “a compelling need for
the U.S. Government to step up its efforts to reverse-engineer any
exotic technology that is within its reach, and the lawmakers have
concluded that this requires a relaxation of some of the extreme
secrecy controls that purportedly surround study of exotic
technology.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If
there existed an emoticon for expressing astonishment it should be
inserted here. How near future history will appraise the above
congresspeople’s mania—a true obsession—on the existence of
non-human technology in the hands of the United States Government for
years, “held outside of the standard mechanisms for democratic
oversight”? I can imagine without a doubt it will not leave them in
a good place. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">One
open question is how the current leaders of the Intelligence and
Armed Services committees in the House of Representatives will
respond to the new Senate UAP proposals. Congressmen Michael Turner
(R-Ohio) and Jim Himes (D-Ct.), who are respectively the chairman and
ranking minority member on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence (HPSCI), made generalized dismissive comments about the
possibility of the government possessing secret alien technology, in
a brief joint interview with Fox News on June 6.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">On
February 16, a bipartisan group of 16 senators – including
Gillibrand, SSCI ranking minority member Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl.),
and SSCI Chairman Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) -- sent a letter to the
second-ranking officials at the Department of Defense and in the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, urging support for
more robust funding for AARO. … A summary of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) released by the Armed Services Committee on
June 23 also mentioned that the bill "authorizes increased
funding for...the activities of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution
Office (AARO)."</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">All
in all, a number of members of the U.S. Congress are vastly involved
in demanding their Government not only to study UFOs but to turn
upside down the Administration to look for any past or current hidden
program dedicated to UFOs. Despite my certainty that none of this
exists (that is, possession and handling of alien materials), it
seems right to me that a response is required at the highest level,
to settle this issue once and for all.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Source:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-gives-holders-of-non-earth-origin-six-months/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-gives-holders-of-non-earth-origin-six-months/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">On
September 5, Douglas D. Johnson released a supplementary article
following this matter up: "</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">UAP-related
provisions currently under consideration in Congress.” </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">It
is finished with this clear sentence:</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><i>
It is likely that the negotiation process will play out over a time
span of months. In each of the last four years, an NDAA was not
enacted until late December. … Enactment of an NDAA is highly
likely – it has happened for the last 62 years running. However, it
is by no means certain that any or all of the UAP-related provisions
discussed on this page will be part of the final legislation. Any of
these provisions could be modified a little or a lot, or dropped
entirely, during the House-Senate negotiations. It is also possible
that essentially new provisions dealing with the same general subject
matter could emerge during the House-Senate negotiations. </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">This
article can be read in full here:
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/email/9680ee1e-7782-4c7b-afd4-bc1751db6b14/">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/email/9680ee1e-7782-4c7b-afd4-bc1751db6b14/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Farmington, MN Police Officers UFOs</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Generally,
it is a guarantee of truthfulness when a police agent reports a UFO
sighting (of course, there are notable exceptions). If the
observation is shared by several of them, and there exists evidence
in the form of photographs, any doubt about the reality of the event
is dissipated. For a researcher like me, that has reached the grade
of skeptic by dint of investigating UFO cases, it immediately means
that there must be an ordinary explanation for the phenomenon seen
and snapped. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Recently,
I was filing documents on a series of UFO observations around
Farmington, Minnesota, for September 1975 when this situation
occurred. The Farmington </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Tribune
</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">edition of September 18,
1975 carried an article by staff writer Phyllis Brosseth with this
heading: “Seven Officers Watch Early Morning UFOs.” It described
how Dakota County Police Officer Mark Tarmann observed a mysterious
light at 4:05 a.m. on Friday September 12 that persisted about one
and a half hours. That brisk morning, he was sitting in the squad car
in the Pine Knoll entrance facing east going to return back into
Farmington, when he observed “a bright star just above the tree
line in the east.” It showed a blueish hue, and “it began to move
from the horizon and move around in a circular motion, then up and
down.” Then, Officer Tarmann observed another bright object to the
north of the first one at a 45-degree angle. Cleverly, he continued
to think they were possibly bright stars which stood out from the
rest, in the night sky. At this point, he drove to County Road 31 and
9 where he met Officer Tom Ingram from Apple Valley. “They observed
the objects which were stationary at this time.” Also, officers
from Rosemount, Lakeville, Eagan, and two Minnesota State Troopers
had heard the conversation on the radios—when the police dispatch
notified the FAA center—began to drift to County Road 31 and 9. The
seven law enforcement officers watched the two lights for about half
an hour, and Officer Tarmann remained at the spot until 5:30 a.m. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Tribune </i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">of
September 25, editor Eugene Clay wrote: “Last week, [the newspaper]
asked for a chance to photograph anything considered to be an
Unidentified Flying Object. We got the opportunity. At 4:30 a.m.
Monday [September 22, 1975], Officer Dan Churchill of the Farmington
Police Department called this writer and we viewed two UFOs from a
spot along County 31.” At least two other witnesses were Officer
Brent Moody on duty in Apple Valley and Deputy Sheriff Gary McCloud.
Photographs were made with a camera on a tripod with a 300 mm
telephoto lens, at a 15-second time exposure. “The odd shapes—the
newspaper read—are the result of the ‘thing’ moving about.”
The following three pictures (obviously enlarged and cropped) were
printed in the paper and they were described as follows:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkVus2KCC8i-igU7N88_4LQnBHbrE9aa7cIWSt2V_hj5nheVajAohRxb45X8KU3gre0zfX2c1GwsKICBKjFWu4rpk4iqrjhvGWOIK1EcXHKPu3y79j_Kr_0h31pp_Tr8Mu2jrDbQ21yCXQrqE94oISU2IxmCIBX7doUd2uiDo3bgX5U08ltcUd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="5726" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkVus2KCC8i-igU7N88_4LQnBHbrE9aa7cIWSt2V_hj5nheVajAohRxb45X8KU3gre0zfX2c1GwsKICBKjFWu4rpk4iqrjhvGWOIK1EcXHKPu3y79j_Kr_0h31pp_Tr8Mu2jrDbQ21yCXQrqE94oISU2IxmCIBX7doUd2uiDo3bgX5U08ltcUd" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
top two pictures show a star-like object to the southeast over
Farmington. It changed color, from blue, to orange, and to red. Most
fascinating --and different from stars—was the fact it moved, swung
back and forth, and up and down. </i></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQQ2O-zgnSTL9WZbSs8KXrUhvpu1-1m6Bg3hq-dl8K8_FKmVsfMbxJ7N8DNozfwewpx4QzijASMcXg5YvyqlMfwoio8dGbTOC9aw2JL6cE-gwqMpyPz2tgloKYDk2rgS8wXMM9LtXrmOnI0KgsJW-RMY5i_cW4GfOVF5PrYylQfeZoI2Uf6e6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="2805" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQQ2O-zgnSTL9WZbSs8KXrUhvpu1-1m6Bg3hq-dl8K8_FKmVsfMbxJ7N8DNozfwewpx4QzijASMcXg5YvyqlMfwoio8dGbTOC9aw2JL6cE-gwqMpyPz2tgloKYDk2rgS8wXMM9LtXrmOnI0KgsJW-RMY5i_cW4GfOVF5PrYylQfeZoI2Uf6e6" width="320" /></a></div><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The
lower picture is of a reddish-glowing stationary object that suddenly
appeared just off the eastern horizon.</i><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmsuGxLzCcID4QMhjxknTRU6oJs9uYxZlMwev1oK564MD8OIWppjkCxv7K3JeEicZtOV9QP8D9NcHhFrcDzE4CWfKYnrfoccfQ9a_hYc3RHa2Y1V8qBi7BwGiyg33kLj974R5DoA6_ulFR9sl1E8-5ynnbt3XFN78y7kcbbI_YfBTJby4YMa0/s1366/carta%20celeste.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmsuGxLzCcID4QMhjxknTRU6oJs9uYxZlMwev1oK564MD8OIWppjkCxv7K3JeEicZtOV9QP8D9NcHhFrcDzE4CWfKYnrfoccfQ9a_hYc3RHa2Y1V8qBi7BwGiyg33kLj974R5DoA6_ulFR9sl1E8-5ynnbt3XFN78y7kcbbI_YfBTJby4YMa0/s320/carta%20celeste.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Sky
chart for Farmington, MN September 22, 1975 facing E and SE. Credit:
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga.</span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We
have a long-duration observation of two star-like objects in the
nocturnal sky. We know their positions in the space. They seem to
move slightly over themselves. The object first photographed
corresponds with the double star Sirius, the brightest star in the
night sky (Canis Major constellation), with a brightness magnitude of
-1,45, which was at that time at azimuth 130º (sharp southeast) and
at an apparent altitude of 13º over the horizon. It was displaying
its typical, changing multicolored flashes. Color changes and
apparent motion by a static stellar body are due to the turbulence
phenomenon of scintillation (twinkling), caused b</span><span style="color: #040c28;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">y
the refraction of starlight as it travels through layers of air in
the atmosphere. The light is therefore distorted and appears to move
as well. </span></span></span>
</span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #040c28;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #040c28;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvzsmhJbL6AggW371yzV9tQiG2L_1Yd_LitE27EkjMsaKadnOOreyLc_mboduRCtz0jAs9o5VmL4Y6edayz5TkUQJjvuAeOY9cpdbqsxeB7K449f8FFCEziCFGOy9Mf1U09SevfSrOCH_AzEG1B9bOQACCjlEa3Vv7qzBc34axN7zERpUJsFd/s660/Sirio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="657" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvzsmhJbL6AggW371yzV9tQiG2L_1Yd_LitE27EkjMsaKadnOOreyLc_mboduRCtz0jAs9o5VmL4Y6edayz5TkUQJjvuAeOY9cpdbqsxeB7K449f8FFCEziCFGOy9Mf1U09SevfSrOCH_AzEG1B9bOQACCjlEa3Vv7qzBc34axN7zERpUJsFd/w199-h200/Sirio.jpg" width="199" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sirius
twinkles on a variety of colors, as the album of photographs by Bob
King clearly shows. Image borrowed from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/110605/sirius-ufo-trickster-extraordinaire/">https://www.universetoday.com/110605/sirius-ufo-trickster-extraordinaire/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Concerning
the</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> second object, it
was none other than the planet Venus (-4,74 magnitude), which was at
4:30 a.m. at one degree above the horizon line and to the east (80.5º
azimuth). At the start of the sighting while photographing Sirius,
Venus would not be visible due to obstacles on the horizon and when
it made its initial appearance, it would attract the attention of the
eyewitnesses.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
study photographic UFO incidents, so the event that preceded 10 days
before is added here just as both a further example of potential
mistakes with astronomical stimuli, and the fallibility of usually
reliable police officers. I am afraid that in this case the
information is rather confusing, and to make things even more
complicated, the celestial sphere that night depicted a concentration
of major sky luminaries in different positions and elevations, so
lots of candidates to choose: amongst them, in the east we had a very
bright Venus (-4,53), in the southeast there were Mars (-1,52) and
Sirius (-1,45), and high in the south was the planet Jupiter (-2,83),
all of them possible culprits for such an exciting night where the
bad ones did not interrupt the police officers enjoying night lights.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
rule of thumb here is clear: nocturnal, long-lived sightings of
star-like, slow-moving lights have probably an astronomical solution.
If you find a match between the position of the UFOs and that of
bright stars or planets, the initial “wow” can become “bingo”!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>First
Shot, First Saucer. Buffalo, NY, 1954</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are periods of intensive UFO reporting that, from a sociological
point of view, are especially interesting. One is 1954, when a
world-wide UFO wave transpired. Since the commencement of my research
in this field, I have been particularly fond of this year’s
phenomenology, so heavy in landings and occupants claims in France,
for example. In terms of UFO photography, 1954 was also abundant.
Several years ago I published a monograph on the UFO (and IFO)
pictures taken that year: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">More
recently, assisted by the Spanish investigator J.C. Victorio Uranga I
worked on a paper on the various UFO sightings in Spain during the
month of December 1954 (in Spanish): </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With
the passing of time, a few new cases have been discovered (I have
used this blog site to show them), and data for some others have been
corrected. For instance, today’s blog edition carries an article by
Luis R. González with the original information of a Spanish
photograph of that year, just retrieved from press morgues now
digitalized.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I
had in FOTOCAT very slim details of a picture taken in Buffalo, New
York, in June 1954. No image was known either. Fortunately, my superb
collaborator from Mississippi Kay Coggin has just sent me the
clipping published in the </span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Buffalo
Courier Express </i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">of
June 23, 1954, a press column entitled “Season’s First ‘Saucer’
With Camera” that provides all the details and, moreover, a copy of
the snapshot of a “streak” sighted over the town. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_-bBbVHOCT3MisfORrMeDUsp2VLN3YXFq4BNVy5FUfHnnh0YASt1Ou6_oxHUXFzsrQEOlmaz_VSyOchvXIX5mqmxIsFmfmlFmD6ngyK_qIgwy4RhpomTTLnhO9-tuFQZ8ZkzS0M-6xbXBWltcsBMOhaetu18uUdVlR0R1tcJdHMiLmYsuzJvk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_-bBbVHOCT3MisfORrMeDUsp2VLN3YXFq4BNVy5FUfHnnh0YASt1Ou6_oxHUXFzsrQEOlmaz_VSyOchvXIX5mqmxIsFmfmlFmD6ngyK_qIgwy4RhpomTTLnhO9-tuFQZ8ZkzS0M-6xbXBWltcsBMOhaetu18uUdVlR0R1tcJdHMiLmYsuzJvk" width="215" /></a></div><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica;">According
to the newspaper news, the photographer was Joseph L. Perel, of 22
years of age, living at 415 East Ferry St. (it was a time where there
was no protection for personal data). He said he saw the “saucer or
whatever it was” near St. Michael’s Church on Washington St.,
Buffalo. He had just bought the camera from a downtown store and
walked back to his parked car in a lot near St. Michael’s. He was
itching to snap his first picture.</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>I
looked around the car</i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">—Perel
recalled to the city’s daily—</span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>for
a likely shot and didn’t see anything. Then I spotted the church
spire and swung on it with the camera. It was then I saw this bright
streak shooting across the sky. </i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">He
pointed the camera and popped a picture not knowing what it was. A
saucer? </span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Yes
and no</i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
he said</span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Perel
went home and developed the print in a minute. He came to the
</span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Courier-Express</i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
following a friend’s advice, and remarked: </span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
‘saucer’-like illusion appeared to be at an altitude of 10,000
feet and wasn’t traveling too fast in a westerly direction.
Suddenly, it just faded away. </i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Perel,
“a student-licensed pilot, more than averagely acquainted with sky
illusions from clouds and sunglare on them” said: </span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>I’ve
never see anything like that before.</i></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
He ruled clouds out of the picture because there was too much haze
and no other clouds around the subject of the snapshot. The Weather
Report did not report anything unusual in “yesterday’s
sky-watching operations.” The forecaster said: “I dunno just what
it would be.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
consulted Wim van Utrecht, a most-experienced case analyst and
coauthor with me of a first volume studying purported UFO photographs
in Belgium: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This
was his quick observation: “If genuine, I suspect we are
looking at a broken contrail. Once in a while, contrails look like
dashed lines. That happens when they form at the boundary between a
region of high and low humidity.” This is the solution to this
sighting and picture</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.”
</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Examples
of similar images and a good explanation of their formation can be
found at: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://contrailscience.com/broken-contrails/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://contrailscience.com/broken-contrails/</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgR-npfBkrttTw-yJ1uVub0JpTp2E1sTnNp0o4bHpO2ycyzQ4nINk9G4ctGUPiMHEBm9znl4Ah8M7AZNtB6DDBg-tcRXUY8mP9msgdn2zwjFQnmKfHoZCg3WZjIou2r9-FbS44voNZK3I76sy33Y9ytYikraQIV6YvxZW8vM5Loj1Go8qBpz02E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1691" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgR-npfBkrttTw-yJ1uVub0JpTp2E1sTnNp0o4bHpO2ycyzQ4nINk9G4ctGUPiMHEBm9znl4Ah8M7AZNtB6DDBg-tcRXUY8mP9msgdn2zwjFQnmKfHoZCg3WZjIou2r9-FbS44voNZK3I76sy33Y9ytYikraQIV6YvxZW8vM5Loj1Go8qBpz02E=w400-h213" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Examples
of aircraft contrails showing regularly-space gaps. Images borrowed
from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/turning-jet-with-broken-contrail-judy-kennedy.html">https://fineartamerica.com/featured/turning-jet-with-broken-contrail-judy-kennedy.html</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbOERifeYU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbOERifeYU</a></span></span></span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Rubber
Duck” FLIR Footage</span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">New
UAP, infrared video taken from an airplane of the Department of
Homeland Security, having departed from Tucson, Arizona on a border
patrol mission at 09:00 hours on November 23, 2019, when at 31º 29’
N, 111º 27’ W, very close to the Mexican division line. The
analysis by Mick West of the incomplete available data of a very
compressed video, competently and reasonably concluded that the
object was probably a drifting balloon, or possibly a drone. His work
also questions the interpretation as an anomalous object made by
Peter Reali, of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), for
whom the object is anomalous. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUPDa49Cmg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUPDa49Cmg</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-forensic-analysis-of-the-rubber-duck-uap-video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-forensic-analysis-of-the-rubber-duck-uap-video</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/page-3#post-284302"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/page-3#post-284302</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik321hGvPRecZpLxzCs9qGrvwSmS4zltpFmIicasTdwCVBHCRxiu1XOQLccdmFLpw4wXsGbVNWVZ9zAbS248dzRDq_bt-qSEZGKK45skgTIwgtBS4Nos_cIJy1UX8mn0zfh5YYitKqRevabvBcBEHja_YWCYDj0F6Q1hucUzJlKSaAWcWLUcn7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1033" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik321hGvPRecZpLxzCs9qGrvwSmS4zltpFmIicasTdwCVBHCRxiu1XOQLccdmFLpw4wXsGbVNWVZ9zAbS248dzRDq_bt-qSEZGKK45skgTIwgtBS4Nos_cIJy1UX8mn0zfh5YYitKqRevabvBcBEHja_YWCYDj0F6Q1hucUzJlKSaAWcWLUcn7" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Invited
Article</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This
article is co-signed by Ukrainian and Russian UFO researchers. That,
today, is a first-class achievement by itself. The three authors have
a large record in their countries preserving official UFO archives.
The first author, Igor Kalytyuk (Ternopil, Ukraine,1987), who kindly
submitted this manuscript, has a M.A. degree by the </span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Institute
of Water Management and Environmental Management at the National
University of Water and Environmental Engineering (</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2010),
and is a software engineer by the University of Banking (2012) and
the European University (2013). Since 2014, he is the research head
of SRCAA “Zond” (Ukrainian Research Center for the Study of
Anomalies, “Probe”). Since 2016, he collaborates with the
Meteorological Service of the Central Geophysical Observatory
studying and processing incoming UFO reports. He is the editor of the
project “Ufology News” (</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ufology-news.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">www.ufology-news.com</span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">),
author of the handbook “How to identify UFOs? How to research AAP?”
and the YouTube channel “About UFOs and AAP scientifically”
(</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos</span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.3cm; margin-right: 0.31cm; text-align: center;">
<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>THE
PROJECTS «GLOBAL ARCHIVE» AND «HERITAGE» FOR THE SAVING OF
UAP-ARCHIVES</b></span></span></span></p>
<h1 class="western" style="margin-right: 0.31cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By
I.M. Kalytyuk,</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
M.B. Gershtein,</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and S.O. Petrov</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3</span></span></sup></span></h1>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-right: 0.19cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Abstract:
</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Preservation and
heredity of knowledge transfer are the key to the stability of any
area of</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i> </i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>research.</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>In</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>ufology,</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>on</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>one</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>hand,</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>a</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>significant</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>amount</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>of</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>material</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>accumulates</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>incessantly, on the
other hand, there is a continuous loss of qualitative and
quantitative components of materials. Numerous examples of valuable
materials loss for various reasons show the importance and urgency of
this issue. The article describes the essence of the problem of
storing ufological archives in detail, as well as shows the way to
solving it on a real example. It shows the connection between the
Global Archive and Heritage projects, as well as the scheme of
documentation</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>circulation,</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>developed</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>by</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>the</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>SRCAA</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>"Zond"</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>through</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>joint</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>efforts.</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>The</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>main</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>result of preservation
and digitization of archival materials is to the convenience of
further processing, and significant reduction in the risk of their
loss. The article elaborately describes the stages of archival data
processing, nuances of the software used for this purpose, and
demonstrates examples of the effectiveness of the archival</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>data</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>use.</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>In</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>fact,</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Ukraine</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>currently</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>has</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>the</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>largest</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>electronic</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>archive</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>of</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>
</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>UFO and AAP
registration and study materials in the world. The developed scheme
of processing and systematization of documents has proved its
effectiveness, and can be applied by any other organization or
institution that collects materials or explores the unknown.
Materials of the ufological subculture, and a set of scientific
identifications of UFOs as well as the study of AAP, the search for
extraterrestrial life have scientific, primarily historical, value.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-right: 0.19cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b> <span> </span><span> </span>Introduction.
</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A researcher who decides
to study UFOs is forced to rely mainly on own experience, spend time
getting acquainted with the literature, which isn`t always available
in free access, and search for historical materials on UFOs in own
region or country, to compile catalogs or watch lists instead of
adding individually investigated cases to a unified database, etc. A
UFO researcher spends significant part of time and finances on what
has already been done many times before.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-right: 0.19cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b> <span> </span><span> </span>The
purpose and objectives of the research. </b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In
any science, the acquired knowledge is accumulated, systematized, and
made available to the next generation. There is a unified system of
classification, terminology, refereed journals with indexing of
articles, reliable storage of the obtained material, and raising the
rank of a scientist in proportion to his or her knowledge and
achievements, etc. Ufology is only approaching these standards, and
the number of scientific publications in this field is still
relatively small. A low degree of formalization and standardization
also leads to the fact that clear professional requirements and the
requirements for the product of activity are not being put forward,
therefore a pseudo-expert environment is formed which provides
unorganized publications, low responsibility, and inconsistent
terminology. The degree of use of strict scientific standards and
ethical norms in research also needs to be improved.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unlike
research funded by either the state or private capital, ufology
mainly requires other sources of funding. As a general matter, the
study of UFOs is secondary and is performed during time free from the
main work, which cannot but affect the quality and duration of the
research. However, it is also difficult to capitalize on such
research. The most honest way would be to create one’s own
ufological organization with membership fees and a printed
newsletter. However, acting to obtain and implement grants,
publishing in indexed publications, etc., researchers are forced to
engage in the popularization of research more than in the research
itself, which is a general trend of modern globalized science. Other
methods lead to the appearance of materials of low scientific level,
or even falsified ones, which distorts the general scientific picture
since the collected materials are considered mainly as a potential
means of profit, but not as something that has scientific and applied
value. In other cases, the capitalization leads to restrictions in
dissemination of the knowledge acquired, or in attempts to hide it.
Ultimately, this leads to loss of materials. This is how the
priceless archives of Veynyk, the author of manuscripts on UFO
movement systems, and Ryom Varlamov perished.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">If
a researcher dies without taking care of the fate of own archives,
then one of the first to want to appropriate the accumulated
materials will be those who see only a monetary component in them. In
the absence of a testament, all materials will most likely disappear
from view immediately and become inaccessible to serious researchers.
This happens not only with lone ufologists, but also with large
organizations. For example, APRO, founded in 1952 by Jim and Coral
Lorenzen, used to be the third largest organization in the United
States. It had more than 25 thousand members and representatives on
all continents. An archive with a dossier of 15,000 UFO sightings and
many other materials was kept by the founders of the organization.
But in the late 1980s, Jim and Coral died. "Ufologists"
Brian Myers and Tina Choate of Scottsdale, Arizona, persuaded Lara
Lorenzo (the heir) to hand the APRO archive over. The documents were
taken away in several trucks and, due to lack of space, were dumped
in a damp garage. No one has seen them after. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">But
that's not the worst story. It happens at times that relatives throw
all the papers of the deceased into trash, considering them
unnecessary junk. In the scientific world, such a loss of knowledge
in peacetime is impossible. We can also cite a well-known example,
when the Moscow archive of the Commission on Anomalous Phenomena
under the Academy of Sciences was initially stored in the basement
because there was no space, and then the hot water pipe burst. So,
everything turned into paper mush, which was raked out with shovels.
Only what was left at home by Petukhov and Faminaska survived. And in
the nearby suburbs of Moscow, Pushkin's active ufological group split
in the 1990s. During the split, her archive was destroyed so that it
would not reach the majority. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another
example is the loss of artifacts and documentation related to the
Kropotkin incident on November 17, 1987, including the metal that
caused the "breakdown" of the equipment for structural and
elemental analysis of samples of the Institute of Nuclear Research of
the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The wreckage of the
aircraft, unknown to almost no one and handed over by Inna Kuznetsova
to SRCAA "Zond," was temporarily stored at the institute.
Contrary to assurances about the integrity of the archive, the
members of the center learned the terrible news: "the documents
were stored as waste paper." The disappearance of many
materials, boxes of photographic films, etc. was noticed. It was
during this period that the artifact was stolen from the archive.</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cases
of theft of materials by television broadcasters can be called
frequent. Thus, the examinations of a series of UFO photographs taken
by Korchagin in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1992 disappeared.
Representatives of the Ren-TV channel filmed the program at Michail
Gershtein's home: "They took a photo of the folder with
documents in good light, we will definitely return it they said, -
and they returned it, but not all of them. We had to count all the
pieces of paper one by one. I realized it too late." A similar
example is the disappearance of materials related to the case of the
nuclear bomber on May 16, 1970, when SRCAA "Zond" was
forced to entrust the transportation of the archive from Kharkiv to
Kyiv to the "Inter" TV channel.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
military and special services are usually suspected of excessive
secrecy in relation to UFOs. But in the West, for some reasons, there
are military documents about UFOs with minimal censorship, which is
usually due to ethical considerations (names of witnesses and their
addresses). The volume of documents opened by ufological
organizations is by an order smaller. To change this situation, first
it is necessary to change the attitude toward the available materials
about UFOs and to do everything so that they do not disappear and are
as accessible as possible to other researchers. The easiest way is
digitization, which allows to quickly copy materials, transfer them
to colleagues, or put them out in the Internet. In the latter case,
some censorship is necessary, as many eyewitnesses do not want their
name, surname, or address publicly available. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> <span> </span><span> </span>Digitized
materials should be stored in at least two locations to avoid loss in
case of a hard drive failure. The ideal option is to save a copy on
an external drive in a separate location to avoid loss during a fire
or other natural disasters. Digitization of non-unique materials such
as newspaper clippings, books, or thematic magazines should be
coordinated with colleagues to avoid duplication. Ideally, there
should be a single server where one can find out if something is
available digitally and where to find it. There are several examples
of the loss of electronic data due to the lack of backup copies: for
example, Mikhail Gershtein lost a 500 Gigabytes hard drive video
recording over Barnaul on the night of December 31 to January 1,
2008; and Igor Kalytyuk dropped his hard drive at the end of 2013.
This led to the temporary loss of almost all available archives,
including materials that were in a single copy, to the self-removal
from the post of the head of the EIBC Center, and to a delay in the
release of the Jubilee Bulletin, which had to be re-done almost from
scratch.</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmhYLZRJeGXp1-Ci_locOA0HsR2MZOZXodbcUrO3Q8Jz27v7OswOiQbhvo84GkKSAe850FAQ-FAHMuYEf6VIENk7iqWGzyxseme18S6daIjMskCmZJw5dwb6-CylSowEkdaufaT63u3-lKGDIRgSThyfye3R651L8QIU23J5rlvKfhvdD-Mnt/s391/Fig.%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="391" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmhYLZRJeGXp1-Ci_locOA0HsR2MZOZXodbcUrO3Q8Jz27v7OswOiQbhvo84GkKSAe850FAQ-FAHMuYEf6VIENk7iqWGzyxseme18S6daIjMskCmZJw5dwb6-CylSowEkdaufaT63u3-lKGDIRgSThyfye3R651L8QIU23J5rlvKfhvdD-Mnt/s320/Fig.%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">A
frame from the lost video recording in Barnaul on January 1, 2008
from the roof of a locomotive depot car. The anomalous object moved
from the north-east, changing speed and direction of movement, then
hovered and disappeared, watched by dozens of eyewitnesses (from the
archive of M. Gershtein).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">If
the amount of materials is too large to digitize, one must take care
of their fate in advance. It should be clearly stated who should
inherit the archive and under what conditions. The best thing is to
bequeath everything to an independent organization that can provide
their high-quality storage and free access for interested ufologists.
The largest organization of this kind can be called Archives for the
Unexplained (AFU) in Sweden (see </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.afu.info/"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.afu.info</span></span></a></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">)</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">.
Fully equipped AFU warehouses contain more than two kilometers of
shelves. This organization has more than 20,000 books at its
disposal, not to mention thematic magazines and other documents.
Therefore, since the main product of ufology is the expansion of
knowledge about the surrounding world to obtain the latest
technologies and increase national security, it should be financed
and supported by the state as the main interested entity. Here,
informational support is the main one, since most studies require
data from global monitoring systems that provide high-quality
evidence, instrument one in particular, and are operated by state
institutions, to assess the reliability of data. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Informational
support also includes preservation and heritability of data
transmission. Thus, the transfer of materials into electronic
archives and their systematization is one of the urgent tasks in
ufology.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Main
part.</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> The "Heritage"
project was started at SRCAA (Ukrainian Research Center for the Study
of Anomalies) in 2005 by the former secretary of the Commission for
the Study of Anomalous Phenomena, and later - SRCAA participant, Inna
Kuznetsova, after the transfer of the preserved materials of the
archive of the commission to SRCAA "Zond." Simultaneously,
Artem Bilyk created a system of marking and classifying documents,
which is currently used in SRCAA "Zond" and which is
constantly being improved. Catalog records were saved in Excel
format.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
purpose of the "Heritage" project is to systematize and
record archival paper materials on UFOs and anomalous phenomena. The
expected result of the Project is to obtain a material and electronic
archive of the SRCAA for cataloging, exchange of materials, and their
protection from destruction by diversification of storage. The
project is carried out under the supervision of Ph.D. Artem Bilyk,
the main executors of the project are Igor Kalytyuk and Sergey
Petrov.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Jx25mmAQJNf84OdAyYZOS8AVmNpo3676ghiJR4Xv24FAGhKY-p8n-RjHivWJgrcwxF5ijoCwLKFPSk_75nL206NFPP4tjuBe8vfw6ZKTWyvdTgbyS7ZYpUfF8W9rLQFiKfLqPGOgnYl-rvL9Bb2mj8RbEIu1rk5J9uVqYe-cT1Jryehwed5N/s1446/Fig.%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1446" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Jx25mmAQJNf84OdAyYZOS8AVmNpo3676ghiJR4Xv24FAGhKY-p8n-RjHivWJgrcwxF5ijoCwLKFPSk_75nL206NFPP4tjuBe8vfw6ZKTWyvdTgbyS7ZYpUfF8W9rLQFiKfLqPGOgnYl-rvL9Bb2mj8RbEIu1rk5J9uVqYe-cT1Jryehwed5N/s320/Fig.%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo
of the archive of the "Heritage" project in the central
state repository. Part of the archive of V.V. Rubtsov was temporarily
stored by S.O. Petrov (right).</span></div></span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
first electronic developments within the framework of the future
"Global Archive" were carried out in 2011 within the
framework of then existing International Scientific Research Center
"EIBC," and on June 14, 2014 according to Resolution
2014-item 2 of the "EIBC" it was implemented by Igor
Kalytyuk co-authored with Mikhail Gershtein in the form of version
2.0, although the Center itself was absorbed on July 12, 2014 by
another rather powerful one - the SRCAA "Zond," which
actually became a monopoly in Ukraine in 2015, and continues to be a
monopoly to this day. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">Independent
work on the "Global Archive" was continued by the same
authors as part of additions. The goal of the project is to preserve
the history of subcultural environment within the framework of the
following topics: ufology, UFO identification, exposure and skeptical
materials, AAP research, "channeling," the search for
extraterrestrial life, including everything related to SETI. This is
a completely scientific project within the framework of the history
of subcultures.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGGqzAfWTH9Mt3shAITtusKSkrhznbLaKwrWHTqJ-zuFZTWoORCt08Mwh9lXjA0zkC7kF3ykHkDkBqFHVfwPxuH3ObVxu3vh6B9SI3f4ieIkyWbRrRSGd2eOVqzB-HfOLVMxo6fCTti8v2GqRzOfe66f7GKMZDTAqUiLWZisqJeq5SL-FDkJ9/s638/Fig.%203.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="638" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGGqzAfWTH9Mt3shAITtusKSkrhznbLaKwrWHTqJ-zuFZTWoORCt08Mwh9lXjA0zkC7kF3ykHkDkBqFHVfwPxuH3ObVxu3vh6B9SI3f4ieIkyWbRrRSGd2eOVqzB-HfOLVMxo6fCTti8v2GqRzOfe66f7GKMZDTAqUiLWZisqJeq5SL-FDkJ9/s320/Fig.%203.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">General
statistics of the archive by country, data as of June 2023, colors
correspond to the number of material units, gray indicates countries
without information on UFO. The entire archive now occupies 496
gigabytes, that is 60,953 files of 2,342 organizations or publishing
houses or structures. In total, 88 countries are represented in it
(including those that no longer exist).</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLTDT-1VGHTKskqgtfMUkOY3triYuPJA3auWaW7dEmAqtjXHU7NKQVsk9W1ukIkDeoog-Ip2TzjngIvX1YgxGSQxLaCIJHs8riObcKKGZ0hlMVHZKfx3dL43Dwbu3MymyZi9K4bRoMReyrDXy1uDLwMuBYkmYHdRaExM5edBossaaCgMY-zha/s637/Fig.%204.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="637" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLTDT-1VGHTKskqgtfMUkOY3triYuPJA3auWaW7dEmAqtjXHU7NKQVsk9W1ukIkDeoog-Ip2TzjngIvX1YgxGSQxLaCIJHs8riObcKKGZ0hlMVHZKfx3dL43Dwbu3MymyZi9K4bRoMReyrDXy1uDLwMuBYkmYHdRaExM5edBossaaCgMY-zha/s320/Fig.%204.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Petrov
next to the packed archive of V.V. Rubtsov; transportation of the
archive by A.S. Bilyk and S.O. Petrov</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">An
example of the work of the project, described in the protocol of
SRCAA "Zond" dated November 16, 2016: "Owing to the
work carried out under the leadership of the employees of the system
and analytical department Igor Kalytyuk (coordination) and Sergey
Petrov (authorized executor), an agreement was reached on the
transfer of Vladimir Rubtsov's archive by his wife. Responsible
storage will be carried out by SRCAA "Zond" (Kyiv). Based
on the results of the analysis a part of the English-language archive
will be transferred to Sweden to the well-known AFU organization, and
a corresponding guaranteed letter has been received about the
readiness of storage. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In
total, about a dozen operational actions of Sergey Petrov were
carried out, for which we are hugely thankful to him. It should be
noted that, unfortunately, on November 2, 2016, Nataliya Kamyantseva
passed away to the best of both worlds, and further acts on moving
the archive were carried out by Evgeniya Rubtsova who fulfilled her
mother's will. Sergey Petrov also copied the electronic archive from
Vladimir Rubtsov's personal computer. November 4-6, 2016 the head of
SRCAA "Zond" Artem Bilyk and the employee of the Department
Petrov moved the archive to Kyiv from Kharkiv. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">IT
WAS RESOLVED: to conduct an initial analysis of the materials and
report at the next meeting. To remember Rubtsov as a dedicated
researcher and expert in his field - a challenging field of studying
the unknown, the person that can be a model of domestic anomalistics.
His work will live on in our scientific research! To express
gratitude to the employees of the system-analytical department,
Kalytyuk and Petrov, with an entry in the biography and protocol. To
express sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of Natalia
Kamyantseva."</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXjnDjSwKjDGl7q8a3fVBHwZNqNyHfLPS9LSL3za4C5VasnTDyIHfFVj2KBMrcLWsrad8oVY2_14fZOiPC4vC9xSyDdW6HQSQKJDH0eowD-_A_S5TDP1O0pkzV6_yMGumhopb08Drro9J3fGTP0kn_IOA-QglbMz2kOGJ34hg4vZHKT2CLW_WA/s637/Fig.%205.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="637" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXjnDjSwKjDGl7q8a3fVBHwZNqNyHfLPS9LSL3za4C5VasnTDyIHfFVj2KBMrcLWsrad8oVY2_14fZOiPC4vC9xSyDdW6HQSQKJDH0eowD-_A_S5TDP1O0pkzV6_yMGumhopb08Drro9J3fGTP0kn_IOA-QglbMz2kOGJ34hg4vZHKT2CLW_WA/s320/Fig.%205.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Works
on scanning and systematization of archives. SRCAA expert "Zond"
I. Kalytyuk 2014, 2016.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">During
the existence of the "EIBC" Center, within the framework of
the cooperation agreement, scanning was carried out in accordance
with clause 2.1 of the cooperation agreement, and all related issues
were also covered along the way. After the acquisition of the "EIBC"
Center by the SRCAA "Zond" Center, the state of affairs
became much better and the scanning entered a "pendulum"
mode: the scanned material is returned and the materials to be
digitized are collected (Kalytyuk and Petrov). Then, after the
digitization is completed at leisure, the performer meets the
repository representative for a new batch of material. Part of the
materials which the performers managed to get is transferred to the
persons responsible for storage immediately after digitization, as it
was done with the remains of Oleksander Biletskyi's archives, and
therefore there is no delay in obtaining permission to publish the
materials. The materials kept by Mikhail Gershtein are scanned by him
personally. ScanKromsator (for converting and cropping) and
RasterStitch (for gluing several pages into one) are used for the
layout of scans, and all of this is saved as djvu and pdf format
documents. Part of the scans are collected into a pdf document using
PDF24 software (if the document contains no more than 100 pages) and
Adobe Acrobat (if more than 100). Materials obtained from the
Internet are prepared using Microsoft Paint and Notepad, and then
saved in pdf format using MS Word. A significant part of the
materials still must be processed manually, due to the peculiarities
of submitting Internet content: copying paragraphs into Notepad and
preparing the drawings in Paint, and then changing: font and its
size, intervals, location on the page, presentable transfer to
another page, sometimes even changing to A3 letter format. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another
thing is that the documents are ready already. Documents are
systematized by countries, organizations, or ministries; at the
beginning of a book, for example, the following is indicated: the
author's last name, initials, followed by the title, the year of
publication, and all of this is in English. For example, bulletins
are named: at the beginning is the name of the bulletin, and then the
number and year, respectively.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnziCLkI-NPNL0kvl1b6m3r5oGqPCsa8WbHWUJVfP-VYJ0NnHTqfhc4i45AMsYJTI3na-QmQxmluKDxwvNnDOOhTdHybaFiANrXNL8oikQzdjXgn-416nDpEPXTNU7xorpEbYF5Q7h61fCTMoEpKv1adLfXKuDwilM30PEEtLA0vk0sHTcPDqb/s479/Fig.%206.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="479" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnziCLkI-NPNL0kvl1b6m3r5oGqPCsa8WbHWUJVfP-VYJ0NnHTqfhc4i45AMsYJTI3na-QmQxmluKDxwvNnDOOhTdHybaFiANrXNL8oikQzdjXgn-416nDpEPXTNU7xorpEbYF5Q7h61fCTMoEpKv1adLfXKuDwilM30PEEtLA0vk0sHTcPDqb/s320/Fig.%206.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The
principle view of an example of the layout of materials, which is
most often performed by M. Gershtein, 2017.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
described work is time-consuming, but at the final stage it will be
implemented as another addition to the "Global Archive."
Upon completion, the systematized materials are sent by Kalytyuk to
the recipients in the form of an archive, as well as get uploaded to
the online storage; copies of the materials are made to other media
holders, and are recorded to Blu-ray disks, in 2 copies. One copy is
given to the AFU (Sweden). In 2017, a batch of physical materials was
also transferred to AFU. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcG3QXK0m1SvhkgJFcfUkkGo0m9uLo7Ptp23FaPsqWUpZNXzkPucjvcbJrjuqogiv0Lh7nao_s3HarPHEHf3csg0nvde7r8WkPeZPGwR35kdQnmsgB8pO8dJQXC0_bQK0aSbU1RMCT1TRz2AwLVbHsSPDJk16GUVJsqzf41FXHDVimfuUTHWo5/s637/Fig.%207.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="637" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcG3QXK0m1SvhkgJFcfUkkGo0m9uLo7Ptp23FaPsqWUpZNXzkPucjvcbJrjuqogiv0Lh7nao_s3HarPHEHf3csg0nvde7r8WkPeZPGwR35kdQnmsgB8pO8dJQXC0_bQK0aSbU1RMCT1TRz2AwLVbHsSPDJk16GUVJsqzf41FXHDVimfuUTHWo5/s320/Fig.%207.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A
basic view of an example of electronic library of systematized
documents.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another
effective result of the "Heritage" project is finding in
the archive the newest materials for research that have not been
processed before. The document processing and systematization scheme
developed over the years has proven its effectiveness, and can be
applied by other organizations, institutions that collect materials
or research the unknown.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Conclusions.</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
In its turn, SRCAA "Zond" invites researchers and
organizations that have preserved electronic and non-electronic media
of information that may be of scientific interest in the study of
Anomalous Phenomena, AP in particular, to cooperate. After
digitization, all those who provide materials receive an electronic
version of them, and upon request, the original is returned. The time
of hiding and sacralizing knowledge has passed forever. Ufologists
who really want to solve the secrets of UFOs and open the way to the
Universe for humankind, should already think about maximum openness,
collaboration, and cooperation. Until it becomes too late.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;">As
practice has shown, it is possible for a small group of people to
translate large volumes of information into electronic form, the main
thing is to have desire and necessary skills for that.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><u>Authors</u>: (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Information expert,
Technology Department, SRCAA “Zond”, Ukraine,
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="mailto:kontaktkoordinator@gmail.com">kontaktkoordinator@gmail.com</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Systems expert,
Analytical Department, SRCAA “Zond”, Russia, </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: arial;"><a href="mailto:ufo_miger@mail.ru"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ufo_miger@mail.ru</span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Systems expert,
Analytical Department, SRCAA “Zond”, Ukraine, </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: arial;"><a href="mailto:petrov@zond.kiev.ua"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">petrov@zond.kiev.ua</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">1.Герштейн
М., Калытюк И. По следам утраченных
архивов. Новости Уфологии - Сентябрь
2016</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2.Burch
T. “Confessions of a Newletter Groupie: A case study in UFO
manipulation”. </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Pursuit</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
Fall 1980 – pp184-186 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">3.Калытюк
И. Рем Варламов в изучении мест посадок
НЛО — тени забытого прошлого. Новости
Уфологии - Апрель 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">4.Kaeser
S. The lost APRO files, 2011</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">5.Dickeson
B. UFO archives - an underrated and vanishing resource</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">6.Шуринов
Б. История создания и работы Комиссии
по АЯ</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">7.Калытюк
И. Утерянные документы: Как торговали
советскими военными уфологическими
архивами.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Новости
Уфологии - Май 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">8.Калытюк
И. Утерянные документы: «Кропоткинский
инцидент 17 ноября 1987 года». Новости
Уфологии - Декабрь 2011</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">9.Калытюк
И. Утерянные документы: очень странный
инцидент с дальним ядерным бомбардировщиком
ТУ16 (Badger) 16.05.1970. Новости Уфолологии -
Декабрь 2011</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">10.Объяснительная
записка 14.10.2013</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">11.Юбилейный
бюллетень ЕІВС. Самиздат, Ровно - 2013, 60с</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">12.Svahn
C. “New donation from I.Kalytyuk and Global Archive”. AFU - June
2020</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">13.Лист
16.05.2013 від С.Руслунда для Н.Камянцевої</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">14.Svahn
C. “Part of Vladimir Rubtsov’s files donated to AFU”. AFU -
October 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">15.Калытюк
И. Волонтерский проект Феникс приглашает
всех желающих. Новости Уфологии - Декабрь
2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">16.Svahn
C. “Igor Kalytyuk sends new files”. AFU - July 2016</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">17.Kalytyuk
I.M., Gershtein M.B., Petrov S.O. “The projects «Global Archive»
and «Heritage» for the saving of UAP-archives”, in </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Anomalous
phenomena: methodology and practice of research: Issue of scientific
articles</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
/ Bilyk A.S. (chief edit.) </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>et
al</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. –
Кyiv: Knowledge, 2020. – 207 p.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Up,
Up and Away</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Would
you like to ride in my </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/beautiful"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>beautiful</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
balloon? </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Would
you like to </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/glide" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>glide</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
in my </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/beautiful" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>beautiful</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
balloon? </i></span></span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>We
</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/could" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>could</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
float </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/among" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>among</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
the </i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/stars" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>stars</i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
together, you and I </i></span></span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jimmy
Webb, 1967)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Balloons
are certainly in vogue lately. Since the February 2023 Chinese
balloon incident over the United States, and the further admission by
the U.S. Department of Defense’s AARO that half of the identified
UAP reports are balloons, they are in the mood. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTVteW4LXnrBHU_Aqq3rUM5ZdoL-oZE_YTPc20_RI_XkraDrs6XwwMjQK4Udnid9lbk-uOQQJhOVr-1GV89HLSbgZ1j6fX3X6akE2OauR09tiXXBFHakpATKWVcDHAIu1h5TapHEtp3yopJZSMTV2aqr674y3Pkm2dsKrUX2TkhnB8R3dg-qZ3/s1385/globo%20chino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="1292" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTVteW4LXnrBHU_Aqq3rUM5ZdoL-oZE_YTPc20_RI_XkraDrs6XwwMjQK4Udnid9lbk-uOQQJhOVr-1GV89HLSbgZ1j6fX3X6akE2OauR09tiXXBFHakpATKWVcDHAIu1h5TapHEtp3yopJZSMTV2aqr674y3Pkm2dsKrUX2TkhnB8R3dg-qZ3/w187-h200/globo%20chino.jpg" width="187" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">U-2
photograph of the Chinese balloon flying over Continental United
States. (Credit: U.S. Department of Defense).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Recently,
one twitter popped up in the Cloud with a video showing an
unidentified flying object captured from an airplane aboard which was
the Colombian girl model </span></span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Valentina
Vélez Rueda.</span><sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>
</span></sup><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">According
to information provided by “The Hidden Underbelly” (an internet
influencer),</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span>
</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">the
footage was snapped </span></span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">on
May 4, 2003 by Jorge A. Arteaga, the pilot of a Cessna private plane
flying at 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) and some 135 knots (250
kilometers per hour) between Medellín and Santa Fe, in the Antioquía
department of Colombia. As can be clearly seen in the images, a
strange-shaped object crossed their way. For the pilot, it was not a
balloon nor a drone. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyWsKpdrIvzDZGXaSWpST9813zQySYxNhc4mHeqcg2849BrKSZhV7nhGrxRs_7P6c_JWpngjB9KnF-iZBpctb1a83q-NBourmFQtrsuut_gSjW4ZO6GJhZwTiBm02trcGZHwq23lugRqxobfURWMhEprpHbugGJLFcMaScalkoN7-PQR72Dgo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1202" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyWsKpdrIvzDZGXaSWpST9813zQySYxNhc4mHeqcg2849BrKSZhV7nhGrxRs_7P6c_JWpngjB9KnF-iZBpctb1a83q-NBourmFQtrsuut_gSjW4ZO6GJhZwTiBm02trcGZHwq23lugRqxobfURWMhEprpHbugGJLFcMaScalkoN7-PQR72Dgo=w400-h196" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
enlargement of the object at its closest looks impressive indeed:</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigRwndVTxd2R3yxI337KgzxR_Vg4U87250mlF6K_v4OXpXDqxfX2ikcrmaO-q5pmnTU5Kq4Zy6ZGlDmyRSZ1f8lvEF48j7zHqqumXF3UNjC5gw08m-32cYo86tFRdDKTHvpSkebQdP8EmasNP69K089wBUDSbsL7DkgfsN_o8tVfCuB0KrsiBI/s531/Colombia%20enlargement.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="531" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigRwndVTxd2R3yxI337KgzxR_Vg4U87250mlF6K_v4OXpXDqxfX2ikcrmaO-q5pmnTU5Kq4Zy6ZGlDmyRSZ1f8lvEF48j7zHqqumXF3UNjC5gw08m-32cYo86tFRdDKTHvpSkebQdP8EmasNP69K089wBUDSbsL7DkgfsN_o8tVfCuB0KrsiBI/w200-h164/Colombia%20enlargement.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">For
UAP analyst Mick West, the balloon option was the most obvious
explanation. He rapidly reminded us that Medellin, Colombia is
renowned for their big alien/UFO balloon releases, for example, this
one</span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiP5sj6lZgq8mnaXrhaqIQYsdVqBfwTN4Rg1RCJL9WYAFiCAhANXPLEAfgGCydUGmyKLhkTUnDTG_s6ybsj1MXPVtDHk9BVS27UwVLUhP2N2xF2PLjNIlPU5vkLm1Ix-pB9K4KAbpVyDQZZ9TAdF_m6xct3nz58bEjckOLRvm3DXSAN5nAW-eu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiP5sj6lZgq8mnaXrhaqIQYsdVqBfwTN4Rg1RCJL9WYAFiCAhANXPLEAfgGCydUGmyKLhkTUnDTG_s6ybsj1MXPVtDHk9BVS27UwVLUhP2N2xF2PLjNIlPU5vkLm1Ix-pB9K4KAbpVyDQZZ9TAdF_m6xct3nz58bEjckOLRvm3DXSAN5nAW-eu" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Analysis
by “Metabunk” in the United States concluded it was just a
stationary balloon, and that it was the plane what was moving
instead.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span> </span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">For
another study, however, it was really an actual flying object,
because the apparition of a </span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">black
dot in the footage might indicate that the UAP changed direction
radically and accelerated dramatically, a dual performance that a
balloon cannot accomplish.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
For Mick West, nevertheless, “t</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">he
little speck seen at the end seems more like something on the cockpit
glass, combined with camera motion. H</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">aving
looked at it a little more, that's exactly what it is. Dirt on the
window. You can actually see other bits of dirt doing the same thing.
You can also see the camera move significantly in the reflection, but
image stabilization is holding the exterior image steady, creating
the motion of the window dirt.”</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9lT5zlVWcv3u5yJSIWYT5owOOZhtUpEeQavUTpEmWqlMOgT1N1YbrrY-qH-1NyWZSiZojc3cyA5zq9rnPHBrZvNm-Y5UYBZC8Mn5FJFNSUq4wpAOCDUuaDsAyGLAHE_nfI2A-1GkRhA99VLXkuHbGgmKre85xnIB4YY_HZaQD8LOf5VQae_j2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="1160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9lT5zlVWcv3u5yJSIWYT5owOOZhtUpEeQavUTpEmWqlMOgT1N1YbrrY-qH-1NyWZSiZojc3cyA5zq9rnPHBrZvNm-Y5UYBZC8Mn5FJFNSUq4wpAOCDUuaDsAyGLAHE_nfI2A-1GkRhA99VLXkuHbGgmKre85xnIB4YY_HZaQD8LOf5VQae_j2" width="148" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy
of Mick West.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Surprisingly,
though, Andrés Duarte, a Chilean professional chemist and a
recognized image analyst</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7,8</span>
</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">also replied to our query
for an expert opinion. He found several possible preliminary
indications and a quantifiable inconsistency that could prove that
the video is a montage (edited fake) but his analysis is not yet
finished.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">By
coincidence, another similar footage was aired lately in Hispanic
America. It was disseminated by Mexican ufologist Ross Cantu.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span>
</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Was it an UAP? No. Just a
balloon. See the thread hanging under the balloon in the first
picture,</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif">before the plane flew
over it. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNkh66jKJGdRb13TWCuo1Ft0wavhpE0bKUMDYAmOG2o6AZECgWbDKhhLgql4aqtmBluyKRUH6KLM1V_4QUS3Wl8uP1GZN9l6S31i6GGd4K6S_8PepxPwoGWvDawE6mhHzGQo8wwtQBv9brOwbT-ByvZOO8R-__kL1jwOBqhPYpmmJHevtP7MN2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="751" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNkh66jKJGdRb13TWCuo1Ft0wavhpE0bKUMDYAmOG2o6AZECgWbDKhhLgql4aqtmBluyKRUH6KLM1V_4QUS3Wl8uP1GZN9l6S31i6GGd4K6S_8PepxPwoGWvDawE6mhHzGQo8wwtQBv9brOwbT-ByvZOO8R-__kL1jwOBqhPYpmmJHevtP7MN2" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Dr. Heriberto Janosch.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">You
can be scared if your plane speeds past a colorful UAP, but you have
to consider the wide range of balloons as large as ~100m</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2
</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">in projected area, with
spectacular shapes and colors that are launched in Latin America, as
this example of the Cantoya (Michoacán, Mexico) balloons raised on
local festivities.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSfqiHhHxD6AErQaDd5FXTXLvcI6BBziuGuklID7l4mweSc9upV-w8Ew6-XyJDTDvfN7UN2LfM4n9vuEboXoxhaKCbBLb6u18cM6PBrtpPYQgHjpZe1C_nNI980vicDGdxBckIKdG3_T2EArCWAa8F9bvJC98_KT5LaSzLeNIEangH2ISmbNkI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="762" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSfqiHhHxD6AErQaDd5FXTXLvcI6BBziuGuklID7l4mweSc9upV-w8Ew6-XyJDTDvfN7UN2LfM4n9vuEboXoxhaKCbBLb6u18cM6PBrtpPYQgHjpZe1C_nNI980vicDGdxBckIKdG3_T2EArCWAa8F9bvJC98_KT5LaSzLeNIEangH2ISmbNkI" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cantoya
balloon. Courtesy of Dr. Heriberto Janosch.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">If
you hesitate that simple aerostatic balloons can be share the
airspace at such heights, this is an example: recently, a </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Volaris</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
flight from Jalisco to Mexico, D.F. sighted in the distance a
recreational balloon at the flight level of 34,600 feet (10,550 m).
The balloon was carrying the Brazilian flag!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH8vryNV--mYRYSIhQOP1M9sGM0lCclH6QdnOqSKNBu-TZvssTQqLEhQGK0GqvgjEs6YukVyORdE8YxTpxm00THi9Vv7YcKe5RiolyqFObxiat0lmCEvrU4kEz3pvtsOFfHdPPTWOevFJy6qu5hG7AAiElZMewEhlCHFlUL3LD00V8_eaG5C8V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="429" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH8vryNV--mYRYSIhQOP1M9sGM0lCclH6QdnOqSKNBu-TZvssTQqLEhQGK0GqvgjEs6YukVyORdE8YxTpxm00THi9Vv7YcKe5RiolyqFObxiat0lmCEvrU4kEz3pvtsOFfHdPPTWOevFJy6qu5hG7AAiElZMewEhlCHFlUL3LD00V8_eaG5C8V" width="172" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Balloon
10.5 km over ground. Courtesy of Dr. Heriberto Janosch</span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/OgOgcrypto/status/1643340990500012035/history"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/OgOgcrypto/status/1643340990500012035/history</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/vKP1cRsNBLk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://youtu.be/vKP1cRsNBLk</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MickWest/status/1659920918582530048">https://twitter.com/MickWest/status/1659920918582530048</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-v-video-by-jorge-arteaga.12926/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-v-video-by-jorge-arteaga.12926/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(5)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MzC2Rb6PU"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MzC2Rb6PU</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(6)
Mick West, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, June 19, 2023.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(7)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Andrés Duarte, “The Little Blue
Humanoid,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_05_29_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_05_29_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(8)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Andrés Duarte, “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mr.
Templeton’s Invisible Humanoid,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_12_27_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_12_27_archive.html</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(9)
Andrés Duarte, e-mails to V.J. Ballester Olmos, June 25, 2023 and
July 21, 2023.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(10)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/736577881549324"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/reel/736577881549324</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(11)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXOQFMBVa0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXOQFMBVa0</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
and </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://elsouvenir.com/globos-de-cantoya-en-michoacan/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://elsouvenir.com/globos-de-cantoya-en-michoacan/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Quotable
Quotes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Taken
together, I see the UFO genre, superimposed against the political and
cultural backdrop, as both warning and danger. Society may use the
UFO as a symbol or outlet for questions that it has a difficult time
acknowledging or formulating, possibly utilizing it as a kind of
pressure valve or as a means to help negotiate new social
configurations, but UFOs can also be an amplifier for anti-scientific
Forteana, esotericism and extremism that accrue when cultural flux
and distrust of authority becomes pathological. For such reasons
should we keep an eye on the saucers: not because they are piloted by
people from other worlds, but because they are in a very real sense
piloted by us, and we don't quite know just why, and finding out why
could well matter for navigating the bumpy times ahead. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Luis
Cayetano, Ph.D. (background in evolutionary biology and ecology). </span><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/on-david-grusch-s-whistleblowing-and-other-apparent-but-not-quite-nothing-burgers"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/on-david-grusch-s-whistleblowing-and-other-apparent-but-not-quite-nothing-burgers</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Another
New 1954 Photo</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk519874844"></a>
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
I indicated above, there are certain periods of the history of
ufology that interest me especially. In the case of the major UFO
wave of 1954 both because of the worldwide impact of this
recrudescence of UFO reports, and by the fact that I have published a
monograph on the photographic examples produced in the course of the
surge: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">“The Year 1954 in
Photos (Expanded)”:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">My
coworker Kay Coggin, a permanent source of old time press pictures,
has sent me the following item released by the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Pacific
Island Monthly</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> (PIM),
volume XXV, number 5, on December 1, 1954. First time I saw it. Under
the heading “Flying Saucer over Aitutaki?”, a snapshot and its
caption was published in the magazine, and I am reproducing it: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The
cheery optimist who sent this to PIM writes: “This is positively
the first Flying Saucer to be spotted in the Island. This one was
snapped as it sneaked over Aitutaki lagoon just after a TEAL </i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">[Tasman
Empire Airways Limited]</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>
</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>aircraft has taken off
for Tahiti. Mr. C. Dixon, standing on the stern of the CAA launch in
the foreground, appears quite unperturbed. TEAL launch in the
distance.” Our friend assumes that even a pinhole camera cannot
lie.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Frankly,
this image looks like to me more a simple film developing flaw, and I
feel the magazine editor suspected the same. But it is one more piece
for our collection of the “stranger things” of the epoch. By the
way, the Pacific Islands are a group of islands located in the South
of the Pacific Ocean, composed of Melanesia, Micronesia, and
Polynesia. In particular, The Aitutaki lagoon (today a luxury private
resort) is in the Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmhxDsCzakFFmI-da_-iK0Pgn_VRNndXm7C7Y0P_GdXlS_BLfHRAwMmZoiBLDmLJ1KUQluXU3OnZCd1sKEvwjKXrXmAUFFIaNrVKvc_hsUUyo0KKqgoKp9nZwjTw2FOvhhZ369hQI-NP3OrYFtNattVGmdAb00KXDbPthNgwF02xaKiEkqmAnw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="274" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmhxDsCzakFFmI-da_-iK0Pgn_VRNndXm7C7Y0P_GdXlS_BLfHRAwMmZoiBLDmLJ1KUQluXU3OnZCd1sKEvwjKXrXmAUFFIaNrVKvc_hsUUyo0KKqgoKp9nZwjTw2FOvhhZ369hQI-NP3OrYFtNattVGmdAb00KXDbPthNgwF02xaKiEkqmAnw" width="232" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Pacific
Islands Monthly</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div></span></span></span></span>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Illobrand
von Ludwiger Dead</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I
have just learned, thanks to </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Marcianitos
Verdes</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, the web page of the
Mexican researcher Luis Ruiz Nóguez, the death of the German
ufologist Illobrand von Ludwiger (1937-2023).</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
I have had irregular correspondence with him for many years. In 1995,
he invited me to contribute a paper to a book under his editorship:
“UFO-Phänomene in Spanien,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>UFOs-Zeichen
und Zeugen</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, Edition q
(Berlin), pp. 126-139.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
In November 2004, on the occasion of delivering a lecture to the
November 6, 2004 MUFON-CES congress at Frankfurt, I organized a loose
workshop with some UFO researchers in Germany, including Von
Ludwiger.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">3,4</span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCQwn7xyaobIMz0F6vmBEy5gs5GI0BiBEI9qEtziflt7Cmhf1btdzlSS36XPCxLELxKhjAwAwgbz00I-vO6CKdBg55_GX8y7nRD9vUK23VHOUEvPLaycLDvetV9LQOrFSfaGm_paLUsdR7CyjmiNnSUZ-lR9xUU2UW7OaG9VHTGO7rUPLnru0-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="900" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCQwn7xyaobIMz0F6vmBEy5gs5GI0BiBEI9qEtziflt7Cmhf1btdzlSS36XPCxLELxKhjAwAwgbz00I-vO6CKdBg55_GX8y7nRD9vUK23VHOUEvPLaycLDvetV9LQOrFSfaGm_paLUsdR7CyjmiNnSUZ-lR9xUU2UW7OaG9VHTGO7rUPLnru0-" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Illobrand
von Ludwiger, left, with V.J. Ballester Olmos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: -0.04cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Von
Ludwiger was a total leader, and a believer in the
UFO-extraterrestrial connection, but he was also committed to the
scientific method in approaching the subject of unidentified flying
objects. I have always thought that one of the best contributions to
European literature was the collection of published conference
proceedings of MUFON-CES annual congresses.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Requiescat
in pace</i>. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/08/necrolgicas-lee-speigel-e-illobrand-von-ludwiger/">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/08/necrolgicas-lee-speigel-e-illobrand-von-ludwiger/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25xnf4es">https://tinyurl.com/25xnf4es</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2005_01_02_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2005_01_02_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(4)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(5)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.mufon-dsr.com/bibliothek/berichte/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.mufon-dsr.com/bibliothek/berichte/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(1)
Julio Plaza del Olmo (March 18, 2023), “Comments to </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Physical
constraints on UAPs</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,” </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/98754194/Comments_to_Physical_constraints_on_UAPs"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/98754194/Comments_to_Physical_constraints_on_UAPs</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(2)
Good to know who is who. July 2023, on his blog “Getting Spooked,”
Tanner F. Boyle writes the latest on infamous ufologist and convicted
pedophile Wendelle Stevens: “Reader Requests #2: Return to Wendelle
C. Stevens,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/reader-requests-2-return-to-wendelle"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/reader-requests-2-return-to-wendelle</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
“When a transparently bogus story like this makes national
headlines, usually without a hint of skepticism or investigation, it
shows the sorry state of UFOlogy, and so-called ‘journalism’
today.” </span></span><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2023/06/8-foot-tall-aliens-land-in-las-vegas.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2023/06/8-foot-tall-aliens-land-in-las-vegas.html</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(4)
Researcher and blogger Charlie Wiser published his own studies of two
famous UFO pictures: “All Aboard with Rex Heflin” and “Bright
lights of Salem, 1952”: </span></span></span><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/all-aboard-with-rex-heflin"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/all-aboard-with-rex-heflin</span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/bright-lights-of-salem-1952"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/bright-lights-of-salem-1952</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(5)
Stratocat Project documents the Chinese balloon: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(7)
Dr. Erol Faruk revives his classic work, “The Delphos CE2 Case –
A New Appraisal of the Data,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-new-appraisal-of-the-data-of-the-delphos-ce2-1971-case"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-new-appraisal-of-the-data-of-the-delphos-ce2-1971-case</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(8)
“The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories,” by Wesley
Andrés Watters, Abraham Loeb </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>et
al</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Journal
of Astronomical Instrumentation</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Vol. 12, No. 1 (2023), 43 pages,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2251171723400068"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2251171723400068</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
Loeb and 37 other signatures basically did “an overview of [his own
baby] the Galileo Project's investigation of UAP.” He needed to
show the strength of his international team. The bottom line is a
belief that UAP represent anomalies (in fact the UFO literature
quoted is a list of examples of bad science) and to prove that they
want to create a network of detecting apparatus. My prediction: in
the next 10 years they will have not recorded anything extraordinary,
except ambiguous phenomena. If that would have been posed 50 years
ago I would jump in excitement and congratulations. But all flying
saucers that had to navigate over our skies have already done it that
to the dissatisfaction of mystery hunters who have been unable to
prove any sighting was a scientific anomaly. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(9)
Michael Vaillant, “Methodology of Analysis of Unexplained
Phenomena,”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.u-sphere.com/index.php?title=Methodology_of_Analysis_of_Unexplained_Phenomena" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.u-sphere.com/index.php?title=Methodology_of_Analysis_of_Unexplained_Phenomena</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Whistleblowing on Nick Pope: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bde3nt49"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bde3nt49</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
“Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial,” </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Conversation</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
July 17, 2023, an article by Dr. Barry Markovsky, distinguished
professor emeritus of sociology at the University of South Carolina, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-people-tend-to-believe-ufos-are-extraterrestrial-208403" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theconversation.com/why-people-tend-to-believe-ufos-are-extraterrestrial-208403</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(12),
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “Expediente Manises: El terreno alrededor de
Escombreras,” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103909911/Expediente_Manises_El_terreno_alrededor_de_Escombreras" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/103909911/Expediente_Manises_El_terreno_alrededor_de_Escombreras</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “Expediente Manises: La Sexta Flota y la
Armada Española”,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/105748831/Expediente_Manises_La_Sexta_Flota_y_la_Armada_Española"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/105748831/Expediente_Manises_La_Sexta_Flota_y_la_Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>El
OVNI de Gáldar </u></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(The
Galdar UFO)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">At
about 10:15 p.m. on June 22, 1976, a strange phenomenon was sighted
from different points of the Canary Islands (Atlantic Ocean, in
Spain.) The press quickly covered the event, giving space to the
testimonies of people who were surprised to observe something
extraordinary. However, two witnesses, a doctor and a taxi driver,
who were traveling together in the same vehicle, gave a story that
surpassed the rest as most spectacular. With the thoroughness that he
usually displays in his work, long time UFO field investigator, and
author Ricardo Campo Pérez (Ph.D, Philosophy) analyzes and reviews
in the utmost detail the occurrences of that day, its impact on the
media, the stories published by ufologists and, in short, everything
that surrounds one of the most popular UFO cases in Spain. The highly
recommended book </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(The Galdar UFO) has been published by Coliseo Sentonsa (2023, 351
pages): </span></span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0C87BZNCT"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0C87BZNCT</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD7WL3REpIsWpyaN3TMt2Rc5GiiahKbCBjaERDFqy32j-NnKMur9X57jFtoBnz69AkaXIwSqzJlBvbbCDWIgJgVPnsAyD7OkWnWSzfnFQeFBw2xGeNdsiiL1CRfMsou_E60WSF1ARsOcZvYELJkZTfJdV3ylB_jOsEnMMl2kfZNXyYaBEbjSl_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="1267" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD7WL3REpIsWpyaN3TMt2Rc5GiiahKbCBjaERDFqy32j-NnKMur9X57jFtoBnz69AkaXIwSqzJlBvbbCDWIgJgVPnsAyD7OkWnWSzfnFQeFBw2xGeNdsiiL1CRfMsou_E60WSF1ARsOcZvYELJkZTfJdV3ylB_jOsEnMMl2kfZNXyYaBEbjSl_" width="157" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Luis R. González, “Foto ovni tomada en Málaga el 2 de noviembre
de 1954” (UFO picture taken at Málaga, Spain, on November 2, 1954)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMTgSY7BaiaAOp7UzNBT3eh_Tzu0OhrvfDNitD_jkowbaeiEtwGuI2H5qNhN-XXMaiR-7vH39u6KNT57fE1P9PreZJJ3yiU6fxyyqrPdQcABn6z3Y3RmcBhrHcwxB4QyFHZ-sUrmBxc_p4FoL3Y-nfBsRm2Rh-40uVoAeZPrtmMqrtfNll9twc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMTgSY7BaiaAOp7UzNBT3eh_Tzu0OhrvfDNitD_jkowbaeiEtwGuI2H5qNhN-XXMaiR-7vH39u6KNT57fE1P9PreZJJ3yiU6fxyyqrPdQcABn6z3Y3RmcBhrHcwxB4QyFHZ-sUrmBxc_p4FoL3Y-nfBsRm2Rh-40uVoAeZPrtmMqrtfNll9twc" width="180" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">*
Dr. Heriberto Janosch, “Una hipótesis alternativa para el caso de
Antonio Villas Boas” (An alternative hypothesis for the Antonio
Villas Boas abduction case).</div></span></div><p></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“Ponga un Starlink en su vida” (Put a Starlink in Your Life), on a
Spanish family sighting on June 23, 2023: the Starlink satellites
observed and photographed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqqJyKLtCGH0TlmnJdfQJFN32ZWhvl__MlYHghP1RCay_t91AGRjjtQFnEgQ07GcJm9ZKJnNY6ik0hWyBglDqNlXqrv59dbeRHFQj2u-euHyb0hToDbkIs_i6HcGovRhsZK9YmhXJvYs9uwK4_dklG5sea62byG4VQT4GS4JiRvW6c-bro4m8n" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqqJyKLtCGH0TlmnJdfQJFN32ZWhvl__MlYHghP1RCay_t91AGRjjtQFnEgQ07GcJm9ZKJnNY6ik0hWyBglDqNlXqrv59dbeRHFQj2u-euHyb0hToDbkIs_i6HcGovRhsZK9YmhXJvYs9uwK4_dklG5sea62byG4VQT4GS4JiRvW6c-bro4m8n" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Stats- UFO landings in Spain and Portugal from 1950 to 2020, three
different periods in reporting intensity.</span></div></div><p></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNTvRFTm1uuA7URKbPK3-_0WkVQ2FOeg0igboZGH3GLtsuK5IcvtT10W-Fym4VNhx17eeRVLcK1uHanAe2bP85uyMfYupRJcWRCBzHort2OeWoGZWDlVvGiySAKM_eaJnydhRkmjM5vjrBrXv_n2sRmgYzWW7LtzeiSJbD1GEqbqNHDOjl0lZm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1760" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNTvRFTm1uuA7URKbPK3-_0WkVQ2FOeg0igboZGH3GLtsuK5IcvtT10W-Fym4VNhx17eeRVLcK1uHanAe2bP85uyMfYupRJcWRCBzHort2OeWoGZWDlVvGiySAKM_eaJnydhRkmjM5vjrBrXv_n2sRmgYzWW7LtzeiSJbD1GEqbqNHDOjl0lZm" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“El falso UAP del 26/6/2023” (The false UAP of June 6, 2023), a
French hypersonic vehicle test sighted and pictured from Spain.</span><p></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAzTKrkMlcChyYHh7hsyLBz862d2ZYwWfCfCmRDNdGCoJk51DZGUffK6C-yAhC0fomFE0kGfdqZA4WXJO_v74YRzNupwzf4FjmeRhvUsCW_-pEFF-mHkl2CMmRTvhqtoSDk2OTlDIxcmNrVFe75ZeRuZZBewhSyJsJBmgTB23BhCH1UVcLDKq7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="390" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAzTKrkMlcChyYHh7hsyLBz862d2ZYwWfCfCmRDNdGCoJk51DZGUffK6C-yAhC0fomFE0kGfdqZA4WXJO_v74YRzNupwzf4FjmeRhvUsCW_-pEFF-mHkl2CMmRTvhqtoSDk2OTlDIxcmNrVFe75ZeRuZZBewhSyJsJBmgTB23BhCH1UVcLDKq7" width="180" /></a></div><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Acknowledgments</u><p></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Ignacio Cabria (Spain), Mick West
(USA), Dr. Heriberto Janosch (Spain), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos
Verdes, Mexico), Kay Coggin (USA), Edoardo Russo (CISU, Italy),
Javier Resines (Spain), Andrés Duarte (Chile), Manuel Carballal
(EOC, Spain), Wim van Utrecht (Caelestia, Belgium), Claude Maugé
(France), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Spain), Roberto E. Banchs
(Argentina), Jim Oberg (USA), Thierry Rocher (France), Alejandro
Agostinelli (Argentina),</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Philip
Mantle (England), Chris Aubeck (Spain), Milton Hourcade (UAPSG, USA),
Drew Williamson (USA), Moisés Garrido (Spain), Danny Ammon
(Germany), and Diego Bonino (Argentina).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQKi_aTVKm6qyb6qr1BGPRqiBr9TUbvlAnk_eBpC4s1hJuZoFYFWcJ6CSWm2uQWrI0JmN3thzPskuVOVH8n8WwJSypZCpg0bZ77WjIdx0Z-luN4F-BXGM6YA4IKNnQhZkLP3sh_LHmzXMDmH1bac2bgbh1zRrq8P_hpCFDlXqAdfCk9xgGAnv6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQKi_aTVKm6qyb6qr1BGPRqiBr9TUbvlAnk_eBpC4s1hJuZoFYFWcJ6CSWm2uQWrI0JmN3thzPskuVOVH8n8WwJSypZCpg0bZ77WjIdx0Z-luN4F-BXGM6YA4IKNnQhZkLP3sh_LHmzXMDmH1bac2bgbh1zRrq8P_hpCFDlXqAdfCk9xgGAnv6=w640-h110" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
1976</span><p></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">IBERLIBRO:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2wpsh2nb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2wpsh2nb</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">UNILIBER:</span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2c2pun7y"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2c2pun7y</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">AMAZON:</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2ff5d5nn"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2ff5d5nn</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">TODOCOLECCIÓN:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4x7y9vbr"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4x7y9vbr</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMU7EWr8GkH6Rr3QIkrflzyhMIfP0yhCZCrOxzeGYjPohEFryW1dG2O3Fb3Joiq2EZgL52VR9eoiSHOIDN-SXBXY69QxY69KXyILQ_s6Jocp_Ot-wBseQYGVYmOrkvPoQyO7gi3nsF35yNjBt6hFQ5w1X33LkN-5na_EbJszuCUoDfTU-QE3Qd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="3657" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMU7EWr8GkH6Rr3QIkrflzyhMIfP0yhCZCrOxzeGYjPohEFryW1dG2O3Fb3Joiq2EZgL52VR9eoiSHOIDN-SXBXY69QxY69KXyILQ_s6Jocp_Ot-wBseQYGVYmOrkvPoQyO7gi3nsF35yNjBt6hFQ5w1X33LkN-5na_EbJszuCUoDfTU-QE3Qd=w640-h130" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The
First Catalogue</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span><p></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFOs and Government </b>(with M.
Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988) </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
(editor) (with R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
2023</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4>
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2023/SEPTIEMBRE/15
(ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González.</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Último
libro: Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Publicado
en julio de 2023. Gracias a la inestimable ayuda de Moisés Garrido y
Claudia Moctezuma y a la generosa aportación de archivos de Javier
Sierra, he publicado la monografía "Mi correspondencia con
Antonio Ribera", donde he dado a conocer las cartas que Ribera y
yo cruzamos durante su vida, además de otros documentos de cierto
valor histórico. Todo ello va en línea con las importantes premisas
de transparencia y de preservación de la "cultura ufológica"
del país. Moisés y Claudia han hecho un trabajo de edición
soberbio e impagable, que nunca terminaré de agradecer. Este PDF de
cerca de 750 páginas comienza con un texto de introducción (páginas
5 a 16) que da paso a la documentación propiamente dicha (páginas
17 a 711) la cual, además de las cartas que cruzamos, incluye muchas
hojas con fotografías de viajes y encuentros que tuve con Ribera
entre 1966 y 2001, el año de su fallecimiento, así como otros
documentos de interés. Hay dos apéndices: uno con los memoriales
escritos en su día por Sierra y Garrido (páginas 712 a 718) y otro
con las dedicatorias personales que Ribera tuvo la gentileza de
firmarme en sus libros (páginas 719 a 744). Creo que este es un
material de indudable interés para aficionados a la ufología e
historiadores de esta temática. El libro en PDF se puede descargar
de forma gratuita, del siguiente enlace de Academia.edu:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-heTfW3b-pV_GZ22RfMfxB2PRAsmx7kWaqqOF_0nGp5i0RnSbQlvRFELdCCLlHBFO8JiyjnQ4hbtrLs3Jfu4pXl5dC8B1t43D3H0KBFzKgCO3PCiM_o6BtNAzzibct3zQ_bNucfmEmLsTeRumSCX0xH-c0ewvrZs2UgXwSZOigPnFTA1pkn0_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-heTfW3b-pV_GZ22RfMfxB2PRAsmx7kWaqqOF_0nGp5i0RnSbQlvRFELdCCLlHBFO8JiyjnQ4hbtrLs3Jfu4pXl5dC8B1t43D3H0KBFzKgCO3PCiM_o6BtNAzzibct3zQ_bNucfmEmLsTeRumSCX0xH-c0ewvrZs2UgXwSZOigPnFTA1pkn0_" width="170" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
menos de 60 días desde su salida, el PDF en línea ha tenido
alrededor de 750 visitas y se ha descargado unas 250 veces. Estas son
algunas de las muchas y favorables reacciones que ha suscitado en el
mundillo ufológico: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Opera
magna</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Javier Sierra). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Excelente
trabajo</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(José Juan Montejo). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Una
gran aportación </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(David
Cuevas). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Edición
en papel, imprescindible</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Luis Alfonso Gámez). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Irrepetible
labor de recuperación </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Javier
Resines). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Excelente,
una maravilla (</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dr.
Heriberto Janosch). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Puro
oro </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Diego
Zúñiga). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Extraordinario
trabajo </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Carlos
González). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Impresionante
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Marcos
Antonio Benítez). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Gran
trabajo </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Juan
José Sánchez-Oró). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Impagable
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Julio
Arcas Gilardi). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Una
recopilación epistolar fundamental </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Ignacio
Cabria). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Un
viaje impagable a nuestra historia ufológica</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Manuel Carballal). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Una
colección de documentos históricamente importante</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Edoardo Russo). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Un
hito en la historia de la ufología en España</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Jaime Servera). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">El
mejor homenaje que nadie ha podido hacer a nuestro añorado Antonio
Ribera</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Gema Lozano).</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hermosa
y necesaria “desclasificación”</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Alejandro Agostinelli).</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Imprescindible
para los historiadores de la ufología española </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Dr.
Ricardo Campo).</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enhorabuena
por el libro</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Patricio Abusleme). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Una
aportación importante para la historia de la ufología española</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
(Miguel Guasp Carrascosa).</span></span></span></span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
breve está prevista la edición en papel por la editorial UPIAR. Ya
lo anunciaré en su momento. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Mi
libro anterior: Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
mitad del pasado mes de mayo se anunció la publicación de </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(La fiabilidad del testimonio del testigo ovni), un volumen de gran
tamaño (21x29 cm, 711 páginas) y contenido (57 capítulos, 60
autores de 14 países). Editado por V.J. Ballester Olmos y Richard W.
Heiden, fue publicado tanto en formato </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>online</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a través de Academia.edu como en forma impresa por UPIAR (Turín,
Italia). El libro cuenta con un prólogo del Dr. Leonard S. Newman y
contiene comentarios elogiosos de cuatro distinguidas autoridades
académicas: la Dra. Elizabeth Loftus, el Dr. Steven Jay Lynn, el Dr.
Henry Otgaar y el Dr. Benjamin E. Zeller.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglKudbm0bARjFrDJcyBczfu3brayJyuU1PakgzFpDkRJTQkbqpCJrju6Z58ck9EwfOonA8L6kL-FpcqAj1gTbd5wsjA8jU2qN4EYoGcGezgkVX2E5ubgVg-FLWV6e-bxYn16AYWEl-uggpgkfi0UTDKiihbhlBbIbjsJthpeSPAbBOSeigq4Us" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="3888" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglKudbm0bARjFrDJcyBczfu3brayJyuU1PakgzFpDkRJTQkbqpCJrju6Z58ck9EwfOonA8L6kL-FpcqAj1gTbd5wsjA8jU2qN4EYoGcGezgkVX2E5ubgVg-FLWV6e-bxYn16AYWEl-uggpgkfi0UTDKiihbhlBbIbjsJthpeSPAbBOSeigq4Us=w400-h188" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Este
libro explora, investiga y debate sobre la validez del testimonio
humano cuando se trata de informes de objetos voladores no
identificados (antes llamados platillos volantes, hoy denominados
UAP), tanto en la perspectiva teórica como en la vida real. Una
aportación verdaderamente académica que ciertamente ha llegado para
quedarse durante varios años como una pieza sustancial y profesional
de información, investigación, conocimiento y discusión de alto
nivel sobre este importante tema.</div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
reseñas de libros suelen llevar tiempo, pero a continuación se
incluyen algunos comentarios iniciales seleccionados tanto de autores
de los capítulos como de lectores y de revistas. En la edición en
inglés de este </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>blog</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
encontrará una lista mucho más amplia.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Muchas
gracias y mucha suerte con el libro. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dra.
Elizabeth Loftus. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">¡Felicitaciones
por la publicación del libro</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">!
Dr. Benjamin E. Zeller. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Le
has dedicado mucha energía, creatividad y tiempo. Tu trabajo
resistirá la prueba del tiempo y seguirá siendo un clásico de
referencia estándar. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Richard Haines. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Impresionante.
Eres la fuerza creativa detrás de este producto. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jim
Oberg. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">¡Felicitaciones
por hacer realidad este ambicioso proyecto! </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Christopher C. French. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Una
impresionante y sustancial colección de trabajos. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Martín
Shough. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Felicitaciones.
¡Todo un logro! </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Craig
R. Myers. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Un
gran y minucioso trabajo editorial, mis felicitaciones. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Stavros Hatzopoulos. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">¡El
libro total! </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Alejandro
Agostinelli. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Una
consecución maravillosa: una contribución sin precedentes a un tema
de gran interés e importancia. Sé que fue un trabajo altruista, un
volumen excepcional. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tom
Albright. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">¡Una
obra maestra de colaboración internacional! </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Xavier
Passot. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Constituye
un avance generacional respecto del trabajo de Carl Sagan y Thornton
Page de 1972, “UFOs: A Scientific Debate”. Habéis guiado una
obra significativa. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Scott R. Scribner. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mi
más profundo agradecimiento por su propio trabajo en esta área y
especialmente por el monumental logro de realizar esta publicación
masiva. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Gregory J. Wheeler. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Un
nuevo e impresionante libro sobre testimonios de testigos de ovnis.
</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Curt
Collins. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">V-J
Ballester Olmos y Richard Heiden han hecho un gran esfuerzo para
materializar este extenso trabajo. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Milton
Hourcade. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Se
convertirá en la piedra angular de un campo emergente de análisis
psicológico y social del fenómeno ovni. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Steve
Roberts</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">,
The Skeptic, </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vol.
43, Nº 2, junio de 2023, pág. 57. </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Es una adición muy sustancial a la literatura OVNI. </i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">David Halperin.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">El
volumen de Ballester-Olmos y Heiden merece atención. La colección
de trabajos es vigorosamente interdisciplinaria y comprende las
ciencias sociales, físicas y biológicas... Reunir a cincuenta y
siete investigadores variados de esta manera es tan impresionante
como prometedor... Ballester-Olmos es un investigador muy productivo;
aquellos que pasan por alto sus contribuciones al tema lo hacen bajo
su propio riesgo. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bryan
Sentes</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://skunkworksblog.com/2023/06/16/the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-technology-on-the-planet/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://skunkworksblog.com/2023/06/16/the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-technology-on-the-planet/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No
se debe subestimar la utilidad de la psicología forense y de las
ciencias cognitivas forenses. Los expertos en la materia que
contribuyeron al volumen de Ballester-Olmos & Heiden tienden a
estar de acuerdo... la mayoría de nosotros estamos bastante de
acuerdo con el hecho demostrable de que la percepción y la
interpretación de los UAP u ovnis tienen sus raíces en procesos
psicológicos identificables, muchos de los cuales ya han sido
analizados y caracterizado en un grado significativo. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr.
Matthew J. Sharps</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
Psychology Today, </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5
de junio de 2023</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202305/psychology-and-the-flying-saucer-people"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202305/psychology-and-the-flying-saucer-people</span></span></i></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuXrfVKoYvOQCnomsQgusVt-3Flg07N8U_yZXLL24yDMiZotX2IHYOxoknKsHSJdg6Jqvasz2Lb_QERi0r51SSCqf3Z0kLHnZclyXalrcfzzBv7nmnl-Ba1CMA3tC_tR1xWeFYdI6GnrOihAdGR4fP8heCQBUD5JKtCndSelYWp0pBC3AKgYAo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuXrfVKoYvOQCnomsQgusVt-3Flg07N8U_yZXLL24yDMiZotX2IHYOxoknKsHSJdg6Jqvasz2Lb_QERi0r51SSCqf3Z0kLHnZclyXalrcfzzBv7nmnl-Ba1CMA3tC_tR1xWeFYdI6GnrOihAdGR4fP8heCQBUD5JKtCndSelYWp0pBC3AKgYAo" width="240" /></a></div><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Este
libro es un antídoto importante contra el frenesí de los UAP que
está ocurriendo en los EE. UU.... Dado que la confiabilidad de los
testigos de ovnis se aborda principalmente desde una perspectiva
psicosocial, los ufólogos podrían descartar este volumen como lo
último en desacreditación y escepticismo. Sin embargo, como lo
expresa el Dr. Newman en el prólogo: "Los escépticos son
buscadores de conocimiento. Es cierto que nuestro conocimiento a
menudo nos lleva a conclusiones que no son agradables para los
creyentes..." Cualquiera que sea su creencia, este es un libro
de referencia esencial para cualquier persona interesada en
comprender este tema más allá del ámbito de los titulares
sensacionalistas y los documentales de televisión. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nigel
Watson, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Magonia
Review, </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">julio
de 2023,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence.html</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">;
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence_13.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/07/reliable-witnesses-guide-to-evidence_13.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">¡Realmente
hiciste un gran trabajo! Mi impresión es que se convertirá en un
libro de referencia no solo en ufología. El enfoque positivo
“escéptico” del libro merece elogios y representa la
originalidad de esta publicación. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marcel
Delaval. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">La
mayor parte de la evidencia ovni son testimonios de testigos. La
mayor parte, entonces, depende de las percepciones y concepciones,
recuerdos y habilidades comunicativas de humanos falibles. A pesar de
la importancia central del observador humano, la confiabilidad de los
testigos con demasiada frecuencia ha seguido siendo una consideración
secundaria. Ya no más. “The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony”
trata este mismo tema en más de 700 páginas, escritas por docenas
de académicos internacionales con diversos enfoques y áreas de
especialización, aplicados a casos particulares y al problema
general. ¿Todos los ovnis se disuelven en espejismos cuando se los
examina con suficiente atención? No necesariamente, pero la mayoría
sí. Tanto para los defensores como para los escépticos, este libro
proporciona un valioso mapa a través del laberinto de las
deficiencias humanas como observadores de ovnis, una comprensión
necesaria de cómo el observador puede equivocarse, tanto si las
cosas observadas son convencionales o, en última instancia,
anómalas. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dr.
Thomas E. Bullard. </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;">Un
libro importante. Kevin Randle.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Carezco
del tiempo e intención de recopilar todas las fuentes que han
escrito sobre este libro. Finalmente serán cientos; de momento más
de una docena de reseñas han aparecido en inglés, francés, alemán
y castellano. Lo que sí sé exactamente es que, en los primeros
cuatro meses, la versión </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>online</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de este libro ha recibido ya 4.100 visitas y más de 1.100 descargas.
Las ventas de copias en papel para bibliófilos y coleccionistas se
aproximan a las 100 unidades de momento, remitidas a todas las partes
del mundo, según me informa la editorial. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjqDImT9bqSkdKf0h1mS6GKLBVgVD85BdHs9w_VjCiKsU3dDEzlx9k8o-4pmQVM9H6RL413fp1JFFl-RL-WaAetS6ZxXDGJEXJ5XbrfWB7l7dH3M9pyS-n5adKYMxI9RPLwPaaIVbowNNM0msPqVQRiApJgiY8aIOwaaTrkS5Blo9quASPpyth" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjqDImT9bqSkdKf0h1mS6GKLBVgVD85BdHs9w_VjCiKsU3dDEzlx9k8o-4pmQVM9H6RL413fp1JFFl-RL-WaAetS6ZxXDGJEXJ5XbrfWB7l7dH3M9pyS-n5adKYMxI9RPLwPaaIVbowNNM0msPqVQRiApJgiY8aIOwaaTrkS5Blo9quASPpyth" width="180" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><br /></u></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Este volumen está disponible online aquí: </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Y en papel, editado por UPIAR: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></p></span></div><div style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><u>Entrevista
en una nueva revista</u></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
primer número (septiembre de 2023) de una nueva revista ovni
española en PDF lleva una entrevista con su seguro servidor en las
páginas 4 a 7. Dirigida por José Luis Ramírez Lagares, se titula
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Revista
de Ufología </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">y
puede descargarse gratuitamente desde este enlace: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://revistadeufologia.blogspot.com/2023/09/revista-de-ufologia-n-1-ano-1.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://revistadeufologia.blogspot.com/2023/09/revista-de-ufologia-n-1-ano-1.html</span></span></span></a></p>
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Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>La
audiencia OVNI 2023 del Congreso de los EE.UU.</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">V.J.
Ballester Olmos</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Chris Aubeck</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Julio Plaza del Olmo</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ENLACE
FORMAL, PARA MENCIÓN BIBLIOGRÁFICA (del original en inglés):
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes del Congreso
de Estados Unidos se creó "para garantizar la eficiencia,
efectividad y responsabilidad del gobierno federal y todos sus
organismos".</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Dentro de su estructura se encuentra el Subcomité de Seguridad
Nacional, Fronteras y Asuntos Exteriores.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Este subcomité decidió convocar una audiencia sobre ovnis,
sugiriendo que la seguridad nacional, la seguridad pública y la
transparencia gubernamental están en juego. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
rumores de presiones de los altos mandos del Pentágono contra la
celebración de la audiencia, la retirada de funcionarios de la NASA,
el rechazo de la participación de la AARO y el hecho de que otros
posibles testigos no aclararan sus antecedentes tras las
comprobaciones del investigador del Comité, ensombrecieron los
procedimientos preliminares de la reunión.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
sabemos si calificarlo de ridículo o de vergonzoso. Bajo la
apariencia de una iniciativa bipartidista, el escenario real es un
grupo de políticos, en su mayoría republicanos, que intentan
socavar la administración demócrata, utilizando esta vez el tenue
pretexto de los ovnis.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
No está claro si son ingenuos, están mal informados, les mueve la
ideología o simplemente son crédulos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Tres
personas testificaron el 26 de julio de 2023 ante esos legisladores
del Congreso de los Estados Unidos.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">8,9</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Dos de ellos, D. Fravor y R. Graves, han hablado ampliamente de sus
experiencias con ovnis en programas de televisión y entrevistas a lo
largo de los años. El tercero, D. Grusch, ha saltado recientemente a
los medios de comunicación con una serie de afirmaciones
sensacionales y ciertamente fantásticas. Así pues, la pregunta
inmediata y apremiante es: ¿han revelado algo nuevo? La respuesta es
no. De hecho, todo ese esfuerzo ha resultado inútil. Para empezar,
¿cuál era la intención de esta audiencia? Ante todo, era un
intento de poner de relieve el supuesto secretismo y la falta de
transparencia del Gobierno de Estados Unidos en el tema de los ovnis.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
continuación, entusiasmar al público del movimiento pro-ovni
afirmando que los ovnis (FANI como se les llama hoy en día, después
de que los términos platillo volante y ovni perdieran su novedad)
plantean persistentes amenazas a la seguridad nacional
estadounidense. El relato ovni ha estado en el candelero en los
últimos años en Estados Unidos y el tema genera interés, siendo
las críticas al encubrimiento del Gobierno especialmente atrayentes
para el público. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
audiencia, de dos horas y 17 minutos de duración, puede resumirse
del siguiente modo: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(1) David
Fravor, comandante retirado de la Marina estadounidense y entusiasta
de los ovnis desde hace mucho tiempo, detalló una vez más su
conocido avistamiento ovni de primera mano del 14 de noviembre de
2004, tras despegar del portaaviones USS Nimitz, a 110 millas de San
Diego, California. Describió un ovni con forma de "tic-tac"
(un caramelo americano) que se movía de un modo que desconcertó a
los aviadores. En 2017 se publicaron imágenes aéreas infrarrojas
relacionadas con este suceso. En un principio se afirmó que las
imágenes mostraban características de vuelo inusuales, como una
aceleración brusca. Sin embargo, desde entonces los expertos han
descartado estas afirmaciones y han considerado que el objeto del
vídeo era probablemente una aeronave convencional.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">10,11,12 </span></span></sup></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(2) El
ex expiloto militar Ryan Graves estaba volando un F-18 cerca de
Jacksonville, Florida, el 21 de enero de 2015, operando desde el
portaaviones USS Roosevelt, cuando se capturó otro de los tres
famosillos vídeos ovni FLIR de la Marina, coloquialmente conocido
como "Gimbal." La filmación muestra la peculiar rotación
de un objeto que desconcertó a los pilotos. Sin embargo, los
expertos han demostrado que esta rotación es un error del propio
mecanismo de navegación (</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>gimbal</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
que utilizaba para rastrear el objeto, y creen que la grabación
muestra simplemente un avión convencional.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">14,15</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
Graves no grabó este vídeo, ya que se encontraba en otro avión en
ese momento, pero afirma haber visto la "flotilla de ovnis"
al ver el vídeo grabado en la pantalla del radar, algún tiempo
después del incidente. Además, ha informado de algunos
avistamientos de segunda mano de ovnis parecidos a un cubo negro
encerrado en una esfera transparente. Durante su testimonio, repleto
de relatos de segunda mano, contó que una vez un colega estuvo a
punto de chocar con un ovni.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
experiencia en la investigación de casos ovni ha mostrado
repetidamente la siguiente secuencia: un piloto informa haber
encontrado un ovni durante el vuelo. Muchos, suponiendo erróneamente
que los pilotos son observadores excepcionales, se quedan atónitos.
En efecto, cuando un piloto con innumerables horas de vuelo en
aviones de combate avanzados relata un suceso de tal magnitud y
aparente dramatismo, éste resuena con fuerza, sobre todo para los
profanos. Pero cuando el avistamiento se somete a un escrutinio
exhaustivo e imparcial, el objeto suele identificarse como un avión,
un globo, un dron, un pájaro o un astro. El piloto o el equipo
simplemente se equivocaron. Es innegable que personas de toda
condición -agricultores, clérigos, militares, etc.- observan
objetos o luces en el cielo que no pueden identificar, normalmente
debido a sus limitados conocimientos o a otras causas. Los pilotos no
son una excepción, ya que pueden observar e informar erróneamente.
En los anales de la ufología constan más de 1.300 avistamientos de
ovnis por parte de pilotos. Sin embargo, la investigación
independiente demuestra que los encuentros aéreos bien documentados
y debidamente informados tienden a dar lugar a explicaciones
racionales, o a coincidir razonablemente con fenómenos naturales u
objetos fabricados por el hombre. Los que siguen siendo discutibles
se deben probablemente a la falta de una información exhaustiva. Por
ejemplo, el último examen de la base de datos más completa de
avistamientos aéreos de ovnis, en la que se revisaron
meticulosamente 55 casos, arrojó los siguientes resultados:</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">16</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
David Grusch, antiguo oficial de inteligencia, "miembro de la
UAP Task Force de 2019 a 2021</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">17</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y ... de 2021 a abril de 2023 en la National Geospatial Intelligence
Agency", supuestamente reportando a la UAPTF y a la AARO.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Recientemente, Grusch ha saltado a la fama mediática por
afirmaciones sorprendentes, como que Estados Unidos posee varias
naves extraterrestres resultantes de accidentes y que lleva años
realizando ingeniería inversa encubierta de su tecnología. Se
esperaba con impaciencia la audiencia en curso, ya que muchos se
preguntaban qué nuevos detalles podría revelar a los congresistas,
ansiosamente reunidos para este testimonio, en compañía de dos
teloneros. Como nota al margen, Grusch estuvo respaldado por dos
guardianes de la fe de los platillos volantes: George T. Knapp, un
periodista de televisión estadounidense, teórico de la conspiración
y creyente en lo paranormal, y Jeremy Corbell, un documentalista que
accedió a imágenes de ovnis filtradas por la UAPTF, rápidamente
difundidas como prueba de la presencia extraterrestre, sólo para ser
posteriormente desmentidas por analistas con los pies en la tierra.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">19</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7GBjWzbwuGlJyshAQm8X6q1ZBGK59kyp90SDip1ruNA0L8eBCgqWIrt7OVeFrKtyqlpKqII3ds_9Vb0xCZRWsHfkRc8hBvNDeQzfj1ZtiOydZ2ferRo8-3Y3YlpZVm9owOH32awg6RSIXru7OzCYCbF09SJpPf0K8eWZc5b2gpE6syJMPMXLl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="885" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7GBjWzbwuGlJyshAQm8X6q1ZBGK59kyp90SDip1ruNA0L8eBCgqWIrt7OVeFrKtyqlpKqII3ds_9Vb0xCZRWsHfkRc8hBvNDeQzfj1ZtiOydZ2ferRo8-3Y3YlpZVm9owOH32awg6RSIXru7OzCYCbF09SJpPf0K8eWZc5b2gpE6syJMPMXLl" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">David
Grusch. Tras él, Knapp y Corbell.</span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
núcleo de su declaración es la existencia de un "programa de
ingeniería inversa y recuperación de accidentes ovni de varias
décadas de duración" en Estados Unidos, al que muy
convenientemente se le negó el acceso cuando lo solicitó. Afirmó
que tenía "conocimiento personal" de personas perjudicadas
o heridas en los esfuerzos por encubrir la tecnología
extraterrestre, pero cuando Anna P. Luna (Rep.-FL) le presionó por
detalles, él se limitó a hablar de "preocupaciones basadas en
las entrevistas que realicé". Grusch afirmó que personalmente
"sufrió represalias" por su decisión de informar a sus
superiores. Al ser repreguntado, las describió como "brutales y
muy desafortunadas". Evitó dar más detalles para no
comprometer una investigación en curso contra él por sus denuncias.
Sin embargo, señaló la existencia de una "actividad de
represalia activa y planificada contra mí mismo... por parte de
ciertos altos cargos de agencias anteriores con las que estuve
asociado", que calificó de "terrorismo administrativo".</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">20</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
También compartió la creencia de que se había asesinado a personas
por ocultar secretos alienígenas, y dijo: "Dirigí </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>a
las personas con ese conocimiento</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a las autoridades apropiadas". [énfasis nuestro] Además,
mencionó la actividad hostil de la tecnología alienígena hacia los
humanos. Reiteró su vaga afirmación sobre la "campaña de
varias décadas del Gobierno para reducir el interés del público"
por los ovnis. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Grusch
calificó de "absoluta" su creencia de que el Gobierno está
en posesión de ovnis (basada en... "entrevistar a más de 40
testigos a lo largo de cuatro años"). Aplicó el término "no
humano" al supuesto conocimiento por parte del Gobierno de
EE.UU. de evidencia alienígena desde los "años 30" (por
cierto, esto es algo que algunos eruditos ufólogos habían dado por
falso hace años).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">21,22</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
En particular, cuando Nancy Mace (Rep.-SC) preguntó ingenuamente si
tenemos los cuerpos de los pilotos de estas naves, Grusch afirmó que
"restos biológicos llegaron con algunas de estas
recuperaciones. Sí... no humanos, esa fue la valoración de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>las
personas... con las que hablé</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y que actualmente siguen en el programa". [énfasis nuestro] </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Grusch
también presentó argumentos teóricos para contrarrestar la
aberrante cuestión de los accidentes de platillos, planteada por el
congresista Eric Burlison (Rep.-MO) durante un excelente
interrogatorio: "la multidimensionalidad ... el marco ...
llamado Principio Holográfico. Se deriva tanto de la relatividad
general como de la mecánica cuántica ... se puede proyectar desde
un espacio de dimensión superior a otro de dimensión inferior".
Claramente, este individuo está profundamente inmerso en los
conceptos que se encuentran en los documentos hipotéticamente
especulativos elaborados por la AAWSAP.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Esta persona vive materialmente en el País de las Maravillas. En el
discurso de Grusch se pueden encontrar pocos datos concretos, lo que
le protege convenientemente de una refutación directa. Sin embargo,
sí mencionó algo sobre las recuperaciones de platillos que se puede
comprobar o refutar: "las recuperaciones son anteriores a muchos
de nuestros programas avanzados". </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Desde
nuestro punto de vista, el tono general de la mayoría de los
comentarios republicanos fue de credulidad, probablemente influido
por las recientes noticias de los medios de comunicación. Para
nosotros, la parte más destacada de la audiencia fue cuando
intervino el Sr. Jared Moskowitz (Dem.-FL), aportando un mayor nivel
de rigor y escepticismo al procedimiento. Presentó preguntas
punzantes que podrían meter a Grusch en problemas si finalmente se
demostraba que sus respuestas eran falsas. Grusch encontró una
salida, sin embargo, alegando con frecuencia que la información en
cuestión era "confidencial". Por ejemplo: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
... ¿se ha reunido con personas con conocimiento directo ... de
naves de origen no humano? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
Sí, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>entrevisté</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
personalmente a esas personas. [énfasis nuestro] </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
... ¿se ha reunido con personas con conocimiento directo ... sobre
tecnologías avanzadas que posee el Gobierno estadounidense? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
Me informaron de la preponderancia de los programas del Departamento
de Defensa, tanto espaciales como aeroespaciales. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
¿Tiene conocimiento de que existan programas en el ámbito de la
tecnología avanzada que no estén sancionados? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">R:
Sí. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
...cuando dice que están por encima de la supervisión del Congreso,
¿a qué se refiere? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
Pregunta complicada... aquí hay algo que yo llamaría abuso...
supervisión por parte del Congreso de los programas convencionales
de acceso especial. Así que voy a utilizar el título 10 ... Sin
embargo, la Banda de los Ocho se ... supone que debe ser notificado
si un ... SAP no reconocido se crea ... </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
No quiero interrumpirle, pero ¿cómo se financia un programa así? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">R:
Le daré generalidades. Puedo ser muy específico en una sesión a
puerta cerrada. Por ejemplo, malversación de fondos, y…</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
¿Significa eso que hay dinero en el presupuesto que se dice que va a
un programa, pero no es así, y va a otra cosa? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
Sí, tengo conocimiento específico de ello. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
¿Cree que hay empresas estadounidenses cobrando de más por ciertas
tecnologías que venden al Gobierno de EE.UU. y que el dinero
adicional se destina a programas? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
Correcto. A través de algo llamado IR&D. [Investigación y
desarrollo independiente] </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
Hablemos de las imágenes por satélite... ¿Tiene usted conocimiento
directo... de que existan imágenes por satélite de estos sucesos? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
... Personalmente revisé tanto [en el NGIA] lo que llamamos recogida
de plataformas estratégicas y tácticas que ni siquiera podría
explicar prosaicamente... </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
... ¿Imágenes de estrellamientos? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
No puedo hablar de eso en una sesión pública. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">P:
¿Dispone de información que indique que el gobierno estadounidense
está implicado en una campaña de desinformación para negar la
existencia de determinados ovnis? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">R:
No puedo ir más allá de lo que ya declaré públicamente en mi
entrevista con </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>NewsNation</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
porque toca otras sensibilidades. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
declaración leída por Grusch suscitó varias preguntas, pero sus
respuestas fueron sistemáticamente evasivas, recurriendo a menudo a
una frase recurrente: "No puedo hablar de eso públicamente"
(por no hablar de su estilo pretencioso al responder a preguntas
sencillas).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">24</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Sus lacónicas respuestas dejaban a menudo un halo de misterio.
Básicamente, su principal excusa para no divulgar más información
era que podía "ir a la cárcel por revelar información
clasificada", aunque ya había hablado del asunto en entrevistas
televisivas. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
examen de su testimonio bajo juramento revela que se basa en
información recibida de terceras personas. Cuando se le pregunta si
vio la nave espacial y los cuerpos, su respuesta es negativa o no se
compromete. No compartió ninguna de las "pruebas convincentes"
que afirma haber recibido, y tampoco nombró ninguna fuente, fecha o
lugar. Estamos seguros de que este caballero confía en sus fuentes.
Sin embargo, cuestionamos la legitimidad de sus afirmaciones y
dudamos seriamente de que sus atrevidas declaraciones tengan algún
mérito. Cabe destacar que la leyenda de los accidentes de ovnis y de
cadáveres de extraterrestres bajo custodia de los Estados Unidos ha
sido una narrativa que viene de lejos en la literatura ovni, llena de
innumerables relatos no corroborados ni verificados.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">25</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
cuanto al tema tan debatido del estigma, se preguntó específicamente
a los tres "testigos" si se habían enfrentado a alguna
repercusión por parte de sus superiores tras informar de sus
encuentros con un ovni. Tanto Fravor como Graves respondieron que no.
El testigo estrella Grusch tuvo que responder: "En realidad
nunca he visto nada personalmente". ¿Un testigo de qué,
entonces? De habladurías y rumores, como se demostrará cuando se
investiguen debidamente. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reflexionando
sobre esta audiencia, uno podría haber esperado una postura más
escéptica por parte de los representantes del Congreso. Lo ideal
sería que los legisladores mantuvieran cierto grado de
discernimiento y sentido crítico. Sin embargo, parecieron limitarse
a buscar la validación de las afirmaciones ya hechas por sus
"testigos", rara vez cuestionando sus declaraciones.
Siempre que se le pedían detalles, Grusch se mostraba reticente.
Nadie le censuró ni siquiera cuando hizo graves acusaciones sobre
"actividad dañina y agresiva" y "colegas
supuestamente heridos" tanto por los ovnis como por el "Gobierno
Federal". ¿Cómo es posible que los cargos electos permanezcan
tan imperturbables ante afirmaciones tan alarmantes?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estos
políticos deben poseer un extraordinario nivel de resiliencia para
soportar con calma el escarnio público de Grusch. Básicamente dijo:
"No puedo dar información en público". Entonces, ¿por
qué se le citó a declarar? Grusch ridiculizó abiertamente a los
congresistas con una arrogancia palpable. Le encanta demostrar que
dispone de información privilegiada. A la simple y directa pregunta:
¿cree usted que nuestro gobierno ha establecido contacto con
extraterrestres inteligentes?, responde: "Es algo que no puedo
discutir en público". Es un caso clásico de tirar la piedra y
esconder la mano.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
audiencia, mal diseñada, fue claramente redundante e ineficaz. Esto
no se debió únicamente a que las historias de ovnis compartidas por
los tres testigos que testificaron ya eran de dominio público, sino
también a que el objetivo declarado -que el Gobierno establezca un
protocolo para informar con seguridad de los avistamientos de ovnis-
habían sido anunciados previamente como los principales objetivos de
la “Oficina de resolución de anomalías en todos los dominios”
(AARO, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Defensa. De
hecho, esa oficina ovni del Pentágono había designado este objetivo
como el "mecanismo autorizado de notificación y orientación
pública", cuya puesta en marcha estaba prevista inicialmente
para marzo de 2023.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">26</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
como lector, usted nos preguntaría con razón: ¿cuál es nuestra
valoración de estas declaraciones juradas? En cuanto a los
incidentes ovni relacionados con pilotos, ya hemos establecido que
tras 76 años ininterrumpidos de avistamientos -desde tierra, aire y
espacio- ningún caso presentado ha demostrado ser irreconciliable
con vehículos voladores de fabricación humana. La verdadera
evidencia no es mera cháchara: es prueba tangible. Y esas pruebas
irrefutables brillan por su ausencia. Comprendemos el poder de los
sueños. Pero algunos sueños no se hacen realidad. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
cuanto a las grandiosas declaraciones de Grusch, son cuestionables y
problemáticas. Se reducen a meras habladurías. Se limitó a
transmitir afirmaciones que le habían contado otros. Nada de lo
presentado es verificable, sin pruebas palpables ni documentadas.
Está claro que le han dado información falsa que ha aceptado
acríticamente. Consideramos que se trata de un paso en falso
monumental por parte del Congreso de Estados Unidos en su relación
con el tema ovni, los defensores de los ovnis, el lobby ovni en el
Congreso estadounidense, políticos impresionables y unos medios de
comunicación que persiguen frenéticamente tener audiencia. Una
aparente victoria pírrica de Grusch y del lobby ovni político, que
se han asegurado momentáneamente una potente plataforma para tales
testimonios infundados. Pero el tiempo pone a cada uno en su sitio. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Qué
ha conseguido realmente esta sesión? Simplemente ha sido altavoz de
una serie de afirmaciones extravagantes y dudosas. Afirmaciones que
la AARO debe ahora diseccionar meticulosamente y desmentir. ¿Podría
ser esta la razón del retraso de su informe anual de 2022,
inicialmente previsto para julio de 2023? La portavoz del Pentágono,
Sue Gough, rebatió rápidamente las alegaciones de Grusch afirmando
específicamente que el Pentágono no dispone de "ninguna
información verificable que corrobore las afirmaciones de que hayan
existido en el pasado o existan en la actualidad programas
relacionados con la posesión o la ingeniería inversa de materiales
extraterrestres."</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;">27</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Esto coincide con la declaración oficial del Pentágono cuando estas
alegaciones surgieron por primera vez a principios de junio de
2023.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">28</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Véase el documento "Respuesta del Pentágono" más
abajo). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ciertamente,
no nos gustaría estar en la posición del Dr. Kirkpatrick, pero se
ha hecho pública una respuesta inmediata que sitúa a la AARO en
rumbo de colisión con las afirmaciones infundadas de Grusch.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">29</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
En efecto, 24 horas después, el jefe de la AARO publicó una
contundente carta defendiendo la transparencia de su equipo y dejando
las cosas claras. Como no podía ser de otra manera, tanto el Dr.
Kirkpatrick como el Pentágono las definieron como "opiniones
personales" expresadas en su calidad de ciudadano privado.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">30</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Véase el documento "Audiencias y transparencia"). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
palabras más notables de Kirkpatrick son que la "fuente central
... [ciertamente Grusch] se ha negado a hablar con la AARO" y
que "la información que supuestamente se ha facilitado al
Congreso no se ha proporcionado a la AARO". Kirkpatrick es
meridianamente claro al decir que todavía no han encontrado ninguna
prueba de programas secretos ni pruebas sobre las naves recuperadas y
los restos biológicos reivindicados durante la audiencia del
Congreso. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
último, un preciso resumen de las declaraciones de los tres testigos
lo hemos encontrado en un chat entre Mick West y Steven
Greenstreet:</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">31 </span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David
Fravor: afirmó haber tenido un encuentro de 5 minutos con el OVNI
"Tic Tac" mientras volaba cerca de San Diego, pero su
piloto de ala, Alex Anne Dietrich, dijo en Twitter que solo fue una
"visualización de 8-10 segundos". </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ryan
Graves: él no vio ningún ovni personalmente. Los sistemas de radar
actualizados implementados en sus aviones durante 2014-2015
detectaron anomalías "todos los días" cuando se
encontraban en la zona de entrenamiento militar W-72 frente a la
costa de Virginia. Los avistamientos de un "cubo dentro de una
esfera transparente" podrían ser globos espía chinos más
pequeños procedentes de la cercana Cuba. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David
Grusch: "muy decepcionante ... no dijo nada nuevo ... Un
testimonio de segunda mano o más. En cuanto a la mayoría de los
congresistas: "no entendieron la situación".</span></p>
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de Douglas D. Johnson. Documento tomado de: </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations</span></span></span></span></a></span></div></div><p></p>
<h1 class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><u>Agradecimientos</u>: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">A
Edoardo Russo (CISU, Italia), Dr. Luis Cayetano (ufologyiscorrupt,
EE.UU.) y Mick West (Metabunk, EE.UU.)</span></h1>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Proyecto UFO FOTOCAT: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Correspondencia: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Autor,
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Wonders
in the Sky</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Jacques Vallée) y </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Alien
Artifacts From Antiquity to 1880</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Físico investigador.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/about/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/about/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/national-security/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/national-security/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Matt Laslo, Ask A Pol web</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Por ejemplo, he aquí un extracto de la introducción del Sr. Glenn
Grothman, Presidente (Rep.-WI): "...a pesar de la creación de
estas oficinas [AARO y el estudio independiente de la NASA], existe
una acuciante demanda de transparencia y responsabilidad por parte
del Gobierno... La gestión por parte de la administración Biden del
globo espía chino que violó el espacio aéreo de EE.UU. es un
ejemplo de cómo el gobierno no está preparado para ello. La
descripción de los sucesos por la administración Biden muestra que
el Gobierno sigue sin ser franco... Sin embargo, hemos visto poca
claridad por parte de la administración Biden. Debemos exigir
transparencia al Departamento de Defensa, a nuestra comunidad de
inteligencia y a nuestra industria de defensa sobre los trabajos
relativos a los ovnis". </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">8)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Visualización en línea</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Transcripción de la audiencia</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://picdataset.com/ai-news/full-transcript-of-subcommittee-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://picdataset.com/ai-news/full-transcript-of-subcommittee-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
J. Plaza del Olmo, “The FLIR1 Video”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mick
West, “Nimitz FLIR1 “tic tac” UFO video – No Sudden Moves!” </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(12)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Luke
M. Herrington, “Cutting the Chaff: Overlooked Lessons of Military
UAP Sightings for Joint Force and Interagency Coordination”,
National Defense University Press, 7 de julio de 2023,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3447233/cutting-the-chaff-overlooked-lessons-of-military-uap-sightings-for-joint-force/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3447233/cutting-the-chaff-overlooked-lessons-of-military-uap-sightings-for-joint-force/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(13)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mick
West, “Gimbal UFO – A new analysis”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 107%; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
El mismo día, durante el ejercicio militar COMPTUEX, otro piloto de
la Marina de los EE.UU. capturó imágenes de vídeo de un OVNI
diferente, más tarde bautizado como "Go Fast". Durante la
retransmisión en directo de la reunión de la NASA sobre ovnis en
mayo de 2023, el Dr. Joshua Semeter, profesor de ingeniería
informática y director del Centro de Física Espacial de la
Universidad de Boston, analizó las imágenes. Contrariamente a la
creencia inicial de que el objeto volaba bajo y rápido, el Dr.
Semeter concluyó que en realidad estaba a gran altura y se movía
lentamente, características consistentes con un globo. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Véase:
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">V.J. Ballester Olmos and Chris
Aubeck, “The Needle in the Haystack: Reflections on the NASA UAP
Meeting, May 2023”, </span></span></span></span></p><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 107%; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Tim
Printy, “The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool’s
Gold?”, en V.J. Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
UPIAR (Turin), 2023, </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(17)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Sorprendentemente, este empleo en la UAPTF no figura en su biografía</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GruschD-20230726.pdf" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: none;">https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GruschD-20230726.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(18)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Grupo de trabajo UAP (UAPTF) de la Marina estadounidense
(2018-2020), Grupo de trabajo UAP del Departamento de Defensa (agosto
2020-2021), AOIMSG del Departamento de Defensa (noviembre 2021-2022)
y AARO del Departamento de Defensa (julio 2022 hasta la fecha). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(19)
La influencia de estas personas en el trasfondo documental de algunos
congresistas es profundamente alarmante. De la declaración del Sr.
Tim Burche (Rep.-TN): "Veo entre la gente a George Knapp, mi
colega. Y a Jeremy Corbell. No son testigos, pero han proporcionado
información sobre este tema. Y pido el consentimiento unánime para
que esas declaraciones consten en acta". Desde nuestra
perspectiva, la información proporcionada a la Cámara parece
peligrosamente sesgada.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(20)
Compárese el trato opuesto que recibieron los dos pilotos (testigos
reales de ovnis) y el Sr. Grusch. A la pregunta del Sr. Jamie Raskin
(Dem.-MD), miembro de rango del Comité de Supervisión: "¿Puede
describir su experiencia después de que decidiera hacerla pública?"
Graves simplemente decidió denunciar su propia experiencia sin más
problemas, y Fravor fue tratado "muy bien". ¿Solo hay
“estigma” para mentirosos? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(21)
Giuseppe Stilo, “Fascisti su Marte,” </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFO</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
agosto de 2003, pp 32-39,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-no-grazie/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-no-grazie/</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Traducción inglesa:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-no-thank-you/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-no-thank-you/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(22)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Massimiliano
Grandi, "I "files fascisti" sotto esame,” </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFO</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
julio de 2004, pp. 44-47,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-il-parere-dellarchivista/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/files-ufo-fascisti-il-parere-dellarchivista/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Traducción
inglesa:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-a-professional-archivists-opinion/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cisu.org/fascist-ufo-files-a-professional-archivists-opinion/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(23)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
precursor de la UAPTF. Oficina de Alerta de Defensa (DWO) de la DIA,
Programa de aplicación de sistemas avanzados de armas aeroespaciales
(AAWSAP), financiado con 22 millones de dólares, subcontratado a
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAAS), 2008-2012, que
generó 38 Documentos de referencia de inteligencia de Defensa
(DIRD), </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Adia-files-207723%20"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Adia-files-207723%20</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(24)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Por
ejemplo. Pregunta: "Si quisiéramos saber más... ¿dónde
iríamos a buscar los archivos?". Respuesta: "Yo podría
potencialmente darle un vector sobre eso". O cuando se usa "mi
liderazgo personal" en lugar de "yo". ¡Vamos, amigo!
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(25)
Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A case study
of alleged UFOs and occupants in military custody”, en Walter H.
Andrus (ed.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>MUFON
UFO Symposium Proceedings</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
(Seguin, Texas), 1978, pp 77-105,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.scribd.com/document/298409397/1978-Mufon-Symposium"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.scribd.com/document/298409397/1978-Mufon-Symposium#</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(26)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">V.J.
Ballester Olmos, “The Pentagon UAP Study 2023”, </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(27)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Nomaan
Merchant y Tara Copp, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Time</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
29 de julio de 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://time.com/6299432/the-ufo-congressional-hearing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://time.com/6299432/the-ufo-congressional-hearing/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(28)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">NewsNation,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSj7QsHRxHQ"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSj7QsHRxHQ</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">6
de junio de 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(29)
Tim McMillan y Micah Hanks, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Debrief</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
28 de julio de 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/director-of-pentagons-uap-investigations-challenges-claims-made-in-recent-uap-hearing/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/director-of-pentagons-uap-investigations-challenges-claims-made-in-recent-uap-hearing/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(30)</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Howard
Altman, “Pentagon UFO Boss Fires Back At Whistleblower
Allegations”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
28 de julio de 2023,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/pentagon-ufo-boss-fires-back-at-whistleblower-allegations</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(31)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EDyZvv3D3ws"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/EDyZvv3D3ws</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los
ovnis de los oficiales de policía de Farmington, Minnesota</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Generalmente,
es una garantía de veracidad cuando un agente de policía informa
haber tenido un avistamiento ovni (hay notables excepciones,
naturalmente). Si la observación es compartida por varios de ellos,
y además existen pruebas en forma de fotografías, se disipa
cualquier duda sobre la realidad del hecho. Para un investigador como
yo, que ha alcanzado el grado de escéptico a fuerza precisamente de
estudiar casos de ovnis, significa inmediatamente que debe haber una
explicación regular para el fenómeno visto y fotografiado.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hace
poco estaba archivando documentos sobre una serie de observaciones de
ovnis en Farmington, Minnesota, en septiembre de 1975, cuando
concurrió esta última situación. La edición del </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Farmington</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tribune</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del 18 de septiembre de 1975 publicó un artículo de la redactora
Phyllis Brosseth con este título: "Siete oficiales de policía
observan ovnis de madrugada”. Allí describió cómo el oficial de
policía del condado de Dakota, Mark Tarmann, observó una luz
misteriosa a las 04:05 horas del viernes 12 de septiembre, que
persistió durante aproximadamente una hora y media. En una mañana
clara y fresca, Tarmann estaba sentado en su coche patrulla en la
entrada de Pine Knoll mirando hacia oriente, antes de regresar a
Farmington, cuando observó "una estrella brillante justo sobre
la línea de árboles, en el este".</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
luz mostraba un tono azulado y "comenzó a moverse desde el
horizonte en un movimiento circular, luego hacia arriba y hacia
abajo". Más tarde, el oficial Tarmann observó otro objeto
brillante al norte del primero en un ángulo de 45 grados.
Correctamente, siguió pensando que posiblemente eran estrellas
brillantes que sobresalían del resto, en el cielo nocturno. En ese
momento, condujo hasta la carretera del condado 31 y 9, en donde se
le unió el oficial Tom Ingram, de Apple Valley. “Observaron los
dos objetos, que estaban estacionarios en ese momento”.</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Además,
los oficiales de Rosemount, Lakeville y Eagan, así como dos policías
estatales de Minnesota, que habían escuchado la conversación de
radio cuando el despacho de la policía informó al centro de la
aviación federal, comenzaron a dirigirse a la misma carretera. Los
siete agentes de la ley observaron las dos luces durante
aproximadamente media hora, y el oficial Tarmann permaneció en el
lugar hasta las 05:30 horas. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tribune</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del 25 de septiembre, su editor Eugene Clay escribió: “La semana
pasada, [el periódico] pidió una oportunidad para fotografiar
cualquier cosa que se considere un Objeto Volante No Identificado.
Tuvimos la oportunidad. A las 04:30 horas del lunes [22 de septiembre
de 1975], el oficial Dan Churchill del Departamento de Policía de
Farmington llamó a este escritor y vimos dos ovnis desde un lugar a
lo largo de la carretera 31”. Al menos otros dos testigos fueron el
oficial Brent Moody de servicio en Apple Valley y el alguacil adjunto
Gary McCloud. Se realizaron fotografías con una cámara sobre
trípode con un teleobjetivo de 300 mm, que se hicieron con un tiempo
de exposición de 15 segundos. "Las formas extrañas -decía el
periódico- son el resultado del movimiento de la 'cosa'". Las
siguientes tres imágenes (obviamente ampliadas y recortadas) se
imprimieron en el periódico, donde se describieron de la siguiente
manera:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOP2OV3rmBzSV2fsr4zhuZ-GjMKeBhN761bzL7lkXdDOWAELFH6T1OsmDwpLqQUvZjdkmLdqBA5VuRcADFbLvGWNwyL98dh53b4qlyvSAPJFnlRJjgDfwrs-ELlxiZdkLh0b9RnHImm1iRoG2x2MO_EXWruUDPsbp2N9EenVH1SVO7pN8W04LO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="5726" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOP2OV3rmBzSV2fsr4zhuZ-GjMKeBhN761bzL7lkXdDOWAELFH6T1OsmDwpLqQUvZjdkmLdqBA5VuRcADFbLvGWNwyL98dh53b4qlyvSAPJFnlRJjgDfwrs-ELlxiZdkLh0b9RnHImm1iRoG2x2MO_EXWruUDPsbp2N9EenVH1SVO7pN8W04LO" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
dos imágenes superiores muestran un objeto con forma de estrella al
sureste sobre Farmington. Cambió de color, de azul, a naranja y a
rojo. Lo más fascinante, y diferente de las estrellas, fue el hecho
de que se movía, oscilaba hacia adelante y hacia atrás, hacia
arriba y hacia abajo. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJqvmweScsB0UEBHDH8hHTPWq5J7z8n1CgN5n9qMOOxrEAedN_PziggQWI28cozH6uMhv1Kj797s7XFiNLVbONnXnoUVL-tWX2jkocKv9DJLlQxOn73trRwCd3wp-wbqLwOEaCudsz72-cT7CtjH10W2kASbHtFncmd3UVcnNrr-eKl1FraNm1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="2805" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJqvmweScsB0UEBHDH8hHTPWq5J7z8n1CgN5n9qMOOxrEAedN_PziggQWI28cozH6uMhv1Kj797s7XFiNLVbONnXnoUVL-tWX2jkocKv9DJLlQxOn73trRwCd3wp-wbqLwOEaCudsz72-cT7CtjH10W2kASbHtFncmd3UVcnNrr-eKl1FraNm1" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>La
imagen inferior es de un objeto estacionario de color rojizo que
apareció de repente justo en el horizonte oriental.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA3VmCyUGQiYnF_iquLK--XehPh5boJO0AUws67CyajgB0UnEunRo9mZmipk3yfmWkWsCZ2eIoiz7N06XCTHIkRSS7V-NOnr5Ywo7GAxpY-T2MT03jaRfrkKL2zg7-NWA5RSTmC0R-3DiKjHboO_bUJF2o4XNz3tehT-B6MN5po81rc8wqbpCi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA3VmCyUGQiYnF_iquLK--XehPh5boJO0AUws67CyajgB0UnEunRo9mZmipk3yfmWkWsCZ2eIoiz7N06XCTHIkRSS7V-NOnr5Ywo7GAxpY-T2MT03jaRfrkKL2zg7-NWA5RSTmC0R-3DiKjHboO_bUJF2o4XNz3tehT-B6MN5po81rc8wqbpCi" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Carta
celeste para Farmington, Minnesota, 22 de septiembre de 1975 mirando
al este y sureste. Fuente: Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Nos
encontramos con una observación de larga duración de dos objetos
similares a estrellas en el cielo nocturno. Conocemos sus posiciones
en el espacio. Parecen moverse ligeramente sobre sí mismos. El
objeto fotografiado en primer lugar se corresponde con la estrella
doble Sirio, la estrella más brillante del cielo nocturno
(constelación Canis Major), con una magnitud de brillo de -1,45, que
se encontraba en ese momento en un acimut de 130º (casi exactamente
el sureste) y a una altitud aparente de 13º sobre el horizonte.
Mostraba sus típicos y cambiantes destellos multicolores. Los
cambios de color y el movimiento aparente de un cuerpo estelar
estático se deben al fenómeno del centelleo, una turbulencia
causada por la refracción de la luz de las estrellas a medida que
viaja a través de las capas de aire en la atmósfera. Por lo tanto,
la luz se distorsiona y la fuente parece moverse también.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyJnBw_D7shhYTdVmsd8Mk55iq_lQNmUEtBa4xX1VVSCrtr4HIQ3q1LHle4XvPkA85xXkvSyygmyk2tSyOGz7Buq0yeOHWhV0JaanZD8osYq2ePpnMWvVVOXHhv7p1RwdsdIUQMRGK7SkqeoVOi1Leby9PKvcNN5T1BIcmsKCqMKCDZkD3VFUd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="657" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyJnBw_D7shhYTdVmsd8Mk55iq_lQNmUEtBa4xX1VVSCrtr4HIQ3q1LHle4XvPkA85xXkvSyygmyk2tSyOGz7Buq0yeOHWhV0JaanZD8osYq2ePpnMWvVVOXHhv7p1RwdsdIUQMRGK7SkqeoVOi1Leby9PKvcNN5T1BIcmsKCqMKCDZkD3VFUd" width="239" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Sirio
centellea con una variedad de colores, como aparece claramente en la
serie de fotos logradas por Bob King. Imagen tomada de
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/110605/sirius-ufo-trickster-extraordinaire/">https://www.universetoday.com/110605/sirius-ufo-trickster-extraordinaire/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
cuanto al segundo objeto, se trata nada menos que del brillante
planeta Venus (magnitud -4,74), que se encontraba a las 4:30 horas
apenas a un grado por encima de la línea del horizonte y en
dirección este (80,5º de acimut). Al inicio del avistamiento,
mientras se fotografiaba a Sirio, Venus no sería visible debido a
obstáculos en el horizonte y, cuando hiciera su aparición inicial,
llamaría la atención de los testigos presenciales.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Yo
estudio incidentes ovni con fotografías, por lo que el suceso que le
precedió diez días antes se incluye aquí como un ejemplo más de
posibles errores con estímulos astronómicos y de la ausencia de
infalibilidad de testigos (policías) generalmente confiables. Me
temo que en ese caso la información es bastante confusa y, para
complicar aún más las cosas, la esfera celeste de esa noche
presentaba una concentración de las principales luminarias del cielo
en diferentes posiciones y elevaciones, por lo que había muchos
candidatos para elegir: entre otras, al este teníamos a un brillante
Venus (-4,53), en el sureste estaban Marte (-1,52) y Sirio (-1,45), y
alto en el sur se hallaba el planeta Júpiter (-2,83), todos ellos
posibles culpables de una noche tan emocionante, en la que los malos
no interrumpieron a los policías que disfrutaban de las luces
nocturnas.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
regla general aquí es clara: los avistamientos nocturnos y de larga
duración de luces semejantes a estrellas moviéndose lentamente en
el cielo tienen probablemente una solución astronómica. Si
encuentra una coincidencia entre la posición de los “ovnis” y la
de brillantes estrellas planetas, ¡el “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>wow</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">”
inicial puede convertirse en “bingo”!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Primera
foto, primer platillo. Búfalo, Nueva York, 1954</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
períodos intensos de informes sobre ovnis, especialmente absorbentes
desde el punto de vista social. Uno es 1954, cuando ocurrió una
oleada ovni a nivel mundial. Desde el comienzo de mis investigaciones
en este campo, me ha atraído especialmente la fenomenología de este
año, tan cargado de historias de aterrizajes y desembarcos de
ocupantes en Francia, por ejemplo. En cuanto a la fotografías de
ovnis el año 1954 también fue abundante. Hace varios años publiqué
una monografía sobre las fotografías tomadas ese año: </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE_YEAR_1954_IN_PHOTOS_Expanded_</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Más
recientemente, con la colaboración del investigador español J.C.
Victorio Uranga, trabajé en un artículo sobre los distintos
avistamientos de ovnis en España durante el mes de diciembre de 1954
(en español): </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Con
el paso del tiempo se han ido descubriendo algunos casos fotográficos
nuevos (suelo utilizar este blog para sacarlos a la luz) y han
aparecido datos que corregían detalles inexactos. Por ejemplo, la
presente edición contiene un artículo de Luis R. González con la
información original de una fotografía española de ese año,
recién recuperada de las morgues de prensa ahora digitalizadas.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Tenía
en FOTOCAT detalles muy escasos de una fotografía tomada en Buffalo,
Nueva York, en junio de 1954. Tampoco conocía ninguna imagen.
Afortunadamente, mi magnífica colaboradora de Mississippi Kay Coggin
me acaba de enviar el recorte publicado en el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Buffalo
Courier Express</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del 23 de junio de 1954: una columna de prensa titulada “Season's
First 'Saucer' With Camera” (el primer platillo con cámara de la
estación) que proporciona todos los detalles y, además, una copia
de la instantánea de una “traza” avistada sobre la ciudad.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQCgNCrvfwqDuoqMLAmzPnt_Q3Q7lv63IKEJyBaCQLgfB0omKHB_298WnwLDyM8EdJV4-IpbQQ-dmPkI2eZB_1ZRj4UdTmATF_dMti8Pmfi9I9rWkXDWDT-EDD2THyrdIt56eiSrBwKo6eWkqnbkdUj9DKgzzgHp6QIEgvlat6zx4-SWtq9HNP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQCgNCrvfwqDuoqMLAmzPnt_Q3Q7lv63IKEJyBaCQLgfB0omKHB_298WnwLDyM8EdJV4-IpbQQ-dmPkI2eZB_1ZRj4UdTmATF_dMti8Pmfi9I9rWkXDWDT-EDD2THyrdIt56eiSrBwKo6eWkqnbkdUj9DKgzzgHp6QIEgvlat6zx4-SWtq9HNP" width="215" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Según
la noticia del periódico, el fotógrafo fue Joseph L. Perel, de 22
años de edad, residente en 415 East Ferry St. (era una época donde
no había protección de datos personales). Dijo que vio el “platillo
o lo que fuera” cerca de la Iglesia de St. Michael en la calle
Washington de Buffalo. Acababa de comprar la cámara en una tienda
del centro y caminaba de regreso a su automóvil aparcado en un
estacionamiento cerca de San Miguel. Estaba ansioso por tomar su
primera fotografía.</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Miré
alrededor del auto</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
-recordó Perel al diario de la ciudad- </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>en
busca de un disparo probable y no vi nada. Luego vi la aguja de la
iglesia y me giré con la cámara. Fue entonces cuando vi esta raya
brillante cruzando el cielo</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Apuntó la cámara y tomó una fotografía de algo que no sabía qué
era. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>¿Un
platillo? Sí y no</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
dijo. Perel regresó a casa y reveló la foto en un minuto. Llegó al
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Courier-Express</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
siguiendo el consejo de un amigo, y comentó: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
ilusión parecida a un "platillo" parecía estar a una
altitud de 10.000 pies y no volaba muy rápida en dirección oeste.
De repente, simplemente se desvaneció</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Perel, “un estudiante con licencia de piloto, familiarizado más
que la media con las ilusiones del cielo provenientes de las nubes y
el resplandor del sol sobre ellas”, afirmó: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Nunca
he visto algo así antes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Descartó que fueran nubes porque había demasiada neblina y no había
otras nubes alrededor del fenómeno captado en la instantánea. El
informe del tiempo no dio cuenta de nada inusual en “las
operaciones de observación del cielo de ayer”. El meteorólogo
dijo: "No sé qué sería".</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Consulté
a Wim van Utrecht, un analista de casos con mucha experiencia y
coautor conmigo de un primer volumen que estudia supuestas
fotografías de ovnis en Bélgica: </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
bocajarro aportó esta observación: “Si es genuina, sospecho que
estamos ante una estela de condensación interrumpida (“broken
contrail”). De vez en cuando, las estelas aparecen como líneas
discontinuas. Eso sucede cuando se forman en el límite entre una
región de alta y baja humedad. Esta es la solución a este
avistamiento e imagen.” Podemos encontrar ejemplos de imágenes
similares y una buena explicación de su formación en: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://contrailscience.com/broken-contrails/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://contrailscience.com/broken-contrails/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrMrxtv0C8Wa9PZbp9s_G9nDl36oyMyyVfOP5QCYk5KGJoQQZz0_DvoM6Bd0DbwKKalrBqXyXD__GUIDVqXNozJ1zQnE_qiCM748pq3wEwlA6s0HBA9HJLuj-GvCagjKZVCZ4hGUeCpWSlIPBnnq9sJQb4kT8thjHSSAzct6QRU06Tr0gkPWOV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1691" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrMrxtv0C8Wa9PZbp9s_G9nDl36oyMyyVfOP5QCYk5KGJoQQZz0_DvoM6Bd0DbwKKalrBqXyXD__GUIDVqXNozJ1zQnE_qiCM748pq3wEwlA6s0HBA9HJLuj-GvCagjKZVCZ4hGUeCpWSlIPBnnq9sJQb4kT8thjHSSAzct6QRU06Tr0gkPWOV" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Ejemplos
de estelas de aviones que muestran espacios irregulares. Imágenes
tomadas de
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/turning-jet-with-broken-contrail-judy-kennedy.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://fineartamerica.com/featured/turning-jet-with-broken-contrail-judy-kennedy.html</span></span></span></span></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">y
de </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbOERifeYU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbOERifeYU</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Filmación
en infrarrojo “Pato de goma”</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
nuevo video infrarrojo tomado desde un avión del Departamento de
Seguridad Nacional, que había despegado de Tucson, Arizona, en
misión de patrulla fronteriza a las 09:00 horas del 23 de noviembre
de 2019, cuando se encontraba en 31º 29' N, 111º 27' W, muy cerca
de la línea divisoria mejicana. El análisis realizado por Mick West
de los datos -incompletos- disponibles de un vídeo muy comprimido
concluyó de manera competente y razonable que el objeto era
probablemente un globo a la deriva o posiblemente un dron. Su trabajo
también cuestiona la interpretación como objeto anómalo hecha por
Peter Reali, de la Coalición Científica para Estudios UAP (SCU),
para quien el objeto es anómalo (como siempre). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUPDa49Cmg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUPDa49Cmg</a></span></span></span>; </span></span><a href="https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-forensic-analysis-of-the-rubber-duck-uap-video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-forensic-analysis-of-the-rubber-duck-uap-video</span></span></span></a>; <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/</span></span></span></a>; <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/page-3#post-284302"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/dhs-rubber-duck-footage.12054/page-3#post-284302</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgDD7dIvBytSZ9t3t-GEnzqDH194G9y4r2IEkcr7tJb2jmr-hrNHmfPmPd9SfSyBJYKnCNmKQoJN4NARPNQl-FR8ZyNerTwydqQ21oa_MLbt0ZwmJvvAKXhYn7gRNfMgoM3Y5YXGMifaNdutrCnIFmnsTE6oYGkKupM4Ib7XgRgkvLVI0lYL_C" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1033" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgDD7dIvBytSZ9t3t-GEnzqDH194G9y4r2IEkcr7tJb2jmr-hrNHmfPmPd9SfSyBJYKnCNmKQoJN4NARPNQl-FR8ZyNerTwydqQ21oa_MLbt0ZwmJvvAKXhYn7gRNfMgoM3Y5YXGMifaNdutrCnIFmnsTE6oYGkKupM4Ib7XgRgkvLVI0lYL_C" width="320" /></a></div><u style="color: #111111; font-family: helvetica;">Arriba,
arriba y lejos</u><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #111111;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(De
la canción <i>Up, Up and Away</i> de Jimmy Webb, 1967)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Sin
duda, los globos están de moda últimamente. Desde el incidente del
globo chino en febrero de 2023 sobre los Estados Unidos, y el
siguiente reconocimiento por parte de la AARO del Departamento de
Defensa de los EE. UU. de que la mitad de los informes de UAP
identificados son globos, están de moda.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibFxufxdaDJJmvQHKWTqtRex4WufJHONh1jMDn1A35bgjJCAeZ3wyk_AYtIVkpCMzbdL-zpnvHF9SXbo_S3xZ6kTCLr2pRwhSUO9sE2zhlp4WsSwEgqhH8tC3PrbXHNiO__JbW7IXM2FQmz3UggGZRN_E0BDhoy2higA3GXPyQ8hMCQnZdGRtZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="1292" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibFxufxdaDJJmvQHKWTqtRex4WufJHONh1jMDn1A35bgjJCAeZ3wyk_AYtIVkpCMzbdL-zpnvHF9SXbo_S3xZ6kTCLr2pRwhSUO9sE2zhlp4WsSwEgqhH8tC3PrbXHNiO__JbW7IXM2FQmz3UggGZRN_E0BDhoy2higA3GXPyQ8hMCQnZdGRtZ" width="224" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Fotografía
desde un reactor U-2 del globo chino cuando sobrevolaba el territorio
continental de Estados Unidos. Fuente: Departamento de Defensa de los
EE. UU.</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Recientemente
apareció en la “nube” un tuit con un vídeo que muestra un
objeto volante no identificado capturado desde un avión a bordo del
cual se encontraba la modelo colombiana Valentina Vélez Rueda.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Según información proporcionada por “The Hidden Underbelly” (un
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>influencer</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de internet),</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
las imágenes fueron tomadas el 4 de mayo de 2003 por Jorge A.
Arteaga, piloto de una avioneta privada </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cessna</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
que volaba a 12.500 pies (3.810 metros) y unos 135 nudos (250
kilómetros por hora) entre Medellín y Santa Fe, en el departamento
de Antioquía, Colombia. Como se puede ver claramente en las
imágenes, un objeto de forma extraña se cruzó en su camino. Para
el piloto no se trataba de un globo ni de un dron.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2l_NqKSX-2ylu-kQXUoaAtdEtn4QnchClfy-rdpmlW_FWWStiq6TirFNEi_nhreogS8r4lo2C_1jL1UvXPV3O21B5sLRfPpASP1TVhHddcWw5P2cKMsyVaGgKOxAtYZd19rniupeUftOZVYRnIG8ibuAJjK-1vv9X0yranSrWGWz7ljD139Ka" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1202" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2l_NqKSX-2ylu-kQXUoaAtdEtn4QnchClfy-rdpmlW_FWWStiq6TirFNEi_nhreogS8r4lo2C_1jL1UvXPV3O21B5sLRfPpASP1TVhHddcWw5P2cKMsyVaGgKOxAtYZd19rniupeUftOZVYRnIG8ibuAJjK-1vv9X0yranSrWGWz7ljD139Ka" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">La
ampliación del objeto en su mayor acercamiento resulta en verdad
impresionante:</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcMDvZETwmhGKwRGDjxKwS3f1ceJlSgVr8PuFCIwvA2QlG-NrEG77W2tWrrvoiDKTgNMVjtU9QG7lSn-SnEJYiyCt0oSF2P6K6d4tqA0HnnE_r8C09AF3E4cHJnqbGsa43yobwWnmuC9yQh_JZUckAQXFtWCOb5Zp0TjJW_z8T3h1JNGFQy2l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="531" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcMDvZETwmhGKwRGDjxKwS3f1ceJlSgVr8PuFCIwvA2QlG-NrEG77W2tWrrvoiDKTgNMVjtU9QG7lSn-SnEJYiyCt0oSF2P6K6d4tqA0HnnE_r8C09AF3E4cHJnqbGsa43yobwWnmuC9yQh_JZUckAQXFtWCOb5Zp0TjJW_z8T3h1JNGFQy2l" width="292" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
el analista de UAPs el norteamericano Mick West, la opción de que se
trate de un globo resulta la más obvia. Y nos recuerda que la ciudad
colombiana de Medellín es famosa por el lanzamiento de enormes
globos con forma de ovnis y alienígenas, como la siguiente</span></span><sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFjBSVMHROuu6OEWTt98HO1TtCgEn83cEl2vuBmYj-YMzCj8qA9RCiOd-DgZizhNev8BX_NRGoIP17T4RjHucnFrV3u479KjLGoaoyTz2bZ9fwaPFiQ65oSsjas4vWXFjXIeOvjuV4kjQjzrzKs_fYMwnM68Wwbod5sq8CgmKkhyFLcTFJHBOH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFjBSVMHROuu6OEWTt98HO1TtCgEn83cEl2vuBmYj-YMzCj8qA9RCiOd-DgZizhNev8BX_NRGoIP17T4RjHucnFrV3u479KjLGoaoyTz2bZ9fwaPFiQ65oSsjas4vWXFjXIeOvjuV4kjQjzrzKs_fYMwnM68Wwbod5sq8CgmKkhyFLcTFJHBOH" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">Efectivamente,
el análisis de “Metabunk” concluyó que se trataba simplemente
de un globo estacionario, y que era el avión el que se movía</span></span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">
(por el efecto de paralaje, que tanto confunde en las filmaciones
ovni). Según otro estudio, sin embargo, se trataba en realidad de un
auténtico objeto móvil, ya que la aparición de un punto negro en
las imágenes podría indicar que el UAP cambió radicalmente de
dirección y aceleró brutalmente, una doble maniobra que un globo no
puede llevar a cabo.</span></span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">
Pero para Mick West, “la pequeña mancha que se ve al final parece
más bien algo en el cristal de la cabina, combinado con el
movimiento de la cámara. Viéndolo con más detenimiento, eso es
exactamente lo que es. Suciedad en la ventana. De hecho, se pueden
ver otros puntos de suciedad comportándose igual. También se puede
comprobar que la cámara se mueve significativamente en el reflejo,
pero la estabilización de imagen mantiene estable la imagen
exterior, creando el movimiento de la suciedad de la ventana”.</span></span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><p></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNgoI4QAzhWgRYIzJJhmq0VA8oCrniaGIFNTUp6cQ3prJQxCX3BiV4J3vX8o9dZi3APmt0_vtEHXpvNdLjLANSy32Uvv_3KC1U7R14X3MZUz3tGCdFgjEhRK3j0RVeLsGXSSSxS_K-JalHd1-2t-Gx16vKjKV11m2nTQ3UiXa9I7K5nsD3Ebjq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="1160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNgoI4QAzhWgRYIzJJhmq0VA8oCrniaGIFNTUp6cQ3prJQxCX3BiV4J3vX8o9dZi3APmt0_vtEHXpvNdLjLANSy32Uvv_3KC1U7R14X3MZUz3tGCdFgjEhRK3j0RVeLsGXSSSxS_K-JalHd1-2t-Gx16vKjKV11m2nTQ3UiXa9I7K5nsD3Ebjq" width="148" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><div style="text-align: center;">Cortesía
de Mick West.</div></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
su parte, Andrés Duarte, químico profesional chileno y reconocido
analista de imágenes</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">7,8</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
en respuesta a nuestra búsqueda de opiniones expertas, señaló
haber encontrado varios posibles indicios y una inconsistencia
cuantificable que podría probar que el video es un montaje. Eso fue
un adelanto muy preliminar, empero, ya que su análisis aún no ha
terminado.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
una afortunada coincidencia, últimamente se emitió otro metraje
similar en Hispanoamérica. Fue difundido por la ufóloga mejicana
Ross Cantú.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
¿Fue un UAP? No. Solo otro globo. Véase el hilo que cuelga debajo
del globo en la primera imagen, antes de que el avión lo
sobrevolara.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_sbfxS-5MT9BL07ncNDKIsNaBaNHX2Tjrg1ennTHAFHzjae4P2XG2rSXr_7GTdqGRS75yA1ZOZq-XWwSKvI6z-Q-oRQFg8DQ-rKE4s1TtHFwiPVepE21uSu3T5d9EGqY_4hXrgorO0STju51Xd-em-VxOOvxyR9kaDPkDkZdVgqfYr2q9wPCB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="751" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_sbfxS-5MT9BL07ncNDKIsNaBaNHX2Tjrg1ennTHAFHzjae4P2XG2rSXr_7GTdqGRS75yA1ZOZq-XWwSKvI6z-Q-oRQFg8DQ-rKE4s1TtHFwiPVepE21uSu3T5d9EGqY_4hXrgorO0STju51Xd-em-VxOOvxyR9kaDPkDkZdVgqfYr2q9wPCB" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cortesía
del Dr. Heriberto Janosch.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
América del Sur uno puede asustarse si el avión en el que viaja se
cruza a toda velocidad con un UAP multicolor, pero hay que tener en
cuenta la amplia gama de globos de un área de gran tamaño (~100 m</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
con formas y colores espectaculares que se lanzan en Latinoamérica,
como este ejemplo de Cantoya (Michoacán, México), globos que se
sueltan regularmente en festividades locales.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmx3HFMEUrqRFzhHOaDX3jfl7-UjrmTYq6BoxTbzaj_yA_PNtNdEMAEMcFPIdD0mg1t3aj6EhdfAt8CtS2m7cJypsyPl5CfsWQ_kau-21yCddumECPdMhc0fXUuqQyhpcmYjbBOUBiSoKK8hN7knC9Ql2gse7TjMfXKUHPLxjUKzsI3up_kyqE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="762" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmx3HFMEUrqRFzhHOaDX3jfl7-UjrmTYq6BoxTbzaj_yA_PNtNdEMAEMcFPIdD0mg1t3aj6EhdfAt8CtS2m7cJypsyPl5CfsWQ_kau-21yCddumECPdMhc0fXUuqQyhpcmYjbBOUBiSoKK8hN7knC9Ql2gse7TjMfXKUHPLxjUKzsI3up_kyqE" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><div style="text-align: center;">Globo
de Cantoya. Cortesía del Dr. Heriberto Janosch.</div></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
si duda de que simples globos aerostáticos puedan compartir el
espacio aéreo a tales alturas, aquí va un ejemplo gráfico:
recientemente, un vuelo de la compañía </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Volaris</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
desde Jalisco a México, D.F. avistó a lo lejos un globo recreativo
a un nivel de vuelo de 34.600 pies (10.550 m). ¡Del globo pendía la
bandera de Brasil!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg72W0i9NnTRJZx6WjR1vQa22IvHAlGLjzKEM5zmkB6zEdYHtv543-pXrvs_9AGzC8UBHHWIlW4_P8UnjLBl_JmbGB-vWGbc-HokacjTSAYzuWafLbWfOoga6EljpN7QVOBK1tRqZS9_E4kuwxTmxPlhZDZEQEnamg9xpurd-kIxD6U3TqMI-hf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="429" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg72W0i9NnTRJZx6WjR1vQa22IvHAlGLjzKEM5zmkB6zEdYHtv543-pXrvs_9AGzC8UBHHWIlW4_P8UnjLBl_JmbGB-vWGbc-HokacjTSAYzuWafLbWfOoga6EljpN7QVOBK1tRqZS9_E4kuwxTmxPlhZDZEQEnamg9xpurd-kIxD6U3TqMI-hf" width="172" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Globo
desplazándose a 10,5 km de altura. Cortesía del Dr. Heriberto
Janosch</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/OgOgcrypto/status/1643340990500012035/history"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/OgOgcrypto/status/1643340990500012035/history</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/vKP1cRsNBLk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://youtu.be/vKP1cRsNBLk</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://twitter.com/MickWest/status/1659920918582530048">https://twitter.com/MickWest/status/1659920918582530048</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-v-video-by-jorge-arteaga.12926/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-v-video-by-jorge-arteaga.12926/</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MzC2Rb6PU"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MzC2Rb6PU</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Mick West, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>emai</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">l
a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 19 de junio de 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “The Little Blue Humanoid”,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_05_29_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_05_29_archive.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mr.
Templeton’s Invisible Humanoid”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_12_27_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2012_12_27_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Andrés Duarte, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>emails</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 25 de junio y 21 de julio de 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/736577881549324"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/reel/736577881549324</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXOQFMBVa0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXOQFMBVa0</span></span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://elsouvenir.com/globos-de-cantoya-en-michoacan/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://elsouvenir.com/globos-de-cantoya-en-michoacan/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Citas
citables</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>En
conjunto, veo el género OVNI, superpuesto al trasfondo político y
cultural, como una advertencia y un peligro. La sociedad puede
utilizar el OVNI como símbolo o salida para preguntas que le resulta
difícil reconocer o formular, posiblemente utilizándolo como una
especie de válvula de escape o como un medio para ayudar a negociar
nuevas configuraciones sociales, pero los ovnis también pueden ser
un amplificador de Forteana anticientífica, esoterismo y extremismo
que se acumulan cuando el flujo cultural y la desconfianza en la
autoridad se vuelven patológicos. Por tales razones deberíamos
estar atentos a los platillos: no porque los piloten seres de otros
mundos, sino porque, en un sentido muy real, los pilotamos nosotros,
y no sabemos muy bien por qué, y descubrir el por qué bien podría
ser importante para afrontar los tiempos difíciles que se avecinan. </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Luis
Cayetano, doctor en biología evolutiva y ecología, </span><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/on-david-grusch-s-whistleblowing-and-other-apparent-but-not-quite-nothing-burgers"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/on-david-grusch-s-whistleblowing-and-other-apparent-but-not-quite-nothing-burgers</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Otra
nueva foto de 1954 </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ya
he comentado antes que hay determinados periodos de la historia de la
ufología que me interesan especialmente. Es el caso de la gran
oleada ovni de 1954, tanto por el impacto mundial de este
recrudecimiento de los informes ovni, como por el hecho de que he
publicado una monografía sobre los casos fotográficos surgidos en
el curso de la oleada: “El año 1954 en fotos (versión ampliada)”, </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43962453/EL_ANO_1954_EN_FOTOS_Version_Ampliada_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43962453/EL_ANO_1954_EN_FOTOS_Version_Ampliada_</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
apreciada colega Kay Coggin, una fuente permanente de antiguos
recortes de prensa que incluyen fotos ovni, me ha enviado el
siguiente artículo publicado por el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Pacific
Island Monthly</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(PIM), volumen XXV, número 5, del 1 de diciembre de 1954. No tenía
la menor idea de esta información. Bajo el título “¿Platillo
volador sobre Aitutaki?”, la revista insertaba una instantánea y
su título, que yo reproduzco: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
alegre optimista que envió esto a PIM escribe: “Este es sin duda
el primer platillo volante que se ve en la isla. Esta foto fue tomada
mientras sobrevolaba la laguna de Aitutaki justo después de que un
avión TEAL </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[Tasman
Empire Airways Limited]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
despegara hacia Tahití. El Sr. C. Dixon, de pie en la popa de la
lancha CAA en primer plano, parece bastante imperturbable. En la
distancia, el TEAL”. Nuestro amigo supone que ni siquiera una
cámara estenopeica puede mentir.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Francamente,
esta imagen me parece más bien un simple defecto de revelado de la
película, y creo que el editor de la revista sospechaba lo mismo.
Pero es una pieza más para nuestra colección de las cosas más
extrañas (“stranger things”) de la época. Por cierto, las Islas
del Pacífico son un grupo de islas ubicadas al sur del Océano
Pacífico, compuestas por Melanesia, Micronesia y Polinesia. En
concreto, la laguna de Aitutaki (hoy un </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>resort</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
privado de lujo) se encuentra en las Islas Cook, estado asociado a
Nueva Zelanda.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKqaHHsYACF3FBavPZXLXvYYJsqpZ0BJplPnohbZslremWl2n3VOuFsL69COsZr7pvtPH9cZEHAG7H5hd7WclWOj-n6WwoUwSOsdfT0USWLxhZvd4yWB_m4OVQhtNHD_M0Cdc4llRte7LDqAdH751Rw61zmYpALaTCJqKhOKZ2dh-XsnE7RxWl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="274" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKqaHHsYACF3FBavPZXLXvYYJsqpZ0BJplPnohbZslremWl2n3VOuFsL69COsZr7pvtPH9cZEHAG7H5hd7WclWOj-n6WwoUwSOsdfT0USWLxhZvd4yWB_m4OVQhtNHD_M0Cdc4llRte7LDqAdH751Rw61zmYpALaTCJqKhOKZ2dh-XsnE7RxWl" width="232" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Fuente:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Pacific
Islands Monthly</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ha
fallecido Illobrand von Ludwiger</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Acabo
de enterarme gracias a “Marcianitos Verdes”, la página web del
investigador mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez, de la muerte del ufólogo
alemán Illobrand von Ludwiger (1937-2023).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Había mantenido correspondencia irregular con él durante muchos
años. En 1995, me invitó a colaborar con un artículo en un libro
bajo su dirección: “UFO-Phänomene in Spanien,UFOs-Zeichen und
Zeugen”, Edition q (Berlin), pp. 126-139.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
En noviembre de 2004, con ocasión de dar una conferencia en el
congreso MUFON-CES en Frankfurt, el día 6 organicé una reunión
informal con algunos otros investigadores de ovnis en Alemania,
incluido Von Ludwiger.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3,4</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYwuu4cg5-oom1A9QIUxhkO-Im2dNNace9uLfm0EKI03fbuXoDdRGKJHaQSKlDbljF4mkrndswhzCXZ_zcE0VloOBpitpPrnyf977Q0II-zDVx59unh7h3GKPRSq9I8LLWcdmPF0bhKXbhetVsoUzbH1t_SGEKrIga99selAXpqikvwvLEL4q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="900" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYwuu4cg5-oom1A9QIUxhkO-Im2dNNace9uLfm0EKI03fbuXoDdRGKJHaQSKlDbljF4mkrndswhzCXZ_zcE0VloOBpitpPrnyf977Q0II-zDVx59unh7h3GKPRSq9I8LLWcdmPF0bhKXbhetVsoUzbH1t_SGEKrIga99selAXpqikvwvLEL4q" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><div style="text-align: center;">Illobrand
von Ludwiger, a la izquierda, con V.J. Ballester Olmos.</div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Von
Ludwiger era un líder total y un creyente en la conexión
OVNI-extraterrestre, pero también estaba comprometido con el método
científico al abordar el tema de los objetos volantes no
identificados. Siempre he pensado que uno de los mejores aportes ovni
producidos por la literatura europea fue la colección de actas
publicadas de los congresos anuales de su organización MUFON-CES.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Requiescat
in pace</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/08/necrolgicas-lee-speigel-e-illobrand-von-ludwiger/">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/08/necrolgicas-lee-speigel-e-illobrand-von-ludwiger/</a></span></span></span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25xnf4es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://tinyurl.com/25xnf4es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2005_01_02_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2005_01_02_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.mufon-dsr.com/bibliothek/berichte/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://www.mufon-dsr.com/bibliothek/berichte/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Artículo
invitado</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Luis
Reinaldo González Manso (Asturias, 1958, pero residente en Málaga
casi toda su vida) es investigador y escritor. Autor de ensayos en
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Stendek
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">y
en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
ha participado en libros colectivos y ha escrito varias obras: Las
abducciones ¡Vaya timo! (Laetoli, 2008), </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>A
Martian in my Mailbox</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Coliseo Sentosa, 2022), </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Alienígenas
carpetovetónicos ilustrados</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(en prensa), la novela de ciencia-ficción </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UMMO–Historia
de una obsesión </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2015),
dos</span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">colecciones
de relatos en el universo de Sherlock Holmes (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
variaciones Malaka </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1
y 2) y una serie de relatos ucrónicos sobre la historia de España
(</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
otras Españas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
todas ellas con Ediciones del Genal. Mantiene dos catálogos de
casuística ovni, el FIRSTHUMCAT (las primeras historias, "reales"
o ficticias, de encuentros con visitantes extraterrestres) en cada
país, y la Cronología Abduccionista. Luis me ayudó en la
preparación de mi trabajo “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gambia:
una foto y una abducción”:</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Gran
colaborador, su gran sentido del humor y bonhomía lo hacen un verdadero amigo
más que un colega.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZnLwWusE_6ovpu0mejZeXmj_SGqkRJ_RJdjQIlOQ8ROLXsF7dzVF8sKc5HyxbporJhpoIgxvQOAG2VMBkcXAI28YO2fmLgH2xHIbgcOxaKKqxC1Lh_JIGFG99AxDjA4VfywDJTWFbGSLncSeGQr6z0MyJqwopbvCZeJuzSJFDt20G1TtQzxbX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="896" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZnLwWusE_6ovpu0mejZeXmj_SGqkRJ_RJdjQIlOQ8ROLXsF7dzVF8sKc5HyxbporJhpoIgxvQOAG2VMBkcXAI28YO2fmLgH2xHIbgcOxaKKqxC1Lh_JIGFG99AxDjA4VfywDJTWFbGSLncSeGQr6z0MyJqwopbvCZeJuzSJFDt20G1TtQzxbX" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Luis
R. González. (Foto: V.J. Ballester Olmos).</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Foto
ovni tomada en Málaga el 2 de noviembre de 1954</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Luis
R. González</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
pasado 15 de mayo de 2023, dentro del grupo de Facebook “Solo Fotos
Antiguas de Málaga”, el colaborador habitual José Mora Fernández,
publicaba la siguiente foto acompañada de una sucinta explicación.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0TZUbo23unjKDxmbEAyRkEyJ_x6OJPKZI7M0qkYS4arJQmnBZvjNNXcEUs81L8L35hengQkAkn8lfJW8bTWsQRfMXSAsxVNXbzSDfB7j95Zwe6w-E0muTT72AO2kyIx2LhNu31hjq1quwdD-ihjAAsQyb5MwPA2xTuu4Q0UGV2PrsI6RwuHMB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0TZUbo23unjKDxmbEAyRkEyJ_x6OJPKZI7M0qkYS4arJQmnBZvjNNXcEUs81L8L35hengQkAkn8lfJW8bTWsQRfMXSAsxVNXbzSDfB7j95Zwe6w-E0muTT72AO2kyIx2LhNu31hjq1quwdD-ihjAAsQyb5MwPA2xTuu4Q0UGV2PrsI6RwuHMB" width="180" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">OVNI
fotografiado por Juan Coll y José Antonio Baena el 2 de noviembre de
1954 en las cercanías de Málaga. Fuente: </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Fortean
Times</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
fecha desconocida.</span></span></span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Sorprendido
de que esta revista británica sobre fenómenos misteriosos con casi
50 años de vida (su primer número apareció en noviembre de 1973, y
sigue publicándose), hubiese tenido ocasión de publicar una
fotografía de un supuesto platillo volante tomada en la ciudad donde
he residido casi toda la vida, me decidí a documentarme sobre ello.
El primer paso obligado era confirmar los datos, para lo que consulté
al investigador valenciano Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos que, desde
hace años, mantiene un catálogo de fotografías ovni denominado
FOTOCAT (1).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ballester
me remitió a su publicación FOTOCAT REPORT #1, “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
año 1954 en fotos (Versión ampliada)”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
puede consultarse gratuitamente en la página electrónica de
Academia.edu (2). Allí, en la página 38, aparecían algunos datos
adicionales. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Fecha:
12 octubre 1954 - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Hora:
14:30 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Localización:
Arroyo de los Ángeles, Málaga (España) - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Formato:
Foto -</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Fotógrafo:
Juan Coll y José Antonio Baena - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Explicación:
Muy probablemente un trucaje - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Referencias:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Madrid
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(Madrid),
10 de noviembre de 1954. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Ya
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(Madrid),
11 de noviembre de 1954. Diario francés </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>L’Ardennais</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
8 de noviembre de 1954, en Renaud Leclet, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Les
Mystères de L’Est</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
8, 2003, páginas 69-70. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Waveney
Girvan, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Flying
Saucers and Common Sense</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
(Citadel, Nueva York, 1956), foto. - </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
APRO Bulletin</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
15 de noviembre de 1954, página 7, citado en las fichas de casos del
grupo Civilian Saucer Intelligence (Nueva York). Karl L. Veit, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucers</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
julio de 1962, páginas 56 y 72. Brad Steiger y August C. Roberts,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Flying Saucer Menace</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Award, Nueva York, 1967), página 10. - </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Comentarios:
Como es habitual con los casos de países no anglosajones, este
incidente se ha publicado bajo distintas fechas.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
desgracia, Ballester me comunicó que no disponía de la fuente más
antigua (el diario </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Madrid</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
solo la del otro periódico de la capital española que lo citaba.
Extrañado ante la ausencia de una fuente local, decidí mirar los
periódicos malagueños de esos meses (entre la supuesta fecha en que
se tomó la foto y su aparición en el periódico madrileño).
Personado en el Archivo Municipal, tuve ocasión de revisar los
periódicos </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hoja
del Lunes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Tarde</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sur</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
sin lograr encontrarla.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo
que sí encontré fueron varias referencias al fenómeno de los
platillos volantes, en especial chistes gráficos generalmente sin
firma ni acreditación. Para los no iniciados, recordaré que, entre
septiembre y octubre de 1954, se desarrolló sobre nuestra vecina
Francia una verdadera oleada de avistamientos de platillos volantes,
pero no solo en el cielo. Se recogieron muchas denuncias de
aterrizajes y casi un centenar de encuentros con los supuestos
ocupantes de los mismos (calificados, en general, como “marcianos”).
En noviembre, mucho más calmada, la oleada se trasladó a Italia. En
el resto de los países europeos (incluida España) apenas si se
mencionaron avistamientos cercanos propios (3), pero la prensa se
hizo eco de lo que ocurría en el país vecino, por lo general
aquellos incidentes más abracadabrantes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Quedaba
una esperanza. En la versión digitalizada del diario </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sur</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
disponible en el Archivo Municipal existían bastantes huecos</span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
concreto, el periódico se hacía eco de los platillos volantes los
días 20, 21, 27 y 31 de octubre, pero faltaban los ejemplares de los
días 13, 15, 17, 24, 26 y 28 de octubre. Y los días 2, 3, 6, 14, 16
y 29 de noviembre de 1954. Personado en la propia redacción del
periódico no pude consultar ni los originales ni su versión
digitalizada con la absurda excusa de que dicho servicio había
quedado interrumpido por la pandemia. Finalmente, me dirigí a la
Biblioteca Provincial de la Junta de Andalucía, en la Avenida de
Europa, donde me comentaron que los ejemplares que me interesaban no
estaban disponibles por estar en restauración. Mi gozo en un pozo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Fueron
pasando las semanas y finalmente hace unos días, cuando volví a
preguntar por ellos, no solo me dijeron que ya estaban disponibles
(en papel) sino que la noticia que buscaba aparecía en el periódico
del sábado </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>6
de noviembre de 1954</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Sin tardanza, me personé en dicha biblioteca pública y pude obtener
las fotos que acompañan a este artículo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
la última página del periódico </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sur
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
mencionado sábado, aparecía esta fotografía </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">con
el siguiente texto:</span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7e3fD2_B_RPFdveL8hqoK6G6XZeB2X-CSSDq1P6j80sE3JfQS-crw3Qm0oG9hvmmFArDNhDT1E5TsSrZndvo3Iz5l17x7XUWXjV0MSIIsvCmKggO6tYHKmLmbEZ-6ugAPh6mzSpVXCsIs1Y7J9kHOFrkasmZ0sNeztjWYSvKdaZKHAI2H9_4z" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3378" data-original-width="1964" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7e3fD2_B_RPFdveL8hqoK6G6XZeB2X-CSSDq1P6j80sE3JfQS-crw3Qm0oG9hvmmFArDNhDT1E5TsSrZndvo3Iz5l17x7XUWXjV0MSIIsvCmKggO6tYHKmLmbEZ-6ugAPh6mzSpVXCsIs1Y7J9kHOFrkasmZ0sNeztjWYSvKdaZKHAI2H9_4z" width="140" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>¿PLATILLO
VOLANTE SOBRE EL ARROYO DE LOS ANGELES?</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Esta
es la fotografía tomada por dos muchachos el pasado día </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>2
de noviembre</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
Puede advertirse en ella un trozo del Arroyo de los Ángeles y encima
–hacia la izquierda- el supuesto platillo volante. Aunque la foto
es algo imperfecta, el objeto volador es fácilmente visible. (Véase
información en “Un reportaje al día”)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Efectivamente,
en página interior se daban muchos más detalles e incluso aparecía
una foto de los dos testigos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZAxkxH4cQHGExvDQvZ3VRJRRU_YQmIzeFxvuJH8zyElqimRlPZnSyLVx_rSDiDr1QyBcE_Pr-Zh7ey38L6DylwluuBG6DlBI-xLaGDLXjrjydOWfUY8p8wQt-c616jbTRl7C3Kjq-8KwABd-USyoT-WniMfLhwv-bBG_iWxccFxmnzbWf9P30" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1417" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZAxkxH4cQHGExvDQvZ3VRJRRU_YQmIzeFxvuJH8zyElqimRlPZnSyLVx_rSDiDr1QyBcE_Pr-Zh7ey38L6DylwluuBG6DlBI-xLaGDLXjrjydOWfUY8p8wQt-c616jbTRl7C3Kjq-8KwABd-USyoT-WniMfLhwv-bBG_iWxccFxmnzbWf9P30" width="320" /></a></div></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Para
mayor claridad, transcribiré el texto del reportaje,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>UN
REPORTAJE AL DIA – Dos muchachos malagueños aseguran que vieron un
platillo volante sobre el arroyo de los Ángeles. Lograron hacer una
fotografía de él.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Lo
de ver platillos volantes está ya a la orden del día, Málaga tenía
que tener, como tantas otras regiones, su visión de un platillo. Y
ya la tiene. Se la debemos a dos jóvenes que trabajan en Telégrafos
y se llaman, respectivamente, Juan Coll y José Antonio Baena. El
periodista suele ser escéptico en algunas cosas, pero tiene que
limitarse a informar a sus lectores sobre lo puramente informativo,
aquello que puede interesar al lector. Con esta idea hacemos el
reportaje presente, sin poner ni quitar nada.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>De
nuestros dos visitantes, el que más habla es José Antonio Baena,
mientras Coll asiente a las palabras de su amigo y, de vez en cuando,
redondea alguna de sus informaciones.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Cuénteme
lo que pasó.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-El
día 2 de noviembre caminábamos por los alrededores del arroyo de
los Ángeles, con el propósito de encontrar un lugar adecuado para
hacernos unas fotos…</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Llevaban
máquina, ¿no?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Sí,
señor; un Kodak antigua 6x9.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Qué
vieron?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Al
mirar hacia arriba casualmente vimos los dos casi a la vez un objeto
redondeado, que parecía estabilizado, como flotando.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿A
qué altura?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-A
unos doscientos metros. Así permaneció durante diez a quince
segundos, al cabo de los cuales ascendió de repente en trayectoria
inclinada, velozmente y sin ruido.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Y
entonces?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Hacia
los quinientos metros aproximadamente volvió a detenerse, quedando
en situación horizontal. Descendió luego en forma similar al
ascenso, después se elevó definitivamente, desapareciendo tras del
monte Coronado.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿En
qué momento hicieron la fotografía?- preguntamos ante la copia que
nos presentan y en el que se ve un trozo de campo y arriba un objeto
circular, difícil de definir.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Durante
el último descenso. Por cierto que al ser tomada a contraluz no
permite distinguir muchos detalles.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿A
qué hora sucedió lo que me ha contado?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Serían
las doce y media.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Lo
presenció alguien más?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-En
aquel lugar no encontramos más que a unos niños que jugaban. Para
que corroborara nuestra visión buscamos a alguna otra persona. Pero
sin encontrarla.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Desde
dónde está tomada la foto?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Desde
un cerrillo.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Cómo
definiría lo que vio?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Era
una especie de globo parado, con brillo. Pero éste no era muy y más
bien daba sensación de tener unos fulgores o hilos de luz.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Dimensiones?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Tendría
más de cuatro metros de diámetro.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Velocidad?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Era
enorme, acaso doble o triple que la de un avión a reacción.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿No
sería, en realidad, uno de éstos?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>-No,
señor; yo he visto muchos en Mérida y no puedo confundirme
fácilmente. </i></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Hacía
viento aquel día?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Ninguno;
además aquel aparato daba la sensación de que se movía muy
rápidamente y de que sus paradas eran en seco.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Lo
vieron durante mucho tiempo?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Creo
que durante un minuto.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Lo
contaron a alguien?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-No
nos atrevimos a hacer pública la noticia hasta contar con el
testimonio irrecusable de la fotografía que, casualmente, obtuvimos.
Respaldados por esta prueba y por ser dos los videntes, estimamos que
no se trata de un caso de sugestión o de ilusión óptica.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Lo
comentaron en la oficina?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-Sí,
señor. Y ya sabe usted cómo son estas cosas. Se suelen reír de uno
por lo general.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-¿Saben
que un semanario francés ha ofrecido un millón de francos por una
foto de un platillo volante?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>-No
lo sabíamos. Pero la fotografía que hicimos es muy imperfecta. Sólo
queremos que ella nos sirva de justificación.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Hasta
aquí las palabras de José Antonio Baena, que habla largamente y con
cierto tono. Repetimos que no estamos ni dentro ni fuera de la
noticia. Pero reconocemos su pintoresquismo. Y ahí está. JUAN
ANTONIO RANDO</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
los días siguientes no vuelve a hablarse del asunto, ni hay ningún
desmentido o mención a que se tratase de una broma o montaje. Lo que
sí aparecen son más chistes. Teniendo ya los datos más precisos, y
la fecha exacta en que supuestamente fue tomada la foto (martes, 2 de
noviembre de 1954, sobre las 12:30 horas) intenté localizar la
ubicación desde donde fue tomada. Solo había tres pistas: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(a)
Había sido tomada desde “un cerrillo” en las cercanías del
Arroyo de los Ángeles (actualmente embovedado).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(b)
Los distintivos y prominentes tejados que aparecen a la derecha de la
foto.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(c)
La silueta de las colinas al fondo. Parece que el monte Victoria
sería el que aparece en el centro, y la elevación a la derecha
sería el monte de Gibralfaro. El monte Coronado, mencionado en el
texto, se sitúa fuera de imagen, mucho más a la izquierda.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4mB9JXRaS6_pLRgAzhA890LYeT_dkNIheyo15ONusVXwLj61QEmCxkwEh6kx3uSuf9WRcWy6aki1L18ml08JOxKSTAdUhM_164SxgaLxu5NlffO_sk5SBBwFSCNZRMePurxx3gf5f3eE7WMf6EjKyGvatUNtNzXEOWdQ883YPsgb-DXQ0RFFj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="520" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4mB9JXRaS6_pLRgAzhA890LYeT_dkNIheyo15ONusVXwLj61QEmCxkwEh6kx3uSuf9WRcWy6aki1L18ml08JOxKSTAdUhM_164SxgaLxu5NlffO_sk5SBBwFSCNZRMePurxx3gf5f3eE7WMf6EjKyGvatUNtNzXEOWdQ883YPsgb-DXQ0RFFj" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
suerte, la pista (b) estaba todavía en pie y se trata de los tejados
del actual Hospital Civil inaugurado en 1892. Como puede comprobarse
en una foto aérea de los años cincuenta (4), su situación era
prominente en esa zona poco habitada por aquellos años y se sitúa
justo en la margen izquierda del llamado Arroyo de los Ángeles
(mirando desde su desembocadura en el río Guadalmedina, en la
esquina inferior derecha de la foto).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJrVREKmspiqphLhfUeTUiDnQUkfko0JBnFrIuPzy0rT15rcMRQHcQgqDFUyZm19ne-GsaSop5MnxAquB7Az0w5cXDG50c_apGttv5uBzSNzmVKg7dnrXf26-I3b0iICOjUyTLzLUdMVzC0dlz5N6jQmrBuqJRoNcNgehlPEg7DliXAgydBnOL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="456" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJrVREKmspiqphLhfUeTUiDnQUkfko0JBnFrIuPzy0rT15rcMRQHcQgqDFUyZm19ne-GsaSop5MnxAquB7Az0w5cXDG50c_apGttv5uBzSNzmVKg7dnrXf26-I3b0iICOjUyTLzLUdMVzC0dlz5N6jQmrBuqJRoNcNgehlPEg7DliXAgydBnOL" width="247" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
una fotografía hecha en la actualidad, el pico prominente de la
derecha estaría fuera de la foto de 1954, y el que aparece claro en
la misma sería el que se sitúa detrás de los rascacielos en
construcción. La foto de 1954 se habría hecho mirando más a la
derecha, pero ahora resulta imposible.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIdHfdkxhrKYxMG_kPXD9a2vCBqzIkCo4mTMOba9ccgKalymJTnRKoQQW2AA4pWPuClg-MulwHu68xlbULgwA_4SgTNhzvmcwz9y8BqWijhbs3czz-34BH7DPf5SmOjUUtu2NFIExgisp7VYTHGAgTr6CLSLXNesKxPf2Am-66YCYddjl1dV9C" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="517" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIdHfdkxhrKYxMG_kPXD9a2vCBqzIkCo4mTMOba9ccgKalymJTnRKoQQW2AA4pWPuClg-MulwHu68xlbULgwA_4SgTNhzvmcwz9y8BqWijhbs3czz-34BH7DPf5SmOjUUtu2NFIExgisp7VYTHGAgTr6CLSLXNesKxPf2Am-66YCYddjl1dV9C" width="273" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Sin
embargo, el gran crecimiento urbanístico de la zona en los años
transcurridos y la frondosidad de los árboles que abundan en la
zona, han impedido por completo ubicar con la exactitud deseada el
punto desde donde se habría tomado la foto. Lo más probable es que
fuese tomada (en dirección aproximadamente sursudeste, no comprobada
con brújula) desde una elevación conocida actualmente como
Urbanización La Roca, pero resulta imposible ser más preciso. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuWHt7cZi7skfoxO-bCusg_9GazkVNaSS3Uy7AiqAUcQ8hblE5iczt3Wk9noSERt7lnYMb3u1ezFws_aES9LcEk6l3EqZJ8CkvPbvbBPDx0Qe3e5HKMF2pOfMXhsVgNRAifgfTF2BLQJBQhE1UMKNkYlE_O12DifK0HkHIjahb915WnJu2lT8A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1448" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuWHt7cZi7skfoxO-bCusg_9GazkVNaSS3Uy7AiqAUcQ8hblE5iczt3Wk9noSERt7lnYMb3u1ezFws_aES9LcEk6l3EqZJ8CkvPbvbBPDx0Qe3e5HKMF2pOfMXhsVgNRAifgfTF2BLQJBQhE1UMKNkYlE_O12DifK0HkHIjahb915WnJu2lT8A" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
comentario sobre la difusión periodística de la noticia. Como hemos
visto, la publicación más cercana a los hechos (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUR</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
06/11/54) indica la fecha del 2 de noviembre a las 12:30 horas
aproximadamente. Tras unas gestiones telemáticas con la Hemeroteca
Nacional de Madrid pude obtener, previo pago de la correspondiente
tasa, la segunda referencia cronológica (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Madrid</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
06/11/54) donde se comprueba que el mismo periodista que publicó el
reportaje del periódico malacitano, Juan Antonio Rando, realizó la
crónica más resumida publicada en Madrid. No existen diferencias
sustanciales: describe a los fotógrafos como “modestos
funcionarios de Telégrafos”, añade un poco más de dramatismo a
la historia, cambia “descenso” por “ascenso” (un matiz que
puede ser importante) y emplea otra ordenación del diálogo. También
añade detalles (quizá encontrados al revisar la grabación de la
entrevista, o tomándose libertades con la literalidad de lo
declarado): </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>En
los momentos en que estuvo inmóvil parecía emitir destellos
débiles. Pero no tenía brillo metálico en absoluto, sino un color
muy oscuro, mate.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Además,
el aparato daba sensación de tener vida propia. La puesta en marcha,
en los movimientos que hizo, fue más lenta. Pero la parada daba la
impresión de ser rapidísima, en seco.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Como
sabe, en el arroyo de los Ángeles no hay nunca nadie. En aquellos
momentos sólo nos encontrábamos allí los dos y unos niños
pequeños. Pero estamos seguros, por la altura en que estaba aquel
aparato, que debió de ser advertido por alguien más</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Existe,
sin embargo, una discrepancia clara, el tamaño del objeto. En la
entrevista original para </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUR</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
las dimensiones se recogen como </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tendría
más de </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>cuatro
metros</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
de diámetro</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
mientras que la versión de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Madrid
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">dice
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Unos
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>tres
metros</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
de diámetro. Por lo menos, esa fue la sensación que nos dio a
primera vista</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Finalmente,
el periodista añade: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
dos muchachos estaban muy emocionados y parecían sinceros,
contestando a nuestras preguntas con rigor y buen sentido. Desde
luego, no tenían aprendida la lección con anterioridad. Eso podemos
asegurarlo.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Curiosa
la Nota de Redacción añadida a continuación, síntoma claro de los
tiempos: “Aunque conocemos la veracidad de nuestro corresponsal en
Málaga, dada la importancia de esta información, y teniendo en
cuenta las discusiones que este tema suscita, dejamos la
responsabilidad de la misma, y también su éxito, al señor Rando y
a las personas que se la han facilitado”. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i></i></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKujB6k-WNLazZ-QgnEVvbfebg646ptx474yp3NJQ5r-4qDQwXzesaxDVieljl7R4RsqcK7f5tmlaj_6_QVEp8OCO5mvTatmjNKbRk8J-kRRtxUoRXX5qcQQRbguSx-cVX8K91eLmwdxuUTKX3XfUId6cvU6kVUPRczg9gmYDOXoJqrkJoUFf8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="919" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKujB6k-WNLazZ-QgnEVvbfebg646ptx474yp3NJQ5r-4qDQwXzesaxDVieljl7R4RsqcK7f5tmlaj_6_QVEp8OCO5mvTatmjNKbRk8J-kRRtxUoRXX5qcQQRbguSx-cVX8K91eLmwdxuUTKX3XfUId6cvU6kVUPRczg9gmYDOXoJqrkJoUFf8" width="165" /></a></i></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Madrid</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Madrid), 6 de noviembre de 1954.</span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Si
hemos de juzgar por su difusión, algo de éxito sí que tuvo. Y ahí
comienzan a acumularse las distorsiones y errores. La tercera fuente
(</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>YA</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
11/11/54) presenta la foto con una nota muy resumida sin firma bajo
el título “En Málaga retrataron un platillo volante” donde se
ha deslizado, apenas una semana más tarde, el primer error, al
cambiar inexplicablemente, la fecha y la hora del suceso: “Serían
las dos y media de la tarde del martes, día 12 de octubre”.
Además, se añade una curiosa frase final: “A su regreso a
Málaga”, indicativa del desconocimiento de la zona, porque el
arroyo mencionado está dentro de los límites del término
municipal.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i></i></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicGk0Zbh0Gl8T4xLyaUJC95QC3t-NtVc5V1SD9p0veX0CGT77OEPx9C4E1AT4iFnj6gEenrEAynq3hZM2vPx_-wRoKWHb2A17OACBlDR13coOvEyyhtjzutAR41Nf2gagsnarkXSUDdTtI1sNoGlEhXsJBzjECbXavQzZBmmBBz4Ce7CX5N_lk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="903" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicGk0Zbh0Gl8T4xLyaUJC95QC3t-NtVc5V1SD9p0veX0CGT77OEPx9C4E1AT4iFnj6gEenrEAynq3hZM2vPx_-wRoKWHb2A17OACBlDR13coOvEyyhtjzutAR41Nf2gagsnarkXSUDdTtI1sNoGlEhXsJBzjECbXavQzZBmmBBz4Ce7CX5N_lk" width="179" /></a></i></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>YA</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Madrid), 11 de noviembre de 1954.</span></span></span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Respecto
de la fotografía ovni en sí, nada puede decirse con fundamento.
Resulta curioso que el periodista estuviese informado de esa
recompensa real ofrecida por un periódico francés, pero no la he
visto mencionada en los periódicos malagueños en los días
anteriores (aunque no puede descartarse que la noticia fuese
divulgada por radio). Sin embargo, los propios fotógrafos descartan
reclamarla ya que su imagen es “muy imperfecta”. No parece la
excusa para un fraude. Dado el tiempo transcurrido, no se ha
intentado localizar a los autores (ni a familiares del prestigioso
periodista ya fallecido, al que incluso se le ha dedicado una calle),
pues además el Sr. Baena parecía estar solo de paso, quizá
destinado aquí. Su mención para haber tenido “muchas” ocasiones
de ver reactores en Mérida, aunque quizá algo exagerada es
verosímil, porque los primeros reactores del Ejército del Aire
español (seis aviones </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Lockheed</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
T-33 comprados a los americanos tras la firma el año anterior del
tratado para ceder cuatro bases en nuestro país) llegaron a la
cercana Base Aérea de Talavera la Real (Badajoz) el 24 de marzo de
1954.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
los ojos modernos, llama la atención el pequeño tamaño atribuido
al platillo. A modo de comparación, el reactor </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Lockheed</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
T-33 mide 11 metros de largo, por otros tantos de envergadura alar.
Sin embargo, esas reducidas dimensiones no desentonan con las medidas
iniciales atribuidas a estos objetos por todo el mundo en aquellos
años. Sí resulta algo extraño que unos funcionarios de Telégrafos
estuviesen de paseo un día laborable, pero existen multitud de
explicaciones posibles para ello. Cierto que, a esa hora, aun en una
zona tan apartada como aquella debería haber habido más testigos,
pero tampoco el periodista parece haber hecho el menor intento por
localizarlos.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Conclusión:
Para mí, sería algo lanzado al aire. Sin embargo, es una mera
suposición mía. No tenemos forma de saberlo y no me gusta concluir
suposiciones ni cuestionar la credibilidad de personas que no pueden
defenderse. Si acaso algo como "muy probablemente, a juzgar por
la experiencia acumulada en los 70 años transcurridos, sea un simple
objeto lanzado al aire por unos bromistas, no una diminuta nave
espacial". (Málaga, agosto de 2023).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43962453/EL_ANO_1954_EN_FOTOS_Version_Ampliada_">https://www.academia.edu/43962453/EL_ANO_1954_EN_FOTOS_Version_Ampliada_</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y J.C. Victorio Uranga, “Los ovnis de
diciembre de 1954”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954">https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS_OVNIS_DE_DICIEMBRE_DE_1954</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">TAF
1954 – ANC1 – 564 – N – 8485 462410</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Articulo
invitado</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Es
un placer publicar esta nota del investigador hispano-argentino
Heriberto Janosch, profesor en la Universidad Camilo José Cela,
doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas, psicólogo, criminólogo
y experto en ciber inteligencia
(</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ucjc.edu/universidad/profesores/heriberto-janosch-gonzalez/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.ucjc.edu/universidad/profesores/heriberto-janosch-gonzalez/</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
El Dr. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Janosch
es coautor del libro </span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(UPIAR, 2013), escrito con V.J. Ballester Olmos, Manuel Borraz y J.C.
Victorio Uranga: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Una
hipótesis alternativa para el caso de Antonio Villas Boas</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Heriberto
Janosch</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
reciente libro de Cláudio T. Suenaga, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Encuentros
cercanos de todo tipo</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
retoma 65 años después la experiencia de Antonio Villas Boas,
ocurrida en San Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brasil (Suenaga,
2023). Los detalles del incidente se hicieron conocidos
internacionalmente tras la publicación del libro </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Humanoids</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Bowen, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1966),</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y son descritos en el capítulo “The Amazing Case of Antônio Vilas
Boas”, firmado por Gordon Creighton. Al citado capítulo y al libro
de Suenaga remitimos a los lectores interesados.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
hipótesis popular elaborada a partir de la experiencia de Antonio
Villas Boas (AVB) puede expresarse así: “AVB fue secuestrado por
seres extraterrestres que lo sometieron, cual conejillo de indias, a
una serie de experimentos, dentro de una nave interplanetaria, con el
objeto de fecundar a una mujer alienígena con esperma humano. Tal
experiencia le produjo a AVB problemas de salud”. En esta nota
intentaremos dar una hipótesis alternativa: “AVB tuvo una
experiencia onírica durante un shock anafiláctico provocado por una
urticaria solar”. Que la experiencia fue onírica lo sugieren
algunos detalles como que las puertas por donde pasaba aparecían y
desaparecían, otras eran rebatibles a ambos lados, en la pared
aparecieron unos tubos con agujeros que antes no se habían notado,
etcétera; y que al día siguiente “ … varias veces llegó a
conciliar el sueño, pero inmediatamente comenzaba a soñar con los
acontecimientos del días anterior, con tanto realismo que le parecía
que todo estaba ocurriendo de nuevo” (Suenaga, 2023). Más abajo
nos referiremos a la urticaria solar.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
segunda hipótesis nos la sugirió la atenta lectura del ya
mencionado libro de Suenaga. En este tipo de casos es frecuente leer
las consecuencias para la salud que provocan las supuestas
abducciones. Pero en el incidente de AVB parece que la relación de
causa y efecto se dio al revés, y es una enfermedad la que provocó
la supuesta abducción. Leemos en el libro de Suenaga que, en su
informe del 22 de febrero de 1958, el médico y ufólogo Olavo T.
Fontes no anotó una enfermedad que AVB sufría desde niño. No
sabemos si AVB no se la nombró o el médico ufólogo olvidó anotar.
Pero la hermana de AVB lo dice claramente: “… </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
niño, tenía un problema respiratorio que le impedía dormir bien si
tomaba mucho Sol</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">”
(Suenaga, 2023).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
urticaria solar es un tipo de alergia solar que provoca urticaria
después de tan solo unos minutos de exposición al sol. Los síntomas
pueden ser de leves a severos. Las alergias al sol pueden afectar a
cualquier persona, incluidas todas las edades, razas y géneros o
sexos. Las reacciones al sol son más comunes en la primavera y
principios del verano, cuando las personas comienzan a exponerse al
sol con más frecuencia. Los síntomas de alergia al sol pueden
aparecer unos minutos, horas o días después de la exposición al
sol. Pueden variar de leves a graves, dependiendo de la cantidad de
superficie de piel expuesta, de la cantidad de tiempo al sol, de la
intensidad de la luz, o del tipo de alergia solar. La erupción
generalmente ocurre solo en áreas que estuvieron expuestas a la luz
solar. Pero a veces, puede aparecer en otras partes de la piel. Una
erupción por alergia al sol puede implicar bultos, pápulas,
nódulos, ampollas o urticaria, picazón, rezumando, enrojecimiento,
descamación o formación de costras, sensación de escozor o ardor,
o hinchazón. En raras ocasiones, la alergia al sol puede causar
síntomas sistémicos, como dolor de cabeza, mareos o desmayos,
náuseas y vómitos, sibilancias o dificultad para respirar, y en el
caso de la urticaria solar, anafilaxia. La anafilaxia hace que el
sistema inmunitario libere una avalancha de sustancias químicas que
pueden causar un estado de shock: la presión arterial cae
repentinamente y las vías respiratorias se estrechan, bloqueando la
respiración, apareciendo signos y síntomas que incluyen pulso
rápido y débil, una erupción cutánea, y náuseas y vómitos (</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Mi
sistema inmune</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2021). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
urticaria solar es un tipo raro de urticaria física mediada por
inmunoglobulina E (IgE). Normalmente se presenta con parches
eritematosos, pruriginosos y de corta duración y ronchas que se
forman aproximadamente de cinco a diez minutos después de la
exposición a la luz solar. La urticaria solar también puede estar
asociada con manifestaciones sistémicas, como mareos, dolores de
cabeza, náuseas, síncope, sibilancias y, en raras ocasiones, shock
anafiláctico. La urticaria solar afecta principalmente a mujeres y
en la mayoría de los pacientes se presenta entre los 20 y los 40
años de edad. Se requiere que haya una exposición a la luz directa.
Sin embargo, en algunos pacientes, los síntomas pueden ocurrir
incluso cuando se exponen a la luz mientras se usa ropa. La patogenia
de la urticaria solar aún no se ha establecido definitivamente. Las
longitudes de onda específicas de la luz, o espectro de acción, que
provocan una reacción de urticaria varía en cada paciente. Sin
embargo, en la mayoría de los casos de urticaria las reacciones
ocurren después de la exposición a la radiación ultravioleta que
oscila entre 280 y 500 nanómetros. Los investigadores han propuesto
que el espectro de acción desencadenante de la urticaria induce a un
cromóforo cutáneo a absorber la luz. El foto-producto que se crea
actúa entonces como un foto-alérgeno. Posteriormente, los
anticuerpos IgE específicos dirigidos contra el foto-alérgeno se
unen a los mastocitos, lo que resulta en la liberación de histamina
(Diehl et al., 2021). Los síntomas comienzan con un prurito
pronunciado en la zona de la piel expuesta al sol, seguido de eritema
y formación de ronchas de grado variable. En los casos más severos
aparecen dolor de cabeza y vértigos. También se han descrito
náuseas, broncoespasmo, hipertensión arterial y taquicardia,
incluso hasta shock anafiláctico. La duración y la intensidad de la
radiación requerida para provocar una reacción en la piel difieren
entre los individuos (Gaebelein-Wissing, N., Ellenbogen, E. y
Lehmann, P., 2020). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
incidente de AVB podría haber ocurrido, entonces, como consecuencia
de una crisis anafiláctica producida por una urticaria solar, y
habría sido experimentada de manera onírica.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Toda
la experiencia de AVB tiene ribetes oníricos. Y especulando nos
podemos preguntar. ¿Y si AVB, de niño, sufrió una fuerte
urticaria, y lo llevaron a un hospital, donde lo desnudaron y le
hicieron un tratamiento tópico con algún líquido corticoide?
Porque la experiencia de abducción de AVB, además de ser onírica,
parece reproducir un escenario de intervención hospitalaria como el
descrito. Quizás un episodio similar le produjo el recuerdo de
aquella supuesta intervención médica. Recordemos aquí los
artículos </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
psiquiatra David Forrest (2008, 2023) </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">sobre
las abducciones alienígenas como recuerdos vívidos de
procedimientos médicos. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
todo caso, y para finalizar, las dos hipótesis, intervención
extraterrestre y urticaria solar, están planteadas. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Bowen,
C. (ed.) (1966), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Humanoids</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucer Review Special Issue</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
No. 1. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Humanoids</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Londres, UK: Neville Spearman (1969). </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
humanoides</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Barcelona, España: Editorial Pomaire (1967). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Diehl,
K. L., Erickson, C., Calame, A., </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>et
al</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
(2021) “A Woman with Solar Urticaria and Heat Urticaria: A Unique
Presentation of an Individual With Multiple Physical Urticarias</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>”</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cureus</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
13(8): e16950. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Forrest,
D. (2008) “Alien Abduction: A Medical Hypothesis”. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry,</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
36(3), 431-442.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forrest,
D. (2023), "Alien Abductions: Takeaways", en </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</span></u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">V.J.
Ballester-Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (eds.). Turín: UPIAR, 275-282, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Gaebelein-Wissing,
N., Ellenbogen, E. y Lehmann, P. (2020), “Solar urticaria: Clinic,
diagnostic, course and therapy management in 27 patients</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>”</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
JDDG: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
18: 1261-1268.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
sistema inmune (2021). “Alergia al Sol: Reconoce los síntomas y
descubre los mejores remedios para prevenirla y tratarla”,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5yewy6kv">https://tinyurl.com/5yewy6kv</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Suenaga,
C. (2023), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Encuentros
cercanos de todo tipo. El caso Villas Boas y otras abducciones
íntimas.</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/03/encuentros-cercanos-de-todo-tipo-el.html" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/03/encuentros-cercanos-de-todo-tipo-el.html</a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ponga
un Starlink en su vida</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
23 de junio pasado mi esposa y yo nos trasladamos al chalé de La
Eliana (Valencia) a iniciar nuestras vacaciones de verano. Esa noche,
la de San Juan, mis dos hijas, mis yernos y sus hijos vinieron a casa
a festejar la efeméride. Cena en la terraza, hoguera con piñas (que
saltamos, naturalmente), etc. Una gozada. Alrededor de las once de la
noche estaba durmiendo a mi nieto Lucas (mientras le contaba
Caperucita Roja) y cuando salí de su habitación oí al resto de
adultos y niños contar sorprendidos que "habían visto un
ovni". ¡Dios, y desde mi propia casa, pensé! ¿Tendré que
revertir mis convicciones? En cuanto me explicaron lo que habían
visto, les dije al instante que el tren de 40-50 luces que habían
visto recorrer el espacio lentamente no eran marcianos sino los
satélites </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de SpaceX. En efecto, de inmediato comprobé que la empresa de Elon
Musk había lanzado desde Cabo Cañaveral, en Florida, un cohete de
la serie </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Falcon</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
9 que puso en órbita a nada menos que 56 satélites. El lanzamiento
fue a las 15:35 GMT (17:35 hora de España).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Comenté
la anécdota en plan de chanza en la lista Anomalist e inmediatamente
Edo Russo anunció que se había visto desde Cerdeña (Italia) a las
22:52 horas en dirección NW-SE. Desde la playa de Oliva (Valencia),
nuestro compañero Javier Resines los observó y fotografió a las
22:48 horas moviéndose hacia el mar (dirección este). Usó su
</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>smartphone</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
para tomar algunas imágenes, un par de las cuales acompañan esta
notita. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicMrmTSGFdZJtCgp-K4oEDv8Jvx86RzxAOGg0sXNe10a_VAHiwm_21W4y1F_5PDn-tqZppjSMxj4DlNoXeedZwAA-A9KYnntVfk3N3L6yj8MQmzUy0g_mkoFaTk_YF_ityCj57YFEnqwWy6sstOC1Gkevd0uHpbKlslB_wNj-Gx5bnp1RskssR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1417" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicMrmTSGFdZJtCgp-K4oEDv8Jvx86RzxAOGg0sXNe10a_VAHiwm_21W4y1F_5PDn-tqZppjSMxj4DlNoXeedZwAA-A9KYnntVfk3N3L6yj8MQmzUy0g_mkoFaTk_YF_ityCj57YFEnqwWy6sstOC1Gkevd0uHpbKlslB_wNj-Gx5bnp1RskssR" width="320" /></a></div><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Informes
de aterrizajes ovni en España y Portugal</u><p></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Verano
es tiempo propicio para algunas tareas administrativas como, por
ejemplo, archivar. Guardando papeles en mis archivos de casos de
encuentros cercanos y actualizando, por ello, mis catálogos de
aterrizaje, LANIB, NELIB y NEWCAT, encuentro las siguientes cifras
que quiero compartir con el lector:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">1950-1985,
833 informes (23,1 casos por año).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">1986-2000,
220 informes (14,7 casos por año).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2001-2020,
54 informes (2,7 casos por año).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
siguiente histograma presenta las cifras gráficamente. El descenso
es significativo. ¿A qué podemos atribuirlo? ¿La gente se equivoca
menos que en el pasado, o informa menos lo que ve, o se publica menos
lo que se informa? Dado que no hay un fenómeno único tras de todo
ello, no podemos afirmar que los ovnis nos visitan en mucha menor
proporción, sino que el número de sucesos conocidos es
sensiblemente menor. ¿Y que prima más, entonces? El factor
información (hay mayor cultura científica popular, la gente tiene
más sentido crítico o los ovnis ya no están de moda e informar no
está incentivado) o el factor publicación (menos libros, revistas y
sitios dedicados a esta materia)? Como hablamos de supuestas
“experiencias” dramáticas (un platillo volante toma tierra y
deja ver a sus tripulantes), en las que el componente fiabilidad del
testigo es crítico, personalmente lo atribuyo a que cierto público
no se ve motivado a crear o recrear estas observaciones. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_eNwkpXDTbgtyZaGH-bZfleJdEzGTNTLqpulb2xxztK65sLVFQv2Fv7V7ieD1YUxhgVI9lCHE0XFltOAbrj0f6XYYWJnFDb4v6GFzRon34Z05oJHxQ3hymoQKAf7wbkZiRwDIeyFfBwyMQIXPOI9QvXNbGdbVv59l0k1Peqi6wUwQm3dR8Eao" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1760" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_eNwkpXDTbgtyZaGH-bZfleJdEzGTNTLqpulb2xxztK65sLVFQv2Fv7V7ieD1YUxhgVI9lCHE0XFltOAbrj0f6XYYWJnFDb4v6GFzRon34Z05oJHxQ3hymoQKAf7wbkZiRwDIeyFfBwyMQIXPOI9QvXNbGdbVv59l0k1Peqi6wUwQm3dR8Eao" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>El
falso UAP del 26/6/2023 </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Varias
fuentes nos informaban recientemente de un “misterioso fenómeno”
aéreo. Manuel Carballal nos remitía a unas fotos espectaculares
tomadas en los pirineos franceses el 26 de junio de 2023: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lindependant.fr/2023/06/26/detranges-nuages-dans-le-sud-de-la-france-pourquoi-le-phenomene-est-lie-a-un-tir-de-missile-11303321.php"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.lindependant.fr/2023/06/26/detranges-nuages-dans-le-sud-de-la-france-pourquoi-le-phenomene-est-lie-a-un-tir-de-missile-11303321.php</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoW0-PNA75GiPg3n9E_CcXl3fXB0Lm91DVefjZDuxe0mLkDRV0quAnmOUXOQKEAdRVvH4i267e7cz6Rb2V7yGXX_OfZ5iFQmlQ_DRR8qZRlxn4rWUpdAVit6789ctrJNO7Jy7uTe3XBdME3Uw_hi09seAlzPtSKm0cC593aTMmUBVEvo9qUwMh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="390" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoW0-PNA75GiPg3n9E_CcXl3fXB0Lm91DVefjZDuxe0mLkDRV0quAnmOUXOQKEAdRVvH4i267e7cz6Rb2V7yGXX_OfZ5iFQmlQ_DRR8qZRlxn4rWUpdAVit6789ctrJNO7Jy7uTe3XBdME3Uw_hi09seAlzPtSKm0cC593aTMmUBVEvo9qUwMh" width="180" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
Wim van Utrecht revelaba lo que había pasado realmente: </span><a href="https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/v-max-hypersonic-trail-ufo-reports" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/v-max-hypersonic-trail-ufo-reports</span></span></span></a><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Claude
Maugé citaba a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Le
Monde</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del 29 de junio sobre el lanzamiento alrededor de las 22 horas del
día 26 del V-MAX, el primer planeador hipersónico de tecnología
francesa lanzado por un cohete desde el centro de ensayos que tiene
la DGA (Dirección General de Armamento) en Biscarosse, Landas, a
unos 100 km al sur de Burdeos, hacia el Atlántico. Previamente se
había difundido un anuncio de advertencia para el tráfico aéreo y
marítimo cubriendo un corredor de 2000 km. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">También,
la extraordinaria </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>web</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
“Marcianitos Verdes”, de Luis Ruiz Noguez, se ocupaba del tema en
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/06/no-era-un-ovni-un-misil-francs-dej-la-extraa-estela-sobre-los-pirineos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/06/no-era-un-ovni-un-misil-francs-dej-la-extraa-estela-sobre-los-pirineos/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
último, Thierry Rocher compartía con nosotros un recorte del diario
francés </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sud
Ouest</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
que en su edición del 28 de junio explicaba con detalle el
lanzamiento del ingenio espacial, con una fotografía del mismo en su
ascenso celeste. Gracias a los cinco colegas por sus informaciones.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzYLr7hrWXRhXic5qTBVKq5xC8Sw3FnI3FJVFQYun9F56fvlLWUY68mmPdKcfu74Vi8AmUAL866wsQaKIfPGilI1aPVp8zPuM83YpXaXlLNhH7mlB0_f9q1UXWUHaO4z76M-0qw1x-JqIBHM9-jiA9Q4pTjsJyeaHKpfebNsYxL000Esj5JkYp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3945" data-original-width="2110" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzYLr7hrWXRhXic5qTBVKq5xC8Sw3FnI3FJVFQYun9F56fvlLWUY68mmPdKcfu74Vi8AmUAL866wsQaKIfPGilI1aPVp8zPuM83YpXaXlLNhH7mlB0_f9q1UXWUHaO4z76M-0qw1x-JqIBHM9-jiA9Q4pTjsJyeaHKpfebNsYxL000Esj5JkYp" width="128" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
de Julio Plaza </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo (Madrid, 1976) está
resultando, además de un agudo analista, como científico
profesional que es, un prolífico autor de trabajos de investigación.
Concretamente, este año ha publicado tres trabajos propios de
importancia, que lo consolidan como uno de los estudiosos más
brillantes de la actualidad ufológica en nuestro país. Quiero
hacerme eco de ellos para conocimiento y aprovechamiento general: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Comments
to Physical constraints on UAPs”. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Comentarios
al borrador de un artículo de Avi Loeb (Proyecto Galileo) y Sean
Kirkpatrick (Director de AARO), donde discuten los límites físicos
a las interpretaciones de UAPs. Lo cierto es que el trabajo comentado
está plagado de especulaciones secundarias sin relación con el que
pretende ser el tema principal del artículo. </span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/98754194/Comments_to_Physical_constraints_on_UAPs" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/98754194/Comments_to_Physical_constraints_on_UAPs</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Expediente
Manises: El terreno alrededor de Escombreras”. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La
hipótesis que explicaría el caso Manises establece que fueron las
chimeneas de la refinería de Escombreras lo que vieron los pilotos.
Sin embargo, la refinería se halla en un valle rodeada de montes,
por lo que éstos podrían haber ocultado las llamas de las
chimeneas. Este trabajo demuestra que algunas de las chimeneas sí
eran visibles, e incluso que una de ellas reproduce el avistamiento
tal y como se produjo. Sin embargo, hace falta encontrar un segundo
estímulo luminoso para completar la hipótesis. </span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103909911/Expediente_Manises_El_terreno_alrededor_de_Escombreras" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/103909911/Expediente_Manises_El_terreno_alrededor_de_Escombreras</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Expediente
Manises: La Sexta Flota y la Armada Española”. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Resumen:
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Se
han consultado los cuadernos de bitácora de varios buques de la
Sexta Flota y de la Armada Española. Estos buques se encontraban en
el Mediterráneo los días anteriores al incidente Manises realizando
el ejercicio CRISEX79. Se han estudiado los días previos, qué
hacían el mismo día 11 de noviembre, y los días posteriores con
objeto de poner contexto a la actividad marítima de aquellos días.
Tras los ejercicios CRISEX79, la Sexta Flota estuvo navegando durante
los días 10 y 11 hasta recalar en varios puertos del Mediterráneo,
entre ellos Palma, Valencia y Alicante. Posteriormente se reagrupó
en puertos italianos. La Armada en cambio se concentró en el entorno
de Cartagena para realizar los ejercicios “post-crisex” entre los
días 13 y 15 de noviembre. Entre las entradas de las bitácoras se
ha encontrado qué tipo de incidentes, usuales y no tan usuales,
quedan recogidos, aunque no se ha encontrado ninguna el día 11 que
se pueda relacionar con el incidente Manises. Por último, es de
interés saber qué otros buques estaban en el Mediterráneo para
continuar las pesquisas. </i></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/105748831/Expediente_Manises_La_Sexta_Flota_y_la_Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Expediente_Manises_La_Sexta_Flota_y_la_Armada_Española</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Julio
actualiza “de Pascuas a Ramos”, como él mismo dice, su blog
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
donde divulga a nivel más fácilmente comprensible sus trabajos más
técnicos. Me complace también haber sido coautor con él de cinco
ensayos en los que su buen hacer y rigor han sido fundamentales:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
2018 escribimos, “La experiencia espacial del 22 de abril de 1966”, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Expediente
militar 660402, Carreira (A Coruña)”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
y “El OVNI de La Graña” (con la colaboración de Mercedes
Pullman), </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
año 2023 publicamos en inglés </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“The
2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, A Review”,</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y seguidamente la traducción al español en “Comentarios al
Informe anual de 2022 sobre Fenómenos Aéreos No Identificados”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2023/01/comentarios-al-informe-anual-de-2022.html">http://gluonconleche/comentarios-al-informe-anual-de-2022.html</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
finalmente (aunque seguramente no será el último) “The UFO
Whistleblower Hearing,” (con la colaboración de Chris Aubeck),</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/105349567/The_UFO_Whistleblower_Hearing</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
traducción al español de este trabajo se puede leer en el cuerpo
del presente blog: “La audiencia OVNI 2023 del Congreso de los
EE.UU.”</span></span></span></p>
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Plaza del Olmo, Islandia, agosto de 2023.</span></span></span></p></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Bueno es saber quién es quién. En julio pasado, Tanner F. Boyle
escribió en su blog Getting Spooked acerca del presidiario, pedófilo
y ufólogo ya fallecido Wendelle Stevens: “Reader Requests #2:
Return to Wendelle C. Stevens”:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/reader-requests-2-return-to-wendelle"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/reader-requests-2-return-to-wendelle</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
“Cuando una historia claramente falsa como esta aparece en los
titulares nacionales, generalmente sin una pizca de escepticismo o
investigación, muestra el lamentable estado de la ufología y del
llamado "periodismo" actual: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2023/06/8-foot-tall-aliens-land-in-las-vegas.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2023/06/8-foot-tall-aliens-land-in-las-vegas.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
El investigador y bloguero Charlie Wiser ha publicado sus propios
estudios de dos clásicas fotografías de ovnis: “All Aboard with
Rex Heflin” y “Bright lights of Salem, 1952” en
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/all-aboard-with-rex-heflin"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/all-aboard-with-rex-heflin</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span></span><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/bright-lights-of-salem-1952"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/bright-lights-of-salem-1952</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
El Proyecto Stratocat abunda sobre el globo chino:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon</span></span></span></a> y <a href="https://factorelblog.com/2023/06/25/la-fiebre-del-globo-de-cuando-el-pentagono-mando-a-derribar-falsos-plativolos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2023/06/25/la-fiebre-del-globo-de-cuando-el-pentagono-mando-a-derribar-falsos-plativolos/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
El químico Dr. Erol Faruk revive su trabajo clásico “The Delphos
CE2 Case – A New Appraisal of the Data”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-new-appraisal-of-the-data-of-the-delphos-ce2-1971-case"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-new-appraisal-of-the-data-of-the-delphos-ce2-1971-case</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
“The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories”, por Wesley
Andrés Watters, Abraham Loeb </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>et
al</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Astronomical Instrumentation</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 12, Nº1 (2023),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2251171723400068"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2251171723400068</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
Michael Vaillant, “Methodology of Analysis of Unexplained
Phenomena”,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.u-sphere.com/index.php?title=Methodology_of_Analysis_of_Unexplained_Phenomena" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.u-sphere.com/index.php?title=Methodology_of_Analysis_of_Unexplained_Phenomena</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Sobre Nick Pope: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bde3nt49"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bde3nt49</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
“Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Conversation</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
17 de julio de 2023, por el Dr. Barry Markovsky, profesor emérito de
sociología en la Universidad de South Carolina, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-people-tend-to-believe-ufos-are-extraterrestrial-208403" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theconversation.com/why-people-tend-to-believe-ufos-are-extraterrestrial-208403</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Un magnífico artículo del investigador (pasante de Filosofía de la
Ciencia en la Universidad de Guadalajara) Daniel Galarza:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://elescepticodejalisco.blogspot.com/2023/08/ovnis-del-pentagono-mucho-mame-y-pocas.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://elescepticodejalisco.blogspot.com/2023/08/ovnis-del-pentagono-mucho-mame-y-pocas.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Los
OVNIS en la Prensa Española” es un dossier de 307 páginas editado
por Moisés Garrido y Claudia Moctezuma, una selección de reportajes
y noticias de prensa sobre platillos volantes y ovnis publicados en
periódicos españoles entre 1946 y 1999. Se puede descargar del
siguiente enlace: </span></span></span><a href="https://mega.nz/file/qVsUHRzD#Cs-3Obs_f5M6BzVcBxpvBc7f6jUwXlzHDxevl8e0pAc" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://mega.nz/file/qVsUHRzD#Cs-3Obs_f5M6BzVcBxpvBc7f6jUwXlzHDxevl8e0pAc</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
L</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">os
libros de Roberto E. Banchs están disponibles a golpe de clic:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/739z31ajj71f5gf/AABNKL-O_MRcM920Etqh2o9_a?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/739z31ajj71f5gf/AABNKL-O_MRcM920Etqh2o9_a?dl=0</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Se
trata de sus obras: “</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
evidencias del fenómeno ovni” (1978), “Los ovnis y sus
ocupantes” (1980), “Ovnis. Peregrinos del silencio” (1993),
“Fenómenos aéreos inusuales. Un enfoque biopsicosocial” (1994)
y “Guía biográfica de la ufología argentina” (2000). Desde mi
punto de vista, son obras que merecen ser leídas -y reflexionadas-
por los estudiosos e interesados en la problemática de los ovnis en
Latinoamérica.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
Luis R. González ha traducido y Alejandro Agostinelli ha publicado
un revelador artículo del investigador y escritor británico Mark
Pilkington: “Steven Greer y CIA: cuando los alienígenas venían
marchando al Pentágono”,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2023/07/14/steven-greer-y-cia-cuando-los-alienigenas-venian-marchando-al-pentagono/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2023/07/14/steven-greer-y-cia-cuando-los-alienigenas-venian-marchando-al-pentagono/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Los
alumnos del 2º Taller de Identificación Aeroespacial de la
Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid) han analizado el caso de
Gallegos de Argañán. En el enlace el informe: </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F12o7HXHMDh1MiAmzoU_bwoK81h2BP93WD%2Fview%3Fusp%3Dshare_link&data=05%7C01%7Chjanosch%40ucjc.edu%7C1f0f0300482f40e6921008db4ba3bdaa%7Cf962b9f9e2d949eeb98c14b402f6a5df%7C0%7C0%7C638186938860023036%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5bA5ZEFqrX0w8hrtOeaNh%2FfNFhjM21Q5qjaXOio8EpI%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/12o7HXHMDh1MiAmzoU_bwoK81h2BP93WD/view?usp=share_link</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>El OVNI de
Gáldar </u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Escribe
Diego Zúñiga de la editorial Coliseo Sentosa: “nos enorgullecemos
de un nuevo lanzamiento. Se trata de </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
ovni de Gáldar</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
del Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez. Es una investigación monográfica
sobre el famoso avistamiento del 26 de junio de 1976 que en 346
páginas llenas de tablas, fotografías, recortes de prensa e
informes militares, nos describe con precisión un caso icónico de
la ufología canaria y española”. Más datos del libro en el
siguiente enlace: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0C87BZNCT"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0C87BZNCT</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1_se5bsLjxRjkFE7CgCtc50s-QfXzpPx-xbHt-NfPMthka32jvSk1eVTMGtPW2xdWFCzImZVxh9eseakfAj8ob4tuoOZf29bdnmKQybiiNhh0pQ4n2c6WiRV7TsnsDcPaAPMrUukiBoQJv0eT9pDarrcjT6lAsctPCBWgB6B8xvHrz3ewtlaT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="1267" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1_se5bsLjxRjkFE7CgCtc50s-QfXzpPx-xbHt-NfPMthka32jvSk1eVTMGtPW2xdWFCzImZVxh9eseakfAj8ob4tuoOZf29bdnmKQybiiNhh0pQ4n2c6WiRV7TsnsDcPaAPMrUukiBoQJv0eT9pDarrcjT6lAsctPCBWgB6B8xvHrz3ewtlaT" width="157" /></a></div><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">On
the Wake of the Congressional UAP Hearing”, sobre las últimas
novedades relativas a y derivadas de la reciente audiencia ovni en el
congreso de los Estados Unidos. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*
“Dr. Kirkpatrick Talks Again”, el 21 de julio pasado el Dr.
Kirkpatrick, director del AARO, concedió una entrevista a ABC News
Prime. He volcado las preguntas que le plantearon y sus respuestas,
con algunos apuntes por mi parte. </span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuPKu7P7cWk-4vkeAoIrbyxpkgq2O-SLdryIXZ_dBHe8gG30OawugL3u-8_qhI9t8mgdJNRCSM0EVzO0hyttIKxJrqfsP5rIJyLgAxGG3-J42QrUDPQh0mJ8cVRu5HkVHRjGPKrdsbO5yDIRaDWqYHNUDY3aIprHid3SGSf6cGb2hUKGYHAG8G" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="1032" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuPKu7P7cWk-4vkeAoIrbyxpkgq2O-SLdryIXZ_dBHe8gG30OawugL3u-8_qhI9t8mgdJNRCSM0EVzO0hyttIKxJrqfsP5rIJyLgAxGG3-J42QrUDPQh0mJ8cVRu5HkVHRjGPKrdsbO5yDIRaDWqYHNUDY3aIprHid3SGSf6cGb2hUKGYHAG8G" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Importante,
con relación a la oficina UAP del gobierno, es la implementación de
su página web el 30 de agosto: </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.aaro.mil/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.aaro.mil/</span></span></span></a></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Solo
tengo, de momento, un rápido comentario. Los tres “videos de la
Marina” (Tic-Tac, Gimbal and Gofast) aparecen como ejemplos de
encuentros con “fenómenos anómalos no explicados (UAP)”, usando
el término genérico, mientras que a otros dos videos de la web se
les define explícitamente como “objeto desconocido” o como
“objeto que permanece no identificado”. Para la interpretación
de cada cual. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoFRXzRy1BaQY7VFnYs4hqPl5s0ag1ri98eslsm1sRUiNBEQPWIFJereVBLmM-sEJxYL-C0mTW1S_8pDxErdL4fuDnV0y2O1PfkAC39MKwUG5pFFjmBE2XXnVX3SlBHwWzc7TVY9TF22TcIMyz7AefC219mS9FEcabAnFaib6QzQwd4o4DyUCI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1895" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoFRXzRy1BaQY7VFnYs4hqPl5s0ag1ri98eslsm1sRUiNBEQPWIFJereVBLmM-sEJxYL-C0mTW1S_8pDxErdL4fuDnV0y2O1PfkAC39MKwUG5pFFjmBE2XXnVX3SlBHwWzc7TVY9TF22TcIMyz7AefC219mS9FEcabAnFaib6QzQwd4o4DyUCI" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“More UAP-Related Legal Changes Boosted by the U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)”: nuevos contenidos en la
legislación estadounidense de Defensa para 2024 sobre el tema ovnis,
impulsados por el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado de los EE.UU.</span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*
“The Projects </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">«Global
Archive» and «Heritage» for the Saving of UAP-Archives”,
artículo firmado por </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">I.M.
Kalytyuk, M.B. Gershtein y S.O. Petrov sobre preservación de
archivos en Ucrania y Rusia. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWpfiDge1i2kxdm70TY1JnlkohYUYKHaMhu80T_ITYSKYX63VWnA3helZZj2XkIhQuzaP32q3I3HfLwjPSQI6sMc1j7cNZxMz6fPYSTdh-cGU6m8uJYaQYydFdMEwHhroaxjaKx8sJrjcjTkn_oMPtXWrya07VyEMv2Q1fpUEDqaBj66cbOUgQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1446" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWpfiDge1i2kxdm70TY1JnlkohYUYKHaMhu80T_ITYSKYX63VWnA3helZZj2XkIhQuzaP32q3I3HfLwjPSQI6sMc1j7cNZxMz6fPYSTdh-cGU6m8uJYaQYydFdMEwHhroaxjaKx8sJrjcjTkn_oMPtXWrya07VyEMv2Q1fpUEDqaBj66cbOUgQ" width="317" /></a></div><b style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">AGENDA
PERSONAL</b><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Moisés Garrido y Claudia Moctezuma están difundiendo añejas
entrevistas televisivas de varios investigadores veteranos. Acaban de
subir a su canal de YouTube una entrevista mía en la emisora de TV
valenciana Canal 9, en el programa “Tal como show” emitido en
1989. Una curiosidad: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgTmWFBLv0&t=78s" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgTmWFBLv0&t=78s</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqt9fSvNywSvfsWt1tsnX4C6caE5zLJcTvx6a7KotU2RHCd1V7DLMvVF-MkgMYlgYLKrFoDwAaA3_xJRPG5xH5lOstct9t15_T4qew5SSXOUxjeruwpN1F6ckqXeWqwwrcTnQwUYtXR27E_xy84RSmIYp0qD9GfpPVwWuuocRSkSmqnIKtoopm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="695" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqt9fSvNywSvfsWt1tsnX4C6caE5zLJcTvx6a7KotU2RHCd1V7DLMvVF-MkgMYlgYLKrFoDwAaA3_xJRPG5xH5lOstct9t15_T4qew5SSXOUxjeruwpN1F6ckqXeWqwwrcTnQwUYtXR27E_xy84RSmIYp0qD9GfpPVwWuuocRSkSmqnIKtoopm" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, entrevistado en Canal 9, año 1989.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Algunas fotos más de mis nietos.</span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNh2f8RvaGbfdnezD9U9l3zMTTLGw0nvaWmUwRmeYSno8x5OGdB1q7gg-91die4G2hEP_1rRYj8e2pX6xbQ3VeeOP8ZlHT5lZUTe62SNX5EbFRnJ7FEhZaXKVsEOVd8CnXWXcoZnbs20ctFOeDKDoB5GZfYjUtqC45_lbgE7HTJpUrCPGy9z53" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNh2f8RvaGbfdnezD9U9l3zMTTLGw0nvaWmUwRmeYSno8x5OGdB1q7gg-91die4G2hEP_1rRYj8e2pX6xbQ3VeeOP8ZlHT5lZUTe62SNX5EbFRnJ7FEhZaXKVsEOVd8CnXWXcoZnbs20ctFOeDKDoB5GZfYjUtqC45_lbgE7HTJpUrCPGy9z53" width="319" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lucas
y Fernando, con su tableta</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_o1vT7s6BOxWvJQjNQ7gohTrDTB8iQZlqYkkd_DoFSk8Gv72CiJSC4bBMY6FQTei1AQBWHGob-q0dwdAaNDKCwuVsj9fjI0TJ6vEvB1xdb6wFUbWKr6ZWAE_XVAmdAxdFt-5rmC6tzSGbqoP7cyUbFFZP1aXCwbMcSDgQpUNnjGZZ8M5vPS8_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_o1vT7s6BOxWvJQjNQ7gohTrDTB8iQZlqYkkd_DoFSk8Gv72CiJSC4bBMY6FQTei1AQBWHGob-q0dwdAaNDKCwuVsj9fjI0TJ6vEvB1xdb6wFUbWKr6ZWAE_XVAmdAxdFt-5rmC6tzSGbqoP7cyUbFFZP1aXCwbMcSDgQpUNnjGZZ8M5vPS8_" width="181" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Simpático
Matías.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Ignacio Cabria (España), Dr. Heriberto
Janosch (Madrid), Luis Eduardo Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Mick
West (EE.UU.), Edoardo Russo (CISU, Italia), Javier Resines (España),
Andrés Duarte (Chile), Manuel Carballal (EOC, España), Wim van
Utrecht (Caelestia, Bélgica), Claude Maugé (Francia), Juan Carlos
Victorio Uranga (España), Roberto E. Banchs (Argentina), Jim Oberg
(Estados Unidos), Thierry Rocher (Francia), Alejandro Agostinelli
(Argentina), Philip Mantle (Inglaterra), Chris Aubeck (España),
Milton Hourcade (GEAFI, EE.UU.), Drew Williamson (EE.UU.), Moisés
Garrido (España), </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Danny
Ammon (Alemania) y Diego Bonino (Argentina).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh97r7p9tZe1Z-hd60Cx63hdj93gHd-0kRciaugdm3TPn6HMq2j0GG7FEK-tpSGMQO1VFomZEKW34f0_vfo4ZUwFjHpnYcfQT9lcw6GSLmzZ6RHMlaLX19qrLc5qLXU3vA9ushWvGOiBD3l2zpptEO-RLpNwgdjCbRB98EJlSEhvFFXZhzIfy6m" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="1417" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh97r7p9tZe1Z-hd60Cx63hdj93gHd-0kRciaugdm3TPn6HMq2j0GG7FEK-tpSGMQO1VFomZEKW34f0_vfo4ZUwFjHpnYcfQT9lcw6GSLmzZ6RHMlaLX19qrLc5qLXU3vA9ushWvGOiBD3l2zpptEO-RLpNwgdjCbRB98EJlSEhvFFXZhzIfy6m=w640-h108" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
CUFOS, 1976</span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Expedientes
insólitos,</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2wpsh2nb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2wpsh2nb</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2c2pun7y"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2c2pun7y</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2ff5d5nn"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2ff5d5nn</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">TODOCOLECCIÓN:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4x7y9vbr"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4x7y9vbr</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibd0CJM6nsJfU1Fb6da1CVuty9n1nGuEcc_UWSqcyX-9N_eKi-Xy3hBYXze71Prfdta8htSkC4rrKKhZYoFz3v3DApHQ-DWiJYBMwCSdOh0O33ASKh-uJmljuDEM9fBuhsb0VAM3if5nj7ItA-TtXr67dIhq7Dh8vISBBuyrkCvjbHM6PH6TkY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="1417" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibd0CJM6nsJfU1Fb6da1CVuty9n1nGuEcc_UWSqcyX-9N_eKi-Xy3hBYXze71Prfdta8htSkC4rrKKhZYoFz3v3DApHQ-DWiJYBMwCSdOh0O33ASKh-uJmljuDEM9fBuhsb0VAM3if5nj7ItA-TtXr67dIhq7Dh8vISBBuyrkCvjbHM6PH6TkY=w640-h130" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>UFOs
and Government </b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>(2003-2007)</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(editor) (con R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Mi
correspondencia con Antonio Ribera</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/104511891/Mi_correspondencia_con_Antonio_Ribera</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-15052609513030160142023-06-15T00:00:00.073+02:002023-06-16T18:37:54.871+02:002023/JUNE/15 (EN)<p></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.16cm;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">English
language editing: Martin Shough.</span></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Through
the courtesy of Isaac Koi, I have received 217 photographic case
folders from the archives of Dr. Michael Swords (Kalamazoo,
Michigan). The information contains references to many sources and,
although often redundant, I feel it will contribute not less than 50
new entries to the FOTOCAT records, when fully processed.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
FOTOCAT’s latest count shows 13,080 cases. May I remind researchers
that I will gladly make available segments from the catalog, needed
for research purposes, in the form of spreadsheet lists for a given
year or period, for a particular country, province, region,
department, or State, for precise photographer’s name, type of
explanation, etc. Just describe your project and ask!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
New Book: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>THE
RELIABILITY OF UFO WITNESS TESTIMONY</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Under
this title, on May 17, 2023 a new book has been released, edited by
Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden. This is the
book’s announcement, published </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>urbi
et orbe</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
76 years, casual observers around the world have reported sightings
of aerial phenomena unexplainable to them. More elaborate personal
experiences have been reported by others whose testimony speak of
close interactions with fantastic flying machines that land, from
which strange beings descend, and even kidnap the onlookers. In the
absence of compelling physical evidence of the reality of these
narrations, how should science study immaterial observations and test
these claims? The very standard of reputable witness reliability is
at stake here. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion
and current views on problems and challenges posed by the reliability
of UFO testimonies. This is a cross-disciplinary compendium of papers
by 60 authors from 14 different countries. They are specialists in
social, physical, and biological sciences, including psychology
(predominantly) as well as psychiatry, sociology, anthropology,
history, philosophy, folklore, religion, journalism, engineering,
computing, medicine, education, analysts with experience in the
critical study of UFO perceivers, and other professionals. This
volume shares thematically convergent ideas about the plausibility of
alternate explanations for an alleged close-range UFO phenomenon.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
57 chapters in this book are divided into seven section headings:
Case Studies, Psychological Perspectives, On Witness Testimony,
Empirical Research, Anthropological Approach, Metrics and Scaling,
and Epistemological Issues. There, the subject matter is analyzed
from statistical work to clinical assessment, psychometrics,
comparative and evaluation inquiry, and other topic perspectives. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Some
extracts from the Foreword, written by Dr. Leonard S. Newman,
Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
contributors to this book include some very smart people. There are
all sorts of issues to which they could be devoting their
intellectual energy, and all sorts of scholarly and research
contributions they could make. They don’t have to write thoughtful
and rigorous chapters for a book called </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
but this is what they have done. And so, the work continues, as
attested to by the papers in this volume. I’m not sure if there
exists any collection of papers on any topic that can claim to
comprehensively summarize everything that is currently known about
it. But this one comes pretty close.</i></span></span></span></p>
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711-page book has been released online in the Academia.edu portal,
from where it can be downloaded for free:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Simultaneously,
UPIAR Publishing House (Turin, Italy) has published two softcover, A4
format print editions, one in black & white, another in full
color (ISBN: 9791281441002). The hard book can be purchased through
this link: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Four
outstanding academics have provided praise notes to this volume. This
is what they said.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Elizabeth
Loftus, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the
University of California, Irvine, USA:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> When
ordinary citizens claim to have extraterrestrial encounters, such as
seeing UFOs or meeting with alien beings, what should we think? Did
the alien abduction really happen or was it a hoax? Is someone
deliberately lying? Are they false memories? Readers will be
enthralled by the fascinating case histories that are presented in
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
a volume where sixty experts examine these issues with depth and
insight. These cases teach us a great deal about how humans come to
believe they have experienced bizarre events that may have never
occurred at all</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Steven
Jay Lynn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Binghamton
University (SUNY), USA:</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> This
captivating book will appeal to anyone interested in UFOs (and who
isn’t?), the vagaries of memory, eyewitness perception and
misperception, critical analysis of puzzling phenomena, and
evaluating scientific vs. pseudoscientific claims. This volume
ranks in the elite category of essential reading for students,
scientists, and the seriously curious among us, and therefore has my
highest recommendation. Bravo!</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Henry
Otgaar, Ph.D., Professor of Legal Psychology, Maastricht University,
the Netherlands, and Leuven Catholic University, Belgium:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> Claims
of UFO sightings and experiences continue to fascinate us. This book
has collected a unique and diverse set of case studies and critical
articles on how such experiences unfold and what the authenticity of
these claims is. The collection of these different articles is truly
groundbreaking and is the first-ever complete assemblage concerning
the validity of UFO testimony.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Benjamin
E. Zeller, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Religion, Lake Forest
College, Illinois, USA:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> In
referring to extraterrestrial contact, Carl Sagan said that
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This fine book
seeks to contextualize what such evidence entails. Its contributors
analyze UFO sightings and cases both famous and obscure, recent and
historical, and quite international in scope. They draw from an
impressive range of methodological, academic, and scientific
perspectives, and consider such topics as the nature of cognition,
memory, types of belief and testimony, psychology, and the
rationality of belief. Skeptics, believers, and scholars of ufology
will all find this book fascinating!</i></span></span></span></p>
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than 30 days since the release of the book in Academia, it has
received 2,100 visits and has been downloaded 700 times (plus the
UPIAR hard book sales). In the final exposure, I expect these figures
to be multiplied by ten. BTW, just in case the reader is unaware, my
books published by UPIAR generate no royalties.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
NASA Public UAP Meeting. </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">On
May 31st, a historic public meeting took place under the aegis of
NASA's UAP Panel. It was live-streamed and I had the opportunity to
attend. With the invaluable collaboration of Chris Aubeck, we have
penned an essay that highlights the contents of the meeting while
also contributing our own insights. Our work, "The Needle in the
Haystack: Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May 2023," is now
available on the Academia.edu portal via the following link: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</a></span></span></p>
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</b>“Parsimonious Thoughts – Cold Pitch,” released March 2023 by
Academia.edu:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/97980602/Parsimonious_Thoughts_Cold_Pitch"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/97980602/Parsimonious_Thoughts_Cold_Pitch</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
is an essay I have written as a result of reflecting upon recent
readings. It poses a number of self-raised questions quite basic to
ufology, like: are UFOs a scientific anomaly?, does established
science truly resist the acceptance of new phenomena? It also
includes a discussion on pro and con views about the existence of
UFOs, the UAP problem as it stands today, and a look to the future. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">One
of the sections of that paper follows:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><u>Is
there a systematic resistance to accept new phenomena?</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Jerome
Clark is one of the more profound thinkers in our field of study. He
is a pro-anomaly UFO intellectual that I respect, although we are in
opposite—well, different at least—sides of the discussion thread.
On March 4, 2008, he submitted a community email message commenting
upon an essay published in JSE.</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
It was based on a book reflecting on economic history and trends.</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">2</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
The article made a point about how scientists deal with, or fail to
deal with, the novel and the unexpected. Clark wrote:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-left: 1.24cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
think there is a way to put into a Darwinian perspective. If you are
an antelope, then when you see something that looks enough like a
lion you should run…the basic idea </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[is]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
that some cognitive process goes on, and it results in action. Like
the antelope, we have been wired through selection to pay attention
to the ordinary regime because that is what we see most of the time,
and if we learn the (probabilistic) rules of the ordinary regime, we
will be more likely to survive (and procreate). It works for
antelopes, and it works for us. When the antelopes see something they
don’t understand (like a Land Rover), they look bewildered. So do
we. Taleb </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[the
economist author of the book that stimulated the essay]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
sees this evolutionary fact in two different ways. First, there is a
tendency for us to formulate theories, and probabilities based on
theories, working from the ordinary regime that we usually
experience. He thinks this has the consequence that we have a
built-in bias because the extraordinary regime sometimes manifests
itself, but we misunderstand it because we expect the ordinary regime
to prevail; so we try to interpret it in terms of the ordinary
regime. Secondly, and somewhat perversely, when an event in the
extraordinary regime happens, we tend to over-interpret it, falsely
thinking that we should somehow incorporate it into our own version
of the ordinary regime.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Applying</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">to
ufology well-versed arguments used in conventional disciplines is
something we all have done in support of our ideas. Furthermore, it
looks </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">like
s</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">cholarship.
But it does not always work. I have a contrary vision on these
outlooks. To begin with, we develop theories according to the world
that surrounds us (data and experience): how could it be otherwise?
It does not exclude to create new things, devise new philosophies,
built new frameworks. The history of humanity is the history of
inventions and of scientific revolutions, always based </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">on</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">‒but
improving‒current knowledge. In other words, the ordinary regime
has never impeded —it is surpassed, both in social and scientific
terms. Let us address the core of the plot.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the UFO subject, the prime antagonistic concept to the antelope
scenario is that after 75 years we still do not have any sustainable
physical proof that a “</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Land
Rover</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">”
even exists. No compelling tell-tale signs are evinced at all.
Moreover, antelope A describes that he saw that </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Land
Rover</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
yes, but antelope B says he found what we would call a pick-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">up
truck in his pursuit, </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">yet
antelope C tells his comrades that he was chased by what we human
beings know as a </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cadillac</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
although antelope D swears to God-animal that he observed a 12-wheel
truck, while antelope E is convinced that he had in front of him what
for us is a Japanese-trade automobile, and that </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>ad
infinitum</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
So, when the local antelope shaman got together the herd to evaluate
the real risk of those metallic beasts in their territory, none of
them agreed to have seen the same kind of creature. Not only that,
but some antelopes also saw definitely that the solid-as-a-rock-lions
had children on their backs or around them. However, they were unable
to agree on the size, appearance and other features of the infants.
Everyone had seen the danger differently. The group’s shaman
concluded they were all crazy, or imbecile enough not to recount
events correctly.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">That
is the problem. It is not as simple as to borrow a wise disquisition
that can be useful to a foreign academic area. Ufology is another
ball game, although we desire to assimilate it to a body of formal,
established </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">cognizance,
that is, something </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">that
violates the current regime of things. This is not the case, although
it appears to be. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There
is a continuing scholastic and ontological debate on what is the
convincing evidence required to emancipate the UFO </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">phenomena
from pseudoscience and myth to actual reality. It seems logical to
demand that my opponents deliver robust evidence, that is,
incontrovertible, verifiable, multiple-testimony, physically
supported deeds that defy present-day scientific understanding. This
is surely a reasonable request when assessing the extraordinary claim
that we are under visitation by beings from far galaxies. And because
there is truly no significant proof at hand, we are discussing the
sex of angels. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Progress
of science is based on proven facts, from elementary particles to
planetary rings, to underwater thermals, to new zoological specimens,
to archeological findings, you name it. Since 1947, when someone
wrongly described that the nine flying objects that Kenneth Arnold
saw looked like “flying saucers,” people started to see this
precisely, not the bat-like shapes Arnold officially reported. From
aerial contrivances and lights in the sky to landings and abductions,
our files are inundated with reports of alleged extreme stories,
never two equal, none substantiated with, for instance, an
extraterrestrial gadget, or an incontrovertible photograph. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
notion held by some colleagues in the “believer” trench that
there is a permanent, evil resistance from the current </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">regime
to accepting and adopting fresh</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
original or unwonted exploits and concepts and insights is false.
Everyday new discoveries are reported, in physics, engineering,
astronomy, geophysics, economy, history, biology, medicine, in all
realms of science. Every day, new devices, equipment, and apps are
built based on new solutions and developments, used from space
exploration to simple domestic use. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
other words, it is patent that even “conservative” science daily
accepts new phenomena, mechanisms or laws, provided factual evidence
is collected or presented. Let us check another rare phenomenon, ball
lightning. It is also a short-lived, infrequent event like UFOs.
However, it enjoys an elevated </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">recognition
in sciences like atmospheric </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">physics,
meteorology and geophysics. To compare UFOs and BL with a metric, we
can calculate the ratio of the actual number of papers, articles and
reports admitted for publication in scientific journals </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>versus</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
the total number of raw reports.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMYl_IqTzXObxp2AX2HWIzqe_l_WXH4F1RDjfGGEgbHJ1u6e5BTa_PloO6qaz3hCb01GI-hgcgSNoXyd0cC61_iDXPsmOjIny11sMsZrH10tVcQdNwUJig5cORB9MNQ_-2wJ1jHXFtQcYxil-osbjCzMIiiHuI111vrIgANlBHXKEYk_F4Gg/s832/Comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="832" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMYl_IqTzXObxp2AX2HWIzqe_l_WXH4F1RDjfGGEgbHJ1u6e5BTa_PloO6qaz3hCb01GI-hgcgSNoXyd0cC61_iDXPsmOjIny11sMsZrH10tVcQdNwUJig5cORB9MNQ_-2wJ1jHXFtQcYxil-osbjCzMIiiHuI111vrIgANlBHXKEYk_F4Gg/s320/Comparison.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
order of magnitude differs dramatically. And this means something.
These two anomalies, equally strange, elusive and unexpected, are
treated markedly different by “official” science. Why? In
addition to the seemingly more objective, neutral and straightforward
nature of the evidence for BL phenomena, in the case of UFOs the
unproven, emotionally charged, and media-manipulated model (e.g.,
extraterrestrial vehicles exploring the Earth) makes it unacceptable
to science workers. BL reports are passive and non-speculative
instead. A scientist has no trouble in considering the tale of a
luminous globe that got closer to a pond of water and evaporates it,
being able to compute the amount of energy wasted, but finds
difficult to investigate the landing of a spacecraft with aliens that
commit rectal rape on abductees, or encounters that </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">caused
the </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">observer
to develop paranormal traits.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">In
history, there have always been instances of bad science and
appalling predictions that time proved wrong. In ufology, the amount
of academics proposing false conclusions (UFOs≈ET) actually based
on observations with trivial origins is ridiculously high, which
unfortunately demonstrates that in this domain blind faith reigns,
not a serene, non-committal, technical reasoning. The typical
man/woman of science, at the sight of the standpoint and line of
thinking followed by certain UFO supporters (some of them with
excellent academic, military or political credentials), realizes that
the UFO research environment is too biased by beliefs and is
therefore not a legitimate field of study. When academics external
to ufology decide to review the field of the best literature in
peer-reviewed UFO journals, and they face a large number of pages on
lots of UFOs around US spacecraft in orbit that are simply debris, or
thoroughgoing analysis of a UFO photograph representing nothing but a
frisbee, then discouragement and embarrassment is rapidly imposed.
Spoiled talent and failed science abound in ufology. </span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
do not demand‒for the acceptance that UFOs represent a discovery
for science‒higher standards than those applied to other unusual
phenomena. I am trying to understand why “ufology” is rejected,
when the Academia has finally accepted other rare phenomena. Science
advances with the concourse of trained but heterogeneous persons with
different mindsets and ideologies, placed in different countries with
different views of Nature and the world we live in. However, over
seven decades from 1947, there seems to be a tacit agreement in the
rejection of UFOs as a totally new phenomenon (deployed in the
biosphere, mind-seated, or the indication of extraterrestrial
intelligent life), which is almost an unprecedented event in history.
Why don’t the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indian Academy, the
Russian Academy, or the Chilean Academy, for example, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">raise
</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">their
voices to show that their home scientists are eligible for the Nobel
Prize because they have the proof that UFOs exist as a geophysical
phenomenon, or as a form of atmospheric electricity, or as a
psychological disorder, or as visitors from deep space? Not at all.
As far as UFOs </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">are</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
concerned, all over the world and for a couple of generations of
scientists, there is a widespread disregard. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
trouble is: from </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
very beginning, a tag or label of high significance (cosmic arrivals)
was attached to UFO observations </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>well
before</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
any “evidence” was at hand, and it created the problem because it
added sentiments that have no place in a scientific endeavor. The
popular “solution” (vessels coming from outer space) was planted
by the press and swallowed by the citizenry long before the Academia
studied it. This is a most serious difficulty, coupled by the fact
that it is a kind of affair where “the media [has a] vested
interest in keeping the topic in the public eye”</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">8</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
which alters the public sensitivity on the topic.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Mikel Aickin, “Inference and Scientific Exploration,” </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Scientific Exploration</i></span><span lang="en-US">, 2007, Volume
21, No. 4, pp. 665-671.</span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, </span><span lang="en-US"><u>The Black Swan:
The Impact of the Highly Improbable</u></span><span lang="en-US">
(Random House, New York), 2007.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(3)
Paolo Toselli, author of a major catalog of ball lighting reports.
Personal communication, August 4, 2022.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Stanley Singer, “Ball lightning-the scientific effort,”
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society A</i></span><span lang="en-US">, Vol. 360, 15 January 2002,
pp. 5-9.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(5)
George Eberhart, probably the most comprehensive UFO bibliographer in
the world. Personal communication, August 4, 2022.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(6)
Dr. Donald Johnson, curator of UFOCAT, the largest existing UFO
catalog. Personal communication, August 4, 2022.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
I personally think that this is a very low estimate, a full figure
might be even ten times more. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Dr. Ron Haddow, </span><span lang="en-US"><u>Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region</u></span><span lang="en-US">.
Volume 1, Chapter 5, Summary of Study Findings, Item 16 (The Way
Ahead). Scientific & Technical Memorandum No. 55/2/00, Defence
Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, London, December 2000, </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20121110115327/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchPublicationScheme/UnidentifiedAerialPhenomenauapInTheUkAirDefenceRegion.htm">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/UnidentifiedAerialPhenomenauapInTheUkAirDefenceRegion.htm</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
“The Pentagon UAP Study 2023,” uploaded April 2023 in
Academia.edu:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Since
2021, the U.S. Department of Defense is studying UFOs, under the new
name UAP, for unidentified anomalous phenomena. The All-domain
Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is in charge of that investigation
by mandate of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). NDAA for
fiscal year 2023 adds duties to this office and outlines </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">important
new issues having to do with UAP investigation. The UAP clauses can
be found in Section 1673 (pages 565 to 568 of “Title XVI—Space
Activities, Strategic Programs, and Intelligence Matters”) and in
Sections 6802 and 6803 (pages 1,192 to 1,199 and 1,200 to 1,201,
respectively, of “Title LXVIII—Other Matters”). The bill was
signed by President Joe Biden on December 23, 2022, and was enacted
on that date. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">T</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">his
paper is a detailed review and dissection of the current functions
and reporting schedule of AARO. Some segments of that article follow
(texts from the NDAA in italics):</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
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1673. </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">UNIDENTIFIED
ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA REPORTING PROCEDURES.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">Under
heading “(a) MECHANISM FOR AUTHORIZED REPORTING,” paragraph “(1)
ESTABLISHMENT” indicates that the head of the Office (AARO) on
behalf of the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director
of National Intelligence</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>shall
establish a secure mechanism for authorized reporting of</i></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>—</i></span></span></span></p>
<ol>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Any event
relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena; and </i></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i>Any
activity or program by a department or agency of the Federal
Government or a contractor of such a department or agency relating
to unidentified anomalous phenomena, including with respect to
material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research
and development, detection and tracking, developmental or
operational testing, and security protections and enforcement.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ol>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
aforementioned paragraph requires two major comments and one clear
deduction. Firstly, the modification of the UAP acronym from
“unidentified </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>aerial
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">phenomena”
to “unidentified </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>anomalous</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
phenomena.” An innocent change? Not for me. If the own name of the
object of study makes explicit that it is an anomaly, it is </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>a
priori</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
understood to be something science cannot explain. In my view, the
name change has been unnecessary (the hypothetical new classes of
phenomena are more fiction than anything else), it is too emotional,
and makes people imagine that all UAP are anomalous by definition. I
will not attempt to squeeze blood out of it, however. For the time
being, I will accept the soft notion, as expressed by astronomer and
UFO researcher Brad Sparks: “The ‘A’ in UAP has been changed
from ‘Aerial’ to ‘Anomalous’ in order to broaden the geomedia
to be all inclusive without cumbersome addition of letters, so that
‘Anomalous’ means aerial/airborne, transmedium, submerged and
space objects. The ‘U’ in UAP still remains ‘Unidentified’.”</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Nonetheless,
this change evidently has occurred due to the involvement of
established ufologists and believers with strong predetermined
biases, with direct access to Congresspersons and Senators. Do you
question this? Do you think that those who have the ear of
legislators are neutral? And everyone who can do so pressures with an
aim in mind. For example, Christopher Mellon, former Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has pompously declared:
“</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President
Biden just signed into law far-reaching legislation that could soon
confirm the existence of an alien presence on earth.”</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
No more and no less! I find incredible that such a past authority in
the field of Intelligence (who supposedly is well informed) dares to
make these statements. Knowing as we do that interplanetary tourism
(given the frequency of alleged visits) is prohibitive (I’d say
impossible), not to mention the absence of proper evidence, it is
inconceivable to hold that fantasy…well, no, because it is only a
belief supported by faith. But the worst thing of all is those
individuals have the capacity to influence legislators.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This
matter is hardly an issue of common sense. And, yes, America is
nowadays under the influence, like the celebrated film by John
Cassavetes. That’s why other countries dismiss all the fuss. From a
March 2023 column in </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Debrief</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:
“Despite U.S. warnings, global allies appear unconcerned by the
implications of adversarial airborne surveillance or unidentified
aerial phenomena.”</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Of course, the Defense Departments and Air Forces of many nations
have, in the past, been following up the UFO question, to no avail.
None is considering reexamining old subjects like these evanescent
UFOs—except the U.S.A., and mirroring Canada. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">My
second principal remark has to do with the science-fiction-type
narrative in the bill’s text where it mentions material retrieval
and analysis, reverse engineering, etc. The opportunists carrying
weight on law-drafting had a field day here with the inclusion of
this. Having said that, we can expect that this will bring back
everything done (or never done but rumored) through the UFO work
performed by contractors like Bigelow Aerospace when paid by the
DIA’s AATIP in 2008-2012. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Section
6802. </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">MODIFICATION
OF REQUIREMENT FOR OFFICE TO ADDRESS UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS
PHENOMENA.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">Page
1195. (g) SCIENCE PLAN.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span> </span><span> </span>(g)
SCIENCE PLAN.— The Director of the Office </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">…
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>shall
supervise the development and execution of a science plan to
develop and test, as practicable, scientific theories to—</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(1)
account for characteristics and performance of unidentified anomalous
phenomena that exceed the known<span> </span>state of the art in science and
technology, including in the areas of propulsion, aerodynamic control, signatures, structures, materials, sensors,
countermeasures, weapons, electronics, and power generation,<span> </span>and …</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Here,
it is demanded that AARO produce “scientific theories” for UAP
incidents that exceed “the known state of the art in science or
technology.” This mandate is profoundly inconsistent. Before
producing anything, AARO must demonstrate that such knowledge is
exceeded. A scientific plan cannot be built upon speculation. Unless
AARO is miserably unable to explain certain sightings and proceeds to
wrap them into a mantle of fictional properties, I predict that no
such events will ever be listed. Truly, they will be able to “provide
the foundation for potential future investments to replicate or
otherwise better understand any such advanced characteristics and
performance,” as paragraph (g) (2) continues, only when and if
intruding, man-made flying vehicles from other countries have been
detected violating U.S. airspace. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
my opinion, future history books will signalize as a national shame
how the United States of America decided in 2022 to study the flying
saucers of the 1940s, the UFOs of the 1960s and the UAP of the 2000s
based on the wrong assumption that we are being visited by spacecraft
from beyond our solar system. Because if this assumption is false, no
one will understand why the text of the law presupposes the existence
of anomalous objects that are material, have propulsion power, fly
under intelligent control with advanced sensors, generate
countermeasures, and can be armed. What situation will America be in
when they finally ascertain that UAP do not actually exist as
anomalous objects, but are just a heterogeneous group of potentially
attributed objects and phenomena? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">Pages
1195-1996. (j) Historical Record Report.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span> </span>(1)
REPORT REQUIRED.—</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(A)
IN GENERAL.—Not later than 540 days after the date of the enactment
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the
Director of the Office shall submit to the congressional defense
committees, the congressional intelligence committees, and
congressional leadership a written report detailing the
historical record of the United States Government relating to
unidentified anomalous phenomena, including—</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(i)
the records and documents of the intelligence community;</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(ii)
oral history interviews; </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(iii)
open source analysis;</i></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(iv)
interviews of current and former Government officials;</i></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span> </span>(v)
classified and unclassified national archives including any records
any </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>third
party obtained pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[Section 552 is the Freedom of Information Act]</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>;
and</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span>(vi)
such other relevant historical sources as the Director of the Office
considers appropriate.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">Certainly
for all UFO researchers (believers, sceptics, or mid-way), it is more
than correct that the current law adds clear-cut provisions to help
assure maximum transparency in the search for information from old
epochs. In this regard, this part of the text appears fair. If AARO’s
efforts are comprehensive, it will review every program or study on
flying saucers, UFOs, and UAP within the U.S. Government. For example
(that we know of): departments like the Air Force, Navy, and Energy,
agencies like the FBI, CIA, and DIA, consulting institutes like
Battelle, contractors like Bigelow Aerospace, and specific programs
like AAWSAP/AATIP and UAPTF. I look forward to reading what will
certainly be a fascinating tome! Counting from December 23, 2022, 18
months beyond means this report will be ready by late June of 2024.
To me, though, considering the magnitude of the task and the number
of personnel required, the deadline seems too short.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span>(B)
OTHER REQUIREMENTS.— The report submitted under paragraph (A)
shall—</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(i)
focus on the period beginning on January 1, 1945, and ending on the
date on which the Director of the Office completes activities
under this subsection; and </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a name="_Hlk129790597"></a><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> <span> </span>(ii)
include a compilation and itemization of the key historical record on
the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified
anomalous phenomena, including—</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(I)
any program or activity that was protected by restricted access
that has not been explicitly and clearly reported to Congress;</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(II)
successful or unsuccessful efforts to identify and track UAP, and</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span>(III)
any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or
otherwise provide incorrect unclassified information about UAP or
related activities.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;">No
doubt about it, this initiative comes from the lobbyists behind the
UFO-prone legislators. They have an unambiguous agenda, which is
based on their belief that there has been a dark hand in the
successive U.S. Governments (both Democrat and Republican) since the
1940s, with continuing efforts to hide under the rug some
extraordinary findings on, successively, flying saucers, UFOs, and
UAP. I am persuaded that no systematic, recurrent protocol has ever
existed. But in the minds of the ufologists and their partner
legislators flow images of those Hollywood movies featuring a secret
hangar housing for decades the Roswell alien ship.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
the way, the request for a report of historical records of the U.S.
Government back to the specific date of January 1, 1945, virtually
proceeds from Jacques Vallee’s last book, </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Trinity</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
proof of the influence of ufologists and other UFO believers in the
formulation of the 2023 NDAA’s UAP content.</span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">4</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
At the end of the day, however, that is not so bad. By demanding that
even the most extravagant circulating accounts are searched, when a
reliable, independent and integral investigation is finally completed
(with the expected nil result), the debate should be ended once and
for all. </span></span></span>
</p>
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definitely has a huge job to do. The objectives that have been set
are extensive and complex, in addition to the “simpler”
case-analysis job. After 55+ years of personal investigation and
research, I am persuaded that the “objects of interest” of this
study have been badly defined, i.e., in a way that is more akin to
fiction than to reality, and endowed with properties they do not
have. But I am giving AARO a vote of confidence. It has all the
necessary resources to make an extraordinarily good work, and if its
members keep their feet on the ground they will achieve an important
side-goal: to demonstrate to the entire world that what people see in
the sky that they cannot identify has nothing at all to do with
extraterrestrial life.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk130369851"></a><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Brad Sparks, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, December 18, 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
</span></span></span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.christophermellon.net/post/unprecedented-uap-legislation">https://www.christophermellon.net/post/unprecedented-uap-legislation</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Tim McMillan,</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/category/uap/">https://thedebrief.org/category/uap/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
Jason Colavito,
</span></span></span><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/jacque-vallee-claims-ufo-law-amended-to-incorporate-his-crashed-ufo-claims">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/jacque-vallee-claims-ufo-law-amended-to-incorporate-his-crashed-ufo-claims</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE
2023 U.S. SENATE UAP HEARING</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">By
V.J. Ballester Olmos</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
April 19, 2023, a Congressional hearing on UAP was held by the
Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. The hearing was
specifically aimed “on the mission, activities, oversight and
budget of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office” [AARO], by its
director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, who presented a statement for the
record and replied to questions. It lasted 59 minutes.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Senator Mrs. Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat for New York), chair of the
Subcommittee, made an initial address which characterized this issue
as “the very serious problem of unidentified anomalous phenomenon
[</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>sic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">].”
In order to capture Mrs. Gillibrand’s perspective, and the nature
of the pressure AARO may be feeling, it suffices to quote this
sentence from her presentation: “…while we have made progress,
there remains a stigma attached to this phenomenon, there is a vast
and complex citizen engagement and there's also very challenging
scientific and technical hurdles.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There’s
that stigma mantra again. False! It was USAF Blue Book Project’s
scientific consultant Professor J. Allen Hynek who described how
ufology delivers an “embarrassment of riches.” Military UFO
sightings, for example, have abounded since Day One back in 1947! It
is quite obvious what this distinguished lady may have in mind.
Dangerous expectations that may drive AARO’s investigation into
unexpected paths. I will not tackle her other remarks, as she knows
by hearsay or is clearly influenced by UFO believers, as when she
describes UAP in these terms: “…we don't know where they come
from, who made them or how they operate.” This assumes there exists
a single operator behind the “phenomenon”. False again! From that
assumption the logical step is that it is being conducted by an
intelligence. And that it is alien. However, there is no such thing
as a unique UFO phenomenon -there are as many sightings and
experiences as observers. When sightings are not invented, they are
conventional in origin and nature, apart from some unexplained events
which are devoid of exact data. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Another
of the obstinacies that Mrs. Gillibrand shares with hardcore
ufologists is that AARO serves “as an open door for witnesses of
UAP events or participants in government activities related to UAP to
come forward securely and disclose what they know without fear of
retribution for any possible violations of previously signed
non-disclosure agreements. Congress mandated that AARO set up a
publicly discoverable and accessible process for safe disclosure
while we know that AARO has already conducted a significant a number
of interviews many referred by Congress [this is, her and her pro-UFO
colleagues] we need to set up a public process…” The band of
politicians and ufologists behind pushing for UAP investigations
clearly believe that (1) there are scores of military UFO witnesses
with their mouth south for decades, and (2) that the U.S. Government
has mounted devilish programs over the years to hide extraordinary
UFO evidence. None of this is factual, and history will prove it
-probably when those politicians are already collecting their
pensions. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand was followed by Senator Ms. Joni Ernst (Republican for
Iowa), Subcommittee Ranking Member, who posed a number of questions
to Dr. Kirkpatrick who pertinently responded to them before the
session was declared closed. Ms. Ernst was more grounded, and was
worried about “the full range of threats posed by our adversaries
in all domains that is what the Joint Force needs to be prepared to
fight and win in defense of our nation this committee needs to know
about Chinese or Russian advanced technology programs to exploit our
vulnerabilities and it needs to know whether your office along with
the IC [Intelligence Community] has detected potential Chinese or
Russian capabilities to surveil or attack us…” I cannot grasp the
level of ingenuity of these people. A powerful country —the United
States of America— is creating in 2022 a small office to study UFOs
to assess the technological menaces from China or Russia? Naïve
politicians!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Next,
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick made his opening statement.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
purpose of this article is to highlight what, to my judgement, were
the most significant remarks by Dr. Kirkpatrick and to make some
comments about the facts and figures provided in his presentation. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Unidentified
objects in any domain pose potential risks to safety and security,
particularly for military personnel and capabilities.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
assertion must be proved. How do you compute aviation risk? One
airmiss every 10 cases, every 100 cases, every 1000 cases? This is an
affirmation that AARO will have to demonstrate with figures. Add this
to the pending list.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr.
Kirkpatrick emphasized that AARO is still a 9-month office (with ~40
experts working). In those nine months, he claimed to have given
“important steps to improve UAP data collection, standardize the
department’s UAP internal reporting requirements, and implement a
framework for rigorous scientific and intelligence analysis,
resolving cases in a systematic and prioritized manner. Meanwhile,
consistent with legislative direction, AARO is also carefully
reviewing and researching the U.S. Government’s UAP-related
historical record.” That is good.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7aQDPMobhGTS6R_atdZahr98OQvLHpm409Um2slYCoQShTd1HVKfQ9yB6dpA0qH2q5JgI0qvo9kTYuIz5LSTZrt06QvKSfPLUxLjFZiMN1h5wjNF-IbQR9MQrwFaK7L9djDvwSkFMJ7HHfsasekpqvdrvjqbUTb09Rk51IWKpE7esI90nA/s878/Kirkpatrick1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="878" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7aQDPMobhGTS6R_atdZahr98OQvLHpm409Um2slYCoQShTd1HVKfQ9yB6dpA0qH2q5JgI0qvo9kTYuIz5LSTZrt06QvKSfPLUxLjFZiMN1h5wjNF-IbQR9MQrwFaK7L9djDvwSkFMJ7HHfsasekpqvdrvjqbUTb09Rk51IWKpE7esI90nA/w200-h167/Kirkpatrick1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Dr.
Sean Kirkpatrick. Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
(AARO). U.S. Department of Defense.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now
Dr. Kirkpatrick begs not to be too much inundated and requests
patience, when he says:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>DoD</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>fully</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>appreciates</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>the</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>eagerness</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>from</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>many
quarters, including here in Congress and in the American public, to
quickly resolve </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>every</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UAP</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>encountered</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>across</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>the</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>globe,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>from</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>the</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>distant</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>past
through</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>today.
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
it will take time to realize the full mission. We cannot answer
decades of questions about UAP all at once, but we must begin
somewhere. While I assure you that AARO will follow scientific
evidence wherever it leads, I ask for your patience as DoD first
prioritizes the safety and security of our military personnel and
installations, in all domains.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
exchange for patience to the impatient, radical UFO believers, he
assures us that his investigation has no limits. Good negotiator! </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">And
he proudly notices they can be the last resort in UFO investigation:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>AARO
is the culmination of decades of DoD,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Intelligence
Community, and congressionally-directed efforts to successfully</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>resolve
UAP encountered first and foremost by U.S. military personnel,</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>specifically</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Navy</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>and</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Air
Force</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>pilots.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Probably,
but as long as there are people believing in aliens visiting the
Earth there will be people believing that the U.S. Government occults
the truth, and demanding a yearned-for disclosure.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr.
Kirkpatrick cleverly advances that events can be solved, provided
data are available (thus not acknowledging what has been the major
fault of amateur ufology):</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>…</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UAP
encountered first by highly capable DoD and IC platforms, featuring
the nation’s most advanced sensors, are those UAP most likely to
be successfully resolved by my office </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>assuming
data can be collected</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[Underlining
is my emphasis.]</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">And
he advises that this a complex job requiring multiple participation:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>AARO’s
ultimate success will require partnerships with the interagency,
industry, academia, the scientific community, and the public.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
I said elsewhere, it will take not only resources but also
willingness to solve mysteries, with feet well on the ground and
imagination secured. In only nine months, Dr. Kirkpatrick has learned
the framework of the problem and recognizes the need for other views
when he states that:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
UAP challenge is more an operational and scientific issue than an
intelligence issue. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Robust
collaboration and peer-review across a broad range of partners will
promote greater objectivity and transparency in the study of UAP.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">But
in order to realistically achieve this, he will have to realize that
elementary event data must be explicit in the reports, otherwise
external assistance and assessment is precluded. Transparency starts
with oneself. It is illustrated by a case further below. Dr.
Kirkpatrick starts offering some preliminary conclusions:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> I
want to underscore today that </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>only
a very small percentage of UAP reports </u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>display
signatures that could reasonably be described as ‘anomalous.’</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate
mundane characteristics of balloons, unmanned aerial systems,
clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable sources.
While a large number of cases in our holdings remain technically
unresolved, this is primarily due to a lack of data associated with
these cases. Without sufficient data, we are unable to reach
defendable conclusions that meet the high scientific standards we
set for resolution, and I will not close a case that we cannot
defend the conclusions of.</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Be
prepared, then, to see statistics with a high percent of reports in
the “lack of information” column, in addition to a majority of
attributed sightings. And, for the remaining cases, let us know if
many had </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>proven</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
features defying currently known performances. Now, Dr. Kirkpatrick
gives us a first lesson in UAPology 101, which we have been defending
for decades. This was mainly devoted to believers and the impatient:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
recognize that this answer is unsatisfying to those who in good faith
assume that what they see with their eyes, with their cameras, or
with their radars is incontrovertible evidence of extraordinary
characteristics and performance. Yet, time and again, with
sufficient scientific-quality data, it is fact that UAP often, but
not always, resolve into readily-explainable sources. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>Humans
are subject to deception and illusions, sensors to</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>unexpected
responses and malfunctions, and in some cases intentional</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>interference</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
Getting to the handful of cases that pass this level of scrutiny is
the mission of AARO.</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
fully accurate sentence that just needed nine months of work studying
UFO cases. Let us see the standards of this “handful of cases”
that allegedly pass this level of scrutiny, and to where they point.
The statement by AARO’s Director continues to remark that
explained, non-exotic UAP reports can still be of national security
concern. Yes, but I think that will be an intelligence or
counterintelligence matter, and not his, or as he defined later in
his replies, a case of SEP, “somebody else’s problem.” Back on
the difficult cases, Dr. Kirkpatrick affirms that:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> …</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>for
the </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>few
cases</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
in all domains that do demonstrate </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>potentially</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
anomalous characteristics, AARO exists to </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
resolve those anomalous cases. In doing so, AARO is approaching
these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytic
rigor. This includes physically testing and employing modeling and
simulation to validate our analyses and underlying theories, then
peer reviewing the results within the U.S. Government, industry
partners, and with appropriately-cleared academic institutions
before reaching any conclusions.</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">OK
- resolution is the key word. And solving 100% of fully documented
events will have to be their target for success. The application of
top scientific rigor is precisely what this job calls for. Still, I
observe some “fantasy bites” here by mentioning that theories may
need simulation and modelling, when finally they will find a
near-infinite matrix of misperceptions and misinterpretations as the
cause of these phenomena. Perhaps this is just paying lip service? He
did not need to state this at this stage, but stating this right now
leaves him in a good place (on second thoughts, he wants to say that
before they ask him), but it is meritorious to vouchsafe this claim:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> I
should also state clearly for the record that in our research AARO
has </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>found
no credible evidence</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>objects
that defy the known laws of physics</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">He
adds “thus far” to leave a door open to people’s fascination …
and, of course, to several more years of funding. Dr. Kirkpatrick
advises:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>For
those few cases that have been leaked to the public previously, and
subsequently commented on by the U.S. Government, I encourage those
who hold alternative theories or views to submit your research to
credible peer-reviewed scientific journals. AARO is working to do
the same. That is how science works, not by blog or social media.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Not
sure if he refers to skeptical critique or to positive endorsement
for the “anomaly” content of any UAP event, or both. In any case,
this would be the correct procedure, provided there would be
scientific and technical journals willing to accept papers on UFOs or
UAP. However, sometimes, researchers finding explanations to UAP
incidents may not be willing to make the effort to formalize their
informal scientific evaluations (released in blogs and websites) to
the level of formal papers, among other things, because there are so
many cases studied! At the same time, AARO should have a mailbox open
to receive informal input from researchers. Dr. Kirkpatrick adds:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>By
its very nature, the UAP challenge has for decades lent itself to
mystery, sensationalism, and even conspiracy. For that reason, AARO
remains committed to transparency, accountability, and to sharing as
much with the American public…</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Rational
thinking, certainly. It is good that he declares he is aware of the
sensationalism and conspiracy essence of ufology. Now we know he
knows. And that will help to guide his UAP research. Again, he
requests time and explains that accurate investigation is a long
process:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> However,
AARO’s work will take time if we are committed to doing it right.
It means adhering to the scientific method and the highest standards
of research integrity. It means being methodical and scrupulous. It
means withholding judgment in favor of evidence. It means following
the data where it leads, wherever it leads. It means establishing
scientific, peer reviewed theoretical underpinnings of observed
data. AARO is committed to those standards.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Excellent
public commitments. We could not agree more. Before turning to the
question period, Dr. Kirkpatrick walked the audience through some
“high-integrity analysis” transparencies. The following chart
represents the trend analysis of all the cases in AARO holdings to
date. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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histogram on the left shows all reported cases as a function of
altitude:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Most
of our sightings occur in the 15 to 25000 foot range and that is
ultimately because that's where a lot of our aircraft are.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Which
is consistent with the fact that most observations are airborne. Do
not forget that the 2022 AARO annual report indicated that over 50%
of cases were identified as balloons.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
That is reinforced now: according to this slide, the “robot
portrait” of a UAP is a round object of size 1 to 4 meters,
translucent or white. Impressive-looking spacecraft! </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Regarding
other variables like performance and signatures, AARO must learn not
to mix apples with pears, and separate statistics by type of
attributed phenomenon. For example, how much do the reported
features of attributed objects (i.e. balloons or drones) differ from
those of non-attributed objects (UAP)? There is no such thing as
“typical characteristics” when you study UFOs. Consider a zoo
with giraffes, ostriches, and chimps -what is the average or typical
animal? A long-necked furry biped: a creature that does not exist.
With regard to radio frequency emissions, for instance: would not
objects transmitting radio frequencies be of human manufacture? The
1-3GHz is part of the UHF band, with very varied applications,
including aeronautical communications. As far as thermal signature,
medium and short wave infrared radiation is related to any
temperature over environmental temperature, like aircraft nozzle,
flares… or Chinese lanterns. I hope the next set of AARO statistics
show higher sophistication, focused centrally on discriminated data. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Next,
Kirkpatrick presented slides of “two cases that we've declassified
recently.” And even more curious to recognize as a supposedly
representative and typically anomalous UAP event the 16-sec footage
from a drone’s camera, taken on 2022 in an undisclosed location in
the “Middle East,” with basic data erased from the released
video.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
I would have expected to see truly unexplainable images defying
state-of-the-art aviation. Or at least an event from the fields of
Texas! Will we have to wait for the next hearing? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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frames of the video clip showing the flying </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;">spherical
object.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkI1ZXycjU3sUh4Mvc2UdMwKcijS2kg5MVPG_nkbTQmmRaLoLHohEAmz-XQfqB8pWlllMEZb2Y9QTeoZiWlclBF5MIKXHwyE2JVq0OtYO2BjGyhfBdMp4xYqkohc2bcZKvgxBsX6j074wwy9h4tsadN3EuCkDjQOCGJot1Q6_NgTIauuXrFw/s1430/ampliaci%C3%B3n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="1430" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkI1ZXycjU3sUh4Mvc2UdMwKcijS2kg5MVPG_nkbTQmmRaLoLHohEAmz-XQfqB8pWlllMEZb2Y9QTeoZiWlclBF5MIKXHwyE2JVq0OtYO2BjGyhfBdMp4xYqkohc2bcZKvgxBsX6j074wwy9h4tsadN3EuCkDjQOCGJot1Q6_NgTIauuXrFw/s320/ampliaci%C3%B3n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Enlargements
of the object.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
is an MQ-9 drone showing the passage of an apparent spherical object
captured by electro-optical sensors (not IR). “You’ll see it come
through the top of the screen, there it goes and then the camera will
slew to follow it you'll see it pop in and out of the […] field of
view there,” Kirkpatrick explains. And he continues:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
is essentially all of the data we have associated with this event
from some years ago. It is going to be virtually impossible to
fully identify that just based off of that video. Now what we can
do and what we are doing is keeping that as part of that group of 52
percent </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[above
chart, full percentage for globe-shaped objects] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>to
see what are the similarities -what are the trends across all of
these. Do we see these in a particular distribution? Do they all
behave the same or not? As we get more data we will be able to go
back and look at these in a fuller context.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Probably
it is impossible to identify the origin of this object but probably
it is possible to determine its nature, with the data at hand.
Without access to the actual data, I have requested some
investigators specializing in case analysis to provide some research
entry. And this is what they have found out. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According
to the high resolution footage contributed by The Black Vault, the
date was July 12, 2022 and time was 21:56Z. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Assuming
that the North indicator is correct, the shadows in the video show
that the illumination is coming from the ESE. It is estimated the
elevation of the light source to be between 50° and 60° (shadows
are nearly horizontal and almost as long as the objects that cast
them). With the Moon indeed much lower in the sky and in the SSW or
SW at that day and hour, therefore the time mentioned must be
wrong. A well-educated guess is that </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>the
time was closer to 9:56 a.m</u></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.,
local time (6:56Z). At that time, the Sun would have been in the
right place for, say, Mosul, Iraq, location where a similar ‘orb'
was imaged in April 2016.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Assuming
the drone’s flight level of 7.6 km (the MQ-9 operational height),</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
considering the size of its projection on the ground around 0.5 m
(taking the people around as reference), the object’s real size is
the s</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ize
of the ground projection multiplied by a factor [1 - (drone's
height)/(object's height)]. For example:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Estimated
UAP height</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <u> </u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>Calculation</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u> </u> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Real
UAP size</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"> 5.7
km (3/4 of drone) 50 x [1-(5.7/7.6)] 12.5 cm</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"> 3.8
km (1/2 of drone) 50 x [1-(3.8/7.6)] 25.0 cm</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"> 1.9
km (1/4 of drone) 50 x [1-(1.9/7.6)] 37.5 cm</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That
is, the size of a toy foil balloon, or a military decoy balloon. The
simple nature of the object and/or its height would be consistent
with the lack of reaction and alarm by persons </span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">walking
right below the object’s passing. </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not
a “metallic orb” as described by AARO. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">From
the following image composition, the </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">pixel
position of the object can be extracted to recreate the apparent
trajectory as seen by the drone. The drone seems to be banking
slightly to the left and, at the end of the video, the object tends
to move more in “vertical” (i.e., elevation with respect to the
drone) than “sideways” (i.e. azimuth). It would mean that the
drone and the UAP are more or less aligned by then. The electro
optical device could be a WESCAM MX-20.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
This device has different fields of view from 1.07º to 0.13º for
the daylight spotter, depending on the zoom and resolution of the
video. A simple flight model could be built assuming a straight
trajectory for the object, and a circular motion for the drone.
Unfortunately, lack of information on heading, velocity and height of
the drone (deleted in the video) prevent us to test a flight model
and extract values as object’s velocity and heading.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsfI9gbNZDQdO7xCOqqYL9IPIIV1it7Mg6JzC46GpOTGNO5cwzJTpA5e8qgEISq6LqQyFy7EMTLiX-f8zLV1JgSItG6elj8EwbJaU7AHitN3t1MPY0E1FNS4tw6JOXLnHremSSDRn4PlA1th2hHQtiif5Zvj3OWdf6lhUekB0d2v4nRoucQ/s800/plot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsfI9gbNZDQdO7xCOqqYL9IPIIV1it7Mg6JzC46GpOTGNO5cwzJTpA5e8qgEISq6LqQyFy7EMTLiX-f8zLV1JgSItG6elj8EwbJaU7AHitN3t1MPY0E1FNS4tw6JOXLnHremSSDRn4PlA1th2hHQtiif5Zvj3OWdf6lhUekB0d2v4nRoucQ/w200-h150/plot.png" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">July
12, 2022, Middle East: Trajectory plot, by Julio Plaza del Olmo.</span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span>
</span></span></span></sup><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Note
that the X and Y axis have different spans to better
appreciate the curved trajectory.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
next slide presented by Dr. Kirkpatrick was a South Asia incident of
images from a drone that seemed initially strange, and was finally
resolved as a commercial aircraft. Not a surprise considering that
most of UAP sightings can be explained at first sight. But it
documents the fact, many times ignored by believers, that UAP
research requires a technical investigation, not simply trusting the
witness’s word. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand then posed a question about the number of reports and how
many were identified. Here we have the present figure:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>As
of this week we are tracking over a total of 650 cases.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">650
UAP reports (occurred from 1996 to 2023), or 140 reports up from the
2022 annual report released on January 2013 for cases with a cut-off
date of August 30, 2022.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr.
Kirkpatrick went on to describe AARO’s five-step screening process.
Importantly, he announced plans to share information:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Once
we have an approved web portal to hang the unclassified stuff we will
downgrade and declassify things and put it out there. In the
meantime we're putting a lot of these on our classified web portal
where we can then collaborate with the rest of the community so they
can see what's going on.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">He
added, on quality data:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> Of
those over 650 you know we've prioritized, about half of them to be
of anomalous interesting value and now we have to go through those
and go how much do I have actual data for. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr.
Kirkpatrick gave advance notice on the next AARO reporting schedule,
as follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Go
back to your question ma'am, we have this next quarterly report will
be coming out here pretty soon. Our next annual report you all have
given us moved it up to June, July we're going to be having that
done about that time frame and we will be combining a whole number of
reports into that one. I think we're currently sitting at </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>about
halfway through that analytic process</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And
naturally he took the opportunity to ask for more resources:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> …we're
going to get faster as we get more people on board and we get more
of the community tools to automate some of the analysis that has to
be done.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Ms.
Ernst naively questioned if AARO was aware “of any Chinese or
Russian technical advancements to surveil or attack U.S interests,”
as if such an interrogation might be answered in public, even if
known. Dr Kirkpatrick politely qualified it as a “great question,”
and continued:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> Part
of what we have to do as we go through these, especially the ones
that show signatures of advanced technical capabilities is determine
if there's a foreign nexus. That's really hard if what we observe
doesn't have a Chinese or Russian flag on the side of it. Now I
think it is prudent to say of the cases that are showing </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>some
sort of advanced technical signature of which we're talking, single
percentages of the entire population of cases we have</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[…], </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
have indicators that some are related to foreign capabilities.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Of
course, those are not UAP (UFOs) anymore and, upon being handed off
to the appropriate Intelligence Community agency they immediately
become an SEP, or “somebody else's problem.” Ms.
Ernst insisted on Russian or Chinese threats and Dr. Kirkpatrick
affirmed, based on his past experience as a Science and Technical
intelligence officer:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> […]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>they</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[adversaries, particularly China] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>are
less risk-averse at technical advancement than we are</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Are
there capabilities that could be employed against us in both an ISR
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and a weapons fashion? Absolutely. Do I have evidence that they're
doing it in these cases? No, but I have concerning indicators.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
am quite interested to see detailed statistics on UAP reports
collected by AARO. I think that the number of advanced signatures
vehicles from foreign countries will be a bare minimum. The highest
number of attributed cases will probably belong to the most usual,
conventional causes. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Senator
Ms. Jacky Rosen (Democrat, Nevada) next talked about the impact of
UAP on aviation safety, especially worrying about Nevada’s USAF
service men (this is, attracting votes). She said the U.S. Navy had
officially acknowledged 11 near misses involving UAP between 2004 and
2021 that required pilot action. This is another subject that has
been overmagnified to serve as justification to the mere UAP study.
Because we do not have access to the concerned reports, it is not
possible to assess their real importance. Undisclosed data is not
data at all. That was for Dr. Kirkpatrick another “great question”.
Apparently concerned with this issue he stated that:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk133345136"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> [there
is</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">]</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>a
bunch of new requirements that we're issuing through the Joint Staff
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>the
first thing that we're doing is standardizing our reporting and the
requirements associated with that guidance </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">[…]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
I think it goes out maybe this week maybe next week on that we've
been working with them for some months…</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">To
prevent air accidents is one thing, another is to elevate this to the
category of artificial alarm. In a few years from now, we will see
the balance and results of this operation. Ms. Rosen asked a question
on the Chinese balloon recently shot down by an expensive </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sidewinder
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">missile
and how a sustainable affordable response can be developed in case of
flagrant violations of the airspace by UAP. Basic response elements
follow:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> […]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>there's
an authority issue with the owners </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[and]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
operators of those ranges that they need to work through and we're
working that with Joint Staff </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>there
are non-kinetic options to engage pretty much everything right
whether it's electronic warfare, whether it's laser technology </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>we
will inform recommendations back to the Department</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[of Defense] […]</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
was followed by comments by Dr. Kirkpatrick in the wake of Mrs.
Gillibrand’s question on internal subordination and reporting
logistics, and how this reporting structure could be improved in the
next Defense Bill. Mrs. Gillibrand was also interested to know the
progress on AARO’s mandate to establish “an accessible electronic
method for potential witnesses of UAP incidents and potential
participants in government UAP related activities to contact your
office and tell their stories.” The sharp dialogue that took place
was as follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> I
have, we submitted the first version of that before Christmas</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand: “Do you have an estimate from them when they will
respond and when you'll have feedback on that?”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>No,
I don't.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand: “Okay, we will author a letter asking for that timely
response to your superiors. When do you expect that you will
establish a public-facing discoverable, an access portal for people
to use to contact your office as the law requires?”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> I
would like to first say thank you all very much for referring the
witnesses that you have thus far to us. I appreciate that we've
brought in nearly two dozen so far it's been it's been very helpful.
I'd ask that you continue to do that until we have an approved plan.</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>what
I would ask though is as you all continue to refer to us and refer
witnesses to us I'd appreciate if you do that please try to
prioritize the ones that you want to do because we do have a small
research staff dealing with that. Thank you.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZRkCHYp7-FIUcNoKgoo3cQ33xvisGkHeC4t-fy-As2VDXWZVP3GlaLCpZTahC9KgwAvcV4cnIoTfKFiQqM8sKKhfJUCeCGzkdg6JUPNgiLQOc7kx2fRYBV1HsRWoq8vZLA7qgh7PPp91LVa5nHe9Tp31lmzg6T5zl25Sg-pkKkKtgBG9iw/s676/Gillibrand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="676" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ZRkCHYp7-FIUcNoKgoo3cQ33xvisGkHeC4t-fy-As2VDXWZVP3GlaLCpZTahC9KgwAvcV4cnIoTfKFiQqM8sKKhfJUCeCGzkdg6JUPNgiLQOc7kx2fRYBV1HsRWoq8vZLA7qgh7PPp91LVa5nHe9Tp31lmzg6T5zl25Sg-pkKkKtgBG9iw/w200-h194/Gillibrand.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Mrs.
Kirsten Gillibrand. Chair, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities. U.S. Senate.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand: “Do you have any plans for public engagement that you
want to share, now that you think it's important that the public
knows what the plan is?”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> So
we have a number of public engagement recommendations according to
our strategic plan. All of those have been submitted for approval.
They have to be approved by USD INS</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security], [we] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>are
waiting for approval to go do that.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand: “Okay. I will follow up on that.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Thanks,
but no thanks” is what I read between lines when acknowledging the
transmission of external witness information from senators and their
sources. My impression is that AARO understandably prefers to have a
stable database with reliable observers than a package of old,
uncontrolled UFO reports. I know certain sources are feeding UFO
events from their favorite (i.e., strongly biased) selection. I also
think Dr. Kirkpatrick does not want it to become a circus, at least
not a circus out of control. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
last question by Chair Gillibrand invoked the recent
Chinese-and-other-balloons crisis and she blurted: “Do you agree
that the public perception is generally that you and your office did
not appear to play a major role in the Department's response to the
detection of objects over North America? What can you tell us that's
going on behind the scenes from your perspective?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk133423664"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> […]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>beyond
that, the response I would have to refer you back to the White House
for the decision on how they did the response. We did not play a role
in what you would respond other than that initial um you know advice
on what we are seeing and how we are seeing it.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
was an undiplomatic, impertinent question, one that was based on an
alleged public perception: an opinion poll?, Fox News?, Ufologists
United? Who said that?</span></span></span></p>
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next query was by Ms. Ernst who wanted assurance that this office is
“not duplicating or replicating existing functions and creating
redundancy within DoD and the interagency.” In brief: is “your
particular office and function unique?” For Dr. Kirkpatrick that
was another “great question”. His response was a great response
indeed:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> […]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>the
vision is: at one point at some point in the future you should not
need an AARO</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
If I'm successful in what I'm doing, we should be able to normalize
everything that we're doing into existing processes, functions,
agencies, and organizations and make that part of their mission and
their role. Right now the niche that we form is really going after
the unknowns </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…],
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
think you articulated it early on, this is a hunt mission for what
might somebody be doing in our backyard that we don't know. That is
what we are doing, right, but at some point we should be able to
normalize that, that's why it's so important the work we're doing
with Joint Staff to normalize that into pilot DoD policy and guidance
we are bringing in all of our interagency partners, so NASA is
providing a liaison for us, I have FBI liaison, I have OSI liaison, I
have service liaisons, half of my staff come from the IC, half of my
staff come from other scientific and technical backgrounds. I have
DoE and so what we're trying to do is </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>ensure
again as I make UAP into SEP </u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[somebody
else’s problem],</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
they get handed off to the people that that is their mission to go do
so that we aren't duplicating that. I'm not going to go chase the
Chinese high altitude balloon, for example, that's not my job it's
not an unknown and it's not anomalous anymore now it goes over to
them.</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Yeah,
this is a good rationale. But what about if there is not a single
problem to transfer to another agency? How about if unidentified
anomalous </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>phenomena</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
are hardly a cluster of identified, conventional objects and events
like misinterpretations of balloons, aircraft, birds, clutter,
atmospheric freaks, astronomical bodies, satellites, missiles, etc.?
This is, simple observation errors, sometimes augmented by
psychological motivation. To which DoD agency will you transfer it?
By definition, there will always happen such misidentifications and
bona fide perplexity. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Errare
humanum est</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Someone, sometime will have to declare that there are not unknowns
except for ill-documented reports that are evidence of nothing. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand then vouched the speculation that “DoD sets filters on
certain sensors to eliminate objects that are moving really fast or
slow because what we are looking for militarily are conventional
aircraft and missiles. UAP that doesn't fit into these programs would
thereby be weeded out and never noticed.” She wanted to make sure
the raw data is being captured and subsequently processed by AARO: is
AARO going to pay for it? Dr. Kirkpatrick’s response was
theoretical, how could it be otherwise?:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> One
of the key tenets that we're trying to do in our science plan is
understand what those signatures are, so we get all the raw, for
example, radar data prior to the scrubbing and filtering to allow
it to enter into our weapon systems and our detection systems. We
are now taking all that data and cross-correlating it to what pilots
are saying they're seeing or other observations from other
operators. What that allows us to do is then see if there are any
signatures in that data that I can pull out generate uh what we'll
call automatic target recognition algorithms that allow us to then
use that signature associated with a </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[sic]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>observed
UAP - whatever that UAP may be. We will then make those
recommendations of what those changes should be back to the
Department </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[of
Defense],</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
so the Deputy Secretary had asked me last October to make those
recommendations what changes do we need to make to radars, to uh
platforms, to detection systems and algorithms to pull on those
algorithms make those changes. That's going to take some time that's
where the research and development comes in, right, it's not it's
not instantaneous. Right now a lot of the (I won't say uh you know)
the things that fall outside of the ranges of those filters have been
identified by people in the loop and you can't have people in the
loop all the time, you know it's just not cost effective, so part of
our budget is working through what </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
does that look like and then making those recommendations back to
the big program offices for them to put into changes in the
acquisition.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
I said previously, they believe they can find the proper UAP’s
license plate through those AI-related “automated target
recognition algorithms”, but that will not happen. They will be
able to recognize instantly, yes, civil airplanes, military aircraft,
advanced weapons, balloons, missiles, bolides, planets, birds, but
nothing different. AARO will not isolate a specific signature for the
typical unknown UAP, because there is no such thing. They will have
to learn that there is not a set of UAP parameters but as many as
different types of misinterpreted flying objects. The methodology is
perfect, and it is that screening what we have been proposing and
developing since the 1960s. Here I am just anticipating the results.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lastly,
a double question by Lady Chair was about intervention of the
academic community in the UAP study, and the interaction with NASA’s
own UAP study. This gave Dr. Kirkpatrick the (prepared beforehand)
opportunity to be somewhat presumptuous when attempting to correct
Dr. Carl Sagan when he affirmed:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk133484264"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> In
1979, Carl Sagan said “extraordinary claims require extraordinary
evidence.” I would go one step further and I would say
extraordinary claims require not only extraordinary evidence but
extraordinary science, and so how do you do that? You do that with
the scientific method, right, so as AARO is developing and
implementing its science plan it has to do so grounded in a solid
foundation of scientific theory across the entire range of
hypotheses that have been presented for what UAP are. That range
spans adversary breakthrough technology, on one hand, known objects
and phenomena in the middle, all the way to the extreme theories of
extraterrestrials. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">He
knows he is making history, yet I trust to be wrong with my
impression that he is willing to enter the territory of discussion
with skepticism. I would advise him not to. He is not tasked to
philosophize, but to find what is going on, its provenance and to do
risk and intelligence analysis. In my view, if Dr. Kirkpatrick thinks
that the UAP solution needs to pass through the finding of a new
science, he is plainly wrong. I just hope this does not indicate that
he holds preconceived ideas (his own, or what it is worse, planted by
the surrounding UFO-alien ideologues). He follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> All
of that has physics-based signatures associated with it, whether it's
theoretical from the academic community, known from things like
hypersonic weapons, or adversary breakthrough technologies, as we've
talked about before, or the known objects that we have to go
measure. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
academic community plays a very big role on the one end of the
spectrum, the intelligence community on the other end of the
spectrum, and then measurement in the middle. Once I have those
signatures identified in validated peer-reviewed documents, then I
have something to point to for all that data, because all that data
is going to match one of those signatures.</i></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Again
the conjecture or the false expectation that UAP signatures will be
found. Badly advised. They will have to find out by themselves, which
is the only route to learning. He continues:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i> Where
NASA comes in and the</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>study
that they're doing which am uh supporting is really, looking at the
unclassified data sources that might be used to augment our
classified data sources to understand if there's a signature there
we can pull on so very similar to the radars but civil capabilities,
so, for example, we have a lot of climate science satellites, for
example, that look at Earth, lots of them. How many of those is the
data valuable in seeing these kinds of objects? The challenge in
that is those platforms don't necessarily have the resolution you
need so if you remember the slide I put up there with the trends the
size of the objects we're looking for are typically reported to be
one to four meters </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[…]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">My
only comment here is that I hope NASA is not searching for UAP in
satellite camera recordings, because UAP sightings occur in the
troposphere, maximum in the stratosphere. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs.
Gillibrand closed the session, with Dr. Kirkpatrick’s last words:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"> <span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Thank
you very much for allowing us to come and share a little bit of
insight into what AARO is up to and what we're doing. I hope to be
able to share a whole lot more in the future, um we have a lot of
work to do so if you don't hear from me outside it's because we've
got a lot of work to do.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Two
times Dr. Kirkpatrick implored patience. He is right, UFO (UAP)
research takes time to do accurately. Checking, data collection, and
analysis, all these things take a lot of time. And all that glitters
is not gold.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Kirkpatrick shows himself to be cautious, moderate, reasonable,
trustworthy, and scientific. If this pattern continues, I would
expect a final, sensational finding: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>everything
is natural or manmade.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Incidentally,
in spite of the hearing’s objective, during the session finally no
indication about current or future budget figures was advanced. The
only hint to funding was made during Mrs. Gillibrand’s initial
remarks: “…we added very substantial initial funding for the
office but despite our best efforts the president's budget for fiscal
[years] 23 and 24 requested only enough funding to defray the
operating expenses of AARO. It included almost no funds to sustain
the critical research and development…” I am really afraid of
what they will do with plenty of money for research and development.
I just hope it is not the same research and development as Bigelow
Aerospace did for DIA’s AAWSAP/AATIP 22 million dollars spent
during 2008-2012.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup></span></p>
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view of the hearing. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">To
Pablo Petrowitsch and to Isaac Koi, for sources. To John Greenewald,
Jr. of The Black Vault for the high-resolution video clip. To Manuel
Borraz, Wim Van Utrecht, J.C. Victorio Uranga, Martin Shough, and
Julio Plaza del Olmo, for research input and technical comments. To
Steve Roberts for editing.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Responsibilities include policies and programs related to science and
technology, special operations, intelligence, counterterrorism,
security cooperation, strategic and information operations,
countering weapons of mass destruction, and homeland defense.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/subcommittees">https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/subcommittees</a></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://youtu.be/gFmbMG6nKU4">https://youtu.be/gFmbMG6nKU4</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/download/kirkpatrick-statement">https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/download/kirkpatrick-statement</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The 2022 Annual
Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, A Review,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review">https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://documents3.theblackvault.com/documents/dod/DOD_109584445-1920x1080-9000k.mp4">https://documents3.theblackvault.com/documents/dod/DOD_109584445-1920x1080-9000k.mp4</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Mick West, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/mosul-sphere.12850/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/mosul-sphere.12850/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2020/03/eo-ir-targeting-system-integrated-into-mq-9-predator-uas">https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2020/03/eo-ir-targeting-system-integrated-into-mq-9-predator-uas</a>/</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(9)
See the frame analysis table in the original paper (link below).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://irp.fas.org/dia/aatip-list.pdf">https://irp.fas.org/dia/aatip-list.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
paper has been released under the following formal link for citation
purposes:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>DIA
and DoD UFO Studies</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">From
AATIP to AARO, from 2007 to 2023, many developments have occurred in
the Politics/Military interface in the United States as far as UFOs
(UAP now) is concerned. Difficult to summarize? No. The</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
New York Post</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
wrote an extraordinarily exact recap of what has happened, why and by
whom, in this March 21, 2023 article that you should not miss.
Nothing comes out of the blue, there are reasons and names behind,
and in this case it is very important to know the hard facts and who
is who in this pitiful story.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/ufo-believing-pentagon-bosses-missed-spy-craft-for-years/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/ufo-believing-pentagon-bosses-missed-spy-craft-for-years/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
some recent writings, I have criticized how ufologists of the
believer persuasion (for example, flying saucers are interested in
U.S. nuclear sites) have access and capacity to influence AARO
investigators. For me, this is quite dangerous, especially if the
AARO staff has a starting inclination towards UFOs in the UAP niche.
As Robert Hastings has published, he is feeding information to AARO
on alleged UFO incidents in nuke facilities: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2023/02/aaro-interviews-ufos-and-nukes-witnesses.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.theufochronicles.com/2023/02/aaro-interviews-ufos-and-nukes-witnesses.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is quite relevant because the major such “incidents” have been
resolved without the need to invoke extraterrestrials. Like a sample
button, read the paper “Missile Flights and Fantasies,” by James
T. Carlson, in </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony,</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
edited by V.J. Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden, UPIAR (Turin,
Italy), May 2023, pages 45-60,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Canada
Renews UAP Study</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">30
years after ending its own involvement in UFOs, the Canadian
government has started the “Sky Canada Project,” an investigation
conducted by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, to
analyze UAP. A public report is expected by Spring of 2024. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/document-reveals-first-known-canadian-ufo-study-in-nearly-30-years-now-underway-1.6293124"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/document-reveals-first-known-canadian-ufo-study-in-nearly-30-years-now-underway-1.6293124</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/official-ufo-study-launched-in-canada-here-s-what-it-hopes-to-achieve-1.19313504"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/official-ufo-study-launched-in-canada-here-s-what-it-hopes-to-achieve-1.19313504</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23692834-sky-canada-project-ocsa?responsive=1&title=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23692834-sky-canada-project-ocsa?responsive=1&title=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Trinity
Flying Saucer Crash</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;">…<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>the
information that I have already compiled, and that I distill for you
here, is more than sufficient to reach an unequivocally negative
conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt, on the credibility of the
Trinity UFO crash-recover story.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Crash
Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax,” an investigative article by
journalist Douglas Dean Johnson, released 1 May 2023: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-the-trinity-ufo-crash-hoax/?ref=mirador-newsletter"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-the-trinity-ufo-crash-hoax/?ref=mirador-newsletter</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
expected, Jacques Vallée has replied. This is what he has written:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://visions13.wixsite.com/journo-jottings/post/jacques-vallee-hits-back-at-hoax-claims-over-trinity-ufo-crash-book"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://visions13.wixsite.com/journo-jottings/post/jacques-vallee-hits-back-at-hoax-claims-over-trinity-ufo-crash-book</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">And
Johnson rebutted through a tweet:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i>It
is noteworthy that Jacques Vallee's "rebuttal" attributed
to me at least four things that I neither said nor implied-- that
were, in fact, the opposite of what I said on those specific points.
In brief: I did not say that the Trinity case "had been
summarily dismissed by well-known investigators such as Ryan Wood,
Stanton Friedman and Timothy Good." That is pure invention or
pure confusion on Vallee's part. In my main ("hub") article
I quoted the high credibility rating that Wood assigned to the case;
I summarized accurately how Good treated the case in his 2007 book
(only five paragraphs of his 452-page book, with a remark that the
artifact supposedly removed from the alien craft "appears
decidedly terrestrial..."); and I mentioned Stanton Friedman not
at all. I did not suggest that Vallee thought the "bracket"
or metal artifact was alien (although his co-author Harris at times
has done so); rather, I credited him with discerning its metric
character, and then criticized him for what I regard as absurd
attempts to rationalize Padilla's claim that this human-made object
had been securely fastened to the inner wall panel of an alien
spacecraft. I said nothing to suggest that Vallee claimed ownership
of the artifact; rather, I accurately quoted Vallee's statement in
his book that it had been donated to a museum. I expressed not the
slightest disapproval of Vallee talking about the purported July 1994
sighting reported by Baca and his wife; indeed, I spent considerable
time writing my own sidebar article on that interesting story. I find
these imaginary statements imputed to me puzzling-- the least that
can be said is that Vallee has been a careless reader of my articles.
At times he seems to be confusing things I wrote with things that may
have been expressed by other critics of the Trinity story.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Billy
Cox has also written about this heated controversy: “A legend
falters. Jacques Vallee's offering to Congress misfires,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-legend-falters"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/a-legend-falters</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Having
all the information exposed, I am inclined to </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">stand</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
aside from this controversy (unless some outstanding data arise,
either pro or con). The U.S. Congress demanded AARO </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">dig
out all extant data related to UFO studies, programs and activities
of the</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
U.S. Government and associated agencies and contractors </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>precisely</u></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
since 1945, targeted on the alleged Trinity event. If anything
happened, if the U.S. Army retrieved a flying saucer by then, sooner
or later we will know. Patience! </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFO
Proceedings Uploaded</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
December 1977, the well-known Spanish writer and pioneer ufologist
Antonio Ribera organized in Barcelona the First National Congress of
Ufology. The technical and scientific papers there presented were
published in February 1978 under the coordination of Pedro Redón,
secretary-general of CEI, in a 111-page volume entitled “Actas del
primer congreso nacional de Ufología: Ponencias técnicas”
(Proceedings of the First National Congress of Ufology: Technical
Papers.) I have just uploaded this booklet in internet, and it can be
accessed for free through the following link (the text is in
Spanish):</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/100100005/Actas_I_Congreso_Nacional_de_Ufologia_Ponencias_Tecnicas_P_Redon_ed_1978"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/100100005/Actas_I_Congreso_Nacional_de_Ufologia_Ponencias_Tecnicas_P_Redon_ed_1978</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Pictures</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Old
press research, such as that conducted by dedicated UFO students like
Kay Coggin, is usually rewarded by the finding of items unknown to
the most knowledgeable ufologists. Recently, in the course of her
continuing, extensive newspaper search, she found two 1959 pics I had
never seen before. Nothing out of this world, as these were solved
the same day of publication, but for a case collector like me this is
good material. The Lynn, Massachusetts, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Evening Item </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
December 8, 1959, published in its page 15 the story “Flying Object
Spotted” that ran as follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: arial;"><i>Two
Nahant boys photographed what they thought was a flying saucer at
noon Saturday near Bass Point, Nahant. The unidentified object
hovered over the bay between two nearby Nike installations and the
boys managed to snap two photos of it before it disappeared. Claiming
to be the first to photograph a “flying saucer” in Greater Lynn
are Frank Wrangler, 15 son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wrangler of 63
Tri-Mountain Road and Gerald Butler, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
F. Butler of 12 Colby Way, both of Nahant. A check with U.S. Army and
Air Force officials today indicated that the object was not—alas—a
“flying saucer” but a weather analyzing instrument, one of many
frequently release to secure data.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_yzl3iPzaEtBz40k_s5lon6831fnttaF9TnX-Gqpk_xQw7uAK1gp9Ag39lKTVlChYj006Xw-80gSuG-snFQfNK4b57rEcBpn6XP6-mkwFf3G0GMTJy91fJ0aD_nJMt6Ucw8Z3Z4u97yV6i3W63ypUOyL9d0TYzuzfdzmR4mLPx-PsKbjaoQ/s522/globo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="522" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_yzl3iPzaEtBz40k_s5lon6831fnttaF9TnX-Gqpk_xQw7uAK1gp9Ag39lKTVlChYj006Xw-80gSuG-snFQfNK4b57rEcBpn6XP6-mkwFf3G0GMTJy91fJ0aD_nJMt6Ucw8Z3Z4u97yV6i3W63ypUOyL9d0TYzuzfdzmR4mLPx-PsKbjaoQ/w320-h286/globo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">December
5, 1959, Nahant, Mass. © </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Evening Item</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlNcgg7UHv1q1RFYI_YUUR6jqyLXzsBVW82exL1T2ZQJX8qXMS9xFp42oVjai4NFp52cwY6Bp62mJ6zuKszC384T3xo2HbarIvygCt1jX3JFHJsIOuGsP5gdd6LdRL2aUMAFZ75_3oEdPqMNUnLNYdKXSZC0wlBt2tG70PSTGf6kxaRwnVg/s825/Nike.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="825" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlNcgg7UHv1q1RFYI_YUUR6jqyLXzsBVW82exL1T2ZQJX8qXMS9xFp42oVjai4NFp52cwY6Bp62mJ6zuKszC384T3xo2HbarIvygCt1jX3JFHJsIOuGsP5gdd6LdRL2aUMAFZ75_3oEdPqMNUnLNYdKXSZC0wlBt2tG70PSTGf6kxaRwnVg/s320/Nike.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Nike missile site, Bass Point, Nahant, Mass. Image borrowed from: </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/blazing-skies-bostons-nike-missiles-episodes-226/" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/blazing-skies-bostons-nike-missiles-episodes-226/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Dr. David Clarke contributes brand new, revealing information on the
Rendlesham Forest incident. Do not miss to read “Has the mystery of
'Britain's Roswell' finally been solved? Rendlesham Forest UFO
'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen, insiders
claim,”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539849/Has-mystery-Britains-Roswell-finally-solved.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539849/Has-mystery-Britains-Roswell-finally-solved.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
UFO and Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Scientifically, a brand new
YouTube channel developed by Ukranian UFO researcher Igor Kalytyuk:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
The debate on “Oumuamua” continues: “Acceleration of
1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice,” a paper
published in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Nature</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
by Jennifer B. Bergner and Darryl Z. Seligman, Volume 615, 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pages
610–613, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05687-w"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05687-w</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">And
the reply by major promoter: “Implications of evaporative cooling
by H2 for 1I/‘Oumuamua,” by Thiem Hoang and Abraham Loeb, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Hoang_Loeb_23.pdf"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http</span></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">s://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Hoang_Loeb_23.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
On the infamous Richard Doty. Robert Hastings writes (2017), “UFO
Disinformation Agent Richard Doty is Up to His Old Tricks: Beware the
Many Lies He Tells Steven Greer,” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/11/ufo-disinformation-agent-richard-doty.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/11/ufo-disinformation-agent-richard-doty.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Barry
Greenwood writes on March 1, 2023 in the NICAP Research forum list: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Doty's
character hasn't been debatable since the 1980s. He spreads false
information regularly. He was at the core of both MJ-12 fakery and
the SERPO hoax. Doty makes Clifford Irving look like an amateur but
with less credible subject matter. He made me waste hundreds of hours
of research trying to salvage work to establish credibility for
government UFO documents apart from his document forgeries. One of
the worst characters in the history of the UFO topic.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Martin Shough, “Return of the Flying Saucers: Re-evaluating the
Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/return-of-the-flying-saucers-re-evaluating-the-kenneth-arnold-ufo-sighting/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/return-of-the-flying-saucers-re-evaluating-the-kenneth-arnold-ufo-sighting/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Bad news for Precognition. Chris French, “The Transparent Psi
Project: the results are in, so where are all the headlines?,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Skeptic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
March 16, 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/03/the-transparent-psi-project-the-results-are-in-so-where-are-all-the-headlines/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/03/the-transparent-psi-project-the-results-are-in-so-where-are-all-the-headlines/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Psychologist Dr. Jean-Michel </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Abrassart
writes “La place de la fraude dans le modèle sociopsychologique du
phénomène ovni,” (The place of fraud in the sociopsychological
model of the UFO phenomenon), </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scepticisme
scientifique</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
1, 2023, pp. 37-41. Abstract:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: georgia;"><i>In
ufology, hoaxes are cases in which people give a false testimony to
deceive a public. There will be sometimes a physical element (a trace
on the ground, a picture, a movie, etc.) that will go with the
testimony and is provided to increase the credibility of the
narrative. Faking can be done with different techniques: infographic
manipulations, using a model, etc. Just by following the ufological
news, anybody can easily observe that there are numerous photo and
video hoaxes. If for ufologists the ability to detect hoaxes is
crucial, in the human sciences we are more interested by why people
make hoaxes and why some people tend to believe it. It is the first
aspect of this question that we will examine in this article.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Scepticisme_Scientifique_4_2023.pdf"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Scepticisme_Scientifique_4_2023.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Ball lightning sighting in Spain, March 13, 2023:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2v57f8xt"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2v57f8xt</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Back on the 1947 Maury Island “incident”, described as the
dirtiest hoax of all:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://timehotnews.com/ufo-encounters-sightings-visitations-and-investigations-the-dirtiest-hoax-of-all/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://timehotnews.com/ufo-encounters-sightings-visitations-and-investigations-the-dirtiest-hoax-of-all/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
A most regrettable situation: in 2023 commonpace lens flares are
still taken by UFOs for top ufologists. This is an example:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-aaro-information-and-ufo-sightings.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-aaro-information-and-ufo-sightings.html</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">And
the explanation is here (by J.C. Victorio Uranga, in Spanish):</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/05/hay-muchos-avistamientos-de-ovnis.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/05/hay-muchos-avistamientos-de-ovnis.html</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(11)
A curious story from 2011, pertinent to pilot UFO sightings: “Pilot
nose-dives plane to avoid planet Venus,” </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1635077991242891270/pu/vid/768x432/NfwWy-7aycNMmUVX.mp4?tag=12"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1635077991242891270/pu/vid/768x432/NfwWy-7aycNMmUVX.mp4?tag=12</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(12)
Every day we meet both natural phenomena and artificial (man-made)
technology that produce uncommon or sophisticated effects and
observations, visual or recorded on film, that are immediately
associated to UFOs. Recently, the excellent and well-informed website
Marcianitos verdes (Little green Martians) has reported about these
two nice examples:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/05/03/weird-moving-light-beam-in-sky-sparks-wonder-in-miami-video.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://boingboing.net/2023/05/03/weird-moving-light-beam-in-sky-sparks-wonder-in-miami-video.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/odd-green-light-filmed-over-japan-came-from-space-but-nasa-satellite-data-reveals-it-was-no-meteor/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/odd-green-light-filmed-over-japan-came-from-space-but-nasa-satellite-data-reveals-it-was-no-meteor/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Wim
van Utrecht has contributed more images as well:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/ominous-green-lasers-shot-over-hawaii-didnt-come-from-nasa-satellite-after-all"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.sciencealert.com/ominous-green-lasers-shot-over-hawaii-didnt-come-from-nasa-satellite-after-all</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(13)
Mick West, “How science — and politics — are bringing an end to
UFOlogy,”
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/29/how-science-and-politics-are-bringing-an-end-to-ufology/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nypost.com/2023/04/29/how-science-and-politics-are-bringing-an-end-to-ufology/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(14)
Recent publications by the Galileo Project:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/publications"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/publications</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Extraterrestrials
on Camera</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Extraterrestres
ante las cámaras” (in Spanish) is an updated and improved edition
of this book by Mexican researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez, with a foreword
by V.J. Ballester Olmos. The original collection has ten tomes, and
Germany-based publisher Coliseo Sentosa (owned by Chilean Diego
Zúñiga) is scheduled to publish it as a complete series. That will
be a first magnitude contribution to the UFO literature. Strong kudos
to the author and the publisher. This first book of the queue can be
purchased from </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3KJlQp2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://bit.ly/3KJlQp2</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
“El OVNI del Mar Menor: Un episodio de Falso Recuerdo,” by V.J.
Ballester Olmos. This is the extended original version of the
somewhat condensed translation published as “Memory Games: A False
Recall Episode”, in the book </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
V.J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden (eds.), UPIAR, 2023, pages
25-38,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9BKuc35i2rjRbIrG2wSft0Man882snmEP_ZoB9B2L_A_wAJsJpOtQFA50MmvgMRVX4Ze7UeBtdSmABRVeYTukL8WUCO3ByA8wR8YW_ZdYOEn3AeWcRjVa99YChQksWpkFa3nmoUVyGxRyfvue0fx64yvTq_dv5UB4LBuTH-TUDyPeRx-rw/s866/esquema%20movimientos.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="866" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9BKuc35i2rjRbIrG2wSft0Man882snmEP_ZoB9B2L_A_wAJsJpOtQFA50MmvgMRVX4Ze7UeBtdSmABRVeYTukL8WUCO3ByA8wR8YW_ZdYOEn3AeWcRjVa99YChQksWpkFa3nmoUVyGxRyfvue0fx64yvTq_dv5UB4LBuTH-TUDyPeRx-rw/s320/esquema%20movimientos.png" width="320" /></a></div><p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Notes on the Manises 1979 airplane UFO case, by Julio Plaza del Olmo.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Citas citables (Quotable quotes).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Invited book review by Diego Zúñiga to </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Así
creamos monstruos </u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(This
is how we create monsters), a 500-page book analyzing cryptozoology
by scholar anthropologist Ignacio Cabria.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Editorial brief by Coliseo Sentosa publisher on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Encuentros
cercanos de todo tipo. El caso Villas Boas y otras abducciones
íntimas</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Close encounters of all types. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The
Villas Boas case and other intimate abductions) by Brazilian
historian of Japanese descent Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Agenda personal (Personal agenda), on visits, meetings, family
issues, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk132841727"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos
Verdes, Mexico), Dr. Christopher French (England), Moisés Garrido &
Claudia Moctezuma (Spain), Jaime Servera (Spain), Juan Pablo González
(Spain), Kay Coggin (USA), Francis Ridge (NICAP, USA), Mick West
(Metabunk, USA), Luis E. Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), and Wim van
Utrecht (Caelestia, Belgium). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2bzabys6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2bzabys6</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5n6jj89a"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/5n6jj89a</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk135001324"></a><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/22jdh98f"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/22jdh98f</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFOs and Government </b>(with M.
Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988) </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(editor) (with R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4> <span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2023/JUNIO/15
(ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González.</span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gracias a la
cortesía del abogado e investigador británico I</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">saac
Koi, he recibido 217 carpetas de casos fotográficos de los archivos
del Dr. Michael Swords (Kalamazoo, Michigan). La información
contiene casuística de muchas fuentes y, aunque redundante en su
mayoría, una vez del todo procesada creo que aportará no menos de
50 nuevas entradas a los registros del FOTOCAT.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
El ultimo cómputo del catálogo es de 13.080 casos. Como me gusta
recordar, estoy encantado de facilitar listados extraídos del
catálogo para su uso en proyectos de Investigación. Con gusto
suministraré tablas Excel para un año en particular, un país en
concreto o una división territorial específica (provincia, región
estado, departamento, etc.), por nombre de fotógrafo, tipo de
explicación, etc. Sólo tiene que informarme de su trabajo de
investigación y solicitar lo que necesita de mi base de datos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Nuevo libro: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>THE
RELIABILITY OF UFO WITNESS TESTIMONY</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Con
este título, cuya traducción es “La fiabilidad del testimonio de
los testigos de ovnis”, el 17 de mayo pasado se publicó el libro
que he dirigido y coordinado con la ayuda de Richard Heiden. El
anuncio para los investigadores y medios de comunicación que se ha
hecho público señala lo siguiente:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">V.J.
Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (eds.)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(La
fiabilidad del testimonio de los testigos de ovnis), V.J.
Ballester-Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (coordinadores). </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Durante
76 años, observadores casuales de todo el mundo han informado de
avistamientos de fenómenos aéreos inexplicables para ellos. Otros
informan de experiencias personales más elaboradas cuyos testimonios
hablan de interacciones cercanas con fantásticas máquinas voladoras
que aterrizan, de las cuales descienden seres extraños, e incluso
secuestran a los testigos. En ausencia de evidencia física
convincente de la realidad de estas narraciones, ¿cómo debería la
ciencia estudiar esas observaciones inmateriales y comprobar dichas
afirmaciones? Está en juego el estándar de confiabilidad de los
testigos de buena reputación. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
es el primer libro que se centra de manera integral en la discusión
y las opiniones actuales sobre los problemas y desafíos que plantea
la confiabilidad de los testimonios de ovnis. Es un compendio
interdisciplinario de trabajos de 60 autores de 14 países
diferentes. Son especialistas en ciencias sociales, físicas y
biológicas, incluyendo psicología (predominantemente) así como
psiquiatría, sociología, antropología, historia, filosofía,
folklore, religión, periodismo, ingeniería, computación, medicina,
educación, analistas con experiencia en la crítica estudio de los
perceptores de ovnis y otros profesionales. Este volumen comparte
ideas temáticamente convergentes sobre la plausibilidad y
explicaciones alternativas de un supuesto fenómeno ovni que se
manifiesta cercano al observador. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Los
57 capítulos de este libro se dividen en siete secciones: estudios
de casos, perspectivas psicológicas, testimonios de testigos,
investigación empírica, enfoque antropológico, métricas y
escalas, y cuestiones epistemológicas. La temática queda analizada
desde la evaluación clínica, la psicometría, la estadística, la
investigación comparativa y de evaluación, y otras perspectivas
temáticas.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
prólogo está escrito por el Dr. Leonard S. Newman, Profesor de
Psicología en la Universidad de Syracuse. Este es un extracto:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> Los
colaboradores de este libro incluyen algunas personas muy
inteligentes. Hay todo tipo de temas a los que podrían dedicar su
energía intelectual y todo tipo de contribuciones académicas y de
investigación que podrían hacer. No tienen que escribir capítulos
reflexivos y rigurosos para un libro llamado </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability of UFO</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Witness
Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
pero esto es lo que han hecho. Y así, el trabajo continúa, como lo
atestiguan los documentos de este volumen. No estoy seguro de si
existe alguna colección de documentos sobre cualquier tema que
pueda pretender resumir de manera integral todo lo que se sabe
actualmente al respecto. Pero este se acerca bastante.</i></span></span></span></p>
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libro de 711 páginas se puede descargar gratuitamente a través del
portal Academia.edu con el siguiente enlace:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony">https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony</a>
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Simultáneamente,
la editorial UPIAR Publishing House (Turín, Italia) ha publicado dos
ediciones en papel de tapa blanda, formato A4, una en blanco y negro
y otra a todo color (ISBN: 9791281441002). El libro se puede adquirir
a través del enlace: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Cuatro
destacados académicos han escrito notas elogiosas acerca de este
volumen:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Elizabeth
Loftus, Ph.D., distinguida Profesora de Psicología en la Universidad
de California, Irvine, EE. UU:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> C</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>uando
los ciudadanos comunes afirman tener encuentros extraterrestres, como
ver ovnis o encontrarse con seres extraterrestres, ¿qué debemos
pensar? ¿Realmente ocurrió la abducción extraterrestre o fue un
engaño? ¿Alguien está mintiendo deliberadamente? ¿Son falsos
recuerdos? Los lectores quedarán cautivados por las fascinantes
historias de casos que se presentan en </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>of
UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
un volumen en el que sesenta expertos examinan estos temas con
profundidad y perspicacia. Estos casos nos enseñan mucho sobre cómo
el ser humano llega a creer que ha experimentado eventos extraños
que tal vez nunca ocurrieron</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Steven
Jay Lynn, Ph.D., distinguido Profesor de Psicología, Universidad de
Binghamton (SUNY), EE. UU.:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Este
libro cautivador atraerá a cualquier persona interesada en los ovnis
(¿y quién no lo está?), los caprichos de la memoria, la
percepción y la percepción errónea de los testigos oculares, el
análisis crítico de fenómenos desconcertantes y la evaluación de
afirmaciones científicas frente a pseudocientíficas. Este volumen
se ubica en la categoría élite de lectura esencial para
estudiantes, científicos y los curiosos entre nosotros y, por lo
tanto, tiene mi más alta recomendación. ¡Bravo!</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Henry
Otgaar, Ph.D., Profesor de Psicología Jurídica, Universidad de
Maastricht, Países Bajos, y Universidad Católica de Lovaina,
Bélgica:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
afirmaciones de avistamientos y experiencias de ovnis continúan
fascinándonos. Este libro ha recopilado un conjunto único y
diverso de estudios de casos y artículos críticos sobre cómo se
desarrollan tales experiencias y cuál es la autenticidad de estas
afirmaciones. La colección de estos diferentes artículos es
verdaderamente innovadora y es el primer conjunto completo sobre la
validez del testimonio OVNI.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Benjamin
E. Zeller, Ph.D., Profesor y Catedrático de Religión, Lake Forest
College, Illinois, EE. UU.:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><i> Al
referirse al contacto extraterrestre, Carl Sagan dijo que las
afirmaciones extraordinarias requieren evidencia extraordinaria.
Este excelente libro busca contextualizar lo que implica tal
evidencia. Sus colaboradores analizan avistamientos y casos de
ovnis, tanto famosos como oscuros, recientes e históricos, y de
alcance internacional. Se basan en una impresionante variedad de
perspectivas metodológicas, académicas y científicas, y
consideran temas como la naturaleza de la cognición, la memoria,
los tipos de creencias y testimonios, la psicología y la
racionalidad de las creencias. ¡Los escépticos, los creyentes y los
estudiosos de la ufología encontrarán fascinante este libro!</i></span></span></span></p>
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de 30 días desde la salida del libro en Academia, ya ha recibido
2.100 visitas y se ha descargado 700 veces (más las ventas de copias
en papel de UPIAR). Al final, espero que estas cifras se multipliquen
por diez. Por cierto, por si el lector lo desconoce, mis libros
publicados en la editorial UPIAR no conllevan el pago de royalties.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk137542008"></a><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Reunión
pública de la NASA sobre UAP. El día 31 de mayo tuvo lugar una
histórica reunión transmitida en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>streaming</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del equipo UAP de la NASA. Asistí en directo y con la inestimable
colaboración de Chris Aubeck hemos escrito un ensayo con nuestras
reflexiones al respecto: “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Needle in the Haystack: Reflections on the NASA UAP Meeting, May
2023”, que se halla disponible en Academia.edu en el enlace
siguiente:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/103389571/The_Needle_in_the_Haystack_Reflections_on_the_NASA_UAP_Meeting_May_2023</a></p>
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“Parsimonious Thoughts – Cold Pitch” (Pensamientos
parsimoniosos - Cambia de bando). </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
ensayo resulta de reflexionar sobre una serie de preguntas que me he
planteado y que resultan básicas para la ufología: ¿son los ovnis
una anomalía científica? ¿De verdad se resiste la ciencia a
aceptar la existencia de nuevos fenómenos? Es una discusión sobre
los creyentes y los escépticos, sobre la existencia de los ovnis, el
problema de los UAP hoy, y una mirada hacia el futuro. (En la sección
en inglés hay un fragmento del artículo). Publicado </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">en
marzo de 2023 en Academia.edu:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/97980602/Parsimonious_Thoughts_Cold_Pitch"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/97980602/Parsimonious_Thoughts_Cold_Pitch</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“The
Pentagon UAP Study 2023” (El estudio UAP del Pentágono en 2023).
Desde 2021, el Departamento de Defensa de los EE. UU. está
estudiando los ovnis, bajo el nuevo nombre de UAP, fenómenos
anómalos no identificados. La Oficina de Resolución de Anomalías
en Todos los Dominios (AARO, en inglés) está a cargo de esa
investigación por mandato de la Ley de Autorización de Defensa
Nacional (NDAA). La NDAA para el año fiscal 2023 crea esta oficina y
describe nuevos temas importantes que tienen que ver con la
investigación UAP. Las cláusulas UAP se encuentran en el artículo
1673 (pp. 565 a 568 del “Título XVI—Actividades espaciales,
programas estratégicos y asuntos de inteligencia”) y en los
artículos 6802 y 6803 (pp. 1.192 a 1.199 y 1.200 a 1.201,
respectivamente, del “Título LXVIII—Otras Materias”). El
proyecto de ley fue firmado por el presidente Joe Biden el 23 de
diciembre de 2022 y se promulgó en esa fecha. Este documento es una
revisión detallada y una disección de las funciones actuales de
AARO y de su cronograma de informes previstos. (</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
la sección en inglés hay un fragmento del trabajo). Publicado </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">en
abril de 2023 en Academia.edu:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/99475636/THE_PENTAGON_UAP_STUDY_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GTEC-LYeEG0l9RAcgp1AKdWbUpPuim1lHUbykAoQ3yrBb1P9QLzS2K4EZ2LkgN5ZolG6qqdsXq86dmEJTd3tyqaIeOPlOCOmGFtW-JUxpLxC7sXNWZouS-NMdTHF1H-lCp9_iFZyaBTg1hxwxRx0ZtsTQl-Od3Ns3YdQG0wWLuoAZZv10Q/s446/partial%20page%201194%20of%20section%206802.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="373" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GTEC-LYeEG0l9RAcgp1AKdWbUpPuim1lHUbykAoQ3yrBb1P9QLzS2K4EZ2LkgN5ZolG6qqdsXq86dmEJTd3tyqaIeOPlOCOmGFtW-JUxpLxC7sXNWZouS-NMdTHF1H-lCp9_iFZyaBTg1hxwxRx0ZtsTQl-Od3Ns3YdQG0wWLuoAZZv10Q/w168-h200/partial%20page%201194%20of%20section%206802.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Página
1194 de la Sección 6802 de la Ley de autorización de la defensa
nacional para 2023 (NDAA).</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
“The 2023 U.S. Senate UAP Hearing” (La audiencia UAP del Senado
de los Estados Unidos de 2023). El 19 de abril de 2023, el Subcomité
de Amenazas y Capacidades Emergentes del Comité de Servicios Armados
del Senado de EE. UU. llevó a cabo una audiencia en el Senado sobre
los UAP. La audiencia versó específicamente “sobre la misión,
actividades, supervisión y presupuesto de la Oficina de Resolución
de Anomalías en Todos los Dominios” (AARO) y la presentó su
director, el Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, quien leyó una declaración
formal, para seguidamente responder a las preguntas que le formularon
tres senadoras. Mi artículo -que me permito recomendar especialmente
a quienes deseen estar al corriente de la más rabiosa actualidad-
destaca y comenta la exposición del orador y las preguntas de las
“examinadoras”. </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
trabajo se encuentra completo en la sección en inglés del blog.
Publicado </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">en
mayo de 2023 en Academia.edu, está disponible a través del
siguiente enlace:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/101720680/The_2023_U_S_Senate_UAP_Hearing</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDAo17pHdBybDtU54rnsguI7UACyyIDBxmSN1dfiEioxiMvHqu_TR0YsJuiKvOBOb6HSiheCFeokpjbGU9d2Ju6T0jtexakLubn-GosCj2iJxtElgPkd0E8utpiy7V1EIuInKZHW0DuGIDArwqWvAsf-rnL5fNFBb_-UIn2IIFs45T4ldfw/s878/Kirkpatrick1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="878" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDAo17pHdBybDtU54rnsguI7UACyyIDBxmSN1dfiEioxiMvHqu_TR0YsJuiKvOBOb6HSiheCFeokpjbGU9d2Ju6T0jtexakLubn-GosCj2iJxtElgPkd0E8utpiy7V1EIuInKZHW0DuGIDArwqWvAsf-rnL5fNFBb_-UIn2IIFs45T4ldfw/w200-h167/Kirkpatrick1.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Dr.
Sean Kirkpatrick. </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Director
del All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Departamento de
Defensa de los Estados Unidos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Introducción</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
resolución de testimonios sobre apariciones complejas de ovnis
(“encuentros cercanos”) interpretadas como falsos recuerdos
(</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>false
memories</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>faux
mémoires</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
es una valiosa alternativa que acorta el abismo a veces insalvable
entre la alucinación pura y la invención malintencionada. Como la
parálisis del sueño (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sleep
paralysis</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>paralysie
du sommeil</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
y los fenómenos hipnagógicos e hipnopómpicos (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>hypnagogia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
han servido para explicar los denominados “visitantes de
dormitorio”, el síndrome del falso recuerdo logra aclarar una
serie de episodios en los que se conjuga la irrealidad y ficción de
los hechos narrados con la aparente sinceridad e integridad del
testigo. El siguiente trabajo es la versión original extendida de la
traducción algo más condensada que, con el título “Memory Games:
A False Recall Episode”, se ha publicado en el libro </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
V.J. Ballester-Olmos y Richard W. Heiden (coordinadores), UPIAR,
2023, páginas 25-38: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</a></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>El
OVNI del Mar Menor: Un episodio de Falso Recuerdo</b></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Por
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></span></p>
<h2 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a name="_Hlk136100079"></a><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>Resumen</u></span></span></span></span></h2>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Veremos
a continuación un suceso que parece tener una naturaleza
excepcional. Inicialmente indefinido temporalmente, más tarde se
quiere relacionar con un más que modesto avistamiento ovni ocurrido
en pleno verano español y que carece de explicación debido a la
pobreza de la información. La posterior encuesta con el testigo
(telefónica y por correo electrónico) durante años revela
pormenores inauditos. La búsqueda de prensa arroja una inesperada
solución para una fracción del relato del testigo. El análisis de
la narración cuadra con los modelos psicológicos sobre el falso
recuerdo (</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>false memory</i></span><span lang="es-ES">).
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Preámbulo</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Nos
hallamos ante el tipo de revelación de hechos inauditos o
extraordinarios que cuenta una persona y que, según el enfoque,
creencias y cultura científica</span><span lang="es-ES"><i> </i></span><span lang="es-ES">del
quien lo aborde puede convertirse en alguna de estas cosas tan
distintas: en evidencia de un fenómeno ovni inexplicable e
inteligente, o en un ejemplo de fabulación malintencionada, o en una
tergiversación bienintencionada del narrador. Gran parte del
sostenimiento del mito de los ovnis extraterrestres se apoya en la
ignorancia, credulidad o impericia del ufólogo de turno. Aquel que
es incapaz de filtrar críticamente las aventuras a las que presta
oídos y que luego pone por escrito fijándolas como auténticas. Los
hechos no se sustancian repitiendo lo que unos y otros relatan sin
más, por muchas fotos de las localizaciones y del sujeto que se
añadan, como hace la prensa amarilla. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">En
el caso que nos ocupa, quien afirma haber presenciado un fenómeno
publicado en un periódico, le confiere unas características
dispares y exclusivas notablemente extrañas. ¿Debemos creerle sin
más? Solo disponemos de su testimonio personal, aunque él asegura
que participaron dos miembros de su familia, vecinos y gran número
de personas. Pero de nadie más que él tenemos constancia, ni su
identidad ni alguna confirmación de unos hechos aparentemente
impactantes.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">El
objetivo de esta publicación es dar la información conocida, tanto
de la versión de “alta extrañeza” facilitada por este presunto
observador, que carece de corroboración, como del suceso publicado
al que conecta su presunta experiencia y del fenómeno conocido
posteriormente que aclararía el origen de los hechos. Probablemente
esto ejemplifica el trasunto del misterio de las más insólitas
historias de ovnis procedentes de un testigo único: ¿son ciertas
las narraciones que nos cuenta? ¿Qué postura debe sostener el
investigador durante su encuesta? ¿Creer ciegamente en un relato sin
confirmación ni prueba o usar un enfoque escéptico que halle su
ontología psicológica? Sin duda, la segunda, por pura lógica y
sentido común, con apoyo del conocimiento científico.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a name="_Hlk136100172"></a><span><span lang="es-ES"><u>Crónica
de un avistamiento</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">La
noche del 30 de septiembre de 2014 entró en mi correo electrónico
el mensaje de un desconocido “José A. Rubio”, que reproduzco
seguidamente con algunas correcciones gramaticales (entre corchetes
he añadido algunas precisiones mías y he resaltado en negrita
algunos de los datos más sensacionales de la historia):</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Estimado
Sr. Ballester, mi consulta es referente a un hecho acaecido hace
aproximadamente 20 o 25 años. Últimamente he coincidido con
testigos presenciales al igual que yo de este fenómeno, cambiamos
impresiones coincidiendo en todos los detalles. Así que después de
meditarlo voy a ahondar un poco en el tema.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> El
hecho ocurrió en la zona del Mar Menor</i></span></span><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1</span></span></sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
sobre la medianoche, estábamos mi madre, una prima hermana y yo en
el balcón de la casa </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[población
de Los Nietos, Murcia]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
con vistas a la playa charlando, cuando de repente vimos bajar desde
las profundidades de cielo estrellado un objeto brillante a gran
velocidad dejando una estela de luz hasta que paró en el centro del
Mar Menor </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>a
pocos metros (10-50 m) del agua</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.
En esta posición se mantuvo unos minutos, así que pudimos
observarlo detenidamente, tenía una </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>forma
esferoide</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
aunque no era definida debido a la luz que desprendía, la luz que
radiaba era principalmente blanquecina aunque lateralmente irradiaba
otras muchas tonalidades como verdes, azuladas y rojas entre otras.
Su tamaño aproximado podría ser </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>entre
20 y 30 m de diámetro</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
y su desaceleración hasta llegar al nivel del mar desde el cielo
fue instantánea.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> Visto
esto nos quedamos sorprendidos y teniendo claro que ese objeto no era
de origen conocido y sabiendo que estábamos presenciando algo
extraordinario, subimos corriendo a la terraza del edificio para
tener una panorámica de todo el Mar Menor. Transcurridos unos
minutos el objeto se desplazó hacia el sur unas dos millas </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[3.700
m]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
a una velocidad tal que lo hizo en una fracción de segundo, y con
una </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>aceleración
y desaceleración igualmente instantáneas</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.
Se mantuvo en reposo hasta que pudimos ver que se aproximaban una
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>embarcación
rápida de la Guardia Civil</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
y otra que no pudimos identificar pero que posiblemente también lo
fuera. </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>A
una distancia de unos 500 m encendieron los focos </b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
las embarcaciones iluminando el objeto, pero no pudieron acercarse
más porque el objeto inició una maniobra de evasión. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> Mientras
esto ocurría, oímos despegar de la base aérea de San Javier </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[~18
km en línea recta]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
a dos cazas (creo que eran F-1), aunque no divisamos en qué
dirección inicial fueron.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> El
objeto, que había iniciado la evasión de las embarcaciones, se
desplazó hacia el Norte unas cinco millas </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[9.300
m]</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
a igual velocidad situándose al nivel del mar igualmente muy cerca
de San Javier. Ahí estuvo parado hasta que </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>los
cazabombarderos lo sobrevolaron a los pocos minutos</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
y entonces se desplazó de nuevo al centro del Mar Menor donde
inicialmente se había estacionado. En esa posición solo estuvo
unos segundos ya que los reactores regresaban, así que finalmente
despegó con la misma extraordinaria aceleración y desapareció en
el firmamento dejando una pequeña estela amarillenta en las capas
superiores de la atmósfera.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i> Al
día siguiente, como es lógico, estuvimos atentos a la televisión
pero no informaron de nada, fuimos a comprar el periódico</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>,
y el suceso estaba descrito por las autoridades como un globo sonda
caído al Mar Menor</b></i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.
Con los años ingresé en el ejército; yo personalmente he lanzado
globos sonda meteorológicos así que puedo describirlos con
detalle. No hubo más noticias. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: 0.5cm;"> <span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><i> Este
es el relato completo de la experiencia. Con los años la curiosidad
fue desapareciendo, pero recientes conversaciones con testigos me
han alentado a ponerme manos a la obra. Mi intención es ir a la
hemeroteca del periódico La Verdad a rescatar la noticia, también
a contrastar los detalles del avistamiento con testigos, y preguntar
a investigadores del fenómeno ovni en España si tienen datos de
este avistamiento. Así que, una vez expuesto esto, le solicito que
si dispone de algún tipo de información sobre ello le ruego me
haga partícipe.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Según
insistía el testigo, se trató de un avistamiento muy popular, visto
aquel verano desde las poblaciones de La Manga, San Javier, Los
Alcázares, Los Nietos (lugar donde se hallaba el observador y su
familia), etc. Por toda revalidación, me mandó el fragmento de una
conversación que encontró en un foro de internet fechada el 11 de
agosto de 2010:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span lang="es-ES">HOLA
SOY UN VECINO DE MAR DE CRISTAL</span></span><span><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span lang="es-ES">[2,4 km a ESE de Los Nietos] </span><span><span lang="es-ES">Y
HACE UNOS 20 AÑOS SE AVISTO SIN NINGÚN TIPO DE DUDA UN APARATO QUE
OS ASEGURO QUE NO ERA DE ESTA TIERRA, SE PUDO VER DURANTE MUCHO
TIEMPO Y EN VARIAS ZONAS DE ESTA URBANIZACIÓN, INCLUSO MIS PADRES
QUE EN ESE MOMENTO NO ESTABAN CONMIGO PERO SI ESTABAN EN MAR DE
CRISTAL LO PUDIERON VER MUY DE CERCA A LA ALTURA DE LA SALIDA DE
ISLAS MENORES, SEGÚN ME COMENTARON CUANDO LLEGARON A CASA ESTABA
POSADO SOBRE EL MAR A MUY POCOS METROS DE LA ORILLA, Y CUALQUIERA QUE
ESTUVIERA EN MAR DE CRISTAL EN AQUELLA ÉPOCA LO PODRÁ CONFIRMAR
PORQUE LO AVISTO PRÁCTICAMENTE TODA LA URBANIZACIÓN, AQUELLO FUE
MUY SONADO. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">¡Un
testimonio anónimo que habla de un caso en el Mar Menor alrededor de
1990! Otro lector de ese foro manifestó haber visto lo mismo desde
Cabo de Palos (7,3 km a ESE de Los Nietos). ¿Cuándo? ¿Quién? Pero
a mi informador no le “hacen falta testigos de confianza, ya que el
caso lo viví junto con mis familiares y lo recuerdo perfectamente,
incluso he contactado con 20 o 30 vecinos que lo recuerdan”. Pero
lo cierto y verdad es que -como veremos luego- en distintos contactos
a lo largo de seis años, nunca ha sido capaz de dar siquiera un
nombre, una identidad más. </span></span>
</span></p>
<h1 class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><u>Comentarios
y comprobaciones iniciales</u></span></span></h1>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">De
entrada, el declarante asume lo extraordinario del fenómeno y lo
etiqueta de origen desconocido, de hecho por su forma de describir
los movimientos del objeto le asigna intención inteligente. Ello
supone una conclusión personal claramente tomada, a pesar de que
escribe para consultar a los “expertos”.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
reacción a este email fue solicitar que afinara más la fecha. 20 o
25 años atrás a partir de 2014, nos situaría entre 1989 y 1994. Al
momento, respondió con la seguridad de que se trató de julio o
agosto, a medianoche y acota ahora el intervalo de 1985 a 1990 (cinco
años antes de lo estimado al principio). Días después, el testigo
escribe haber localizado el suceso en la prensa de Murcia: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Verdad</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">, 16
de agosto de 1986 (página 11):</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgIqCJQk7pIJxEocNR2OkZCAeP6J_Hk62FFAtGtwfMwtjy-497Y3lNSRBzwNcTqHFzOsx_D6evv2fW9_IZ6_xYNQo6uUb7OQMqH7L904-WF-PczVpgE5w5flP8pRPzKkhpr5etT20u8qY1YxCy2BYgZ4PQoSX_f7YjVVi8WYTohnGhuGhWw/s436/OVNI%20sobre%20el%20Mar%20Menor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgIqCJQk7pIJxEocNR2OkZCAeP6J_Hk62FFAtGtwfMwtjy-497Y3lNSRBzwNcTqHFzOsx_D6evv2fW9_IZ6_xYNQo6uUb7OQMqH7L904-WF-PczVpgE5w5flP8pRPzKkhpr5etT20u8qY1YxCy2BYgZ4PQoSX_f7YjVVi8WYTohnGhuGhWw/w151-h200/OVNI%20sobre%20el%20Mar%20Menor.jpg" width="151" /></span></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">De
tratarse del mismo acontecimiento, dado que el informador afirma que
el suceso ocurrió alrededor de las 12,30 de la noche, podríamos
situar el fenómeno alrededor de las </span><span lang="es-ES" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><i>0,30
horas de la noche del jueves 14 al viernes 15 de agosto de 1986</i></span><span lang="es-ES" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">.
La misma columna que daba la noticia del ovni “en la madrugada del
jueves”, también publicó un corto sobre la desafortunada muerte
de una niña al chocar con un cristal la tarde de aquel mismo jueves.
Nuestro testigo afirmó recordar con seguridad que la observación
ovni pasó la noche del mismo día de aquel fallecimiento. De ser
así, </span><span lang="es-ES" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><u>se trataría del inicio del día
15</u></span><span lang="es-ES" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">.</span><sup style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">2</span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Según
la paupérrima noticia del diario, lo ocurrido dista mucho de lo
declarado por el testigo. Se habla de un “ovni que quedó detenido
en el firmamento”, no a pie de mar. Aquella noche, el firmamento
mostraba al brillante planeta Marte (magnitud -2.04) a 22º sobre el
horizonte y en dirección SSW. Un poco más alto (25º) y en el ESE,
Júpiter, con su brillo máximo (magnitud -2.83). Este último
planeta sería buen candidato, si bien su movimiento en la bóveda
celeste es de Este-Oeste, no hacia el Norte, como señala la prensa.
¿Un error de orientación por parte de los curiosos de vacaciones
aquel agosto? </span></span>
</span></p>
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cielo a las 00,30 del 15 de agosto de 1986, con Marte y Júpiter
prominentemente brillantes. Carta celeste </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Stellarium</i></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
centrada en Júpiter.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Pero
no me concierne especialmente buscar una solución a esta lucecita
veraniega, un avistamiento ovni intrascendente, seguramente de origen
astronómico dada su larga duración. Lo que importa destacar aquí
es la ausencia de cualquier mención a la intervención de una lancha
de la Guardia Civil iluminando al objeto y menos a la aparición de
dos cazas del Ejército del Aire, extremos que no pasarían
desapercibidos a ningún redactor. No solo eso, de haber ocurrido los
hechos como los ha descrito nuestro “testigo”, hubiese sido
noticia de alcance nacional, no un brevísimo suelto perdido en la
sección de sucesos de un diario regional. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">En
enero de 2015 retomé la revisión de este caso. Con franqueza
adelanté a mi informador el escaso parecido entre lo que me contó y
lo publicado, solicitando buscara otras fuentes con nombres y
apellidos que confirmaran que fueron testigos oculares de lo mismo
que él presenció. “Yo me barrunto una invención”, le dije
honradamente. “No he podido recabar ninguna información aparte de
los comentarios de alguna persona que avistó el objeto…Es curioso
pero casi todos los testigos [¿quiénes?] coinciden en los mismos
detalles y es sorprendente la claridad de los recuerdos aunque hayan
transcurrido tantos años”, respondió. Mucha claridad, pero ¿dónde
están los nombres?, añadiría yo. Y terminó con algo de lo que
quizás me deba sentir culpable: “Este correo me ha animado a
seguir y espero poder enviarle alguna información”. Le dije
claramente que su “versión dramática” carecía de
corroboración. Su respuesta no me contradecía: “Es cierto que lo
más fiable es buscar información de fuentes oficiales, como por
ejemplo atestados de la Guardia Civil, pero en ese sentido ando algo
desorientado. Sobre testigos, no creo que haya más que descubrir,
aunque fue un acontecimiento sonado en la zona, no ha trascendido
mediáticamente. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>He
leído muchos casos aquí en España y personalmente lo clasificaría
como uno de los más espectaculares</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">”.
Finalmente, le planteé unas preguntas “técnicas” sobre
dimensiones aparentes y angulares, distancias, etc. No hubo
respuesta. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">En
noviembre de 2017 reencontré esa correspondencia ordenando las
carpetas de asuntos pendientes y le escribí recordándole las
cuestiones que precisaban contestación. “Le mandé un correo en
contestación pero es posible que no le llegara”, me dijo. A pesar
de pedirle me reenviara el email, no lo hizo. “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tras
su requerimiento</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">,
me fui al lugar de los hechos e hice una reconstrucción detallada
incluso con fotografías. Las distancias y las demoras del objeto las
he posicionado con enfilaciones visuales contrastadas con una carta
náutica. Se corresponden con mi versión y la de todos los testigos
con los que he hablado”. Volveremos a ellas más tarde. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">En
una de sus comunicaciones me informa que “No existen registros
oficiales del avistamiento. He hablado con un antiguo compañero del
cuartel de la Guardia Civil del puesto de Cabo de Palos [a 7 km de
Los Nietos] y </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>no
consta parte de hechos de esta alerta</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">”.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">En
otro de sus mensajes me decía: “Conociendo la controversia que
puede crear, he estado en contacto al igual que con usted con el Sr.
Benítez, Agenda [Abenza] y también con Iker Jiménez y ser lo más
parcial [</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sic</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">]
con la información al igual que usted”. Obviamente el informador
está introducido en la materia. Es obvio que ya no hay testigos
vírgenes, pero unos lo son más que otros. Y éste es de los leídos.
¿A qué controversia se refiere? Le replico que hay cientos de casos
semejantes, no sé por qué éste en particular generaría
controversia. “Perdone, me refería a los distintos puntos de vista
entre investigadores, me refiero a la época de la desclasificación”.
Desconozco la razón por la que mi informador mezclaba asuntos tan
diferentes. Evidentemente se trata de la desclasificación de los
archivos ovni del Ejército del Aire -ocurrida entre 1990 y 1999-, en
la que jugué un papel destacable (1,2) y sobre cuyos debates estaba
bien al corriente. Como para afirmar que sabía de lo que hablaba,
añadió, como si eso fuera un plus: “A lo dicho anteriormente,
también tuve el placer de charlar con el coronel Cámara”. Como es
sabido, fue el piloto del caza que salió la noche del avistamiento
del llamado “caso Manises” (3).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Ante
un avistamiento presumiblemente colectivo, corresponde buscar
informes acaecidos en semejante fecha y lugar. Pero no existen
antecedentes en el Mar Menor en agosto de 1986 de un fenómeno de las
características señaladas por el informador. Re</span></span><span lang="es-ES">visamos
nuestros propios catálogos de casos ovni y consultamos a nuestros
colegas más cercanos: nada aquel 15 de agosto de 1986. Hemos
recurrido a otros investigadores y a foros de internet: en este
mundillo, no hay gran colaboración, muchos ufólogos hacen acopio de
la información para explotarla de diversas formas, pero quienes han
contestado carecen de información. Curioso, porque el fenómeno
debió tener miles de espectadores. Nada registrado, excepto la
minucia ya reseñada en el diario local.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Más
importante aún es que tampoco ha habido ninguna comunicación de las
autoridades aéreas relativas a la caída de un globo sonda como
explicación a un avistamiento ovni. (En una posterior conversación
telefónica, y en vista de que la prensa no publicó nunca tal cosa,
responde que podría haberlo escuchado en el noticiario local de la
televisión regional, si bien en su primer email dijo que la
televisión no dio ninguna noticia). Pero ningún medio español dio
tal noticia nunca porque tal anuncio oficial jamás existió.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Dice
haber escuchado despegar aviones de San Javier, situada a 20 km.
Pero, además de lo improbable de esa audición, San Javier es la
Academia General del Aire, no una base aérea al uso. Los aviones
allí desplegados, del tipo C-101, son para enseñanza de los nuevos
oficiales piloto, carecen de radar y no hacen vuelos nocturnos. De
allí no despegan cazas en misión de interceptación. Luego esa
afirmación es falsa. En todo caso, para ese propósito, la más
cercana sería la base aérea de Los Llanos (Albacete), a unos 180 km
de distancia. Además de que es infrecuente que dos aviones salgan
al unísono a un </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>scramble</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">,
el proceso mínimo para que un </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Mirage
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">F-1
alcanzara el Mar Menor, a partir de una hipotética detección en
radar (desde el EVA-5 de Aitana, en Alicante, a </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Pegaso
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">en la base
aérea de Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid), no sería inferior a 30
minutos. Se desprende del relato del informador que los
“cazabombarderos” aparecieron a los pocos minutos de verse el
objeto. Otra falsedad.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">Tampoco
hay ninguna “persecución ovni” en 1986 entre los expedientes
desclasificados por el Ejército del Aire, que finalizan en 1995 (4)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
He hecho una consulta reciente al Ejército del Aire sobre si hubo
alguna salida de cazas en misión de interceptación aquella noche,
desde San Javier u otra base. En primera instancia, la Oficina de
Comunicación del Gabinete del Jefe del Estado Mayor del Aire me
avisó que mi petición se había “cursado debidamente” al jefe
del gabinete del JEMA. Bastaría con una mirada a los libros de
control del GRUCEMAC (Grupo Central de Mando y Control para dirimir
la cuestión. Al tiempo, recibí noticias definitivas, vía correo
electrónico, que zanjaban el testimonio fantasioso acerca de una
salida de aviones de combate en tiempo y lugar:</span></span></p>
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respecto a una posible consulta a la Guardia Civil, recientemente
hemos comprobado que la institución militar no conserva
documentación más allá de los cinco años (5)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">En
cuanto a los periódicos nacionales, una revisión de los principales
diarios del país no ha encontrado nada relacionado, ni con la
llamativa observación narrada por el informador, ni tampoco con una
supuesta comunicación oficial. Nada mínimamente semejante fue
denunciado tampoco en países cercanos bañados por el Mediterráneo.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">En
2019 desenterré de nuevo el asunto para recordarle al testigo que se
había comprometido conmigo a redactar un informe exhaustivo, que
permitiera mejor su estudio. “Cierto es que tengo el asunto un poco
desatendido”, señaló. Finalmente, en 2020 decidí analizar el
relato hasta sus últimas consecuencias. Durante meses siguieron
bastantes emails y llamadas telefónicas para precisar y ampliar
datos necesarios para el estudio del testimonio. El testigo, José
Antonio Rodríguez Martínez (“Rubio es un apelativo porque soy
pelirrojo”), vive en Cartagena y es militar en activo desde 1996,
concretamente Contramaestre (suboficial jefe de marinería) de la
Armada. En su opinión, la observación duró de 30 a 40 minutos,
sólo en eso coincide con lo publicado por </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Verdad</i></span><span lang="es-ES">. Señala que el objeto tenía
forma “ovoide” (antes fue un “esferoide”) y que estaba
“prácticamente a nivel del mar” (ya no flotando en el agua, sino
suspendido por encima del mar); preguntado por la altura angular
sobre la superficie, aduce que al estar en una posición elevada la
perspectiva no le permitió determinar ese dato. En cuanto a sus
dimensiones, éstas eran equivalente a la eslora de la patrullera de
la Guardia Civil que se le acercó, esto es, unos 20 m. “El objeto
parecía sólido, aunque la luz que lo iluminaba no permitía verlo
aunque sí adivinar su forma”, apuntó en alguno de nuestros varios
cruces de emails. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Para
un marino al que se supone capacidad de calcular distancias, los 500
m a los que se encontraba la lancha de la Guardia Civil según su
mensaje de 2014 se convierten en apenas “100 m” en una
conversación telefónica el 9 de agosto de 2020. ¡Se acaba de
producir un acercamiento desmesurado!</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">El
informador nació en abril de 1974, en 2020 tiene 46 años, luego
</span><span lang="es-ES"><u>apenas tenía 12 años</u></span><span lang="es-ES">
en el momento de la observación. Este dato resulta de especial
relevancia.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Además,
el sujeto está particularmente bien informado sobre la temática
ovni, luego su predisposición para confundir recuerdo real y relato
actual, adicionando detalles extra, no es una posibilidad, es un
hecho. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><u>Geografía
del relato</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">En
el mapa siguiente, se expresan gráficamente los supuestos
movimientos del ovni sobre el Mar Menor.</span></span></p>
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Martínez me remitió varias recreaciones del avistamiento, indicando
con trazos las cuatro posiciones del supuesto objeto, de las que se
pueden inferir estas situaciones: Visto desde Los Nietos, el objeto
desciende sobre el punto 1, después se mueve hacia el punto 2,
seguidamente se desplaza hasta al punto 3, para finalmente volver a
la zona inicial, punto 4, y desde allí elevarse hasta desaparecer.</span></p>
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el mapa siguiente, se expresan gráficamente los supuestos
movimientos del ovni sobre el Mar Menor. (Cortesía de J.C. Victorio
Uranga).</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">El
9 de octubre de 2020, día de la Comunidad Valenciana, el testigo se
pone en contacto nuevamente conmigo, con una llamada telefónica y
dos emails, en uno de los que adjunta un gráfico de los movimientos
del ovni. El esquema que aporta no difiere del reconstruido por
nosotros, a excepción de que sitúa el punto 3 mucho más alejado.
Quedamos en tener una entrevista al día siguiente. Yo tenía ya una
larga batería de cuestiones que plantearle, en nada menos que 17
fichas dispuestas a tal efecto. La extensa entrevista telefónica
tiene lugar a partir de las 5,30 de la tarde. De resultas de la
encuesta, el testigo aporta los siguientes pormenores </span><span lang="es-ES"><b>nuevos</b></span><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">¿Por
qué retomó este asunto en 2014, veintiocho años después de los
hechos? “La curiosidad, siempre lo tuve presente, en aquellas
fechas debí hablar con alguien que tuvo el avistamiento, a ver si
averiguaba algo más…no es algo que me haya trascendido”. En
cuanto a su interés por los ovnis: “desde que era pequeñito leía
a J.J. Benítez, siempre he leído sobre los temas que trata Iker
Jiménez”. Desde que ingresó en la Armada ha servido en submarino,
corbeta y cazaminas, últimamente en transporte y en la actualidad
está a la espera de destino. Dice haber preguntado por email a J.J.
Benítez, quien dijo desconocer el caso, y a Joaquín Abenza (CIFE,
Murcia), que tampoco tenía conocimiento del suceso, aunque le invitó
a participar en su programa de radio, oferta que él declinó.
¿Escribió algún informe de su observación? No hasta que me
escribió en 2014: “No, porque no había datos a mano, un vacío de
información [de otras fuentes]”. Al problema que suscita su corta
edad como observador de unos hechos tan lejanos en el tiempo, dice
recordar “perfectamente” lo que vio y que incluso recuerda cosas
de cuando tenía seis años y vivía en Canarias. “Según he leído
-añade- los testigos se acuerdan aunque hayan pasado 40 años, no
soy un caso especial”. Piensa que a los niños “que son más
impresionables, se les quedan las cosas más grabadas”: </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>estos
detalles los he tenido siempre claros, he afinado ahora desde un
punto de vista objetivo</i></span><span lang="es-ES">, puntualiza. En
2014 volvió al lugar he hizo comprobaciones: “no hay confusión ni
en distancias ni en rumbos, fue una corroboración de adulto”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Insiste
que su madre y su prima lo vieron y lo recuerdan. Pido
entrevistarlas, pero su madre “no se va a prestar, no quiere saber
nada” y con su prima ya no tiene relación, por cosas de familia.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">El
testigo, a medida que pasa el tiempo, es más y más preciso: (antes
de subir a la terraza del edificio) “el objeto estaba a una milla
del balcón [1 milla náutica =1.852 m], el resplandor del objeto
abajo en el mar marcaba su posición y se veía perfectamente la
altura sobre el agua”. El ovni se hallaba a unos 20 o 30 m sobre la
superficie del mar. Dice haber recordado ahora “un detalle
relevante”: </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>minutos antes de
aproximarse la patrullera, otra embarcación estuvo junto al objeto,
posiblemente un pesquero, ya que disponía de unos focos móviles de
gran potencia en cubierta iluminando el objeto</i></span><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Con
respecto al tamaño del objeto, su referencia son las dos
embarcaciones cercanas (en el punto 2 de los anteriores gráficos):
el barco pesquero (con iluminación en la cubierta) tendría unos 10
m de eslora, la patrullera de la GC, que iba en su dirección, unos
15 m de largo. Calcula que el ovni tendría un diámetro mayor que el
pesquero y semejante a la nave de la Guardia Civil. Pedí comparara
su tamaño aparente con el de la luna llena (0, 5º), para comprobar
estos datos: “no podría, me lo estaría inventando”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;">“<span><span lang="es-ES">Hay
un dato que no estaba correcto en el informe que le mandé: el orden
fue, primero el barco pesquero, que se acercó a unos pocos metros
[más tarde, en la misma conversación, concreta en 50 m] durante
unos cinco minutos. El navío de la GC no se aproximó pero iba en
esa dirección y se quedó entre 500 y 1000 m”. Rodríguez señaló
que el objeto “siempre estuvo estático sobre el mar, a ras” y
que “en ningún momento cambió la altitud inicial del mar”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Quise
determinar la duración del avistamiento. De sus declaraciones (ver
las posiciones en los gráficos anteriores):</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Punto
1 (a una milla): “estuvo unos 15 minutos”</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Del
punto 1 al punto 2 se desplazó “con velocidad instantánea, como
una estela de luz”</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Punto
2 (a 2 millas al SE): “estuvo pocos minutos, entre 5 y 10”. Aquí
tenemos a las dos embarcaciones. “Se oía el rugir de la patrullera
de la Guardia Civil”, recuerda. Los cazas estaban despegando y se
les oía (“un ruido diferente al de los aviones normales de la
base”).</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Punto
3 (a 7-8 millas): “muy breve aquí, unos 2-3 minutos”. Los cazas
ya sobrevolaban la zona, “reconocimiento, sin aproximarse”.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Punto
4 (a 2 millas): “apenas unos instantes”. Se elevó hasta
desaparecer.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">En
total el avistamiento duraría unos 28 minutos. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">En
principio, la declaración parece racional y sincera. El testigo
justifica bien lo que afirma. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">La
encuesta hacía esencial la búsqueda de informaciones publicadas en
los periódicos que pudieran confirmar los hechos. Y fue el
investigador vasco Juan Carlos Victorio quien halló una pieza clave,
una noticia publicada en </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>La Hoja del
Lunes</i></span><span lang="es-ES"> de Murcia del lunes, 18 de agosto
de 1986, titulada </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>El “ovni” de La
Manga era un globo sonda de colores.</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Fue lanzado desde una embarcación de
recreo</i></span><span lang="es-ES">. En ese recorte, una breve
información de la agencia EFE expuso lo siguiente sobre el caso en
cuestión:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><i>El
objeto volador no identificado (ovni) que en fechas pasadas causó
expectación en el litoral murciano era un globo sonda pintado de
colores. El entretenimiento que originó el ovni a los veraneantes lo
proporcionó J.P. Padilla, a quien se le ocurrió lanzar un globo
desde su embarcación de recreo, informó ayer un grupo de amigos del
lanzador de sondas al espacio. El globo estaba también dotado de un
aparato que emitía frecuencias.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">No
se indica, desafortunadamente, la fecha u hora exactas, pero a buen
seguro se refiere al suceso de la madrugada del 15 de agosto, al que
se refería la noticia de </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>La Verdad </i></span><span lang="es-ES">del
día 16. Como nuestro testigo hablaba de la “medianoche” es
indudable que todo hace referencia a lo mismo. </span></span>
</span></p>
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Hoja del Lunes</i></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES">
(Murcia), 18 de agosto de 1986.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Análisis</u></span></p>
<p lang="en-US"><span><span><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Ningún
hecho se considera acaecido o real sin pruebas. Un relato sin
confirmación es nulo a todos los efectos, máxime cuando lo que se
cuenta es un suceso asombroso o extravagante que se pretende anómalo.
No podemos creer sin más en las historias que nos cuenta cualquiera,
especialmente aquellas de tinte extraordinario que obligarían a
modificar el sentido o estado de los conocimientos establecidos. No
olvidemos nunca el aforismo de Carl Sagan: "afirmaciones
extraordinarias requieren evidencia extraordinaria".</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">Y
en el caso que nos ocupa tenemos (sin particular orden de prioridad o
relevancia):</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">*
Ausencia total de testigos oculares que confirmen los hechos (decir
que existen no equivale a demostrar que existan, no hasta que se
expongan), </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>de facto </i></span><span lang="es-ES">hay
un único testigo </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">*
Información falsa acerca de una supuesta nota de prensa de carácter
oficial </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">*
No hay la menor información de “su” caso, ni publicada ni en los
archivos de los estudiosos del tema</span><sup><span lang="es-ES">3</span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Lo que publicaron los medios de comunicación de la zona en las horas
o días siguientes apunta a la suelta aquella noche por un particular
de un globo (¿iluminado?), susceptible de ser objeto de confusión</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">*
Un caso de esta supuesta relevancia es desconocido entre los
expedientes ovni del Ejército del Aire </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Información falsa sobre salidas de cazas interceptadores desde la
base de San Javier o de cualquier otra esa noche, lo que ha sido
corroborado por el Ejército del Aire</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Imposibilidad de escuchar el despegue de cazas a 18 km de distancia</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Información no comprobada sobre intervención directa de la Guardia
Civil</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Dudosa afirmación de que coincidió con otros testigos de idéntico
hecho</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Retraso de 28 años desde la observación a la primera comunicación</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
La dinámica del supuesto objeto (las trayectorias efectuadas) es
errática y sin sentido</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Es muy dudoso que, con apenas 12 años, tenga la capacidad de
determinar tal nivel de detalle para distancias y movimientos de un
objeto luminoso desconocido</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">*
La fecha es muy cercana a la radiante de las Perseidas (23 de julio a
22 de agosto, con un máximo el 12-13 de agosto) (6)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">,
y la observada caída inicial de un “objeto brillante desde el
cielo dejando una estela” podría perfectamente atribuirse a una
estrella fugaz, que se alió seguidamente con la aparición del globo
de colores</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;">*
Intensa creencia en el tema ovnis</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Ante
un relato de las características presentadas, un testimonio no
contrastable sin ninguna corroboración externa, se pueden enunciar
varias hipótesis, con distintos grados de implicación consciente
del relator. El abanico de errores complejos, experiencias
inmateriales, hasta engaños conscientes se contemplan como
contribuyentes positivos bajo la óptica de la más que definitiva
hipótesis psicosociológica (7)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span><span lang="es-ES">Yo me decanto por pensar que, con
los años, el testigo ha transferido inconscientemente al recuerdo de
su temprana observación, detalles ajenos adquiridos en la admitida
profusa lectura de libros, revistas y documentales sobre el tema
ovnis. Concediéndole el beneficio de la duda, el testigo, con el
paso del tiempo, ha creado un </span><span lang="es-ES"><u>falso
recuerdo</u></span><span lang="es-ES"> (8-10). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">La
ufología es una mina de ejemplos “clínicos” de este fenómeno
psicológico (11)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Investigación reciente ha sacado a la luz que el efecto dilatorio de
la comunicación de la experiencia y el efecto “creencia” por
parte del sujeto maximiza la producción de recuerdos falsos (12).
Ambos son componentes principales en el caso que hoy estudiamos y
este autor tiene el convencimiento de que su prevalencia en la
casuística ufológica es muy alta.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
caso representa el dilema central en el estudio de supuestos sucesos
extraordinarios. La visión inicial de un niño ha transmutado una
luz o un objeto iluminado sobre el mar en una película de un cuasi
amerizaje, con reactores persiguiendo al ovni, una embarcación de la
Guardia Civil acercándose y un pesquero enfocando sus focos hacia el
objeto volante no identificado que cambia de dirección continuamente
a una velocidad terrible. Un rasgo de su imaginación que ha llegado
a creerse y que ha deseado compartir con los “expertos” para
buscar refrendo. En una alternativa más radical sería una invención
pura, algo del todo irreal, sin base, producto de su consciencia, que
ha ligado a la noticia encontrada en la prensa como supuesto apoyo a
sus declaraciones. La dicotomía entre imaginación y realidad
subyace en el análisis de los avistamientos más críticos (13)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Sabemos
que las alucinaciones visuales no requieren una psicopatología
previa (14) y que la génesis de una experiencia alucinatoria en
sujetos no clínicos se relaciona con un evento circunstancial, como
una situación de duelo o un fenómeno aislado (15). Pero no parece
una alucinación sino una memoria falsa, otro de los muchos fenómenos
mentales que se asocian a la fabricación de historias. De todos
modos, en ufología la línea divisoria entre mixtificación y falso
recuerdo es extremadamente tenue (16).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">Hay,
además, personas que cuentan a los investigadores historias que se
inventan (17)</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
El rango de explicaciones para los “encuentros cercanos” es
dilatado: falsas interpretaciones, tomaduras de pelo, bromas que se
descontrolan, mentiras patológicas, alucinaciones específicas,
recuerdos apócrifos, parálisis del sueño, visiones hipnopómpicas
e hipnagógicas, etc., son muchas las motivaciones y las
evaluaciones. Es de todo punto necesario el concurso de profesionales
del mundo de las ciencias de la conducta en el estudio de la
casuística ovni más espectacular. En mis archivos de más de 1.200
expedientes de tales informes procedentes de la península ibérica
hay materia para muchas tesis doctorales. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">El
enfoque seguido en el análisis de esta información no es nuevo, ni
es arbitrario, se trata de ser fieles a lo que el filósofo Bunge
(18) llama </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>racionalidad metodológica</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
que consiste en cuestionar (dudar y criticar) y justificar (exigir
demostración o datos, favorables o desfavorables) de manera
sistemática. En el tema ovnis, esta postura es indeclinable. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="es-ES">A
modo de epílogo, diré que la penúltima vez que el observador se
puso en contacto conmigo fue el 12 de enero de 2021, quejoso: “anoche
dieron en Cuarto Milenio</span><sup><span lang="es-ES">4</span></sup><span lang="es-ES">
un reportaje sobre ovnis en el Mar Menor pero no hicieron referencia
a mi avistamiento”. Yo le respondí con franqueza que el caso, a
todos los efectos, no existe, al no haber ninguna corroboración.
Para finalizar, antes de publicar este informe se lo he remitido,
señalando que “no fue una nave extraterrestre, pero tampoco una
invención, se trató de lo que los psicólogos llaman un falso
recuerdo… En mi opinión, no deberías seguir dándole vueltas a
este asunto; mejor darlo por olvidado y seguir con una normal vida
familiar y laboral”. Quiero pensar que su respuesta inmediata,
aunque escueta, augura la vuelta a la normalidad: </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gracias
por todo, un saludo</span></i></span></span><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES">, Temas
de Hoy (Madrid), 1995, pp. 153-236.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Culmina la desclasificación oficial”,
</span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos de
Ufología</i></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"> (III), 1
(21), 1997, pp. 76-81, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y88rf6bw"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y88rf6bw</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="es-ES">(3)
M. Borraz, “ENIGMAS y la peor de las conspiraciones”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42774837/ENIGMAS_el_caso_Manises_y_la_peor_de_las_conspiraciones">https://www.academia.edu/42774837/ENIGMAS_el_caso_Manises_y_la_peor_de_las_conspiraciones</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="es-ES">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI
desclasificados–Online”, Ministerio de Defensa, 2017, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=42382"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: times; text-decoration: none;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=42382</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Juan Ballester Olmos y Marcos Antonio Benítez, “Incidente en
la costa de Ayamonte, marzo de 1987”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk96636750"></a><span><span><span lang="en-US">(6)
Gary W. Kronk, </span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><u>Meteor
Showers. A Descriptive Catalog</u></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">,
Enslow Publishers, Inc. (Hillside, New Jersey), 1988, p. 162.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk96637143"></a><span><span><span lang="en-US">(7)
Jean-Michel Abrassart, “Le modèle sociopsychologique du phénomène
OVNI: Un cadre conceptuel interprétatif en sciences humaines”,
2016, pp. 69-83,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span><span style="font-family: times; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/29385801/Le_mod%C3%A8le_sociopsychologique_du_ph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8ne_OVNI_Un_cadre_conceptuel_interpr%C3%A9tatif_en_sciences_humaines">https://www.academia.edu/Le_modèle_sociopsychologique_du_phénomène_OVNI_Un_cadre_conceptuel_interprétatif_en_sciences_humaines</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="en-US">(8)
E. Goldstein y K. Farmer (eds.), </span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><u>True
Stories of False Memories</u></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">,
Social Issues Resources Service (Boca Raton, Florida), 1994. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="en-US">(9)
E.F. Loftus y J.E. Pickrell, “The formation of false memories”,
</span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Psychiatric Annals</i></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">,
25, 1995, pp. 720-725. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="en-US">(10)
E. F. Loftus, “Memories of things unseen”, </span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Current
Directions in Psychological Science</i></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">,
13, 2004, pp. 145-147.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(11)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, J. Plaza del Olmo y M. Pullman, “El OVNI de
La Graña”, 2018,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(12)
R. Bouvet, “L’effet des croyances sur la production des faux
souvenirs. Etude des témoignages de phénomènes aérospatiaux non
identifiés”, CAIPAN (GEIPAN/CNES), 2014,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/31__BOUVET_sli.pdf"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/31__BOUVET_sli.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(13)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “¿Imaginación o realidad? El aterrizaje de
Turís (Valencia)”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39622667/IMAGINACION_O_REALIDAD._EL_ATERRIZAJE_DE_TURIS"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/39622667/IMAGINACION_O_REALIDAD._EL_ATERRIZAJE_DE_TURIS</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="en-US">(14)
R. P. Bentall, “Hallucinatory Experiences”, en </span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><u>Varieties
of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence</u></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">,
Etzel Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn y Stanley Krippner (eds.), American
Psychological Association, 2014, pp. 109-144.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="en-US">(15)
G. Stanghellini, A. I. Langer, A. Ambrosini y A.J. Cangas, “Quality
of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a
non-clinical sample”, </span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><i>World
Psychiatry</i></span></span><span><span lang="en-US">, junio
de 2012, pp. 110–113, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363387/"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: times; text-decoration: none;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363387/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="en-US">(16)
Jean-Michel Abrassart, “UFO phenomenon and psychopathology: A case
study”, 2015,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><span lang="es-ES">(17)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y J.C. Victorio Uranga, “Aterrizaje OVNI
durante maniobras del Ejército de Tierra”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40986034/Aterrizaje_OVNI_durante_maniobras_del_Ejercito_de_Tierra"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: times; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/40986034/Aterrizaje_OVNI_durante_maniobras_del_Ejercito_de_Tierra</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Mario Bunge, </span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"><u>Racionalidad
y realismo</u></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES">, Alianza
Editorial (Madrid), 1985, p. 14.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Notas
al pie</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">1.
El Mar Menor es una laguna costera de agua salada situada al sureste
de la Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia (España), cerca de Cartagena.
Con una superficie de 135 km</span></span><sup><span><span lang="es-ES">2</span></span></sup><span><span lang="es-ES">,
una longitud de costa de 70 km y aguas templadas y transparentes de
no más de 7 m de profundidad, es la laguna más grande de España.
La laguna está separada del mar Mediterráneo por La Manga, un banco
de arena de 22 km de longitud y una anchura que oscila entre los 100
y los 1.200 m, con el cabo de Palos en su vértice sureste dando a la
laguna una forma aproximadamente triangular.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.
El mismo diario del sábado 16 de agosto de 1986 llevaba un artículo
de Sánchez de la Rosa titulado “La pocilga y el ovni” (página
18), que establecía una coincidencia horaria entre la visualización
de una película de Pier Paolo Pasolini en TVE (“Cine de
Medianoche”) con el avistamiento. Ocurre que este ciclo se emitía
los viernes, más allá de las doce de la noche, o sea, ya entrados
en el día 16 de agosto. Hay un día de diferencia entre ambas
referencias, publicadas el mismo día en idéntico periódico (o
hasta dos, si consideramos “la madrugada del jueves” como las
primeras horas del 14 de agosto, lo que me parece demasiado margen de
error).</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>3.
La única noticia de un objeto suspendido sobre el Mar Menor en
agosto de 1986 es el dibujo de una “nave” supuestamente vista por
un tal Joaquín Fernández, protagonista de nada menos que 13
avistamientos ovni y que afirma estar “controlado por esos seres”.
Pero tal parece que el dibujo se refiere a un caso fechado realmente
en agosto de 1963. J.J. Benítez, </span><span><u>Sólo
para tus ojos</u></span><span>, Planeta
(Barcelona), pp. 117-118. Sea como fuere, los dos relatos difieren en
lo sustancial.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="sdfootnote-western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: arial;">4.
Programa de televisión español que se emite desde 2005 en el canal
“Cuatro”, dedicado a los ovnis y otros misterios semejantes,
conducido por Iker Jiménez.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span lang="es-ES">A
José Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, por la gentileza en brindarme la
información fundamental de esta “experiencia” y su paciencia y
disposición a colaborar con el autor en el curso de los seis años
transcurridos desde su primera notificación hasta nuestras últimas
conversaciones telefónicas e intercambio de correos electrónicos. A
Fulgencio J. Cerón, por búsqueda en hemeroteca. A Juan Carlos
Victorio Uranga, por información astronómica, infografía
geográfica, investigación de hemeroteca y reflexiones. A Julio
Plaza del Olmo, por sus útiles comentarios. A Joan Plana Crivillén,
por datos aeronáuticos y de Defensa. A Edoardo Russo (CISU, Turín,
Italia), por la información de prensa de las fechas coincidentes con
el avistamiento español. A Juan Pablo González, por revisar la base
de datos del catálogo de observaciones ovni en la Península Ibérica
(CUCO). Al Capitán Manuel Ángel Cuenca López, Oficial de
Información Pública del Ejército del Aire (Oficina de Comunicación
del Ejército del Aire), por sus averiguaciones sobre la ausencia de
</span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>scramble</i></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES">
en la zona y en la fecha mencionada.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
trabajo se ha publicado en Academia.edu en el siguiente enlace
definitivo:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/102429425/El_OVNI_del_Mar_Menor_Un_episodio_de_Falso_Recuerdo"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/102429425/El_OVNI_del_Mar_Menor_Un_episodio_de_Falso_Recuerdo</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Apuntes
al “Caso Manises”</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
avistamiento aéreo sobre el Mediterráneo del 11 de noviembre de
1979, conocido como “caso Manises” es, probablemente, el suceso
ovni más importante de la casuística española. La investigación
exhaustiva de Juan A. Fernández Peris</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
propugnó como mejor modelo de explicación el avistamiento de la
luces de potentes llamaradas desde la refinería de Escombreras,
situada a unos 220km del punto donde se encontraba el JK297 en el
momento del encuentro. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
hipótesis de trabajo de Fernández Peris nunca ha sido correctamente
refutada. Últimamente se ha sugerido la posibilidad de que un avión
estadounidense procedente del portaaviones Nimitz (en la zona por
aquel entonces) fuera responsable del avistamiento ovni. El físico e
investigador Julio Plaza del Olmo ha escrito una entrada en su blog
demostrando lo erróneo de esa posibilidad: “Manises: tras la pista
de la VI Flota”: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2023/04/manises-tras-la-pista-de-la-vi-flota.html">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2023/04/manises-tras-la-pista-de-la-vi-flota.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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de Escombreras (Murcia, España).
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinería_de_Escombreras"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refiner%C3%ADa_de_Escombreras</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>El
Expediente Manises</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Fundación Anomalía (Santander), agosto de 2000. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Las
actas de Barcelona</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
diciembre de 1977, Antonio Ribera organizó en Barcelona el I
Congreso Nacional de Ufología. Los trabajos técnicos y científicos
presentados se publicaron en febrero de 1978 bajo la coordinación de
Pedro Redón, secretario general del CEI, en un volumen de 111
páginas titulado “Actas del primer congreso nacional de Ufología:
Ponencias técnicas”. He subido a internet esta monografía, que se
puede descargar gratuitamente desde el siguiente enlace:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/100100005/Actas_I_Congreso_Nacional_de_Ufologia_Ponencias_Tecnicas_P_Redon_ed_1978">https://www.academia.edu/Actas_I_Congreso_Nacional_de_Ufologia_Ponencias_Tecnicas_P_Redon_1978</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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citables</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sobre
esos informes y rumores de “seres verdes” de aspecto humanoide
avistados en varios países del mundo, incluido España, que podemos
encontrar en catálogos de casos de aterrizaje de ovnis no
debidamente depurados</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
observaciones que son interpretadas como una realidad por el sector
de ufólogos más crédulos, he consultado al antropólogo español
Ignacio Cabria</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">2,3,4</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
al respecto y su respuesta es clarificadora: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;">Aparte
de que esos casos se refieren a testimonios en bruto tal como fueron
recogidos por periodistas o ufólogos, y que entonces no fueron
analizados críticamente, se puede comentar que no se tuvieron en
cuenta los factores cognitivos de la observación y el contexto
cultural que influyó en los testimonios y en la interpretación de
los hechos por el propio testigo y por los investigadores o
divulgadores. Lo que tenemos, en resumen, son narraciones de
experiencias extraordinarias que se amoldan a estereotipos de la
cultura contemporánea sobre visitantes del espacio. Y en cuanto a la
posible comparación de esas narraciones con leyendas indígenas
americanas, la antropología cognitiva sostiene que hay un rango
limitado de formas y representaciones que la mente humana puede
producir de lo maravilloso, de ahí que inevitablemente encontremos
en diferentes culturas del mundo patrones comunes sobre seres,
dioses, monstruos, etc.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1)
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Center for UFO Studies (Evanston, Illinois), abril de 1976. Prólogo
del Dr. Jacques Vallée.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">
<span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Ignacio Cabria, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Reediciones Anómalas, 2022.
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990">https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Dr. Félix Ares de Blas, reseña,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_06_15_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_06_15_archive.html#es</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Ignacio Cabria, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Así
creamos monstruos</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Luciérnaga, 2023.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Reveladora información aportada por el Dr. David Clarke sobre el
incidente de Rendlesham Forest: “Has the mystery of 'Britain's
Roswell' finally been solved? </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Rendlesham
Forest UFO 'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen,
insiders claim”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539849/Has-mystery-Britains-Roswell-finally-solved.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6539849/Has-mystery-Britains-Roswell-finally-solved.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
“UFO and Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Scientifically”, un nuevo
canal de YouTube creado por el investigador ucraniano Igor Kalytyuk:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/@UFOandAAPscientifically/videos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Continua el debate sobre “Oumuamua”: “Acceleration of
1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice”,
Jennifer B. Bergner y Darryl Z. Seligman, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Nature</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
volumen 615, 2023, </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pp.
610–613, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05687-w"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05687-w</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
la respuesta del promotor del concepto: “Implications of
evaporative cooling by H2 for 1I/‘Oumuamua”, Thiem Hoang y
Abraham Loeb,</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Hoang_Loeb_23.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span>http</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span>s://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Hoang_Loeb_23.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Sobre el fatídico personaje Richard Doty, el ufólogo Robert
Hastings ha escrito (2017) “UFO Disinformation Agent Richard Doty
is Up to His Old Tricks: Beware the Many Lies He Tells Steven Greer”,
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/11/ufo-disinformation-agent-richard-doty.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/11/ufo-disinformation-agent-richard-doty.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Barry
Greenwood señala, al respecto, en un email al foro NICAP Research el
1 de marzo de 2023: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: arial;"><i>Doty
no ha sido discutible desde la década de 1980. Difunde información
falsa regularmente. Estaba en el centro de la falsificación del
MJ-12 y del engaño SERPO. Doty hace que Clifford Irving parezca un
aficionado pero con un tema menos creíble. Me hizo desperdiciar
cientos de horas de investigación tratando de establecer la
credibilidad de documentos OVNI del gobierno, aparte de sus
falsificaciones de documentos. Doty es uno de los peores personajes
en la historia del tema OVNI.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Análisis de Martin Shough: “Return of the Flying Saucers:
Re-evaluating the Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/return-of-the-flying-saucers-re-evaluating-the-kenneth-arnold-ufo-sighting/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/return-of-the-flying-saucers-re-evaluating-the-kenneth-arnold-ufo-sighting/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Malas noticias para los creyentes en la precognición. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">El
profesor Chris French escribe: “The Transparent Psi Project: the
results are in, so where are all the headlines?”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Skeptic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
16 de marzo de 2023,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/03/the-transparent-psi-project-the-results-are-in-so-where-are-all-the-headlines/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/03/the-transparent-psi-project-the-results-are-in-so-where-are-all-the-headlines/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Nuevo ensayo del psicólogo Dr. Jean-Michel </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Abrassart:
“La place de la fraude dans le modèle sociopsychologique du
phénomène ovni”, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Scepticisme
scientifique</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
1, 2023, pp. 37-41. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Scepticisme_Scientifique_4_2023.pdf"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://revue.comitepara.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Scepticisme_Scientifique_4_2023.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Suceso de rayo globular (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ball
lightning</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
en España el 13 de marzo de 2023: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2v57f8xt"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2v57f8xt</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Volvemos al incidente de la isla Maury de 1947, al que se describe
como la broma más sucia de todas:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://timehotnews.com/ufo-encounters-sightings-visitations-and-investigations-the-dirtiest-hoax-of-all/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://timehotnews.com/ufo-encounters-sightings-visitations-and-investigations-the-dirtiest-hoax-of-all/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
Una situación de lo más vergonzosa; en la actualidad, hasta
ufólogos del mayor prestigio no saben reconocer un vulgar reflejo en
las lentes de la cámara de un supuesto ovni. Para muestra, un botón:
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-aaro-information-and-ufo-sightings.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-aaro-information-and-ufo-sightings.html</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta
es la explicación (de J.C. Victorio Uranga):</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/05/hay-muchos-avistamientos-de-ovnis.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/05/hay-muchos-avistamientos-de-ovnis.html</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
Muy educativo. La historia es del 2011 pero es significativa y de lo
más pertinente con respecto a las observaciones ovni por parte de
los erróneamente sacralizados pilotos: “Pilot nose-dives plane to
avoid planet Venus” (Un piloto se lanza en picado para evitar al
planeta Venus), </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1635077991242891270/pu/vid/768x432/NfwWy-7aycNMmUVX.mp4?tag=12"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1635077991242891270/pu/vid/768x432/NfwWy-7aycNMmUVX.mp4?tag=12</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
Se ha publicado el libro “El OVNI de Ferrol y otros casos para
iniciarse con el fenómeno OVNI”, de Miguel Gacio Armendáriz, en
su primera incursión en el tema ovni. Recopilador de historias
escritas por otros, sin aportar nada propio y sin mayor criterio que
lo sensacional de las mismas, adopta su título del primer capítulo,
que versa sobre una serie de sucesos pretendidamente ocurridos en
1966 en El Ferrol (La Coruña) y que resulta de una mezcolanza de
hechos reales, malinterpretaciones, falsos recuerdos, recreaciones e
invenciones. Lo malo es que ya hay un informe que analiza en plan
forense y logra resolver aquel amasijo de casos. Recomendamos la
lectura de ese detalladísimo trabajo de encuesta: “El OVNI de La
Graña”, escrito por Julio Plaza del Olmo, V.J. Ballester Olmos y
Mercedes Pullman
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
Gacio copia extensamente párrafos e ilustraciones de nuestro trabajo
sin tapujos, pero solo los que le conviene, incluyendo testimonios
anónimos de internet, omitiendo la poca credibilidad que hay que
asignarles. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aparte
del copipega selectivo que no pasaría un test de las herramientas
anti-plagio, lo realmente grave es que el</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
autor omite las conclusiones de nuestra larga, detallada y
contrastada investigación, la cual desmiente los supuestos hechos y
aclara el incidente (la evidencia sólida y consultable de la
recuperación en el mar de unas boyas en 1971, sin conexión con el
expediente militar de 1966). Incapaz de refutar nuestras
conclusiones, el autor sencillamente las ignora, Eso sí, nos cita en
las referencias, para librarse de la acusación de flagrante copia.
Ejemplo de la simpleza de mentalidad del autor, citemos la frase con
la que termina su texto: “Sin dudas, la información es muy escasa
y en ocasiones inexacta, pero el principal valor de estas historias
es su magnetismo”. ¿Magnetismo? Palabrería. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">J.
Plaza del Olmo y V.J. Ballester Olmos</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña
invitada</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">He
solicitado al investigador chileno Diego Zúñiga, director de la
editorial Coliseo Sentosa, que escriba para este blog una recensión
de la (espero penúltima) obra de Ignacio Cabria, antropólogo,
veterano estudioso del fenómeno de los ovnis y autor de libros de
primera magnitud. “Así creamos monstruos” ha sido publicado por
la editorial Luciérnaga, del grupo Planeta, tan recientemente como
en enero de 2023. Agradezco mucho a Zúñiga estas acertadas líneas
que sintetizan el arduo y erudito trabajo de Cabria en este campo
vecino de mitos y falsas creencias como es la “criptozoología”.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><u>“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">ASÍ
CREAMOS MONSTRUOS”: HA NACIDO UN CLÁSICO</span></span></span></span></u></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Por
Diego Zúñiga</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">La
literatura dedicada a la criptozoología no es muy abundante en
nuestro idioma. Si entre clásicos de ayer y hoy, traducciones,
libros menores, compilaciones prescindibles y autoediciones sumamos
una cincuentena de títulos, quizás estemos siendo generosos. Por
ello, no extraña que, hasta ahora, no tuviéramos a mano un texto
que se dedicara a un análisis profundo, serio y documentado de las
historias clásicas de este tema, que tan vinculado está a la
ufología, según algunos autores.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Por
eso es tan bienvenido el nuevo hijo literario del antropólogo
español Ignacio Cabria (“Entre ufólogos, creyentes y
contactados”, “Ovnis y ciencias humanas”). Se trata de un libro
que viene a cubrir un vacío enorme en torno a la reflexión mesurada
respecto a esos monstruos que tantas imaginaciones despertaron hace
décadas, en un mundo de conquistas, viajes, exploraciones y
descubrimientos, y que hoy, con el planeta totalmente mapeado por
Google y casi cada metro cuadrado vigilado por satélites, se torna
tan difícil de replicar.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Estamos,
hay que decirlo, ante un volumen grueso, de poco más de 500 páginas,
sazonado con una amplísima bibliografía, que hará las delicias de
los interesados en el asunto. Pero, a pesar de esa extensión, la
lectura nunca se vuelve tortuosa. Al contrario, la prosa amable, la
información intercalada con anécdotas, datos, cifras, fechas,
historias y desmitificaciones varias, hacen que el viaje sea
placentero y rápido. Y quizás haya que detenerse un poco en aquello
de las “desmitificaciones”, porque el autor no esquiva el desafío
de contar la historia como fue, y no como algunos desearían que
hubiera sido.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Cabria
no se dejó libro y documento por revisar, ni periódicos y revistas
por leer, con el fin de entregar un texto respaldado por fuentes
verificables y que no replica aquello que se puede leer en la
literatura de producción masiva. Hay aquí un acto de valentía,
porque en estos tiempos decir lo que se debe y no lo que el algoritmo
dice que se tiene, constituye un arranque de rebeldía digno de
encomio. El autor lo hace contando la verdadera historia, por
ejemplo, del nacimiento del monstruo del lago Ness, o varios
entretelones poco conocidos sobre la famosa fotografía de la huella
del yeti tomada en 1951 por Eric Shipton, y que ha sido copiada hasta
el hastío por los cazadores de quimeras.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">La
revisión pasa por los calamares gigantes, la gran serpiente marina,
monstruos lacustres varios, hombres gigantes, los numerosos “hombres
de las nieves” y sus primos norteamericanos (sasquatch y bigfoot;
el autor se toma el tiempo incluso de explicar el origen de la
primera palabra, la segunda salta a la vista), y de ir incluso más
allá de la mera recensión, analizando factores culturales y las
tradiciones locales que dan cuerpo a las leyendas que, en el siglo
pasado, se constituyeron en la base sobre la que se construyó el
sueño del animal desconocido que, viviendo ante nuestras narices, no
ha sido descubierto por la ciencia.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Además
de esas dos primeras partes (monstruos marinos y homínidos), hay una
tercera centrada en animales fantasmas, ilusiones colectivas y
leyendas contemporáneas, donde refulge con brillo propio el repaso
que Cabria hace sobre la creación, extensión y desaparición del
chupacabras, revisando los factores locales que ayudaron a su
crecimiento, y las razones que permitieron que el bichito fuera más
popular en unas regiones que en otras de la América hispanoparlante.
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Los
fraudes, las confusiones, las invenciones periodísticas se
entremezclan con relatos históricos, folclore puro y duro,
interpretaciones entusiastas de viajeros anhelantes por descubrir
algo novedoso, políticos desesperados por atraer turismo a zonas
deprimidas y también, claro, muchas ganas de creer en lo
maravilloso. No hay nada de malo en creer, pero siempre es importante
contar con todos los elementos a la mano antes de tomar la decisión
de decantarse por esa opción. El libro de Ignacio Cabria permite
contar con esa información, que en nuestro idioma, hasta ahora, no
estaba disponible en un solo volumen. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Leyendo
ciertos relatos de la criptozoología me pongo a imaginar a un
investigador examinando un cuerpo en los espejos deformados de las
ferias. Quizá sea la mirada la que está distorsionada y no el
monstruo, igual que lo estaba la mirada del curioso de las
exhibiciones de monstruos humanos del siglo XIX o la de los viajeros
antiguos que veían en las poblaciones lejanas a un cinocéfalo, un
perro-hombre. La deformidad, también, estaba en el ojo del que
contemplaba”, escribe con lucidez el autor en el texto de cierre de
“Así creamos monstruos”. Este párrafo define a la perfección
el espíritu de la obra.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Estamos
ante un libro llamado a convertirse en un clásico no solo de la
criptozoología, sino del folclore y del estudio de las creencias
contemporáneas. Un libro grueso, lleno de ilustraciones realizadas
por el mismo autor, plagado de reflexiones y recuadros donde se
profundiza en autores, temas o historias específicas. En resumen,
cualquier aficionado a estos temas (léase también ovnis, dado el
generoso espacio que se dedica al chupacabras y a los garadiávolos),
debería leer y atesorar este ensayo, una de esas joyas que tan
escasamente adornan las vitrinas de estos, “nuestros” temas.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">El
libro puede encontrarse en librerías, en el sitio web de Planeta y
en Amazon:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-CL" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Así-creamos-monstruos-ENIGMAS-CONSPIRACIONES/dp/8419164356/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/As%C3%AD-creamos-monstruos-ENIGMAS-CONSPIRACIONES/dp/8419164356/</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></p>
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de extraterrestres</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Extraterrestres
ante las cámaras” es la nueva edición, actualizada y mejorada,
del libro del investigador escéptico mejicano y químico de
profesión Luis Ruiz Noguez, obra que me cupo el honor de prologar.
La colección original tiene nada menos que diez tomos y la editorial
Coliseo Sentosa, del chileno Diego Zúñiga, tiene el proyecto de
irlos publicando al completo. Esa va a ser una aportación de primera
magnitud a la ufología gráfica. Mis felicitaciones más sinceras,
tanto al autor como al editor. El primer libro de esta serie ya se
pueda adquirir desde aquí: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3KJlQp2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://bit.ly/3KJlQp2</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">La
editorial Coliseo Sentosa ha lanzado el libro "Encuentros
cercanos de todo tipo. El caso Villas Boas y otras abducciones
íntimas", del investigador brasileño de ascendencia japonesa
Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga. Es el primer texto de este historiador que
aparece en nuestro idioma. Escribe el editor, Diego Zúñiga: “Es
una mezcla de investigación de campo, de gabinete y polémicas
reflexiones sobre los encuentros sexuales que tanto interés provocan
en los ufólogos”. Este libro s</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">e
encuentra en Amazon
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Encuentros-cercanos-todo-tipo-abducciones/dp/B0BW344XF1/">https://www.amazon.es/Encuentros-cercanos-todo-tipo-abducciones/dp/B0BW344XF1/</a></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
y en el sitio web de la editorial: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/03/encuentros-cercanos-de-todo-tipo-el.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2023/03/encuentros-cercanos-de-todo-tipo-el.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">DIA
and DoD UFO Studies” (Los estudios ovni de la DIA y el Departamento
de Defensa en los Estados Unidos).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
“Canada Renews UAP Study” (Canadá Vuelve a investigar los
ovnis).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
“Trinity Flying Saucer Crash” (El estrellamiento del platillo
volante de Trinity).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
“Rare Pictures” (Fotos curiosas). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lBjJSMv7rWVqKY87WJV_VuH-sMdVgGRmRXj0yCiYyVZ1HoJuBNMLWZNDN3BoGzL4umeOaujGYLO3kB83N329z7pYFtQgjBpWeugQuCm0L2f0FiufHSJRpHFgveOHidMoVtvSo5mLfUTe96Wsm03d16oQZpv-YAudfTyp7L_IuaBs_Bh0gg/s522/globo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="522" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lBjJSMv7rWVqKY87WJV_VuH-sMdVgGRmRXj0yCiYyVZ1HoJuBNMLWZNDN3BoGzL4umeOaujGYLO3kB83N329z7pYFtQgjBpWeugQuCm0L2f0FiufHSJRpHFgveOHidMoVtvSo5mLfUTe96Wsm03d16oQZpv-YAudfTyp7L_IuaBs_Bh0gg/w320-h286/globo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Nahant,
Massachusetts, 5 de diciembre de 1959. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Más del túnel del tiempo. Moisés Garrido ha sido tan amable de
subir a YouTube una entrevista mía en Canal 9 (televisión
autonómica valenciana) en marzo de 1993:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp17YOdtSOI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp17YOdtSOI</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Visitas. Me reuní en Valencia con el periodista David Cuevas, de
paso por la cercana ciudad de Gandía. David tuvo la gentileza de
regalarme un ejemplar de la tercera edición del libro colectivo </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hay
otros mundos pero están en este</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
del que es coordinador (Cydonia, 2013). Tuvimos un par de horas de
agradable charla, con algunos disensos que, naturalmente, no excluyen
el “buen rollo”. La foto que sigue da cuenta del amigable
encuentro. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Cuevas, a la izquierda. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
par de fotos recientes con mis nietos. Durante un paseo durante las
Fallas de Valencia (patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la humanidad)
con Lucas, Fernando y Matías. Otra con Fernando, después de su
clase de tesis en San Antonio de Benagéber (por cierto, la camiseta
de Bob Dylan no es de pega, asistí a su concierto de Madrid en
1999). Y en la última, los dos chicos mayores.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Marcianitos Verdes,
Méjico), Dr. Christopher French (Inglaterra), Moisés Garrido &
Claudia Moctezuma (España), Jaime Servera (España), Juan Pablo
González (España), Kay Coggin (EE.UU.), Francis Ridge (NICAP,
EE.UU.), Mick West (Metabunk, EE.UU.), Luis E. Pacheco (Stratocat,
Argentina) y Wim van Utrecht (Caelestia, Belgium).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Investigación
OVNI</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2bzabys6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2bzabys6</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5n6jj89a"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/5n6jj89a</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/22jdh98f"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/22jdh98f</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFOs
and Government </b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007) (</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">con
M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(editor) (con R.W. Heiden), 2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-77810611888946630832023-03-15T09:00:00.108+01:002023-03-22T21:58:14.365+01:002023/MARCH/15 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English
language editing: Martin Shough.</span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">For
many years I have kept an archive of VHS video tapes with recordings
from various sources, television, documentaries, investigators, and
even witnesses, both from Spain and abroad. Thanks to the kindness of
the researcher Moisés Garrido Vázquez, 35 cassettes have been
digitized, which has allowed me to review their content and add more
than one hundred entries to the database.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">I
also thank French ufologist Patrice Seray for sending me his
compilations of UFO cases published in the French press between 1947
and 1988.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">With
all of the above, the FOTOCAT catalog now has 13,018 entries. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
I have updated my UFO research bibliography, encompassing 1965 to
2022:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/93910545/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2022">https://www.academia.edu/93910545/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2022</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
January 2023 interview published in “Ufology is Corrupt,” the
website of Luis Cayetano:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/an-interview-with-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/an-interview-with-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>THE
2022 ANNUAL REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA. A REVIEW</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
V.J. Ballester Olmos</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and Julio Plaza del Olmo</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
January 12, 2023, the U.S. Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) released the unclassified version of the “2022
Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” The requirement to
submit a classified annual report to Congress by October 31, 2022</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
as well as a later publishable version was </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">established
in the National </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
official U.S. DoD document is located here: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZkMYGFM07q0HETrDi0pluXggq8VQ3W34qCFHQQR34_pMKcVUqyf_9Wcg-xxNCNl3qWwGMXQRGWB_FzZyCBhKt4pRFUgHQi1jf72Wlw0fHsA76WYR-O7HIxN9Ja6F9PgheAR6WPYAAXL54uqn0V34iz84rQGGhhaVyXgN5Jscg24Kraep_g/s1650/AARO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZkMYGFM07q0HETrDi0pluXggq8VQ3W34qCFHQQR34_pMKcVUqyf_9Wcg-xxNCNl3qWwGMXQRGWB_FzZyCBhKt4pRFUgHQi1jf72Wlw0fHsA76WYR-O7HIxN9Ja6F9PgheAR6WPYAAXL54uqn0V34iz84rQGGhhaVyXgN5Jscg24Kraep_g/w154-h200/AARO.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
article presents the major highlights of the U.S. Government’s
unclassified UAP report for 2022 and our own comments on the
substance of it. This is an 11-page document; the main report has
seven pages plus three appendices. It is divided in five sections, to
be described below.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Executive
Summary</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
It starts by affirming that </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.8cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena (UAP) reporting is increasing, enabling a greater
awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve UAP
events. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
would one expect after so much publicity and media coverage?
Everywhere in the world the number of UFO reports increases after any
Air Force press release about UFOs.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Moreover,
this assertion has been refuted by President Joe Biden himself in
February 2023, when he stated: "We don't have any evidence that
there have been a sudden increase of objects in the sky.” Clear,
right?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Rhetoric
is free but what actual relationship does it have to the rise in UAP
reporting with a greater awareness of airspace? The atmosphere and
airspace have been under close study for many years and the
scientific knowledge achieved has nothing to do with flying saucers,
UFOs, or UAP. This opening sentence is simply there to justify the
existence of the project. After 75 years of UFO stories, we do not
need more incidents to resolve the issue. That could be done by
examining the older reports - as some of us have already done. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><i>In
addition to the 144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP
reporting included in the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) preliminary assessment</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span><i>6,7</i></span></sup><span><i>
there have been 247 new reports and another 119 that were either
since discovered or reported after the preliminary assessment’s
time period. This totals 510 UAP reports as of 30 August 2022. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Indeed,
the prior report (issued June 25, 2021) was based on 144 reports,
with only one solved! Unfortunately, no technical information that
we researchers would like to probe is included in the unclassified
report. This limited transparency is a shame, when other Government
UAP study centers are providing full information online on
investigated cases, for example France</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Argentina</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
and Chile.</span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></sup></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>AARO
and ODNI assess that the observed increase in the UAP reporting rate
is partially due to a better understanding of the possible threats
that UAP may represent, either as safety of flight hazards or as
potential adversary collection platforms, and partially due to
reduced stigma surrounding UAP reporting. This increased reporting
allows more opportunities to apply rigorous analysis and resolve
events. </i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Nonsense!
Reports do not arise because anyone has a greater awareness of a
hypothetical safety threat but because of the big echo that various
authorities (U.S. DoD, NASA, AIAA) and an increasing number of
private UAP organizations have recently provided to the UFO/UAP
subject, thus creating new reporting windows to collect information
to be analyzed. The so-called reporting “stigma” is terminology
from the UFO believers: UFO researchers have cataloged many hundreds
of UFO reports by aviators, seamen, astronomers, and scientists. It
is the promotion invested in the UAP issue from the U.S. Department
of Defense that is encouraging people to report, coupled with the
growth of flights of small aerial devices like drones, a large
variety of types of balloons, and so forth. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is noted (and we do value) that the creation of the U.S. Department
of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) will
facilitate a greater coordination with other agencies, which, on the
other hand, results in “greater attribution of UAP.” Of course,
the more you request, the more you will find. Mainly observational
trash, in our view. If not yet, then in due course. The report trusts
that this higher coordination</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>will
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>ensure
that UAP detection and identification efforts … span across DoD and
relevant interagency partners, as well as the Intelligence Community.
</i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
think, however, that what will enhance identification and resolution
of incidents is the application of added analytical resources to the
incoming reports, while staying away from lobbying ufologists. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>UAP
events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace…We
continue to assess that this may result from a collection bias due to
the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with focused
attention and guidance to report anomalies. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
seems to us a correct early conclusion, to be reinforced with the
passage of time. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Scope
and Assumptions</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">. This
section initially explains how this annual report arises from a
requirement by Section 1683 of the FY 2022 NDAA: the ODNI “in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on unidentified aerial
phenomena.” Appendix A covers this in detail. In assuming these
responsibilities, the newly created AARO</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>delivers
quarterly reports on UAP to policymakers that contain greater detail
regarding analysis and attribution of UAP events. </i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Unfortunately,
it is this very detail that we researchers would need to check. For
the time being, we will be content with basic numbers but, sooner or
later, the full analysis work will have to be disclosed. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
a footnote, it notes that the FY 2022 NDAA </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>expands
the definition of UAP to include air, sea, and transmedium objects,
and this report maintains that nomenclature during the transition
phase and stand up of AARO.</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We
are already on record explaining that the term and concept of
transmedium object is a non-event, the fruit of misunderstanding and
misinterpretation by hardcore ufologists. The adoption of this term
only reflects the success from lobbying groups that have led to the
creation not only of AARO, but also AATIP and UAPTF in recent years.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
report then displays an impressive list of agencies that the
ODNI-AARO coordinates. It is excellent because if—</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">in
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
long run—the study concludes that no evidence of aliens has been
found in the database, no one will be able to argue that this or that
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">organization
was not invited </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">to
the party.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Under
Assumptions, the report correctly indicates that</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>multiple
factors affect the observation or detection of UAP </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>…</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #2a6099;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Regarding
review or analysis of UAP events, ODNI and AARO operate under the
assumption that UAP reports are derived from the observer’s
accurate recollection of the event and/or sensors that generally
operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial
assessments. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">These
inexperienced UAP analysts will soon realize that this assumption is
untenable and that all that glitters is not gold. However, we feel
that they are already beginning to awake to crude reality, when they
add that </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>However,
ODNI and AARO acknowledge that a select number of UAP incidents may
be attributable to sensor irregularities or variances, such as
operator or equipment error. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Yes,
boys, people and machines err. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
section </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Governmental
Changes to Manage UAP Issue</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
first deals with the institution of AARO by order of the Deputy
Secretary of Defense to continue the former UAPTF efforts since July
20, 2022, and</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>is
authorized to develop processes and procedures to synchronize and
standardize collection, reporting, and analysis… The broad scope of
authority granted to AARO should enable them to leverage a
multi-agency, whole-of-government approach to understanding,
resolving, and attributing UAP in the future. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
report shows how far they have gone in the ODNI-AARO coordination
with “multi-agency partners.” Such an all-encompassing workforce
is both welcome and ideal to reach the final aim, which is the key
word, “attribution.” At the end of the day, in a few years from
now, only a negligible percentage of reports will be unattributed
(that is, other than manmade, atmospherics, sensor-related, birds,
etc.) Not due to their rareness or anomalousness, but due to poor
data input. Those who hope that the U.S. Government will find alien
activity in the UAP reports should be prepared for a big
disappointment. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Continued
Reporting and Robust Analysis are Providing Better Fidelity on UAP
Events, but Many Cases Remain Unresolved</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
This long heading introduces these achieved figures on UAP reporting:</span></span></span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1zNP_rpES98okfEhI4em10IUNedmxaS60UD-g2Gm8Xsnlp3Ec1eT2hHBo4ShT8bDUavcXr-j698JNxIrRHZWolM8wW0JCSYNnkjKVqsVKLJMmhzB2RfWLxonB80yvjBNshQRrkPFcGj0Hm57FSanEhVRcA0E_dPOvZ_nny0ZRCBXvN6ydQ/s851/tabla.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="851" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1zNP_rpES98okfEhI4em10IUNedmxaS60UD-g2Gm8Xsnlp3Ec1eT2hHBo4ShT8bDUavcXr-j698JNxIrRHZWolM8wW0JCSYNnkjKVqsVKLJMmhzB2RfWLxonB80yvjBNshQRrkPFcGj0Hm57FSanEhVRcA0E_dPOvZ_nny0ZRCBXvN6ydQ/w400-h136/tabla.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Absence
of a tally by month or year prevents us from suggesting trends or
influences, etc. As per our calculation, it is about 14 new reports
acquired by month. Is this a lot or a little? Project Blue Book’s
yearly statistics from 1947 to 1969 record 12,618 cases.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
The number of cases reported to the USAF per month varied from 10
(minimum) to 125 (maximum).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Now one has data to compare. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
report self-characterizes their work against UAP reporting as a
“robust analytic process.” Good for them. Unfortunately, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>AARO’s
final analytic findings will be available in their quarterly reports
to policymakers. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Just
our luck!... Does the public not have a right to know on this issue?
However, some indications are given for the additional 366 reports
since the prior assessment. 195 events exhibit </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>unremarkable
characteristics</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">,
simplified as follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"> 163
balloons</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> 26
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Unmanned
Aerial Systems (aka </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">drones</span></span><span style="color: #2a6099;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"> 6
clutter (birds, airborne plastics)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Basically,
they use this initial characterization to focus on apparently
stranger events, i.e., the remaining 171 events, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>uncharacterized
and unattributed UAP reports</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">What
clearly those figures show is that aviators and other military
personnel are massively misrepresenting balloons and drones for UAP! </span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
report points out that </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Some
of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual
flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require
further analysis. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">We
are eager and willing to read those “apparent” unusual flight
features. We advance our doubts that these are realistic unusual
performances. All in good time.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Previous
to this report, it was leaked that the three famous U.S. Navy videos
(the so-called “FLIR1”, “Go Fast”, “Gimbal” videos) had
been analyzed by AARO.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Those videos are at the origin of this renewed focus on UAP, since
they “appear” to show “unusual flight characteristics.” Their
analysis would be in agreement with independent work showing that at
least two of them were not that unusual, being caused by the illusion
of parallax (“Go fast”),</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">14</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
or being attributed to effects of the optical IR system (“Gimbal”).</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">15</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
However, no mention is made of those videos in this report; they are
probably hidden in the first 144 reports of the 2021 Preliminary
Assessment. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Case
explanation requires time, expertise, and a lot of insight. Not only
personnel and budget, but insight, specialized talent, and—in our
opinion—also a certain know-how in the history of the UFO
phenomenon. Lack of any of those elements will contribute to elevate
the percentage of unattributed events. It will take probably years to
find out how flyers commit mistakes when confronting unexpected
events, how recording equipment is not flawless, how trained
individuals can be deceived, etc. When they have learned all this,
they can view a comprehensive landscape for their data. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
expected, the report informs that the majority of the new UAP reports
originate from U.S. Navy and USAF aviators while on operational duty.
At the same time, it remarks that</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>many
reports lack enough detailed data to enable attribution of UAP with
high certainty. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And
this is basically the main issue regarding UAP: the lack of exact
data leads to failed identification. Had there been enough
information, odds are that there would not be any UAP to report.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
subheading Flight Safety Concerns and Health Implications addresses
the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>possibility</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
that </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>UAP pose a safety
of flight and collision hazard to air assets</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
which is one of the main excuses for this Office</span><span style="color: #2a6099; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">being started in the
first place. This is why the continuing sentence is crystal clear:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: times;"> <span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
date, there have been no reported collisions between U.S. aircraft
and UAP. </i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
alleged health concerns are another ufological legend. Regarding
this, the report says: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.8cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>there
have also been no encounters with UAP confirmed to contribute
directly to adverse health-related effects to the observer(s). </i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So
AARO was created to study transmedium objects, air safety problems,
and health effects that have not been acknowledged in their database!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Summary
and Way Ahead</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Hold on, let us see the recap of almost 18 months of work: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>UAP
continue to represent a hazard to flight safety</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
is the reliable basis for that statement? A mere conjecture, a
possibility? Meteors also represent a risk, then. Should we create a
center for meteoritics and aviation? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>UAP
pose a possible adversary collection threat</b></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Oh,
yes, eavesdropping, intelligence, espionage, these are real potential
risks, although—based on experience—we estimate that the impact
in numbers will be very low.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>AARO
has been established as the DoD focal point for UAP</b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>.
</b></span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
is obvious. The office is operational since July 2022.</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i><b>Coordinated
efforts between DoD, the IC, and other government agencies to
collect and report UAP events have resulted in increased data sets,
spanning multiple security domains. </b></i></span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The
report says AARO is focused</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.8cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>on
identifying solutions to manage and alleviate the resulting data
problem… The establishment of AARO and application of AARO’s new
analytic process to this detailed reporting </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>will
increase resolution of UAP events</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Our emphasis)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This
is what we hope! The June 2021 preliminary assessment explained 1/144
cases (0.7%). The 2022 annual report “characterizes” 195/366
(53%). Well, this is progress. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However,
is resolving cases their only goal? If the chief concern is about
safety and security threats, shouldn’t their ultimate goal be
issuing recommendations to policymakers to avoid those threats? In
this regard, they already have initial evaluations suggesting a
remarkable number of drones and balloons loitering carelessly in
military ranges.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
report closes with three appendices: Appendix A on the legislation
requiring an annual report, Appendix B on AARO’s mission and
responsibilities, and Appendix C on key terms. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">For
us, in conclusion, the good point is that AARO has established a
network of cooperation with different agencies and organizations.
They seem to be working on case attribution, and the future will
likely show more efficient figures in IFO characterization. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">On
the other hand, there is a lack of transparency in their public
reports. The information disclosed so far is reduced to only very
fundamental statistics. Quarterly reports that seem to contain the
details on the attributions have not been made public either.
External, independent experts cannot yet check, validate or discuss
their findings. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also,
their ultimate goal, the final purpose for the existence of this
office, is not completely clear. There is a feeling of reinventing
the wheel, which will lead to the already known conclusions that UAP
are not proof of alien life or advanced technology.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
authors thank Steve Roberts for editing. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Corresponding
author: </span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">2</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">3</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">4</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act,” </span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">5</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “UFO Declassification in Spain (Military UFO
Files Available to the Public: A Balance)”, in </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>UFOs:
Examining the Evidence</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,
Mike Wooten (ed.), BUFORA, 1995, pp. 51-56. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">6</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">7</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,” </span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">8</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">9</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">10</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/casos-resueltos/">https://sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/casos-resueltos/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">11</span></sup><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/usaf_fact_sheet_95_03.pdf">https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/usaf_fact_sheet_95_03.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">12</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
J. Richard Greenwell, “Project Blue Book,” in Ronald D. Story
(ed.), </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>The Encyclopedia of
UFOs</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, Doubleday (Garden
City, New York), 1980, p. 274.</span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">13</span></sup><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">14</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
J. Plaza del Olmo, “Go Fast: un video del Pentágono,”
</span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2020/10/go-fast-un-video-del-pentagono.html">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2020/10/go-fast-un-video-del-pentagono.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">15</span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
Mick West, </span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
paper’s formal, quotable link is:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review">https://www.academia.edu/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">A
Short Exchange with Christopher Mellon</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Bill
Clinton and George
W. Bush administrations,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Mr</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">. </span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Christopher Mellon</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>
</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">emailed
me on December 15, 2022 to respond to my December 2022 blog’s
update, which included my note “O</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n
the US DoD UAP Study.”</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of
course I love praise but I do also appreciate criticism, as this
makes you reflect on your ideas and offers an opportunity to confront
opposite views. He wrote: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lots
of misunderstandings and nonsense here about the role of the US
government and current UAP legislation. </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Stayed
tuned for the next unclassified report from the ODNI which will
affirm and further validate the reality of mysterious aircraft
lacking transponders violating US airspace on a recurring basis.
Those claiming DoD is stoking the issue to justify increased funding
have it backwards: DoD and the IC have consistently ignored and
downplayed the UAP issue, hence the need for concerned members of
Congress to compel DoD and the IC to begin collecting and analyzing
pertinent data. Notably a high percentage of the US military reports
have multiple sources of data, usually human and technical. Although
civilian scientists and journalists are not privy to the classified
data, those who are acknowledge it lends further weight to the
credibility and legitimacy of the issue. </i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>The
first badly flawed USG UAP report released in June 2021 mentioned 144
military incidents, yet not a single case was provided by NORAD and
virtually nothing from the USAF. It also excluded undersea cases and
those involving anomalies in space. By May 2022 the number had risen
to 400 military incidents, still not including space or undersea
anomalies and still little from USAF or NORAD. I predict the
next report will top 500, again without including any of the
thousands of annual uncorrelated NORAD tracks from the mighty radar
and space surveillance network girdling North America. </i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Most
incredibly, we now have a mechanism for Congress to determine the
legitimacy of the allegations regarding recovery of off-world
technology. I brought a witness to Congress who provided testimony on
that topic to staff of two oversight committees in Oct 2018 and more
witnesses have come forward since. Others have been waiting for this
legislation to be enacted and other cases are pending. I predict the
skeptics are in for a rude surprise as more data becomes available.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Thankfully
Congress has mandated continuation of the unclassified UAP reports I
worked so hard to persuade them to request back in 2017-2019. That
will ensure as nothing else can that the issue will remain in the
public eye and also that the most sensitive surveillance atmospheric
sensors made by man will be brought to bear in seeking answers to the
origin and nature of UAP.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>Chris </i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
follows is my reply. Unfortunately, no subsequent exchange developed.
As they say, let the reader be the judge. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Dear
Mr. Mellon, excuse me for such a tardy answer to your message. Lately
I have been the editor of a 700-page international book and I had to
complete the volume for the publisher. I do appreciate the frankness
of your comments. Certainly, it seems we have to agree in
disagreeing, but it cannot preclude communication and dialogue, and
this this what I purport with this reply. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Firstly,
I would like to know all the “misunderstandings and nonsense” in
my evaluation of the U.S. DoD UAP study. If you were as kind as to
list them I could either learn or retort. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>You
ask me to stay tuned on the forthcoming unclassified report by the
U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on the
“2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” Yes, I was
quite tuned; in fact, it was released on January 12, 2023 and by
January 20, I had already studied and published a comment on this
report.</i></span></span><sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>3
</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>What
amazes me is your statement that this report would “affirm and
further validate the reality of the mysterious aircraft lacking
transponders violating US airspace.” My reading of that report does
not confirm that, except that there is a number of cases still
unattributed (unexplained), which is far from stating what you are
affirming. A percentage of cases that, according to what has been the
experience of UFO research in the last 75 years, will be diminishing
with time. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
current UAP study by the DoD is not uniquely justified as a form to
increase Defense funding, it is a positive byproduct of the lobbying
efforts that people like you have been doing in the last years before
the US administration. If the US Government and the Intelligence
community have ignored the UFO/UAP issue is because lack of material
proof and evidence. In the same vein, many foreign governments have
closed their UFO offices by the same reason: UFOs represent no risk
either to national security or aviation. In the best of the case, it
is a scientific problem, i.e., how to be able to resolve the few
unidentified reports. (Incidentally, these are not explained by lack
of proper data, or bad reporting or recording, not by their internal
anomalousness.) </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>I
see you like numbers: 500 reports accumulated by the time being. Wow!
Chris, do you know we have been working (over 50 years in my personal
case) with catalogues of thousands of cases, to achieve the same
conclusion?: no hardcore reports remain unexplained after full
investigation. Do you like predictions? Let me predict one: the AARO
office will find no unexplainable report that may relate to alien
life. Perhaps advanced avionics from China, Russia, or other
potential adversaries, or drones from mischievous citizens, but
nothing having to do with the outer space. If not yet, then given
time.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>From
the 2021 Preliminary Assessment to the 2022 annual AARO report,
attributed reports have increased from 1/144 (0.7%) to 195/366 (53%).
And the trend will continue upwards. By the way, trained pilots
flying sophisticated aircraft have, at least, misinterpreted
balloons, drones and clutter by UAP almost 200 times in a short
period of time!</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>You
hope that NORAD will contribute before long “thousands of annual
uncorrelated tracks.” What do you expect these are? Spacecraft
from the Pleiades? Korean UAS? Equipment faults? Other? To be
sincere, UFO believers equal UFOs to alien vehicles (otherwise, why
so much fuss?) Do you image thousands of alien spacecraft surveilling
the U.S. only every year? What for? To spy Area 51? The first
requirement for an analyst is to put the feet on the floor and be
realistic.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>I
am glad that AARO has been created. Probably for different reasons
than others. Because, in my view, in a number of years from now, its
research will conclude that unsolved aerial objects proceed from
intelligences from this dear, old planet of ours.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Sincerely,</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos, January 27, 2023. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There
was no reply.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">From
an European perspective, these pro UFO high ranking officials are
quite ingenuous, bordering stupidity. Mellon is on record in Twitter
as having contributed to a February 15, 2023 U.S. Senate resolution
condemning the use of surveillance balloons by China. Not only
because every country spies on both allies and enemies, but specially
because this balloon episode is not unique at all, as the U.S.
Government and NORAD are decidedly aware, the only discrepancy here
is the disproportionate order to shoot down the objects. And this is
due to the atmosphere of hysteria people like Mellon are helping to
establish. And this is really risky indeed! We can read in the Senate
statement again the wrong evaluation that UAP incidents are
increasing, and the simple recommendation that the United States
should stop these events happening. Artless minds!</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mellon">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mellon</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_12_12_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_12_12_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The 2022 Annual
Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, A Review,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review">https://www.academia.edu/95362778/The_2022_Annual_Report_on_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_A_Review</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Fiasco of a Pretended Physics of UAP</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
far as belief in extraterrestrial UFOs is concerned, Ph.D.-holders
can be as wildly wrong, biased and credulous as laypersons. A fine
demonstration is set out in the extremely detailed, well-informed,
and better-justified article by Douglas Dean Johnson dated April 9,
2022: “”Plasma Beam”-- or Fever Dream? Key Questions for PhDs,
Journalists, and Regular Folks About Ray Stanford's "Beam Ship
UFO" Movie of October 5, 1985, and Other Stanford Tales.” The
impact it has on the reliability and value of some work initially
presented (then withdrawn) at the June 2021 SCU (Scientific Coalition
for UAP Studies) conference and actually presented (in a modified
way) in an AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
conference held in August 2021 on the alleged “physics of UAP”,
is self-evident and should be taken into account to learn of who does
what and on what basis. The extraordinary paper by Douglas can be
read from here:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/beam-ship-or-bullshit/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/beam-ship-or-bullshit/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Having
said that, even well-informed journalists leave the door open to the
bare idea that “there may be things out there that we can’t yet
explain” (see Bloomberg’s Stephen Mihm article in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Washington Post</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
below). But what can be floating over our heads that we are unable to
explain? Please give examples. It is just a phrase to pretending open
mindedness, but it reveals simplicity. I wonder if these writers have
forgotten that for decades there have been multitude of reports of
flying saucers landing, with crew members collecting samples or
firing beams at witnesses. That is the core of the problem, that is
what has created the myth, not recent UFO sightings from advanced
aircraft cockpits whereas pilots see balloons, drones, or clutter, as
they like to designate now. What else remains? Mihm ends: “If we
can pursue that inquiry without succumbing to either skepticism or
credulousness, we may finally get to the bottom of the mystery.”
Bulls**t, pardon me. In a 75-year mystery like this, with everything
that has happened‒or been claimed to have happened‒a serious
writer cannot be equidistant. You must speak out with a clear,
unambiguous commitment to reality. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-government-has-been-dancing-around-ufos-for-75-years/2023/02/22/7ce50280-b2c4-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-government-has-been-dancing-around-ufos-for-75-years/2023/02/22/7ce50280-b2c4-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>A
1978 Reentry over France</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Manmade
spacecraft decays over the United States, Australia, and Earth Oceans
are common. Less common is debris from space falling over Europe.
Recently, I received a clipping published in the French </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Var-Martin
Republique</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
newspaper of September 21, 1978 of a small sphere found in a field in
the Allier department. According to the press information, it was
debris from a “space object of soviet nationality.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2d_pA7jdkP4PP1MWd_5ucFfjfvdevzPWjqJgN_79UIMybFYRPdx3jgxHFmSkPYt_fopve1l9mMjik586sDp0gi7oIMsWw4gTIanueCdvDCyc9IEB8BeIQAIEbNpYXSCYyu0cGtSDz-WrAH8SqH3roPRjCWrHShHtLkYwMa-n5ZaT55osNA/s1760/Allier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="976" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2d_pA7jdkP4PP1MWd_5ucFfjfvdevzPWjqJgN_79UIMybFYRPdx3jgxHFmSkPYt_fopve1l9mMjik586sDp0gi7oIMsWw4gTIanueCdvDCyc9IEB8BeIQAIEbNpYXSCYyu0cGtSDz-WrAH8SqH3roPRjCWrHShHtLkYwMa-n5ZaT55osNA/s320/Allier.jpg" width="177" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In
addition to ufology, space decays are, with ball lightning, my cup of
tea as matters of study. So I decided to find out a little bit more,
and my first option was to consult Harvard’s Professor Jonathan
McDowell, a recognized worldwide authority in this field. On January
28, 2023, Dr. McDowell wrote this to me:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>Fortunately,
there is a footnote about this in the RAE Table of Earth Satellites
"A 20 kg, 0.6m piece was picked up near Garna-sur-Engiever
(Allier), France." The object in question is a maneuvering
engine jettisoned from the Cosmos-1029 spy satellite on September 8
which reentered late on September 11 (RAE reentry date September
11.7). I checked that the final TLE in the archive shows an orbit
passing over this location at about 1655 UTC September 11. Object
11018, 1978-082C.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
on previous occasions, with those data I checked the NASA National
Space Science Data Center’s Space Track Master Catalog (Goddard
Space Flight Center) where I have had a login for years. This is what
the database provided for the decay-date query for September 11,
1978: Object 11018 was the USSR </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cosmos</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
1029 (international denomination 1078-082C), a satellite launched on
August 29, 1978 from PKMTR (Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex), the
famous cosmodrome located at Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km
north of Moscow. Effectively, it decayed on September 11, 1978 in
France. Manuel Borraz has calculated that local time was exactly
18:55.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA6fcQGwaOWhcnlvKfSqhRpUx6ZQSvh68z6_remz8ZFwyajsmT6c7-oDVUczO-9zbxU6pP0f9V1wYmVRTosgR_NDrrlpGvjvC84TbYCFcu64WpP8xtfVZi140TWQLHw7MxGIWc7HZP9DQhZ9D_ok1NXCLosfghw5YATxPcf0OQMAjdDo4fOA/s1416/catalog%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="1416" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA6fcQGwaOWhcnlvKfSqhRpUx6ZQSvh68z6_remz8ZFwyajsmT6c7-oDVUczO-9zbxU6pP0f9V1wYmVRTosgR_NDrrlpGvjvC84TbYCFcu64WpP8xtfVZi140TWQLHw7MxGIWc7HZP9DQhZ9D_ok1NXCLosfghw5YATxPcf0OQMAjdDo4fOA/w640-h90/catalog%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
also received this complementary information from Canadian space
expert Ted Molczan:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
late Pierre Neirinck was the source of the information on this debris
discovery in RAE Table of Earth Satellites. He shared his information
and analysis of the case with me, which I provided to Paul Maley. It
appears on the following page under the heading September 11, 1978
COSMOS 1029 ENGINE:
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://eclipsetours.com/paul-maley/space-debris/space-debris-1960-1980/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://eclipsetours.com/paul-maley/space-debris/space-debris-1960-1980/</span></i></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">I
am glad to have better documented this find for my French colleagues.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>CIAE
2022 Report</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
Aerospace Identification Center of the Argentine Air Force (CIAE),
created in 2019 under the command of Commodore Rubén Lianza, has
published its fourth annual report with the result of its work during
2022. In its introduction, it states: "The 68 cases listed below
have been listed in order of arrival and include those reports of
sightings received during 2022 that have met the requirements of:
Testimony + Evidence. There were another 39 cases that were not
accepted for analysis because they did not meet one or both of the
requirements, despite repeated attempts to communicate with the
witnesses to request the missing information.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
cases collected occurred between 2008 and 2022. The analysis of said
testimonies and their corresponding photographic-video documentation
is summarized in the following typology and nature of causes that
originated the phenomena recorded by the observers:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Biological
origin (insects, birds, spider web): 20</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Aeronautical
origin (planes, drones, balloons): 13</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Optical
origin (reflections, lens flares): 12</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Astronomical
origin (Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, stars): 12</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Astronautical
origin (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
satellites): 10</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Others:
1</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCt83uUuJ5DDnGzjMPIQznZwwVBHv277ya81_joA9n-X_C0Fi2eTepO5GU_nJ98yfsfkbAKnIHeT2yuMbVoP3mzY0x598uvAiJs4act_pug2yXSillWzd9-BkbEMpn7CRuR9cMDsNVXiw_EDk7ZI75yBOfbdhbvzDKM0UKro5HiUWWWtj9Q/s549/Lianza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="442" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCt83uUuJ5DDnGzjMPIQznZwwVBHv277ya81_joA9n-X_C0Fi2eTepO5GU_nJ98yfsfkbAKnIHeT2yuMbVoP3mzY0x598uvAiJs4act_pug2yXSillWzd9-BkbEMpn7CRuR9cMDsNVXiw_EDk7ZI75yBOfbdhbvzDKM0UKro5HiUWWWtj9Q/w161-h200/Lianza.jpg" width="161" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Commodore
Rubén Lianza. Posing at the Aerospace Command stand, Morón AFB,
Argentina. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
report, which has 140 pages and is a model of accuracy and scientific
methodology, indicates: "Although all the cases analyzed were
generated by causes of known origin, they nevertheless constitute
very valuable testimonies from the investigative point of view, not
only for having forced us to refine the procedures to solve those
that were more difficult, but also for their inherent contribution to
knowledge, by verifying that they have been originated entirely by
honest, but erroneous, interpretations of ordinary objects, perceived
(by witnesses) as extraordinary, at the time of observation.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">I
recommend consulting this excellent work, which can be read on the
website of the Argentine Ministry of Defense:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2022.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2022.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Airborne
Objects Shot Down in 2023</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
old USAF order to its jet aircraft pilots “intercept but don’t
shoot” has gone down in history. Presently, UAP are endangered. If
the decision to bring down all unidentified flying objects is
continued, we are going to run out of UFOs. This is news of worldwide
exposure. Even Wikipedia is listing all such high-altitude events
occurred since January 1, 2023: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgri9MphtgKmpEE7y_1mdYP0nG3LuvzWSO5Wdn0MOq_HZK2EeRJvhp-6IItiHrYXmhL2YdFb8LHS-3RyqAj6dbasPrafPBAvO6T6RNGaugWxHGheVSDUUzt6wAMcj1vyIKdzpwsh-9brF1mDbIGrY-sBJi604MaE7sHBz4T-hI6jXV8-BYorg/s679/NORAD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="679" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgri9MphtgKmpEE7y_1mdYP0nG3LuvzWSO5Wdn0MOq_HZK2EeRJvhp-6IItiHrYXmhL2YdFb8LHS-3RyqAj6dbasPrafPBAvO6T6RNGaugWxHGheVSDUUzt6wAMcj1vyIKdzpwsh-9brF1mDbIGrY-sBJi604MaE7sHBz4T-hI6jXV8-BYorg/s320/NORAD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Rare
NORAD press release on unidentified balloons.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
is a good article published in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">reviewing
possibilities of diverse origins and characteristics of those
airships:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/was-a-high-altitude-airship-spotted-recently-near-the-south-china-sea"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/was-a-high-altitude-airship-spotted-recently-near-the-south-china-sea</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">After
some statements by a naïve (or simply stupid) senior U.S. General
that they cannot “rule out” anything including an alien origin of
the unidentified flying objects detected and shot down in the last
days, the White House finally added some common sense comments (that
is, ruling out the extraterrestrial origin). Frankly, dear readers,
we are living in shameful times:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3855991-white-house-no-signs-of-aliens-or-extraterrestrial-activity-with-shot-down-objects/">https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3855991-white-house-no-signs-of-aliens-or-extraterrestrial-activity-with-shot-down-objects/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
Spanish physicist Julio Plaza has written in his blog Gluón con
Leche, “At the height of the grotesque, now the White House
announces the creation of a new interagency team to investigate
"Unidentified Aerial Objects." See also:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-announces-interagency-team-address-objects-sky-rcna70416"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-announces-interagency-team-address-objects-sky-rcna70416</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Will
it compete with AARO? What about all existing U.S. Defense air
control facilities, and NORAD? Have they all become useless to detect
simple balloons over America? LOL. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">expected,
the three unmanned aerial objects brought down recently were </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"most
likely tied to private companies, recreation or research
institutions," (President Biden UFO speech on February 16) and
were not connected to the massive Chinese surveillance balloon that
was shot down on February 4.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
episode looks like comic, but it could be tragic. Someone must be
accountable for the current UAP hysteria. Of course, it is having a
political turn, Republicans mock Biden’s decision to take down
hobby balloons:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Incidentally,
the Pentagon is not willing to disclose images of balloons being
brought down by U.S. aircraft:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-no-plans-to-release-images-of-unidentified-objects-from-recent-shootdowns/#sq_hbf83gt9r0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-no-plans-to-release-images-of-unidentified-objects-from-recent-shootdowns/#sq_hbf83gt9r0</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGRbuE531r0GUH8XEKTWmJVl98jiLfbu_-XjqBVLVu-CNlLuMlk0-09mY4wHHKuBK49WP30wclKT2J7ZLu0gErFUgS65hp3r5kp58p6qegNPXxN3aWw5kvEbgABiqZt3jigrQ8r-aHMfmFC9PRL7A5fD3ow2q-qrCRMCOXbIW1qNUKcEraA/s504/China.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="504" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGRbuE531r0GUH8XEKTWmJVl98jiLfbu_-XjqBVLVu-CNlLuMlk0-09mY4wHHKuBK49WP30wclKT2J7ZLu0gErFUgS65hp3r5kp58p6qegNPXxN3aWw5kvEbgABiqZt3jigrQ8r-aHMfmFC9PRL7A5fD3ow2q-qrCRMCOXbIW1qNUKcEraA/s320/China.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">The
only image of the Chinese balloon approved by the U.S. Department of
Defense. An aircraft pilot’s selfie.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Another
unexpected twist of events is the following statement from President
Biden that contradicts AARO’s 2022 annual report affirming that
there is a surge of UAP incidents in the country. Biden said: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We
don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase of
objects in the sky. We are just seeing more of them partially because
of the steps we have taken to narrow our radars and we have to keep
adapting our approach to dealing with these challenges."</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157530528/biden-remarks-unidentified-aerial-objects-balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157530528/biden-remarks-unidentified-aerial-objects-balloon</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Biden
also announced a series of measures to better control airspace in
relation to objects that are a potential threat to national security:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/key-moments-joe-biden-ufo-speech-1781897">https://www.newsweek.com/key-moments-joe-biden-ufo-speech-1781897</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
main difficulty with this is that you must identify first the nature
of something before you decide if it is a risk or not. And many
UFO/UAP sightings are unidentified or anomalous because they are
brief or briefly observed or badly recorded, not because of their
intrinsic strangeness, so the decision basically will apply (in
addition to ballistic trajectories) to long-standing objects in the
sky, i.e., balloons. And when a softly flying balloon interferes with
the national safety? An enemy one? How often does this happen?
Press-created apprehension is what we are living. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Invited
Article </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Luis
Cayetano (Ph.D.) represents a new generation of UFO students who are
entering the field with a fresh, uncontaminated focus. With a
background in evolutionary biology and ecology, Luis has an interest
in many fringe topics such as UFOs, mainly in their related social,
political and psychological aspects. I have asked him to write his
views on the world of ufology and this is what he has written.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>WAKE
ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO, DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING ON LIKE A UFO</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By
Dr. Luis Cayetano</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
circular form of the flying saucer was supposed by Carl Jung to
signify a yearning for human unity during the dangerous and heady
days of the Cold War.* Equally valid psychoanalytical suppositions
might be to imagine flying saucers signifying a cycle, specifically a
premonition that people were about to chase their own tails in search
of new myths. In Robbie Graham’s book (Robbie sadly passed away
recently, may he rest in peace) </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
Reframing the Debate </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2017),
researcher and author Jack Brewer contributes a chapter with the
title </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Future Leads to the Past</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
That is most certainly and demonstrably an apt description of the UFO
saga over the decades.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
ongoing bruhaha surrounding AAWSAP/AATIP, Lue Elizondo (and what he
does and doesn’t know and what he did and didn’t lead), TTSA (and
what became of it), Tom DeLonge (and who he did or didn’t talk to),
pilot reports of strange craft, the Pentagon’s current UAP
investigation unit, and the ever-hopeful Disclosure narrative all
have clear historical antecedents.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80zzwU6gM6bnrB1aBuELxKXtP1Hc-SR9tWkTo0TZ7wXrm74a6WhyIuaIgeIIwYwVOfWsia8EM1ZLh5sgmY27U2O42FRDpQlCs-HI4hRk-6DGfUAZ7cd8tQPUcyoLjTyAfyO_nNixH-cSuaJizXR3tIsIL_s-uhUEkaMRFJC8T_JLsqTwA0g/s4080/imagen1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3899" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80zzwU6gM6bnrB1aBuELxKXtP1Hc-SR9tWkTo0TZ7wXrm74a6WhyIuaIgeIIwYwVOfWsia8EM1ZLh5sgmY27U2O42FRDpQlCs-HI4hRk-6DGfUAZ7cd8tQPUcyoLjTyAfyO_nNixH-cSuaJizXR3tIsIL_s-uhUEkaMRFJC8T_JLsqTwA0g/s320/imagen1.jpeg" width="306" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">A
partial representation of the links between persons,
institutions/organizations, and legislation tied up in the ongoing US
government’s UFO/UAP saga. See ongoing updates to this graphic
here:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/mapping-the-ufo-scene-using-association-charts"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/mapping-the-ufo-scene-using-association-charts</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Arnold
Kruckman comes to mind as an early analogue of DeLonge in his
advocacy for a publicly funded (what we today call “crowd funded”)
UFO research organization aimed ultimately at linking up with our
interstellar brethren (see Brewer’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Wayward
Sons: NICAP and the IC</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
for more details about Kruckman’s flying saucer initiatives).
Projects Sign, Grudge and Bluebook were all conducted under the
auspices of a branch of the US military and together represented
multi-year official investigations into UFOs, long antedating
AASWAP/AATIP (though the latter was a tad shadier in that the exact
circumstances of its formation were linked to the supposed goings-on
at Skinwalker Ranch. There is also still some back-and-forth about
the exact nature and stewardship of the program, but it appears that
Lue Elizondo was not the director of the original AAWSAP, which was
nicknamed AATIP, but of a later “AATIP”, which was his own
continuation project and had no official funding or clout). The more
recent UAP Task Force (which operated under the Office of Naval
Intelligence; UAPTF was superseded by AOIMSG, which was superseded by
the current AARO) was focused squarely on UAP </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>per
se</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
while AAWSAP/AATIP was distracted, by design, with “frontier
science” and the paranormal rather than being a dedicated UFO
investigation outfit. UAPTF briefly had as its informal chief
scientist Travis Taylor (of Skinwalker fame, for whatever that may or
may not indicate) and the push for its formation could ultimately be
credited to the exertions of the same crew of UFO and paranormal
advocates who have for years done the rounds extolling the need for
government investigations into these realms, sometimes on very
dubious pretenses (see Jason Colavito’s pieces mentioned later for
more on this, along with this piece by Brian Dunning of Skeptoid
Media</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/KFh0zY7hTWE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/KFh0zY7hTWE</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
Some, like Jacques Vallée and Hal Puthoff, have been at it since the
1970s, and are now seeing their efforts for government recognition of
“the phenomenon” coming to fruition. For those specifically
pushing the Disclosure narrative and calling for the formation of UFO
offices within the government and military, there is a contradiction
in that the US government is already supposed by these advocates to
be in possession of knowledge about the true nature of the mysterious
craft, if not in possession of the craft and the ufonauts themselves.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Harvard
astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project has also featured
prominently in current debates surrounding UFOs/UAP. Does it
represent a truly novel development? Perhaps in its scope and
ambition, but there are some antecedents and the project is not
nearly as novel in its conception as many might imagine or as Loeb
has alluded it as being (see here for examples:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/08/some-thoughts-on-new-galileo-project.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/08/some-thoughts-on-new-galileo-project.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
There is also some question about why Professor Loeb has invited
practically everyone on board, from outright advocates to outright
skeptics. Among the former is Elizondo himself, who was brought in as
an unpaid consultant. Elizondo’s expertise is in
counterintelligence. He has intimated many times that he is bound by
a signed non-disclosure agreement that prevents him from revealing
much of what he knows about UAP, while also giving his own take on a
number of related issues as leans into his undisclosable “expertise”
(such as giving a hearty thumbs-up to the Roswell alien crash
narrative). In my view, Elizondo’s involvement seems a bit wonky in
a supposedly serious scientific endeavor such as Galileo that
proclaims its above-board, public nature and refusal to be bound by
government secrecy and censorship (of course, the involvement of
government spooks in civilian UFO organizations is also nothing new.
NICAP was practically crawling with them, including some
psychological warfare specialists. Whether this was part of an actual
government effort to control the narrative during the Cold War, to
keep tabs on potential Soviet recruits, or for some other reason is
far from clear, but Brewer’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Wayward
Sons</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is a great resource on the people involved and their connections. By
way of comparison, it would be interesting to catalogue all the
former intelligence people who have been invited to participated in
Galileo, though I am not suggesting that Loeb is secretly funneling
spooks into his program. Still, Elizondo’s interest and role in the
larger narrative, as well as that of other intelligence and
government officials, is worthy of consideration). Also, we might
place a question mark on Loeb’s own motivation for his project,
since he had originally suggested that UFOs are not alien precisely
because camera technology has gotten better over the decades while
the quality of UFO evidence has plateaued, characterizing UFOs as
something always, at best, at the edge of credibility. Note that Loeb
has famously promoted the object ʻOumuamua as an extraterrestrial
technological artefact such as a solar sail, which surely represents
an altogether different propulsion system than what any rapidly
maneuvering atmosphere-entering craft (as UFOs are often described)
would use. It seems, to me at least, that Loeb has banked on the
current vogue for UAP garnered by the Navy footage and the
surrounding stories and intimations of people like Elizondo, and has
ridden its coattails in order to stir up interest in his initiative.
There seems to me to be an incongruity between his pronouncements
about the nature of ʻOumuamua and his past statements about the
unlikelihood of UFOs as ET on the one hand, and his current position
about photographing UFOs on the other. I welcome correction on this
issue and would sincerely like to understand how Loeb resolves this
apparent contradiction.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
about the link we keep hearing about between UFOs and consciousness?
Isn’t that new? Not really. The Contactees relayed countless
stories about telepathy and “higher states of consciousness”
(including the quintessential Woo trope of “vibrational
frequencies”). For my own take on the consciousness tie-in, see
here:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">New
characters have been added to the pantheon of alien gods and cosmic
gurus, as has some filler about the supposed connections between UFOs
and psi phenomena as well as with poltergeists and the like (such as
the “hitchhiker effect” and the genetic predisposition touted by
some advocates for being attuned to the messages of higher
intelligences), but the UFO represented a New Age religion in the
making almost right out of the block, and became a fully-fledged New
Age movement into the 1950s & 60s. Today, some ufologists
advocate an outright rejection of materialist science on the basis of
select consciousness studies. Joshua Cutchin, for example, proclaims
that materialism is doomed because of what a “handful” of “well
qualified researchers” have found out about ESP (why only a
handful?) and that it will be replaced, literally, with magic. While
such a development is touted by him and the likeminded as an
expansion of science and a break with the stodgy dogmatism that in
their view shackles inquiry by dismissing evidence of immaterialism,
it is already being prepped as an open invitation to confabulate and
conjecture. What other conclusion can be reached with exuberant
statements such as these?: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Magonian
phenomena encompass any number of answers to the UFO problem: aliens,
yes, but also time travelers, demons, spirits, cultural poltergeists,
interdimensional entities, the Jungian collective unconscious,
daimonic higher selves, faeries, ghosts – or infinitely hybridized
theories therein.</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(This
is from Cutchin’s contribution</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
In for a penny, in for a pound: moving Ufology beyond materialism</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
in Graham’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
Reframing the Debate.</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
</span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sure,
why not?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Jason
Colavito’s May 2021 piece in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
New Republic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">did
a fine job linking some of the pieces together concerning the
afore-alluded “invisible college” (Vallée, Puthoff and others)
in being part of an effort to undermine material science and smuggle
in spiritualism (might the circular form of the flying saucer
therefore represent a portal though which the phantasms of Magonia
may pass through to our material realm?). The driving forces behind
AAWSAP/AATIP and ultimately the UAPTF may represent a novelty in the
sense of these UFO offices being ultimately instigated by the
supernatural compulsions of paranormal enthusiasts (though admittedly
the US government has had similar involvements in the past concerning
psychic spies, as per the shuttered Stargate Project, which
importantly involved members of the self-same invisible college),
whereas Blue Book was conducted with a view to simply defending US
national security by trying to figure out what was in the air and
whether it was Soviet or interplanetary. See also this piece by
Colavito regarding the questionable wellsprings for Congress’s
establishment of the UAPTF:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/164699/pentagon-ufos-gillibrand-ndaa-spending"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://newrepublic.com/article/164699/pentagon-ufos-gillibrand-ndaa-spending</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Circling
back on Skinwalker Ranch (because apparently we need to in the
current lunacy), we see a veritable bestiary being erected in this
paranormal/supernatural/magical hodgepodge, including not only
dino-beavers but interdimensional werewolves. One almost feels this
metamodernist mix descending into entropy where everything means
anything while the participants remain blithely unaware that this
really means that nothing means anything. This is decidedly unhealthy
against the backdrop of counter-consensus reality and post-truth
narratives emanating from political extremisms that have risen to
social and cultural prominence in the Western democracies. Though the
UFO milieu cannot be directly blamed for this, even if there is some
degree of overlap and interplay, we should be mindful of the danger
of introducing another enzyme into an already heady witch’s brew of
pseudoscience and wishful thinking.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
UFO circuit has long been (arguably, has </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>always</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
been) both an amplifier and a conduit for fanciful stories that get
taller in the telling, a problem acknowledged even by many who
operate within this circuit and who themselves believe in some fairly
tall tales. This is because there are few quality controls and
filters in place, and integrated into this network is an eager
audience of consumers hungry for ever more extraordinary tales. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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UFO circuit. Note the myriad opportunities at each node for further
amplification of dubious and evidence-lacking narratives, by virtue
of multiple connections with other nodes that feed upon each other.
This graphic probably vastly underestimates the true complexity of
the UFO merry-go-round. Image source:
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/why-ufos-are-almost-certainly-not-extraterrestrial-interdimensional-supernatural-etc"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/why-ufos-are-almost-certainly-not-extraterrestrial-interdimensional-supernatural-etc</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Throw
money, personal esteem, cable TV programming and a narcissistic
yearning to say “Told you so” into the mix – all fanned along
by the hellscape of social media - and the incentive structure is
hardly conducive of rigorous scientific analysis and standards of
evidence. This is further exacerbated by UFO zealots who are not only
unwilling but outright refuse to adopt the scientific method, being
as it is too “limited” in their view and incapable of
assimilating their experiences. Among prominent personalities within
the field, we saw this propensity quite clearly with the late Budd
Hopkins, an artist with an interest in the numinous but who held to a
nuts-and-bolts view of the UFO while being utterly disinterested in
science (notably, Hopkin’s exertions continue to make themselves
felt with the dubious technique of hypnotic regression lasting well
past its welcome, as well as the interventions of his former partner
Leslie Kean, who spearheaded much of the media and public interest in
the U.S. Navy’s UFO footage and who is a major promoter of
spiritualism), and to a somewhat lesser extent in the late Harvard
psychologist John Mack, whose credulous work surrounding the Ariel
incident in Zimbabwe serves as a case study for highlighting such
problems as the leading of witnesses and the encouragement of them to
confabulate, as well as the unsavory spectacle of adults leaning on
children to elaborate favored narratives. I highly recommend Charlie
Wiser’s excellent and in-depth analysis of the myriad problems with
the Ariel case and why it should immediately be scrapped as proof for
extraterrestrial visitation:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/ariel-school.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/ariel-school.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">One
thing that strikes me about the US government saga, if viewed from
the ETH perspective, is that it’s so wretchedly </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>tedious</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Unlike in other fields of inquiry, where we can postulate the
subjects of investigation and can find clear evidence for them using
internationally recognized standards, the search for ET in endless
declassified documents, official and unofficial pronouncements by
people in the current or former employ of the government, and the
read-between-the-lines conjecture derived from these, is that the
quarry is never chased down and unassailably catalogued. If one
thinks that one is studying extraterrestrials, then one is really
studying a culture and a belief system, and one becomes inextricably
part of that culture and belief system the more one subscribes to the
view that a special government knowledge about otherworldly visitors
is there to be uncovered or disclosed. This of course is part of the
UFO circuit that then colors the beliefs of others within that
circuit, endlessly spinning in an autocatalytic cycle of speculation
and wild proclamation. This is a fine topic for anthropologists,
historians, psychologists, religion scholars, and social scientists,
but those who are in it hoping to find proof for ET will often burn
out, and for good reason. Others, however, are only galvanized by the
chase and may, at some level of their being, not want the mystery,
such as it is, to be truly resolved. As for me, I haven’t quite
fallen asleep yet hoping for ET, but I do take naps regularly. I’d
prefer that you just wake me up when you find the damn aliens, and
I’ll be happy to sing your praises if you can. My prediction is
that you won’t find anything visiting us from Zeta Reticuli or from
another dimension.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
might not be Space Brothers, but there are definitely bros telling
cool stories.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(*)
Of course, many UFOs are not reported as flying saucers but span a
range of shapes including orbs, cigars and triangles. Clearly,
Jungian musings about the significance of the circle cannot suffice
as an explanation for UFOs </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>per
se</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
though psychoanalytical musings may conceivably yield good accounts
for why we see UFOs and particular variants of them. And if not
psychoanalytics, then at least a psychosocial explanation is on the
table.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Good
Wishes to Dr. Richard Haines</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Now
it is easy and comfortable for academics to venture into UFO work,
when the U.S. DoD, NASA or the AIAA are doing UAP studies. But there
was a time that it was a risky affair for a scientist’s career to
embark in UFO work. Few scientists have had the guts to confront UFO
phenomena at a time (1970s-1990s) when the subject matter was
cancelled from any academic agenda. One who did is Richard F. Haines
(Seattle, 1937) got B.A, (1960) and M.A. (1962) degrees in the
Pacific Lutheran University, and a Ph.D. degree in Experimental
Psychology/Physiology from Michigan State University in 1964. His
professional career at NASA-Ames Research Center in California was
first as National Research Council Postdoctoral Resident Research
Associate, 1964-1967; and then as a Senior Research Scientist working
on many aerospace projects until his retirement in 1988. Beginning in
the late 1960s , one of his avocations included critical examination
of UFO evidence. He is the author of some outstanding books</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and papers, he wrote the foreword of one of my own books</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
and we even shared one article</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
I do not agree with his conclusions about the nature and origin of
UFOs but I must admit Haines is a rigorous and sincere researcher who
has helped to elevate ufology to a higher level. I know from personal
correspondence that on December 5, 2022, he suffered a serious heart
attack and has been in hospital for two weeks. I am happy to say that
he is recovering from a four artery graft (open heart surgery). I do
believe that difference in evaluation or opinion is fully compatible
with holding a very warm personal relationship, and this is my
situation with Dick Haines. I just want to publicly express my
sincere wish of recovery to this hero of ufology, whatever </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
that may remain</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
beyond a name. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjToiUyCGvwR1Ej9h1F4NWTSDo4mdTHat7TWwZkCv0hHvCG7_kSR83PLozQ_j9iBZ0LOP73AALBD2SP1w1aJziVurQwJC89-u3OfNSoYiR1Bo-Wn6MWrfb5WECzfYluc6joDOCz3ptJSbAAcUjzSI4zYS14gf4zKU1i7UN_CvZLOg5l26C3Ww/s2763/Haines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1975" data-original-width="2763" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjToiUyCGvwR1Ej9h1F4NWTSDo4mdTHat7TWwZkCv0hHvCG7_kSR83PLozQ_j9iBZ0LOP73AALBD2SP1w1aJziVurQwJC89-u3OfNSoYiR1Bo-Wn6MWrfb5WECzfYluc6joDOCz3ptJSbAAcUjzSI4zYS14gf4zKU1i7UN_CvZLOg5l26C3Ww/s320/Haines.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Dr.
Haines and V.J. Ballester Olmos, Santander (Spain), October 1991.</span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA5Okf96KEKE6_ILtiVzcIeZNViDyUQ7AKswsbQbsnV0FewXB6xIExtDwwYJYOxpSV4RXwHeyVJZvoZL-F9_KVTBVeyc3wRsO_nmclSLYyWH0wOxgEiPieJkIo2dLLwHSr2cHEO3xPCJgKu8fJQTDY88y4IRkBoipF3YMic0bC4mzkFkaZQ/s943/NASA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="943" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA5Okf96KEKE6_ILtiVzcIeZNViDyUQ7AKswsbQbsnV0FewXB6xIExtDwwYJYOxpSV4RXwHeyVJZvoZL-F9_KVTBVeyc3wRsO_nmclSLYyWH0wOxgEiPieJkIo2dLLwHSr2cHEO3xPCJgKu8fJQTDY88y4IRkBoipF3YMic0bC4mzkFkaZQ/s320/NASA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Richard Haines with a group of NASA astronauts, Ames Research Center.
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Observing
UFOs: An Investigative Handbook</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Observing-Ufos-Investigative-Richard-Haines/dp/0882295403"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.com/Observing-Ufos-Investigative-Richard-Haines/dp/0882295403</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>UFO
Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/27es2dbt"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/27es2dbt</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(with
Miguel Guasp), Plaza y Janés, S. A. (Barcelona), 1981 and 1989.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
“UAP Imaged from Aircraft,”
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31544043/UAP_Imaged_from_Aircraft"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/31544043/UAP_Imaged_from_Aircraft</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>University
UFO Theses & Dissertations, 1948-2022</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Italian UFO researcher Paolo Toselli (CISU, Turin) has updated his
great database on UFO theses and dissertations (1948-2022). From his
prior version, it adds 61 new items for the period 2000-2022. This
catalog includes 413 theses, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">almost
all in the area of the social sciences, with the exception
of five in</span></span></span><span style="color: #26282a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
engineering and medicine, one in astrophysics, and five others in
architecture (!) 38% of the theses’ authors are American. As for
academic degree levels, there are 85 theses for obtaining the
"bachelor's degree", 166 theses for the "master's
degree", and 131 dissertations for the "Ph.D."</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ufotheses_by_paolo_toselli_updated_23122022.pdf">http://www.cisu.org/wp-content/2022/12/ufotheses_by_paolo_toselli_updated.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Eerie
Balloons</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Weather,
recreation, research, surveillance balloons exist in all shapes and
sizes. During my collection work of supposed UFO sightings, I have
come across many findings of grounded balloons. Thanks to my loyal
collaborator Kay Coggin, a purveyor of lots of UFO clippings from the
nineteen forties to nineties with information on pictures of UFOs and
IFOs, including many examples of recovered balloons. This brief note
is just to show an unusual balloon discovered in the 1960s.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
source is Florida’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tallahassee
Democrat </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
Thursday, June 23, 1966. Under the heading “Motorist Chases,
Catches a ‘UFO’,” the newspaper recounts that Charles R.
Byrnes, a sales representative, was driving to Tallahassee on the
previous Tuesday afternoon near Gulf Hammock when an “unidentified
flying object” started “chasing him.” “This thing was
floating over the road, moving back and forth with the wind,”
Byrnes declared. He stopped his car and looked around for someone to
help him catch the object but there was no one there, so he decided
to chase it by himself, still not sure just what it really was.
Finally, he caught it. “I figured it must belong to the government,
so I let the helium out and put it in my truck and brought it to Lt.
Dickens.” Lt. J.A. Dickens was a chief pilot for the Florida
Highway Patrol. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6DI0Rh1eU95IBPUicRqrNlF2m2_KdQjyHdl1sgbLsUMeeRdB2lA2J7UJf6s9L17y29_lj1NLFMq_zh64CXxAOjiROv1subMHBht_9fMh1nY0yy0mgh_A9XEr4Sb-qpp7qhHm-h0yVXYWnzp1yD5BexRkYXNf4e5OJmbLcJBNFqksgPz52g/s731/globo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="731" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6DI0Rh1eU95IBPUicRqrNlF2m2_KdQjyHdl1sgbLsUMeeRdB2lA2J7UJf6s9L17y29_lj1NLFMq_zh64CXxAOjiROv1subMHBht_9fMh1nY0yy0mgh_A9XEr4Sb-qpp7qhHm-h0yVXYWnzp1yD5BexRkYXNf4e5OJmbLcJBNFqksgPz52g/s320/globo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">FHP
Lt. Col. Reid Clifton with the “UFO.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
end of the story: after several calls, it was finally identified by
the Eglin Air Force Base, it was a foil-wrapped balloon used by the
U.S. Air Force for collecting weather data and radar training
missions. “They called it a ray-win, said Dickens, and they didn’t
want it.” The balloon was about eight feet in diameter when blown
up. It was covered with thin aluminum with a stronger inter-shell of
some type of rubber or plastic. Its entire outer surface was covered
with nodules that stand about 10cm high. From a few meters away, the
balloon appears almost transparent. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
consulted STRATOCAT’s manager, Luis E. Pacheco, and he confirmed it
was the kind of balloon called “Jimsphere,” a sophisticated
radiosonde used by then, for example, in space centers for a precise
tracking of winds in both surface and height before a rocket launch. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FSMNXO3Khqc-UCVIY0lzEs0_wM4aJtFlU3U4YlUAa63ujkobqzCU8Ux-UpwuBSsQ-IQS8G3nRDgEIbTXmYrCzES32C54z9kKFsp7IlXMJjC0usczvCBV4iaBn84A1Q392-a2whkdx91ciZS-3YHQP9vFBSLVaUVC3khh1yLdgGguYL6Q7A/s800/jimsphere.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="651" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FSMNXO3Khqc-UCVIY0lzEs0_wM4aJtFlU3U4YlUAa63ujkobqzCU8Ux-UpwuBSsQ-IQS8G3nRDgEIbTXmYrCzES32C54z9kKFsp7IlXMJjC0usczvCBV4iaBn84A1Q392-a2whkdx91ciZS-3YHQP9vFBSLVaUVC3khh1yLdgGguYL6Q7A/s320/jimsphere.jpg" width="260" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Jimsphere
balloon. Image borrowed from</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/164342/view/meteorologist-with-jimsphere-weather-balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/164342/view/meteorologist-with-jimsphere-weather-balloon</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Falling
Pieces From Space</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Since
the launching of the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Russian</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Sputnik in 1957, thousands of rockets and satellites have been sent
to space. The Earth now owns sort of an artificial ring formed by
millions of tiny and big objects from those launches. When those
mechanical pieces come back to the planet’s surface when their
orbits decay and go through the atmosphere at a breakneck speed, they
disintegrate creating a scenic, luminous phenomenon, a reentry
meteor. No doubt, they are visually observed and produce a number of
UFO sightings.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Most volatilize in the fiery passage</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2,3,4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
but, on occasion, harder parts of the decaying objects (titanium
components, for example) do not consume themselves totally during the
infernal return process and arrive safe (but scorched) to the soil
and can be recovered.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5,6</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">At
20:33UTC (6:30 pm, Texas time) on August 28, 1970, payload from
Russian </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cosmos</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
316 satellite reentered over Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. NORAD
catalog number 4282, international denomination 1969-108, the space
expert Dr. Jonathan McDowell described it as a “dummy ASAT
prototype,”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">an
anti-satellite weapon. Some fragments survived the reentry and were
found in Pratt (Kansas) and Adrian (Texas). For those interested, I
am enclosing two photographs of the materials that crashed, taken
from several of the press cuttings I have gathered to document one
event that, for sure, was responsible for some local UFO sightings. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEa_7tX6671XJplHUmoDcSyFqOOhbC1yKoP2gdbGc-kRcP2cQYM6r_Ov5p8S5MADHG85V0OPo8hEHr3CBJCZAIPFpQ7OPBsHRVmsCmCq66VeHx0IKx5JSbz-NslJ0z6f5CVdBxZMox-DR9P887bNhBiHHi2v3pCOka0KXqZKjcTz3vn7AgDw/s1244/Pratt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEa_7tX6671XJplHUmoDcSyFqOOhbC1yKoP2gdbGc-kRcP2cQYM6r_Ov5p8S5MADHG85V0OPo8hEHr3CBJCZAIPFpQ7OPBsHRVmsCmCq66VeHx0IKx5JSbz-NslJ0z6f5CVdBxZMox-DR9P887bNhBiHHi2v3pCOka0KXqZKjcTz3vn7AgDw/s320/Pratt.jpg" width="165" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Tom
Gibson, an oil company superintendent, uses a shovel to support a
metal object that came down near Pratt, Kansas on land leased by his
company. Credit: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Wichita Eagle </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(Wichita,
Kansas), September 2, 1970.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjijA9O-366q8NiTTqWJd39JDqCgSvfa8NSDeo3toR9eHbHlvw9r9Ir5mpsq8Kwu1tCU7qSko6XDRtj1FPsZ0IqSFcqS8y5gUNKlz5TsF3XhHT8nDMLYP-aRgkptGCj1QOwvV82jMR5W6OKsIywvmKmTsEr00v5HQKGYTsS2lPySqJ8fn7A/s700/Adrian.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjijA9O-366q8NiTTqWJd39JDqCgSvfa8NSDeo3toR9eHbHlvw9r9Ir5mpsq8Kwu1tCU7qSko6XDRtj1FPsZ0IqSFcqS8y5gUNKlz5TsF3XhHT8nDMLYP-aRgkptGCj1QOwvV82jMR5W6OKsIywvmKmTsEr00v5HQKGYTsS2lPySqJ8fn7A/s320/Adrian.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Mrs.
George Gruhlkey and son Perry inspect an 80 pound chunk of metal that
fell on their farm, near Adrian, Texas. An etched serial number
(shown at bottom of photo) was on the metal. Credit: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Peninsula Times Tribune</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Palo Alto, California), August 31, 1970.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Ted Molczan, ”Visually Observed Natural Re-Entries,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://satobs.org/reentry/Visually_Observed_Natural_Re-entries_latest_draft.pdf">http://satobs.org/reentry/Visually_Observed_Natural_Re-entries_latest_draft.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos,</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
<a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(scroll down to “A Gorgeous Space Junk Decay.”)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Ricardo Campo Pérez & V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Despliegue
luminoso sobre Canarias en noviembre de 1997,”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43363854/Despliegue_luminoso_sobre_Canarias_en_noviembre_de_1997">https://www.academia.edu/43363854/Despliegue_luminoso_sobre_Canarias_en_noviembre_de_1997</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos & Matías Morey, “27 noviembre 1999: ¿La
última reentrada del milenio?,” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://bit.ly/3loVQlP">https://bit.ly/3loVQlP</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos,</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">“Desclasificación
OVNI: El último expediente,” </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12561888/DESCLASIFICACION_OVNI_EL_ULTIMO_EXPEDIENTE?auto=download">https://www.academia.edu/12561888/DESCLASIFICACION_OVNI_EL_ULTIMO_EXPEDIENTE?auto=download</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “¿Qué ocurrió en Kandi? (Reentrada
espacial sobre África),”
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41096531/_Que_ocurrio_en_Kandi">https://www.academia.edu/41096531/_Que_ocurrio_en_Kandi</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Jonathan McDowell, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, August 2, 2022. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Hold on tight!: “Dr. Gary Nolan states he’s seen Gray ETs and
there’s a separate breeding group of humans with enhanced
neurological features (based on physical evidence),”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zc3urg/dr_gary_nolan_states_hes_seen_gray_ets_and_theres/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zc3urg/dr_gary_nolan_states_hes_seen_gray_ets_and_theres/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Gerson S. Paiva, “Hessdalen lights produced by electrically active
inversion layer,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Meteorology
and Atmospheric Physics</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 133, pages 1447–1454 (2021).</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00703-021-00819-9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00703-021-00819-9</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
“Avoiding the “Great Filter”: Extraterrestrial Life and
Humanity’s Future in the Universe”, by Jonathan H. Jiang, Philip
E. Rosen, Kelly Lu, Kristen A. Fahy, and Piotr Obacz,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
“Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: the “Saros
Operation,” by E. Maillot, G. Munsch, L. Danizel, I. Dumas, P.
Fournel, R. Robé, C. Zwygart, and J-M. Abrassart. Abstract: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><i>The
Psychosocial Model posits that lots of UFO sightings are explicable
as the mistaking of mundane stimuli for alien spacecraft. Our team
wanted to test the hypothesis that at least some people can mistake
the Moon for a UFO. We used the Saros cycle to do so: the Saros cycle
is an astronomical cycle that puts back the Moon in the same place in
the sky every 18 years and 11 days. In 1976, there was a UFO Wave in
France. The methodology was that if a case of the 1976 UFO wave could
be a mistaken observation of the Moon based on the position of the
object in the sky according to the witness, at least one member of
our team would go back to the location in 1994and check if the Moon
could really be the explanation for the observation. Our team could
this way verify empirically that 14 cases were indeed, without any
doubt, people mistaking the Moon for an alien spacecraft. 15 other
cases are also suspected to be mistake with the Moon based on the
position of the object in the sky according to the witness, but could
not be verified on site either because of a lack of information or
the bad weather making the Moon impossible to see in the sky. Our
team had in total 134 cases in their database for this UFO wave. Of
those 134 our results strongly suggest that 29 cases were mistake
observations of the Moon. Specific cases are discussed in the
article.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Evolutionary ecologist Dr. Luis Cayetano’s September 2022 article
“The role of consciousness in the UFO and alien mythos,” explores
the spiritualist and New Age ideology of a lot of the current UFO
scene:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Extraterrestrial
Intelligence. Academic and Societal Implications</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
a book (March 2022) edited by Jensine Andresen and Octavio A. Chon
Torres, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9168-4/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9168-4/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Campbell Moreira is one of the new actors in uapology. Read his July
2022 piece “Accepted Logical Limits: The Invisible College,
Dispelling Demons & Selling Mystery,” in
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/07/29/accepted-logical-limits-the-invisible-college-dispelling-demons-selling-mystery/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/07/29/accepted-logical-limits-the-invisible-college-dispelling-demons-selling-mystery/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(9)
“Westall High School UFO,” blog entry by Charlie Wiser:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/westall-quickread.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/westall-quickread.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(10)
January 2023. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Sun</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">’s
David Mahaffey interviews astronomer Seth Shostak: “Out There. On
The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence,”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/565/out-there"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/565/out-there</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(11)
Chinese Balloon Over Northern United States:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGK75knOAY"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGK75knOAY</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/stratoballoon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/stratoballoon</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(12)
A study performed at the Goldsmiths University of London: “The
associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables,” by
Betul Rauf, Rotem Perach, Juan J. Madrid-Valero, Dan Denis, Brian A.
Sharpless, Giulia Lara Poerio, Christopher C. French, and Alice M.
Gregory, published in the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Sleep Research</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
11 January 2023, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13810"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13810</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(13)
“Colorado drone mystery sightings finally might be solved,” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://gazette.com/military/colorado-drone-mystery-sightings-finally-might-be-solved/article_c8d375be-2e6f-11ea-85b7-2335e1d42476.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://gazette.com/military/colorado-drone-mystery-sightings-finally-might-be-solved/article_c8d375be-2e6f-11ea-85b7-2335e1d42476.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(14)
There is a recent harvest of AI databases (credit: Keith
Basterfield). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/07/enter-new-uap-database-player-enigma.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/07/enter-new-uap-database-player-enigma.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">My
personal prediction is that they will finally crash with the old
adage of computer freaks: GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(15)
This is typical capitalism, creating business out of the UFO anxiety:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Quotable
Quotes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson, June 27, 2001: “How to turn most
UFOs into IFOs: Take one course in Stargazing, another in Atmospheric
Phenomena, and a third in Cognitive Bias.” 75 years in ufology is
just rightly summed up in this thought.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Figures
to consider. Canadian expert Chris Rutkowski, checking 14,617 UFO
reports collected 1989-2013 by the Canadian UFO Survey database,
concludes that “taking into account only the cases of high quality,
the percentage [of unexplained sightings] reduces to 1.1%.” “Le
Canadian UFO Survey: de la recherche sans speculation,” in </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>De
l’experience à la science</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Yann Vadnais (ed.), GARPAN (Québec, Canada), 2021, page 507. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Writing
for </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Skeptical Intelligencer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of Winter 2022, editor Michael Heap comments on the Brandolini’s
Law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of
magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
law was publicly formulated the first time in January 2013 by Alberto
Brandolini, an Italian programmer. Brandolini stated that he was
inspired by reading Daniel Kahneman’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Thinking,
Fast and Slow</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
right before watching an Italian political talk show with former
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and journalist Marco Travaglio. We
UFO researchers standing in the non-credulous, rational side of the
spectrum recognize how accurate is this statement, as we have
experienced (suffered) its effects for years. But believers do not
learn. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Invited
Book Review</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I
have invited Italian UFO student Paolo Toselli (CISU) to write a
review of the latest book by fellow countryman, noted scholar and
author, Giuseppe Stilo. His cooperation is very much appreciated. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>ALIENS
BUT NOT TOO MUCH – SKEPTIC GUIDE TO UFOLOGY. A BOOK REVIEW</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">By
Paolo Toselli</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Giuseppe
Stilo: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Alieni
ma non troppo – Guida scettica all’ufologia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
CICAP, 2022, 224 pages. Foreword by Edoardo Russo (CISU).
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cicap.org/new/prodotto.php?id=3905"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cicap.org/new/prodotto.php?id=3905</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
is not the first UFO book written by Giuseppe Stilo, whom I have
known personally for some decades. Since 2000, Stilo has produced six
volumes, published by UPIAR (</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com">www.upiar.com</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">),
which historically reconstruct the 1946-1954 period as of UFOs in
Italy, with references to other countries, too. However, this last
book is different from the previous ones. The author himself makes it
clear in the introduction: “This book is written by a person who is
two things at the same time: a longtime UFO buff (over 40 years), and
a skeptic. Therefore, it is the result of two lines of interest. The
first is the one I developed largely within the only Italian UFO
study group worth attending, the Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici
(CISU); the second one as an activist of the CICAP (Italian Committee
for the Control of Claims on Pseudosciences).” In fact, overtime,
the author has become increasingly skeptical about the possibility
that UFOs could hide some phenomenon unknown to science.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITnZnxyBLvU_KZcZhruUPV5zWIXUir_BbLjTraQytKqNMTGL38_Wrfwa9Sqno9ttJT2m9V3vgHQfDWw5Zj4wVvva0n3UEdLM-vUSFVngcHyWjcVXiozS6XU_b5htD1IN7ybhQq3oQ4VOmAjV62hgpLQJ_o5mYKrAx7kslfd-NlIPXm7Cgiw/s1578/Stilo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1578" data-original-width="1092" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITnZnxyBLvU_KZcZhruUPV5zWIXUir_BbLjTraQytKqNMTGL38_Wrfwa9Sqno9ttJT2m9V3vgHQfDWw5Zj4wVvva0n3UEdLM-vUSFVngcHyWjcVXiozS6XU_b5htD1IN7ybhQq3oQ4VOmAjV62hgpLQJ_o5mYKrAx7kslfd-NlIPXm7Cgiw/w138-h200/Stilo.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
book is divided into five chapters. The first, with a historical
background, is the longest one and focuses on the people and groups
(ufologists, military, scientists, etc.) who have marked the "long"
history of UFOs up to the present day, and starts from a reflection
on why the UFO myth came into existence, which from the beginning
introduced the belief in the "ancient astronauts",
transforming ufology into an alternative conception of the world as
opposed to the mainstream one. According to Stilo, UFOs are a modern
myth which however draws on pre-existing ideas, such as the debate on
evolutionism with the notion of different beings that could be in
different stages of development and the dawn of the aeronautics age,
but also an evolution of various forms of occultism from the late
19th century, in which spirits and "ascended masters" were
messengers of super-aeronautical technology. This encounter between
science, technology and occultism provided an unparalleled energy to
the UFO myth.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
second chapter is dedicated to contactees and UFO sects, which,
according to the author, structurally characterize the UFO myth, as
they are an intellectual universe that owes much to Theosophy and
Hinduism, and in which the relationship between extraterrestrials and
men is of the master-disciple type, as a rule.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Another
structural aspect of the UFO myth would be the abductions, which the
third chapter is dedicated to. Even if they may have nothing to do
with normal UFO sightings, despite the fact that there is no
evidence that the experiences of many "abductees" are due
to psychosis or in any case to disorders of the schizophrenic
spectrum, abductions represent a potential for research in various
fields of psychology and psychiatry, according to this author.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
fourth chapter is focused on the UFO conspiracy, present since the
early days of ufology but completely prevalent in the UFO world since
the nineties, so much that today it is possible to assert that almost
ufology as a whole is an expression of the conspiracy universe, since
strong critique of science and of its relationship with society and
with authority is prevalent.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
fifth and final chapter deals with what the author defines as "the
great illusion", i.e., "scientific" ufology, arguing
on the failure of ufology as a discipline and its transformation into
a "cult", i.e., a bad imitation of science. Stilo argues
that ufology has turned out to be a dead end, because attempts to
transform it into a rational discipline with its own methods have
failed, as well as the attempt to transform Victorian age
spiritualism into something reliable, i.e., parapsychology. The
failure is due to the inability (and probably the impossibility) of
separating the two components: the myth and the phenomenon, assuming
that a phenomenon exists. Stilo claims that almost all activity by
ufologists consists in the collection of anecdotal fragments and
notes by poorly equipped enthusiasts, who are anyway well disposed
towards maintaining a sense of mystery.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Despite
these findings, it would not be rational to conclude that all
questions surrounding alleged UFO sightings will be answered, and
there remain a small number of adequately investigated incidents that
cannot be explained. At the same time, Stilo warns skeptics against
laziness. “In a number of UFO cases, scientists, public educators
and debunkers have given wrong, or at least questionable,
explanations, while rationally oriented ufologists, sometimes with
exceptional experience as field investigators, have got a better shot
than they have.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Stilo
concludes his latest work, which is not really on UFOs but on the
history of ideas, by stating that "the existence of ‘UFOs’
(least of all in the sense of traveling aliens) has not been
demonstrated in any way", but he invites his readers to deal
with it seriously, "within the real sciences."</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbED1AoD5Ei-NX-IxiZrgzRZzXtylFEdAna6vICzt1tCFjzm7_YTjtYJkjv-XSdI84gvBoPki7OlPBsrxc2OjRP7dxTh2o1j_Ui6fE-t8Hk0kdei36cx_9qbueRZJWTumqeNQgou5-Zbcj7G2_IfwqB6PIFr3_LIi1wVGMUWxjGiMvV7jC7Q/s400/Giuseppe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbED1AoD5Ei-NX-IxiZrgzRZzXtylFEdAna6vICzt1tCFjzm7_YTjtYJkjv-XSdI84gvBoPki7OlPBsrxc2OjRP7dxTh2o1j_Ui6fE-t8Hk0kdei36cx_9qbueRZJWTumqeNQgou5-Zbcj7G2_IfwqB6PIFr3_LIi1wVGMUWxjGiMvV7jC7Q/w200-h200/Giuseppe.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Giuseppe
Stilo.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Invited
Book Review</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">José
María Baena Liberato, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences, is a long-time
Spanish investigator (with a self-adopted public low profile) and a
valuable scientific consultant to me for many years. I have asked him
to submit to this blog a review of the important book that Chris
Aubeck has just published. In the text to follow, Dr. Baena Liberato
has made a comprehensive synthesis of the dense historical content of
this work. I thank him his kindness. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>ALIEN
ARTIFACTS. THE ENCHANTMENT OF COMETS</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">By
José María Baena Liberato</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Technical
specifications: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Alien
Artifacts. From Antiquity to 1880. Volume 1. The forgotten history of
how we came to believe in visitors from the stars</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Chris Aubeck. Amazon Italia Logistica S.r.l., 2022. 373 pages. ISBN:
9798364956422.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Chris
Aubeck's latest publication takes readers on a long voyage through
the annals of human history, offering compelling insights into the
origin and development of Western culture's fascination with
extraterrestrial life. The author has devoted nearly two decades of
his life to researching this topic, and the first part of this book
is a testament to his vast experience in the field of ufology, having
authored several books and founded the international research group,
Magonia Exchange.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
volume is structured around three distinct themes, each comprising
several chapters, which culminate in a selection of fragments
composed of notes, book quotes, and press cuttings supporting the
preceding material. The author deftly employs a range of sources,
including notes, quotations, and newspaper articles to support and
augment his arguments. The first theme, which features the sections
“Cultural Context” and “Extraterrestrials as a Religious
Experience,” provides an in-depth exploration of our changing
perspectives on the cosmos from ancient times to the present day. The
author deftly traces the historical evolution of our perception of
the universe, from classical times to Darwin, before examining the
role that literature, satire, and religious experiences have played
in shaping our perceptions of extraterrestrial life.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSXjEOdLd26XArbtduv_vjW6ZCMxhUjfFpGVUzaTHfELcx8EmbyHGENm2hu2N4LngJvHuBGfW_GNE_g_e9YfLnXdEbes4mH6zOMT7A5xPp1158E0ieYcugt0capYXdIB9fWo-3aSaCUJVUlHUiUGY9WjWi4cA4FsHDe9Arj-vH82JUSXAdw/s1080/artifacts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1080" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSXjEOdLd26XArbtduv_vjW6ZCMxhUjfFpGVUzaTHfELcx8EmbyHGENm2hu2N4LngJvHuBGfW_GNE_g_e9YfLnXdEbes4mH6zOMT7A5xPp1158E0ieYcugt0capYXdIB9fWo-3aSaCUJVUlHUiUGY9WjWi4cA4FsHDe9Arj-vH82JUSXAdw/s320/artifacts.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Aubeck's
work aims to bridge the information gap that has persisted over the
past two centuries regarding accounts of extraterrestrial life on
Earth. Although the idea of multiple worlds has been a prevalent
topic in philosophical, religious, and literary circles since ancient
times, Aubeck contends that an understanding of how interplanetary
contact has been portrayed throughout history is crucial for
evaluating the veracity of current reports. By examining the
historical roots of these accounts, readers can distinguish between
genuine experiences and popular notions that have been perpetuated
over time.</span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Aubeck's
primary objective serves as the focal point for all his investigative
work in this book. While the task of locating the original sources of
events is significant, Aubeck also conducts on-site investigations,
despite the passage of time. However, most of the necessary
information has been lost in documents that are centuries old. It is
worth noting that seeking the truth can often lead to more questions
than answers and following one trail can result in other
opportunities being missed. Therefore, the reader must remain mindful
that the pursuit of knowledge can be a complex and challenging
undertaking.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the realm of literature, we encounter Antonio Diogenes' work, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Wonders Beyond Thule</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
which may depict the first fictional voyage through space in the
second century. However, this genre remained scarce in Europe until
the 16th century, with the Moon becoming the favored subject of
novels and essays. In the 18th century, the works of Voltaire,
particularly his story </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Micromegas</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
and Louis Guillaume de La Follie's novel, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Le
philosophe sans pretention</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
reflected the influence of Cyrano de Bergerac.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Within
the realm of satire, we discover a letter, preserved in the General
Archive of Simancas, from the 18th century addressed to the King of
Spain, purportedly from the Governor of Tenerife, describing the
arrival of a balloon manned by "selenites" or
Moon-dwellers. The sender humorously suggested hosting a party on the
satellite to gain knowledge from its inhabitants and build flying
machines on Earth. The letter was likely a satirical response to the
regent's foreign policy, yet remarkably, it remained on record with
the Council of State for years.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Another
example of such satire is the "great lunar hoax," a series
of articles published in the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>New
York Sun</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
newspaper in August 1835. The articles purported that Sir John
Herschel had discovered intelligent life, animals, trees, and oceans
on the Moon. However, this was all a hoax perpetuated by the
journalist Richard Adams Locke, who could be seen as a precursor to
the well-known UMMO case.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
discussion of extraterrestrial life within religious contexts began
with Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist who was a physicist,
philosopher, and mystic. In his work, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Earths or Worlds in Our Solar System</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Swedenborg claimed to have made contact with spirits from almost all
the planets in our solar system. It is noteworthy that his
description of the clothing of the supposed Mercurians is remarkably
similar to the accounts of abductees from the end of the last
century. The book also considers the extraterrestrial contact visions
of religious sects such as the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the
Seventh-day Adventist Church, as well as significant cases like that
of Eva Draconis, who claims to be in contact with beings from Orion.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">After
exploring the relationship between God and extraterrestrial life, the
book provides a comprehensive account of the influence of
spiritualism on the perception of extraterrestrial beings from the
mid-19th century. The second section, titled "Genesis of a
Phenomenon" and "Cosmic Messages," examines all known
cases related to alleged contact with extraterrestrial entities or
machines.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">For
many years, the theory of volcanic origin suggested that meteorites
came from eruptions on other worlds, including our moon, and their
arrival on our planet was initially seen as a message from the
heavens. These meteorite sightings were the earliest reports of
something extraterrestrial, albeit inanimate, coming into our
possession. It was not until 1857 that the first contact with living
beings was reported. Aubeck traces this back to the town of Jay in
Ohio, where Dr. Henry Monnett, perhaps the first ufologist, described
observing a craft nearly 100 meters long with a language that sounds
more like 20th-century vocabulary than 19th-century vernacular.
Monnett claimed that a significant number of people were on board the
craft.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Although
sightings of strange crafts and beings continued to proliferate
during the second half of the 19th century, it wasn't until 1864 that
reports of the discovery of a chamber inside a hollow meteorite
containing mummified remains of what appeared to be an
extraterrestrial being surfaced. However, today we know this was a
hoax perpetrated by the French scientist Henri de Parville, who
eventually turned it into a novel called </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Un
habitant de la planéte Mars</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
It is plausible that this story was inspired by the meteorite found
near Orgueil, in the south of France, in May 1864.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
landmark study also explores the supposed inscriptions and
hieroglyphics left by extraterrestrial beings as evidence of their
visitations. Additionally, the book examines the case of the Denton
family in 1866, who claimed to have received visions and traveled to
Venus and Mars. William Denton, a geology professor and a
practitioner of psychometry, claimed that by touching supposed
meteorites, he could see cities on the planet Mars.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lastly,
the third section, comprising chapters titled "Ancient Aliens"
and "The History of the Unusual," delves into the origins
of the concept of extraterrestrial beings and the influence that the
stars closest to our world have had on this notion. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Aubeck
examines and compares the work of two authors, Antoine Bernard
Alfred, Baron d'Espiard de Colonge (1910-1886) and W. Raymond Drake
(1913-1989), whose books </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>La
chute du ciel ou les antiques météores</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>planétaires</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(1865) and </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Gods
or Spacemen?</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(1964) were published almost exactly a hundred years apart. He shows
how the writers followed an astonishingly similar path regarding
their opinions on asteroids, planetary beings, and gods, despite the
passage of time.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
book also explores the theory of ancient aliens, which hypothesizes
that cosmic beings have significantly intervened in human history.
The origin of this idea can be traced back to the work of the Bishop
of Hereford, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Man in the Moone</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(1638), which influenced authors such as Von Däniken, Bergier,
Charroux, and Misraki during the 20th century. The book also covers
topics such as the famous men in black and the influence of the
planet Mars, whose oppositions fascinated researchers and writers.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
book concludes with a synopsis and two appendices that detail the
evolution of the theory of ancient aliens and a calendar of probable
breakthroughs described in the book, spanning the period between 1600
and 1882. Aubeck's writing style is simple, direct, and enjoyable,
making it easy to understand the complex historical development of
the topics presented. The fragments at the end of each section
enhance the reading experience by providing interesting documents and
supporting a better understanding of the material presented.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
conclusion, Aubeck's book is of great interest to all UFO
enthusiasts, and we eagerly anticipate the release of its next
volume.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzvh5UvjuKh70bOcR5bK-Z5yLTBhBCEjrk0moj7JspKQNIaAR6HIcfMnKSOZXWCgmhl6v19F1CHpNY67HeXOk4tN9tzLOoSOnUReteq4kqHzH77IG72jpKeoudgyIaB8_eOGRHmlX2BdPaheBJJtjAb3dnXhB8Fx5oQQ3sxfDlSAKEIR_rA/s2224/Chris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="1668" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzvh5UvjuKh70bOcR5bK-Z5yLTBhBCEjrk0moj7JspKQNIaAR6HIcfMnKSOZXWCgmhl6v19F1CHpNY67HeXOk4tN9tzLOoSOnUReteq4kqHzH77IG72jpKeoudgyIaB8_eOGRHmlX2BdPaheBJJtjAb3dnXhB8Fx5oQQ3sxfDlSAKEIR_rA/w150-h200/Chris.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chris
Aubeck.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*my
February 18, 2023 interview for Crónica 24.7 of SER radio channel</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">*Carlos
González’s invited book review of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
Gallego sabio</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
the last book by Manuel Carballal </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*Juan
Pablo González, “Rey Brea y el ciclo bienal” (Rey Brea and the
bienal cycle)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*some
information on recent books by Ignacio Cabria and Cláudio Suenaga</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (“Marcianitos
verdes”, Mexico), Ignacio Cabria (Spain), Moisés Garrido (Spain),
Luis E. Pacheco (STRATOCAT, Argentina), Dr. Heriberto Janosch
(Spain), Brad Sparks (USA), Jaime Servera (Spain), Dr. José Mª
Baena Liberato (Spain), Clas Svahn (AFU, Sweden), Julio Plaza del
Olmo (Spain), Kay Coggin (USA), Paolo Toselli (CISU, Italy), Chris
Aubeck (Spain), Giuseppe Stilo (CISU, Italy), Alejandro Agostinelli
(Argentina), Carlos González Gutiérrez (Spain), Dr. Luis Cayetano
(USA), and Juan Pablo González (Spain).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Rt53U8rQfmI0LEBDe2V4GJLjOis3cQhkE_bO5kOhslGmTcO60bxSBmLb8D2qVD5SPpUT_cjK_YxOa1gb3p162Ehf2eCTHu00EFzilGb4THJLGdBKcd0ACM2NkQ_HAKa0BOho2OukAPRd3pbf8g1GMaXXRpfsVl6Z3tCb-eAVPrEecK1XJg/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Rt53U8rQfmI0LEBDe2V4GJLjOis3cQhkE_bO5kOhslGmTcO60bxSBmLb8D2qVD5SPpUT_cjK_YxOa1gb3p162Ehf2eCTHu00EFzilGb4THJLGdBKcd0ACM2NkQ_HAKa0BOho2OukAPRd3pbf8g1GMaXXRpfsVl6Z3tCb-eAVPrEecK1XJg/w400-h69/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5w9vsz4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y5w9vsz4</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yjz7vnjh"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yjz7vnjh</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/493r8esr"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/493r8esr</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>UFOs and Government</i><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</i> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with Wim van
Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2023/MARZO/15
(ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González.</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Durante
muchos años he mantenido un archivo de cintas de video VHS con
grabaciones de varias procedencias: televisión, documentales,
investigadores y hasta de testigos, tanto de España como del
extranjero. Gracias a la amabilidad del investigador Moisés Garrido
Vázquez, 35 casetes se han digitalizado, lo que me ha permitido
revisar su contenido y añadir a la base de datos más de cien
entradas.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Agradezco
también al ufólogo francés Patrice Seray el envío de sus
compilaciones de casos publicados en la prensa francesa entre 1947 y
1988. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con
todo lo anterior, el catálogo y archivo FOTOCAT cuenta ya con 13.018
casos.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">He
actualizado mi bibliografía de investigación entre 1965 y 2022
aquí:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/93910545/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2022" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/93910545/Bibliography_V_J_Ballester_Olmos_1965_2022</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Entrevista publicada en la página web de Luis Cayetano en enero: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/an-interview-with-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/an-interview-with-vicente-juan-ballester-olmos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>COMENTARIOS
AL INFORME ANUAL DE 2022 SOBRE UAP</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Julio Plaza del Olmo</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
12 de enero de 2023, la Oficina del Director Nacional de Inteligencia
de Estados Unidos (ODNI, por sus siglas en inglés) publicó la
versión no clasificada del “informe anual de 2022 sobre Fenómenos
Aéreos No Identificados” (UAP). La Ley de Autorización de Defensa
Nacional (NDAA) para al año fiscal de 2022 estableció la obligación
de remitir un informe anual clasificado al Congreso de EEUU el 31 de
octubre de 2022</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
así como una versión no clasificada</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
documento oficial del </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Departamento
de Defensa se lee en el enlace siguiente</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0GZNTkPoPwb5_7xGjOKLl4wMfa4BPgW24KlvSD3O1nO-nPjnIjhhXeBM-M4Z7ux-oECIoT5hTnmugrWXg_ZP_xHpXUu6NEt_tLoioGtiAZBT0dQpXe8pNE8TgGrposGinO6btmBk-D0wD7c_WNF1DcJx6FN5PqaktgVLnw5wNExLskeQeA/s1650/AARO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0GZNTkPoPwb5_7xGjOKLl4wMfa4BPgW24KlvSD3O1nO-nPjnIjhhXeBM-M4Z7ux-oECIoT5hTnmugrWXg_ZP_xHpXUu6NEt_tLoioGtiAZBT0dQpXe8pNE8TgGrposGinO6btmBk-D0wD7c_WNF1DcJx6FN5PqaktgVLnw5wNExLskeQeA/w154-h200/AARO.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
artículo pasa revista a los aspectos más desatacados del informe </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">no</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
clasificado de 2022 del gobierno de EEUU sobre los UAP, y aporta
nuestros propios comentarios sobre su contenido. Es un documento de
11 páginas, con un informe principal de 7 páginas más tres
apéndices. Se divide en cinco secciones, que se describen a
continuación.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Resumen
ejecutivo</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Comienza afirmando que</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"> <span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>El
número de informes de fenómenos aéreos no identificados (UAP) se
está incrementando, provocando un mayor estado de alerta sobre el
espacio aéreo y mejores oportunidades para resolver eventos de UAP.
</i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Qué
se puede esperar después de tanta publicidad y cobertura por la
prensa? En cualquier parte del mundo, en décadas pasadas, el número
de informes ovni aumenta después de cualquier de comunicación
pública de las Fuerzas Aéreas sobre ovnis.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
es que, además, ese aserto ha sido refutado por el mismísimo
presidente Joe Biden en febrero de 2023, cuando afirmó: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We
don't have any evidence that there have been a sudden increase of
objects in the sky” (no tenemos ninguna evidencia de que aumento
repentino de objetos en el cielo). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
todo caso, la retórica es gratis, pero ¿qué relación real tiene
el aumento de informes de UAP con una mayor alerta del espacio aéreo?
La atmósfera y el espacio han estado concienzudamente bajo estudio
durante muchos años y el conocimiento científico no ha descubierto
nada que tenga que ver con platillos volantes, ovnis, o UAP. Es solo
una frase para justificar la mera existencia de este proyecto.
Después de 75 años de historias ovni, no se necesitan más
incidentes para resolver el tema. Se puede hacer examinando casos
antiguos. Como muchos de nosotros hemos hecho. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Junto
a los 144 informes de UAP reunidos durante </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>los
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>17
años incluidos en la evaluación preliminar de la Oficina del
Director de Inteligencia Nacional (ODNI)</i></span></span><sup><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>3.4</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
ha habido 247 nuevos informes y otros 119 que se descubrieron </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>o
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>se
comunicaron pasado el periodo de la evaluación preliminar. Esto hace
un total del 510 informes UAP a fecha 30 de agosto de 2022. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">E</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">l
informe anterior (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">una
evaluación preliminar publicada el </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">25
de junio de 2021) estaba basado en 144 informes, ¡con tan solo uno
resuelto! Desafortunadamente, no había información técnica</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
en su versión no clasificada </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
nosotros, los investigadores, pudiéramos verificar. Esta poca
transparencia es vergonzosa, cuando otros centros gubernamentales de
estudio de UAP proveen toda la información Online sobre casos
investigados, como por ejemplo Francia</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Argentina</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
y Chile.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span></sup></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>En
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>AARO
y ODNI estimamos que el aumento observado en </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>el
número </i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
informes UAP es en parte debido a una mayor concienciación sobre las
posibles amenazas que los UAP pueden suponer, tanto como seguridad en
vuelo, como plataformas adversarias para obtención de información,
y por otra parte debido a un menor estigma en torno a comunicar casos
de UAP. Este aumento de la cantidad de informes ofrece más
oportunidades de aplicar análisis rigurosos y de resolver eventos. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
exactamente</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Los informes no ocurren porque nadie esté más alerta </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ante
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">una
hipotética amenaza de seguridad, sino por la gran repercusión que
le han dado al tema de los UAP varias autoridades </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Defensa,
NASA, AIAA) y por</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">un
número creciente de organizaciones privadas, creando así más
oportunidades para recabar información que analizar. El llamado
“estigma” por informar es terminología de la ufología </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">crédula</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
los investigadores ovni han catalogado centenares, miles de
testimonios de pilotos, marinos, astrónomos y científicos. Es la
promoción de los UAP por parte del Departamento de Defensa
estadounidense lo que está animando a la gente a comunicar, junto
con el crecimiento sin </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">control
de dispositivos </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">aéreos
como drones, una gran variedad de tipos de globos y demás. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Es
notable (y así lo valoramos) que la creación de la Oficina de
Resolución de Anomalías Todo-Dominio (“All-Domain Anomaly
Resolution Office”, AARO) facilitará una mayor coordinación con
otras agencias, y ello ayudará a una “mayor atribución de UAP”.
Por supuesto, cuanto más busques, más encontrarás. Principalmente
basura observacional, desde nuestro punto de vista. Y, si no, al
tiempo. El informe confía en que esta mayor coordinación</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>garantizará
que los esfuerzos en la detección e identificación de los UAP </i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>…
se haga por todo el Departamento de Defensa y entre las agencias
relevantes asociadas, así como por la Comunidad de Inteligencia. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Nosotros
pensamos, sin embargo, que lo que mejorará la identificación y
resolución de incidentes será la aplicación de recursos analíticos
a los informes, y mantenerse lejos de los lobbies de los ufólogos.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>Los
sucesos UAP continúan ocurriendo en espacio sensible o restringido …
nuestra suposición es que posiblemente haya un sesgo en la
recopilación debido a la cantidad de aeronaves activas y de
sensores, combinado con un enfoque dirigido a la comunicación de
anomalías. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Nos
parece que es una conclusión preliminar correcta, que se reforzará
con el tiempo. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Alcance
y supuestos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Comienza explicando cómo este informe anual es un requerimiento de
la Sección 1683 de la NDAA del año fiscal 2022: el ODNI “en
consulta con el Secretario de Defensa, remitirá a los comités del
congreso apropiados un informe sobre Fenómenos Aéreos No
Identificados.” El apéndice A cubre esto en detalle. Al asumir
estas responsabilidades, la recién creada AARO</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>distribuye
informes trimestrales sobre UAP a los responsables polític</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>os
que contienen un </i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>mayor
detalle respecto a los análisis y atribución de los eventos UAP. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
desgracia, eso es lo que los investigadores necesitaríamos
comprobar. Por el momento, nos conformaremos con los números
básicos</span></span><strike><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span></strike><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
pero</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
tarde o temprano, los análisis completos tendrán que ser
publicados. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
un pie de página, se hace notar que la ley para el año fiscal 2022 </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>amplía
la</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
definición de UAP para incluir aire, mar, y objetos transmedio, y
este informe mantiene esta nomenclatura durante la fase de transición
y puesta en marcha de la AARO.</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ya
hemos hablado anteriormente sobre que el término y concepto de
objetos transmedio es un</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
concepto imaginario</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
fruto únicamente</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de malentendidos y confusiones por parte de algunos </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ufólogos
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
ala más creyente.</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
La adopción de este término solo refleja el éxito de la presión
de algunos grupos que ha llevado no solo a la creación de AARO, sino
también AATIP y UAPTF en años anteriores.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe detalla a continuación una impresionante lista de agencias
que coordinan ODNI-AARO. Es excelente, porque cuando –a la larga–
el estudio llegue a la conclusión de que no se han encontrado
evidencias de extraterrestres en la base de datos, nadie podrá
argumentar que tal o cual organización no fue invitada a la fiesta.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Bajo
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Supuestos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
el informe indica correctamente que </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>múltiples
factores afectan a la observación o detección de UAP </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>…</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #2a6099;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Respecto
a la revisión o análisis de eventos de UAP, ODNI y AARO operan
bajo el supuesto de que los informes de UAP se derivan de un recuerdo
preciso del evento, y/o que los sensores en general operan
correctamente y capturan suficientes datos reales como para permitir
evaluaciones iniciales. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Estos
analistas inexpertos se darán cuenta pronto que este supuesto es
insostenible y que no es oro todo lo que reluce. Sin embargo, nos
parece que puede que estén empezando a enfrentarse con la cruda
realidad, cuando añaden que </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>Sin
embargo, ODNI y AARO reconocen que un cierto número de incidentes
UAP podrían ser atribuibles a irregularidades de los sensores, o
variantes tales como errores de los operadores o del equipo. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Sí,
chicos, la gente y las máquinas yerran. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
sección </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Cambios
Gubernamentales para gestionar asuntos UAP</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
se ocupa primeramente de la instauración de la AARO por orden del
Secretario Adjunto de Defensa para continuar con las tareas del
antiguo UAPTF desde el 20 de julio de 2022 y</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>está
autorizado para desarrollar los procesos y procedimientos para
sincronizar y estandarizar la recopilación, comunicación y análisis
… El amplio margen de autoridad concedido a la AARO le habilita
para fomentar un enfoque que abarque a múltiples agencias, y a toda
la administración</i></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
para comprender, resolver y atribuir UAP en el futuro. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe muestra cuán lejos han llegado ODNI-AARO en la coordinación
de “múltiples agencias”. Damos la bienvenida a esta fuerza de
trabajo tan amplia, ideal para alcanzar el objetivo final, que es la
palabra clave “atribución.” Al fin y al cabo, en unos pocos
años, tan sólo un reducido porcentaje de informes quedarán sin
atribuir (es decir, cualquier cosa no producida por el hombre, ni
fenómenos atmosféricos, ni relacionados con sensores, ni pájaros,
etc.) No por su rareza o anomalía, sino por ser pobres en datos.
Aquellos que sostienen la esperanza de que el Gobierno de EEUU
encuentre actividad extraterrestre en los informes UAP deberían
prepararse para una gran decepción. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Comunicación
Continuada y Análisis Robustos Proveen Mejor Fiabilidad en Eventos
UAP pero Muchos Casos Siguen sin Resolver</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Este encabezamiento tan largo sirve de presentación a las siguientes
cifras sobre informes UAP, que resumimos en esta tabla:</span></span></span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhQZ_1vKG5pQRKk5UF2LLEqaaaNuYPfi4qmPHMLfY3ObyTppctW2s2h7U-3wBrGHxu4J6bX8BYlJWYAmRpubvWY-pRCWiKdl3omcqczCDot1jbVP2SRsLqL2TkAe7sX5NFIN5dTJ6QRViPVJiewzXPBdEbA4Q7py8VddBIM0XSj2uScClSQ/s939/tabla%20es.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="939" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhQZ_1vKG5pQRKk5UF2LLEqaaaNuYPfi4qmPHMLfY3ObyTppctW2s2h7U-3wBrGHxu4J6bX8BYlJWYAmRpubvWY-pRCWiKdl3omcqczCDot1jbVP2SRsLqL2TkAe7sX5NFIN5dTJ6QRViPVJiewzXPBdEbA4Q7py8VddBIM0XSj2uScClSQ/s320/tabla%20es.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">La
ausencia de estadísticas por mes o por año no permite poder
encontrar tendencias o influencias. Calculamos que, suponen unos 14
informes nuevos por mes. ¿Es mucho o es poco? Las estadísticas
anuales del Proyecto Blue Book desde 1947 a 1969 contienen 12.618
casos.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
El número de casos comunicados a la USAF por mes varía entre 10
(mínimo) y 125 (máximo).</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
Para que el lector pueda comparar.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe califica su propio trabajo sobre informes UAP como un
“proceso analítico robusto.” Bien por ellos. Por desgracia </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>los
descubrimientos finales de la AARO estarán disponibles en sus
informes trimestrales a los responsables políticos. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">¡Mala
suerte!... ¿Acaso el público no tiene derecho a saber en esta
materia? Sin embargo, se dan algunos detalles para los 366 casos
adicionales desde la evaluación anterior. 195 eventos muestran
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>características
poco relevantes</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
simplificadas como sigue:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"> 163
Globos</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> 26
Sistemas Aéreos no Tripulados </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(tambi</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">én
conocidos como</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">drones</span></span><span style="color: #2a6099;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"> 6
Varios (pájaros, bolsas de plástico)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Básicamente
usan esta caracterización inicial para centrarse en los eventos
aparentemente más extraños</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
esto es, los otros 171</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
<span style="font-family: times;">informes UAP no caracterizados y no atribuidos</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
¡</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Lo
que esos números muestran claramente es que los pilotos y otros
militares confunden masivamente globos y drones con UAP! </span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe señala que </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>Algunos
de estos UAP no caracterizados parecen mostrar características o
capacidades de vuelo inusuales, y requieren mayor análisis. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estamos
deseando leer cuáles son esas “aparentes” capacidades de vuelo
inusuales. Ya avanzamos nuestras dudas de que sean realmente
características inusuales. Todo a su tiempo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Previo
a este informe, se filtr</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ó
que los tres famosos vídeos de la U.S. Navy </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(los
llamados V</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ídeos
del Pentágono, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“FLIR1”,
“Go Fast” y “Gimbal”) hab</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ían
sido analizados por AARO</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Estos v</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ídeos
están en el origen de este renovado interés en los ovnis, ya que
“aparentemente” mostraban tales </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“características</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de vuelo inusuales</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.”
Sus análisis serían coincidentes con trabajos independientes, que
muestran que al menos dos de ellos no eran tan inusuales, siendo
causados por una ilusión de </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">paralaje
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(“Go
fast”)</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
o atribuido a un efecto en el sistema óptico </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
infrarrojo </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(“Gimbal”).</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Sin embargo, no se menciona nada sobre </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">esos
tres </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">v</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ídeos
en el informe. Seguramente estén entre los 144 informes de la
evaluación preliminar de 2021</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
explicación de casos requiere tiempo, experiencia e ingenio. No solo
personal y presupuesto, sino profundidad, talento especializado, y
–en nuestra opinión– también cierto conocimiento en la
historia del fenómeno ovni. La ausencia de cualquiera de estos
elementos contribuirá a elevar el porcentaje de sucesos no
atribuidos (esto es, inexplicados). Les llevará probablemente años
descubrir cómo los pilotos cometen errores cuando se enfrentan a
eventos inesperados, cómo los equipos no son infalibles, cómo
personal entrenado puede confundirse, etc. Cuando hayan aprendido
todo esto, tendrán una visión de conjunto realista de sus datos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
era de esperar, el informe indica que la mayoría de nuevos informes
UAP provienen de pilotos de la Marina y la Fuerza Aérea
estadounidense durante sus operaciones. Al mismo tiempo, señala que </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; text-align: justify;">
<span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>en
muchos informes hay una falta de datos detallados para establecer una
atribución del UAP con alta certidumbre. </i></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Que
es básicamente el principal problema respecto a los UAP: la ausencia
de datos precisos lleva a una identificación frustrada. Si hubiera
habido suficiente información, lo más probable que no hubiera UAP
que comunicar.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
subtítulo </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Preocupación
por la Seguridad en Vuelo e Implicaciones en la Salud”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
se centra en la </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>posibilidad</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
de que los </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UAP
supongan un peligro de seguridad en vuelo y una amenaza de colisión
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>para
la aviación</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
que es una de las principales excusas para crear esta Oficina en
primer lugar. Por eso la siguiente frase es cristalina:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.7cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hasta
la fecha, no se han comunicado colisiones entre aviones de </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>EE.UU.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>y
UAP. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
presunta preocupación por los efectos en la salud es otra leyenda
ufológica. Al respecto, el informe dice: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.8cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tampoco
se han confirmado encuentros con UAP que hayan contribuido
directamente a efectos adversos relacionados con la salud </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
los observadores</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.
</i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">¡Así
que les han creado para estudiar objetos transmedio, problemas de
seguridad en el aire y efectos de salud que no se encuentran en su
base de datos.!</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Resumen
y futuro</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Venga, recapitulemos</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Tras
casi 18 meses de trabajo: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Los
UAP continúan representando un peligro de seguridad en vuelo</b></i></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Cuál
es la base para dicha afirmación? ¿Es una mera conjetura, una
posibilidad? Los meteoros también representan un riesgo, entonces.
¿Deberíamos crear un Centro para la Meteórica y la Aviación? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i><b>Los
UAP suponen una posible amenaza de recopilación de información por
parte de adversarios.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Sí:
escuchas, inteligencia, espionaje, son riesgos potenciales, pero
–basándonos en la experiencia– estimamos que su impacto numérico
será muy bajo.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>AARO
se ha establecido como el punto principal del DoD para los UAP</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>.
</b></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Esto
es una obviedad. La oficina está operativa desde julio de 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Los
esfuerzos coordinados entre </b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>el
Departamento de Defensa</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>,
la Comunidad de Inteligencia, y otras agencias gubernamentales para
</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>recoger
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>y
comunicar </b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>sucesos
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>UAP
han producido un aumento en la base de datos, abarcando varios
dominios de seguridad. </b></i></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe dice que la AARO está centrada</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.8cm; margin-right: 0.8cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>en
identificar soluciones para gestionar y aliviar el problema de los
datos… El establecimiento de la AARO y la aplicación de los nuevos
procesos analíticos de la AARO a los informes detallados
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>incrementará
la resolución de eventos de UAP</u></i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(énfasis
nuestro)</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Eso
esperamos. La evaluación preliminar de 2021 explicó 1 de 144 casos
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(0.7%).
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe anual de 2022 “caracteriza” 195 de 366 (53%). Progresan
adecuadamente. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Sin
embargo, ¿es resolver casos su único propósito? Si la preocupación
principal son las amenazas a la seguridad, ¿no debería ser su fin
último hacer recomendaciones a los responsables políticos para
evitar dichas amenazas? En ese sentido, ya tienen evaluaciones
iniciales que sugieren que hay un número no despreciable de globos y
drones merodeando alegremente en zonas militares.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe termina con tres apéndices: el apéndice A sobre la
legislación que solicita el informe anual, el apéndice B sobre la
misión y responsabilidades de la AARO, y el apéndice C con la
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">definición
de </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">términos
clave.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
nosotros, en conclusión, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">lo
mejor </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">es
que la AARO ha establecido una red de cooperación entre distintas
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">instituciones
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">y
agencias </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">gubernamentales</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Parecen estar trabajando en la atribución de casos, y en el futuro
seguramente veamos </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">mayor
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">eficiencia
en la caracterización </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(identificación)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">de
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">fenómenos
aéreos no </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">identificados.
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
otro lado, hay una falta de transparencia en sus informes públicos.
La información publicada hasta el momento se reduce solo a
estadísticas muy básicas. Los informes trimestrales que parecen
contener los detalles de las atribuciones no se han hecho públicos
tampoco. Eso evita que expertos independientes externos aún no
puedan verificar, validar o discutir sus evaluaciones. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Además,
su objetivo final, el propósito último para la existencia de esta
oficina, no está del todo claro. Hay una sensación de estar
reinventando la rueda, que llevará a las conclusiones ya conocidas
de que los UAP no son prueba de vida extraterrestre ni de tecnología
avanzada.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> V.J.
Ballester Olmos, “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act,” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “UFO Declassification in Spain (Military UFO
Files Available to the Public: A Balance)”, in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs:
Examining the Evidence</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Mike Wooten (ed.), BUFORA, 1995, pp. 51-56. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/casos-resueltos/">https://sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/casos-resueltos/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">8</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/usaf_fact_sheet_95_03.pdf">https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/usaf_fact_sheet_95_03.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">9</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
J. Richard Greenwell, “Project Blue Book,” in Ronald D. Story
(ed.), </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Encyclopedia of UFOs</u>, Doubleday</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Garden City, New York), 1980, p. 274.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">10
</span></span></sup><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">11
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">J.
Plaza del Olmo, “Go Fast: un vídeo del Pentágono,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2020/10/go-fast-un-video-del-pentagono.html">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2020/10/go-fast-un-video-del-pentagono.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">12
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Mike West, </span></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El
fiasco de la pretendida física de los UAP</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
lo que respecta a la creencia en ovnis extraterrestres, los
poseedores de un título de doctorado pueden estar tan equivocados,
sesgados y ser tan crédulos como los legos. La mejor demostración
se encuentra en un artículo extremadamente detallado, bien informado
y mejor justificado de Douglas Dean Johnson con fecha del 9 de abril
de 2022, titulado “¿Rayos de plasma o sueños calenturientos?
Preguntas clave para doctores, periodistas y otros sobre la filmación
"Beam Ship UFO" de Ray Stanford del 5 de octubre de 1985 y
otros cuentos de Stanford". Resulta más que evidente el impacto
que este ensayo tiene sobre la confiabilidad y el valor de algunos
trabajos presentados inicialmente (luego retirados) en la conferencia
SCU (Coalición Científica para Estudios UAP) de junio de 2021 y
presentados (de forma modificada) en una conferencia del AIAA
(Instituto Americano de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica) celebrada en
agosto de 2021 sobre la supuesta “física de los UAP”. A tener
muy en cuenta para saber quién hace qué y sobre qué base. El
extraordinario artículo de Douglas se puede leer desde aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/beam-ship-or-bullshit/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/beam-ship-or-bullshit/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dicho
esto, incluso periodistas bien informados dejan la puerta abierta a
la ingenua idea de que “puede haber cosas por ahí que aún no
podemos explicar” (ver el artículo de Stephen Mihm de Bloomberg en
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Washington Post</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a continuación). Pero ¿qué puede estar flotando sobre nuestras
cabezas que no seamos capaces de explicar? Por favor, da ejemplos. Se
trata solamente de una frase para mostrar una mentalidad abierta,
pero que revela simplismo. Me pregunto si el sesudo escritor ha
olvidado que durante décadas ha habido multitud de informes de
aterrizaje de platillos volantes, con miembros de su tripulación
recolectando muestras o disparando rayos a los testigos. Ese es el
núcleo del problema, eso es lo que ha creado el mito, no los
recientes avistamientos de ovnis desde cabinas de sofisticados cazas
mientras los pilotos ven globos o drones. ¿Qué más queda? Mihm
termina: "Si podemos continuar con esa investigación sin
sucumbir al escepticismo o la credulidad, finalmente podemos llegar
al fondo del misterio". ¡Vaya tontería!, con perdón. En un
misterio de 75 años como este, con todo lo que ha pasado o se dice
que ha pasado, un escritor serio no puede ser equidistante. Debe
hablar con un compromiso claro e inequívoco con la realidad.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-government-has-been-dancing-around-ufos-for-75-years/2023/02/22/7ce50280-b2c4-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-government-has-been-dancing-around-ufos-for-75-years/2023/02/22/7ce50280-b2c4-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Sobre
los objetos aéreos abatidos en América en 2023</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
tan cacareada (y no sé si ficticia) vieja orden de la USAF a sus
pilotos de “interceptad pero no disparar" ha pasado a la
historia. En la actualidad, los UAP están en peligro de extinción.
Si se continúa con la decisión de derribar todos los objetos aéreos
no identificados, nos vamos a quedar sin ovnis. Esta es una noticia
de alcance mundial. Incluso Wikipedia enumera ahora todos los eventos
de gran altitud ocurridos desde el 1 de enero de 2023:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8yBezenyU9s89eB1SmwS_fhkPOg_O2nY4Nh1tjG3tdxRVgPVfYVZhBzVlldTm5EdViFYPYwK3ENA6Oc57M0YGMAW2IUJ8wmpTdxGtCfcUPmPKZiplnd8KhNBy_RkQuY1u0gkFV5VsSdrgr6oI6uTnn2e4I5UsFUz8-O9DHGgLfxAEhRi9g/s679/NORAD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="679" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8yBezenyU9s89eB1SmwS_fhkPOg_O2nY4Nh1tjG3tdxRVgPVfYVZhBzVlldTm5EdViFYPYwK3ENA6Oc57M0YGMAW2IUJ8wmpTdxGtCfcUPmPKZiplnd8KhNBy_RkQuY1u0gkFV5VsSdrgr6oI6uTnn2e4I5UsFUz8-O9DHGgLfxAEhRi9g/s320/NORAD.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Una
rara nota de prensa del NORAD sobre globos no identificados.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Sobre
el particular, el siguiente es un buen artículo. Publicado en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
repasa posibilidades de diversos orígenes y características de esas
aeronaves:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/was-a-high-altitude-airship-spotted-recently-near-the-south-china-sea"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/was-a-high-altitude-airship-spotted-recently-near-the-south-china-sea</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Después
de algunas declaraciones de un ingenuo (o simplemente estúpido)
general estadounidense de que no se podía “descartar” nada en
cuanto al origen extraterrestre de los objetos volantes no
identificados detectados y derribados en los últimos días, la Casa
Blanca finalmente agregó algo de sentido común, rechazando
cualquier posibilidad de un origen alienígena. Francamente, queridos
lectores, estamos viviendo tiempos vergonzosos:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3855991-white-house-no-signs-of-aliens-or-extraterrestrial-activity-with-shot-down-objects/">https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3855991-white-house-no-signs-of-aliens-or-extraterrestrial-activity-with-shot-down-objects/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
hay más. Como ha escrito el físico español Julio Plaza en su blog
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Gluón
con Leche</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
“En el colmo del esperpento, ahora la Casa Blanca anuncia la
creación de un nuevo equipo para investigar «Objetos aéreos no
identificados»”. Ver también:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-announces-interagency-team-address-objects-sky-rcna70416"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-announces-interagency-team-address-objects-sky-rcna70416</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">¿Competirá
con el AARO? ¿Qué pasa con todas las instalaciones de control aéreo
de defensa de EE. UU. existentes y el NORAD? ¿Se han vuelto todas
inútiles para detectar simples globos sobre América? Para partirse
de risa. Como era de esperar, los otros tres objetos aéreos no
tripulados destruidos recientemente estaban "muy probablemente
vinculados a empresas privadas, instituciones recreativas o de
investigación" (declaraciones sobre el tema ovni del presidente
Biden el pasado 16 de febrero) y no estaban conectados con el enorme
globo de vigilancia chino que fue abatido el 4 de febrero.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
episodio parece cómico, pero podría ser trágico. Alguien debe ser
responsable de la histeria actual sobre los UAP. Por supuesto que
todo esto tiene su deriva política y los republicanos se burlan de
la decisión de Biden de derribar globos insustanciales:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
cierto, el Pentágono no va a hacer públicas imágenes de los globos
derribados por los cazas americanos a golpe de misil: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-no-plans-to-release-images-of-unidentified-objects-from-recent-shootdowns/#sq_hbf83gt9r0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-no-plans-to-release-images-of-unidentified-objects-from-recent-shootdowns/#sq_hbf83gt9r0</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO6ZHq9LupWwknAFpfYYd7x9Tf81DHJCiWqOTWD0quYCEHkMcyUxUxBQJhWK9abp_VbdGOwz2Ax7VDPKr8mviEyxcMPrHmZNycWEBVZ2E3wVUVwUx4V2fMQ9KIt8lEcaJqaDWKtXV0aubi6KGeqPhErArVAQsffxCXF7ZCx0cuTfSsIGDxw/s504/China.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="504" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO6ZHq9LupWwknAFpfYYd7x9Tf81DHJCiWqOTWD0quYCEHkMcyUxUxBQJhWK9abp_VbdGOwz2Ax7VDPKr8mviEyxcMPrHmZNycWEBVZ2E3wVUVwUx4V2fMQ9KIt8lEcaJqaDWKtXV0aubi6KGeqPhErArVAQsffxCXF7ZCx0cuTfSsIGDxw/s320/China.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Esta
es la única fotografía del globo chino aprobada por el Departamento
de Defensa, ¡un selfie del piloto! </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Otro
giro inesperado de los acontecimientos es la siguiente declaración
del presidente Biden que contradice el informe anual del AARO de
2022, donde se afirmaba que había un aumento de incidentes de UAP en
el país. Biden ha sido taxativo: "No tenemos ninguna evidencia
de que haya habido un aumento repentino de objetos en el cielo. Solo
estamos viendo más de ellos debido en parte a los pasos que hemos
tomado para afinar nuestros radares y seguiremos adaptando nuestro
enfoque para hacer frente a estos desafíos". </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157530528/biden-remarks-unidentified-aerial-objects-balloon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157530528/biden-remarks-unidentified-aerial-objects-balloon</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Biden
anunció también una serie de medidas para mejorar el control del
espacio aéreo sobre objetos que puedan significar un peligro
potencial para la seguridad nacional:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/key-moments-joe-biden-ufo-speech-1781897">https://www.newsweek.com/key-moments-joe-biden-ufo-speech-1781897</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
principal dificultad de esto es que primero se debe identificar la
naturaleza de algo antes de decidir si es un riesgo o no. Y muchos
avistamientos de ovnis son aparentemente anómalos porque son breves
o mal registrados, no por su extrañeza intrínseca, por lo que la
decisión básicamente se aplicará (excepto en el caso de
trayectorias balísticas) a objetos de larga duración en el cielo,
es decir, globos. ¿Y cuándo un globo que vuela pacíficamente
interfiere con la seguridad nacional? ¿Uno enemigo? ¿Y cuál es la
frecuencia con la que sucede esto? Aprensión creada por la prensa,
esto es lo que estamos viviendo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Citas
citables</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">He
recuperado este tweet de Neil deGrasse Tyson del 27 de junio de 2001:
“Cómo convertir la mayoría de los ovnis en ovis: Tome un curso de
observación de astros, otro de fenómenos atmosféricos y un tercero
de sesgos cognitivos”. 75 años en ufología se resumen
correctamente en este pensamiento.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
siguientes son cifras para tener muy en cuenta en nuestras
divagaciones sobre la problemática ovni. El experto canadiense Chris
Rutkowski, tras estudiar los 14.617 informes ovni recopilados entre
1989 y 2013 en la base de datos del Canadian UFO Survey, concluye que
"teniendo en cuenta solo los casos de alta calidad, el
porcentaje [de avistamientos inexplicables] se reduce al 1’1%".
Ver “Le Canadian UFO Survey: de la recherche sans speculation”,
en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>De
l’experience à la science</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Yann Vadnais (editor), GARPAN (Quebec, Canadá), 2021, página 507.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Escribiendo
para el número de invierno 2022 de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Skeptical Intelligencer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
su editor Michael Heap cita la Ley de Brandolini: "La cantidad
de energía necesaria para refutar tonterías es un orden de magnitud
mayor que la necesaria para producirlas". La ley fue formulada
públicamente por primera vez en enero de 2013 por Alberto
Brandolini, un programador italiano. Brandolini dijo que se inspiró
al leer </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Thinking,
Fast and Slow</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de Daniel Kahneman, justo antes de ver un programa italiano de
entrevistas políticas con el ex primer ministro Silvio Berlusconi y
el periodista Marco Travaglio. Nosotros, los investigadores de ovnis
que nos situamos en el bando de los incrédulos y racionalistas,
reconocemos cuán precisa es esta declaración, ya que hemos
experimentado (y sufrido) sus efectos durante años. Pero es que los
creyentes no aprenden.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Tesis
universitarias sobre ovnis, 1948-2022</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
investigador italiano Paolo Toselli (CISU, Turín) ha actualizado su
gran base de datos sobre tesis y disertaciones sobre ovnis realizadas
entre 1948 y 2022. A su anterior versión, ahora añade 61 novedades
para el periodo 2000-2022. Este catálogo incluye 413 trabajos, casi
todos relacionados con áreas de ciencias sociales a excepción de
cinco de ingeniería y medicina, una de astrofísica y otras cinco
¡de arquitectura! El 38% son de autores estadounidenses. En cuanto a
los grados académicos, 85 son para la obtención de una
licenciatura, 166 para el máster y 131 para tesis doctorales.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cisu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ufotheses_by_paolo_toselli_updated_23122022.pdf">http://www.cisu.org/wp-content/2022/12/ufotheses_by_paolo_toselli_updated.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Entrevista
para el programa Crónica 24.7 de la Cadena SER, emitido el 18 de
febrero de 2023</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
Preguntas de Javier Liébana. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(R)
Respuestas de Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times;">¿Existen
muchos objetos que sobrevuelan el espacio aéreo y que no se están
detectando ni identificando? ¿Hay algún dato que cuantifique los
que se han podido dar en España y en el mundo?</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">(R)
El llamado fenómeno de los objetos volantes no identificados (antes
platillos volantes, ahora fenómenos aéreos no identificados)
aparece con tales denominaciones desde 1947. Y mirando atrás en el
tiempo, desde que el ser humano comenzó a mirar los cielos. El
espectador casual del cielo ignora muchas de las cosas que hay en el
espacio y en la atmósfera, y comete errores de observación con
astros, objetos aeronáuticos varios, globos, misiles, satélites,
bólidos, reentradas de chatarra espacial y mil estímulos más. Los
mejores estudios indican que apenas el 2% de los informes de “ovnis”
no se identifican. En mi opinión, ello se debe a una información de
partida deficiente, una investigación mejorable o una fuente poco
fidedigna. En todo caso, en ese 2% no hay sucesos extraordinarios y
ninguno de ellos aporta evidencia física o material que sustente un
origen no natural o no procedente de la mano del hombre.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">En
las últimas décadas, podemos estar hablando de millones de
avistamientos, quizás 300.000 con alguna rareza y siendo generosos
algunos miles o unos pocos cientos por resolver. La mayoría lo son
por falta de investigación y no por exceso de extrañeza intrínseca.
Tales números convierten a la hipótesis </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">alien</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
en un absurdo</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
</span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>)
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>En
caso afirmativo, ¿por qué no se están pudiendo detectar o se está
tardando más en detectar ciertos objetos?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(R)
Claro que se detectan, y no solo se detectan, es que los ven miles de
personas, por eso llaman la atención. Y eso viene pasando desde que
dirigibles, aviones, reactores, drones, etc. surcan los cielos. Y
justamente porque se ven y se registran, al desconocerse su origen,
son derribados, como en los sucesos recientes en Estados Unidos y
Canadá. Lo que no se conoce en primera instancia es su procedencia.
Hay muchos países y empresas que desarrollan aeronaves avanzadas.
Además no hay que olvidar que en Estados Unidos la Marina puede
estar realizando pruebas que no conoce la Fuerza Aérea, o viceversa,
por ejemplo, a veces falla la coordinación, o simplemente no es
conveniente que la mano derecha sepa lo que hace la mano izquierda.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>¿Cree
que es posible identificarlos, o como trata de hacer el grupo de
expertos y científicos de la NASA, cree que es posible
clasificarlos? ¿Es importante hacerlo?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(R)
Bueno, a raíz de la exagerada fanfarria que se está dando a los UAP
(fenómenos aéreos no identificados), varios organismos están de
nuevo investigando los ovnis. Además del departamento de Defensa de
los Estados Unidos, lo hace la NASA o el AIAA (Instituto Americano de
Aeronáutica y Astronáutica), así como varias organizaciones
privadas más. Parece que no basta que la Fuerza Aérea de Estados
Unidos y sus correspondientes en otros países, como Inglaterra,
cerraran sus centros de estudio sobre ovnis al concluir que los
supuestos ovnis ni representan un peligro para la seguridad nacional
ni un riesgo para la navegación aérea. Pero las presiones de
ciertos lobbies y la prensa han creado la actual situación, y es la
que hay. Dicho esto, naturalmente que, si hay informes de
avistamientos que parecen extraños a los testigos, deben analizarse
y aclararse. Yo me permito anticipar que se llegarán a las
conclusiones antedichas, más la seguridad de que ovni no tiene nada
que ver con vida extraterrestre. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">¿</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cree
que el umbral de alcance de los radares que controlan el espacio
aéreo es el oportuno y que estos radares están preparados?</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(R)
Los sistemas de Defensa de vigilancia del espacio aéreo en los
Estados Unidos son extremadamente potentes. Y el NORAD (que es el
Mando Norteamericano de Defensa Aeroespacial) diría yo que lo tiene
todo bajo control. Cosa diferente es que sepan identificar
debidamente aquello que detectan y las razones para ello pueden ser
muy variadas, dependiendo de la fuente y naturaleza de los objetos
detectados. Si todo esto sirve, como parece, para aumentar los gastos
en Defensa, malo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>¿Qué
peligro supone todo esto en el espacio aéreo?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(R)
En mi opinión, ningún peligro serio. Después de 75 años de
avistamientos ovnis en el aire y en tierra nunca ha habido ningún
incidente de gravedad, más allá de la sorpresa de los pilotos o de
la tripulación de observar algo inesperado. Más riesgo lo generan
los bólidos (que son meteoros de gran intensidad), o los rayos o las
aves. Ello no quita que alguna vez un globo sin control o un dron no
tripulado colisionen con una aeronave, de la misma forma que una nave
espacial o un satélite de América, Rusia o China impacten contra
restos de basura espacial. Son riesgos reales debidos al progreso
científico humano. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>Casi
60 años después en los que usted ha estado analizando y estudiando
avistamientos, ¿a qué conclusiones llega? ¿Qué pueden ser estos
objetos que sobrevuelan el cielo y que no podemos identificar? ¿Y
qué procedencia tienen?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(R)
Probablemente siempre habrá avistamientos de fenómenos que no
sepamos resolver, pero eso no tiene ninguna relación con posibles
visitas extraterrestres, para las que no existe la más mínima
evidencia científica. En mi opinión, la totalidad de avistamientos
tiene una explicación racional y normal en potencia, pero resolver
los sucesos requiere una dedicación, recursos, tecnología y enfoque
pericial que a veces no se tiene. Además, no podemos olvidar que en
algunos casos la fiabilidad de los testimonios dista mucho de ser la
ideal. No hay una procedencia única, lo que hay es una amalgama de
cientos de explicaciones distintas, tantas como casos, que
englobaríamos en causas aeronáuticas, astronómicas, biológicas y
astronáuticas, principalmente. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>Tras
su experiencia de investigación vivida, ¿cree que estos fenómenos
aéreos sin identificar son una preocupación de los Estados? ¿Se
invierte en saber lo que no logramos detectar?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Es
que el porcentaje de fenómenos sin identificar, después de una
investigación adecuada, es infinitesimal. En todo caso, es materia
para el estudio científico (óptica, física atmosférica,
percepción, y otras disciplinas), no para divagar sobre si son
marcianos que vienen de turismo a la Tierra. Obviamente, los Estados
deben controlar su espacio aéreo por muchas razones, siendo el
espionaje y la apropiación indebida de información sobre avances
tecnológicos aeronáuticos y militares las más importantes. Y ya se
invierte muchísimo dinero en eso en todos los países, en detrimento
de mejores causas.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>¿Tiene
todo una explicación lógica y científica?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(R)
A mi entender, radicalmente sí. En todo caso, aquellos incidentes
que no pudieran explicarse al ciento por ciento hoy, seguro que lo
serán en el futuro, o con una mejor investigación. Pero hay que
quitarse de la cabeza asimilar de manera sensacionalista los ovnis
con extraterrestres. Ovnis son objetos o fenómenos que en un momento
dado no se han logrado identificar, por diversas razones, pero no
porque se trate de naves de otros planetas. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(P)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>¿Qué
les diría a todos aquellos que creen que estos objetos pueden
proceder de vida extraterrestre?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(R)
Bueno, la ignorancia es libre. Y también lo es la propensión a la
fantasía. No existe la menor prueba científica que ligue
avistamientos ovni con vida extraterrestre. Quien la tenga que la
presente ya, porque seguro que se gana el Premio Nobel. Hay ovnis
inexplicados como hay accidentes de coche, avión y marítimos, o
crímenes, sin resolver. Es cuestión de pericia e ingenio, o debería
decir de falta de ellos. Y es que el testimonio humano no es, en
absoluto, infalible.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Audio
de un segmento de dicha entrevista en el siguiente enlace:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://cadenaser.com/audio/1676634002897/?ssm=whatsapp"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://cadenaser.com/audio/1676634002897/?ssm=whatsapp</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Informe
CIAE 2022</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
CIAE, Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial de la Fuerza Aérea de
Argentina creado en 2019, al mando del Comodoro Rubén Lianza, ha
publicado su cuarto informe anual con el resultado de su trabajo
durante 2022. En su introducción, señala:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
“</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
sesenta y ocho (68) casos listados más abajo han sido enumerados por
orden de llegada y comprenden aquellas denuncias de avistamientos
recibidas durante 2022 que han cumplido con los requisitos de:
Testimonio + Evidencia. Hubo otros treinta y nueve (39) casos que no
fueron aceptados para análisis por no contar con alguno o ambos
requisitos, pese a los reiterados intentos de comunicación con los
testigos para solicitarles la información faltante.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
casos recogidos ocurrieron entre 2008 y 2022. El análisis de dichos
testimonios y su correspondiente documentación gráfica se resume en
la siguiente tipología y naturaleza de causas que originaron los
fenómenos registrados por los observadores: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Origen
biológico (insectos, aves, tela de araña): 20</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Origen
aeronáutico (aviones, drones, globos): 13</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Origen
óptico (reflejos): 12</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Origen
astronómico (Venus, Júpiter, la Luna, estrellas): 12</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Origen
astronáutico (satélites </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">):
10</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Otros:
1</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vb1xfAgs82LgKj7ZfwwUxrjKpe9XdHhvAf-ysGTaZuA3AZt_j8pNoASClB2iLk2pYQxxBIpm76Mptw7Grhib6933RrpVVnOYLTBh8EyrkEX_RnizJkxzbS1WxAkx2dB92eXcLp0mQTHUBcsvOOM0juLFJarDTAJ202xinn1SYQUycCV3ig/s549/Lianza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="442" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vb1xfAgs82LgKj7ZfwwUxrjKpe9XdHhvAf-ysGTaZuA3AZt_j8pNoASClB2iLk2pYQxxBIpm76Mptw7Grhib6933RrpVVnOYLTBh8EyrkEX_RnizJkxzbS1WxAkx2dB92eXcLp0mQTHUBcsvOOM0juLFJarDTAJ202xinn1SYQUycCV3ig/w161-h200/Lianza.jpg" width="161" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Comodoro
Rubén Lianza. Stand del Comando Aeroespacial, Base Aérea de Morón
(Argentina). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe, que tiene 140 páginas y es un modelo de precisión, indica:
“Si bien la totalidad de los casos analizados fueron generados por
causas de origen conocido, constituyen, sin embargo, testimonios muy
valiosos desde el punto de vista investigativo, no solo por habernos
obligado a refinar los procedimientos para resolver aquellos que
resultaron más difíciles, sino también por su inherente
contribución al conocimiento, al verificarse que han sido originados
en su totalidad por interpretaciones honestas, pero erróneas, de
objetos ordinarios, percibidos (por los testigos) como
extraordinarios, al momento de la observación.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Recomiendo
la consulta de este magnífico trabajo, que puede leerse en la web
del ministerio de Defensa argentino: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2022.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2022.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
En mayo de 2022 difundí por internet la correspondencia que crucé
con el ufólogo y parapsicólogo catalán Julio Roca Muntañola:
“Roca Muntañola a Ballester Olmos, 1968-1973”, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/77677068/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el número 9 de la revista del CEI, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Nous
Papers d’Ovnis</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de diciembre de 2022, páginas 69 a 147, el físico e investigador
Jordi Ardanuy ha publicado el artículo “La correspondència de
Juli Roca dirigida a Vicente-Juan Ballester entre 1968 i 1973” (en
catalán), donde analiza, desmenuza, interpreta y pone en contexto
ese intercambio de cartas. De gran interés para los historiadores de
la ufología en
España:</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/4mbq80nm9yrr6ks/Nous_Papers_09.pdf/file"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.mediafire.com/file/4mbq80nm9yrr6ks/Nous_Papers_09.pdf/file</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Lombo Montañés, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ArqueoWeb</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
18, 2017, páginas 31-61, “Arte prehistórico y ciencia ficción:
los retos de la divulgación académica”. Resumen: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>El
arte prehistórico ha sido utilizado como una prueba de la visita de
extraterrestres durante la prehistoria. La teoría de los Antiguos
Astronautas forma parte de una prehistoria esotérica cuyos orígenes
se remontan al siglo XIX. El discurso de esta teoría fue
popularizado por Von Däniken en los años sesenta del siglo pasado y
ha sido recientemente planteada en la película de Ridley Scott
</i>Prometheus<i> (2012) en donde aparecen los caballos de Chauvet. ¿Qué
hacen los caballos de Chauvet en una película de alienígenas? En el
presente estudio investigamos las principales ideas de la prehistoria
esotérica en relación con el arte prehistórico para intentar
comprender el enorme éxito de esta teoría en la mentalidad
colectiva.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35945450/Arte_prehist%C3%B3rico_y_ciencia_ficci%C3%B3n_los_retos_de_la_divulgaci%C3%B3n_acad%C3%A9mica_1_Prehistoric_art_and_science_fiction_the_challenges_of_scientific_divulgation">https://www.academia.edu/Arteprehistorico_y_cienciaficcion_losretosdeladivulgacionacademica</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Que la ufología contiene un porcentaje nada desdeñable de
información falsa es un hecho. Muchos tardamos años en reconocerlo.
Por eso, la obligación de los mayores es hacerlo saber a los más
jóvenes para reorientar su capacidad de trabajo en esta temática.
Un soberbio ejemplo de una historia del todo inventada sobre un
supuesto ovni que surgió del suelo y que estuvo a la vista durante
días (y que se basó… bueno, no lo voy adelantar) aparece en el
último “post” de J.C. Victorio Uranga en su blog: “Encuentro
cercano con un OVNI en Unciti (Navarra)”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/01/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-unciti.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2023/01/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-unciti.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Luis Ruiz Nóguez escribe sobre el mito del triángulo de las
Bermudas en “El “misterio” de la patrulla perdida”:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/01/el-misterio-de-la-patrulla-perdida/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2023/01/el-misterio-de-la-patrulla-perdida/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
¡Agárrese fuerte, amigo lector! Abracadabrantes conclusiones del
Dr. Gary Nolan sobre los ETs grises empeñados en hibridizar a
humanos: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zc3urg/dr_gary_nolan_states_hes_seen_gray_ets_and_theres/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zc3urg/dr_gary_nolan_states_hes_seen_gray_ets_and_theres/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Gerson S. Paiva, “Hessdalen lights produced by electrically active
inversion layer,” en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Meteorology
and Atmospheric Physics</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
volumen 133, páginas 1447–1454 (2021),</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00703-021-00819-9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00703-021-00819-9</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
“Avoiding the “Great Filter”: Extraterrestrial Life and
Humanity’s Future in the Universe”, por Jonathan H. Jiang, Philip
E. Rosen, Kelly Lu, Kristen A. Fahy y Piotr Obacz,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
“Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: the “Saros
Operation”, por E. Maillot, G. Munsch, L. Danizel, I. Dumas, P.
Fournel, R. Robé, C. Zwygart y J-M. Abrassart,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(9)
El doctor en ecología evolucionaria Luis Cayetano ha publicado el
pasado mes de septiembre el artículo “The role of consciousness in
the UFO and alien mythos”, donde explora la ideología
espiritualista y de Nueva Era de mucho de lo que vemos hoy en la
escena ufológica:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/09/20/the-role-of-consciousness-in-the-ufo-and-alien-mythos/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(10)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Extraterrestrial
Intelligence. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Academic
and Societal Implications</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
un libro publicado por Cambridge Scholars Publishing en marzo de
2022, bajo la edición de Jensine Andresen y Octavio A. Chon Torres:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9168-4/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9168-4/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(11)
Campbell Moreira es uno de los nuevos actores en “uapología”.
Lea su artículo de julio de 2022 “Accepted Logical Limits: The
Invisible College, Dispelling Demons & Selling Mystery”, en:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/07/29/accepted-logical-limits-the-invisible-college-dispelling-demons-selling-mystery/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://theinvisiblenightschool.com/2022/07/29/accepted-logical-limits-the-invisible-college-dispelling-demons-selling-mystery/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(12)
“Westall High School UFO”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>post</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
en el blog de Charlie Wiser:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/westall-quickread.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/westall-quickread.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(13)
Enero de 2023. David Mahaffey, de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Sun</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
entrevista al astrónomo Seth Shostak: “Out There. On The Search
For Extraterrestrial Intelligence”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/565/out-there"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/565/out-there</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
Sobre el globo chino sobre Estados Unidos: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGK75knOAY"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbGK75knOAY</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/stratoballoon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/stratoballoon</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(15)
Estudio realizado en la Goldsmiths University de Londres: “The
associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables”, por
Betul Rauf, Rotem Perach, Juan J. Madrid-Valero, Dan Denis, Brian A.
Sharpless, Giulia Lara Poerio, Christopher C. French y Alice M.
Gregory, publicado en el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Sleep Research</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
11 de enero de 2023, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13810"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13810</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(16)
“Colorado drone mystery sightings finally might be solved”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://gazette.com/military/colorado-drone-mystery-sightings-finally-might-be-solved/article_c8d375be-2e6f-11ea-85b7-2335e1d42476.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://gazette.com/military/colorado-drone-mystery-sightings-finally-might-be-solved/article_c8d375be-2e6f-11ea-85b7-2335e1d42476.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(17)
Hay últimamente una gran cosecha de bases de datos que usan
inteligencia artificial (fuente: Keith Basterfield), </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/07/enter-new-uap-database-player-enigma.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/07/enter-new-uap-database-player-enigma.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi
predicción personal es que finalmente se estrellarán con el viejo
adagio de los frikis de la informática: GIGO (garbage in, garbage
out), o sea, si metes basura en un sistema, te saldrá basura
también.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Esto es capitalismo en estado puro, hacer negocio basado en la
ansiedad sobre los ovnis: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763217/Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://Hobby-balloon-shot-Republicans-mock-Biden-military-operation.html</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña
invitada</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">José
María Baena Liberato (Cádiz, 1951) está doctorado en Ciencias
Químicas por la Universidad de Sevilla. Actualmente jubilado después
de ejercer su profesión, principalmente en el área de investigación
de una empresa siderúrgica durante más de treinta años. Su interés
por el estudio del fenómeno ovni le viene desde que era estudiante.
En los años ochenta comencé una importante labor de colaboración
con Baena, siempre en el ámbito de su especialidad profesional y en
algunos casos de la zona del Campo de Gibraltar. Perteneció al Panel
Técnico de Asesores en la especialidad de Química de Cuadernos de
Ufología, en donde publicó algunos artículos y para la que ejerció
de traductor inglés-castellano. Ha dado charlas sobre el tema e
incluso durante dos temporadas (1999-2001) presentó y dirigió un
programa sobre el fenómeno ovni en la televisión local del Campo de
Gibraltar (TV San Roque). Bien documentado sobre el tema, realizó un
exhaustivo análisis de muestras de terreno de un supuesto aterrizaje
ovni en abril de 1985 (caso de Las Medianas). A raíz de esa
experiencia, preparó una normativa de toma de muestras de suelo,
que, desafortunadamente, quedó en fase de borrador. El Dr. Baena es
uno de tantos rigurosos investigadores que trabajan en esta cuestión
con un bajo perfil y que me han aportado -y siguen haciéndolo en
otros terrenos- una valiosísima ayuda.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Le
he pedido que redactara una reseña del importante libro que acaba de
dar a luz Chris Aubeck, y que tengo gracias a su gentileza. En el
texto que sigue, Baena Liberato ha hecho una síntesis precisa del
denso contenido histórico de esta obra y le agradezco su nueva
muestra de generosidad conmigo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>ARTEFACTOS
ALIENÍGENAS. EL EMBRUJO DEL COMETA</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
Dr. José María Baena Liberato</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ficha
técnica: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Artefactos
alienígenas. De la Antigüedad a 1880. Volumen 1. La historia
olvidada de cómo llegamos a creer en visitantes de las estrellas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Chris Aubeck. Amazon Italia Logistica S.r.l., 2022. 373 páginas.
ISBN: 9798364956422.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
nuevo libro de Chris Aubeck nos conduce a un largo periplo a través
de la historia de la humanidad para responder a numerosas preguntas
sobre el origen de la creencia en los visitantes extraterrestres en
el marco de la cultura occidental. El autor, que ha dedicado cerca de
veinte años a este trabajo cuya primera parte es este libro que
reseñamos, tiene una larga experiencia en el campo de la ufología
anterior al año 1947, habiendo escrito media docena de textos y
fundado el grupo internacional de investigación </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Magonia
Exchange</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Este
volumen se estructura sobre tres pilares de dos capítulos cada uno,
llevando todos ellos, vinculados al final del texto, unos fragmentos
compuestos por notas, citas de libros o noticias de periódicos que
avalan y complementan lo expuesto. En el primero de ellos, que
comprende los apartados titulados “Contexto cultural” y “Los
extraterrestres como experiencia religiosa”, el autor desgrana la
evolución histórica de nuestra percepción del universo desde el
mundo clásico hasta Darwin para ahondar posteriormente en la visión
del contacto extraterrestre que nos aporta la literatura, la sátira
y sobre todo la vivencia religiosa.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZF7kPYO5wCpyyeUFQP9UMs-_atYIA6EAV2F_5-Ghp-ezsOGe2famleEUzddw2IfbiAW67vWdd-BwoKEzz-0pG2Ff6AqMYkwyDV2_rto8iC4y-vd67M2uGLqY9d9nrqMk65cBLHuuj0xSERLmHxBU5sdxaGVLOaRMoNyt2yqs976tY1VuD_w/s1500/artefactos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZF7kPYO5wCpyyeUFQP9UMs-_atYIA6EAV2F_5-Ghp-ezsOGe2famleEUzddw2IfbiAW67vWdd-BwoKEzz-0pG2Ff6AqMYkwyDV2_rto8iC4y-vd67M2uGLqY9d9nrqMk65cBLHuuj0xSERLmHxBU5sdxaGVLOaRMoNyt2yqs976tY1VuD_w/w133-h200/artefactos.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Aubeck
nos puntualiza que el objetivo fundamental de su trabajo es llenar la
ausencia de información que existe en los últimos dos siglos de la
existencia de testimonios sobre extraterrestres en la Tierra. Y ello,
a pesar de que la pluralidad de los mundos haya sido una cuestión
conocida y reiterada en el ámbito del conocimiento, sea filosófico,
religioso o literario, desde la antigüedad clásica. Considera por
lo tanto que “hasta que no sepamos cómo se ha descrito el contacto
interplanetario a lo largo de la historia, estaremos mal </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">equipados</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
para juzgar si los relatos actuales tienen alguna base en la
realidad, o si sólo son una cuestión de ideas populares que se
remontan siglos atrás”. Y esta declaración de intenciones, tan
necesaria como esclarecedora para el lector, es el núcleo alrededor
del cual gira toda la labor investigadora que Aubeck nos traslada en
este libro. Pero su quehacer no se limita a la búsqueda de las
fuentes últimas de un suceso, sino que implica también la tarea de
practicar pesquisas </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>in
situ</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
a pesar del tiempo transcurrido. Desgraciadamente la mayor parte de
la información necesaria se ha perdido en documentos que tienen
siglos de antigüedad y sin olvidar nunca que, como sucede a menudo,
cuando buscamos la verdad, si hemos respondido a una pregunta, han
surgido muchas más; si hemos seguido unas huellas hasta el final han
quedado atrás otras cosas que conducían a otras metas.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el terreno literario descubrimos cómo Antonio Diógenes, alrededor
del siglo II, nos relata el que quizás sea el primer viaje espacial
imaginario, en su obra titulada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
prodigios más allá de Thule</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
No obstante, este género estuvo prácticamente ausente en Europa,
habiendo que esperar hasta el siglo XVI, momento a partir de cual la
Luna se convierte en el foco favorito de novelas y ensayos. Ya en el
siglo XVIII, la influencia de Cyrano de Bergerac se refleja en los
trabajos de Voltaire con su cuento </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Micromegas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
o en la novela de Louis Guillaume de La Follie titulada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Le
philosophe sans pretention</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dentro
del género satírico encontramos una carta del siglo XVIII,
conservada en el Archivo General de Simancas, dirigida </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">al
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Rey
de España y firmada por el Gobernador de Tenerife, donde se informa
de la llegada de un globo tripulado por selenitas. Al final de la
misiva el remitente pregunta al Monarca qué medidas tomar,
proponiendo que se organice una partida a nuestro satélite para
recibir enseñanzas de sus habitantes con objeto de poder construir
en la Tierra sus </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">máquinas</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
voladoras. Obviamente se trata de una invención, posiblemente una
sátira contra la política exterior del regente, que extrañamente
subsistió durante años entre los registros del Consejo de Estado. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
esta categoría es necesario referir lo que el autor llama “el gran
engaño lunar”, cuando a finales de agosto de 1835 el periódico
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>New
York Sun</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
publicó varios artículos donde se le atribuía a Sir John Herschel
el descubrimiento en la Luna de seres inteligentes, animales, árboles
y océanos. Todo era una broma del periodista Richard Adams Locke,
que a tenor de lo relatado podríamos considerarlo como un precursor
del conocido caso UMMO.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con
el científico sueco Emanuel Swedenborg arranca la incursión en el
marco del debate religioso, dada la calidad de contactado de este
físico, filósofo y místico, que en su obra </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
tierras o mundos de nuestro sistema solar, comúnmente llamado
planetas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
nos relata haber hablado con espíritus de casi todos los planetas de
nuestro sistema Solar. Resulta curioso comprobar cómo la descripción
de los ropajes de los llamados mercurianos coincide en gran parte con
la versión de abducidos que podemos encontrar en relatos de finales
del pasado siglo. En este contexto también son consideradas la
visión contactista que ofrecen sectas como los Mormones, los
Testigos de Jehová o la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día, sin
dejar de lado algún caso de especial significación, por ser actual,
como el de Eva Draconis, que afirma estar en contacto con seres de
Orión.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
último, y tras examinar el dilema de la relación entre Dios y los
extraterrestres, se realiza una detallada exposición de la
influencia del espiritismo en la concepción de lo extraterrestre a
partir de mediados del siglo XIX.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
segundo de los hitos, comprendiendo los capítulos titulados “Génesis
de un fenómeno” y “Mensajes cósmicos”, Aubeck describe y
analiza todos los casos conocidos que por sus descripciones tienen
visos de estar relacionados con contactos de entes o máquinas
extraterrestres.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Resulta
de gran interés la importancia que tuvo durante muchos años la
llamada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>teoría
volcánica</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
la cual suponía que los meteoritos procedían de las erupciones
producidas en otros mundos y en particular de nuestro satélite. La
llegada a nuestro planeta de estos meteoritos era considerada, en sus
orígenes, como una señal o un mensaje de los cielos. Estos
fenómenos serían las primeras noticias que tenemos de algo
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">extraterrestre</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
e inanimado, que llegaría a nuestras manos porque habría que
esperar hasta 1857 para encontrar el primer contacto con seres
animados. A partir de una guía de autoayuda, titulada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Magic Monitor and Medical Intelligencer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del Dr. Henry Monnett, Aubeck sigue la pista de lo que podría ser el
más antiguo relato de un avistamiento, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">el
c</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ual
le lleva a un pueblo llamado Jay en el estado de Ohio. Monnett, al
que podríamos considerar el primer ufólogo, en un lenguaje que
parece ser más del siglo XX que del XIX, detallaba la observación
de una nave de algo menos de cien metros donde viajaban un gran
número de personas a bordo. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Aunque
a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX continuaron proliferando
las noticias de haberse visto naves y seres extraños no fue hasta el
año 1864 cuando encontramos la noticia del hallazgo de los restos
momificados de lo que parecía un ser extraterrestre en una cámara
que se ubicaba dentro de un meteorito hueco. Hoy se sabe que fue un
bulo escrito por el científico francés Henri de Parville que al
final recogió en forma de una novela titulada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Un
habitant de la planéte Mars</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Es plausible pensar que este relato estuvo inspirado en el meteorito
hallado cerca de Orgueil, al sur de Francia, en mayo de 1864.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
este hito no podría dejarse de tratar cuestiones como son las
inscripciones y jeroglíficos por el que los supuestos seres del
cosmos nos dejarían sus testimonios, ni el caso de la familia Denton
en 1866. Tanto el patriarca como su hermana, su esposa y su hijo
afirmaban recibir visiones y haber viajado a Venus y Marte, fruto de
ello fueron varios libros de los cuales dos relataban sus
experiencias </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">interplanetarias</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
William Denton era profesor de geología y practicante de
psicometría, técnica mediante la cual podía adivinar datos sobre
las personas con solo tocar objetos relacionados con ellas. Con estos
conocimientos y tocando supuestos meteoritos era capaz de ver las
ciudades del planeta Marte. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Finalmente,
la tercera parte, con capítulos titulados “Alienígenas
ancestrales” e “Historia de lo insólito”, nos lleva a conocer
los orígenes donde sumerge sus raíces el concepto de lo
extraterrestre y la influencia que los astros más cercanos a nuestro
mundo han tenido en esta concepción.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">través
de un exhaustivo estudio comparativo entre dos escritores como
Antoine Bernard Alfred, barón d´Espiard de Colonge (1910-1886) y W.
Raymond Drake (1913-1989), Aubeck nos justifica cómo escritores
separados por un siglo, han recorrido el mismo camino y sus opiniones
sobre asteroides, seres planetarios y dioses son similares a pesar
del tiempo transcurrido. Este estudio está fundamentado en las obras
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
chute du cielo ou les antiques météores planétaires</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(1865) y </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Gods
or Spacemen?</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(1964) de cada uno de los citados autores. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
podía faltar una clara exposición de la teoría de los
extraterrestres ancestrales, es decir, de aquella hipótesis que
sostiene que seres cósmicos han intervenido de manera sustancial,
en, al menos, algún momento de la historia de la humanidad.
Posiblemente </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">el
germen de esta idea estuviese en la obra del obispo de Hereford, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Man in the Moone</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(1638), que luego fue tomada durante el siglo XX por autores como Von
Däniken, Bergier, Charroux o Misraki. Tampoco dos temas como los
famosos hombres de negro o la influencia del planeta Marte, cuyas
oposiciones ilusionaron tanto a investigadores y escritores, pueden
faltar de ser expuestos con prolijas referencias y curiosidades. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
obra concluye con una sinopsis y dos apéndices donde se indican la
evolución de la teoría de los extraterrestres ancestrales y un
calendario de probables primicias descritas en el libro, ambas
situadas en el período que transcurre entre los años 1600 y 1882.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro de Aubeck está escrito en un estilo sencillo y directo, muy
ameno, que ayuda a una fácil comprensión del complejo devenir
histórico de los temas que trata. Los mencionados fragmentos al
final de cada apartado colaboran en esta tarea, aportando no solo
curiosos documentos sino apoyando para una mejor percepción de lo
que se expone. En definitiva, una obra de gran interés para todos
los aficionados a </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">la</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Ufología y de la que esperamos ver pronto su siguiente volumen.
(Algeciras, febrero de 2023).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWG4n3RODDOTQ2Nr03YpDzu6lceFSnE2ZIukTqOPFED6DCpA_xq6mr3vobz61rgBSVd3BOcpVnYWTRWKbrpB54poJBNOzYXH6tEwM_k-xUEuKC4ue1qZDUX6j244Vcbz7EHJAGE2H-J6D46V8suFEG_csIyPdjGApNWS4zXjNv96xWV5yb-w/s2224/Chris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="1668" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWG4n3RODDOTQ2Nr03YpDzu6lceFSnE2ZIukTqOPFED6DCpA_xq6mr3vobz61rgBSVd3BOcpVnYWTRWKbrpB54poJBNOzYXH6tEwM_k-xUEuKC4ue1qZDUX6j244Vcbz7EHJAGE2H-J6D46V8suFEG_csIyPdjGApNWS4zXjNv96xWV5yb-w/w150-h200/Chris.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Chris
Aubeck.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña
invitada</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Carlos
González Gutiérrez (Barcelona, 1966, aunque afincado casi toda su
vida en Valencia) es un profesional de I+D+i en una empresa del
sector eléctrico y, en lo ufológico, un bibliófilo impenitente. Y,
junto con su hermano Juan Pablo, es parte del clúster ufológico
valenciano. Le he encargado que redactara una recensión del libro
que acaba de publicar el ufólogo gallego Manuel Carballal, dedicado
a la vida y obra de Oscar Rey Brea, uno de los pioneros de la
ufología en España. Carlos gustosamente ha atendido mi solicitud.
Seguidamente, el texto que ha escrito.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><u>“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
GALLEGO SABIO.</span></span></span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>ÓSCAR
REY BREA. EL HOMBRE QUE DESCUBRIÓ LOS OVNIS”, RESEÑA</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">P</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">or
Carlos González Gutiérrez</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Se
han publicado muchos libros DE ufología en España, pero muy pocos
SOBRE la ufología hispana. No oculto que estos últimos son para mí
mucho más interesantes. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
gallego sabio</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
se encuadra perfectamente dentro de esta subcategoría temática,
junto con las obras de Ignacio Cabria (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Entre
ufólogos creyentes y contactados</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,1993,
y su reedición ampliada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2022), Josep Mª Ibáñez (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
delfín y la estrella. Vida de Antonio Ribera</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
1995), Antonio Ribera (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cartas
de tres herejes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
1999), Ignasi Puig (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Andreas
Faber Kaiser</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2011), Fernando López del Oso (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
legado del Oso</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
2019), y poco más.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
libro de Manuel Carballal es oportuno, ya que en 2023 se conmemora el
centenario del nacimiento de un personaje casi completamente
desconocido para la inmensa mayoría de los aficionados a la ufología
de las últimas generaciones: Óscar Rey Brea, pionero de la ufología
española. Al mismo tiempo es una oda reivindicativa de su figura
como “el hombre que descubrió los ovnis” en palabras del autor,
interesándose por ellos antes del caso Arnold, y descartando a Fort
como ufólogo en sentido estricto por ser el campo de interés de
este último demasiado amplio.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
grueso tomo se divide en dos extensos bloques: su vida y obra. En
ambos, Carballal realiza una labor de arqueología ufológica para
sacar a la luz documentos que permitan conocer los cimientos de la
historia del estudio del fenómeno ovni. También ha rastreado su
vida, contrastando casi hasta la obsesión los más mínimos detalles
de lo hasta ahora publicado. Una obsesión necesaria y de agradecer,
que según las cartas aportadas era también compartida por el sabio
gallego. Con minuciosidad detectivesca logra corregir algunos datos,
como su fecha de nacimiento. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dedica
un amplio capítulo a su alistamiento y experiencias en la División
Azul, hecho que le marcó y comenzó su relación con los no
identificados a raíz de un avistamiento de sus compañeros en el
frente ruso. Como curiosidad, se cita en el libro a otro
divisionario, el actor Luis Ciges quien también tuvo intereses
ufológicos, ya que afirmó haber sido testigo de un avistamiento:
“Yo vi uno cuando todavía no se llamaban ovnis. Luego me dedique a
estudiarlos como aficionado (...) Estaba en la oficina de mando de
artillería antiaérea (...) Vimos un cacharro que cruzó el cielo de
Sevilla con mucha lentitud. Los fonolocalizadores y demás aparatos
no lograron detectarlo” (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Suplemento Semanal</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
número 581, 13 de diciembre de 1998). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Al
comienzo de su andadura investigadora se nos muestra a un Rey Brea
solo e incomprendido, a la búsqueda de un alma gemela con la que
compartir sus inquietudes. En su camino se encontró con distintos
personajes y, cuando descubrió a Antonio Ribera, pensó que la había
encontrado. Así, Ribera es uno de los principales protagonistas de
esta obra. De hecho fue él quien le apodó “el gallego sabio”.
Carballal aporta las cartas, documentos y claves de esta relación,
alguna inédita hasta la fecha. Con ellas escribe y documenta el
relato de una relación humana, con sus luces, sombras, encuentros,
desencuentros y un amargo desenlace en el que cobra principal
protagonismo el caso de San José de Valderas y todo el asunto Ummo y
sus derivadas. En efecto, Rey Brea fue el primero en señalar las
fotografías como fraudulentas, lo que provocó una airada reacción
de Ribera. Cada uno deberá sacar sus propias conclusiones después
de la lectura del intercambio dialéctico entre ambos, no tanto
respecto a la menos que improbable veracidad del caso, como respecto
a la condición humana.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Respecto
a su obra, la aportación a la ufología por la que Rey Brea fue más
conocido es la “teoría de los ciclos bienales”, que propugnaba
una coincidencia de las fases de máximo acercamiento entre la Tierra
y Marte con un mayor número de avistamientos. Algo que, como parece
demostrado cuando se analizan los datos desapasionadamente, no es
cierto. Pero sí hay algo indiscutible: fue un pionero. Más opinable
es a qué nivel. En el capítulo en que se citan los primeros libros
ufológicos publicados en España, Carballal olvida precisamente uno
relacionado con esta teoría: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Marte
atacará el año 1956</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(ECESA, 1951). Su autor era el Profesor Denharc Border, un pseudónimo
bajo el cual se ocultaba Jesús Murciano Lasso de la Vega, tío del
poeta Carlos Murciano.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Manuel
Carballal ha realizado una obra muy documentada, con encomiable
pasión y entrega investigadora que rezuman de cada una de sus
páginas. Toda la segunda mitad es una extensísima selección de
distintos escritos de Rey, algunos inéditos, cuya lectura
necesariamente debe realizarse con mirada indulgente ya que el
transcurrir de los años ha desvelado tanto aciertos como errores. El
epílogo que cierra el libro es una carta del autor al protagonista,
materializando el anhelo de haber conocido personalmente a su
paisano. En el mejor sentido del término, Carballal es un romántico
de la ufología.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
manía personal de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>boomer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
me produce cierto rechazo la inclusión de códigos QR en los libros
con la misma intensidad que el rechazo que producirá esta opinión
entre los lectores </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>millennials</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
No me gusta leer sosteniendo el libro en una mano y el móvil en la
otra. Afortunadamente, en este caso su uso es comedido y pertinente.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
rescato una cita de Rey Brea con la que me siento plenamente
identificado: “Personalmente no me guía ningún interés en que
existan o no los ovnis solo me mueve la curiosidad...”. Y yo
añadiría: su historia y la de quienes los han estudiado. Por esto
creo innecesario decir que considero que es un libro obligado para
cualquiera que esté interesado en la historia de la ufología
hispana. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Después
de su lectura, se impone hacer también una biografía semejante con
otro pionero: Màrius Lleget.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro está publicado por El Ojo Crítico (La Coruña, 2022) y puede
comprarse desde aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coleccioncuadernodecampo.blogspot.com/2022/10/el-gallego-sabio-oscar-rey-brea-el.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://coleccioncuadernodecampo.blogspot.com/2022/10/el-gallego-sabio-oscar-rey-brea-el.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaq0uZuaj-XeDuejLnVlpkC5EILdiRfzxOubkXXC5e0urndXgsrq9DEpJnG5Uksp8YOLj9GJsXdgUidd0a6i9E3UQVFcAj2x63REltITRxi6U3zgfnhqmcdMYN3W_d6tdhlzi898pQYlfCVrrZ3JYOZ3j0OwRcc-sqxLJMJ8MJXyiQMmf7jw/s1651/Carballal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1651" data-original-width="1106" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaq0uZuaj-XeDuejLnVlpkC5EILdiRfzxOubkXXC5e0urndXgsrq9DEpJnG5Uksp8YOLj9GJsXdgUidd0a6i9E3UQVFcAj2x63REltITRxi6U3zgfnhqmcdMYN3W_d6tdhlzi898pQYlfCVrrZ3JYOZ3j0OwRcc-sqxLJMJ8MJXyiQMmf7jw/s320/Carballal.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Más
sobre la teoría de Rey Brea</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Juan
Pablo González, ingeniero industrial e investigador, es el gestor
del CUCO (Catálogo Unificado de Casos OVNI), una base de datos que
integra hasta la fecha 27 catálogos y que reúne un total de 8668
casos españoles. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Una
de las aportaciones originales de Óscar Rey Brea fue el
descubrimiento de que había una aparente concordancia entre el
incremento de observaciones ovni y la cercanía del planeta Marte a
la Tierra: la trayectoria de Marte con respecto a nuestro planeta
hace que cada 2 años y 50 días haya un máximo acercamiento
relativo (oposición) entre ambos. Rey Brea hizo público su hallazgo
estadístico a través de diferentes artículos, publicados entre los
años 1954 y 1964. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">He
pedido a Juan Pablo que verifique con información actualizada las
conclusiones a las que llegó Rey.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>REY
BREA Y EL CICLO BIENAL</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
Juan Pablo González</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
respuesta a la solicitud de V.J. Ballester Olmos, he obtenido la
siguiente gráfica que muestra el número de casos ovni informados en
España y recogidos en CUCO para cada mes entre 1948 y 1963.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3x5uH27mJLgB4T3L7Z2j_xaS6MTqhTwYsZl2OzaWZoeG3g7tcAL0nnrYJ4nZYAoLRi0cVCKfz56UpPfCQycmt1lvma9TEiZ5HmKGHXZd5zLaBQ-1qTj3jlHqLvDuaUJoSq3CSt8GolPwGJok3Em9p-CJO2vS2AerSqpCiHglDLDaqrka8Q/s1619/CUCO.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1619" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3x5uH27mJLgB4T3L7Z2j_xaS6MTqhTwYsZl2OzaWZoeG3g7tcAL0nnrYJ4nZYAoLRi0cVCKfz56UpPfCQycmt1lvma9TEiZ5HmKGHXZd5zLaBQ-1qTj3jlHqLvDuaUJoSq3CSt8GolPwGJok3Em9p-CJO2vS2AerSqpCiHglDLDaqrka8Q/s320/CUCO.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Si
se compara con la que presenta Rey Brea en noviembre de 1964 en su
artículo “Vida extraterrena. Algún planeta puede estar habitado”,
publicado en la revista </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Algo
y</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> reproducida
por Manuel Carballal en la página 227 de su libro </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
gallego sabio</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
no se observan grandes diferencias, salvo dos que señalaremos a
continuación. Seguidamente, la gráfica producida por Rey:</span></span></span></p>
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diferencia) Rey Brea muestra una oleada en 1948 que en España no
existió, por lo que sin duda utilizó una base de datos
geográficamente más amplia (que desconocemos).</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2ª
diferencia) Todos los picos de casuística son de similar magnitud en
la de Rey Brea, mientras que los recogidos en CUCO muestran un pico
para la oleada de 1950 (75 casos en marzo) mucho mayor que para el
resto de los meses (15 casos al mes como mucho. De hecho, la gráfica
obtenida de CUCO está cortada a 40 casos para facilitar la
legibilidad. Hay varias posibles explicaciones para esta
discrepancia, pero no son relevantes para este análisis.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
pregunta clave es: ¿coinciden las oleadas ovni con oposiciones de
Marte? En el caso de la de 1950, plenamente. Se podría considerar
que en la siguiente oposición, en mayo de 1952, se produce también
un repunte en el número de avistamientos, aunque mucho menos
espectacular. La hipótesis empieza a fallar cuando el siguiente pico
tiene lugar en 1954, pero cinco meses después de la oposición de
junio, mes en el que no hay ningún caso registrado. Todas</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
las siguientes oposiciones coinciden con meses de actividad media o
baja. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Es
lo que tiene el azar.</u></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
conclusión, los datos de CUCO podrían aparentemente validar la
hipótesis de los ciclos bienales... pero únicamente para el breve
periodo 1949-1953. Tales resultados no se han repetido en años
posteriores, lo que indica la inexistencia de una correlación
estadísticamente significativa, y que dicha hipótesis no fue sino
un ejemplo de sesgo de confirmación de la creencia de Rey Brea en
los marcianos, basada en el análisis de un periodo demasiado breve.
Algo difícil de evitar cuando se es un pionero.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Así
creamos monstruos</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">El
investigador y antropólogo Ignacio Cabria ha publicado su último
libro, en la editorial Luciérnaga. Dice el autor: “Además de
mencionar algunas hipótesis que vinculan al </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bigfoot</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
con los ovnis, dedico un capítulo al chupacabras. E</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">n
la evolución de las leyendas de los monstruos hay paralelismos con
fenómenos sociales de los ovnis, y en el apartado de la
criptozoología extraigo algunss conclusiones que creo aplicables a
la ufología. En la próxima edición de este blog se publicará una
reseña del libro. Mientras tanto, aquí se puede adquirir:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980">https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-asi-creamos-monstruos/357980</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Libros
de Cláudio Suenaga</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
investigador de origen japonés afincado en Brasil Cláudio Tsuyoshi
Suenaga, master en Historia por la Universidad Estatal de Sao Paulo,
defendió allí la primera tesis sobre el fenómeno ovni en su país.
Es autor de estos libros (en portugués) que, a mi juicio, merecen la
atención de los estudiosos:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contatados:
Emissários das Estrelas, Arautos de uma Nova Era ou a</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><br /></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Quinta
Coluna da Invasão Extraterrestre?</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://loja.ufo.com.br/produto/contatados/28">https://loja.ufo.com.br/produto/contatados/28</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.estantevirtual.com.br/bira-camara/claudio-suenaga-contatados-3478936527?show_suggestion=0">https://www.estantevirtual.com.br/bira-camara/claudio-suenaga-contatados-show_suggestion</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">50
Tons de Greys: Casos de Abduções Alienígenas com Relações
Sexuais —</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><br /></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Experiências
Genéticas, Rituais de Fertilidade ou Cultos Satânicos?</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://loja.ufo.com.br/produto/50-tons-de-greys/1187">https://loja.ufo.com.br/produto/50-tons-de-greys/1187</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.estantevirtual.com.br/bira-camara/claudio-suenaga-50-tons-de-greys-abducoes-com-relacoes-sexuais-3478936568?show_suggestion=0">https://www.estantevirtual.com.br/bira-camara/claudio-suenaga-50-tons-de-greys-abducoes-com-relacoes-sexuais-show_suggestion</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“A Short Exchange with Christopher Mellon”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“A 1978 Reentry over France”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Don’t Leave Me Hanging on Like a
UFO”, por el Dr. Luis Cayetano</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“Good Wishes to Dr. Richard Haines”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“Eerie Balloons”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“Falling Pieces from Space”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">*
“Aliens But Not Too Much- Skeptic Guide to Ufology”, reseña por
Paolo Toselli del último libro de Giuseppe Stilo. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtwal5qeEO6JKQBnw-adSGkaMvxeiYEeepgCo5CHcdWf1Il2LHO4Nfbg6YZz7oTu9MTcdP0Xyq2Hpn1tDwP0eMz3X09GndSjWbgG0O358KaKpfvQmOjURmaWrnRnplKFLLcaZT5ilnAXpmbxgnzjrsU7Gzcyj3Xbcgh0qGSUdC2IasMACPg/s3889/Allier%20Globo%20Pratt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="3889" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtwal5qeEO6JKQBnw-adSGkaMvxeiYEeepgCo5CHcdWf1Il2LHO4Nfbg6YZz7oTu9MTcdP0Xyq2Hpn1tDwP0eMz3X09GndSjWbgG0O358KaKpfvQmOjURmaWrnRnplKFLLcaZT5ilnAXpmbxgnzjrsU7Gzcyj3Xbcgh0qGSUdC2IasMACPg/w400-h181/Allier%20Globo%20Pratt.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Reentrada,
Francia 1978. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Jimsphere</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Tallahassee, Florida, 1966. Reentrada, Kansas, 1970.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">No
puedo dejar de incluir fotos de mis nietos, que tanta felicidad me
aportan; en las que siguen, el pequeño Matías con su querida muñeca
rubia, y en la otra los primos Fernando (con el brazo en cabestrillo)
y Lucas compartiendo risas.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Luis
Ruiz Noguez (“Marcianitos verdes”, Méjico), Ignacio Cabria
(España), Moisés Garrido (España), Luis E. Pacheco (STRATOCAT,
Argentina), Dr. Heriberto Janosch (España), Brad Sparks (Estados
Unidos), Jaime Servera (España), Dr. José Mª Baena Liberato
(España), Clas Svahn (AFU, Suecia), Julio Plaza del Olmo (España),
Kay Coggin (Estados Unidos), Paolo Toselli (CISU, Italia), Chris
Aubeck (España), Giuseppe Stilo (CISU, Italia), Alejandro
Agostinelli (Argentina), Carlos González Gutiérrez (España), Dr.
Luis Cayetano (Estados Unidos) y Juan Pablo González (España).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5w9vsz4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y5w9vsz4</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yjz7vnjh"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yjz7vnjh</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/493r8esr"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/493r8esr</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlQdByjjm18zLz1S9xguWCoZNB-5S8vJhbKzGVMjNgVRp2cB0NuTwsYcF0JnyxPqQ6lDTrIDTbActy7yhkg82baiQi57VpjZbkiGvKBE2N8cr5wv3_uZzC4a5FlIQ5m7jXAXKsgHK3frmxaaVIAWzwjEkHEOTPTsRf8EDx8am0DlEjVaavtw/s2630/LIBROS%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlQdByjjm18zLz1S9xguWCoZNB-5S8vJhbKzGVMjNgVRp2cB0NuTwsYcF0JnyxPqQ6lDTrIDTbActy7yhkg82baiQi57VpjZbkiGvKBE2N8cr5wv3_uZzC4a5FlIQ5m7jXAXKsgHK3frmxaaVIAWzwjEkHEOTPTsRf8EDx8am0DlEjVaavtw/s320/LIBROS%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOs
and Government</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-7154904304373787672022-12-12T19:00:00.334+01:002023-01-18T11:26:34.230+01:002022/DECEMBER/15 (EN)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English language editing: Martin
Shough</span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.16cm; text-decoration: none;">
</h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Our
catalog of photographic UFO & IFO events (generally up to
December 31, 2005) holds 12,848 entries, now approaching the 13,000
mark!</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
GEIPAN held last October in Toulouse (see an article below by Clas
Svahn) an expert conference on the UAP issue. I did not attend but,
as invited, I presented a paper that was orally delivered by Edoardo
Russo. Under the title “The </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Soucoupe
Volante</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
Problem: A Radical-Pragmatical Approach,” it attempted to focus
minds by suggesting a course correction in the investigation route to
be followed by the CNES’s UFO research center in the following
years. Of course, I am fully aware that my capacity of influence in
the GEIPAN policy is nil, but I wished to remind some basic points.
GEIPAN will soon upload all papers in its website, and that will be
the formal reference to my own article, however I am attaching here
some sentences extracted from that paper for you to capture the
essence of it. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="en-US">Let
us be crystal clear, it is the extraterrestrial hypothesis that is at
stake here. Not UAP. Not UFOs. The core of the phenomenon is the
thousands of reports of extraordinary flying machines landing on
isolated roads, beside which strange creatures were seen. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Since
the very beginning, once the hypothesis that flying saucers were
built by the US government (and the US Air Force was as lost as
anyone else) was discarded, all eyes looked to outer space for an
answer. If </span></span><span lang="en-US">flying
discs really behaved as witnesses reported, then inevitably they
should come from other planets. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="en-US">Apparently,
extraterrestrial visitors have already undertaken everything aliens
might want to do on our planet: surveillance, exploration, sample
collection, interaction, abduction, hybridization. What else remains
to happen, a Putin-style invasion? </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="en-US">What
is the roadmap for the future of UFO research? To follow the same
route, you [GEIPAN] have pursued in the past 4.5 decades? If we are
gathered here to honestly evaluate the UFO situation, past and
future, we have to realistically accept that we have an endemic
problem... If you fund the work of experts with an inclination
towards the existence of unexplainable UFOs, what kind of feedback do
you expect to receive? … By definition, most of the experts
orbiting around UFO organizations are UFO-reality sensitive…. What
about this shift in methodology? … the major part of your funds may
concentrate </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">on
the most productive segment of the UFO phenomena, that with a
potential scientific payback: close </span></span><span lang="en-US">encounter
accounts, when alleged witnesses state that a </span><span lang="en-US"><i>soucoupe
volante</i></span><span lang="en-US">
has landed in front of their eyes… the reports worth examining
should be </span><span lang="en-US"><i>CEs
with three adult observers or more</i></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Qualified
researchers are to be contracted to study these events. Both physical
(astronomers, engineers, physicists), social (psychologists,
psychiatrists) and criminology experts. What hiring criteria should
you follow now? …. UFO deniers. Scientists who are convinced that
aliens are not visiting the Earth. Those should be contracted to
investigate those critical episodes… In summary, I recommend
devoting most of the current budget to events that—if they could
not be solved—would certainly become novel discoveries for science.
And if it fails, at least one important scientific discovery will be
produced: why and under which conditions human beings feel that they
have been in contact with spacecraft and humanoids from other
galaxies.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5qgDX52V-G8gQ6U5vq7WLJsg-CT-UDGdN3CGt0LwLvTssQD72EDlqLjShdvlGJX3WjMWfVpJ2kKrQYomxAXmATBQ2R3TNg8kXUObFDH3Kjof57rCmoJw5qao-5_Q5ENy0OXFa2mj6q0-Jhq8sYHS1DodDcZGFnUt7WdpBpFDuV8S6bkbqmA/s800/Russo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="800" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5qgDX52V-G8gQ6U5vq7WLJsg-CT-UDGdN3CGt0LwLvTssQD72EDlqLjShdvlGJX3WjMWfVpJ2kKrQYomxAXmATBQ2R3TNg8kXUObFDH3Kjof57rCmoJw5qao-5_Q5ENy0OXFa2mj6q0-Jhq8sYHS1DodDcZGFnUt7WdpBpFDuV8S6bkbqmA/s320/Russo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Edo
Russo presents Ballester Olmos paper to the CAIPAN 2 workshop.
Credit: Clas Svahn. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Breaking news. On December 12th, GEIPAN announced that the videos of the interventions made during the CAIPAN II are now available on its website: <a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/node/59754">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/node/59754</a> </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
My recent interview in the Spanish newspaper </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
País </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(see
the previous blog’s update for September 2022) has had a certain
international repercussion, being translated and reproduced as well
in France (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Courrier
International</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">)
and Romania (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>ARGEŞUL
online</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">),
for example. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/portrait-l-ufologue-espagnol-pour-qui-les-ovnis-n-existent-pas"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/portrait-l-ufologue-espagnol-pour-qui-les-ovnis-n-existent-pas</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://argesulonline.ro/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos-ufolog-spaniol-nu-am-vrut-niciodata-sa-cred-din-principiu-am-vrut-sa-stiu/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://argesulonline.ro/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos-ufolog-spaniol-nu-am-vrut-niciodata-sa-cred-din-principiu-am-vrut-sa-stiu/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Toulouse 2022 UFO Workshop</u> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(Invited
commentary by Clas Svahn)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
French space agency CNES’ second workshop CAIPAN 2 held in
Toulouse, October 13–14, 2022, with representatives for their UFO
investigation body GEIPAN, produced 25 presentations on different
topics such as witness reliability, methodology and new tools for
photo analysis. Even though most attendants came from France there
were attendants from many countries like Norway, Italy, Belgium and
Sweden and from the US (Jacques Vallée, Ted Roe, Robert Powell and
Ron Westrum) and Canada (Yann Vadnais) who all had traveled a long
way.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1Iz_yvNqIvKHfXQ_RkwN0fEqoYnF_-GxLAIwtWXGr6Rl0pgUuf06oo2ij842UYUD-9Q2yyDaEPKnpOPHredIPBmG2EUvbR3beSS6IZQYDEggpyr26RhfxSVJk31NjIsxu6XPd_CBkeHP7LRpzAuOT4T7D99e34Jt5PE3hsDZwtyaxty4PQ/s1755/programa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1241" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1Iz_yvNqIvKHfXQ_RkwN0fEqoYnF_-GxLAIwtWXGr6Rl0pgUuf06oo2ij842UYUD-9Q2yyDaEPKnpOPHredIPBmG2EUvbR3beSS6IZQYDEggpyr26RhfxSVJk31NjIsxu6XPd_CBkeHP7LRpzAuOT4T7D99e34Jt5PE3hsDZwtyaxty4PQ/s320/programa.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">CAIPAN
2 workshop programme.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other
topics that were discussed were how to use satellite imaging to
identify UFO observations, presented by Philippe Ailleris from the
AIAA UAPCOI steering sub-committee. Professor Hakan Kayal from
Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg told that his </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">university
is the only university in Germany that is studying UAP: “I think
there is a need for UAP investigations, but we have a lack of robust
data. Now I think there is a paradigm shift, he said, noting that
Germany lacks a governmental approach to UAP.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Commodore
Rubén Lianza, director of the Center for Aerospace Identification
(Argentine Air Force) appeared on link from Argentina, and showed how
the use of a powerful image analysis software had helped to solve
several cases as the IBERIA flight 6830 flying out of Santiago on
November 11, 2014 filmed by a Chilean Navy helicopter. GEIPAN expert
François Louange showed how the famous McMinnville pictures from
1950 most probably were hoaxes with a model suspended with a string
from a cable. GEIPAN investigator Laurent Chabin demonstrated a new
tool using a VR helmet to impose pictures and drawings for the
witness to use when trying to describe what the object looked like
and its position in the sky. After this author tried the very
realistic helmet, Chabin affirmed: “This helmet must be used
together with a laptop where you can program the view to show the
night sky at the moment of observation and to impose the drawing from
the witness in the sky.”</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sfkckl4qwdFA5wQLaNVIf9931DCKD6XXAwE1HGn032sI2gpms4F0kFPQugDSz-vqggKl1n7b503Dd_JHLKVFXS76qs6_k92uiQAIXWS3-WbvbnDA8Zqe3hbWIMfIdHL_GlGHgf46wRF20W6FYF2gO39-vS4Sj8yhK-D7HbrUv9YxHpu8eA/s3820/Chabin%20and%20Ferryn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3820" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sfkckl4qwdFA5wQLaNVIf9931DCKD6XXAwE1HGn032sI2gpms4F0kFPQugDSz-vqggKl1n7b503Dd_JHLKVFXS76qs6_k92uiQAIXWS3-WbvbnDA8Zqe3hbWIMfIdHL_GlGHgf46wRF20W6FYF2gO39-vS4Sj8yhK-D7HbrUv9YxHpu8eA/s320/Chabin%20and%20Ferryn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Laurent
Chabin and Patrick Ferryn (helmeted). Credit: Clas Svahn.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Jacques Vallée talked about his recent book (together with Paola
Leopizzi Harris) </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Trinity.
The best-kept secret</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
where he claims that an unidentified object had been recovered by the
US military in New Mexico in 1945. Dr. Vallée sees a correlation
between the crash and the nearby (20 miles) White Sands testing
ground where the first atom bomb had been exploded.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">A
more recent event was presented by assistant professor Bjørn Gitle
Hauge from Østfold university college in Norway who gave a
presentation of the most recent findings in the Hessdalen valley.
Hauge showed pictures of anomalous lights that according to him
cannot be explained by misinterpretations of natural lights in the
area. As the other Scandinavian representative, I had the chance to
give a brief description of how UFO-Sweden educates our field
investigators through physical courses once a year since 1977.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Gilles
Munsch, GEIPAN investigator, showed an experiment that reminded the
audience of American astronomer Percival Lowell (1855–1916) and his
observations of ”canals” on the surface of planet Mars around the
year 1900. According to Munsch, and others, those structures could
have been created in the eye of the observer due to problems with the
lens and focus. Munsch’ own experiments showed that some
observations of alleged UFOs through binoculars could have the same
mundane explanation. GEIPAN investigator Thibaut Alexandre gave a
presentation that explained how contrails occur and why aircraft
flying at different altitudes do or do not create such white (or
black according to how the Sun is situated) trails in the sky. Most
of the French investigators gave very hands-on presentations that
were useful for anyone investigating reports of unusual phenomena in
the sky. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Edoardo
Russo, from Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) followed that
trail when he spoke about mass sightings and how they, if properly
documented, could be a useful tool when investigating other single
reports of UFOs and GEIPAN expert Dr. Jean-Pierre Rospars also used
observations of mundane objects like satellite or rocket entries and
falls of meteors to evaluate eyewitness reliability.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Ted
Roe, executive director for NARCAP, discussed the new data from the
US and how the safety for aircrews may be compromised when UAP are
reported near both civilian and military craft. NARCAP is working to
get this recognized by the authorities. Roe said that most
reports from pilots are anecdotal but some cases are backed up with
radar returns and supporting eyewitnesses from other aircraft:
“</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Aviation
safety is an important reason to study UAP.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">One
of two speakers that presented their talks on link was the assistant
deputy associate administrator for research within NASA’s science
mission directorate at NASA headquarters, Daniel Evans. Dr. Evans
talked about NASA’s upcoming UAP study and how that could lead to a
more detailed study later next year: “The work that NASA is doing
is open and not classified, he said trying to show the difference
between the space agency’s approach, which is purely scientific and
deals with aviation safety, compared to the closed Pentagon studies
that have no oversight from the scientific community.” Dr. Evans
made clear that the aim of the study is to deal with air safety
matters by better understanding UAP: “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">The
main focus is to use NASA’s Earth observing data and combine it
with commercial data and analysis techniques to tell us about UAP.
And NASA has many, many Earth observing satellites, some of them have
excellent resolution.”</span></span></span></p>
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informal meeting. Among others, we see Bertrand Meheust, François
Louange and Michel Coste. Credit: Clas Svahn.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Spanish
longtime researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos was not present but
his talk was presented by Italian ufologist Edoardo Russo.
Ballester-Olmos concluded that not a single proof has been collected
that shows of alien visitations to Earth and that the ufologists are
a part of spreading and maintaining the myth of such visits. To go
forward with UFO research Ballester-Olmos proposed that GEIPAN only
should investigate close encounters including at least three
observers and that qualified researchers (he called them ”UFO
disbelievers”), who do not believe that aliens have visited Earth,
should do that. He recommended GEIPAN to focus on events that if they
could not be solved should give science new data.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
two-day conference made plenty of time for meetings and discussions
during breaks and dinners, all well arranged. And a poster session
helped attendees who did not have a spot as a speaker to present
their organizations (like SCEAU, The Scientific Coalition for UAP
Studies, and MUFON France) or projects (like Italian CISU’s
statistical study of UFOs/IFOs). Even though some posters were
overloaded with text impossible to read, others were informative with
relevant pictures and information easily read.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>About
the author</u>: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Clas
Svahn (1958–) is a journalist with Sweden’s largest newspaper
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Dagens
Nyheter</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
chairman for Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) and international
director for UFO-Sweden. He is the author of nearly thirty books and
has been an investigator of UFO reports since 1974. He lives in
Stockholm with his wife Anneli and two grown up sons.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Airships,
the pre-Arnold UFOs</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">With
the flurry of news about military UAP in the USA it seems we have
forgotten that similar waves of UFOs occurred in the US skies long
before the Kenneth Arnold sighting of 1947. Those precedents are
extremely important in the investigation from flying saucers to UAP.
Historical perspective is a required condition in this study. Given
the abundance of work done on this, a few years ago I wrote a
bibliography of articles, papers and books dedicated to this
particular issue:</span><span lang="en-US"> “</span><span lang="en-US">UFO
Waves: An International Bibliography,” that was released in the
GEIPAN website: </span></span><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.__An_International_Bibliography__November__1___2015.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.An_International_Bibliography_November_1_2015.pdf</span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">One
of these waves took place in North America between 1895 and 1897 when
there were many sightings of what were called airships. Those were
precursors to the appearance of flying saucers. I raise this subject
because in a recent exchange in the “NICAP Research” forum list,
amateur Lara Elliot provided a link to a clipping published in the
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Chicago
Chronicle</i></span><span lang="en-US">
of April 15, 1897, page 7, fifty years before another celestial
sighting was declared officially “flying saucers”. Brad Sparks
contributed an enhanced print (see below). I cannot resist the
temptation to transliterate the clipping content into a readable
text, as follows:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">AIRSHIP
LIGHTS IN INDIANA. Comes to Earth Near Gas City and Has Six People on
Board. Marion, Ind., April 14.- Several people saw the airship here
at 3 o’clock this afternoon. It came from the northwest, traveling
very rapidly, and when first sighted it was thought to be a monster
bird. As it drew nearer the cigar-shaped outline and broad wings
could be distinctly seen. About a mile south of Gas City the ship
alighted on the John Roush farm, terrifying the Roush family and
causing horses and cattle to rush madly away. Six people were in the
ship and they got out and seemed to be adjusting some portion of the
mechanism. Before the Gas City people could get within hailing
distance the ship soared aloft and, taking an easterly course, was
soon lost to sight. The wildest commotion was caused in Gas City and
hundreds of people ran toward the Roush farm. Gas City is five miles
south of Marion. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Specially
to those who are entering now to the UAP debate: don’t you
recognize anything familiar in this </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">report?
We have a short-lived landing of a strange aerial object with
occupants inside. The witnesses even displayed Hynek’s escalation
of hypotheses (a factor alleged to confer veracity on UFO sighting
reports). Nothing is new under the Sun.</span></span></span></p>
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the US DoD UAP Study</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">My
recent paper “What’s New in the US Legislative UAP Front, July
2022”
(</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022</span></span></a></span><span lang="en-US">)
reviewed US House and Senate initiatives on UAP’s coming improved
legislation. In one of these, the Senate report Classified Annex to
the Select Committee on Intelligence to the Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (IAA bill. S.4503), included
biased and unsupported statements such as “cross-domain transmedium
threats to United States national security are expanding
exponentially.” (I already affirmed that “transmedium” objects
are a fanciful concept, a wrong deduction from a bad analysis of one
or two video clips.)</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
“exponential” threat of UFOs, is that an excuse to increase US
Defense expense, this time, yes exponentially, to be prepared in a
possible future confrontation with China and Russia? This is one of
the many possibilities shuffled by Caitlin Johnstone in a September
5, 2022 post in her online newsletter. I wonder, however, if in the
present circumstances of a war between Ukraine and Russia in the very
North of Europe, the US Government needs to invoke the danger of an
alien presence to spend much more in weaponry. I frankly doubt it.
See: “Who Benefits From US Government Claims That The UFO Threat Is
Increasing 'Exponentially'?”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/who-benefits-from-us-government-claims"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/who-benefits-from-us-government-claims</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">If
you want to know my personal view, what I do support is the simplest
option: we have reached this point forced by the power dynamics of a
group of influential people within the system (military in
intelligence and politicians) who, haunted by the belief that alien
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">UFOs
have been visiting the Earth for decades, hundreds of years, or even
from the depth of mankind’s history, managed to convince the Navy,
first, the DIA, later, and finally the Pentagon and the DoD to create
an office to study UFOs, now renamed UAP, because of respectability.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">In
this context, an article written by Science Reporter Dan Vergano is
timely: “The true story of how UFOs evolved from science fiction to
a national security priority,”
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/07/the-true-story-of-how-ufos-evolved-from-science-fiction-to-a-national-security-priority/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/07/the-true-story-of-how-ufos-evolved-from-science-fiction-to-a-national-security-priority/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
US Department of Navy does nothing but to muddy the waters. Yes,
according to John Greenewald, the DON “says all UAP/UFO videos are
classified and exempt from release,” we can read here: </span></span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-says-all-uap-ufo-videos-are-classified-and-exempt-from-release/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-says-all-uap-ufo-videos-are-classified-and-exempt-from-release/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Last
October 28</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">,
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
New York Times </i></span><span lang="en-US">contained
an interesting article authored by Julian E. Barnes: “Many Military
U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash,” with a
relevant subheading: “Forget space aliens or hypersonic technology;
classified assessments show that many episodes have ordinary
explanations.” Anticipating a report that should have been
presented by AARO to the Congress on Monday October 31</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
(still pending at this writing), the NYT piece, which is based on
interviews with American officials familiar with the findings of the
Pentagon’s examination of the collected UAP incidents, stated: </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Government
officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers and
weather balloons or other airborne clutter explain most recent
incidents of unidentified aerial phenomena —government-speak for
U.F.O.s — as well as many episodes in past years. The sightings
have puzzled the Pentagon and intelligence agencies for years,
fueling theories about visiting space aliens and spying by a hostile
nation using advanced technology. But government officials say many
of the incidents have far more ordinary explanations. </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">According
to the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Mail</i></span><span lang="en-US">
online of October 31</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">,
the report to be delivered to Congress is 22 pages long, covers 366
cases, and explains 50% of events. (Well, at least it is an
improvement from the 0.7%—1/144—disclosed in the Pentagon’s
prior release of June 2021.) See: </span></span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11373603/New-classified-report-congress-says-HALF-UFO-sightings-properly-explained.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11373603/New-classified-report-congress-says-HALF-UFO-sightings-properly-explained.html</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">NBC’s
Gadi Schwartz reports: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHpOz8WuaA"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHpOz8WuaA</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Concerning
the current DoD UAP study, we should not forget its precedents, how
did it all begin. To remind this, Mick West writes in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Reason</i></span><span lang="en-US">
magazine for December 2022 the article “The Military-UFO Complex.
How a motley crew of saucer hunters got a place at the public
trough,” </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://reason.com/2022/11/15/the-military-ufo-complex/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://reason.com/2022/11/15/the-military-ufo-complex/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">NASA
UAP Study Team</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">On
October 24, 2022, NASA started an independent study team to “lay
the groundwork for future study on the nature of UAPs [sic] for NASA
and other organizations. To do this, over the course of nine months,
the team will identify how data gathered by civilian government
entities, commercial data, and data from other sources can
potentially be analyzed to shed light on UAPs [sic]. It will then
recommend a roadmap for potential UAP data analysis by the agency
going forward,” as announced officially on October 21</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">.
A full report will be made public in mid-2023. The team is composed
of 16 members, chaired by cosmologist David Spergel, president of the
Simons Foundation and founding director of its Flatiron Institute for
Computational Astrophysics. Direct link with NASA will be through
Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for
research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">In
my view, if NASA plans to base its evaluation on materials provided
by UFO organizations with a clear alien-marked agenda, as is very
possible, we can imagine the output, the same old story: there is a
residue of unexplained/unexplainable events that represents a
challenge to science that merits investigation. So back to the 1966
terms chosen by Jacques Vallée for the title of his second book.
Once more commencing from zero. With regard to the exquisite
qualifications of the independent study members, time will tell if
these are the proper requirements for examining the most offbeat and
abnormal UFO claims of alleged landed spacecraft occupied by
humanoids who enjoy abducting people to abusively mistreat them. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-study-team-members/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-study-team-members/</span></span></a></span></p>
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October 28, Billy Cox has published an article on some of the elected
team members, one that it is worth reading: “NASA's talking the
talk. But can its UAP team members walk the walk?”:
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">At
this juncture, readers should ask themselves what objectively and
evidential-wise has changed from 1977 to now regarding UFOs. Because
that was the year when NASA said “no” to President Jimmy Carter
about a scientific study of the question. See my article “</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">History:
UFO Investigation at NASA,” a brief entry in my following blog post
of 2019: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">AIAA
to Study UAP</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Is
it because they are young and ignorant of past UFO work, is it
because it is now fashionable—cool—, is it because it now
generates press headlines? Or just because of human stupidity?
“America’s top aerospace engineers and scientists are joining
forces to protect us from UFOs.” Wow!, what are they expecting to
happen that has not happened in the last 75 years since 1947 when
flying saucers appeared on the scene? There is no record of any
commercial aviation accident due to UFOs, but now they are suddenly
worried about air safety and UAP (not damned UFOs anymore!) AIAA
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) is launching its
own “Community of Interest to study UAP.” With all my shame, I
share with you a couple of articles I have found about this
intention. How much energy, money and time is going to the wasted
until they come back to what really matters?</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and-aviation-safety-a-persistent-challenge/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and-aviation-safety-a-persistent-challenge/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
homepage of this UAP Community of Interest notes that its mission is
“to improve aviation safety by enhancing scientific knowledge of,
and mitigating barriers to, the study of Unidentified Aerospace
Phenomena (UAP)”. UAPCOI is chaired by Ryan Graves, a former Navy
F/A-18F pilot and T-45C Goshawk instructor pilot, and it is
requesting volunteers for its three main working teams, Hardware
Factors, Outreach, and Human Factors. </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aiaauap.org/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.aiaauap.org/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">One
of the European collaborators is the French ufologist Philippe
Ailleris. The annual symposium of AIAA Aviation Forum, to be held
June 2023 at San Diego, will cover many specialized topics, including
that of Aerospace Traffic Management (ATM), under the coordination of
Joseph Post (University of South Florida) and Edward Stanton. The
call for papers (deadline for abstracts is November 10, 2022) says:
“Papers are sought relating to policies and strategies that will
advance the modernization of Aerospace Transportation Systems, to
include traffic management, airspace/space operations integration,
capacity improvements, UAS/UTM integration, autonomous operations
integration, space operations integration, and related safety
enhancements/issues.” Two of the 13 issues of this theme are
UAP-related: "Collaboration Approaches to Address the Challenges
of UAP” and “Scientific & Technical Advancements in UAP
Understanding”. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">My
comments: While I have serious doubts about if AIAA will adopt any
filter on the flow of “volunteers”, introducing the UAP issue
together with matters related to traffic management sounds a little
bit like shoehorning. Still, this will be the third year when
Aviation Forum tackled the UAP problem under the ATM umbrella.
Anyway, more new work is always welcome. </span></span><a href="https://www.aiaa.org/aviation/presentations-papers/call-for-papers" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.aiaa.org/aviation/presentations-papers/call-for-papers</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UFOs
Along History</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Sometimes
it is a very educative exercise to look back at the history of UFOs
and think about it calmly. Because it is not unusual that we cannot
see the wood for the trees. Revisiting what happened in terms of
intensity and actual description of reports is an eyeopener. For
example, rereading the accounts of the huge French wave of 1954 gives
you a most needed and indispensable perspective. Certain UFO waves
and obviously the large 1954 wave was a book example of mass
hysteria, a true collective madness. To arrive to that crystal clear
conclusion, you only have to scan the press </span><span lang="en-US"><i>coupures</i></span><span lang="en-US">
of that intense flying saucer epoch (aerial sightings, airborne
sightings, landings, passengers, traces, animals scared, the whole
range of phenomena), a full universe of stories by all kinds of
witnesses that sociologists should have studied much more. That
material is in English, and I advise investigators to access and
consult the immense compilation work done by Loren E. Gross
collecting documents and case histories from 1896 to 1963. The
collection of information is impressive, especially for the wave
years 1952 (USA) or 1954 (France). It has been scanned and uploaded
for free in the J.A. Hynek Center for UFO Studies. Please do not miss
it: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/UFO_History_Gross/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/UFO_History_Gross/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLjy7EzKrc1A-19TcfZf_PZMI0NyNwhh0p4_c1aT3WwYyKYYTasMJFIbreDWUgwc0f3qJeT9YpSL99VR6BUlcFI5lj4L053yNPWNKQyPSn7M5YoMPoYXKNHU0lPwKd8clJq9prviQTS4JrquLKcpb0fDuKEV3-Q0GHRqPG-dN30vKEsFXKQ/s1341/Gross.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1341" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLjy7EzKrc1A-19TcfZf_PZMI0NyNwhh0p4_c1aT3WwYyKYYTasMJFIbreDWUgwc0f3qJeT9YpSL99VR6BUlcFI5lj4L053yNPWNKQyPSn7M5YoMPoYXKNHU0lPwKd8clJq9prviQTS4JrquLKcpb0fDuKEV3-Q0GHRqPG-dN30vKEsFXKQ/w320-h245/Gross.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Loren
E. Gross in Moscow, May 1991. (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
A History 1955 July-September 15</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>th</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Fremont, 1992).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk117756009"></a><span lang="en-US"><u>Quotable
Quotes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">UFO
believers and writers used to practice the quotation of noted
scientists who were wrong in predicting something would not happen,
to prove that even remarkable wise men of science commit serious
mistakes as far as imagining the future advancement of technology,
for example. But there are also scientists who, on the reverse, go
astray by assigning silly importance to phenomena that were almost of
trivial nature, like “UFOs are the Fifth Horseman of the
Apocalypse”</span><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
(American astronomer and pioneer in the study of meteors, Dr. Lincoln
La Paz). La Paz is also on record by accusing Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
Project Blue Book, and others of being part of "a grand
cover-up for something the government does not want discussed."</span><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
No comment.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Is
UFO fanaticism mentally unhealthy? Wilbert B. Smith was a Canadian
senior radio engineer who established Project Magnet under Transport
Canada in 1950-1954 for studying UFOs. He believed UFOs had an
interplanetary origin. In December 1955 , he wrote Donald Keyhoe: “I
refrained from writing you...This was not at the request of the
Canadian Government…but at the request of the saucer people
themselves…Believe me, I have been shown glimpses of a philosophy
and technology almost beyond comprehension…”</span><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span>
</span></sup><span lang="en-US">Why
did he split from mainstream ufology and enter into such a
nonsensical mindset? Probably it did not necessarily have to do with
UFO belief but with the brain cancer from which he died in 1962.</span><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
</span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Hermann
Julius Oberth (1894-1989) was a German physicist, one of the founding
fathers of astronautics and the space rockets. In a 1954 article, he
wrote: “It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they
are space ships from another solar system.”</span><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span>
</span></sup><span lang="en-US">It
can be understood that someone so involved in space travel believes
that, especially considering everything the press was publishing
about FS sightings in France, but one cannot avoid noticing the
naivety of this statement, purely based in media reports. But that's
how history is written.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">In
those years, another scholar widely cited as support of the coming of
“Martians” was a young Swiss professor of Psychology and
Philosophy, Dr. Alfred Nahon, who in a radio broadcast proclaimed:
“The greatest turning point in humanity are the flying saucers.”</span><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span>
</span></sup><span lang="en-US">Not
surprisingly, Dr. Nahon later created in Lausanne The World
Interplanetary Association, also under the influence and impression
of the wave of flying saucer landings and </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">crews
that set foot on the ground</span></span><span lang="en-US">
in France in 1954. Statements like these, even vouched by scientists,
lack the experience of field work and the direct interview of
informants. After that, believer scientists had never dared to say
certain things.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Conversely,
facing the same stimulus (October 1954 in France, with flying saucer
invaders becoming more bizarre, including the apparition of a group
of pygmies in plastic helmets who transfixed alleged eyewitness
Marius Dewilde with a paralyzing beam of light) made other scientists
express opposite views, like famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav
Jung, who needs no introduction. He declared: “Something is being
seen. What is seen may be, in the case of a single observer, a
subjective vision (hallucination). In the case of several or many
observers, it may be a collective vision. Such a psychic
phenomenon…could be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to
the present conscious situation: the fear of an apparently insoluble
political situation in the world...At such times eyes turn
heavenwards…and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or a
consoling nature appear from [above].”</span><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span>
</span></sup><span lang="en-US">He
is timidly advancing what two decades later would emerge as the
psychosocial hypothesis for UFO </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">reports
in the works by Monnerie</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">8,9</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">
</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">refined
subsequently by Pinvidic</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span>
</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">and
modelled in scholarly fashion by Abrassart</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
all these authors (and others) being from the</span></span><span lang="en-US">
admirable French-language school of thought in ufology, which is
quite logical and even predictable.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">A
last citation to finish: “A UFO is as a UFO does. If a UFO does
nothing that an IFO (identified flying object) could not do, then
there is no reason to call it a UFO.” This is a brilliant
conclusion from a non-skeptic UFO researcher, Dr. Bruce Maccabee.
Written many years ago, this thought does not seem to have percolated
in the minds of the legion his allies, otherwise we would have not
read so much crap in the UFO literature. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Loren E. Gross. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
A History</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Brad Steiger, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Project
Blue Book</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Ballantine Books, pp. 132, 136.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Quarterly Review</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(NICAP)</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">January-March
1973, p 10. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Loren E. Gross, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
A History 1955 September 15</i></span></span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>th</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>-December
31</i></span></span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>st</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Fremont, 1993, pp. 100, 103. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Prof. Hermann Oberth, “Noted Scientist Says Flying Saucers Come
From a Distant World,” </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
American Weekly</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
October 24, 1954.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Saucers</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Flying Saucers International), Vol. III, No. 3, September 1955, p.
2.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
“Martians over France,” </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Time</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
October 25, 1954. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Michel Monnerie, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Et
si les OVNIS n’existaient pas</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Les humanoides associes, 1977.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Michel Monnerie, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Le
Naufrage des extra-terrestres</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Nouvelles Editions Rationnalistes, 1979.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Thierry Pinvidic (ed.), </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>OVNI,
vers une anthropologie d’un mythe contemporain</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Editions Heimdal, 1993.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
Jean-Michel Abrassart, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Le
modèle sociopsychologique du phénomène OVNI: Un cadre conceptuel
interprétatif en sciences humaines</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2016,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?GCOI=29303100586660"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?GCOI=29303100586660</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(12)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.brumac.mysite.com/NIGHTLINEUFO/NIGHTLINEUFO.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.brumac.mysite.com/NIGHTLINEUFO/NIGHTLINEUFO.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
1976 Tehran Case</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">This
is one of the most intriguing airborne UFO incidents that ever
occurred and it is probably well-known to our readers. This Iranian
sighting took place on September 18, 1976 and recently Ryan
Sprague–“author, podcast host, TV host, and UFO researcher”–has
written a detailed wrap-up of this UFO encounter under the title
“The Tehran UFO and the Iranian Fighter Pilot Who Chased It. A
historical perspective on the 1976 incident”:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/the-tehran-ufo-incident-and-the-iranian-fighter-pilot-who-chased-it-e863d913de8d"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/the-tehran-ufo-incident-and-the-iranian-fighter-pilot-who-chased-it-e863d913de8d</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Like
every major UFO event, the phenomenon has supporters and detractors.
Readers should access to all available information to make up their
minds. DIA and NSA documents, obtained thanks to good services of
John Greenewald, can be checked here:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-1976-iran-incident-ufo-encounter-over-tehran-iran/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-1976-iran-incident-ufo-encounter-over-tehran-iran/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">These
other sources balance the interpretation of the various phenomena
that were sighted and reported during several hours, which suggests
that there was not a unique origin for what was seen but multiple
causes. </span></span><a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4315" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4315</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2016/03/fanis-aeronauticos.html"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2016/03/fanis-aeronauticos.html</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
admit I have not reviewed this case in detail, and I wonder if there
should remain any original documents from the old (pre-Ayatollah’s
regime) Iranian ministry of Defense. Anyone willing to make a request
through diplomatic channels?</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A Weird Photo</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
US press has produced lots of fake UFO photographs since 1947. One of
the rarest images of those journalistic jokes was published in the
Vera Beach (Florida) </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Indian
River Press-Journal </i></span><span lang="en-US">of
July 2, 1964. Under the heading “Exclusive Photo”, the caption
accompanying the picture says: “The Press-Journal obtained this
photograph in downtown Vera Beach as a mysterious object hovered
above an automobile. Some observers have linked the object with
mysterious flying lights which have been chasing cars through the
marsh on Road 60.” 1964 was one of those dull years as far as UFO
reports is concerned and the newspaper editors decided to create this
curiosity out of the April 1</span><sup><span lang="en-US">st</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
tradition!</span></span></p>
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November 1954 Follow-up. No Trace</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">I
refer readers to the entry “UFO Pictures in Cuba,” in the
September 2022 blog’s update, where I discussed a number of UFO
photographs in that Caribbean island. One of the cases was the story
of alleged films achieved on November 1954 from two Cuban Navy
frigates that were later taken to US Navy facilities in Key West,
Florida. Without the slightest shred of evidence and under the
suspicion that it was a tale concocted by Cuban immigrants to tease
credulous Miami ufologist </span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">V.
Sánchez-Ocejo. Recently, US investigator and blogger Jack Brewer
used the FOIA to demand information from the Office of Naval
Intelligence as well as to National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), the institution where theoretically some
information should have landed, if true, only to receive negative
results (nothing exists or was found about it). Since the publication
of my last blog edition, two more replies were received from two
other NARA departments. In a September 23 email, Christopher
Burroughs from the Moving Image and Sound Branch explained, after
having carried out an extensive search:</span></span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="en-US">We
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">did
not find any records that appear to be responsive to your request….
It is possible that records of interest to you have not yet been
transferred to our agency </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">[since
1954, no way!].</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> On September 21</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><sup><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">st</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
Nathaniel Patch of the </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Still
Pictures and Textual Records Branch, answered that </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">a
number of locations were searched for textual records but no records
were located.</span> </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">After
submitting additional details, Mr. Patch wrote: </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">We
do not have a body of records for U.S. Naval Intelligence in Key
West, Florida and you did not provide any citations for a potential
report. As I cited in my response to your request there are any
number of places where that report or information about the frigates
might have ended up.</span> </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">In
the absence of any information, finally it was suggested to contact
the Navy's Records Manager at the Pentagon to see where records of
Key West from 1954 are. Shots in the air. They are accustomed to look
for and find documents on real historical facts. But this is nothing
else than a legend, this is why nothing, never ever will be found.
For this writer, this a closed case. The help by Mr. Brewer has been
invaluable.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">National
UFO Historical Records Center</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk120116138"></a></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Several
of the most reputed UFO researchers, with a common passion for
maintaining and preserving UFO documentation have joined to create
the National UFO Historical Records Center (NUFOHRC), defined as
follows</span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">:
</span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation in the state of New Mexico that
seeks to educate the public on the history of the UFO/UAP phenomenon,
preserve and digitize historical documents and media, and promote
scientific research into the topic. We are an organization of leading
researchers and archivists who together hold the largest collection
of historical UFO records in the United States of America. We intend
to bring all these collections together under one roof to preserve
this important piece of history for future generations.</span></span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">And
they describe their mission with these words: </span><span lang="en-US">Collect,
preserve, and provide historical UFO materials to the general public
and interested parties. With the accumulated data, we hope to assist
with serious UFO research endeavors and aid in an accurate
chronicling of UFO history for present and future generations
regardless of belief or non-belief in the subject matter.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">This
is a very praiseworthy objective, and it parallels the aims of
European Fundación Anomalía (Spain, defunct)</span><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
and Archives for the Unexplained (AFU, Sweden)</span><sup><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup><span lang="en-US">.
The initiative’s strength is the roster of names who have founded
it. Names with a reputation of seriousness, science-orientation and a
great knowledge of the subject matter, like David Marler, Barry
Greenwood, Mark Rodeghier, Rod Dyke, Bob Swiatek or Jan Aldrich (at
least, those I know). The weakness of the project is its financial
sustainability, as it depends on public donations. I think, however,
that having established its base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the
Roswell State, it may have a regular source of income from UFO
aficionados in a long term venture. On the other hand, liaising with
universities may be a solution to endure. This is NUFOHRC’s web
site: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nufohrc.org/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nufohrc.org/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">In
a personal communication, Greenwood writes: </span><span lang="en-US">The
encompassing goal is to affiliate with other archives so that a
satellite network of resources exists if items can't be located in
the Albuquerque location. It fulfills a long-term goal I have had of
a large UFO archive collection in North America as a supplement to
places like AFU that can make information available in multiple
regional locations</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><sup><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3 </span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Jan
Aldrich has just been kind enough to write up this report on the
project: </span><a href="http://www.project1947.com/articles/2021trip.htm" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.project1947.com/articles/2021trip.htm</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Matías Morey, “UFO Sponsorship – The
Case of Fundación Anomalía,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205123/UFO_Sponsorship._The_Case_of_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205123/UFO_Sponsorship._The_Case_of_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.afu.se/afu2/"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.afu.se/afu2/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Barry Greenwood, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, November 22, 2022.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Miscellaneous</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Brett Holman on mystery airplanes of the early 1900s:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://airminded.org/2022/07/22/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-i/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://airminded.org/2022/07/22/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-i/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://airminded.org/2022/08/12/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-ii/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://airminded.org/2022/08/12/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-ii/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/3059379/Dreaming_war_airmindedness_and_the_Australian_mystery_aeroplane_scare_of_1918">https://academia.edu/Dreaming_war_airmindedness_and_the_Australian_mystery_aeroplane_scare_1918</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
R. Burnell, R.A. Nash, S. Umanath and M. Garry, “Memories people no
longer believe in can still affect them in helpful and harmful ways,”
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Memory
and Cognition</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(2022) 50: 1319-1335,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-022-01328-9"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-022-01328-9</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
B.E. Zhilyaev, V.N. Petukhov and V.M. Reshetnyk, “Unidentified
aerial phenomena I. Observations of events,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11215.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11215.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
paper has many major problems as shown here: </span></span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-uap-study-observation-of-events.12607/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-uap-study-observation-of-events.12607/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">But
the most severe critique has just came from the Scientific Council of
the </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine, which has released a large
critical communiqué</span></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">.
To begin with, it made clear that Ukraine NAS Astronomical
Observatory does not conduct UAP studies, the paper’s authors did
it independently to this institution. I am </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">extracting
the </span></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">main
points and conclusions: </span></span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span lang="en-US">Observations
conducted by B.Yu. Zhilyaev and his colleagues are original. But the
processing and interpretation of results were performed at an
inappropriate scientific level and with significant errors in
determining distances to the observed objects. Authors do not provide
arguments that natural phenomena or artificial objects of earthly
origin may be among the observed UAP. Instead of a critical analysis
of observations, the authors postulate unreasonable conclusions about
the characteristics of the observed objects as UAP. The Scientific
Council of the MAO of NASU believes that the information published in
the aforementioned paper by B.E. Zhilyaev </span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span lang="en-US"><i>et
al</i></span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span lang="en-US">.
was premature and did not meet the professional requirements for
publication of the results of scientific research.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
James C. Stewart, “Twists of Perception: Unidentified Flying
Objects in Renaissance Art,” </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/15550871/Twists_of_Perception_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_in_Renaissance_Art"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/15550871/Twists_of_Perception_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_in_Renaissance_Art</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
“Observable tests for the light-sail scenario of interstellar
objects,” by Wen-Han Zhou, Shang-Fei Liu, Yun Zhang, and Douglas
N.C. Lin, in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Astronomy
& Astrophysics</i></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">,
manuscript no. 44119, September 7, 2022. It says in the conclusions:
</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">We
suggest that ‘Oumuamua’ is unlikely to be a light sail. The
dynamics of an intruding light sail would give rise to observational
features such as the occurrence of its cohorts, a remarkable sideways
radiation force and normal displacement from the Kepler orbit, a
light curve with an extremely high amplitude, and irregular
invisibility in the sky. These features can be quantitatively
identified and analyzed with our methods in future surveys. </span></span><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.13818.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.13818.pdf</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Luis Cayetano, “Bob Lazar's litany of lies and whoppers,”
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/bob-lazar-s-litany-of-lies-and-whoppers"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/bob-lazar-s-litany-of-lies-and-whoppers</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
Carl Feagans, “Religious Characteristics Of The Unidentified Flying
Object/Extraterrestrial Intelligence Movement,” </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/506250/Religious_Characteristics_Of_The_Unidentified_Flying_Object_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_Movement">https://academia.edu/Religious_Characteristics_Of_Unidentified_FlyingObject_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_Movement</a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
On mental imagery. “Pseudo-hallucinations: why some people see more
vivid mental images than others,”</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/pseudo-hallucinations-why-some-people-see-more-vivid-mental-images-than-others-test-yourself-here-163025"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theconversation.com/pseudo-hallucinations-why-some-people-see-more-vivid-mental-images-than-others-test-yourself-here-163025</span></span></a></span><span lang="en-US">
and “Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and
scientists aren’t quite sure why,” </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/23pn9rjj"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/23pn9rjj</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
“Understanding the Unidentified,” an essay by Michael Shermer: </span></span><a href="https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Joseph S. Accetta, “A Search for Possible Causal Associations
Between UFOs & Perturbations in Recorded Geophysical Data,” </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/85213783/A_SEARCH_FOR_POSSIBLE_CAUSAL_ASSOCIATIONS_BETWEEN_UFOs_and_PERTURBATIONS_IN_RECORDED_GEOPHYSICAL_DATA">https://academia.edu/SEARCH_ASSOCIATIONS_BETWEEN_UFOs_PERTURBATIONS_GEOPHYSICAL_DATA</a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Debrief</i></span><span lang="en-US">
on the GEIPAN CAIPAN 2 workshop:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-french-governments-space-agency-just-hosted-an-international-conference-on-uap/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-french-governments-space-agency-just-hosted-an-international-conference-on-uap/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk120481371"></a><span lang="en-US">Vincent
Costes, the boss of GEIPAN, is interviewed for </span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Conversation</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
November 17, 2022:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ufos-scenes-france-real-life.html"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ufos-scenes-france-real-life.html</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(12)
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>How
to identify UFOs. How to investigate UAP, </i></span><span lang="en-US">by
I. Kalytyuk and Alina Mykolyshyn. It is in Ukrainian but the album of
photographs of natural phenomena from page 135 to 267 is simply
extraordinary, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://ufology-news.com/u/18672430/Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I._Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022.pdf">http://ufology-news.com/Kalytyuk_I_Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_2022.pdf</a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(13)
As far as I see it, it is a pity of wasted talent. If you base your
research on bad data, the final result will always be bad, no matter
how many impressive formulae you use: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363071724_UAP_Propulsion_Principle_and_Resulting_Flight_Performance_-_Theoretical_Analysis_of_UAP_Flight_Characteristics_-">https://researchgate.net/Propulsion_Principle_Resulting_Flight_Performance_Theoretical_Analysis_UAP_Flight</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(14)
Charlie Wiser has written three clever skeptical pieces on major UFO
cases. One is on the Travis Walton’s 1975 UFO and “abduction”:
“It was a hoax”-Steve Pierce [one of the witnesses] knows the
truth.” Does this recanting statement surprise you? </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/it-was-a-hoax-steve-pierce-knows-the-truth"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/it-was-a-hoax-steve-pierce-knows-the-truth</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Another
is on Falcon Lake, Manitoba (Canada): “Blasted by UFO exhaust!
Saturday, May 20th, 1967,”
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/falcon-lake.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/falcon-lake.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">And
the last is entitled “The stupidest UFO photo in Australia,”
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/the-stupidest-ufo-photo-in-australia"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/the-stupidest-ufo-photo-in-australia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lHT2yAj2aT1hgK4N6-lroo4jcnHLtK4B3weUnAFlOMxH_ZKxmPYKmoC4GKCi8jyC3fyr5gSDTqeiQXQs5dTxGhQjF96msHykBWHaw70tr-SS2o_iDK5xtTJ3qwqdQKkUPEx-niAc1vSwRoTd0q8aPRlnlATFjSYXp4P4BC4DTwS7b0q3Yg/s1646/Australia%20Sparks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1646" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lHT2yAj2aT1hgK4N6-lroo4jcnHLtK4B3weUnAFlOMxH_ZKxmPYKmoC4GKCi8jyC3fyr5gSDTqeiQXQs5dTxGhQjF96msHykBWHaw70tr-SS2o_iDK5xtTJ3qwqdQKkUPEx-niAc1vSwRoTd0q8aPRlnlATFjSYXp4P4BC4DTwS7b0q3Yg/s320/Australia%20Sparks.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Balwyn,
Melbourne, April 2, 1966. © James Johnson Kibel </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>aka</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
James Brown. Left: original picture. Right: color saturation image by
Brad Sparks, showing clear indications of fraud.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(15)
Military.com on the Thomas Mantell accident: “The First Air Force
Pilot to Die Chasing a UFO Was Actually Chasing a Secret Balloon,”
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(16)
Manuel Borraz and J.C. Victorio Uranga continue their meticulous
analysis of all Spanish cases published in the book</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Wonders
in The Sky</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck. In this entry they review the
sighting of a luminous cross in Buendía (Cuenca, Spain) on March 5,
1555. This is not revisionism, this is science coupled with history.
(In Spanish): </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-10-buendia-5-de.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-10-buendia-5-de.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Alien
Artifacts: The Forgotten Story of How We Came to Believe in Visitors
from the Stars</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Spanish-resident
British author Chris Aubeck presents his new book as follows:</span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: #313131;">This
humble contribution to the field is the first in a three-volume
series to show how the alien visitation theme developed over the last
two centuries. </span><span style="color: #313131;"><span lang="en-US">The
book has three main parts. Firstly, it briefly goes over the
plurality of worlds theory from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance,
and then dives into the subject of extraterrestrial contact in
religion, literature and satire. After that, I catalogue and examine
every known case which was strongly implied to be related to alien
visitors or alien artifacts. It is a search for the origins of the
alien visitation theme. The third part deals with the origins
of the ancient astronauts/ancient aliens theme, which has far deeper
roots than I had imagined. I’ve come up with a plausible
explanation of how it came into existence in 1823. Between the
chapters I’ve inserted fragments from books and newspapers showing
how extraterrestrials and alien visitation gradually became a part of
everyday culture during the 19th century, something that hadn’t
been done before. Volume 1 shows how the seeds of ufology were sewn
in the 19th century, in claims and fiction, up to 1880. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://a.co/d/h1mxlcW" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://a.co/d/h1mxlcW</span></span></a></p>
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You Miss from the Spanish Edition</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="en-US">España,
5 y 6 de septiembre de 2022: Los satélites S</span><span lang="en-US"><i>tarlink,”
</i></span><span lang="en-US">photographs
and videos of both the fuel vent in the high atmosphere after the
launching and the display in orbit of a long constellation of
satellites from SpaceX seen from Spain early September. </span>
</span></p>
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Morey nos ha dejado,” (Matías Morey has left us), a collective
obituary under my coordination. It is also here:</span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/92013401/Matias_Morey_nos_ha_dejado" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/92013401/Matias_Morey_nos_ha_dejado</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
Marciano en Alemania” (A Martian in Germany). </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">A
book review written by Juan Pablo González of the work by Diego
Zúñiga entirely devoted to the infamous 1950 “Martian”
photograph. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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en la universidad española”. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">A
UAP identification course in the Spanish university, developed by Dr.
Heriberto Janosch.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>PERSONAL
LOG</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Ah,
good friendships are priceless! And especially when it comes to
authors and researchers of the stature of Ignacio Cabria from
Santander, Diego Zúñiga from Chile and local coworkers Juan Antonio
Fernández Peris and Jaime Servera, with whom I met in Valencia on
October 7, a valuable seven-hour meeting that produced a lot; we
reviewed UFO cases under probe, discussed the national and
international ufological panorama, exhibited our personal projects
under way, and checked books, always books! A pleasant and
unforgettable meeting that is recorded in the picture that follows.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNI6eEASdgJsnFskyoT9duCEiIR67hgQy8zWeNbSK7fBCIfLDznoshBgs6F55mns9jzmBcY_dhYm2o2AxilOISCw7Pg6Rh6mmAzCgzqjb0R8z86bn4Ssv6Qy1-1N7ltnRbIr12bdD-5LQB0OqC2Z4uOIx3DinW_bE0mQ-2cH1rru937wHJQ/s4032/todos.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNI6eEASdgJsnFskyoT9duCEiIR67hgQy8zWeNbSK7fBCIfLDznoshBgs6F55mns9jzmBcY_dhYm2o2AxilOISCw7Pg6Rh6mmAzCgzqjb0R8z86bn4Ssv6Qy1-1N7ltnRbIr12bdD-5LQB0OqC2Z4uOIx3DinW_bE0mQ-2cH1rru937wHJQ/s320/todos.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">From
left to right: J.A. Fernández Peris, Jaime Servera, V.J. Ballester
Olmos, D. Zúñiga and I. Cabria</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Björn Borg (Finland), Julio Plaza
del Olmo (Spain), Manuel Borraz Aymerich (Spain), Luis Ruiz Noguez
(Mexico), Carlos González (Spain), Mary Castner (USA), Diego Zúñiga
(Chile), Martin Shough (Scotland), Philippe Ailleris (The
Netherlands), Curt Collins (USA), Kay Coggin (USA), and Juan Pablo
González (Spain). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Tv4IdKab3wgspFnz6oZ5pPH0eAmSMP0SwCRKN8b949WKwZ82jZCY0ZD9x4ABC1iKI-qA0UJjP6EmQjokq_neX5jww5YP_C3_yPnwcnwwT_HjSayG7rN4WpECBVR1x-aySGx6h3SXWW5ktZ284bFuEFuPDNHkAICA7nNcUI5bhBzQGsMilg/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Tv4IdKab3wgspFnz6oZ5pPH0eAmSMP0SwCRKN8b949WKwZ82jZCY0ZD9x4ABC1iKI-qA0UJjP6EmQjokq_neX5jww5YP_C3_yPnwcnwwT_HjSayG7rN4WpECBVR1x-aySGx6h3SXWW5ktZ284bFuEFuPDNHkAICA7nNcUI5bhBzQGsMilg/w400-h69/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><i style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(with
J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs),
1987.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/52rtrbxc"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/52rtrbxc</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mvd7naf2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mvd7naf2</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4z4wx2r3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4z4wx2r3</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</i><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>UFOs and Government</i><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</i> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013. </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with Wim van
Utrecht), 2017.</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2022/DICIEMBRE/15 (ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;">Editor
de la sección en castellano: Juan Pablo González</span></span></span></h4>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="es-ES"><b style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Nuestro
catálogo de casos fotográficos ovni y ovi (cerrado al 31/12/2005,
con algunas excepciones) ya cuenta con 12.848 entradas, acercándose
ya a la cifra redonda de 13.000.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span lang="es-ES">El</span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">GEIPAN
celebró el pasado mes de octubre en Toulouse (ver el artículo de
Clas Svahn en la edición en inglés de este blog) una conferencia de
expertos sobre el tema UAP. No asistí pero, como fui invitado,
remití una ponencia que presentó oralmente Edoardo Russo. Bajo el
título “El problema </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Soucoupe
Volante</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">:
un enfoque radical-pragmático”, pretendía sacudir las conciencias
sugiriendo un golpe de timón en la ruta de investigación a seguir
por parte del centro de investigación ovni del CNES en los próximos
años. Por supuesto, soy plenamente consciente de que mi capacidad de
influencia en la política del GEIPAN es nula, pero quería recordar
algunos puntos básicos. GEIPAN pronto subirá todos los artículos a
su sitio web, y esa será la referencia formal a mi propio trabajo.
Sin embargo, adjunto aquí algunas frases extraídas de esa ponencia
para mostrar por donde iban los tiros.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Seamos
muy claros, es la hipótesis extraterrestre lo que está en juego
aquí. No los UAP. No los ovnis. El núcleo del fenómeno son los
miles de informes de extraordinarias máquinas voladoras que
aterrizan en caminos aislados, junto a los cuales se vieron extrañas
criaturas. Desde el principio, una vez descartada la hipótesis de
que los platillos volantes fueran construidos por el gobierno de los
EE. UU. (y la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense estaba tan perdida como
cualquiera), todos los ojos miraron hacia el espacio exterior en
busca de una respuesta. Si los discos voladores realmente se
comportaban como lo informaban los testigos, entonces,
inevitablemente, deberían provenir de otros planetas.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Aparentemente,
los visitantes extraterrestres ya han emprendido todo lo que los
extraterrestres podrían querer hacer en nuestro planeta: vigilancia,
exploración, recolección de muestras, interacción, abducción,
hibridación. ¿Qué más queda por suceder, una invasión al estilo
Putin?</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">¿Cuál
es la hoja de ruta para el futuro de la investigación ovni? ¿Seguir
el mismo camino que ustedes [GEIPAN] han seguido en las últimas
cuatro décadas y media? Si estamos reunidos aquí para evaluar
honestamente la situación ovni, pasada y futura, tenemos que aceptar
de manera realista que tenemos un problema endémico ... Si financias
el trabajo de expertos con una inclinación hacia la existencia de
ovnis inexplicables, ¿qué clase de </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>feedback</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
espera recibir? … Por definición, la mayoría de los expertos que
orbitan alrededor de las organizaciones ufológicas tienen apego a la
realidad de los ovnis …. ¿Cuál es el necesario cambio de
metodología? … La mayor parte de sus fondos debería concentrarse
en el segmento más productivo de los fenómenos ovni, aquel que
tiene un posible retorno científico: los relatos de encuentros
cercanos, cuando los presuntos testigos afirman que un </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>soucoupe
volante</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
[platillo volante] ha aterrizado frente a sus ojos … Los informes
que vale la pena examinar exclusivamente deberían ser </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>CE
con tres observadores adultos o más</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Habría
que contratar investigadores calificados para estudiar estos sucesos.
Tanto físicos (astrónomos, ingenieros, físicos), sociales
(psicólogos, psiquiatras) como expertos en criminología. ¿Qué
criterios de contratación deberían seguirse? …. Negadores de
ovnis. Científicos que están convencidos de que los extraterrestres
no están visitando la Tierra. Esos son los que deberían contratarse
para investigar los episodios más críticos … En resumen,
recomiendo dedicar la mayor parte del presupuesto actual al análisis
de fenómenos que, si no pudieran resolverse, seguramente se
convertirían en descubrimientos novedosos para la ciencia. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Y
si esto falla, se producirá al menos un importante descubrimiento
científico: por qué y en qué condiciones los seres humanos sienten
que han estado en contacto con naves espaciales y humanoides de otras
galaxias.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZs2V_O8VCDcX4U6J-kRQAqCOK2pamH481hiCNQpJ83Z8klMldxxUAyLJMNd0DGrq-wh8XH8XVErtxgu2-TkcilNPMGYeN9pfUQgEuSN00bEsWKW0xna8Rz12KtwhKpE3d6VbkX7gmUbf-4GaRhdknduCTA-9bSNforqK_xjVYYhGfjD9MkA/s800/Russo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="800" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZs2V_O8VCDcX4U6J-kRQAqCOK2pamH481hiCNQpJ83Z8klMldxxUAyLJMNd0DGrq-wh8XH8XVErtxgu2-TkcilNPMGYeN9pfUQgEuSN00bEsWKW0xna8Rz12KtwhKpE3d6VbkX7gmUbf-4GaRhdknduCTA-9bSNforqK_xjVYYhGfjD9MkA/s320/Russo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Edo
Russo presentando el trabajo de V.J. Ballester Olmos al taller CAIPAN
2 del GEIPAN. © Clas Svahn. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Noticia de última hora. El 12 de diciembre, el GEIPAN ha anunciado que los videos de las varias intervenciones durante el taller CAIPAN 2 ya han sido alojados en su página web, en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/node/59754">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/node/59754</a> (ir a ÉVÉNEMENTS).</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
En la actualización del pasado trimestre, publiqué en el blog -en
inglés- un nuevo trabajo mío titulado “</span></span><span lang="es-ES">What’s
New in </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">the
US Legislative UAP Front, July 2022”, que también está subido a
la plataforma Academia.edu en el enlace</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Con
él pretendo enumerar los recientes proyectos de ley de las dos
cámaras del parlamento estadounidense (Congreso y Senado) en lo que
se refieren a legislación sobre el programa UAP del departamento de
Defensa. Creo haber resaltado todo lo pertinente de leyes e informes
en ciernes, al tiempo que he aportado mis comentarios y críticas.
Este ensayo acaba de publicarse en español en el número 95 de la
revista </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Ojo Crítico</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
(noviembre de 2022), páginas 76 a 85, con el título “Novedades en
el frente legislativo de los UAP en EE. UU.” La revista, gratuita,
se puede acceder desde aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EOC-95-PDF.pdf"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EOC-95-PDF.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Para mi sorpresa, mi reciente entrevista al diario </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
País </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">(ver
la pasada edición del blog) ha tenido una cierta repercusión
internacional. Después de su edición argentina, veo que se ha
traducido en Francia para el </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Courrier
International</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
y en Rumanía para </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ARGEŞUL
online</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/portrait-l-ufologue-espagnol-pour-qui-les-ovnis-n-existent-pas"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/portrait-l-ufologue-espagnol-pour-qui-les-ovnis-n-existent-pas</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://argesulonline.ro/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos-ufolog-spaniol-nu-am-vrut-niciodata-sa-cred-din-principiu-am-vrut-sa-stiu/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://argesulonline.ro/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos-ufolog-spaniol-nu-am-vrut-niciodata-sa-cred-din-principiu-am-vrut-sa-stiu/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Airships,
los ovnis anteriores a Arnold</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Con
la avalancha de noticias sobre los UAP militares en los EE. UU.,
parece que hemos olvidado que oleadas similares de ovnis ocurrieron
en los cielos estadounidenses mucho antes del avistamiento de Kenneth
Arnold en 1947. Esos precedentes son extremadamente importantes en
una investigación que abarca desde los platillos volantes hasta los
UAP. La perspectiva histórica es una condición trascendente en este
estudio. Dada la abundancia de trabajo realizado al respecto, hace
unos años escribí una bibliografía de artículos, trabajos y
libros dedicados a este tema en particular: “UFO Waves: An
International Bibliography”, que está publicada en la página web
del GEIPAN:</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.__An_International_Bibliography__November__1___2015.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.An_International_Bibliography_November_1_2015.pdf</span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Una
de estas oleadas tuvo lugar en América del Norte entre 1895 y 1897,
cuando se produjeron muchos avistamientos de aeronaves o dirigibles
(</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>airships</i></span><span lang="es-ES">)
que fueron precursores de la aparición de los platillos volantes.
Cito este asunto ahora, porque en un reciente intercambio de
información en el foro de internet “NICAP Research”, la joven
aficionada Lara Elliot aportó un enlace a un recorte de prensa
publicado en la página 7 del </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Chicago
Chronicle</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
del 15 de abril de 1897, cincuenta años antes de que otra
observación celestial declarara oficialmente la llegada de
“platillos volantes”. Brad Sparks preparó una copia mejorada del
recorte del periódico (ver abajo). No me resisto a la tentación de
traducir el contenido de la noticia, para gozo del lector: </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">LUCES
DE AERONAVE EN INDIANA. Llega a la Tierra cerca de Gas City y lleva
seis personas a bordo. Marion, Indiana, 14 de abril. Varias personas
vieron la aeronave aquí a las 3 en punto esta tarde. Vino del
noroeste viajando muy rápidamente y cuando fue vista lo primero que
se pensó es que era un pájaro gigantesco. Cuando se acercó más,
se pudo distinguir claramente una silueta en forma de cigarro puro y
unas alas anchas. Aproximadamente una milla al sur de Gas City la
nave aterrizó en los terrenos de la granja de John Roush,
aterrorizando a su familia y causando que caballos y ganado echaran a
correr enloquecidos. Había seis personas en la nave y salieron al
exterior en lo que parecía la reparación de alguna parte de su
mecanismo. Antes de que los habitantes de Gas City pudieran acercarse
a distancia de saludo, la nave se elevó y, tomando altura con rumbo
este, pronto se perdió de vista. En Gas City se produjo una gran
conmoción y cientos de personas corrieron hacia la granja Roush. Gas
City está a cinco millas al sur de Marion. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
especial a los que están entrando ahora en la discusión y estudio
de los UAP: ¿no reconocen nada familiar en este informe? Tenemos el
breve aterrizaje de un extraño objeto aéreo con sus ocupantes. Los
testigos incluso dieron muestra de lo que Hynek llamó “escalada de
hipótesis”, un factor que supuestamente confiere veracidad a los
informes de avistamientos de ovnis. Pero, como vemos, no hay nada
nuevo bajo el sol.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRjFCfkwXH_bLsI6AZnRb5scXUnINwOjU7wYFHAPHQilaMV3NYMQR4zqF362V-ZnYkxBLSFL4wJ2nL9vhTmasFRiOTGjYG7TzNgsdioYgoSWucvFvl87RGUmtOUfT3wwAR6RreDv5TUBgiVyz73STdmeZqAdYsnNZlpeDkk8KNONy0opoNw/s2700/airship.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRjFCfkwXH_bLsI6AZnRb5scXUnINwOjU7wYFHAPHQilaMV3NYMQR4zqF362V-ZnYkxBLSFL4wJ2nL9vhTmasFRiOTGjYG7TzNgsdioYgoSWucvFvl87RGUmtOUfT3wwAR6RreDv5TUBgiVyz73STdmeZqAdYsnNZlpeDkk8KNONy0opoNw/s320/airship.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sobre
el estudio UAP del Departamento de Defensa de EE. UU.</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
artículo reciente "Novedades en el frente UAP legislativo de
EE. UU., julio de 2022"
(</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EOC-95-PDF.pdf"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EOC-95-PDF.pdf</span></span></a></span><span lang="es-ES">,
páginas 76-85) pasó revista a las iniciativas de la Cámara y el
Senado de EE. UU. con mejoras (o no tales mejoras) y disposiciones
adicionales sobre la legislación relativa al estudio del Pentágono
sobre los UAP. Una de estas, el informe del Senado titulado “Anexo
clasificado del Comité Selecto de Inteligencia de la Ley de
autorización de inteligencia para el año fiscal 2023 (proyecto de
ley IAA. S.4503)”, incluía declaraciones sesgadas y sin respaldo
como que "las amenazas a la seguridad nacional de los EE.UU. de
los objetos transmedio entre dominios está creciendo
exponencialmente”. Ya afirmé que los objetos “transmedio” son
un concepto fantasioso, una deducción errónea de un mal análisis
de uno o dos videoclips. Dicha amenaza “exponencial” de los
ovnis, ¿es una excusa para aumentar los gastos de Defensa de EE.
UU., esta vez sí exponencialmente, para estar preparados en un
posible enfrentamiento futuro con China y Rusia? Esta es una de las
muchas posibilidades que baraja Caitlin Johnstone en un post del 5 de
septiembre de 2022 en su </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>newsletter
online</i></span><span lang="es-ES">.
Sin embargo, me pregunto si en las circunstancias actuales, con una
guerra en marcha entre Ucrania y Rusia en el mismo centro de Europa,
el gobierno de EE. UU. necesita invocar el peligro de una presencia
alienígena para gastar mucho más en armamento. Francamente lo dudo.
</span><span lang="en-US">Sugiero
leer “Who Benefits From US Government Claims That The UFO Threat Is
Increasing 'Exponentially'?”,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/who-benefits-from-us-government-claims"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/who-benefits-from-us-government-claims</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Si
el amable lector quiere saber mi punto de vista personal, yo creo en
la opción más sencilla: hemos llegado a este punto obligados por
las dinámicas de poder de un grupo de personas influyentes dentro
del sistema (militares, personal de inteligencia y políticos) que,
impulsados por la ciega creencia de que hay ovnis extraterrestres
visitando la Tierra desde hace décadas, cientos de años, o incluso
desde la profundidad de la historia de la humanidad, ha logrado
convencer a la Armada primero, a la DIA luego, y finalmente al
Pentágono y al DoD para crear una oficina para estudiar los ovnis,
ahora renombrados UAP buscando mayor respetabilidad. En este
contexto, hay un artículo más que oportuno escrito por el reportero
científico Dan Vergano que no deberían perderse: “The true story
of how UFOs evolved from science fiction to a national security
priority” (La verdadera historia de cómo los ovnis evolucionaron
de la ciencia ficción a una prioridad de seguridad nacional),
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/07/the-true-story-of-how-ufos-evolved-from-science-fiction-to-a-national-security-priority/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/07/the-true-story-of-how-ufos-evolved-from-science-fiction-to-a-national-security-priority/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Por
su lado, el departamento de Marina de los Estados Unidos no hace más
que enturbiar las aguas. En efecto, porque según John Greenewald, el
Department of Navy (DON) "dice que todos los videos UAP/OVNI
están clasificados y exentos de publicación":
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-says-all-uap-ufo-videos-are-classified-and-exempt-from-release/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-says-all-uap-ufo-videos-are-classified-and-exempt-from-release/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
esto es relevante. El pasado 28 de octubre, </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
New York Times</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
publicó un interesante artículo escrito por Julian E. Barnes con
este impactante título: “Muchos informes ovni militares son
producto de espionaje extranjero o basura aérea”, y el subtítulo
“Olvídense de los extraterrestres o la tecnología hipersónica;
las evaluaciones secretas demuestran que muchos de los episodios ovni
tienen explicaciones ordinarias”. Anticipándose al informe que el
AARO debería haber presentado al Congreso el lunes 31 de octubre (y
aplazado, de momento), el artículo del NYT, que se basa en
entrevistas con funcionarios estadounidenses familiarizados con los
hallazgos del peritaje del Pentágono de los incidentes UAP
recopilados, declaró:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Los
funcionarios del gobierno creen que las operaciones de vigilancia por
parte de potencias extranjeras y globos meteorológicos u otros
objetos aéreos corrientes explican los incidentes más recientes de
fenómenos aéreos no identificados (la jerga del gobierno para los
ovnis) así como muchos episodios en los últimos años. Los
avistamientos han desconcertado al Pentágono y a las agencias de
inteligencia durante años, alimentando teorías sobre visitas de
extraterrestres espaciales y espionaje por parte de una nación
hostil que utiliza tecnología avanzada. Pero los funcionarios del
gobierno dicen que muchos de los incidentes tienen explicaciones
mucho más comunes. </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Otra
filtración, esta vez del </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Daily
Mail online</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
del 31 de octubre: el informe que será entregado al Congreso tiene
22 páginas, cubre 366 casos y consigue explicar el 50% de los
hechos. Bueno, al menos es una mejora con respecto al 0,7 % (1/144)
revelado en el comunicado anterior del Pentágono de junio de 2021.
Ver: </span></span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11373603/New-classified-report-congress-says-HALF-UFO-sightings-properly-explained.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11373603/New-classified-report-congress-says-HALF-UFO-sightings-properly-explained.html</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Algo
más sobre lo mismo: informa Gadi Schwartz de la cadena de televisión
NBC: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHpOz8WuaA"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHpOz8WuaA</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Con
respecto a la actual investigación de Defensa sobre los UAP, no
debemos olvidarnos de sus precedentes, de cómo se inició todo. Y
para ello está el artículo que Mick West ha escrito en la revista
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Reason
</i></span><span lang="es-ES">del
mes de diciembre de 2022, “The Military-UFO Complex. </span><span lang="en-US">How
a motley crew of saucer hunters got a place at the public trough”
(El complejo militar-ovni. </span><span lang="es-ES">Cómo
un grupo variopinto de cazadores de platillos consiguió un lugar en
el comedero público):
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://reason.com/2022/11/15/the-military-ufo-complex/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://reason.com/2022/11/15/the-military-ufo-complex/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Equipo
de estudio UAP de la NASA</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
24 de octubre de 2022 la NASA inició un equipo de estudio
independiente para “sentar las bases para futuros estudios sobre la
naturaleza de los UAPs [</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>sic</i></span><span lang="es-ES">]
para la NASA y otras organizaciones. Con ese fin, en el transcurso de
nueve meses el equipo identificará cómo se pueden analizar los
datos recopilados por entidades gubernamentales civiles, datos
comerciales y datos de otras fuentes para arrojar luz sobre los UAPs
[</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>sic</i></span><span lang="es-ES">].
Luego recomendará una hoja de ruta para el posible análisis de
datos UAP por parte de la agencia en el futuro”, como se anunció
oficialmente el 21 de octubre. Se hará público un informe completo
a mediados de 2023. El equipo está compuesto por 16 miembros,
presidido por el cosmólogo David Spergel, presidente de la Fundación
Simons y director fundador del Instituto Flatiron de Astrofísica
Computacional. El enlace directo con la NASA será a través de
Daniel Evans, el administrador asociado adjunto para investigación
en la Dirección de Misiones Científicas de la NASA.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Desde
mi punto de vista, si la NASA basa su evaluación en materiales
proporcionados por organizaciones ovni (lo que es muy posible),
obviamente con una clara agenda pro-alienígena, podemos imaginar que
el resultado será la misma cantinela de siempre: hay un residuo de
sucesos inexplicados o inexplicables, fenómenos que representan un
desafío para la ciencia que merecen ser investigados. Así
volveríamos a 1966, cuando Jacques Vallée usó esos términos para
el título de su segundo libro. Una vez más, partimos de cero. Con
respecto a las exquisitas cualificaciones de los miembros del estudio
independiente, el tiempo dirá si esta es la formación más adecuada
para examinar los testimonios más inusuales y anormales sobre
supuestas naves espaciales ocupadas por humanoides que disfrutan
secuestrando personas para maltratarlas de forma abusiva.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-study-team-members/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-study-team-members/</span></span></a></span></p>
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28 de octubre, Billy Cox publicó un artículo sobre algunos de los
miembros elegidos del equipo, un artículo que vale la pena leer:
“NASA's talking the talk. But can its UAP team members walk the
walk?” (La NASA predica con el ejemplo. Pero ¿pueden los miembros
del equipo UAP recorrer el camino?”
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/nasas-talking-the-talk</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">En
este momento, los lectores deberían preguntarse qué ha cambiado
objetivamente -en cuanto a pruebas se refiere- desde 1977 hasta ahora
con respecto a los ovnis. Porque aquel fue el año en que la NASA
dijo "no" al presidente Jimmy Carter sobre un estudio
científico de la cuestión. Véase mi artículo "History: UFO
Investigation at NASA", una breve entrada en la sección en
inglés de mi blog de 2019:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El
AIAA también va a estudiar los UAP</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">¿Es
porque son jóvenes e ignorantes del trabajo que se ha hecho sobre
los ovnis en el pasado? ¿Es porque ahora está de moda y es </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>cool</i></span><span lang="es-ES">?
¿Es porque en la actualidad genera titulares de prensa? ¿O
simplemente por estupidez humana? “Los mejores ingenieros y
científicos aeroespaciales de Estados Unidos están uniendo fuerzas
para protegernos de los ovnis”. ¡Vaya!, ¿qué esperan que pase
que no haya pasado en los últimos 75 años desde 1947, cuando
aparecieron en escena los platillos volantes? No hay registro de
ningún accidente de aviación comercial debido a ovnis, pero ahora
de repente están preocupados por la seguridad aérea y los UAP
(¡nada de ovnis!). El Instituto Americano de Aeronáutica y
Astronáutica (AIAA) está lanzando su propia "Comunidad de
intereses para el estudio de los UAP”. Con vergüenza, comparto con
ustedes un par de artículos que encontré sobre esta nueva
iniciativa. ¿Cuánta energía, dinero y tiempo se va a desperdiciar
hasta que vuelvan a lo que realmente importa?</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and-aviation-safety-a-persistent-challenge/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and-aviation-safety-a-persistent-challenge/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">La
página web de esta Comunidad de intereses señala que su misión es
"mejorar la seguridad de la aviación mejorando el conocimiento
científico y mitigando las barreras para el estudio de los fenómenos
aeroespaciales no identificados (UAP)". UAPCOI está presidido
por Ryan Graves, ex piloto de F/A-18F de la Marina y piloto
instructor de T-45C Goshawk, y solicita voluntarios para sus tres
equipos de trabajo principales, Hardware Factors, Outreach y Human
Factors:</span><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aiaauap.org/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.aiaauap.org/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Uno
de sus colaboradores europeos es el ufólogo francés Philippe
Ailleris. El simposio anual del AIAA Aviation Forum, que se llevará
a cabo en junio de 2023 en San Diego, cubrirá muchos temas
especializados, incluido el de Gestión del Tráfico Aeroespacial
(ATM), bajo la coordinación de Joseph Post (Universidad del Sur de
Florida) y Edward Stanton. La convocatoria de artículos dice: “Se
buscan artículos relacionados con políticas y estrategias que
impulsen la modernización de los sistemas de transporte
aeroespacial, incluyendo la gestión del tráfico, la integración de
operaciones espaciales/aéreas, mejoras de capacidad, integración
UAS/UTM, integración de operaciones autónomas, integración de
operaciones espaciales y asuntos relacionados con los problemas de
seguridad”. Dos de los 13 asuntos que se enumeran específicamente
están relacionados con UAP: "Enfoques de colaboración para
abordar los desafíos de los UAP" y "Avances científicos y
técnicos en la comprensión de los UAP".</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Mis
comentarios: si bien tengo serias dudas sobre si la AIAA adoptará
algún filtro sobre el flujo de “voluntarios”, presentar el tema
de los UAP junto con asuntos relacionados con la gestión del tráfico
suena un poco como metido con calzador. De todas formas, este ya será
el tercer año en que Aviation Forum aborde el problema de los UAP
bajo el paraguas de la ATM. En cualquier caso, más investigación
siempre es bienvenida.
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.aiaa.org/aviation/presentations-papers/call-for-papers"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.aiaa.org/aviation/presentations-papers/call-for-papers</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>España,
5 y 6 de septiembre de 2022: Los satélites S</u></span><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>tarlink</u></i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Manuel
Carballal envió a la lista Anomalist 2.0 un enlace proporcionado por
el </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Correo
de la Axarquía</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
con dos videos tomados en Málaga a las 06:05 de la madrugada del
lunes 5 de septiembre de 2022. Uno fue conseguido por los marineros
de un pesquero de La Caleta de Vélez, que vieron un doble fenómeno
luminoso cuando navegaban en la costa de la comarca malagueña de la
Axarquía. El fenómeno lo localizaron “a la altura de Chilches…
y se perdió por el este, dirección Almería”. El segundo video lo
consiguió un aficionado a la meteorología, José Luis Escudero,
desde la ciudad de Málaga. Con la experiencia de recientes
avistamientos del mismo corte, Carballal preguntaba: “Será cosa de
SpaceX? </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2f9e2jfv">https://tinyurl.com/2f9e2jfv</a></span></span></span></p>
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(esa es una de las ventajas de estos foros especializados de
Internet), el investigador uruguayo Luis E. Pacheco, creador del
proyecto StratoCat, informaba del lanzamiento desde Cabo Cañaveral a
las 04:09 (hora local en España) del mismo día de un cohete </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Falcon</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
9 que, 72 minutos más tarde, desplegaría un racimo de 51 satélites
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">,
de la empresa aeroespacial SpaceX de Elon Musk, su fundador e
ingeniero jefe. </span></span><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/09/04/falcon-9-starlink-4-20-live-coverage/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/09/04/falcon-9-starlink-4-20-live-coverage/</a></div></div>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Al
tiempo, el físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo señalaba que la Red
de Investigación de Bólidos y Meteoritos ya había registrado
varias imágenes logradas en varios puntos de la geografía nacional: </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/RedSpmn/status/1566735991133569029" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://twitter.com/RedSpmn/status/1566735991133569029</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Entre
tanto, yo había consultado a algunos expertos internacionales. La
respuesta del especialista de Arizona Paul D. Maley</span></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">ligaba
el fenómeno filmado con la separación de la etapa superior del
cohete lanzador y la ventilación de combustible en la alta atmósfera
antes de desorbitar. También aportó la siguiente filmación de dicho proceso hecha en Inglaterra: </span></span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/KmunityOfEquals/status/1566659660651941888" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://twitter.com/KmunityOfEquals/status/1566659660651941888</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">José
Juan Montejo, que además de juez es quien más sabe del tema Ummo,
nos pasó una imagen de poca definición de una persona que usó el
móvil para fotografiarlo desde la localidad de Yeles, en la
provincia de Toledo.</span></span></p>
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la base de datos actualizada del profesor Jonathan McDowell
(universidad de Harvard) también vemos, hacia el final del listado,
las líneas de datos 2022-107 correspondientes al lanzamiento de esos
satélites en la fecha “2022 Sep 5”:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/derived/launchlog.html">https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/derived/launchlog.html</a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Al
día siguiente, la constelación de satélites de esta serie </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
pudo verse desde varios puntos de España, entre ellos Valencia, en
forma de un asombroso tren de luces nocturno: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lasprovincias.es/comunitat/misterioso-tren-luces-valencia-cielo-20220906110721-nt.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://www.lasprovincias.es/comunitat/misterioso-tren-luces-valencia-cielo-20220906110721-nt.html</a></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2022/09/06/starlink-valencia-hoy-elon-musk-luces-75085086.html">https://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2022/09/06/starlink-valencia-hoy-elon-musk-luces-75085086.html</a></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">La
prensa estadounidense ha producido muchas fotografías falsas de
ovnis desde 1947. Una de las imágenes más extravagantes de esos
chismes periodísticos se publicó en el </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Indian
River Press-Journal</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
de Vera Beach (Florida) del 2 de julio de 1964. Bajo el título “Foto
exclusiva”, la única información es el brevísimo pie de foto que
acompaña a la imagen y que reza así: “El </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Press-Journal</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
obtuvo esta fotografía en el centro de Vera Beach cuando un objeto
misterioso flotaba sobre un automóvil. Algunos observadores han
relacionado el objeto con misteriosas luces voladoras que han estado
persiguiendo autos a través del pantano en la Carretera 60”. ¡1964
fue uno de esos años aburridos en lo que respecta a los informes de
ovnis y los editores de periódicos decidieron crear esta curiosidad
además de la tradición del 1 de abril!</span></span></p>
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nacional de registros históricos ovni</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Varios
de los más reputados investigadores estadounidenses, con una pasión
común por mantener y preservar la documentación ovni, han aunado
esfuerzos para crear el Centro nacional de registros históricos ovni
(NUFOHRC), que ellos mismos definen de la siguiente manera:</span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">una
corporación sin fines de lucro 501(c)(3) en el Estado de New Mexico
que busca educar al público sobre la historia del fenómeno
OVNI/UAP, preservar y digitalizar documentos y medios históricos, y
promover la investigación científica sobre el tema. Somos una
organización de destacados investigadores y archivistas que juntos
poseen la mayor colección de registros históricos de ovnis en los
Estados Unidos de América. Tenemos la intención de reunir todas
estas colecciones bajo un mismo techo para preservar esta importante
pieza de la historia para las generaciones futuras.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
su vez, describen su misión con estas palabras: </span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">Recopilar,
preservar y proporcionar materiales históricos de ovnis al público
en general y a las partes interesadas. Con los datos acumulados,
esperamos ayudar a los esfuerzos serios de investigación de ovnis y
ayudar en una crónica precisa de la historia de los ovnis para las
generaciones presentes y futuras, independientemente de si se cree o
no en el tema.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
es un objetivo muy loable, y es paralelo a los objetivos de las
europeas Fundación Anomalía (España, ya extinta)</span><sup><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></sup><span lang="es-ES">
y Archives for the Unexplained (AFU, Suecia)</span><sup><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup><span lang="es-ES">.
El poder de esta iniciativa es la nómina de nombres que la han
fundado. Nombres con reputación de seriedad, vocación científica y
gran conocimiento de la materia, como David Marler, Barry Greenwood,
Mark Rodeghier, Rod Dyke, Bob Swiatek o Jan Aldrich (al menos, los
que yo conozco bien). La debilidad del proyecto es su sostenibilidad
financiera, ya que depende de donaciones públicas. Creo, sin
embargo, que habiendo establecido su base en Albuquerque, Nuevo
Méjico, el estado de Roswell, puede conseguir una fuente regular de
ingresos de los aficionados a los ovnis, en una empresa a largo
plazo. De otra parte, enlazarse con universidades puede ser una
magnífica solución para perdurar. Este es el sitio web de NUFOHRC:</span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nufohrc.org/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nufohrc.org/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Uno
de los fundadores, Barry Greenwood, me escribe:</span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="es-ES">El
objetivo general es afiliarse a otros archivos para que exista una
red satelital de recursos si los materiales no se pueden ubicar en la
localización de Albuquerque. Cumple con un objetivo a largo plazo
que tenía de establecer una gran colección de archivos de
documentación sobre ovnis en América del Norte como complemento de
lugares como AFU que pueden hacer que la información esté
disponible en múltiples ubicaciones regionales.</span><sup><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3 </span></span></sup></span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Jan
Aldrich ha sido muy amable al redactar este informe sobre el
proyecto: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.project1947.com/articles/2021trip.htm"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.project1947.com/articles/2021trip.htm</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Matías Morey, “Mecenazgo OVNI: la Fundación
Anomalía”, </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.afu.se/afu2/"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.afu.se/afu2/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Barry Greenwood, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 22 de noviembre de
2022.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UAP
en la universidad española</u> </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(Nota
del Prof. Heriberto Janosch,</span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><u><a href="mailto:hjanosch@ucjc.edu"><span lang="es-ES">hjanosch@ucjc.edu</span></a></u></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
el curso 2021-2022, dentro de las actividades de grados de la
Universidad Camilo José Cela, hemos realizado el “1.er Taller de
Identificación Aeroespacial”. El taller otorgó 2,56 créditos
válidos de los 6 que cada alumno debe completar en sus respectivos
grados (6 créditos corresponden a una asignatura semestral). En este
primer taller establecimos un cupo de 10 alumnos, por motivo de la
pandemia de Covid19, de manera que fuera presencial. Siete han
aprobado el taller: Aitana Giménez Ballesteros, Sabela Rodríguez
Fandiño, Michelle Dallana Lagares Loaiza, Carla Ruiz Formoso, Luis
Daniel Ruiz Moreno, María Alejandra Gómez Córdoba y Yashley
Thaelin Villar Castillo. Dado el contexto en que se desarrolló el
taller, se hizo hincapié en los aspectos criminológicos (por
ejemplo, avionetas de narcotraficantes), de seguridad nacional (por
ejemplo, satélites espías) y de inteligencia (por ejemplo,
recuperación de satélites caídos). En cuanto a los testimonios, se
consideraron aquellos de personal militar, de la Fuerza Aérea, de
agencias espaciales y otros. Pero también de ciudadanos de
diferentes profesiones. Con respecto a las evidencias, se analizaron
algunos casos ya resueltos, fotográficos o registrados en vídeo. En
la psicología de los testimonios se puso especial énfasis en las
perturbaciones psicosociales y culturales que se producen en los
mismos al interpretar los testigos el avistamiento dentro del
concepto “ovni” = “nave extraterrestre". Se tomaron en
cuenta casos proporcionados por el Centro de Identificación
Aeroespacial (CIAE) de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina y del Groupe
d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux
Non-identifiés (GEIPAN), centro de investigación francés
perteneciente al Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Se
han revisado ejemplos de identificaciones positivas de varios
fenómenos aeroespaciales: satélites, reentradas de satélites,
fenómenos ópticos atmosféricos, estrellas fugaces, bólidos,
aviones, estrellas y planetas, globos de diferente tipo, linternas
tailandesas, satélites </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
y drones. En el análisis de fotografías se estudiaron fenómenos
como reflejos, registro de aves o insectos en el campo visual y
globos. Se utilizaron diversas aplicaciones para localización de
estrellas y planetas, seguimiento de vuelos comerciales, análisis de
imágenes, páginas web de servicios meteorológicos y especializadas
en globos, y otros recursos digitales. El taller se basó
principalmente en casos identificados. Dado que, por el momento, y
hasta donde sabemos, las características de cada caso no
identificado resultan indistinguibles de las características de
algunos casos identificados como fenómenos conocidos, se intuye que
tales casos no se han podido identificar solo porque la información
es errónea, o hay falta de datos claves. </span>
</span></p>
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MOREY NOS HA DEJADO </span></b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(Obituario
grupal coordinado por V.J. Ballester Olmos)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sirva
pues, esta recopilación, no como el testamento de nadie, sino mejor
como el testimonio de alguien que, si algún mérito puede tener, es
el de haber asistido en primera fila a la derrota de unas
determinadas maneras de hacer y entender lo que, - a falta de un
nombre mejor- llamamos ufología. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Matías
Morey, </b></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><b>Cielos
despejados</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>,
2021</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">A
pesar de mi edad (73 años contados) todavía no me acostumbro a que
fallezca gente de mi quinta, quizás porque nunca pienso en la
muerte, con la reciente excepción de cuando decidí disponer -espero
que a bastante futuro- como será el legado de mis archivos. Y menos
aún cuando quien muere es joven. Porque 56 años no es edad para
morirse, sobre todo si se ha sido respetuoso con su cuerpo. Y esos
son los años que tenía Matías Morey cuando el pasado domingo 13 de
noviembre de 2022 su arteria aorta decidió romperse, provocándole
la muerte instantánea. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">No
pretendo hacer una glosa prolija del personaje, sino simplemente
poner por escrito unas pocas líneas que me permitan un desahogo
emocional, porque Morey ha sido tan gran persona en todos los ámbitos
que le voy a echar mucho de menos. Mi memoria de pez me impide
volcar, sin consultar documentos -lo que no voy a hacer esta vez-,
memorias de tantos encuentros personales en varias ciudades españolas
con motivo del desarrollo de la Fundación Anomalía (luego Ikaros),
o la visita que le giré en su Valldemossa natal cuando fui con mi
familia de vacaciones a Mallorca un verano. Matías fue durante unos
años el gestor de mi blog, y receptor de muchas cuestiones sobre
aspectos legales que a veces orbitan en esto de los ovnis. Siempre
atento a una respuesta inteligente, precisa, objetiva y documentada.
Lo que en inteligencia se llamaría un “activo” importante. Pero
él carecía del ego y la ambición mediática de otros y gustaba de
estar en un plano de discreción alejado del foco, justamente entre
bambalinas. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjndQJUvD-lc0NcgGyiNeQhkKIiZy13IZHaPyx-Tss4HZrH2YmluZbXI4x546Y6akMF-gTCzqsKm6B_lM6mvaYdrpxn0bqdX6KV3vdY0Kf5ja9aMmekfIH7btD7OJxY_DTKO_FFxmdPIM42sl5EVqT4AOdP-G8Z4DGLH-tVzT7DF1F_H8smg/s4254/Valldemossa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2851" data-original-width="4254" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjndQJUvD-lc0NcgGyiNeQhkKIiZy13IZHaPyx-Tss4HZrH2YmluZbXI4x546Y6akMF-gTCzqsKm6B_lM6mvaYdrpxn0bqdX6KV3vdY0Kf5ja9aMmekfIH7btD7OJxY_DTKO_FFxmdPIM42sl5EVqT4AOdP-G8Z4DGLH-tVzT7DF1F_H8smg/s320/Valldemossa.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Agosto
de 2003, Valldemossa, Matías Morey (a la derecha) y V.J. Ballester
Olmos.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
relación con Matías fue temprana. Y, afortunadamente, duradera en
el tiempo hasta el inesperado final. En 1989, recién licenciado en
Derecho y a raíz de leer mi libro </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Matías me escribió una carta de ¡12 páginas! expresando su
voluntad de contribuir al estudio del fenómeno ovni. En mi extenso
archivo de correspondencia, la carpeta “M. MOREY” es gruesa, a
pesar de que desde que comenzamos los intercambios por Internet en
2000 casi no imprimía nuestros mensajes. Dicen las malas lenguas que
“fue a través de la dinamización de Ballester como se integró en
el grupo de colaboradores de Cuadernos de Ufología…” (Ignacio
Cabria, </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Historia
cultural de los OVNIS en España 1950-1990</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
2022, p. 620). Bueno, me alegro de haber contribuido a su entrada en
este mundillo nuestro. La primera vez que coincidimos en persona, de
las muchas que seguirían en los años posteriores, fue en la sierra
de Madrid en 1994, en una de las reuniones del colectivo CdU
(colaboradores de la revista Cuadernos de Ufología), germen de la
Fundación Anomalía. Allí descubrí que era un ser singular,
alejado de cualquiera de los varios estereotipos de ufólogo al uso.
Inicialmente un consultor, luego se trocó en un pensador que tocó
varias piezas importantes en el concierto de la investigación de los
ovnis en España. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku3BZ-hao6l4huvLYsp583f9kuGgIrEpOXg6lKBUDJ0lnk8iUYViNyhj9JY-crdfE0A9swTF2nyILzr6f0LSoMQuiVvGUQmuGc0TJ4lr-wbP5FsCfFuQc9Hkly2vvxC97UF9SYFktlU1oiHXQQ9Fd2y5FoQCjwhqOFZwk0RYNWABXbClLBg/s901/Navacerrada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="901" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku3BZ-hao6l4huvLYsp583f9kuGgIrEpOXg6lKBUDJ0lnk8iUYViNyhj9JY-crdfE0A9swTF2nyILzr6f0LSoMQuiVvGUQmuGc0TJ4lr-wbP5FsCfFuQc9Hkly2vvxC97UF9SYFktlU1oiHXQQ9Fd2y5FoQCjwhqOFZwk0RYNWABXbClLBg/s320/Navacerrada.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Matías
Morey (a la izquierda) y V.J. Ballester Olmos, Navacerrada (Madrid),
1994.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Soy
autor de más de 100 trabajos en colaboración con medio centenar de
estudiosos distintos, como reza mi bibliografía
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)
cuya actualización anual, válgame Dios, Matías se ocupaba de subir
cada año a la web CdU (Corpus de Documentación). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
En ese aspecto, tengo el privilegio de haber escrito con él dos
ensayos, uno de investigación, “27 noviembre 1999: ¿La última
reentrada del milenio?” (</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://bit.ly/3loVQlP">https://bit.ly/3loVQlP</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">)
y otro sobre las aportaciones de la Fundación Anomalía, “Mecenazgo
OVNI: la Fundación Anomalía”
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">).
A su solicitud, aporté algunos términos a esa extraordinaria
compilación que es el </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diccionario
Temático de Ufología</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://amzn.to/3se7aVi">https://amzn.to/3se7aVi</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">)
bajo su magistral edición, y que ha sido oportunamente puesta al día
y revisada apenas hace unos meses.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">¿Dije
lo bueno que era con las caricaturas? Aprovechando la felicitación
navideña de 1993, Matías me envió una con motivo ufológico,
mostrando al investigador al que ni los Reyes Mayos le dan el
tornillo extraterrestre que busca afanosamente.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xtFoJp-391Dj5GGQKUFoaMwavLtsTtF85t6U8V_3lo8vR5PrU4bP9Er3tMQyAh5lBY9qU5PPyF92xKP6FeH8eYe5amypnW0j8DLmk8TbFfVvmYScNLwbvi1AeAgIqw2Sv6fgHOPOXBfNztqALxpsJIrE7FRrZJM9FlbQ_azvNRj9MUWDTw/s1600/caricatura.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1447" data-original-width="1600" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xtFoJp-391Dj5GGQKUFoaMwavLtsTtF85t6U8V_3lo8vR5PrU4bP9Er3tMQyAh5lBY9qU5PPyF92xKP6FeH8eYe5amypnW0j8DLmk8TbFfVvmYScNLwbvi1AeAgIqw2Sv6fgHOPOXBfNztqALxpsJIrE7FRrZJM9FlbQ_azvNRj9MUWDTw/s320/caricatura.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">En
diciembre pasado escribí una pequeña reseña de su último libro,
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cielos
despejados</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_12_26_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_12_26_archive.html#es</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Matías, por su lado, también escribió para mi blog. En septiembre
de 2019 redactó un informe sobre la primera foto ovni famosa de
España: “El caso Hausmann: Una aproximación desde Ibiza”
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_09_21_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_09_21_archive.html#es</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">),
un artículo refinado y riguroso, como todo lo que salía de la pluma
de Matías Morey. Y me dejo muchas cosas, naturalmente. Ya dije que
esto iba a ser una expansión emotiva más que otra cosa, un homenaje
a vuela pluma.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
relación con él ha sido, por varios asuntos, bastante frecuente en
los últimos años. De hecho, diría que su último trabajo ufológico
lo hizo hace escasas semanas para mí: diseñar la portada y
contraportada de un libro del que soy editor y que se publicará en
el primer trimestre de 2023, </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Reliablity of UFO Witness Testimony</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
un trabajo colectivo con 60 autores de 14 países diferentes. Porque
además de sus muchas habilidades, intereses y conocimientos, no era
menor su destreza y creatividad en el diseño gráfico. En suma, un
tipo de lo más completo.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">He
pedido a algunos de sus muchos amigos, compañeros de proyectos y
colegas de ufología unas breves líneas a modo de semblanza. Todos
ellos coinciden en resaltar la extraordinaria persona que hemos
perdido, en su ámbito profesional (era jurista) y en el de nuestra
afición (el estudio de los ovnis), de la que era un verdadero
erudito. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Alejandro
Agostinelli</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Buenos Aires): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Las
interacciones que tuve con Matías en todos estos años fueron
contactos esporádicos por cuestiones puntuales relacionadas con
nuestro común interés por la filmografía de ciencia ficción y la
ufología. Pero la calidez que transpiraba en cada comunicación –no
sólo por su sentido del humor, sino por la gracia con la que
reconfortaba cuando no podía ayudar, o cuando era uno el que no
podía hacerlo– lo volvía un compañero de curiosidades fuera de
serie, que en su CV escribía que “nació a una temprana edad” y
no le alcanzaban las morisquetas para recordarle a “las malas
compañías” cuyas listas administraba que la ufología era una
afición malsana. Estuve tratando de recordar cuándo fue la primera
vez que se cruzaron nuestros intereses y pudimos avanzar más allá
de la línea del intercambio formal, esto es, cuando ya no
necesitamos de muchas palabras para empezar a entendernos. Y ahora
encuentro que fueron anécdotas casi pueriles frente a la magnitud de
la muerte. Vamos a extrañarlo. Por las grandes y las pequeñas
cosas. Abrazo al cielo hoy despejado para ti, querido Matías.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Julio
Arcas Gilardi</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Santander): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>La
última vez que le vi fue en Toledo, durante una de aquellas
maratonianas reuniones de Fundación Ikaros. En ella, se dio digno
fin al proyecto más importante en el que estuvimos involucrados.
Como diría un blasón antiguo, Matíes fue leal y esforzado hasta el
último momento, aportando lo mejor de sí mismo: su generosidad,
fina inteligencia y ese humor de estirpe balear. Es más que
probable, que ahora, se encuentra contemplando a su Mallorca Club de
Fútbol derrotando a la selección de Sirio B. Que la tierra te sea
leve, amigo.</i></span></span></p>
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2009. Matías Morey (a la derecha) y Julio Arcas. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Jordi
Ardanuy</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(CEI, Barcelona): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Te
conocí hace unos 30 años, medio hablando de la ufología de
Baleares, medio de temas informáticos. Eras una persona
extraordinaria, con un refinado sentido del humor, calidad de las
personas muy inteligentes. Recuerdo que nos habías acogido
generosamente en Valldemossa. Después, los contactos fueron más
escasos, probablemente por mi culpa. Pero últimamente habíamos
hablado de nuevo de algunos intereses comunes y quedamos que te
entregaría un nuevo libro que te interesaba. Y ahora que te había
recuperado, va y te vas. Para mí, una crueldad...</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Manuel
Borraz</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Barcelona):</span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>
Escribió en alguna ocasión, con la ironía que lo caracterizaba,
"nací, a temprana edad, en Valldemossa...". Por desgracia,
nos ha acabado dejando "a temprana edad", prematuramente.
Con Matías intercambié información, opiniones y consejos,
esporádicamente, durante los últimos 25 años (¡cómo pasa el
tiempo!). Ovnis, hidroaerolitos y otras rarezas, pero también
asuntos informáticos puntuales y alguna cuestión legal. Sin
embargo, que yo recuerde, sólo nos vimos en un par de ocasiones
personalmente. Lo suficiente para confirmar que se trataba de una
buena persona, alguien de toda confianza, un tipo sensato, paciente y
perseverante, con el necesario punto de locura para interesarse por
temas heterodoxos sin dejar de mantener los pies en el suelo. Te
echaremos de menos, Matías.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ignacio
Cabria</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Santander): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>En
estos días de noviembre se cumplían tres años desde que Matías
Morey, Vicente-Juan Ballester y yo asumimos el proyecto de reimpulsar
la comunicación entre los estudiosos del fenómeno ovni en lengua
española a través del foro Anomalist 2.0., del cual Matías fue su
administrador. En este y otros medios, Matías aportó siempre
ecuanimidad y capacidad de diálogo. Además de su sabiduría, su
sencillez y refrescante sentido del humor, echaremos en falta su
disposición para la mediación en los conflictos y su generosidad y
solidaridad ante las necesidades del colectivo. Nadie va a poder
llenar ese hueco inmenso que él ha dejado.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Dr.
Ricardo Campo Pérez</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Tenerife): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Conocí
a Matías en 1994 por primera vez y posteriormente coincidimos muchas
veces en reuniones del Colectivo Cuadernos de Ufología y más tarde
del patronato de la Fundación Anomalía. Un tipo de mi edad con sus
pies ufológicos en el suelo y sin intereses mediáticos: me parecía
“anomalísimo” e interesante. Ya fuera durante nuestra labor en
la fundación o por asuntos más particulares como su interés
antropológico por los zahoríes de toda España, siempre mantuvimos
una buena amistad, a pesar de la distancia que nos separaba. Al tener
noticia de su fallecimiento, recordé lo que percibí en él desde el
primer momento: la vertiente irónica de su inteligencia. En la
ufología la ironía suele estar mal vista, lo cual no es de
extrañar. Su humor, su serenidad y ese distanciamiento un tanto
“inglés” del barro ufológico hicieron que me sintiera atraído
por los textos del mallorquín. Como él mismo señaló, nunca fue
“investigador de campo”, ni falta que le hacía para componer
interesantes artículos sobre los entrecruzamientos del folclore
ufológico con la cultura de masas, impecablemente redactados. </i></span>
</span></p>
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de los noventa, CEI (Barcelona). Matías Morey (a la izquierda) y
Ricardo Campo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Manuel
Carballal</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(La Coruña): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Durante
décadas lo consideré un enemigo, solo por militar en un sector de
la comunidad ufológica que a muchos de mi generación nos señalaron
como adversario. Éramos tan jóvenes como estúpidos. Hasta el 30 de
enero de 2021, durante la reunión en línea de Anomalist, que Matías
moderó, no tuve oportunidad -o interés- por interactuar
directamente con él. Y ese día me enamoró. Este año, durante la
investigación sobre Rey Brea, leí toda la obra de Matías que
desatendí durante años, y que cito repetidas veces en el libro que
aparece en unas horas. Y acudí a él para varias consultas. Es
paradójico que haya sido yo quien os comunicó la noticia de su
fallecimiento, justo ahora que comenzaba a apreciarlo. Gracias por
demostrarnos que es más lo que nos une que lo que nos separa.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Martí
Flò Csefkó</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(CEI, Barcelona): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Matías
sonreía de manera discreta, como todo él. Pero era fácil saber que
era necesario prestar atención a algo que estaba pasando cuando le
veías el gesto en su cara. Ciertamente, me tranquilizaba tenerle
cerca en las discusiones, apasionadas, crispadas o simplemente
burocráticas. Tenía la certeza de que cuando fuera necesario,
pronunciaría unas pocas palabras, necesitaba muy pocas, con ese tono
tranquilo, pausado y bajo. Tenía una fuerte ascendencia hacia el
resto y era respetado. Su silencio también estaba cargado de
significado. Me indicaba que la discusión en el seno del Patronato
estaba lejos de merecer una intervención, fuera porque todavía era
pronto o porque no merecía la pena. Ponderado, enormemente
ponderado. Matías mostraba todas sus facetas: web master,
recopilador detallista de historias, aficionado al cine y al fútbol,
preocupado por la honestidad, la transparencia y la política en
general, pero especialmente en Mallorca, su tierra. Sensible. No tuvo
mucha suerte en lo sentimental pero lo resolvió de forma ingeniosa:
creó todo un mundo paralelo, ahora lo llamaríamos metaverso,
materializado para unos pocos en historias por entregas, como si se
tratara de un folletín decimonónico. Te echaba de menos ya cuando
me fui yo. Ahora ya no hay remedio.</i></span></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c77yRd7ssAG_Hw3CMSL4-LLmcsesWCwVmXUvRLRrFYji_hZHtiuPAJ9GCnnLoXPtB7gAZ6tRNbcUnWxcxkbvpWjfoMINje6Brz4aOU6PHV_VJYJ-Hr4prfs0YYzde07H6-wXSiv9fZTMtWKYOWZJUz8YT8T8t8bCu1Q2W1S9WNXsDRwxxw/s1040/Flo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c77yRd7ssAG_Hw3CMSL4-LLmcsesWCwVmXUvRLRrFYji_hZHtiuPAJ9GCnnLoXPtB7gAZ6tRNbcUnWxcxkbvpWjfoMINje6Brz4aOU6PHV_VJYJ-Hr4prfs0YYzde07H6-wXSiv9fZTMtWKYOWZJUz8YT8T8t8bCu1Q2W1S9WNXsDRwxxw/s320/Flo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Matías
Morey (a la derecha) y Martí Flò en un reunión de la Fundación
Anomalía en Valencia en 2001.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Moisés
Garrido</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Alicante): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Me
impactó mucho la noticia del fallecimiento de Matías Morey. Una
triste e inesperada pérdida. Tenía mi edad: 56 años (nació once
días después que yo). Aunque no tuve relación personal con Morey,
sí he seguido con enorme interés su trayectoria en el campo de la
ufología a través de sus selectos ensayos publicados en Cuadernos
de Ufología y en Papers d'OVNIs. Me consta que ha dejado varios
proyectos pendientes muy interesantes. Con su temprana desaparición,
perdemos ante todo a una maravillosa persona, según cuentan sus
colegas ufológicos más cercanos, y también nos quedamos sin sus
futuras aportaciones críticas a la ufología, tan necesarias en los
tiempos que corren. La muerte siempre es muy injusta.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Juan
Pablo González</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Valencia): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Desde
mi primer encuentro con Matías, hace ya 21 años, me llamó la
atención su carácter y modo de hablar sosegado y alejado de
visceralidades, que le permitió desempeñar magistralmente las
funciones de moderador en las numerosas listas de correo que
administró. Con el paso del tiempo comprendí que, bajo esa capa de
aparente tranquilidad, había un intelecto tremendamente inquieto,
capaz de escribir trabajos ufológicos que tocaban temas tan dispares
como, por ejemplo, la cinefilia y la teoría del caos. Y también un
espíritu generoso, que puso al servicio de nuestra comunidad sus
capacidades como diseñador gráfico, webmaster y, por supuesto,
asesor legal. Todo este trabajo oscuro y poco reconocido nos deja a
todos en deuda con él.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Luis
R. González</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Málaga</span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>):
Sobre todo, una buena persona y con lo que yo más aprecio en los
demás, un fino sentido del humor. Por lo demás, su labor ufológica
será insustituible.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Dr.
Antonio Petit</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Sevilla): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>A
Matías Morey Ripoll podemos situarlo, entre las mentes brillantes de
la temática de los "fenómenos aéreos anómalos".
Tranquilo, reposado, gran persona, siempre dispuesto a plantearse
cualquier reto, sus conocimientos no se limitaban a los OVNI,
abarcaban ampliamente otros campos de conocimiento.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>José
Ruesga Montiel</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Sevilla): </span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>Pese
a mi alejamiento desde 2013 de la ufología, Matías siguió siendo
mi amigo entrañable que no dudó ni un momento en colaborar conmigo
para poner en circulación mi libro de Ovnis en Andalucía: Homenaje
a la figura y obra de Manuel Osuna Llorente, en ese rasgo que siempre
le definió, la generosidad. Yo he perdido un trocito de mí, además
de un amigo. Descanse en paz.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfuizs4pmkoMlMmQyUKZirpNbmK1xOPjodT4TuvDaRsCkKrN3W7Y-cU0Uoj2NnLYxDFwDV6qelM1kQu7sRA8r8qkwuV_i7rUXQDe5lNRjqS9oR1LcCRrGaEj7kxstCn_sXpZ63NtUACVRZ5bni92KDVnAKGtBI8kd9QDMTjIttlWldspaBg/s1127/Ruesga.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1127" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfuizs4pmkoMlMmQyUKZirpNbmK1xOPjodT4TuvDaRsCkKrN3W7Y-cU0Uoj2NnLYxDFwDV6qelM1kQu7sRA8r8qkwuV_i7rUXQDe5lNRjqS9oR1LcCRrGaEj7kxstCn_sXpZ63NtUACVRZ5bni92KDVnAKGtBI8kd9QDMTjIttlWldspaBg/s320/Ruesga.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Matías
Morey (izquierda) junto a Pepe Ruesga, Sevilla, 2004.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Juan
Carlos Victorio Uranga</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Lezo):</span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><i>
Conmocionado al conocer la triste noticia. No le conocía
personalmente, pero siempre estuvo presente en mi andadura ufológica.
En su último trabajo, “Cielos Despejados”, que he leído hace
unos meses, Matías Morey muestra el profundo conocimiento que tenía
sobre nuestra afición. Descanse en paz.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Diego
Zúñiga</b></span><span lang="es-ES">
<span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;">(Chile): C</span></span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ompartimos
intereses e incluso nos embarcamos en aventuras editoriales
demenciales, solo por el gusto de publicar libros. Dueño de un humor
agudo, de una pluma mordaz que arrancaba carcajadas, Matías prefería
el trabajo tras bambalinas, entregar sus talentos para beneficio de
otros. Su labor como coordinador del “Diccionario Temático de
Ufología” es muestra de ello.</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>En
sus varios libros desliza su creciente interés por la “astro
cultura” y el cine ufológico, sus platos principales. Sabía como
pocos de películas de ciencia ficción, una muestra de su curiosidad
sin límites.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Algunos
compañeros han publicado sus propios y sentidos memoriales, que cito
seguidamente:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Alejandro
Agostinelli:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2022/11/17/suenos-huerfanos-matias-morey-partio-un-dia-de-cielo-despejado/">https://factorelblog.com/2022/11/17/suenos-huerfanos-matias-morey-partio-un-dia-de-cielo-despejado/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Manuel
Carballal: </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://elojocritico.info/carta-a-matias-morey-ripoll-el-cronista-ovni-de-baleares/">http://elojocritico.info/carta-a-matias-morey-ripoll-el-cronista-ovni-de-baleares/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Valencia,
1 de diciembre de 2022.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">ANEXO:
ALGUNAS FOTOS INÉDITAS </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(Cortesía
Antonio Petit y archivo Ballester Olmos)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxXBKV5Bnv8r8Tc30a-EXHoWzRGRm58-nZrL9WQfRyqzRHj3mUVhsycrTift21bJplA72qiS30dXnRq1p-VJdhTqpmDUVM1zYs9zb4l1Qc5umNu3p83XJWb6z1xVzbHz5R3Vt9olDgV_ZoT6ksgr8v41iSeYiWMIIpmUCsGGEpIxgWye_KQ/s2268/2004%202008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2268" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxXBKV5Bnv8r8Tc30a-EXHoWzRGRm58-nZrL9WQfRyqzRHj3mUVhsycrTift21bJplA72qiS30dXnRq1p-VJdhTqpmDUVM1zYs9zb4l1Qc5umNu3p83XJWb6z1xVzbHz5R3Vt9olDgV_ZoT6ksgr8v41iSeYiWMIIpmUCsGGEpIxgWye_KQ/s320/2004%202008.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Izquierda:
2004. Derecha: 2008.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoFckMalsdc2yoP65UIsRaxKZVV49XXFJ8kQhFUZsY7CY3LZ-bnVB1ZTQwyBGMHR-G8GW1sE3RjP8F6uOj3YdguCdSJaIUZsPGyxCdq0e4srMNnkdwaiGKvfKv9BLgjuiNrZEGP0Gk7jLSTUU-WumBFnwB0P3qMsSt_JD2GMYQYSNpuvfvQ/s815/1996.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="815" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoFckMalsdc2yoP65UIsRaxKZVV49XXFJ8kQhFUZsY7CY3LZ-bnVB1ZTQwyBGMHR-G8GW1sE3RjP8F6uOj3YdguCdSJaIUZsPGyxCdq0e4srMNnkdwaiGKvfKv9BLgjuiNrZEGP0Gk7jLSTUU-WumBFnwB0P3qMsSt_JD2GMYQYSNpuvfvQ/s320/1996.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Patronato de la Fundación Anomalía, Sevilla, 1996. De izquierda a
derecha: Antonio Petit, José Ruesga, Luis R. González, V.J.
Ballester Olmos, Matías Morey, Matilde González, Julio Arcas y
Ricardo Campo</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WlGfBucyPc9PRWtVaduZJxt3Pq3GG4lT2I2QJ7NL3ZSYdY9m6xi0o1nI-IhuRetI_tEiuK4iDCw-DIUPcil5O-N9kLhGLqKZ_vTDpkDj5miYKGUr6zL89TjQFljdl9jrqOEtzrEQFHFaif7UpGt3oYf94rf31QeSwYjUT6gjNXa0_x2gCQ/s1040/2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WlGfBucyPc9PRWtVaduZJxt3Pq3GG4lT2I2QJ7NL3ZSYdY9m6xi0o1nI-IhuRetI_tEiuK4iDCw-DIUPcil5O-N9kLhGLqKZ_vTDpkDj5miYKGUr6zL89TjQFljdl9jrqOEtzrEQFHFaif7UpGt3oYf94rf31QeSwYjUT6gjNXa0_x2gCQ/s320/2001.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Colectivo
CdU y Patronato de la Fundación Anomalía, Valencia, 2001. De pie,
de izquierda a derecha: Luis R. González, Jordi Ardanuy, J.P.
González, Julio Massé, V.J. Ballester Olmos, Julio Arcas, Jaime
Servera, Juan A. Fernández Peris, Ricardo Campo y Martí Flò.
Sentados: Matilde González, José Ruesga y Matías Morey.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Para
referencia formal, este pequeño homenaje a la figura de Matías
Morey se encuentra también accesible en el enlace: </span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/92013401/Matias_Morey_nos_ha_dejado" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/92013401/Matias_Morey_nos_ha_dejado</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Miscelánea</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Brett Holman, especialista en los misteriosos aeroplanos de
principios del siglo XX ha escrito recientemente estos trabajos,
imprescindibles para el estudioso de esos aspectos históricos
precursores de los ovnis:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://airminded.org/2022/07/22/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-i/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://airminded.org/2022/07/22/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-i/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://airminded.org/2022/08/12/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-ii/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://airminded.org/2022/08/12/a-miscellany-of-australian-mystery-aircraft-1903-1940-ii/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/3059379/Dreaming_war_airmindedness_and_the_Australian_mystery_aeroplane_scare_of_1918">https://academia.edu/Dreaming_war_airmindedness_and_the_Australian_mystery_aeroplane_scare_1918</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
R. Burnell, R.A. Nash, S. Umanath y M. Garry, “Memories people no
longer believe in can still affect them in helpful and harmful ways”,
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Memory
and Cognition</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(2022) 50: 1319-1335,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-022-01328-9"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-022-01328-9</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
B.E. Zhilyaev, V.N. Petukhov y V.M. Reshetnyk, “Unidentified aerial
phenomena I. Observations of events”,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11215.pdf"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11215.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Se
han identificado graves problemas en este artículo: </span></span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-uap-study-observation-of-events.12607/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-uap-study-observation-of-events.12607/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero
la crítica más severa la ha recibido de la propia Academia de
Ciencias de Ucrania que, para empezar, ha señalado que el
observatorio astronómico del país no investiga los ovnis y que se
trata de un trabajo particular hecho con independencia de la
institución. Extraigo los puntos principales del demoledor
comunicado emitido por la Academia de Ciencias: </span><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><span lang="es-ES">Las
observaciones realizadas por B.Yu. Zhilyaev y sus colegas son
originales. Pero el procesamiento y la interpretación de los
resultados se realizaron a un nivel científico inadecuado y con
errores significativos en la determinación de las distancias a los
objetos observados. Los autores no brindan argumentos de que los
fenómenos naturales u objetos artificiales de origen terrestre
puedan estar entre los UAP observados. En lugar de un análisis
crítico de las observaciones, los autores postulan conclusiones poco
razonables sobre las características de los objetos observados como
UAP. El Consejo Científico de la Academia de Ciencias cree que la
información publicada en el mencionado artículo de B.E. Zhilyaev </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>et
al</i></span><span lang="es-ES">.
era prematura y no cumplía con los requisitos profesionales para la
publicación de los resultados de una investigación científica.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
James C. Stewart, “Twists of Perception: Unidentified Flying
Objects in Renaissance Art”, </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/15550871/Twists_of_Perception_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_in_Renaissance_Art"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/15550871/Twists_of_Perception_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_in_Renaissance_Art</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
“Observable tests for the light-sail scenario of interstellar
objects”, por Wen-Han Zhou, Shang-Fei Liu, Yun Zhang y Douglas N.C.
Lin, en </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Astronomy
& Astrophysics</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
manuscrito no. 44119, 7 de septiembre de 2022. En sus conclusiones
señala: </span><span lang="es-ES">Sugerimos
que es poco probable que ‘Oumuamua’ sea una vela solar. La
dinámica de una vela solar intrusa daría lugar a características
observacionales como la aparición de acompañantes, una notable
fuerza de radiación lateral y un desplazamiento perpendicular a la
órbita de Kepler, una curva de luz con una amplitud extremadamente
alta y una invisibilidad irregular en el cielo. Estas características
se pueden identificar cuantitativamente y analizar con nuestros
métodos en futuras investigaciones:</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.13818.pdf"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.13818.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Luis Cayetano, “Bob Lazar's litany of lies and whoppers”,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/bob-lazar-s-litany-of-lies-and-whoppers"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.ufologyiscorrupt.com/post/bob-lazar-s-litany-of-lies-and-whoppers</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
Carl Feagans, “Religious Characteristics Of The Unidentified Flying
Object/Extraterrestrial Intelligence Movement”, </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/506250/Religious_Characteristics_Of_The_Unidentified_Flying_Object_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_Movement">https://academia.edu/Religious_Characteristics_Of_Unidentified_FlyingObject_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_Movement</a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Sobre la creación mental de imágenes: “Pseudo-hallucinations: why
some people see more vivid mental images than others”,</span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/pseudo-hallucinations-why-some-people-see-more-vivid-mental-images-than-others-test-yourself-here-163025"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://theconversation.com/pseudo-hallucinations-why-some-people-see-more-vivid-mental-images-than-others-test-yourself-here-163025</span></span></a></span><span lang="es-ES">
y “Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and
scientists aren’t quite sure why”, </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/23pn9rjj"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/23pn9rjj</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
“Understanding the Unidentified”, un ensayo de Michael Shermer: </span></span><a href="https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Joseph S. Accetta, “A Search for Possible Causal Associations
Between UFOs & Perturbations in Recorded Geophysical Data”,</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/85213783/A_SEARCH_FOR_POSSIBLE_CAUSAL_ASSOCIATIONS_BETWEEN_UFOs_and_PERTURBATIONS_IN_RECORDED_GEOPHYSICAL_DATA">https://academia.edu/SEARCH_ASSOCIATIONS_BETWEEN_UFOs_PERTURBATIONS_GEOPHYSICAL_DATA</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Debrief</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
sobre el taller CAIPAN 2 del GEIPAN:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-french-governments-space-agency-just-hosted-an-international-conference-on-uap/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-french-governments-space-agency-just-hosted-an-international-conference-on-uap/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Vincent
Costes, el jefe del GEIPAN, es entrevistado para </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Conversation</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
en su edición del 17 de noviembre de 2022:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ufos-scenes-france-real-life.html"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ufos-scenes-france-real-life.html</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>How
to identify UFOs. How to investigate UAP, </i></span><span lang="es-ES">por
I. Kalytyuk y Alina Mykolyshyn. Está redactado en ucraniano, pero la
colección de fotografías sobre fenómenos naturales entre las
páginas 135 y 267 es simplemente extraordinaria. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ufology-news.com/u/18672430/Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I._Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022.pdf">http://ufology-news.com/Kalytyuk_I_Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_2022.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
A mi entender, lo siguiente es una lástima de talento desperdiciado.
Porque si uno basa su investigación en datos incorrectos, los
resultados finales siempre estarán viciados, por muchas
impresionantes fórmulas que se usen: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363071724_UAP_Propulsion_Principle_and_Resulting_Flight_Performance_-_Theoretical_Analysis_of_UAP_Flight_Characteristics_-">https://researchgate.net/Propulsion_Principle_Resulting_Flight_Performance_Theoretical_Analysis_UAP_Flight</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
Charlie Wiser ha escrito tres brillantes piezas escépticas sobre
algunos importantes casos ovni. Uno trata de la “abducción” de
Travis Walton de 1975: “It was a hoax”-Steve Pierce [uno de los
testigos] knows the truth.” ¿Le sorprende que, con el tiempo, la
gente se retracte? </span></span><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/it-was-a-hoax-steve-pierce-knows-the-truth" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/it-was-a-hoax-steve-pierce-knows-the-truth</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Otro
es sobre el suceso de Falcon Lake, Manitoba (Canadá): “Blasted by
UFO exhaust! Saturday, May 20th, 1967”,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/falcon-lake.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/falcon-lake.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Y
el tercero se titula “The stupidest UFO photo in Australia”,
sobre una famosa foto a la que llama la más estúpida de todas:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/the-stupidest-ufo-photo-in-australia"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/the-stupidest-ufo-photo-in-australia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdO4t0OhIMbkOaW5VXqgId4w31YIoSa0VlKHGBW0u1Yt-1isG-oyGoLRT_LG4uCxTcZJ716ULghG9BjH5-AFrpL5J8aOVG-28279OgMNUNDShzZf-hdiVwh6bFUCwiUNRLBrhCswuDKVvfexnovF1ZgPSvHqIj6KFrS9pIFzyBOS-bspypw/s1646/Australia%20Sparks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1646" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdO4t0OhIMbkOaW5VXqgId4w31YIoSa0VlKHGBW0u1Yt-1isG-oyGoLRT_LG4uCxTcZJ716ULghG9BjH5-AFrpL5J8aOVG-28279OgMNUNDShzZf-hdiVwh6bFUCwiUNRLBrhCswuDKVvfexnovF1ZgPSvHqIj6KFrS9pIFzyBOS-bspypw/s320/Australia%20Sparks.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Balwyn,
Melbourne, 2 de abril de 1966.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">©
James Johnson Kibel alias James Brown. Izquierda: foto original.
Derecha: la saturación de color hecha por Brad Sparks muestra claros
indicios de fraude.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
Military.com sobre el accidente aéreo del capitán Thomas Mantell:
“The First Air Force Pilot to Die Chasing a UFO Was Actually
Chasing a Secret Balloon”,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Manuel
Borraz y J.C. Victorio Uranga continúan su extraordinaria labor de
análisis de todos los casos españoles que tuvieron cabida en la
obra </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wonders
In The Sky </span></i></span></span><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: #1d2228;">,
de Jacques Vallée y Chris Aubeck. En esta ocasión han preparado una
entrada sobre la observación de una cruz luminosa en Buendía
(Cuenca) el 5 de marzo de 1555. No es revisionismo, es una mezcla de
ciencia e historia:</span> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-10-buendia-5-de.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-10-buendia-5-de.html</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(17)
El periodista, investigador y escritor argentino Alejandro
Agostinelli presenta una reveladora entrevista inédita de Julio
Arcas e Ignacio Cabria en 1985 con el creador del monstruo UMMO, José
Luis Jordán Peña, a través de una documentada y certera
introducción: </span></span><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2022/10/28/ummo-el-dia-que-jordan-pena-mostro-sus-cartas-y-nadie-pesco-el-guino/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2022/10/28/ummo-el-dia-que-jordan-pena-mostro-sus-cartas-y-nadie-pesco-el-guino/</span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Y
un ensayo de Ale para no perderse se titula “¿Cuántos
extraterrestres deben ser asesinados para que la Humanidad abra los
ojos?”, también en su web:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2015/01/25/cuantos-extraterrestres-deben-ser-asesinados-para-que-la-humanidad-abra-los-ojos/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2015/01/25/cuantos-extraterrestres-deben-ser-asesinados-para-que-la-humanidad-abra-los-ojos/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Otra investigación, al tiempo telemática y rigurosa, de Victorio
Uranga</span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES">:
“</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
OVNI aterriza en un monte de Zumárraga”: </span></span></span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/10/un-ovni-aterriza-en-un-monte-de.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/10/un-ovni-aterriza-en-un-monte-de.html</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(19)
Un capítulo más de la Biblioteca Ufológica de YouTube que componen
dos tremendos bibliófilos, Diego Zúñiga y Sergio Sánchez. En esta
ocasión glosan el extraordinario libro </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
invención de los discos voladores</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
de Rodolpho Gauthier Cardoso dos Santos: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/_KDC7sArXIU"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/_KDC7sArXIU</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Un
Marciano en Alemania. Reseña de Juan Pablo González</span></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Un
conocido adagio asegura que una imagen vale más que mil palabras, lo
que debe entenderse no como que las imágenes sean más valiosas que
el lenguaje, sino como que son más eficientes a la hora de
transmitir información. Sin embargo, a veces encontramos imágenes
que, para su cabal comprensión, requieren ser acompañadas de mucho
más de mil palabras. El libro objeto de este comentario es buena
prueba de ello.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="es-ES">Un
marciano en Alemania”, obra de Diego Zúñiga, </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>alma
mater</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
junto con Sergio Sánchez de la editorial Coliseo Sentosa, inaugura
la colección “Casos clásicos”, dedicada (o al menos eso parece,
ya que el segundo volumen se está haciendo esperar) a analizar de
manera monográfica casos ovni que han pasado a ser iconos de la
subcultura ufológica. En esta ocasión podríamos decir que ni
siquiera se trata de un caso típico, ya que en principio no se
conoce a los testigos. Únicamente tenemos una fotografía: la
conocida como el “hombre de aluminio”. Ya saben, esa en la que un
pequeño humanoide aparentemente desnudo y de aspecto metálico es
conducido de la mano por dos hombres de apariencia siniestra,
vestidos con gabardina y sombrero. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMEy_gft-SbrlbDkFsnCvjRRJnBN4E7d44FqEtjhynUWxAAt2Ud5Vg5jb5gCXLZFqFJ5Nal4oEZJEaTBgiPtTAwG9GQ5TiMAZB3TH70O_QuoRXwNr3qh_c411nqYJeMMQO7HSY_uld8INJIo35k7ZRaJaNWFQ6trnj8mgBNL7EV7BolAvKQ/s1656/Marciano.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="1371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMEy_gft-SbrlbDkFsnCvjRRJnBN4E7d44FqEtjhynUWxAAt2Ud5Vg5jb5gCXLZFqFJ5Nal4oEZJEaTBgiPtTAwG9GQ5TiMAZB3TH70O_QuoRXwNr3qh_c411nqYJeMMQO7HSY_uld8INJIo35k7ZRaJaNWFQ6trnj8mgBNL7EV7BolAvKQ/s320/Marciano.JPG" width="265" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">La
fotografía clave fue publicada por primera vez en la revista alemana
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Neue
Illustrierte</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
(Cortesía de Diego Zúñiga).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La
imagen ha aparecido mil veces en la literatura y revistas
especializadas, pero en muchas ocasiones sin demasiado detalle sobre
las circunstancias en que fue tomada. Y cuando iba acompañada de una
historia, esta cada vez era diferente. Así, la foto se presentaba
como tomada en Alemania, Méjico, Arizona, New Mexico, California,
Missouri, … Intentando dar coherencia a estas contradicciones,
también se construyeron relatos híbridos, en los que el
desventurado humanoide había estrellado su platillo en América,
pero lo trasladaron a Alemania donde se tomó la fotografía.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A
lo largo de 146 páginas, sin contar 10 páginas de referencias
bibliográficas y créditos (nuestro extraterrestre habría podido
cobrar un buen dinero si hubiese reclamado derechos de imagen),
Zúñiga realiza una meticulosa labor documental recopilando todas
las citas del caso, y nos lleva de la mano por un laberinto donde es
fácil perderse, formado no solo por los múltiples relatos
incompatibles entre sí, sino también por las distintas hipótesis
que los ufólogos han ido formulando desde que la imagen salió a la
luz en 1950. Como un hábil prestidigitador, parece revelarnos pistas
que terminan disolviéndose en el aire. Pero no hay que desesperar:
siempre aparece otra versión del relato que perseguir. Hasta llegar,
finalmente, a la verdad.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Sin
embargo, lo más relevante del libro no es la explicación del caso,
que en último término es casi lo menos importante, sino comprobar
cómo esta fotografía ejemplifica perfectamente algunos de los
peores vicios del mundillo ufológico, y además en grado sumo. Se
parte de una anomalía, algo extraño que no sabemos identificar. En
este caso, una fotografía con un extraño ser, de origen incierto.
Los medios de comunicación sensacionalistas, tal vez ante el </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>horror
vacui, </i></span><span lang="es-ES">la
necesidad de llenar espacio en sus publicaciones o conseguir un mayor
número de lectores, se</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span><span lang="es-ES">inventan
una historia. En ocasiones, incluso conociendo la realidad. Ufólogos
no menos sensacionalistas la difunden, aun cuando realmente no la
crean. Así tenemos versiones según las cuales el humanoide fue
capturado tras ser derribada su nave por cohetes, unas veces
sobrevive, otras fallece y es enterrado con el correspondiente oficio
religioso, se dan explicaciones a su aspecto metálico, se apuntan
múltiples procedencias extraterrenas, etc. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Otros,
algo más sensatos, dudan de las historias de acompañamiento. Sin
embargo se aferran a la fotografía como prueba fehaciente de que
algo extraño ocurrió, y de tanto mirarla llegan incluso a ver lo
que no existe, y hasta identifican a los retratados. Esto no es
exclusivo de los creyentes en el caso: también los escépticos se
equivocan y contribuyen a la confusión con explicaciones poco
atinadas. Así, según Hynek y otros que le siguieron, el
extraterrestre era un mono rasurado y pintado, algo que sí ocurrió
en otro caso diferente.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Y
lo más triste es que, como Zúñiga afirma, la verdad del caso
siempre la pudimos saber. Se ha publicado varias veces… y se ha
olvidado o no ha alcanzado amplia difusión, a lo que han contribuido
las barreras idiomáticas. El caso resurge periódicamente de sus
cenizas y aún hay ufólogos del ala más conspiranoica que siguen
defendiendo su veracidad. </span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Si
usted, lector de esta breve reseña, no sabe cuál es la explicación
de esta imagen (como era mi caso cuando leí el libro), no seré yo
quien haga un </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>spoiler</i></span><span lang="es-ES">.
Bástele saber que, como ya se imagina, la foto no muestra a un
alienígena real y lea el libro. El mérito de Zúñiga, además de
reunir una cantidad ingente de “información”, es mantener el
suspense hasta casi el final. Momento en el que, al conocer la verdad
en su detalle completo no podrá menos que, como yo hice, soltar una
carcajada.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="es-ES">Un
marciano en Alemania”, Diego Zúñiga, Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa,
Santiago de Chile, 2020: </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/-/es/D-Zúñiga/dp/B08JB9VR5N" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.com/-/es/D-Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga/dp/B08JB9VR5N</span></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlcuOaZEZzXs7IVGiHK7kuMkaREIiqISR2AKL2NbDJNXYz3UIZ_7Sr0G-3SnQL2opWF1zjWWsSaNn7rH3LNEaHYrinxVtA_aIgvv7hgNscaOiskzFs1zEaNVRNGb-IKIODF0cDPry0Q7KBZT4KpxUqIMnjBSUkNSM1sLe11uQ40amZTJiT_g/s4128/Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlcuOaZEZzXs7IVGiHK7kuMkaREIiqISR2AKL2NbDJNXYz3UIZ_7Sr0G-3SnQL2opWF1zjWWsSaNn7rH3LNEaHYrinxVtA_aIgvv7hgNscaOiskzFs1zEaNVRNGb-IKIODF0cDPry0Q7KBZT4KpxUqIMnjBSUkNSM1sLe11uQ40amZTJiT_g/s320/Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Montaje
fotográfico de la portada del libro y una figura alegórica. ©
Carlos González.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Artefactos
alienígenas: La historia olvidada de cómo llegamos a creer en
visitantes de las estrellas </u></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Chris
Aubeck, autor inglés residente en España, nos presenta su nuevo
libro:</span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span lang="es-ES">Esta
semana he publicado una humilde contribución a nuestra temática. Es
el primero de una serie de tres volúmenes que mostrarán cómo se ha
desarrollado el tema de las visitas extraterrestres en los últimos
dos siglos. El libro consta de tres partes principales. En primer
lugar, repasa brevemente la teoría de la pluralidad de mundos desde
la antigua Grecia hasta el Renacimiento, y luego se sumerge en el
tema del contacto extraterrestre en la religión, la literatura y la
sátira. A continuación, cataloga y examina todos los casos
conocidos que se creía que estaban relacionados con visitantes o
artefactos extraterrestres. La tercera parte trata de los orígenes
del tema de los alienígenas ancestrales, que tiene raíces mucho más
profundas de lo que se había imaginado. He llegado a una explicación
plausible de cómo surgió en 1823. Entre los capítulos he insertado
fragmentos de libros y periódicos que muestran cómo los
extraterrestres y las visitas extraterrestres se convirtieron
progresivamente en parte de la cultura cotidiana durante el siglo
XIX. Se compra a través de </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/gneKPiK"><span lang="es-ES">https://amzn.eu/d/gneKPiK</span></a></u></span></span></p>
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contenidos en la sección en inglés</span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="en-US">The
Toulouse 2022 UFO Workshop”, por Clas Svahn.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9fSl-TGeHdIBBxEqup6daQdOsHtuoYTAce2PmH16azmhkaitnEkXzW8LOLagTh3Q-FEzgu7Rxm54F2wV_J-nXsNcD8FjdNqlZwG1FDHacFkfjCudBjseGOw6DTcg77acLOcGUJykiwll1dBX7LTbV33fPo1vaAjN1XNFDzmYVlsRNqRjIg/s1755/programa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1241" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9fSl-TGeHdIBBxEqup6daQdOsHtuoYTAce2PmH16azmhkaitnEkXzW8LOLagTh3Q-FEzgu7Rxm54F2wV_J-nXsNcD8FjdNqlZwG1FDHacFkfjCudBjseGOw6DTcg77acLOcGUJykiwll1dBX7LTbV33fPo1vaAjN1XNFDzmYVlsRNqRjIg/s320/programa.jpg" width="226" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Programa
del taller CAIPAN 2.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span lang="es-ES">UFOs
Along History”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="es-ES">Quotable
Quotes”.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="es-ES">The
1976 Tehran Case”.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span lang="es-ES">Cuba,
November 1954 Follow-up. No Trace”.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
¡Ah, las buenas amistades no tienen precio! Y máxime cuando se
trata de autores e investigadores de la talla de Ignacio Cabria,
Diego Zúñiga, Juan Antonio Fernández Peris y Jaime Servera, con
quienes me reuní en Valencia el pasado 7 de octubre. Un feliz
encuentro de siete horas que dio para mucho, revisión de casos,
discusión sobre el panorama ufológico nacional e internacional,
exposición de nuestros proyectos personales y libros, ¡siempre
libros! Una grata e inolvidable reunión de la que queda constancia
en las fotos que siguen.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQN8x0STi2zfOFaqv4kjVaUKhDFDKBBEVf6re5oUaNyy-ndZtie5NkqDR1pf8_RTTO_75V78JQMsFXGeS4X0lygeJJA1kICpBVyspdOBZ7RQoe1I0-1Cug5km-Tn4_YakY5d5RX2d8uj-4eOehBBawI0Pzf53SSbgwk8cmp3GKK7teMxkMUw/s3088/Selfi.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="3088" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQN8x0STi2zfOFaqv4kjVaUKhDFDKBBEVf6re5oUaNyy-ndZtie5NkqDR1pf8_RTTO_75V78JQMsFXGeS4X0lygeJJA1kICpBVyspdOBZ7RQoe1I0-1Cug5km-Tn4_YakY5d5RX2d8uj-4eOehBBawI0Pzf53SSbgwk8cmp3GKK7teMxkMUw/s320/Selfi.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Selfi:
de izquierda a derecha I. Cabria, D. Zúñiga y V.J. Ballester Olmos.
(Foto de Nacho).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWV19NR3rakrhgMeeVvsxbnhp-ZfRgnFLrVzR0FxaaMeUpaqzw_1AqRD3wngTkklhBYd8hr8Il-AnCTDOoaghSEWxmkj5xCZBaMq4DI-SgTs2kBqHhHa__Wbj8aKt7gB_fGqACQLxE3z6cBiygyWTPMJhkgLOAO_nI--cT8USzUL4hRs33A/s3264/exponiendo%20planes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWV19NR3rakrhgMeeVvsxbnhp-ZfRgnFLrVzR0FxaaMeUpaqzw_1AqRD3wngTkklhBYd8hr8Il-AnCTDOoaghSEWxmkj5xCZBaMq4DI-SgTs2kBqHhHa__Wbj8aKt7gB_fGqACQLxE3z6cBiygyWTPMJhkgLOAO_nI--cT8USzUL4hRs33A/s320/exponiendo%20planes.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Exponiendo
planes a futuro. De izquierda a derecha: I. Cabria, J. Servera, J.A.
Fernández Peris y V.J. Ballester Olmos. (Foto de Diego).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4MS5U4BUKiXmYueRtJ_lhMfxjeQvzSaV6b1AtSkHCtWpo5YdEh7EAtKUgmX0SiqPJJaWL3uIa7GAHdMn8tMQhNTMUH2B1PBTLU-sYt_AZPgMMd8poQsz3GF4apR8A6VkoEEYfYMePUUMNVOFbyrISpIjLc6B6lthZVmHNsxcRKFMVJR63A/s4032/todos.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4MS5U4BUKiXmYueRtJ_lhMfxjeQvzSaV6b1AtSkHCtWpo5YdEh7EAtKUgmX0SiqPJJaWL3uIa7GAHdMn8tMQhNTMUH2B1PBTLU-sYt_AZPgMMd8poQsz3GF4apR8A6VkoEEYfYMePUUMNVOFbyrISpIjLc6B6lthZVmHNsxcRKFMVJR63A/s320/todos.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">De
izquierda a derecha: J.A. Fernández Peris, J. Servera, V.J.
Ballester Olmos, D. Zúñiga e I. Cabria. (Foto de una simpática
camarera del “Café de las Luces”).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Nietos: los niños siguen creciendo en hermosura e inteligencia.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6sK6M2MuoaQ_oBnh6rrG3t208GjL48saj-mdJDwiOCxkDr0u4OE5n1eOql6Dh8oT7zXAXpD4D2uDz8nhGpT1XCMwOpgKtIbedyokuMJ3EpswrI9vC1vemwrx-4cuMCletS70HVAxw041UB-Ep1LJPF02CGc97CBCfNhmRZ9usQciUIfhgA/s2362/Lucas,%20Mat%C3%ADas%20y%20Fernando.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="2362" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6sK6M2MuoaQ_oBnh6rrG3t208GjL48saj-mdJDwiOCxkDr0u4OE5n1eOql6Dh8oT7zXAXpD4D2uDz8nhGpT1XCMwOpgKtIbedyokuMJ3EpswrI9vC1vemwrx-4cuMCletS70HVAxw041UB-Ep1LJPF02CGc97CBCfNhmRZ9usQciUIfhgA/w400-h200/Lucas,%20Mat%C3%ADas%20y%20Fernando.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Lucas
(en plan Zen), Matías y el tenista Fernando.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas y amigos que han aportado
información a la presente edición del blog:</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Björn
Borg (Finlandia), Julio Plaza del Olmo (España), Manuel Borraz
Aymerich (España), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Carlos González
(España), Mary Castner (EE. UU.), Diego Zúñiga (Chile), Martin
Shough (Escocia), Philippe Ailleris (Holanda), Curt Collins (EE.
UU.), Kay Coggin (EE. UU.) y Juan Pablo González (España).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0xI1cU6SglvYseM7ke0m2A1ODFNTqXq3Jv-SaYKJ1RsXXz3c0lFZas2mt8hiGBYpUrfS0RkJ-eFp-qwLrdhJU1TOr5XnxIHcDNYT5quJbOmRJWh37uqkXjRsT-UMKw1ZD6ljwOilAUt0uLnxQkUJ_TdeM1SllEGlKagRfNXvrDuNjg9Rbg/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0xI1cU6SglvYseM7ke0m2A1ODFNTqXq3Jv-SaYKJ1RsXXz3c0lFZas2mt8hiGBYpUrfS0RkJ-eFp-qwLrdhJU1TOr5XnxIHcDNYT5quJbOmRJWh37uqkXjRsT-UMKw1ZD6ljwOilAUt0uLnxQkUJ_TdeM1SllEGlKagRfNXvrDuNjg9Rbg/w400-h69/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><i>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</i></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">,
CUFOS, 1976.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984.</span><span lang="es-ES"><u></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995.</span><span lang="es-ES"><u></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/52rtrbxc"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/52rtrbxc</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mvd7naf2"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mvd7naf2</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4z4wx2r3"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4z4wx2r3</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</i></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs
and Government</i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span><span lang="en-US">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012. </span></span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013. </span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
(con M. Borraz), 2020.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-21997095123989624772022-09-24T00:00:00.026+02:002022-09-24T23:46:23.371+02:002022/SEPTEMBER/24 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English language editing: Martin
Shough</span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Presently,
the total number of entries in the FOTOCAT dataset is 12,832. As
manager and owner of FOTOCAT, I am always willing to provide
information to researchers, so I am encouraging data analysts to
request regional, seasonal, time, or thematic sectors from the catalog,
for specific projects.</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">In
Spanish. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
País Semanal</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
the weekly magazine attached to the Sunday edition of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
País</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">the
Spanish newspaper with the largest circulation in the country, has
published an interview with this writer. It is partly a standard
interview, partly a biographical sketch of the author: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/84101681/El_ufologo_Sherlock_Holmes"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/84101681/El_ufologo_Sherlock_Holmes</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">After
that, many nice comments have poured into my email, but this is the
one I have appreciated most, for obvious reasons: </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
love that they call you the UFO Sherlock Holmes! </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Elizabeth
Loftus, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Psychological Science, School
of Law, University of California, Irvine, USA).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekrjCPqUmFafpEjfUV_roExvikhCqTCIfmYLd2QDDUrLwRmeaUDrSQJrYZRtiLR116vbY5DY9WwHk7uEn8J68IJNlE9OBC8LiLdrBRhySIGCNV2rNeBdbHGKHtKQGiDaQ8QQkycIzDURU9-3Gv6zgA_1Rz-1hXJWJIF5Fq0NtNPoQ2SDxLg/s650/El%20Pa%C3%ADs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="650" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekrjCPqUmFafpEjfUV_roExvikhCqTCIfmYLd2QDDUrLwRmeaUDrSQJrYZRtiLR116vbY5DY9WwHk7uEn8J68IJNlE9OBC8LiLdrBRhySIGCNV2rNeBdbHGKHtKQGiDaQ8QQkycIzDURU9-3Gv6zgA_1Rz-1hXJWJIF5Fq0NtNPoQ2SDxLg/s320/El%20Pa%C3%ADs.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">V.J.
Ballester Olmos, El Saler (Valencia), June 2022. © Raúl Belinchón.</span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
Pristine Arnold Case</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">June
24, 2022 has marked the 75th anniversary of the sighting of Kenneth
Arnold, the worldwide accepted commencement date for flying saucers
(then UFOs, nowadays‒for the time being‒UAP). We have to
recognize that the original observation was highly atypical with
regard to the “usual” subsequent reports of flying discs. As a
matter of fact, this string of nine shiny, almost bat-shaped objects
in flight was practically the first and</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">‒at
the same time‒</span></span><span lang="en-US">the
last of this type of event, which induces me to think that probably
it was a badly observed, individually misinterpreted, media
exaggerated, and wrongly analyzed episode. This is, however, an
intuitive remark based on my years-long personal documented position
that there exist neither alien UFOs nor physical flying objects
unknown to science. Additionally, if we had to proceed with the most stringent criteria of serious ufology, the witness’ value would
approach to zero. What do we find here? A sole observer who later
claimed to have experienced multiple air encounters with flying
saucers, and his later published weird ideas on the nature of the
flying bodies (a sort of atmospheric animals), for example, are
conditions that would not pass any screening to select “good”
cases. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Of
course, the gravest of all the implications of the Arnold occurrence
is the disparity between the shape he described and drew of the
individual objects with respect to the term chosen by the press
“flying saucer”. After the mammoth publicity received by this
sighting, people started to watch saucer-shaped flying objects, not
the actual object configuration Arnold thought he had seen (see below
some of his depictions). For me, this factor, plus the absence of a
contrasted (verified) materiality in 75 years of UFO reports, is
convincing evidence that “Martians” are not invading the Earth.
</span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_iLLUigzDhSnK-R3PnVdbATMYP2E9VWgFp8cC-rxSKtvJ6laU47eSWk8DVwuwP-MtncMSQ8IuPT1ic2RhZ_I-UGfDHu5BijhsYpMRBLLDsE-2cM1uqelNFV6n5sbwCA7CXo4r2oWfQBs0nVgw5kxAbK8MY39ggSxJSK85IyVphtmp0nv5g/s1548/Arnold.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="1548" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_iLLUigzDhSnK-R3PnVdbATMYP2E9VWgFp8cC-rxSKtvJ6laU47eSWk8DVwuwP-MtncMSQ8IuPT1ic2RhZ_I-UGfDHu5BijhsYpMRBLLDsE-2cM1uqelNFV6n5sbwCA7CXo4r2oWfQBs0nVgw5kxAbK8MY39ggSxJSK85IyVphtmp0nv5g/s320/Arnold.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Weight:
A Measurement for UFO Cases</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">In
1990, my collaborator Joan Plana Crivillén and I were developing a
catalog of UFO sightings by military personnel (Air Force, Army and
Navy), Guardia Civil, and police. We created an important archive,
with individual files collecting all the existing information for
each case, as well as a computerized record of the events.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">At
the end of the declassification process, in 1999, and having achieved
our objective, that is, that the UFO files in custody of the Spanish
Air Force were made public (1-6), after a decade that we lived with
great intensity, it was appropriate to change the subject. Joan
practically retired from ufology and in 2000 I started the FOTOCAT
project.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But,
as those who know me well are aware, I never leave things unfinished
and I have continued to update the military catalogs regularly.
MILICAT is for "positive" cases, that is, those which have
not been explained (not because they are intrinsically unexplainable,
but because they have not been well investigated or, above all,
because there is not enough data for an adequate evaluation).
PSEUDOCAT is for "negative" cases, that is, the sightings
for which a solution has been found. MILICAT has 272 entries, from
1881 to 2014. PSEUDOCAT brings together 399 reports, which occurred
between 1932 and 2020. The catalogs remain unpublished.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTm6XK01PPOF5JkngN7FDaHch02cLXs5QF27RLxn3c5UwOcXvm00FU_PSPcZ0aulmcA2u-cQk5HekJ_RrrfwWAcKTZ0SK5FpJa4Ib8gE2j-ijVStRg7I7yqvD7htc_YAcV0JIsZ9JPBzcu2-_3sQBdTDr8aZ9V2P43giE365NNwyWg7xfug/s1191/Plana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1191" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTm6XK01PPOF5JkngN7FDaHch02cLXs5QF27RLxn3c5UwOcXvm00FU_PSPcZ0aulmcA2u-cQk5HekJ_RrrfwWAcKTZ0SK5FpJa4Ib8gE2j-ijVStRg7I7yqvD7htc_YAcV0JIsZ9JPBzcu2-_3sQBdTDr8aZ9V2P43giE365NNwyWg7xfug/s320/Plana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Joan
Plana (right) and V.J. Ballester Olmos. In the background, a section
of the UFO files of CEI at Barcelona.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It
was during the design stage of these catalogs that I prepared a
system, simple but practical, to determine the weight of each case,
as a semi-quantitative measure for the purpose of selecting the best
cases, which we would submit to analysis. Finally, we did not carry
out this study.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgbhB6xzGcsJWHMynPhyJo1I3rsXHFIDQxCxvrw5oUoihl4RO618cxS-_2sKelFu_sK-00oZuGV9Wy6fZcESdyreurfyVRTyr-MGgOHqwAEuUCIwgJMAMb_w6kjvvxM1Z-4EEwvEHyWU7wZEZrbAL-BGDLSfwy3Fl8Ulm5RqNmmOJM90cMw/s871/Diagram.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="871" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgbhB6xzGcsJWHMynPhyJo1I3rsXHFIDQxCxvrw5oUoihl4RO618cxS-_2sKelFu_sK-00oZuGV9Wy6fZcESdyreurfyVRTyr-MGgOHqwAEuUCIwgJMAMb_w6kjvvxM1Z-4EEwvEHyWU7wZEZrbAL-BGDLSfwy3Fl8Ulm5RqNmmOJM90cMw/w200-h191/Diagram.png" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Weight:
Strangeness versus Documentation diagram.</span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Following
this scheme, every case will have a WEIGHT that will be HIGH, MEDIUM
or LOW. A value (0, 1, 2) must be assigned to each case, depending on
whether it has a level of Strangeness and Documentation equivalent to
Low, Medium or High. Adding up that pair of values for each case, we
will reach three measurements:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">0
to 1– LOW 2– MEDIUM 3 to 4– HIGH</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">According
to this system, the best cases would be those with </span><span lang="en-US"><u>high</u></span><span lang="en-US">
values, that is, reports of medium documentation and high
strangeness; medium strangeness and high documentation; or high
documentation and high strangeness. This procedure is both easy to
apply and objective. It is a </span><span lang="en-US"><u>reasonable
criterion</u></span><span lang="en-US">
to establish in any given sample of UFO cases those that stand out
and that deserve greater dedication and study.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With
this brief text, I simply wanted to put down in a somewhat more
formal way what was just an improvised internal handwritten note,
because I think it can be used by others to apply to their own
inventories of UFO sightings.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">See
a permanent link in Academia.edu: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/83069034/Weight_A_Measurement_for_UFO_Cases_Peso_Midiendo_casos_ovni"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/83069034/Weight_A_Measurement_for_UFO_Cases_Peso_Midiendo_casos_ovni</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">To
Julio Plaza del Olmo, for “cleaning up” the original
Strangeness/Documentation scheme.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>References</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Spanish Air Force UFO Files: The Secret's
End,” in </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>MUFON
1993 International UFO Symposium Proceedings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
MUFON, 1993, pp. 127-168.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End_pdf">https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End_pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “UFO Declassification in Spain,” in </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs:
Examining the Evidence</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Mike Wootten (ed.), BUFORA, 1995,</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_he_Public_A_Balance.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_he_Public_A_Balance.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Monitoring Air Force Intelligence,” in
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>MUFON
1997 International UFO Symposium Proceedings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
MUFON, 1997, pp. 139-178.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Declassification! (Military UFO Records
Released: The Spanish Experience),” </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
1947-1997. Fifty Years of Flying Saucers</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy (editors), John Brown Publishing Ltd.
(London), 1997, pp. 177-184. </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://bit.ly/31fse34">https://bit.ly/31fse34</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Joan Plana Crivillén, "Cuarenta años de Ovnis en el Ejército
del Aire 1962-2001," </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
28, 2002, pp. 142-218.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(6)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI
desclasificados–Online”, 2017,</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UFO
Pictures in Cuba</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Just
a few weeks ago, my top-class collaborator Kay Coggin sent me scans
from two covers of the newspaper </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Hoy</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(Today), published in Havana, Cuba, in 1952, showing flying saucers
photographs. The first was released in the July 22 edition with that
title: “Flying saucer photographed over Havana?” (La Habana, in
Spanish). It was followed by a political message: “Or a formula of
how the war hysteria is fabricated.” The propagandist editor wrote
in the photo caption that, tired of hearing about flying saucer
stories, the staff photographer Raúl “decided to show our readers
that the supposed flying saucer photographs, that unscrupulously have
been published in many journals, are pure photographic tricks.” And
they created this picture as the proof. </span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1IZYnRN6Ys3oao4IwZrrCEzs3U4BwJhKUY5ORXZFR0fv1aKnyR4esKWhR-finhUCooNUoaps__Z7ItC-uFyhy6GJ32Ne_LrHl2GdwHA5U_93XEDEr0uuJNGJhtnEl7FnzoOJRKwRocSpRj9OTBC0jbrwD9h8Wgjjvmc9Yv27NszM7aqSew/s425/La%20Habana,%2022%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1IZYnRN6Ys3oao4IwZrrCEzs3U4BwJhKUY5ORXZFR0fv1aKnyR4esKWhR-finhUCooNUoaps__Z7ItC-uFyhy6GJ32Ne_LrHl2GdwHA5U_93XEDEr0uuJNGJhtnEl7FnzoOJRKwRocSpRj9OTBC0jbrwD9h8Wgjjvmc9Yv27NszM7aqSew/s320/La%20Habana,%2022%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Probably
it increased sales, because 7 days later, the cover of </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Hoy
</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">repeated
the subject: “Flying saucers made to order!” And another photo
was displayed, this time an object obviously copied from the Barra da
Tijuca (Brazil) faked saucer of May of the same year, that “flies”
over the Telephone Company tower of Havana. The saucer is seen
“inclined at the will of the photographer.” The editor says the
newspaper is willing to produce other similar photos on demand and
asks readers to submit requests indicating any place where the flying
saucer should arrive. “We‒the photo caption ends‒, as well as
the propagandist hysteria warriors, know the gimmicks.”</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDyaByCRJ48UnOBg1MixdhS0KxIKRbzvzv7fgqMfVqON03NEaci8kfk0P_yFZFgMHL59b89KEtJ1Lxo6lvUQF3TLq_JroRjV4EB-3DWDfcYumU-mXBXAKeNall_Z5S8RA7sgEsHXqdqdGZESmJYNy3Sev0J50lirnv5qqA77MDux7BWb7hg/s662/La%20Habana,%2029%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDyaByCRJ48UnOBg1MixdhS0KxIKRbzvzv7fgqMfVqON03NEaci8kfk0P_yFZFgMHL59b89KEtJ1Lxo6lvUQF3TLq_JroRjV4EB-3DWDfcYumU-mXBXAKeNall_Z5S8RA7sgEsHXqdqdGZESmJYNy3Sev0J50lirnv5qqA77MDux7BWb7hg/s320/La%20Habana,%2029%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This
has given me cause to write something more about the history of
alleged UFOs snapped in Cuba. This country shows a very unusual
distribution of cases over time. FOTOCAT only records 15 cases, most
of them extremely poor in appearance (strangeness) and background
information. A 1902 picture of the instant the Cuban flag is being
raised in the Havana government palace on May 20 shows an elongated
spot at the right extreme of the frame, suggesting a mere film or
development flaw. Then, nine cases for the decade of 1950, four cases
of the 1960s, and that’s the end of it until one last entry for
2005. Perhaps an effect of Castro’s dictatorship on the press. Even
in the absence of due investigation on this sample, only 5 keep the
“UFO” label in my catalog, meaning that those documents are
pending study. The remaining 10 being the above-mentioned
photographic defect and the journalist fakes, another two hoaxes, one
publicity event for the Fool’s Day (called Innocent’s Day in the
Spanish tradition that dates it December 28th), one light reflection
on a window’s pane, one case of lens flares, and two examples of
rocket’s fuel venting in the atmosphere. Let us satisfy my readers’
curiosity by shortly reviewing these five “unknown” pictures.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">November
21, 1952, 07:31, somewhere in Cuba. According to the Blue Book’s
monthly index for “16-30 November 1952 Sightings”, there was a
military photograph for that date, with the indication of “card
missing”. The hour comes from a UFOCAT listing. Recently, the US
ufologist Rob Mercer bought some BB files left in a garage by Lt.
Carmon L. Marano, the last chief of the USAF’s UFO study group. On
the back of the printed shot, it may be read “no evaluation.” The
photo is unimpressive and can be anything. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVkns3kXcZnRK5Ah_zv_lEYBwpQS5tzozTorWL_nj7cwMBNYxcWVxKoq9IkODiLoMs-vu0IqBemRp2QjybSF21mbYBxX1KeO-0efkktMr7u9u2D8GAuLFLClziYY2bbOU0SzZfqlKIwTY3svduHrmjvCXz17iWcgff_AzUYQjVaw33qWcvA/s3002/11-1952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2450" data-original-width="3002" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVkns3kXcZnRK5Ah_zv_lEYBwpQS5tzozTorWL_nj7cwMBNYxcWVxKoq9IkODiLoMs-vu0IqBemRp2QjybSF21mbYBxX1KeO-0efkktMr7u9u2D8GAuLFLClziYY2bbOU0SzZfqlKIwTY3svduHrmjvCXz17iWcgff_AzUYQjVaw33qWcvA/s320/11-1952.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Cuba,
November 21, 1952. Courtesy of Rob M. Mercer.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">No
exact date known. November 1954, 04:30. Five miles off the Matanzas
coast (between Cuba and Florida). Source is Virgilio Sánchez-Ocejo,
a deceased Miami-resident ufologist of the gullible, nuts and bolts
species. According to his unconfirmed report from anonymous persons,
the Cuban Navy frigates “José Martí” and “Máximo Gómez”
were patrolling </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>en
route</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
to Havana when intense lights were observed on the northwest horizon.
Within seconds three lights forming a V were located over the ships
for 4 to 6 minutes. Most of the sailors were witnessing them. One
photographer on board filmed the UFOs until they very slowly moved to
the west to disappear on the horizon. The black and white film lasted
7 to 10 minutes and was of a “superior quality.” Ten days later
the footage was shown to the Cuban military High Commands. The story
informs that the UFOs were detected by radar too. The film is said to
have flown to facilities of the US Navy Intelligence in Key West,
Florida. Alleged sources are Cuban high-rank officers and sailors
currently living in Florida. No images have ever been known. I am
sure it will remain unconfirmed forever, but replayed by third
parties who add nothing, like the quotation in the book </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs
and Water</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
by Carl Feindt (2010). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">2022
update. Last July 18th, US blogger Jack Brewer (The UFO Trail)
decided to take the baton on this report and commenced to investigate
by addressing directly to the Office of Naval Intelligence, the
alleged destination of the Cuban evidence. He submitted two FOIAs to
the ONI. The following is the summary of the‒still
unfinished‒feedback: On September 2</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">nd</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
the U.S. Department of the Navy emailed responses dated August 31,
where DON s</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="en-US">uggested
the Office of Naval Intelligence does not maintain its own archive
and such records, if they exist, would have been transferred to the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for
processing. On the following day, a FOIA request was
subsequently submitted to NARA by Brewer in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">search
for records composed during November 1954. On September 7</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
Alexis Bucher, Special Access and FOIA Program (RF) from NARA,
emailed this acknowledgment: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">We
are forwarding your request to our Textual Department as they are the
custodial unit for these records. We are also forwarding your request
to our Still Photographs and Motion Picture Department as part of
your request asked for this material. You will receive separate
responses from each department. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">As
Brewer comments: “Edging towards the finish line!” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">When
the present blog update was “in press”, on September 16, Mr.
Brewer received this communication from NARA’s S</span><span lang="en-US">till
Picture Branch, signed by Billy Wade, Branch Chief: </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">…Your
request indicated that you are interested in photographs taken by the
U.S. Navy in November 1954 of the Cuban Navy frigates Jose Marti and
Maximo Gomez. We conducted a search in the General Records of the
Department of the Navy (Record Group 80), Records of the Defense
Intelligence Agency (Record Group 373), and Records of the Naval
Intelligence Command (Record Group 289). Unfortunately, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>we
were unable to locate any images related to your request</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">…
[</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">My
emphasis] </span></span><span lang="en-US">This
email also said that the Textual Records Division and the Motion
Picture & Sound branches of NARA will reply separately.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">I
do suspect that this is a non-event, in other words, a pure invention
by Cuban immigrants among Florida's Hispanic ufologists, therefore I
anticipate NO records has never found their way either to ONI, DON,
or NARA. But a checkup should have been done, and this is what Jack
Brewer is doing. When this process is over, I will continue reporting
any findings in this blog.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT_CP8ic9B7ujt-pVEW9LprD68dpz4f6F4rUCI72xFREyWACLMfCaQGtJpCWpfnSAK4yqLcOrCFB3rg7uflSLu6_5PfnT7X3O5NONJIakjDWrXLulWWhBLjbCc1RTfI5sm_c7lU0MzQ1N5f6DIlNFCdu56AzHCLu6tDoYZuK19H9POAhXykw/s1754/11-1954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1754" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT_CP8ic9B7ujt-pVEW9LprD68dpz4f6F4rUCI72xFREyWACLMfCaQGtJpCWpfnSAK4yqLcOrCFB3rg7uflSLu6_5PfnT7X3O5NONJIakjDWrXLulWWhBLjbCc1RTfI5sm_c7lU0MzQ1N5f6DIlNFCdu56AzHCLu6tDoYZuK19H9POAhXykw/s320/11-1954.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Map
of the Matanzas coast UFO incident, November 1954. Credit: V.
Sánchez-Ocejo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Year
1957, no month, day or time known. In the web site “Ovnis Cubanos”
(Cuban UFOs) of Carlos Heredero, it is reported that a Manuel Méndez
Vázquez, who usually carried a small </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Rolliflex
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">camera
with him everywhere, while walking alone by the Cacahual hill, close
to Havana city, observed a “mysterious craft” that he initially
thought it was a US blimp. He asked a nearby peasant, who thought it
was not one. “The object was shaped like a saucer and was swaying,
like when a leaf falls. The lower part was dark gray and the upper
part a little lighter. The latter was crowned by a kind of dome with
a little antenna.” He took three snapshots and when he was about to
shoot another one, “the contraption disappeared all of a sudden.”
The peasant ran away crying “a ghost, a ghost,” never to be seen
again. Once more, one sole witness. The bad quality pictures were
scanned from a photo album where they were glued. The negatives were
never found. Checking official records, I found a Spaniard of 24
years of age by this name living in Mexico in 1912. If it is him,
Méndez took the pictures when he was 69. When the pictures were
published online, the man had died already. My subjective impression
is that he was both a flying saucer buff and an amateur photographer
who one day combined his two interests by throwing an object into the
air. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRP7nO7KKjHCWCuya8xgWI3efKTpKbdVM4h2_wPj6zS2tgbLn0kug4E7lobftWmhRAiwR-pRBF9zoaIifEzwoIICE749ZcDRRahr9Ujiv_SaO_H8grhMDBt9pwXJun2oIqD1p_tdEunpwj7M6MH72RRPAUesKCYSsCSWFlUTxFXGAVoAGPMA/s850/Cuba.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="850" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRP7nO7KKjHCWCuya8xgWI3efKTpKbdVM4h2_wPj6zS2tgbLn0kug4E7lobftWmhRAiwR-pRBF9zoaIifEzwoIICE749ZcDRRahr9Ujiv_SaO_H8grhMDBt9pwXJun2oIqD1p_tdEunpwj7M6MH72RRPAUesKCYSsCSWFlUTxFXGAVoAGPMA/w400-h95/Cuba.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Pictures
borrowed from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/ovniscubanos/pages/fotocub1.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.ws/ovniscubanos/pages/fotocub1.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Year
1959, no month, day or time known. The book by Porto Rican UFO writer
Sebastián Robiu Lamarche, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Manifiesto
OVNI </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(UFO
manifest), published 1979, included a 6-line description of a
sighting by Sergio Cervera, who saw from the Havana pier at 8 p.m. a
“bright silver-colored light” that turned “red-orange in color”
when its size decreased. Apparently, it submerged into the sea.
Frankly, I suspect a fireball descending to the horizon. Yet, what
about pictures? Well, the witness could photograph “the same light,
days later” with an </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Argus
C-3 </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">camera.
The film was developed in the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Prensa
Libre</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
newspaper’s lab, although it was not published. The pictures are
not available. The source was the very same witness: “Dr. Sergio
Cervera, the first Cuban ufologist and founder of the Miami’s
Comisión Investigadora de Fenómenos Aéreos” (a civilian group to
investigate aerial phenomena). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">October
15, 1961, no exact time known. Guantanamo Naval Air Station. Two
unreliable figures of US ufology, Wendelle Stevens & August
Roberts, published this case abstract in their book </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Photographs Around the World, Vol. 3</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
1993: “A Naval Seaman snapped a color night photo of 5 radiant
pinkish-yellow oval-shaped objects flying in perfect formation in the
dark night sky. Enlargement of the nearest (largest) object shows a
dome shape on top.” They attributed the information to UFO
collectors Lucius Farish and Ron Smotek. Decades ago, I corresponded
with Smotek, he must be the person who submitted the color slide I
have. I do not know what you may think about this image, but it is
not difficult to imagine what a bored seaman in Cuba, far from home
and not doing tourism precisely, can invent as a pastime.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">In
summary, the few “unknown” Cuban UAP photographs show images so
ambiguous that nothing really meaningful can be said about them,
except that they can be easily created by the hand of man. </span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yx4YHyu2xkj7se80wqdllVHL7dQoRYjiqylrZlGx96Tb4WSQ3aYbmSmrL_BlCW6UvgpzHvTLgfA8wv4AdXGBfFj1apJp5i0dcI6Z_TXFpBaYj58qUUVaC8VxvNUDPGvnpFlCWTo8727iuvH68ELgoKXWnvGfavR2Es2NNGLa55W8DqJX1A/s1772/Guantanamo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1772" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yx4YHyu2xkj7se80wqdllVHL7dQoRYjiqylrZlGx96Tb4WSQ3aYbmSmrL_BlCW6UvgpzHvTLgfA8wv4AdXGBfFj1apJp5i0dcI6Z_TXFpBaYj58qUUVaC8VxvNUDPGvnpFlCWTo8727iuvH68ELgoKXWnvGfavR2Es2NNGLa55W8DqJX1A/s320/Guantanamo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>US
UAP Programs: </u></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><u>Rubbish,
Watson, Rubbish</u></i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk109317518"></a><span lang="en-US">This
is what Sherlock Holmes would exclaim today as he did back in his
tale “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Hearst’s
International</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
January 1924, if he was aware of how current-day government UFO
projects are mishandled. In my youth, when I was sort of a
critical-minded UFO fan, I did my best‒in my humble dedication‒to
raise the level of the “discipline” handling UFO data, by
strictly adhering to scientific methodology, screening sightings,
searching for patterns, compiling comprehensive technical
bibliographies, quantifying and standardizing units, isolating
unsolvable incidents in catalogs, and developing a sustainable theory
to embrace the events the eyewitnesses told us about. I immediately
realized that followers of flying saucers were, at the same time,
lovers and collectors of all kinds of freaky and shocking stories,
from ghosts to the Loch Ness monster, from the Antikythera mechanism
to the Yeti, from extra-sensory perception to every imaginable
celestial, atmospheric or underwater oddity. In summary, aficionados
of every conceivable mystery, of any deviation from mainstream,
normalized science. Somehow, we liked the weird. And our readings
solidified that into beliefs. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In
opposition, wishing to follow a rational approach, I suppressed my
interest in other anomalies and centered exclusively on UFOs. One
strange topic at a time was enough. I did not want to become
contaminated by what seems to be an absurd world. Even, in a drastic
move, I prohibited myself from reading science fiction! (A mistake I
corrected decades later, I must add.) I wanted to get rid of
non-canonical influences. At the end of the day, nevertheless, I
realized that the single field of UFOs contained an infinite variety
of subgenres and rarities within; in fact, no single case had a
duplicate, and we can count an innumerable assortment of visiting
aliens to Earth by looking at the humanoid shapes claimed to have
been encountered by lucky UFO landing experiencers.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Today,
some civilian, private groups of scientifically oriented ufologists
(in my view, too gullible and ETH-oriented) attempt to focus their
studies on accountable and quantifiable data to lend the image of
truly scientific societies. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">But
what we are learning lately about the mental schemes and convictions
of the guys who have </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">governed
and influenced last</span></span><span lang="en-US">
two Pentagon UAP programs (AAWSAP and UAPTF) is that their mediators,
leaders, chief scientists, assistants, consultants, contractors,
part-time investigators, call them as you please, are personalities
mentally prone to every kind of paranormal activities, abnormal
happenings, apparitions, etc. It is a shame that millions of dollars
of taxpayers money are managed by those individuals who think as
abnormally as the accounts they describe, live and pursue. It is
scary to say the least. If I was a US citizen, I would yell: whose
hands are we in? Enough is enough! </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
following links provide fresh, recently acquired information on the
guiding characters behind what was supposed to be an impartial,
unbiased and scientific study. As if the overdose of UFO reality TV,
TV documentaries, and TV channels on the paranormal was not enough to
miseducate the US public, now those who still trust the authorities,
the Navy, the Pentagon or the DoD are expected to receive lots of
misrepresented information. I feel sorry for those who will live
through the next 75 years of UFO agendas. But I still hold some
faith‒yes, faith this time, not another recourse left‒that common
sense will prevail. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What
did Dr. Travis Taylor (multi-degreed scientist, reality TV star and
promiscuous with paranormal beliefs) do and not do when he
investigated for the Navy UAP Task Force… For example, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John
Greenewald writes:</span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-releases-details-about-dr-travis-taylors-uap-task-force-involvement/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-releases-details-about-dr-travis-taylors-uap-task-force-involvement/</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">And
Jason Colavito feedbacks:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-travis-taylor-saga-grows-stranger-and-stupider">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-travis-taylor-saga-grows-stranger-and-stupider</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">As
the names of UAPTF analysts emerge and their behavior and irrational
ideas are in the open air, I cannot but recommend reading these</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US">sharp
commentaries posted by critics like Jason Colavito and Robert
Sheaffer:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/travis-taylor-admits-to-being-a-paid-government-ufo-researcher"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/travis-taylor-admits-to-being-a-paid-government-ufo-researcher</span></span></a></span><span lang="en-US">
</span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/midweek-ufo-update-revenge-of-the-skinwalker-ranch-ghostbusters"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/midweek-ufo-update-revenge-of-the-skinwalker-ranch-ghostbusters</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/06/meet-face-of-pentagons-uap-task-force.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/06/meet-face-of-pentagons-uap-task-force.html</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">As
to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program (AAWSAP),
funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) with $22 mils for the
2008-2012 term, under the leadership of James T. Lacatski at the
Pentagon and entirely contracted to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space
Studies (BAASS). This company (successor of NIDS, another program
sponsored by Robert Bigelow to investigate UFOs and the paranormal),
was administered by Dr. Colm A. Kelleher and assisted by various
other unedifying, well-known names in the area of crazy fancies.
Well, now we know that these personages were in charge of managing
the Pentagon UAP study. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
review by Robert Sheaffer of a 2021 book by Lacatski, Kelleher and
Knapp is a cleverly dissected recapitulation of their involvement in
the Pentagon UAP assignment. Now we are fully aware of who pushed the
program, how obscure it </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">has
pretended to be, who did the work and what were</span></span><span lang="en-US">
the results. What a shame!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/06/skinwalkers-at-pentagon-book-review.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/06/skinwalkers-at-pentagon-book-review.html</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Alongside
this line of thinking rests a </span><span lang="en-US"><i>New
York Post</i></span><span lang="en-US">
video “The UFO Lie - Shocking truth of Pentagon AAWSAP program-The
Basement Office.” It represents a perfect summary of how everything
started and developed: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Everything
you were told is wrong. In 2017, the New York Times released a
bombshell story revealing AATIP, the Pentagon's "UFO program"
and Lue Elizondo, the director of that program. It proclaimed a
shocking truth: UFOs are real. Since then, that story has been
reprinted hundreds and thousands of times across the world and Mr.
Elizondo has reached the status of cultural icon. But we've since
learned that the whole story... was wrong. In this episode, we reveal
the real story of the Pentagon's AAWSAP program - led by scientist
James Lacatski - and it's even crazier than you could possibly
imagine: $22 million in taxpayer money spent on werewolves, ghosts,
goblins, and "dinobeavers" at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch
in Utah. But UFO advocates, who are currently lobbying Congress to
spend money on UFO investigations, hope you never find out about
that.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
invite you to watch and enjoy this extremely revealing video:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XD4gQS_-qY&t=161s"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XD4gQS_-qY&t=161s</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Why
do the same names appear in the shadow over and over again in
anything related to hidden UFO research in the US in the last
decades? What has their real role and agenda been? Investigate or
manipulate? Analyze of disinform? I have my doubts. In this regard, I
cannot but note this article by Brent Swancer, “The Strange Story
of the Shadowy UFO Organization Known as </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Aviary</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,"
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2022/05/The-Strange-Story-of-the-Shadowy-UFO-Organization-Known-as-The-Aviary-/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2022/05/The-Strange-Story-of-the-Shadowy-UFO-Organization-Known-as-The-Aviary-/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One
of the recurrent identities in everything related to paranormal and
UFOs in the United States is Dr. Hal Puthoff. This is what Jason
Colativo has just posted about this persona, and I wonder whose hands
is UFO research in?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/hal-puthoff-publishes-pitiful-paper-proposing-plans-to-probe-ultraterrestrials"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/hal-puthoff-publishes-pitiful-paper-proposing-plans-to-probe-ultraterrestrials</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><u>What’s
New in </u></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u>the
US Legislative UAP Front, July 2022</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Significant
changes are on their way with regard to UAP-related legislation in
the United States. Not necessarily in the right direction, in my
view, though. The purpose of this article is to highlight the new
wording of bills and reports presented, that may or may not, in full
or in part, become law. There are four major documents to be
discussed thereafter:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">House Bill
(NDAA)</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">House Report
(Armed Services Committee)</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">Senate Bill
(IAA)</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Senate
Report (Intelligence Committee) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
main excerpts of the legal texts follow in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: times;">Times
New Roman</span> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">font.
When pertinent, my own remarks continue in parentheses, indented. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">PART
ONE</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">House
of Representatives: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
(NDAA </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Bill</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.
HR. 7900.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">A
3,854-page text arrived the House on July 1, 2022 and was passed on
July 14</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.
Arrived in the Senate on July 28</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
pending discussion and passage, to later become Law after signature
by POTUS. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Title
XVI (Space Activities, Strategic Plans, and Intelligence Matters),
Subtitle E (Other Matters), includes Section 1663 on pages 1548 to
1556, to amend and expand the 2022 NDAA as far as UAP issues is
concerned. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Unidentified
aerial phenomena reporting procedures. Subsection (a): Authorization
for Reporting. Notwithstanding the terms of any written or oral
nondisclosure agreement…that could be interpreted as a legal
constraint on reporting by a witness of an unidentified aerial
phenomena, reporting in accordance with the system established under
subsection (b) is hereby authorized and shall be deemed to comply
with any regulation…issued under the authority of Executive Order
13526 [Classified National Security Information]…</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(In
simple terms, it generally ensures freedom to report UAP by military
and intelligence personnel. When approved, there will be no more
hidden testimonies because of fear of penalty or jail. No more
excuses for certain sources to narrate alleged extraordinary events
at a very old age or on deathbed.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Subsection
(b): System for Reporting. (1) Establishment. The head of the
Office…shall establish a secure system for receiving reports of (A)
any event relating to [UAP]; and (B) any Government or Government
contractor activity or program related to [UAP].</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(If
enacted as law, theoretically we will finally be aware of all unknown
details of various obscure UFO programs conducted by the USAF or the
Pentagon in the last decades after the closure of Blue Book in 1970:
the mean disinformation activities of Kirtland AFB’s AFOSI led by
the enigmatic Richard Doty; as well as disclosing information on
other semi-secret UFO studies like the 1985-1988 US Department of
Energy informal Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group ‒ the
precedent to Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science
(NIDS) ‒ and the DIA’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System
Application Program (AAWSAP, 2008-2012, nicknamed AATIP), outsourced
to sole bidder Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the
successor of NIDS, funded with $22 mils.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(2)
Protection of Systems, Programs, and Activity. The system established
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall serve as a mechanism to prevent
unauthorized public reporting or compromise of properly classified
military and intelligence systems, programs, and related activity…</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(Liberty
to report, yes, but without violating the integrity of classified
plans.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: times;">(3)
Administration. The system established…shall be administered
by…Department of Defense…employees or contractors assigned to the
[UAPTF] or the Office</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(To
me, it sounds unusual that a DoD contractor can control this
disclosure aspect.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(4)
Sharing of Information. The system established…shall provide for
the immediate sharing with Office personnel and supporting analysts
and scientists of information previously prohibited under any
nondisclosure…agreement…except in cases where the…personnel
administering such system…conclude that…the observed
object…relate to a special access program…</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(What
are the criteria to select analysts and scientists to share
information? Will there be privileged “analysts” (media?,
ufologists?) and scientists? The same old names as ever? Something to
worry about. The writing also ensures protection to sensible defense
or intelligence programs, as it should be.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(5)
Initial Report and Publication. Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the head of the Office…shall (A)
submit to the congressional intelligence…defense…committees, and
congressional leadership a report detailing the system established
under paragraph (1); and (B) make available to the public on a
website of the [DoD] information about such system, including clear
public guidance for accessing and using such system and providing
feedback about the expected timeline to process a report. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(It
demands an online tool is set up to guide the public at large to
report UAP. The risk is that the system is clogged, and many old and
recent claims of unfiltered typical flying saucer sightings are
received, the processing of which (field inquiry and analysis) will
consume lots of time, energy and resources from personnel who may not
be trained in criminalistic-type, psychology-focused investigation so
sorely needed.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Subsection
(c): Records of Nondisclosure Agreements. (1) Identification of
Nondisclosure Agreements. The Secretary of Defense, the Director of
National Intelligence, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the heads
of such other departments and agencies of the Federal Government that
have supported investigations of…[any event relating to UAP] and
activities and programs described [any Government or Government
contractor…program related to UAP], and contractors of the Federal
Government supporting such activities and programs shall conduct
comprehensive searches of all records relating to nondisclosure
orders or agreements…relating to the types of events described in
subsection (a) and provide copies of all relevant documents to the
Office. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(When
implemented, it will clarify the governmental history of the United
States regarding prohibitions on reporting UFO sightings. A good
point.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(2)
Submittal to Congress. The head of the Office shall (A) make the
records compile under paragraph (1) accessible to the congressional
intelligence…defense…committees, and congressional leadership;
and (B) not later than September 30, 2023, and at least once each
fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2026, provide to such
committees and…leadership briefings and reports of such records.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(Lots
of bureaucracy, soon tons of paper and PDFs, telling similar things
in different ways. The more words, the higher possibility of
unnecessary conflicting situations. If you have a responsible Office
centralizing everything, be content with what you have, do not make
other agencies duplicate reporting. A brutal waste of resources to
please a few believers who trust they will make the most important
discovery </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">in
history. It</span></span><span lang="en-US">
also shows a fascination for classified </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">reports:
the morbid wish to be one of the few chosen to be aware what the rest
of the world does not have the right to know! I observe the craving
to be told all the details of the -for them- alien ships monitoring
the US airspace. Again, there</span></span><span lang="en-US">
is visible a sickish mania to implicate everybody: the desire to
spread an obsession. Not happy with the apparently large amounts of
military UFO events, they also want accounts from the public. Of
course, there is a risk that the DoD becomes swamped by citizens’
UFO reports, old and new, with the typical poor level of reliability
for high-strangeness incidents, including examples of the
non-existing transmedium objects. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">That
is, they want</span></span><span lang="en-US">
a high-tech Blue Book project. I can see members of the Office
writing reports and preparing briefings anytime. No matter if these
are classified or not, I can </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">anticipate
a multitude</span></span><span lang="en-US">
of documents leaked, for the joy of UFO press and sensationalist
media.) </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Subsection
(d): Protection from Liability and Private Right of Action. (1)
Protection from Liability. It shall not be a violation of section
798 of title 18, United States Code [Disclosure of classified
information]…and no cause shall lie…against any person, for
reporting any information through, and in compliance with, the system
established in subsection (b) (1). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(In
addition to granting liberty to UFO witnesses, past and present, it
actually encourages claimants to submit UFO sighting reports into the
established system.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(2)
Prohibition on Reprisals. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(Basically,
it says no US Government or contractor’s employee with due
authority will be able to direct any personal action as a reprisal
for any reporting as described in paragraph (1) above). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">(3)
Private Right of Action.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(Basically,
it says any individual receiving any personal action due to UAP
reporting will enjoy injunctive relief and compensatory damages
against the US Government.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Subsection
(e). Review by Inspectors General. Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the
Department of Defense and the Inspector General of the Intelligence
Community shall each (1) conduct and assessment of the compliance
with the requirements of…the…efficacy of the system established
under subsection (b); and (2) submit to the congressional
intelligence…defense…committees, and congressional leadership a
report on their respective findings with respect to the assessments
they conducted under paragraph (1).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(In
principle, any audit process on any program is good. In this case,
however, I am afraid it is introducing excessive bureaucracy into the
system rather than really being efficient.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Subsection
(f). Definitions. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(It
explains the actual meaning of terms like congressional
committees/leadership, intelligence community, Office, personal
action, and unidentified aerial phenomena. For UAP, it refers back to
last year’s Act and definition.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">With
all these measures in place, there will be brought to light anything
the US Government may have been aware of flying saucers, UFOs and UAP
throughout the history of this phenomenon. Finally, we will discover
who owns the debris of the saucer that fell on Roswell in 1947!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7900/text"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7900/text</span></span></span></a></span></p>
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TWO</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">House
of Representatives: Committee on Armed Services, a 670-page </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Report</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
accompanying the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">Dated
July 1, 2022, on pages 348-349, it contains a provision: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">Establishment
of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office…The
committee is concerned with the continued lack of coordination across
the interagency on UAP issues…The committee believes that a Joint
Program Office may be a more effective construct to facilitate
interagency cooperation. Consequently, the committee directs the
Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the House Armed Services
Committee not later than March 1, 2023, that describes whether a
Joint Program Office would be able to more effectively: (1) Carry out
the duties of the [UAPTF], including those pertaining to transmedium
objects or devices and unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena;
space, atmospheric, and water domains; and currently unknown
technology and other domains… </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(It
proposes to change the scope and name of the existing AOIMSG office
and introduces the aerospace-undersea term. It recalls that DoD
established the UAP Task Force (UAPTF) in 2020 and the Airborne
Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)
in 2021. The text introduces the quite questionable “transmedium
object” concept.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-117hrpt397/pdf/CRPT-117hrpt397.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-117hrpt397/pdf/CRPT-117hrpt397.pdf</span></span></a></span></p>
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THREE</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Senate:
Select Committee on Intelligence’s </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>report</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
on the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
(IAA </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>bill</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">S.4503),
138 pages. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">It
is aimed at </span></span><span lang="en-US">authorizing
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government.
Pa</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">ssed
on June 22, 2022, f</span></span><span lang="en-US">rom
page 87 to 117 of this draft, it covers the UAP issue with important
contributions in nature and extent.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="en-US">Section
703.</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US">Modification of Requirement </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">for
Office to Address Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena. (a) In
General. </span></span><span lang="en-US">Section 1683 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022…is amended
to read as follows: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">Sec.
1683. Establishment of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena
Joint Program Office. (a) Establishment of Office. (1) Not later than
120 days after the date of the enactment of the Intelligence Act for
Fiscal Year 2023, the Secretary of Defense…shall establish an
office…to carry out the duties of the [UAPTF]…including those
pertaining to (A) transmedium objects or devices and unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena; (B) space, atmospheric, and water
domains; and (C) currently unknown technology and other domains. (2)
Designation. The office established under paragraph (1) shall be
known as the ‘Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint
Program Office’.” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(My
gosh, how</span></span><span lang="en-US">
obsessed they are with supposed submarine UFOs! Still, we find
another name in the game, it was firstly UAPTF, lately AOIMSG, they
now suggest another unpronounceable acronym, UAUPJPO.
However‒finally?‒the DoD termed the office AARO, see following
section in this blog.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(b)
Director and Deputy Director of the Office. (1) Appointment of
Director. The head of the Office shall be the Director of the
[UAUPJPO]…who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Defense. (2)
Appointment of Deputy Director. There shall be…a Deputy Director of
the…Office…,who shall be appointed by the Director of National
Intelligence. (3) Reporting. (A) The Director of the Office shall
report to the Secretary of Defense…”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(c)
Duties. The duties of the Office shall include the following: (1)
Developing procedures to synchronize and standardize the collection,
reporting, and analysis of incidents, including adverse physiological
effects regarding [UAUP]…(2) Developing processes and procedures to
ensure that such incidents…are reported and incorporated in a
centralized repository. (3) Establishing procedures to require the
timely and consistent reporting of such incidents. (4) Evaluating
links between [UAUP] and adversarial foreign governments…(5)
Evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United
States. (6) Coordinating with other departments and agencies of the
Federal Government…[FAA, NASA, Department of Homeland Security,
NOAA, NSF, and DoE]. (7) Coordinating with allies and partners of the
United States…to better assess the nature and extent of [UAUP]. (8)
Preparing reports for Congress, in both classified and unclassified
form…(9) Ensuring that appropriate elements of the intelligence
community receive all reports received by the Office regarding a
temporary nonattributed object or an object that is positively
identified as man-made…in addition to the reports in the repository
described in paragraph (2).”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(Surprise
after surprise. The phraseology for the office’s duties seems
really to be extracted from hardcore ufology books displaying more
imagination than facts. Medical effects: hurrah, we are back to the
1960s! It is quite evident that the draft’s writers assume we are
visited by aliens and a repository of incidents will bring into light
the visitors’ intentions or agenda or stratagems. They feel the
contribution of US allies will help to find the origin of UFOs, when
what they want is to involve other nations…and I add, to share the
final shame? </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Involving
the whole intel community is like turning on the fan, with the
consequential cost, loss of time, and the worst of all, misguided
priorities of intel organizations. They believe‒probably by an
innate knowledge‒that there will be non-man-made objects in their
final catalog! Evidently, they are being badly advised by ufologists
of the credulous kind, who must be more than happy about their
influence on legislation, but who do not realize the international
ridicule the US Government is laying itself open to. By reading</span></span><span lang="en-US">
this writing I feel a panorama consistent with a Spielberg drama
under a conquest by aliens. I am afraid there are too many UFO
amateur illuminati in the legislative US boards.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk113198586"></a>“<span lang="en-US">(d)
Response to and Field Investigations of [UAUP]. (1) Designation. The
Secretary…shall designate one or more line organizations within the
[DoD]…that possess appropriate expertise…and capabilities to
rapidly respond to, and conduct field investigations of, incidents
involving [UAUP]…(2) Ability to Respond. The Secretary…shall
ensure that each line organization…has adequate personnel with the
requisite expertise…and…resources necessary to respond rapidly to
incidents or patterns of observations involving [UAUP].”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(Well,
let us wait and see the backgrounds and biases of field investigators
who must be prompt at the scene as if we were living stories of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
X-Files</i></span><span lang="en-US">
or </span><span lang="en-US"><i>CSI</i></span><span lang="en-US">:
a bite of reality, please!)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(e)
Scientific, Technological, and Operational Analyses of Data on
[UAUP]. The Secretary…shall designate one or more line
organizations that will be primarily responsible for scientific,
technical and operational analysis of data gathered by field
investigations…including with respect to the testing of materials,
medical studies, and development of theoretical models, to better
understand and explain [UAUP].”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(Wow!
The spirits of APRO, Bloecher, and others of the old flying saucer
school blow over our heads. This group of lawmakers have elevated
expectations. Certainly, they believe UAP are spacecraft able to burn
human beings and leave behind alien parts during their visits. Also,
legislators encourage the production of parascience work, where any
visionary idea is accepted. They do not know how badly mistaken they
are.) </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(f)
Data; Intelligence Collection…(2) Intelligence Collection and
Analysis Plan. The director of the Office…shall supervise the
development and execution of an intelligence collection and analysis
plan to gain as much knowledge as possible regarding the technical
and operational characteristics, origins, and intentions of
[UAUP]…(4) Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
(A) The Director of the [NGA] shall lead the collection efforts of
the intelligence community with respect to [UAUP] geospatial
intelligence. (B) Briefings. Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2023 and not less frequently than once every 90 days thereafter, the
Director shall brief the </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">congressional
intelligence…defense…committees, and congressional leadership on
the activities of the Director under this paragraph.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(The
proposal to choose the director of NGA as key reference in the
acquisition of UAP-related intelligence is a clear indication of the
origin of the phenomena for the writers of the UAP portion of this
bill. If you have doubts, think that only intelligent beings have
“intentions.”)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk113270022"></a>“<span lang="en-US">(g)
Science Plan. The Director of the Office…shall supervise the
development and execution of a science plan to develop and
test…scientific theories to (1) account for characteristics and
performances of [UAUP] that exceed the known state of the art in
science or technology, including in the areas of propulsion,
aerodynamic control, signatures, structures, materials, sensors,
countermeasures, weapons, electronics, and power generation; and (2)
…replicate…any such advanced…performance.” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(The
settlement of a science plan is a fundamental part in any serious
study. However, I suspect that someone is thinking of finding
revolutionary scientific discoveries out of UFO‒sorry, UAUP‒data,
i.e., objects with particular performance exceeding current
knowledge. After 75 years of UFO stories, most of them baseless, and
with international evidence pointing to an assortment of causes
creating a contemporary myth, the United States DoD is starting from
scratch and reinventing the wheel. History will declare this all was
the result of appalling advice. If it was not clear enough, we
realize right now that the ghost writer is convinced that UAP are
manifestations of space travel and dreams of capturing their
technology. Too much </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Star
Wars</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Independence
Day</i></span><span lang="en-US">
in his head!)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(h)
Assignment of Priority. The Director of National Intelligence…shall
assign an appropriate level of priority…to…respond to [UAUP].”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(i)
Core Group. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment
of the [IAA for FY 2023], the Director of the Office…shall jointly
establish a core group that shall include…representatives…from…CIA,
NSA, DoE, NRO, Air Force, Space Force, DIA, [and the] NGA.”</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk113272101"></a>“<span lang="en-US">(j)
Annual Reports. (1) Reports from Director of National Intelligence.
(A) Requirement. Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of the [IAA for FY 2023], and annually thereafter for 4
years, the Director of National Intelligence…shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on [UAUP]. (B)
Elements. Each report…shall include…(i) All reported [UAUP]
events that occurred during the one-year period. (ii) All reported
[UAUP] events…not included in an earlier report. (iii) An analysis
of data and intelligence received through each [UAUP] event. (iv) An
analysis of data relating to [UAUP] collected through (I)
geospatial…(II) signals…(III) human; and (IV) measurement and
signature intelligence. (v) The number of reported incidents of
[UAUP] over restricted airspace…(vi) An analysis of such
incidents…(vii) Identification of potential aerospace or other
threats posed by [UAUP] to the national security of the United
States. (viii) An assessment of any activity regarding [UAUP] that
can be attributed to one or more adversarial foreign governments.
(ix) Identification of any incidents or patterns regarding [UAUP]
that indicate a potential adversarial foreign government may have
achieved a breakthrough aerospace capability. (x) An update on the
coordination…with allies and partners on efforts to track,
understand and address [UAUP]. (xi) An update on any efforts underway
on the ability to capture or exploit discovered [UAUP]. (xii) An
assessment on any health related effects for individuals that have
encountered [UAUP]. (xiii) The number of reported incidents…of
[UAUP] associated with military nuclear assets…(xiv)…the number
of reported incidents…of [UAUP] associated with facilities or
assets associated with...nuclear weapons... (xv)…the number of
reported incidents…of [UAUP] or drones of unknown origin
associated with...sites…regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. (xvi) The names of the line organizations that…perform
the specific functions under subsections (d) and (e)…(C) Form. Each
report submitted under subparagraph (A) shall be submitted in
unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (2) Reports
from Elements of Intelligence Community. Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of the [IAA for FY 2023], and
annually thereafter, each head of an element of the intelligence
community shall submit to the </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">congressional
intelligence…defense…committees, and congressional leadership a
report on the activities…to support the Office, including…any
concerns with…coordination.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(Decidedly,
an exhaustive reporting program, clearly influenced by ufologist
thought like the concentration of UFO sightings close to nuclear
facilities, etc. Nevertheless, if implemented this way, let them do
their job.) </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk113285327"></a>“<span lang="en-US">(k)
Semiannual Briefings. (1) Requirement. Not later than December 31,
2022, and not less frequently than semiannually thereafter until
December 31, 2026, the Director of the Office shall provide to the
congressional committees specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (D)
of subsection (o) (1) classified briefings on [UAUP]. (2) First
Briefing…shall include all incidents involving [UAUP] that were
reported to the [UAPTF] or to the Office…after June 24, 2021… (3)
Subsequent Briefings…shall include…all events relating to [UAUP]
that occurred during the previous 180 days…(4) Instances in Which
Data Was Not Shared. For each briefing period, the Director of the
Office shall…provide…an enumeration of any instances in which
data relating to [UAUP] was not provided to the Office because of
classification restrictions…”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Among
other things, this reminds me that we still do not know the full,
classified information concerning the 19 September 1976 Iran UFO
airborne sighting.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(l)
Quarterly Briefings. (1) In General. Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of the [IAA for FY 2023], and not less
frequently than once every 90 days thereafter, the Director of the
Office shall provide the </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">congressional
defense…intelligence…committees, and congressional leadership
briefings on </span></span><span lang="en-US">[UAUP]. (2) Elements.
The briefings…shall include…(</span><span lang="en-US">A) A
continuously updated compendium of </span><span lang="en-US">[UAUP]
events. (B) Details about each sighting that has occurred within the
past 90 days and the status of each case’s resolution. (C) Updates
on the Office’s collection activities and posture, analysis, and
research.”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(m)
Authorization of Appropriations. There is authorized to be
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the work of
the Office…(1) general intelligence gathering…; and (2) strategic
defense, space defense…”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(n)
Task Force Termination. Not later than the date on which the
Secretary establishes the Office…the Secretary shall terminate the
[UAPTF].”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">(o)
Definitions…(7) The term ‘transmedium objects or devices’ means
objects…that are (A) observed to transition between space and the
atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water; and (B)
not immediately identifiable. (8) The term ‘unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena’ (A) means (i) airborne objects that
are not immediately identifiable; (ii) transmedium objects or
devices; and (iii) submerged objects or devices that are not
immediately identifiable and that display behavior or performance
characteristics suggesting that the objects…may be related to the
objects…described in subparagraphs (A) or (B); and (B) does not
include temporary nonattributed objects or those that are positively
identified as man-made.”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Terminology
is extremely important because it indicates what the legislator has
in mind, or is seeking. Let us focus now on this aspect of the draft
of Bill. They obviously despise flying saucers. Reject UFOs. Dismiss
UAP. And propose UAUP. Because the draft writers believe in the
existence of airborne objects coming from outer space, capable of
wonderful features. A technology we do not presently have. Therefore,
these objects cannot come from this Earth of ours. They first
describe the object of their imagination and desire, then expect that
the “Office” will find them and show them every 90 days. By
definition, the subjects of the study (UAUP) are non-man-made
vehicles! Draft writers and their UFO consultants do not bother to
hide their unproven and indemonstrable beliefs. This is the Senate of
the United States of America today, ladies and gentlemen.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Now
we come back to Section 703 of the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(IAA):</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: times;">(b)
Delegation of Duties of Director of National Intelligence. Not later
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Director of National Intelligence shall select a full-time equivalent
employee of the intelligence community and delegate to such employee
the responsibilities of the Director…</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="en-US">(c)
Clerical Amendment. The table of contents in section 2(b) of such Act
is amended by striking the item relating to section 1683 of division
A and inserting the following new item: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">“Sec.
1683. Establishment of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena
Joint Program Office.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
IAA follows:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: times;">Sec.
704. Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Reporting Procedures.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(</span><span lang="en-US">It
is the same text as that of NDAA for Fiscal Year 2023, word for word,
that I reviewed in PART ONE above.)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="_Hlk112521241"></a><a name="_Hlk112521191"></a>
<span lang="en-US">Sec. 705.
Comptroller General of the United States Compilation of [UAUP]. (a)
Definition of [UAUP]. In this section, the term [UAUP] has the
meaning…in section 1683(o) of the [NDAA for FY 2022]...as amended
by section 703. (b) Compilation Required. Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller…shall
(1) commence a review of the records and documents of the
intelligence community…classified and unclassified national
archives…including…FOIA, and such other relevant historical
sources…; and (2) for the period beginning on January 1,
1947…compile and itemize a complete historical record of the
intelligence community’s involvement with [UAUP], including
successful or unsuccessful efforts to identify and track [UAUP], and
any intelligence community efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public
opinion, hide, or… provide…misinformation about [UAUP]…(c)
Report. (1) In General. Not later than 180 days after the date on
which the Comptroller General completes the compilation…[it] shall
submit to Congress a report summarizing the historical records
described…(2) Resources…(3) Form. The report…shall be submitted
in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex as
necessary. (d) Cooperation of Intelligence Community. The heads of
elements of the intelligence Community…shall fully cooperate with
the Comptroller General…(e) Access to Records of the National
Archives and Records Administration. The Archivist of the United
States shall make available…such information maintained by the
National Archives and Records Administration, including classified
information…</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(This
draft of the Bill still has a big surprise in store: what could
become a giant gathering effort of UFO documentation and information.
A real bombshell. Another way to waste the time of numerous agencies,
when the Air Force, FBI, CIA, etc. have already declassified or
released online their UFO archives, with nothing of extraordinary
value, and without locating any proof of extraterrestrials? On a
second thought, maybe an excellent idea for the historian. Neither
nihil nor scarce findings will end with the long-time myth that the
successive US Governments have concealed outstanding information on
flying saucers since the Roswell crash time. I am afraid that those
rumors will not cease in spite of no ground-shaking revelations. What
do they expect to find? The way the wording is drafted, I suspect the
dark hand of conspiracy theorists behind it.) </span><span lang="en-US">
</span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">I
could have expected that the bill’s draft included a sentence on an
authorization of appropriations, this is a budget amount to carry out
the UAP Office’s duties, but nothing is indicated.</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US">I don't want
to detract from the DoD's effort to thoroughly examine the UAP
problem, but it is proposing to do it in such a way that, over time,
the US Administration is going to make </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">a
ridiculous laughingstock of itself.</span></span><span lang="en-US">
Of course, in my humble opinion.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/legislation/BILLS-117s4503rs.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/legislation/BILLS-117s4503rs.pdf</span></span></a></span></p>
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FOUR</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Senate:
Classified Annex to the Select Committee on Intelligence to the
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
(IAA </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>bill</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">S.4503).
A </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>report</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
of 23 pages, July 20, 2022-Ordered to be printed. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Some
UFO legislators seem to live in a world of science fiction and are
fantasy-driven. On the same day the Pentagon announced the new AARO
and the addition of transmedium objects to the definition of classes
of UAP, report</span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-US">(pages
12-13) was released. It includes such </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">unproved
statements as the</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">cross-domain
transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding
exponentially,”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">criticizes
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">“the
slow pace of DoD effort to establish the office to address those
threats,”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">notices
that </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;">“definition of the terms used
by the Office should be updated to include space and undersea”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(a
dumb concept that, finally, was generally accepted by AARO)</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">asserts
that </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">“<span lang="en-US">temporary
unattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as
man-made…should not be considered under the definition
“unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(It
explicitly assumes that there will exist UFOs that, by definition,
cannot be identified. An unscientific conjecture typical of the most
gullible!)</span><sup><span lang="en-US">1</span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk112660044"></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What
can be expect for the future? The distinguished US researcher Brad
Sparks explains: “these two Committee Report Orders may well become
draft law after House and Senate confers on and unifies the relevant
UAP portions of the two bills HR.7900 and S.4503.” For my part, I
am afraid that the acceptance of these new draft texts may have a
relevant effect in the orientation of the UAP Office (and not in the
good direction, in my view), one that is currently aimed to the
“resolution” of events, if we have to believe in its final
naming. I look forward to read‒with certain uneasiness‒the
definitive law texts after the rubric of Joe Biden</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/117/crpt/srpt132/CRPT-117srpt132.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.congress.gov/117/crpt/srpt132/CRPT-117srpt132.pdf</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">This
article has been published in Academia.edu with the following
reference:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022</span></span></a></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW1SWMRJeP9ID26wlpKMCWmpI0K_fhuHVUEcb7o1HjPBuD1vPJSHopmrASovhGBjgNbQzmA1FXx2G21FUy4-4-j7JbJVA37s3n1_y0xuIlRTV56w_hmthT4VDDjTPOSfCsqDWoY_woo_Fny0WoxshRlMxE5qI6B3Y8EnNIGyMm6vTvgOM_MA/s647/anexo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="453" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW1SWMRJeP9ID26wlpKMCWmpI0K_fhuHVUEcb7o1HjPBuD1vPJSHopmrASovhGBjgNbQzmA1FXx2G21FUy4-4-j7JbJVA37s3n1_y0xuIlRTV56w_hmthT4VDDjTPOSfCsqDWoY_woo_Fny0WoxshRlMxE5qI6B3Y8EnNIGyMm6vTvgOM_MA/s320/anexo.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1)
Read what Joseph Trevithick of The War Zone has to say about this in
this article:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/senate-intel-committee-wants-uap-investigators-to-focus-on-ones-that-are-not-man-made"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/senate-intel-committee-wants-uap-investigators-to-focus-on-ones-that-are-not-man-made</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AOIMSG
Renamed AARO</span></u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">On
July 15, 2022, the Deputy Secretary of Defense established the
creation of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO),
implemented on July 20</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.
It replaces t</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he
existing Airborne Object Identification and Management
Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). T</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">he
Office assumes various requested changes by the legislators, like the
irregular concept of transmedium objects and the expanded definition
from UAP to aerospace-undersea phenomena, indicated in the
“all-domain” part of the title, yet it is key that it is aimed to
be a desk for the “resolution” of anomalies.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tom
O’Connor of </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newsweek</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
has published the following article to describe and comment on the
official announcement. His article is reproduced here in full:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
U.S. military has established a new office to expand investigations
into mysterious air activity commonly known as unidentified flying
objects (UFOs) and officially called unidentified aerial phenomena
(UAPs) by the Pentagon. The new office, known as the All-domain
Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), was announced Tuesday in a message
from the Pentagon days after Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen
Hicks amended a previous directive in November to establish the
Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group
(AOIMSG). Reached for comment by Newsweek, Pentagon spokesperson Sue
Gough said that the AARO is both a "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">renaming</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
of the AOIMSG "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as
well as a mission expansion</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
in line with the National Defense Authorization Act for this fiscal
year.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
original name (AOIMSG) and mission did not include the expanded scope
of the organization outlined in Section 1683 of fiscal 2022 NDAA</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
Gough said. "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
feel that the new name, AARO, better reflects the expanded scope and
mission of the office – which includes anomalous, unidentified
space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As
we've said before, we take reports of incursions into special use
spaces – by any object, identified or unidentified – very
seriously, and investigate each one</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
she added. "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Safety
of our personnel and security of our operations are of paramount
concern. We have always been concerned that incursions by
unidentified aerial or anomalous phenomena could potentially pose a
threat to U.S. national security</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wednesday's
message from the Pentagon also made specific mention of concerns
related to sensitive sites related to government, military or other
uses.</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
mission of the AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the
Department of Defense, and with other U.S. federal departments and
agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in,
on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas,
special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary,
to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and
national security,</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
the statement said. "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This
includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and
transmedium objects</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
it added. The "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">primary
lines of effort</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
to be pursued by the AARO fall into six categories: "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Surveillance,
Collection and Reporting</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">System
Capabilities and Design</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Intelligence
Operations and Analysis</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mitigation
and Defeat</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Governance</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
and "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Science
and Technology.</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In
an attached memo dated July 20, Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security Ronald S. Moultrie informed Pentagon
leadership of the change and why it was necessary.</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
is vital to our national security and the safety of our military
personnel that we maintain awareness of anomalous objects in all
domains," </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moultrie
said.</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
"We must also keep pace with the development and employment of
novel technology by our adversaries. In doing so, we are committed to
providing maximum transparency while safeguarding classified
information and controlled unclassified information</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"
he added. "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
establishment of the AARO is a significant step forward in developing
the capabilities and processes that are necessary to achieve these
goals."</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hicks'
memo, dated July 15, was also attached. It described the new AARO as
"</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the
authoritative office of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and
UAP-related activities for the DoD</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
as well as "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the
DoD focal point for all UAP and UAP-related activities</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."
The Airborne Object Identification Management Executive Council
(AOIMEXEC) that oversaw the former AOIMSG would also be renamed the
AARO Executive Council (AAROEXEC) and now be tasked with overseeing
the new office.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
move came just over a month after NASA announced it was commissioning
a team to conduct a nine-month independent study on UAPs. The team
would engage in "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">observations
of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known
natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."
NASA noted in its own announcement that the project was not a part of
existing Pentagon efforts to track UAP activity, though the U.S.
space agency was coordinating its efforts across the government. The
announcement also mentioned NASA's "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">active
astrobiology program that focuses on the origins, evolution, and
distribution of life beyond Earth</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
and efforts to "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">search
for life" </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">through
satellites and telescopes, although these were</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
"unrelated to this new study</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
study of UAPs, once widely dismissed to the public by the U.S.
government, has taken a serious turn in more recent years as the
Pentagon and intelligence agencies now encourage personnel to report
such activity. In May, the House Intelligence Committee held its
first open hearing on UFO-related activity in decades, with top
Pentagon officials saying their database of reports received by
service members had reached 400. A report published in June of last
year by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence set out
to study UAPs along five potential categories: airborne clutter,
natural atmosphere phenomena, U.S. government or industry
developmental programs, foreign adversary systems and a "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">catchall
'other' bin</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With
the exception of one instance attributed to the airborne clutter
category, specifically a deflating balloon, the report admitted that
researchers "</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">currently
lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to
specific explanations</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-creates-new-anomaly-resolution-office-investigate-ufos-1726540"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-creates-new-anomaly-resolution-office-investigate-ufos-1726540</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Similar
articles have been published elsewhere, for example, in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Defense
News</i></span><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/battlefield-tech/space/2022/07/20/pentagon-renames-ufo-office-expands-mission-to-include-transmedium-objects/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.defensenews.com/battlefield-tech/space/2022/07/20/pentagon-renames-ufo-office-expands-mission-to-include-transmedium-objects/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">My
only remark is that the so-called “transmedium” objects,
supposedly endowed with the capacity to move between the atmosphere
and the sea (or vice versa), are just an illusion, clearly created by
wrong analysis of video footage (actually that of a balloon) that
seemed to enter into the water during its displacement! I am worried
that this illustrates the influence of a pro-UFO sector that actually
is “transmoving” within the UAP Government office. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">See
here the memorandum letter establishing AARO:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039081/-1/-1/1/ESTABLISHMENT-RESOURCING-AND-LEADERSHIP-OF-THE-ALL-DOMAIN-ANOMALY-RESOLUTION-OFFICE.PDF"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039081/-1/-1/1/ESTABLISHMENT-RESOURCING-AND-LEADERSHIP-OF-THE-ALL-DOMAIN-ANOMALY-RESOLUTION-OFFICE.PDF</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
original DoD announcement can be found in the following link:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/</span></span></a></span></p>
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details for addicts:
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/probes-for-hidden-government-ufo-data-proposed-in-defense-and-intelligence-bills-now-advancing-in-congress-with-bipartisan-backing/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/probes-for-hidden-government-ufo-data-proposed-in-defense-and-intelligence-bills-now-advancing-in-congress-with-bipartisan-backing/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
UAP Excite the Creation of New Organizations and Magazines</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since
the recent advent of UAP, that have supplanted the old UFOs
(everybody already forgetting the primitive flying saucers), the
excuse to create new entities and groups and projects and journals
devoted to UAP investigation has run rampant. It seems, overnight,
UAP are a virgin and reputable tag. And many wish to get on the
bandwagon of novelty and see what it holds. This is a limited list of
such enterprises.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UAPx.
A non-profit research organization for Collecting, Analyzing,
Studying, and Publishing Actionable Data on the UFO/UAP Phenomena.
Kevin Day, founder, Gary Voohis, President, Dr. Kevin Knuth,
Vice-president. </span></span><a href="https://www.uapexpedition.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">https://www.uapexpedition.org/</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
Galileo Project. Goal is to bring the search for extraterrestrial
technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological
Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and
legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic
scientific research. It owns a UAP branch, seeking to examine the
possibility of extraterrestrial origin for UAP, by making
observations of objects in and near Earth’s atmosphere, filtering
out identifiable objects using AI deep learning algorithms trained on
rigorous classification of known objects, and then examining the
nature of the remaining data for anomalous characteristics. The
project is led by Professor Avi Loeb (Harvard Astronomy Department),
and it is composed almost entirely of volunteers. </span></span><a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">Scientific
Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU). A charitable organization, SCU
promotes and encourages the rigorous scientific examination of
Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). SCU comprises scientists, former
military, law enforcement officials, and other professionals,
utilizing scientific principles, methodologies, and practices to
advance the study of UAP observed and reported around the globe. Main
Team: Robert Powell, Richard Hoffman, Morgan Beall, Dr. Paul
Kingsbury, Larry Hancock, Peter Reali, and Alejandro Rojas.
</span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.explorescu.org/">https://www.explorescu.org/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Limina</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Journal of UAP Studies</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
A biannual, peer-reviewed academic journal. Its fundamental purpose
and most basic intent is to advance the study of unidentified
aerospace phenomena to the next level of serious, rigorous, academic
scholarship. Michael C. Cifone, Founder & Editor-In-Chief,
Michael Silberstein, Associate Editor. Editorial Board: Gabriel G. De
la Torre, Stephen C. Finley, Jacob Haqq-Misra, William M. Kallfelz,
Hakan Kayal, Kevin H. Knuth, Jeffrey Kripal, James Mattingly, Mark
Rodeghier, W. Mark Stuckey, Karl Svozil, Beatriz Villarroel,
Alexander Wendt, Michael E. Zimmerman. </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://limina.uapstudies.org/">http://limina.uapstudies.org/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk112100422"></a><span lang="en-US">Enigma
Laboratories. They say Enigma is the largest queryable, scored UAP
database in the world. We’ve run machine learning on over 400k
citizen and military reports, collating media and sensor data, and
deconflicting sightings with identifiable variables. Our mobile app
is the most frictionless way to report an anomalous sighting. Alex
Smith, Founder. </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://enigmalabs.io/">https://enigmalabs.io/</a>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-12/ufo-speculation-spurs-company-to-cut-through-internet-nonsense">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-12/ufo-speculation-spurs-company-to-cut-through-internet-nonsense</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">UAP
Society. Our prime directive is to propel the world’s transition to
a deeper awareness and understanding of unidentified aerial phenomena
(UAP). We leverage technology and creativity to elevate UAP
decentralized science (DeSci) research projects funded in part
through Web3 crypto initiatives. We are a band of creative artists
and technologists aiming to discover and document the true nature
behind more recent Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) occurrences on
earth. Leader and CEO: Chris Lehto. </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://uapsociety.com/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://uapsociety.com/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">International
Society for Transdisciplinary Studies on Ufology (ISTSU). Publication
of the first academic journal (bilingual, revised by peers) dedicated
to research on ufology and phenomena associated to UFO sightings. One
of the plans of the brand new enterprise is publishing the
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>International
Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies on Ufology</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
Society president is Yann Vadnais. </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://sieto.ca/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://sieto.ca/</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My
first question is: How many of these companies will be extant in ten
years? And the second one: do you think any of them will achieve any
significant discoveries?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SpaceX
Junk Decays over Australia</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">On
July 14 and 25, 2022 some pieces of space junk were discovered in
remote zones of Australia. Australian astrophysicist Dr. Brad Tucker
visited one of the areas to find amazing pieces of space crap,
associated with the reentry of a SpaceX rocket that occurred over the
country on July 9</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">,
being watched and videotaped, and posted an extraordinarily
documented story on YouTube you should not miss: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDCRidVsxc" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDCRidVsxc</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I
checked the NORAD catalog myself. That day, four space objects
reentered into the atmosphere, but only the debris of one had a large
RCS (radar cross section) or size, that with the international
description 2020-084B, catalog ID number #48342, corresponding to the
name “Dragon Resilience” (SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the
Crew-1 Trunk), launched on November 16, 2020. See the table of
reentries for July 9, 2022:</span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
US Navy FOIA UAP Records Available: The to date 40 case studies
released by the US Navy on UAP through FOIA can be consulted in its
reading room. See the following link (shortened from a long URL):
<a href="http://shorturl.at/KORV7">shorturl.at/KORV7</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone</i></span><span lang="en-US">
pursues its investigation and publication of the swarm of unmanned
aerial systems (drones) with various USS vessels on various dates,
mainly July 2019:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/drone-swarms-that-harassed-navy-ships-demystified-in-new-documents"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/drone-swarms-that-harassed-navy-ships-demystified-in-new-documents</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
The Cash-Landrum episode and disinformation, a note by Curt Collins:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2022/06/cash-landrum-ufo-disinformation-rick.html"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2022/06/cash-landrum-ufo-disinformation-rick.html</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
“Detection of UAP with a Nano Satellite.” Malte Reitemeyer and
Felix Weinmann are the authors of report number 1 of the UAP research
course of the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg (Germany)
under the direction of Professor Dr.-Ing. Hakan Kayal:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/26139/file/Research_on_UAP_1_Reitemeyer_Weinmann_Nano_Satellite.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/26139/file/Research_on_UAP_1_Reitemeyer_Weinmann_Nano_Satellite.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A recent
initiative in the SETI field of research is the VASCO Citizen Science
Project. VASCO is the acronym for Vanishing & Appearing Sources
during a Century of Observations, a project to study old astronomical
photographic plates looking for rare and curious astronomical objects
that may have vanished or appeared in our sky. This project is open
to both professional scientists, amateur astronomers, and citizen
scientists. This is also a search for possible techno signatures. It
is led by the Principal Investigator Beatriz Villarroel (Nordic
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University). The
project’s aim is to find anomalous objects and events. They
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">blushlessly
ask:</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">
“could aliens be responsible for any of those?” This is its
internet site: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Writer Bob Considine published this eye-opening article in the
January 1951 issue of the illustrated magazine </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Cosmopolitan</i></span><span lang="en-US">:
“The Disgraceful Flying Saucer hoax!”, one that should be
examined under the eyes of a 2022 reader, </span></span><a href="http://www.project1947.com/fig/cosmojan51.htm" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.project1947.com/fig/cosmojan51.htm</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Danish X-Files (in Danish). Ole Henningsen has published </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Danske
X-filer – Forhistorien</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(SUFOI, 2022, a 192-page book in A-4 format, fully illustrated in
black & white and color, containing lots of official UFO
documents from the Danish Defense Archives. Detailed information on
the research programs that allowed Henningsen to access to this
information is to be found here:</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/english/flyufo-uk.php"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.sufoi.dk/english/flyufo-uk.php</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">The
book can be purchased via
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?117,en_danske-x-filer-–-forhistorien"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?117,en_danske-x-filer-%E2%80%93-forhistorien</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
“We are Effectively Alone in the Universe,” by Alex Berezow,
Ph.D.,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.net/2022/08/we-are-effectively-alone-in-universe.html"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.net/2022/08/we-are-effectively-alone-in-universe.html</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
“</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Analysis
of the VASP-169 Flight UFO Sighting and Photographs. By L.A.L. da
Silva, Ph.D.” Abstract: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Brazilian
astronomer Dr. Luiz Augusto L. da Silva has analyzed one of the most
amazing UFO cases in history. The VASP-169 UFO flight incident
occurred on February 8, 1982 over northeast and southeast Brazil.
Pilot Gérson Maciel de Britto reported that his airplane was
accompanied by a brilliant point of light starting near Bom Jesus da
Lapa city until Rio de Janeiro. He notified the air control center
(CINDACTA) at Brasília as well as his passengers. An in- depth
investigation has demonstrated that the UFO was very probably the
planet Venus initially distorted by a superior atmospheric mirage. A
passenger obtained six photos, and a second one obtained an
additional image. Those images have been interpreted as the
airplane's navigational lights reflected on nearby clouds (in the
first case), and as the light from morning twilight viewed through
holes in the cloud layer (in the second case).</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
The following two reports (dated 2022) are in Portuguese. To be
accessed in:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/84981651/Analysis_of_the_VASP_169_Flight_UFO_Sighting_and_Photographs_By_L_A_L_da_Silva_Ph_D"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/84981651/Analysis_of_the_VASP_169_Flight_UFO_Sighting_and_Photographs_By_L_A_L_da_Silva_Ph_D</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Reentry over Spain, June 21, 2022 (Chinese </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Chang
Zheng 2F</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
rocket): </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Fx8Y5UNxM"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Fx8Y5UNxM</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">(1</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">)
Ovnis en Andalucía (UFOs in Andalusia), by José Ruesga. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">A
hommage to the figure and work of Manuel Osuna, a Spanish pioneer in
UFO inquiry. A book review written by jurist Matías Morey.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">OVNIS
en Ucrania (UFOs in Ukraine), my review of the book authored by
Ukranian ufologist based in Spain Mercedes Pullman. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">Los
libros de Reinaldo Manso (The books by Reinaldo Manso). </span><span lang="en-US">This
is the pen name of Spanish UFO scholar Luis R. González, a
specialist in the novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and
author himself of several books. </span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>PERSONAL
LOG</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">A
proud father. My older daughter Laura (Professor of Economy,
University of Valencia) married on September 3rd in the small
hermitage of San José at La Eliana (Valencia). It was a wonderful
day.</span></span></p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Josef Garcia (Germany), Mikhail
Gershtein (Russia), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Jack Brewer (USA), and
Brad Sparks (USA). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKGPOYIGTP93UKRScAOEGc7-Kz7S_h2Bzn604SM5nGD5i47O-jcHQwc_1Y03NkzP3Mfbmvmh0lZsOGwQowtLpGXo44tm8EMAamhSZawiwTV1KVbJ3aRpTVtUpVMS595kwVa68KvE_-FdEf2FE7j806bZ9RQ-z7WFLKLUwpo6K3VBIYM2F-A/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKGPOYIGTP93UKRScAOEGc7-Kz7S_h2Bzn604SM5nGD5i47O-jcHQwc_1Y03NkzP3Mfbmvmh0lZsOGwQowtLpGXo44tm8EMAamhSZawiwTV1KVbJ3aRpTVtUpVMS595kwVa68KvE_-FdEf2FE7j806bZ9RQ-z7WFLKLUwpo6K3VBIYM2F-A/w400-h69/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk112425949"></a><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/47y8xcs8"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/47y8xcs8</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdz5fyt4"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bdz5fyt4</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bddadfp3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bddadfp3</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>UFOs and Government</i><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</i> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with Wim van
Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007) </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(with
M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES"></h4>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2022/SEPTIEMBRE/24 (ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Actualmente,
el número total de entradas en el catálogo FOTOCAT es de 12.832.
Como gestor del proyecto que lleva su nombre, mi intención es
brindar información a los investigadores, por lo que animo a los
analistas de datos a solicitar sectores regionales o temporales del
catálogo, para proyectos específicos.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
País Semanal</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">,
la revista ilustrada que acompaña a la edición dominical de </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>País</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">el
periódico de mayor circulación de España, ha publicado una
entrevista conmigo. No es una entrevista al uso, sino más bien una
pequeña semblanza biográfica, que he colgado aquí: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/84101681/El_ufologo_Sherlock_Holmes" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/84101681/El_ufologo_Sherlock_Holmes</span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">El
diario argentino </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Nación </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">se
hizo eco de la entrevista en: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mtzs5mhj"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mtzs5mhj</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">A
raíz de esta publicación he recibido bastantes comentarios
simpáticos, pero este es el que más he apreciado, por razones
obvias: </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
love that they call you the UFO Sherlock Holmes!</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Dr.
</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Elizabeth
Loftus, profesora de Psicología en la Facultad de Derecho de la
Universidad de California, Irvine, EE.UU.).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kDoe4JVcYtZIKETNbRsktnE2aFOgt2g1NmpCk1kN0qvCxNhFyhDoNDdmbvi-gNiwTEWJT7DfGcWn_9Pl2k-OhbrgevlXdw7-RIWXp27nyberYFfT1ddJVadRY1J8oCC8Ro-PgNA4M3FLMDedJHmY6Rm7mJZ-DjDLhvk_EeFNPYSr2G5Crw/s650/El%20Pa%C3%ADs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="650" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kDoe4JVcYtZIKETNbRsktnE2aFOgt2g1NmpCk1kN0qvCxNhFyhDoNDdmbvi-gNiwTEWJT7DfGcWn_9Pl2k-OhbrgevlXdw7-RIWXp27nyberYFfT1ddJVadRY1J8oCC8Ro-PgNA4M3FLMDedJHmY6Rm7mJZ-DjDLhvk_EeFNPYSr2G5Crw/s320/El%20Pa%C3%ADs.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">V.J.
Ballester Olmos, El Saler (Valencia), junio de 2022. © Raúl
Belinchón.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El
prístino caso Arnold</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El
24 de junio de 2022 marcó el 75 aniversario del avistamiento de
Kenneth Arnold, la fecha de inicio aceptada mundialmente para los
platillos volantes (luego ovnis y hoy, por el momento, UAP). Tenemos
que reconocer que la observación original era muy atípica con
respecto a los informes posteriores "habituales" de discos
volantes. De hecho, la fila de nueve objetos brillantes que vio en
vuelo, en forma casi de murciélago, fue prácticamente el primero y,
a la vez, el último de este tipo de eventos, lo que me induce a
pensar que probablemente fue un evento mal observado, mal
interpretado por el testigo, exagerado por los medios y mal analizado
por muchos. Esta es, sin embargo, una opinión derivada de mi
conclusión personal sustentada por décadas de estudio de que no
existen ovnis alienígenas ni objetos voladores físicos desconocidos
para la ciencia. Además, si tuviéramos que proceder con los
criterios más exigentes de la ufología seria, el valor del testigo
se acercaría a cero. ¿Con qué nos encontramos realmente? Con un
único observador que más tarde afirmó haber experimentado
múltiples encuentros aéreos con platillos volantes, y que creía
que los PV eran animales atmosféricos. Estas son, por ejemplo,
condiciones que no pasarían ningún tamiz para la selección de
“casos buenos”.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
supuesto, la más grave de todas las implicaciones del suceso de
Arnold es la disparidad entre la forma que describió y dibujó de
los objetos individuales con respecto al término elegido por la
prensa: “platillo volante”. Después de la gigantesca publicidad
recibida por este avistamiento, la gente comenzó a observar
“verdaderamente” objetos volantes en forma de platillo, no la
configuración real del objeto que Arnold pensó haber visto (ver a
continuación algunas de estas representaciones). Para mí, este
factor, más la ausencia de una materialidad contrastada (verificada)
en 75 años de relatos ovni, es una evidencia convincente de que los
marcianos no están invadiendo la Tierra.</span></span></p>
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Midiendo los casos ovni</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">En
1990, mi colaborador Joan Plana Crivillén y yo estábamos
desarrollando un catálogo de avistamientos ovni por parte de
militares de los tres ejércitos, Guardia Civil y Policía. Creamos
un importante archivo, con expedientes individuales que recogían
toda la información existente para cada caso, y un registro
computarizado de los sucesos. Al final de la desclasificación, en
1999, conseguido ya nuestro objetivo, esto es, que se hicieran
públicos los documentos ovni del Ejército del Aire español (1-8),
y después de una década que vivimos con gran intensidad, procedía
cambiar de tercio. Joan dejó la temática y en 2000 yo inicié el
proyecto FOTOCAT. Pero, como saben los que me conocen bien, yo nunca
termino de abandonar las cosas iniciadas, y he seguido actualizando
los catálogos militares. MILICAT es para los casos “positivos”,
esto es, los que no se han explicado (no porque sean intrínsecamente
inexplicables, sino porque no se han investigado bien o, sobre todo,
porque no hay datos suficientes para una evaluación adecuada).
PSEUDOCAT es para los casos “negativos”, esto es, los
avistamientos para los que se ha encontrado una solución. MILICAT
tiene 272 entradas, desde 1881 a 2014. PSEUDOCAT reúne 399 informes,
ocurridos entre 1932 y 2020. Ambos catálogos siguen inéditos. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrucwA-1UHg40cPika3VbmViC-frZDP1C3GyPEW9tSzrpP0wilMRb_re2jop7MBc0_eVOSS2WOue9UItoumTVEj5VQv2qdKxIUf3ANdjF_oFLPcC709dkBKpArAtOG4vjgshJnJZkWY7YqxFM1CImqJFgZZHIHTc6z8jIGubc-b80k6lDLsA/s1191/Plana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1191" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrucwA-1UHg40cPika3VbmViC-frZDP1C3GyPEW9tSzrpP0wilMRb_re2jop7MBc0_eVOSS2WOue9UItoumTVEj5VQv2qdKxIUf3ANdjF_oFLPcC709dkBKpArAtOG4vjgshJnJZkWY7YqxFM1CImqJFgZZHIHTc6z8jIGubc-b80k6lDLsA/s320/Plana.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Joan
Plana (derecha) y V.J. Ballester Olmos. Al fondo, parte de los
archivos del CEI de Barcelona.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Fue
en la etapa del diseño de esos catálogos que preparé un sistema,
sencillo pero práctico, para determinar el </span><span lang="es-ES"><u>peso</u></span><span lang="es-ES">
de cada caso, a modo de medida semicuantitativa al efecto de
seleccionar los mejores casos, que someteríamos a análisis.
Finalmente, no llevamos a cabo este estudio. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdvUEk-olGAA-GrtZ7YFKO6oI6morrsyKW3jyhz3ULaottFhzLB5U3Pmpu1dohlcB4l_2evoNFEhfaNdXnAPLZTsW8-_Xz4-zyjIAB7tard1GTzDPz4TSAt-xF-Yy9osrG16CzzZb0MjEF8Qcmc9OHVihKgVFCFyhpbvfcBwocj4601aBuA/s874/Diagrama.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="874" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdvUEk-olGAA-GrtZ7YFKO6oI6morrsyKW3jyhz3ULaottFhzLB5U3Pmpu1dohlcB4l_2evoNFEhfaNdXnAPLZTsW8-_Xz4-zyjIAB7tard1GTzDPz4TSAt-xF-Yy9osrG16CzzZb0MjEF8Qcmc9OHVihKgVFCFyhpbvfcBwocj4601aBuA/w200-h191/Diagrama.png" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Peso:
Diagrama Extrañeza vs Documentación.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cada
caso tendrá un PESO que será ALTO, MEDIO o BAJO, siguiendo el
esquema anterior. Hay que asignar a los niveles de Extrañeza y
Documentación sendos valores (0, 1, 2) para cada caso, según
aquellos sean bajo, regular o alto respectivamente. Sumando ese par
de valores se obtiene el Peso:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">0
a 1– BAJO 2– MEDIO 3 a 4– ALTO</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">De
acuerdo con este sistema, los mejores casos serían aquellos con
valores </span><span lang="es-ES"><u>altos</u></span><span lang="es-ES">,
o sea, informes de documentación regular y alta extrañeza; regular
extrañeza y alta documentación; o alta documentación y alta
extrañeza. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
procedimiento es, al tiempo, fácil de aplicar y objetivo. Es un
</span><span lang="es-ES"><u>criterio
razonable</u></span><span lang="es-ES">
para establecer en una muestra de casos ovni aquellos que destacan y
que merecen mayor dedicación y estudio.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Con
este breve texto, simplemente quería dejar por escrito algo más
formalmente lo que era solo una nota manuscrita interna improvisada,
porque creo que puede servir para que otros lo apliquen a sus propios
inventarios de observaciones ovni.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver
el enlace formal en Academia.edu:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/83069034/Weight_A_Measurement_for_UFO_Cases_Peso_Midiendo_casos_ovni"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/83069034/Weight_A_Measurement_for_UFO_Cases_Peso_Midiendo_casos_ovni</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">A
Julio Plaza del Olmo, quien ha “pasado a limpio” el esquema
original Extrañeza/Documentación.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Expedientes
Insólitos</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy (Madrid), 1995.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Monitoring Air Force Intelligence”, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>MUFON
1997 International UFO Symposium Proceedings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Walter H. Andrus e Irena Scott (editores), Mutual UFO Network
(Seguin, Texas), 1997, pp. 139-178,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “¡Desclasificación! Archivos OVNI militares
al descubierto”, 1997,</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://bit.ly/3ojN8Y5">https://bit.ly/3ojN8Y5</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Culmina la desclasificación oficial”,
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
21, 1997, pp. 76-81, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y88rf6bw">https://tinyurl.com/y88rf6bw</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Punto final a la desclasificación OVNI”,
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
24, 1998, pp. 4-10, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8ur8r7w">https://tinyurl.com/y8ur8r7w</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Joan Plana Crivillén, "Cuarenta años de Ovnis en el Ejército
del Aire 1962-2001", </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cuadernos
de Ufología</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
28, 2002, pp. 142-218.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Documentos oficiales online (IV):
Desclasificación OVNI en España: El Mando Operativo Aéreo busca
casos perdidos”, 2015, </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12717306/El_Mando_Operativo_Aereo_busca_casos_perdidos">https://www.academia.edu/12717306/El_Mando_Operativo_Aereo_busca_casos_perdidos</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI
desclasificados–Online”, 2017, </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fotos
ovni en Cuba</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Hace
apenas unas semanas, mi apreciada colaboradora Kay Coggin me envió
escaneadas dos portadas del periódico </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hoy</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
publicado en 1952 en La Habana, Cuba, mostrando fotografías de
platillos volantes. La primera salió a la luz en la edición del 22
de julio con este título: “¿Platillo volante fotografiado sobre
La Habana?”. Le siguió un mensaje político: “O una fórmula de
cómo se fabrica la histeria de guerra”. El editor propagandístico
escribió en el pie de foto que, cansado de escuchar historias de
platillos volantes, el fotógrafo Raúl “decidió mostrar a
nuestros lectores que las supuestas fotografías de tales platillos,
que sin ningún escrúpulo han venido publicando distintos
periódicos, son puro truco fotográfico”. Y crearon esta imagen
como prueba.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6w4tEMWoss8pKPO_RWRAmhJJOdH56MDNFyhb4klpfCA2s2IMLNtyN6aNPI8inU5tUgWbPpBwPEMZLCJay55qdFljwTBHS7gOdkrAEaVqYknmYdjizLb7zSWWuXr5lmlvpKE7HHskuOFQB7Xm7Ja6QFVRmkPW6e1UE-ArV6UqpaUd5Y86Yvg/s425/La%20Habana,%2022%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6w4tEMWoss8pKPO_RWRAmhJJOdH56MDNFyhb4klpfCA2s2IMLNtyN6aNPI8inU5tUgWbPpBwPEMZLCJay55qdFljwTBHS7gOdkrAEaVqYknmYdjizLb7zSWWuXr5lmlvpKE7HHskuOFQB7Xm7Ja6QFVRmkPW6e1UE-ArV6UqpaUd5Y86Yvg/s320/La%20Habana,%2022%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Probablemente
incrementó las ventas, porque 7 días después la portada de </span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Hoy</i></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
repetía el tema: “¡Platillos voladores fabricados por encargo!”
Esta vez, la foto que mostraban era un objeto obviamente copiado del
falso ovni de Barra da Tijuca (Brasil) de mayo del mismo año, que
“vuela” sobre la torre de la compañía telefónica de La Habana.
El platillo se ve “inclinado a voluntad de nuestro fotógrafo”.
El redactor señala que el periódico está dispuesto a realizar
otras fotos similares a demanda y pide a los lectores que envíen
solicitudes indicando cualquier lugar de elección donde debería
llegar el platillo volante. “Nosotros -termina el pie de
foto-, al igual que los propagandistas de la histeria guerrera,
conocemos el truco”.</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRfz1JhepVW9ezozhVQ-BClIgeWYA08FmBFuZmYjWwwHU9Zkx1LYgih0QrPxzciDTDNF7Ke_8TsyfBiwci1RJsaVysS8a8bj12ykgMyCpbyLo8OgvVOyd7z5qDFLRqirYhQW0vnzwFooiPQNHZLTtAmTchsLKKlryg6ZNYkNpAzfFZRI-vbg/s662/La%20Habana,%2029%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRfz1JhepVW9ezozhVQ-BClIgeWYA08FmBFuZmYjWwwHU9Zkx1LYgih0QrPxzciDTDNF7Ke_8TsyfBiwci1RJsaVysS8a8bj12ykgMyCpbyLo8OgvVOyd7z5qDFLRqirYhQW0vnzwFooiPQNHZLTtAmTchsLKKlryg6ZNYkNpAzfFZRI-vbg/s320/La%20Habana,%2029%20de%20julio%20de%201952.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Esto
me ha dado pie para escribir algo más sobre la historia de los
supuestos ovnis fotografiados en Cuba. Este país muestra una
distribución de casos muy inusual a lo largo del tiempo. FOTOCAT
sólo registra 15 casos, la mayoría de ellos extremadamente pobres
de aspecto (extrañeza) y de antecedentes documentales. Una
fotografía de 1902 del instante en que se iza la bandera cubana en
el palacio de gobierno de La Habana el 20 de mayo muestra un punto
alargado en el extremo derecho del encuadre, lo que sugiere un
defecto de la película o del revelado. Hay luego nueve casos de la
década de 1950, cuatro casos de la década de 1960, y nada más
hasta una última entrada en 2005. Tal vez el efecto de la dictadura
castrista en la prensa. Aun en ausencia de la debida investigación
sobre esta muestra, solo 5 mantienen la etiqueta “ovni” en mi
catálogo, por lo que esos documentos están pendientes de estudio.
Los 10 restantes son el defecto fotográfico y las falsificaciones
periodísticas citadas, otros dos son fraudes, otro es un acto
publicitario del Día de los Inocentes, un reflejo en el cristal de
una ventana, un caso de reflejos en la lente y por último dos
ejemplos de combustible de cohete expulsado en la atmósfera
(“venting”). Satisfaré la curiosidad de mis lectores revisando
brevemente estas cinco imágenes de presunta naturaleza
“desconocida”.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*
21 de noviembre de 1952, 07:31, en algún lugar de Cuba. Según el
índice mensual del Blue Book para los "avistamientos del 16 al
30 de noviembre de 1952", constaba una fotografía militar para
esa fecha, con la indicación de "falta la ficha". La hora
procede de un listado UFOCAT. Recientemente, el ufólogo
estadounidense Rob Mercer compró unos archivos del Blue Book
abandonados en un garaje del teniente Carmon L. Marano, el último
jefe que fue de la unidad de la USAF para los ovnis. En la parte
posterior de la foto impresa se lee "sin evaluación". La
foto no es nada impresionante y puede ser cualquier cosa.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwXL7oWI6ijqSuapEngqCDfCDa9Z5iSKNUSGM7JGdSiHFICwUIXSqgyM1Za4l5Hk6YRuHR7ztnjgNJRP8bpCVsAQ5B3gWTL_uPbxRMlxcvikeAs93pveVg73FHfc43W7BMs6dFJXKRofC2jSTali69e3fPb-T8FhuxHGSkP9lcfdfPROGgQ/s3002/11-1952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2450" data-original-width="3002" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwXL7oWI6ijqSuapEngqCDfCDa9Z5iSKNUSGM7JGdSiHFICwUIXSqgyM1Za4l5Hk6YRuHR7ztnjgNJRP8bpCVsAQ5B3gWTL_uPbxRMlxcvikeAs93pveVg73FHfc43W7BMs6dFJXKRofC2jSTali69e3fPb-T8FhuxHGSkP9lcfdfPROGgQ/s320/11-1952.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Cuba,
21 de noviembre de 1952. Cortesía de Rob M. Mercer.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">*
Noviembre de 1954, 04:30. No se conoce la fecha exacta. A cinco
millas de la costa de Matanzas (entre Cuba y Florida). La fuente es
Virgilio Sánchez-Ocejo, un ufólogo crédulo afincado en Miami ya
fallecido. Según su informe, procedente de fuentes anónimas, desde
las fragatas de la armada cubana “José Martí” y “Máximo
Gómez” que patrullaban rumbo a La Habana se observaron intensas
luces en el horizonte noroeste. En cuestión de segundos, tres luces
que formaban una V se ubicaron sobre los barcos durante 4 a 6
minutos. La mayoría de los marineros las estuvieron presenciando. Un
fotógrafo a bordo filmó los ovnis hasta que se movieron muy
lentamente hacia el oeste para desaparecer en el horizonte. La
película, en blanco y negro, duraba de 7 a 10 minutos y era de una
“calidad superior”. Diez días después, las imágenes fueron
mostradas a los altos mandos militares cubanos. El relato señala que
los ovnis también fueron detectados por radar. Se dice que la
película se llevó a las instalaciones de la Inteligencia de la
Marina de los EE. UU. en Key West, Florida. Las supuestas fuentes son
oficiales de alto rango y marineros cubanos que actualmente viven en
Florida. Nunca se han conocido dichas imágenes. Estoy seguro de que
el presunto incidente quedará sin confirmar para siempre, pero será
reproducido por terceros sin aportar nada, como su inclusión en el
libro </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOs
and Water</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
de Carl Feindt (2010). </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Actualización
2022. El pasado 18 de julio, el bloguero estadounidense Jack Brewer
(The UFO Trail) decidió tomar el testigo de esta información y
comenzó a investigar dirigiéndose directamente a la Oficina de
Inteligencia Naval, supuesto destino de las pruebas cubanas. Presentó
dos solicitudes a través de la ley de libertad de información
(FOIA) a la OIN. Lo que sigue es el resumen de la reacción recibida
hasta el momento. El 2 de septiembre, el Departamento de Marina de
los EE.UU. mandó por correo electrónico su respuesta, fechada el 31
de agosto, en la que indicaba que la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval no
mantiene ningún archivo propio y que tales registros, de existir,
habrían sido transferidos a la Administración Nacional de Archivos
y Registros (NARA) para su proceso. Al día siguiente, Brewer envió
una solicitud FOIA a la NARA en busca de registros datado en
noviembre de 1954. El 7 de septiembre, Alexis Bucher, del Programa de
acceso especial y FOIA de la NARA, envió este email como acuse de
recibo: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Estamos
reenviando su solicitud a nuestra División de Textos ya que es la
unidad de custodia de estos registros. También estamos reenviando su
solicitud a nuestra División de Fotografía y Película como parte
de su solicitud de este material. Recibirá respuestas separadas de
cada departamento.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
Como comenta Brewer: “¡Vamos caminando hacia la línea de meta!”
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
la presente actualización del blog estaba "en prensa", el
16 de septiembre, Brewer recibió esta comunicación de la División
de de la NARA, firmada por su jefe Billy Wade: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">…Su
solicitud indicó que está interesado en fotografías tomadas por la
Marina de los EE. UU. en noviembre de 1954 de las fragatas de la
Marina cubana José Martí y Máximo Gómez. Realizamos una búsqueda
en los Registros Generales del Departamento de Marina (Grupo de
Registro 80), Registros de la Agencia de Inteligencia de Defensa
(Grupo de Registro 373) y Registros del Comando de Inteligencia Naval
(Grupo de Registro 289). Desafortunadamente, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>no
pudimos localizar ninguna imagen relacionada con su solicitud</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">...</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">
[Mi énfasis] Este correo electrónico también decía que la
División de registros de texto y la de Cine y Sonido de NARA
responderán por separado.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Personalmente
sospecho que este lance jamás tuvo lugar y que fue una pura
invención o broma de los inmigrantes cubanos destinada a los
ufólogos hispanos de Florida. Por lo tanto, anticipo que ninguna
información llegó jamás a la OIN, al DdM ni a la NARA. Pero para
disipar dudas debería haberse hecho una comprobación, y esto es lo
que está haciendo Jack Brewer. Cuando termine este proceso,
informaré de cualquier hallazgo en este mismo blog.</span></span></p>
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del incidente ovni de la costa de Matanzas, noviembre de 1954.
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Crédito:
V. Sánchez-Ocejo.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">*
Año 1957 (no se conoce mes, día ni hora). En el sitio web “Ovnis
Cubanos” de Carlos Heredero, se informa de que un tal Manuel Méndez
Vázquez, quien solía llevar consigo una pequeña cámara </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Rolleiflex</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
a todas partes, mientras caminaba solo por la loma del Cacahual,
cercana a ciudad de La Habana, observó un “misterioso aparato”
que inicialmente pensó que era un dirigible estadounidense. Le
preguntó a un anciano campesino que se encontraba a pocos metros,
quien afirmó que no era ningún dirigible. “El objeto tenía forma
de plato y seguía balanceándose, como cuando cae una hoja. La parte
inferior era de color gris oscuro y la superior un poco más claro.
Esta última estaba coronada por una especie de cúpula con una
antenita”. Tomó tres instantáneas y cuando estaba a punto de
disparar la cuarta, “el artefacto desapareció de repente”. El
campesino comenzó a correr gritando "¡un espíritu, un
espíritu!", para no ser visto nunca más. Nuevamente, un único
testigo. Las fotos de mala calidad fueron escaneadas de un álbum de
fotos donde habían sido pegadas. Los negativos nunca aparecieron.
Consultando registros oficiales, encontré a un español de 24 años
con este nombre viviendo en Méjico en 1912. Si es él, Méndez tomó
las fotos cuando tenía 69 años. Cuando las fotos se publicaron en
internet, el hombre ya había fallecido. Mi impresión es que era un
aficionado a los platillos volantes y a la fotografía, que un día
combinó sus dos intereses lanzando un objeto al aire. </span>
</span></p>
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tomadas de </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/ovniscubanos/pages/fotocub1.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.geocities.ws/ovniscubanos/pages/fotocub1.html</span></span></span></a></span></div></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">*
Año 1959 (mes, día y hora desconocidos). El libro de 1979
</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Manifiesto
OVNI</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
del escritor de Puerto Rico Sebastián Robiou Lamarche, incluía una
descripción de seis líneas de un avistamiento por un tal Sergio
Cervera, quien vio desde el muelle de La Habana a las 8 de la tarde
una "luz brillante de color plateado" que se volvió "de
color rojo anaranjado" cuando luego disminuyó su tamaño. Al
parecer, se sumergió en el mar. Francamente, sospecho que se trató
de un meteoro descendiendo hacia el horizonte. Sin embargo, ¿qué
pasa con las imágenes? Pues bien, el testigo pudo fotografiar “la
misma luz, días después” con una cámara </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Argus
C-3.</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
La película fue revelada en el laboratorio del diario </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Prensa
Libre</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
aunque no fue publicada. Las imágenes no están disponibles. La
fuente fue el mismo testigo: “Dr. Sergio Cervera, el primer ufólogo
cubano y fundador de la Comisión Investigadora de Fenómenos Aéreos
de Miami” (un grupo civil para investigar los fenómenos aéreos).
Otro ufólogo-testigo, ¡qué suerte tienen algunos!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">*
15 de octubre de 1961 (no se conoce la hora exacta). Estación
Aeronaval de Guantánamo. Dos figuras poco confiables de la ufología
estadounidense, Wendelle Stevens y August Roberts, publicaron este
resumen del caso en su libro </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFO
Photographs Around the World, Vol. 3</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(1993): “Un marinero de la US Navy tomó una foto nocturna en color
de cinco objetos radiantes de forma ovalada de color amarillo rosado
que volaban en perfecta formación en el oscuro cielo nocturno. La
ampliación del objeto más cercano (el más grande) muestra una
forma de cúpula en la parte superior”. Atribuyeron la información
a los coleccionistas de informes ovni Lucius Farish y Ron Smotek.
Hace décadas, mantuve correspondencia con Smotek. Él debe ser la
persona que me hizo llegar la diapositiva a color que poseo. No sé
lo que ustedes pueden pensar de esta imagen, pero no es difícil
imaginar lo que un marinero aburrido en Cuba, lejos de casa y no
haciendo turismo precisamente, puede inventar como pasatiempo. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
resumen, las pocas fotografías ovni cubanas “inexplicadas”
muestran imágenes tan ambiguas que nada realmente significativo
puede decirse de ellas, excepto que pueden ser fácilmente creadas
por la mano del hombre.</span></span></p>
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observada desde España</span></u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk113543199"></a><span lang="es-ES">José
María Madiedo, de la Red de Bólidos y Meteoros de Europa, informa
de la observación desde España de una reciente reentrada de restos
espaciales: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">El
21 de junio de 2022, entre las 0:30 y las 0:32 hora local, numerosas
personas en España pudieron ver cómo una hilera de bolas de fuego
cruzaba lentamente el cielo nocturno. Casi todos estos testigos se
encontraban en Andalucía. La mayoría de los testimonios llegaron
desde Sevilla y Málaga, aunque el fenómeno también pudo verse
desde mucho más al norte, como Toledo, Madrid e incluso Valladolid.
El fenómeno se produjo como consecuencia de la reentrada en la
atmósfera terrestre de una de las fases del cohete Chang Zheng 2F
(CZ-2F), que fue lanzado por la Agencia Espacial China (CNSA) el
pasado 5 de junio dentro de la misión Shenzhou 14 (Barco Divino 14).
Esta misión tenía como objetivo llevar a tres astronautas al módulo
Tianhe: el primer (y, por el momento, único) módulo de la estación
espacial china Tiangong. El cohete Chang Zheng 2F fue el encargado de
poner en órbita a la nave Shenzhou 14 que transportaba a estos
astronautas. La hilera de bolas de fuego que observaron los testigos
se produjo cuando la fase superior del cohete hizo su reentrada en la
atmósfera, rompiéndose en múltiples fragmentos que se volvieron
incandescentes como consecuencia del brusco rozamiento con la
atmósfera. Cada uno de esos fragmentos originó una bola de fuego.
El fenómeno fue grabado también por los detectores del proyecto
SMART (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC) y fue
analizado por el investigador principal de este proyecto: el
astrofísico José María Madiedo, del IAA-CSIC. De esta forma se
pudo determinar que la reentrada se produjo sobre el Atlántico,
frente a las costas de Marruecos. Desde allí, los restos del cohete
avanzaron en dirección noreste, sobrevolando primero Tetuán (norte
de Marruecos) y continuando sobre el Mediterráneo, pasando a tan
solo 10 km de la costa de Almería. La hilera de bolas de fuego se
extinguió sobre el Mediterráneo, sobre un punto situado a
aproximadamente unos 100 km de la costa de Argelia y otros 100 km de
la costa de Murcia. SMART es un proyecto que desarrolla la Red de
Bólidos y Meteoros del Suroeste de Europa (Red SWEMN). Se trata de
una red de investigación coordinada desde el Instituto de
Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). La Red SWEMN tiene como
objetivo monitorizar continuamente el cielo con el fin de registrar y
estudiar el impacto contra la atmósfera terrestre de rocas
procedentes de distintos objetos del Sistema Solar. </span></span><span lang="es-ES">(Fuente:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Fx8Y5UNxM"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Fx8Y5UNxM</span></span></a></span><span lang="es-ES">).
</span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OoxaBWZdftOrKcZZlTV_Zcr1m_DAszPYXxHKkMkvzsdj9WNzpGKw27RbCj-OqWO-iNPAUU9bcad5dtRv6aYdEWoMFQvQy0uMBN0wKql0VbYgmwpguENC9j2u4ZtYxWO8LgQ0tQDMF0txu217gVYWlH01HPcP5UIBIofWcdli_Ggz9gX0hQ/s673/Reentrada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="673" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OoxaBWZdftOrKcZZlTV_Zcr1m_DAszPYXxHKkMkvzsdj9WNzpGKw27RbCj-OqWO-iNPAUU9bcad5dtRv6aYdEWoMFQvQy0uMBN0wKql0VbYgmwpguENC9j2u4ZtYxWO8LgQ0tQDMF0txu217gVYWlH01HPcP5UIBIofWcdli_Ggz9gX0hQ/s320/Reentrada.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Reentrada en la atmósfera del cohete chino</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">CZ-2F, registrada desde España el 21/6/2022. © José María Madiedo (Red SWEMN</span></span></span>).</div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Antonio
Salinas, un ufólogo granadino con dilatada experiencia, ha aportado
dos breves video clips de esta reentrada que expongo seguidamente. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Iw94elM49H8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Iw94elM49H8"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGLPmASJo2A" width="320" youtube-src-id="sGLPmASJo2A"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">La
reentrada, vista desde Granada y Sevilla. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">©
Antonio Salinas.</span></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Miscelánea</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
“Analysis of the VASP-169 Flight UFO Sighting and Photographs. </span><span lang="es-ES">By
L.A.L. da Silva, Ph.D.” Resumen: El astrónomo brasileño Dr. Luiz
Augusto L. da Silva ha analizado uno de los casos ovni más
asombrosos de la historia. El incidente ovni del vuelo VASP-169
ocurrió el 8 de febrero de 1982 sobre el noreste y sureste de
Brasil. El piloto Gérson Maciel de Britto informó que su avión fue
acompañado por un brillante punto de luz desde cerca de la ciudad de
Bom Jesus da Lapa hasta Río de Janeiro. Notificó al centro de
control aéreo (CINDACTA) en Brasilia, así como a sus pasajeros. Una
investigación en profundidad ha demostrado que el ovni era muy
probablemente el planeta Venus, inicialmente distorsionado por un
espejismo atmosférico superior. Un pasajero obtuvo seis fotos y un
segundo obtuvo una imagen complementaria. Esas imágenes se han
interpretado como las luces de navegación del avión reflejadas en
las nubes cercanas (en el primer caso) y como la luz del crepúsculo
matutino vista a través de agujeros en la capa de nubes (en el
segundo caso). El siguiente trabajo (en portugués) reúne dos
recientes informes sobre este caso:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/84981651/Analysis_of_the_VASP_169_Flight_UFO_Sighting_and_Photographs_By_L_A_L_da_Silva_Ph_D"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/84981651/Analysis_of_the_VASP_169_Flight_UFO_Sighting_and_Photographs_By_L_A_L_da_Silva_Ph_D</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)</span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span lang="es-ES">“Detection
of UAP with a Nano Satellite” (Detección de fenómenos aéreos no
identificados con un nano satélite). Malte Reitemeyer y Felix
Weinmann son los autores del informe número 1 del curso de
Investigación ovni de la Universidad Julius-Maximilians de Würzburg
(Alemania), bajo la dirección del Prof. Dr.-Ing. </span><span lang="en-US">Hakan
Kayal:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/26139/file/Research_on_UAP_1_Reitemeyer_Weinmann_Nano_Satellite.pdf"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/26139/file/Research_on_UAP_1_Reitemeyer_Weinmann_Nano_Satellite.pdf</span></span></a></span></p>
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</span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Una
iniciativa reciente en el campo de investigación SETI es el Proyecto
de Ciencia Ciudadana VASCO. VASCO es el acrónimo de Vanishing &
Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations, un proyecto para
estudiar placas fotográficas astronómicas antiguas en busca de
objetos astronómicos raros y curiosos que puedan haber desaparecido
o que hayan aparecido de repente en nuestro cielo. Este proyecto está
abierto a científicos profesionales, astrónomos aficionados y a
“ciudadanos científicos”. Es también una búsqueda de posibles
firmas tecnológicas en el universo. Está liderado por la
investigadora Beatriz Villarroel, del Instituto Nórdico de Física
Teórica de la Universidad de Estocolmo. El objetivo del proyecto es
encontrar objetos y eventos anómalos. Afirman sin rubor: “¿podrían
los extraterrestres ser responsables de alguno de esos?” Este es su
sitio de internet: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
Encuesta ovni promovida por la Universidad Camilo José Cela
(Madrid). Copio el texto remitido por la universidad:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Análisis
sociocultural de la fenomenología OVNI. El siguiente formulario, si
usted tiene la voluntad de colaborar con nosotros, plantea una
entrevista completamente anónima en torno al tema de la
fenomenología OVNI (Objeto Volante No Identificado), dirigido por
los profesores Dr. D. Francisco Pérez Fernández y Dr. Heriberto
Janosch González, ambos docentes e investigadores en ejercicio
vinculados profesionalmente a la Universidad Camilo José Cela. La
finalidad de esta encuesta es recabar información sobre la
percepción sociocultural actual de esta cuestión en la población
general, en el marco de un proyecto de investigación universitario.
Los datos recabados mediante este formulario serán procesados con
fines enteramente académicos y científicos, sirviendo para la
generación de productos de investigación publicables,
exclusivamente, en revistas y libros científicos. El cuestionario
consta de 23 preguntas. La cumplimentación del mismo no lleva más
de diez minutos. Lo único que Vd. debe hacer es responder
sinceramente a las cuestiones planteadas. A fin de acceder a la
encuesta, rogamos lea y acepte el formulario de consentimiento
informado que se suministra a continuación. En el caso de que no
tenga interés en participar, indíquelo y cierre el cuestionario (su
posible negativa no quedará registrada).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuwL1uTJSkcKTz9f3-qrAzCr2gb5A24IxCeVcMtL-DmnImvw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuwL1uTJSkcKTz9f3-qrAzCr2gb5A24IxCeVcMtL-DmnImvw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
“We are Effectively Alone in the Universe” (Estamos efectivamente
solos en el universe), por el Dr. Alex Berezow:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.net/2022/08/we-are-effectively-alone-in-universe.html"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.net/2022/08/we-are-effectively-alone-in-universe.html</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Entrevista a </span></span><span lang="es-ES">Ignacio
Cabria en </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
País</i></span><span lang="es-ES">.
Excelente, como todo lo suyo: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://elpais.com/icon/2022-06-12/de-un-pueblo-en-cuenca-a-la-casa-del-rey-asi-fue-la-obsesion-ovni-en-la-espana-posfranquista.html"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://elpais.com/icon/2022-06-12/de-un-pueblo-en-cuenca-a-la-casa-del-rey-asi-fue-la-obsesion-ovni-en-la-espana-posfranquista.html</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
“Érase una vez en Ovnilandia: Nunca fuimos posmodernos”, de
Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/bm9f2QfTQ_M"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://youtu.be/bm9f2QfTQ_M</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ovnis
en Andalucía. Homenaje a la figura y obra de Manuel Osuna Llorente</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
autor de este libro, José Ruesga Montiel, me señala en
correspondencia personal: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">He
puesto todo mi empeño en ordenar la información, darle coherencia
al conjunto, añadiendo los hitos de publicación en los casos en los
que los hubo y haciendo los comentarios que he creído oportunos
sobre la posición del propio Osuna y sus conclusiones. No he
pretendido glorificar ni a la persona, ni las cifras, sino presentar
quien era Manolo con sus aciertos y errores frente al estudio del
fenómeno, pero desde luego con todo el respeto y cariño que le
profesé en vida. A ello he añadido casi 225 ilustraciones salidas
de mis manos que, modestamente creo que han mejorado el contenido. En
fin, un homenaje. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">He
pedido a Matías Morey Ripoll una reseña del libro y generosamente
ha escrito estas líneas que siguen:</span><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hubo
una época, no tan lejana, en que buena parte de la literatura
ufológica consistía en obras que contenían una interminable
relación de casuística, poco investigada y peor presentada, para
deleite de unos lectores tampoco demasiado exigentes. De ahí se pasó
a la confección de auténticos centones, refritos de obras similares
que abundaban aún más en la presentación de incidentes por
aluvión, como si se tratara de probar la realidad del fenómeno OVNI
simplemente mediante la cantidad de hechos anómalos registrados. La
sequía de casos de los años ochenta del siglo XX acabó con esa
moda, aunque aquí y allá se fueron registrando rebrotes hasta casi
ayer mismo.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sin
embargo, y al margen de esos excesos, hubo y hay libros que, aunque
externamente no son muy distintos de las recopilaciones de
incidentes, sí que aportan un valor añadido por su exposición de
un momento histórico o de una figura señalada, vinculados a la
casuística que exponen. Éste es el caso de OVNIs en Andalucía.
Homenaje a la figura y obra de Manuel Osuna Llorente, la obra que ha
visto finalmente la luz en formato digital de la mano de José Ruesga
Montiel. Persona que no debería necesitar presentación, Pepe Ruesga
(como le llamamos quienes le conocemos bien) es uno de los ufólogos
más destacados del ámbito español, responsable nada menos que de
la Red Nacional de Corresponsales, de la revista Cuadernos de
Ufología (en sus dos etapas), y promotor y presidente de la
Fundación Anomalía/Íkaros. Por si fuera poco, fue un activo
investigador de la fenomenología OVNI en Andalucía, siempre en una
línea antidogmática, y más pragmática que teórica. Desde esa
privilegiada posición, y con la experiencia atesorada de tantos
años, una vez ya retirado de las lides ufológicas ha querido
cumplir un último sueño largamente acariciado: poner a disposición
del público la casi completa colección de pesquisas de Manuel Osuna
(1914-1982), pionero en la investigación del fenómeno en tierras
andaluzas.</span></i></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnl3xK3VFtweIJNiWvKWRzv9M-fu_brj9tqC-WR3gjXS6LjpQSu76N6_XyccX5QMF4F7xqe3jDvVC94HQSMqX6BprUUriS0F8A3_3c3OouOf6ScAsHDfOJNKjNSDUTr0_ZnhZcINbmEm_gdDS68eZYToiWD6VcfAfYgkOv9aYxGwVjJO9Prg/s3408/Osuna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3408" data-original-width="2478" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnl3xK3VFtweIJNiWvKWRzv9M-fu_brj9tqC-WR3gjXS6LjpQSu76N6_XyccX5QMF4F7xqe3jDvVC94HQSMqX6BprUUriS0F8A3_3c3OouOf6ScAsHDfOJNKjNSDUTr0_ZnhZcINbmEm_gdDS68eZYToiWD6VcfAfYgkOv9aYxGwVjJO9Prg/s320/Osuna.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero,
¿quién era Manuel Osuna? Su nombre poco dice ya a las generaciones
actuales, sobre todo a quienes están más alejados geográficamente
del sur peninsular, pero no deja de ser un personaje clave en la
historia de la ufología española. Maestro vocacional, dentro y
fuera de las aulas, Osuna fue un intelectual nato, de vastísima
cultura humanista, que desarrolló durante algunas décadas una
meritoria labor de investigación de campo en la zona más próxima a
su lugar de residencia, Umbrete, en la provincia de Sevilla. Aunque
más que a investigar se dedicó realmente a recopilar casuística,
que luego reseñaba en forma de breves pinceladas con su
característico estilo literario, barroco y casi gongorino. Pese a
que preparó varias compilaciones de incidentes (llegó a reunir unos
400 casos), no llegaron a publicarse nunca por rechazo de las
editoriales. Persona de trato difícil por su carácter y su
desconfianza, Manuel Osuna era un firme convencido de la procedencia
extraterrestre de los ovnis, y sostuvo que podían ser una expedición
forzosamente perdida en nuestro planeta. En los últimos años de su
vida giró sensiblemente hacia concepciones más atrevidas, mezclando
la ufología con el espiritismo, la psicofonía o prácticas tan poco
claras como la ouija.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Como
hemos dicho, Osuna apenas publicó en vida más que unos pocos
artículos en revistas especializadas, si bien mantuvo un incesante
contacto epistolar con múltiples colaboradores, después plasmado en
los breves informes que elaboraba, pero todo ello sin el menor atisbo
de sistematización y con poco espíritu crítico. Se entiende, pues,
que la labor de José Ruesga haya sido ímproba, pues no sólo ha
tenido que dar forma a centenares de anotaciones de casuística, sino
que además ha incluido en cada una de ellas referencias
bibliográficas y comentarios aclaratorios; así como imágenes de
archivo o elaboradas para la ocasión, hasta un total de 225
ilustraciones, la mayoría de ellas a todo color, lo que convierte a
Ovnis en Andalucía en un libro muy rico en el aspecto gráfico.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Inicialmente
concebida como cuatro tomos separados, la obra se presenta finalmente
como un único volumen con cinco partes que recogen cronológicamente
la casuística reportada por Osuna, según la fecha de los incidentes
(no la de confección del informe): 1) de 1935 a 1969, 2) de 1970 a
1973, 3) de 1974 a 1976, 4) de 1977 a 1982, y 5) de 1966 a 1976
(apéndice que recoge casos rescatados después de cerrar el listado
de los capítulos anteriores). El resultado es un libro de 423
páginas en formato A-4 y con el mencionado alarde de imágenes, de
manera que tales características han desaconsejado su edición como
obra impresa y se ha preferido publicar únicamente una versión en
PDF. Además, en un gesto que le honra, José Ruesga ha renunciado a
percibir cualquier tipo de beneficio económico por las ventas del
libro, y así dicha versión digital puede descargarse gratuitamente
desde este enlace: </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6672030"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6672030</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
definitiva, estamos ante una obra no sólo importante por el caudal
de casuística que proporciona, mucha de ella inédita, sino también
porque, yendo más allá de la simple exposición de incidentes,
representa un testimonio clave tanto de la vida y andanzas de la
figura pionera de Manuel Osuna, como de una época determinada de la
ufología española y andaluza, que bien puede decirse que vivió
entonces sus momentos de gloria. Cabe agradecer a José Ruesga que,
con mucho esfuerzo y dedicación, haya hecho posible recuperar todo
ese acervo para las generaciones actuales de interesados por el
fenómeno OVNI, lo cual es también una forma de recobrarnos a
nosotros mismos.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0IjC75fy7N2kIi89AzimiIsSmSAz9jRTLaeMZ6VScAce4ZxSOOuWiCCfjx2O2R1Mf6YbUR__Pe837kuXvuGpx83G4cDOyrG6tv6WenjstViYT5NCZvYReFiW-tlNCSQvnyc_ZEdxAYF5-7o-hUPklrfyGFQ8aNmHXeZJhi3cLmMTxxOEQQ/s458/Ruesga,%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="310" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0IjC75fy7N2kIi89AzimiIsSmSAz9jRTLaeMZ6VScAce4ZxSOOuWiCCfjx2O2R1Mf6YbUR__Pe837kuXvuGpx83G4cDOyrG6tv6WenjstViYT5NCZvYReFiW-tlNCSQvnyc_ZEdxAYF5-7o-hUPklrfyGFQ8aNmHXeZJhi3cLmMTxxOEQQ/s320/Ruesga,%202019.jpg" width="217" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">José
Ruesga Montiel, 2019.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OVNIS
en Ucrania (Reseña)</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
primer requisito de un libro titulado “OVNIS en Ucrania” es que
esté al menos firmado por alguien nativo de ese país. Y la obra que
nos ocupa se ajusta a ese canon porque Mercedes Pullman es ucraniana
de nacimiento (1964) y de corazón. Aunque hoy, en realidad, todos
somos un poco ucranianos. Es nieta de españoles que se exiliaron a
la URSS durante nuestra Guerra Civil. En su país natal se licenció
en Filología Rusa y trabajó como profesora de lengua y literatura
rusa. Emigró a España en el año 1990, donde se graduó en Trabajo
Social y se licenció en Antropología Social y Cultural.
Actualmente, es vicepresidenta de la Sociedad Española de
Antropología y Tradiciones Populares y directora de la revista
digital </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Antropología
y Tradiciones Populares </i></span><span lang="es-ES">(1).
Interesada por los “fenómenos extraños de cualquier índole,
destacando por supuesto los ovnis”, Pullman quedó fascinada por
los hechos insólitos que conoció recorriendo su país y que luego
comenzó a recopilar. Abierta a nuevas ideas (“no predico la
hipótesis extraterrestre”, confiesa la autora), ya desde aquí
afianzó su apego por la ufología, documentándose más a fondo,
reuniéndose con investigadores, desarrollando labor de encuesta
(2,3) y escribiendo ensayos (4) y libros (5).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">En
la obra que reseño, Pullman pasa revista en 165 páginas a lo mejor
(o a una selección) de la casuística ovni de Ucrania. Como muchos
libros semejantes, el problema es la lejanía de los sucesos,
impresos inicialmente en libros a veces poco fiables. La dificultad
estriba en que hay muchos casos, informes y anécdotas para los que
se consigna una brevísima exposición, en principio asombrosa, que
no se acompañan del correspondiente análisis. Porque son relatos
procedentes de fuentes que la investigadora no puede controlar, o
porque la información original es antigua o carente del nivel de
precisión obligatorio. Pullman, en correspondencia personal, matiza
que su papel ha sido el de “exponer lo que cuentan los ufólogos
ucranianos, aunque ello sea demasiado rocambolesco y, de hecho, mucha
de esa información no me convence ni creo que simplemente sea
verdad”. </span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCBeTNkaYWG-VSPvAbplWwhwyXVfIEB0WPaJ2DrgBkZ2CFGlXeYiH-BKJ37goHuPE7Rc1MuBhX8PG5x5RdRU3xglIu6o8rlZcDxoPs02Ji74gNGHvSat5fBWz5QBjYFYx1jzuLajHJ-662rG6u2sBLcpb7V06Cv8Ey5fqRdyrkEWYBF3ybQ/s1705/portada%20Ucrania.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1705" data-original-width="1088" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCBeTNkaYWG-VSPvAbplWwhwyXVfIEB0WPaJ2DrgBkZ2CFGlXeYiH-BKJ37goHuPE7Rc1MuBhX8PG5x5RdRU3xglIu6o8rlZcDxoPs02Ji74gNGHvSat5fBWz5QBjYFYx1jzuLajHJ-662rG6u2sBLcpb7V06Cv8Ey5fqRdyrkEWYBF3ybQ/s320/portada%20Ucrania.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
el capítulo “¿Desde cuándo los ovnis visitan Ucrania?”,
Pullman revisa crónicas históricas y encuentra alusiones a
fenómenos inusuales ocurridos en siglos pasados, incluyendo
descripciones curiosas de lo que fue la aparición del cometa Halley
durante siete días en el año 1065, un portento celeste en 1091
identificado como un eclipse solar, una posible caída de meteorito
ese mismo año, ilustrada a modo de una serpiente cayendo del cielo
en un códice de la época, leyendas eslavas concernientes a
criaturas mitológicas narradas en la literatura del siglo XII o en
libros de folcloristas del siglo XIX, etc. Pullman destaca la
aportación del astrónomo y meteorólogo ruso Daniil Sviatskii con
su obra “Fenómenos astronómicos en crónicas rusas” (San
Petersburgo, 1909), “donde el autor, aparte de ofrecer extractos de
antiguos manuscritos, ofrece la descripción de una serie de
fenómenos que no pudo clasificar ni como meteoritos, ni cometas, ni
espejismos ópticos”. Pullman cita algunos de ellos, por ejemplo
los fechados el 29 de noviembre de 1662 y el 19 de mayo de 1859, que
a mí me parecen más bien modelos de super bólidos.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
“Zonas anómalas de Ucrania y avistamientos ovni”, chirrío
cuando leo la asociación de fenomenología ovni y “lugares de
poder” o dotados de “energía positiva” por parte de los
“investigadores de fenómenos anómalos”. Esto está en la línea
de los ufólogos más crédulos. Cada una de esas áreas requiere su
estudio en profundidad, con un acercamiento técnico y científico
sin dejar volar la imaginación, para llegar a su debido diagnóstico.
Podemos hablar de Hessdalen, entre otras. Yo he analizado, con Manuel
Borraz, los episodios luminosos recurrentes de Marfa, Texas, y aquí
no hay hechos inconsistentes con la “ciencia oficial” sino una
explicación de lo más mundana: la circulación de vehículos a
motor por caminos locales. (6) En otros lugares del mundo las
explicaciones podrían ser diferentes, pero explicaciones al fin y al
cabo.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Las
concentraciones de avistamientos en una región, provincia u otra
unidad geográfica de las que habla la autora pueden atribuirse a
múltiples factores, entre los que la presencia activa de ufólogos
locales no es menor. A este respecto, merece la pena leer el informe
de López y Ares de Blas de 1982 sobre los informes ovni en España
entre 1950 y 1980 (7). </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
otra sección de este capítulo, Pullman se refiere a los “clásicos”
de la ufología ucraniana y mucho me temo que la autora ha bebido de
fuentes poco fidedignas. Seguramente porque no hay otras, por
desgracia. No se puede exponer alegremente que “según algunas
fuentes, el primer misil balístico soviético se creó utilizando
elementos del artefacto encontrado”, refiriéndose al hallazgo bajo
de una avenida de Kiev a principios del siglo XX y posterior
desenterramiento en 1948 de un objeto de 50x3 metros. No soy
especialista en ufología rusa, pero algo he leído en los últimos
55 años y puedo afirmar sin gran margen de error que su mayor parte
es bastante aberrante y paracientífica. Por ejemplo, una de las
peculiaridades de los ufólogos rusos y ucranianos es el uso de la
radiestesia -una herramienta pseudocientífica- para rastrear
anomalías en los casos de aterrizaje (8).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Recitar
en pocas líneas incidentes aparentemente extraordinarios, uno tras
otro, me da grima. En 2022 ya deberíamos practicar un tipo de
ufología más rigurosa con los datos esgrimidos, antes de presentar
nuestras tesis. Acepto que Pullman incluye esos casos como ejemplos
de lo que muestra la literatura fantasiosa de aquella zona del globo,
pero habría que ponerlos en entredicho porque de otra forma el
lector los cree a pies juntillas y los deglute sin más: “¡lo leí
en un libro!”</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Pullman,
en un resumen algo confuso del mismo capítulo señala
categóricamente, sin embargo, que “en la mayoría de los casos,
resultan corresponder a la tecnología terrestre o a un fenómeno
atmosférico”, pero no lo prueba directamente con los casos que
presenta. La autora es consciente de la problemática de estos
fenómenos: “lo que sabemos de ellos, en la mayoría de los casos
se basa en el análisis de los testimonios y casi ninguna prueba
física”. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Uno
de los capítulos más interesantes e instructivos es el dedicado a
la historia del estudio de los ovnis en Ucrania, que perteneció a la
URSS hasta 1991. Para los estudiosos occidentales, el desarrollo de
la ufología oficial y privada en Rusia es materia poco conocida. Y
eso que ha sido importante, sobre todo en cuanto a la acumulación de
informes más que a profundidad de análisis, quizás debido a que
gran parte de ella se gestionó fundamentalmente desde el ámbito
militar (9-12). Pullman aporta un buen resumen del inicio y
desarrollo del estudio ovni en Rusia. Sabemos que en 1985 el
presidente Gorbachov abortó la financiación de los programas
estatales de investigación ovni SETKA (del ministerio de Defensa y
de la Academia de Ciencias), dejando solo el plan TSITADEL, creado
para proteger la superficie de la Tierra “de asteroides y otros
objetos espaciales que pudieran representar una amenaza” (entiendo
que se refiere a reentradas de cohetes, satélites y chatarra
espacial, tanto propios como de otros países). </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">En
Ucrania específicamente, la investigación ovni comenzó en 1980
bajo la tutela de la Academia de Ciencias y tuvo un progreso “fértil”
durante toda aquella década, centrada en la “recopilación activa
de información”. Pero como señala la autora, “el desarrollo de
la ufología en Ucrania ha estado en declive desde el colapso de la
Unión Soviética”. En 1995, “por orden del ministro de Defensa
de Ucrania, la recopilación de información sobre ovnis se confió
al Centro Hidrometeorológico Principal de las Fuerzas Armadas. Entre
las obligaciones de este nuevo centro estaba incluida la pronta
notificación a los altos mandos militares sobre el fenómeno”. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">A
este respecto, puedo añadir algo absolutamente inédito (si fuera
periodista del misterio diría: en rigurosa exclusiva para esta
reseña). Desde hace años, está colaborando conmigo Igor Kalytyuk, investigador del Ukrainian Scientific Research Center for Analyses of
Anomalies «Zond». El SRCAA «Zond» tiene una estrecha relación
con el centro de Hidrometeorología y concretamente tiene en marcha
un ambicioso proyecto para recpilar toda la información oficial
existente en el país sobre avistamientos ovni. Puedo avanzar -aunque
ello será dado a conocer con detalle en un trabajo en preparación-
que desde 2010 varios científicos y miembros del SRCAA (A. Bilyk, A.
Kulskiy, A. Kirichenko, I. Kalytyuk, M. Gershtein y S. Petrov) han ya
recibido 68 informes, 120 páginas en total, del Observatorio
Geofísico Central y de la Academia de Ciencias. El proceso, continuo
hasta enero de 2022, se ha interrumpido a causa de la agresión de
Rusia a Ucrania. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHF-YVtfbTpVltNGptudL0-Vr_9YmdyBtv5Ty9bZ19mg2uJf4gKL4nkihXX7reFESy6l-ar20KO3K-BQiTzvTrTwYtHc0xnes6l-NZA3QibWwBirGGwM12ozgjArPJ1vQBmbvXsIVNX946owEqe-FurueR95DV4osEh69Jj2FcPFfnhFDkg/s1600/paquete.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHF-YVtfbTpVltNGptudL0-Vr_9YmdyBtv5Ty9bZ19mg2uJf4gKL4nkihXX7reFESy6l-ar20KO3K-BQiTzvTrTwYtHc0xnes6l-NZA3QibWwBirGGwM12ozgjArPJ1vQBmbvXsIVNX946owEqe-FurueR95DV4osEh69Jj2FcPFfnhFDkg/s320/paquete.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Uno
de los paquetes de expedientes ovni entregados al SRCAA por la
Academia de Ciencias de Ucrania. Cortesía de I. Kalytyuk.</span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Como
todos sabemos, la central nuclear de Chernóbil se encuentra en
territorio ucraniano. Y todos recordamos el fatídico accidente del
26 de abril de 1986. El capítulo “¿Qué hacen los extraterrestres
en la central nuclear de Chernóbil?” me deja helado. Tras la
historia del siniestro, Pullman habla de profecías que a mi entender
solo generan desconcierto en el lector que busca cierta uniformidad
de pensamiento (en uno u otro sentido). Establecer una relación (?)
entre la catástrofe y los ovnis es altamente especulativa. Escribe:
“esta versión llevó a los escépticos a pensar que alguien está
difundiendo noticias falsas…” ¡Pues lógico! La navaja de Occam.
El raciocinio debe imperar. Pero caramba, ¿hay dos Pullman,
entonces? En otro párrafo cita a Azhazha, ufólogo que creo está
totalmente desacreditado, sobre visiones de ovnis en vísperas del
accidente. Y dice que la zona “resultó ser casi invadida por
platillos voladores”. ¿Lo dice él o lo afirma Pullman? Espero que
el primero. Y da muchos relatos variados, cada cual apenas de unas
pocas líneas (¿cuál es su procedencia?), fotos de una gran
ambigüedad y hasta una del “hombre polilla” de Chernóbil. Esta
locura de noticias -ella habla de un Portal al Infierno- me parece un
revoltijo de casos procedentes de escritores sensacionalistas nada
serios. Pero no es su culpa. Sencillamente se hace eco de lo que
otros han publicado -y explotado hasta la saciedad- sobre misteriosos
ovnis en las cercanías de la gran desgracia. El morbo vende. Pero
terminar diciendo que “la participación directa en la liquidación
del accidente de la central nuclear de un objeto desconocido, así
como la actividad sin precedentes de los ovnis en los años
siguientes… sugiere que las tripulaciones de los ovnis están, al
parecer, muy preocupadas por el estado de la biosfera de la Tierra”.
Me temo que la autora se ha dejado llevar por el embrujo de la brutal
inflación de artículos y webs sobre supuestos ovnis en Chernóbil.
Esa es una afirmación de gran envergadura que para nada está
respaldada por esas narraciones anecdóticas que solo cobran valor
cuando se agrupan sin filtro. Casos que dejan de ser significativos
cuando se inspeccionan uno por uno, como demuestra la práctica
ufológica mundial. Por eso han transcurrido 75 años y algunos están
partiendo de cero, porque hasta ahora no se ha encontrado nada
relevante y, a la vez, anómalo. Y sí evidencia de un fenómeno
social y no físico.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
capítulo sobre los encuentros cercanos tiene un especial aliciente,
ya que de alguna manera es mi campo de especialización. Pullman
apunta, ya al principio del texto, una incongruencia de fondo en ese
tipo de relatos: “si cada testigo presencial describe con precisión
y coherencia a las criaturas… esto significa que la Tierra es
visitada por varios cientos de variedades de extraterrestres, lo que
en sí mismo ya es increíble e ilógico”. El libro expone 15 casos
selectos con algo más de dos líneas, que divide en grupos: seres
humanos, humanoides, reptiloides, robots, monstruos y fantasmas. En
suma, un completo universo </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>freak</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
para todos los gustos. Pasaré revista a algunos de ellos:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">3/5/1987.
Un granjero dice haber viajado en una nave espacial alienígena y
desaparece de su casa durante cinco días. Claro, estaba de turismo a
bordo de un platillo volante donde había una mujer particularmente
hermosa. ¡Ja! La “versión más acertada” se publicó en un
libro neutralmente titulado “El regreso de los extraterrestres”. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">1960.
Un caso sin más precisión temporal, que sale a la luz muy
posteriormente. Un adulto cuenta su “experiencia” cuando tenía
10 años: un objeto de 1,50 m de diámetro aterriza y de una
escotilla salen dos seres muy humanos (verdaderos enanitos, digo yo)
dotados de cascos con cristales tintados, lo que no le impide
“sentir” su mirada. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4/4/1974.
Una madrugada, una cajera de 23 años, casada, se topa en plena
ciudad con un objeto en forma de disco que se halla a tres metros de
distancia. Unos seres la introducen en el aparato y la someten a “un
largo examen usando varios artilugios”. La historia finaliza con
una circunstancia cotidiana y fácil de creer: la joven sale del
ovni… ¡virgen! ¡Virgen Santa!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">3/9/1977.
Una joven, durmiendo en una tienda de campaña con diez personas, se
despierta y ve una figura de hombre inclinándose sobre ella. Al
contarlo al día siguiente, otra de las amigas dice haberse
despertado al oír un grito y ver también al visitante. No sé a
ustedes, pero a mí me parece un evento típico de alucinación
hipnopómpica o parálisis del sueño. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3/10/1988.
“Representantes de [nada menos que cinco] civilizaciones del
planeta Yadivov” contactan con dos chicas jóvenes de Kiev, que
empiezan a recibir textos técnicos de divulgación científica, para
luego pasar a recibir “poemas de amor, en el sentido más elevado
de lo que solemos imaginar”. ¿Se ha reencarnado José Luis Jordán
Peña en Ucrania?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">21/7/1990.
Un periódico juvenil publica un artículo presuntamente basado en la
historia de dos niñas que vieron a unos extraterrestres con “brazos
largos hasta las rodillas, uñas más largas que los propios dedos y
piernas con aletas”. Se asustaron pero les era difícil correr. ¿Un
cuento?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">23/2/1991.
A.S. sintió que alguien le apretaba la garganta con las manos. A 30
cm de ella, vio a una criatura de rostro humano, “solo que todo
peludo”. Pensó que era el diablo (naturalmente, es la mejor
opción), pero desechó la idea porque no tenía cuernos
(obviamente). A pesar de tener el tamaño de un niño de 5-6 años
(debía estar muy de puntillas), este ser “era más fuerte que yo y
me di cuenta de que era macho” (detalle importante). Cuando dejó
de resistirse, la soltó y desapareció. ¿Una alucinación?
¿Demasiada </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Stolichnaya</i></span><span lang="es-ES">?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1992.
En 2018, Yuri escribe a una asociación ufológica sobre su
experiencia: “no los vi, pero los sentí, porque estaban en estado
espiritual… primero debes creer sobre la existencia de almas;
cuando una persona muere, el alma se muda a un lugar determinado; y
los extraterrestres son aquellos con los que tuve un encuentro, todo
ello conscientemente, allá en su planeta, salen de cuerpos
materiales y en tal estado espiritual viajan por el Universo, después
al regresar a su planeta vuelven a sus cuerpos y viven
aproximadamente como nosotros…en ese momento, realmente quería ver
a los extraterrestres y esta se ha convertido en una de las
principales razones por la que me visitaron. Eran dos mujeres y un
hombre… en lugar de la cabeza tenían una joroba, un semicírculo…
de él salió un zumbido… quizás su trabajo era purificar la
energía negativa que había acumulado… las mujeres… solo
mostraban que una estaba llena de amor, y la otra solo un poco más
de la mitad”. Todo muy coherente: ¡al diván, por favor, o
directamente a una institución mental!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">29/6/1985.
Según los ufólogos ucranianos, este es uno de los casos “más
confiables” del país. Un grupo de jóvenes de Kolomak se dirigían
por la noche hacia la estación cuando se encontraron, cerca de un
objeto rectangular “como un refrigerador acostado de lado”, con
cuatro seres desconocidos de tres metros de alto, muy voluminosos,
vestidos con trajes espaciales color acero en forma de huevo. No
tenían boca, nariz, ni orejas, solo ojos grandes y redondos. Uno de
los ellos “sostenía entre sus manos un cáliz, cuya superficie
interior brillaba con luz verde”. ¿Un semáforo espacial o el
Santo Grial?</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta
muestra no parece que contenga nada que explicaciones razonables no
pueden solucionar.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pullman
dedica un capítulo a considerar los casos de la región de los
Cárpatos, una de las 25 de la nación. Dejaré al lector potencial
que juzgue los casos y fotos que se relacionan. Son semejantes a los
que la casuística mundial nos tiene acostumbrados, esto es: leídos
así, en frío, parecen excepcionales, pero, como todos, cuando se
someten a un estudio concreto y racional, alejados de convencimiento
previo y de interés crematístico, la conclusión se revela común.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">En
“Gobiernos militares, KGB, CIA y ufólogos en busca de respuestas”
se reproduce una entrevista de 1995 con el coronel Yuri Lunev, jefe
del Centro Hidrometeorológico del Ejército, encargado del registro
de observaciones ovni (recogidas para su información “a las
autoridades superiores”). De sus manifestaciones, extraeré estas
frases: “…a la defensa aérea se le encomienda la tarea de
clasificar un objeto y determinar la amenaza que representa para el
Estado y sus ciudadanos”; los ovnis “aparecen solo en ciertos
lugares y su comportamiento es característico de estudio”; “En
general, el problema de los ovnis es bastante serio. Requiere, en mi
opinión, un estudio detallado y conclusiones adecuadas”. Con
respecto a la CIA y Ucrania, apenas hay referencia a documentos de la
Agencia de 1952 y a alguna anécdota con Stalin. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En
cuanto al proyecto ruso SETKA-AN (de la Academia de Ciencias),
terminó en una carpeta en poder de la KGB que contenía los casos
acumulados entre 1982 y 1990, ¡de solo 124 folios! En 1991, el
vicepresidente de la KGB, general Nikolai Sham, quien desclasificó y
entregó al público los documentos ovni recopilados, aseguró que
“en la KGB poca gente creía en los ovnis”. Añade Pullman: “De
hecho, no se conocen casos en los que se consignaron fondos del
presupuesto de la KGB para tales estudios”. No fue ese, sin
embargo, el destino de los mucho más voluminosos archivos del
SETKA-MO (del Ministerio de Defensa). Parte de ellos desaparecieron
con el desmembramiento de la URSS y otros fueron vendidos a ufólogos
estadounidenses por el físico N. Kapranov y el coronel B. Sokolov.
Pero hay copias en otros centros de investigación en Rusia y
Ucrania.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La
autora ultima el capítulo con una lista de hipótesis dictadas por
los ufólogos ucranianos sobre el origen de los ovnis, tan larga “que
se vuelve surrealista”. Y añade, con criterio práctico: “Es
importante elegir las más plausibles, probables y creíbles, y solo
entonces trabajar sobre ellas”. Yo agregaría: sobre todo, aquella
que satisfaga y comprenda la totalidad de fenómenos comunicados, con
el aporte de pruebas materiales irrefutables y objetivas.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Llegamos
a la sección “Conclusión”. La autora se define claramente -y
con toda probabilidad se está dirigiendo a las nuevas generaciones-
con afirmaciones de este calibre: “Cualquier ufólogo encontrará
en sus archivos una ingente cantidad de casos que tienen más que ver
con la ciencia ficción que con la ciencia”. “Un ufólogo debe
ser un escéptico… no rechazar la objetividad del fenómeno ovni,
sino asumir la presencia de desinformación en los materiales
recopilados… algunas pruebas pueden contener una interpretación
incorrecta de fenómenos naturales. Por eso es importante destacar
que la tarea de un ufólogo es separar el trigo de la paja, y
considerar que toda información debe ser inicialmente objeto de
crítica”. Mercedes, estoy totalmente de acuerdo.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Yo
apostaría por una reedición de esta obra con la corrección de
algunos lapsus de idioma y con mayor consistencia o cohesión
filosófica. Esta obra nos ha conducido hacia casuística que nos era
desconocida y que nos permite comparar con aquella producida en estos
lares. A mi juicio, este libro sirve para poner de manifiesto que los
avistamientos de ovnis vienen de otro mundo: del mundo singular,
personal e intransferible del perceptor. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro puede adquirirse a través de Amazon en este enlace: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/OVNIS-UCRANIA-Expedientes-telón-acero/dp/B09XZD47DF"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/OVNIS-UCRANIA-Expedientes-tel%C3%B3n-acero/dp/B09XZD47DF</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0z3KJYGNs1nskM_iA9Us6o8vq0ClQaQ6jK-OfaIvoOvXfLsDOAH-IsKclJZOsSPrWQHR_hEU6W4HslVZRlUPawdrmXNKP0m7INn5KI9S1rv2JgSTBNLP-RFzvdQ8XkaVShXOMW0zcbQp1DI_c9yxikNDOsjsuV6a6lQmNe6FnQ55feB1Fg/s3264/Pullman.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0z3KJYGNs1nskM_iA9Us6o8vq0ClQaQ6jK-OfaIvoOvXfLsDOAH-IsKclJZOsSPrWQHR_hEU6W4HslVZRlUPawdrmXNKP0m7INn5KI9S1rv2JgSTBNLP-RFzvdQ8XkaVShXOMW0zcbQp1DI_c9yxikNDOsjsuV6a6lQmNe6FnQ55feB1Fg/s320/Pullman.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mercedes
Pullman y V.J. Ballester Olmos.</span></span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/50392274/Revista_de_Antropología_y_Tradiciones_Populares_No9"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/50392274/Revista_de_Antropolog%C3%ADa_y_Tradiciones_Populares_No9</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Pullman, Mercedes, “Investigación del caso del avistamiento OVNI
en Ferrerías. Lugo, 7 de marzo de 1996”,</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/50397640/INVESTIGACIÓN_DEL_CASO_DEL_AVISTAMIENTO_OVNI_EN_FERRERIAS"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/50397640/INVESTIGACI%C3%93N_DEL_CASO_DEL_AVISTAMIENTO_OVNI_EN_FERRERIAS</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Pullman, Mercedes, “Una nueva visión del caso Ferrerías que
después de tantos años sigue latente”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/50398179/UNA_NUEVA_VISÓN_DEL_CASO_FERRERIAS_QUE_DESPUÉS_DE_TANTOS_AÑOS_SIGUE_LATENTE"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/50398179/UNA_NUEVA_VIS%C3%93N_DEL_CASO_FERRERIAS_QUE_DESPU%C3%89S_DE_TANTOS_A%C3%91OS_SIGUE_LATENTE</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Pullman, Mercedes, “Estudio de la distribución geográfica de los
fenómenos OVNI del tipo “encuentro cercano” en el territorio
español”, </span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37524948/Estudio_distribucion_geografica_fenomenos_EC_en_Espana_By_Mercedes_Pullman_pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/37524948/Estudio_distribucion_geografica_fenomenos_EC_en_Espana_By_Mercedes_Pullman_pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Pullman, Mercedes, Los secretos mejor guardados de la KGB,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Los-secretos-mejor-guardados-KGB/dp/B08LNG9SDW"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/Los-secretos-mejor-guardados-KGB/dp/B08LNG9SDW</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Manuel Borraz y V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003_2007_"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003_2007_</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
López, David Gustavo y Félix Ares de Blas, “Análisis de la
distribución geográfica de las observaciones españolas”, en El
fenómeno OVNI. Análisis de 30 años de observaciones en España,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiestesia"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiestesia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Platov, Yulii y B. Sokolov, “History of UFO State Research in the
USSR”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12689467/HISTORY_OF_UFO_STATE_RESEARCH_IN_THE_USSR"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/12689467/HISTORY_OF_UFO_STATE_RESEARCH_IN_THE_USSR</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Gershtein, Mikhail B., “Short story of UFO research in a former
Soviet Union and in Ukraine independence time”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://faks.kpi.ua/index.php/uzond/zond-m?download=138:m"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://faks.kpi.ua/index.php/uzond/zond-m?download=138:m</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
Gindilis, L.M., D.A. Men'kov y I.G. Petrovskaya (1979), Observations
of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: Statistical Analysis, </span></span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/Phenomena_in_USSR_A-548.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/Phenomena_in_USSR_A-548.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(12)
Litvinov, E. y V. Pravdivtsev, “On the history of the study of
anomalous phenomena exploration of the Soviet Navy” (en ruso),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coollib.com/b/432582/read"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://coollib.com/b/432582/read</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Los
libros de Reinaldo Manso</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
game is afoot </i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(Sherlock
Holmes). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Adventure of the Abbey Grange</i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
1904.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">La
verdad es que uno se enorgullece de los amigos que hace durante su
paso por la ufología. Al final y a la postre, lo de los ovnis (que
no existen) es lo de menos. Es lo que aprendes, las variadas
disciplinas que estudias, el conocimiento que ganas sobre el ser
humano, de sus filias y fobias, de sus limitaciones, de sus
motivaciones, etc. Y de los compañeros de viaje que haces.
Verdaderos sabios, hombres (numéricamente en mayoría,
desgraciadamente) eruditos, brillantes, lúcidos, rigurosos y, a la
par, humanamente espléndidos y talentosos. De los que uno -que es
una esponja- se ilustra y se educa. Esos colegas estudiosos de los
fenómenos ovni tampoco han hecho de esta afición la única razón
de ser de sus vidas, al contrario que muchos otros. Sería muy pobre.
Con una vida profesional, social y familiar rica, también han
cultivado otras facetas intelectuales. Como la novela. Y ahora
desciendo al detalle que sigue a esta introducción: hablo de Luis R.
González. Investigador de la ufología y ávido lector
internacional, conoce como pocos en España la literatura ovni
anglosajona, de la que es autor de múltiples recensiones. Ha escrito
muchos artículos en las últimas décadas, varios centrados en su
interés por los sucesos con aparición de humanoides. Asimismo, su
pluma ha vertido concienzudos ensayos como </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
abducciones… ¡vaya timo!</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(1).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
poco conocida es su vertiente de experto en la obra de Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, su devoción por la filatelia y su papel de escritor de
ficción. Como autor, firmadas por su segundo nombre y apellido,
Reinaldo Manso, para mi gusto destacan las novelas </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>UMMO.
Historia de una obsesión </i></span><span lang="es-ES">(2)
y </span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
Variaciones Malaka</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
volumen I (3) y II (4), trabajos muy entretenidos y, francamente, muy
bien escritos, dicho esto sin pasión de amigo. El primero obviamente
está basado en los documentos fraudulentos que hablaban del supuesto
planeta “Ummo”, que estaban sellados con el signo pseudo cirílico
Ж y que comenzaron a circular profusamente primero por España a
mediados de los años sesenta del pasado siglo. Con múltiples guiños
a la ufología nacional, resulta divertido reconocer a compañeros de
dedicación, y hasta a uno mismo, debidamente camuflado con la
habilidad del redactor. En cuanto a las variaciones o pastiches, como
parece se denominan en el argot de los especialistas en la obra de
Doyle, es una lectura refrescante que, al menos a mí durante este
julio vacacional, me ha venido de perlas. Los recomiendo. </span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqDNkG3nBJx9myyukXC027phlv_0-5XnfxRBByhvEYYWpklMALJzB_Z8b-EWSMNYAJkmwc-RoPN6vBOKAe2VUWEMfA8-S_taSij1abC4Oue8EbObFJawP6-IZZ0eNkKHW1ltvc1agDV5-_h1-VaG6aR7FeoYbsomTo6AClYbZr-FZb6nQYQ/s2310/Ummo%20Malaka.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="2310" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqDNkG3nBJx9myyukXC027phlv_0-5XnfxRBByhvEYYWpklMALJzB_Z8b-EWSMNYAJkmwc-RoPN6vBOKAe2VUWEMfA8-S_taSij1abC4Oue8EbObFJawP6-IZZ0eNkKHW1ltvc1agDV5-_h1-VaG6aR7FeoYbsomTo6AClYbZr-FZb6nQYQ/s320/Ummo%20Malaka.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estaba
recientemente revisando el extraordinario blog del mejicano Luis Ruiz
Noguez, “Marcianitos Verdes”, cuando me topé con la excelente
crítica que el destacado investigador británico John Rimmer hacía
del libro </span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An
Alien in My Mailbox</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
(que traduciríamos libremente como “Un marciano en mi buzón”),
el</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
más reciente de Luis R. González esta vez bajo la autoría de su
nombre como “ufólogo” (5). Se trata de un libro escrito en
inglés sobre los sellos de correos de todo el mundo con motivos de
platillos volantes y extraterrestres. Traducida, dice así: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
libro es un verdadero trabajo de amor y Luis R. González ha
elaborado una guía, catálogo y manual que recomiendo
encarecidamente a todos los coleccionistas que naveguen por esta rama
de la filatelia, y también a aquellos interesados en la forma en que
las historias e imágenes del fenómeno ovni se transmiten en la
cultura popular. No es solo para coleccionistas de sellos.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6n_M6WaY--JJzIwX6KbDSh_inJRoSaK-zEAgUu1ibzTvxXpvdaUKTMsIQsqkVNJSju_Ev7kPmhakY6DvGzO9xdEGktQ3M-cCh1LswS2uTTZjq8quj7dCq2jV0cUil_vy0lGN5-QAnRierUGXUQsr_eO79X2TpWTD35dEUPX_9s4q-_9rdeA/s1500/Alien.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6n_M6WaY--JJzIwX6KbDSh_inJRoSaK-zEAgUu1ibzTvxXpvdaUKTMsIQsqkVNJSju_Ev7kPmhakY6DvGzO9xdEGktQ3M-cCh1LswS2uTTZjq8quj7dCq2jV0cUil_vy0lGN5-QAnRierUGXUQsr_eO79X2TpWTD35dEUPX_9s4q-_9rdeA/s320/Alien.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Su
último libro incide en el género de la ucronía (cuando
reconstruyes la historia con hechos que no han sucedido realmente)
con el sugerente título de </span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Las
otras Españas</i></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">
(6), una colección de 25 relatos, con algún gancho a la ufología.
La carrera de Luis no se agota ahí. Tenemos su dimensión de
traductor (inglés-español y viceversa), descollando su labor con la
creación literaria del estudioso norteamericano Martin Kottmeyer,
cuyas obras completas está publicando la editorial Coliseo Sentosa,
un proyecto en el que la colaboración de Luis es fundamental (7). En
suma, una persona completa y un orgullo de tenerlo como colega y,
sobre todo, amigo.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Referencias</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Editorial Laetoli, 2008.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Editorial Megustaescribir, 2015. </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="mailto:lrgm@movistar.es">lrgm@movistar.es</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk108340686"></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3,4)
Ediciones del Genal, 2019.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span></span></span><a href="mailto:lrgm@movistar.es" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lrgm@movistar.es</span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, 2021. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Ediciones del Genal, 2021. </span></span></span><a href="mailto:lrgm@movistar.es" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lrgm@movistar.es</span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://bit.ly/3GEz3M7">https://bit.ly/3GEz3M7</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</span></u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
“US UAP Programs: </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Rubbish,
Watson, Rubbish”. </i></span><span lang="es-ES">Se
van conociendo los entresijos de los programas ovni (UAP) del
Pentágono desde 2020 y no son nada tranquilizadores. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
“What’s New in </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">the
US Legislative UAP Front, July 2022”. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">En
el pasado mes de julio, la Cámara de Representantes del Congreso de
los Estados Unidos ha presentado el proyecto de ley para la National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) para el año fiscal 2023. El Comité
de Servicios Armados ha aportado un informe de enmienda. El Select
Committee on Intelligence del Senado ha presentado su proyecto de ley
para la Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) para el ejercicio 2023.
Por su parte, hay un informe anexo clasificado de acompañamiento a
la futura ley. Todo en lo tocante al tema UAP: fenómenos aéreos no
identificados. Esos textos presentan cambios radicales sobre la
vigente NDAA 2022. Los cambios propuestos (aún por discutirse en el
Senado, aprobarse y ser firmados por el presidente de los EE.UU.,
probablemente en otoño) son de gran calado y se notan influenciados
por ufólogos de la línea crédula. En ese trabajo detallo todas las
novedades legislativas en ciernes y expreso mis comentarios, muchas
veces críticos. A quien lea inglés le recomiendo no perdérselo. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
trabajo formal está subido a Academia.edu en el siguiente enlace:</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/87126434/Whats_New_in_the_US_Legislative_UAP_Front_July_2022</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
“AOIMSG Renamed AARO”. El 15 de julio de 2022 el Subsecretario de
Defensa estadounidense estableció la creación de la Oficina de
Resolución de Anomalías en Todos los Dominios (AARO), implementada
el 20 de julio. Reemplaza al existente Grupo de Sincronización de
Gestión e Identificación de Objetos Aéreos (AOIMSG). La Oficina
asume varios cambios solicitados por los legisladores, como el
concepto irregular de “objetos transmedios” y la definición
ampliada de UAP a fenómenos aeroespaciales-submarinos, indicado en
la parte del nombre “all-domain”, pero es clave que señale ser
un centro para la “resolución” de anomalías.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
“The UAP Excite the Creation of New Organizations and Magazines”.
</span><span lang="es-ES">A
raíz de la fama que han cobrado los UAP (herederos de los UFOs u
ovnis) en los medios, por la atención recibida por el Pentágono,
han aparecido un racimo de asociaciones, revistas y proyectos
variados con el denominador común de dedicarse al estudio y búsqueda
de UAP. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Estampas
veraniegas1. Disfrutando de y con mis nietos. </span></span>
</span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4RyxtFCyyeiOi6YiC1GpejoJwgfQzwV65d7w5FrgsCSjPrgIkDf4T1Iveq0K6JSzwAWC7UxMsIWrFZgVX-C64CM5TbimQckmH6RtAiz64GacBoTezWrlDw4eElryy7qagVfA9SyhAg5Y2s1jFBPJgLsDMxMuvxFF3GyJb1Wi6EBbyjLXnyg/s1502/Nietos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1502" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4RyxtFCyyeiOi6YiC1GpejoJwgfQzwV65d7w5FrgsCSjPrgIkDf4T1Iveq0K6JSzwAWC7UxMsIWrFZgVX-C64CM5TbimQckmH6RtAiz64GacBoTezWrlDw4eElryy7qagVfA9SyhAg5Y2s1jFBPJgLsDMxMuvxFF3GyJb1Wi6EBbyjLXnyg/w400-h263/Nietos.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Izquierda. Con
Fernando, de excursión por el monte.<span style="color: blue;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Derecha. Los
niños, preparados para el ping-pong: Lucas, Fernando y Matías.</span></span></span></div></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Estampas
veraniegas2. Estos meses de canícula no leo sobre ovnis. Elijo
novela histórica, novela negra, biografía, libros de viajes, etc.
La “polaroid” que sigue es la selección que me he preparado para
este año. </span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDZD8P_eUiM9FNOwdGn9TIT3HOjIu7r3D37WWL3k4Y7fgurPzniXgFpI9IABiMEufPylTMeHh0nrus_0m0RD_xTaZ41L3e4oQgtZL5H8oWtuPSBYFnGgrGnOVD38WFCTcgZE1GgCpXv5LAlW3aZbv8L3M7Ba20gZIz3iWHI9-iCg4sQYeXg/s1161/libros.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1161" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDZD8P_eUiM9FNOwdGn9TIT3HOjIu7r3D37WWL3k4Y7fgurPzniXgFpI9IABiMEufPylTMeHh0nrus_0m0RD_xTaZ41L3e4oQgtZL5H8oWtuPSBYFnGgrGnOVD38WFCTcgZE1GgCpXv5LAlW3aZbv8L3M7Ba20gZIz3iWHI9-iCg4sQYeXg/s320/libros.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El
pasado 3 de septiembre, mi hija Laura (profesora de la Facultad de
Economía, Universidad de Valencia) contrajo matrimonio en una
pequeña ermita en la localidad valenciana de La Eliana. Un día
maravilloso en todos los sentidos.</span></p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Josef Garcia (Alemania), Mikhail
Gershtein (Rusia), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Jack Brewer (Estados
Unidos) y Brad Sparks (Estados Unidos). A Juan Pablo González, por
corregir la versión en castellano.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKQAeOkiOwyUsxMHNOVpdChL7PGLFapZbd1tTfqUeRUqy6YIExG3p5ga3TYDhYulG0HsMUoFF-Bus6OyKTUTsnIQ_UgqcGZoHfoXJGa5xWA6kFeDRVZMmAPTj2iwR1RONk5NLU549DaxCYsx2sfl3V1aJYtWlK04B46PRH4Kzaf4VVBeCOA/s3827/LIBROS%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKQAeOkiOwyUsxMHNOVpdChL7PGLFapZbd1tTfqUeRUqy6YIExG3p5ga3TYDhYulG0HsMUoFF-Bus6OyKTUTsnIQ_UgqcGZoHfoXJGa5xWA6kFeDRVZMmAPTj2iwR1RONk5NLU549DaxCYsx2sfl3V1aJYtWlK04B46PRH4Kzaf4VVBeCOA/w400-h69/LIBROS%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><i>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</i></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Investigación
OVNI</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Expedientes
insólitos</i></span><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/47y8xcs8"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/47y8xcs8</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdz5fyt4"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bdz5fyt4</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bddadfp3"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bddadfp3</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-CLaOrtGUMNdMG6t35ya2WwqwGK8_zTSSWKpbgbt1zXCBEjJDQCgajuwDxYUFdp8HTtPWRmcirL6HTL3YKGfqjYWtC2YLOEoxPdAPZCZSdHRij1ibZpKg0_gMXJhk76XLleSetILWT9mvcEMd_c44i-jD5BCkrCSli0WfiXWJkc7U9xehQ/s2630/LIBROS%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-CLaOrtGUMNdMG6t35ya2WwqwGK8_zTSSWKpbgbt1zXCBEjJDQCgajuwDxYUFdp8HTtPWRmcirL6HTL3YKGfqjYWtC2YLOEoxPdAPZCZSdHRij1ibZpKg0_gMXJhk76XLleSetILWT9mvcEMd_c44i-jD5BCkrCSli0WfiXWJkc7U9xehQ/s320/LIBROS%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</i></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs
and Government</i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span><span lang="en-US">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-77268453244047771862022-06-15T19:28:00.292+02:002022-06-22T17:32:02.606+02:002022/JUNE/15 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.16cm;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">English
language editing: Martin Shough</span></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">This is the latest count of our database:</span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cases
before 1947: 210. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cases
from 1947 to Dec 31, 2005 (regular ending date): 12,330. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Special
entries 2006-2020: 271.</span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TOTAL:
12,811</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
In the previous edition of this blog, I included the article “The
‘Tomato Man’ in Retrospective.” The fully-illustrated paper
appears now in the acclaimed portal Academia.edu, under this
permanent link:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
In Spanish. Correspondence from amateur parapsychologist Julio Roca
Muntañola to V.J. Ballester Olmos, 1968 to 1973: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/77677068/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/77677068/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>On
the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
June 25, 2021, the US Department of Defense released a 9-page
“Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"> It was a public version of a longer classified report prepared for US
Congress. Thanks to the good efforts of John Greenewald (The Black
Vault), this complementary, 17-page report has been released under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">The
UAP report is sanitized, that is, certain words, lines and entire
sentences have been redacted by being blacked out to hide information
such as military systems and operational details. By comparing both
documents section by section, chapter by chapter, a number of
inferences may be made, both about the document itself and about the
differences between the two versions. That is the purpose of an essay
that I have released in full in this link:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">What
follows is an abbreviated version of the article’s contents.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Firstly,
we must emphasize that the aim of the original report was “to
provide an overview for policymakers of the challenges associated
with characterizing the potential threat posed by the UAP.” For me,
this is a misguided objective from the very beginning. The
association of materiality is a preconceived notion that adds
unnecessary dramatism and fantasy to the subject. Obviously, this has
happened because of the active pressure of lobbying ufologists and
promoters of alien ideas, mainly from the political and intelligence
sectors. Therefore, I will be collating the public, unclassified
report with the classified version (eight pages longer), to see what
observations may arise.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Executive
Summary section. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
read o</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">n
page 3: “As a result, the UAPTF concentrated its review on [missing
space for 12 letters] describing incidents that occurred between 2004
and 2021.” The redaction could correspond to </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>XXX
reports,</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
for instance. As the number of handled reports is estimated further
down in the report as 144, the question arises whether the actual
figure is different. But why censor this? Perhaps because the source
is other than human testimony, obtained by space monitoring systems?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Then
the report mentions that “In a limited number of incidents, UAP
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>reportedly
appeared</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(two cautious weasel words</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">–from
now on, added emphasis to several quotes is represented in italics</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
to exhibit unusual flight characteristics.” The classified version
expands on this writing and adds: “…including several in which
the [redacted] involving [redacted].” The censored words probably
refer to certain aircraft, vessels and/or sensitive operations. To
me, the important thing is what both texts say next: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>These
observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or
observer misperceptions and require additional rigorous analysis</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Available
Reporting Largely Inconclusive chapter (pages 4-7). This is mostly
educational and, taking into account that it is the first UAPTF
report, it states, “Limited Data Leaves Most UAP Unexplained,”
which further suggests the authors believe that better information
would lead to more identifications of the objects reported. Larger
sanitized portions commence here. In the second paragraph, the public
report reads: “…the UAPTF focused on reports that involved
UAP…witnessed…by military aviators,” while the classified text
writes “…the UAP focused on a dataset of [redacted] probably
describing [redacted] that involved UAP…witnessed…by military
aviators.” It seems they do not wish us to know the exact number of
UAP cases under study. Also, the original, unabstracted version
labels as “probably describing” when referring to the UAP.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Next,
the public report says that “144 reports originated from USG
sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple
sensors. Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted
pre-planned training or other military activity.” The copy to the
Congress has a 7-character blank space before the figure of 144. I am
inclined to think it says something like </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Of
XXX,</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
actually giving the total (higher) number of incidents collected.
Following “multiple sensors” it adds “including [redacted] and
[redacted]. The remaining [redacted] observed incidents were captured
by [redacted]. (See Tables 1 and 2.)” Obviously, the type of used
sensors is secret information. It also confirms that another set of
reports is not included in the count of 144, those that were probably
captured from orbiting satellites and/or foreign intel devices that
DoD is not reasonably willing to disclose to those who do not have a
need to know. The classified report includes four new lines, mostly
readable, plus three footnotes (6 more lines) indicating a
significant number of reports were from military operations and
exercises. “Of the 144 USG reports, [number redacted] originated
from Navy ‘Range Fouler’ reports...” (“U.S. Navy aviators
define a ‘range fouler’ as an activity or object that interrupts
pre-planned training or other in a military operating area or
restricted airspace.”) It is followed by nine new lines, largely
blacked out where supposedly “the description of unknown targets”
was discussed. Tables 1 and 2 appear at page 12, to be commented on
later. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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page 5 there is an inset for “UAP Collection Challenges.” The
public version has three bullet points, while the classified one has
four. One contains some censored space on the topic of “sensors
mounted on military platforms” where specific purposes or functions
are probably named. Interestingly, the report says: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Helvetica-Oblique, Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>As
a result, those sensors are not generally suited for identifying UAP
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
it is followed by this brief new text “which can be [redacted],”
where some class of identification might appear. The fourth bullet
point has five and a half lines completely censored.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
Some Potential Patterns Do Emerge,” next contains two more
paragraphs in the classified version. One (five lines) establishes
“The most common shape described by military personnel…” but
all descriptions of the shapes are redacted. Another (five more
lines) describes the altitudes at which “Observed UAP usually
traveled,” as well as some other dynamics, but every detail is
censored.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk99223607"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
follows on page 6 is important as it provided new input with regard
to the declassified document. Titled “And a Handful of UAP Appear
to Demonstrate Advanced Technology” (let me affix here a great </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>sic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
because of its likely inaccuracy), the public release hardly had 10
lines, while the Congressional version has 34 lines. What are their
contents? There are many portions redacted but it suggests that it
covers “UAP behavior,” “radio frequency (RF) energy
associated,” and “radar displays.” Three specific Navy UAP
sightings are also depicted but precise details are lacking. Later,
when the report refers to a “small amount of data that appears to
show UAP…acceleration…or signature management,” a redacted line
in the report starts with “However, this…,” with the qualifying
dubitative verb “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>appears”
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
the adverb “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>however</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.”
Clearly, the report at this stage says that “Additional rigorous
analyses is necessary…to determine the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>nature
and validity</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of these data.” Then, 15 new lines follow on page 7 of the
declassified report, describing three UAP incidents not included in
the public version: one airborne observation, another from 2004 that
“reportedly demonstrated” something that is censored, and a Navy
report involving “a helicopter pilot and two weapon systems
officers (WSOs) visually observed several [redacted] objects moving
approximately [redacted] five [redacted] objects, which [redacted].
The WSO reported he [redacted] but [redacted] the pilot and the other
WSO [redacted] the [redacted] objects.” Time, date, location and
situation data have been blacked out here. This missing information
evidently prevents an external case study.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Probably Lack a Single Explanation. The report’s chapter headings
are conveying outstanding clues for non-mentally-blind readers. They
are far from subtle. Skeptical UFO researchers maintain that there is
not a unique UFO phenomenon, but a sizeable list of causes that
explain all reported sightings. Mostly being misidentifications. The
UAPTF is starting to face this reality as well, if we have to
understand what the chapter titles indicate. This section (pages 7
and 8) lists a number of possible classes of UAP identifications.
After one introductory sentence, the report includes five paragraphs:
“airborne clutter,” “natural atmospheric phenomena,”
“industry developmental programs,” “foreign adversary systems,”
and “Other.” The classified report contains eight additional
paragraphs, most of whose lines are blacked out. Only one sentence is
not redacted, and its content is rather significant. In the
“atmospheric phenomena” class of events, it appends this phrase:
“Although we cannot definitively classify any UAP occurrences in
our dataset as caused by atmospheric phenomena, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>we
also cannot rule out the possibility that these factors may account
for some of what pilots have observed</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">.”</span></span></p>
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following chapter fills in page 9 of the report: UAP Threaten Flight
Security Safety and, Possibly, National Security. My immediate
reflection is: how many commercial or military accidents have
involved encounters with unidentifiable flying objects in the history
of aviation? From 1903 to date, hundreds of millions of flights have
been in operation. Is it rational that today any government questions
itself whether UFOs/UAP constitute a risk to flight safety? If true,
wouldn't it have been proven many years ago with extensive evidence?
As for the second part of the title, it is even less logical, when
numerous governments around the world have closed their UFO desks,
and released and declassified their UFO archives on the conviction
that during all these years (1947 to the present day) UFO sightings
have posed no risk to national security. Reinventing the wheel again?</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
classified chapter has twice the length of the public copy, but most
of the new text is redacted. Under “Ongoing Airspace Concerns,”
the only words that are released say: “We have documented flight
safety concerns and…” followed by a mostly censored 3-line
sentence on a (date missing) sighting where “a pilot briefly
observed [redacted]. However, a [redacted].” Again, the adverb with
the adversative sense. The public assessment establishes: “The
UAPTF has 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots reported
near misses with a UAP.” In this respect, excuse me if I express my
particular doubts about the accuracy of such close, near-miss
incidents. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
“Potential National Security Challenges,” we find that a complete
15-line added paragraph is censored. It is after writing that “We
currently lack data to determine any UAP are part of a foreign
collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement
by a potential adversary.” I am at loss to know what this new text
may voice, but I cannot imagine that the United States needs the
UAPTF to determine what its adversaries do or don’t do in terms of
intelligence collection. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
final section is Explaining UAP Will Require Analytic, Collection and
Resource Investment. In the initial section of this chapter on pages
10-11, “Standardize the Reporting, Consolidate the Data, and Deepen
the Analysis,” five lines are added, almost complete: “Given the
[redacted] the UAPTF also plans to explore how best to leverage the
capabilities of non-DoD departments and agencies to enable effective
and efficient transfer of data and [redacted] among the DoD
[redacted] and the law enforcement community.” Good if they are
thinking of consulting with NASA, NOAA, etc. on UFO sightings. The
section headed as “Expand Collection” shows a censored 11-line
paragraph as well. Towards what lines the data collection will expand
is only subject to speculation. Page 12 of the declassified report
covers “Table 1. USG UAP Reports by [redacted] (144 total),” and
“Table 2. UAP Detected by [redacted].” These two tables are fully
censored, except for these few words in Table 2: “In over half of
the 144 reports from USG observers [redacted]…” I would bet that
part of (and/or in addition to) the 144 standard UFO sightings, the
UAPTF has collected data from signal intelligence sources. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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13 of the report to Congress is “Figure 1,” a full-page
tabulation for UAP “Common Shapes” and “Less Common/Irregular
Shapes.” However, all data and illustrations are redacted. I hope
they will soon find out that there are as many shapes and colors and
dimensions and dynamics as observers themselves.</span></p>
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A”. In page 14, “The sections below provide a brief summary of
contributions by intelligence discipline,” with censored data
contributed by the four types already listed in the public report’s
Appendix B, as follows: “Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)…The
images and videos captured…”; “Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)”;
“Human Intelligence (HUMINT)”; and “Measurement and Signature
Intelligence (MASINT).” A last line adds: “The UAPTF had no
MASINT reporting on the events considered in this dataset.”
“Appendix B”. Page 15 is for the “Federal Bureau of
Investigation Support of Attribution Efforts.” After the sentence
“Given the national security implications associated with potential
threats posed by UAP operating in close proximity to sensitive
military activities, installations, critical infrastructure, or other
national security sites, the FBI is positioned to use its
investigative capabilities to support deliberate DoD and interagency
efforts to determine attribution,” 25 new lines with details are
blacked out. “Appendix C”. Page 16 repeats the contents of what
was listed as Appendix A in the public document: “Definition of Key
Terms,” i.e., UAP, UAP Event, UAP Incident, and UAP Report. Four
censored lines appear in the classified version of the report to
Congress. “Appendix D”. Page 17: It is identical to the public
version’s Appendix B, and it enumerates the eight intelligence
information requirements dictated from the Senate in line with the
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk99365131"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Speaking
in general, the major flaw of this report is the confession that out
of 144 sightings examined, that occurred between 2004 and 2021, “in
only one instance, the UAPTF was able to identify the reported UAP
with high confidence” (it was a large, deflating balloon). This
inability to discover the real nature of things flying in the sky is
amazing (even MUFON admits having a 92% rate of being able to explain
UFO sightings).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
V.J. Ballester-Olmos, “The UAP Pentagon Report - Commented
Abstract” (June 26, 2021),
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">See
also this special feature in Spanish: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/</span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/odni/DEOM-2021-00006.pdf">https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/odni/DEOM-2021-00006.pdf</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(see Enclosure 2).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4futvc5t">https://tinyurl.com/4futvc5t</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Feedback
from noted readers</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Although not agreeing always with all his views, it is always
important to record the opinion of such an outstanding researcher as
Dr. Jacques Vallée, who kindly write to me in an email:</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Many
thanks for the detailed analysis, Vicente-Juan. For those of us who
have followed the entire painful process, as you did, the report
(classified or not) is a non-event. It could have been written by
Ruppelt in 1952. Its relevance is only in the timing, in a context of
America’s deep-seated fear of the Unknown, a good topic for
sociologists as we restart space exploration on an industrial scale.
By focusing entirely on military cases, and pushing the problem
deeper into a classified hole, the report actually distorts and
minimizes the larger phenomenon. It has the value of invoking
accurate instruments and precise modern observations without brushing
them off as before; but it misses the opportunity to involve
mainstream science in the open pursuit of what may be a splendid
opportunity to learn something new about the human environment. We
can safely file it under “Official Sideshows” and get back to
work on the real problem.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">One
of my readers, British astronomy writer Ridpath cleverly noted this
thought: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
document is basically a grant proposal, isn't it?</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Yes, it looks like that, a way of dramatizing things that go bump in
the skies to scratch (probably large) sums of monies from the white,
black or grey US DoD budget. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Unseen
UFO, Cody (Wyoming), 1951</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Roderick
B. Dyke is a long-time ufologist from Washington State who maintains
the Archives for UFO Research, a large repository of materials
documenting the history of the UFO phenomenon since the late 1940s.
Roderick is a collaborator to FOTOCAT project, regularly submitting
information on image cases. Last year he sent me this intriguing
clipping that he could not place, thinking it was published in </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Flying
Saucerama</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
It shows a picture, a blown-up of a UFO that does not appear in the
former photo, and a portrait of the couple of photographers.</span></span></span></span></p>
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source</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
caption reads: </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Is
it really a flying disk?...Well then, what is it? Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Greenwood of 637 Throop St., want to know. Mr. Greenwood was merely
shooting a desert scene while on vacation near Cody, Wyo., and this
“thing” was discovered after the film was printed. The Greenwoods
noticed nothing unusual in the sky nor did they hear any engines or
any unusual sound during the picture-taking. They are extremely
curious, as who wouldn’t be, as to just what the top-shaped object
is. Or is it an object?. </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">A
weird illustration indeed. The significant key here is that no flying
object was observed when the picture was made.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">My
catalog did already have this case in various press references: </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Detroit Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Michigan) and </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Ohio) of November 5, 1951, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Baytown Sun</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Texas) of November 6, and </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Daily American</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Somerset, Pennsylvania) of November 9, thanks to the valuable
cooperation received from Kay Coggin. These newspapers only mentioned
two new added data: that it was a color transparency snapshot and
that the Greenwoods came from Chicago. No actual date is known, we
only have the publication date of early November 1951. Every source
published the picture differently, so I consulted expert in photo
analysis Andres Duarte about four of the “best” available
pictures. “Perhaps it is the image of a bird or a bug with motion
blur. I do not think that any of these copies correctly represent the
appearance of the original image because they are very dark and
contrasted. In particular, the </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Detroit
Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
print is not very dark but it is retouched and it is too contrasted.
With regard to the unattributed source photo, it is also retouched.
Although none of the copies seem to be very good, the one published
in the </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lancaster
Eagle-Gazette</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is the best we have”.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgmJ914wxCyU8OSy1GsIuY2KxU3y8kv4oov8o9EhZi95EdHXxnQrr5SRaEBYiMvbq56EGa7PTGDpwMBB0LzUpuAG434MWKk0NisUl2TQ_f0OGGaHMxxAAV5zgIm4FG5T8msvTKAwb-Myg-Ud7hiMPo9N-Y60AEdVzu78VK3o-5HjUW76Irw/s1027/Detroit%20Times%20copia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1027" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgmJ914wxCyU8OSy1GsIuY2KxU3y8kv4oov8o9EhZi95EdHXxnQrr5SRaEBYiMvbq56EGa7PTGDpwMBB0LzUpuAG434MWKk0NisUl2TQ_f0OGGaHMxxAAV5zgIm4FG5T8msvTKAwb-Myg-Ud7hiMPo9N-Y60AEdVzu78VK3o-5HjUW76Irw/s320/Detroit%20Times%20copia.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Left: Detroit
Times</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">. Right: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lancaster Eagle-Gazette</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.</span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">One
analyst with an ample experience in the study of alleged UFO pictures
that finally end as insects and birds is Commodore Lianza, the
director of the Argentine Air Force UFO unit.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
In consequence, I could not help but count on his opinion concerning
the evaluation of this quite atypical photograph. His assessment was
crystal clear: “The photo you sent me for analysis shows an object
exhibiting motion blur crossing the field of view most likely on a
nearly vertical path. Birds often leave this type of blur when the
shutter "froze" them during a phase of flight with their
wings about to close or just beginning to open. However, given the
fineness of the central body, it is more likely that it is not a bird
but an insect whose wings have half a </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>rod
effect</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
If the exposure had been a few microseconds longer, perhaps a full
cycle of their wing beat would have been captured and then the
typical sinusoidal pattern of the </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>rods</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
would have been fully appreciated.”</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Indeed,
Duarte confirmed later</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:
“The image of Cody's photo is similar to several of the rod images
that can be found on the internet.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
The rods are made up of an image that can be repeated several times
depending on the exposure time of the photo, and the only noticeable
difference between most of those rod photos and the Cody photo is
that in the latter there is no repetition because the exposure time
is not long enough. Specifically, the image in the Cody photo is
quite similar to just one of the repeating units in the next
picture.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgqFnq6jJX4--LUN31sNUSYnOYX9luzhYcJb9CjpTgJg9bDFOX0Wvfv0u8nJxzQeZ-IS-5qT80K6G1Hmh8o6Yxw0U-aXgiD6cnmaBKYCgcB_8nLL3Ct28e_NAjAlD1L1NjtF3ZMwROz3XFDdyN7-BCXG4BZ7M20FSHvfJ8Wx-OKUbHAa-Dw/s400/rod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="400" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgqFnq6jJX4--LUN31sNUSYnOYX9luzhYcJb9CjpTgJg9bDFOX0Wvfv0u8nJxzQeZ-IS-5qT80K6G1Hmh8o6Yxw0U-aXgiD6cnmaBKYCgcB_8nLL3Ct28e_NAjAlD1L1NjtF3ZMwROz3XFDdyN7-BCXG4BZ7M20FSHvfJ8Wx-OKUbHAa-Dw/s320/rod.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Rod</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.
Source: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bogleech.com/crypto/rod.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.bogleech.com/crypto/rod.jpg</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Andrés Duarte, e-mails to V-J. Ballester Olmos, March 13 and 19,
2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Rubén Lianza, e-mail to V-J. Ballester Olmos, April 13, 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=rod+insect&tbm=isch"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.google.com/search?q=rod+insect&tbm=isch</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>More
About the Gimbal Video</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
is an article by Julio Plaza del Olmo, a Spanish physicist with
experience in research for the Ministry of Defense: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">John
Greenewald Jr. (The Black Vault) has been able to locate via FOIA a
document that describes a briefing that the Weapon System Officer
(WSO) who recorded the so called "Gimbal" video gave
to SASC (Senate Armed Services Committee). While it is interesting to
find such a document, it actually reveals very little new useful
information. Basically, it was at the end of a night flight, while
returning to the carrier. Also, there are some hints about how the
object may had been first detected with radar, and coming from the
east.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">However,
what caught my attention was one of the areas of interest
expressed by the Staff Members of the SASC: </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
staffers also asked about the chain of custody of the video of the
encounter. The staffers are generally disappointed that the Navy does
not save any video of these encounters and the chain of custody is
lacking</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
It reinforces a feeling I have had for some time: the 30 seconds
video is all there is available to analyze. For us layman
people, but also for the AATIP, UAPTF and successors. The document
means the US Navy did not have by that time any protocol to save and
keep under control the data from the sensors. I am afraid that may be
also the case for other sensors like radar, so I wouldn't
expect to see new data anytime, nor a longer video. We
have this 30 second video thanks to someone who dumped a
portion into a specific format suitable for sharing images in
internet.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
also links with the UAPTF report, where they wrote about the
poor quality of data available that prevents them from doing an
analysis and reaching conclusions. But it is true that despite the
poor data available, basic analyses have been done by amateur
investigators.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2,3</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Partial conclusions can be reached that at least allows us to assess
that the "apparent breakthrough aerospace capabilities"
are not really so. That might be enough of us, who can then propose
and discuss about possible mundane solutions, but the fact is
that a positive and certain identification seems difficult to reach
without new information that is unlikely to exist.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
is a tendency to overrate "the military", not only by
making them perfect witnesses who can never be mistaken, but also
giving them superb capabilities in every field: how many times have
we heard about "state-of-the-art" technology
detecting UFOs/UAPs in the past? And yet we still hear the same with
today's far superior technology. The truth is that they are also
humans, every technology has its limits, and their protocols are
thought for their own purposes, not for our desires.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/new-details-emerge-about-uap-encounter-briefing-breakdown/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/new-details-emerge-about-uap-encounter-briefing-breakdown/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Mick West, “Gimbal UFO - A new
analysis,” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The FLIR1
Video,” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video">https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk104044104"></a><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>AATIP/AAWSAP
Backstage</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Reporters
Say They Were 'Purposely Misled' About AATIP,” under this title
Jack Brewer has just written a revealing post in his blogsite:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/04/reporters-say-they-were-purposely.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/04/reporters-say-they-were-purposely.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">How
Believers in the Paranormal Birthed the Pentagon’s New Hunt for
UFOs,” by Travis Tritten:</span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/07/how-believers-paranormal-birthed-pentagons-new-hunt-ufos.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/07/how-believers-paranormal-birthed-pentagons-new-hunt-ufos.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">DIA
Further Verifies AAWSAP Award to BAASS, Fails to Locate Skinwalker
Report,” in Jack Brewer’s blog:</span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/03/dia-further-verifies-aawsap-award-to.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/03/dia-further-verifies-aawsap-award-to.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>On
AATIP/ AAWSAP Records</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">See
existing records:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">On
April 2022, a tranche of around 1,600 documents related to the AATIP
(overall program name)/AAWSAP (contract name to Bigelow Aerospace)
was released to a number of sources through FOIA:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aawsapDIRDs/comments/ty3r19/all_37_dirds_will_be_archived_in_this_subreddit/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reddit.com/r/aawsapDIRDs/comments/ty3r19/all_37_dirds_will_be_archived_in_this_subreddit/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
pertinent entry on John Greenewald’s web site also contains all
known DIRDS released by DIA as of April 6, 2022. He writes that “the
Black Vault is trying to confirm how much more, if any, will be
released.” The included records were released to numerous
requesters, including being responsive to numerous cases filed
Greenewald going back to the beginning of 2018:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aerospace-weapon-system-applications-program-aawsap-documentation/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aerospace-weapon-system-applications-program-aawsap-documentation/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Jason
Colavito has this to comment on the Pentagon’s release of such a
trove of documents in an article under the title “Tabloids,
Abductions, and Porn: New Documents Unveil Pentagon UFO "Research",”
in his personal blog:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/tabloids-abductions-and-porn-new-documents-unveil-pentagon-ufo-research"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/tabloids-abductions-and-porn-new-documents-unveil-pentagon-ufo-research</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
good review of what really produced the AATIP/AAWSAP program-and some
internal keys and influences-is found in Anna Merlan’s
“Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Research
Into Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity and Invisibility Cloaks,” published
in </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Motherboard</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
April 19, 2022:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wj9e/newly-released-documents-shed-light-on-government-funded-research-into-worm-holes-anti-gravity-and-invisibility-cloaks"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wj9e/newly-released-documents-shed-light-on-government-funded-research-into-worm-holes-anti-gravity-and-invisibility-cloaks</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
describes “the exotic and occasional downright weird research
priorities of the AAWSAP,” most of which finished papers were a
bunch of science fiction. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Department
of Defense’s UAP Office. May 2022 Briefings, Public and Classified</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk105227664"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
anticipated by the DoD’s UAP legislation, the Airborne Object
Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), that
is, the bureau created by the Pentagon following the National Defense
Authorization Act mandate to establish an Anomaly Surveillance and
Resolution Office addressing the UAP, not later than March 31, 2022,
a classified briefing by the head of the UAP Office would be held to
congressional committees on Armed Services, Appropriations and the
Permanent Select on Intelligence, including information on UAP
incidents reported to the UAPTF after 24 June 2021.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk105227806"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">According
to </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Politico</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">’s
reporter Bryan Bender, writing last May 2</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">nd</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
this first reporting took place “in recent weeks”. The bottom
line might be defined by the article’s heading: “The UFO
briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
May 17, 2022, the US Congress held a hearing on UFOs, overseen by
Democrat Indiana Representative Andre Carson. “Two top defense
intelligence officials are set to answer questions from the House Permanent Select Committee on </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Intelligence's</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"> Subcommittee on Counterterrorism,
Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation,” anticipated Billy
House of Bloomberg News. That hearing was followed by a closed,
classified session: “…our enemies will be listening very closely
to hear what the military has to say. And we don’t want to give
them an advantage over us,” Carson reported. He also said that for
“some experts” 2% to 7% of these UAP cannot be explained away.
Well, at least this percentage is not 143/144 (99%), as disclosed in
the June 2021 Preliminary Assessment disclosed by the US DoD.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Speakers
about the status of the Pentagon’s UAP program (the Airborne Object
Identification and Management Synchronization Group) were the </span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Under
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security Ronald S.
Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray.
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Live
hearings can be watched online.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">According
to press outlets, these are the items of information given to
congresspersons, and the impressions formed by the media</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
The 144 UAP events accounted for the period 2004 to 2021 has
increased to 400</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
A number of events have defied all attempts at explanation</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
The night-vision video showing illuminated green triangles moving
through the air, was later determined to have been drones</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
The sightings recorded by the military include 11 "near-misses"
with US aircraft</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Through "rigorous" analysis, most-but not all-UAPs can be
identified (Ronald Moultrie)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
“There are a small handful [of events] in which there are flight
characteristics or signature management that we can't explain with
the data we have available” (Scott Bray)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*”We
have detected no eliminations within the UAP task force that...would
suggest it's anything non-terrestrial in origin” (Scott Bray)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
"It's insufficient data; that's one of the challenges we have.
Insufficient data either on the event itself, the object itself, or
insufficient data or plug-in with some other organization or agency
that may have had something in that space at that time" (Ronald
Moultrie)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">*
The highlight of the hearing was a split-second image, shot last year
through the window of an FA-18 fighter jet, of a spherical object in
the distance. The pilot also reported observing an object. It remains
unexplained and is an example of how difficult it is to determine
what a short video clip may show (see the online link in Note #3
below, from minute 35:05 to 38:47). Scott W. Bray candidly declared
about this shot: “I do not have an explanation for what this
specific object is.” </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yc-df3SqTn7YX8r8a7sfabT5tmp2wv_baHprEY-gMaei1VT5YZ-kcQP6_EeAOadTBeBVSnV-5VNtyCy2xVeJq2rw6wV3fpAq_0Gofu_qy4NYGuLZ0rDcxY8Tyvg6m3IoZQkJyUCJWD5kWu9UZEY_Q7V_hXnOsBeNVQuLfmaj7-ww9luymg/s620/screenshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yc-df3SqTn7YX8r8a7sfabT5tmp2wv_baHprEY-gMaei1VT5YZ-kcQP6_EeAOadTBeBVSnV-5VNtyCy2xVeJq2rw6wV3fpAq_0Gofu_qy4NYGuLZ0rDcxY8Tyvg6m3IoZQkJyUCJWD5kWu9UZEY_Q7V_hXnOsBeNVQuLfmaj7-ww9luymg/s320/screenshot.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Screenshot
of a UAP filmed in 2021 by a U.S. Navy pilot.</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Hold
on! The DoD UAP research unit concedes it has no explanation for that
image? Also last year, a Pakistani fighter aircraft filmed the same
kind of object and it was resolved as a weather balloon, see
“UFO-Balloon in the Pakistan Air Space,” at
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgYTyPhDKNImOVlcZXJkGk0yIU8jh7XpxvVnLT4I_zBHZbaglexpUC0jABCo1G5hpSF0xZkCJfmXBzQY7XYhIh_lthjiVuzhIEgFo7feUcVkRwRMPLYC2z51SfwsRFY_KG0W-Ee3T6JtGwsyfL-iuZuJoHerj6rhTL73dV75DPVriISpgGA/s1116/Pakistan,%20balloon%20full%20view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="1116" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgYTyPhDKNImOVlcZXJkGk0yIU8jh7XpxvVnLT4I_zBHZbaglexpUC0jABCo1G5hpSF0xZkCJfmXBzQY7XYhIh_lthjiVuzhIEgFo7feUcVkRwRMPLYC2z51SfwsRFY_KG0W-Ee3T6JtGwsyfL-iuZuJoHerj6rhTL73dV75DPVriISpgGA/s320/Pakistan,%20balloon%20full%20view.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gLoNOCpWoFMcN5z9p51bjmc-I1KXfIzAlS7S1MqMJpT0V2coxEEA0gN05GfhVZ9GkVI9iwk35IoYLBhcaG3Qzc_NBM05KWnmqBbLK-OWDK0onTxv31df7pPDlqcyIX3iXNnvfABxY21SmPRKpu1yrlFW59WdV0UmkAyDsaW6Emoe2Jhrjw/s176/Pakistan,%20balloon%20blown-up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="155" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gLoNOCpWoFMcN5z9p51bjmc-I1KXfIzAlS7S1MqMJpT0V2coxEEA0gN05GfhVZ9GkVI9iwk35IoYLBhcaG3Qzc_NBM05KWnmqBbLK-OWDK0onTxv31df7pPDlqcyIX3iXNnvfABxY21SmPRKpu1yrlFW59WdV0UmkAyDsaW6Emoe2Jhrjw/s1600/Pakistan,%20balloon%20blown-up.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">In
fact, Commodore Rubén Lianza, head of the Argentine Air Force agency
for the identification of UAP, has presented a preliminary report
explaining the object as a helium balloon:</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/solved-mysterious-object-that-aoimsg.html" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/solved-mysterious-object-that-aoimsg.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE0MdzCFXjVKm_KJrOkQw0XSEt0IiQKxZck4xsPU6a2oc9LFoI7pavzqqfBQRaP4GJvOwnQE36W5j1fdVXdG19vwnnMXX4n_oDkvqXFhd3OnIarEFMO9I12jg3FYrQftxu7azGLGFUDmc_-ri3TMZP8OAJDbLJwZ6b-sVeNQ-oe_V7NtWIw/s1152/Lianza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1152" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE0MdzCFXjVKm_KJrOkQw0XSEt0IiQKxZck4xsPU6a2oc9LFoI7pavzqqfBQRaP4GJvOwnQE36W5j1fdVXdG19vwnnMXX4n_oDkvqXFhd3OnIarEFMO9I12jg3FYrQftxu7azGLGFUDmc_-ri3TMZP8OAJDbLJwZ6b-sVeNQ-oe_V7NtWIw/s320/Lianza.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">French
software IPACO has resolved a thread hanging from the globe. © Rubén
Lianza, CIAE.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One
of the best presentations by media was that of Adam Kehoe for The War
Zone, under the title “Congress’s Big Hearing On UFOs Was
Remarkably Down To Earth,” and subtitled “The first congressional
hearing on UFOs in 50 years was all about drones and foreign actors,
not extraterrestrial visitation.” In summary, nothing out of this
world for the time being. As Travis Tritten of Military.com wrote:
“the testimony likely deflated any hopes for evidence of
extraterrestrial visitors.” Jason Colavito termed this
congressional hearing as going “badly for ufologists,” and I
fully agree. However, this all will revive the UFO question in the
society, with new organizations being created and new initiatives
developed to fail in the course of years, and many people taking
advantage and making profit out of this. Added belief will be
generated before time will turn it into frustration. A rush of
incoming reports is recorded, they say because the “stigma” is
disappearing. Come on. We have been seeing this damn effect since the
sixties of last century: as soon as the Government releases any
communiqué on UFOs (either requesting information, confirming that
certain cases have occurred, or is investigating the phenomena), the
frequency of UFO reports has increased n-fold. It is the effect of
copy-cat publicity.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">On
the horizon for future communications on the progress of the current
US Defense UAP study, we have the Annual report by the Director of
Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to
congressional committees, to be delivered before October 31, 2022. I
expect a portion of it will be leaked in due time.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
a side historical note on NICAP’s efforts towards congressional UFO
hearings in the 1960s, I’d recommend this illustrative article by
Jack Brewer: “UFO Activism and Congressional Hearings, 1960s
Style.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">(1)
For an easy-to-follow-up chronology of future reporting timing, I
made a summary in my paper “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act,” </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/ufo-briefings-congress-pentagon-00029315"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/ufo-briefings-congress-pentagon-00029315</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4) </span></span></span></span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDweUbGBow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDweUbGBow</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
Sources consulted:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61474201">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61474201</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/congress-ufo-hearing.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/congress-ufo-hearing.html</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://time.com/6177650/congress-ufo-hearings/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://time.com/6177650/congress-ufo-hearings/</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/17/real-but-still-unexplained-congress-holds-its-first-ufo-hearing-in-50-years/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/17/real-but-still-unexplained-congress-holds-its-first-ufo-hearing-in-50-years/</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/congress-pentagon-ufo-uap-hearing" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/congress-pentagon-ufo-uap-hearing</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/ufo-uap-hearing-pentagon/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/ufo-uap-hearing-pentagon/</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-hold-1st-hearing-ufos-50-years/story?id=84753756" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-hold-1st-hearing-ufos-50-years/story?id=84753756</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/the-article-of-militarycom-about.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/the-article-of-militarycom-about.html</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/congresss-ufo-hearing-was-very-down-to-earth" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/congresss-ufo-hearing-was-very-down-to-earth</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congressional-ufo-hearing-goes-badly-for-ufologists" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congressional-ufo-hearing-goes-badly-for-ufologists</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/congress-takes-all-the-fun-out-of-ufos-i-smell-coverup/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/congress-takes-all-the-fun-out-of-ufos-i-smell-coverup/</span></span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/05/ufo-activism-and-congressional-hearings.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/05/ufo-activism-and-congressional-hearings.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Canada Government is Updated on UAP</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Anticipating
the June 2021 US DoD preliminary assessment on UAP, former Canadian
defense minister Harjit Sajjan received a local briefing on UFOs. The
brief slide presentation has been obtained by CTVNews.ca and the
documents can be found here:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21885184-documents-obtained-through-access-to-information-ufo-files?responsive=1&title=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21885184-documents-obtained-through-access-to-information-ufo-files?responsive=1&title=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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You Want to be Paid for Investigating UAP?</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
May 6</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Tim McMillan of The Debrief reported that the office of the US
Director of National Intelligence posted job vacancies for Senior
Analysis Lead and Collection Lead in the Department of Defense’s
Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group
(AOIMSG). In his timely article “The DoD’s Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena Office Was Recently Hiring,” McMillan describes the job
descriptions (the senior analyst and collection lead positions will
help synchronize AOIMSG’s analytic efforts with key members of the
DoD, Defense Intelligence Enterprise, and the Intelligence
Community), the required minimum qualifications for applicants (an
academic and/or work history grounded in intelligence,
intelligence-related activities, and functional areas with an
emphasis on all-source data analysis), and even the salary (General
Schedule grade 15 annual base pay runs between $112,890 to $146,757).
Work commencement date is April 26, 2022 and job location is
Alexandria (Virginia), Arlington (The Pentagon), and Falls Church,
all cities included in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. This
good journalism post is to be read in this link:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/the-dods-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-office-was-recently-hiring/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/the-dods-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-office-was-recently-hiring/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>NASA
to Formally Study UAP</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
recently as June 9</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
NASA has released a communiqué informing plans to set up next Fall
an independent study on unidentified aerial phenomena. The
established team will examine “observations of events in the sky
that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena,
from a scientific perspective.” The reasoning behind that
unexpected decision is its mission alignment with NASA’s goals to
ensure the safety of aircraft. Well, it seems to be a good excuse.
Another interpretation, however, is the additional propaganda aligned
with the refreshed popularity of old flying saucers, modern UFOs and
contemporary UAP, three words for the same type of myth.
Nevertheless, NASA remains on the safe side when it affirms that
“There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin.”
(Curiously, the P in UAP means Phenomena, so the final “s” is
unnecessary. They do not even know the proper jargon!) </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thomas
Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science, is quoted as saying
“We have the tools and team who can help us improve our
understanding of the unknown.” True, but is it reasonable that, in
the midst of a serious worldwide crisis that is only beginning,
resources are employed to duplicate an inquiry on UAP already in
force by the powerful Department of Defense of the United States?
With this, NASA aggregates another vortex of publicity to its
existence.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
June 2021 NASA’s FAQ feature on UAP specifically stated that “NASA
does not actively search for UAPs.” What has changed so
dramatically in one year, except a quantum leap in the UAP media
exposure and the DoD UAP task force? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
is the latest public release:</span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Spanish Air Force and Me</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
recurring question in the interviews I answer, as well as questions
raised by colleagues, is my relationship with the Spanish Air Force
between 1992 and 1999, the years that the declassification of the
official UFO files kept in the Air Force since 1962 lasted. This
relationship, which was very close and unique, is documented in
several of my essays and books, but there is a work that explains
transparently what my role was in that process. I advise my readers
to drop by this article, written as a tribute to General Ángel
Bastida, who when he was a Lieutenant Colonel chief of Intelligence
of the Air Operational Command (MOA)/Air Combat Command (MACOM) had
the responsibility of dealing with the inspection, study and
declassification of the first batch of UFO files. The story is truly
human and I think it should be known. I refer you to “El hombre del
M.O.A.” (The man from MOA),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
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Air Force Headquarters, Madrid. From left to right Col. Ángel
Bastida, V.J. Ballester Olmos, and Lt. Col. Enrique Rocamora. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk104392063"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Curt Collins and Claude Falkstrom write “How the Battle of Los
Angeles Became a UFO Story,” the true history behind the 1942 “UFO”
photograph.</span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
authors explain how, when, and why this incident became associated
with UFOs. Read here:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-battle-of-los-angeles-became-ufo.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-battle-of-los-angeles-became-ufo.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Kevin Randle says there is “something alien” in the Roswell
crash. Read “The End of Project Mogul,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
There have always been misguided scientists </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">throughout
history</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
In ufology, this is not an exception. Probably, the most dangerous
influence comes from those psychologists or psychiatrists who are
abduction believers because it is the most radical belief ever
possible: aliens interacting with human beings but no proof is at
hand. I think the problem is in their heads. I have some names in
mind. Probably you too. This article by Ross Pomeroy in the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Erie
Times-News</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
mentions one of them: “Op-Ed: Rebuffing former Temple professor's
alien abduction claims,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
The Barack Obama Presidential Library claims it has “3,440 pages
and 26,271 electronic files,” in response to a FOIA request by John
Greenewald for “documents and communications about the Advanced
Aerospace Threat Identification Program and photos and videos of
Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena/Phenomenon
and the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program.”
See:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmnqd/obamas-presidential-library-has-thousands-of-files-on-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmnqd/obamas-presidential-library-has-thousands-of-files-on-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
“</span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
1961 Betty and Barney Hill case made alien abductions famous, but
accounts of spaceships capturing people were circulating long before
the UFO reports of 1947.“ This is the core of an article written by
Curt Collins in his blogsite:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-accounts-of-alien-abductions.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-accounts-of-alien-abductions.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Signed by Dr. Tony Phillips under the title of “A Tiger ELVE over
Texas,” the SpaceWeather.com website has published a wonderful
picture taken on May 2, 2022 of this uncommon lightning-related
phenomena in the upper atmosphere. It reads: “For a few
milliseconds last Thursday night, an enormous (100 km wide) red ring
of light appeared over west Texas. Thomas Ashcraft photographed it
from across the state line in New Mexico. This is an “ELVE”–short
for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to
Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. It’s a rare species of sprite
discovered in 1990 by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Ashcraft may
have just taken the best ever picture of one from the ground. “The
ELVE was generated by a super-strong lightning stroke that occurred
over west Texas near the town of Borger at April 28, 2022 at
0439:10.5326 UT,” says Ashcraft. Also note the sprite elements at
the bottom of the ELVE. “The lightning bolt was so strong, it
generated an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The red ring marks
the spot where the EMP hit Earth’s ionosphere. Normal lightning
bolts carry 10 to 30 kilo-amperes of current; this bolt was about 10
times stronger than normal.” See text and photograph here:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/05/03/a-tiger-elve-over-texas/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/05/03/a-tiger-elve-over-texas/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Thomas Ashcraft.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
Ukrainian colleagues Igor Kalytyuk and Alina Mykolyshyn have just
published a sober and super-documented 277-page report, How to
Identify UFOs. How to Investigate UAP, a handbook they have been
working on for 9 years. In spite of the language barrier (Russian),
there are some aspects of the monograph of extraordinary interest to
every UFO/UAP student. This is the permanent link:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://ufology-news.com/u/18672430/Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I._Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022.pdf" target="_blank">http://Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I_Mykolyshyn_A_How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk104394129"></a><a name="_Hlk104401001"></a>
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Ficheiros
secretos à portuguesa</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Secret
UFO files, Portuguese-style is the latest book by long-time
researcher Dr. Joaquim Fernandes. I have written a review for the
Spanish section of this blog.</span></span></span></p>
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cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Authored
by anthropologist Ignacio Cabria, published 2022 revamping and
augmenting a 1993 book, this outstanding volume helps to understand
the cultural history of UFOs in Spain from 1950 to 1990. It is
available through Reediciones Anómalas: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990">https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">See
a book review written by Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas in the Spanish
section of this blog.</span></span></span></p>
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Temático de Ufología</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Ufology’s
theme dictionary, by jurist and experienced UFO student Matías
Morey. Diego Zúñiga has kindly drafted a book review in the Spanish
section of this blog.</span></span></span></p>
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You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
A short article dispelling the false statement that sceptic
ufologists do not do field investigation. On the contrary, in
addition to practicing lots of field work, rational-minded ufologists
have the capacity to cover other areas of UFO study as well, an
improvement over the limited journalist-type, old-time ufology of
provincialist ufologists in Spain.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
A note dedicated to reviewing my own published work in the last 30
months: 33 papers, case studies, essays, articles, book reviews,
including one book has been my input to the subject. Titles and links
are listed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Book reviews to three interesting treatises: I prepared a commentary
to J. Fernandes’ </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ficheiros
secretos à portuguesa</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Dr. Félix Ares de Blas covered I. Cabria’s </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
and Diego Zúñiga looks at M. Morey’s </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Diccionario
Temático de Ufología</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Julio Plaza del Olmo (Spain), </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Curt
Collins (USA), Richard W. Heiden (USA), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico),
Matías Morey Ripoll (Spain), Diego Zúñiga (Chile), Terry Colvin
(Thailand), Dr. Félix Ares de Blas (Spain), and Juan Pablo González
(Spain).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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in Spain and Portugal</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">, 1976</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-left: 0.5cm; text-indent: -0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p8jr2xt"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p8jr2xt</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-left: 0.5cm; text-indent: -0.5cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25vvan2x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/25vvan2x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc3f3rbz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yc3f3rbz</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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First Catalogue</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1
(1950-1988)</u><span> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz),</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2020 </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"></h4> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2022/JUNIO/15
(ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Resultados
del último cómputo de la base de datos:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Casos
anteriores a 1947: 210. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Casos
entre 1947 y 31-12-2005 (fecha regular de cierre del catálogo, salvo
excepciones): 12.330. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Casos
adicionales especiales de 2006 a 2020: 271.</span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TOTAL:
12.811</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
En la anterior edición de este blog publiqué, en la sección en
lengua inglesa, el artículo “The ‘Tomato Man’ in
Retrospective”. El informe completo e ilustrado aparece ahora en el
reconocido portal internacional Academia.edu bajo el siguiente enlace
permanente:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
“Roca Muntañola a Ballester Olmos, 1968-1973”. He dado a
conocer, por si es de interés a parapsicólogos y ufólogos, las 15
cartas que recibí entre 1968 y 1973 del parapsicólogo y ufólogo
español Julio Roca Muntañola: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/77677068/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/77677068/Roca_Muntanola_a_Ballester_Olmos_1968_1973</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ovni
invisible en Cody, Wyoming, 1951</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Roderick
B. Dyke es un veterano ufólogo del estado de Washington que gestiona
los Archives for UFO Research (Archivos para la Investigación OVNI),
un arsenal de materiales que documentan la historia del fenómeno
ovni desde finales de la década de los cuarenta. Roderick es un
asiduo colaborador del proyecto FOTOCAT, al que aporta periódicamente
información sobre casos con imágenes. El año pasado me envió este
intrigante recorte que no pudo ubicar, pensando que estaba publicado
en </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucerama</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcVqsCPvBV6CHLBKXau7xxL2pFU5OIpveYbg93C05FDNyvMuL9Ue4_VIdghi_fCL4ER_ILTcG228WiyuYeDVw-7ZiC4uo5r4hYI05hkEzIe-WKaMtoF9UvsEPHJPgn4RYeSmN_RmpLsJKdBeROHDV4vXOOfrFmDjA-k4WLZtCaTmCcQKgPQ/s1801/Cody.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1801" data-original-width="973" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcVqsCPvBV6CHLBKXau7xxL2pFU5OIpveYbg93C05FDNyvMuL9Ue4_VIdghi_fCL4ER_ILTcG228WiyuYeDVw-7ZiC4uo5r4hYI05hkEzIe-WKaMtoF9UvsEPHJPgn4RYeSmN_RmpLsJKdBeROHDV4vXOOfrFmDjA-k4WLZtCaTmCcQKgPQ/s320/Cody.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small; text-align: left;">Unattributed source</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
diario muestra una foto, la ampliación de un ovni (que no aparece en
la primera foto), y un retrato de la pareja de fotógrafos. Su
leyenda dice así:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>¿Es
realmente un disco volante?... Bueno, entonces, ¿qué es? El Sr. y
la Sra. Robert Greenwood del 637 de la calle Throop quieren saberlo.
El Sr. Greenwood simplemente estaba filmando una escena del desierto
mientras estaba de vacaciones cerca de Cody, Wyoming, y esta "cosa"
se descubrió después de que se imprimió la película. Los
Greenwood no notaron nada inusual en el cielo ni escucharon ningún
motor ni ningún sonido extraño durante la toma de fotografías.
Tienen gran curiosidad, como no, en saber qué es el objeto con forma
de trompo. Pero, ¿es un objeto?</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
catálogo ya tenía varias referencias de prensa de este caso: </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Detroit Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Michigan) y </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Ohio) del 5 de noviembre de 1951, </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Baytown Sun</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Texas) del 6 de noviembre, y </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Daily American</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Somerset, Pensilvania) del 9 de noviembre, gracias a la apreciada
cooperación recibida de Kay Coggin. Los otros diarios solo
mencionaron dos nuevos datos: que se trataba de una diapositiva a
color y que los Greenwood procedían de Chicago. No se conoce la
fecha real, solo tenemos la fecha de publicación de principios de
noviembre de 1951. Cada fuente publicó la imagen de manera
diferente, por lo que consulté al experto en foto análisis Andrés
Duarte sobre las cuatro "mejores" imágenes disponibles.
“Quizás sea la imagen de un ave o insecto con </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>motion
blur</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(borrosidad por movimiento). No creo que alguna de esas copias
represente correctamente la apariencia de la imagen original porque
son muy oscuras y contrastadas. La copia del </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Detroit
Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
no es muy oscura pero está retocada y demasiado contrastada. La
copia “unattributed source” también está retocada. </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aunque
ninguna de las copias parece ser muy buena, la copia</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">publicada
en el </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lancaster
Eagle-Gazette </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">es
la mejor que tenemos”.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgmJ914wxCyU8OSy1GsIuY2KxU3y8kv4oov8o9EhZi95EdHXxnQrr5SRaEBYiMvbq56EGa7PTGDpwMBB0LzUpuAG434MWKk0NisUl2TQ_f0OGGaHMxxAAV5zgIm4FG5T8msvTKAwb-Myg-Ud7hiMPo9N-Y60AEdVzu78VK3o-5HjUW76Irw/s1027/Detroit%20Times%20copia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1027" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgmJ914wxCyU8OSy1GsIuY2KxU3y8kv4oov8o9EhZi95EdHXxnQrr5SRaEBYiMvbq56EGa7PTGDpwMBB0LzUpuAG434MWKk0NisUl2TQ_f0OGGaHMxxAAV5zgIm4FG5T8msvTKAwb-Myg-Ud7hiMPo9N-Y60AEdVzu78VK3o-5HjUW76Irw/s320/Detroit%20Times%20copia.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Izquierda<i>: Detroit Times</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">. Derecha: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lancaster Eagle-Gazette</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.</span></span></div>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
analista con amplia experiencia en el estudio de supuestas fotos ovni
que terminan siendo estampas de pájaros e insectos es el Comodoro
Rubén Lianza, director del CIAE de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
En consecuencia, recurrí a su opinión también en la evaluación de
esta atípica fotografía. Su dictamen fue inexorable: “La foto
mandada para análisis muestra un objeto que exhibe borrosidad por
movimiento cruzando el campo de visión muy probablemente en una
trayectoria casi vertical. Las aves suelen dejar este tipo de trazo
borroso cuando el obturador las "congeló" durante una fase
de vuelo con las alas a punto de cerrarse o apenas comenzando a
abrirse. Sin embargo, dada la fineza del cuerpo central, es más
probable que no se trate de un ave sino de un insecto cuyas alitas
exhiben una mitad de </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>efecto
rod</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Si la exposición hubiera sido algunos microsegundos más larga, tal
vez se hubiera capturado un ciclo completo de su batido de alas y
entonces el típico patrón sinusoidal de los </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>rods</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
se hubiera podido apreciar en toda su magnitud.”</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
efecto, Duarte confirma</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
“La imagen de la foto de Cody es similar a varias de las imágenes
de </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>rods
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
pueden encontrarse en internet.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Los </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>rods</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
están formados por una imagen que puede repetirse varias veces
dependiendo del tiempo de exposición de la foto, y la única
diferencia notoria entre la mayoría de esas fotos de </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>rods</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y la foto de Cody es que en esta última no hay repetición porque el
tiempo de exposición no es lo suficientemente largo. Concretamente,
la imagen de la foto de Cody es bastante similar a una sola de las
unidades repetitivas que aparecen en la siguiente fotografía”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgqFnq6jJX4--LUN31sNUSYnOYX9luzhYcJb9CjpTgJg9bDFOX0Wvfv0u8nJxzQeZ-IS-5qT80K6G1Hmh8o6Yxw0U-aXgiD6cnmaBKYCgcB_8nLL3Ct28e_NAjAlD1L1NjtF3ZMwROz3XFDdyN7-BCXG4BZ7M20FSHvfJ8Wx-OKUbHAa-Dw/s400/rod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="400" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgqFnq6jJX4--LUN31sNUSYnOYX9luzhYcJb9CjpTgJg9bDFOX0Wvfv0u8nJxzQeZ-IS-5qT80K6G1Hmh8o6Yxw0U-aXgiD6cnmaBKYCgcB_8nLL3Ct28e_NAjAlD1L1NjtF3ZMwROz3XFDdyN7-BCXG4BZ7M20FSHvfJ8Wx-OKUbHAa-Dw/s320/rod.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Rod</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">. Fuente: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bogleech.com/crypto/rod.jpg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.bogleech.com/crypto/rod.jpg</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Andrés Duarte, e-mails a V-J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">13
y 19 de marzo de 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Rubén Lianza, e-mail a V-J. Ballester Olmos, 13 de abril de 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=rod+insect&tbm=isch"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.google.com/search?q=rod+insect&tbm=isch</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Más
sobre el video “Gimbal” </u></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Julio
Plaza del Olmo, físico español con experiencia como investigador
del Ministerio de Defensa, ha tenido la gentileza de remitirnos este
escrito: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;">“</span><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">John
Greenewald Jr. (The Black Vault) ha podido localizar vía FOIA un
documento que describe una reunión entre el Oficial del Sistema de
Armas (WSO por sus siglas en inglés) que grabó el vídeo
llamado "Gimbal" y el Comité del Senado para las
Fuerzas Armadas (SASC)</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Aunque
es un hallazgo interesante, realmente no revela apenas información
nueva relevante. Básicamente, que ocurrió al final de una salida
nocturna, mientras volvían al portaaviones. Y se esboza que el
objeto fue primero detectado en el radar y que provenía del este.
Sin embargo, lo que me ha llamado la atención fue uno de los puntos
de interés de los miembros del SASC: </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>También
se preguntó por la cadena de custodia del vídeo del encuentro. Les
sorprende que la Navy no guarde ningún vídeo de estos encuentros y
que no exista una cadena de custodia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Ya que me reafirma en una impresión que tengo desde hace tiempo:
los 30 segundos del vídeo es lo único que hay para analizar. Para
nosotros, gente de la calle, pero también para AATIP, UAPTF y
sus sucesores. El documento dice que la Armada de EE.UU. no tenía en
aquel momento ningún protocolo para guardar y mantener bajo control
los datos de los sensores. Me temo que eso también será el caso de
otros sensores como el radar, así que no espero ver nuevos datos, ni
un vídeo más largo. Tenemos un vídeo de 30 segundos gracias que
alguien volcó, por su cuenta y riesgo, una parte en un formato
específico para poder compartir imágenes por internet.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Esto
nos lleva al informe del grupo de trabajo sobre UAP (UAPTF), en el
que escriben que la mala calidad de los datos disponibles no les
permite hacer análisis y llegar a conclusiones. A pesar de lo pobre
de los datos, algunas personas han podido hacer ciertos análisis
básicos.</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1,2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Incluso se ha podido llegar a conclusiones parciales, que permiten
evaluar que maniobras aéreas aparentemente imposibles, no son tales.
Eso puede ser suficiente para nosotros para proponer y discutir sobre
soluciones mundanas; pero la realidad es que una identificación
positiva y certera parece difícil sin esa información extra que muy
probablemente ya no existe.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
una tendencia a sobrevalorar a "los militares"; no solo por
la típica creencia de que son testigos perfectos que nunca se
equivocan, sino que también se les otorga capacidades
extraordinarias en cualquier aspecto: ¿cuántas veces hemos oído en
el pasado que "tecnología puntera" había detectado
un OVNI? Y eso mismo lo seguimos oyendo con la tecnología de hoy,
mucho más superior. La verdad es que ellos también son humanos,
toda tecnología tiene sus límites, y sus protocolos están pensados
para sus propias necesidades, no para lo que a nosotros nos
gustaría.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/new-details-emerge-about-uap-encounter-briefing-breakdown/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/new-details-emerge-about-uap-encounter-briefing-breakdown/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Mick West, “Gimbal UFO - A new
analysis”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, “The FLIR1 Video”,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Oficina
UAP del Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos. Audiencia
pública en el Congreso</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
se prevé en la legislación UAP del Departamento de Defensa, el
Grupo de Sincronización de Gestión e Identificación de Objetos
Aéreos (AOIMSG), es decir, la oficina creada por el Pentágono
siguiendo el mandato de la Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional
para establecer una Oficina de Vigilancia y Resolución de Anomalías
que se ocupe de la UAP, antes del 31 de marzo de 2022 se debería
haber llevado a cabo una sesión informativa clasificada por parte
del jefe de la Oficina de UAP para los comités del Congreso sobre
Servicios Armados, Asignaciones e Inteligencia, incluyendo la
información conocida por el grupo de trabajo UAPTF sobre incidentes
de este tipo después del 24 de junio de 2021.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Según
un artículo del reportero de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Politico</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Bryan Bender publicado el pasado 2 de mayo, esta primera declaración
tuvo lugar “en las últimas semanas”. El resultado final podría
definirse por el título de su artículo: “Las sesiones
informativas sobre ovnis en el Capitolio han comenzado. Los
legisladores no están impresionados”.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
17 de mayo de 2022, el Congreso de los Estados Unidos celebró una
audiencia sobre ovnis, supervisada por el representante demócrata de
Indiana, Andre Carson. “Dos altos funcionarios de inteligencia de
defensa están listos para responder preguntas del Subcomité de
Contraterrorismo, Contrainteligencia y Contraproliferación del
Comité Selecto Permanente de Inteligencia de la Cámara”, anticipó Billy House de
Bloomberg News. Esa audiencia fue seguida por una sesión cerrada y
clasificada: “…nuestros enemigos estarán escuchando muy de cerca
atentos a lo que los militares tienen que decir. Y no queremos darles
una ventaja sobre nosotros”, informó Carson. También dijo que,
para “algunos expertos”, del 2% al 7% de estos UAP no se pueden
explicar. Bueno, al menos este porcentaje no es 143/144 (99%), como
se revela en la evaluación preliminar de junio de 2021 divulgada por
el Departamento de Defensa.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
exponer la situación actual del programa UAP del Pentágono (el
Grupo de Sincronización de Gestión e Identificación de Objetos
Aéreos) participaron el Subsecretario de Defensa para Inteligencia y
Seguridad Ronald S. Moultrie y el Director Adjunto de Inteligencia
Naval Scott W. Bray. La audiencia se puede ver en vivo.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Según las muchas fuentes consultadas, esto es en resumen lo que se
informó a los congresistas y las impresiones que dejaron en los
medios de comunicación</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
144 eventos UAP contabilizados para el período 2004 a 2021 han
aumentado a 400; varios de estos sucesos han desafiado todos los
intentos de explicación; el video de visión nocturna que muestra
triángulos verdes iluminados que se mueven por el aire, fue una toma
de lo que luego se identificó como drones; los avistamientos
registrados por los militares incluyen 11 </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>near
misses </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(riesgo
de accidente) con aviones estadounidenses; a través de un análisis
"riguroso" la mayoría, pero no todos, de los UAP pueden
identificarse (Ronald Moultrie); "hay un pequeño puñado [de
casos] en los que hay características de vuelo o firma
electromagnética que no podemos explicar con los datos que tenemos
disponibles" (Scott Bray); "No hemos detectado elementos
por parte del grupo de trabajo UAP que... sugieran que es algo de
origen no terrestre" (Scott Bray); "Son datos
insuficientes; ese es uno de los desafíos que tenemos. Datos
insuficientes ya sea sobre el evento en sí, el objeto en sí, o
datos insuficientes en relación con alguna otra organización o
agencia que pueda haber tenido algo en ese espacio en ese momento”
(Ronald Moultrie).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo
más destacado de la audiencia fue una imagen de una fracción de
segundo, tomada el año pasado a través de la ventana de un avión
de combate FA-18, de un distante objeto esférico. El piloto también
informó haber observado el objeto. Permanece sin explicación y es
un ejemplo de lo difícil que es determinar lo que puede mostrar un
breve videoclip (consulte el enlace de la Nota 3, del minuto 35:05 al
38:47). Scott W. Bray declaró con franqueza sobre esta toma: "No
tengo una explicación de qué es este objeto específico".</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></p><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzHNXhXtLJ55xvlfFBBHCGpPpgU0GJywFC5sh_ZEB-2lyyuhacKPwfhSP3bwCzZABL1Sk1V4shilkYoL2Xu7PX4YBozSoI06XDh7b9EYCVV6YBk0rY0R3OYQuXCBb8U9OYH9DBvgKO-v-6oNi49s-ijbicskPHXlFCK8n5xTc2nPe_IvL9A/s620/screenshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzHNXhXtLJ55xvlfFBBHCGpPpgU0GJywFC5sh_ZEB-2lyyuhacKPwfhSP3bwCzZABL1Sk1V4shilkYoL2Xu7PX4YBozSoI06XDh7b9EYCVV6YBk0rY0R3OYQuXCBb8U9OYH9DBvgKO-v-6oNi49s-ijbicskPHXlFCK8n5xTc2nPe_IvL9A/s320/screenshot.png" width="320" /></a></div></span></span><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Captura
de pantalla de un “ovni” firmado en 2021 por un piloto de la
Marina norteamericana.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¡Aguarde,
amigo lector! ¿La unidad de investigación UAP del Departamento de
Defensa estadounidense admite que no tiene explicación para esa
imagen? También el año pasado un avión de combate paquistaní
filmó el mismo tipo de objeto y se resolvió como un globo
meteorológico. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Consulte
"UFO-Balloon in the Pakistan Air Space", en
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqH1rZwt4Yr2J7SfgkaYELpFjRLaziouk0ymWvj7L5HEmwjR_5wtGi5u0hj7VQN-gFePI9U3-CVsYwIKi-hcyyW3FAMhqx9yFTEQ4kVXuagAd4acSevrNKEwemUdqmqcTw3vAEmdbmWDBnNu5ilFDK_2YNlvOY1q0M-TdaoIJ5NudRvgcsQ/s1116/Pakistan,%20balloon%20full%20view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="1116" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqH1rZwt4Yr2J7SfgkaYELpFjRLaziouk0ymWvj7L5HEmwjR_5wtGi5u0hj7VQN-gFePI9U3-CVsYwIKi-hcyyW3FAMhqx9yFTEQ4kVXuagAd4acSevrNKEwemUdqmqcTw3vAEmdbmWDBnNu5ilFDK_2YNlvOY1q0M-TdaoIJ5NudRvgcsQ/s320/Pakistan,%20balloon%20full%20view.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2xVkzYFn6oIv1Zud4IpBBZMV4e-dPv8RMMz5TagaYR6tekHFgdQJMykrY3_xJjc_g6ToNTEFjpJOLZMh8epFNXXjr6FOg5H9uEQUDVLe-8BiWRx_tYAOqYu3RHoWoKkO1JtUDX-SPPH5Ke8cNY2wns7_4DVU2ijcsQcwIO6KO811A3xUSQ/s176/Pakistan,%20balloon%20blown-up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="155" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2xVkzYFn6oIv1Zud4IpBBZMV4e-dPv8RMMz5TagaYR6tekHFgdQJMykrY3_xJjc_g6ToNTEFjpJOLZMh8epFNXXjr6FOg5H9uEQUDVLe-8BiWRx_tYAOqYu3RHoWoKkO1JtUDX-SPPH5Ke8cNY2wns7_4DVU2ijcsQcwIO6KO811A3xUSQ/s1600/Pakistan,%20balloon%20blown-up.jpg" width="155" /></a></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">De
hecho, el Comodoro Rubén Lianza, jefe del organismo de la Fuerza
Aérea argentina para la identificación de los UAP, ha presentado un
informe preliminar resolviendo el objeto como un globo de helio:
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/resuelto-el-misterioso-objetos-que-el.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/resuelto-el-misterioso-objetos-que-el.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE0MdzCFXjVKm_KJrOkQw0XSEt0IiQKxZck4xsPU6a2oc9LFoI7pavzqqfBQRaP4GJvOwnQE36W5j1fdVXdG19vwnnMXX4n_oDkvqXFhd3OnIarEFMO9I12jg3FYrQftxu7azGLGFUDmc_-ri3TMZP8OAJDbLJwZ6b-sVeNQ-oe_V7NtWIw/s1152/Lianza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1152" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE0MdzCFXjVKm_KJrOkQw0XSEt0IiQKxZck4xsPU6a2oc9LFoI7pavzqqfBQRaP4GJvOwnQE36W5j1fdVXdG19vwnnMXX4n_oDkvqXFhd3OnIarEFMO9I12jg3FYrQftxu7azGLGFUDmc_-ri3TMZP8OAJDbLJwZ6b-sVeNQ-oe_V7NtWIw/s320/Lianza.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">El
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>software</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
francés IPACO ha resuelto un hilo colgando del globo. © Rubén
Lianza, CIAE.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
de las mejores presentaciones de los medios fue la de Adam Kehoe para
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
bajo el título “La gran audiencia del Congreso sobre ovnis fue
notablemente realista”, que subtitulada “La primera audiencia del
Congreso sobre ovnis en 50 años fue todo sobre drones y actores
extranjeros, no sobre visitas extraterrestres”. En resumen, nada
del otro mundo por el momento. Como escribió Travis Tritten de
Military.com: "el testimonio probablemente desinfló cualquier
esperanza de evidencia de visitantes extraterrestres". Jason
Colavito calificó esta audiencia del Congreso como "mala para
los ufólogos", y estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Sin embargo, todo
esto revivirá la cuestión de los ovnis en la sociedad, con la
creación de nuevas organizaciones y el desarrollo de nuevas
iniciativas que fracasarán en el transcurso de los años, y muchas
personas se aprovecharán y sacarán provecho de esto. Se generará
más creencia en el tema extraterrestre, antes de que el tiempo la
convierta en frustración. Se registra una avalancha de informes
entrantes, dicen, porque el "estigma" está desapareciendo.
¡Vamos, hombre! Llevamos viendo este maldito efecto desde los años
sesenta del siglo pasado: en cuanto el Gobierno publica algún
comunicado sobre ovnis (ya sea solicitando información, confirmando
que se han producido determinados casos, o investigando el fenómeno),
las denuncias de ovnis se multiplican. Es el efecto de la imitación
que produce la publicidad (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>copy-cat</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
el horizonte de futuras comunicaciones sobre el avance del actual
estudio UAP de Defensa de los Estados Unidos, tenemos el Informe
Anual del Director de Inteligencia, en consulta con el Secretario de
Defensa, a los comités del Congreso, para ser entregado antes del 31
de octubre de 2022. Espero que una parte se filtre a su debido
tiempo.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
nota histórica al margen sobre los esfuerzos del NICAP hacia las
audiencias de ovnis en el Congreso en la década de 1960,
recomendaría este artículo ilustrativo de Jack Brewer: "Activismo
ovni y audiencias en el Congreso, estilo de los 1960".</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Hay una cronología fácil de seguir sobre los próximos informes
oficiales en mi trabajo “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act”:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/ufo-briefings-congress-pentagon-00029315"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/ufo-briefings-congress-pentagon-00029315</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report”:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4) </span></span></span></span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDweUbGBow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDweUbGBow</span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
Fuentes consultadas:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61474201"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61474201</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/congress-ufo-hearing.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/congress-ufo-hearing.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://time.com/6177650/congress-ufo-hearings/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://time.com/6177650/congress-ufo-hearings/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/17/real-but-still-unexplained-congress-holds-its-first-ufo-hearing-in-50-years/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/17/real-but-still-unexplained-congress-holds-its-first-ufo-hearing-in-50-years/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/congress-pentagon-ufo-uap-hearing"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/congress-pentagon-ufo-uap-hearing</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/ufo-uap-hearing-pentagon/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/ufo-uap-hearing-pentagon/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-hold-1st-hearing-ufos-50-years/story?id=84753756"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-hold-1st-hearing-ufos-50-years/story?id=84753756</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/the-article-of-militarycom-about.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/05/the-article-of-militarycom-about.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/congresss-ufo-hearing-was-very-down-to-earth"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/congresss-ufo-hearing-was-very-down-to-earth</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congressional-ufo-hearing-goes-badly-for-ufologists"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congressional-ufo-hearing-goes-badly-for-ufologists</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/congress-takes-all-the-fun-out-of-ufos-i-smell-coverup/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/congress-takes-all-the-fun-out-of-ufos-i-smell-coverup/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/05/ufo-activism-and-congressional-hearings.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/05/ufo-activism-and-congressional-hearings.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El
gobierno de Canadá se actualiza sobre los UAP</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Anticipándose
a la evaluación preliminar del Departamento de Defensa de EE. UU. de
junio de 2021 sobre los UAP, el anterior ministro de defensa
canadiense, Harjit Sajjan, recibió una sesión informativa sobre
ovnis. La breve presentación de diapositivas ha sido obtenida por
CTVNews.ca y los documentos se pueden encontrar aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21885184-documents-obtained-through-access-to-information-ufo-files?responsive=1&title=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21885184-documents-obtained-through-access-to-information-ufo-files?responsive=1&title=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibBHtLnqgxjBc152ATV1NVl1Me8ojy4wgBCOHA8xFo7hDnM8a-mOahsZVFJIozCFbmsR6XtLk76QyrZHfi-HzBs3rAgmXCPmuLzfitRQmlWqeuwIFfe1O64eoHRO_r5hjS_4HlYhCmYCDdQmHzCXSZVhFXTuSybKkbDsChxcGbKhXszuT6vw/s700/Canada.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="700" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibBHtLnqgxjBc152ATV1NVl1Me8ojy4wgBCOHA8xFo7hDnM8a-mOahsZVFJIozCFbmsR6XtLk76QyrZHfi-HzBs3rAgmXCPmuLzfitRQmlWqeuwIFfe1O64eoHRO_r5hjS_4HlYhCmYCDdQmHzCXSZVhFXTuSybKkbDsChxcGbKhXszuT6vw/s320/Canada.gif" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">La
NASA también investiga ovnis</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hace
escasamente una semana, el pasado 9 de junio, la NASA ha publicado un
comunicado informando los planes para establecer el próximo otoño
un estudio independiente sobre fenómenos aéreos no identificados.
El equipo establecido examinará " desde una perspectiva
científica, observaciones de eventos en el cielo que no pueden
identificarse como aeronaves o fenómenos naturales conocidos”. El
razonamiento que respalda esa decisión inesperada es la alineación
de su misión con los objetivos de la NASA para garantizar la
seguridad de la aviación. Bueno, parece ser una buena excusa. Otra
interpretación, sin embargo, es la propaganda adicional alineada con
la renovada popularidad de los viejos platillos voladores, los ovnis
modernos y los UAP contemporáneos, tres palabras para el mismo tipo
de mito. Sin embargo, la NASA sigue en el lado seguro cuando afirma
que "No hay evidencia de que los UAP sean de origen
extraterrestre". </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thomas
Zurbuchen, administrador adjunto para la ciencia, ha declarado que
"Tenemos las herramientas y el equipo que pueden ayudarnos a
mejorar nuestra comprensión de lo desconocido". Cierto, pero
¿es razonable que, en medio de una grave crisis mundial que no ha
hecho sino empezar, se empleen recursos para duplicar una
investigación sobre UAP ya en vigor por parte del poderoso
Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos? Con esto, la NASA
agrega otro vórtice de publicidad a su existencia. En junio de 2021,
la sección de Preguntas Frecuentes (FAQ) de la web de la NASA sobre
UAP señalaba específicamente que "la NASA no investiga los UAP
de forma activa". ¿Qué ha cambiado tan dramáticamente en un
año, excepto un salto cuántico en la exposición de los medios a
los UAP y el grupo de trabajo UAP del Departamento de Defensa?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
comunicado oficial puede leerse aquí:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimstpGKhIYIwRtahOgR6zeWJ70W51wzUZW6FTvFGG30A5S3F6bi7rjCCRUmE6BdCVPuElbgkeQa89LLsq_tHJhFzy-zM3thwR6z8Gdh9m--53gZO6_jIL-qlUhQx6hgesg9MCsUnX_sQ2Rtwt4sdtVYbXNdknOnlGE5aQBj29PeYIDI4Vimg/s2164/NASA2%20copia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2164" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimstpGKhIYIwRtahOgR6zeWJ70W51wzUZW6FTvFGG30A5S3F6bi7rjCCRUmE6BdCVPuElbgkeQa89LLsq_tHJhFzy-zM3thwR6z8Gdh9m--53gZO6_jIL-qlUhQx6hgesg9MCsUnX_sQ2Rtwt4sdtVYbXNdknOnlGE5aQBj29PeYIDI4Vimg/s320/NASA2%20copia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Corrigiendo
la falsa afirmación de que los escépticos no hacen investigación
de campo</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cierto
sector de la ufología española ha creado y difundido repetidamente
una espuria dicotomía: los ufólogos de la rama “crítica” (la
no crédula) han llegado a falsas conclusiones partiendo de informes
de terceros, mientras que los ufólogos “genuinos”, aquellos que
salen a entrevistar a los testigos </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>comme
il faut</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
están en lo cierto. En consecuencia, los estudiosos racionalistas o
más escépticos (aquellos que sostenemos la convicción de que no
hay ovnis extraterrestres) no conocemos la realidad del “fenómeno”
de primera mano. Y, por ende, estamos equivocados.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Eso
es verdad? No. De ninguna manera. La realidad es muy otra. Dejadme
que os la exponga. Groseramente hablando, enrolaríamos a los
ufólogos más activos en dos grupos. Quienes parecen saber hacer
solo una cosa, ir de excursión a pueblos donde los lugareños les
cuentan sus presuntas vivencias anormales, para luego escribir
artículos que facturan a revistas comerciales. Ese encuestador,
especialmente en su extrema juventud, normalmente da por bueno el
relato del supuesto observador y, al ser incapaz de explicarlo (a
veces no le interesa porque no lo vendería a la revista de turno),
lo rotula como OVNI (vamos, extraterrestre, no nos engañemos). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Otros
son los investigadores de la escuela más metódica o racionalista.
Contrariamente a lo que algunos suponen, estos sí han hecho
investigación de campo y la han hecho profusamente. Por qué eso se
oculta o se ignora, se me escapa. El hecho es que estos estudiosos no
tienen la limitación de los anteriores, su campo de acción y
trabajo en ufología es mucho más amplio y no se circunscribe casi
exclusivamente a visitar a contadores de experiencias, como los
primeros. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
mi caso personal, porque se me ha criticado por una presunta escasa
actividad de encuesta, debo afirmar que no he dejado de investigar
casos </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>in
situ</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
desde 1966. Quiero pensar que es por puro desconocimiento por parte
de mis críticos. Quien sostiene esa creencia está confundido de
plano. Hay que conocer e informarse bien de la trayectoria de
exploración y estudio de uno, antes de sostener opiniones. Tengo en
mi haber muchas decenas de visitas de investigación a ubicaciones
donde sucedieron casos importantes y encuentros con testigos, sobre
todo en mi área de influencia, la Comunidad Valenciana y provincias
vecinas. Para comprobarlo, uno solo tiene que tomarse la molestia de
revisar mi bibliografía, que está a golpe de clic de internet.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Allí se verá la larga sucesión de informes de encuesta que he ido
publicando en revistas especializadas, libros y </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>online
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">con
el resultado de mis pesquisas sobre el terreno, siempre acompañado
por investigadores con más talento que yo.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
si repasamos los nombres de mis colegas, por edad o por afinidad
“ideológica”, como José Ruesga, Julio Arcas, Félix Ares de
Blas, Ignacio Cabria, J.A. Fernández Peris, Ricardo Campo y tantos
otros, todos ellos tienen a sus espaldas un formidable trabajo sobre
el terreno que les cualifica para sostener con rigor sus conclusiones
sobre la irrealidad de un fenómeno extraterrestre. Es por ello
difícil de creer que solo la ignorancia sustenta la errónea
afirmación expuesta al principio.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
es que para aquellos que están en mi línea de pensamiento (la tesis
psicosocial resuelve los ovnis), el fin de nuestra actividad no está
en la visita al testigo. Eso es apenas una fracción de nuestro
desempeño en el seguimiento del fenómeno ovni. Como ufólogos,
abarcamos otras áreas de investigación con tanta profundidad como
la encuesta: análisis a distancia de avistamientos (hoy lo
llamaríamos estudio con tecnología y programas digitales</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">),
estudios históricos, investigación documental en áreas políticas,
bibliografías, estadística, modelación matemática, estudio de
casuística internacional y un largo etcétera. O sea, no solo no es
cierto que no tengamos un amplio bagaje de encuesta sobre el terreno,
sino que además nos hemos ocupado de otras facetas que otros no han
sido capaces de abarcar.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
otras palabras, si tuviéramos que resumir gráficamente la verdad de
la falsa dicotomía (“los negativistas no hacen investigación de
campo”), podríamos dibujar un esquema de capacidades, de
ocupaciones o de funciones acerca de quién sabe hacer qué. El
diagrama siguiente, aplicado a mi caso personal, expresa
aproximadamente lo que pretendo decir.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyXQb2UDfjqjF1WZBqeVvEY46upFEPcpD_H-LjM5qE-9qOLSowiy3HUXFI_dp8v0dLpsCYrJexYjeAGAMw9EuJlvXfH8TsgnquBTVUBpG7JAO8_OxBBGz44FZEbgEKFDNh5IIdGlrJZWSrEdrKjeAUkU5KbE7rSloefAsQFGoIf5NiSG-JQ/s871/Diagrama.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="871" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyXQb2UDfjqjF1WZBqeVvEY46upFEPcpD_H-LjM5qE-9qOLSowiy3HUXFI_dp8v0dLpsCYrJexYjeAGAMw9EuJlvXfH8TsgnquBTVUBpG7JAO8_OxBBGz44FZEbgEKFDNh5IIdGlrJZWSrEdrKjeAUkU5KbE7rSloefAsQFGoIf5NiSG-JQ/s320/Diagrama.png" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">En
las últimas décadas del siglo pasado teníamos el romanticismo
juvenil de una cierta forma de investigación de campo. Sin recursos
tecnológicos, programas informáticos o apoyo profesional. Pura
labor de aficionado. Lo que dice el testigo es lo que pasó. Tal
cual. Pero eso es una práctica anticuada, desfasada, nada
profesional. Que ha llenado la vida a mucha gente y les ha permitido
llegar a final de mes. Pero eso nada tiene que ver con la ciencia, ni
con el conocimiento, ni con la verdad. Fue un sueño bonito mientras
duró. Pero nada más.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Yo
siento mucho enmendar la plana a algunos que carecen de la
perspectiva y la información necesaria, pero los hechos son los que
son, no los que alguien ha querido propalar y otros han engullido sin
el menor juicio crítico. Pero es que estamos ya entrados bastante en
un nuevo siglo y algunos ya somos lo suficientemente mayores como
para dejar las cosas claras a las nuevas generaciones. Los ufólogos
de la más joven casta tienen el deber de ilustrarse sin prejuicios y
contar las cosas que no han vivido como han sido, no como las han
leído de fuentes afectadas. La ufología periodística, siento
decirlo, ha sido tan abundante como poco brillante en España. Y se
debe a su ilación con el comercio sensacionalista y monetarista del
tema: ¿quién paga por historias de ovnis resueltos? Muchos han
tenido -y tienen- que vivir del tema. Desde tribunas diferentes
(prensa, radio, televisión) pero con necesidades perentorias
idénticas por parte de unos y otros. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
los nuevos valores, quienes nos tienen que suceder, tienen la misión
de ser objetivos. Y si tienen que derribar a falsos mandarines, como
diría Aimé Michel, su obligación es poner a cada cual es su sitio.
Duela a quien duela. La historia no se puede falsificar y en la
ufología española ha habido mucha fábula y ficción tan injusta
como injustificada. Yo reclamo a los nuevos Oscar Rey Brea, Eduardo
Buelta o Manuel Osuna del panorama ufológico nacional una inmersión
en la historia verdadera, de aquella que cuenta quién ha hecho qué.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
realidad, lo siento por quien se sienta afectado. En el siglo XXI y
en el tema ovnis ya no necesitamos periodistas, sino ingenieros,
físicos y astrónomos, pero, por encima de todo, psicólogos,
psiquiatras, historiadores, antropólogos, criminólogos y expertos
en folclore. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Lo
de los platillos volantes de nuestra juventud, los ovnis de nuestra
madurez y los UAP de ahora son nombres distintos para lo mismo:
espejismos imaginarios y creencias sin base. Lo siento, no estamos
siendo invadidos por </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>aliens</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Ni lo estuvimos en la antigüedad, por muchos que nos machaquen en el
pseudo canal Historia. No sé si lo seremos en el futuro, seguramente
no porque somos lo suficientemente imbéciles como para saber
autodestruirnos con la doctrina Putin.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Asumámoslo
de una puñetera vez. Esto de los ovnis aterrizando, dejando huellas,
rodeados de tripulación humanoide, etc. es una patraña. Si tal caso
o tal otro nos sigue pareciendo extraordinario es una medida de
nuestra incompetencia como investigadores. Al fin y al cabo, todos
somos unos </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>amateurs</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtKlE2GNUDyA8EqLWqvWpwS4w0W_nsM5_uzNsrTXisE4JNYKx1Lhb2pKwJMkoOBZQDTaL3P8yMx0Lc3xeXo8gdk4gObqt7FlAY03CX89S8esGnp2VeoJQEwcqRw9iE7YIDxiBzzKVOmZmmjiZ8_LfC3aMzHhyDSoETEqErvY-vmvOjHDLcA/s3309/MOSAICO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2199" data-original-width="3309" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtKlE2GNUDyA8EqLWqvWpwS4w0W_nsM5_uzNsrTXisE4JNYKx1Lhb2pKwJMkoOBZQDTaL3P8yMx0Lc3xeXo8gdk4gObqt7FlAY03CX89S8esGnp2VeoJQEwcqRw9iE7YIDxiBzzKVOmZmmjiZ8_LfC3aMzHhyDSoETEqErvY-vmvOjHDLcA/s320/MOSAICO.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Almussafes,
1978. Turís, 1979. El Saler, 1969. Sumacárcel, 1981. Campillo de
Altobuey, 1994. Turís, 1982. Centro de Control, Aeropuerto de
Manises, 1990. Casas de Haro, 1985. Turís, 2009.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Bibliografía de Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, 1965-2022,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Nosotros ya resolvíamos observaciones ovni telemáticamente 20 años
que lo hiciera el GEIPAN.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Apuntes
sobre mi trabajo de los últimos 30 meses</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
veces la imagen que se tiene de uno es equivocada, vaya usted a saber
por qué (normalmente por razones interesadas), por lo que de vez en
cuando conviene corregir bulos y fijar posiciones. Por ejemplo, ¿son
conscientes los interesados en nuestro tema que una de mis
principales atenciones es el análisis de observaciones ovni? Si se
hiciera una encuesta entre los aficionados sobre si Ballester Olmos
investiga avistamientos ovni, probablemente la mayoría diría que
no. ¿Por qué? Por la falsa, retrógrada y provinciana noción de
que los casos hay que investigarlos haciendo turismo barato para
luego contar sus desventuras por esos caminos de Dios. Llevo 55 años
estudiando casos y entrevistando a testigos. Pero, señores, los
métodos evolucionan. Ya hace décadas hablábamos de que la
investigación de gabinete (hoy, telemática) sustituía en la
inmensa mayoría de las ocasiones al desplazamiento e inevitable </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>vis
a vis</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
con un normalmente confundido –y, a veces, falaz– </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">testigo.
No voy a repetir ahora las muchas herramientas que la actual
tecnología pone a nuestra disposición para el análisis a distancia
de los sucesos. Lo cual no excluye que debamos disponer de
información de primera mano de la fuente del misterio (que se
obtiene también, no lo olvidemos, por la encuesta postal,
telefónica, correo electrónico, etc.) </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
ello, he pensado rememorar mi actividad en los últimos dos años y
medio, contando, tabulando y describiendo mis publicaciones, que son
reflejo directo de mi actividad investigadora. A ver qué resulta. La
base para esta ordenación de trabajos es mi bibliografía
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
No todo lo que he redactado durante este periodo está allí, ya que
hay una serie de notas y escritos que se quedan expresamente en mi
blog. Lo más definido y concluyente, empero, queda registrado en mi
bibliografía formal. Como mis lectores saben, mi producción de
investigación oscila entre lo que escribo en español y lo que
escribo directamente en inglés (algunas de cuyas piezas a veces
también traduzco y otras lo han sido por colegas y publicado en sus
webs). Veamos a qué me he dedicado en los últimos treinta meses.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Estudio
de casos (encuesta a distancia)</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(Los
menos, unos sencillos artículos de exposición o divulgación,
siempre con aportaciones propias. Los más, análisis en profundidad
de supuestos avistamientos o encuentros con ovnis.)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1.
“Pictures of aliens in USA, October 1973” (con Luis Ruiz Noguez),
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42066503/PICTURES_OF_ALIENS_IN_USA_OCTOBER_1973"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42066503/PICTURES_OF_ALIENS_IN_USA_OCTOBER_1973</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2.
“El OVNI del Batallón de Transmisiones Número 3” (con J.A.
Fernández Peris),</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_03_13_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_03_13_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">3.
“Night-Spotted UFO”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_06_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_06_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">4.
“The 1917 Canadian UFO”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_06_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_06_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">5.
“Incidente en la costa de Ayamonte, marzo de 1987” (con Marcos A.
Benítez),</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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“Queen of UFOs at Wichita, 1956”, </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">7.
“UFO Hunt: Arkansas City, August 24, 1972”, </span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_01_09_archive.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_01_09_archive.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción:
“Periodistas, policías y ovnis, Arkansas, 24 de agosto de 1972”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_01_09_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_01_09_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">8.
“El par de ovnis de la pareja de la Guardia Civil”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">9.
“Las balizas del 11 de noviembre de 1979” (con Joan Plana, Jaime
Servera y J.A. Fernández Peris),</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">10.
“Descent at Calumet” (con Luis E. Pacheco), </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción:
“Descenso en Calumet”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">11.
“Paris, Kentucky, 1949”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">12.
“Dos horas de avistamiento OVNI” (con J.C. Victorio Uranga),</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">13.
“Gambia: una foto y una abducción”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">14.
“Observación desde tierra y desde el aire, 4 de mayo de 2021”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">15.
“Exegesis of the Dudignac Saucer of 1955”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis_of_the_Dudignac_Saucer_of_1955"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis_of_the_Dudignac_Saucer_of_1955</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción:
“Exégesis del platillo de Dudignac de 1955”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69366955/Exegesis_del_platillo_de_Dudignac_de_1955"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69366955/Exegesis_del_platillo_de_Dudignac_de_1955</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">16.
“Unusual Celestial Phenomena Photographed in a U.S. Naval Air
Station (con J.C. Victorio Uranga),
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_03_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_03_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Traducción:
“Fenómenos celestes inusuales fotografiados en una base naval
aérea de EE. UU.”,</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_03_15_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022_03_15_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">17.
“The ‘Tomato Man’ in Retrospective”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/74495629/The_Tomato_Man_in_Retrospective</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ensayos</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(Reflexiones
e ideas; hay mucho de epistemología de la ufología)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1.
“An indispensable book yet to be written”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2.
“Mentiras y periodismo aficionado: Una combinación fatal”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_03_13_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_03_13_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">3.
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“OVNIS:
¿Cuál es la investigación prioritaria, hoy?”, </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">4.
“When Archetypes Land”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">5.
“Personal Position Statement”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción:
”Mi posición a fecha de hoy”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_06_15_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">6.
“Compendio de reflexiones (Ayuda al navegante)”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/54893631/Compendio_de_reflexiones_Ayuda_al_navegante_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/54893631/Compendio_de_reflexiones_Ayuda_al_navegante_</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">7.
“En el túnel del tiempo”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Análisis
documental e histórico</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(De
variada temática, cubre asuntos nacionales e internacionales, con
énfasis en el programa UAP del Pentágono)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">1.
“UFO Sponsorship – The Case of Fundación Anomalía” (con
Matías Morey),</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205123/UFO_Sponsorship._The_Case_of_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205123/UFO_Sponsorship._The_Case_of_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción:
“Mecenazgo OVNI: la Fundación Anomalía,”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2.
“Argentina: Desclasificación OVNI – UFO Declassification”,
[artículo bilingüe]</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">3.
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
ONU, los ovnis y España en 1978”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2020_09_15_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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“The UAP Pentagon Report - Commented Abstract”,</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_09_14_archive.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción
de A. Agostinelli: “Resumen comentado del informe sobre Fenómenos
Aéreos No Identificados del Pentágono”, </span></span></span><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">5.</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“A
Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">6.
“On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Reseña
de libros</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">1.
“An Illustrated Review of “The Close Encounters Man”,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42856955/Book_Review_of_The_Close_Encounters_Man"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42856955/Book_Review_of_The_Close_Encounters_Man</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Traducción
de A. Agostinelli: “El Hombre de los Encuentros Cercanos. Reseña
Ilustrada de la Primera Biografía de J. A. Hynek”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">2.
“Cielos despejados (Reseña)”,</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_12_26_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_12_26_archive.html#es</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Libros</b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>THE
MARFA LIGHTS. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Examining
the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(con Manuel Borraz) </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Online:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Editorial
UPIAR: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Son
en total 33 trabajos publicados, 17 de ellos los hice expresamente
para mi blog y otros 16 son referencias formales de Academia.edu,
aunque también han sido parcialmente reseñados en el blog. 22 están
disponibles en español y 20 en inglés. Como se observa, me gusta
trabajar en equipo y cerca de la tercera parte de los trabajos los he
escrito en colaboración con siete investigadores españoles y dos
latinoamericanos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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aportaciones en 30 meses es una buena media. Es cuestión de
dedicación, buenos archivos, fácil acceso a informaciones técnicas
y, no por último menos importante, disfrutar de un elenco de
colaboradores rigurosos y competentes. Si has llegado hasta aquí,
amable lector, en realidad lo que has leído no supone el volumen
total de trabajo realizado por mí en estos últimos dos años y
medio. “Solo” es lo publicado. Hay muchísimo material pendiente
de ver la luz. Porque tengo en marcha cinco proyectos de gran
magnitud, algunos de los cuales llevan en preparación varios años
ya, y que, dada la extensión que están tomando, se convertirán en
tres libros y dos extensas monografías. Siento adelantar que los
cinco trabajos están en inglés. Pero ese es el idioma de la
comunicación global, en ufología y en casi todo lo demás.</span></center>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Termino
volviendo al planteamiento inicial: más de la mitad de todos los
trabajos en el periodo revisado están dedicados al análisis de
casuística, española e internacional, reciente y antigua. Y es que
el oficio de resolver incidentes ovni da para mucho. Creo yo que es
la respuesta racional a las crónicas irresponsables de los crédulos
diseminadores de historietas. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El
Ejército del Aire y yo</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pregunta
recurrente en las entrevistas que me hacen, así como cuestiones
planteadas por colegas, es mi relación con el Ejército del Aire
español entre 1992 y 1999, años en los que se desarrolló la
desclasificación de los archivos oficiales ovni custodiados en el
Estado Mayor del Aire desde 1962. Dicha relación, que fue muy
estrecha y única, está documentada en varios ensayos y libros míos,
pero hay un trabajo que explica diáfanamente cuál fue mi papel en
dicho proceso. Aconsejo a mis lectores se dejen caer por este
artículo, escrito como homenaje al general Ángel Bastida, quien
cuando era teniente coronel jefe de Inteligencia del Mando Operativo
Aéreo (MOA)/Mando Aéreo de Combate (MACOM) tuvo la responsabilidad
de lidiar con la inspección, estudio y desclasificación de la
primera tanda de expedientes ovni. La historia es verdaderamente
humana y creo que debe ser conocida. Les remito a “El hombre del
M.O.A.”, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A">https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
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general del Ejército del Aire, Madrid. De izquierda a derecha:
Coronel A. Bastida, V.J. Ballester Olmos y Teniente Coronel E.
Rocamora. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
La Biblioteca Ufológica es una serie de comentarios y disección de
libros en YouTube que realizan semanalmente Diego Zúñiga y Sergio
Sánchez Rodríguez. Algunos de sus últimos capítulos han sido los
siguientes:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Los
OVNIS y la ciencia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de V.J. Ballester Olmos y M. Guasp: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejH5jPQDuk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejH5jPQDuk</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">100
fotos de extraterrestres</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
de Luis Ruiz Noguez:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kweo3VNF8pk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kweo3VNF8pk</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>60
años de literatura ufológica en español</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Antonio González Piñeiro:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieacsOwgOuM"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieacsOwgOuM</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Diccionario
Temático de Ufología</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
de Matías Morey Ripoll: </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Q_yuXkYso">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Q_yuXkYso</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Manuel Carballal, “4 de mayo de 2021: El último caso“, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Ojo Crítico</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
número 94, marzo de 2022, páginas 78-88,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/EOC-94-PDF.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://elojocritico.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/EOC-94-PDF.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Curt Collins y Claude Falkstrom han escrito “How the Battle of Los
Angeles Became a UFO Story,” la verdadera historia que subyace tras
la supuesta foto ovni de 1942. Los autores explican bien cómo,
cuándo y por qué este incidente se relacionó con los ovnis. Se lee
aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-battle-of-los-angeles-became-ufo.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-battle-of-los-angeles-became-ufo.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Kevin Randle cree que hay “algo alienígena” en el choque de
Roswell. Ver lo que dice en “The End of Project Mogul”:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Siempre ha habido científicos con ideas erróneas y excéntricas en
la historia. La ufología no es una excepción a este patrón.
Probablemente, la peor y más peligrosa influencia viene de
psicólogos y psiquiatras que creen a pies juntillas los relatos de
abducción, porque esa es la creencia más radical posible: que los
extraterrestres estén interactuando con(tra) la especie humana, a
pesar de no haber pruebas. El problema lo tienen en sus cabezas.
Tengo varíos nombres en mente. Seguramente, amigo lector, tú
también. El siguiente artículo de Ross Pomeroy en el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Erie
Times-News</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
cita uno de ellos. No te lo pierdas: “Op-Ed: Rebuffing former
Temple professor's alien abduction claims”, en el enlace
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
La biblioteca presidencial Barack Obama ha informado tener “3.440
páginas y 26.271 archivos electrónicos”, en respuesta a una
demanda legal (FOIA) emitida por John Greenewald relativa a la
existencia de “documentos y comunicaciones sobre los programas
AATIP y AAWSAP, y de fotos y videos de ovnis y de UAP”. La
referencia es
esta:</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmnqd/obamas-presidential-library-has-thousands-of-files-on-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmnqd/obamas-presidential-library-has-thousands-of-files-on-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
El caso de </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1961
de Betty y Barney Hill hizo famosas las abducciones extraterrestres,
pero narraciones de naves espaciales raptando a gente ya circulaban
mucho antes de los informes ovni de 1947. Esta es la esencia de un
artículo que Curt Collins ha colocado en su siempre instructivo
blog:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-accounts-of-alien-abductions.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-accounts-of-alien-abductions.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Firmado por el Dr. Tony Phillips bajo el título "A Tiger ELVE
over Texas", el sitio web SpaceWeather.com ha publicado una
maravillosa imagen tomada el 2 de mayo de 2022 de este fenómeno poco
común relacionado con rayos en la atmósfera superior. Dice:
“Durante unos pocos milisegundos el pasado jueves por la noche, un
enorme anillo de luz roja (de 100 km de ancho) apareció sobre el
oeste de Texas. Thomas Ashcraft lo fotografió desde el otro lado de
la frontera estatal en Nuevo México. Este es un ELVE, abreviatura de
Emisiones de luz y perturbaciones de muy baja frecuencia debido a
fuentes de pulsos electromagnéticos. Es una especie rara de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sprite</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
descubierta en 1990 por cámaras a bordo del transbordador espacial.
Ashcraft puede haber tomado la mejor foto de uno desde el suelo. “El
ELVE fue generado por un rayo súper fuerte que ocurrió sobre el
oeste de Texas, cerca de la ciudad de Borger, el 28 de abril de 2022
a las 0439:10.5326 UT”, dice Ashcraft. Nótense también los
elementos de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sprite</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
en la parte inferior del ELVE. “El rayo fue tan fuerte que generó
un intenso pulso electromagnético (EMP). El anillo rojo marca el
lugar donde el EMP golpeó la ionosfera de la Tierra. Los relámpagos
normales transportan de 10 a 30 kiloamperios de corriente; este rayo
era unas 10 veces más fuerte de lo normal”. Ver texto y fotografía
aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/05/03/a-tiger-elve-over-texas/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/05/03/a-tiger-elve-over-texas/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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Thomas Ashcraft.</span></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Los colegas ucranianos Igor Kalytyuk y Alina Mykolyshyn acaban de
publicar un informe sobrio y súper documentado de 277 páginas, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cómo
identificar ovnis. Cómo investigar UAP</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
un manual en el que han estado trabajando durante 9 años. A pesar de
la barrera del idioma (ruso), hay algunos aspectos de la monografía
de extraordinario interés para todos los estudiosos de los ovnis.
Este es su enlace permanente:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://ufology-news.com/u/18672430/Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I._Mykolyshyn_A._How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022.pdf">http://Ufology_News/Kalytyuk_I_Mykolyshyn_A_How_to_identify_UFO_How_to_investigate_AAP_2022</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Ficheros
secretos a la portuguesa (Reseña)</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
es el último libro del avezado investigador y doctor en Historia
Joaquim Fernandes, quien tiene en su haber una larga trayectoria en
el estudio del fenómeno ovni en Portugal. Cofundador del Centro
Transdisciplinario de Estudios de la Conciencia (CTEC), un instituto
-a mi modo de ver ambiguamente genérico- integrado en la Universidad
Fernando Pessoa. Fernandes “se interesa particularmente por la
antropología religiosa comparada, concretamente por los fenómenos
de religiosidad popular y por la espiritualidad, mitos y cosmologías
y el debate entre ciencia y religión”, señala la contratapa del
libro en la presentación del autor. Porque hablamos aquí de
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Ficheiros
Secretos à Portuguesa</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
subtitulado como “Avistamientos de ovnis, fenómenos ‘imposibles’
y otros casos </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>a
la espera de explicación</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">”
(énfasis del autor de esta reseña, una coletilla que valoro
especialmente). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
modo de introducción y aprovechando que hablamos de informes ovni
(explicados e inexplicados), quería dar algunas cifras comparativas
entre las dos naciones ibéricas. Mi trabajo en ufología
fundamentalmente tiene que ver con el desarrollo y análisis de
catálogos de tres tipos de casos: encuentros cercanos del tipo 1, 2
y 3, “aterrizajes” (en España y Portugal), fotografía,
película, video o imagen digital (FOTOCAT, a nivel mundial) y
sucesos con implicación militar (sólo España). La siguiente tabla
ofrece datos para los dos países:</span></span></span></p>
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Sumatorio de los catálogos LANIB, NELIB (hasta 1985) y NEWCAT (de
1985 a la actualidad). (Archivos V.J. Ballester Olmos).</span></center>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(*)
Casos extraídos de los catálogos MILICAT y PSEUDOCAT para el
Ejército del Aire español. (Archivos V.J. Ballester Olmos).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(**)
Casos militares conocidos en Portugal, 30 de ellos están consignados
en su libro). (Archivos J. Fernandes). </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Según
el tipo de informe, el número de casos registrados en Portugal
supone un 9%, 5% y 15% del de España, respectivamente. Si atendemos
a la variable de población, por ejemplo, la proporción debería ser
alrededor del 22%. Ello nos indica que la fenomenología en el vecino
país no ha tenido la misma incidencia que en España, o bien que
información de casuística portuguesa conocida no es tan absoluta
como la española, o ambas cosas a la vez. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
cuanto a casos militares reconocidos oficialmente, hay una gran
diferencia: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Casos
conocidos y desclasificados por el Ejército del Aire español</span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">:
144.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Casos
registrados oficialmente por la Fuerza Aérea de Portugal</span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">:
4. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Portugal
no ha tenido ni siquiera la sistemática de recopilación de
información que ha tenido España (aunque fuera más que modesta).
Pero este libro expone en sus páginas muchos más. Son incidentes
que nunca fueron comunicados a las autoridades aéreas o, si se hizo,
éstas no lo pusieron negro sobre blanco.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
es el tipo de libro que me gusta: monográfico. Cubre un segmento
definido de casuística, informes con un elemento común, en esta
ocasión los informes militares. Y nadie mejor que Joaquim Fernandes
para ocuparse del tema con la exhaustividad del experto. Fernandes
divide el libro en cuatro partes claramente diferenciadas: “misterios
atlánticos” (avistamientos en las Azores, conjunto de islas
situado a 1.450 km de Lisboa, en pleno Océano Atlántico),
“encuentros atmosféricos” (observaciones ovni desde el aire por
parte de pilotos de la FAP, detecciones por radar, etc.), “espantos
terrestres” (fenómenos extraños advertidos a ras del suelo o
registrados desde tierra, aparición de efectos varios, fotografías
de objetos fuera de lo común, etc.) y “visitas acuáticas”
(hechos anómalos transcurridos en el mar). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro se cierra con 21 páginas de facsímiles de documentos
oficiales, tanto de la USAF como de la FAP, y con una sección con
las referencias y fuentes consultadas. En suma, un buen dossier de
trabajo para el investigador, ya que se le facilita información
suficiente para ahondar en los sucesos que se le ofrecen, a pesar de
que bastantes casos se narran a la manera ufológica clásica, es
decir, sin revisión crítica (no diré escéptica) ni análisis, lo
que los convierte en casos “abiertos”. Para ser justos, el autor
sí da respuesta a algunos de los interrogantes. El libro está
prologado por el General Tomás Conceição Silva, exjefe del Estado
Mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de Portugal. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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el preámbulo vemos que los </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ghost
rockets </i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">vistos
en Suecia en 1946 también se presenciaron en los cielos de Portugal,
en número reducido. Meteoros, probablemente. El primer capítulo
abarca fenómenos entre 1948 y 1968, fundamentalmente en la base
aérea de Lajes (isla Terceira, Azores), con dominio estadounidense,
por ello los avistamientos del personal norteamericano de los años
cincuenta se informaron al proyecto Libro Azul de la Fuerza Aérea
norteamericana. Destacan las encuestas oficiales del caso del 20 de
septiembre de 1954, cuando un objeto en forma de puro de 3x1,50
metros se acercó a 10 metros del puesto de guardia del aeropuerto de
Santa María (isla Santa María). El vigilante Vitorino Lourenço
Monteiro relató que un ser de 1,55 metros de alto salió del objeto
y le habló en una lengua desconocida antes de saludarle tocando su
hombro. El </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Blue
Book</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
lo clasificó como </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>unknown</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
(desconocido). Un segundo encuentro cercano con ocupantes tuvo lugar
en la Azores Air Station, zona militar de Cabrito, en la isla
Terceira. Según lo narrado por el guarda Serafim Vieira Sebastião,
una plataforma volante de 6x3 metros dotada de una barandilla
superior en la que había varios seres sobrevoló su garita a muy
corta altura. Presa de pánico, tuvo que ser llevado a un hospital.
Su testimonio no le sirvió: Vieira fue despedido de su trabajo poco
tiempo después. Los dos incidentes, con su correspondiente
documentación, están en mis catálogos de casos ibéricos, pero
confieso que no los he estudiado y no puedo dar una opinión, ni
crítica ni benévola. Ambos casos requieren un estudio en mayor
profundidad.</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">El
segundo capítulo trata de observaciones aéreas, militares y de
aviación civil. Diría que es el capítulo más interesante porque
si bien los pilotos se equivocan como todo hijo de vecino, sus
testimonios suelen tener un nivel de precisión que, bien estudiados,
ayudan a su comprensión. Pero, claro, hay que estudiarlos sin estar
mediatizado por presunciones erróneas. Encontramos siete
avistamientos ocurridos entre 1957 y 1982. Tres de los cuatro
informes oficiales de las FAP están incluidos aquí (el cuarto,
Évora 1959, está en el siguiente capítulo. Estos encuentros
aeronáuticos permanecen sin solución, según el autor. Uno de esos
fenómenos fue observado también desde España, señal de su
amplitud y altitud: está fechado el 19 de septiembre de 1976 y se
debió a la reentrada del cohete que puso en órbita al satélite
ruso </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Molniya</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
1-35.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3,4</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
Hay un caso de detección radar desde la estación portuguesa Nº 2
de Paços de Ferreira (distrito de Oporto, al norte de Portugal) con
doble interceptación aérea posterior, cuyo objeto de apariencia
nubosa procedía originalmente del sur de la provincia española de
Orense. Creo que estos sucesos requieren un análisis más elaborado
porque (a excepción del ya resuelto) son casos ovni legítimos…por
ahora.</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">El
título del tercer capítulo, “Espanto terrestres”, ya adelanta
la temática y comienza con un repaso del hallazgo en Évora
(distrito del mismo nombre en la región de Alentejo) de unos
filamentos blancos caídos del cielo y de un “ser microscópico”,
tras la observación de un disco volante. Mi expediente de este caso
incluye mucha información. Un análisis del investigador español
José A. Lamich concluye que se trató de contaminación biológica.
Otro de las muchas rarezas de la ufología que clama por una
peritación científica independiente. El resto del capítulo lo
compone siete informes de diversos tipos de observaciones de objetos
aéreos no identificados por personal militar del ejército de
Tierra, un avistamiento desde el aire, tierra y además un aterrizaje
en una zona de radar el 15 de julio de 1979, testimonios de miembros
de la Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP), o de la Guardia Nacional
Republicana (GNR), el ovni fotografiado en Alfena el 9 de agosto de
1986 (¿algún tipo de globo?), intervención y encuesta por parte de
la GNR y, como colofón, el espectacular fenómeno del 1 de junio de
2004, presenciado en tanto en Portugal como en distintas localidades
españolas, que se debió al lanzamiento desde aguas de la Bretaña
francesa de un misil balístico intercontinental mar-tierra M-45.</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ16VmttL-4CwAcKKpqw71FYwD4NsdV3pcbt0ZrIUXP5KiPsNLZSBfwY8s8fhyyy8lmSd2K7iJdAuneyrqlyZEb_iLTERR_MFacVqy30uOqrXFHzzvhC-Lhoyvd87QfQU7mo3hJKDn_j7ImiOHAjWcsyx7ILmuJ998_DXpk1cxINmbyRNv7g/s383/Alfena.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="383" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ16VmttL-4CwAcKKpqw71FYwD4NsdV3pcbt0ZrIUXP5KiPsNLZSBfwY8s8fhyyy8lmSd2K7iJdAuneyrqlyZEb_iLTERR_MFacVqy30uOqrXFHzzvhC-Lhoyvd87QfQU7mo3hJKDn_j7ImiOHAjWcsyx7ILmuJ998_DXpk1cxINmbyRNv7g/s320/Alfena.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Vilar,
Alfena (Porto), 10 de septiembre de 1990. © Manuel Gomes. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPr2khUBsjKOstUUNKv61lS-zI9CcBSWsinT6IYk2S1UOuPggOfC6RZujLJTEo7-caVo7J5zsLmxNQvUTS33FEo7-W48WmvcUpKss-ZxyTQ7dapuAmmHcbx3nlPRVTZxfqjRqENlTVtIsK82sLGw98toDUHm5nC-xK0us3TX7WiQ0t8N8mEg/s630/misil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="630" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPr2khUBsjKOstUUNKv61lS-zI9CcBSWsinT6IYk2S1UOuPggOfC6RZujLJTEo7-caVo7J5zsLmxNQvUTS33FEo7-W48WmvcUpKss-ZxyTQ7dapuAmmHcbx3nlPRVTZxfqjRqENlTVtIsK82sLGw98toDUHm5nC-xK0us3TX7WiQ0t8N8mEg/s320/misil.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Misil
balístico francés, 1 de junio de 2004. A la izquierda, fotografiado
desde Portugal por A.F. y a la derecha, desde Alcorcón, foto y
esquema astronómico de Jesús Merchán Rubira.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
cuatro casos marítimos que se exponen en el capítulo 4 tienen el
“encanto” especial de sus circunstancias, una navegación
tranquila en el ancho mar interrumpida bruscamente por un fenómeno
luminoso inopinado. Uno de los sucesos forma parte de la serie de
lanzamientos de misiles </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Poseidon</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de la US Navy desde submarinos en inmersión. Es el incidente del 22
de noviembre de 1974, uno de los primeros de la serie, que finalizó
en 1979. En esta ocasión, no fue desde las islas Canarias, sino que
fue visto y fotografiado desde Funchal, en la isla portuguesa de
Madeira.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Creo
que ya lo dije, un buen libro de casuística selecta, prototipo de lo
que son los fenómenos ovni, escrita desde la perspectiva del
investigador serio que cree que hay fenómenos anómalos
irreductibles. Yo dejé de pensar lo mismo hace décadas, pero
respeto a quienes están todavía a mitad de esta escalera del
conocimiento. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta
obra, con 247 páginas y bien ilustrada, se publicó en agosto de
2018 por la Editorial Presença y puede adquirirse desde aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.wook.pt/livro/ficheiros-secretos-a-portuguesa-joaquim-fernandes/22152079"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.wook.pt/livro/ficheiros-secretos-a-portuguesa-joaquim-fernandes/22152079</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas
y referencias</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI
desclasificados–Online”, </span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;">(2)
4/9/1957 (Base aérea de Ota-Granada); 2/11/1959 (Évora); 17/6/1977
(Castelo de Bode); 2/11/1982 (Base aérea de Ota).</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(3)
Ted Molczan, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2012/0047.html"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2012/0047.html</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(4)
Juan Carlos Victorio
Uranga: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2013/04/ovni-en-rumbo-de-colision.html" target="_blank">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2013/04/ovni-en-rumbo-de-colision.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2011/09/uno-de-los-casos-ovni-mas-importante.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2011/09/uno-de-los-casos-ovni-mas-importante.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Ricardo Campo,</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16027101/Identificados_Los_OVNIS_de_Canarias_fueron_misiles_Poseidon"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/16027101/Identificados_Los_OVNIS_de_Canarias_fueron_misiles_Poseidon</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk105335040"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><b>Historia
cultural de los ovnis en España 1950-1990</b></u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reseña
invitada del Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Nada
más recibir el libro me asusté. Un tocho de más de 600 páginas en
un tipo de letra diminuto. Lo primero que me dije fue: «no sé si
mis ojos me permitirán leer tanta letra microscópica». Realmente
son letras de diez puntos, muy normales, pero mis ojos ya no ven como
antes y me cuesta. Por eso, ahora, siempre que puedo, compro libros
electrónicos, pues en ellos me es fácil ampliar el tamaño de las
letras.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Lo
siguiente fue irme al índice y ver de lo que trataba. Me pareció
sumamente interesante. Una historia cultural de los ovnis en España.
Había capítulos que, por mi implicación personal, me parecieron
muy intrigantes. El primero que leí, perdón Ignacio, pero no pude
resistir la tentación de ver qué decías de mí, fue el apartado
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Ares
y López: la búsqueda del factor social en las oleadas</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
El resumen que hace es coherente y positivo y lleva razón en una
frase que me ha llegado a lo más profundo: «la falta de conexiones
de Ares y López». Éramos dos chicos de pueblo en un país de
segunda que, en el bachillerato, nos habían enseñado francés, pero
no la </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>lingua
franca</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del momento: el inglés. No me arrepiento de haber estudiado francés,
pero lamento que el inglés llegará muy tarde a mis conocimientos.
¡Qué le vamos a hacer! Cosas del franquismo. Pero el francés me
permitió leer a Aimé Michel</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Robert Charroux</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Alain Cunniot</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Fulcanelli</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y a muchos autores de los que se mencionan en el libro. Y otros de
los que no habla el libro, pero que me parecieron sumamente
sugerentes como las obras del marqués de Sade. (Sí, ¡caramba!, del
marqués de Sade. En un franquismo dominado por los curas era toda
una liberación, aunque hoy en día pueda parecer ridículo).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
libro proporciona lo que promete su título y mucho más. No solo nos
da una visión sociológica y antropológica aséptica del entorno
cultural que había en torno a los ovnis desde 1950 hasta 1990, sino
que, en los dos capítulos finales, «se moja» y deja muy claro, con
demostraciones bastante potentes, qué es para él el fenómeno ovni.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Se
trata de una obra enciclopédica, y, que, sin duda, ha exigido un
trabajo de titanes durante muchos años. Hacer una reseña de este
trabajo me resulta muy difícil. Al principio de la lectura iba
subrayando lo que creía interesante, pero tuve que dejar de hacerlo
porque terminé subrayando todo.</span></span></span></span></p>
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no he entendido mal, Cabria considera que ha habido tres épocas muy
distintas en la historia de la cultura de los ovnis y las ha
clasificado teniendo en cuenta a los ufólogos. En la primera están
los </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ufólogos
de primera generación</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y allí parecen los nombres de Manuel Pedrajo, autor del primer libro
español sobre «platillos volantes»; el gallego Óscar Rey Brea,
creador de la teoría de los ciclos bienales, es decir, la teoría de
que los ovnis aumentaban su presencia cada dos años, cuando Marte
está más cerca de la Tierra; Eduardo Buelta</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
que también desarrolla la teoría del ciclo bienal, pero de forma
independiente de Oscar Rey Brea; Marius Lleguet, presidente del
Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios (CEI) de Barcelona; y, por fin,
se habla del ufólogo por excelencia del momento: Antonio Ribera,
autor de un libro del que todos los aficionados mamamos: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
gran enigma de los platillos volantes</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>6</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En ese libro lo que hace Ribera básicamente es contarnos lo que se
decía en Estados Unidos. Si tenemos en cuenta que entonces el acceso
a los libros de aquel país no era sencillo ni barato, y que los
españoles no éramos muy expertos en la lengua de Newton</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
aquello fue una gran contribución. Si, además, estaba bien escrito
y con pasión, el resultado fue que se convirtió en el libro de
iniciación al tema de los ovnis para muchas personas. Para mí lo
fue Aimé Michel y su obra </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Mystérieux
Objets Célestes</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
pero reconozco que soy un «bicho raro». Pero no quiero llevar a
confusión, Cabria no habla solo de personas, también lo hace del
entorno cultural: ideas que había en el ambiente, conferencias,
reuniones, grupos, cine, radio, televisión, noticias de prensa, etc.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Simplemente
como ejemplo, en el capítulo I, titulado </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Llegan
los platillos volantes</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
empieza explicando «cómo se inventó el ‘platillo volante’».
En el apartado siguiente nos describe la oleada en España de 1950.
Me ha gustado mucho. Es sorprendente lo bien documentado que está.
Algunas opiniones de famosos escritores, entre otros, nuestros
premios Nobel, Jacinto Benavente y Camilo José Cela, me han
sorprendido. No las conocía. En la página 44 menciona a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diego
Valor</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
que eran fascículos, en un formato rectangular apaisado muy curioso.
Estábamos en una época de escasez de papel y parece ser que ese
tamaño coincidía con los recortes sobrantes de la impresión de
periódicos. En Radio Madrid, cadena Ser, se convirtió en un serial
radiofónico que nunca me perdía, salvo si tenía demasiados
deberes. Cabria nos dice que su himno podía oírse en YouTube</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
confieso que no he podido resistir la tentación y he ido a
escucharlo. A decir verdad, a mis oídos de hoy, me ha sonado a un
himno de la Falange</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de ingratos recuerdos. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diego
Valor</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
me gustaba mucho, tanto la versión radiofónica como en papel. Ahora
tengo casi todos los fascículos, me faltan unos poquitos. Estoy
dispuesto a pagar por ellos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
este libro se menciona un estudio sobre tebeos y ovnis de Luis R.
González y nos dice que está pendiente de publicación. Espero con
ansia que se publique. Lo leeré con avidez.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Según
avanzo en la lectura me encuentro con programas de radio</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y libros que me marcaron. No solo </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diego
Valor</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Un programa de radio del que guardo una grata memoria es </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
aventuras de Peter Gay</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
también de Radio Madrid, cadena Ser. Recuerdo un capítulo dedicado
a las terrazas de Baalbek</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y otro sobre el platillo estrellado en la Tunguska</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">14</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cabria
dedica un apartado a un libro que me causó un gran impacto: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
retorno de los brujos</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">15</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Me dejó huella, fui admirador de él. Pero según fue pasando el
tiempo descubrí sus falacias y sus errores. De hecho, el idioma
francés me vino muy bien, pues gracias a él pude leer </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Le
crépuscule des magiciens. Le réalisme fantastique contre la culture</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de Yves Galifret</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">16</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Cabria, describe este libro [el Retorno] perfectamente: «Por lo
demás, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
retorno de los brujos</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
era un potaje de cosas raras, cocinado en el caldo de la teosofía de
Helena Blavatsky</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">17</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.»
(p. 201)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
curioso que aparezca Blavatsky, la fundadora de la teosofía</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Me resulta sorprendente que una persona cuyos escritos resultan casi
ilegibles (si no me creen, traten de leer «Isis desvelada</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">19</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">»)
haya tenido tanta transcendencia y que incluso hoy vemos la mano de
la teosofía en el jipismo y en la </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>New
Age</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Por suerte, el teósofo español por excelencia es Mario Roso de
Luna</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">20</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
que escribe mucho mejor que la «maestra» Blavatsky.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dedica
bastante espacio al tema del contactismo español, con especial
referencia al complejísimo caso UMMO. Habla de Fernando Sesma</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">21</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y las reuniones en el sótano del Café Lyon, que a la entrada tenía
el dibujo de una ballena</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">22</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y el texto </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Zum
Lustigen Walfisch</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
cuya traducción es </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
Ballena Alegre</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">;
de José Luis Jordán Peña; de los libros de Sesma y de Ribera. Y
del desenlace final, con la confesión de Jordán Peña de que había
sido un fraude realizado por él. Esto era simplemente un ejemplo, no
puedo seguir así, con tanto detalle, pues en ese caso esta reseña
sería tan larga como el propio libro.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
segunda parte se habla del entorno cultural de los </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ufólogos
de segunda generación</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Cabria se sitúa entre ellos, lo mismo que hace conmigo. Todo lo
referente a esa segunda época me ha resultado muy conocido porque lo
viví en primera persona. Allí aparecen personas que han sido buenos
amigos: David G. López, Carmen Tamayo, Pere Redon, Enrique Vicente,
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Miguel Guasp, Julio Arcas, Luis R.
González, Jesús Martínez Villaro, etc., etc. Se habla de los
grupos ufológicos de aquel momento. Entre ellos el CEI de Barcelona,
Eridani A.E.C, CIOVE, … y se describe en detalle los trabajos
realizados. Tal como ya dije una labor ingente.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
ejemplo, insisto en la idea de que no puede ser de otro modo, so pena
de tener que escribir una reseña de 600 páginas, Cabria cuenta, en
unas pocas palabras, lo que fue los estudios que hicimos David G.
López, y otros muchos</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y que llamamos </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Estudio
de la oleada 68-69</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Estudio
de 30 años de ovnis en España</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_30_ANOS_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
Recuerdo que en el año 1974 la universidad de Granada me invitó a
exponer los resultados de estos dos trabajos. Preparé diapositivas
(entonces no había PowerPoint) y tarde en explicarlo 50 minutos.
Cabría lo cuenta en un párrafo, de un modo perfectamente claro, sin
olvidarse de nada. Sinceramente, al leerlo he sentido envidia: ¡qué
bien divulga Cabria! Sería un profesor de primera. Tengo que
reconocer, con humildad, que Cabria da más bibliografía mía de la
que yo recuerdo. Es ligeramente preocupante que un amigo recuerde más
cosas de ti que tú mismo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
tercera parte la dedica a los </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ufólogos
de tercera generación</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
que destacan porque lo que quieren y logran es comunicar en los
medios el mundo de los ovnis, muchas veces mezclado con otros
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>misterios</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Entre ellos, Javier Sierra, Manuel Carballal, Bruno Cardeñosa, Iker
Jiménez, etc. Su objetivo son los boletines, prensa, radio y
televisión. Recuerden que el libro termina en 1990. Es decir, antes
de internet. Hay un apartado dedicado a las </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>alertas
ovni</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En sus palabras: «el ovni como espectáculo de masas». Se convocaba
a la gente en una zona y una hora para ver ovnis. Uno de esos
personajes que citaba a las personas para ver ovnis en ciertos
lugares, en su caso en la montaña de Montserrat, fue Luis José
Grífols. Me ha hecho gracia leer que en una de esas alertas Grífols
salió de Montserrat y fue a San Sebastián. De repente una luz cruzó
el firmamento. Grífols vio en ella a los extraterrestres. Cabria nos
dice «un grupo de aficionados a la astronomía indicó que eran
estrellas fugaces desde la radiante de Leo, las Leónidas» (p. 580).
Por esas coincidencias de la vida, el grupo era el de astronomía de
Aranzadi y yo estaba entre ellos. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>No
había duda, eran extraterrestres</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
las estrellas fugaces de las Leónidas.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Cabria en la presentación de su libro en Madrid. De espaldas, el
escritor Javier Sierra.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Me
ha sorprendido sobremanera que en 1991 en la nota editorial del
boletín </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Amaltea</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
se dijera «que todos los casos ovnis que se publicaban en la revista
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Investigación
Ovni</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
estaban registradas con el Depósito Legal, avisando de que su
publicación sería denunciada. Levantando un escudo protector contra
la crítica, se aplicaba la propiedad intelectual a la información
de los ovnis, que siempre había sido de uso abierto». Parece ser
que era una especie de reivindicación que </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>el
ovni era para quien lo trabajase</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Era un concepto patrimonial que me resulta aberrante. Como muy bien
dice Cabria elimina la crítica, o, dicho de otro modo, se aleja lo
más posible de lo que es la ciencia. Otra estrategia propuesta, nos
dice Cabria (p. 560) era no publicar ni los datos del testigo ni la
ubicación para evitar posibles contra encuestas. No conocía estas
actitudes, me parecen tan aberrantes, tan alejadas de lo que es la
ciencia, que no sé qué decir. El único precedente que se me ocurre
es cuando aquel periodista del norte de España, de cuyo nombre no
quiero acordarme, nos llamaba </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>vampiros</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>malnacidos</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a los que reinvestigábamos sus casos. Éramos vampiros puesto que
chupábamos de sus investigaciones. En algún caso nosotros llegamos
a hablar con los testigos antes que él, pero eso no nos quitó la
etiqueta de vampiros. O aquel otro periodista, también del norte, y
cuyo nombre tampoco quiero recordar, que consideraba que los datos
que usé en mi libro sobre la Sábana Santa, obtenidos de
bibliografía pública, gran parte en idiomas que él no conocía,
eran de </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SU</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
propiedad. Ahora mismo, al escribir esto, me doy cuenta de que los
que consideran el dato como patrimonio son periodistas y la tercera
generación de ufólogos que, según nos dice Cabria, tenía por
objeto publicar. Me da la sensación de que no es una coincidencia,
pero debo pensar más en ello. Teniendo muy claro que unos pocos
periodistas no representan a todos los periodistas. ¿Tal vez esté
relacionado con el tema de noticias </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>exclusivas</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">?
Ese concepto patrimonial de la investigación ovni me resulta muy
próximo a los grupos esotéricos. Hay un conocimiento secreto que
solo pueden conocer los que pertenecen al grupo y normalmente tras un
rito de iniciación para pertenecer al mismo. Me parece tan aberrante
que me he quedado sin palabras. ¿Tan baja había quedado la ufología
–y ya puestos, la sabanología</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">24</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">–
de nuestro país?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
parte que más me ha aportado del libro, porque era de lo que más
ignoraba, ha sido sobre el contactismo. Conocía y había seguido las
obras de Adamski</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">25</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Orfeo Angelucci</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">26</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
George van Tassell</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">27</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Daniel Fry</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">28</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Eugenio Siragusa</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">29</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y algunos más, que eran el núcleo de mi obra no publicada </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Nuevas
caras para los viejos dioses</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
pero no había profundizado en nada de España. Cabria no solo nos da
muchísimos datos de lo ocurrido en nuestro país, sino que, además,
lo hace desde el punto de vista antropológico, muy académico. Sin
duda, sumamente interesante. Al menos, yo he aprendido mucho. Ahora
tengo muchas más preguntas que antes. Mi ignorancia se ha ampliado,
lo que siempre es bueno.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
alguna parte he dicho que una de las cosas más apasionantes del
estudio de los ovnis era que teníamos ante nuestros ojos el
nacimiento y la evolución de un mito, que en muchos casos se
convierte en algo parecido a una religión. En la creencia en los
ovnis-extraterrestres esto puede ser un poco difuso, pero en el caso
de la mayoría de los contactados no hay ninguna duda. El mensaje
religioso es evidente. No solo religioso, incluso mesiánico.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Muchas
veces me había preguntado cómo nacían los mitos. Por ejemplo, cómo
surge en Egipto la idea de Osiris, Isis y Horus. Osiris inventó la
agricultura. Isis es su hermana-esposa, la que reúne los trozos de
Osiris tras haber sido muerto y despedazado y consigue que a los tres
días resucite. Horus, el dios del cielo, es el hijo de ambos. Se
trata de un mito tan complejo que pensaba que habría tardado muchos
años en gestarse, pero en el contactismo nos encontramos con mitos
igual de complejos que se han consolidado en dos decenas de años. El
tema me intriga.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el desarrollo del libro, Cabria trata de exponer los hechos ocurridos
y las ideas que hay paralelas a ellos. No trata de juzgar si los
conceptos son buenos o malos y/o si los participantes están o no
acertados o equivocados, muy en una línea descriptiva antropológica.
Pero en el último capítulo su estilo cambia. El capítulo XIV se
titula: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sociología
de la ufología en España</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Allí se analizan dos encuestas, llevadas a cabo en 1988 y 2003 y se
ve la evolución de las creencias. Me han sorprendido muchas cosas,
una de ellas que la investigación ovni es un fenómeno muy
masculino. David y yo lo habíamos señalado, pero no creíamos que
tuviera continuidad, pero sí la ha tenido. ¡Curioso! Y que en las
abducciones hay mucha más participación femenina que en la
investigación ovni en general (???).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
hay un párrafo donde Cabria se moja totalmente: "</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Agency FB, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Solo
cuando la mitología de los extraterrestres se renovaba con nuevas
pruebas de lo maravilloso como fueron en su momento las abducciones,
los rumores sobre platillos estrellados y las conspiraciones de
ocultación gubernamental, el fenómeno ovni volvía a ocupar
espacios en la prensa y en la televisión y a excitar la imaginación
popular.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Agency FB, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
Y es que los ovnis eran, aunque hubiera una anomalía física
subyacente, un fenómeno social y cultural</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>."</i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(p. 637. La cursiva es mía).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
el párrafo final de la obra es definitivo: "</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Agency FB, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>La
conclusión final de esta historia es que los ovnis y los
extraterrestres se han constituido como un mito moderno y que forman
ya parte de la cultura contemporánea y de una manera de entender el
mundo y la modernidad."</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(p.
641).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
definitivas cuentas, se trata de una obra para mi espléndida. Me ha
gustado mucho, aunque me entra una duda. A mí me gusta porque he
vivido de primera mano los hechos que relata. Y sé que a mis hijos
también les gustará porque lo han vivido conmigo, y juntos hemos
hecho miles de kilómetros para investigar casos de ovnis y para
conocer los lugares en los que se ha dicho –aunque no me lo crea–
que hay construcciones extraterrestres, desde Egipto a la isla de
Pascua, pasando por Petra o Palenque, pero ¿qué pensarán mis
nietos? ¿Qué pensarán las personas ajenas a este mundillo en ese
momento histórico concreto? Ni idea, no lo sé.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Ya
he dicho al principio que me gustaría que existiera una versión
electrónica para poder ampliar el tamaño de las letras y para poder
buscar un texto en concreto. El índice está muy bien hecho, es muy
detallado y permite encontrar la información con cierta facilidad,
pero sería muchísimo más útil si se completase con un índice
temático y de personajes. Ignacio: ¡Buen trabajo! ¡Gracias!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">También
quiero dar las gracias a la editorial Reediciones Anómalas por haber
publicado una obra de esta envergadura:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/historia-cultural-de-los-ovnis-en-espana-1950-1990</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Aimé Michel. Un personaje sumamente interesante con el que tuve una
correspondencia gratificante.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimé_Michel"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Michel</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Robert Charroux. Leí a Charroux después de leer a Däniken, pero
las obras de Charroux son anteriores a las del suizo. Que me perdonen
si estoy confundido, pero Däniken lo que hace es reescribir los
libros de Charroux y poco más.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charroux"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charroux</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Alain Cuniot. Mis contactos con «Zététique» fueron sumamente
esclarecedores para mí. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Incroyable,
mais faux!: Essai critique sur l'obscurantisme moderne (Zététique)</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Incroyable-mais-faux-lobscurantisme-Zététique/dp/2907202111"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/Incroyable-mais-faux-lobscurantisme-Z%C3%A9t%C3%A9tique/dp/2907202111</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Fulcanelli. Un alquimista del siglo XX. La lectura de su libro </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
misterio de las catedrales</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
me pareció una solemne pérdida de tiempo. Idioteces sin límite.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcanelli"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcanelli</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Eduardo Buelta. Astronaves sobre la Tierra. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Astronaves
sobre la Tierra</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Eduardo Buelta, 1955).
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://issuu.com/historiayciencia/docs/astronaves_sobre_la_tierra_eduardo_buelta_1955"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://issuu.com/historiayciencia/docs/astronaves_sobre_la_tierra_eduardo_buelta_1955</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Antonio Ribera. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
gran enigma de los platillos volantes</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Hubo muchas ediciones. Si no me equivoco la primera fue en la
editorial Pomaire y la última en Plaza y Janés.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://amzn.to/38PqYI2"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://amzn.to/38PqYI2</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
Ya sé que normalmente se dice la «lengua de Shakespeare», pero he
preferido decir de Newton, por muchas razones, una de ellas es que el
inglés de Newton es mucho más próximo al actual que el del
«bardo». Y otra porque me gusta Newton.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Aimé Michel. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Mystérieux
Objets Célestes</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113226-myst-rieux-objets-c-lestes"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113226-myst-rieux-objets-c-lestes</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
Y, posteriormente, su obra </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Lueurs
sur les soucoupes volantes</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Lueurs-sur-les-soucoupes-volantes/dp/B0000DOY3Q"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/Lueurs-sur-les-soucoupes-volantes/dp/B0000DOY3Q</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Diego Valor. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Valor"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Valor</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
Himno de Diego Valor.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJyCWgi0xDg&t=48s"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJyCWgi0xDg&t=48s</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
Himno de la Falange. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwjdeGx6rg"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwjdeGx6rg</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
El primer programa de Televisión Española se emitió en 1957, pero
solo disponían de receptor unos pocos afortunados. Durante los años
que quedaban de la década de los 50 y gran parte de los 60, solo una
pequeña proporción de hogares españoles disponían de un receptor.
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(13)
Es uno de los pocos sitios que me interesaron en la juventud y que
todavía no he ido a ver. Estoy planificando un viaje al Líbano,
aunque no sea el mejor momento.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
Aunque Gay nos dijera que la explosión de la Tunguska era prueba de
una nave extraterrestre, la verdad es más prosaica, probablemente se
tratase de un trozo del cometa 2P/Encke.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.milenio.com/ciencia-y-salud/tunguska-110-anos-cometa-cayo-tierra"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.milenio.com/ciencia-y-salud/tunguska-110-anos-cometa-cayo-tierra</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
retorno de los brujos</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_retorno_de_los_brujos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_retorno_de_los_brujos</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)
Yves Galifret. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
crepúsculo de los magos</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
realismo fantástico contra la cultura</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/crépuscule-magiciens-réalisme-fantastique-culture/dp/B0000DTLZC"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/cr%C3%A9puscule-magiciens-r%C3%A9alisme-fantastique-culture/dp/B0000DTLZC</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(17)
Helena Blavatsky. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Teosofía. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teosofía#En_España"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teosof%C3%ADa#En_Espa%C3%B1a</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(19)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Isis
desvelada</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Existe la versión en castellano. De hecho, yo tengo los dos
volúmenes en español. Pero no he encontrado ninguna referencia en
internet. En inglés se puede comprar en IberLibro.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.iberlibro.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30591839881&cm_sp=Searchmod-_-NullResults-_-BDP"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.iberlibro.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30591839881&cm_sp=Searchmod-_-NullResults-_-BDP</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(20)
Mario Roso de Luna. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Roso_de_Luna"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Roso_de_Luna</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(21)
Fernando Sesma.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/sesma_manzano_fernando.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/sesma_manzano_fernando.html</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(22)
Artículo con fotos sobre el Café Lyon y la Ballena Alegre.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.antiguoscafesdemadrid.com/2013/03/el-cafe-lion-y-su-ballena-alegre.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.antiguoscafesdemadrid.com/2013/03/el-cafe-lion-y-su-ballena-alegre.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(23)
Colaboraron más de cien personas. Por ello me es imposible mencionar
a todas, pero sí quisiera hacerlo con Vicente Olmos Fraile, el genio
tras las fórmulas.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(24)
Sabanología. Lo digo con un poco de guasa: el estudio de la Sábana
Santa. Que nadie se ofenda, yo me considero sabanólogo.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(25)
George Adamski. Sus obras fueron introducidas en España por un
personaje del que ya hemos hablado: Fernando Sesma. Lo primero que
leí sobre ovnis fue a Adamski escrito por Sesma. A Sesma le guardo
cariño y respeto. Estaba equivocado, pero era buena persona.
Lamentablemente, recuerdo un programa de televisión española (la
única que había) en el que Sesma iba de ultra creyente y yo de
serio y tomaron el pelo con bromas de mal gusto a Sesma. Me siento
avergonzado de ello. Yo no creía las cosas que contaba Sesma, pero
eso no era óbice ni cortapisa para tratarle decentemente. Sesma
creía cosas raras, pero era inteligente y una buena persona.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(26)
Orfeo Angelucci.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/02/las-extraas-aventuras-de-un-contactado-ovni-orfeo-angelucci/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/02/las-extraas-aventuras-de-un-contactado-ovni-orfeo-angelucci/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(27)
George van Tassell. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(28)
Daniel Fry. Fue Fry quien me convenció de que los ovnis no son otra
cosa que las nuevas caras con la que disfrazamos a los viejos dioses.
La compulsión trascendente aplicada a la tecnología del siglo XX. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fry"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fry</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(29)
Eugenio Siragusa.
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://biblioteca-virtual.fandom.com/es/wiki/Eugenio_Siragusa"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://biblioteca-virtual.fandom.com/es/wiki/Eugenio_Siragusa</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><b>Diccionario
Temático de Ufología</b></u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reseña
invitada de Diego Zúñiga</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
25 años del DTU, una reedición necesaria</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Si
bien es cierto que muchos libros relacionados con los ovnis piden a
gritos reediciones, o incluso traducciones, la verdad es que son
pocos los que realmente merecen el esfuerzo y la dedicación que un
trabajo de ese tipo supone. En esa lista de imprescindibles estaba,
sin ninguna duda, el Diccionario Temático de Ufología, coordinado
por Matías Morey y publicado originalmente en 1997, como proyecto
inicial de la entonces recién nacida Fundación Anomalía.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJdpmsdbIBVfqwdWbDjRtRJBsYY_P-bhiLecb9hI4vQ2sKt4ta7Np9qVzbFIKuvkWYeXxI8voCjWB-h8Q1-iKog3FowQbVuX5M8bgE8rbyyGHbtWvHHaZ9wSakRvR0J5gwUBM0m3YtWV-BmcnJjKdRDYtGngdGUAIr23hVAktawDQb-brjw/s1816/DTU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="1190" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJdpmsdbIBVfqwdWbDjRtRJBsYY_P-bhiLecb9hI4vQ2sKt4ta7Np9qVzbFIKuvkWYeXxI8voCjWB-h8Q1-iKog3FowQbVuX5M8bgE8rbyyGHbtWvHHaZ9wSakRvR0J5gwUBM0m3YtWV-BmcnJjKdRDYtGngdGUAIr23hVAktawDQb-brjw/w131-h200/DTU.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hagamos
un breve repaso histórico para saber de qué estamos hablando. En
1997 el Colectivo Cuadernos de Ufología decidió convertirse en una
fundación e impulsar, desde esa plataforma, el estudio y la
divulgación del tema ovni desde una perspectiva crítica, o cuando
menos no tan escandalosamente sensacionalista como se estaba tornado
costumbre en el ambiente, y generar un espacio para el debate más
mesurado, ponderado y reflexivo.</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
ese contexto, y teniendo el 50 aniversario del avistamiento de
Kenneth Arnold a la vuelta de la esquina, los integrantes del
naciente grupo acordaron impulsar el proyecto de un diccionario que,
desde una mirada europea y, más específicamente aún, española,
abordara el desafío de proponer definiciones sobre diversos aspectos
a los que suele recurrirse cuando se escribe, lee o habla de ovnis.
Así, bajo la batuta de Morey y el empuje de la fundación, surgió
el Diccionario Temático de Ufología, abreviado DTU. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
edición original consta de 404 páginas ilustradas donde se define
desde “abducción” a “zona caliente”, todo en un tono
objetivo (aunque con licencias humorísticas en algunos pasajes) y
pulcro, quirúrgico por momentos. Dieciocho autores se repartieron el
trabajo de dar cauce a la obra, que aborda no solo conceptos
habituales en el mundillo, sino también biografías de
investigadores de relevancia, así como boletines, grupos
importantes, casos famosos, etcétera. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Aunque
el coordinador de la obra, el ya citado Morey, se encarga de
mencionar que el equipo de colaboradores es amplio, lo que es cierto,
creo justo reconocer que el trabajo pesado en la redacción del texto
recayó sobre los hombros, básicamente, de cinco o seis personas:
Ignacio Cabria, Luis González Manso, Ricardo Campo, José Ruesga y
Julio Arcas son, junto a Morey, las firmas que más se repiten a lo
largo de las páginas del DTU.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Al
ver algunos de esos nombres uno podría temer que estamos ante un
libro que ofrece una mirada escéptica a rajatabla y que, por lo
tanto, podría aparecer a los ojos del distraído como un texto
desacreditador del fenómeno más que otra cosa. Pues la verdad es
que no. Los autores se tomaron la tarea de ofrecer referencias
bibliográficas de todo lo que escriben, y además de ser sumamente
cuidadosos con el lenguaje empleado, las perspectivas ofrecidas y los
puntos de vista expuestos. En modo alguno podría acusarse al DTU de
ser una obra partidaria, aunque tampoco es un documento escrito por
ángeles; evidentemente hay un tono por momentos académico que le
hace muy bien a este tipo de esfuerzos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Teniendo
eso en la cabeza podemos ya decir que la edición de 1997 ha sido
reeditada, y ello explica esta recensión. A propósito ahora del 75
aniversario del avistamiento de Arnold, y el 25 del lanzamiento del
libro original, Matías Morey preparó una versión año 2022 cuyas
únicas diferencias con la anterior son el formato (tapa blanda en
lugar de tapa dura) y la actualización de un número específico de
entradas, básicamente aquellas referidas a grupos o boletines que se
extinguieron en las últimas dos décadas. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">¿Habría
sido mejor actualizar el libro completo? Sí y no. Sí, porque
evidentemente en un cuarto de siglo pasan muchas cosas y el libro
corre el riesgo de quedar desactualizado. No, porque es un documento
de su época, un hijo de fines de siglo XX y como tal se convierte en
una joya en sí misma. Para entender bien qué pasaba en esos años
no basta con haberlos vivido, y muchas veces viene bien sumergirse en
la cultura popular para reconocer aspectos que pudieron pasar
inadvertidos. El DTU, en ese sentido, cumple un papel fundamental
como fotografía de la ufología de los años noventa, sus
preocupaciones, sus ambiciones y sus sueños.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Si
alguien quiere un diccionario que aborde, además de los temas que ya
toca el DTU, los problemas actuales de la ufología, lo recomendable
sería emprender un proyecto hermano de DTU, que en lugar de
reescribir lo que ya está, se encargue de redactar un documento
nuevo que se adapte a estos tiempos. Así, exigirle a DTU que cumpla
esa labor sería injusto con el objetivo inicial del libro, toda vez
que la reedición busca algo distinto a llenar un vacío literario,
sino bien poner al alcance de eventuales interesados un texto que,
por su antigüedad y limitado tiraje, es muy difícil de encontrar en
la actualidad en su ropaje original.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
cierto, hubo antes otros intentos por crear diccionarios desde el
ámbito hispanoparlante, todos ellos de alcance menor frente al DTU
y, para decirlo de forma franca y honesta, poco efectivos y en algún
caso burdos pastiches de lo que un diccionario temático realmente
debe ofrecer. Ahí tenemos a la vista los textos de la argentina Ruth
Gerstel (Primer diccionario argentino de ovnilogía, 1988), la
española Sara Cavallé (Enciclopedia OVNI, 1995) o el chileno Juan
Guillermo Prado (Léxico ovnilógico, 2000), todos más o menos
contemporáneos con el DTU y, sin embargo, con resultados menos
felices, de menor vuelo, menor alcance y menos trascendencia. Los
intentos posteriores que ha habido, algunos de ellos tan recientes
como del año 2021 o 2022, no han conseguido mucho más tampoco. El
pecado original de todos ellos ha sido no aspirar a la profundidad en
el análisis de los conceptos que sí anhelaba completar la obra
coordinada por Morey. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
los 18 autores que firman las entradas del DTU, solo uno no es
español, y solo uno no es hombre. En el primer caso, esto se deja
ver en la lectura del libro, de un marcado talante hispano antes que
latinoamericano, si bien es cierto que cede cierto espacio a algunos
investigadores de América. Queda quizás pendiente, y ya es tarea
para autores de Argentina, México o Chile, por mencionar tres países
con amplia producción bibliográfica, emprender la labor de generar
un diccionario que explique, con mirada latinoamericana, los aspectos
del tema ovni y los casos que sean más reconocibles en la región.
Sobre el segundo caso, el DTU solo refleja un fenómeno que es de
larga data y que en los años recientes no ha logrado subsanarse del
todo: la escasa presencia femenina en el ámbito de los no
identificados.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Morey Ripoll, jurista y estudioso de la cultura ovni.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
reedición del DTU hace justicia con un documento que no debería
faltar en las bibliotecas de los aficionados al tema, y satisface una
demanda de larga data de aquellos que no han logrado adquirir el
libro lanzado en 1997. La versión 2022 contiene las mismas entradas,
la misma larga lista de referencias bibliográficas e incluso un
breve texto final no presente en la primera versión, por lo que
cumple a plenitud con su finalidad de servir como una oportunidad
para acceder en papel, y también en formato digital, a una obra de
gran nivel cuya vigencia sigue intacta. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Los
coleccionistas, claro, seguirán buscando la primera edición, pero
por ahora pueden saciar su sed adquiriendo en Amazon, punto de venta
obligado del DTU 2022, una versión que cumple cabalmente con su
papel de recordarnos, a 75 años de los platillos volantes y 25 del
DTU, que por los libros buenos el tiempo no pasa e incluso, como el
vino, a veces se ponen incluso mejores.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Para
los que prefieran leerlo en papel, se puede adquirir al módico
precio de 12 euros:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3se7aVi"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://amzn.to/3se7aVi</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Este
es el enlace a la edición digital: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/79092444/Diccionario_Temático_de_Ufología"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/79092444/Diccionario_Tem%C3%A1tico_de_Ufolog%C3%ADa</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="es-ES"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Matías Morey, “Mecenazgo OVNI: la Fundación
Anomalía,”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Versión corta de mi estudio del informe clasificado del grupo de
trabajo ovni (UAPTF) de 2021, publicado </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>in
extenso</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
aquí:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western">
<span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On_the_2021_UAPTF_Classified_Report</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Más información de las entretelas del programa AATIP/AAWSAP del
Pentágono, 2008-2012. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Sobre los documentos y archivos del programa AATIP/AAWSAP.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
¿Quiere cobrar por investigar UAP? Desde el 26 de abril, el AOIMSG
(Grupo de sincronización de gestión e identificación de objetos
aéreos del Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos) está
contratando a sus analistas </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>seniors</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Un
abuelo feliz: la foto es del sexto cumple de Lucas, junto con
Fernando.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYlnju5lUwQGZAJrepbxzFnCZAoFfVnCH_2nRXeVAnh2I_LTCwnA18PytzNJ1cNs448jCZt7ETA6FM6rrZambG8f4J4UgWjwjad5VywWtu0NOfiXjDWeAAyfs-NX9rqH5bmD90ngZox2h8sTLZLrapQtlXTtz51cME1FtQlH4i5HPUsGCVA/s1770/abuelo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1770" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioYlnju5lUwQGZAJrepbxzFnCZAoFfVnCH_2nRXeVAnh2I_LTCwnA18PytzNJ1cNs448jCZt7ETA6FM6rrZambG8f4J4UgWjwjad5VywWtu0NOfiXjDWeAAyfs-NX9rqH5bmD90ngZox2h8sTLZLrapQtlXTtz51cME1FtQlH4i5HPUsGCVA/s320/abuelo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Agradecimientos</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Julio Plaza del Olmo (España), </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Curt
Collins (EE.UU.), Richard W. Heiden (EE.UU.), Luis Ruiz Noguez
(Méjico), Matías Morey Ripoll (España), Diego Zúñiga (Chile),
Terry Colvin (Tailandia), Dr. Félix Ares de Blas (España) y Juan
Pablo González (España).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p8jr2xt"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p8jr2xt</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/25vvan2x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/25vvan2x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc3f3rbz"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yc3f3rbz</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdJBHz5ThdTmGglxQKtFlZune9iV9nWj7NPHUygA8sbF1ZEDff4KK7mmO--ydD2SPxFvu5Lv2foCu0-GC8wGztPIgUaQXKUfVStbjaTtiHrt6nXoAy-7V2K3tJGPKH_3PXn-jA4dcb9eyTUEj2IIpI1TCOw_olC2zFGkHWMFVVzi4Xyt3vw/s2630/LIBROS%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdJBHz5ThdTmGglxQKtFlZune9iV9nWj7NPHUygA8sbF1ZEDff4KK7mmO--ydD2SPxFvu5Lv2foCu0-GC8wGztPIgUaQXKUfVStbjaTtiHrt6nXoAy-7V2K3tJGPKH_3PXn-jA4dcb9eyTUEj2IIpI1TCOw_olC2zFGkHWMFVVzi4Xyt3vw/w400-h113/LIBROS%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs
and Government</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" target="_blank">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p><br /><p></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-76334083036432832172022-03-15T16:19:00.044+01:002022-03-17T09:50:39.973+01:002022/MARCH/15 (EN)<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">E</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">nglish language editing: Martin Shough</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"></span></p><h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></span></h4><span style="text-align: justify;">
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
FOTOCAT databank collects 12,806 cases as of today. Recently, it had
a contribution from UFO researcher Raoul Robé, with his updated
catalogue of French photographic cases.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>New
Publications</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
“A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act.” On December 27, 2021, US
President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for
fiscal year 2022. For the first time in history, this bill included
provisions for the establishment of an office within the Department
of Defense to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). The
following text is a descriptive commentary to this “UAP law”: </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk96981604"></a><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
essay has been reproduced by various websites and online magazines:
UAPSG/GEFAI (Milton Hourcade), The UFO Chronicles (Frank Warren),
Alternate Perceptions (Brent Raynes), as well as translated into
German (UFO INFO).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
“</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Exegesis
of the Dudignac Saucer of 1955.” This is the complete version of
the study carried out on the first photograph of a flying saucer in
Argentina, a shortened piece of which was included in the previous
edition of this blog:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis_of_the_Dudignac_Saucer_of_1955"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis_of_the_Dudignac_Saucer_of_1955</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
My updated bibliography-1965 to 2021-can be consulted through the
following link: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
“Tomato Man”</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u> in Retrospective</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UFO-related
imagery is powerful, it is the reason it definitely attracts me.
Fantastic (in its full sense) air machines and colorful humanoids
repeatedly appear in any collection of UFO and flying saucer
photographs. And FOTOCAT, being an archive of 13,000 reports of this
category, is packed with it. A pair of stills under the tag of
“alleged alien body-crash of 7/7/48” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">have
rested </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">in
my files since the end of year 1980, and this is the excuse for the
present entry. I am basically doing a selected literature review to
highlight the existing major information sources, one that might be
of interest to UFO students and historians. Also, to add my own bit
of data.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
November 21, 1980, a tri-group paper entitled “Alien Body Photos:
An Updated Report” was published by the Coalition of Concerned
Ufologists, i.e., the Mutual Anomaly Research Center and Evaluation
Network (MARCEN), the UFO Information Network (UFOIN), and the Ohio
UFO Investigators League (OUFOIL), headed by their respective leaders
Williard McIntyre, Dennis Pilichis and Charles J. Wilhelm, the first
from Maryland, the other two from Ohio (USA). In an introduction to
the report, McIntyre wrote:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;">…<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>after
exchanging three letters with a gentleman in Tennessee, we received
from a him a letter in mid-December 1978 that came with an 8x10
glossy print of a lot of debris and the charred remains of some type
of body…the letter contained a challenge to identify the contents
of the photo. We promptly fired off a letter giving our guess that it
showed that remains of a light aircraft crash and its burned pilot.
The response came in early January 1979 in the form of a three page,
typed-single spaced letter detailing a fantastic odessey </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[sic]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
a young Navy photographer flown to Mexico in 1948 as part of a team
to document the crash of a 90-foot diameter “flying saucer” and
its dead pilot. A fantastic adventure unfolded in those three pages
ending with the writers concern for his own security since he was
still in the service and fearful of prosecution for breaches of
security.</i></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9vqod3HVZE073RHpcKB4RMifH85SwjMqo0lgKtumo3M_dMMf-P1xNYrxXT6NPkWtv7gNXE1eeItaJJVAnKT1JQfFvMjw5PBIWlyVdFwHnMdPWTL9BqD93JZny8ZvJXawN-fLAzxrUB-HUQiCDGmAWZZvKCzsgfAsrUT62W1OvaQZgXPA4xA=s5626" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5626" data-original-width="4431" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9vqod3HVZE073RHpcKB4RMifH85SwjMqo0lgKtumo3M_dMMf-P1xNYrxXT6NPkWtv7gNXE1eeItaJJVAnKT1JQfFvMjw5PBIWlyVdFwHnMdPWTL9BqD93JZny8ZvJXawN-fLAzxrUB-HUQiCDGmAWZZvKCzsgfAsrUT62W1OvaQZgXPA4xA=s320" width="252" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
identity and background of the sender was checked and found proper;
by the end of November 1979, once MARCEN </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">had</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">guaranteed
in writing his anonymity, the source provided the original negative,
which was analyzed by Eastman Kodak and other laboratories, which
concluded that the picture </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">had</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">been
taken at least 30 years before, and that no photographic tampering
had been conducted. In May 1980, the source sent a second negative.
This time, the body was lying in vegetation on a hillside. By then,
in their own admission, MARCEN members “had begun believing this
fantastic story.” In August 1980, the source gave permission to
make the pictures and the story public, not without warning “of the
possible consequences of such a release.” McIntyre wrote next:
“Little did we know or visualize the explosion that would really
come or who would detonate it.”</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">After
disclosure, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">all</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
hell broke loose over the Coalition of Concerned Ufologists, and
apparently it was intense from the “ufological heirarchy” [sic].
At this point, their stand was: “Universally condemned as hoaxes by
skeptics and establishment ufologists alike, the photos remain
unidentified….No I personally believe that these photos and the
story surrounding them are either completely authentic as told by our
source or it is a complete hoax perpetrated in a sophisticated
manner…”</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCxBgsJYJraa_I8ghWHf2UqO0-Zq87Kz7tsFY_fadU0cTrvc_fdYyzVJGpI33wjvqnNLgJyPVVZc_hEs32XK-3Kg9qfoP70Y879LqBEpDq-K1PccsIm-zS_pSSK2c7HG9BQCRUajcqTz880rKRbOlU5zllraQ81zR7gpNbzr7X-wm6qaAeGw=s5599" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5599" data-original-width="4377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCxBgsJYJraa_I8ghWHf2UqO0-Zq87Kz7tsFY_fadU0cTrvc_fdYyzVJGpI33wjvqnNLgJyPVVZc_hEs32XK-3Kg9qfoP70Y879LqBEpDq-K1PccsIm-zS_pSSK2c7HG9BQCRUajcqTz880rKRbOlU5zllraQ81zR7gpNbzr7X-wm6qaAeGw=s320" width="250" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
source informed he had 40 negatives more, and MARCEN sent someone to
his mail address in San Antonio, Texas, only to find he did not live
there, “but was known.” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
have since learned</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">—McIntyre
finishes his prologue—</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>that
this was a mail drop used by the source to protect his actual
identity even from us and that the name we knew him and checked out
was actually the name of another member of the photographic team that
supposedly documented the UFO crash and who has since died. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
call by the source saying he would be in Washington, D.C. by
Thanksgiving, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">when
he would be willing to meet them, allowing them to probe his identity
and inspect the rest of the negatives, was the last clue as to his
whereabouts.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
was the tale narrated by the invisible source? Allegedly (everything
from now on has to be taken allegedly, this is, with a good pinch of
salt), he was a photographer assigned at White Sands Proving Ground,
New Mexico, when he heard that at 13:22 hours on July 7, 1948 an early
warning radar tracked an object moving at great speed crossing
Washington state flying southeast. When the bogey was near
Albuquerque, New Mexico, two F-94s attempted to intercept, in vain.
By 14:29 hours it disappeared from the radar screens. It was
determined that it had landed or crashed in Mexico, in the state of
Nuevo León, between Nuevo Laredo and the Sabinas River, some 30
miles south of Laredo, Texas.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Mexican military was notified of the incident and at 18:30 hours the
U.S. Army and Air Force were onsite. A Naval Intelligence officer who
was in Mexico City heard about that and planted himself on locatio by 20:10 hours. It as he who, after surveying the site, got
authorization for the source’s photographic team to be airlifted to
the site. They were told they were going to the site of a top secret
airplane crash, where they arrived at 02:15 of the following day.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There
they saw “the remains of the frame and structure of a disc shaped
craft still smouldering and smoking some 12 hours after it had
crashed.” What they observed and photographed was “an unearthly
shaped craft made up of earthly looking debris” (a contradiction in
their own terms, but this is ufology!). It was perfectly circular,
about 90 feet in diameter, 28 feet in thickness at the center and
tapering off to 5 feet thick at the perimeter. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Only
one body was found, severely burned. It was 4 feet, 6 inches long
[1.37 m]. Its head was extremely large for the body size by human
proportions. The eyes had gone from the fire and the eye sockets were
much larger than in humans and wraparound to give 180 degree vision.
No visible ears or nose, but openings there. Two arms longer than in
humans and the hands had four claw-like fingers. Well, other
minutely-detailed data abound, as the writer-source certainly liked
to spin a story. The first negative supplied </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">was
cut up, representing something like one sixth in size of the
original, because of the recognizable persons appearing in the other
portion of the complete photograph, as per the sender. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Coalition report includes an initial analysis by Ground Saucer Watch,
which concluded that “there is evidence of the ‘creature’ being
severely burned and mutilated as a result of an obvious
accident…signs of rigor mortis are indicative of the time after
death…the time is calculated at 12 hours [appropriately, added
emphasis]…measurement of the head and jaw bone are on the face…and
a careful study of the extremities…compared to foreign pathology
records, revealed a commonality between these measurements and that
of a laboratory monkey…the wreackage [sic] materials revealed
common ‘terrestrial’ geometric shapes and signs of
manufacture…the size of the creature is 836mm…there is evidence
of a horny sheath covering the toe portion of the primate. The nail,
which is covered by hair, is very similar to that of a monkey.”
Report signers Fred Adrian and William H. Spaulding wrote that </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>It
is the consensus of the GSW photographic review staff that the
photographs represent a misinterpretation of a normal laboratory
monkey (either a rhesus or orangutan) that has been badly burned and
partially dismembered. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">GSW
associated this to illegal rocket tests of the U.S. Government over
Texas populated areas. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
solicited GSW conclusion provoked a headache in the Coalition of
Concerned Ufologists, who actually believed it was a dead alien! They
immediately su</span></span></span>ggested that Spaulding was manipulating the case
“trying to mold the evidence to fit his own personal theory
advanced on national television that UFOs are not extraterrestrial
and originate from mundane sources on Earth.”</p><p style="font-family: helvetica;"></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Coalition found out that the first United Stated rocket experiment
with German V-2s </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">with
a Rhesus monkey aboard was on June 11, 1948, launched from White
Sands, and the monkey died before launch. Apparently, that V-2 went
astray and landed in Mexico, but it hit Juarez, some 800 km NW of
Nuevo Laredo and close to White Sands. Also, the US-launched V-2’s
maximum range was ~110 km, while the distance from White Sands to the
flying saucer crash point was not less than 900 km. Another
counterargument was that the size of a primate is about 2 feet (0.61
m), shorter than the calculated length for the ‘creature’ by GSW
(0.86 m). (Did no one think that 0.86 m does not match either with
the 1.37 m figure stated by the source?) For the Coalition, there was
no evidence of any tail in the photograph either.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>GSW
News Bulletin </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
April 1981, pages 10-13, the Adrian-Spaulding report was published in
a pun-intended article by Spaulding entitled “Get the Monkies Off
My Back!”, which included some additional content.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
It disclosed that the “Maryland-based organization has published a
feeble counter against the original analysis, based on both biased
and erroneous information.” GSW presented new facts to “this
almost-silly incident”: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(a)
A continuing analysis of the first photograph revealed that the
burnt-effect of the dead alien head is “attributable to blistering
on the space helmet worn by the monkey [see the following photo]. A
fastening snap on the helmet has been discovered which is identical
to early-space devices worn by test animals. The lighter or whitish
marking on the deceased monkey is attributable to the area where the
safety belt and buckle would have protected it from the intense
heat/fire affects in the crash. A dark, strand-like substance
covering both bodies has been tentatively identified as burnt nylon,
the material used in “spacesuits” for test animals.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(b)
Certain remarks</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
made </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">to
the media by McIntyre are labeled as “misinformation to strengthen
his already weak case, by casting doubts on the photographic
evaluation.”</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMkSFrdJUxF24p2YyPkE_tRfzmujKH0l2aGd927EOUF-vb7lPTfWJGI9UheG4Ry4Z7dy0lIZJLERqBMMaGzgAcp5d21YNb68HPyE8jwEbkHSjUpB5rX-NLD6bIn1RA3Sm3T6GEQEk13b8uoLY0O7yPNvjptP3ukPe1332vNf9_VPof4KnMMw=s574" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="569" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMkSFrdJUxF24p2YyPkE_tRfzmujKH0l2aGd927EOUF-vb7lPTfWJGI9UheG4Ry4Z7dy0lIZJLERqBMMaGzgAcp5d21YNb68HPyE8jwEbkHSjUpB5rX-NLD6bIn1RA3Sm3T6GEQEk13b8uoLY0O7yPNvjptP3ukPe1332vNf9_VPof4KnMMw=w198-h200" width="198" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">To
close the monkey hypothesis, it is known that “the United States
launched flights containing primate passengers primarily between 1948
and 1961 with one flight in 1969 and one in 1985.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Apes, macaques and monkeys were used to that end.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA9AT9PaaUfPhBQB-zVSZiz07Xv1hlK8Fbl33sBMg8h_tX9Hey6bRsOJ1SOdJNujYhxCUDn7a-yWyztxZVmkvmwXBGMCjx2v-csmJXaHHfnfhatKNcqFdq4ZZKRL34e-sHFZYU8yRm5I9ucPsyB8bKNaVZhaHD2GGNPI5KHd3n_nhpC3Ek1Q=s2626" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2626" data-original-width="1752" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiA9AT9PaaUfPhBQB-zVSZiz07Xv1hlK8Fbl33sBMg8h_tX9Hey6bRsOJ1SOdJNujYhxCUDn7a-yWyztxZVmkvmwXBGMCjx2v-csmJXaHHfnfhatKNcqFdq4ZZKRL34e-sHFZYU8yRm5I9ucPsyB8bKNaVZhaHD2GGNPI5KHd3n_nhpC3Ek1Q=s320" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Ape
named “Able” launched to space in 1959. Image borrowed.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">3</span></span></sup></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
ufological community is like an ill-assorted family, and the 3-group
coalition faced numerous other rows with colleagues, commencing with
the “authority” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">on
dead humanoids, Len Stringfield, he who disqualified the alien dead
body pictures because they did not match with what he thought were
“real” alien bodies, in particular </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
photos of an alien creature </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">found
in secret </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">chambers
beneath the Empire State Building (cover of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ancient
Astronauts </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">magazine,
November 1977). Poor Stringfield was a guy most prepared to put up
with a lot. He spent all his life swallowing as true every tale of
UFO crashes and dead bodies he was told by innumerable anonymous
sources. In this case, it was a Larry Barns from New Jersey who took
a model to the offices of the publisher of AA. “[He] brought in a
doll 4 inches long and had it photographed by then editor Jeffrey
Goodman. These photos were later used on the cover and inside the
magazine. Over lunch they made up the story of an alien being buried
under the Empire State Building.” This quote—a situation
witnessed by Timothy Green Beckley—comes from a letter he sent to
Dennis Pilichis dated November 4, 1980. </span></span></span>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzR5VhzQWj8F8AKKGqw65zTMC2bDIIalxhrvpy9P6Vn0JcCHui8pjcSV4QENSRXSdRS7F5byr7WGV8H8GYW79okm3fwzU_eumRFpNacJOSyxI3JALiWi6bfxWjVl39VPyyYgzwn8YSpb7BvLLsM589r0h_ZjnN_yC2bm6mW_4sc3inANfxgA=s673" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzR5VhzQWj8F8AKKGqw65zTMC2bDIIalxhrvpy9P6Vn0JcCHui8pjcSV4QENSRXSdRS7F5byr7WGV8H8GYW79okm3fwzU_eumRFpNacJOSyxI3JALiWi6bfxWjVl39VPyyYgzwn8YSpb7BvLLsM589r0h_ZjnN_yC2bm6mW_4sc3inANfxgA=s320" width="238" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Since
August 1980, the Coalition promoted and featured the pair of
photographs in local and national newspapers, TV stations and UFO
outlets. It triggered a cascade of articles in UFO media, in the
States but also in foreign revues, avid </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">for</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">sensationalism.
UFOIN (D. Pilichis) submitted the information to </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Report</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
where it was published in December 1980, pages 10 and 12. The article
strictly followed the tale as written by their unknown source and
unequivocally the photos were stated as showing “the body of one
alien in the debris of the crash after the craft burned.” The
initial skeptical position has vanished. As for the magazine editors,
they considered it to be “the breakthrough ufologists have been
waiting for…and then again it could be something else entirely!”</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUyT2l142Ie7nr5YUFr4QI_4jVB6vx3BiInIjO_KpIlHrjWt9H-Ib_683j9mthlE-2DbWFieufFXQtkgscmFe2P6H8sB8LIYhZRRP0dApZBNs_nFz_cZWpnnM8vAxU36UJq0VpqPGX_6kI1aCODDYoJPo_g0P4Mwxf-GlftPju4C2kPppqyQ=s2198" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2198" data-original-width="1657" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUyT2l142Ie7nr5YUFr4QI_4jVB6vx3BiInIjO_KpIlHrjWt9H-Ib_683j9mthlE-2DbWFieufFXQtkgscmFe2P6H8sB8LIYhZRRP0dApZBNs_nFz_cZWpnnM8vAxU36UJq0VpqPGX_6kI1aCODDYoJPo_g0P4Mwxf-GlftPju4C2kPppqyQ=s320" width="241" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The—by
then, largest UFO organization—Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) also
entered in the controversy, indirectly, with the publication of an
article by Leonard H. Stringfield in the December 1980 issue of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
MUFON UFO Journal</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
pages 11-16 (“Status Report on Alleged Alien Cadaver Photos”)</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Conspirative-minded,
Stringfield complained that his own 29 sources for retrieval of
crashed saucers had dried all of a sudden: “I cannot help but
wonder—he wrote—if someone in a powerful position pressed the
“silence” button.” Therefore, he found suspicious the timely
disclosure in August 1980 of a set of photos showing a burnt alien
body, under the auspices of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Williard
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">McIntyre.
He attacked the GSW’s conclusion that it was a monkey used in early
military rocket tests, calling it “disinformation.” Apparently,
he did not value the contrary posture by McIntyre and his partners.
As a matter of fact, he talks of a “master plan” to discredit
“any photographs that may surface showing alien cadavers, and
beyond that, any serious research into the story of
crash/retrievals.” In a follow-up to that article</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
in </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
MUFON journal of September 1981, Stringfield published “The
Puzzling Case of the Cadaver Photos,” aimed to “re-state my
position as it relates to my continuing research into this sensitive
and controversial issue…because of the constant noise of criticism,
insult and baseless rumors.” The author, in paranoid mode, did not
believe it was coincidental that he and Charles Wilhelm (part of the
Coalition), both from the Cincinnati area, came up with individual
sets of photos displaying dead alien bodies at the very same time:
“Think of the odds against this coincidence.” Another unbelieved
“coincidence” is that back in September 1980 there began a
“broadside of blatant attacks against my photos, my work, my
credibility,” Stringfield said. I am not into details of that
persecution, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">however
I can but imagine that the response by rational people to pictures of
aliens in a refrigerated chamber, like the ones he defended, would be
nothing less than a plain laugh. Matter-of-factly, all purported
evidence accumulated by Stringfield for crashed and </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">retrieved
saucers over the years, resulted in nothing but smoke. His sources
were always pulling his leg. A grievous example of gullibility and
intellectual blindness.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Stringfield
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">called
the reaction of the Coalition members a “selective vendetta”
because he had termed their photos a hoax. And he reacted in this
familiar way: “Certainly, I would not characterize Wilhelm or
Pilichis or even McIntyre as secret agents, but if there is a
conspiratorial meaning in the pattern of coincidental events, is it
possible that all three were unwitting stooges for somebody else
pulling their strings?” Evidently, there are people who live in
another world, in a cloud of self-delusion. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Next
is </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Scientific Bureau of Investigation Report </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Pete
Mazzola, editor) for February 1981, touching upon this subject in the
cover and interior pages 2-3. It also reproduced a clipping from the
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Morning
Journal </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
August 30, 1980, when the tri-UFO-group started spreading the story
and the pictures. This UFO fanzine displays a tremendously ridiculous
logo including the word POLICE and stars within an official-looking
badge and “investigative specialists” in the cover that makes
readers associate it to FBI. Well, they had their own “analyzation”
of the photographs, that concluded that they fell short from 2 to 8
years to year 1948, they were genuine “to their specific purpose
and then misinterpreted incorrectly by the researchers involved,”
measurements for the fur-covered </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">body
were 0.</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">97
to 1.12 m and from 23 to 34 kg of weight, the being wearing a helmet
made of see-through glass, two black hoses of 1.3 to 2.5 cm appear to
be attached to back of helmet, the military-looking outfit is
revealed not to be military after photo enhancement. Finally, their
opinion, based on the data relevant to the being, agreed with that of
Bill Spaulding/GSW. This was monkey business for the FBI, excuse me,
SBI of New York. The precision </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
deductions they were able to make from the photos from these amateur
investigators from their Staten Island “laboratories” is to be
“praised.” Their conclusions went as far as to suggest that
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Coalition
leaders “were duped into believing the photos to be
true….intelligence gathering agencies of the U.S. used this ploy to
continue ridicule of the phenomenon” or, as second alternative,
“researchers involved perplexed hoax…[for]…satisfying their
own egotistical motives.” I do not know what is worse. Anyway,
cockfighting.</span></span></span></p>
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issue of February 1981 of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Report </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">revisited
the theme on its pages 10 and 12 with info supplied by Ohioans
Pilichis and Wilhelm, this time without acknowledging McIntyre. The
update basically copied the imaginative account by their unknown
source, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">as
if it </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">was
the Bible. No signs of critique in their review at all. In the
article, they criticized their critics (Springfield and MUFON),
without mentioning them. The GSW report was included almost in full.
The monkey hypothesis was not refuted or discussed but curiously
interpreted: “Was the government misleading our source? Was he led
to believe, along with the rest of the recovering team that they were
documenting a UFO crash, when in reality they were using this as a
cover story for their own secret experiments?” Rampant paranoia.
This seed in UFO circles would </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">grow
in </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
following years, reaching to the crazy state of affairs we are
contemplating today (lamentably also visible in US politics,
incidentally).</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>La
Recherche</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is a Paris-based French language popular science magazine covering
recent scientific news. It is published by the Société d'éditions
scientifiques (the Scientific Publishing Group). The July-August 1981
issue included a two-page article (pages 884-885) by Michel Granger
devoted to this case. Under the title “A quite particular
extraterrestrial,” it printed the main alien picture, and the
Coalition rapport was abstracted, as well as the GSW study. Pros and
cons regarding the alien and the ape theories were discussed. Granger
finishes by saying: “We bet that ufologists will cling to these
slender arguments for a long time; they are used to this exercise in
this case and, by a sort of masochism, find reason for their
stubbornness facing the official science which opposes them with
common sense and critical mind.” </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
last article by Pilichis and Wilhelm, noted above, seemed to indicate
that the Coalition of Concerned Ufologists had </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ended</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">their
partnership. In 1982, Charles J. Wilhelm, director of OUFOIL,
released a 53-page report: “An Investigative Report Into the
Alledged [sic] Alien Body Photos.” In the Editorial, he wrote that
the previous report by the tri-group Coalition had been published in
haste, without OUFOIL being consulted during its make-up. Not only
that, in their checking of the story they had found several
discrepancies, in fact “a dozen flaws” which were ignored by the
other members of the Coalition. OUFOIL decided to release its own
report, marked as an “independent investigative report.” It
started with a section to meticulously dissect McIntyre’s
introduction in the Coalition report, basically stating that they
never had access to the supposed identity of the source for alleged
protection </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">purposes;
they </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">were
refused a copy of the agreement with the source</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
the claim that a microdensitometer test had been conducted was
questioned on the basis that only a print, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">not
a negative, had been received at that time; the Kodak analysis
claimed by McIntyre was also put in doubt and a letter by Kodak dated
January 26, 1981 informed that “…the negatives you describe were
not sent to Kodak for analysis by either Dr. McYntyre [sic] or anyone
else.” It was even </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">denied
that a MARCEL representative was ever sent to check the source
credentials on site, and finally it threw a serious accusation:
“Perhaps the real truth is that there is </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>no
source</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
at all. That the real source is Mr. McIntyre himself” [What an
unexpected twist of events!] OUFOIL characterization of the November
1980 Coalition report was: “full of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>contradictions</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>undocumented
facts</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and just </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>pure
hog wash”</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(their emphasis).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is followed by a section to break-down the story itself. They
consulted White Sands Missile</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Base on any air disaster they might have been involved in around July
7, 1948 which occurred in Mexico between Nuevo Laredo and the Sabinas
River. The received reply stated: “We have no knowledge of the air
disaster you inquired about. Nuevo Laredo is over 500 miles [805 km]
from our installation. Additionally, White Sands Missile Range does
not investigate such incidents.” OUFOIL also queried about any team
sent to photograph the crash, and White Sands’ response was: “There
was a photography experiment done with the V-2…However, our records
show no special team which performed the functions you described.”
They also discovered that the early warning system radar mentioned by
the source was not operative in 1948. The Dias Air Base also
mentioned by the source was not in operation that year. The F-94
aircraft supposedly in flight to pursue the object did not fly until
1949. The crash area vegetation is similar to what is found in the
eastern states of the US, not in Mexico. Blow-ups of the photographs
show wiring present (source stated none was discovered) and indicate
earthly metal configurations with welded joints. The uniform worn by
the officer in the second photograph did not come into existence
until 1957, not 1948. Experts very knowledgeable on burned patients
at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children (Cincinnati, Ohio)
confirmed the photos represented the “incinerated body of a human.”
In summary, review of an additional </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">20
items from the Coalition report ruined it completely, as well as the
original story communicated by the alleged source: “45% of the
listed items prove the story a hoax,” they concluded. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But,
attention, it also uncritically affirmed that “The description of
the body is very similar to those given by various </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>anonymous</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[my emphasis, also to add unverified] medical and military sources,
who have been involved with other alledged [sic] UFO crashed with
bodies </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">involved.”
[My goodness! A well-reinvestigated report is in the verge of being
spoiled with this statement, absolutely opposite to reality, as no
example of purported evidence of dead humanoids has ever proved
legitimate. A sidenote to mollify Stringfield?] The large OUFOIL
report also checked the GSW analysis. To make a long story short, it
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">supported
the GSW arguments to confirm the authenticity of the negatives, but
it strongly disagreed with its V-2 and monkey conclusion. The report
supplied lots of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">detailed
historical information on V-2 experiences in the US that led OUFOIL
to conclude that given “the time period in question and the size of
the burnt body, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">we
feel that the photos are not of a V-2 rocket tests failure showing a
burnt monkey. Its [sic] very possible and most likely the body is
that of a human being from this planet in a small aircraft that
crashed. The chances are that the aircraft was perhaps a military
one.” Finally, the role of Williard</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">McIntyre
as probable instigator of the whole affair is seriously considered by
background, motivation and actions.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsVARuBd_F5vdG5K7VY98-mQUHtL0oj1QmI9kXmRApFr4qz1G7KJZOjt5Zow-T9CW_naRYKR5L6TFL3Q69u5Nm6mszGvDkUAP4Bdvu7uIXn4Xo_YU8MDQ-o79tOOZpXnCp02j5sNheDiwuqT0CuvSteHfdWOTT6ZOPkMz_7vzyAgrsZUpUQ=s1969" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1969" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsVARuBd_F5vdG5K7VY98-mQUHtL0oj1QmI9kXmRApFr4qz1G7KJZOjt5Zow-T9CW_naRYKR5L6TFL3Q69u5Nm6mszGvDkUAP4Bdvu7uIXn4Xo_YU8MDQ-o79tOOZpXnCp02j5sNheDiwuqT0CuvSteHfdWOTT6ZOPkMz_7vzyAgrsZUpUQ=w400-h144" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Left:
evidence of common wire remains found close to the body’s left
shoulder. Some type of eyeglasses?. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right:
in the craft’s structure can be observed a simple six-sided hex
nut, tubular piping, angle iron and various welded areas, quite
made-in-Tierra.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; break-inside: avoid; font-family: helvetica;">
<span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Timothy
Green Beckley is an old-timer of US ufology, a pioneer in the flying
saucer and paranormal </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>business</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(emphasis added), what today would be called an “influencer” in
the terrain of nuts-and-bolt ufology. He casually had founded OUFOIL
in the early 1970s. He could not but contribute something to this
subject, and he did it with the article “Blockbuster Photos…Dead
Aliens Found in UFO Crash,” published in </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Review</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
# 9, pages 10-11 (ca. 1981). Introduced as “What may turn out to be
the most sensational photographs ever released in the United States
endeavors to show the charred remains of a humanoid being that was
found among the remains of a UFO that crashed near the Mexican border
more than three decades ago,” Green set out the narration as
initially presented by the tri-group report in November 1980, side by
side with an “exclusive interview” with Charles Wilhelm, when he
had not parted company yet with his two other colleagues. Wilhelm
still adhered to the original tale as told by the mystery source in
all terms with absolute credulity, as he described the “crashed
interstellar vehicle,” his numerous talks to the source, “his
true identity to become known in a near future,” and confirming
statements like these. Replying to a question on why they are sure
their informant is not lying, Wilhelm reassuringly declared: “We
checked this out for more then [sic] a year before we released our
findings.” Wilhelm next expands on reasons for accepting the
authenticity of their source’s credentials and about all the
background research they did: “we don’t have any reason to
suspect that he’s fabricating,” he admitted. For what we found a
little before, this is truly an extraordinary case of conversion from
believer to doubtful Thomas. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the Spanish language, a quite comprehensive reference to this case
was signed by Mexican UFO researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez. Ruiz, a
chemist by profession and the author of a variety of articles and
books on photographs of UFO entities in Mexico and abroad, oversaw
the 1948 dead alien pictures in </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ovnis
extrellados in Mexico </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Crashed
UFOs in Mexico), Mina publisher, 1996, pages 8 to 24. Ruiz wrote a
detailed expose of most of what has been known about this
controversy. Ruiz places this story as </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">another
fairy tale of the repeated category of UFO crashes in Mexico, of
which he counts up to 25 such volatile incidents in UFO literature!
Legend, not fact, in his experienced opinion.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
different interpretation for the photographs is that advanced by US
engineer Larry Robinson of Indiana University. For its originality, I
quote him in full: “The helmet is a motorcycle or auto racing
helmet, not a pilot’s helmet, not an aviator’s helmet for that
period. Aviation helmets necessarily had large earphone headsets and
ear seals built into them, so the pilot could use the radio with the
helmet on. They are missing from the helmet in the picture, as are
the holes and fitting needed for their installation. Also, parts of
the rear fork of the motorcycle are in the picture. The pipes are
part of either a tent structure common here, or of a carnival ride.
Both use that kind of construction. I figure the motorcycle crashed
at a fair or a race, striking the tent or carnival ride. There is a
circular plywood structure under the body, which suggests a carnival
ride. Part of the folding card table is also visible, as is some
Romex (which makes me doubt the date as being 1948).”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">4</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
British author Jenny Randles in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Fortean
Times </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">of
May 2006 (page 28) wrote that “…the extent of the tissue damage
does not preclude that it is human and evidence (often cropped out of
shot) of what looks like a pair of spectacles implies this is the
tasteless abuse of an image of a test pilot trapped in a fire after a
plane crash.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Either
an aircraft pilot or the victim of a motorcycle accident, all points
to a mundane origin of the unfortunate person depicted in the stills.
A logical, down-to-earth, rational assessment of the whole issue
seems simple, at least to me: old pictures (late 1940s or early
1950s) of an accident where the man was badly burnt. Sweetened with a
false flying saucer crash story. What looks like a mystery novel must
simply come from someone who wanted to make a good laugh out of
gullible ufologists, if not an internal, self-built hoax to create
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">publicity
for a UFO group or personality. What amazes me is how the recipient
of the photographs, who had made a realistic evaluation at the first
sight of them, radically changed it to an alien scenario on the basis
of an unverified narrative. It shows a pitiful eagerness of belief,
if not something even more embarrassing. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Can
anything else new be added in this controversy? I think so. Disregard
the GSW monkey hypothesis (and, therefore, the accompanying V-2
test). We center on the body’s cranium. According to a review done
by our consulting expert Andrés Duarte, the head of the “Tomato
Man” </span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">(*)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> looks quite similar to a human skull seen from above, as it
can be seen in various resources found in the net,</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
as follows:</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8Akijh_6VVqUvEyH-esHXKR-0cCWQAUa2sSsPrwp9awzNYyDoQLB7V40V6nuUXk-jdL9CwgCeCvQGX_PeIf27H9KufaWG3RZxxoSE4WhLYgJt5AcN8Bg7RE-ssTtkbyG23SrLP5B5mHBtsa5_zdiLKkl_n_9Ucn44Rmkm-eODNREVA31uLQ=s1300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1025" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8Akijh_6VVqUvEyH-esHXKR-0cCWQAUa2sSsPrwp9awzNYyDoQLB7V40V6nuUXk-jdL9CwgCeCvQGX_PeIf27H9KufaWG3RZxxoSE4WhLYgJt5AcN8Bg7RE-ssTtkbyG23SrLP5B5mHBtsa5_zdiLKkl_n_9Ucn44Rmkm-eODNREVA31uLQ=s320" width="252" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
the other hand, the monkeys’ crania seen from above that are shown
in the following pages</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
do not look much alike, “therefore I think it is a person and not a
primate,”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Duarte
establishes for comparison.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlzWgXEEiQh9ZNMswZItv8uaMxbo_n4utZSwrPko0xav5niAP5T9CUtS6KqTlbbRXSbgR3j6jf6T-gwFc5R3VhFaepD4ps2x8y_46Bg8RARzHGiXlQqrYZr5iOMMxTCP0bOgv1wmxKO6Ci5PBFipvBVWjSCF8olZltNPw315eCdlW4_tqKww=s297" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="297" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlzWgXEEiQh9ZNMswZItv8uaMxbo_n4utZSwrPko0xav5niAP5T9CUtS6KqTlbbRXSbgR3j6jf6T-gwFc5R3VhFaepD4ps2x8y_46Bg8RARzHGiXlQqrYZr5iOMMxTCP0bOgv1wmxKO6Ci5PBFipvBVWjSCF8olZltNPw315eCdlW4_tqKww" width="297" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">These
couple of photographs obviously depict a lifeless human body out of
context. The reason why only a small piece of the complete film was
sent attempted to hide the normal environment surrounding an
accident, aircraft, motorcycle, or whatever. In this regard, this is
fake ufology at its best.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
current note has been based entirely on published records collected
in my files since 1980. This article comprises what I consider to be
the best and </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">most
well-informed sources of information on this controversy. It is not
intended to be an in-depth study of the photographs or the flying
saucer story, but a literature trip on the </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">circumstances
wrapping this specific case of an alleged alien corpse, for the
benefits of students who did not know the real deal in terms of
bibliography. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/GSW-Bulletin/GSW_Bulletin_1981_Apr.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/GSW-Bulletin/GSW_Bulletin_1981_Apr.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">(2) </span></span><span style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#/media/File:Able_air_and_space.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#/media/File:Able_air_and_space.jpg</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Larry Robinson, e-mails to V.J. Ballester Olmos, April 1, 2002 and
March 27, 2003.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/489133209510585229/" target="_blank">https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/489133209510585229/</a><br /><a href="https://www.dreamstime.com/top-view-above-human-skull-isolated-white-isolated-human-skull-top-view-image117589062" target="_blank">https://www.dreamstime.com/top-view-above-human-skull-isolated-white-isolated-human-skull-top-view-image117589062</a><br /><a href="https://www.123rf.com/photo_117336760_top-view-of-human-skull-isolated-on-white-background.html" target="_blank">https://www.123rf.com/photo_117336760_top-view-of-human-skull-isolated-on-white-background.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1980021/">https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1980021/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/explorationsbioanth/chapter/__unknown__-4/" target="_blank">https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/explorationsbioanth/chapter/__unknown__-4/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/november/new-species-of-monkey-is-already-critically-endangered.html">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/november/new-species-of-monkey-is-already-critically-endangered.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Andrés Duarte, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos. June 13, 2021.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(*)
According to Ron Schaffner, “Robert Easley is credited with
coining the term “Tomato Man”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130819133741/http://web.archive.org/web/19991115054253/home.fuse.net/arcsite/tomato.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130819133741/http://web.archive.org/web/19991115054253/home.fuse.net/arcsite/tomato.htm</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">)
</span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Unusual
Celestial Phenomena Photographed in a U.S. Naval Air Station</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
V.J. Ballester Olmos and J.C. Victorio Uranga</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">One
loyal and continuing correspondent to FOTOCAT is Terry W. Colvin,
originally from Sierra Vista, Arizona, now hailing from Hua Hin
(Thailand). Colvin specializes in cruising the Blue Book archives at
Fold3 and communicating findings to his fellow colleagues, the first
author among them. Recently, he submitted information on a case we
did not know, a visual and photographic sighting made by various
military men stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Willow Grove,
Pennsylvania, on August 3 and 4, 1952. We have reviewed it with the
aim to find a solution. Let us see if we succeeded. There are two
documents, one is dated August 15, 1952 and signed by USAF Major
Robert H. Ray, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s 3</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">rd</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
District Office of Special Investigations (OSI) commander, with
information submitted to the 5</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
District OSI commander in Wright-Patterson AFB. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
consisted of t</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">hree
photographs and a written statement by several U.S. Navy enlisted men
received from the Philadelphia Office of Naval Intelligence. The memo
ended: “No action has been taken in this matter by this office.”
</span></span></span>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPVtfajA-2V4TiIfw9HcCUa1fA-hon_AYyw4pUtM-jzUZ82VlphMXnju3hXiV-QRgmDDhynjqCT8P0YWtNtbsJ-dKupBfs4FGGuzznhwMH1MHECuYmaDfh4JR4pMt36ADUntfaMP68IXjyeSGDv9lzeFlHhZa6fsFNWTTZWqoDi9o6S4vAcQ=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPVtfajA-2V4TiIfw9HcCUa1fA-hon_AYyw4pUtM-jzUZ82VlphMXnju3hXiV-QRgmDDhynjqCT8P0YWtNtbsJ-dKupBfs4FGGuzznhwMH1MHECuYmaDfh4JR4pMt36ADUntfaMP68IXjyeSGDv9lzeFlHhZa6fsFNWTTZWqoDi9o6S4vAcQ=s320" width="250" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">At
20:55 EST, Mate of the Day HM3 Gerald H. Swarm saw an amber-colored
light in the sky, four times as large as a star, located NW in an
area south of the big dipper. He watched it for 45 minutes, had to
leave for 10 minutes and then the object had disappeared. At 23:05 he
saw a second object now located NE high in the sky, same size and
color, roaring slowly to the SW. Was seeing it for 25 minutes until
he reported it to others. He sent HN James J. Kelly to the
operations’ building where the duty cameraman AFAN Richard W. Wade
began taking pictures from 23:30 until 01:30 of the following day. On
a clear night, he took three time exposures of 5, 10 and 20 minutes
with a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Speed
Graphic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
camera with a 15” telephoto lens and 5.6 aperture. The statement
was also agreed by HM3 M.J. Reidel, as well as by Kelly. Another
cited witness was AA Stanley C. Chmielewski.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk93854719"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCfE9ZaQoc4O7-fkHrn9C1yJjsXAJ1PqrOjm_mqOdtKnmZkHhOCkqBcpmcyqI0UO9AuDiMvKmv6S_S1-LXC4R-df9Fwokr6P_IDJhwdZk-RSbXrOdPcZX9DTb43xamUp2S4chYrC1kPJH91JH1yxZmKVwPPloPNleHoN3BuA7KnuetywR-Q=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCfE9ZaQoc4O7-fkHrn9C1yJjsXAJ1PqrOjm_mqOdtKnmZkHhOCkqBcpmcyqI0UO9AuDiMvKmv6S_S1-LXC4R-df9Fwokr6P_IDJhwdZk-RSbXrOdPcZX9DTb43xamUp2S4chYrC1kPJH91JH1yxZmKVwPPloPNleHoN3BuA7KnuetywR-Q=s320" width="253" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Regarding
the initial sighting, it was a light dot 4 times brighter than a
simple star which was observed in the night sky for 45 minutes. If we
look at the sky chart at that time, we find Mars with a magnitude of
-0.12 and its characteristic reddish coloration (for example,
orange-colored Arcturus, present in the West, was relatively dim at
0.15). In principle, it would seem to be a suitable candidate for the
observation. But it was 19º over the SW horizon (222º azimuth), 90º
away from the NW, and therefore distant from the big dipper, as we
can see below (left hand illustration). At 22:00 the object has
disappeared from sight. What about Mars? The red planet </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">is
so low (barely 9.5º) that any obstacle in the landscape would
prevent it being seen, consistent with HM3 Swarm having his UFO
extinct (right hand illustration). (Arcturus is still visible, so it
should be discarded as a target). The possibility that Mars has been
the culprit remains considerable, assuming a probable positional
mistake by the observer. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgagf1EVH1XpekpGCQjoCLEc-EKrJUeSZGdCuPi8SrPsZZIAPALeScGAdzYzyJua6ZdAgW58Omai0DrgBCETY-4JJTHkCcigF7s_mkCMLON2_3dnfqTQahvHEzq5042TD2FKk012sR5RDcZN3oUXxTFIyfVedl8gX6qaO1zv71qbMJhNxmzVA=s2759" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2759" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgagf1EVH1XpekpGCQjoCLEc-EKrJUeSZGdCuPi8SrPsZZIAPALeScGAdzYzyJua6ZdAgW58Omai0DrgBCETY-4JJTHkCcigF7s_mkCMLON2_3dnfqTQahvHEzq5042TD2FKk012sR5RDcZN3oUXxTFIyfVedl8gX6qaO1zv71qbMJhNxmzVA=w400-h111" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But
the second observation is by far the most important as it lasted two
hours and a half and photos were achieved. We will center our
interest on this larger phase of the case. These are the three images
(from left to right, with five, ten and twenty minutes of time
exposure):</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMwJEZe9XDyrRT3k_roUDDN10tQYOT4z7YphApwC8PgCCpZ8dXAMw3yoLNMrAcVSnLJtUs8Zcto-ZBlt1NLDSlTwBzH0d__cx5MIfhCoA-DcaCjfP6OF6-xUA0fR5MBiU2WmVA_HUjIROjb7ljWjbGkumASm5HVtXQ8bmsJRSzzKKVGiL9Ow=s3592" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="3592" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMwJEZe9XDyrRT3k_roUDDN10tQYOT4z7YphApwC8PgCCpZ8dXAMw3yoLNMrAcVSnLJtUs8Zcto-ZBlt1NLDSlTwBzH0d__cx5MIfhCoA-DcaCjfP6OF6-xUA0fR5MBiU2WmVA_HUjIROjb7ljWjbGkumASm5HVtXQ8bmsJRSzzKKVGiL9Ow=w400-h110" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Such
an extended, nocturnal sighting with pictures just showing linear
tracks like those is typical of an astronomical stimulus, where
planets and stars on time exposure shots present the same parallel
traces. Our job is to determine the celestial bodies responsible for
it. The first revelation we found is that </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>the
pictures are inverted</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
In other words, if you want to compare them with the sky of that
night you need to rotate them 180 degrees to show the real position
of planets and stars. We check now the 5-minute-exposure take. In the
following pair of illustrations, please see on the left how it looks
originally, and on the right the image once it has been rotated (we
have highlighted six stellar points leaving tracks, one much more
intense). Next, we have prepared a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Stellarium</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
sky chart at 01:00 of August 4, 1952, when cameraman Wade began to
make pictures. Jupiter prominently stands out fixed in the sky.
Alongside, we have included another close-up chart where red circles
indicate the position of the planet and five nearby stars: the linear
tracks structure is identical in both the real picture (up) and the
astronomical sky (down).</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTSTHq1gxppR5V0d-5baWuKdS3gF3C7Os5znRpkwOT4qLr-SZvNdtckNGfPpmSl3dp3Ua1G0XcgpBTihr_txngipbym03j61u5Jz_0rN99ReWH9GnQpCx4P1snoyMdmBYOeczzulNsb0HLpskoH3ORXh4Rud4XsGLrR4M90eDDU4LYeIFPhw=s2512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="2512" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTSTHq1gxppR5V0d-5baWuKdS3gF3C7Os5znRpkwOT4qLr-SZvNdtckNGfPpmSl3dp3Ua1G0XcgpBTihr_txngipbym03j61u5Jz_0rN99ReWH9GnQpCx4P1snoyMdmBYOeczzulNsb0HLpskoH3ORXh4Rud4XsGLrR4M90eDDU4LYeIFPhw=w400-h174" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7aB-eGh-d99vTsTqcNouzBgYIbtKz282x3DDqnnT5BiMo5QsGXEm37nHy1IfztUPU3zOxtErcW6tcBfm3JEHOj7iDJZK3emLa_IOQL-vVpgqzABSMNWR2FjLSwaSMJdJYrSmpVX6Wl2W5QgmImn0jmZCEAYoXxDi1fIpqpCdk0uQC8K6lqg=s2759" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2759" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7aB-eGh-d99vTsTqcNouzBgYIbtKz282x3DDqnnT5BiMo5QsGXEm37nHy1IfztUPU3zOxtErcW6tcBfm3JEHOj7iDJZK3emLa_IOQL-vVpgqzABSMNWR2FjLSwaSMJdJYrSmpVX6Wl2W5QgmImn0jmZCEAYoXxDi1fIpqpCdk0uQC8K6lqg=w400-h111" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Certainly,
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>it
was Jupiter that drew the attention of the observers</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
and the photographs perfectly show the planet in conjunction with the
surrounding stars in the celestial vault. It is reasonable to think
that the second sighting—long and collective—was the main
experience of the first and key witness, because it was only then
when he raised the alarm. And while reporting the event and recalling
the initial observation, he probably reported position errors.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
might repeat the same exercise with the other pictures, but we
believe it is not worthwhile anymore. A small deduction we made on
photo#3 is worth mentioning: the two luminous tracks it shows are due
to a brief interruption of the time exposure and a slight camera
movement in the interim, which meant that an expected double trace
was divided into two halves. In fact, we are confident we have
already found the source for the military UFO sighting of that August
3-4, 1952 from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Willow Grove,
Pennsylvania.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">To
end the administrative thread, a second memo, dated August 19, 1952,
came out from USAF Lt. Colonel D.G. North, 5</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
district commander, addressed to the Commander Officer of the Air
Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), also based at Wright-Patterson,
with remittance of the above information. Except noticing that
“information contained herein has been derived from sources other
than USAF,” no further comments were offered. If ATIC sent the
material to Blue Book Project or not, we do not know. We do know,
however, that this case is not listed in the August BB monthly index.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(The
actual information appears in the Fold3 pages beginning as
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/12199814"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.fold3.com/image/12199814</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
&</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6982273"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.fold3.com/image/6982273</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>US
New UAP Office</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk91663690"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
aftermath of the publication of the creation of a new UAP office
inserted in section 1683 of the latest National Defense Authorization
Act (27 December 2021) is as motley as expected, and I would like to
show the reader various feedback articles on the issue:</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihdGa_QVlm0kHUW0Uh46ezfYKTXDl8qI8mOmST4mlIdahqR-ZigeLUTvuUGAF4NI7FoMqQ_pzngmfduY8xtRKJUrpRGurj37uqprc-FX6qzMDpla4dalM3l4x2BGH8VGQrCvkG9uRcM1lyiRD-Xy1Z7B_vGAuOuzwRXT1lJYA5AdBfGQOfHQ=s1322" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihdGa_QVlm0kHUW0Uh46ezfYKTXDl8qI8mOmST4mlIdahqR-ZigeLUTvuUGAF4NI7FoMqQ_pzngmfduY8xtRKJUrpRGurj37uqprc-FX6qzMDpla4dalM3l4x2BGH8VGQrCvkG9uRcM1lyiRD-Xy1Z7B_vGAuOuzwRXT1lJYA5AdBfGQOfHQ=s320" width="192" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">My
own review, “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act”:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Billy
Cox’s “Been a long time comin'”: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/been-a-long-time-comin"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/been-a-long-time-comin</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Red
Pill Junkie, “Will UFO Disclosure Move Forward Under Biden?”:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2020/12/will-ufo-disclosure-move-forward-under-biden/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2020/12/will-ufo-disclosure-move-forward-under-biden/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Milton
Hourcade’s dissection:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/01/credulity-vs-rationality-official-uap.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/01/credulity-vs-rationality-official-uap.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Believers’
concerns: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out?rl=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out?rl=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
pentagon spokesperson says the new UAP Office is just the AOIMSG:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/is-a-pentagon-spokesperson-attempting-to-avoid-congressional-ufo-legislation"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/is-a-pentagon-spokesperson-attempting-to-avoid-congressional-ufo-legislation</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Related
with this, the opinion by Christopher Mellon, ex-deputy assistant
Secretary of Defense for intelligence, matters when he explains why
he believes USAF is awol on the UAP business, now when the subject is
located on a higher level:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Curiously,
he states: “I will present data below indicating that the Air Force
and its component organizations actually detected thousands of UAP
from 2004 through 2021. Admittedly, it is theoretically conceivable
that none represented breakthrough Russian or Chinese technology–much
less alien spacecraft–but the point is that we simply don’t know.
That’s what makes them UAP.” Wow, thousands of intrusions in less
than two decades in the USA only</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
If, as Mellon concedes, there is no evidence that they are vehicles
from foreign countries, “much less alien spacecraft,” why does he
avoid the natural conclusion</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
that they are mundane objects? IFOs, in a word. Let us see how much
money USA is going to spend to arrive to this conclusion that we give
it for free.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">According
to the established calendar by the UAP act, not later than March 31,
2022, the head of the new UAP office of the DoD will provide a
classified briefing to congressional committees on Armed Services,
Appropriations, and the permanent select committee on Intelligence,
including information on UAP incidents reported to the UAPTF after
June 24 June, 2021. Stay tuned for coming (probably interested)
leaks!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Late
news! Is the Pentagon planning to classify all he UAP Task Force UFO
data? See what Jazz Shaw has to say on HotAir, March 12, 2022:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/12/report-the-pentagon-is-planning-to-classify-all-of-the-uap-task-force-ufo-data-n454860"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/12/report-the-pentagon-is-planning-to-classify-all-of-the-uap-task-force-ufo-data-n454860</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>UAP
at the European University: Two Approaches</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Prof.
Hakan Kayal (Ph.D. in Engineering) holds the chair of Space
Technology in the German University of Würzburg. He works on the
development, construction and operation of space systems, nano
satellites for scientific purposes, in particular for
extraterrestrial missions, search for extraterrestrial intelligence
(SETI)…and research on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
The academic objective is perfectly legitimate, still I suspect a
bias in adding UAP in the course of a research on life in the
universe. Somehow, it shows a preconceived connection between ETI and
UFOs, and there is no scientific basis for this at all! I would
understand a neutral investigation on the UFO phenomenon in a
University department of Anthropology, History, Sociology, or
Folklore. Even under the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">aegis
of Psychology or Psychiatry chairs. But under the umbrella of space
technology, how will alumni be prepared to know the pitfalls and
flaws of the human recording, memory and interpretation processes
with abrupt, short-lived events, the major role of misinterpretation
of trivial phenomena, the impact of hoaxes and</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
frauds, and the examples of reports by mentally-unstable persons? I
am afraid that by default UAP will be correlated with space vehicles,
a terrible scientific mistake. Having said that, let them do their
work and assess their finding at the end of the course.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</p>
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have consulted two respected and </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">experienced
German colleagues, and this is their feedback. Jochen Ickinger of
UFOINFO.DE</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">3</span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
remarked:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Prof.
Kayal is without any doubt a serious and renowned scientist with high
competence in his field. Likewise, his SkyCam project for detecting
objects in the sky is professional and scientifically put on. Kayal
is also the director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center For
Extraterrestrial Studies of the University of Würzburg (IFEX), where
UAP is also a part of the research field. While for most of the UFO
reports a conventional explanation is correctly assumed, the
remaining rest is considered to be highly relevant. Its sole
treatment in the context of the search for extraterrestrial life
suggests a certain bias in the interpretation of UFOs/UAP as
anomalous or exotic aircrafts. This object-centered view was also
evident in a Zoom meeting with Kayal on this topic and the reference
to popular events, such as the Belgium UFOs, the controversial Navy
videos, or in referring to the SCU report on the Gimbal video as a
reference to what could be analyzed with data, even though the report
was not based on objective data but on assumptions and estimates from
witness testimony. The findings of decades of private UFO research,
even on a scientific level, also do not find sufficient appreciation
here, as other colleagues also noted. A scientific approach to a
possibly anomalous phenomenon must always be done in an open and
unbiased way and also take into account other non-anomalistic
explanations. Whether the SkyCam project will provide new and
convincing evidence about UAPs, and not just interpretive lights in
the sky like the many previous similar projects, remains to be seen.
Given the multiple appearances of conventional objects, especially
the increasing drone presence, the goal of identification by smart
software (machine learning) remains one of the biggest challenges.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
his part, Hansjürgen Köhler of CENAP</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
has commented the following: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Subjectively,
I see some deficits in the approach for the SkyCam search, as I do
not believe this device can exclude all and possible "flight
objects of the earthly kind". We understood well the wide range
of the IFO-pool, and how it is constantly expanding, therefore I have
my doubts that all this can be integrated in the SkyCam project. I
also wonder why my astronomical colleagues with the Europe-wide
ALLSKY network for fireball capture over a long time have not yet
caught "UAP"? Of course, the argument would be to start
with a first step, but aren’t we facing a big danger from a false
approach? I have profound criticism about the alleged -and unfounded-
“UAP properties,” those which have been listed in ufology since
1947, for the most part being misinterpretations of heavenly and
manmade objects. After 75 years of "UFO hunt", the research
shows UAP properties equal to IFO properties.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
this is not the only recent European initiative in terms of
university courses dedicated to UFO research. In Spain, and within
the framework of the Criminology and Security degree at the Camilo
José Cela University (Villanueva de la Cañada campus, Madrid),
Professor Dr. Heriberto Janosch has opened a workshop on "Aerospace
Identification" for students, with a duration of two months. The
importance given by the university is reflected in the 2.56 credits
granted, when one entire subject has 6.00. Participants will
investigate the activities of the French GEIPAN and the Argentine
CIAE using textbooks such as Allan Hendry's </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
UFO Handbook</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(Doubleday, 1979). Dr. Janosch, of Argentine and Spanish nationality,
is also a recognized YFO researcher, having coauthored in 2013 the
work </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span>
(</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UFO
sightings in Antarctica in 1965). The different approach with respect
to his German colleague is ostensible: in this case, the workshop
focuses on the explanation of the phenomena that the eyewitness is
unable to resolve on their own.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw7e4FldsztYabGUjMEzJOF6hll81Y6dg-CUvCX7H7A6hJkHN8GHw8wGSDAXsKrtPfGLPyBxcqvAgBzAAbvEZqdVPEabLMsIUPrK7dW58Onstws2noySDi7DNomfMrcjPzgilRfal78encRFB8cypBkbmMmJbOXrZl3kcACX22KsR32_Erzg=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw7e4FldsztYabGUjMEzJOF6hll81Y6dg-CUvCX7H7A6hJkHN8GHw8wGSDAXsKrtPfGLPyBxcqvAgBzAAbvEZqdVPEabLMsIUPrK7dW58Onstws2noySDi7DNomfMrcjPzgilRfal78encRFB8cypBkbmMmJbOXrZl3kcACX22KsR32_Erzg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Heri
Janosch, on the right, at V.J. Ballester Olmos’s home study.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7WEDtvF-5h5KDL2Erbhgoykx7FtcH4uNIUjhgMHfWpZK6vO8tjFpmTjKpJ2-OnylwncuvwFH6Wuor9ZKxUjeMI0XAEXqZeZDs1qQAU0AHimN-bGwHq_QG6SCi6E8bc67s1-94_RLHUaUrbdnxLzjAUOXi4qIjU6mH--TEjLL4QXQSBpg4FA=s556" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="556" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7WEDtvF-5h5KDL2Erbhgoykx7FtcH4uNIUjhgMHfWpZK6vO8tjFpmTjKpJ2-OnylwncuvwFH6Wuor9ZKxUjeMI0XAEXqZeZDs1qQAU0AHimN-bGwHq_QG6SCi6E8bc67s1-94_RLHUaUrbdnxLzjAUOXi4qIjU6mH--TEjLL4QXQSBpg4FA=w400-h90" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
also wanted to know the views of two renowned Spanish UFO scholars.
Firstly, that of Dr. Ricardo Campo, philosopher and author of
important research tomes on UFO casuistry in the Canary Islands</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
have often thought that the ufologist, at least the one that could
appear reflected in the academic initiative of Dr. Janosch, has
something of an herbalist botanist: always in a search for specimens
to be taken to his lab to analyze and place them not on sheets of
blotting paper, but encoded in data tables. Both activities have in
common to show a selection of manifestations of the real world. But
if one pays attention to a part of the flora of a given region or
ecosystem, the other, what does it show? Surely the students of that
workshop will ask themselves the question when they review the
stories extracted from the works that Dr. Janosch will use. (From my
point of view, it would be very interesting if part of the selected
casuistry came from Spain). And, perhaps, they ask themselves the
same question regarding other topics in the world of mystery, about
the alternative and postmodern thinking, which is not a small thing.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">And
then that of the physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo, a former researcher
at the Spanish Ministry of Defense, who has authored some outstanding
essays on UFO phenomenology</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="en-US">7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>As
it is formulated, it seems an interesting initiative from the point
of view of developing critical thinking by studying how apparently
anomalous cases end up having a mundane solution. Students will
surely be able to learn how to evaluate and weigh aspects such as
testimonies, data and evidence, which can surely help them in their
training as criminologists, outside the field of ufology.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/" target="_blank">https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/18668-ufo-form-UAP-Sky-Searches-The-Sky/" target="_blank">https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/18668-ufo-form-UAP-Sky-Searches-The-Sky/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/first-university-to-recognize-uap-ufo-research-as-legitimate-object-of-academic-research20220208/" target="_blank">https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/first-university-to-recognize-uap-ufo-research-as-legitimate-object-of-academic-research20220208/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://ufoinfo.de" target="_blank">https://ufoinfo.de</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
<a href="http://www.hjkc.de/">www.hjkc.de</a>]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio Uranga, </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31467521/AVISTAMIENTOS_OVNI_EN_LA_ANTARTIDA_EN_1965.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/31467521/AVISTAMIENTOS_OVNI_EN_LA_ANTARTIDA_EN_1965.pdf</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" target="_blank">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
fenómeno OVNI en Canarias desde el siglo XVIII hasta 1980 </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[The
UFO Phenomenon in the Canary Islands, from XVIII century to 1980],</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://lecanarienediciones.com/index.php?id_product=160&rewrite=el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980&controller=product" target="_blank">https://lecanarienediciones.com/index.php?id_product=160&rewrite=el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980&controller=product</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
fenómeno OVNI en Canarias desde 1981 a 2015 </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[The
UFO Phenomenon in the Canary Islands, from 1981 to 2015],</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html" target="_blank">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a>
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</span></a>
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Argentine
Air Force UFO Establishment</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">CIAE
is the UAP task force for the Armed Forces of Argentina. Established
May 2011 as CEFAE, it was revamped and technologized under the
responsibility of Commodore Rubén Lianza in 2015, to be renamed as
CIAE (Center for Aerospace Identification) in May 2019. Lianza
publishes an annual report disclosing all UFO reports received and
analyzed during the year, plus occasional investigations on older
events. The latest annual report studies 45 reports that occurred
from 1991 to 2021. CIAE investigates those UFO sightings supported by
evidence (photography, video, or material), this is, only
substantiated claims. All of them have been technically explained,
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
distribution of causes being</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
birds & bugs (40%), balloons & airborne objects (18%),
optical artifacts (11%), astronomical (11%), astronautical (11%),
aircraft (7%), or ground facilities (2%). The 108-page monograph (in
Spanish) is an example of “scientific ufology”, and it can be
found here:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2021.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2021.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Quotable
Quotes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">When
I was young, I used to read the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Reader’s
Digest</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
and one of the sections that both amused and inspired me was
“Quotable Quotes.” I do not intend to open a new section in this
blog but, eventually, I may include some sentences that convey subtle
or explicit traits about the source of the phrases. I read the
following in the Jacques Vallée diaries, an entry for April 26, 1975
(</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Forbidden
Science, Vol. II</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Documatica Research LLC, San Francisco, 2016, page 295). The dialogue
was between theoretical physicist Jack Sarfatti</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
movie director Francis Ford Coppola. After the former told that
aliens were in the process of contacting humans, the filmmaker
replied: “Oh, yeah? Then why don’t they contact me?” Sarfatti
answered: “But they do! They’re contacting you by sending me.”
LOL.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sarfatti"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sarfatti</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Incomprehensible in Ufology</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
you currently read in some influential UFO books is what can be
defined as “just word juggling,” a hollow discussion about time
and consciousness and dimensions, made out of verbiage and wrapped
into semantic gobbledygook that drives nowhere but one that looks
intellectual and profound (just because you do not really understand
it). It is the power of literary writing when it deals with esoteric
thoughts devoid of a physical entity. What you read in books by both
notable and copycat ufologists is a technique indistinguishable from
what you can find in a similar troop of empty, Dalinian, meaningless
words in a dialog in the 1974 novel </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Dispossessed</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
by Ursula K. Le Guin, pages 313-319. Recommended reading.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
A journalist’s view of GEIPAN UFO study:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/exclusive-inside-frances-ufo-investigation"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/exclusive-inside-frances-ufo-investigation</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/why-french-officials-remained-silent-about-ufos-despite-incidents-involving-nuclear-assets"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/why-french-officials-remained-silent-about-ufos-despite-incidents-involving-nuclear-assets</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Philip Mantle on Nick Pope: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nickpopewatch.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/nick-pope-the-missing-tollbooth-rides-again/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nickpopewatch.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/nick-pope-the-missing-tollbooth-rides-again/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
The Spanish engineer and indefatigable UFO researcher Manuel Borraz
writes in the abstract of “Two Soviet Examples of Hartmann's
"Airship Effect": </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A
fraction of witnesses to spectacular fireballs and re-entries of
space debris are known to describe a shape surrounding the string of
disintegrating fragments, sometimes interpreted as windows in a dark
aircraft. A brief summary of two Soviet examples follows, including
the proposed identification of the space objects involved.</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
An article not to be missed:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69973799/Two_Soviet_Examples_of_Hartmanns_Airship_Effect_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.academia.edu/69973799/Two_Soviet_Examples_of_Hartmanns_Airship_Effect_</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
The Brazilian astrophysicist Luiz A. da Silva has just published a
daring paper in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
International Journal of Astrobiology</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Vol. 21 (1), February 2022, pages 9-31, entitled “Self-Conscious
Intelligent Technological Societies in the Universe: A Simple Direct
Approach to Probable Astrosociological Realistic Scenarios.” The
article’s abstract reads:</span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
present an alternative equation to estimate the probable number N of
self-conscious intelligent technological societies (SCITSs) within
the radius of the observable universe. This equation has only one
poorly-known factor, Pc, the SCITS’s formation probability, which
can be estimated within an uncertainty by a factor of 10² (10−¹¹
≤ Pc ≤ 10−⁹) by applying the restriction imposed by Fermi’s
Paradox. The SCITS’s formation rate for a typical spiral galaxy is
then estimated as ≈1 civ Gyr−¹. For a very optimistic maximum
life expectancy ≈10⁸ yr, the conclusion is that two civilizations
never coexist in the same galaxy. Our estimated values for Pc are
compatible with current biological and astrophysical evidence. We
also propose an alternative astrosociological classification scheme
which enables us to speculate about possible evolutionary paths
for SCITSs in the universe. The so-called ‘Closed Bottle Neck’
(CBN) scenario suggests that civilizations are no exit evolutionary
ways. We argue that simply there would not be interstellar travels
nor Galaxy colonization or a Galactic Club. Thus, Fermi’s Paradox
results eliminated, and the perspectives about the future of our own
civilization may not be positive.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Jacques Vallée joins Avi Loeb's Galileo Project:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/01/galileos-galore-now-including-jacques.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/01/galileos-galore-now-including-jacques.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/galileo-project-hires-jacques-vallee-as-it-morphs-into-baassaawsap-20"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/galileo-project-hires-jacques-vallee-as-it-morphs-into-baassaawsap-20</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
John Rimmer’s clarifying and to-the-point review of Ralph
Blumenthal’s revealing biography of the late Harvard psychologist
and alien abduction believer, Dr. John Mack. “Fascinating book,”
Rimmer concludes:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2021/12/separating-belief-and-reality.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2021/12/separating-belief-and-reality.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Colavito on the pseudoscience practiced by notable ufologists:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/garry-nolan-goes-full-ufo-talks-shape-shifting-psychic-projections-nonsense"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/garry-nolan-goes-full-ufo-talks-shape-shifting-psychic-projections-nonsense</span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Ross Pomeroy on Dr. David Jacobs’ beliefs in abductions: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Wikipedia about MUFON:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_UFO_Network"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_UFO_Network</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(10)
Manuel Borraz and J.C. Victorio Uranga continue reviewing the content
of Spanish events appearing in the book </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Wonders
in the Sky</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, deconstructing with a major
documental and analytical skill the “space” bias of such
historical happenings. This time they have studied the “extraordinary
flight of L</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">icenciado
Torralba from Valladolid to Rome and back.” The reading of this
essay conveys a true lesson in History. It can be found here:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/maravillas-en-el-cielo-9-cuenca-1521.html" target="_blank">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/maravillas-en-el-cielo-9-cuenca-1521.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Investigación
telemática” (Ciber-case investigation): on the advantages and
potentialities of telematics for the inquiry of UFO reports.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Terry W. Colvin (Thailand), Joan
Plana (Spain), J.C. Victorio Uranga (Spain), Manuel Borraz (Spain),
Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Matías Morey (Spain), Brad Sparks (USA),
Diego Zúñiga (Chile),</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Jochen
Ickinger (Germany), Hansjürgen Köhler (Germany), Andrés Duarte
(Chile), Dr. Ricardo Campo (Spain), Julio Plaza del Olmo (Spain) and
Juan Pablo González (Spain). </span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfDKN101mXIxyW_aUQYNrPZ4Ht3Iw1EA5x-qA_a793mb5VjVXCIDWJ8cdDmG0idPOxnfqaprF12yDMHMSCRPMNa5F1YCW1iTa7y0dl4O4b3KbETU61kdpvjwR_2wzmdeIId_ekARLQYxn6EzoTQG7xqRVHcW1xkOnBoNioHQQ6Zzq7q3F3vA=s3827" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfDKN101mXIxyW_aUQYNrPZ4Ht3Iw1EA5x-qA_a793mb5VjVXCIDWJ8cdDmG0idPOxnfqaprF12yDMHMSCRPMNa5F1YCW1iTa7y0dl4O4b3KbETU61kdpvjwR_2wzmdeIId_ekARLQYxn6EzoTQG7xqRVHcW1xkOnBoNioHQQ6Zzq7q3F3vA=w400-h69" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events
in Spain and Portugal, 1976</u></div>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/vspkk2mu"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/vspkk2mu</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bd7w538f"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bd7w538f</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y53kr56x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y53kr56x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx4YRb-Lq_H7SlBPgKtMKjd_en3O4DZ2oBCh4XhmPwKqsTdii7UhCqVqXxUqIcCbcO1hgL8IXrxI3vCyLOuBfX4DpPgjwyF0GOUKHXhOJFtA3bLh8_uEz2T4nRY8vtUdrUm81R-AGvxL2fsf1agDu5v02Pe_oZLwc9OmE14Q2uQTzTyjeXeQ=s2630" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx4YRb-Lq_H7SlBPgKtMKjd_en3O4DZ2oBCh4XhmPwKqsTdii7UhCqVqXxUqIcCbcO1hgL8IXrxI3vCyLOuBfX4DpPgjwyF0GOUKHXhOJFtA3bLh8_uEz2T4nRY8vtUdrUm81R-AGvxL2fsf1agDu5v02Pe_oZLwc9OmE14Q2uQTzTyjeXeQ=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The
First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></u></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1
(1950-1988)</u><span> </span><span>(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul style="font-family: helvetica;">
<li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"></h4>
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a></span>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2022/MARZO/15
(ES</b></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
banco de datos FOTOCAT recoge a día de hoy 12.806 casos.
Recientemente ha contado con la aportación del catálogo actualizado
de casos fotográficos franceses, por parte del investigador galo
Raoul Robé.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Nuevas
publicaciones</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
“A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act”: El 27 de diciembre de 2021,
el presidente de los EE. UU., Joe Biden, firmó la Ley de
Autorización de la Defensa Nacional para el año fiscal 2022. Por
primera vez en la historia, este proyecto de ley incluía
disposiciones para el establecimiento de una oficina dentro del
Departamento de Defensa para estudiar los Fenómenos Aéreos No
Identificados (UAP). He pretendido redactar (en inglés) una
descripción pormenorizada y comentada de esta “ley ovni”:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
ensayo ha sido reproducido en varias revistas y webs de Europa y
América, como UAPSG/GEFAI (Milton Hourcade), </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
UFO Chronicles</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Frank Warren) y </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Alternate
Perceptions</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Brent Raynes), así como traducido al alemán (UFO INFO). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
“</span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Exégesis
del platillo de Dudignac de 1955”. Se trata de la versión completa
del estudio llevado a cabo sobre la primera fotografía ovni
importante tomada en Argentina, un resumen del cual publiqué en la
anterior edición de este blog. Entero, se lee aquí:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69366955/Exegesis_del_platillo_de_Dudignac_de_1955"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69366955/Exegesis_del_platillo_de_Dudignac_de_1955</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Mi bibliografía actualizada, de 1965 a 2021, puede consultarse ya en
el siguiente enlace permanente:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Fenómenos
celestes inusuales fotografiados en una base naval aérea de EE. UU.</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
V.J. Ballester Olmos y J.C. Victorio Uranga</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
fiel corresponsal del proyecto FOTOCAT es Terry W. Colvin, originario
de Sierra Vista (Arizona), ahora oriundo de Hua Hin (Tailandia).
Colvin se especializa en navegar por los archivos del Blue Book de la
USAF en la web Fold3 y comunicar los hallazgos documentales a sus
colegas, el primer autor entre ellos. Recientemente, nos presentó
información sobre un caso que no conocíamos, un avistamiento visual
y fotográfico realizado por varios militares estacionados en la
Estación Aérea Naval de los EE.UU. en Willow Grove, Pensilvania, el
3 y 4 de agosto de 1952. Lo hemos revisado con el objetivo de
encontrarle una solución. A ver si lo conseguimos. Hay dos
documentos, uno fechado el 15 de agosto de 1952 y firmado por el
comandante de la USAF Robert H. Ray, comandante de la Oficina de
Investigaciones Especiales (OSI) del 3º Distrito de Harrisburg
(Pensilvania), con información enviada al comandante de la OSI del
5º Distrito en la Base Aérea Wright-Patterson. Consistía en tres
fotografías y una declaración escrita por varios soldados de la
Marina de los EE. UU., procedente de la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval
de Filadelfia. El memorando terminaba así: “Esta oficina no ha
tomado ninguna medida en este asunto”.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPVtfajA-2V4TiIfw9HcCUa1fA-hon_AYyw4pUtM-jzUZ82VlphMXnju3hXiV-QRgmDDhynjqCT8P0YWtNtbsJ-dKupBfs4FGGuzznhwMH1MHECuYmaDfh4JR4pMt36ADUntfaMP68IXjyeSGDv9lzeFlHhZa6fsFNWTTZWqoDi9o6S4vAcQ=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPVtfajA-2V4TiIfw9HcCUa1fA-hon_AYyw4pUtM-jzUZ82VlphMXnju3hXiV-QRgmDDhynjqCT8P0YWtNtbsJ-dKupBfs4FGGuzznhwMH1MHECuYmaDfh4JR4pMt36ADUntfaMP68IXjyeSGDv9lzeFlHhZa6fsFNWTTZWqoDi9o6S4vAcQ=s320" width="250" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Según
esta declaración, a las 20:55 horas (EST), el soldado de día Gerald
H. Swarm vio una luz de color ámbar en el cielo, cuatro veces más
grande que una estrella, ubicada al noroeste en un lugar al sur de la
Osa Mayor. La observó durante 45 minutos, tuvo que ausentarse
durante 10 minutos y al regresar el objeto ya había desaparecido. A
las 23:05 vio un segundo objeto ahora ubicado al noreste en lo alto
del cielo, del mismo tamaño y color, que se movía lentamente hacia
el suroeste. Lo estuvo viendo durante 25 minutos hasta que lo informó
a otros compañeros. Envió a James J. Kelly al edificio de
operaciones donde el camarógrafo de turno Richard W. Wade comenzó a
tomar fotografías desde las 23:30 hasta las 01:30 del día
siguiente. Era una noche despejada y tomó tres fotos con
exposiciones de cinco, diez y veinte minutos, con una cámara </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Speed
Graphic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
con teleobjetivo de 15” y apertura de 5,6. La declaración también
fue firmada por M.J. Reidel, así como por Kelly. Otro testigo citado
fue Stanley C. Chmielewski.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCfE9ZaQoc4O7-fkHrn9C1yJjsXAJ1PqrOjm_mqOdtKnmZkHhOCkqBcpmcyqI0UO9AuDiMvKmv6S_S1-LXC4R-df9Fwokr6P_IDJhwdZk-RSbXrOdPcZX9DTb43xamUp2S4chYrC1kPJH91JH1yxZmKVwPPloPNleHoN3BuA7KnuetywR-Q=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCfE9ZaQoc4O7-fkHrn9C1yJjsXAJ1PqrOjm_mqOdtKnmZkHhOCkqBcpmcyqI0UO9AuDiMvKmv6S_S1-LXC4R-df9Fwokr6P_IDJhwdZk-RSbXrOdPcZX9DTb43xamUp2S4chYrC1kPJH91JH1yxZmKVwPPloPNleHoN3BuA7KnuetywR-Q=s320" width="253" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Respecto
al avistamiento inicial, fue un punto de luz cuatro veces más
brillante que una estrella, visto en el cielo nocturno durante 45
minutos. Si miramos el mapa del cielo en ese momento, encontramos a
Marte con una magnitud de -0,12 y su característica coloración
rojiza (por ejemplo, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Arcturus</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de color naranja, presente en el oeste, era tan tenue como 0,15). En
principio, parecería ser un buen candidato para la observación.
Pero estaba a 19º sobre el horizonte suroeste (222º de azimut), a
90º del noroeste y por lo tanto distante de la Osa Mayor, como
podemos ver abajo (ilustración de la izquierda). A las 22:00 horas
el objeto ya ha desaparecido de la vista. ¿Qué pasa con Marte? El
planeta rojo está tan bajo (apenas 9,5º) que cualquier obstáculo
en el paisaje impediría verlo, lo que concuerda con el hecho de que
el ovni visto por Swarm se extinguió (ilustración de la derecha).
(</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Arcturus</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
todavía es visible, por lo que debe descartarse como objetivo). La
posibilidad de que Marte haya sido el culpable sigue siendo
considerable, asumiendo un probable error de posición por parte del
observador.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJATZ7vws7rFFFxb1xa6UBgfP-zk95leR1V_ywjSgROliTxeXhITwfpMr3uSoU32Rmq3LkUMlRAU-y6uFmNrLpIXf6a2iA3m7gN5AzqlMsId-4uv4d0YANf67Yh_KX_4G6iQDSHxJ7Llcn7wGTGd2dB0NuEHV1cjw3sZXOVWCDUqkxegHjVQ=s2759" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2759" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJATZ7vws7rFFFxb1xa6UBgfP-zk95leR1V_ywjSgROliTxeXhITwfpMr3uSoU32Rmq3LkUMlRAU-y6uFmNrLpIXf6a2iA3m7gN5AzqlMsId-4uv4d0YANf67Yh_KX_4G6iQDSHxJ7Llcn7wGTGd2dB0NuEHV1cjw3sZXOVWCDUqkxegHjVQ=w400-h111" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">Pero,
con mucho, la segunda observación es la más importante ya que duró
dos horas y media y se lograron fotos. Centraremos nuestro interés
en esta fase más extensa del caso. Estas son las tres imágenes (de
izquierda a derecha, con cinco, diez y veinte minutos de tiempo de
exposición):</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5nbGGHapmYXLrl-VqUD5NoFI8wsuQNRgVtAcaso7rdn4VI4qu01Zzv0Ms79wWK3pDYDhqNXlgskYK5qrS02yE6pl-vYCmgnRciFSDZcCDUd7UEqftsyBmunNX17-D20kbXLqW5orOPFSg-q6lLkxo-jVYZ2rBd7o5f6YdsX87LbwklTeGOA=s3592" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="3592" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5nbGGHapmYXLrl-VqUD5NoFI8wsuQNRgVtAcaso7rdn4VI4qu01Zzv0Ms79wWK3pDYDhqNXlgskYK5qrS02yE6pl-vYCmgnRciFSDZcCDUd7UEqftsyBmunNX17-D20kbXLqW5orOPFSg-q6lLkxo-jVYZ2rBd7o5f6YdsX87LbwklTeGOA=w400-h110" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Un
avistamiento nocturno tan largo, con imágenes que solo muestran
trazas lineales como esas es algo típico de un estímulo
astronómico, donde los planetas y las estrellas en tomas con
exposición presentan semejantes huellas paralelas. Nuestro trabajo
es determinar los cuerpos celestes responsables de ello. La primera
constatación que podemos hacer es que </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>las
imágenes están invertidas</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En otras palabras, si queremos comparar las fotos con el cielo de esa
noche hay que girarlas 180 grados para mostrar la posición real de
los planetas y las estrellas. Comprobamos ahora la toma de exposición
de cinco minutos. En el siguiente par de ilustraciones se observa, a
la izquierda, cómo se ve originalmente. Y, a la derecha, la imagen
una vez rotada. Hemos resaltado seis puntos estelares que dejan
huellas, una de ellas más intensa. A continuación, preparamos un
mapa del cielo con </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Stellarium</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a la 01:00 horas del 4 de agosto de 1952, cuando el camarógrafo Wade
comenzó a tomar fotografías. Júpiter destaca prominentemente como
un astro fijo en el cielo. Al lado, hemos incluido otro gráfico
ampliado donde los círculos rojos indican la posición del planeta y
de cinco estrellas cercanas: la estructura de las trazas lineales es
idéntica tanto en la imagen real (arriba) como en el cielo
astronómico (abajo).</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpIxpLw2gwh0z5_fkuPVXoexsh4OR_VKcHqsfNWDjywqocqdbygBGfafH_UaH-r2-4wGrRxo10D_cLRkFma9ibtr_sdL-v7sChiz567bnQ4YPRahWS2uvZaI9qJn_7QeLCblQSac7XyMulRr8kaWVGTEh2uRzYfgi7gV1h0qWXAIXBJtK57w=s2512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="2512" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpIxpLw2gwh0z5_fkuPVXoexsh4OR_VKcHqsfNWDjywqocqdbygBGfafH_UaH-r2-4wGrRxo10D_cLRkFma9ibtr_sdL-v7sChiz567bnQ4YPRahWS2uvZaI9qJn_7QeLCblQSac7XyMulRr8kaWVGTEh2uRzYfgi7gV1h0qWXAIXBJtK57w=w400-h174" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7aB-eGh-d99vTsTqcNouzBgYIbtKz282x3DDqnnT5BiMo5QsGXEm37nHy1IfztUPU3zOxtErcW6tcBfm3JEHOj7iDJZK3emLa_IOQL-vVpgqzABSMNWR2FjLSwaSMJdJYrSmpVX6Wl2W5QgmImn0jmZCEAYoXxDi1fIpqpCdk0uQC8K6lqg=s2759" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2759" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7aB-eGh-d99vTsTqcNouzBgYIbtKz282x3DDqnnT5BiMo5QsGXEm37nHy1IfztUPU3zOxtErcW6tcBfm3JEHOj7iDJZK3emLa_IOQL-vVpgqzABSMNWR2FjLSwaSMJdJYrSmpVX6Wl2W5QgmImn0jmZCEAYoXxDi1fIpqpCdk0uQC8K6lqg=w400-h111" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ciertamente,
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>fue
Júpiter lo que llamó la atención de los observadores</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
y las fotografías muestran perfectamente al planeta en conjunción
con las estrellas que lo rodean en la bóveda celeste. Es razonable
pensar que el segundo avistamiento, largo y colectivo, fue la
experiencia principal del primer testigo, porque fue solo entonces
cuando dio la voz de alarma. Y al informar del suceso y recordar la
observación inicial, probablemente la informó con errores de
posición.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Podríamos
repetir el mismo ejercicio con las otras imágenes, pero creemos que
ya no merece la pena. Sí mencionar, sin embargo, una pequeña
deducción que hicimos en la foto Nº3: las dos pistas luminosas que
muestra se deben a una breve interrupción del tiempo de exposición
y a un ligero movimiento de cámara en el ínterin, lo que provocó
que el esperado doble trazo se dividiera en dos mitades. Por todo lo
antedicho, estamos convencidos de haber encontrado la fuente del
avistamiento militar de ovnis del 3 al 4 de agosto de 1952 desde la
Estación Aérea Naval de los EE. UU. en Willow Grove (Pensilvania).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
finalizar el hilo administrativo tenemos un segundo memorando,
fechado el 19 de agosto de 1952, del teniente coronel D.G. North,
comandante del 5º Distrito, dirigido al comandante oficial del
Centro de Inteligencia Técnica Aérea (ATIC), también con base en
Wright-Patterson, con el envío de la información anterior. Excepto
notar que "la información contenida en este documento procede
de fuentes distintas a la USAF", no hay más comentarios. Si el
ATIC envió el material al proyecto Blue Book no lo sabemos. Sin
embargo, este caso no figura en el índice mensual del Libro Azul
correspondiente a agosto de 1952.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(El
lector puede acceder a toda la documentación desde las páginas de
Fold3, comenzando en los enlaces </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/12199814" target="_blank">https://www.fold3.com/image/12199814</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6982273" target="_blank">https://www.fold3.com/image/6982273</a></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Sobre
la nueva oficina ovni del Departamento de Defensa</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
secuelas de la publicación de la creación de una nueva oficina UAP,
inserta en la sección 1683 de la última Ley de Autorización de la
Defensa Nacional de 27 de diciembre de 2021, son tan variopintas como
se esperaba, y me gustaría mostrar al lector varios artículos que
enjuician y comentan el tema:</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEtXF7dujRtBJniI_tgFEAC3YChgv-DY1wjcEsp0YHbI7GH9cSE7UmoFObVymCws--wtiK7pDMY3YeywLvUuK9srarvkag6QQJAEM_lSu_M-ivQnfs8dJuFzY_LR7dV_wAc98bTpscglxYe2JEujAZ8w8feecgInwrigaqI6vHqryrFfSqOQ=s1322" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEtXF7dujRtBJniI_tgFEAC3YChgv-DY1wjcEsp0YHbI7GH9cSE7UmoFObVymCws--wtiK7pDMY3YeywLvUuK9srarvkag6QQJAEM_lSu_M-ivQnfs8dJuFzY_LR7dV_wAc98bTpscglxYe2JEujAZ8w8feecgInwrigaqI6vHqryrFfSqOQ=s320" width="192" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi
propia reseña, “A Commentary to the 2022 UAP Act”:</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/69401447/A_Commentary_to_the_2022_UAP_Act</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Billy
Cox, “Been a long time comin'”: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/been-a-long-time-comin"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/been-a-long-time-comin</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Red
Pill Junkie, “Will UFO Disclosure Move Forward Under Biden?”:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2020/12/will-ufo-disclosure-move-forward-under-biden/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2020/12/will-ufo-disclosure-move-forward-under-biden/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
disección hecha por Milton Hourcade:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2022/01/credulity-vs-rationality-official-uap.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2022/01/credulity-vs-rationality-official-uap.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
preocupaciones de los creyentes: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out?rl=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out?rl=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
portavoz del Pentágono dice que la nueva oficina UAP es solo la
continuación de la AOIMSG: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/is-a-pentagon-spokesperson-attempting-to-avoid-congressional-ufo-legislation"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/is-a-pentagon-spokesperson-attempting-to-avoid-congressional-ufo-legislation</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Relacionado
con todo ello, importa señalar la opinión manifestada por
Christopher Mellon, ex-Subsecretario de Defensa, acerca de que la
Fuerza Aérea americana “ni está ni se le espera” en el asunto
ovni (UAP), ahora que el tema se halla ubicado en un nivel superior: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
de sus afirmaciones es para tomarla en cuenta:</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Presentaré
datos a continuación que indican que la Fuerza Aérea y sus
organizaciones componentes en realidad detectaron miles de UAP desde
2004 hasta 2021. Es cierto que es teóricamente concebible que
ninguno se deba a una revolucionaria tecnología rusa o china, y
mucho menos a naves espaciales extraterrestres, pero el punto es que
simplemente no lo sabemos. Eso es lo que los convierte en UAP”.
¡Vaya! Miles de intrusiones en menos de dos décadas solo en los EE.
UU. Si por una lógica que admite Mellon, no parece tratarse de
vehículos voladores de un país extranjero y “mucho menos una nave
espacial extraterrestre”, ¿por qué no prosigue el argumento y
concluye que son objetos y fenómenos banales? Ovis, en una palabra.
Veamos cuánto dinero se va a gastar USA para llegar a un final que
se lo damos gratis.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Según
el calendario establecido por la “ley UAP”, no más tarde del 31
de marzo de 2022 el jefe de la nueva oficina ovni del Departamento de
Defensa brindará una sesión informativa clasificada a los comités
del Congreso sobre Servicios Armados, Asignaciones y al comité
permanente selecto de Inteligencia, incluyendo información sobre los
incidentes ovni llegados al UAPTF con posterioridad al 24 de junio de
2021. ¡Estén atentos a las próximas filtraciones (probablemente
interesadas)!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¡Últimas
noticias! ¿Se plantea el Pentágono clasificar todos los datos ovni
de la UAP Task Force? Vea lo que ha escrito Jazz Shaw en HotAir el
pasado 12 de marzo:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/12/report-the-pentagon-is-planning-to-classify-all-of-the-uap-task-force-ufo-data-n454860"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/12/report-the-pentagon-is-planning-to-classify-all-of-the-uap-task-force-ufo-data-n454860</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS
en la universidad europea: Dos enfoques</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
profesor Hakan Kayal (doctorado en Ingeniería) ocupa la cátedra de
Tecnología Espacial en la universidad alemana de Würzburg. Trabaja
en el desarrollo, construcción y operación de sistemas espaciales y
nanosatélites con fines científicos, en particular para misiones
extraterrestres, búsqueda de inteligencia extraterrestre (SETI)…
así como en la investigación de los fenómenos aéreos no
identificados (antes ovnis, ahora FANI, o UAP en su acrónimo
inglés).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
El objetivo académico es perfectamente legítimo, aunque me preocupa
el sesgo de agregar los ovnis en el curso de una investigación sobre
la vida en el universo. De alguna manera, muestra una conexión
preconcebida entre ETI y ovnis, ¡y no hay base científica para esto
en absoluto! Entendería una investigación neutral sobre el fenómeno
ovni en un departamento universitario de Antropología, Historia,
Sociología o Folclore. Incluso bajo la égida de cátedras de
Psicología o Psiquiatría. Pero bajo el paraguas de la tecnología
espacial, ¿cómo los alumnos van a prepararse en el conocimiento de
las trampas y fallos de los procesos humanos de registro, memoria e
interpretación de eventos inesperados y de corta duración, el papel
que juega la mala interpretación de fenómenos triviales, el impacto
de engaños y fraudes y, finalmente, los ejemplos de informes de
personas mentalmente inestables? Me temo que, por defecto, los UAP se
correlacionarán con vehículos espaciales, lo cual sería un
terrible error científico. Dicho esto, dejémosle hacer su trabajo y
evaluemos sus hallazgos al final del curso</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span>.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI8-C10xBs_6v1or0MRAxZn2v5k-Uc66lMOA8FAbIh3t8NS9uOrdZsXf6l40KcLsRpjMcOT47SIJM3tKWNdl9Swoo0-nI50jAtw4_Vbh_P0Yc8akS_QIeFveJZhk3jacTE_LnGb7wOab4xVqjTSvEqNKVL9SIZl-gs-FCjozw-5p9UOGduGQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI8-C10xBs_6v1or0MRAxZn2v5k-Uc66lMOA8FAbIh3t8NS9uOrdZsXf6l40KcLsRpjMcOT47SIJM3tKWNdl9Swoo0-nI50jAtw4_Vbh_P0Yc8akS_QIeFveJZhk3jacTE_LnGb7wOab4xVqjTSvEqNKVL9SIZl-gs-FCjozw-5p9UOGduGQ=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b><br /></b><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">He
querido consultar a dos respetados colegas alemanes, y esta ha sido
su reacción. Escribe primero </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Jochen
Ickinger, de la organización UFOINFO.DE</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></span></span></span><p style="font-family: helvetica;"></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>El
Prof. Kayal es sin duda un científico serio y reconocido con alta
competencia en su campo. Asimismo, su proyecto SkyCam para la
detección de objetos en el cielo es una puesta en escena profesional
y científica. Kayal también es el director del Centro de
Investigación Interdisciplinario para Estudios Extraterrestres de la
Universidad de Würzburg (IFEX), donde los UAP también forman parte
del campo de investigación. Mientras que para la mayoría de los
informes de ovnis se asume -correctamente- una explicación
convencional, al resto se le considera muy relevante. Su tratamiento
en el contexto de la búsqueda de vida extraterrestre sugiere un
cierto sesgo en la interpretación de los ovnis/UAP como aeronaves
anómalas o exóticas. Esta visión centrada en objetos volantes
también fue evidente en una reunión sostenida con Kayal por Zoom
sobre este tema y sobre otros populares como los ovnis de Bélgica,
los controvertidos videos de la Marina, o el informe de la SCU sobre
el video Gimbal, como referencias a supuestos hechos que se podían
analizar con datos, aunque no son datos objetivos sino suposiciones y
estimaciones acerca de testimonios de testigos. Los hallazgos de
décadas de investigación privada sobre ovnis, incluso a nivel
científico, tampoco encuentran suficiente reconocimiento aquí. Una
aproximación científica a un fenómeno posiblemente anómalo
siempre debe hacerse de manera abierta e imparcial y también debe
tener en cuenta otras explicaciones no anómalas. Queda por ver si el
proyecto SkyCam proporcionará evidencia nueva y convincente sobre
los UAP, y no solo luces ambiguas en el cielo de variada
interpretación, como muchos proyectos similares anteriores. Dadas
las múltiples apariencias de los objetos convencionales,
especialmente la creciente presencia de drones, el objetivo de la
identificación mediante software inteligente (aprendizaje
automático) sigue siendo uno de los mayores desafíos.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Otro
estudioso germano, Hansjürgen Köhler, del CENAP</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
ha tenido a bien aportar estos comentarios: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Subjetivamente,
veo algunas deficiencias en el enfoque de búsqueda a través de la
SkyCam, ya que no creo que este dispositivo pueda excluir todos los
posibles objetos volantes de origen terrestre. Entendemos bien la
amplia gama de causas que generan falsos ovnis y como esta se expande
constantemente, por lo que tengo mis dudas de que todo esto se pueda
integrar en el proyecto SkyCam. También me pregunto por qué mis
colegas astronómicos de la red ALLSKY en toda Europa, para la
captura de bólidos y meteoros durante tanto tiempo, aún no han
captado "UAP". Por supuesto, el argumento sería comenzar
con un primer paso, pero ¿no estamos enfrentando un gran peligro por
un enfoque falso? Tengo críticas profundas sobre las supuestas -e
infundadas- "propiedades UAP", las que se han enumerado en
la ufología desde 1947, en su mayor parte siendo malas
interpretaciones de objetos celestes y otros hechos por el hombre.
Después de 75 años de "caza de ovnis", la investigación
muestra que las propiedades de los ovnis son iguales a las
propiedades de los ovis.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
no es esta la única iniciativa europea en cuanto a cursos
universitarios dedicados a la investigación ovni. En España, y en
el marco del grado de Criminología y Seguridad de la Universidad
Camilo José Cela (campus de Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid), el
profesor Dr. Heriberto Janosch ha abierto un taller sobre
“Identificación Aeroespacial” para los alumnos, con una duración
de dos meses. La importancia universitaria dada se refleja en los
2,56 créditos asignados, cuando una asignatura completa de grado
tiene 6,00. Los participantes indagarán sobre las actividades del
GEIPAN francés y el CIAE argentino usando libros de texto como el de
Allan Hendry, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
UFO Handbook </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(Doubleday,
1979). El Dr. Janosch, de nacionalidad argentina y española, es un
reconocido investigador del fenómeno ovni, siendo coautor en 2013 de
la obra </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
notoria la diferencia de enfoque con respecto al colega alemán: en
este caso el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>workshop</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
está enfocado a la explicación de los fenómenos que el testigo
ocular es incapaz de resolver por sí mismo.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgG4t1SGzJxtmqFQTT5cRbF7N6w80gmm8-K13snh9ULclQXkZqIX1Z3jTnCd5j4Wo9OVlqFikRp1Foz4AZzAzwt_DAGUGmTUmSpa7EjnXmDD5Z0PfafM6z29r3-UZQX2ff9LZGGiUDSCBkMWbn8sRt2_Z5n98FD-0fg71WDHcgCt34cW8ywQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgG4t1SGzJxtmqFQTT5cRbF7N6w80gmm8-K13snh9ULclQXkZqIX1Z3jTnCd5j4Wo9OVlqFikRp1Foz4AZzAzwt_DAGUGmTUmSpa7EjnXmDD5Z0PfafM6z29r3-UZQX2ff9LZGGiUDSCBkMWbn8sRt2_Z5n98FD-0fg71WDHcgCt34cW8ywQ=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p style="font-family: helvetica;"></p><p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;">Heri
Janosch, a la derecha, en el estudio de V.J. Ballester Olmos.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihSH-rWhuPqDiTngp4PCY0B9R-waaCOB-LSRv_1RTce3DtUOb7NTfYQREkDeKDu9NTtuzreEIGDMDx02sxuyK_VC1fRV4vnZo_Fd1cqaySjmu6Y19uNr-QC5I5aR7RSvco3qeMeDGfAFGzOrLxfs63dHaVvQfXwQjeKbszeADYng0Pe6bUaw=s556" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="556" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihSH-rWhuPqDiTngp4PCY0B9R-waaCOB-LSRv_1RTce3DtUOb7NTfYQREkDeKDu9NTtuzreEIGDMDx02sxuyK_VC1fRV4vnZo_Fd1cqaySjmu6Y19uNr-QC5I5aR7RSvco3qeMeDGfAFGzOrLxfs63dHaVvQfXwQjeKbszeADYng0Pe6bUaw=w400-h90" width="400" /></a></div><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
este caso, he querido pulsar la opinión de dos reconocidos
estudiosos españoles. Primeramente, la del Dr. Ricardo Campo,
filósofo y autor de importantes volúmenes de investigación sobre
la casuística ovni en Canarias</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A
menudo he pensado que el ufólogo, al menos el que podría aparecer
reflejado en la iniciativa académica del Dr. Janosch, tiene algo de
botánico herborizador: siempre a la búsqueda de especímenes o, más
bien, de casos, de ejemplares, que llevarse a su despacho para
analizarlos y colocarlos no en láminas de papel secante, sino
codificados en tablas de datos. Ambas actividades tienen en común
mostrar una selección de manifestaciones del mundo real. Pero si una
pone la atención en una parte de la flora de una comarca o
ecosistema dado, la otra ¿qué muestra? Seguramente los alumnos de
ese taller se harán la pregunta cuando revisen los relatos extraídos
de las obras que va a utilizar el Dr. Janosch. (Desde mi punto de
vista, sería muy interesante que una parte de la casuística
seleccionada procediese de España). Y, tal vez, se hagan la misma
pregunta respecto a otros temas del mundo del misterio, del
pensamiento alternativo y posmoderno, que no es poco.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
seguidamente la del físico Julio Plaza del Olmo, ex-investigador del
Ministerio de Defensa español, que ha escrito algunos ensayos
estadísticos sobresalientes sobre la fenomenología ovni</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Tal
y como está formulado, parece una iniciativa interesante desde el
punto de vista de desarrollar el pensamiento crítico al estudiar
cómo casos aparentemente anómalos acaban teniendo una solución
mundana. Los alumnos seguramente podrán así aprender a evaluar y
ponderar aspectos como testimonios, datos y pruebas, que seguro les
puede servir de cara a su formación como criminólogos, fuera del
ámbito de la ufología.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/" target="_blank">https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/18668-ufo-form-UAP-Sky-Searches-The-Sky/" target="_blank">https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/18668-ufo-form-UAP-Sky-Searches-The-Sky/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/first-university-to-recognize-uap-ufo-research-as-legitimate-object-of-academic-research20220208" target="_blank">https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/first-university-to-recognize-uap-ufo-research-as-legitimate-object-of-academic-research20220208</a><a href="https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/first-university-to-recognize-uap-ufo-research-as-legitimate-object-of-academic-research20220208/">/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://ufoinfo.de" target="_blank">https://ufoinfo.de</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
<a href="http://www.hjkc.de/">www.hjkc.de</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio Uranga, </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31467521/AVISTAMIENTOS_OVNI_EN_LA_ANTARTIDA_EN_1965.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/31467521/AVISTAMIENTOS_OVNI_EN_LA_ANTARTIDA_EN_1965.pdf</a>
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" target="_blank">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a>
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
fenómeno OVNI en Canarias desde el siglo XVIII hasta 1980.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://lecanarienediciones.com/index.php?id_product=160&rewrite=el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980&controller=product" target="_blank">https://lecanarienediciones.com/index.php?id_product=160&rewrite=el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980&controller=product</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>El
fenómeno OVNI en Canarias desde 1981 a 2015.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html" target="_blank">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</span></a>
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
telemática</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
hacía falta que sobreviniera una pandemia para conocer las bondades
y ventajas del trabajo telemático. La investigación ovni a
distancia, que siempre hemos dado en llamar trabajo de gabinete (y
algunos cazurros “ufología de salón”), ha dado notables
resultados y repetidos éxitos en cuanto a la identificación de
casos se refiere. Nosotros ya experimentábamos con el estudio de
casos en remoto desde finales de los años ochenta. El GEIPAN
francés, por ejemplo, estima que el 90% de los casos puede
resolverse sin que haga falta una encuesta sobre el terreno. La
moderna tecnología informática, los cercanos recursos científicos
y los accesos ilimitados que proporciona internet ayudan
considerablemente en esta tarea. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
enero de 2022, dos antiguos casos de “aterrizaje” en España se
han resuelto de esta forma. Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga se empeñó
en estudiar una información según la cual el 7 de abril de 1950 se
vio en Salamanca un ovni posado sobre los raíles de ferrocarril a
unos 15 o 20 metros de distancia. En principio, según un artículo
de la entidad catalana IIEE, los datos eran innegables. Lo cierto es
que, concienzudo y escéptico como es, Victorio Uranga consiguió lo
que había publicado en su día la prensa local y, además, entró en
contacto con el testigo principal quien le respondió a un formulario
para recabar los datos precisos. Su investigación apunta con gran
seguridad al avistamiento de un avión moviéndose por el horizonte
salmantino, nada de un “encuentro cercano”. La versión
fantástica, dada a conocer en el boletín ufológico del IIEE, fue
sencillamente un relato distorsionado y exagerado del testigo, del
autor del artículo o de ambos a la par. Véase el estudio del caso
aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/un-aterrizaje-ovni-del-ano-1950.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/un-aterrizaje-ovni-del-ano-1950.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
la lista en línea “Anomalist”, formada por 100 estudiosos
hispanoamericanos, hace poco Ignacio Cabria se preguntaba sobre un
suceso sobre el que originalmente había escrito Manuel Osuna y que
publiqué en mi libro </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
allá por 1978. Una pareja de novios había estado viendo luces en el
cielo varias noches de diciembre de 1971 desde San Juan de
Aznalfarache (Sevilla). La noche del día 30, la pareja y el hermano
de ella de 15 años recorrieron el campo viendo luces que parecían
estar cerca del suelo y a unos 70 metros de distancia. Se tomaron
fotografías, pero no salieron bien tras el revelado. Cabria había
mostrado interés por la existencia de alguna investigación
posterior. No la había habido (como tantos otros informes que llevan
la etiqueta “ovni”, cuando debían llevar la de “sin
investigación”), pero Manuel Borraz ha asumido el reto y ha
encontrado detalles significativos: la repetida aparición del
“fenómeno”, la baja altura angular a la que siempre se hallaba,
la desorbitada estimación de dimensiones, la constante aparición de
la enigmática luz por el suroeste, la nula constancia de
observaciones por otras personas y la presencia a esa hora del
planeta Venus a baja altura sobre la misma parte del firmamento donde
había sido visto en las últimas semanas. En suma, blanco y en
botella. Ver sus comentarios aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69973798/Notas_sobre_el_caso_de_San_Juan_de_Aznalfarache_Mairena_del_Aljarafe_Sevilla_del_30_12_1971">https://www.academia.edu/Notas_caso_San_Juan_Aznalfarache_Mairena_del_Aljarafe_Sevilla_30/12/1971</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Centro
de estudio ovni de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
CIAE es el grupo de trabajo sobre UAP de las Fuerzas Armadas
Argentinas. Establecido en mayo de 2011 como CEFAE, fue renovado e
informatizado bajo la dirección del Comodoro Rubén Lianza en 2015,
para pasar a llamarse CIAE (Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial)
en mayo de 2019. Lianza publica un informe anual que da a conocer
todos los informes de avistamientos ovni recibidos y analizados
durante el año, además de investigaciones ocasionales sobre sucesos
más antiguos. El último informe anual estudia 45 informes ocurridos
entre 1991 y 2021. La CIAE se dedica a investigar aquellos
avistamientos de ovnis respaldados por evidencia (fotografía, video
o material), no informes de afirmaciones sin fundamento. Todos ellos
han sido explicados técnicamente y se distribuyen de la siguiente
forma: pájaros e insectos (40%), globos y objetos aéreos (18%),
artefactos ópticos (11%), estímulos astronómicos (11%),
astronáuticos (11%), aviones (7%) e instalaciones terrestres (2%).
La monografía correspondiente al año 2021 tiene 108 páginas y es
un verdadero ejemplo de “ufología científica”. El lector
interesado en aprender cómo se resuelven informes ovni lo puede
encontrar aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2021.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe_ciae_2021.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Citas
citables</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
era joven, solía leer el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Reader's
Digest</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
y una de las secciones que me divertían e inspiraban se titulaba
“Quotable quotes”. No pretendo abrir una nueva sección en este
blog pero, eventualmente, puedo incluir algunas frases que transmitan
rasgos sutiles o explícitos sobre el origen de las frases. Leí lo
siguiente en los diarios de Jacques Vallée, una entrada del 26 de
abril de 1975 (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Forbidden
Science, Vol. II</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Documatica Research LLC, San Francisco, 2016, página 295). Es un
diálogo que tiene lugar entre el físico teórico Jack Sarfatti
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sarfatti"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sarfatti</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
y el director de cine Francis Ford Coppola. Después de que el
primero dijera que los extraterrestres estaban en proceso de
contactar con los humanos, el cineasta respondió: “¿Oh, sí?
Entonces, ¿por qué no contactan conmigo? Sarfatti respondió
seriamente: “¡Pero lo hacen! Te están contactando, enviándome a
mí”.😂</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Lo
incomprensible en ufología</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Lo
que actualmente leemos en algunos libros influyentes sobre ovnis -u
otros con ínfulas de pretensión- es lo que se puede simplemente
definir como hacer juegos malabares con las palabras. Verbigracia,
discusiones huecas sobre el tiempo, la conciencia o las dimensiones,
hechas de verborrea envuelta en un galimatías semántico que no
conduce a ninguna parte, pero que parece intelectual y profundo
(exclusivamente porque no se entiende). Es el poder de la escritura
literaria cuando se trata de pensamientos esotéricos desprovistos de
una entidad física. Lo que lees en los libros de ufólogos notables
-e imitadores de tercera fila- es una técnica indistinguible de lo
que puedes encontrar, por ejemplo, en ese daliniano amasijo de
palabras vacías y sin sentido que presumen ser un diálogo que hace
poco leí en la novela de Ursula K. Le Guin, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Dispossessed</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(1974), páginas 313-319. Recomiendo su lectura.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Un punto de vista periodístico sobre el GEIPAN francés:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/exclusive-inside-frances-ufo-investigation"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/exclusive-inside-frances-ufo-investigation</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/why-french-officials-remained-silent-about-ufos-despite-incidents-involving-nuclear-assets"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/why-french-officials-remained-silent-about-ufos-despite-incidents-involving-nuclear-assets</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Philip Mantle escribe sobre Nick Pope: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://nickpopewatch.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/nick-pope-the-missing-tollbooth-rides-again/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://nickpopewatch.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/nick-pope-the-missing-tollbooth-rides-again/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
El ingeniero español e infatigable analista Manuel Borraz escribe lo
siguiente en el resumen de su ensayo (en inglés) sobre el llamado
“efecto aeronave”, “Two Soviet Examples of Hartmann's Airship
Effect": </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Una
fracción de los testigos de las espectaculares bolas de fuego que
dejan en el cielo bólidos y reentradas de chatarra espacial
describen una forma rodeada por una cola de fragmentos en
desintegración, a veces interpretados como ventanas de un objeto
volante oscuro. Seguidamente presento dos ejemplos soviéticos, al
tiempo que identifico los objetos espaciales causantes del
espectáculo celeste. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
un artículo para no perdérselo</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/69973799/Two_Soviet_Examples_of_Hartmanns_Airship_Effect_"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.academia.edu/69973799/Two_Soviet_Examples_of_Hartmanns_Airship_Effect_</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
El astrofísico brasileño Luiz A. da Silva acaba de publicar un
atrevido trabajo en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
International Journal of Astrobiology</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 21 (1), febrero de 2022, páginas 9 a 31, bajo el título
“Self-Conscious Intelligent Technological Societies in the
Universe: A Simple Direct Approach to Probable Astrosociological
Realistic Scenarios” (Sociedades tecnológicas inteligentes
autoconscientes en el universo: Un simple enfoque directo a
escenarios realistas astro-sociológicos probables). El </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>abstract</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del artículo dice así: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Presentamos
una ecuación alternativa para estimar el número probable N de
sociedades tecnológicas inteligentes autoconscientes (SCITS) dentro
del radio del universo observable. Esta ecuación tiene solo un
factor poco conocido, Pc, la probabilidad de formación de SCITS, que
puede estimarse con un factor de incertidumbre de 10² (10−¹¹ ≤
Pc ≤ 10−⁹) aplicando la restricción impuesta por la Paradoja
de Fermi. La tasa de formación de SCITS para una galaxia espiral
típica se estima entonces en ≈1 civ Gyr−¹. Para una esperanza
de vida máxima muy optimista de ≈10⁸ años, la conclusión es
que dos civilizaciones nunca coexisten en la misma galaxia. Nuestros
valores estimados para Pc son compatibles con las evidencias
biológicas y astrofísicas actuales. También proponemos un esquema
alternativo de clasificación astro-sociológico que nos permite
especular sobre posibles caminos evolutivos para SCITS en el
universo. El llamado escenario de 'cuello de botella cerrado' (CBN)
sugiere que las civilizaciones no tienen vías evolutivas de salida.
Argumentamos que simplemente no habría viajes interestelares ni
colonización de galaxias ni Club Galáctico. Así, la Paradoja de
Fermi resulta eliminada, y las perspectivas sobre el futuro de
nuestra propia civilización pueden no ser positivas</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Jacques Vallée se une al proyecto Galileo de Avi Loeb:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/01/galileos-galore-now-including-jacques.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/01/galileos-galore-now-including-jacques.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/galileo-project-hires-jacques-vallee-as-it-morphs-into-baassaawsap-20"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/galileo-project-hires-jacques-vallee-as-it-morphs-into-baassaawsap-20</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
El investigador británico y alma del equipo Magonia, John Rimmer, ha
escrito una reseña muy clarificadora del libro de Ralph Blumenthal
sobre el fallecido psicólogo de Harvard y creyente en las
abducciones, Dr. John Mack, una obra tan reveladora como fascinante:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2021/12/separating-belief-and-reality.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2021/12/separating-belief-and-reality.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Colavito sobre la pseudociencia de algunos ufólogos notables:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/garry-nolan-goes-full-ufo-talks-shape-shifting-psychic-projections-nonsense"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/garry-nolan-goes-full-ufo-talks-shape-shifting-psychic-projections-nonsense</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Ross Pomeroy opina sobre la creencia en las abducciones del Dr. David
Jacobs: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://eu.goerie.com/story/opinion/2022/01/03/pushing-back-former-temple-professors-alien-abduction-claims/9046668002/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Lo que tiene que decir Wikipedia sobre el MUFON:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_UFO_Network"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_UFO_Network</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
Manuel Borraz y J.C. Victorio Uranga siguen la revisión de los casos
españoles que aparecen en el libro </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Wonders
in the Sky</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Jacques Vallée y Chris Aubeck, desmontando con el máximo rigor
documental el enfoque “espacial” de varios sucesos históricos.
En esta ocasión, han preparado este ensayo que trata sobre “el
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">extraordinario
vuelo del licenciado Torralba desde Valladolid a Roma y vuelta”. La
lectura -y la consecuente lección de historia- la hallará el lector
aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/maravillas-en-el-cielo-9-cuenca-1521.html" target="_blank">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2022/01/maravillas-en-el-cielo-9-cuenca-1521.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
Caída de meteorito en la provincia de Ciudad Real en la madrugada
del 15 de enero de 2022:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4941601/0/meteorito-cae-cerca-aldea-ciudad-real/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4941601/0/meteorito-cae-cerca-aldea-ciudad-real/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
Detección de un bólido sobre el Mediterráneo occidental a las
19:20 horas del 18 de enero de 2022:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4943811/0/h/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4943811/0/h/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
Reentrada sobre España de un satélite de la serie </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a las 23 horas del 23 de enero de 2022: </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/tecnologia/20220124/reentrada-satelite-atmosfera-espana/644955502_2.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/tecnologia/20220124/reentrada-satelite-atmosfera-espana/644955502_2.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.xataka.com/espacio/satelite-starlink-se-desintegro-cielo-espana-que-casi-imposible-que-fragmento-te-caiga-encima"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.xataka.com/espacio/satelite-starlink-se-desintegro-cielo-espana-que-casi-imposible-que-fragmento-te-caiga-encima</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
Informa Diego Zúñiga, CEO de la editorial Coliseo Sentosa,
especializada en literatura ufológica -y de calidad, agrego yo- de
la apertura de un canal en YouTube en donde semanalmente se
transmitirá una versión 2.0 de “La Biblioteca Ufológica”,
dirigida por Sergio Sánchez, para hablar de libros dedicados a la
materia que tanto nos apasiona. Estos son algunos de los capítulos
emitidos hasta ahora:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE4nE1I8bsk&t=942s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE4nE1I8bsk&t=942s</a>
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(dedicado
a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cielos
despejados</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Matías Morey Ripoll) </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiuJCb5HTA"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiuJCb5HTA</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(dedicado
a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Extraterrestres
bajo la lupa</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Martin Kottmeyer)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdYLlGaGpw&t=1s"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdYLlGaGpw&t=1s</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(dedicado a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNI.
Mitología de una emergencia</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Pablo Vergel y Félix Ruiz) </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3At4HccuuJk&t=2064s"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3At4HccuuJk&t=2064s</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(dedicado a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>OVNIs
en Chile</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Patricio Abusleme)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">The
‘Tomato Man’ in Retrospective” (e</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">l
alienígena carbonizado de 1948): He recopilado una retrospectiva de
este curioso episodio de la ufología americana, llena de historias
de estrellamientos de ovnis, gracias a que hace décadas los autores
de los informes principales me remitieron las fotografías
originales. Este es uno de esos casos que subyugan, que hacen volar
la imaginación, pero que el verdadero investigador debe aprender a
controlar. Espero que os molestéis en repasar el artículo, incluso
aunque esté en inglés.</span></span></span></span></p>
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PERSONAL</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1) En
diciembre pasado, el veterano que firma este cuaderno de bitácora
cumplió la friolera de 73 añitos. Aunque me siento como 37 (¡ja!)
y tengo varios proyectos de gran calado en marcha y otros por
comenzar, en el horizonte </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>lejano</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
se adivina un futuro cese de actividades. De momento, vaya la foto
rodeado de mis nietos Lucas (derecha) y Matías y otra de Fernando,
todos haciéndose mayores y objeto de mi devoción. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk96963031"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggy3mf3wK0srAsTNhodOjVTPGF04SZmQ7eJbFpMkLg74i2iBaEg39_1OQb4A8AsCnhh_2LPT_rJWboQespXkXmyMDN1kqYzVs7mh4dc7XT9ELdO7hORlhhxtLEt7YrLg3gUHR3uLj8Vlnkib8Af50nQF2ZQzhsg6c1J_tlXrC5rBBXBWp3_g=s2000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="2000" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggy3mf3wK0srAsTNhodOjVTPGF04SZmQ7eJbFpMkLg74i2iBaEg39_1OQb4A8AsCnhh_2LPT_rJWboQespXkXmyMDN1kqYzVs7mh4dc7XT9ELdO7hORlhhxtLEt7YrLg3gUHR3uLj8Vlnkib8Af50nQF2ZQzhsg6c1J_tlXrC5rBBXBWp3_g=w200-h149" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgv9eADj5UpDtK0XyGngjYG0pJUu0iHY39rDPpbzdq1bfDO5UCyPyqVr6TpkR-HWk3hhwT4uTNnu1MI6WghmkwFH4K-sOcs_rBYq8RZi8alLBJ_owz-LJLjHWiCN3ocmgRBenHLPfyup-Wba7kCNDaO2dz44dHZ28mYU_idtKMElVsZ495wQ=s1600" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgv9eADj5UpDtK0XyGngjYG0pJUu0iHY39rDPpbzdq1bfDO5UCyPyqVr6TpkR-HWk3hhwT4uTNnu1MI6WghmkwFH4K-sOcs_rBYq8RZi8alLBJ_owz-LJLjHWiCN3ocmgRBenHLPfyup-Wba7kCNDaO2dz44dHZ28mYU_idtKMElVsZ495wQ=w150-h200" width="150" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) El mismo día que difundía esta edición del blog, Juan Antonio Fernández Peris y yo sostuvimos una interesante reunión de trabajo en mi domicilio, a cuenta del estudio que está realizando de los más de 400 informes ovni recopilados para la Comunidad Valenciana, muchos de ellos encuestados personalmente por él y sus colaboradores en los años ochenta. No he querido dejar de plasmar una imagen de nuestro encuentro.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLU7k0w92kwLuGUdJu0iSkYEBTfxUeD-e4yztPM2iaR0Y0VCjAmNXg0-LQdEyTk6mj0RDpShrZeSqxU7dCCpX0QzJ39IcXfHrj0V0aJOx2JNF20OnDyD5hL6L9C0xyhgnPk2FYZEzL5wSUHsxCAvggSSLs-GFpJaxgcMVb2knFURqs0u6dDg=s1050" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1050" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLU7k0w92kwLuGUdJu0iSkYEBTfxUeD-e4yztPM2iaR0Y0VCjAmNXg0-LQdEyTk6mj0RDpShrZeSqxU7dCCpX0QzJ39IcXfHrj0V0aJOx2JNF20OnDyD5hL6L9C0xyhgnPk2FYZEzL5wSUHsxCAvggSSLs-GFpJaxgcMVb2knFURqs0u6dDg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">J.A. Fernández Peris, a la derecha, y V.J. Ballester Olmos (Valencia, 16 de marzo de 2022)</span></div></span><p class="western" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Terry W. Colvin (Tailandia), Joan Plana
(España), J.C. Victorio Uranga (España), Manuel Borraz (España),
Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Matías Morey (España), Brad Sparks
(EE.UU.), Diego Zúñiga (Chile), Jochen Ickinger (Alemania),
Hansjürgen Köhler (Alemania), Andrés Duarte (Chile), Dr. Ricardo
Campo (España), Julio Plaza del Olmo (España) y Juan Pablo González
(España). </span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4nwHHawjSIe_SonzbBi-2017OsAuxNP_p2du8O_XZPlsCyDLt24yoSjQkWGvHj40r2zbsDCKa5_qXVIjsjd8XwcL4-2bfGMabLupvKVB8xKcJT9AoAG_ytUrfrI8owXHtvvODGil_QpoNpfF-VLLLrl_ZHvxmp_BuHTiOK_uuLAHmc1kggg=s3827" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4nwHHawjSIe_SonzbBi-2017OsAuxNP_p2du8O_XZPlsCyDLt24yoSjQkWGvHj40r2zbsDCKa5_qXVIjsjd8XwcL4-2bfGMabLupvKVB8xKcJT9AoAG_ytUrfrI8owXHtvvODGil_QpoNpfF-VLLLrl_ZHvxmp_BuHTiOK_uuLAHmc1kggg=w400-h69" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/vspkk2mu"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/vspkk2mu</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bd7w538f"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bd7w538f</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y53kr56x"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y53kr56x</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisc1d0orcnKuFY85kxfjv8Em2wE8JB4G_nUUcYOD88V3Duhplz5TvIkUWmHnJJhv4Ykbq9FipIzZRH6sWDDPbfuaI6PCkGxAJgWL0RYyEpCYV3c6rD4Tt8yq50Ur2vt0g2V5CxKNCN1F-8eSLSevrqxYR0QFkkJyQbhqN7p8XCOsfoMgqhXQ=s2630" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisc1d0orcnKuFY85kxfjv8Em2wE8JB4G_nUUcYOD88V3Duhplz5TvIkUWmHnJJhv4Ykbq9FipIzZRH6sWDDPbfuaI6PCkGxAJgWL0RYyEpCYV3c6rD4Tt8yq50Ur2vt0g2V5CxKNCN1F-8eSLSevrqxYR0QFkkJyQbhqN7p8XCOsfoMgqhXQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs
and Government</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" target="_blank">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" target="_blank">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="break-after: avoid; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1" target="_blank">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul style="font-family: helvetica;">
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p></span><p></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-8717168637134170232021-12-26T09:00:00.228+01:002021-12-28T13:14:22.730+01:002021/DECEMBER/26 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">E<span face="Arial, sans-serif">nglish language editing: Martin
Shough</span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Slow
but sure, FOTOCAT catalog continues adding cases and feeding new
references to the computer databank and physical archive, presently
with 12,784 entries, mostly up to December 31, 2005. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>New
Publications</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
am not very much inclined to self-biography, but recently a colleague
was questioning me about certain issues of my activities in UFO
research in the 1960s. To reply as accurately as possible, I felt
forced to check my old files with some detail. Flipping through
documents and publications from the mid-sixties, I found an
opportunity to provide information on the start and the first years
of my </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“career”
as an UFO researcher. I have compiled several articles and photos and
materials that may be of some interest. I have uploaded all this in
Academia.edu under the title “En el túnel del tiempo” (In the
tunnel of time) and this is the link where you can read (in Spanish)
the commencement of my personal, long and winding UFO trail:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Exegesis
of the Dudignac Saucer of 1955</u></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Argentina is a land prodigal in UFO reports. Presently, my main research field is the collection and analysis of the reports of UFO photographs in the world, i.e., FOTOCAT, a catalog of close to 13,000 events recorded on image.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> It counts a total of 899 cases for this country between 1910 and 2006</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> The importance of the input of this Latin American country in the international panorama of UFO “evidence” is revealed by the following tabulation of entries by country. Out of 114 countries accounted, only 18 nations contribute over 1% of the total cataloged cases. Argentina stands out as the third largest contributor, behind the United States of America and Spain.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The Event</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was in 1955 when one UFO picture was taken seriously enough to be investigated by the local and provincial police and then published in the official journal of the Argentine Air Force: Dudignac, August 30, 1955. This note attempts to explore this incident and the evidence provided. This is one of these UFO sightings that became national patrimony and one that every named Argentine ufologist has proudly alluded to without having investigated it! Somehow the incontrovertible UFO nature of the extant picture has been taken for granted, which in ufology means blindly believed. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dudignac is a small population center located 40 km from 9 de Julio, head of the department of the same name, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the first days of September 1955, the town newspaper <i>Actualidad</i> published a brief statement stating that "about three days ago" Pedro Navarro, a resident of Dudignac, had witnessed a "disk of trembling reflections" in the sky, which he was able to photograph. What follows comes from the Buenos Aires newspaper <i>Democracia</i>, whose September 6, 1955, issue devotes a detailed report to the story. The newspaper writes that "the appearance of a flying saucer ... captured by the camera of a young amateur photographer in a casual way" would have caused an extraordinary stir in the town. At the outset, it sensationally points out that a spacecraft “can be seen perfectly in the photograph, but it is lost in the film. That is why we show a cut-out engraving of the location of the flying saucer, as it was surprised.” This drawing superimposed on the scene is what has unleashed the imagination and credulity of many. Because, from this moment on, whoever looks at the real image (on the left, very ambiguous) actually “sees” a discoidal, material flying object, which is what the drawing intends.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWZcvlX-YOjXA75hmU6nPoH70xpeWLNv4oBm8p1NxONnLbmi-iLwtvchWQfKaB6I_kyGHf1orm-F7oKJbXjhGbon-iRgv3-fqgqZw-F6A73Ik3oMRp8rRTliRvJBbY0ayEER3-184M1KHSPRm6EGVSW14o2_4B75Iji4y6eXnlnsBpotWESg=s3015" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="3015" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWZcvlX-YOjXA75hmU6nPoH70xpeWLNv4oBm8p1NxONnLbmi-iLwtvchWQfKaB6I_kyGHf1orm-F7oKJbXjhGbon-iRgv3-fqgqZw-F6A73Ik3oMRp8rRTliRvJBbY0ayEER3-184M1KHSPRm6EGVSW14o2_4B75Iji4y6eXnlnsBpotWESg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us go to the "heart" of this information whose importance, until now, no one has highlighted. We have the main witness, Pedro F. Navarro, a 25-year-old young man, "serious and sparing in speaking," who made and distributed copies of the picture he had taken to his friends. One of them, named Soria telephoned to the newspaper to offer the “photograph of a flying saucer” and later went to the newsroom to present the image. Democracia appointed a reporter to interview the photographer, examine the negative and interview "several people who saw the aforementioned dilettante photographer who clicked the shutter." Navarro publishes a biweekly newspaper (Claridad) in his town and in order to illustrate it with snapshots he bought ̶ "a very short time ago and in installments”̶ a camera. Once young Pedro learned to handle it, he dedicated himself to photographing dances and soccer games. In the early hours of the morning of August 30, he set out to take some photos of the commercial houses in the town square.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The day was cloudy and somewhat hazy. I went to the square and when I was in the middle of it, I thought that the shots might fail due to lack of sun. I looked up to see the sky and saw a swirl as if the wind, that eternal shepherd of clouds [sic], wanted to play with them. But there was something else: a very diffuse bright mass that the eye did not perceive well. <u>It occurred to me then to photograph those storm-clouds</u> </i>[emphasis added]<i> in the hope of achieving a good celestial landscape. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After the photo shoot, Navarro went home for the development work, which he did himself. At first glance, he confesses, the film showed nothing but clouds; it was when printing a paper copy that “the outlines, albeit very faint, of a flying saucer appeared. My heart began to beat strongly”. Asked specifically if he saw anything else after taking the photo, he affirmed:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Yes. The clouds formed a great whirlpool, as if spurred on by a hurricane. But <u>since this phenomenon can be observed frequently on stormy days</u>, I didn't pay much attention</i> [emphasis added].</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Asked about others who saw him photograph the phenomenon and who also saw it, the names of Dr. Alberto Víctor Samprieto, Angélica Scattolini, his uncle Santos Cortés and Emilio Brindesi appear. The newspaper reporter visited Miss Scattolini, who confirms having been a witness. She maintains that, while sweeping the sidewalk, she heard a slight buzz: "I looked up thinking that some plane was crossing the space ... it was a flying saucer gliding at high speed." Its shape was like “a shallow plate; but around the edge it wore a kind of ring that surrounded it, separated from it by a small space. In addition, it had a dome on top ... that glowed. The shape of the plate seemed gigantic to me, and it was flying very low… below the lowest clouds”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is evident that this description differs from that given by the main witness. I am afraid it is detailing the appearance of the developed photograph (as we will see later), rather than the actual observation, one to which Navarro himself does not assign so many features (if so, he would have taken more than one photo, even if we think he did not want to waste one expensive film). Regarding the height at which the phenomenon was, we will see in better copies below that the phenomenon was integrated into the cloud mass and was not an independent object located under it. To me, young Angelica's testimony seems too precise and affected.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The reporter found Dr. Sampietro on the soccer field, where he was conducting a football match. He tells him that that morning, when he left his home to attend a sick person, he found Navarro in the square with his "little machine" and made a joke about it when he was taking a photo: "At that very moment he fired the shutter and looking up at the sky I saw a bright thing gliding across the sky, breaking through the clouds. Navarro was already busy by placing the camera in its case. Then he showed me the photograph and <u>what seemed to me at first a flock of clouds</u> [emphasis added], had become a flying saucer.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is evident, in my opinion, that the appearance of the picture and the subsequent emotion prevail over the definition of the observed, a phenomenon that had to be unimpressive itself because, while it was developing, the photographer had stopped looking at the point in the sky where it was manifesting. The mixture of an observation by the senses and a subjective interpretation converges in a narrative that the newspaper will further sublimate in sensational headlines.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The last-named witness, a local agent in Dudignac for <i>Democracia</i>, attested to the veracity of the photograph and added that there were other observers, although they had gone to work outside the village.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In January 1956, Oscar Fernández Brital (1930-2020)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, then a young law student who would become a prominent Argentine lawyer and intellectual who devoted his life to the Aeronautical and Space History, published an article in the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Revista Nacional de Aeronáutica</i><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (National review of aeronautics, RNA) regarding the case of Pedro Francisco Navarro, which occurred “at 9.30 in the morning” on August 30, 1955. In this version of the story, Navarro is promoted to "professional journalist and photographer" and his youth is ignored. According to the article, when crossing the square of the small town of Dudignac, where the church is located, he “heard a sound similar to that produced by a whirlpool that seemed to come from a layer of clouds that… loomed over the town. He looked up and seemed to notice that a portion of the clouds were moving, within the same layer, with a turning motion on itself, producing disturbances in the cloud mass. </span><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Thinking that it could be a rare meteorological phenomenon</u><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> [emphasis added], he raised the camera he had prepared and snapped a negative.” The photo was taken with a normal 35mm film, without a filter. Unfortunately, the image reproduced in the aeronautics journal had as little quality as the one from </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Democracia</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The magazine also added a schematic drawing of the “saucer”.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0Rd-4LRa9YDCh3eqJ5DqhcePL4RpDzBQQ7D0lQvCmln5cCkzXiGh5Bli_n3zE0kDWENzSfBeLtuuw1mY-vEai_63yzTbD3R1hT1RqRNIWmL0Nk7CQ6NMqpGLtqIXQVux6XbZbdNE6Mv_uVOjL1_BmaV8DhG2-XJoU-b_cwF9NYA_sUv8tyA=s2248" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="2248" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0Rd-4LRa9YDCh3eqJ5DqhcePL4RpDzBQQ7D0lQvCmln5cCkzXiGh5Bli_n3zE0kDWENzSfBeLtuuw1mY-vEai_63yzTbD3R1hT1RqRNIWmL0Nk7CQ6NMqpGLtqIXQVux6XbZbdNE6Mv_uVOjL1_BmaV8DhG2-XJoU-b_cwF9NYA_sUv8tyA=s320" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The columnist then recounts that Dr. Sampietro and Miss Sccatolini heard a noise “like a strong wind, which caught their attention because it was a calm day. They both looked up and noticed that a kind of strange cloud was moving within all of them.” We must note that the report in the Buenos Aires newspaper, previously exposed, did not mention the hearing of noise by the photographer.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We already know that Navarro developed the negatives himself and he verified, the article by Fernández Brital says, that there appeared "a shape similar to the designs of the flying saucers, but with greater clarity than that observed by the other two witnesses." The article does not indicate whether the author interviewed the witness or as seems more likely, he just extracted the information from that published by the press and from two official reports I will cover shortly. The writer takes advantage of this platform to deplore that in Argentina there is not yet "an organization dedicated to the study of this problem" and advocates one that "undertakes an action in accordance with the concern promoted <u>by the presence of what is still unknown to Man</u>." (Emphasis added). To place the author in a proper perspective, there is no doubt that Fernández Brital was fascinated by the subject of flying saucers. The previous year he had published an article on "three luminous phenomena" observed from the control tower of the Córdoba airport in November 1954.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> . </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The immediate dissemination of the events in the local press instigated a communication from Félix Keilis</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, assistant officer of the Dudignac Sub-Police Station, addressed to the 9 de Julio police officer, José A. Fragosa. The note referred to the "comment" that circulated in the town about Navarro's observation and photograph, "which reveals the presence of a circular device, deducing that it would be a flying saucer." The note, inserted in the RNA article, indicates that an attached copy of the photograph "presents a strange element in the cloudy sky ... indicated with an arrow." Obviously, what was photographed needed to be highlighted, to be distinguished, given the indeterminacy of the figure in the cloudy environment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Dudignac police’s file passed to the Aeronautical Directorate of the Provincial Police, whose inspector, Lieutenant Commander, naval aviator Salvador Ambrogio "ordered that any resources were available to clarify the mystery." There are hardly any remnants of that study, just the two pages included in frames in the RNA article. Out of the two incomplete reports known, I now rescue the one signed by two expert photographers, Commissioner Felipe Masera, Chief of Photography of the Buenos Aires Police, and his assistant, photographer Eduardo Pereyra, who analyzed the negative. The last page of the report (date unknown) reads like this:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>… with a shutter speed of 1/250 second, a diaphragm f/6.3 with normal objective that covers 45 to 50º with Agfa Isopan film that is of great panchromatic sensitivity, without filter. </i>[<span style="color: red;">See Note 34</span>]<i>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>In order to better illustrate this, referenced photos are attached which highlight the details of the sky. From the negative, a Contrast Process plate contratype was obtained (photo no. 6) and from this a positive (photo no. 4) that objectifies the preceding description.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">CONCLUSIONS:</span></i><i style="font-size: small;"> </i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">T</span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">he photographic negative and the positive enlargement thereof are Original and have not been retouched or tampered with.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzagQh6x-G6EBn99roLIUNY2-AufvzVHRWHZwkFt3LMGg3DIGOe_qh2OAvoTAmo9NZqOCusH-J4azJb3WDrHtyofIvJdf5AmuAhl6NDlSR7aUd_U-97qyJINE4gKRcpy-7OrSUPAJBCZKYpLwoewYY13lWbaBBfGjm2cDwhIdPViSiR_Ta2g=s5419" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2062" data-original-width="5419" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzagQh6x-G6EBn99roLIUNY2-AufvzVHRWHZwkFt3LMGg3DIGOe_qh2OAvoTAmo9NZqOCusH-J4azJb3WDrHtyofIvJdf5AmuAhl6NDlSR7aUd_U-97qyJINE4gKRcpy-7OrSUPAJBCZKYpLwoewYY13lWbaBBfGjm2cDwhIdPViSiR_Ta2g=s320" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Reproductions from the pictures of the police file. On the left, a "photographic enlargement received for the expertise", which includes an arrow marking the phenomenon. On the right, "the same enlargement made in this Police", that is, a more contrasted copy, to better appreciate the phenomenon. (Courtesy Roberto E. Banchs).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Although nothing is deduced on the actual nature of the object photographed, it is interesting to know that the negative had not undergone any manipulation. Regarding the positive shown, obtained from the original negative, a pencil retouching can be noticed, but it is only a suspicion that we cannot prove.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As for the second official study, only the final page remains, and it is included in another frame in the RNA article. It is signed by the commissioners and aviation pilots Francisco René Huguenin and Arturo Jorge Blanchet from the Directorate of Aeronautics of La Plata, October 25, 1956, which I reproduce below:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>CONCLUSIONS</i></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>1st) In a cloud layer there can be no displacement of a portion of it horizontally, so the passage of a cloud at a </i><i> higher horizontal speed than the others moving in the same layer is not a meteorological phenomenon.</i></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>2nd) <u>That although neither of the witnesses nor the photographer himself saw any object and even less one of </u></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><u> clear geometric shapes</u> </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[emphasis added]</span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">, as it is inside a cloud, all of these coincide in having observed this </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">strange cloud at the date and time mentioned, as well as in the description of the noise produced by its </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"> passage and its direction and approximate speed.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>3rd) That if the object was not visible due to what is stated in paragraph 2nd), it can be hypothetically </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>explained </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">that it has impressed the film through the cloud due to its extreme sensitivity or that the unknown<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">aerial object was constituted by radioactive materials capable of impressing photographic films through </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">opaque </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">bodies. </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[</span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">See Note 35</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">].</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Based on the foregoing, plus what was added in the expert report of the Photographic Section of this Police, we deduce that it was indeed true that an unknown aerial object passed through the town of Dudignac (Province of Buenos Aires) on August 30, 2008, this year, approximately from 09:30 to 10:00 hours.</span></i></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This report starts from the wrong assumption, in my view, that what was photographed moved "freely", independently, among the rest of the clouds. It only appeared to the photographer that it rotated. They state that no flying object was clearly seen, yet not because there was not one but because the clouds hid or blurred it, although they point out that what the witnesses saw was a “strange cloud”. The coincidence of the noise with the observation is understood as meaning that it came from said "cloud", while it could well have been thunder. There are no local meteorological data, but Buenos Aires data indicate light rain and low clouds (<2,000 meters)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. But the most surprising thing is that, despite the fact that neither the eyewitnesses’ descriptions nor the photograph depict any material object (except that pseudo-lenticular form) the authors of the report, predisposed as pilots towards aeronautical vehicles, make rather outlandish hypotheses. (See notes 34 and 35).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As for these two official technical reports, they can be considered irretrievably lost. Not only because of the many years passed but because in Argentina there was no center dedicated to the collection and study of these phenomena. In any case, also due to the limited period of time of conservation of the information in the Argentine Administration, a subject to which I recently dedicated an article.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To me, the declassification and recovery of official documents on UFO sightings, mainly military in origin, is a matter of singular importance. In addition to Spain’s UFO archives in the custody of the Air Force</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, I have also been concerned to make available to international scholars several documents related to old UFO incidents reported by Argentine official outlets, such as the details released by the Argentine embassy in Washington on UFO observations at the Espora naval base in May 1962,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> the information transmitted by Captain Omar R. Pagani (Argentine Navy) to NICAP on the case of the transportation ship Punta Médanos of November 12, 1963 in the Argentine Sea,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> the UFO forms of the Argentine Navy regarding sightings on Deception Island (Antarctica) in June and July 1965,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> the questionnaire from the Argentine Navy Naval Intelligence Service on a case that occurred in 1962 in Necochea,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">13</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or the Argentine Navy form corresponding to the UFO “landing” of Trancas on October 21, 1963.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">14</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Propagation</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Dudignac photo is on the literary payroll of many writers, Argentine and foreign. It is covered in the books of Vogt</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">15</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (“a very curious photograph”), Uriondo</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (“some of the most solid evidence that exists”), Ribera,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">17</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Álvarez</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (“the incontestable evidence of the expert opinion has established the veracity of the facts”), or Alonso <i>et al</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">19</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (“singular sighting”), to name just a few. Without mentioning countless bloggers or website writers over the years. The truth is that none of the previous references, nor the large number of articles published in UFO magazines, have contribute anything original, having drunk from one exclusive fountain, the <i>Revista Nacional de Aeronáutica</i>. International specialized magazines also touched on the event in 1956, such as FSR</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">20</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">APRO</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Bulletin,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">21</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> only to summarize very briefly what the RNA had released.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Critical Review</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In order to read the first skeptical view of this photograph we have to wait until 1994, when the Mexican researcher Ruiz Noguez exposed these criticisms of the sighting and the image</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>In the narration, several curious facts stand out …[among them]…when questioned by the Argentine Air Force investigators about the reason for taking one single photo when having time to take more, he answered that "the event itself would not have much importance", which clearly contradicts his first statement: "I thought it was a rare meteorological phenomenon (this is why I photographed it)."</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Comments of importance as they begin to question what until now had been the object of absolute credulity, due to the weight given to the reports by the raw police and by the aeronautics police, which no one had had the competence or interest to refute.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In further correspondence with the Argentine UFO student Rubén Morales, he evaluated photography in this way: <span style="font-size: x-small;">... it is very faint, you can clearly see some cloud formations on which some vintage draftsman highlighted certain edges with a pencil point, as photo retouchers used to do in newspapers at that time.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">23</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The restoration hypothesis is reasonable and despite the fact that the copies with which the two police teams worked (one at least) derived directly from the negative, I consider this to be a possibility that cannot be ruled out.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It took several decades since 1955 for a ufologist to finally decide to revisit the case firsthand. In February 2000, the clinical psychologist and researcher Roberto Banchs traveled twice to the small and secluded town of Dudignac. He first contacted the neighbors and later interviewed the main witness, Pedro -<i>Peruco</i>- Navarro. Of broken health (now deceased), it was impossible to access the original negative since “due to life circumstances, he lost all materials he had on the case.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> As if that were not enough, the cliché (film) was never returned to him by the Aeronautical authorities.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">25</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Banchs believes that the man ‒acting in good faith‒ crossed the town square, saw a curious figure in the sky (which has all the appearance of a cloud formation) and took the most celebrated photo. Despite having passed 45 years, the impression for Banchs is that “he is an honest person in his statements.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">26</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> In my opinion, it does not exclude an excess of “creativity” when interpreting what the photo shows. For a young man who wants to make a living editing a newspaper and taking photos, being the first Argentine to manage photographing a flying saucer would be a milestone.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dJlmHIFUQ_k/Ycj4mvA7hZI/AAAAAAAAC0g/EuPOcwS9VsoFoTlNLTPyYCIxF9Voh_b1ACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="320" height="105" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dJlmHIFUQ_k/Ycj4mvA7hZI/AAAAAAAAC0g/EuPOcwS9VsoFoTlNLTPyYCIxF9Voh_b1ACNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">On the left, Banchs with Pedro Navarro. On the right, the church in the Dudignac village square. (Courtesy Roberto E. Banchs).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Without the negative and without first-generation positives to analyze (only reproductions of various copies exist of this peculiar cloudy shape), an independent analysis is problematic. To facilitate a comparison with the existing high-contrast copies, the expert in photographic analysis Andrés Duarte has created a version of the first photo of the police file with an increased contrast.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQyzkw5mLe4oPCG-fEeohYrmk-G2OrPeZe2JMtUOYFAY4yB3NM3S-vO1VsV9V94uvvDh02IfRr0P__IK2onuwnRPEJHpRkLnMLf9_LA0MExeiYzGViTt8IFL_JUq8HWGZrRBONFJi8RAYLSuBa42AFIQtAHhKownzKgt2Cql2bs1Myt47U-Q=s4459" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4459" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQyzkw5mLe4oPCG-fEeohYrmk-G2OrPeZe2JMtUOYFAY4yB3NM3S-vO1VsV9V94uvvDh02IfRr0P__IK2onuwnRPEJHpRkLnMLf9_LA0MExeiYzGViTt8IFL_JUq8HWGZrRBONFJi8RAYLSuBa42AFIQtAHhKownzKgt2Cql2bs1Myt47U-Q=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Does this image reveal, contrary to what the police report indicates, a pencil retouching, to “highlight the silhouette of the phenomenon,” as Banchs also suspects?<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">26</span></span> The photograph reveals a rather frayed left edge, as would correspond to a whimsical segment of a configuration of possible nimbostratus (low clouds).</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Banchs has provided other enlargements of the snapshot in two colorations (from the archives of the UFO magazine <i>2001</i>). Duarte writes, very cautiously: “As long as I do not have another copy to make better comparisons, I would say that only the high-contrast copies are retouched, and I think the object is a cloud formation.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">27</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGmXE0vJFJBce1Q017ZYlorA4L61KUKKAAn5iv8gymjcSJThJN7NSZLfNR4Z34ASDFphvYebodh_QUlcgA2akp3LgLO2XDgBbIjecqSSV88RrKI04vc-p5RcffE8383Jn_qgch0wDk9mvuZKAn0P098kl7UG_JDspUJw6Wbww0b-ZLrNoqSQ=s9170" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2991" data-original-width="9170" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGmXE0vJFJBce1Q017ZYlorA4L61KUKKAAn5iv8gymjcSJThJN7NSZLfNR4Z34ASDFphvYebodh_QUlcgA2akp3LgLO2XDgBbIjecqSSV88RrKI04vc-p5RcffE8383Jn_qgch0wDk9mvuZKAn0P098kl7UG_JDspUJw6Wbww0b-ZLrNoqSQ=s320" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Analysis</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With the technical data available from the photograph, the experienced UFO analyst Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">28</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> has carried out a magnitude quantification test, which, despite its approximation, is illuminating. To answer the questions, how far away was the phenomenon and what dimensions had it? Victorio Uranga has performed the following computations</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">29</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>Angular height: Measurements have been made on a digitized copy that is assumed not to be cropped (the </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">negative is not available). The</i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> objective used in the shot was one "normal covering 45-50º".</span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>I understand that the focal length used ("normal") is 5 0mm, which in a 35 mm negative has a field of view of </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">40º horizontal, 27º vertical and 47º diagonal. The resulting data are just indicative.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>In the following photograph I have drawn a red line where I think the horizon is. Assisted by a photo editor, I </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">have drawn another line to the "saucer" that measures 446 pixels. The image has 1132 x 741 pixels and a </i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">viewing angle of 40º x 27º.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfLh64_LdRUR-hRiUPrjRhDerTBK_HWjn7cHQwFLdU9m4Y6yaIsgkYAKWm0ge3Z8ln-4fBX8SYdNKeKp-BPDqGDh6GrQPv_rGdII1ottrlv3WuW035rkso36eaR93wTAVaFqUVsksufzk97a8pMj6dko4XM02E0-nLld6dvDRSaEGCXcFaxw=s757" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="757" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfLh64_LdRUR-hRiUPrjRhDerTBK_HWjn7cHQwFLdU9m4Y6yaIsgkYAKWm0ge3Z8ln-4fBX8SYdNKeKp-BPDqGDh6GrQPv_rGdII1ottrlv3WuW035rkso36eaR93wTAVaFqUVsksufzk97a8pMj6dko4XM02E0-nLld6dvDRSaEGCXcFaxw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> Estimated horizon and height. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>Taking the vertical of the photo, the <u>angular height</u> is obtained:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">741 px equals 27º 44</i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6 px equals 16º</span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>According to the meteorological data available for this area, the height of the cloud base would be around </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>2,000 meters</u> (low clouds).</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i>Distance: With these data, the <u>distance</u> from the camera to the "saucer" can be calculated with a simple </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">trigonometric formula (sine of an angle is equal to the opposite leg divided by the hypotenuse), that is:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Sen 16º (0.2756) = 2,000 m / d (d: distance between camera and object)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">d = 2,000 x 0.2756 = <u>7,257 meters</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dimensions: The phenomenon is 310 pixels long.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisQKQXe1Bgw3IQxwpditKtpVPeBq15OlXT8KbFPAAjgf6T4E310iG2Q-Qbl0IApkVkAOBRAaNteQpG-6H-CrMICie3vFm3CuOud-5P7YvMsGvRBizeFD62sTtGkHVB2LK_s5bwuDyH7dr6dQ3229NU4eb5TjJiJ1NZEpc1HglOxH2_9F745w=s821" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="821" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisQKQXe1Bgw3IQxwpditKtpVPeBq15OlXT8KbFPAAjgf6T4E310iG2Q-Qbl0IApkVkAOBRAaNteQpG-6H-CrMICie3vFm3CuOud-5P7YvMsGvRBizeFD62sTtGkHVB2LK_s5bwuDyH7dr6dQ3229NU4eb5TjJiJ1NZEpc1HglOxH2_9F745w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dimensions of pixels.</span></span></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A 35 mm negative measures 36 x 24 mm and the image is 1132 x 741 pixels.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Thus, we have: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">1132 px equals 36 mm </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">310 px equals <u>9.86 mm</u> (T: size on negative)</span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The following expression determines the size (T) in millimeters of a star in a</i><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> negative of 35 mm:</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span>30</span></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">T = D x (F / 206265)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Where D is the size of the photographed object (in seconds), F is the focal length of the lens (in mm) and</i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">206265 is a unit conversion value.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">We can then calculate the <u>apparent size</u> of the "saucer" (D):</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">D = (T x 206265) / F </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">D = (9.86 mm x 206265) / 50 mm = 40,675 ”= 11º</span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">We now use the formula:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Tg Xº = opposite leg (DIAMETER) / adjacent leg (distance d)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Tg 11º = DIAMETER / 7,257 m </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DIAMETER = 0.1944 x 7,257 = <u>1,410 m</u></span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i><span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The following scheme represents the quantities found:</span><span style="white-space: pre;"><span> </span> </span> </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRBz2xKSaTcFC9TeCOKr-FfXzYCibeloawwSnxlgK6vLsAvZ1KDuIHYxylBvG4oPyC6V-3AKKts5ELV1fiZU4dniLNfiP7CqnY0WWWSkxINxeMeYGyYbsmuRPfNjMgX89Yj-oEfZihSrdYbFgoZo_SKYhJ8CdW6Qa8Q5JV6Sb_gaOvqMqXuQ=s795" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="795" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRBz2xKSaTcFC9TeCOKr-FfXzYCibeloawwSnxlgK6vLsAvZ1KDuIHYxylBvG4oPyC6V-3AKKts5ELV1fiZU4dniLNfiP7CqnY0WWWSkxINxeMeYGyYbsmuRPfNjMgX89Yj-oEfZihSrdYbFgoZo_SKYhJ8CdW6Qa8Q5JV6Sb_gaOvqMqXuQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Conclusions</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We will never know if the original statements published in Democracia, just a few days after the events, were one hundred percent accurate, or somewhat exaggerated to give greater consistency to the photograph of an alleged flying saucer. What is evident, from his statements to the press, is that the observation of the phenomenon did not produce any important impression on the photographer. To my mind, it was the shape of the image that emerged in the prints ‒after the negatives were developed and its interpretation as an extraterrestrial flying saucer‒ that shaped the opinions of the other witnesses.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We have a ~1,400-meter-long phenomenon located >7 kilometers away, at an angular height of ~16º, located in the middle of a cloud layer that was ~2,000 meters high. If it were really a material object, such gigantic dimensions would produce an immense number of witnesses, especially if it emitted noise at the same time. In addition, it would necessarily make a big impression on any photographer who, do doubt about it, would exhaust the photographic reel filming the phenomenon he was seeing. Neither one thing nor the other happened.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Everything is according to the color of the glass you look through,” wrote Ramón de Campoamor. But for an unbiased analyst with no preconceptions, the sole photograph that the main witness considered worth taking (given the low value he attributed to the sighting), shows cloudy features, with a very blurred profile on its left side. The calculated size of this aerial form (1,400 m) would be compatible with a portion of a group of clouds. This hypothesis is easily corroborated. Clouds in the atmosphere very frequently adopt this characteristic "saucer" shape. As a recent example, this one that appeared on Xalapa (Mexico) las October 25.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">31</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> And not necessarily lenticular clouds, but also others that are created far from mountain systems, as in the case at hand.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY71rf2yGPEB1NFpPEGLLfQg91XxZBOo55NzcLIiuz4U5qJ7x8MLu3D8OPC2gQpnws5UnlgaWVpIvrMNaw2SDCqNYnessb0LQoU1OYwrIsrS-tYRxhWfziCjmneBkbv_NDYEjChegY2QRBr9sYALGREVb1CNBpDflCw2AXpFxu6P7Gy1AYLw=s696" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="696" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY71rf2yGPEB1NFpPEGLLfQg91XxZBOo55NzcLIiuz4U5qJ7x8MLu3D8OPC2gQpnws5UnlgaWVpIvrMNaw2SDCqNYnessb0LQoU1OYwrIsrS-tYRxhWfziCjmneBkbv_NDYEjChegY2QRBr9sYALGREVb1CNBpDflCw2AXpFxu6P7Gy1AYLw=w200-h150" width="200" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Jorge Briones / Agencia Informativa Alor Noticias.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As for the photographic plate that commonly circulates, it appears to show external and internal profiles retouched in pencil to recreate the standard shape of the flying saucer, but this is only an unconfirmed assumption. In sum, we have a young, dilettante photographer and amateur journalist who, shortly after buying his first camera, sees a curious cloud in the sky and takes a single photo of it, without attaching it much importance. This apprentice in the art of portrait develops the reel and discovers a shape in the prints that resembles the archetypal image of the “flying saucer” in the movies. I think the role played here by a <i>pareidolia</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> effect is very significant. This is a very common psychological phenomenon for which we believe to see images, shapes and faces where there are none. In fact, searching for familiar images in the clouds is done as an amusement, not only for kids. It is a trick our brain does, assigning known representations to unusual or new shapes. The following large blow-up of the police print of the Navarro photograph (retouched or not) actually shows a cloud in the shape of the cinematographic flying saucer that already in 1955 everyone had in mind (for example, the famous </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The Day the Earth Stood Still</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, 1951).</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: blue;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicpY_ml5uqMpLmzbASPScNfUngPkjikyNIE_IBMiz-luIpb5tr8PB9fafHwKlUfI0dqvBk62HF0PK12nYkgztkmlV2aZFaRSd_nzehlx2LrSbteeVzqOJAYV36QebeW4MXsHmnr4zsguOYnyZktf2hi2QbWFClPvw2vso0tvEI1EhcXZeDNQ=s2835" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="2835" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicpY_ml5uqMpLmzbASPScNfUngPkjikyNIE_IBMiz-luIpb5tr8PB9fafHwKlUfI0dqvBk62HF0PK12nYkgztkmlV2aZFaRSd_nzehlx2LrSbteeVzqOJAYV36QebeW4MXsHmnr4zsguOYnyZktf2hi2QbWFClPvw2vso0tvEI1EhcXZeDNQ=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The case is far from being forgotten. This same year, on its 66th anniversary, a Buenos Aires newspaper published a reminder of the event. But times have changed, and media are nowadays more dependable than in the past. This time, the reporter's comment ends like this: "With scientific rigor, so far it has not been possible to verify that more advanced civilizations from other galaxies can reach the Earth."</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">33</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> A great difference in 2021 <i>versus</i> the use of terms such as "extraterrestrial spacecraft” or “saucer” from the newspaper of 1955. In summary, as has happened on so many occasions around the world, it is the tabloid media and the gullible ufologists who ascribe a transcendence to events that do not have it. This is how the myth was created.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “The FOTOCAT Database: A Tool for the Present and the Future,” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fotocat-tool-presentation" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://tinyurl.com/fotocat-tool-presentation</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(2) The FOTOCAT databank generally closes by December 31, 2005, with some exceptions. One is Argentina, for which the catalog extends one more year for case entry purposes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(3) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9z55xf">https://tinyurl.com/2p9z55xf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(4) Oscar Fernández Brital, “El plato volador de Dudignac” (The Dudignac flying saucer), <i>Revista Nacional de Aeronáutica</i>, No. 166, January 1956, pages 24-25, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49206794/El_plato_volador_de_Dudignac" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/49206794/El_plato_volador_de_Dudignac</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(5) <a href="https://www.academia.edu/49207187/Tres_extranos_fenomenos_luminosos">https://www.academia.edu/49207187/Tres_extranos_fenomenos_luminosos</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(6) Erroneously spelled as Kailis in the RNA article.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(7) <a href="http://infometeoba.blogspot.com/">http://infometeoba.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(8) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Argentina: Desclasificación OVNI-UFO Declassification,” </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_UFO_Declassification">https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_UFO_Declassification</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(9) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI desclasificados -Online,” (UFO files declassified-Online), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(10) <a href="https://www.academia.edu/42269478/Espora_Naval_Air_Base_UFO_sighting_1962">https://www.academia.edu/42269478/Espora_Naval_Air_Base_UFO_sighting_1962</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(11) <a href="https://www.academia.edu/41963639/November_12_1963_Punta_Medanos_ship_UFO_sighting">https://www.academia.edu/41963639/November_12_1963_Punta_Medanos_ship_UFO_sighting</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(12) V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Borraz, H. Janosch and J.C. Victorio Uranga, “Formularios OVNI de la Armada Argentina, 1965”, </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(13) Roberto E. Banchs, “Formulario OVNI de la Armada Argentina, 1962”,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962_By_Roberto_E_Banchs">https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962_By_Roberto_E_Banchs</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(14) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Formulario OVNI de la Armada Argentina, 1963”,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(15) Cristián Vogt, El misterio de los platos voladores, La Mandrágora (Buenos Aires), 1956, pages 39-40.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(16) Oscar Adolfo Uriondo, Objetos aéreos no identificados. Un enigma actual, Buenos Aires, 1965, pages 95-98.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(17) Antonio Ribera, “Platillos Volantes” en Iberoamérica y España, Pomaire (Barcelona), 1968, page 70.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(18) Emilio Álvarez Ojea, ¡Confirmado! Llegaron los OVNIS, Luis Laserre (Buenos Aires), 178, pages 175-177 & 184.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(19) Manuel Alonso, J.M. Fernández Diéguez, Hugo Millien, Mario R. Monteverde, Salvador Rossito, Ana Laura Spina and Marcos Taire, Argentina, tierra de OVNIS, Balcón (Buenos Aires), 1978, pages 90-92.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(20) <i>Flying Saucer Review</i>, Vol. 2, No. 2, February-March 1956, page 5.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(21) <i>The APRO Bulletin</i>, November 1956, page 3.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(22) Luis Ruiz Noguez, “Foto Navarro,” <i>Perspectivas Ufológicas</i>, Year 1, No. 3, September 1994, pages 22-23, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/hynkf5a6">https://tinyurl.com/hynkf5a6</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(23) Rubén Morales, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, March 25, 2002.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(24) Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, April 9, 2002.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(25) Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, November 4, 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(26) Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, December 11, 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(27) Andrés Duarte, E-mails to V.J. Ballester Olmos, June 29, July 17, and December 19, 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(28) Misterios del Aire (Air mysteries), <a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(29) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, December 6, 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(30), Francisco Violat Bordoniu and Esther Martí Mateos, Guía del observador planetario, Equipo Sirius, S.A. (Madrid), 1995, page 251.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(31) <a href="http://alornoticias.com.mx/noticias/no-era-un-ovni-meteorologos-explican-fenomeno-en-el-cielo-de-xalapa/">http://alornoticias.com.mx/noticias/no-era-un-ovni-meteorologos-explican-fenomeno-en-el-cielo-de-xalapa/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(32) <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(33) <i>El 9 de Julio</i>, August 30, 2021, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.diarioel9dejulio.com.ar/noticia/5329">https://www.diarioel9dejulio.com.ar/noticia/5329</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(34) Our consultant Andrés Duarte has pointed out that “There existed Agfa Isopan films of different sensitivities, but among the data we have it is not specified which of them was used, so it cannot be determined with certainty if that film was of high sensitivity or not, but the 1/250 second shutter is typical of a photograph taken with normal sensitivity film when the aperture is f / 6.3, and it is cloudy.” (E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, December 17, 2021).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(35) “Regarding the conclusions of the experts, the sensitivity of a panchromatic film has no relation to the possibility of improving the visualization of the image of an object that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye, unless the photo had been taken in the darkness, then that hypothesis regarding sensitivity is incorrect, regardless of the sensitivity of the film. Regarding the radiation emitted by radioactive materials (ionizing radiation), they do not generate photographic images because they are almost not refracted in the lenses, said radiation can only veil the photographs, or at most create shadows, so the hypothesis referring to the radioactive materials is also wrong.” (E-mail from Andrés Duarte to V.J. Ballester Olmos, December 17, 2021).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Acknowledgments: To Roberto Enrique Banchs, whose invaluable help has been instrumental in the preparation of this report. To Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, for his calculations on the magnitudes of the phenomenon. To Martin Shough for editing. To Leopoldo Zambrano, Juan Pablo González, Marcelo Metayer, Alejandro Agostinelli, Commodore Rubén Lianza, Andrés Duarte, and Matías Morey for their contributions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(A full report on this investigation will be published January 2022).</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Porto
Alegre, Brazil, January 10, 1977</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
(By Wim van Utrecht, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Caelestia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Belgium)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
March 1977, the Cosmic Brotherhood of Cruz do Sul, a flying saucer
group based in Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul, established under the
teachings of American guru-contactee George Adamski,</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
submitted information to the Belgian SOBEPS about a UFO sighting that
reportedly happened two months earlier in the city of Porto Alegre.
In its September 1977 edition, the SOBEPS journal </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Inforespace</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
published the details of several UFO incidents from the region of
Porte Alegre, all having occurred in January of that year, including
the one detailed here, credited to Brazilian correspondent Victor
Soares.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEileB3hLcjMqIXJ84qONCtG1Y26EIaaqUoYhNMpgNHyfkQA4TIqRhsXAj1U-kiZrh03_d7mj_2bF-JqDmEJeHTsuuzC1iUucnWLuuKFkF9ODu3pn7gZsbvONRcSOEV0_RgHiFX5KjHJU0aWDuH8FDq3UdNiO20wCD-w-R4y3sXWpTGjVjP1EA=s1575" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1233" data-original-width="1575" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEileB3hLcjMqIXJ84qONCtG1Y26EIaaqUoYhNMpgNHyfkQA4TIqRhsXAj1U-kiZrh03_d7mj_2bF-JqDmEJeHTsuuzC1iUucnWLuuKFkF9ODu3pn7gZsbvONRcSOEV0_RgHiFX5KjHJU0aWDuH8FDq3UdNiO20wCD-w-R4y3sXWpTGjVjP1EA=w200-h157" width="200" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">At
around 10 p.m. on January 10, 1977, the staff of the press agency
Caldas Junior, publisher of </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">several</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">
newspapers, received some fifteen calls signaling the presence of a
luminous flying object over Porto Alegre. Immediately, reporters
Damião Ribas (27) and Afonso Abraham (23) took their car and headed
towards the sighting location. Upon arrival, they spotted a bright
object, sometimes stationary, sometimes moving. According to Ribas,
the object had “a very strong luminosity, was white in color, and
moved at a high speed.” In its inferior part was a light source
“from which rays went downward." A sound was heard that
resembled the buzzing of bees. The luminous object had an oval shape
and a large apparent size, “similar to that of a basketball.”
After about 20 minutes they saw it move towards the village of
Guaiba, where it was lost from sight.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Both
reporters took pictures of the nocturnal light, and so did other
witnesses. The following day, some of the photos were published in
the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Folha
da Manhã </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
in the </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Folha
da Tarde</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
the morning and evening edition of one of the papers published by
Caldas Junior. The photos by Ribas were taken with a 300mm lens.
Shutter speed was set at bulb, aperture at f/4.5. A wooden panel was
used as a support. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC3yBZI7XRJD1zq-VpxQC22ZrpEQkl7-xifuGDudtKNeG1IzdvuZqCqJTMnde3wK-K3sXkz0iYgWDQFAVC2nR2c0jf4n-CJffvbHHotmLRZ1jGi5SRR2KsziS3wA2bcRa1Re0afY4faYFepsXIeflw_VRwXsVjK4QDzLcMvBE3IqoRZNRggg=s2681" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1811" data-original-width="2681" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC3yBZI7XRJD1zq-VpxQC22ZrpEQkl7-xifuGDudtKNeG1IzdvuZqCqJTMnde3wK-K3sXkz0iYgWDQFAVC2nR2c0jf4n-CJffvbHHotmLRZ1jGi5SRR2KsziS3wA2bcRa1Re0afY4faYFepsXIeflw_VRwXsVjK4QDzLcMvBE3IqoRZNRggg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">January
10, 1977, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). The only picture
available. © Damião Ribas.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
was first thought that Venus, with magnitude -3.92 and sitting
low on the western horizon at the time of the sighting, was
responsible for the object in the photograph. However, considering
the "dense cloud layers", the "heavy rain" and
the fact that the object was said to have been "larger than the
full moon," this theory seems rather unlikely. It appears to us
that there is a much better candidate to explain what the reporters
saw and photographed, namely the searchlight of a helicopter. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Ribas
and Abraham’s description of an object with "a light source in
its inferior part from which rays went downward" is endorsed by
two other reporters from the same press agency, one of which was the
45-year-old Waldomiro Costa Soares (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Inforespace</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> No.
35, pp. 31-32). That same January 10</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Costa Soares and his colleague were driving southeast from the
neighborhood of Pétropolis towards the Universidad Católica when
they spotted a bright point of light in the sky. They situated the
luminous object in the east, straight above the flight corridor near
the airport of Salgado Filho, just north of Porte Alegre. As they
approached, the brightness of the light became similar to that of the
landing lights of an airplane. The men now discerned a "rounded
shape in an inclined position," its size “bigger than that of
the full moon." The object appeared to be "silver in
color." At the bottom center there was "some sort of
spotlight that was sending beams towards the ground." Like Ribas
and Abraham, Costa Soares and his companion asserted that the object
was maneuvering below the dense clouds. The men finally saw the
object disappear towards the southwest, i.e., towards the same
direction Ribas and Abraham saw their UFO fly out of sight. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicKd3o-mkQ3JA4kIktu7rnLWBlAV-JKQh5pzqomL9P6g0LG4IJ9rPGlxFrSWv8scuAWIGIDR_F88ZtBRNyOhOVQvM4f91QPLYhBEqpSlSqYD1eombbSlMHciztY_GfRE2b0U0SW_6abjOkNndx_1JIQ7BQfz7llKCKOEYrhlF7vwLeOyJNng=s2047" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="2047" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicKd3o-mkQ3JA4kIktu7rnLWBlAV-JKQh5pzqomL9P6g0LG4IJ9rPGlxFrSWv8scuAWIGIDR_F88ZtBRNyOhOVQvM4f91QPLYhBEqpSlSqYD1eombbSlMHciztY_GfRE2b0U0SW_6abjOkNndx_1JIQ7BQfz7llKCKOEYrhlF7vwLeOyJNng=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US">Left: the object as sketched by Damião Ribas. Right: Waldomiro </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span lang="en-US">Costa
Soares’ drawing. Images borrowed from </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span lang="en-US"><i>Inforespace</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span lang="en-US">
No. 35, September 1977.</span></span></span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Considering
that both sightings occurred in the same city and at the same time,
it is logical to assume that they were of one and the same object.
Under the given circumstances (heavy rain, witnesses located in the
center of a major city, light first seen in the east), it is very
unlikely that Costa Soares and his colleague were fooled by Venus. At
10 p.m. the planet was sitting near the western horizon. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Not
only would the glare of a helicopter spotlight seen under an inclined
angle take the shape of an oval, as can be seen in Ribas' photograph,
but a helicopter would also explain how an object making "fast
movements" can remain in sight for as long as 20 minutes. The
mentioned “inclined position” is also typical of a helicopter.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Last
but not least, there's the buzzing bee sound reported by Ribas and
Abraham </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(and
apparently also heard by another witness, whose name is not mentioned
in the SOBEPS article). That, too, is consistent with the rotor sound
of a helicopter, especially if the sound is partly masked by pouring
rain.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Perhaps
not only the press agency received phone calls of a UFO that evening.
Witnesses may also have contacted the city's authorities, after which
the police or the military decided to send a helicopter in the air to
investigate, causing additional reports. Whilst the initial sightings
may have been triggered by Venus shining brightly in a clear part of
the sky below the clouds (but no direction, altitude nor duration are
mentioned, so a fireball meteor is not to be excluded for these
earlier sightings either), I favor the idea that what the four
reporters saw and photographed later that night was a helicopter with
a searchlight. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">An
alternative explanation would be a movable spotlight projecting an
oval patch on the low cloud deck. In that case, the buzzing sound
would have had no connection with the sighting. However, I feel that
the light in the photograph is too bright, and its edges too sharply
defined for it to depict an illuminated patch on a cloud. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Claude Bourtembourg,</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> “</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">De
nouveaux cas Brésiliens,</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">”</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Inforespace</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
No. 35, September 1977, pp. 29-33.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>On,
Around, and Revolving the UAPTF</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
believe that some contemporary American politicians are blinded by
recent news, legislation, reports, and the corresponding media track
on UAPs (formerly UFOs). They are just newcomers to the issue and
fully unaware of 70 years of reports and research behind flying
saucers and UFOs, therefore we are running the risk of starting again
from zero and reinventing the wheel. Are these politicians using this
fashionable topic to assert themselves in the political and media
panorama in the United States? Some of them seem to think they are
charged with a UFO mission, Rep. Rubén Gallego (Democrat, Arizona),
or Senator </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">for
Florida Marco Rubio. Last September, Mark Warner (Democrat for
Virginia), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
introduced S. 2610 into the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2022.
As reporter Billy Cox writes: “Called Support For and Oversight Of
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, it orders the Secretary of
Defense and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to
immediately release UFO data [that is supposed to exist and is
hidden] to the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force. From there, it instructs
the UAPTF to produce quarterly updates to the Congress.” The House
was even more overwhelming. Cox continues: “In its National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R. 4350 calls for scrapping
the UAPTF altogether. In its place, within 180 days of the Act’s
passage, the Secretary of Defense will work with the DNI to establish
a formal UFO research office. And no later than 12/31/22, this joint
project will be required to present to the appropriate congressional
committees a report on unidentified aerial phenomena.” There
follows a list of duties regarding standardized reporting,
cataloguing procedures, coordination with other federal agencies,
info-sharing with international allies, and issuing annual reports to
congressional committees, at least through the end of 2026, among
other requirements, some of which seem to have been prepared by
ufologists of the 60s. With the Congress proposal to open a permanent
office to cope with UFOs (I beg your pardon, UAPs), yes,
nuts-and-bolts ufologists (presently disguised as neutral scientists)
are materially slobbering. Not in vain had they contributed a lot to
this drafting. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/25/lawmaker-pentagon-ufo-514287"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/25/lawmaker-pentagon-ufo-514287</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/can-we-please-not-screw-this-up"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/can-we-please-not-screw-this-up</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/congress-calls-for-permanent-office-to-address-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://thedebrief.org/congress-calls-for-permanent-office-to-address-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL2uhTxnU_JKugzXyn-9CRFF9ApuDF0YtDjvM0Orxso6q4bzyp2M2njIKHfSyVxjEYxImazAWtzMuf2mrYZLSLZJ1A_q3Ky3_LESENacsvCX5cx3y6ORslijh8-2Q9lRVjwaXrvrZ7A2cBHR8hq-zvRP8X_SR_55_pJ4Dqy-Xahlx2gXnutg=s1539" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="1069" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL2uhTxnU_JKugzXyn-9CRFF9ApuDF0YtDjvM0Orxso6q4bzyp2M2njIKHfSyVxjEYxImazAWtzMuf2mrYZLSLZJ1A_q3Ky3_LESENacsvCX5cx3y6ORslijh8-2Q9lRVjwaXrvrZ7A2cBHR8hq-zvRP8X_SR_55_pJ4Dqy-Xahlx2gXnutg=s320" width="222" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">On
November 4, 2021, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat, New York)
introduced amendment SA 4281, that would establish an “Anomaly
Surveillance and Resolution Office” (ASRO for short). This office
would replace the present UAPTF program in the U.S. Office of Naval
Intelligence. This proposal certainly more than echoes </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chris
Mellon’s own plans to create this office, one that should have an
advisory board where, for example, Avi Loeb should not miss (a fair
example of lobbying in action). As sharp writer Jason Colavito
informs us, very recently Avi Loeb appointed Luis Elizondo and Chris
Mellon, formerly of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the
History Channel, to the advisory board of his Galileo Project. It is
quite probable that other scientific-looking UFO groups become part
of the ASRO advisory panel. The consequence is that, if this finally
comes true, all these pro-alienUFO figures would be influencing
personas in the new UAP game everybody wants to play with the US
Government. Long live neutrality!</span></span></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/kirsten-gillibrand-offers-legislation-to-bring-avi-loeb-into-government-ufo-office"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/kirsten-gillibrand-offers-legislation-to-bring-avi-loeb-into-government-ufo-office</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Some
background and additional input you are advised to read is here: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/this-is-urgent-bipartisan-proposal-for-ufo-office-pushes-new-boundaries-522845"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/this-is-urgent-bipartisan-proposal-for-ufo-office-pushes-new-boundaries-522845</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-teams-up-with-lue-elizondo-and-chris-mellon-to-hunt-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-teams-up-with-lue-elizondo-and-chris-mellon-to-hunt-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/11/trick-or-treat-elizondo-and-mellon-join-avi-loebs-galileo-project/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/11/trick-or-treat-elizondo-and-mellon-join-avi-loebs-galileo-project/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/11/harvards-galileo-project-meets-tom.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/11/harvards-galileo-project-meets-tom.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Everybody
wants to be on board. MUFON, for instance. On November 11, 2021, an
“urgent blast from executive director” David MacDonald (replacing
former director Jan Harzan, who in July 2020 was arrested on charges
of soliciting sex from a minor) was addressed to all their members to
contact not only their area’s elected representative but also
Senator Gillibrand herself to show their support: “MUFON is asking
our members, field investigators and UFO researchers and enthusiasts
in the general public throughout the world to put pressure on the
United States Senate and House of Representatives to pass this
amendment to the Defense Bill.” </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Why
does this all seem a bit pathetic to me?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Goodbye
UAPTF, Hello AOIMSG </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">But
the US Department of Defense has a dynamic of its own, apart from the
legislator and the public. On November 23, 2021, the US Department of
Defense has published this press release:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>DoD
Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and
Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Today,
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in close collaboration
with the Director of National Intelligence, </i></span></span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/23/2002898596/-1/-1/0/ESTABLISHMENT-OF-THE-AIRBORNE-OBJECT-IDENTIFICATION-AND-MANAGEMENT-SYNCHRONIZATION-GROUP.PDF"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>directed
the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security</i></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US">[1] </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>to
establish within the Office of the USD(I&S) the Airborne Object
Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the
successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task
Force. The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the
Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and
attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to
assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and
national security. To provide oversight of the AOIMSG, the
Deputy Secretary also directed the USD(I&S) to lead an Airborne
Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC) to
be comprised of DoD and Intelligence Community membership, and to
offer a venue for U.S. government interagency representation. </i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Incursions
by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and
operations security concerns, and may pose national security
challenges. DOD takes reports of incursions – by any airborne
object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and
investigates each one. This decision is the result of planning
efforts and collaboration conducted by OUSD(I&S) and other DoD
elements </i></span></span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/25/2002749916/-1/-1/1/DEPUTY-SECRETARY-OF-DEFENSE-MEMORANDUM-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-AERIAL-PHENOMENA-ASSESSMENTS.PDF"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><i>at
the direction of Deputy Secretary Hicks</i></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US">[2]</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
to address the challenges associated with assessing UAP occurring on
or near DOD training ranges and installations highlighted in the DNI
preliminary assessment report submitted to Congress in June 2021.
The report also identified the need to make improvements in
processes, policies, technologies, and training to improve our
ability to understand UAP.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-family: times;">In
coming weeks, the Department will issue implementing guidance, which
will contain further details on the AOIMSG Director, organizational
structure, authorities, and resourcing.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Official
DoD release: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p99her5"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p99her5</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">[1]
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yckx2tu9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yckx2tu9</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
[2] </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycktycps"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/ycktycps</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
most significant detail in this press release, compared with the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) created in 2018 by
the Office of Naval Intelligence, then publicly assumed by the
Department of Defense in August 2020, and after the June 2021 UAPTF’s
preliminary assessment, is the absence of the term “UAP”, a
sanitized successor of “UFO”, from the project’s title. From
now on, the object of study is fundamentally the identification of
airborne objects (I feel sorry for the lovers of submarine
UFOs-USOs). It is true that continuing text and the memoranda linked
to this release do mention UAPs within its area of purview, but, to
me, it is still curious, and I would even say intriguing, that they
have modified the name of the working group, where UAP is not in, and
Identification is in. Semantics matter. I, for one, interpret this as
an initiative of the US Department of Defense, among other formal and
internal objectives on fields of competence between armies, to stay
away from persons and lobby groups which have been trying to
influence the former UAPTF from within. This move may have the intent
to abort the reverie by Senator</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Gillibrand
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>et
al </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(see
above). We will see what the future delivers from this
unpronounceable project. But someone someday must understand that in
spite of pilot sightings or Navy videos, or others that stand out,
this is the result of a flying saucer myth since the git-go!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Two
Defense UFO Offices, not Just One?</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is becoming a tragicomedy. As recently as December 7, the US Congress
passed the annual defense policy, including the amendment introduced
by Gillibrand and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of senators to
replace the existing Navy UAPTF by an office administered both by the
Defense Secretary and Director of National Intelligence. I guess
common sense will prevail and the just-created AOIMSG functions will
somehow integrate the demands (shaped in the ufological tradition)
posed by Gillibrand </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>et
al</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Collection &
analysis of data into a central repository, Establish a Science Plan,
Build a National Priorities Intelligence Framework, Evaluate any
links between UAPs and foreign governments or non-state actors, and
Report to Congress. The bill awaits a vote in the Senate. To be
continued…</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrands-groundbreaking-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-amendment-included-in-final-ndaa_">https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrands-groundbreaking-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-amendment-included-in-final-ndaa_</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/585180-defense-bill-creates-new-office-to-study-ufos">https://thehill.com/policy/defense/585180-defense-bill-creates-new-office-to-study-ufos</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
a full understanding of the complex legislative process involved, a
source that will clarify this aspect is one that Brad Sparks has
qualified as “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">an
excellent article by Doug Johnson on the background history of the
bill in Congress establishing a formal UAP Office”: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-serious-business/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-serious-business/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
latest clues about what is expected to happen are presented by Jason
Colavito in a blog entry December 8: “Congress Set to Approve New
UFO Office with Bizarre Research Mandates,” </span></span></span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congress-set-to-approve-new-ufo-office-with-bizarre-research-mandates"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congress-set-to-approve-new-ufo-office-with-bizarre-research-mandates</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Did
I write “latest”? We are living a minute-by-minute information
commotion regarding UAPs and the US Government. See this article
published by Christopher in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Liberation
Times </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">on
December 17 (wow, I said wow): “Expect The Unexpected In 2022, As
UFOs Go Global,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/expect-the-unexpected-in-2022-as-ufos-go-global"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/expect-the-unexpected-in-2022-as-ufos-go-global</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The U.S. Senate approved the NDAA bill (S. 1605) on December 15, 2021, and it was posted by the Government Printing Office on December 21, 2021 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(see </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVspt2Bae6paAzu9zJfrn-x1bQzUgGWv/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVspt2Bae6paAzu9zJfrn-x1bQzUgGWv/view</a>)</span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>On
NASA UFO Field Work in Spain</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
notion of NASA equates to the most powerful space center in the
world, capable of placing men on the Moon and landing spacecraft on
Mars. In the minds of many people, if there is something having to do
with space, NASA is investigating it. Therefore, it is not unexpected
for rumors to exist on the participation of NASA personnel in the
investigation of UFO sightings. In Spain, it shows up at least in two
well-known UFO landing occurrences: March 21, 1974, Valdehijaderos,
Salamanca</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(two
successive encounters with UFOs and their occupants by one young
truck driver)</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and September 6, 1980, Torrejoncillo, Cáceres (a ball-lighting-type
phenomenon that burned animals, objects and the terrain, a full
village affected).</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the case of Valdehijaderos, the unique alleged witness claimed in
2007 (33 years after the double “encounter” with UFOs and
humanoids) that NASA investigators determined that a temperature
above 1000ºC had produced the traces he found in the soil.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Even later, in 2011, local press reported that locals claim that “a
decade ago NASA took an interest in these old events again and sent
experts to examine this field.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Apparently,
a few days after the facts, a couple of self-appointed Madrid-based
ufologists came to the location with a Geiger counter to measure
environmental radioactivity. Was this mutated to a visit from NASA
researchers, or was the latter simply one more fantasy? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="997" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbmVQQ8ePEUv1AWoqdrVXcSePvoG2fQJ5f0DusDnyRqkOyJWw6g1yW36wNWKjZd6INbL_u1q3SI7LJYbT-ko85U5-v4LtjNID74HEllUiy4zWiBhvLTUhBsAQzqmanboFEL7M94WMvsn4GLen1rh8h8NYnsYF-c5KxtgJCL8yxQSrqywbkUQ=s320" width="218" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The
witness, the marks, and his drawing.</div></span></span></span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Concerning
the unusual destructive events at Torrejoncillo, which were probably
produced by ball lightning or a fire whirlwind,</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5-7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
a UFO book published 20 years after the authenticated, fiery
phenomenon mentioned that “NASA experts, escorted by the Civil
Guard, convinced the witnesses that what they had seen was a simple
meteorite.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV2fqpMVaMWNxjZjCJcbvot5Y4DJSkMErW6YQCQR6fFbqbslVjCr7_kx9JacS-ADkK6YrgQl0YARVusYQX1xr7EoBdEgI6Nk2KStSwaMyPDgcCF5fFjtlxlA8Qb_p2qBCHeDG5dgrXUdJdnV77rWCyHnhm0Gcwcz-P5FrQrE-oB2oLjRaAtA=s1717" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1717" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV2fqpMVaMWNxjZjCJcbvot5Y4DJSkMErW6YQCQR6fFbqbslVjCr7_kx9JacS-ADkK6YrgQl0YARVusYQX1xr7EoBdEgI6Nk2KStSwaMyPDgcCF5fFjtlxlA8Qb_p2qBCHeDG5dgrXUdJdnV77rWCyHnhm0Gcwcz-P5FrQrE-oB2oLjRaAtA=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Water
can melt by the passage of a fire cone. Trace left by drops released
by the phenomenon. © Quasar.</span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
the truth i</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">s
that the only thing connecting NASA and this event, albeit distantly
and indirectly,</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
was a personal consult by snail mail that the local UFO group Quasar
did in 1981 to Warren D. Rayle, who wrote in 1966 a NASA technical
note on ball lightning.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
subject was raised recently in Anomalist 2.0, a Spanish-Latin
American internet UFO forum list and I decided to be proactive and
contacted Steve Garber, current NASA History Web Curator, to query
any NASA involvement in the inquiry of UFO cases in Spain. I informed
him of the two above incidents. His quick and kind reply follows:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
have some subject files on UFOs, but I don’t see any mentions of
these particular incidents in their abstracted descriptions so I’m
drawing a blank on this. You could try searching from
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov">https://ntrs.nasa.gov</a>/</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
but I’m not sure that will yield anything valuable.</i></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
did explore that asset, looking for all possible terms that could
render some information: extraterrestrial, UFOs, UAP, Spain, etc.
Nothing. Only one reference popped up, an early 1990s group paper on
the NASA search for intelligent life in the universe through a
microwave survey.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">11</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
consequence, I am convinced that the supposed implication of NASA in
UFO affairs in Spain is false. It is some form of urban legend,
animated by witnesses or reporters.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Center for UFO Studies (Evanston, Illinois), April 1976, pages 44-45, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
R. Nava-Osorio and Juan Díaz, “Estudio de un fenómeno de remolino
de fuego en Cuatro Cuartos. Primer estudio,” </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Fenómenos
Anómalos</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
2, Spring 1990, unpaged.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/20071017/vida/extranos-visitantes-20071017.html">https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/20071017/vida/extranos-visitantes-20071017.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/hemeroteca/valdehijaderos-municipio-ligado-avistamiento-seres-extranos-1974-NUGS59719">https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/hemeroteca/valdehijaderos-municipio-ligado-avistamiento-seres-extranos-1974-NUGS59719</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1984, pages 207-209.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Manuel Borraz Aymerich, “Estudio de un fenómeno de remolino de
fuego en Cuatro Cuartos. Segundo estudio,” </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Fenómenos
Anómalos</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
2, Spring 1990, unnumbered pages. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Dr. Terence Meaden (</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Meteorology</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">),
personal communication to V.J Ballester Olmos, July 22, 1989.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
Iker Jiménez, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enigmas
sin resolver</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
EDAF (Madrid), 1999, pages 123-137.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660006027/downloads/19660006027.pdf">https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660006027/downloads/19660006027.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Stephen J. Garber, E-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, September 21,
2021.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/34530/94-0880.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/34530/94-0880.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Acknowledgments: T</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">o
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga. Juan José Montejo. Dr. Richard F.
Haines. Jaime Servera.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Belief
</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>vs</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
Skepticism</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">To
begin with, we have a misnamed UFO “phenomenon”, because there is
not a single phenomenon as such, but rather a heterogeneous amalgam
of narratives to which a common cause has been erroneously
attributed: its interstellar origin. (Some UFO researchers more
scientifically oriented claim they abhor this view and argue that
some unknown physical cause can originate the sightings. But I have
my doubts that this is a truly frank position, and </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">suspect
it may hide a tiny</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
expectation.)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Anyway,
the way to approach the study of the reports of unidentified flying
objects is usually under the belief in the extraterrestrial origin of
the "phenomenon". That, and no other, is the reason for the
global roots of an assumption that has great appeal in the popular
imagination. But this belief-assumed by so many scholars. based on
hundreds of sensationalist books previously read-is revealed as a
true intellectual slab. Instead of speeding up the investigation, it
delays it, blocks it, prevents it. Because it makes it impossible for
him to consider neutrally all the angles, edges, and options that the
study of the cases that reach the investigator truly raises. The
belief in extraterrestrial UFOs (and any alternative hypotheses such
as inter-dimensional, intraterrestrial, visitors from the future,
each more absurd and speculative) undermines your intellectual
freedom and makes you circulate through a narrow logical or
ontological tunnel.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">However,
once you have overcome that belief, you enter a stage or dimension in
which the speed and clarity in interpreting events of a UFO nature
increases exponentially.</span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Because
you have abandoned that heavy and erroneous intellectual burden. The
skepticism or denial in ufology is not another belief, it supposes
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>the
absence of belief</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
Normally it is a process that lasts years, during which you go
through various choices, from the most radical to the most rational.
But, once installed in that practical disbelief and agnosticism-based
on reality and not on preconceived ideas-we are finally able to
dissect the thousand and one events that people report to us from a
perspective with greater wisdom and a breadth of mind that you lacked
(the mental slab of the alien belief that prevented criticism of the
strangest sightings).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Because
now you are persuaded and satisfied that there must be an innocuous,
normal, natural, artificial but terrestrial reason that solves and
justifies the event that was weird to the observer, one which the
equanimous researcher must find.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Skepticism
is not, therefore, one more position; it is the result of lacking a
reactionary belief, which is quite another thing. But beware, let no
one see a sign of disenchantment in the skeptical approach.
Absolutely not. On the contrary, that discernment that you have
achieved prompts you to continue investigating even harder, as you
are convinced and have understood that you are no longer wrong.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>An
Ideal Goal for 21</u></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>st</u></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
Century Ufology but (Probably) Unattainable</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
have written previously that a synthesis of ufology is mandatory.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Specifically, what naturalist Alexander von Humboldt proposed in the
century XIX for “all the material universe”<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">,</span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">or,
in other words, “a philosophical synthesis of all knowledge.”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
goal that, partially, he achieved in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cosmos</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">But
this should be a rational synthesis. Yet is it viable to make a
rational wrap-up of something whose nature is irrational and absurd?
I am afraid it is not procurable because both input data and history
are preposterous, chaotic, senseless, and unstructured. By
themselves, not by magical, divine, evil, or alien intervention. An
approximation to this singular encyclopedic reserve of treated
(analyzed, screened) information can be made, provided the compiler
does not dream of flying saucers. To have a base to work on, future
researchers should begin operating with the massive documentation
provided by the two major existing compilations, those edited by
Clark</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and by Eberhart.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">6</span>
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Both
compendia have an overt pro-UFO orientation, yet the history of the
phenomenon is there to be re-processed and re-interpreted in a
Nature-originated scenario, not in an interstellar visitation.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos and Thomas E. Bullard, “The Nature of UFO
Evidence: Two Views,” </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33352049/THE_NATURE_OF_UFO_EVIDENCE_TWO_VIEWS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/33352049/THE_NATURE_OF_UFO_EVIDENCE_TWO_VIEWS</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
“El cosmos de Humbolt,” in </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>A.
von Humboldt. Vida, pensamiento y obra</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">.
Diego Gándara, Planeta DeAgostini, S.A. (Madrid), 2008, p. 234.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
_______, p. 53.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Alexander von Humboldt, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cosmos:
A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Henry
G. Bohn (London), 1849, volumes I and II. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Jerome Clark, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
UFO Encyclopedia. Volumes 1-3</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Omnigraphics,
Inc. (Detroit, Michigan), October 2018, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3mp7utz9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3mp7utz9</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
George</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">M.
Eberhart, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOs
and Intelligence: A Timeline</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
2020,</span> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Curt Collins investigates a photographic UFO occurrence that even
Hynek admitted as reliable:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Last October 20, Jason Colavito wrote this post in his blog:
“Repetitive UFO News Conference Tries to Frighten over
Half-Century-Old Incidents,” </span></span></span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/repetitive-ufo-news-conference-tries-to-frighten-over-half-century-old-incidents"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/repetitive-ufo-news-conference-tries-to-frighten-over-half-century-old-incidents</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
Ted Molczan, “Re-Entry Sightings and Debris Recovery of 2008-010B
Spain – 2015 November 03 UTC,” </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Journal
of Space Safety Engineering</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2015, pp. 83-90, </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE_ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008_010B_SPAIN_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC">https://www.academia.edu/REENTRYSIGHTINGS&DEBRISRECOVERYSPAIN2015NOVEMBER03</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
Brett Holman, “The enemy at the gates: the 1918 mystery aeroplane
panic in Australia and New Zealand,” in Michael J. K. Walsh and
Andrekos Varnava (eds), </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Australia
and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="en-US">,
Melbourne University Press, 2016, pp. 71-96, </span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27322399/The_enemy_at_the_gates_the_1918_mystery_aeroplane_panic_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Theenemyatthegates1918mysteryaeroplanepanicinAustralia&NewZealand</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Crop circles in England:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210822-englands-crop-circle-controversy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210822-englands-crop-circle-controversy</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Recent fireballs over Spain: 06:17 on November 16, 2021, Southeast of
the country; and 00:07 on December 5, 2021, South of Spain, and
Portugal (in Spanish):</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4895337/0/captan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-golfo-de-cadiz-a-238-000-km-hora/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4895337/0/captan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-golfo-de-cadiz-a-238-000-km-hora/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4918559/0/una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-el-sur-de-espana-y-portugal-a-100-000-km-hora/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4918559/0/una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-el-sur-de-espana-y-portugal-a-100-000-km-hora/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
“Highly recommended” is the bottom line of a book review that
long time Australian researcher Bill Chalker has written of the
two-volume collection on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Redemption
of the Damned</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
by an extraordinary European duo formed by Martin Shough (Scotland)
and Wim van Utrecht (Belgium). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2021/09/redemption-of-damned-two-volume.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2021/09/redemption-of-damned-two-volume.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(8)
“Objetos voladores y fenómenos celestes en el México antiguo:
Descripciones en las fuentes del siglo XVI,” (Flying Objects and
Celestial Phenomena in Ancient Mexico: Descriptions in 16th Century
Sources), by César Morlán:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38954873/Objetos_Voladores_y_fen%C3%B3menos_celestes_en_el_M%C3%A9xico_antiguo_Descripciones_en_las_fuentes_del_siglo_XVI">https://www.academia.edu/ObjetosVoladoresyfenómenoscelestesMéxicoantiguoDescripcionesenfuentesdelsigloXVI</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Scientific paper on unusual UFO-related materials: “Improved
instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to
the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to
aerospace forensics,” is the title of a paper published in the
journal </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Progress
in Aerospace Sciences</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 128, 1 January 2022, by Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F. Vallee,
Sizun Jiang and Larry G. Lemkec. This is the link to the abstract:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042121000907?via%3Dihub"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042121000907?via%3Dihub</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Keith
Basterfield writes about it here:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/12/vallee-nolan-et-al-peer-reviewed.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/12/vallee-nolan-et-al-peer-reviewed.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice
your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so
that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cielos
Despejados </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Clear
Skies) is a book just published by Matías Morey. Spanish jurist and
scholar. Please find the book review I have written of this
interesting collection of essays.</span></span></span></p>
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LOG</b></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Meeting</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There
is a trend in present-day ufology in Spain to enhance dialogue
between persons holding different views on the UFO phenomenon. This
was materialized last September 15 in a friendly meeting I hosted in
Valencia city among Manuel Carballal, David Cuevas, Juan Antonio
Fernández Peris, Jaime Servera, and me. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg25MTRnpYHgXc48anXE8dcVjW0WajkdYlz3-JwMPa6ab-_Q2s5UZDHd8jdEA0vdBXeRVuNivpkOZwXT5-_u7OU2zP3EI-wRj1VvyvyTioh6IfNdJhG198OL8-3hD_wQI5KhcBiN4NmF9fhm2AWk73Flh8i7ue-U4XZkkkJR4KJIgC9AwsHIA=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg25MTRnpYHgXc48anXE8dcVjW0WajkdYlz3-JwMPa6ab-_Q2s5UZDHd8jdEA0vdBXeRVuNivpkOZwXT5-_u7OU2zP3EI-wRj1VvyvyTioh6IfNdJhG198OL8-3hD_wQI5KhcBiN4NmF9fhm2AWk73Flh8i7ue-U4XZkkkJR4KJIgC9AwsHIA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">From
left to right: Ballester Olmos, Fernández Peris, Cuevas and Servera.
(Photo by M. Carballal). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Ignacio Cabria (Spain), Matías
Morey (Spain), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Leopoldo Zambrano (Mexico),
Alejandro Agostinelli (Argentina), Roberto E. Banchs (Argentina),
Commodore Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Andrés Duarte (Chile), Julio
Plaza (Spain), Joan Plana (Spain), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga
(Spain), Jaime Servera (Spain), Juan José Montejo (Spain), Dr.
Richard F. Haines (USA), Brad Sparks (USA), Keith Basterfield
(Australia), Juan Pablo González (Spain).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLdjEWogBciinAMHxBxI0inN2EpcAP5mrLNRrWM6UnsDtUMsULLyXzXZNaOQKC9P_Evpl0O_pxos_IGnmjQNWOSvH8axktRngg0B5aK3mKFmNDf1vIeK5RUwhAaye4NROTLeHgYvuDVa7K_ZS_-dBvuQMhKmwb6rNPaIOpfj4Gt2tAtbdRbQ=s3827" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLdjEWogBciinAMHxBxI0inN2EpcAP5mrLNRrWM6UnsDtUMsULLyXzXZNaOQKC9P_Evpl0O_pxos_IGnmjQNWOSvH8axktRngg0B5aK3mKFmNDf1vIeK5RUwhAaye4NROTLeHgYvuDVa7K_ZS_-dBvuQMhKmwb6rNPaIOpfj4Gt2tAtbdRbQ=w400-h69" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events
in Spain and Portugal<span>,</span></u><span> </span></span><span>1976, </span></span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></div></div><p></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
El fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bddhjx7m"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bddhjx7m</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xzzubec"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/5xzzubec</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/jyx648ff"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/jyx648ff</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><div><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The
First Catalogue</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></div>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u><b> </b>(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012, </span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida
en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u style="font-weight: normal;">Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1
(1950-1988)</u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017, </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></h4>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020, </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
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can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
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</span><h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>2021/DICIEMBRE/26 (ES</b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>)</b></span></span></span></h4>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lento
pero seguro, nuestro catálogo FOTOCAT continúa añadiendo casos y
nuevas referencias tanto al banco de datos como al archivo físico,
que actualmente recoge 12.784 casos, la mayoría hasta el 31 de
diciembre de 2005.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Nuevas
publicaciones</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">He
subido a Academia.edu "En el túnel del tiempo" (partes 1,
2 y 3) para documentar el comienzo de mi actividad de divulgador y de
ufólogo (1965-1968). He creído que esta información, artículos,
fotografías y recortes de prensa pueden ser de algún interés a
historiadores de la ufología, biógrafos o estudiosos del tema OVNIS
en general. Agradezco a Ignacio Cabria haberme dado pie a recopilar
toda esa documentación:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/60865164/En_el_tunel_del_tiempo</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Exégesis
del platillo de Dudignac de 1955</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Argentina
es una tierra pródiga en informes de avistamientos de ovnis. Por
ejemplo, en cuanto a fotografías mi catálogo FOTOCAT, con cerca de
13.000 sucesos capturados en </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">imágenes</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
recoge nada menos que 899 casos para ese país hermano, ocurridos
entre 1910 y 2006</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
la tercera nación en el panorama mundial, detrás de Estados Unidos
y de España. </span></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></sup></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>El
suceso</i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Fue
en 1955 cuando una fotografía ovni fue tomada suficientemente en
serio para ser investigada por la policía local y provincial, así
como publicada en la revista oficial de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina:
Dudignac, 30 de agosto de 1955. Este artículo quiere explorar este
incidente y la evidencia que ha salido a la luz. Este es uno de esos
avistamientos ovni que se convierten en patrimonio nacional y al que
cualquier ufólogo argentino ha aludido orgullosamente, ¡sin haberlo
investigado en persona! De alguna manera, se ha dado por sentada la
incontrovertible naturaleza ovni de la foto, lo que en ufología
significa aceptada ciegamente. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dudignac
es una pequeña población situada a 40 km de 9 de julio, cabecera
del departamento del mismo nombre, en la provincia de Buenos Aires,
Argentina. En los primeros días de septiembre de 1955, el diario
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Actualidad
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">de
9 de julio publicó un breve suelto dando cuenta de que “hace unos
tres días” Pedro Navarro, vecino de Dudignac, había presenciado
un “disco de azogados reflejos” en el cielo, al que pudo
fotografiar. Lo que sigue procede del periódico bonaerense
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Democracia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
cuya edición del 6 de septiembre de 1955 dedica un detallado
reportaje a la historia. El diario se refiere a que “la aparición
de un plato volador…captado por la cámara de un joven aficionado
en una forma casual” habría provocado un extraordinario revuelo en
el pueblo. De entrada, señala que lo que sensacionalmente llama
artefacto “se logra ver perfectamente en la fotografía, pero en el
clisé se pierde. Por eso mostramos en el otro grabado recortado la
ubicación del platívolo tal como fue sorprendido”. Este dibujo
superpuesto a la escena es lo que ha desatado la imaginación y
credulidad de muchos. Porque, desde este momento, quien mira la
imagen real (a la izquierda, muy ambigua) lo que “ve” es un
aparato discoidal tal como pretende el dibujo. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQb64-uGUb2TqYZJ0S4nbMHzkJeRDuB1nSJb-ym7UfZ3UzLrVAXaIhxlb6npGJK7b3NSSLGqoOKWF7afT4hSEy7t3o9GT0YeNzmLN3_rKOkpBCiHYnFUO1JCuuRQ4jhAJHvgoRwoI15sPYNDRhf6m30mPSt8a_d7shrcOUNeaKG5QwHCYig=s3015" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="3015" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQb64-uGUb2TqYZJ0S4nbMHzkJeRDuB1nSJb-ym7UfZ3UzLrVAXaIhxlb6npGJK7b3NSSLGqoOKWF7afT4hSEy7t3o9GT0YeNzmLN3_rKOkpBCiHYnFUO1JCuuRQ4jhAJHvgoRwoI15sPYNDRhf6m30mPSt8a_d7shrcOUNeaKG5QwHCYig=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
vayamos al “meollo” de una información que, hasta ahora, nadie
había puesto en valor. Pedro F. Navarro, un joven de 25 años “serio
y parco en el hablar”, distribuyó varias copias y un amigo llamado
Soria llamó por teléfono al periódico para ofrecer la “fotografía
de un plato volador” y fue luego a la redacción para presentarla.
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Democracia
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">destacó
un redactor para entrevistar al fotógrafo, examinar el negativo y
entrevistar a varias personas que lo vieron hacer la foto. Navarro
edita en su localidad el periódico quincenal </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Claridad;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">con
el fin de ilustrarlo con instantáneas se había comprado –“hace
muy poco tiempo, a plazos”- una máquina fotográfica. Una vez el
joven Pedro aprendió a manejarla, se dedicó a fotografiar bailes y
partidos de fútbol. En las primeras horas de la mañana del 30 de
agosto, se dispuso a tomar algunas fotos de las casas comerciales de
la plaza del pueblo.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
día estaba nublado y algo neblinoso. Me dirigí a la plaza y cuando
estaba en medio de ella pensé que podrían fallar las tomas por
falta de sol. Levanté la vista para observar el cielo y vi un
remolino como si el viento, ese eterno pastor de nubes </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[sic]</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
quisiera juguetear con ellas. Pero había algo más: una masa
brillante muy difusa y que el ojo no percibía bien. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>Se
me ocurrió entonces fotografiar esos nubarrones</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[énfasis
mío] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>con
la esperanza de lograr un buen paisaje celeste. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Terminada
la sesión fotográfica, Navarro se dirigió a su domicilio y las
reveló el mismo. A primera vista, confiesa, la película no mostraba
más que nubes y que fue al imprimir una copia en papel cuando
“aparecieron los contornos, aunque muy débiles, de un plato
volador. El corazón comenzó a latirme fuertemente”, declaró.
Preguntado concretamente si vio algo más después de sacar la foto,
afirmó:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sí.
Las nubes formaron un gran remolino, como si fueran acicateadas por
un huracán. Pero como </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>ese
fenómeno se puede observar frecuentemente en días de tormenta</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
no presté mayor atención </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[énfasis
mío].</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Preguntado
por otras personas que también vieron el fenómeno, cita los nombres
del doctor Alberto Víctor Samprieto, Angélica Scattolini, su tío
Santos Cortés y Emilio Brindesi. El enviado del periódico fue
seguidamente a visitar a la señorita Scattolini, quien confirma
haber sido testigo. Sostiene que, mientras barría la acera, oyó un
leve zumbido: “levanté la mirada creyendo que algún avión
cruzaba el espacio…era un plato volador que se deslizaba a gran
velocidad”. Su forma era como “un plato playo; pero alrededor del
borde llevaba una especie de anillo que lo circundaba y con la
apariencia de estar separado de aquel por un breve espacio. Además,
tenía encima una campana…que brillaba. La forma del plato me
pareció gigantesca y volaba a muy baja altura…por debajo de las
nubes más bajas”.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
evidente que esta descripción dista bastante de la dada por el
testigo principal. Me temo que está detallando lo que presenta el
positivo fotográfico (como veremos luego) más que la observación
ocular, a la que Navarro no asigna tantos detalles (de ser así,
hubiera sacado más de una foto, incluso si pensamos que no quería
malgastar una película cara). En cuanto a la altura a la que se
encontraba el fenómeno, veremos en copias mejores a continuación
que el fenómeno se integraba en la masa nubosa y no era un objeto
independiente situado bajo esta. El testimonio de la joven Angélica
parece demasiado preciso y afectado. El reportero encontró al doctor
Sampietro en la cancha de fútbol, donde se hallaba dirigiendo un
encuentro. Este le cuenta que aquella mañana, cuando salía de su
domicilio para atender a un enfermo, encontró a Navarro en la plaza
con su “maquinita” y le hizo una broma al respecto cuando este
tomaba una foto: “En ese mismo instante disparó el obturador y al
mirar al cielo vi una cosa brillante que se deslizaba por el cielo,
rompiendo las nubes. Navarro se encontraba ya entretenido colocando
la máquina en su estuche. Luego me mostró la fotografía y </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>aquello
que a mí me pareció en primer momento un tropel de nubes</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
[énfasis mío], se había convertido en un platívolo”. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Resulta
evidente, a mi juicio, que la apariencia de lo fotografiado y la
emoción subsiguiente priman sobre la definición de lo observado. Un
fenómeno que tenía que ser poco impresionante porque, mientras se
desarrollaba, el fotógrafo había dejado de mirar al punto donde se
manifestaba, el cielo. La mezcla de observación por los sentidos y
de interpretación subjetiva confluye en una narrativa que el
periódico sublimará en sus titulares. El último testigo nombrado,
que era agente de </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Democracia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
en Dudignac, dio fe de la veracidad de la fotografía y agregó que
hubo otros observadores, aunque habían marchado a trabajar fuera del
pueblo. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
enero de 1956, Oscar Fernández Brital (1930-2020</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
entonces un joven estudiante de Derecho que llegaría a ser un
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">destacado
abogado e intelectual argentino que consagró su vida a la Historia
Aeronáutica y Espacial, publicó un artículo en la </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Revista
Nacional de Aeronáutica</span></i></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span>
</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(RNA)
relativo al caso de Pedro Francisco Navarro, del 30 de agosto de 1955
(“a las 9,30 de la mañana”). En esta versión de la historia,
Navarro es ascendido a “periodista y fotógrafo profesional” y se
obvia su juventud. Según el artículo, al atravesar la plaza del
pueblecito de Dudignac, donde se halla la iglesia, “escuchó un
sonido similar al producido por un remolino que parecía provenir de
una capa de nubes que…se cernía sobre el pueblo. Levantó la vista
y le pareció advertir que una porción de las nubes se movía,
dentro de la misma capa, con un movimiento de giro sobre sí misma,
produciendo perturbaciones en la masa nubosa. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pensando
que podría tratarse de un raro fenómeno meteorológico</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
[énfasis mío], levantó la cámara fotográfica que llevaba
preparada e impresionó un negativo”. La foto se tomó con película
de 35 mm, normal y sin filtro. La imagen reproducida en la revista de
aeronáutica tenia, sin embargo, tan poca calidad como la que
conocemos de </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democracia.
</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">La
revista también añadió un dibujo esquemático del “platillo
volante”.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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a continuación el articulista que el doctor Sampietro y la señorita
Sccatolini oyeron un ruido “como de fuerte viento, que les llamó
la atención por ser día calmo. Miraron ambos a lo alto y
advirtieron que una especie de nube rara que se movía, desplazándose
en el conjunto de ellas”. Debemos simplemente hacer constar que el
reportaje del diario de Buenos Aires, antes expuesto, no citaba la
audición de ruido por parte del fotógrafo. Ya sabemos que Navarro
reveló los negativos por su cuenta y comprobó, dice el artículo de
Fernández Brital, que aparecía “una forma similar a los diseños
de los platos voladores, pero con nitidez mayor que la observada por
los otros dos testigos”. El artículo no indica si el autor
entrevistó al testigo o, como parece más probable, si extrajo la
información de lo publicado por la prensa y de los dos informes
oficiales de los que hablaré a continuación. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
articulista y</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a
un año antes había publicado en la misma revista un artículo sobre
“tres fenómenos luminosos” observados desde la torre de control
del aeropuerto de Córdoba en noviembre de 1954.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></span></sup></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">La
inmediata difusión de los hechos en la prensa local instigó una
comunicación de Félix Keilis</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
oficial ayudante de la Subcomisaría de Dudignac, dirigida al
comisario de 9 de Julio, José A. Fragosa. La nota hacía referencia
al “comentario” que circulaba en la localidad sobre la
observación y foto de Navarro, “que deja a su vista la presencia
de un aparato de forma circular, deduciendo que se trataría de un
plato volador”. La nota, insertada en el artículo de la RNA,
señala que se acompaña un ejemplar de la fotografía, “la cual
presenta en el cielo nublado, un elemento extraño…señalado con
una flecha”. Evidentemente, lo fotografiado requería ser
destacado, para distinguirse, dado lo indeterminado de la figura en
el entorno nuboso. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">El
expediente de la policía de Dudignac pasó a la Dirección de
Aeronáutica de la Policía Provincial cuyo interventor, el capitán
de corbeta aviador naval Salvador Ambrogio, “dispuso extremar los
recursos para esclarecer el misterio”. Apenas subsisten retazos de
esa investigación, concretamente dos páginas, también incluidas en
recuadros incluidos en el artículo de la RNA. De los dos informes
incompletos conocidos, rescato el firmado por dos peritos fotógrafos:
el comisario Felipe Masera, jefe de Fotografía de la policía de
Buenos Aires, y su oficial ayudante fotógrafo Eduardo Pereyra,
quienes analizaron el negativo. La última hoja del informe (del que
no se conoce la fecha) dice así:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black;">…
<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>con
una velocidad de obturación de 1/250 de segundo, un diafragma f/6.3
con objetivo normal que abarca 45 a 50º con película Agfa Isopan
que es de gran sensibilidad pancromática y sin filtro. </i></span></span></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[<span style="color: red;">Ver
Nota 34</span>]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"> A
fin de ilustrar mejor se adjuntan fotos referenciadas las que
destacan los detalles del cielo. Del negativo se obtuvo un contratipo
en placa Proceso de contraste (foto nº 6) y de éste un positivo
(foto nº 4) que objetivan la descripción precedente.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">CONCLUSIONES. </span></i></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">El
negativo fotográfico y la ampliación positiva del mismo son
Originales y no han sido retocados ni trucados.</span></i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzagQh6x-G6EBn99roLIUNY2-AufvzVHRWHZwkFt3LMGg3DIGOe_qh2OAvoTAmo9NZqOCusH-J4azJb3WDrHtyofIvJdf5AmuAhl6NDlSR7aUd_U-97qyJINE4gKRcpy-7OrSUPAJBCZKYpLwoewYY13lWbaBBfGjm2cDwhIdPViSiR_Ta2g=s5419" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2062" data-original-width="5419" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzagQh6x-G6EBn99roLIUNY2-AufvzVHRWHZwkFt3LMGg3DIGOe_qh2OAvoTAmo9NZqOCusH-J4azJb3WDrHtyofIvJdf5AmuAhl6NDlSR7aUd_U-97qyJINE4gKRcpy-7OrSUPAJBCZKYpLwoewYY13lWbaBBfGjm2cDwhIdPViSiR_Ta2g=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reproducciones
del expediente policial. A la izquierda “ampliación fotográfica
recibida para la pericia”, que incluye con una flecha la
señalización del fenómeno. A la derecha “la misma ampliación
efectuada en esta Policía”, esto es, una copia más contrastada,
para mejor apreciar el fenómeno. (Cortesía Roberto E. Banchs).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Aunque
nada se deduce sobre lo que se fotografió, es interesante saber que
el negativo no había sufrido ninguna manipulación. Con respecto al
positivo que se muestra, obtenido del negativo original, se puede
advertir un retoque a lápiz, pero es solo una sospecha que no
podemos probar. El segundo estudio oficial, del que solo subsiste la
página final, también incluida en un recuadro del artículo citado,
lo rubrican los comisarios y pilotos de aviación Francisco René
Huguenin y Arturo Jorge Blanchet y está firmado en la Dirección de
Aeronáutica de La Plata, el 25 de octubre de 1956, el cual
reproduzco a continuación:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">CONCLUSIONES</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">1º)
En una capa de nubes no puede haber desplazamiento de una porción de
ella en sentido horizontal, por lo cual no es un fenómeno
meteorológico el paso de una nube a mayor velocidad horizontal que
las demás que avanzan en la misma capa.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2º)
</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Que
si bien ninguno de los testigos ni el fotógrafo mismo vieron objeto
alguno y menos aún de nítidas formas geométricas</span></u></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[énfasis
mío]</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
por estar el mismo dentro de una nube, coinciden todos estos en haber
observado esta extraña nube en la fecha y horas mencionadas, así
como también en la descripción del ruido producido por su pasaje y
la dirección y velocidad aproximada del mismo.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3º)
Que si por lo expuesto en el párrafo 2º) el objeto no era visible,
puede explicarse hipotéticamente que el mismo haya impresionado la
película a través de la nube en razón de la extrema sensibilidad
de la misma o que el objeto aéreo desconocido estuviera constituido
por materiales de tipo radioactivo capaces de impresionar películas
fotográficas a través de cuerpos opacos. </span></i></span></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[<span style="color: red;">Ver
Nota 35</span>].</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"> Por
lo expuesto, más lo agregado en el informe pericial de la Sección
Fotográfica de esta Policía, deducimos que en efecto fue cierto el
pasaje de un objeto aéreo desconocido por la localidad de Dudignac
(Provincia de Bs. Aires) el día 30 de agosto del Cte. año,
aproximadamente de 09:30 a 10:00 horas.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Se
parte de la suposición, para mi equivocada, de que lo fotografiado
se desplazaba “por libre”, de forma independiente, entre el resto
de las nubes. Al fotógrafo únicamente le </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pareció</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
que rotaba. Afirman que no se vio objeto volante alguno claramente,
pero no porque no hubiera uno sino porque las nubes lo ocultaban o
desdibujaban, si bien señalan que lo que vieron los testigos fue una
“extraña nube”. La coincidencia del ruido con la observación la
asimilan a que procedía de dicha “nube”, cuando pudo
perfectamente haber sido un trueno. No hay datos meteorológicos
locales, pero los conocidos de Buenos Aires indican lluvia ligera y
nubes bajas (< 2.000 metros).</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Pero lo más sorprendente es que a pesar de que ni los testigos
vieron ni la fotografía muestra ningún objeto material (excepto esa
forma pseudolenticular), los autores del informe, predispuestos como
pilotos hacia los vehículos aeronáuticos, plantean hipótesis
bastante extravagantes. (Ver notas 34 y 35).
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk90475431"></a><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">En
cuanto a los dos informes técnicos oficiales, pueden darse por
perdidos irremisiblemente. No solo por los muchos años transcurridos
sino porque en Argentina no existía ningún centro dedicado a la
recopilación y estudio de esa casuística. Y, en cualquier caso, por
el limitado periodo de tiempo de conservación de la información en
los organismos oficiales argentinos, tema al que recientemente
dediqué un artículo.</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></span></sup></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Para
mí, la desclasificación y recuperación de documentos oficiales
dedicados a avistamientos ovni, militares principalmente, es tema de
singular importancia. No solamente en lo que respecta a España</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
sino que me he ocupado de poner al alcance de los estudiosos
internacionales varios documentos relativos a viejos incidentes ovni
comunicados por medios oficiales argentinos, como los detalles
difundidos por la embajada de Argentina en Washington sobre las
observaciones ovni en la base naval de Espora en mayo de 1962</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
la información transmitida al NICAP por el Capitán Omar R. Pagani
(Marina Argentina) sobre el caso del buque de Transporte Punta
Médanos del 12 de noviembre de 1963 en el Mar Argentino</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
los formularios ovni de la Armada Argentina relativos a avistamientos
en Isla Decepción (Antártida) en junio y julio de 1965</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">12</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">el
cuestionario del Servicio de Inteligencia Naval de la Armada
Argentina sobre un caso ocurrido en 1962 en Necochea</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">o
el </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">formulario
de la Armada Argentina correspondiente al “aterrizaje” de Trancas
del 21 de octubre de 1963.</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">14</span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Propagación</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
foto de Dudignac está en la nómina literaria de muchos escritores,
argentinos y </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">extranjeros.
En sus libros, trataron de ella Vogt</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">15</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(“fotografía muy curiosa”), Uriondo</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">16</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(“una de las pruebas más sólidas que existen”), Ribera</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">17</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Álvarez</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">18</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(“la incontrastable evidencia del peritaje ha establecido la
veracidad de los hechos”) o Alonso </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>et
al</i></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">19</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(“avistamiento singular”), por citar solo algunos. Y sin
mencionar innumerables blogueros o redactores de webs durante los
años. La verdad es que ninguna de las anteriores referencias, ni
tampoco los muchos artículos aparecidos en revistas sobre ovnis,
aporta nada original, habiendo bebido de una exclusiva fuente, la
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Revista
Nacional de Aeronáutica</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Revistas especializadas internacionales reseñaron también el suceso
en su día, como la FSR</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">20</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
o el boletín del APRO</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">21</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
brevemente y resumiendo lo publicado en la RNA.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Revisión
crítica</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
leer la primera visión escéptica de esta fotografía tenemos que
esperar a 1994, cuando el investigador mejicano Ruiz Noguez expone
estas críticas del avistamiento y la imagen</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">22</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>En
la narración resaltan varios hechos curiosos…</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">[entre
ellos]</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>…que
cuestionado por los investigadores de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina
sobre la razón de haber sacado una foto habiendo tenido tiempo para
sacar más, responda que “el hecho en sí no tendría mayor
importancia”, lo que claramente se contradice con su primera
declaración: “pensé que se trataba de un raro fenómeno
meteorológico (por eso lo fotografié)”. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Son
comentarios importantes en tanto en cuanto comienzan a poner en
entredicho lo que hasta ahora había sido objeto de credulidad
absoluta, por el peso dado a los informes de la policía y la
aeronáutica policial, que nadie había tenido la competencia o el
interés por refutar.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
correspondencia con el estudioso argentino Rubén Morales, este
evaluaba la fotografía de esta manera: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">…</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>es
muy tenue, se ven claramente unas formaciones nubosas sobre las
cuales algún dibujante de la época realzó ciertos bordes a punta
de lápiz, como solían hacer los retocadores de fotos de los diarios
por </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>entonces.</i></span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">23</span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk90476680"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
hipótesis de la restauración es razonable y a pesar de que las
copias con las que trabajaron los dos equipos policiales (al menos
uno) derivan directamente del negativo, la considero una posibilidad
no descartable. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk90477201"></a><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Tuvieron
que pasar varias décadas desde 1955 para que un ufólogo decidiera
por fin revisitar el caso de primera mano. En febrero de 2000, el
psicólogo clínico e investigador Roberto Banchs viajó en dos
ocasiones a la pequeña y retirada localidad de Dudignac. Primero
tomó contacto con los vecinos y posteriormente entrevistó al
testigo principal, Pedro -</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Peruco</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">-
Navarro. De salud resquebrajada (ya fallecido a la hora de componer
este informe), resultó imposible acceder al negativo original ya </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
“por circunstancias de la vida, perdió todo el material que tenía
sobre el caso”</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">24</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Por si fuera poco, el cliché no le fue nunca devuelto por las
autoridades de Aeronáutica.</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">25</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Banchs opina que el hombre -actuando de buena fe- cruzó la plaza del
pueblo, vio una curiosa figura en el cielo (que tiene toda la
apariencia de una formación nubosa) y sacó la celebradísima foto.
A pesar de los 45 años transcurridos, la impresión para Banchs “es
que se trata de una persona honesta en sus manifestaciones”.</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">26</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Lo </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que,
a mi juicio, no impide una suerte de exceso de “creatividad” a la
hora de interpretar lo que muestra la fotografía. Para un joven que
quiere ganarse la vida editando un periódico y haciendo fotos, ser
el primer argentino en haber logrado fotografiar un platillo volante
sería un hito. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzKl3Sgj5NQ4FOHaydASk0M_088tRYULzphdiX0EJal-bU4kD-xIo3onH-jH7APHA8R_7eEJBBA0MXgcHrqPRF5Ghf2Kmsz4oIMFz6FlRcIOS08dPNEWyyQfbylP0MaMMO4XAj2FmtsyFHHLZVuw6HG86g531lgXS6cf3kbXm7tuYETIKMzQ=s3543" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="3543" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzKl3Sgj5NQ4FOHaydASk0M_088tRYULzphdiX0EJal-bU4kD-xIo3onH-jH7APHA8R_7eEJBBA0MXgcHrqPRF5Ghf2Kmsz4oIMFz6FlRcIOS08dPNEWyyQfbylP0MaMMO4XAj2FmtsyFHHLZVuw6HG86g531lgXS6cf3kbXm7tuYETIKMzQ=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A
la izquierda, Banchs con Pedro Navarro. A la derecha, la iglesia de
la plaza del pueblo de Dudignac, que aparece en la fotografía.
(Cortesía de Roberto E. Banchs).</span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Sin
el negativo y sin positivos de primera generación para analizar
(apenas disponemos de reproducciones de varias copias de esta
peculiar forma nubosa), un peritaje independiente resulta
problemático. Para facilitar la comparación con las copias de alto
contraste, el experto en análisis fotográfico Andrés Duarte ha
preparado una versión de la primera foto del expediente policial con
el contraste aumentado.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLzgzrB90Rr2QTlr9FVIUoRmZLO-Mh-R93_6xlViWGcN2xF4C80VK-trZx3opLGX8Bjjor2rQynV-O_oFhY4JeMtfjLz70NVb6WQmyI3pWU681H6nG4uGUEtTVgSLIMFRt0UNYwpZBoFLfkRCXJ_z1BS6FS_bw6F8riRCvs6OjyLf-0XyPig=s4459" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4459" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLzgzrB90Rr2QTlr9FVIUoRmZLO-Mh-R93_6xlViWGcN2xF4C80VK-trZx3opLGX8Bjjor2rQynV-O_oFhY4JeMtfjLz70NVb6WQmyI3pWU681H6nG4uGUEtTVgSLIMFRt0UNYwpZBoFLfkRCXJ_z1BS6FS_bw6F8riRCvs6OjyLf-0XyPig=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">¿Desvela
esta imagen, contrariamente a lo que señala el informe policial, un
retoque con lápiz, para “destacar la silueta del fenómeno”,
como también se barrunta Banchs</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">26</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">?
La fotografía deja entrever un borde izquierdo bastante
deshilachado, como correspondería a un segmento caprichoso de una
configuración de posibles nimboestratos (nubes bajas).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Banchs
ha aportado otras ampliaciones de la foto policial en dos
coloraciones (de los archivos de la revista </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2001</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">).
Escribe Duarte, con mucha prevención: “Mientras que no tenga otra
copia para hacer mejores comparaciones, yo diría que la solo las
copias de alto contraste están retocadas, y creo que el objeto es
una formación nubosa”</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;">27</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGmXE0vJFJBce1Q017ZYlorA4L61KUKKAAn5iv8gymjcSJThJN7NSZLfNR4Z34ASDFphvYebodh_QUlcgA2akp3LgLO2XDgBbIjecqSSV88RrKI04vc-p5RcffE8383Jn_qgch0wDk9mvuZKAn0P098kl7UG_JDspUJw6Wbww0b-ZLrNoqSQ=s9170" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2991" data-original-width="9170" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGmXE0vJFJBce1Q017ZYlorA4L61KUKKAAn5iv8gymjcSJThJN7NSZLfNR4Z34ASDFphvYebodh_QUlcgA2akp3LgLO2XDgBbIjecqSSV88RrKI04vc-p5RcffE8383Jn_qgch0wDk9mvuZKAn0P098kl7UG_JDspUJw6Wbww0b-ZLrNoqSQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">Análisis</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con
los datos técnicos disponibles de la fotografía, el experimentado
analista de informes ovni Juan Carlos Victorio Uran</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ga</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">28</span> </span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">ha
realizado un ensayo de cuantificación de magnitudes, que, a pesar de
su aproximación, resulta esclarecedor. Para responder a las
preguntas, ¿a qué distancia se hallaba el fenómeno y que
dimensiones tenía?, Victorio Uranga ha realizado los siguientes
cálculos</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">29</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Altura
angular: Las mediciones se han realizado sobre una copia digitalizada
que se presupone que no está recortada (el negativo no está
disponible). </i></span></span></span></span></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">El
objetivo utilizado en la toma fue uno “normal que abarca 45-50º”</span></i><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">.</i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Entiendo
que la distancia focal utilizada (“normal”) es de 50 mm, que en
un negativo de 35 mm tiene un campo de visión de 40º horizontal,
27º vertical y 47º diagonal. Los datos obtenidos son orientativos.</i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>En
la fotografía he trazado una raya roja por donde estimo que está el
horizonte. Desde esta línea he dibujado otra (con un editor
fotográfico) hasta el “platillo” que mide 446 pixeles. La imagen
tiene 1132 x 741 pixeles y un ángulo de visión de 40º x 27º. </i></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8_umQ3I5hGadPfaa_8drwwHR6Dyhm7MgGRYjfNF1jUF55OdJgR783IZtgkW4JVTiKPQvJJJ61OT7e_jsUZ9LHDpYe9dIwGwFyfOwT8NMF-NU3yqQgZiIH-Uo9vkX9oyVNg3692TFnxaZ7wNuO_V-Xru_DbC2E8A1DHneWQTAZmUkVZ5LQow=s757" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="757" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8_umQ3I5hGadPfaa_8drwwHR6Dyhm7MgGRYjfNF1jUF55OdJgR783IZtgkW4JVTiKPQvJJJ61OT7e_jsUZ9LHDpYe9dIwGwFyfOwT8NMF-NU3yqQgZiIH-Uo9vkX9oyVNg3692TFnxaZ7wNuO_V-Xru_DbC2E8A1DHneWQTAZmUkVZ5LQow=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Horizonte
y altura estimados.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tomando
la vertical de la foto se obtiene la </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>altura
angular</u></i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>:
</i></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>741 px equivalen a 27º </i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>446
px equivalen a </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>16º</u></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Según
los datos meteorológicos disponibles de la zona, la altura de la
base de nubes estaría alrededor de los </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>2.000
metros</u></i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
(nubes bajas).</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Distancia:
Con estos dos datos, se puede calcular la </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>distancia</u></i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
de la cámara al “platillo” con una sencilla formula
trigonométrica (seno de un ángulo es igual al cateto opuesto
dividido por la hipotenusa), esto es:</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Sen
16º (0,2756) = 2.000 m /d (d: distancia entre la cámara y el
objeto)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>d</span>=
2.000 / 0,2756 = </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>7.257
metros</u></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Dimensiones:
El fenómeno mide 310 pixeles de largo.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibuqac6JKhmVGL8YGgPBtdx9-t3Hg2md4A5p8H9zaLN586zEFC9n0HM_Grtb3XavcZQpiG4eWlbE2vodpA0usR7KQo24QwYCep_wYIIEtzQRN3P2VvjapPV7MOmy3At6hEnVD1rnMCUSaFPCMHytp_TVUfNyqfwAT9bV4UPxhtWCzVLVDIgQ=s821" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="821" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibuqac6JKhmVGL8YGgPBtdx9-t3Hg2md4A5p8H9zaLN586zEFC9n0HM_Grtb3XavcZQpiG4eWlbE2vodpA0usR7KQo24QwYCep_wYIIEtzQRN3P2VvjapPV7MOmy3At6hEnVD1rnMCUSaFPCMHytp_TVUfNyqfwAT9bV4UPxhtWCzVLVDIgQ=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Dimensión
de los píxeles.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Un
negativo de 35 mm mide 36 x 24 mm y la imagen tiene 1132 x 741
pixeles. Así tenemos:</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25cm;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>1132 px equivalen a 36
mm </i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>310
px equivalen a </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>9,86
mm</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
(T: tamaño en el negativo)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
siguiente expresión determina el tamaño (T) en milímetros de un
astro en un negativo de 35 mm</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">30</span></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>:</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>T
= D x (F / 206265)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Donde
D es el tamaño aparente del objeto fotografiado (en segundos), F es
la distancia focal del objetivo (en mm) y 206265 un valor de
conversión de unidades.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Podemos
entonces calcular el </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>tamaño
aparente</u></i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
del "platillo" (D):</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i> </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>D
= (T x 206265) / </i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span> F </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>D
= (9,86 mm x 206265) / 50 mm = 40.675” = </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>11º</u></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><i>Usamos
ahora la fórmula:</i></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Tg
Xº = cateto opuesto (</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>DIÁMETRO</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>)
/ cateto adyacente (distancia d)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Tg
11º = </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>DIAMETRO
</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>/
7.257 m </i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span> </span><span> </span>DIÁMETRO</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
= 0,1944 x 7.257 = </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>1.410
m</u></i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
esquema siguiente representa las magnitudes encontradas:</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Nunca
sabremos si las declaraciones originales a </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Democracia</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
apenas unos días después de los hechos, fueron cien por cien
fidedignas o algo exageradas para darle mayor consistencia a la
fotografía de un presunto platillo volante. Lo que sí es evidente,
a partir directamente de sus afirmaciones a la prensa, es que la
observación del fenómeno no produjo ninguna impresión importante
al fotógrafo. Fue la forma de la imagen que surgió en las copias
después de positivar los negativos y su interpretación como un
platillo volante extraterrestre lo que, a mi parecer, moldeó las
opiniones de los otros testigos. Nos encontramos con un fenómeno de
~1.400 metros de largo situado a más de 7 kilómetros de distancia,
a una altura angular de ~16º y situado en medio de una capa de nubes
que se hallaba a ~2.000 metros de altura</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
tratarse realmente de un objeto material, tan gigantescas dimensiones
augurarían una multiplicidad de testigos, máxime si al tiempo
emitía ruido. Además de que impresionarían a cualquier fotógrafo
que, al instante, agotaría el carrete fotográfico sobre el
fenómeno. No pasó ni una cosa ni otra. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Todo
es según el color del cristal con que se mira”, escribió Ramón
de Campoamor. Pero para un analista imparcial y sin ideas
preconcebidas, la única fotografía que el testigo principal
consideró que valía la pena sacar (dado el escaso valor que
atribuyó al avistamiento), </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">muestra
características nubosas</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
con un perfil muy desdibujado en su lado izquierdo. El tamaño
calculado a esa forma aérea (1.400 m) sí sería compatible con una
porción de un grupo de nubes. E</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">sta
hipótesis se corrobora fácilmente. En la atmósfera, las nubes muy
frecuentemente adoptan esa característica forma de “platillo”.
Sirva como ejemplo esta aparecida sobre Xalapa (Méjico) el pasado 25
de octubre</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;">31</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Y n</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">o
necesariamente las nubes lenticulares, sino también otras que se
crean alejadas de sistemas montañosos, como en el caso que nos
ocupa. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY71rf2yGPEB1NFpPEGLLfQg91XxZBOo55NzcLIiuz4U5qJ7x8MLu3D8OPC2gQpnws5UnlgaWVpIvrMNaw2SDCqNYnessb0LQoU1OYwrIsrS-tYRxhWfziCjmneBkbv_NDYEjChegY2QRBr9sYALGREVb1CNBpDflCw2AXpFxu6P7Gy1AYLw=s696" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="696" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY71rf2yGPEB1NFpPEGLLfQg91XxZBOo55NzcLIiuz4U5qJ7x8MLu3D8OPC2gQpnws5UnlgaWVpIvrMNaw2SDCqNYnessb0LQoU1OYwrIsrS-tYRxhWfziCjmneBkbv_NDYEjChegY2QRBr9sYALGREVb1CNBpDflCw2AXpFxu6P7Gy1AYLw=w200-h150" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">©
Jorge Briones / Agencia Informativa Alor Noticias.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">En
cuanto a la </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">placa
fotográfica</span></u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
que circula comúnmente, parece mostrar unos perfiles externos e
internos retocados a lápiz para recrear la forma estándar del
platillo volante, pero esto es solamente una suposición no
confirmada. </span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
suma, tenemos un joven fotógrafo diletante y periodista aficionado
que, al poco de comprar su primera cámara, ve una curiosa nube y le
hace una sola foto, sin asignarle mayor importancia. Este aprendiz de
retratista revela el carrete y descubre en las copias una forma que
se asemeja a la imagen arquetipo del “platillo volante” de las
películas. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Creo
que el papel jugado aquí por un efecto de </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pareidolia</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">32</span> </span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">es
muy importante. Es este un fenómeno psicológico muy común por el
que creemos </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ver</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
imágenes, figuras y caras donde no las hay. De hecho, buscar
imágenes familiares en las nubes es algo bastante cotidiano. Es un
truco que hace nuestro cerebro, asignando representaciones conocidas
a figuras inusuales o nuevas. La siguiente gran ampliación de la
copia policial de la fotografía de Navarro (retocada o no) lo que
verdaderamente muestra es una nube con la forma del platillo volante
cinematográfico que ya en 1955 todos tenían en mente (por ejemplo,
la famosísima </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ultimátum
a la Tierra</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
de 1951).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicpY_ml5uqMpLmzbASPScNfUngPkjikyNIE_IBMiz-luIpb5tr8PB9fafHwKlUfI0dqvBk62HF0PK12nYkgztkmlV2aZFaRSd_nzehlx2LrSbteeVzqOJAYV36QebeW4MXsHmnr4zsguOYnyZktf2hi2QbWFClPvw2vso0tvEI1EhcXZeDNQ=s2835" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="2835" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicpY_ml5uqMpLmzbASPScNfUngPkjikyNIE_IBMiz-luIpb5tr8PB9fafHwKlUfI0dqvBk62HF0PK12nYkgztkmlV2aZFaRSd_nzehlx2LrSbteeVzqOJAYV36QebeW4MXsHmnr4zsguOYnyZktf2hi2QbWFClPvw2vso0tvEI1EhcXZeDNQ=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
caso no deja de recordarse. Este mismo año, en su 66 aniversario, un
periódico de Buenos Aires ha dedicado un recordatorio al suceso.
Pero los tiempos han cambiado y la rigurosidad se aprecia en los
medios de comunicación, no como antaño. Esta vez, la glosa del
reportero finaliza así:</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
“</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con
rigor científico hasta ahora, no se ha podido comprobar que
civilizaciones más avanzadas de otras galaxias puedan llegar a la
tierra.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">33</span> </span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Gran
diferencia en 2021 con respecto al uso de términos como “aparato
extraterreno” o “platívolo” del diario de 1955. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">En
resumen, como en tantas ocasiones en todo el mundo, son los medios de
comunicación sensacionalistas y los ufólogos crédulos quienes
asignan trascendencia a sucesos que no la tienen. Así se ha creado
el mito.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “The FOTOCAT Database: A Tool for the Present
and the Future”, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fotocat-tool-presentation" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/fotocat-tool-presentation</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
En general, la fecha de cierre de entradas al banco de datos FOTOCAT
es el 31 de diciembre de 2005. Pero hay algunas excepciones, una de
ellas es la de Argentina, para la que el catálogo se extiende un año
más.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9z55xf" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2p9z55xf</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Oscar Fernández Brital, “El plato volador de Dudignac”. </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Revista
Nacional de Aeronáutica</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Nº 166, enero de 1956, páginas 24-25, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49206794/El_plato_volador_de_Dudignac">https://www.academia.edu/49206794/El_plato_volador_de_Dudignac</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49207187/Tres_extranos_fenomenos_luminoso">https://www.academia.edu/49207187/Tres_extranos_fenomenos_luminoso</a>s</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Erróneamente deletreado como Kailis en el artículo de la RNA.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="http://infometeoba.blogspot.com/">http://infometeoba.blogspot.com/</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(8)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Argentina: Desclasificación OVNI-UFO
Declassification”, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_UFO_Declassification">https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_UFO_Declassification</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Los expedientes OVNI desclasificados
-</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Online</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">”,</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42269478/Espora_Naval_Air_Base_UFO_sighting_1962">https://www.academia.edu/42269478/Espora_Naval_Air_Base_UFO_sighting_1962</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41963639/November_12_1963_Punta_Medanos_ship_UFO_sighting">https://www.academia.edu/41963639/November_12_1963_Punta_Medanos_ship_UFO_sighting</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio Uranga,
“Formularios OVNI de la Armada Argentina, 1965”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965">https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
Roberto E. Banchs, “Formulario OVNI de la Armada Argentina, 1962”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962_By_Roberto_E_Banchs">https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962_By_Roberto_E_Banchs</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Formulario OVNI de la Armada Argentina,
1963”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963">https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
Cristián Vogt, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>El
misterio de los platos voladores</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
La Mandrágora (Buenos Aires), 1956, páginas 39-40.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)
Oscar Adolfo Uriondo, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Objetos
aéreos no identificados. Un enigma actual</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Buenos Aires, 1965, páginas 95-98.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(17)
Antonio Ribera, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>“Platillos
Volantes” en Iberoamérica y España</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Pomaire (Barcelona), 1968, página 70.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Emilio Álvarez Ojea, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>¡Confirmado!
Llegaron los OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Luis Laserre (Buenos Aires), 178, páginas 175-177 y 184.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(19)
Manuel Alonso, J.M. Fernández Diéguez, Hugo Millien, Mario R.
Monteverde, Salvador Rossito, Ana Laura Spina y Marcos Taire,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Argentina,
tierra de OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Balcón (Buenos Aires), 1978, páginas 90-92.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(20)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Flying
Saucer Review</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 2, Nº 2, febrero-marzo de 1956, página 5.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(21)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
APRO Bulletin</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
noviembre de 1956, página 3.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(22)
Luis Ruiz Noguez, “Foto Navarro”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Perspectivas
Ufológicas</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Año 1, Nº 3, septiembre de 1994, páginas 22-23,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://tinyurl.com/hynkf5a6">https://tinyurl.com/hynkf5a6</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(23)
Rubén Morales, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 25 de marzo de 2002.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(24)
Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 9 de abril de 2002.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(25)
Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 4 de noviembre de
2021.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(26)
Roberto E. Banchs, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 11 de diciembre de
2021.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(27)
Andrés Duarte, E-mails a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 29 de junio, 17 de
julio y 19 de diciembre de 2021. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(28)
Misterios del Aire, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(29)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 6 de
diciembre de 2021.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(30)
Francisco Violat Bordoniu y Esther Martí Mateos,</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Guía
del observador planetario</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Equipo Sirius, S.A. (Madrid), 1995, página 251.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(31)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="http://alornoticias.com.mx/noticias/no-era-un-ovni-meteorologos-explican-fenomeno-en-el-cielo-de-xalapa">http://alornoticias.com.mx/noticias/no-era-un-ovni-meteorologos-explican-fenomeno-en-el-cielo-de-xalapa</a>/</u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(32)
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia</a></u></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(33)
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
9 de Julio</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
30 de agosto de 2021, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u><a href="https://www.diarioel9dejulio.com.ar/noticia/5329">https://www.diarioel9dejulio.com.ar/noticia/5329</a></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(34)
Nuestro consultor Andrés Duarte ha señalado que “Existieron
películas Agfa Isopan de distintas sensibilidades, pero entre los
datos que tenemos no se especifica cuál de ellas fue usada, entonces
no se puede determinar con certeza si esa película era de alta
sensibilidad o no, pero la obturación de 1/250 segundo es típica de
una foto tomada con una película de </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sensibilidad
normal</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
cuando la apertura es de f/6.3 y está nublado”. (E-mail a V.J.
Ballester Olmos, 17 de diciembre de 2021).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(35)
“Respecto a las conclusiones de los peritos, la sensibilidad de una
película pancromática no tiene ninguna relación con la posibilidad
de mejorar la visualización de la imagen de un objeto que fuera casi
imperceptible a simple vista, a menos que la foto hubiera sido tomada
en la oscuridad, entonces esa hipótesis referida a la sensibilidad
es incorrecta, independientemente de cuál sea la sensibilidad de la
película. En cuanto a las radiaciones emitidas por los materiales
radiactivos (radiaciones ionizantes), no forman imágenes
fotográficas porque casi no se refractan en las lentes, dichas
radiaciones solo pueden velar las fotografías, o a lo sumo formar
sombras, por lo que esa hipótesis referida a los materiales
radioactivos también es incorrecta”. (E-mail de Andrés Duarte a
V.J. Ballester Olmos, 17 de diciembre de 2021).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Agradecimientos: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A
Roberto Enrique Banchs cuya inestimable ayuda ha resultado
fundamental en la composición del presente informe. A Juan Carlos
Victorio Uranga, por los cálculos de las magnitudes del fenómeno. A
Leopoldo Zambrano, Juan Pablo González, Marcelo Metayer, Alejandro
Agostinelli, Comodoro Rubén Lianza, Andrés Duarte y Matías Morey,
por sus aportaciones.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>(En
enero de 2022 se pub</span>licará un informe completo sobre esta
investigación).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Sobre,
alrededor y dando vueltas al UAPTF</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Creo
que algunos políticos estadounidenses contemporáneos están cegados
por las noticias, legislación, informes y la correspondiente huella
de los medios sobre los UAPs (fenómenos aéreos no identificados,
antes ovnis). Son recién llegados al tema, desconocen por completo
70 años de informes e investigaciones y, por lo tanto, corremos el
riesgo de comenzar nuevamente desde cero y reinventar la rueda.</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Están
usando este tema de moda para reivindicarse en el panorama político
y mediático de los Estados Unidos? Algunos de ellos parecen pensar
que están poseídos para realizar una misión OVNI, como el
demócrata Rubén Gallego (representante por Arizona), o el senador
por Florida Marco Rubio.</span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
septiembre pasado, Mark Warner (senador demócrata por Virginia),
presidente del Comité Selecto de Inteligencia del Senado, introdujo
la enmienda S. 2610 en la Ley de Autorización de Inteligencia para
2022. Como escribe el reportero Billy Cox: “Titulada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Apoyo
para y supervisión del Grupo de trabajo sobre fenómenos aéreos no
identificados (UAPTF),</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
ordena al Secretario de Defensa y al Director de Inteligencia
Nacional (DNI) que entreguen inmediatamente la información ovni [que
se supone existe y está oculta] al Grupo de trabajo UAP del
Pentágono. Seguidamente, le ordena que prepare informes trimestrales
para el Congreso”. La Cámara fue aún más contundente. Cox
continúa: “En su Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional para el
año fiscal 2022, la enmienda HR 4350 pide que se elimine por
completo el UAPTF. En su lugar, dentro de los 180 días posteriores a
la aprobación de la Ley, el ministro (Secretary) de Defensa
trabajará con el DNI para establecer una oficina formal de
investigación ovni.</span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Y
a más tardar el 31 de diciembre de 2022, este proyecto conjunto
deberá presentar a los comités del Congreso correspondientes un
informe sobre los fenómenos aéreos no identificados".</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
continuación se incluye una lista de asignaciones, que van desde la
presentación de informes estandarizados, procedimientos de
catalogación, coordinación con otras agencias federales,
intercambio de información con aliados internacionales y la emisión
de informes anuales a los comités del Congreso, al menos hasta
finales de 2026, entre otros requisitos, algunos de los cuales
parecen preparados por ufólogos de los años 60.</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con la
propuesta del Congreso de abrir una oficina permanente para hacer
frente a los ovnis (ruego me disculpen, los UAP), sí, los ufólogos
de tuercas y tornillos (actualmente disfrazados de científicos
neutrales) babean materialmente. No en vano han contribuido mucho a
esta redacción.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/25/lawmaker-pentagon-ufo-514287"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/25/lawmaker-pentagon-ufo-514287</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/can-we-please-not-screw-this-up"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/can-we-please-not-screw-this-up</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/congress-calls-for-permanent-office-to-address-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://thedebrief.org/congress-calls-for-permanent-office-to-address-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</span></span></a></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL6nKmbY3Vi5a6FXWo9nn2-ObUcHp_aMF2sPuv2d9oyC3VefYE-KGlR-3YFoDVw_uznUy8bVZ_bqZNa1NmxhKrv9YXw3h4EgzRsqU96jpoKvSw0N8Y37uD4zvOfwGhavR2Eq878CO69lIlaOcoRLWGx9qhcFTyTLk9Ox4CoIgp2TTFqXK9PA=s1539" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="1069" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL6nKmbY3Vi5a6FXWo9nn2-ObUcHp_aMF2sPuv2d9oyC3VefYE-KGlR-3YFoDVw_uznUy8bVZ_bqZNa1NmxhKrv9YXw3h4EgzRsqU96jpoKvSw0N8Y37uD4zvOfwGhavR2Eq878CO69lIlaOcoRLWGx9qhcFTyTLk9Ox4CoIgp2TTFqXK9PA=s320" width="222" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">El
4 de noviembre de 2021, la demócrata Kirsten Gillibrand (senadora
por Nueva York) presentó la enmienda SA 4281, que establecería una
“Oficina de vigilancia y resolución de anomalías” (ASRO, en su
acrónimo en inglés). Esta oficina reemplazaría el actual programa
UAPTF de la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval de los EE. UU. Esta
propuesta sin duda se hace eco de los propios planes de Chris Mellon
para crear esta oficina, una que debería tener un consejo asesor en
el que, por ejemplo, Avi Loeb no debería faltar (un buen ejemplo de
grupo de presión). Como informa el agudo escritor Jason Colavito,
muy recientemente Avi Loeb nombró a Luis Elizondo y Chris Mellon,
anteriormente de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias To the Stars y del
History Channel, como miembros del consejo asesor de su Proyecto
Galileo.</span></span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">Es
bastante probable que otras organizaciones ovni de apariencia
científica se conviertan en parte del consejo asesor de ASRO. La
consecuencia es que, si esto finalmente se hace realidad, todas estas
figuras que apoyan la tesis pro-alienígena de los ovnis estarían
influyendo en el nuevo juego sobre los UAP que todos quieren jugar
con el gobierno de los EE. UU. ¡Viva la neutralidad!</span></span></div>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/kirsten-gillibrand-offers-legislation-to-bring-avi-loeb-into-government-ufo-office"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/kirsten-gillibrand-offers-legislation-to-bring-avi-loeb-into-government-ufo-office</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Conviene
leer la siguiente información de fondo y complementaria sobre estos
asuntos: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/this-is-urgent-bipartisan-proposal-for-ufo-office-pushes-new-boundaries-522845"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/this-is-urgent-bipartisan-proposal-for-ufo-office-pushes-new-boundaries-522845</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-teams-up-with-lue-elizondo-and-chris-mellon-to-hunt-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/avi-loeb-teams-up-with-lue-elizondo-and-chris-mellon-to-hunt-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/11/trick-or-treat-elizondo-and-mellon-join-avi-loebs-galileo-project/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/11/trick-or-treat-elizondo-and-mellon-join-avi-loebs-galileo-project/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/11/harvards-galileo-project-meets-tom.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/11/harvards-galileo-project-meets-tom.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Todo
el mundo quiere estar a bordo. MUFON, por ejemplo. El pasado 11 de
noviembre, David MacDonald, su director ejecutivo (que reemplaza al
ex director Jan Harzan, quien en julio de 2020 fue arrestado bajo
cargos de solicitar sexo a una menor) remitió un “mensaje urgente”
a todos sus miembros para que contactaran no solo con sus
representantes electos locales, sino también con la propia senadora
Gillibrand para mostrar su decidido apoyo: "MUFON solicita a
nuestros miembros, encuestadores de campo, investigadores y a los
entusiastas de los ovnis en general en todo el mundo que presionen al
Senado y la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos para que
aprueben esta enmienda al Proyecto de Ley de Defensa". ¿Por qué
me parece todo esto un poco patético?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Adiós
UAPTF, Hola AOIMSG </u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero
el ministerio (Department) de Defensa estadounidense (DoD) tiene una
dinámica propia, aparte del legislador y del público. El 23 de
noviembre, difundió un comunicado que traduzco libremente:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><b>Defensa
anuncia el establecimiento del Grupo de sincronización de gestión e
identificación de objetos aéreos (AOIMSG)</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hoy,
la Subsecretaria de Defensa Kathleen Hicks, en estrecha colaboración
con el Director de Inteligencia Nacional, ordenó al Subsecretario de
Defensa de Inteligencia y Seguridad establecer en su oficina USD
(I&S) </i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES">[1]</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
el Grupo de sincronización de gestión e identificación de objetos
aéreos (AOIMSG), como sucesor del Grupo de trabajo sobre fenómenos
aéreos no identificados de la Marina de los Estados Unidos. El
AOIMSG sincronizará los esfuerzos en todo el Departamento y de todo
el gobierno de los EE. UU. para detectar, identificar y vigilar
objetos sospechosos en el espacio aéreo de uso especial (SUA), y
para evaluar y mitigar cualquier amenaza asociada a la seguridad del
vuelo y la seguridad nacional. Para supervisar al AOIMSG, la
Subsecretaria también ordenó al USD (I&S) que lidere un Consejo
ejecutivo de identificación y gestión de objetos aéreos (AOIMEXEC)
que esté compuesto por miembros del Departamento de Defensa y de la
Comunidad de Inteligencia, y que ofrezca un lugar para la
representación de las varias agencias del gobierno de EE. UU.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
incursiones de cualquier objeto aéreo en nuestro SUA plantean
problemas de seguridad de vuelo y de operaciones, y pueden plantear
problemas de seguridad nacional. El Departamento de Defensa se toma
muy en serio los informes de incursiones -por cualquier objeto aéreo,
identificado o no identificado-, e investiga cada uno de ellos. Esta
decisión es el resultado de los esfuerzos de planificación y
colaboración realizados por OUSD (I&S) y otros elementos del DoD
bajo la dirección de la Subsecretaria Hicks </i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES">[2]</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>,
para abordar los desafíos asociados con la evaluación de los UAP
que ocurren en o cerca de los campos de entrenamiento del DoD e
instalaciones resaltadas en el informe de evaluación preliminar del
DNI presentado al Congreso en junio de 2021. El informe también
identificó la necesidad de realizar mejoras en los procesos,
políticas, tecnologías y capacitación para mejorar nuestra
capacidad de entender los UAP.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #333333;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: times;"><i>En
las próximas semanas, el Departamento emitirá una guía de
implementación, que contendrá más detalles sobre el Director del
AOIMSG, la estructura organizativa, las autoridades y los recursos.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Aquí
está la nota de prensa oficial: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p99her5"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/2p99her5</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">[1]
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yckx2tu9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yckx2tu9</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
[2] </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycktycps"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/ycktycps</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
mi entender, el detalle más significativo de este anuncio, comparado
con el Grupo de trabajo de fenómenos aéreos no identificados
(UAPTF) creado en 2018 por la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval, luego
asumido públicamente por el Departamento de Defensa en agosto de
2020, y después de la evaluación preliminar del UAPTF de junio de
2021, es la ausencia del término "UAP" (un sucesor saneado
de "OVNI") del título del proyecto. A partir de ahora, el
objeto de estudio es fundamentalmente la identificación de objetos
aéreos (lo siento por los amantes de los ovnis submarinos-USOs). Es
cierto que la continuación del texto y los memorandos vinculados con
este comunicado sí mencionan a los UAP dentro de su ámbito de
competencia pero, para mí, sigue siendo curioso, e incluso diría
intrigante, que hayan modificado el nombre del grupo de trabajo de
forma que UAP no aparezca e </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Identificación</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
si lo haga. La terminología importa. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Personalmente,
interpreto esto como una iniciativa del Departamento de Defensa de
los Estados Unidos, entre otros objetivos formales e internos en los
campos de competencia entre ejércitos, para mantenerse alejado de
personas y grupos de presión que han estado tratando de influir en
el antiguo UAPTF desde adentro. Este movimiento puede ser un intento
de abortar la ensoñación de la senadora Gillibrand (ver arriba).
Veremos qué nos depara el futuro con este proyecto impronunciable.
Pero algún día alguien debe entender que, a pesar de los
avistamientos de pilotos o videos de la Marina u otros que se
destapen, ¡este es el resultado del mito de platillos volantes desde
el principio!</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>¿Una o dos
oficinas ovni?</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Esto
se está convirtiendo en una tragicomedia. Tan reciente como el
pasado día 7 de diciembre, el Congreso de los EE. UU. aprobó la
política anual de defensa, que incluye la enmienda presentada por
Gillibrand y copatrocinada por un grupo bipartidista de senadores
para reemplazar el existente UAPTF por una oficina ovni administrada
tanto por el Secretario de Defensa como por el Director de
Inteligencia Nacional. Supongo que prevalecerá el sentido común y
las funciones del AOIMSG recién creada integrarán de alguna manera
las demandas (moldeadas en la tradición ufológica) planteadas por
Gillibrand </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>et
al</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:
recopilación y análisis de datos en un repositorio central,
establecer un plan científico, construir un marco nacional de
prioridades de inteligencia, evaluar cualquier vínculo entre los UAP
y gobiernos extranjeros o actores no estatales e informar al
Congreso. El proyecto de ley tiene aún que pasar por la votación
del Senado. Continuará…</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrands-groundbreaking-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-amendment-included-in-final-ndaa_">https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrands-groundbreaking-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-amendment-included-in-final-ndaa_</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/585180-defense-bill-creates-new-office-to-study-ufos">https://thehill.com/policy/defense/585180-defense-bill-creates-new-office-to-study-ufos</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Para
una comprensión completa del complejo proceso legislativo implicado,
una fuente que aclarará este aspecto es la que Brad Sparks ha
calificado como "un excelente artículo de Doug Johnson sobre la
historia de antecedentes del proyecto de ley en el Congreso que
establece una oficina formal sobre los UAP": </span></span></span><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-serious-business/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-serious-business/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
la más reciente información sobre lo que se espera que ocurra la ha
presentado el 8 de diciembre Jason Colavito en su blog: “El
Congreso dispuesto a aprobar una nueva oficina ovni con bizarros
mandatos para investigar”: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congress-set-to-approve-new-ufo-office-with-bizarre-research-mandates"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/congress-set-to-approve-new-ufo-office-with-bizarre-research-mandates</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Dije
la más reciente? Vivimos en una conmoción informativa minuto a
minuto sobre los ovnis y el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Vean el
artículo que el día 17 de diciembre ha publicado Christopher Sharp
en </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Liberation
Times </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(¡vaya,
vaya!):</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Esperen
los inesperado en 2022, los ovnis se hacen globales”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/expect-the-unexpected-in-2022-as-ufos-go-global"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/expect-the-unexpected-in-2022-as-ufos-go-global</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El Senado de los Estados Unidos aprobó la ley de Defensa (</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">NDAA, S. 1605) el 15 de diciembre y el 21 la hizo pública la Government Printing Office: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVspt2Bae6paAzu9zJfrn-x1bQzUgGWv/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVspt2Bae6paAzu9zJfrn-x1bQzUgGWv/view</a></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Investigación
ovni de la NASA en España</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Nombrar
a la NASA equivale mentar el centro espacial más poderoso del mundo,
capaz de colocar hombres en la Luna y naves espaciales en la
superficie de Marte. En la conciencia de mucha gente, si algo tiene
que ver con el espacio, la NASA lo está investigando. Por lo tanto,
no es de extrañar que existan rumores sobre la participación de
personal de la NASA en la investigación de avistamientos de ovnis.
En España, los hay, al menos, en dos notorios sucesos de aterrizajes
de ovnis: el del 21 de marzo de 1974 en Valdehijaderos, Salamanca
(dos encuentros sucesivos con ovnis y sus ocupantes por un joven
camionero)</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y el del 6 de septiembre de 1980 en Torrejoncillo, Cáceres (un
fenómeno de tipo rayo en bola que quemó animales, objetos y el
terreno y que afectó a todo un pueblo)</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el caso de Valdehijaderos, el único presunto testigo afirmó en 2007
(33 años después del doble “encuentro” con ovnis y humanoides)
que investigadores de la NASA determinaron que una temperatura
superior a los 1000ºC había producido las huellas que encontró en
el suelo</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Más
adelante, en 2011, la prensa local informó que los lugareños
afirman que "hace una década, la NASA se interesó nuevamente
en estos viejos eventos y envió expertos para examinar este campo"</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Parece que más bien unos días después de los hechos, un par de
autodenominados ufólogos con sede en Madrid llegaron al lugar con
un contador Geiger para medir la radiactividad ambiental. ¿Fue este
hecho transformado interesadamente en una visita de investigadores de
la NASA, o fue simplemente una fantasía más del narrador de turno?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89xgwcwd_cWkqDCfIfhJT4G1I7Nn6xOcQg3ajg_GwJnzr2Gpvr9fvmDTzL8tBVvcV35cOnfkBUcLnQDHDVRlMdo5MWbwpiJZ9yLl4mXlZu2dIuGnkhlvCiKinwCv69TCgZjrAHN1AV4bJWYNPKpZbkJRHSNSzoTGsYqRMLZURlcc2o5kXLA=s1466" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="997" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89xgwcwd_cWkqDCfIfhJT4G1I7Nn6xOcQg3ajg_GwJnzr2Gpvr9fvmDTzL8tBVvcV35cOnfkBUcLnQDHDVRlMdo5MWbwpiJZ9yLl4mXlZu2dIuGnkhlvCiKinwCv69TCgZjrAHN1AV4bJWYNPKpZbkJRHSNSzoTGsYqRMLZURlcc2o5kXLA=s320" width="218" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">El
testigo, las huellas y su dibujo.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Con
respecto al destructivo acontecimiento que se manifestó en
Torrejoncillo, y que se debió probablemente a un fenómeno del tipo
rayo globular o un remolino de fuego</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5-7</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
un libro sobre ovnis publicado 20 después de aquellos hechos
auténticos habló de que “expertos de la NASA, escoltados por la
Guardia Civil, convencieron a los testigos de que lo que habían
visto fue un simple meteorito”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYK905xf-UKLifhxLGsUlj1GRr01asq7gdPBkgP_w9NhSXQ7mjmzsU2boeewXw0_4qHLMBOfajjn9FLIOpUQH8hTNEVgpaFI5X1DxO2y8F6MMuapIFD8sx8W9qtOvfChIAVYcCE85EkJ_r77aK-ig5UVhcbQoZoKtMFt5cvqD67QPodcewzQ=s1717" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1717" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYK905xf-UKLifhxLGsUlj1GRr01asq7gdPBkgP_w9NhSXQ7mjmzsU2boeewXw0_4qHLMBOfajjn9FLIOpUQH8hTNEVgpaFI5X1DxO2y8F6MMuapIFD8sx8W9qtOvfChIAVYcCE85EkJ_r77aK-ig5UVhcbQoZoKtMFt5cvqD67QPodcewzQ=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Bidón
de agua fundido por el paso de un cono de fuego. Huella abrasada
dejada por gotas soltadas por el fenómeno. © Quasar. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero
la verdad es que lo único que relaciona a la NASA con este suceso, y
lo hace de forma lejana e indirecta, fue una consulta por carta que
hizo en 1981 el grupo local Quasar a Warren D. Rayle, un científico
que en 1966 había firmado un informe técnico de la NASA sobre el
rayo en bola</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Recientemente,
este asunto se aludió en Anomalist 2.0, un foro
hispano-latinoamericano de internet dedicado a los ovnis en el que
participo, y decidí tomar una vía proactiva, para lo cual entré en
contacto con Steve Garber, el actual conservador de la página web de
historia de la NASA. Tras informarle de ambos sucesos, le planteé si
era conocedor de alguna intervención de la NASA en la encuesta de
casos ovni en España. Rápidamente, tuvo a bien responder así:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tenemos
algunos archivos de temas sobre ovnis, pero no veo ninguna mención
de estos incidentes en particular en sus descripciones resumidas, así
que no he obtenido resultados sobre esto. Puede intentar buscar en
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ntrs.nasa.gov/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>pero
no creo que esto arroje nada de valor</i></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
es natural,</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">hemos
explorado esos recursos buscando cualquier término que pudiera
aportar alguna información, como extraterrestrial, UFOs, UAP, Spain,
etc. Nada. Sólo surgió una referencia, un trabajo colectivo de
principios de los años noventa sobre un proyecto de la NASA de
búsqueda de vida inteligente en el universo a través de un
reconocimiento por microondas</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">11</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En consecuencia, estoy convencido de que la supuesta implicación de
la NASA en asuntos ovni en España es totalmente falsa. Es una forma
de leyenda urbana, animada por testigos o periodistas.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Center for UFO Studies (Evanston, Illinois), abril de 1976, pp.
44-45, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
R. Nava-Osorio y Juan Díaz, “Estudio de un fenómeno de remolino
de fuego en Cuatro Cuartos. Primer estudio”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Fenómenos
Anómalos</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
2, primavera de 1990.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/20071017/vida/extranos-visitantes-20071017.html">https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/20071017/vida/extranos-visitantes-20071017.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/hemeroteca/valdehijaderos-municipio-ligado-avistamiento-seres-extranos-1974-NUGS59719">https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/hemeroteca/valdehijaderos-municipio-ligado-avistamiento-seres-extranos-1974-NUGS59719</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1984, pp. 207-209.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Manuel Borraz Aymerich, “Estudio de un fenómeno de remolino de
fuego en Cuatro Cuartos. Segundo estudio”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Fenómenos
Anómalos</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
2, primavera de 1990. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Dr. Terence Meaden (</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Meteorology</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">),
comunicación personal a V.J Ballester Olmos, 22 de julio de 1989.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Iker Jiménez, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enigmas
sin resolver</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
EDAF (Madrid), 1999, pp. 123-137.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660006027/downloads/19660006027.pdf">https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660006027/downloads/19660006027.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Stephen J. Garber, E-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 21 de septiembre de
2021.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(11)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/34530/94-0880.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/34530/94-0880.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Agradecimientos: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga. Juan José Montejo. Dr. Richard F.
Haines. Jaime Servera.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Un
objetivo ideal para la ufología del siglo 21, pero (probablemente)
inalcanzable</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ya
he escrito anteriormente que una síntesis de la ufología es
obligatoria</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
En concreto, lo que propuso el naturalista Alexander von Humboldt en
el siglo XIX para “todo el universo material”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
o, en otras palabras, “una síntesis filosófica de todo
conocimiento”</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Una meta que, en parte, logró en su </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cosmos</i></span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero
esta debería ser una síntesis racional. Sin embargo, ¿es viable
hacer un compendio racional de algo cuya naturaleza es irracional y
absurda? Me temo que no se pueda alcanzar nunca porque tanto los
datos de entrada como su historia son absurdos por caóticos,
sinsentido y desestructurados. Por sí mismos, no por una
intervención mágica, divina, malvada o alienígena. Se puede hacer
una aproximación a esta reserva enciclopédica singular, prospectiva
y magna de información tratada (analizada, filtrada), siempre que el
compilador no sueñe con platillos voladores.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
tener una base sobre la que trabajar, los futuros investigadores
deberían comenzar a operar con la documentación masiva
proporcionada por las dos principales compilaciones existentes, las
editadas por Clark</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y por Eberhart</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Ambos repertorios tienen una orientación pro-ovni que sus autores no
esconden, pero la historia del fenómeno está ahí para ser
reprocesada y reinterpretada en un escenario que se origina en la
naturaleza y no en la visita interestelar.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Thomas E. Bullard, “La naturaleza de la
evidencia ovni: Dos visiones”, </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33359363/LA_NATURALEZA_DE_LA_EVIDENCIA_OVNI_DOS_VISIONES"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/33359363/LA_NATURALEZA_DE_LA_EVIDENCIA_OVNI_DOS_VISIONES</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
“El cosmos de Humbolt,” en </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>A.
von Humboldt. Vida, pensamiento y obra</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Diego Gándara, Planeta DeAgostini, S.A. (Madrid), 2008, p. 234.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
_______, p. 53.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Alexander von Humboldt, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cosmos:
A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Henry
G. Bohn (Londres), 1849, volúmenes I y II. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Jerome Clark, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
UFO Encyclopedia. Volumes 1-3</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Omnigraphics,
Inc. (Detroit, Michigan), octubre de 2018,
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3mp7utz9"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3mp7utz9</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
George</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">M.
Eberhart, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOs
and Intelligence: A Timeline</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
2020, </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Creencias
</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>vs</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
escepticismo</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Para
empezar, tenemos un mal llamado “fenómeno” ovni, porque no
existe un único fenómeno como tal, sino una amalgama heterogénea
de narraciones a las que se ha atribuido -erróneamente- una causa
común: su procedencia extraterrestre. Investigadores ovni con mente
más científica dicen aborrecer esta orientación y sostienen que
alguna causa natural desconocida puede originar los avistamientos.
Pero yo tengo mis dudas que esa sea una posición verdaderamente
franca y que en realidad no oculte alguna mínima esperanza… </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">La
forma de abordar el estudio de los informes de objetos volantes no
identificados suele ser bajo la </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>creencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de la procedencia extraterrestre del “fenómeno”. Esa, y no otra,
es la razón del arraigo mundial de una suposición que tiene un gran
atractivo en el imaginario popular. Pero esta creencia asumida por
tantos estudiosos en base a cientos de libros sensacionalistas leídos
previamente se revela como una auténtica losa intelectual. En lugar
de acelerar la investigación la retrasa, la bloquea, la impide.
Porque le imposibilita considerar neutralmente todos los ángulos,
aristas y opciones que verdaderamente plantea el estudio de los casos
que llegan al investigador. La creencia en los ovnis extraterrestres
(y cualquier hipótesis alternativa como la inter-dimensional, la
intraterrestre, los visitantes del futuro, a cada cual más absurda y
especulativa) socava tu libertad intelectual y te hace circular por
un angosto túnel lógico u ontológico. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Sin
embargo, una vez que has superado esa creencia, entras en una etapa o
dimensión en la que la velocidad y la claridad en la interpretación
de los hechos de naturaleza ovni aumenta exponencialmente.</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Porque has
abandonado aquella pesada y errónea carga intelectual. El
escepticismo o la negación en la ufología no es otra creencia:
supone la </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>ausencia
de creencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Normalmente es un proceso de años, a través del cual transitas por
diversas disyuntivas, desde las más radicales a las más racionales.
Pero, una vez instalado en esa incredulidad y agnosticismo prácticos
-basados en la realidad y no en apriorismos- podemos finalmente
diseccionar los mil y un sucesos que la gente nos informa desde una
perspectiva de mayor sabiduría y con una amplitud de mente de la que
carecías (la losa mental de la creencia que impedía la crítica de
los avistamientos más extraños). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ahora
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>sabes</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
que debe haber una razón inocua, normal, natural, artificial pero
terrestre, que solucione y justifique el acontecimiento que resultó
extraño al observador, que el investigador ecuánime debe encontrar.
No es el escepticismo, pues, una postura más; es el resultado de
carecer de una creencia reaccionaria, que es cosa bien distinta.
Pero, atención, que nadie vea en el enfoque escéptico un signo de
desencanto. En absoluto. Por el contrario, ese discernimiento
alcanzado te impulsa a seguir investigando incluso con mayor ahínco,
porque comprendes que ya no estás desencaminado. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Curt Collins investiga un caso ovni fotográfico que incluso Hynek
admitió como fidedigno:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Jason Colavito, 20 de octubre de 2021: “La repetitiva resaca de
noticias sobre ovnis intenta asustar con incidentes de medio siglo de
antigüedad”,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/11/la-repetitiva-conferencia-de-noticias-sobre-ovnis-intenta-asustar-por-incidentes-de-medio-siglo-de-antigedad/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/11/la-repetitiva-conferencia-de-noticias-sobre-ovnis-intenta-asustar-por-incidentes-de-medio-siglo-de-antigedad/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Ted Molczan, “Re-Entry Sightings and Debris Recovery of 2008-010B
Spain – 2015 November 03 UTC”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Space Safety Engineering</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 2, Nº 2, diciembre de 2015, pp. 83-90,</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE_ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008_010B_SPAIN_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/REENTRYSIGHTINGS_&_DEBRISRECOVERYSPAIN_2015NOVEMBER03</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
Brett Holman, “The enemy at the gates: the 1918 mystery aeroplane
panic in Australia and New Zealand,” en Michael J. K. Walsh y
Andrekos Varnava (eds), </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Australia
and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Melbourne University Press, 2016, pp. 71-96, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27322399/The_enemy_at_the_gates_the_1918_mystery_aeroplane_panic_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand">https://www.academia.edu/Theenemyatthegates1918mysteryaeroplanepanicinAustralia&NewZealand</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
Sobre los círculos en las cosechas de Inglaterra</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210822-englands-crop-circle-controversy"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210822-englands-crop-circle-controversy</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Recientes bólidos detectados sobre España: a las 06:17 horas del 16
de noviembre de 2021, en el sudeste del país, y a las 00:07 horas
del 5 de diciembre, en el sur de España y en Portugal:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4895337/0/captan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-golfo-de-cadiz-a-238-000-km-hora/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4895337/0/captan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-golfo-de-cadiz-a-238-000-km-hora/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4918559/0/una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-el-sur-de-espana-y-portugal-a-100-000-km-hora/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4918559/0/una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-el-sur-de-espana-y-portugal-a-100-000-km-hora/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
“Altamente recomendado” es el sumario de una reseña que el
veterano ufólogo australiano Bill Chalker ha publicado sobre la
colección en dos volúmenes titulada </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Redemption
of the Damned</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(La redención de los condenados), por ese extraordinario tándem de
investigadores formado por el escocés Martin Shough y el belga Wim
van Utrecht: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2021/09/redemption-of-damned-two-volume.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2021/09/redemption-of-damned-two-volume.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(8)
“Objetos voladores y fenómenos celestes en el México antiguo:
Descripciones en las fuentes del siglo XVI”, por César Morlán:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38954873/Objetos_Voladores_y_fen%C3%B3menos_celestes_en_el_M%C3%A9xico_antiguo_Descripciones_en_las_fuentes_del_siglo_XVI" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/ObjetosVoladoresyfenómenoscelestesMéxicoantiguoDescripcionesenfuentesdelsigloXVI</a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Trabajo publicado en una revista científica sobre materiales
extraños asociados con observaciones ovni: “Improved instrumental
techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the
characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to
aerospace forensics”, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Progress
in Aerospace Sciences</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
volumen 128, 1 de enero de 2022, por Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F.
Vallee, Sizun Jiang y Larry G. Lemkec. Enlace al resumen</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042121000907?via%3Dihub"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042121000907?via%3Dihub</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Keith
Basterfield ha escrito lo siguiente en su blog:</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/12/vallee-nolan-et-al-peer-reviewed.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/12/vallee-nolan-et-al-peer-reviewed.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left; text-indent: 1.25cm;"><b>Cielos
Despejados</b></i></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Reseña
de Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Escribe
Matías Morey, su autor, como subtitulo, que esta obra son los
“escritos de un ufólogo después de los ovnis”. Y no le falta
razón pero, nos guste o no, habrá creencia en los ovnis
extraterrestres más allá de este y de otros buenos libros como
este, porque la credulidad de la sociedad es inmensa. Hay muchos,
llamémosles investigadores, que están fascinados por ese tipo de
relatos y de testimonios, y si estos vienen de pilotos o militares,
entonces son letra sagrada. Pero, a lo que vamos. Matías Morey
Ripoll es un jurista mallorquín con amplia experiencia en ufología,
en casuística, en catalogación, en concienzudo análisis y estudio
y en “administración”, no en balde fue uno de los gestores,
fundadores y el puntal legal de la Fundación Anomalía (1996-2013)</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhA3GZnfwQeNnQQ5pbJfjfyy2cXkPFYW-XzS2kYOMM-1wxVpgYquCuiq_zd2PBbQ-oZN4fgInJggpIpx7pu9TH-GsVbVM6LPAsx07limyRk-z3PSsVCFFoMYiz4mLG8wVThavv-QP-pCBQFfhaJRk5iVNKTJi1J0mw6HZBJTSmid-06Zo1Osw=s3596" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3596" data-original-width="2390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhA3GZnfwQeNnQQ5pbJfjfyy2cXkPFYW-XzS2kYOMM-1wxVpgYquCuiq_zd2PBbQ-oZN4fgInJggpIpx7pu9TH-GsVbVM6LPAsx07limyRk-z3PSsVCFFoMYiz4mLG8wVThavv-QP-pCBQFfhaJRk5iVNKTJi1J0mw6HZBJTSmid-06Zo1Osw=s320" width="213" /></a></div><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">La
obra de Morey no es amplísima, pero sí extensa, profunda, justa,
ponderada, inteligente, que ya es mucho. Algo que no abunda en esta
materia de nuestros desvelos. Por ello, recopilar una selección de
lo que él califica como sus trabajos “menores” en ufología en
un único volumen es un acierto. Porque así se conoce y comprenden
sus aportaciones, que son anotadas con breves epílogos que las
contextualizan y valoran a fecha de hoy. La bibliografía de Morey
incluye otros trabajos “mayores”, cuya lectura aconsejo tras
devorar este opúsculo</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
es el primer libro de su creación, ya que fue lo que los
anglosajones llamarían el </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>editor
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">del
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Diccionario
Temático de Ufología</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
publicado por la Fundación Anomalía en 1997, un tomo que debería
reposar en la mesa de trabajo de cualquier ufólogo hispanoparlante.
Me enorgullece haber firmado un par de artículos con él</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1,3</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">y
haber contado con su extraordinaria colaboración en algún otro
proyecto aún inédito</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Matías fue también el gestor de mi blog UFO FOTOCAT en sus primeros
años</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
libro, que ha visto la luz en septiembre pasado, como he dicho, es un
prontuario de ensayos que el autor ha ido publicando entre 1991 y
2019 y que son hoy tan vigentes como entonces, más alguna entrevista
y varios cortos textos inéditos. La </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>web</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de Luis Ruiz Nóguez, la aclamada </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Marcianitos
verdes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
ha sido la primera en exponer esta reciente publicación</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">6</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y yo quiero irle a la zaga. Son diecinueve capítulos de una
envidiable diversidad intelectual (especialmente para un hombre de
letras) que demuestra la competencia cultural de Morey y su maestría
en varios campos, así como su fino humor e ingenio. El autor nos
anticipa el sentir y la motivación de esta colección de ensayos en
la misma Introducción, cuando señala que “los artículos reunidos
en este volumen pueden arrojar algo de luz sobre cómo hemos llegado
hasta aquí y cuánto nos ha costado el viaje, en más de un aspecto”
(p. 13). </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hallamos
en este libro un repaso a la temática ovni que cubre,
principalmente, desde la definición de ufología frente a los
modelos de ciencia (epistemología); el caos y la casuística, quizás
el primer estudio aplicando técnicas fractales a series de
avistamientos ovni (metodología); la crítica racional a la
hipótesis extraterrestre: “yo me hice ufólogo cuando dejé de
creer en la HET” (p. 44); contra encuesta o revisión histórica de
casos mallorquines e ibicencos de 1950 y 1953; sobre la necesidad de
crear bases de datos; CASUIB, catálogo de 207 casos ovni en las
Islas Baleares entre 1936 y 1997; comentario al tan manoseado como
irreal “triángulo de las Baleares”; y ciencia ficción
cinematográfica: Marte, 2001, Avatar (el autor es un apasionado -y
erudito- del cine </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Sci
Fi</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5gzmmNQ8hJLyOPtchD8CzcqhdAfYqGaGszHekLiMBjnpLj4h0Icpk_q-xMdPvW7sMYJuZvrmXD9VV3sfLBI8msa4_r0MG3JyTtiu6paw8z2yzrqdP-yoqhIi2NSf8quvGLk2_83xw50HvChLCQzBzt_jdgY10LBCbPFCYf7xf8Da3SbsiHw=s4254" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2851" data-original-width="4254" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5gzmmNQ8hJLyOPtchD8CzcqhdAfYqGaGszHekLiMBjnpLj4h0Icpk_q-xMdPvW7sMYJuZvrmXD9VV3sfLBI8msa4_r0MG3JyTtiu6paw8z2yzrqdP-yoqhIi2NSf8quvGLk2_83xw50HvChLCQzBzt_jdgY10LBCbPFCYf7xf8Da3SbsiHw=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Matías
Morey, a la derecha, con Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos. Valldemossa
(Mallorca), agosto de 2003. (Foto de Mª Asunción Miquel).</span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Es
una visión personal e introspectiva, con pinceladas autobiográficas,
de la ufología española desde finales del siglo XX, “una
reflexión sobre qué demonios pretende estudiar la ufología, eterna
discusión que no hace sino destacar el carácter pre paradigmático
de la disciplina” (p. 197). Como colofón a estas consideraciones,
añadir otra frase extraída de la Introducción que nos marca la
recapitulación y sentido final de la obra, cuando escribe que son
“lecciones que nos guíen en la búsqueda de la comprensión y del
conocimiento sobre un tema tan peculiar” (p. 15). Que no es poco. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
libro debe ser leído. Sus doscientas páginas se leen fácilmente y
de un tirón, pasando de profundos trabajos a escritos ligeros, pero
siempre interesantes. Con ellas adquieres un máster, con un mínimo
coste. Amigo lector, deje estas líneas inmediatamente, vaya al sitio
de Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa y encárguelo sin demora:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/09/cielos-despejados-escritos-de-un.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/09/cielos-despejados-escritos-de-un.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Matías Morey, “Mecenazgo OVNI: la Fundación
Anomalía”, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Referencias 3 a 7, página 16, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cielos
despejados</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Matías Morey, “27 noviembre 1999: ¿La
última reentrada del milenio?”, @nomalía, (I), 2, diciembre de
2000, páginas 29-39, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, Alexander Keul y Heriberto Janosch González,
“Online Questionnaire to Report Ball Lightning Observations”,
2007-2011. </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
formulario para informar observaciones de rayo en bola diseñado por
los autores y puesto en línea por Matías Morey. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, UFO FOTOCAT, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Marcianitos verdes: </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/09/cielos-despejados-por-matas-morey-ripoll/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2021/09/cielos-despejados-por-matas-morey-ripoll/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Más
contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que solo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
“Porto Alegre, Brasil, 10 de enero de 1977” (análisis de Wim van
Utrecht)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOueBKA63f0jg6cS4i0lEuQEwHSu4QO6X8CN7QM0-L9buUfNYNQUn_sJ5fUGd4jgo2F5GLFVCj2UtusupWK6tqE1BSyg_F0XhtdyRwHkLjNW_0ZAyQKHM3c86dTus8lGAzDWpYTA6POWDWYI7FB7RO8Cy5TkHINPZZwMmXzfpV_RqfLs7Afg=s2681" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1811" data-original-width="2681" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOueBKA63f0jg6cS4i0lEuQEwHSu4QO6X8CN7QM0-L9buUfNYNQUn_sJ5fUGd4jgo2F5GLFVCj2UtusupWK6tqE1BSyg_F0XhtdyRwHkLjNW_0ZAyQKHM3c86dTus8lGAzDWpYTA6POWDWYI7FB7RO8Cy5TkHINPZZwMmXzfpV_RqfLs7Afg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Encuentro</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
15 de septiembre pasado nos reunimos en Valencia Manuel Carballal,
David Cuevas, Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, Jaime Servera y yo.
Cuando las discrepancias se plantean en un ambiente cordial, se
minimizan las diferencias y se maximizan las coincidencias. Y, lo que
es mejor, se sientan las bases para una comunicación más sincera y
fecunda, tan necesaria en nuestra investigación. Si, además, las
cuatro horas del encuentro están salpimentadas con algunas cervezas,
Fanta, sushi y cava, pues mejor. Una reunión amigable y fructífera,
la verdad. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg25MTRnpYHgXc48anXE8dcVjW0WajkdYlz3-JwMPa6ab-_Q2s5UZDHd8jdEA0vdBXeRVuNivpkOZwXT5-_u7OU2zP3EI-wRj1VvyvyTioh6IfNdJhG198OL8-3hD_wQI5KhcBiN4NmF9fhm2AWk73Flh8i7ue-U4XZkkkJR4KJIgC9AwsHIA=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg25MTRnpYHgXc48anXE8dcVjW0WajkdYlz3-JwMPa6ab-_Q2s5UZDHd8jdEA0vdBXeRVuNivpkOZwXT5-_u7OU2zP3EI-wRj1VvyvyTioh6IfNdJhG198OL8-3hD_wQI5KhcBiN4NmF9fhm2AWk73Flh8i7ue-U4XZkkkJR4KJIgC9AwsHIA=s320" width="320" /></a></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">De
izquierda a derecha: Ballester Olmos, Fernández Peris, Cuevas y
Servera. (Foto de Manuel Carballal). </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Practicando
el noble arte de ser abuelo</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QvDSVvuoES4/Ycdtwe7Fc3I/AAAAAAAACxw/93jo0xJsgQEG2Qar5Nz1PszkBgSChh_UACNcBGAsYHQ/Con%2BLucas%2Bcopia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3024" height="212" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QvDSVvuoES4/Ycdtwe7Fc3I/AAAAAAAACxw/93jo0xJsgQEG2Qar5Nz1PszkBgSChh_UACNcBGAsYHQ/Con%2BLucas%2Bcopia.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Con Lucas” “Matías”</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0NRJKHsGFg6BrTklIJAcDyI97BE2HGmusf6GZaat423NCxVs1T6F0CCx3YaILnKF9JG72zM6lOQNopvodVXAqN0Gtjn9P0iByarPz-QfJD_E7SG4SSkoFsmvdTpzT9szxaaQUilVCa-JRtG7vAGgnR8gRQcMO-jpUX3LtaoTyfuAn6wZnnw=s4535" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2335" data-original-width="4535" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0NRJKHsGFg6BrTklIJAcDyI97BE2HGmusf6GZaat423NCxVs1T6F0CCx3YaILnKF9JG72zM6lOQNopvodVXAqN0Gtjn9P0iByarPz-QfJD_E7SG4SSkoFsmvdTpzT9szxaaQUilVCa-JRtG7vAGgnR8gRQcMO-jpUX3LtaoTyfuAn6wZnnw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Fernando” “Fotografiando
dinosaurios”</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Ignacio Cabria (España), Matías Morey
(España), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Leopoldo Zambrano (Méjico),
Alejandro Agostinelli (Argentina), Roberto E. Banchs (Argentina),
Comodoro Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Andrés Duarte (Chile), Julio
Plaza (España), Joan Plana (España), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga
(España), Jaime Servera (España), Juan José Montejo (España), Dr.
Richard F. Haines (EE.UU.), Brad Sparks (EE.UU.), Keith Basterfield
(Australia) y Juan Pablo González (España).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLdjEWogBciinAMHxBxI0inN2EpcAP5mrLNRrWM6UnsDtUMsULLyXzXZNaOQKC9P_Evpl0O_pxos_IGnmjQNWOSvH8axktRngg0B5aK3mKFmNDf1vIeK5RUwhAaye4NROTLeHgYvuDVa7K_ZS_-dBvuQMhKmwb6rNPaIOpfj4Gt2tAtbdRbQ=s3827" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLdjEWogBciinAMHxBxI0inN2EpcAP5mrLNRrWM6UnsDtUMsULLyXzXZNaOQKC9P_Evpl0O_pxos_IGnmjQNWOSvH8axktRngg0B5aK3mKFmNDf1vIeK5RUwhAaye4NROTLeHgYvuDVa7K_ZS_-dBvuQMhKmwb6rNPaIOpfj4Gt2tAtbdRbQ=w400-h69" width="400" /></a></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987,</span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/bddhjx7m"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bddhjx7m</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xzzubec"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/5xzzubec</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/jyx648ff"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/jyx648ff</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs
and Government</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="break-after: avoid; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
(con M. Borraz), 2020, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
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dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
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<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reprints</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
special feature of my March 2021 blog’s post ““When Archetypes
Land” appears in the July issue of the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Alternate
Perceptions Magazine</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
a publication edited by Brent Raynes:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1688&Itemid=194"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1688&Itemid=194</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Interviews</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
July 4, 2021, the Science section of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
País</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
the salient Madrid newspaper, carried an article by Antonio Jiménez
Barca on the recent UFO/UAP media uprising. Yours truly was asked to
opine:</span></span></span></span><a href="https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-07-04/ovnis-ya-estan-aqui-de-nuevo.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-07-04/ovnis-ya-estan-aqui-de-nuevo.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>New
Publication</u> (in Spanish)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dos
horas de avistamiento OVNI” (A two-hour UFO sighting), written with
J.C. Victorio Uranga: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">On
September 19, 1980, a rare UFO sighting took place in the Portuguese
island of Madeira, in the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted two hours, it was
seen by many witnesses in independent locations, and photographs were
taken. This article discloses the study done on this event and the
unexpected outcome.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-SpurlFxYc/YT-UH26UZaI/AAAAAAAACqA/aNtz3w2xE6UFnR1eUiQ_SAu43plchlQrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s762/OVNI.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="762" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-SpurlFxYc/YT-UH26UZaI/AAAAAAAACqA/aNtz3w2xE6UFnR1eUiQ_SAu43plchlQrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/OVNI.PNG" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">©
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Revista
Diario</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Funchal, Madeira), September 17, 1995: Reconstruction of the UFO
scene.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">THE
US GOVERNMENT 2021 UAP REPORT</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Commentaries
Prior to Actual Release</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
few days before the release of the expected report resulting from the
work by the US Navy UAP Task Force, the CNN anticipated some signs of
the general essence. Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, wrote on
June 16:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">Even
as sightings of unexplainable objects rose into the hundreds,
Pentagon officials wrestled with how much time and resources to
devote to investigating them. Interviews with a half-dozen officials
as well as documents reviewed by CNN depict a US military and
intelligence community that's struggled over how to remove the issue
from the world of science fiction and consider its actual national
security implications.</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">[…]
</span></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">The
report, which is due to Congress in late June, isn't likely to
resolve the debate‒nor is it expected to provide the kind of juicy
details UFO-ologists hoped for, like confirming that strange
sightings by American Navy pilots were alien spacecraft. One
administration official noted that many of the incidents in the
Pentagon's database of encounters will likely turn out to have
multiple causes -- a strange weather anomaly combined with a weather
balloon sighting on the horizon, for example. But some could
eventually turn out to be adversaries operating in US airspace, that
person said.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/ufo-report-briefing-pentagon-fighting/index.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/ufo-report-briefing-pentagon-fighting/index.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
June 5, Journalist Mark Summer (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Kos</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Staff) had written that </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>There
are only two good answers for the upcoming UFO report, and you're
going to hate them both. </i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4n75c8jb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4n75c8jb</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
June 8, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Scientific
American’s</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Space chapter carried a piece by Leonard David entitled “Experts
Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report,” where he anticipated that </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
vast majority of examined incidents were not caused by U.S. advanced
technology programs, the forthcoming report concludes. So what’s
going on?</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">One
of the political promoters of the need for a report on recent US Navy
UFO sightings, Senator Marco Rubio, thinks the forthcoming report
will leave many unanswered questions. On June 21, he states: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
expect more questions than answers.</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3mdcsvke"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3mdcsvke</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Observer</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">’s
“Countdown to Letdown” affirms on June 6 that </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Regardless
of its release date, the summary requested by lawmakers might be
short on detail. Observers also anticipate the Fed’s ‘black
Sharpie’ will conceal any significant revelations. If Pentagon
spokeswoman Sue Gough’s oft-repeated disclaimers are any indication
of the type of “Disclosure” we can expect from the upcoming UFO
report, one wonders if any serious information will see the light of
day: “...the DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either
the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our
training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions
initially designated as UAP.”</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://theobservermagazine.substack.com/p/countdown-to-letdown"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://theobservermagazine.substack.com/p/countdown-to-letdown</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
an article, writer Jason Colavito explains how and by whom the US
government has reached the point we are in: </span></span><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Jack
Brewer reports about DIA notification not to expect Pentagon-UFO
Program documents earlier than late 2022 (outstanding FOIA requests),
according to a June 16 blog’s entry: </span></span></span><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/dia-says-dont-expect-pentagon-ufo.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/dia-says-dont-expect-pentagon-ufo.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk75644224"></a>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2) </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Official
Availability of the US Report</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">At
13:00 hours on June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence submitted to Congress a preliminary report on
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that relays the progress the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has made in understanding
UAP. Entitled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena,” it is nine pages long and it downloads in the following
official link: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RMyW_D5jXb4/YT-VzR6lpiI/AAAAAAAACqI/zEwNrTQITpgjA_zBddA90X7mipfOJCmyACLcBGAsYHQ/s603/INFORME.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RMyW_D5jXb4/YT-VzR6lpiI/AAAAAAAACqI/zEwNrTQITpgjA_zBddA90X7mipfOJCmyACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/INFORME.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Follow-Up
to the Report’s Publication</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Pentagon
Press Secretary John Kirby: "...Deputy Secretary of Defense
Kathleen Hicks today directed the Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence and Security to develop a plan to formalize
the mission currently performed by the UAPTF":</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2672732/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-kirby-on-unidentified-aerial-phenome/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2672732/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-kirby-on-unidentified-aerial-phenome/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
memorandum submitted to senior Pentagon leadership, commanders of the
combatant commands, and defense agency and DoD field directors
follows:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/25/2002749916/-1/-1/1/DEPUTY-SECRETARY-OF-DEFENSE-MEMORANDUM-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-AERIAL-PHENOMENA-ASSESSMENTS.PDF"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/25/2002749916/-1/-1/1/DEPUTY-SECRETARY-OF-DEFENSE-MEMORANDUM-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-AERIAL-PHENOMENA-ASSESSMENTS.PDF</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrgv-I8TKtw/YT-WBY77YwI/AAAAAAAACqM/aatgPOqAYLkPT6dd8ErPXJTNG19lXaARQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1650/Memorandum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrgv-I8TKtw/YT-WBY77YwI/AAAAAAAACqM/aatgPOqAYLkPT6dd8ErPXJTNG19lXaARQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Memorandum.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">An
article by Adam Kehoe in </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">
of August 9, 2021 discloses the wording of the US Senate’s
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
(</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4hry77nf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4hry77nf</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">)
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">regarding
the UAP task force established by the US DoD in 2020, led by the Navy
under the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
and Security. The post significantly states that “among a range of
priorities, the bill included provisions to significantly bolster the
UAPTK.” SSCI is the US </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">Senate
Select Intelligence Committee, whose leader and inspirational mind is
senator </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Marco</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">
Rubio, vice chairman of the SSCI. The proposed text decidedly
supports the UAPTF in the following terms concerning the rapid
availability of required data:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Director of National Intelligence and the Security of Defense shall
each, in coordination with each other, require each element of the
intelligence community and the Department of Defense with data
relating to unidentified aerial phenomena to make such data available
immediately to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and to
the National Air and Space Intelligence Center</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[NASIC].</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">A
remarkable step is the inclusion of the Air Force’s NASIC into the
scheme of UAP research. In fact, one of the missions of the NASIC is
precisely the analysis of any threats in the air and in the space. It
shows the long-time conflict between the Navy and the Air Force for
airspace sovereignty. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">At
the same time, the SSCI bill strictly requires quarterly reports to
Congress, as follows:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Not
later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and
not less frequently thereafter, the UAPTF…shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress quarterly reports on the findings
of the UAPTF, or such other designated entity as the case may be.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
also demands that each report “shall be submitted in classified
form,” something that will raise rage from those ufologists
expecting fantastic disclosures. Knowing the complexity of the
analysis of UFO sightings, even more when footage or other permanent
records exist, a three-month reporting regularity is inefficient and
carries an excessive administrative burden. In my interpretation, it
merely reflects the information voracity of those in the political
game and their advisers, mostly UFO buffs who, as they did with the
prior DoD’s AATIP, want to know what is going on almost live but
they show no interest that the general public is aware. It is not a
legit wish for knowledge; it is just a craving to know what a handful
of chosen are selected to know. They are secret mongers. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
article is an important reading, as it shows that the US Government’s
new UFO study is at certainly at the highest possible level in the
chain of command:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41893/senate-intel-committee-strengthens-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force-in-new-bill"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41893/senate-intel-committee-strengthens-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force-in-new-bill</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
August 17, 2021, NASA administrator Bill Nelson received a classified
briefing from the UAPTF, according to The Black Vault:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/38vjaprk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/38vjaprk</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>My
Own Reading of the Report</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
UAP Pentagon Report - Commented Abstract</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos (6/26/2021)</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
unclassified document that has been published</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is described as a “preliminary assessment” on UAPs by the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence (June 25, 2021). The US
Senate, accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2021, had requested an intelligence assessment of the threat
posed by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the progress made by
the pertinent Department of Defense UAP Task Force set up on August
4, 2020.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">17
US agencies, including the Air Force, the Navy and the Army have
provided input to the report. The first assumption is that “Various
forms of sensors that register UAP generally operate correctly and
capture enough real data to allow initial assessments, but some UAP
may be attributable to sensor anomalies.”</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
9-page report starts with an executive summary. It begins stating
that “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified
aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions
about the nature or intent of UAP.” As a result, the UAPTF
concentrated its review on reports that occurred between November
2004 and March 2021. While “Most of the UAP reported probably do
represent physical objects…[and] In a limited number of incidents,
UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics,”
the report goes on to say that “These observations could be the
result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and
require additional rigorous analysis.” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
review of 144 reports insinuates that “when individual UAP
incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential
explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric
phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign
adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin.” It fairly
coincides with the findings of UFO research in the last decades:
cases are explained by an array of solutions. No aliens whatsoever.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">For
the national Intelligence office, “UAPs clearly pose a safety of
flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security,”
in contradiction to 70 years of UFO phenomenology, with zero
UFO-related air accidents and to the experience of so many countries
which declassified their UFO records on the basis of UFOs not posing
any danger to national security. The US Intelligence must, however,
have serious reasons to think that some UAPs would potentially
represent “foreign adversary collection platforms … or
breakthrough … technology.” </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
report lists needed steps for a sophisticated study of the issue,
being “resource-intensive and would require additional
investment.” This is translated as: if you want us to analyze this
problem, please be prepared to pay for it. And this will not be Blue
Book, or the Condon Committee. For sure, we are speaking of millions
of US dollars, all in the name of national safety!</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Main
conclusions point to “reporting largely inconclusive,” however it
is amazing the low score in identifying the nature and source of the
objects. The Task Force investigators were only able to identify one
reported UAP with high confidence (a deflating balloon), out of 144
(0.7%). The others remain unexplained. A lousy case resolution ratio,
considering that French GEIPAN has solved 98% of UFO sighting in the
last 10 years.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
I believe military UAP investigators must learn a lot from UFO
investigation.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Nevertheless,
the report guesses that “Some Potential Patterns Do Emerge.” In
spite of the fact that “there was wide variability in the reports
and the dataset is currently too limited to allow for detailed trend
or pattern analysis,” it advances that there is some clustering of
UAP observations regarding shape, size, and, particularly,
propulsion. Does diversity prevent pattern-recognition or not? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Propulsion
clusters? I believe these are the fruit of reviewers’ imagination,
not used to analyzing pilots reporting exaggerations, or
speculations. The only clear-cut cluster is that UAPs appear around
U.S. training and testing grounds, “but we assess that this may
result from a collection bias,” the report wisely asserts.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
report identifies reported unusual UAP movement patterns, such as
remaining stationary in winds aloft, moving against the wind,
maneuvering abruptly, or moving at considerable speed, radio
frequency energy associated with UAP sightings, acceleration or a
degree of signature management, etc. Apparent features only, we
hasten to add, because, as the report continues to state, “Additional
rigorous analysis is necessary by multiple teams or groups of
technical experts to determine the nature and validity of these
data.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
we have also concluded with the analysis of raw UFO reports
1947-2021, “The UAP documented in this limited dataset demonstrate
an array of aerial behaviors, reinforcing the possibility there are
multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations.” The
Pentagon study today reveals lack of sufficient information in their
dataset “to attribute incidents to specific explanations.”
Nothing extraordinary has been found.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Their
database includes 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots
reported near misses with a UAP. Does it mean UAPs represent an
“ongoing airborne concern”? With an airspace filled with flying
objects, controlled and out-of-control, every drone or missile may be
considered a hazard to aviators. This has nothing to do with the ETH
that UFO enthusiasts promote. Concerning potential National Security
challenges, it is up to the State to monitor if US adversaries are
spying near military facilities or by aircraft carrying advanced
sensor systems. Unrelated to ETI as well.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">This
report states that “explaining UAP will require analytic,
collection and resource investment, “inter-agency coordination,
standardization of incident reporting across U.S. military services,
Federal Aviation Administration robust input, and expanded data
collection from standard and novel areas. The bottom line is increase
investment in R&D: “The UAPTF has indicated that additional
funding for research and development could further the future study
of the topics laid out in this report. Such investments should be
guided by a UAP Collection Strategy, UAP R&D Technical Roadmap,
and a UAP Program Plan.”</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
summary, a new area of research seems to have been identified, as if
it was not something being regularly pursued by Intelligence on a
routine basis. With the public attraction to flying saucers, UFOs and
UAPs, incoming financing is ensured. The US government is, again,
studying UFOs. The XXI century Blue Book program is to be started.
The media will rejoice. Science, probably less. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There
is a 17-page classified version of this report.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;">3,4</span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
It is rumored it has 200 pages of annexes, plus 14 videos for ~40
minutes.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>5</b></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/actualites/baisse-cas-d"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/actualites/baisse-cas-d</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1415825537075843074?s=19"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1415825537075843074?s=19</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/details-scant-about-classified-uap-report-heres-what-odni-is-saying?fbclid=IwAR3_X6dLtr0N91QGtej-_zxNgYytJuyvjvLq4z58-53QNy2KudadOjXtpyk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/details-scant-about-classified-uap-report-heres-what-odni-is-saying?fbclid=IwAR3_X6dLtr0N91QGtej-_zxNgYytJuyvjvLq4z58-53QNy2KudadOjXtpyk</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1409101507895644161"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1409101507895644161</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o8sz59/at_2719_insider_said_the_classified_briefing_of/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o8sz59/at_2719_insider_said_the_classified_briefing_of/</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(As
reported by Laurent Chabin to the EuroUFO forum list on June 27,
2021).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Other
Evaluations of the Official Report</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">USA,
Barry Greenwood: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/nicapbriefing.htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.nicap.org/nicapbriefing.htm</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">USA,
Robert Sheaffer:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-pentagons-long-awaited-preliminary.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-pentagons-long-awaited-preliminary.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Spain,
Julio Plaza del Olmo: </span></span><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/06/uaptf-los-hombres-que-miraban-fijamente.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/06/uaptf-los-hombres-que-miraban-fijamente.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Argentina,
Alejandro Agostinelli:</span></span><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">USA,
Metabunk site and forum:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pentagon-june-2021-report-on-120-uap-incidents.11784/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pentagon-june-2021-report-on-120-uap-incidents.11784/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">USA,
Martin Kottmeyer (Facebook post link): </span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2930918833817028" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2930918833817028</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Kazakhstan,
astronomer Dr. S. Efimov: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3ubpw9et"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3ubpw9et</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">USA,
The War Zone:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41298/uap-task-force-report-offers-limited-answers-while-drawing-the-public-spotlight"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41298/uap-task-force-report-offers-limited-answers-while-drawing-the-public-spotlight</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">USA,
Robert Powell’s SCU statement and comment by Milton Hourcade:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2021/08/statement-of-scu-on-pentagon-report.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2021/08/statement-of-scu-on-pentagon-report.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(6)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Echoes
of the Pentagon Report in the UK Parliament</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">On
June 30, during a session of the British Parliament, there was some
talk about UFOs and the Minister of State for Defense, the Scottish
Annabel Goldie, recalled that England had declassified several
thousands of UFO reports Defense had on file and that they never
disclosed any evidence of any risk to either national security or
aviation:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-06-30/debates/C3B3E127-A168-4315-A1C9-B4D7CC80895D/UnidentifiedFlyingObjects"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-06-30/debates/C3B3E127-A168-4315-A1C9-B4D7CC80895D/UnidentifiedFlyingObjects</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
video: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjTVu9Udn0"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjTVu9Udn0</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Why
Official Reports? Keep on Leaking!</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
US Navy continues leaking UAP video clips to reporter Jeremy Corbell.
Don’t ask me why, now that the DoD has a formal UAP Task Force
working on UAP sightings. I wonder if it needs to prevent public
anxiety on national security and flight safety weakness‒apparently
realized since the recent UAP records collected by the UAPTF‒from
declining, not at least until they have gained the added funds they
need to solve what dangers are behind UAPs. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/ufo-deck-footage" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/ufo-deck-footage</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Need
to Receive Grants? Say You Investigate UAPs!</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Facing
its 2022 NASA’s budget, the US National Aeronautics and Space
Administration is opportunistically (cleverly?) using the need to
study UAPs as a reason to demand additional funds from the federal
government, as disclosed last June 28 by John Greenewald through a
NASA internal document received by a FOIA request:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/internal-nasa-document-reveals-ufo-uap-talking-points-are-they-going-off-script/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/internal-nasa-document-reveals-ufo-uap-talking-points-are-they-going-off-script/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Do
you remember when, in 1977, then NASA administrator </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert
A. Frosch</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
dismissed a formal petition from none other than Frank Press,
director of the Executive Office of the President of the United
States (Jimmy Carter) to study UFOs? The difference? Then UFOs were
discredited. Now UFOs (I mean, UAPs) are every other day in the eyes
of the media‒even gaining traction by the day‒, providing
publicity and free exposure to anything related to the image. See the
blog entry I wrote two years ago “History: UFO Investigation at
NASA,” at </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019_12_18_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">
(please scroll down to it). Well, in this regard, let me add one
particular document to this history: while the Carter administration
was asking NASA to handle new incoming UFO reports, the USAF was
expecting NASA not to get involved, as proved by a letter the Office
of the Secretary of the Air Force sent to Lt. General Duward L. Crow
(Associate Deputy Administration of NASA, 1975-1978) on September, 1,
1977: </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO
investigations.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4IELMkOyisg/YT-WY9jcZOI/AAAAAAAACqY/iG2t3Kc9Z2UXtuorfk0eEAzglmH3f_YBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1651/NASA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1651" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4IELMkOyisg/YT-WY9jcZOI/AAAAAAAACqY/iG2t3Kc9Z2UXtuorfk0eEAzglmH3f_YBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/NASA.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Col.
Charles H. Senn (USAF) to Lt. General D.L. Crow (NASA). Credit: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>SBI
Report </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">#45,
1979, page 17.</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Other
organizations, like the American Institute for Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA), </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">reflecting
the seal of credibility stamped</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
on UAP research by US authorities, and pressed by UFO believers with
scientific-like UFO proposals, recently accepted a panel on this
subject. After 70 years of dramatic UFO reports by pilots‒without
any proof of flight safety compromise‒now they believe it is a
relevant issue. Here is the summary of this meeting:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4wbzrshj"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4wbzrshj</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(9)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Pentagon
UAP Report Spin Off</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Harvard
University’s famous astronomer and cosmologist Abraham‒Avi‒Loeb
has announced the organization of the Galileo Project. In an
interview, he says</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>:
I initiated recently to scientifically explore the nature of UAP.
The primary objective of this research endeavor is to bring the
search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of
extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs) from accidental
or anecdotal observations to the mainstream of transparent, validated
and systematic scientific research. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
believe it starts from a false assumption. I am not against CETI or
SETI, on the contrary, this is, with space exploration, a very
exciting field for research which ultimately will produce collateral
scientific advances. Yet it proceeds from a false assumption: the
immaterial phenomenon of UFOs or UAPs has no connection with
extraterrestrial life except in the feverish minds of writers and
mistaken investigators. Excellent if Galileo tackles the search for
aliens in the universe. I applaud the objective. However, I have my
doubts if a private organization, not a large academic institution,
may have the structure and resources sufficient to the aim. Another
egoistical move? But, again, if Dr. Loeb purports to find ETs
analyzing high-resolution images from an array of telescopes able to
produce 3D representations, he is more than wrong. A waste of funds.
But everybody is free to spend their money as they wish. But not
taxpayers’ money, I should add. See: </span></span></span><a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/announcing-a-new-plan-for-solving-the-mystery-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/announcing-a-new-plan-for-solving-the-mystery-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-uap-we-need-megapixel-imagery/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-uap-we-need-megapixel-imagery/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Incidentally,
to the frustration of ufologists, Dr. Loeb does not accept past
cases, that is, the standard UFO reports they can offer, he will only
work on records retrieved from the instrumentation he develops. I can
only guess how many thousands of high-res telescopes he is to set up
all over the world in order to eventually capture passing UAPs. But
there is nothing like mounting over the wake of a trendy subject.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(10)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
offspring of </u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>NYT</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
2017</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Since
the early 2000s, UFOs were an almost invisible theme, media-wise. In
recent years, flying saucer and UFO sighting reports were normally
dismissed by conventional wisdom. Decades with armies of several
European countries dropping their (formal or loose) UFO study
cabinets to collect and investigate incoming reports with the
explicit conclusion that they added nothing to scientific knowledge,
neither presented a threat to national security or a danger to
aviation. When national UFO archives held since the 1940s under tight
control were declassified, placed in citizens’ hands and released
online for full disclosure, everybody (in England, France, Spain,
Italy, Denmark, Sweden, etc.) could check the non-extraordinary
character of official UFO documentation at the click of a mouse, so
finding that the French Government’s GEIPAN disclosed that only 2%
of the most recent UFO observations lacked a clear-cut solution
(unexplained by no means implies unexplainable). Many years since the
inception of UFO claims where we were supposed to have learned a lot
about what UFOs can and cannot be. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Last
July 2021, I (and other European colleagues) received an email from
what I call a “child of the 2017 </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>New
York Times</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
article,” an article that reinvented the wheel and become a sort of
instant awareness for many who never before had interacted with the
UFO subject.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>
</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
basic idea from this citizen was: wow, this is strong, US Navy pilots
see UAPs and the American Government is studying them, super-duper,
let us lobby to convince the European Community to initiate an UAP
task force as well! Yes, why not? We could seek NATO to do it also.
During a pandemic year, that is a perfect timing. But the bottom line
of this is: is that necessary? Is it a society-demanded need, or a
way to boost one individual’s ego? Are we doomed to repeat another
70 years of history? After all these years of research, is a private
citizen’s initiative to call for public powers what we require to
solve residual UFO cases? Are we willing to go back to the sixties?
We already walked that road. The material is at hand. If there was a
new phenomenon, it already happened. For 70 years. We do not need to
wait for additional sightings, we have thousands of case reports
ready to be evaluated by fresh explorers. We know what UFOs are not:
alien ships. UFOs were investigated/examined by the USAF, FBI, CIA,
DIA: any extraordinary output?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
does not mean at all that UFOs should be the preserve of good
old-timers. But experience is an asset and our advice should serve to
avoid evaporating resources into nothing. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
important thing is evaluating the classic UFO events which served to
build the ETH</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
If subsisting UFOs hold no water, then believers should be prepared
to forget their pet theory. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
is it useful and what is not? A facility like the Argentine Air
Force’s Aerospace Identification Center is useful, or the French
CNES-based GEIPAN, devoted to working out UFO sightings made by
citizens and explaining what artifact or flying object their cameras
photographed. It adds value. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
is not useful is a military module dealing with sightings from ships
and aircraft, when pilots and Navy crewmembers sighted or recorded
“UAPs” during exercises or in locations that, by their restricted
nature, ensures that full reports, investigation processes and the
surviving explanations will be secret and concealed from the public. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is useful that competent analysts (astronomers, physicists,
engineers, psychologists, psychiatrists) analyze historical cases.
And it is useful, in the same way, that academics (anthropologists,
historians, sociologists,) review major waves of the past to find
their inner clues, for example.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>2,3</b></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is not useful to create or maintain civilian or military units to
reinforce the UFO/UAP mystery because their leadership is
alien-orientated, or will create mystery to guarantee free media
coverage to pursue their own, skewed agendas. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is not useful that NASA now says UAP study is imperative, when
decades ago they said UFOs were an unimportant subject to scrutinize.
Not if it is a mere excuse to collect funds and be a propaganda
motif.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is not useful that those personalities on paranormal payroll since
the seventies, grant-absorbers filled with crazy, unproved theories,
old hats from SRI, NIDS, BAAS, or new hats from AATIP, get involved
in the hopefully neutral and scientific‒keep fingers crossed‒US
DoD’s UAP Task Force. Or raw old-school ufologists, for that
matter.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">It
is not useful to have private or semi-official associations of
people, lay or Ph.D.-carrying persons, clearly motivated to prove
that aliens are visiting the Earth, wrapping their ideas with
scientific jargoon. In summary, structures that artificially prolong
the UFO myth are not useful.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Can
we develop a view to the near future? A new cycle has been opened,
whether we like it or not (not!). It will take time to reach a
natural peak and then decline. When? Once the name of the beast has
changed, UAP is something like new and respectable. The past is over.
UAPs are not ancient flying saucers, not even old UFOs (why not?).
All will start from zero again. If the US Pentagon is worried about
UAPs, everybody on the planet should also be. By the book. Media will
treat UAPs respectfully. Everybody with an opinion will find an
outlet to be heard and may have his or her minute of glory in press
or TV. New uaplogists will come up with plans advising that
Governments and institutions of all kinds study UAPs. Brand new UAP
sightings akin to old UFO sightings will be reported again by
ordinary ground observers. Everything slightly strange seen by
military pilots, radar operators, sailors will be reported to the
upper echelon and officially inscribed. Because there is a UAPTF
there will be new cases. Acquisition of fresh cases will reinforce
the urgency and necessity of a center to analyze them. A loop. A
snowball effect. Most of the new breed will not be cognizant of the
first 70 years of ufology (i.e., no material evidence of a physics
anomaly, still less an alien contraption, on the contrary, everything
points to a form of space-age cultural and folklore-spirited
dimension).</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>It
will long last until the US DoD finally establishes the nature of the
UAPs reported by men and women in uniform and clearly acknowledges
that extraterrestrial life has nothing to do with UAP sightings, and
turns over the search for and communication with ETI to NASA and
astronomers</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
But the US Department of Defense will probably not reject or exclude
the ETH from its schema entirely. Will not propose it either but the
notion will ambiguously be there. Not a good strategy to abandon one
of the most exciting public factors for money-seeking. If you can
invoke national security and aviation risk plus a far, terrible
menace, this triple powerful plot will drag millions of bucks from
the national budget. How long will this new cycle last? Well, ufology
lasted 70 years. And uapology? Considering the acceleration of
information: one-tenth? Less than 10 years?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(2)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “UFO Waves: An International Bibliography,” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.__An_International_Bibliography__November__1___2015.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/UFO_Waves.__An_International_Bibliography__November__1___2015.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(3)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “The UFO Waves Review Project,” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/19729160/The_UFO_Waves_Review_Project" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/19729160/The_UFO_Waves_Review_Project</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(11)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>From
Heroes to Villains</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">US
ufology (sorry, uapology) never ceases to surprise me. As an
unexpected twist of opinion, Canadian podcaster and foley artist
Jason Charbonneau has published this chapter 1 (of 2) of a “UFO
disclosure” piece in his YouTube Think Anomalous channel:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwvGM2Mr49I"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwvGM2Mr49I</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><br /></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">I
do not know (well, as a matter of fact, I do) what certain people are
awaiting to learn regarding the supposed UFO knowledge gained (and
hidden under seven keys) by the governments, but as there will never
be a disclosure, because there is nothing to be disclosed, they guess
and dream up the most wired, convoluted and conspiratorial
interpretations: now the couple of media stars De Longe and Elizondo
are portrayed as intelligence community agents spreading the US
Government-induced gospel. This 20-minute clip ends by telling us
about the “spiritual element” behind UFOs capable of manifesting
as technology. Retrograde, irrational thinking.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Terauchi
Air Close Encounter…With Just Lights</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
June 7, 2021, Jazz Shaw has written for </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Debrief </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">an
impartial, well-documented account on the Japan Airlines Flight 1628
UFO approach on November 17</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of 1986. “The three-person crew was led by pilot Kenju Terauchi,
who would go on to report a seemingly inexplicable encounter in the
skies over northern Alaska as they approached the airport in
Anchorage.” It is refreshing and kudos-deserving to read real
investigative reporting when truly neutral reportages are published
on UFO sightings. These are some quotes from the author’s
statements: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>And
the descriptions of some of these events that they rely on to make
the case certainly do lend it the patina of truth. But when you poke
too far into the gritty details, some of the flaws in the story
become somewhat glaring…Without seeming to throw cold water on
anyone’s parade, a detailed examination of this FAA package leaves
multiple holes in the story that, at a minimum, should leave us room
to acknowledge the arguments being made by skeptics.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/what-really-happened-to-japan-airlines-flight-1628-in-1986/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/what-really-happened-to-japan-airlines-flight-1628-in-1986/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tssrS23iwTU/YT-Wxm6MgWI/AAAAAAAACqg/S0f5bV7BOrQXbCqyvOOp4bfgg7MEYFuPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1829/Terauchi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1829" height="190" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tssrS23iwTU/YT-Wxm6MgWI/AAAAAAAACqg/S0f5bV7BOrQXbCqyvOOp4bfgg7MEYFuPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Terauchi.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">November
17, 1986, Alaska. Illustration borrowed from
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3jce7p8c"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3jce7p8c</span></span></span></span></a></span></div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Calvine,
Scotland, 1990</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
would be scored more as a rumor than a factual information. It is
said there is a photograph of a huge rhombus-shaped UFO with a jet
plane chasing it, allegedly taken on August 4, 1990, by a couple of
Scottish lads that found its way onto the wall of the UK Ministry of
Defense office where Nick Pope was occasionally working on admin
duties. Below, the only existing document, a bad xerox copy from a
line drawing from the supposed picture. On a picturesque note, there
follows a colorful illustration published by </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Sun</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
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</span></p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: right;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Crown copyright.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: right;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: C</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>hris Loomis/News Group Newspapers.</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dave
Clarke (Ph.D., journalism, folklore, Sheffield University, UK) has
lots of doubts about it, and his latest blog entry echoes them. He is
so convinced the story is not genuine that he feels certain that a
FOI request to the CIA might produce further evidence that the
photographs are fakes.</span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2021/07/31/the-ufo-that-never-was-the-calvine-photographs/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2021/07/31/the-ufo-that-never-was-the-calvine-photographs/</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Full
investigation here:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/the-calvine-ufo-photographs/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/the-calvine-ufo-photographs/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr.
Clarke broadcast his suspicions to a number of selected colleagues,
asking for opinion. Wim van Utrecht rapidly lent an informed view and
suggested it could be a spin off from the fake photos of Amaury
Rivera at Cabo Rojo (Puerto Rico), presumably taken May 9, 1988.
Particularly, the young claimants would zoom and rotate the
photograph and create a new image. The following original photo from
Puerto Rico and a cropped, mirrored version matches quite well with
the Scotland photo. The idea is totally convincing. See the original Portorican photo, a cropped, inverted version of it, and, again, the Scottish photocopy:</span></span></span></p>
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Digitalization Project 2021: Donations Requested</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Saving
old UFO archives is a must for us all. Even those who, like myself,
have concluded that there has never been a UFO phenomenon </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>per
se </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(i.e.,
not an entity beyond our regular knowledge, but a mass of
misinterpretations, hoaxes and psychological syndromes), also firmly
believe that the accumulated records of UFO observation reports must
be preserved. Not only that. They should be available easily and
“friendly” to manage as valid materials for scientific research.
One of the most important repositories of UFO sighting reports is the
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. Under the guidance of new
archivist chief Mr. David Marler, a project to digitalize all
archives is under way. The following link describes the plan, for
which donations are requested. If you think that UFOs are really
important, please put your money where your feelings are and do
contribute: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.project1947.com/jan/marlercufos.htm" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.project1947.com/jan/marlercufos.htm</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) public record of report of
unnamed aircraft (UAS) sightings, November 2014-March 2021: </span></span><a href="https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
The Travis Walton abduction, a fraud? Read here:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/crew-chief-mike-rogers-confesses-travis.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/crew-chief-mike-rogers-confesses-travis.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-ufo-abduction-story.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-ufo-abduction-story.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3a9vjjf6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3a9vjjf6</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/travis-walton.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/travis-walton.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog-how-many-dollars/evidence-and-hindsight"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog-how-many-dollars/evidence-and-hindsight</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)
The vision of Ezekiel as a myth. Marc Hallet wrote this explanation
over 40 years ago, in an article for </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>La
revue des soucoupes volantes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
June-July 1977, see pages 19-24 here: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/e6rw2h4a"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/e6rw2h4a</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Jack Brewer’s illuminating post on lack of transparency in UFO
twitter medium: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/ufo-disclosure-and-transparency-good.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/ufo-disclosure-and-transparency-good.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Epilogue to the Stars Academy, </span></span></span><a href="https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/ttsa-638f93173240" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/ttsa-638f93173240</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
Classic UFO photographs with classic explanations still pop up, this
time in Devon, England, this time the Moon, once more: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMKd6xEo7E" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMKd6xEo7E</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Two distinguished French UFO researchers, Raoul Robé and Jean-Michel
Abrassart, have published the paper “Humanoid Sightings in the
North-East of France,”
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49586299/HUMANOID_SIGHTINGS_IN_THE_NORTH_EST_OF_FRANCE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49586299/HUMANOID_SIGHTINGS_IN_THE_NORTH_EST_OF_FRANCE</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
abstract follows: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Humans
seemed to have encountered humanoids since the dawn of time. Over
time, several anomalous explanations have been provided for them:
religious (in the case of Virgin Mary sightings for example), the
fairy lore (elves, gnomes and so forth) and, more recently, aliens as
part of the UFO lore. We compiled all the humanoid sightings we could
find in the North-East of France (the area where the Comité Nord-Est
des Groupes Ufologiques, our team, is active). We looked for
sightings between 1900 to 2018 and collected them in our database.
Instead of looking only for CE3, we searched for any humanoid
sightings related to the UFO phenomenon or not, without preselection
of any kind. We consulted paranormal and ufological books,
investigations, but also newspaper articles, local urban legends,
Gendarmerie reports and so on. Our goal was to be as thorough as
possible, but of course we cannot claim that this database is fully
complete and that no case has escaped our search. We didn’t look
especially for fairy sightings, or religious figure sightings or
alien sightings: our methodology was to search for any humanoid
sightings, whatever the interpretation that was proposed for it by
the witness or the person who reported it (journalist, paranormal
investigator and so on). In other words, we adopted an atheoretical
posture to study humanoid sightings. We found 75 cases in total. Our
team think that they found a plausible explanation for around 60
cases, which leaves 15 cases unexplained so far. We will present four
specific cases that we find particularly interesting in more detail.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(8)
More on Roswell. On July 8, 2021, the Socorro, New Mexico’s </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>El
Defensor Chieftain </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">published
a clarifying post on the 1947 alleged UFO crash:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://dchieftain.com/the-roswell-incident-has-a-socorro-connection/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://dchieftain.com/the-roswell-incident-has-a-socorro-connection/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
contains a drawing by Jesse Marcel of the signs seen on the object
recovered. The article states that the company that manufactured the
Mogul train of balloons actually taken for an alien craft used </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">some
tape decorated with fanciful geometric symbols, identical to the ones
Marcell recalled, as the next illustration shows.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Lu06SInmlc/YT-ZN4-nlTI/AAAAAAAACrQ/qozFr-HFGCcyVIs-AwosoWbrffzYI-1JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Roswell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1718" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Lu06SInmlc/YT-ZN4-nlTI/AAAAAAAACrQ/qozFr-HFGCcyVIs-AwosoWbrffzYI-1JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Roswell.jpg" width="268" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Mogul
hieroglyphics.</div></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Betty & Barney Hill:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/betty--barney-hill.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/betty--barney-hill.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(10)
The Strange Alien Abduction of Police Officer Herbert Schirmer:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/the-strange-alien-abduction-of-police-officer-herbert-schirmer/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/the-strange-alien-abduction-of-police-officer-herbert-schirmer/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
Joel Achenback, “UFO Mania is Out of Control. Please Stop,”
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Washington
Post Magazine</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
August 11, 2021,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/11/stop-ufo-mania-no-evidence-of-aliens/" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/11/stop-ufo-mania-no-evidence-of-aliens/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(12)
“Emulating aliens and UFO encounters in REM sleep,” by Michael
Raduga, Andrey Shashkov and Zhanna Zhunusova (Phase Research Center,
Moscow, Russian Federation), </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>International
Journal of Dream Research</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume XX, No. X
(2021),</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/265"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/265</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(13)
“Lucid dreaming incidence: A quality effects meta-analysis of 50
years of research,” by David T. Saunders, Chris A. Roe, Graham
Smith and Helen Clegg, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Consciousness
and Cognition</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Volume 43, July 2016, pages 197-215,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016301283"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016301283</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(14)
Mick West, “UFOs: Beliefs, Conspiracies, and Aliens,” </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Skeptical
Inquirer</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Vol. 45, No. 5, September-October 2021,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/08/ufos-beliefs-conspiracies-and-aliens/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/08/ufos-beliefs-conspiracies-and-aliens/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Roswell:
Rencontre du premier mythe</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr.
Gilles Fernandez, a French cognitive psychologist who has studied the
UFO phenomenon for many years, published a master work in 2010
“Roswell: Encounter of the Myth Kind,” one that can be now read
(in French) in the following link. It is highly documented, and
contains lots of original research: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/dictionnaire/userfiles/file/Rencontre-Du-Premier-Mythe-Mise-en-Page-GF-SQ.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/dictionnaire/userfiles/file/Rencontre-Du-Premier-Mythe-Mise-en-Page-GF-SQ.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>SIGMA-2
2021 Report</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
2013, SIGMA-2 technical commission was mandated by 3AF (a French
scientific society in the aeronautics and space field) to study what
today we call UAPs. The progress summary report for 2021 (free) is
found here: </span></span><a href="https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=4375&fg=1" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=4375&fg=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
full report in French (at the cost of 22€) can be downloaded from
this link:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.3af.fr/agenda/telecharger-rapport-d-avancement-2021-commission-technique-sigma2-2145"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.3af.fr/agenda/telecharger-rapport-d-avancement-2021-commission-technique-sigma2-2145</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>From
Expérience to Science </u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(in
French)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Under
the direction of Yann Vadnais, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>De
l’expérience à la science </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">is
the French edition of a 20-expert, international UFO symposium held
in Canada October 2018 with the participation, in addition to
representatives of a few UFO organizations, of (by alphabetical
order) V.J. Ballester Olmos, A. Bosman, F. Bouvin, M. Clelland, D.
Donderi, T. Guillemette, D.A. Haisell, I. Koi, Ch. Rutkowski, C.
Svahn, P. Toselli, T. Tulien, M. Wiroth, and E. Zurcher. The 600-page
book contains an introduction by Jacques Vallée, Garry Nolan, and
Federico Faggin, and an epilog by Bertrand Méheust. Published August
2021, priced at $85.00, it can be purchased from:</span></span></span><u style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><a href="https://shop.garpan.ca/produit/de-lexperience-a-la-science-actes-de-colloque-600-p/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://shop.garpan.ca/produit/de-lexperience-a-la-science-actes-de-colloque-600-p/</span></span></a></u></p>
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You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you to
practice your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into
English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s
content:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">*
Gambia: a photograph and an abduction: an article on a picture taken
in this coastal African country in September 2004, one that was
followed by strange dreams and an abduction revealed through
hypnosis. Attached, one of the drawings produced by the lady who
tells the experience. </span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Ground and airborne UFO sighting on May 4, 2021. A large, luminous
cloud-like object observed at the same time (20:55 UTC) from both
Spain and France. Visual developments related to the </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Starlink</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
satellites’ launch.</span></span></span></p>
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LOG</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
Last August 19th I had the pleasure to receive at Valencia the French
UFO investigator Didier Gómez, avid book collector, deep </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>connoisseur</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of this subject who has been for over 20 years the editor of the
serious magazine </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ufomania</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
We had a very pleasant conversation, exchange of mutual Knowledge,
search of book in second-hand bookshops, as well as a couple of beers
in the sublime </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Café
de las horas</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dxvUsUq3Nu8/YT-ZxkCZd0I/AAAAAAAACrs/ggQYd295F9kOpouwVQEVxbvuhjrwMynTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Didier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dxvUsUq3Nu8/YT-ZxkCZd0I/AAAAAAAACrs/ggQYd295F9kOpouwVQEVxbvuhjrwMynTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Didier.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Notes</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Some articles of mine published in the journal: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #1”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
57, December 2008, pp. 18-19,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2057.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2057.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #2”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
58, March 2009, pp. 28,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2058.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2058.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #3”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
59, June 2009, pp. 28-30,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2059.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2059.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">
“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #4”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
61, December 2009, pp. 18-21,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2061.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2061.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #5”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
62, Spring 2010, pp. 28-30,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2062.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2062.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">
“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #6”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
63, 2010, pp. 28-30, </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2063.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2063.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
My work on vacation. Sometimes friends ask me about my extensive
“productivity” during the summer (as long as June to September,
retirement benefits). In addition to my ability to concentrate in any
place, the total family complicity I enjoy, it is the environment
that largely favors my endeavors. It is where I use to read and
write, when I am not over the laptop, and even with it. I don't want
to make anyone jealous, but the following photo (thanks to my son
Daniel for the panoramic view!) shows what I have in view, the
terrace of my chalet in La Eliana.</span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4V6GFQXF920/YT-Z9VH1aVI/AAAAAAAACr0/ZZitwhfeW78xtD9-Vl0b9M5phAFS8EItgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2699/La%2BEliana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1165" data-original-width="2699" height="138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4V6GFQXF920/YT-Z9VH1aVI/AAAAAAAACr0/ZZitwhfeW78xtD9-Vl0b9M5phAFS8EItgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/La%2BEliana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Acknowledgments</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Luis R. González (Spain), Juan
Carlos Victorio Uranga (España), Milton Hourcade (Uruguay), Diego
Zúñiga (Germany), Brad Sparks (USA), Isaac Koi (England), Salim
Sigales Montes (Mexico), Carlos Demaria (Argentina), Martin Kottmeyer
(USA), Björn Borg (Finland), Laurent Chabin (France), Dave Thomas
(USA), Dr. Ricardo Campo (Spain), Martin Shough (Scotland), Manuel
Carballal (Spain), Manuel Borraz (Spain), Julio Plaza del Olmo
(Spain), and Juan Pablo González (Spain).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h69/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span>,
1976</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a>
<span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">These books are available in the
second-hand market, for example: </span>
</span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/37jjp728"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/37jjp728</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/nhmpnnuj"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/nhmpnnuj</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3y3uftx4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3y3uftx4</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The
First Catalogue</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> (with O.J.
Braenne), 2008 </span></span><u style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>UFOs and Government</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>
</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(with M. Swords & R.
Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich,
and S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la
Antártida en 1965</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> (with M.
Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></span></a></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017 </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></span></a></h4>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020 </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES">2021/SEPTIEMBRE/14 (ES</span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;">
<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-weight: normal;">El
catálogo alcanza ya las 12.774 entradas (casos) y crece cada día en
número y contenido. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reproducción</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
edición especial de mi artículo “Cuando los arquetipos
aterrizan”, publicado en este blog el pasado mes de marzo, ha
aparecido en el número de julio de la revista </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Alternate
Perceptions Magazine</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
una publicación dirigida por Brent Raynes: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1688&Itemid=194" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1688&Itemid=194</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Entrevista</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
pasado 4 de julio, la sección de Ciencia del diario </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
País </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">incluyó
un artículo firmado por Antonio Jiménez Barca, dedicado al reciente
aumento de la atención mediática sobre los ovnis (UAPs) en América.
Su seguro servidor fue uno de los entrevistados: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-07-04/ovnis-ya-estan-aqui-de-nuevo.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-07-04/ovnis-ya-estan-aqui-de-nuevo.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Nuevas
publicaciones</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Dos
horas de avistamiento OVNI” (con la colaboración de J.C. Victorio
Uranga),
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49578000/Dos_horas_de_avistamiento_OVNI</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
19 de septiembre de 1980 tuvo lugar un raro avistamiento ovni en la
isla portuguesa de Madeira (en el Océano Atlántico). Fue inusual
porque duró dos horas, fue visto por muchos testigos en lugares
independientes y se tomaron fotografías. Este artículo da a conocer
el estudio realizado tal fenómeno.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-SpurlFxYc/YT-UH26UZaI/AAAAAAAACqA/aNtz3w2xE6UFnR1eUiQ_SAu43plchlQrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s762/OVNI.PNG" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="762" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-SpurlFxYc/YT-UH26UZaI/AAAAAAAACqA/aNtz3w2xE6UFnR1eUiQ_SAu43plchlQrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/OVNI.PNG" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">©
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Revista
Diario</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">
(Funchal, Madeira), 17 de septiembre de 1995: reconstrucción de la
escena ovni.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">INFORME
UAP DEL PENTÁGONO</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Publicación</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
las 13 horas del 25 de junio de 2021, la oficina del director de
Inteligencia Nacional remitió al congreso de los Estados Unidos un
informe preliminar sobre fenómenos aéreos no identificados (UAP)
para informar de los progresos realizados por el grupo de trabajo
UAPTF sobre la comprensión sobre incidentes así calificados.
Titulado “Valoración preliminar: Fenómenos aéreos no
identificados”, tiene nueve páginas y el original en inglés puede
descargarse a través del siguiente enlace: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RMyW_D5jXb4/YT-VzR6lpiI/AAAAAAAACqI/zEwNrTQITpgjA_zBddA90X7mipfOJCmyACLcBGAsYHQ/s603/INFORME.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RMyW_D5jXb4/YT-VzR6lpiI/AAAAAAAACqI/zEwNrTQITpgjA_zBddA90X7mipfOJCmyACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/INFORME.jpg" width="246" /></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe, traducido al castellano por el comodoro Rubén Lianza, de la
Fuerza Aérea de Argentina, se encuentra aquí: </span></span><a href="http://ifpa.info/wp/2021/06/26/evaluacion-preliminar-fenomenos-aereos-no-identificados/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://ifpa.info/wp/2021/06/26/evaluacion-preliminar-fenomenos-aereos-no-identificados/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Inmediatamente
después, el secretario de prensa del Pentágono John Kirby informó
que "...la secretaria de Defensa en funciones Kathleen Hicks se
ha dirigido a la oficina del subsecretario de Defensa para la
Inteligencia y la Seguridad para que desarrolle un plan que formalice
la misión actualmente encomendada al UAPTF":</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2672732/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-kirby-on-unidentified-aerial-phenome/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2672732/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-kirby-on-unidentified-aerial-phenome/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
continuación, el memorando que se adjunta a los jefes del Pentágono
y comandantes de los mandos de combate, a las agencias de Defensa y
a los directores de campo del Departamento (ministerio) de Defensa: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/25/2002749916/-1/-1/1/DEPUTY-SECRETARY-OF-DEFENSE-MEMORANDUM-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-AERIAL-PHENOMENA-ASSESSMENTS.PDF"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/25/2002749916/-1/-1/1/DEPUTY-SECRETARY-OF-DEFENSE-MEMORANDUM-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-AERIAL-PHENOMENA-ASSESSMENTS.PDF</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrgv-I8TKtw/YT-WBY77YwI/AAAAAAAACqM/aatgPOqAYLkPT6dd8ErPXJTNG19lXaARQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1650/Memorandum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrgv-I8TKtw/YT-WBY77YwI/AAAAAAAACqM/aatgPOqAYLkPT6dd8ErPXJTNG19lXaARQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Memorandum.jpg" width="247" /></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Mi
lectura del informe UAP del Pentágono</u> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos, 26/6/2021)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[Una
presentación especial de este texto aparece en la web Factor 302.4
de Alejandro Agostinelli:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">]</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
documento no clasificado que se ha publicado</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">se
describe como una “valoración preliminar” sobre los fenómenos
aéreos no identificados por la oficina del director nacional de
Inteligencia (25 de junio de 2021). El Senado de los EE.UU. solicitó
se calibrara el riesgo que suponían los UAPs y el progreso realizado
por el grupo de trabajo del Departamento de Defensa (UAPTF), creado
para este propósito en agosto de 2020. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">17
agencias norteamericanas, incluyendo los tres ejércitos, han
colaborado en este informe. La primera suposición es que “algunos
UAP pueden atribuirse a anomalías en los sensores”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe de 9 páginas se inicia con un resumen ejecutivo que comienza
señalando que “hay un reducido número de informes con alta
calidad, lo que impide sacar conclusiones firmes sobre la naturaleza
o intenciones de los UAP”. El grupo de trabajo se concentró en el
estudio de informes ocurridos entre noviembre de 2004 y marzo de
2021. Si bien "La mayoría de los UAP informados probablemente
representan objetos físicos” ... [y] “En un número limitado de
incidentes, los UAP supuestamente parecían exhibir características
de vuelo inusuales", el informe sigue diciendo que "Estas
observaciones podrían ser el resultado de errores de los sensores,
bromas o percepción errónea del observador y requieren un análisis
riguroso adicional ".</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
revisión de 144 informes insinúa que “cuando se resuelvan los
incidentes individuales de UAP, se incluirán en una de cinco
categorías explicativas potenciales: confusiones aéreas, fenómenos
atmosféricos naturales, programas desarrollados por el gobierno o la
industria estadounidense, sistemas de adversarios extranjeros y un
cajón de sastre para ‘otros’". Pero nada de
extraterrestres.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Para
la oficina nacional de Inteligencia, "los UAP plantean
claramente un problema de seguridad de vuelo y pueden representar un
desafío para la seguridad nacional de EE. UU.", en
contradicción con 70 años de fenomenología ovni, sin accidentes
aéreos relacionados y en la experiencia de tantos países que han
desclasificado sus archivos ovni por considerar que el fenómeno no
suponía un riesgo para la seguridad nacional. Sin embargo, la
Inteligencia de los Estados Unidos debe tener razones para pensar que
algunos UAP podrían representar "plataformas de espionaje de
adversarios extranjeros ... o tecnología ... innovadora".</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe enumera los pasos necesarios para un estudio sofisticado del
problema, que "consume muchos recursos y requeriría una
inversión adicional". Es decir, si desea que analicemos este
problema, esté preparado para pagarlo. Y esto no será el Libro Azul
o el Comité Condon. Por supuesto, estamos hablando de millones de
dólares estadounidenses, ¡todo en nombre de la seguridad nacional!</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Las
principales conclusiones apuntan a “informes en gran medida no
concluyentes”. Sin embargo, es sorprendente la baja puntuación en
la identificación de la naturaleza y el origen de los objetos. Los
investigadores del Grupo de Trabajo solo pudieron identificar un
único caso con alta confianza (un globo desinflado) entre 144
(0,7%). Los demás permanecen sin explicación. Una pésima
proporción de resolución de casos, considerando que el GEIPAN
francés ha resuelto el 98% de los avistamientos de ovnis en los
últimos 10 años.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Creo que los investigadores militares de UAP deben aprender mucho de
la investigación ovni. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">No
obstante, el informe supone que "surgen algunos patrones
potenciales". A pesar del hecho de que "hubo una amplia
variabilidad en los informes y el conjunto de datos es actualmente
demasiado limitado para permitir un análisis detallado de tendencias
o patrones", avanza que hay algunos grupos de observaciones de
UAP con respecto a la forma, el tamaño y, en particular, propulsión.
Pero, vamos a ver, ¿la diversidad impide el reconocimiento de
patrones o no? ¿Constantes sobre propulsión? Creo que es fruto de
la imaginación de los revisores de casos, no acostumbrados a
analizar las exageraciones y especulaciones de pilotos. La única
constante claramente definida es que los UAP aparecen alrededor de
los campos de entrenamiento y pruebas de EE. UU., "Pero
evaluamos que esto puede ser el resultado de un sesgo de
recopilación", afirma sabiamente el informe. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
informe consigna un patrón de movimiento inusual, permanencia
estacionaria, movimiento contra el viento, maniobras abruptas o a una
velocidad considerable, energía de radiofrecuencia asociada,
aceleración, etc. Características solo aparentes, nos apresuramos a
agregar, ya que, como el informe continúa diciendo, “es necesario
un análisis riguroso adicional por parte de múltiples equipos o
grupos de expertos técnicos para determinar la naturaleza y validez
de estos datos. " </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
también hemos concluido con el análisis de los informes ovni en
bruto desde 1947 a 2021, "Los casos UAP documentados en este
limitado conjunto de datos demuestra una variedad de comportamientos
aéreos, lo que refuerza la posibilidad de que haya múltiples tipos
de UAPs que requieren diferentes explicaciones". El actual
estudio del Pentágono revela la falta de información suficiente en
su conjunto de datos "para atribuir incidentes a explicaciones
específicas". En suma, no se ha encontrado nada extraordinario.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Su
base de datos incluye 11 informes de casos documentados en los que
los pilotos informaron cuasi accidentes con un UAP. ¿Significa que
los UAP representan una "preocupación aérea en curso"?
Con un espacio aéreo lleno de objetos voladores, controlados y fuera
de control, cada dron o misil puede considerarse un peligro para la
aviación. Esto carece de relación con el concepto ETI. Con respecto
a los posibles desafíos de seguridad nacional, corresponde al Estado
monitorear si los adversarios estadounidenses están espiando las
instalaciones militares por aviones que llevan sistemas de sensores
avanzados. Tampoco relacionado con la ETI. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
informe establece que "explicar los UAP requerirá inversión
analítica, de recopilación y de recursos", coordinación
interinstitucional, estandarización de informes de incidentes en los
servicios militares de EE. UU., aportes sólidos de la Administración
Federal de Aviación y ampliar la recopilación de datos de áreas
estándar y novedosas. El resultado final es aumentar la inversión
en I+D: “La UAPTF ha indicado que la financiación adicional para
investigación y desarrollo podría promover el estudio futuro de los
temas expuestos en este informe. Dichas inversiones deben estar
guiadas por una estrategia de recolección de UAP, una hoja de ruta
técnica de I + D de UAP y un plan de programa de UAP ". </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
resumen, parece que se ha identificado una nueva área de
investigación, como si no fuera algo que la Inteligencia deba
perseguir regularmente de manera rutinaria. Con la atracción pública
hacia los platillos volantes, los ovnis y los UAPs, la financiación
está asegurada. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">El
gobierno de Estados Unidos está, nuevamente, estudiando los ovnis.
Se ha iniciado el programa Libro Azul del siglo XXI. Los medios de
comunicación se regocijarán. La Ciencia, probablemente menos.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Aparentemente,
la versión clasificada de este informe tiene 17 páginas.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>3,4</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Se rumorea que tiene 200 páginas de anexos y 14 videos que duran
unos 40 minutos.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>5</b></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/actualites/baisse-cas-d"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/actualites/baisse-cas-d</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1415825537075843074?s=19"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1415825537075843074?s=19</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/details-scant-about-classified-uap-report-heres-what-odni-is-saying?fbclid=IwAR3_X6dLtr0N91QGtej-_zxNgYytJuyvjvLq4z58-53QNy2KudadOjXtpyk"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/details-scant-about-classified-uap-report-heres-what-odni-is-saying?fbclid=IwAR3_X6dLtr0N91QGtej-_zxNgYytJuyvjvLq4z58-53QNy2KudadOjXtpyk</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1409101507895644161"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1409101507895644161</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o8sz59/at_2719_insider_said_the_classified_briefing_of/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o8sz59/at_2719_insider_said_the_classified_briefing_of/</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(Según
ha informado Laurent Chabin a la lista EuroUFO el 27 de junio de
2021).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Otras
evaluaciones del informe</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estados
Unidos, Barry Greenwood (en inglés):</span></span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/nicapbriefing.htm" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.nicap.org/nicapbriefing.htm</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estados
Unidos, Robert Sheaffer (en inglés): </span></span><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-pentagons-long-awaited-preliminary.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-pentagons-long-awaited-preliminary.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">España,
Julio Plaza del Olmo:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/06/uaptf-los-hombres-que-miraban-fijamente.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/06/uaptf-los-hombres-que-miraban-fijamente.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk76112412"></a>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Argentina,
Alejandro Agostinelli: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/06/29/pentagono/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estados
Unidos, Metabunk web y foro (en inglés): </span></span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pentagon-june-2021-report-on-120-uap-incidents.11784/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pentagon-june-2021-report-on-120-uap-incidents.11784/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk76075874"></a>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Estados Unidos,
Martin Kottmeyer (Facebook, en inglés): </span></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2930918833817028" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2930918833817028</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Kazajistán,
astrónomo Dr. S. Efimov (en inglés): </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3ubpw9et"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3ubpw9et</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Estados
Unidos, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(en inglés):
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41298/uap-task-force-report-offers-limited-answers-while-drawing-the-public-spotlight"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41298/uap-task-force-report-offers-limited-answers-while-drawing-the-public-spotlight</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Estados
Unidos, Robert Powell (SCU) + comentario de Milton Hourcade: </span></span><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2021/08/declaracion-de-la-csu-sobre-informe-del.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.uapsg.com/2021/08/declaracion-de-la-csu-sobre-informe-del.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Ecos
del informe del Pentágono en el parlamento británico</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
30 de junio, en el Parlamento del Reino Unido se habló de ovnis y la
ministra de Estado para Defensa, la escocesa Annabel Goldie, recordó
que Inglaterra había desclasificado los varios miles de casos que
tenía archivados y que jamás encontraron pruebas de ningún riesgo
para la seguridad nacional o la aviación:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-06-30/debates/C3B3E127-A168-4315-A1C9-B4D7CC80895D/UnidentifiedFlyingObjects"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-06-30/debates/C3B3E127-A168-4315-A1C9-B4D7CC80895D/UnidentifiedFlyingObjects</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Encuentro
cercano aéreo de Terauchi…solo con luces</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
7 de junio de 2021, Jazz Shaw escribió para </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Debrief</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
un relato imparcial y bien documentado sobre la presunta aproximación
de un ovni al vuelo 1628 de Japan Airlines el 17 de noviembre de
1986. “La tripulación de tres personas estaba dirigida por el
piloto Kenju Terauchi, quien informaría de un encuentro
aparentemente inexplicable en los cielos del norte de Alaska cuando
se acercaban al aeropuerto de Anchorage". Es digno de elogio
leer auténtico periodismo de investigación y reportajes
verdaderamente neutrales sobre avistamientos de ovnis, sin tintes de
sensacionalismo. Estas son algunas citas del artículo:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Y
las descripciones de algunos de estos sucesos en los que se basan
para probar su caso ciertamente les confieren una pátina de verdad.
Pero cuando profundizas mucho en los detalles, se vuelven evidentes
los fallos de las historias. Sin pretender dar una ducha de agua fría
a las creencias de nadie, un examen detallado de la información
facilitada por la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) muestra
múltiples inconsistencias en la historia que, como mínimo, debería
dejarnos espacio para reconocer los argumentos de los escépticos.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://thedebrief.org/what-really-happened-to-japan-airlines-flight-1628-in-1986/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://thedebrief.org/what-really-happened-to-japan-airlines-flight-1628-in-1986/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tssrS23iwTU/YT-Wxm6MgWI/AAAAAAAACqg/S0f5bV7BOrQXbCqyvOOp4bfgg7MEYFuPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1829/Terauchi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1829" height="190" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tssrS23iwTU/YT-Wxm6MgWI/AAAAAAAACqg/S0f5bV7BOrQXbCqyvOOp4bfgg7MEYFuPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Terauchi.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">17
de noviembre de 1986, Alaska. Ilustración tomada de
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3jce7p8c"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3jce7p8c</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Gambia:
una foto y una abducción</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><b>Introducción</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
junio de 2005, desde Torrevieja (Alicante), llega una inesperada
carta manuscrita al Museo de la Ciencia de La Laguna (Tenerife)</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
La firma Marifé Urzainqui, de la que luego sabremos que es una mujer
de 56 años, navarra de nacimiento, que estudió magisterio en su
juventud, viuda, pensionista, que asegura tener una salud de hierro
(ni bebe, ni fuma, ni toma ningún tipo de estimulantes) y haber
viajado a 18 países del mundo. En ella relata que en septiembre de
2004 ha visto dos objetos extraños de los que tenía una fotografía
y que le han pasado “cosas anómalas” a raíz de las cuales en
febrero de 2005 se sometió voluntariamente a sesiones de hipnosis de
las que dedujo que había estado “en el interior de esa nave”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XGcsxjrZ3Hs/YT-b3T4_GZI/AAAAAAAACsA/GxNBnNv8buEsWCOVtrgfnzgQmU5XR9GfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/carta.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1330" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XGcsxjrZ3Hs/YT-b3T4_GZI/AAAAAAAACsA/GxNBnNv8buEsWCOVtrgfnzgQmU5XR9GfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/carta.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Esta
información me llega en septiembre de 2005 y, para recabar más
datos, inicio enseguida una relación epistolar y telefónica con la
señora Urzainqui que, intermitentemente, alcanza hasta 2007, cuando
otros proyectos hicieron que dejara de lado este caso. Todo comenzó
cuando en septiembre de 2004 le surge la oportunidad de viajar a
Gambia, un pequeño país de África Occidental con una pequeña
costa en el Atlántico. Ya en su destino vacacional, su grupo de
extranjeros fue de excursión al poblado de Taují. Ella se la perdió
porque le interesaba más visitar “al mejor hechicero de Gambia”.
Desde hace tiempo (vivió seis años en Fortaleza, Brasil) se
interesaba por las religiones africanas, hasta el extremo de que en
cierta ocasión en 1975 cayó en un trance durante un ritual de
Candomblé. Para no perderse la visita, al día siguiente alquiló
un taxi y fue a Taují con un guía local.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><b>La
foto</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
11 de septiembre de 2004, paseaban por el pueblo tomando fotos con
una cámara desechable y luego se dirigieron a la playa para ver
volver a las barcas de los pescadores con sus capturas. Naturalmente
había un cierto bullicio y muchas gaviotas revoloteando. Siguiendo
por la playa, de un bar salió una mujer que le ofreció un vasito de
arroz con leche de una bandeja destinada a unos chicos que estaban
haciendo unos curiosos ejercicios en la playa. Siguen su paseo,
intentando llegar a una casita que había al final de la playa, pero
siente la necesidad de volverse. Son las 18:30 horas. Ve unos niños
en una barca agitando los brazos y sobre ella algo extraño, con el
aspecto de un pájaro metálico. Toma una foto y descartó la idea de
gastar otra más. La siguiente impresión que tiene es que los dos
escucharon un ruido bastante grande, como de motores. Siguieron
andando. No describe más del objeto. Curiosamente, mientras en su
primera carta piensa que pudo estar observando el objeto ¡casi una
hora!, ante mi insistencia en posteriores intercambios, Marifé
admite que todo duró apenas unos segundos. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Siguió
con su visita a la zona del ahumado de pescado, volvieron al taxi, al
hotel y tras la cena, salió en grupo a ver un espectáculo de danzas
típicas. Al despertar los dos días siguientes notó las cosas de su
habitación cambiadas de sitio, tuvo una pequeña hemorragia de nariz
y se encontró un rasguño en el lado derecho de la cabeza; además,
más tarde durante el desayuno, sus compañeros le indicaron que su
reloj se había retrasado veinte minutos. Ese día y al siguiente
notaba su mente como “disgregada”, que ella atribuyó simplemente
al cansancio del viaje. Todo, como es natural, según su narrativa
personal, pormenorizada en sus varias cartas y llamadas telefónicas
hasta 2007. Desde entonces, el tema quedó aparcado </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>sine
die</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Cuando en abril de 2020 volví a escribirle ya no obtuve respuesta.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
vuelta a España, revela las fotos y descubre un objeto en la foto de
los niños que le produce gran inquietud y que juzga de enorme
extrañeza. Seguidamente, la fotografía y una ampliación del objeto
“misterioso”.</span></span></p>
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es que la informante compartió la fotografía (y comunicó su
experiencia de abducción, de la que sabremos luego) con muchas
personas y organizaciones de España y del extranjero, donde pudieran
examinarlas o tomarlas en consideración</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Marifé llegó al extremo de llamar por teléfono al guía en la
Navidad siguiente para preguntarle si recordaba el extraño objeto
que vieron. En octubre de 2005 yo mismo escribí a Lamin Sanneh, su
guía gambiano, quien en un email señaló esto (traduzco del
inglés):</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Es
difícil de recordar, de esto hace mucho tiempo, lo olvidé. Ella
estuvo en la playa Tangi, yo la llevé allí el pasado año 2004 e
incluso me mandó esa foto, lo recuerdo, pero no sé dónde la
guardé…si pudiera encontrarla y verla podría darle una respuesta.
Porque realmente no sé a qué te refieres</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Le
había preguntado si vio algo extraño aquel día cuando estuvieron
en la playa. Está claro que el guía no tuvo ninguna experiencia ni
vio nada anormal mientras paseaba con la turista.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Fechada
el 2 de enero de 2006 recibí una tarjeta postal (con una imagen del
Kremlin de Moscú) felicitándome el Año Nuevo, donde Marifé
aprovechó para manifestar lo siguiente: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Me
han escrito de un grupo de Inglaterra. Las personas que llevan años
investigando el tema OVNI, ven de sobra que mi foto refleja un
verdadero UFO, y también me doy cuenta </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">[de]
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>que
las personas con mayor nivel intelectual, más se interesan por estos
temas. La humanidad entera querrá una respuesta.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
mi opinión, sin embargo, se nota a las claras que es una fotografía
turística, centrada en una barca cerca de la playa desde la que uno
de sus ocupantes parece saludarle con los brazos abiertos. La
aparición del objeto por encima no deja de ser casual y su
morfología recuerda extraordinariamente a la de insectos y pájaros
que no son vistos en el instante de la toma de la instantánea</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Para saber qué era aquello que se fotografió, recurrí al experto
chileno Andrés Duarte, autor de estudios definitivos sobre algunos
casos muy importantes</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>4-9</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
para su análisis. Su informe dice así:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>La
imagen del objeto en la foto presenta aberración cromática (bordes
rojos a un lado y azules al otro lado) consistente con otras partes
de la foto, lo que indica que es un objeto real y no un defecto del
film. </i></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">No
sabemos qué cámara fue usada para tomar la foto, pero sabemos que
era una cámara desechable. Afortunadamente, todas las cámaras
desechables más vendidas tienen características muy similares, por
ejemplo la cámara Fujifilm QuickSnap tiene longitud focal f = 32 mm
y apertura relativa N = 10, la cámara Kodak FunSaver tiene f = 30 mm
y N = 10, y la cámara Lomography Simple Use tiene f = 31 mm y N = 9.
Entonces podemos analizar la foto usando los valores f = 31 mm y N =
10, que son suficientemente representativos de esas cámaras.</i></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Todas
aquellas cámaras usan negativos de 35 mm y tienen foco fijo. Las
cámaras de foco fijo están enfocadas a la distancia hiperfocal </i></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>H
= f + f²/(N×c)</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>donde
"c" es el diámetro del círculo de confusión aceptable,
que en los negativos de 35 mm vale c = 0,03 mm, entonces cuando f =
31 mm y N = 10 tenemos H = 3,2 metros. La foto parece ser consistente
con el enfoque a la distancia hiperfocal, porque los elementos más
distantes que se ven en la foto están ligeramente desenfocados
mientras que la orilla del mar está muy bien enfocada. Sin embargo,
la imagen del objeto está más desenfocada que los elementos más
distantes de la foto, lo que implica que </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>el
objeto está más cerca de la cámara que la orilla del mar</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>La
relación entre el círculo de confusión y la distancia del objeto
está dada por la siguiente fórmula</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>(véase
la sección 2.3 en
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>):</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>c
= |S2 - S1|×f²/[S2×N×(S1 - f)]</i></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>En
esta fórmula "c" no es el diámetro del círculo de
confusión aceptable, sino el diámetro del círculo de confusión
actual (el cual corresponde al diámetro de la PSF) de la imagen del
objeto. S1 es la distancia de enfoque (que en nuestro caso vale S1 =
H) y S2 es la distancia entre el lente y el objeto. Esta fórmula
permite determinar la distancia del objeto S2 cuando conocemos los
valores de c, f, N y S1.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
diámetro de la PSF </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[función
de dispersión de punto] </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
la imagen del objeto fue determinado mediante el método de los nulos
espectrales. El nulo espectral de esta imagen fue encontrado en la
frecuencia espacial sf = 8,7 ciclos/mm, entonces el diámetro de la
PSF es c = 1,22/sf = 0,14 mm. El nulo espectral de la imagen tiene
forma circular, lo que significa que la imagen del objeto está
borrosa principalmente por desenfoque y no por movimiento. Las
características del cepstrum </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">[</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">]
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>de
la imagen también son consistentes con la presencia dominante de
desenfoque solamente.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Ahora
tenemos todos los valores que necesitamos para calcular S2.
Despejando S2 de la fórmula obtenemos</i></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>S2
= S1/[1 + c×N×(S1 - f)/f²] = 56 cm</i></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
tamaño de la imagen del objeto en el negativo es s = 0,7 mm,
entonces </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>el
tamaño actual del objeto es</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>
s×S2/f = </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><u>13
mm. Probablemente el objeto sea un insecto, algo arrastrado por el
viento o algo arrojado al aire</u></i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>10</b></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo
que era de esperar, un cuerpo diminuto a corta distancia de la
cámara, sin más.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>La
abducción</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Aunque mi actual campo de especialización termina aquí, hay una segunda parte de la
que daré cuenta de forma muy sucinta, más que nada para que el
lector y el investigador tengan una perspectiva más holística de la
personalidad de la “testigo”. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Al
regreso de su viaje a Gambia, Marifé se pone a “atar cabos”.
Recuerda el reloj retrasado y empieza a pensar que el ovni originó
algún fenómeno de distorsión temporal. Además, los detalles
fotografiados no encajan con sus recuerdos (los niños los recordaba
más lejos y el ovni más cerca y con otra forma distinta) y empieza
a creer que algo controló su voluntad haciéndole dar la vuelta,
dejar de fotografiar “pájaros con luces”, y a no prestar más
atención al objeto. Y añade que ni ella ni el guía volvieron a
hablar del tema. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
enero de 2005 Marifé preparaba un viaje a Dubai, pero estaba
obsesionada y siempre antes de dormir veía aquel objeto tan extraño
plegando sus alas y sacando sus tubos de luces, y decide
“investigar”. Habla con una psicóloga de Alicante que la deriva
a otra psicóloga (Teresa García, directora del Instituto Ericsson,
de Pozuelo de Alarcón, en Madrid) quien le habla de un psicólogo
que podría estar interesado y en apenas diez minutos éste (el Dr.
José Cava) la llama y conciertan una reunión en Madrid para el 15
de febrero, en la clínica.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Acude
a Madrid para la sesión acompañada de su sobrino y la novia de
éste, llenos de curiosidad. Según la testigo, les contó a los
médicos lo que pensaba que le había pasado y lo que les convenció
fue la foto que les enseñó, quedando para el día siguiente para la
primera sesión que duraría tres horas y media (de 19:30 a 23:00).
La segunda sesión (al día siguiente) la hace a solas con el
psicólogo. Duró dos horas y media. Marifé redacta 14 páginas con
todas las imágenes que vio durante las sesiones de hipnosis, entre
ellas:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">…<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>una
especie de mesa de operaciones y tres figuras obscenas con halos de
luz [detrás de las que] había una gran figura diferente que me
parecía un espectro y en esta visión intervino a la izquierda la
figura de una serpiente de oro con ojos hechos de rubís…También
recuerdo que en algún momento de la sesión vi flotando como en una
pequeña islita. Un grupo de humanos, de la prehistoria, parecidos a
los primeros Homo-Sapiens estaban estáticos…</i></span></span></span></span></p>
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“recuerdos” los adquiere a través de las sesiones de hipnosis.
Espero que los psiquiatras tomen nota.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Marifé
da un enfoque conspirativo a su experiencia, por ejemplo cuando
piensa que lo que le pasó pudiera estar relacionado con una reunión
de militares gambianos e ingleses en su hotel dos días después. ¡Y
el psicólogo José Cava añade leña al fuego diciendo que no era un
arma secreta terrestre, sino que aquellos militares seguro que
estaban allí porque conocían la presencia de ovnis en la zona! En
una de sus llamadas telefónicas (concretamente el 6 de octubre), me
manifestó su temor a que le hayan manipulado, quitándole defensas
biológicas. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Como
siempre ocurre con las falsas experiencias de abducción, ésta es
muy rica en sueños y fantasías. Entre los múltiples ideogramas,
signos, dibujos de toda índole, Marifé afirma haber escrito una
fórmula de la que ignora su significado:</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--v_GgN1_1P0/YT-c8Pi05OI/AAAAAAAACsc/KhTdNWJY0rQBaR46LatQKQTYplBTuaCqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1414/formula.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1414" height="123" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--v_GgN1_1P0/YT-c8Pi05OI/AAAAAAAACsc/KhTdNWJY0rQBaR46LatQKQTYplBTuaCqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/formula.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">En
su día, consulté al físico catalán y conocido miembro del CEI
barcelonés Jordi Ardanuy, quien señaló lo siguiente:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>No
reconozco la fórmula. Añadiría que si se interpretan los signos
alfabéticos en los términos habituales en el mundo sajón y/o
latino, la expresión resulta dimensionalmente incoherente. Llama la
atención, sin embargo, el factor N elevado a 3/2 que aparece en
soluciones de </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">[las]
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ecuaciones
de Shrödinger sin que ello signifique, por sí mismo, absolutamente
nada</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>11</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Porque
siempre me gustan las segundas opiniones, he consultado recientemente
a Julio Massé, matemático valenciano, exdirector de Instituto y
amigo desde los tiempos del CEONI, que expresa así su parecer:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
fórmula no tiene ningún sentido para mí ni la encuadro en ningún
contexto matemático o físico que yo conozca</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>12</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
como no hay dos sin tres, he recurrido asimismo a Julio Plaza del
Olmo, físico madrileño e investigador, cuya opinión destaco a
continuación:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
ecuación no la reconozco como nada conocido. De hecho, está mal
escrita, ya que la raíz cuadrada principal debería englobar todo
el numerador y denominador. Si no, no tiene sentido. Pero si te
fijas, igual que repite la fórmula tachando una parte de la raíz
del denominador para que no coja "d cuadrado", la raíz
cuadrada principal la corta en ambas ocasiones sin englobar a "N
cubo". Otra cosa que me llama la atención es el denominador,
que escribe la "raíz cuadrada de la raíz cuadrada de r"
(¿o quizás sea </i></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>π</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>?)
. Matemáticamente, es la raíz cuarta, para lo cual existe una
notación concreta. Me da la impresión de que está escrito por
alguien cuyo máximo nivel de matemáticas se quedó en la raíz
cuadrada, y es lo más complicado que conoce</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>13</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Parece
que el extraterrestre que le facilitó las fórmulas debió ser el
tonto de la tripulación. Ya en serio, muchos años de estudio me han
convencido de que el capítulo de los raptos en ufología está
claramente conectado con la psicología y la mente del individuo
afectado</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>14-19</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
y es un materia que requiere mucha más investigación académica. Y
lo más contraproducente que puede ocurrir es que aficionados jueguen
a hipnotizar a personas que cuenten abducciones o, como en este caso,
que profesionales crédulos se involucren en este tipo de casuística
que puede tener un desarrollo dramáticamente perjudicial para los
sujetos que creen haber vivido esas experiencias.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>20</b></span></span></sup></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(1)
Ricardo Campo, comunicación a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 12 de septiembre
de 2005.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Además de exponer sus casos allá donde viajaba, en España, que
sepamos, contactó con los ufólogos Miguel Alcaraz, Juanfra Romero y
Daniel Valverde.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Rubén Lianza (CIAE, Fuerza Aérea Argentina), </span></span></span><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(4)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “”El pequeño humanoide
azul”, en </span></span></span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2012_05_29_archive.html#es" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2012_05_29_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, ”El humanoide invisible de
Mr. Templeton”, en </span></span></span></span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2012_12_27_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2012_12_27_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(6)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “Una peculiar nave
espacial”, en </span></span></span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2013_06_12_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2013_06_12_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(7)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “Fotografía ovni desde el
Observatorio “El Infiernillo’”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">en
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2013_11_04_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2013_11_04_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(8)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, varios análisis en </span></span></span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html#es" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
V.J. Ballester Olmos y Andrés Duarte, “Análisis de la fotografía
tomada en la localidad de Conejo, California”, en
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2014_09_25_archive.html#es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2014_09_25_archive.html#es</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(10)
Andrés Duarte, e-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 10 de septiembre de
2021.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(11)
Jordi Ardanuy, e-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 9 de marzo de 2007.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(12)
Julio Massé, e-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 21 de agosto de 2021.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(13)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, e-mail a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 21 de agosto de
2021.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes & William P. Cone, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Abduction Enigma</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Forge Books (Nueva York), junio de 1999.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
Susan A. Clancy, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Abducted.
How people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 2005.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)
Bridget Brown, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>They
Know us Better Than We know Ourselves. The history and politics of
alien abduction</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
New York University Press (Nueva York), 2007.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(17)
Karl Pflock & Peter Brookesmith (eds.), </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Encounters
at Indian Head (The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>)</u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Anomalist Books (San Antonio, Tejas), 2007.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(18)
Luis R. González, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Las
abducciones, ¡vaya timo!</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Laetoli (Pamplona), 2008.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(19)
V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis
of Abduction Reports”, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Journal
of Scientific Exploration</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994, pp. 91-105, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse_08_1_olmos.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse_08_1_olmos.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(20)
Agradezco a Luis R. González su ayuda con este caso en 2007. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Observación
desde tierra y desde el aire, 4 de mayo de 2021</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Manuel
Carballal nos avisó al centenar de miembros de Anomalist 2.0 (un
foro hispanoamericano de Internet dedicado principalmente a los
ovnis) acerca del avistamiento de un extraño fenómeno luminoso a
las 22:55 horas (20:55 UTC) del pasado 4 de mayo desde un avión
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Boeing
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">que
hacía la ruta España (Vitoria)-Alemania, cuando circulaba en las
cercanías de Burdeos (Francia) a 36.000 pies de altura (~11km) y
bajo la tutela del C</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">entro
de Control de Vuelo de París. El mismo piloto tomó fotografías y
video desde la cabina de la aeronave. Muestro seguidamente una de
ellas tras haber sido girada 180º, tras la comprobación astronómica
de Manuel Borraz, quien también dedujo que el fenómeno se
encontraba hacia el noroeste del avión (unos 320º de acimut) y a
unos 30º de elevación angular (en definitiva, por encima del nivel
de vuelo). El círculo luminoso tiene un diámetro del orden de 10º,
bastante considerable. Como orientación, el fenómeno de la foto
aparece como unos 10º a la derecha de la estrella Capella.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fUC6QvYTXM/YT-dIGD6TpI/AAAAAAAACsk/KoJI3ktGc2Ay9sj59S0iiFV10wM4-LJ1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/avi%25C3%25B3n%2Bcorrecta.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fUC6QvYTXM/YT-dIGD6TpI/AAAAAAAACsk/KoJI3ktGc2Ay9sj59S0iiFV10wM4-LJ1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/avi%25C3%25B3n%2Bcorrecta.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cortesía
Manuel Carballal.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">El
mismo fenómeno, desde tierra, concretamente desde </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cervera
de Buitrago, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">en
la sierra de Madrid (España) se vio y fotografió “entre las 11 y
las 12 de la noche”, hacia el norte. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H4a2cQIxzlQ/YT-dN5cJ5NI/AAAAAAAACss/CToE0-1Vg2oliPtRFhI1YEqycSGkdDmZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/sierra%2Bde%2Bmadrid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H4a2cQIxzlQ/YT-dN5cJ5NI/AAAAAAAACss/CToE0-1Vg2oliPtRFhI1YEqycSGkdDmZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/sierra%2Bde%2Bmadrid.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cortesía
Manuel Carballal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
la misma Lista, Antonio Salinas, Juan Carlos Victorio y Julio Plaza
del Olmo apuntaron como mejor hipótesis de trabajo la maniobra
de salida de órbita de la segunda etapa de un cohete </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Falcon</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> 9
poniendo en órbita satélites </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Starlink</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"> de
la empresa SpaceX (misión Nº 25). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">La
etapa pasa sobre la Bretaña francesa a las 22:55 CEST
(20:55 UTC) y también es visible desde Madrid. Tiempo
después de liberarse la carga satelital se quema combustible para
frenar la etapa y hacerla decaer de forma hasta cierto punto
controlada. La operación se completa con la liberación (venting)
del combustible sobrante para evitar el riesgo de explosión, que
podría acarrear diseminación de chatarra espacial. Ese vertido
sería el origen de la nube de gases con aspecto de halo
impresionante. El lanzamiento del Falcon 9 tuvo lugar desde Florida
el mismo día 4 a las 21:01 CEST (19:01 UTC).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">La
gráfica siguiente creada por Julio Plaza muestra la posición de la
etapa por el cielo visto desde Cervera en intervalos de 30 segundos.
A las 20:55:30 UTC (22:55:30 CEST), la etapa está más o menos donde
aparece en la foto, hay muy buena correspondencia.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y_cIozWcLLU/YT-dakDslHI/AAAAAAAACsw/9B34hWsb6TsEetwBqegRYKV-44fyq6W9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/gr%25C3%25A1fica.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y_cIozWcLLU/YT-dakDslHI/AAAAAAAACsw/9B34hWsb6TsEetwBqegRYKV-44fyq6W9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/gr%25C3%25A1fica.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cortesía
Julio Plaza del Olmo.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Por
su parte, Manuel Borraz aportó importantes precisiones y deducciones
numéricas, según las cuales, el fenómeno que aparece en las
fotografías se encontraba al sur de las islas británicas, en el
área atlántica de la Bretaña francesa. La intersección en el mapa
adjunto señala la posición aproximada ya que desconocemos la
posición exacta del avión y la hora precisa de la foto madrileña).
Su altura sobre el nivel del mar era del orden de los 400 km. La
distancia al avión era del orden de 600 km. La distancia al
observador cercano a Cervera de Buitrago era del orden de 900 km.
Aunque en los puntos de observación ya se había puesto el sol, los
rayos solares todavía iluminaban el fenómeno, dada la altitud a la
que se encontraba. Me parece interesante resaltar que los cálculos
de Borraz, con el solo uso de las fotos, coinciden con lo que muestra
el </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">software</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
de seguimiento de satélites. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KjXXeJlNLZs/YT-diJfv71I/AAAAAAAACs0/Ztxz95tT4kQ6rIMy6y154Vn52WEiAv08ACLcBGAsYHQ/s847/intersecci%25C3%25B3n.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="827" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KjXXeJlNLZs/YT-diJfv71I/AAAAAAAACs0/Ztxz95tT4kQ6rIMy6y154Vn52WEiAv08ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/intersecci%25C3%25B3n.JPG" width="312" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cortesía
Manuel Borraz.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">En
el gráfico que sigue, tenemos la trayectoria de la segunda etapa del
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Falcon</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
9, una vez liberados los satélites </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Starlink</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zNaKbYu4bE4/YT-dq1CfU2I/AAAAAAAACs8/Cpsv5ZTBtnUlfGAVf53BTOOZCjry5kuUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1366/Falcon9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1366" height="174" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zNaKbYu4bE4/YT-dq1CfU2I/AAAAAAAACs8/Cpsv5ZTBtnUlfGAVf53BTOOZCjry5kuUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Falcon9.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cortesía
Julio Plaza del Olmo.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Como
era de prever, este fenómeno también se observó desde varios
puntos de Francia. Una de las fuentes presentó esta creativa
reconstrucción gráfica:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OlJBbdOvZ8/YT-dw9cbcBI/AAAAAAAACtA/TOnWpxJ4_Ms80_3kFsekgH0x81Hl7XDCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Francia.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1207" data-original-width="2048" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OlJBbdOvZ8/YT-dw9cbcBI/AAAAAAAACtA/TOnWpxJ4_Ms80_3kFsekgH0x81Hl7XDCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Francia.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ilustración
tomada de </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4dv2e9ha"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4dv2e9ha</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">E</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">l
GEIPAN, naturalmente, ha recibido muchos informes de este
avistamiento desde territorio francés y una profusa documentación
la encontramos en su web: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/m2nzxw2m"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/m2nzxw2m</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Su
conclusión es la siguiente: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Múltiples
observaciones de un fenómeno luminoso en el cielo nocturno: alta
probabilidad de confusiones con un evento del lanzador FALCON 9
durante los lanzamientos n ° 25 de los satélites Starlink</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
analistas del GEIPAN coinciden con la explicación avanzada por los
colegas españoles. La investigación del GEIPAN se resume en la
siguiente nota de encuesta: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/Note%20d%27enqu%C3%AAte.pdf">https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/Note%20d%27enqu%C3%AAte.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Podríamos
añadir (según informaciones mencionadas por Victorio Uranga en la
lista) que el fenómeno se repitió hacia la misma hora del 26 de
mayo, pero con mejores condiciones meteorológicas. De ahí que esta
vez fuera filmado desde Burdeos, pero desde tierra</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
y que dispongamos de fotografías y vídeos obtenidos desde muy
distintos puntos de la geografía española</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
En esta ocasión se trató de la misión Starlink Nº 28. Por cierto,
un par de horas antes de las observaciones del día 26, el Dr. Marco
Langbroek ya alertaba en un tweet de la probable ocurrencia del
fenómeno</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Notas</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1397782164683509763"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/i/status/1397782164683509763</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RedSpmn/status/1397821761664737281"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/RedSpmn/status/1397821761664737281</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8tXgp-dsY"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8tXgp-dsY</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1397629604702138373">https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1397629604702138373</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
El blog de J.C. Victorio Uranga siempre nos depara material de gran
interés, en esta ocasión (entrada del 18 de junio) escribe “Sobre
el humanoide que se coló en una instalación militar” y lo
presenta así: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
pasado día 13 de mayo, DMAX emitió el documental "Ovnis y
militares", de la serie “Extraterrestres: están entre
nosotros”, presentado por el periodista Lorenzo Fernández Bueno.
En el mismo, se expuso un incidente espectacular ocurrido en el
interior de una base militar española</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">…
Muy bien documentado y revelador. </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Si
Woody Guthrie tocaba con una “guitarra mata fascistas”, el
instrumento que utiliza Victorio Uranga para enseñar a hacer
ufología racionalmente es su blog,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">que
n</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">o
es poco: </span></span></span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/sobre-el-humanoide-que-se-colo-en-una.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/sobre-el-humanoide-que-se-colo-en-una.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
El estudioso mejicano Daniel Galarza Santiago, licenciado
investigador </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">de
Filosofía en la Universidad de Guadalajara (Méjico), con
especialidad en filosofía de la ciencia, ha escrito una magnífica
reseña del libro “Extraterrestre”, de Avi Loeb, que recomiendo: </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://elescepticodejalisco.blogspot.com/2021/06/falta-de-humildad-o-extraterrestres-de.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://elescepticodejalisco.blogspot.com/2021/06/falta-de-humildad-o-extraterrestres-de.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
Registro público de la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) de
los EE.UU. de los informes de avistamientos de aeronaves no
tripuladas (UAS), de noviembre de 2014 a marzo de 2021: </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
La abducción de Travis Walton, ¿fue un fraude? Leer aquí: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/crew-chief-mike-rogers-confesses-travis.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/crew-chief-mike-rogers-confesses-travis.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-ufo-abduction-story.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-ufo-abduction-story.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3a9vjjf6"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3a9vjjf6</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/travis-walton.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/travis-walton.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog-how-many-dollars/evidence-and-hindsight"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog-how-many-dollars/evidence-and-hindsight</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
La visión de Ezequiel, vista como un mito. Hace 40 años, Marc
Hallet ya ponderó esta explicación en un artículo para la revista
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>La
revue des soucoupes volantes</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
de junio-julio de 1977, ver las páginas 19 a 24 aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/e6rw2h4a"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/e6rw2h4a</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Esclarecedora publicación de Jack Brewer sobre la falta de
transparencia en el medio ovni de Twitter: </span></span></span><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/ufo-disclosure-and-transparency-good.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/06/ufo-disclosure-and-transparency-good.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Epílogo a la Stars Academy:</span></span></span><a href="https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/ttsa-638f93173240" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/ttsa-638f93173240</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(8)
Todavía aparecen fotografías clásicas de ovnis con explicaciones
clásicas, esta vez en Devon, Inglaterra. Ahora, una vez más, fue la
Luna:</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMKd6xEo7E" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMKd6xEo7E</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Dos distinguidos investigadores franceses, Raoul Robé y Jean-Michel
Abrassart, han publicado un trabajo (en inglés) titulado
“Observaciones de humanoides en el Noreste de Francia”, que se
puede encontrar aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49586299/HUMANOID_SIGHTINGS_IN_THE_NORTH_EST_OF_FRANCE"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49586299/HUMANOID_SIGHTINGS_IN_THE_NORTH_EST_OF_FRANCE</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
Roswell no deja de aportar noticias, datos e informes. El pasado 8
de julio, el diario de Socorro (Nuevo Méjico) </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>El
Defensor Chieftain </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">publicó
un revelador artículo sobre el supuesto estrellamiento de 1947, que
incluye un dibujo de Jesse Marcel sobre los dibujos que presentaba el
objeto encontrado:</span></span></span><a href="https://dchieftain.com/the-roswell-incident-has-a-socorro-connection/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://dchieftain.com/the-roswell-incident-has-a-socorro-connection/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
artículo sostiene que la empresa que fabricó el tren de globos que
se tomó por un objeto extraterrestre llevaba la misma cinta adhesiva
decorada con caprichosos símbolos geométricos, idénticos a los que
recordaba Marcel, como muestra la siguiente ilustración. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xonfBnXmZSQ/YT-eFmFDiRI/AAAAAAAACtQ/48hKkQoI_H8fOGp9frEe8tdaQEDQgY62gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Roswell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1718" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xonfBnXmZSQ/YT-eFmFDiRI/AAAAAAAACtQ/48hKkQoI_H8fOGp9frEe8tdaQEDQgY62gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Roswell.jpg" width="268" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Jeroglíficos
Mogul.</div></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(11)
Betty y Barney Hill:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/betty--barney-hill.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/betty--barney-hill.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
La extraña abducción alienígena del oficial de policía Herbert
Schirmer:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/the-strange-alien-abduction-of-police-officer-herbert-schirmer/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/the-strange-alien-abduction-of-police-officer-herbert-schirmer/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(13)
Joel Achenback, “UFO Mania is Out of Control. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Please
Stop” (La manía de los ovnis está fuera de control. Por favor,
párenla”, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Washington
Post Magazine</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
11 de agosto de 2021, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/11/stop-ufo-mania-no-evidence-of-aliens/" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/11/stop-ufo-mania-no-evidence-of-aliens/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(14)
“Emulating aliens and UFO encounters in REM sleep” (Emulando
encuentros con ovnis y extraterrestres en el sueño REM), un ensayo
de Michael Raduga, Andrey Shashkov y Zhanna Zhunusova, del Phase
Research Center de Moscú, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>International
Journal of Dream Research</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. XX, No. X, 2021,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/265"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/265</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(15)
“Lucid dreaming incidence” (Incidencia del sueño lúcido), por
David T. Saunders, Chris A. Roe, Graham Smith y Helen Clegg,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Consciousness
and Cognition</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 43, julio de 2016, páginas 197-215, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016301283" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016301283</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(16)
Mick West, “UFOs: Beliefs, Conspiracies, and Aliens” (Ovnis,
creencias, conspiraciones y extraterrestres), </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Skeptical
Inquirer</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Vol. 45, Nº. 5, septiembre-octubre de 2021,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/08/ufos-beliefs-conspiracies-and-aliens/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/08/ufos-beliefs-conspiracies-and-aliens/</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>La
invención de los discos voladores</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Diego
Zúñiga, director de la editorial Coliseo Sentosa escribe: Queridos
fanáticos de la literatura ufológica, nos complace compartir con
ustedes la noticia del lanzamiento del libro del historiador
brasileño Rodolpho Gauthier Cardoso Dos Santos. Se trata de una
investigación que aborda la primera etapa del fenómeno ovni en el
gigante sudamericano, desde 1947 a 1958. Es una revisión acuciante
-y diríase que imprescindible- de un pedazo de la historia de la
ufología sudamericana, donde salen a la luz varios clásicos.
Kentaro Mori ha escrito un prólogo especialmente para esta edición,
que se suma a nuestro humilde -pero creciente- catálogo. E</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">l
libro está disponible en Amazon. Más detalles aquí:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://bit.ly/35NKi3i">https://bit.ly/35NKi3i</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Platillos
volantes antes de los ovnis y la ufología</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Trabajo
de 172 páginas de Marc Hallet (julio de 2020): </span></span></span><a href="https://ia801907.us.archive.org/30/items/marc-hallet/MarcHallet.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ia801907.us.archive.org/30/items/marc-hallet/MarcHallet.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Roswell:
Rencontre du premier mythe</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
Dr. Gilles Fernandez, psicólogo cognitivo francés que ha estudiado
el fenómeno ovni durante muchos años, publicó un trabajo magistral
en 2010 “Roswell: Encuentro del primer mito”, que ahora se puede
leer (en francés) en el siguiente enlace. Está muy documentado y
contiene mucha investigación original: </span></span><a href="https://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/dictionnaire/userfiles/file/Rencontre-Du-Premier-Mythe-Mise-en-Page-GF-SQ.pdf" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/dictionnaire/userfiles/file/Rencontre-Du-Premier-Mythe-Mise-en-Page-GF-SQ.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Informe
SIGMA-2 de 2021</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
2013, la comisión técnica SIGMA-2 recibió el mandato de 3AF (una
sociedad científica francesa en el campo de la aeronáutica y el
espacio) para estudiar lo que hoy llamamos UAP. El resumen de su
informe para 2021 (en inglés) se puede leer aquí:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=4375&fg=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=4375&fg=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
informe completo (en francés), se puede descargar al precio de 22
euros de este enlace: </span></span><a href="https://www.3af.fr/agenda/telecharger-rapport-d-avancement-2021-commission-technique-sigma2-2145" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.3af.fr/agenda/telecharger-rapport-d-avancement-2021-commission-technique-sigma2-2145</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>De
la experiencia a la </u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ciencia
(en francés)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Bajo
la dirección de Yann Vadnais, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>De
l’expérience à la science</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
es la edición francesa de un simposio internacional ovni que concitó
las colaboraciones de 20 expertos celebrado en Canadá en octubre de
2018 con la participación, además de representantes de algunas
organizaciones ovni, de (por orden alfabético) V.J. Ballester Olmos,
A. Bosman, F. Bouvin, M. Clelland, D. Donderi, T. Guillemette, D.A.
Haisell, I. Koi, Ch. Rutkowski, C. Svahn, P. Toselli, T. Tulien, M.
Wiroth y E. Zurcher. El libro tiene 600 páginas y está prologado
por Jacques Vallée, Garry Nolan y Federico Faggin, con un epílogo
de Bertrand Méheust. Publicado en agosto de 2021, su precio es de 85
dólares y se puede adquirir a través de: </span></span></span><a href="https://shop.garpan.ca/produit/de-lexperience-a-la-science-actes-de-colloque-600-p/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://shop.garpan.ca/produit/de-lexperience-a-la-science-actes-de-colloque-600-p/</span></span></span></a></p>
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contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Comentarios anteriores a la publicación del informe oficial UAP</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Reacciones oficiales tras la publicación del informe UAP</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
¿Para qué los informes oficiales? ¡Sigan filtrando!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
¿Necesita financiación? ¡Diga que investiga los UAPs!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Efectos indirectos del informe del Pentágono</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*
Hijos del </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>New
York Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
2017</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
Héroes o villanos</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">*
La foto de Calvine (Escocia) de 1990</span></span></span></p>
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Proyecto de digitalización del CUFOS 2021</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
El pasado 19 de agosto tuve el placer de recibir en Valencia al
investigador francés Didier Gómez, coleccionista de libros,
profundo conocedor del tema ovni, que ha sido durante más de 20 años
editor de una publicación seria como fue </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Tuvimos una muy agradable conversación, intercambio de conocimiento,
búsqueda de libros en alguna librería de segunda mano, así como un
par de cervezas en el inefable </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Café
de las horas</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Algunos artículos míos en la revista: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #1”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
57, diciembre de 2008, pp. 18-19,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2057.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2057.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #2”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
58, marzo de 2009, pp. 28,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2058.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2058.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #3”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
59, junio de 2009, pp. 28-30,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2059.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2059.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">
“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #4”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
61, diciembre de 2009, pp. 18-21,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2061.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2061.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #5”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
62, primavera de 2010, pp. 28-30,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2062.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2062.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">
“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Project
FOTOCAT France. Rapport de Situation #6”, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>UFOmania</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
63, 2010, pp. 28-30, </span></span></span></span></span><u style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2063.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2063.pdf</span></span></span></a></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
A veces, amigos me preguntan por mi extensa “productividad”
durante el verano (tan largo como de junio a septiembre, cosas de la
jubilación). Además de mi facilidad para la concentración en
cualquier lugar y la total complicidad familiar que disfruto es el
entorno lo que mayormente favorece mi desempeño. Es donde leo y
escribo, cuando no estoy sobre el portátil, e incluso con él. No
quiero dar envidia, pero la foto (¡gracias a Daniel por la
panorámica!) muestra lo que tengo a la vista desde la terraza de mi
chalet de La Eliana.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9t6yzErTq14/YT-eeo1767I/AAAAAAAACto/5LhzgyNwPOc1PwHgWz5-ebX-G9xSsXP6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2699/La%2BEliana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1165" data-original-width="2699" height="138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9t6yzErTq14/YT-eeo1767I/AAAAAAAACto/5LhzgyNwPOc1PwHgWz5-ebX-G9xSsXP6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/La%2BEliana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Agradecimientos</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la
presente edición del blog: Luis R. González (España), Juan Carlos
Victorio Uranga (España), Milton Hourcade (Uruguay), Diego Zúñiga
(Alemania), Brad Sparks (EE.UU.), Isaac Koi (Inglaterra), Salim
Sigales Montes (Méjico), Carlos Demaría (Argentina), Martin
Kottmeyer (EE.UU.), Björn Borg (Finlandia), Laurent Chabin
(Francia), Dave Thomas (EE.UU.), Dr. Ricardo Campo (España), Martin
Shough (Escocia), Manuel Carballal (España), Manuel Borraz (España),
Julio Plaza del Olmo (España) y Juan Pablo González (España). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h69/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></div>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/37jjp728"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/37jjp728</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/nhmpnnuj"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/nhmpnnuj</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3y3uftx4"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/3y3uftx4</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008 </span></span><u style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></span></a></u></div>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs
and Government</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012 </span></span></span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017 </span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
(con M. Borraz), 2020 </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-43767642068547731132021-06-15T00:00:00.013+02:002021-06-15T23:56:22.009+02:002021/JUNE/15 (EN)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English
language editing: Martin Shough</span></div>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.16cm; text-decoration: none;">
</h4>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;"><b>FOTOCAT
DATABASE STATUS</b></span></span></h4>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
total number of cases stored in the FOTOCAT databank amounts to
12,763. This project is committed to research one hundred percent:
those scholars who need information on cases that occurred in certain
years, periods, areas, countries, etc., or data and references on a
particular sighting, only have to ask for it.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
August 2020, Manuel Borraz and I published our report </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003_2007" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic _Evidence_2003_2007</span></span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rkbqGx9j2eQ/YMeV3Pe8Q5I/AAAAAAAACkU/eAgcc2lcu24I-EwC0438JpSV66Ef2_5bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Marfa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rkbqGx9j2eQ/YMeV3Pe8Q5I/AAAAAAAACkU/eAgcc2lcu24I-EwC0438JpSV66Ef2_5bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Marfa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">It
was a thorough study based on a series of photographs of “Marfa
lights” taken by James Bunnell that he kindly ceded to us during
the one-year-plus that our study lasted. We maintained a regular and
close communication with him to this purpose, including the receipt
of data pertaining to his on-site investigation, photographs, videos
and calculations. When it was finished, we delivered a copy to Mr.
Bunnell and agreed to include a “rebuttal” chapter written by him
in the forthcoming publication. Of course, we commented upon his
comments.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Now,
Mr. Bunnell has used his privilege to publish a “Defense of the
Marfa Lights”: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49097748/BB_FINAL_June_1_2021_PDF_for_Print_Book_IN_DEFENSE_OF_THE_MARFA_LIGHTS" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49097748/BB_FINAL_June_1_2021_PDF_for_Print_Book _IN_DEFENSE_OF_THE_MARFA_LIGHTS</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Both
works speak for themselves, and we leave the reader to be the final
judge; however we have just one important remark to make: our
research report was released </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>gratis
et amore </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">through
Academia.edu. For lovers of books on paper, exactly the very same
online text became a printed book released by
UPIAR:</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
prior agreement with the publisher, this book (as well as other,
previous books I have published with UPIAR) does </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>not</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
generate any royalties to the authors. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mr.
Bunnell did a great field work to document those
apparently-mysterious local lights. We acknowledged that repeatedly
in our study. He simply erred in his conclusions and we exposed it.
But there is no excuse either for using character assassination on us
or, what is worse, attempting to censor our publication. We invite
readers to compare both works and decide by themselves about the
value and accuracy of the different findings.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Descent
at Calumet (</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By
V.J. Ballester Olmos and L.E. Pacheco)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Until
recently we only knew that Calumet was the title of a splendid 1973
country music album by American singer-songwriter Lobo (Roland Kent
LaVoie). Just geographical ignorance. Things changed when our
collaborator Kay Coggin sent us a clipping with the following
headline:</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“Wierd
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>(sic)
</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Looking
Apparatus Falls on Calumet Farm.” That is how </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Sheboyhan </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(Wis.)
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Press</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">en</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">titled
a picture across three columns in the edition of Thursday, June 18,
1953. And, yes, it was a weird contraption that came down by
parachute from the sky at about 10 a.m. over Clayton Miller farm,
Calumet, five miles north of Chilton, Wisconsin, according to the
Miller children. The following photograph by E.H. Schabach shows the
landed object surrounded (from left to right) by John and Clayton
Miller, Sheriff Cornelius Kosmunsky of Calumet County, and Tom
Miller.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1NqeF-JOzrQ/YMeWeNTkR8I/AAAAAAAACkc/ZRh7-DdWbV0mGVdIbTDr8wLzRpU2ERsaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s371/Calumet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="371" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1NqeF-JOzrQ/YMeWeNTkR8I/AAAAAAAACkc/ZRh7-DdWbV0mGVdIbTDr8wLzRpU2ERsaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Calumet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">Not
a flying saucer from Mars, certainly, as a tag on the equipment
revealed it was a joint property of the US Navy and the University of
Minnesota. The found object was a sounding balloon, but not a
typical weather balloon of the “rawin” type, the </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">multi-triangular
radar target (corner reflector) used</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">
to estimate wind speed and directions, that hangs from a simple
balloon.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AdKa2EY1bKs/YMeWlNjhDkI/AAAAAAAACkg/WGDuarM0Mw08fRhdWtasNt3Rs6UFp_TQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s418/rawin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="303" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AdKa2EY1bKs/YMeWlNjhDkI/AAAAAAAACkg/WGDuarM0Mw08fRhdWtasNt3Rs6UFp_TQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/rawin.jpg" /></a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Rawin
balloon. Image borrowed from </span></span></span><a href="https://www.tekportal.net/rawin/"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">https://www.tekportal.net/rawin/</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Because
the shape and structure of the fallen gadget was strange, and the
fact that not only the US Navy was involved but also a university, it
pointed to an important, probably secret research in progress. The
StratoCat site</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
a salient repository of information on international balloon launches
and flights, provides clues as to the nature of this curiosity. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">At
that time, the US Navy had a contract with the University of
Minnesota to carry out a very detailed and extensive study aimed at
improving the capabilities of the state-of-the-art balloons. The
study was titled "Research and Development in the Field of High
Altitude Plastic Balloons" and its nature was confidential at
the time. A few years later the secrecy was lifted and 15 volumes
including all collected data and experimental results were published
(</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">~</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">3,500
pages of highly technical and mathematical work). It was one of the
most complete studies in this area of investigation and many of the
advances that were incorporated into this research activity over the
years were born from that research.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
have graphical documentation from one such experiment, that of flight
079, showing the moment of launch and the set of measurement gear in
the laboratory prior to being launched. </span></span>
</span></p>
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we checked the contents of some of the 15 research reports issued</span></span><sup style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">,
we realized how secret military research was categorically very
superior to the scientific common knowledge of the epoch. We can only
guess what present-day engineers and scientists are operating in
fields like aeronautics and astronautics in classified programs.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
its time (1951-1956), the project in question was confidential. In
fact, many of the advances derived from that study would be directly
applied to the next secret program of espionage with balloons,
GENETRIX.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
project’s balloons were launched from</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">the
old airport belonging to the University of Minnesota located north of
New Brighton in the Twin Cities area (Minneapolis-Saint Paul) which
was the neural point of the research effort between General Mills,
the University, and the Navy. We have created a detailed history and
partial flight record for this facility.</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
At the time, the area was sort of a Helium Cape Canaveral, as most
balloon manufacturing firms were based there and many balloon launch
sites were spread across the plains, especially in the states of
South Dakota and Minnesota.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Finally,
there were thousands of balloon flights between 1947 and 1970
starting from that launch site, and considering the distances
traveled of hundreds of miles until recovery, can you imagine how
many flying saucer sighting reports those upper atmosphere devices
would have generated during their trips? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notes</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
Luis E. Pacheco, StratoCat - History and present of the use of
stratospheric balloons in the fields of science, military and
aerospace: </span></span></span><a href="http://stratocat.com.ar/"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">http://stratocat.com.ar/</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
See research report XV:</span></span></span><a href="https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/AD222451.xhtml" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/AD222451.xhtml</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><a href="http://stratocat.com.ar/bases/44e.htm"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">http://stratocat.com.ar/bases/44e.htm</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk73215400"></a>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Paris, Kentucky,
1949</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">By
1952, probably the best collection of flying saucer photographs was
that published in the book by Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, “The
Coming of the Saucers”. One of these (page 176) barely contained
this brief information: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
picture below reproduced from the Nicholas County Star (Carlisle,
Ky.), because the films were picked up by the War Department and
never returned, was taken by Mrs. Paul Brannon of Paris, Ky. on
January 16, 1949. Not visible in the photo, is the “small, black
walnut shaped object” which made the trail. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
picture reproduced badly in print, as we can see next:</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p79OIScAcRY/YMeYUtlLY0I/AAAAAAAAClE/hxvSdRHMSXUp5bKprtNjB5qipr6ojULEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/1949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="2000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p79OIScAcRY/YMeYUtlLY0I/AAAAAAAAClE/hxvSdRHMSXUp5bKprtNjB5qipr6ojULEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1949.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">No
one else paid any further attention to the snapshot. Surely for a
good reason. New York’s Civilian Saucer Intelligence UFO group
opened card #519 to this case, with the handwriting of Isabel Davis,
just making reference to the information in “A.P.” book. The
closest we could come to a contemporary Kentucky press source is </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Lexington Herald</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
of Tuesday, January 18, 1949, which released the picture on its front
page, “Thing in Sky Shows Up in Photograph,” with the following
caption: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
“thing in the sky” that Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brannon of Paris and
others saw Sunday afternoon over Bourbon County is shown here in a
snapshot. The picture was taken by Mrs. Brannon a few minutes after
they first observed the object streaking out from behind the small
cloud at the right. W.V. Saunders, who lives eight miles from
Lexington on the Richmond road, said yesterday he saw a small plane,
emitting smoke, going toward Winchester about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. He
said the fiery-colored smoke trail remained visible several minutes.
The Brannons, however, said it didn’t look like a plane and they
couldn’t hear it. (The two parallel dark lines in the lower part of
picture are telephone wires). </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
my opinion, the image clearly shows a condensation trail, as
confirmed by that Mr. Saunders. Absence of sound is not a problem, as
it may be due to wind and other causes.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cwcp5ar_Ok/YMeYZkXRFqI/AAAAAAAAClI/kxnjO_-KJbw7Oz1BzG3k2z2AWiyhsyr4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s517/1949mejorada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="517" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cwcp5ar_Ok/YMeYZkXRFqI/AAAAAAAAClI/kxnjO_-KJbw7Oz1BzG3k2z2AWiyhsyr4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1949mejorada.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Consulting
the USAF Blue Book archives we find an entry for this date in the
monthly indices. According to this synopsis, a [Mrs.] Brannon took
photos, qualified as </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Negative
Defect</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
with two other persons, Isgrid and White, named as additional
eyewitnesses, but the visual sighting was qualified as a </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Hoax</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzyDxUmcYmY/YMeYfNWeGTI/AAAAAAAAClM/wy7sI1fh6wcQI4CrjcPS5G1UlraOK4uMACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1804" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzyDxUmcYmY/YMeYfNWeGTI/AAAAAAAAClM/wy7sI1fh6wcQI4CrjcPS5G1UlraOK4uMACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BB.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Project
Blue Book records contain 26 pages of documents on this event (see
from here onwards: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6791684"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.fold3.com/image/6791684</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
Called Project Sign from 1947 to 1949 (to be named Project Grudge
1949-1951, and finally Blue Book since 1952 to 1969), Colonel W.R.
Clingerman, chief, Technical Intelligence Division, Air Material
Command (AMC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, ordered
an investigation as early as January 17, 1949 to Major Farrell of the
5</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
District Office of Special Investigation (OSI), Wright-Patterson AFB.
As a guide, the template for data collection used was a simple form
known as “Essential Elements of Information”.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Independently,
already on January 24, Lt. Col. R.D. Albro, acting director of the US
Army Intelligence Division, submitted an agent’s report on this
“unexplained moving object in the sky” to the Director of
Intelligence of the US Army (not included in this array of
documents). The communication’s subject being Unconventional
Aircraft. This action was prompted, the document reveals, by the
Department of the Army “letter CSGID 452.1, dated 1 November 1948”
on Unconventional Aircraft. It seems evident that by then both the US
Armed Forces’ intelligence services were genuinely interested in
finding out what was behind the reported flying discs. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Field
investigation by OSI was carried out by Special Agent Arthur Litton
in the period January 26 through February 6 and it ended in a report
prepared on February 15, 1949 and sent on the following day to the
Commanding General, Air Material Command by Colonel H.B. Gibson, 5</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
District Commander, “for your information and any action deemed
necessary.” The OSI inquiry‒status: CLOSED‒was preceded with
this abstract: </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
investigation was requested by Captain B. Sneider, Technical
Intelligence Division, HQ AMC, whose section is charged with the
investigation of unidentified aerial objects. At 1630 hours on 16
January 1949, Mr. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[redacted-Paul
Brannon] </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
Paris, Kentucky, saw a walnut shaped object emerging from behind a
cloud, which object remained in sight for less than a minute, A “tube
o light” remaining behind the object was photographed by Mrs.
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[redacted-Brannon]</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
wife of Mr. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[redacted-Brannon]</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
Also at 1630 hours on 16 January 1949, Mr. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[redacted-White]
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
Paris, Kentucky, noted a vapor streak building up for approximately 3
minutes, and which appeared to be climbing. At 1630 hours on 16
January 1949, a Mr. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">[redacted-Isgrid]
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
Paris, Kentucky, also saw a vapor trail, the source of which was not
visible from the ground. </i></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCA7yft0TiA/YMeYknnRFOI/AAAAAAAAClU/m4TU5ZgIAcc8iQrMsTqHR3t77DfELtr3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/document.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1264" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCA7yft0TiA/YMeYknnRFOI/AAAAAAAAClU/m4TU5ZgIAcc8iQrMsTqHR3t77DfELtr3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/document.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
OSI investigation consisted in interviews of three main people, Mr.
Brannon, Mr. Isgrid, the manager of the Paris airport, and Mr. White,
manager of a jewelry store. Weather checks at Louisville and
Lexington and for the State of Kentucky were also made Four
photographs were made by Mrs. Irene Brannon, while in a car three
miles northeast of Paris proceeding to the city with her husband Paul
Brannon and her niece (Miss Elizabeth Fritz). The last photo was
published in the </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Nicholas
County Star</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
and the </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kentuckian-Citizen</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
of which Mr. Paul Brannon was the publisher. He declared that the
object’s. course was “steady and as though some object on an
outward sweeping arc and had crossed his field of vision at a great
distance from the earth.” He was described in the OSI report “to
be above average in intelligence and of sound character. Due to
harassing by friends and fellow newsmen, Mr. Brannon has assumed a
slightly belligerent attitude with respect to his sighting…he knows
what he saw and has not been convinced by any explanation to date.”
The interrogator wrote this comment in his notes: “Informant has a
local reputation as a publicity bound,” which would
substantiate‒albeit completely undeserved‒the “hoax”
valuation added by hand in the Project Sign summary card. In the same
tone, the manuscript addition “tear in the negative” besides
Photo is totally absurd.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
testimony from Mr. Isgrid, who was at the Paris airport, two miles
north of the city, describes a vapor trail (source undetermined) from
three to five minutes from horizon to horizon at a speed “greater
than gas-propelled aircraft”, at 50º elevation and 25,000 to
30,000 feet of altitude, with a steady flight. “Believed jet due to
speed in traversing horizon to horizon,” the report includes in the
question regarding Propulsion. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
third interviewed witness, probably named White, noted a vapor streak
building up, it was “forming in a manner similar to that used in
sky writing,” over 15,000 feet at 70º from the horizon. As a
paratrooper in the European Theater, he had seen numerous such vapor
streaks during his period of service and “had given the sight no
further consideration.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
OSI report included a short section titled “Possible Explanation”
by US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) agent Charles J.
Fletcher, gleaned from various newspaper clippings. Three persons,
including the Mr. Saunders cited above, observed the phenomenon at
the same time and gave these testimonies: “unquestionably a very
high flying aircraft with concomitant vapor trail”, “a small
plane emitting smoke”, and “a plane flying at a high altitude.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
fact that the case summary card presents this “vapor trail”
observation with “tear in the negative” as the best description
of the photo, seconded by “Other (Hoax)” as the best explanation
of the eyewitness reports is completely unfair. The target is no
doubt an aircraft, a jet plane and nothing else. In fact, scientific
advisor Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s evaluation in the case list of Project
Grudge Report adds this incident (#237) in category (2)
Non-astronomical but suggestive of other explanations, subcategory
(2a) Balloons or ordinary aircraft: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project_GRUDGE_Report_1949" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project_GRUDGE_Report_1949</span></span></span></a></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As the persistence of the vapor train was 15 minutes, Hynek comments:
“…the gist of the report seems to indicate that only the trail
[not the object itself] was visible for any length of time. In that
case, it should have been either the trail from a meteor or the vapor
trail from an aircraft…Other observers…indicated that the object
was a high flying plane with a vapor trail.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">As
for the statement in the Arnold-Palmer booklet that photos were
requested by the War Department and never returned, all that is found
in the Blue Book file is a final letter from Colonel Clingerman,
dated February 23, 1949, addressed to Major Farrell of OSI requesting
that “the original negatives…of the unidentified aerial
phenomenon photographed by Mrs. [redacted-Brannon], as noted in
referenced report, be obtained </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>on
a loan basis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
[my emphasis] for further study and evaluation by this Headquarters.”
Any further documentation thread is lost, so there is no way to
confirm that negatives were not returned to the owners. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
case has no direct value as far as a potential UFO phenomenon is
concerned, but I feel it is worth making it known from an historical
perspective. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Latest
Scientific Study of the “Tic-Tac” US DoD Video </u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
Spanish physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo has just published a study of
the well-known UAP “Tic Tac” video released in 2020 by the US Navy
and taken November 14, 2004 at </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">~</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">110
miles SSW off San Diego, California, from a F-18 fighter (aircraft
pilot, Chad Underwood), detached from the USS Nimitz Carrier. The
analysis’ abstract reads:</span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>In
2020, the Pentagon released three videos taken from F-18 fighters.
These three videos have been named as FLIR1, GIMBAL and Go Fast.
FLIR1 video was taken in 2004 during training exercises near San
Diego (CA). It was recorded after some pilots reported the sighting
an UFO/UAP, which was later known as “tic tac” due to its shape,
and that allegedly showed extraordinary movements, speeds and
accelerations. However those movements cannot be appreciated in the
video. An analysis on this video was done by the Scientific
Coalition for Ufology (SCU), and served as the basis for a later
publication in the journal Entropy, by Knuth et al. The analysis
calculates a high acceleration of the UAP in the last frames of the
video, assuming the UAP starts from rest respect to the fighter. The
present work proposes a simple model based on the assumption that the
UAP is moving in a straight line with constant speed and heading. The
values obtained are within the normal operation of known aircrafts. </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US">See
the paper here: </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/45588364/The_FLIR1_video</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Mr.
Plaza del Olmo had already studied another of the US Navy videos, the
“Go Fast” (January 21, 2015, off the coast of Florida) acquired
from an F-18 aircraft of the USS Roosevelt Carrier Group, along the
COMPTUEX military maneuvers. On this occasion, the flying object
captured was identified as a probable balloon. The paper (in Spanish)
appears at:</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44249873/Go_Fast_El_vídeo_del_Pentágono" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/44249873/Go_Fast_El_v%C3%ADdeo_del_Pent%C3%A1gono</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Incidentally,
someone should tell the editors of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Daily
Grail</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
that Mick West is not alone in finding conventional origins to the
images from the US Navy videos:</span></span></span><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/03/forcing-a-saucer-peg-in-a-pentagon-hole-luis-elizondo-talks-to-mick-west-about-ufos-and-the-aatip-program/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dailygrail.com/2021/03/forcing-a-saucer-peg-in-a-pentagon-hole-luis-elizondo-talks-to-mick-west-about-ufos-and-the-aatip-program/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Awaiting
for the US Navy UAP Report</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
eyes of the world’s ufological community are expectant. In August
2020, the US Department of Defense announced the creation of a
working unit to study UAP reports (</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/vwa3vzcd"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">https://tinyurl.com/vwa3vzcd</span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
But earlier in June, the US Senate had passed the Bill to the
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which imposed on
the Director of National Intelligence the requirement to submit a
report within 180 days to the congressional committees on
unidentified aerial phenomena. This report will review and analyze
the UAP information collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence.
The 6-month period started as soon as the Act was enacted, that is,
January 1, 2021, therefore, if there are no delays, the 21</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">st
</span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">century
Condon Report must see the light not later than July 1, 2021 (it is
rumored on June 25). In the meantime, the situation is being
preheated with a number of recent leaks of Navy UFO photo and video
releases to avid media:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-do-we-know-about-4-march-2019-us.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-do-we-know-about-4-march-2019-us.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-navy-ufo-photos-party-balloons.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-navy-ufo-photos-party-balloons.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://parallaxuap.blogspot.com/2021/01/multiple-uavs-around-ship-investigating.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://parallaxuap.blogspot.com/2021/01/multiple-uavs-around-ship-investigating.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUnZeeoNMtM/YMeY-7JPEiI/AAAAAAAAClk/FmwVbDxmQLEujxVU_3ogZZXGMqwimmPgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1360/UAP%2Bpyramid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IUnZeeoNMtM/YMeY-7JPEiI/AAAAAAAAClk/FmwVbDxmQLEujxVU_3ogZZXGMqwimmPgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAP%2Bpyramid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">The
common denominator of this new information is its poor quality and
easy identification of the visible targets, according to the sharpest
UFO commentators:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sphere-acorn-metallic-blimp-three-iphone-photos-from-an-f-18-via-mystery-wire.11692/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sphere-acorn-metallic-blimp-three-iphone-photos-from-an-f-18-via-mystery-wire.11692/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-vision-footage-maybe-bokeh.11695/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-vision-footage-maybe-bokeh.11695/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/04/corbell-asserts-but-fails-to-report-how.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/04/corbell-asserts-but-fails-to-report-how.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-latest-navy-uap-video.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-latest-navy-uap-video.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4Xxqd450w"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4Xxqd450w</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-navys-triangle-bokeh-ufo-video.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-navys-triangle-bokeh-ufo-video.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">; </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-kidd-and-other-ships-drones-encounter-2019.11681/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-kidd-and-other-ships-drones-encounter-2019.11681/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Amidst
this inflation of official-provenance UFO evidence, an important item from Tyler Rogoway of </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
War Zone</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
is worth mentioning. It is a very insightful and comprehensive
article published in the April 15, 2021 issue, one that I advise
everyone to read carefully, especially with a view on the forthcoming
“UAP” report to be delivered by the US Navy:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">If
the expected UAP official rapport was not enough to raise public’s
anxiety, on May 3, 2021, the Department of Defense’s Office of the
Inspector General released an announcement on an “Evaluation of the
DoD’s Actions Regarding the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (Project
No. D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000)”. The terms of the evaluation have been
officially described as follows: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
plan to begin the subject evaluation in May 2021. The objective of
this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the DoD has taken
actions regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). We may revise
the objective as the evaluation proceeds, and we will consider
suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives. We
will perform the evaluation at the Offices of the Secretary of
Defense, Military Services, Combatant Commands, Combat Support
Agencies, Defense Agencies, and the Military Criminal Investigative
Organizations. We may identify additional locations during the
evaluation. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">See:</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/2594693/project-announcement-evaluation-of-the-dods-actions-regarding-the-unidentified/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/2594693/project-announcement-evaluation-of-the-dods-actions-regarding-the-unidentified/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
included a redacted attachment with the communication and
distribution of the information collection process. No deadline for
the report has been issued. </span></span></span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/04/2002633947/-1/-1/1/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/04/2002633947/-1/-1/1/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">The
memorandum requested recipients to provide a point of contact for the
evaluation within five days. It is sort of an internal control
procedure on all the US Defense organization concerning UFOs/UAPs.</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
The magnitude and scope of the list of recipients, combined with the
US Navy UAP Task Force report (scheduled not later than July 1,
2021), ensures that any piece of known UAP information will certainly
emerge</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
will equate to the long-awaited and never coming UFO Disclosure UFO
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>aficionados</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
have been dreaming of for decades.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">It
is very good to happen because it will show that except vague and
ambiguous images on screens, nothing extraordinary has been hidden
(by the over-protective, badly-understood dome of national security
secrecy). When materials come to light, I can imagine a big explosion
of initial excitement and sense of achievement, one that sooner or
later will be replaced by frustration, once more, when it is realized
that none of that "evidence" links the incidents to
extraterrestrial life.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">We
can honestly ask ourselves why we have arrived at the situation we
are in. Why and how we are in this state of affairs, close to UFO/UAP
hysteria. We need historical, detailed, unbiased perspective and
probably the most significantly clear dissection of this has just
been presented by Jason Colavito on May 21 in </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Soapbox</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.
It is a must-read. About what UAP proponents are achieving, he
pronounces: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>It’s
bad science and dangerous as government policy, the kind of magical
thinking that leads to lunacy and disaster. </i></span></span></span><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Unlike
years ago, UFOs arise public interest today (i.e., the subject sells
again) but the press seeks for authoritative opinions. On May 30, The
New York Times has published an essay by Dr. Adam Frank, a
distinguished astrophysicist who was awarded a NASA grant to look for
life in the universe. Frank defends the necessity of a UFO study, but
also critically weighs the evidence. In his article “I’m a
Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me,” he
affirms: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
understand that U.F.O. sightings, which date back at least to 1947,
are synonymous in the popular imagination with evidence of
extraterrestrials. But scientifically speaking, there is little to
warrant that connection. There are excellent reasons to search for
extraterrestrial life, but there are equally excellent reasons not to
conclude that we have found evidence of it with U.F.O. sightings. </i></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ufo-sightings-report.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ufo-sightings-report.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">What
about the day after the Navy Task Force report: there is going to be
a wacky outbreak of UFO dope in the media (“the US Government has
proof of the existence of UFOs”), of UFO sightings (the first wave
of the 21 century?), and overnight UFO experts will mushroom
pontificating this and that. Every single business activity even
distantly related to the topic that may profit from promoting UAPs
will ante up its cards. Ufologists will position themselves in public
to take advantage of the wake: I already told you! Believers will
make their day. The bulky material exhibited will look awesome but
the wording will be prudent. The United States of America cannot
pronounce to the world that aliens have nothing better to do than
prying over its tactical exercises. Will a new official UFO study be
established? Not impossible: </span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Panem
et circenses</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
it has always worked.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As
a matter of fact, Press is anticipating what will or will not be
contained in the report everybody is looking forward. On June 3,
2021, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
New York Times’</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Jennifer Jett </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wrote:
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What
will the report say? It may not say much. According to the provision
in the appropriations package, the report should include a detailed
analysis of U.F.O. data held by the task force and other government
bodies. The report is also supposed to flag any unidentified aerial
phenomena that could be considered threats to national security,
including whether they “may be attributed to one or more foreign
adversaries.” In addition, it must provide “a detailed
description of an interagency process” for collecting and analyzing
U.F.O. reports in the future, as well as recommendations for
improving and funding data collection and research. Although the
report is to be made public, it may also come with a classified
annex. </span></i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is
UFO research again to be officially funded? It would be nothing
extraordinary. Do not forget that the CIA and the DIA financed
parapsychological investigation (remote viewing) for many years</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span></b>
</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">through
the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Always
well-informed </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New
York Times</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
contributed another journalistic piece on June 3 by Julian E.
Barnes and Helene Cooper, sensationally entitled “U.S. Finds No
Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It
Out, Either“. We can quote these significant paragraphs: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American
intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena
witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but
they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified
scientists and the military, according to senior administration
officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government
report. The report determines that the vast majority of more than 120
incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any
American military or other advanced U.S. government technology…But
that is about the only conclusive finding in the classified
intelligence report </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[an
unclassified version is expected to be released on June 25]</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">…senior
officials briefed conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings
meant that the government could not definitively rule out theories
that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien
spacecraft…Many of the more than 120 incidents examined in the
report are from Navy personnel, officials said. The report also
examined incidents involving foreign militaries over the last two
decades. Intelligence officials believe at least some of the aerial
phenomena could have been experimental technology from a rival power,
most likely Russia or China. </span></i></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html?referringSource=articleShare" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html?referringSource=articleShare</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
key question is: what kind of expert studies have been performed on
those videos and incidents</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, that
they have been unable to explain those “mystifying movements,”
when unfunded, single</span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-handed
civilian investigators have </span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">solved
them in a conventional manner? I only hope this report is not based
on the Elizondo/Bigelow’s AATIP works but on independent, unbiased
investigation. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Incidentally, former DoD employee Luis Elizondo is,
like everything that surrounds the AAWSAP/AATIP UAP Pentagon study, far from
clear, and his persona has been questioned or disputed. A web site entry posted last May 27 by well-informed John
Greenewald of The Black Vault, under the title “Pentagon: Emails Deleted,”
said: “Elizondo’s journey of stepping into a global spotlight would not come
without many challenges for him to overcome.” See more here: <a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-destroyed-e-mails-of-former-intelligence-official-tied-to-ufo-investigation-claims/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-destroyed-e-mails-of-former-intelligence-official-tied-to-ufo-investigation-claims/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I wonder if we are not creating a storm in a teacup
with all this. And unnecessarily magnifying a figure, when we should concentrate on data, case
reports, and sighting analyses, which is what we expect to see in the
forthcoming DoD UAP report due late this month. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This
palace of mirrors allows all type of views. Not vain that of Dr.
David Clarke, close to Britain’s official UFO declassification, who
suggests that the final report will guide the public into looking for
aliens to hide the details of hypersonic drone technology developed
by the US and its rival powers, in </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Daily Star</span></i></span></span></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: #202122;">
piece “Pentagon UFO report 'may be cover for hypersonic weapon
Cold War' between US and China,”</span> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pentagon-ufo-report-may-cover-24251095" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pentagon-ufo-report-may-cover-24251095</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">The
wake of interest in UAPs runs like gunpowder, now China says they
also have its own task force to investigate “unidentified air
conditions”, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">On
the other hand, NASA’s Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN's Rachel
Crane that he has begun an investigation into recent UFO sightings.
Evidently, the bait is cast in search of a new source of financing,
do whatever has to be done. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/06/04/ufo-nasa-navy-pilots-bill-nelson-chief-investigation-pentagon-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/top-news-videos/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/06/04/ufo-nasa-navy-pilots-bill-nelson-chief-investigation-pentagon-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/top-news-videos/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even the prestigious <i>Scientific American</i> has
seen fit to enter into the crusade of opinions with the article by Leonard
David just last week, "Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report," <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
are living a quite exciting time these days. Amidst the pandemic, the
UAP Disclosure! Will the entire world be able to endure all this? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notes</span></u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
A </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Politico</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">
exclusive by Bryan Bender, posted on May 26, 2021, relates this
evaluation to a 64-page complaint filed to the Inspector General on
the same day as the IG announcement by the ex-intelligence official
of Hispanic name Luis Elizondo, asserting that Pentagon officials
have set up a “campaign” to discredit him. Watch out for the
coming celebrity circus! </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/ufo-whistleblower-ig-complaint-pentagon-491098" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/ufo-whistleblower-ig-complaint-pentagon-491098</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">By the way,
the same newsman wrote another piece of the recent developments in
the UAP arena on a May 28 new post in </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Politico</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Jacques Vallée, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Forbidden
Science 3. On the Trail of Hidden Truths</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Anomalist Books (San Antonio, Texas), 2017, pages 136, 168, 310,
among many others.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">60
Minutes” Analyzed</span></span></span></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On
Sunday, May 16, 2021, the “60 Minutes” television broadcast,
conducted by Bill Whitaker, was dedicated to UAP investigation, with
the fashionable faces and events of the moment. I feel sorry to
reduce expectations, discourage or pour a cold shower on you dear
reader, but the crude reality is other than what viewers watched.
They are attempting to build a new history, forgetting that this
phenomenon is more than 70 years old, firstly named flying saucers,
then unidentified flying objects (UFOs), now unidentified aerial
phenomena (UAPs), </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">and
that no non-circumstantial evidence has ever been found. Now, based
on a ha</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ndful
of poorly-documented and unimpressive images‒but coming out from
the Pentagon! [excitement emoticon here, please]‒, the intervention
of several politicians (with unclear agendas) and Intelligence guys
(here, Intelligence is not necessarily synonymous with cleverness),
millionaire entrepreneurs, all sharing a definite mania with alien
UFOs, achieved, firstly black budget money, secondly secrecy, thirdly
a covert think tank for wild theories, and finally a commitment for
the US Department of Defense to deliver a report on existing UAP
reports in the American military organization. If you want and need
to have a non-biased information, please pay attention to the
rigorous dissection of the TV segment done my Mick West here: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/did-us-government-say-ufos-are-real-an-analysis-of-60-minutes-investigation" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/did-us-government-say-ufos-are-real-an-analysis-of-60-minutes-investigation</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Incidentally,
I wish to quote the words by ex-President Barack Obama in the James
Corden Show on May 17, 2021, when asked about UFOs. He said: “What
is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that …there’s
footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know
exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved their
trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern, and so I
think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and
figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today!”
It is exactly what someone would say having seen the Tic-Tac, Flir1
and Gimbal UAP videos…in the absence of due analysis. US Armed
Forces have been negligent in not studying in depth those images, as
civilian skeptic investigators have done. Probably the same will
apply to most sighting “evidence” to appear in the forthcoming
UAP Navy report. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The
Penultimate Leak from the US Navy</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Jeremy
Corbell is an “investigative” filmmaker. Not a scientist. Not a
member of a University or Corporation. Just another civilian with a
hang up with alien UFOs (sorry, UAPs, the term in vogue these days),
but one who is privileged to receive leaks from the Pentagon or the
US Navy. (Incidentally, it makes me wonder about the criteria used
today by the US military in leaking UFO information, not only as far
as the receivers are concerned but‒notably‒on the quality and
evidential value of this). Anyway, the case is that a video captured
on July 15-16, 2019 by a Navy aircraft and recorded in the USS
Omaha’s Combat Information Center, has been revealed to Corbell,
who has immediately exploited it through the media and caused a
terrible stir in the US online press. According to Corbell, it shows
a “transmedium spherical vehicle of approximately six feet
diameter” (</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>sic</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).
What kind of object it is we do not know, but as soon as complete
information data are available to a number of eager analysts, results
will surely freeze certain smiles. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">US
researcher Brad Sparks, an engineer-analyst of note, experienced in
technically dissecting UFO sightings, a skeptically-inclined UFO
researcher (but not a UFO debunker, he adds) has written some
comments on this new video in one important online UFO forum in the
United States. He has been kind enough to let me reproduce his
remarks here. First, check this selection of outlets containing the
breaking news: </span></span><span style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/554148-leaked-us-navy-video-shows-ufo-flying-in-california"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/554148-leaked-us-navy-video-shows-ufo-flying-in-california</span></span></span></a>; </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyCorbell/status/1393281339525255168" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://twitter.com/JeremyCorbell/status/1393281339525255168</span></span></span></a><span style="text-align: left;">; <br /></span><a href="https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-spherical-ufos" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-spherical-ufos</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>This
video was allegedly part of the May 1, 2020, UAP Task Force
intelligence briefing according to Corbell. Corbell has a mixed
reputation due to his support and promotion of ex-felon UFO hoaxer
Lazar. The Lat-Longitude in the occasionally seen data panel is
around 32 29.15 N, 119 20.2 to 21.5 W (rounded off) (Corbell misreads
these as DEG MIN SEC but clearly it is DEG MIN.000 decimal minutes
such as 32 29.147 at one point, etc.), which would be about 122 miles
west off the coast from San Diego, and to the SW of San Clemente
Island (55 miles) and Santa Catalina Island (75 miles). Date stamp is
July 16, 2019. Time-stamps show these are 60 seconds total of two
clips 7 minutes apart, starting at 0552:52 Z (thus 10:52:52 pm PDT
Daylight Time July 15, contrary to Corbell who says </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">“</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>11pm
PST"; it would be 9:52 pm PST). Then "splash" at
0600:12 Z (11:00:12 pm PDT -- not PST). NBC says "night."
Contrary to The Independent and NBC, NBC paraphrases Jeremy Corbell
saying this was taken from a Navy aircraft -- not a ship -- then
entered into the ship USS Omaha's Combat Info Center.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aDL4mW7J2EI/YMeZZxPYuwI/AAAAAAAACls/hEuWmOHY_28iivE1fYjHLYEg9LO6e5AYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1104/UAP%2Besf%25C3%25A9rico.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1104" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aDL4mW7J2EI/YMeZZxPYuwI/AAAAAAAACls/hEuWmOHY_28iivE1fYjHLYEg9LO6e5AYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAP%2Besf%25C3%25A9rico.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">The
submersible UAP. Image borrowed from
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-spherical-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-spherical-ufos</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">An
initial, civilian discussion of the images can be found at Mick
West’s Metabunk site, “USS Omaha "Transmedium" Sphere
Descending To the Sea,” where a preliminary evaluation reads as
follows: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>It
looks like FLIR in black hot. Shows a spherical object drifting very
slowly to the ocean. It seems to bot a little, and then vanish. To me
this seems consistent with a (#1) weather or other scientific
balloon, with a suspended payload. When the payload hits the ocean
that will make it bob around a bit, then the high winds (audio says
gusts of 40 knots) will rip the balloon, causing it to burst and
sink. It hard to say though. It's possible it could be a (#2) heat
source, like a flare, that appears larger due to glare. </i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">So
at the beginning of the inspection of a footage taken from a screen
from a cellular phone, conventional solutions are already proposed.
Is it the kind of evidence we are going to find in the DoD UAP
report?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-omaha-transmedium-sphere-descending-to-the-sea.11711/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-omaha-transmedium-sphere-descending-to-the-sea.11711/</span></span></span></a>; </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfiJqUHDg0&t=16s" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfiJqUHDg0&t=16s</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>More
Archetypes</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">In
the last blog’s update, I published an entry entitled “When
Archetypes Land”
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)
to review how the dramatic portrait of a transparent globe containing
aliens, a concept repeatedly seen in the 1930s-1940s science fiction
and cartoon illustrations, was suspiciously mirrored by alleged true
UFO close encounters years after, when landed UFOs with occupants
were trendy. Kay Coggin has sent me this identical type of scene
found in a comic strip published in </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Palm Beach Post</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of Sunday, July 29, 1945, and I am including it here with delight.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCBCqmIPtGo/YMeZno5DXxI/AAAAAAAAClw/eKihIsoh1ao5u0ssf9_PTeSqJF3ti0EqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s558/Esfera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCBCqmIPtGo/YMeZno5DXxI/AAAAAAAAClw/eKihIsoh1ao5u0ssf9_PTeSqJF3ti0EqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Esfera.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Personal
Position Statement</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">This
is my current position, as if I have not argued it well enough in my
many works. Like many ufologists of my age, natural sciences,
astronomy, but also the enigma of flying saucers, have interested me
since I was a child. Already in 1964, at the age of 16, this interest
solidified, acquiring visibility in 1965 and 1967 with my first
publications on scientific topics and UFOs, respectively. From 1968
until today, I have been continuously engaged in the study and
research of UFOs, as evidenced by my bibliography of more than 500
publications and eleven books (</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
That is 53 years of incessant investigation. I am an open-minded
person, without prejudices and a little heterodox. I have read almost
everything, corresponded with almost everyone and held working
meetings with all the international mandarins in the field. I have
done a lot of field surveys, analytical work, and have studied many
angles of the history of the phenomenon. I have always cultivated a
critical spirit, I have weighed and defended the extraterrestrial
hypothesis in some of my books, but my own research, the knowledge of
the results of other colleagues, the accumulation of contrary
evidence and the resolution of the most paradigmatic cases, have led
me, since the beginning of this century, to the intellectual
conviction that flying saucers never came to Earth, nor were there
landings, nor humanoids, nor abductions, nor anything of that nature.
Only observation errors and "virtual" (unreal) visions.
Nothing extraterrestrial at all. I came to this personal conclusion
many years after the psycho-sociological theory was proposed. I never
wanted to accept any hypothesis without having reached it myself. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">But,
from that moment on, your intellect opens up. I won't be so pedantic
as to say that you see the light, but almost. You realize how right
Menzel, Klass, Sagan, Ares de Blas, Pinvidic, Hendry and so many
others were before. The study of a UFO experience is now much
simpler: it is about being able to find the reason for the confusion
that generated it, its explanation, physical or mental. It is not a
question of forcing anything, it is simply following the certainty
that the case you have in your hands must be solved in a conventional
way, be sufficiently studious (and documented) to find the answer to
that provisional enigma. That position is not equivalent at all to
that of the systematic debunker or the essayist with preconceived
ideas. This new starting position is‒neither more nor less‒but
the fruit of a life dedicated to the examination and evaluation of a
phenomenon that you have just resolved.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">In
retrospect, from my own experience I have realized that the
inability of many ufologists to solve cases is not only because they
have not reached that point of “enlightening”, but also because
the very notion of a vulgar or trivial origin of the phenomenon is
inadmissible to their belief systems (whether they admit it or not)
and this makes it impossible for them to see the dimension and true
nature of the events they study. But as in ufology there is no
criterion of authority‒another facet making ufology a
pseudoscience‒and nobody learns from what an expert affirms, 30
more years will have to pass until scholars with good will realize
that 100 years of an anomalous phenomenon that leaves no material
trace proves that it does not exist, in spite of public, private and
military investigation commissions, ufological organizations and
thousands of investigators that have tried to find its
extraterrestrial origin.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
you can imagine, my conclusions contradict those promoted by (honest,
brilliant, sensible and‒to me‒over-imaginative and romantically
credulous) Jacques Vallée and all his foolish plagiarists, whose
proposals are cheating: as it is evident that they have realized,
like us, that the only hypothesis behind the flying saucers and the
waves of landings and close encounters of the 1960s-1990s, which was
the extraterrestrial one, is leaking everywhere and does not hold,
but instead of admitting that everything is a fable, they have made a
flight forward with nonsense propositions that will never be proven,
because they only exist at the level of pure rhetoric. In time.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk65669004"></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(1) The binomial formed
by J.C. Victorio Uranga and Manuel Borraz has once again carried out
an erudite historical analysis studying yet another case of the
alleged “UFO” cases of the antiquity in Spain, through their
systematic review of the book </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Wonders
in the Sky</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck. Their research is priceless,
meticulous and masterful. Their most recent joint article, "Wonders
in the sky (8): Caravaca, 1384" can be read on Victorio Uranga's
blog, here:</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/maravillas-en-el-cielo-8-caravaca-1384.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/maravillas-en-el-cielo-8-caravaca-1384.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(2)
Vitor Campanha, MA in Religious Studies and Ph student in the Federal
University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, “A ufologia "científica"
nos limites da religião” (Scientific ufology in the limits of
religion), 2018, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39838925/A_ufologia_científica_nos_limites_da_religião" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/39838925/A_ufologia_cient%C3%ADfica_nos_limites_da_religi%C3%A3o</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Abstract:
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Generally,
ufologists who consider themselves "scientists" are those
who seek evidence of extraterrestrials on Earth through witnesses and
evidence. Paradoxically, they are criticized by the hard sciences for
the lack of proofs and hypotheses testable by the traditional
scientific method. The justification of ufologists usually refers to
a possible cover-up of information, besides the impossibility of an
empirical understanding of phenomena not yet known by the current
science. This could put them in contact with a more general
meta-empirical framework of meaning, as proposed by Hanegraaff for
the understanding of secular spiritualities. Thus, the objective of
this article is to debate if this "scientific" ufology
portrays a model of secularized contemporary spirituality.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(3)</span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Scott R
Scribner (Ph.D. in Psychology), his doctoral research examines how
fear elements and media images found in published alien abduction
accounts reflect an adaptive narrative process for personal identity.
This model can demonstrate--for example--how prominent alien
abduction stories build on traumatic scenes in film and television
released before alleged events. His paper “Toward a Psychology of
UFO Abduction Beliefs,” is at
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">(4)
Alexander G. Keul (Environmental Psychology, Salzburg University,
Austria, retired), a long-time expert in ball lightning research, has
just published his paper “A brief history of ball lightning
observations by scientists and trained professionals” in the
journal </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>History
of Geo-and Space Sciences</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">,
12, 2021, pages 43-56,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/43/2021/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/43/2021/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Abstract.
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>With
thousands of eyewitness reports, but few instrumental records and no
consensus about a theory, ball lightning remains an unsolved problem
in atmospheric physics. As chances to monitor this transient
phenomenon are low, it seems promising to evaluate observation
reports by scientists and trained professionals. The following work
compiles 20 published case histories and adds 15 from the author’s
work and 6 from a Russian database. Forty-one cases from eight
countries, 1868–2020, are presented in abstract form with a
synthesis. The collection of cases does not claim to be complete. Six
influential or notable ball lightning cases are added. It is
concluded that well-documented cases from trained observers can
promote fieldwork and stimulate and evaluate ball lightning theories.
Scientists who have not reported their experience are invited to
share it with the author.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Joseph Baker, East Tennessee State University (Sociology &
Anthropology), Christopher D. Bader (Chapman University) and F.
Carson Mencken ( Baylor University), “A Bounded Affinity Theory of
Religion and the Paranormal,” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30734049/A_Bounded_Affinity_Theory_of_Religion_and_the_Paranormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/30734049/A_Bounded_Affinity_Theory_of_Religion_and_the_Paranormal</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Abstract.
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
outline a theory of bounded affinity between religious experiences
and beliefs and paranormalism, which emphasizes that religious and
paranormal experiences and beliefs share inherent physiological,
psychological, and ontological similarities. Despite these parallels,
organized religious groups typically delineate a narrow subset of
experiences and explanatory frames as acceptable and True, banishing
others as either false or demonic. Accordingly, the theory provides a
revised definition of the "paranormal" as beliefs and
experiences explicitly rejected by science and organized religions.
To demonstrate the utility of the theory, we show that, after
controlling for levels of conventional religious practice, there is a
strong, positive relationship between claiming Christian-based
religious experiences and believing in, pursuing, and experiencing
the paranormal, particularly among individuals not strongly tethered
to organized religion. Bounded affinity theory makes sense of recent
non-linear and complex moderation findings in the empirical
literature and reiterates the importance of the paranormal for
studies of religion</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
Chris Rutkowski, veteran UFO investigator hailing from Canada and a
well-known </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>connoisseur</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
of the UFO panorama in the United States, has written this post in
his blog issue of April 30, 2021 that invites to deep reflection:
“The Metamodern UFO (or UAP) (or USO) (or UAO) (or whatever),” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://uforum.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-metamodern-ufo-or-uap-or-uso-or-uao.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://uforum.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-metamodern-ufo-or-uap-or-uso-or-uao.html</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(7)
Dr. Giulio Perrotta, “Alien Abduction Experience: Definition,
neurobiological profiles, clinical contexts and therapeutic
approaches,” </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Annals
of Psychiatry and Treatment</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
4(1), 2020, pp 25-29, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/APT-4-116.php" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/APT-4-116.php</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(8)
A practical resource for the UFO investigator can be found in Michael
Maunder’s book </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lights
in the Sky</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">,
subtitled Identifying and understanding astronomical and
meteorological phenomena, published 2007 by the prestigious publisher
Springer: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846285622"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846285622</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Manuel Borraz (in Spanish), “Expediente 690225: Una puesta en
hora”: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Among
the numerous UFO files declassified by the Spanish Air Force in the
1990s, we have the famous observation on February 25, 1969 from a
plane in flight from Palma de Mallorca to Madrid. Did the military
forged the incident schedule for obscure reasons? </i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
truth is out there...</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42949433/Expediente_690225_Una_puesta_en_hora"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42949433/Expediente_690225_Una_puesta_en_hora</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>Redemption
of the Damned, Vol 2 – Sea & Space Phenomena </u></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><u>
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
duet Shough-Van Utrecht has done it again! Released April 2021, this
new book is an outstanding investigative contribution on past
anomalistic events that occurred before flying saucers of historic
reach, not only in ufology but in areas like astronomy, meteorology,
geophysics, atmospheric physics, etc. This book completes their major
centennial reappraisal of Charles Fort’s influential 1919 volume
“The Book of the Damned”. Under the leadership of Scottish
researcher Martin Shough, the final product is an indispensable book
in the library of whoever considers himself a student of flying
saucers, UFOs, or UAPs. I anticipate a good reading and a better
learning. Let me copy an excerpt from the foreword written by George
Eberhart:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Martin
Shough and Wim van Utrecht use an arsenal of 21st-century tools, both
online and in archives, to deconstruct and reconstruct the
astronomical, meteorological, and oceanographic anomalies that Fort
has puzzled us with since 1919. Yes, Fort cherry-picked his facts to
tell a good story, as the authors point out. Nonetheless, they manage
to extract the marrow from many of these old bones, and in doing so,
take Fort to a new level of relevance. Reassessing Fort’s data
is not a job for the faint-hearted. Shough and Van Utrecht are up to
the technical and historical challenges, leaving no meteorite
unturned in their quest to find reasonable explanations.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Find
it at Anomalist Books: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=109"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=109</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">As
well as in the usual outlets, e.g., </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Damned-Vol-2-Space-Phenomena/dp/1949501183/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Damned-Vol-2-Space-Phenomena/dp/1949501183/</span></span></span></a></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPHCtb4GLIg/YMeZxsoHr3I/AAAAAAAACl4/-VXBl7MbIgc6c3Oiy_5Dc9SF6z6XRpQZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1113/Fort.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="787" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPHCtb4GLIg/YMeZxsoHr3I/AAAAAAAACl4/-VXBl7MbIgc6c3Oiy_5Dc9SF6z6XRpQZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Fort.bmp" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">What
You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">The
two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you to
practice your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into
English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s
content:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">*“El
fenómeno ovni en Canarias desde 1981 a 2015” (The UFO Phenomenon
in the Canary Islands, 1981-2015), an invited book review written by
Manuel Borraz on the latest book authored by Dr. Ricardo Campo,
published by Coliseo Sentosa, 2020. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4wV1HGuRZU/YMeZ3ZVHiPI/AAAAAAAACmA/e6l0KITw6jY5b91d91dM56DZWUhkbODWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Canarias.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1305" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4wV1HGuRZU/YMeZ3ZVHiPI/AAAAAAAACmA/e6l0KITw6jY5b91d91dM56DZWUhkbODWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Canarias.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">*“Proyecto
Erks. Entre el mito y la ciencia” (Project Erks. Between Myth and
Science), a group book edited by Sebastiano de Filippi, published by
Coliseo Sentosa, 2021.</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_rK75HlqjBc/YMeZ7TWmf9I/AAAAAAAACmE/M6MY1x8zoGcoQWvM_EccN7lu7uiEeUMswCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Erks.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="676" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_rK75HlqjBc/YMeZ7TWmf9I/AAAAAAAACmE/M6MY1x8zoGcoQWvM_EccN7lu7uiEeUMswCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Erks.jpeg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Acknowledgments</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks
to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to
the current edition of this blog: Fernando Soto Roland (Argentina),
Alejandro Agostinelli (Argentina), Kay Coggin (USA), Luis Ruiz Noguez
(Mexico), Enrique Márquez (Argentina), Barry Greenwood (USA), Manuel
Borraz Aymerich (Spain), Brad Sparks (USA), Terry W. Colvin
(Thailand), Mikhail Gershtein (Russia). (Australia).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h69/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events
in Spain and Portugal</u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">, 1976</span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk59519937"></a>
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(UFO Investigation), 1984</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with
UFOs), 1987</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unusual Files), 1995</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example:
</span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="lista-western"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"> (with O.J.
Braenne), 2008</span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u><b> </b>(with M. Swords & R. Powell
and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S.
Purcell), 2012</span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M.
Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013
</span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1
(1950-1988)</u></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">(with
Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></h4>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(with M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">There
are several options you can follow:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Volunteer
work, onsite or remote</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver
sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations
to help defray research expenses</span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">You
can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES"></h4>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9810946" name="es"></a>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2021/JUNIO/15
(ES)</b></span></span></span></div>
<h4 class="western" lang="es-ES" style="text-decoration: none;"></h4>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
número de casos registrado en el fichero FOTOCAT asciende a 12.763.
Este proyecto está comprometido con la investigación al ciento por
ciento: aquellos estudiosos que necesiten información sobre casos
ocurridos en ciertos años, periodos, zonas, países, etc., o datos y
referencias sobre algún avistamiento en particular, no tienen más
que pedirla. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
agosto de 2020, Manuel Borraz y yo publicamos nuestro informe </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003_2007" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS_Examining_the_Photographic_ Evidence_2003_2007</a></span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iVW9Gk1huw/YMeaeX_MORI/AAAAAAAACmc/xo9He76Yrxkm26xOze8DYu-bzxU0wL3TwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Marfa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iVW9Gk1huw/YMeaeX_MORI/AAAAAAAACmc/xo9He76Yrxkm26xOze8DYu-bzxU0wL3TwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Marfa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Fue
una investigación exhaustiva basada en una serie de fotografías de
"luces de Marfa" tomadas por James Bunnell, fotos que
amablemente nos cedió durante el año y medio que duró nuestro
estudio, mientras manteníamos con él una comunicación regular y
fluida para este propósito, incluida la recepción de cuantiosos
datos relacionados con su investigación </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>in
situ</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
fotografías, videos y cálculos. Cuando estuvo terminado, le
entregamos una copia al Sr. Bunnell y acordamos incluir un capítulo
de "refutación" escrito por él en nuestro libro. Por
supuesto, comentamos sus comentarios.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Ahora,
el Sr. Bunnell ha utilizado su privilegio para publicar una defensa
de las luces de Marfa: “Defense of the Marfa Lights”, </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/49097748/BB_FINAL_June_1_2021_PDF_for_Print_Book_IN_DEFENSE_OF_THE_MARFA_LIGHTS" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/49097748/BB_FINAL_June_1_2021_PDF_for_Print_Book_ IN_DEFENSE_OF_THE_MARFA_LIGHTS</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Ambas
obras hablan por sí mismas y dejamos que el lector sea el último
juez; sin embargo, solo tenemos un comentario importante que hacer:
nuestro informe de investigación fue publicado </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>gratis
et amore</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
a través de Academia.edu. Para los amantes de los libros en papel,
exactamente el mismo texto en línea se convirtió en un libro
impreso publicado por UPIAR:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
acuerdo previo con la editorial, este libro (así como otros libros
anteriores que he publicado con UPIAR) no genera regalías a los
autores. Bunnell hizo un gran trabajo de campo para documentar esas
luces locales aparentemente misteriosas. Lo reconocimos repetidamente
en nuestro estudio. Simplemente se equivocó en sus conclusiones y
así lo expusimos, como era nuestro deber. Pero no hay excusa para
usar la difamación o, lo que es aún peor, intentar censurar nuestra
publicación, como así se ha intentado. Invitamos al lector a que
compare ambos trabajos y decida por sí mismo acerca del valor y la
precisión de los hallazgos de unos y de otro.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk68422956"></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Descenso
en Calumet (</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
V.J. Ballester Olmos y L.E. Pacheco)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Hasta
hace poco solo sabíamos que Calumet era el título de un espléndido
álbum de música country de 1973 del cantautor americano Lobo
(Roland Kent LaVoie). Ignorancia geográfica. Tal situación cambió
cuando nuestra colaboradora Kay Coggin nos envió un recorte de
prensa con este encabezamiento: </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Un
extraño aparato cae en una granja de Calumet”. Así enmarcaba </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Sheboyhan</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Press</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(Wisconsin) una fotografía a tres columnas en la edición del jueves
18 de junio de 1953. Y, sí, se le vio caer del cielo suspendido por
un paracaídas a las 10 de la mañana en la granja de Clayton Miller,
en Calumet, a cinco millas al norte de Chilton, en el estado de
Wisconsin, según narraron los hijos de Miller. La siguiente foto de
E.H. Schabach muestra el objeto aterrizado rodeado (de izquierda a
derecha) por John y Clayton Miller, el sheriff Cornelius Kosmunsky
del condado de Calumet y Tom Miller.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KCtuyRj4rc/YMea9OOEPWI/AAAAAAAACmo/gntKGjkZsgYgPl_tsa-76EHOdAUA38cwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s371/Calumet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="371" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KCtuyRj4rc/YMea9OOEPWI/AAAAAAAACmo/gntKGjkZsgYgPl_tsa-76EHOdAUA38cwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Calumet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">No
se trataba de ningún platillo volante de Marte, ciertamente, ya que
la chapa que llevaba adherida identificaba al equipo como propiedad
conjunta de la Marina de los Estados Unidos y la Universidad de
Minnesota. El objeto hallado era un globo sonda, pero no el típico
globo meteorológico del tipo “rawin”, el conocido objetivo de
radar multi triangular (llamado reflector de esquina) usado para
estimar la velocidad y dirección del viento, que cuelga de un
sencillo globo.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwDCpGwOYGs/YMebByUpX9I/AAAAAAAACms/1iaAnSFX1VAe4-1qsdnFVLkd3p-1N9jdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s418/rawin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="303" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwDCpGwOYGs/YMebByUpX9I/AAAAAAAACms/1iaAnSFX1VAe4-1qsdnFVLkd3p-1N9jdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/rawin.jpg" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Globo
Rawin. Imagen tomada del sitio </span></span></span><a href="https://www.tekportal.net/rawin/" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">https://www.tekportal.net/rawin/</span></span></span></span></a></div></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Porque
la forma y la estructura del dispositivo caído eran extrañas, y el
hecho de que no solo estuviera involucrada la US Navy sino también
una universidad, apuntaban a una investigación importante,
probablemente secreta, en curso. La web del proyecto StratoCat</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
un repositorio clave de información sobre lanzamientos y vuelos
internacionales de globos proporciona elementos de respuesta a esta
curiosidad.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
esa época, la Marina norteamericana tenía un contrato con la
Universidad de Minnesota para efectuar un estudio muy detallado y
extenso destinado a mejorar las capacidades de los globos usados por
entonces. El estudio se titulaba "Research and Development in
the Field of High Altitude Plastic Balloons" (Investigación y
desarrollo con globos de plástico de gran altitud) y era
confidencial en su momento. Tras varios años, se levantó el secreto
y se publicaron nada menos que 15 volúmenes con todos los datos
recabados y los resultados experimentales (unas 3.500 páginas de
trabajo altamente técnico y matemático). Fue uno de los estudios
más exhaustivos hechos en esa área de investigación y muchos de
los avances que fueron incorporados a estas actividades con los años
nacieron precisamente de los trabajos de este proyecto. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Tenemos
una interesante documentación gráfica de una de tales experiencias,
el denominado “vuelo 079”, que muestra el momento del
lanzamiento y el conjunto de equipos de medición en el laboratorio
antes de su lanzamiento. </span></span>
</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
revisamos algunos de esos 15 informes técnicos y de ingeniería</span></span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
comprobamos como la Investigación militar secreta era
categóricamente muy superior al conocimiento científico común de
aquellos años. Solo podemos adivinar lo que ingenieros y
científicos dedicados a la aeronáutica y astronáutica pueden estar
diseñando en la actualidad en programas clasificados. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
entonces (hablamos de 1951 a 1956), el proyecto en cuestión era
confidencial, ya que muchos de los avances derivados de ese estudio
serian directamente aplicados al siguiente programa secreto de
espionaje con globos GENETRIX. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
globos del proyecto se lanzaban desde el antiguo aeropuerto de la
Universidad de Minnesota ubicado al norte de New Brighton en el área
de las Twin Cities (Minneapolis-Saint Paul) que fue el punto neuronal
del esfuerzo de investigación entre General Mills, la Universidad y
la Marina. Hemos creado un historial detallado y un registro parcial
de vuelos para esta instalación.</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
En ese momento, el área era una especie de Cabo Cañaveral de Helio,
ya que la mayoría de las empresas de fabricación de globos tenían
su sede allí y muchos sitios de lanzamiento de globos se extendían
por sus llanuras, especialmente en los estados de Dakota del Sur y
Minnesota.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Una
última reflexión. Fueron miles de vuelos entre 1947 y 1970 soltados
desde ese lugar y, considerando las distancias recorridas de cientos
de kilómetros hasta su recuperación, ¿puede el lector imaginar
cuantos avistamientos de platillos volantes habrán generado durante
sus sigilosos viajes aéreos? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notas</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Luis E. Pacheco, StratoCat – Historia y actualidad del uso de
globos estratosféricos en los campos de la ciencia, militar y
aeroespacial: </span></span></span><a href="http://stratocat.com.ar/"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://stratocat.com.ar/</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(2)
Véase el informe Nº XV: </span></span></span><a href="https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/AD222451.xhtml" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/AD222451.xhtml</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
</span></span></span><a href="http://stratocat.com.ar/bases/44e.htm"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">http://stratocat.com.ar/bases/44e.htm</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Aguardando
el informe UAP de la Marina estadounidense</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Los
ojos de la comunidad ufológica mundial están expectantes. En agosto
de 2020, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos anunció la
creación de un grupo de trabajo para el estudio de los informes UAP
(</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/vwa3vzcd"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">https://tinyurl.com/vwa3vzcd</span></span></a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
Pero dos meses antes, en junio, el Senado estadounidense había
aprobado el proyecto de Ley de Autorización de Inteligencia para el
año fiscal 2021, que obligaba al Director de Inteligencia Nacional a
presentar, en un plazo de 180 días, un informe a los comités del
Congreso sobre los fenómenos aéreos no identificados. Este informe
revisará y analizará la información sobre UAPs (ovnis) recopilada
por la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval. El plazo de 6 meses comenzó en
cuanto se promulgó la Ley, es decir, el 1 de enero de 2021, por lo
que, si no hay retrasos, el Informe Condon del siglo XXI deberá ver
la luz antes del 1 de julio de 2021 (se habla del 25 de junio).
Mientras tanto, la situación se está precalentando con una serie de
recientes filtraciones de fotos y vídeos de ovnis de la Armada a
unos medios de comunicación, ávidos de exclusivas:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-do-we-know-about-4-march-2019-us.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-do-we-know-about-4-march-2019-us.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
<a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-navy-ufo-photos-party-balloons.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-navy-ufo-photos-party-balloons.html</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://parallaxuap.blogspot.com/2021/01/multiple-uavs-around-ship-investigating.html?m=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://parallaxuap.blogspot.com/2021/01/multiple-uavs-around-ship-investigating.html?m=1</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uElG1oxnU_A/YMeba0I5k9I/AAAAAAAACm4/VdVPG4yCtMgaTpq4mMIZjfiCQzuR-fTEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1360/UAP%2Bpyramid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uElG1oxnU_A/YMeba0I5k9I/AAAAAAAACm4/VdVPG4yCtMgaTpq4mMIZjfiCQzuR-fTEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAP%2Bpyramid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Hay
que señalar que el denominador común de la nueva información que
ya se ha conocido es su pobre calidad y la fácil identificación de
los objetos que se aprecian en las imágenes, según los
comentaristas más afilados:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sphere-acorn-metallic-blimp-three-iphone-photos-from-an-f-18-via-mystery-wire.11692/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sphere-acorn-metallic-blimp-three-iphone-photos-from-an-f-18-via-mystery-wire.11692/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-vision-footage-maybe-bokeh.11695/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-vision-footage-maybe-bokeh.11695/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/04/corbell-asserts-but-fails-to-report-how.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2021/04/corbell-asserts-but-fails-to-report-how.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-latest-navy-uap-video.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-latest-navy-uap-video.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4Xxqd450w"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4Xxqd450w</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-navys-triangle-bokeh-ufo-video.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-navys-triangle-bokeh-ufo-video.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-kidd-and-other-ships-drones-encounter-2019.11681/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uss-kidd-and-other-ships-drones-encounter-2019.11681/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">En
medio de esta inflación de “pruebas” oficiales sobre
avistamientos de ovnis, vale la pena mencionar un importante artículo
Tyler Rogoway de </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
War Zone</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Se trata de un razonamiento muy perspicaz y un exhaustivo artículo
publicado en la edición del 15 de abril de 2021, que aconsejo a
todos que lean con atención, especialmente con vistas al próximo
informe "UAP" que entregará la Marina de los Estados
Unidos:</span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Por
si el esperado </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>rapport</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
oficial sobre los UAPs no fuera suficiente para aumentar la ansiedad
del público, el 3 de mayo de 2021, la Oficina del Inspector General
del Departamento de Defensa anunció la creación de una "Evaluación
de las acciones del Departamento de Defensa en relación con los
fenómenos aéreos no identificados (Proyecto Nº
D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000)". Los términos de la evaluación se han
descrito oficialmente como sigue: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Tenemos
previsto comenzar la evaluación del tema en mayo de 2021. El
objetivo de esta evaluación es determinar hasta qué punto el
Departamento de Defensa ha tomado medidas en relación con los
Fenómenos Aéreos No Identificados (UAP). Podemos revisar el
objetivo a medida que avanza la evaluación, y consideraremos las
sugerencias de la Administración para la gestión de objetivos
adicionales o revisados. Llevaremos a cabo la evaluación en las
Oficinas del Secretario de Defensa, los Servicios Militares, los
Mandos de Combate, las Agencias de Apoyo al Combate, las Agencias de
Defensa y las Organizaciones Militares de Investigación Criminal. Es
posible que identifiquemos otros centros durante la evaluación.</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Véase: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/2594693/project-announcement-evaluation-of-the-dods-actions-regarding-the-unidentified/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/2594693/project-announcement-evaluation-of-the-dods-actions-regarding-the-unidentified/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Este
anuncio incluía un anexo parcialmente censurado con la comunicación
formal y la lista de distribución de este proceso de recogida de
información. No hay una fecha límite para este informe
complementario. </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/04/2002633947/-1/-1/1/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/04/2002633947/-1/-1/1/D2021-DEV0SN-0116.000_REDACTED.PDF</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">El
memorando solicitaba a los receptores que proporcionaran un punto de
contacto para la evaluación en un plazo de cinco días. Es una
especie de procedimiento de control interno para toda la organización
de Defensa de los Estados Unidos en relación con los ovnis/UAPs.</span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>1</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
La magnitud y el alcance de los receptores, combinada con el informe
del Grupo de Trabajo UAP de la Marina de los Estados Unidos
(programado a más tardar para el 1 de julio de 2021), asegura que
cualquier retazo de información conocida sobre los UAPs en América
deberá ponerse de manifiesto. Equivaldrá a la tan esperada y nunca
sobrevenida revelación (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>disclosure</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
gubernamental sobre los ovnis con la que los aficionados al tema han
estado soñando durante décadas. Y es bueno que así ocurra porque
demostrará que, a excepción de imágenes vagas, borrosas y ambiguas
en las pantallas, no se ha ocultado nada extraordinario (por parte de
la cúpula sobreprotectora de la mal entendida protección de la
seguridad nacional). Cuando la documentación salga a la luz
(avistamientos y videos), puedo imaginarme una gran explosión
inicial de emoción y consecución, que tarde o temprano será
sustituida por la frustración, una vez más, al ver que nada de esa
“evidencia” relaciona los incidentes con la vida extraterrestre.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Podemos
preguntarnos sinceramente por qué hemos llegado a la situación
actual en la que nos encontramos. Por qué y cómo nos encontramos en
este estado de cosas, cercano a la histeria ovni/UAP. Necesitamos una
perspectiva histórica, detallada e imparcial y probablemente la
disección más significativamente clara de esto acaba de presentarla
Jason Colavito el 21 de mayo en </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Soapbox</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">.
Es de lectura obligada. Acerca de lo que están consiguiendo los
defensores de los UAPs, sentencia: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Es
mala ciencia y una peligrosa política gubernamental, el tipo de
pensamiento mágico que lleva a la locura y al desastre.</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://newrepublic.com/article/162457/government-embrace-ufos-bad-science</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">A
diferencia de hace años, los ovnis despiertan hoy el interés del
público (es decir, el tema vuelve a vender), pero la prensa busca
ahora opiniones autorizadas. El 30 de mayo, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
New York Times</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
publicó un ensayo del Dr. Adam Frank, un distinguido astrofísico
receptor de una beca de la NASA para buscar vida en el universo.
Frank defiende la necesidad de un estudio sobre los ovnis, pero
también sopesa críticamente las pruebas. En su artículo "Soy
un físico que busca extraterrestres. Los ovnis no me impresionan",
afirma: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Entiendo
que los avistamientos de ovnis, que se remontan al menos a 1947, son
sinónimo en la imaginación popular de evidencia de extraterrestres.
Pero, desde el punto de vista científico, hay poco que justifique
esa conexión. Hay excelentes razones para buscar vida
extraterrestre, pero hay igualmente excelentes razones para no
concluir que hemos encontrado pruebas de ella con los avistamientos
de ovnis. </i></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ufo-sightings-report.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ufo-sightings-report.html</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">¿Y
qué decir del día siguiente al informe del Grupo de Trabajo de la
Armada?: se producirá una chifladura generalizada en los medios de
comunicación (“el gobierno americano tiene pruebas de que los
ovnis existen”), de avistamientos de ovnis (¿la primera oleada del
siglo XXI?), y de la noche a la mañana brotarán expertos en ovnis
pontificando esto y aquello. Todas las actividades comerciales que
puedan beneficiarse de la promoción de los ovnis, incluso las
relacionadas lejanamente con el tema, prepararán sus cartas. Los
ufólogos se posicionarán en público para aprovechar la estela: ¡ya
te lo dije! Los creyentes harán su agosto. El voluminoso material
exhibido tendrá un aspecto impresionante, pero la redacción del
informe será prudente. Los Estados Unidos de América no pueden
pronunciar ante el mundo que los extraterrestres no tienen nada mejor
que hacer que husmear en sus ejercicios tácticos. ¿Se establecerá
un nuevo estudio oficial sobre los ovnis? No es imposible: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Panem
et circenses</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
siempre ha funcionado.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">De
hecho, la prensa ya ha anticipado lo que contendrá o no el informe
que todo el mundo espera. El 3 de junio de 2021, Jennifer Jett de </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
New York Times </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">escribió:
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>¿Qué
dirá el informe? Puede que no diga mucho. Según la disposición de
ley de apropiaciones, el informe debe incluir un análisis detallado
de los datos sobre ovnis en poder del grupo de trabajo y de otros
organismos gubernamentales. El informe también debe señalar
cualquier fenómeno aéreo no identificado que pueda considerarse una
amenaza para la seguridad nacional, incluyendo si "puede
atribuirse a uno o más adversarios extranjeros". Además, debe
proporcionar "una descripción detallada de un proceso entre
agencias" para recoger y analizar los informes de ovnis en el
futuro, así como recomendaciones para mejorar y financiar la
recogida de datos y la investigación. Aunque el informe se hará
público, también puede ir acompañado de un anexo clasificado</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">¿Va
el gobierno americano a volver a financiar la investigación ovni? No
es nada extraordinario que ocurra. No hay que olvidar, por ejemplo,
que la CIA y la DIA subvencionaron investigaciones parapsicológicas
(</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">remote
viewing</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)
durante muchos años</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>2</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
al Stanford Research Institute (SRI).</span></span></span></span><span><sup><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b>3</b></span></span></span></sup></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">El
siempre bien informado </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New
York Times</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
aportó el 3 de junio un artículo periodístico de Julian E. Barnes
y Helene Cooper, con el sensacionalista título "Estados Unidos
no encuentra pruebas de tecnología alienígena en los objetos
voladores, pero tampoco puede descartarla". Podemos citar estos
significativos párrafos:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Los
funcionarios de inteligencia estadounidenses no han encontrado
pruebas de que los fenómenos aéreos presenciados por los pilotos de
la Marina en los últimos años sean naves espaciales
extraterrestres, pero siguen sin poder explicar los movimientos
inusuales que han desconcertado a los científicos y a los militares,
según altos funcionarios de la administración informados de las
conclusiones de un informe gubernamental muy esperado. El informe
determina que la inmensa mayoría de los más de 120 incidentes
ocurridos en las dos últimas décadas no proceden de ninguna
tecnología militar estadounidense ni de ninguna otra tecnología
avanzada del gobierno de Estados Unidos... Pero ese es el único
hallazgo concluyente en el informe clasificado de </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">inteligencia
[se espera que se publique una versión no clasificada el 25 de
junio] ... </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">los altos funcionarios consultados admitieron que la propia
ambigüedad de los hallazgos significaba que el gobierno no podía
descartar definitivamente las teorías de que los fenómenos
observados por sus pilotos militares podrían ser naves espaciales
alienígenas... Muchos de los más de 120 incidentes examinados en el
informe son de personal de la Marina, dijeron los funcionarios. El
informe también examinó incidentes de militares extranjeros en las
últimas dos décadas. Los funcionarios de inteligencia creen que al
menos algunos de los fenómenos aéreos podrían haber sido
tecnología experimental de una potencia rival, muy probablemente
Rusia o China.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html?referringSource=articleShare"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html?referringSource=articleShare</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">La
pregunta clave es: ¿qué tipo de estudios periciales se han
realizado sobre esos vídeos e incidentes para no poder explicar esos
"movimientos desconcertantes", cuando investigadores
civiles sin presupuesto y sin ayuda los han resuelto de forma
convencional? Sólo espero que este informe no se base en los
trabajos de la AATIP de Elizondo/Bigelow, sino en una investigación
independiente e imparcial. </span></span></span></span>
</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica;">Por cierto, el ex empleado del Departamento de Defensa Luis Elizondo, como todo lo que rodea al estudio ovni del Pentágono (AAWSAP/AATIP), está lejos de ser claro, y su personalidad ha sido cuestionada. El pasado 27 de mayo, una entrada del sitio web The Black Vault, de John Greenewald llevaba el título "Pentágono: Correos electrónicos eliminados" y decía: "El viaje de Elizondo para convertirse en un centro de atención mundial iba a estar acompañado de muchos desafíos que superar" </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">(</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-destroyed-e-mails-of-former-intelligence-official-tied-to-ufo-investigation-claims/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-destroyed-e-mails-of-former-intelligence-official-tied-to-ufo-investigation-claims/</a></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left;">)</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">. </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Me pregunto si no estamos creando una tormenta en un vaso de agua con todo esto. Y magnificando innecesariamente a una figura, cuando deberíamos concentrarnos en datos, informes de casos y análisis de avistamientos, que es lo que esperamos ver en el próximo informe UAP de Defensa, que se hará público a final de este mismo mes.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Este
palacio de espejos permite todo tipo de opiniones. No es vana la del
Dr. David Clarke, experto cercano al proceso oficial de
desclasificación ovni en el Reino Unido, quien ha sugerido que el
informe final guiará al público hacia los extraterrestres, con la
finalidad de ocultar detalles de la tecnología que se está
desarrollando en Estados Unidos sobre drones hipersónicos y por
otras potencias rivales, según publica el </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daily
Star</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:
“Pentagon UFO report 'may be cover for hypersonic weapon Cold War'
between US and China", </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pentagon-ufo-report-may-cover-24251095" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pentagon-ufo-report-may-cover-24251095</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">La
ola de interés por los UA corre como la pólvora, ahora China dice
que también tiene un grupo de trabajo para investigar las
"condiciones aéreas no identificadas",</span></span></span></span><a href="https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">De
otro lado, el Administrador de la NASA Bill Nelson ha dicho a la CNN
(Rachel Crane) que él ha iniciado una investigación sobre recientes
avistamientos ovni. Evidentemente se Lanza el anzuelo a la búsqueda
de una nueva fuente de financiación, hágase lo que se tenga que
hacer. </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/06/04/ufo-nasa-navy-pilots-bill-nelson-chief-investigation-pentagon-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/top-news-videos/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/06/04/ufo-nasa-navy-pilots-bill-nelson-chief-investigation-pentagon-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/top-news-videos/</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Incluso el prestigioso <i>Scientific American</i> ha creído oportuno entrar en esta cruzada de opiniones con un artículo de Leonard
David la semana pasada: "Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report", <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-on-pentagon-ufo-report/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vivimos
un periodo excepcional estos días. En plena pandemia, la revelación
de los platillos volantes. ¿Podrá el mundo mundial aguantar todo
esto? </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><u><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Notas</span></u></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Una exclusiva de </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Politico</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">
escrita por Bryan Bender y enviada el 26 de mayo de 2021, relaciona
esta evaluación con una queja de 64 páginas elevada al Inspector
General el mismo día del anuncio, por el exoficial de inteligencia
de nombre hispano Luis Elizondo, afirmando que oficiales del
Pentágono han abierto una “campaña” para desacreditarle.
¡Bienvenidos al circo de las </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>celebritie</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">s! </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/ufo-whistleblower-ig-complaint-pentagon-491098" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/ufo-whistleblower-ig-complaint-pentagon-491098</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Por
cierto, el mismo periodista ha publicado otro artículo sobre los
recientes acontecimientos en el panorama estadounidense de los ovnis
hoy:</span></span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">(2)
Jacques Vallée, </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Forbidden
Science 3. </i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>On
the Trail of Hidden Truths</i></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">,
Anomalist Books (San Antonio, Texas), 2017, páginas 136, 168 y 310,
entre muchas otras.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">(3)
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Análisis
de los videos del Pentágono</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">El
físico español Julio Plaza del Olmos ha analizado recientemente
otro de los vídeos del Pentágono. El llamado "FLIR1",
grabado el 14 de noviembre de 2004 por cazas del portaaviones Nimitz
a 100 millas al SSW de San Diego, California. Su informe, que
confirma que las imágenes son compatibles con un avión, se lee
aquí:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45588363/El_vídeo_FLIR1_del_pentágono"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/45588363/El_v%C3%ADdeo_FLIR1_del_pent%C3%A1gono</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Y
una versión mucho más ligera y digerible se encuentra en su blog:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/03/flir1-otro-video-del-pentagono.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://gluonconleche.blogspot.com/2021/03/flir1-otro-video-del-pentagono.html</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Anteriormente,
Plaza había estudiado el video denominado “Go Fast” (21 de enero
de 2015, costas de Florida) logrado asimismo desde un avión F-18 de
la marina estadounidense e identificado probablemente como un globo.
Este trabajo se halla en este enlace: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44249873/Go_Fast_El_vídeo_del_Pentágono"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/44249873/Go_Fast_El_v%C3%ADdeo_del_Pent%C3%A1gono</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Más
arquetipos</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
la última actualización de este blog, publiqué en la sección en
inglés una entrada titulada "When Archetypes Land” (Cuando
aterrizan los arquetipos): </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021_03_06_archive.html</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
Allí pasé revista al hecho de cómo el sensacional retrato de un
globo transparente que contiene extraterrestres en su interior, un
concepto visto repetidamente en las ilustraciones de historietas de
ciencia ficción de las décadas de 1930 y 1940, se vio
sospechosamente reflejado en las narraciones de supuestos encuentros
cercanos con ovnis “reales” años después, cuando los
avistamientos de naves aterrizadas y sus ocupantes estaban de moda.
Kay Coggin me ha enviado este tipo de escena idéntica a la que se
encuentra en una tira cómica publicada en </span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>The
Palm Beach Post</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
del domingo 29 de julio de 1945, que estoy incluyendo a continuación
con verdadero deleite.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vweOgnf4w0I/YMebo4ktTRI/AAAAAAAACm8/1RupjGjWvVgpmURKlhU3UlF7aWFRD4F4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s558/Esfera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vweOgnf4w0I/YMebo4ktTRI/AAAAAAAACm8/1RupjGjWvVgpmURKlhU3UlF7aWFRD4F4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Esfera.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Mi
posición a fecha de hoy</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Como
si no la hubiera argumentado suficientemente bien en mis muchos
trabajos, quiero dar cuenta de cuál es mi posición actual sobre el
asunto de los ovnis. Como muchos ufólogos de mi edad, las ciencias
naturales, la astronomía, pero también el enigma de los platillos
volantes, me interesan desde niño. Ya en 1964, a los 16 años, ese
interés se solidificó, haciéndose visible en 1965 y 1967 con mis
primeras publicaciones sobre temas científicos y ovnis,
respectivamente. Desde 1968 hasta hoy me he ocupado del estudio e
investigación de los ovnis de forma continua, como lo avala mi
bibliografía de más de 500 publicaciones y once libros</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">).
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Son
53 años de investigación incesante. Soy</span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">persona
de mente abierta, sin prejuicios y pelín heterodoxo. Lo he leído
casi todo, mantenido correspondencia con casi todos y he sostenido
reuniones de trabajo con todos los mandarines internacionales en este
campo. He realizado muchas encuestas sobre el terreno, trabajo de
análisis y he estudiado muchos ángulos de la historia del fenómeno.
Desde siempre he cultivado el espíritu crítico, he sopesado y
defendido la hipótesis extraterrestre en alguno de mis libros, pero
mi propia investigación, el conocimiento de los resultados de otros
colegas la acumulación de evidencia contraria y la resolución
de los casos más paradigmáticos, me han llevado, desde el
comienzo de este siglo, al convencimiento intelectual de que nunca
vinieron platillos volantes a la Tierra, ni hubieron aterrizajes, ni
humanoides, ni abducciones, ni nada de ese tenor. Solo errores de
observación y visiones “virtuales” (irreales). Nada en absoluto
extraterrestre. Llegué a esa conclusión personal muchos años
después de haberse propuesto la teoría psico-sociológica. Nunca
quise aceptar ninguna hipótesis sin que la hubiera alcanzado por mí
mismo. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Pero,
a partir de ese momento, se te abre el intelecto. No seré tan
pedante como para decir que ves la luz, pero casi. Caes en la cuenta
de lo acertados que estaban Menzel, Klass, Sagan, Ares de Blas,
Pinvidic, Hendry y tantos otros antes. El estudio de una experiencia
ovni se hace ahora mucho más sencillo: se trata de ser capaz de
hallar la razón de la confusión que la generó, su explicación,
física o mental. Así que no se trata de forzar nada, simplemente
seguir la certidumbre de que el caso que tienes entre manos debe
resolverse de forma convencional, ser lo suficientemente aplicado (y
documentado) para encontrar la respuesta que tiene ese enigma
provisional. Esa postura no equivale, ni mucho menos, a la del
desacreditador (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>debunker</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
sistemático ni al ensayista con ideas preconcebidas. Esa nueva
posición de partida no es, ni más ni menos, sino el fruto de una
vida dedicada al examen y evaluación de un fenómeno que has llegado
a resolver. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">En
retrospectiva, por propia experiencia, me doy cuenta de que la
incapacidad de resolver casos de muchos ufólogos es porque no solo
no han llegado a ese punto de esclarecimiento sino porque la noción
misma de un origen vulgar o trivial del fenómeno es inadmisible para
sus creencias (lo admitan o no) y ello imposibilita que vean la
dimensión y verdadera naturaleza de los sucesos que estudian. Pero
como en ufología no hay criterio de autoridad -otra faceta de que la
ufología es una pseudociencia- y nadie aprende de lo que un experto
afirma, deberán pasar 30 años más hasta que los estudiosos
objetivos caigan en la cuenta de que 100 años de un fenómeno
anómalo que no deja rastro material prueba que este es inexistente,
a pesar de comisiones de investigación públicas, privadas y
militares, organizaciones ufológicas y miles de investigadores que
han tratado de encontrar su origen extraterrestre.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: helvetica;">Como
el lector puede imaginar, mis conclusiones implican dar como erradas
las de un (honrado, brillante, sensible y, a mi modo de ver,
demasiado imaginativo y románticamente crédulo) Jacques Vallée y
sus muchos tontos plagiadores, cuyas propuestas son tramposas: como
es evidente que han caído en la cuenta, como nosotros y la mayoría,
que la única hipótesis tras los platillos volantes y las oleadas de
aterrizajes y de encuentros cercanos de los 1960s-1990s, que era la
extraterrestre, hace aguas por todos lados y no se mantiene, en lugar
de admitir que todo es una fábula, han hecho una huida hacia
adelante con la proposición de sinsentidos que jamás serán
probados, porque solo existen a nivel de pura retórica. Al tiempo. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
El binomio formado por J.C. Victorio Uranga y Manuel Borraz ha
realizado nuevamente un erudito análisis histórico estudiando otro
caso más de los casos pretendidamente “ovni” de la antigüedad
en España, su revisión del libro </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Wonders
in the Sky</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
de Jacques Vallée y Chris Aubeck. Su investigación es impagable,
minuciosa y magistral. Su más reciente artículo, “Maravillas en
el cielo (8): Caravaca, 1384” se lee en el blog de Victorio Uranga,
aquí:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name="_Hlk73909647"></a>
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/maravillas-en-el-cielo-8-caravaca-1384.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2021/06/maravillas-en-el-cielo-8-caravaca-1384.html</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(2)</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Vitor
Campanha, máster en Estudios de la Religión y estudiante de
doctorado en la Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil, “A
ufologia "científica" nos limites da religião” (La
ufología “científica” en los límites de la religión), 2018,</span></span></span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39838925/A_ufologia_científica_nos_limites_da_religião" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/39838925/A_ufologia_cient%C3%ADfica_nos_limites_da_religi%C3%A3o</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Resumen
(en portugués): </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Em
geral, ufólogos que se consideram “científicos” são aqueles
que buscan comprovações sobre extraterrestres na Terra por meio de
testemunhas e evidências. Paradoxalmente, são muito criticados
pelas hard sciences pela falta de provas e hipótesis testáveis pelo
método científico tradicional. A justificativa dos ufólogos
costuma gerar em torno de um possível acobertamento de informações,
além da impossibilidade de uma compreensão empírica perante
fenômenos ainda desconhecidos da ciência atual. Tal entendimento
poderia colocá-los em contato com quadro metaempírico mais geral
designificados, como proposto por Hanegraaff para o entendimento das
espiritualidades seculares. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é
debater se essa ufologia “científica” retrata um modelo de
espiritualidade contemporânea secularizada.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(3)
Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Alerta OVNI: superstición platillista”,</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43409566/Alerta_OVNI_superstición_platillista"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/43409566/Alerta_OVNI_superstici%C3%B3n_platillista</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(4)
Iker, el mago del misterio. En 2009, Antonio Luis Moyano publicó
este libro biográfico en la editorial Nowtilus, de Madrid.
Francamente, me acabo de enterar ahora por este segmento difundido
por Academia y que comparto para quien quiera saber más del
personaje: </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/9712274/IKER_JIMENEZ_MENTIRAS_Y_MANIPULACIONES"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/9712274/IKER_JIMENEZ_MENTIRAS_Y_MANIPULACIONES</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(5)
Nunca se hablará suficiente de las numerosas ocasiones en que
pilotos han tomado el planeta Venus por un ovni. Véase el ensayo de
Manuel Borraz, “Venus, tráfico no identificado”:</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42949527/Venus_tráfico_no_identificado"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42949527/Venus_tr%C3%A1fico_no_identificado</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(6)</span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Scott R.
Scribner (Doctor en Psicología), su investigación doctoral examina
cómo los elementos de miedo y las imágenes de los medios de
comunicación que se encuentran en los relatos de abducción
alienígena publicados reflejan un proceso narrativo adaptativo para
la identidad personal. Este modelo puede demostrar, por ejemplo, cómo
los relatos de abducciones alienígenas más destacados se basan en
escenas traumáticas del cine y la televisión publicadas antes de
los supuestos acontecimientos. Su artículo "Toward a Psychology
of UFO Abduction Beliefs" (Hacia una psicología de las
creencias en abducciones) está en:</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
Alexander G. Keul (Psicología Ambiental, Universidad de Salzburgo,
retirado), un experto con larga experiencia en la investigación de
los rayos globulares acaba de publicar su artículo "A brief
history of ball lightning observations by scientists and trained
professionals" (Una breve historia de las observaciones de rayos
en bola por científicos y profesionales) en la revista </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>History
of Geo-and Space Sciences</i></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
12, 2021, páginas 43-56,</span></span></span><a href="https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/43/2021/" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/43/2021/</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Resumen.
</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Con
miles de informes de testigos oculares, pero pocos registros
instrumentales y ningún consenso sobre una teoría, el rayo en bola
sigue siendo un problema sin resolver en la física atmosférica.
Dado que las posibilidades de controlar este fenómeno transitorio
son escasas, parece prometedor evaluar los informes de observación
de científicos y profesionales capacitados. El siguiente trabajo
recopila 20 historias de casos publicados y añade 15 del trabajo del
autor y 6 de una base de datos rusa. Se presentan 41 casos de ocho
países, entre 1868 y 2020, en forma de resumen con una síntesis. La
colección de casos no pretende ser completa. Se añaden seis casos
influyentes o notables de rayos en bola. Se concluye que los casos
bien documentados de observadores entrenados pueden promover el
trabajo de campo y estimular y evaluar las teorías sobre los rayos
globulares. </i></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(8)
Joseph Baker, East Tennessee State University (Sociología y
Antropología), Christopher D. Bader (Chapman University) y F. Carson
Mencken (Baylor University), “A Bounded Affinity Theory of Religion
and the Paranormal”, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30734049/A_Bounded_Affinity_Theory_of_Religion_and_the_Paranormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.academia.edu/30734049/A_Bounded_Affinity_Theory_of_Religion_and_the_Paranormal</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">Resumen.
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Esbozamos
una teoría de afinidad limitada entre las experiencias y creencias
religiosas y lo paranormal, que enfatiza que las experiencias y
creencias religiosas y paranormales comparten similitudes
fisiológicas, psicológicas y ontológicas inherentes. A pesar de
estos paralelismos, los grupos religiosos organizados suelen
delimitar un estrecho subconjunto de experiencias y marcos
explicativos como aceptables y verdaderos, desterrando otros como
falsos o demoníacos. En consecuencia, la teoría ofrece una
definición revisada de lo "paranormal" como creencias y
experiencias explícitamente rechazadas por la ciencia y las
religiones organizadas. Para demostrar la utilidad de la teoría,
mostramos que, después de controlar los niveles de práctica
religiosa convencional, existe una relación fuerte y positiva entre
la afirmación de experiencias religiosas de base cristiana y la
creencia, la búsqueda y la experiencia de lo paranormal,
especialmente entre los individuos que no están fuertemente
vinculados a la religión organizada. La teoría de la afinidad
limitada da sentido a los recientes hallazgos de moderación no
lineal y compleja en la literatura empírica y reitera la importancia
de lo paranormal para los estudios de la religión.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(9)
Chris Rutkowski, veterano investigador canadiense y buen </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>connoisseur</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
del panorama ufológico en los Estados Unidos, ha escrito un artículo
en su blog el pasado 30 de abril que invita a una profunda reflexión:
“The Metamodern UFO, or UAP, or USO, or UAO, or whatever” (El
ovni metamoderno, o UAP, o USO o UAO o como le llamen), </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://uforum.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-metamodern-ufo-or-uap-or-uso-or-uao.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://uforum.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-metamodern-ufo-or-uap-or-uso-or-uao.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(10)
El Dr. Giulio Perrotta ha publicado el ensayo, “Alien Abduction
Experience: Definition, neurobiological profiles, clinical contexts
and therapeutic approaches” (La experiencia de abducción
extraterrestre: Definición, perfiles neurobiológicos, contextos
clínicos y enfoques terapéuticos) en </span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Annals
of Psychiatry and Treatment</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
4(1), 2020, páginas 25-29,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/APT-4-116.php"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/APT-4-116.php</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">(11)
Un recurso muy útil y práctico para el investigador y encuestador
lo hallará en el libro de Michael Maunder <i>Lights in the Sky</i> (Luces en el cielo), con el subtítulo “Identificar y entender los
fenómenos astronómicos y meteorológicos”, publicado en 2007 por
la prestigiosa editorial Springer: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846285622" style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846285622</span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(12)
Manuel Borraz, “Expediente 690225: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Una
puesta en hora”: Entre los numerosos expedientes ovni
desclasificados por el Ejército del Aire español en los años
noventa se encontraba el de la famosa observación del 25 de febrero
de 1969 desde un avión en vuelo desde Palma de Mallorca a Madrid.
¿Falsearon los militares el horario del incidente? La verdad está
ahí fuera...</i></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42949433/Expediente_690225_Una_puesta_en_hora" style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.academia.edu/42949433/Expediente_690225_Una_puesta_en_hora</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(13)
“Desmitificando el fenómeno OVNI” es el título de un libro
editado por Antonio Ángel Espino Maldonado, un investigador que ha
estudiado una selección de casos ovni de España y del extranjero:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08W35CLJF"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08W35CLJF</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña
invitada</u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>El
fenómeno ovni en Canarias desde 1981 a 2015, de Ricardo Campo</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u><br /></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Por
Manuel Borraz</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Publicado
por Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, 2020: </span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-decoration: none;">https://coliseosentosa.blogspot.com/2021/03/el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-1981.html</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_Hlk73260822"></a>
<span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Es
posible que usted ya tenga síntomas (“</span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>yo
creo que los ovnis existen y deben de ser...</i></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">”)
o puede que sea asintomático pero su curiosidad lo sitúe entre la
población de riesgo. En cualquier caso, le recomendamos esta
inyección en vena de 1.200 gramos impresos (casi 800 páginas) de
vacuna contra el virus conceptual del “fenómeno ovni“, elaborada
por Ricardo Campo, doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de La
Laguna.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">En
realidad, ésta es la segunda y última dosis. No es imprescindible
pero sí conveniente haber asimilado los 1.000 gramos de la primera,
disponible desde 2017 (“El fenómeno ovni en Canarias desde el
siglo XVIII hasta 1980”, Le Canarien Ediciones):</span></span></span><span lang="es-ES">
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4tcs97uy"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/4tcs97uy</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿QUÉ
ES EL VIRUS CONCEPTUAL DEL “FENÓMENO OVNI”?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Como
es sabido, el virus conceptual del “fenómeno ovni” (o de los
“platillos volantes”, denominación en desuso) apareció a
mediados del siglo XX y pronto adquirió connotaciones
extraterrestres, incorporando no sólo ADN de la ciencia ficción
popular sino también ADN forteano y teosófico, entre otros. Su
incidencia ha sido variable en el tiempo, registrándose olas tanto
de alcance local como global. Actualmente, el virus está extendido
prácticamente por todo el mundo y se considera que aún tendremos
que convivir con él durante mucho tiempo. Se desconoce qué tipo de
mutaciones seguirá experimentando (así, por ejemplo, la variante
marciana, otrora dominante, está hoy ya prácticamente extinguida).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿QUÉ
EFECTOS TIENE EL VIRUS?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Tratándose
de un virus conceptual, sus complejos efectos son de carácter
psicosocial.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">En
un caso típico, el virus puede estar latente y manifestarse cuando
la persona infectada observa un objeto aéreo que no puede reconocer.
El virus puede afectar entonces a la percepción e interpretación de
lo observado y, en consecuencia, a las reacciones del observador.
Pero también puede tener efectos en el recuerdo y posterior
transmisión de la información, así como en la difusión de la
experiencia por parte de terceros igualmente infectados.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Aunque
no es lo habitual, también se ha señalado la relación del virus
con episodios oníricos, alucinatorios o delirantes.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Una
alta incidencia del virus en la sociedad hace que la noción de
“fenómeno ovni” pase a ser un referente preferente a la hora de
aglutinar e interpretar una amplia gama de experiencias presuntamente
anómalas. Y es al amparo de la credibilidad social que adquiere ese
marco conceptual compartido cuando pueden proliferar también
historias inventadas, bromas y fraudes, perpetrados por sujetos no
necesariamente infectados que, sin embargo, acaban contribuyendo a la
propagación vírica.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">La
población infectada es </span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>negacionista</i></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">
y rechaza, en mayor o menor medida, la existencia del virus y sus
efectos, sosteniendo que lo que realmente existe es un “fenómeno
ovni”. La explicación extraterrestre, con diversos grados de
sofisticación, ha venido siendo la más popular entre los
infectados, aunque no la única.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿CÓMO
ACTÚA LA VACUNA?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Los
efectos del virus pueden estudiarse a partir de los relatos de las
experiencias −reales o ficticias− que llegan a ser relacionadas
por unos u otros con el “fenómeno ovni”.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Generalmente,
la exposición a esos relatos en bruto favorece la propagación del
virus. De hecho, basta una dosis de 150 gramos (un centenar de
páginas) o incluso menos para provocar una infección seria.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Ahora
bien, si se inyecta una dosis conteniendo los mismos relatos pero
debilitados mediante análisis crítico, exposición de dudas y
propuestas de explicación convencional, el efecto es justo el
contrario. Los mecanismos de cuestionamiento racional se refuerzan y
se fortalece la resistencia al virus.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Se
puede dar un paso más −como en el presente caso− y, en lugar de
inocular sólo una muestra selecta de casos, inyectar esos relatos
significativos diluidos en una muestra completa −lo más exhaustiva
posible− de toda la narrativa generada por el virus. Este
procedimiento proporciona una visión más amplia y contextualizada,
capaz de poner en evidencia las incoherencias y contradicciones del
presunto “fenómeno ovni”, ayudando así a combatir la imagen
idealizada que los infectados suelen tener del mismo. Esto, que sería
impracticable a escala nacional (y ya no digamos internacional) por
exigir dosis impresas de decenas de kilogramos, lo consigue la
presente vacuna limitándose a la cepa canaria.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿QUÉ
CONTIENE ESTA VACUNA?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Esta
segunda dosis de la vacuna del doctor Campo incluye una muestra
circunscrita a las islas </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Canarias
de relatos ufológicos de las décadas de los 80, los 90 y los quince
primeros años del presente siglo. Se trata de una vacuna de
composición transparente que especifica todas las fuentes de
información utilizadas.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Los
415 casos de la muestra han sido seleccionados con un criterio laxo
para evitar sesgos. Encontramos desde clásicas observaciones de
objetos volantes hasta encuentros con “humanoides” no asociados a
ningún artefacto volador y blancos radar no identificados de los que
no consta confirmación visual.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Para
garantizar la inclusión del máximo número de casos y, por tanto,
la exhaustividad de la muestra, los requisitos informativos exigidos
han sido muy básicos, bastando el mínimo conocimiento del año, la
isla y una fuente identificada. El autor no se ha conformado con
permanecer en el laboratorio manejando la información ya divulgada
sino que, en algunos casos en que ha sido posible, ha entrevistado a
los protagonistas para contrastar y ampliar detalles.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Campo
considera suficientemente explicado alrededor del 50% de los casos
canarios registrados hasta 2015 (un tercio de los casos explicados
tendrían causas astronómicas y alrededor de otro tercio causas
tecnológicas bien terrestres, como aviones, globos, proyectores de
luz...). En sus palabras, “el bajo ratio de soluciones se debe a la
falta de investigación de muchos de los informes por limitaciones de
tiempo y recursos, por su antigüedad, porque los testigos no se han
localizado o porque –y esto es cuantitativamente importante– la
información disponible era insuficiente para realizar una evaluación
cabal”. También señala el problema que supone, en la divulgación
de determinados casos, “el probable embellecimiento de los hechos
hasta hacer irreconocible cualquier causa evidente".</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">¿QUÉ
DIFERENCIA A ESTA DOSIS DE LA PRIMERA? </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Esta
segunda dosis con 415 casos canarios del periodo 1981-2015 tiene sus
propias particularidades si la comparamos con la primera dosis de 319
casos previos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Por
ejemplo, llaman la atención las fotos de ovnis inadvertidos por el
fotógrafo (aves, insectos), la entrada en escena de las “linternas
chinas” voladoras o la ausencia de observaciones de lanzamientos de
misiles desde submarinos como las que se dieron en la segunda mitad
de los años 70 (si exceptuamos la prueba de un misil </span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>Trident</i></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">
captada parcialmente por un astrofotógrafo desde La Palma el
10/9/2013, que pasó desapercibida).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Casi
un tercio de los casos incluidos en esta dosis tienen “como fuente
de información principal y en su mayoría única” a un
</span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>supercontagiador</i></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">,
el </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">periodista
Francisco Padrón Hernández, contactado y abducido. Entre 1987 y
2005 (año de su fallecimiento) desplegó una intensa actividad
difusora en la prensa local tinerfeña.</span></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">En
general, los relatos de este periodo ya no protagonizaron portadas de
prensa, en contraste con lo que ocurría en décadas anteriores. Por
otra parte, la mayoría de informaciones de los últimos lustros
incorporadas a la vacuna proceden ya del volátil ámbito de
Internet.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿CUÁL
ES LA EFECTIVIDAD DE ESTA VACUNA?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Si
bien el grado de inmunidad que otorga es variable −pues su
efectividad depende del tipo de convicciones y prejuicios de cada
persona y lo arraigados que estén− podemos considerar que se trata
de una excelente vacuna que no sólo tiene efectos profilácticos
sino también terapéuticos, aunque no consiga erradicar el virus en
infectados graves.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿Cómo
es posible que resulte eficaz cuando contiene un porcentaje nada
desdeñable de casos sin explicar? Por paradójico que parezca, esto
es posible cuando una vacuna reúne ciertas condiciones que refuerzan
su acción didáctica, a saber:</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span>Aporta
explicaciones razonables para buena parte de los casos principales
(los más conocidos y/o espectaculares). </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Buenos
ejemplos de ello son las observaciones de Venus del 12/2/1985 tanto
desde Lanzarote como desde un avión comercial, la falsa historia de
los seres tiroteados por militares en abril de 1991 en la playa del
Diablito (Mogán, Gran Canaria) o la ingeniosa broma del globo con
luces de La Frontera (El Hierro) del 12/8/1995.</span></span></p></li></ul>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adicionalmente,
explica una proporción suficiente de los casos restantes (los menos
notorios pero más abundantes), evidenciando cuantitativamente que
la narrativa ufológica no precisa de un auténtico “fenómeno
ovni” para existir.</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hace
patente que −exista o no un presunto “fenómeno ovni”− es
inevitable que queden casos sin explicar, ya sea por información
insuficiente o desvirtuada, o bien por la propia naturaleza de sus
causas (que pueden ser convencionales pero complejas, improbables,
de difícil verificación...).</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">El
desconcertante encuentro de Cueva Honda (La Frontera, El Hierro) de
octubre de 1996 podría servir de ejemplo de lo primero. Uno de los
dos protagonistas describió seis humanoides con muchas luces en
torno a sus cabezas, que se acercaban flotando por un lugar
inaccesible. La versión recogida por Campo años después, por boca
del segundo testigo, resultó ser mucho menos misteriosa,
refiriéndose simplemente a dos individuos que caminaban por una
vereda, uno de los cuales llevaba una luz a la altura de la mano.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif">El
avistamiento diurno de un extraño objeto en Isora (Valverde, El
Hierro) el 3/2/1995 −por citar otro ejemplo− nos da una idea de
las dificultades de la labor explicativa. Campo plantea que “es
posible que algún objeto cotidiano, arrastrado por una racha
localizada de viento, moviera a confusión a los testigos". Una
hipótesis tan verosímil como difícil de comprobar después de los
hechos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif">Evidencia,
además, que el conjunto de casos por explicar no ofrece una imagen
de fenómeno único y coherente, sino la misma heterogeneidad del
resto de la </span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif">muestra.</span></span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif">Así,
esta dosis de la vacuna incluye dos casos inexplicados
particularmente destacables, pero uno se refiere a un objeto que fue
descrito como un avión cayendo al mar (playa de Abades, Arico,
Tenerife, 9/7/1992) mientras que el otro involucró una pequeña
esfera luminosa evolucionando muy cerca de varios testigos durante
largo tiempo (La Victoria de Acentejo, Tenerife, 13/4/1993) –por
cierto, hay detalles de los testimonios de este caso que sugieren un
peculiar globo en forma de pez, inflado con helio−.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">¿TIENE
EFECTOS SECUNDARIOS?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">A
continuación se enumeran algunos de los efectos secundarios que
pueden aparecer durante la inoculación de la vacuna. Lejos de ser
“secundarios”, juegan un papel importante como refuerzo
emocional de la acción inmunizadora.</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sonrisas,
risas, estados de hilaridad (suscitados por relatos esperpénticos,
“pruebas” fotográficas que no demuestran nada...).</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Estupor,
estupefacción (por el alcance que llegan a tener meros rumores, por
la trascendencia que dan algunas personas a experiencias banales mal
interpretadas).</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tedio,
sopor (en los momentos en que los relatos pasan a ser una repetitiva
retahíla de anécdotas menores).</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Decepción,
indignación (por la ocasional escasez de datos e imposibilidad de
identificación de lo observado).</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Desde
círculos </span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES"><i>negacionistas</i></span></span></span><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">
del virus se ha denunciado que vacunas como ésta no son seguras
porque causan “estrechez mental” y alergia a los fenómenos
desconocidos. A largo plazo −afirman− las consecuencias serían
fatales para el avance del conocimiento científico. Sin embargo, no
hay evidencia de tales riesgos y, en todo caso, los beneficios de la
vacunación compensarían sobradamente cualquier eventual
inconveniente.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">En
los casi tres cuartos de siglo transcurridos desde la aparición del
virus conceptual del "fenómeno ovni", los negadores de la
epidemia no han aportado nada al conocimiento (ni siquiera han podido
probar que exista ese “fenómeno ovni” en el que creen). Si en
algún momento aparecen pruebas realmente sólidas de alguna anomalía
científica puntual que haya pasado desapercibida en algún rincón
de la narrativa ufológica, esas pruebas hablarán por sí solas,
independientemente del porcentaje de población vacunada. Pero
siempre será preferible afrontarlas inmunizados, lejos del ruido que
introduce el virus y su innecesario folklore.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">DISTRIBUIDORA:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">A
diferencia de la primera dosis de la vacuna, a cargo de Le Canarien
Ediciones, la segunda dosis nos llega de la mano de Coliseo Sentosa,
que se autodefine como una “pequeñísima editorial dedicada al
rescate y edición de joyas literarias de la ufología”. A pesar de
su corta existencia, ya cuenta con un excelente catálogo de obras. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">ADVERTENCIA:
</span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES">Si
el símil epidemiológico utilizado en esta reseña no es de su
agrado, no se preocupe. Palabras como ‘virus’ o ‘vacuna’ no
aparecen ni una sola vez en el libro. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span face="Century Gothic, sans-serif"><span><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: verdana;">Manuel
Borraz, mayo 2021</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_QRCDyrp_jY/YMeb7DQ3YGI/AAAAAAAACnM/wDoqKKIlNfgdTh5bCCyHqYZ19eU7a6BnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Canarias.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1305" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_QRCDyrp_jY/YMeb7DQ3YGI/AAAAAAAACnM/wDoqKKIlNfgdTh5bCCyHqYZ19eU7a6BnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Canarias.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Proyecto
Erks. Entre el mito y la ciencia</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Libro colectivo dirigido por Sebastiano de Filippi publicado por la
editorial Coliseo Sentosa en 2021,
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Proyecto-Erks-Entre-mito-ciencia/dp/B08WJY68GF/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.es/Proyecto-Erks-Entre-mito-ciencia/dp/B08WJY68GF/</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Doce
autores proponen en este volumen una aportación académica
definitiva, desde varias disciplinas complementarias, a los mitos
“platillistas” que rodean el cerro Uritorco y definen así su
trabajo: </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Hasta
el momento, el discurso tendencialmente esotérico en torno al cerro
Uritorco, la ciudad de Capilla del Monte, el centro intraterreno de
Erks y sus “próceres” –el osteópata Ángel Acoglanis, el
abogado Guillermo Terrera y el cineasta José Trigueirinho– fue
mayormente monopolizado por individuos con una característica en
común: el fin de adoctrinar y lucrar a través del engaño. Quienes
buscan (y a menudo logran) posicionarse como referentes en un ámbito
de frontera tan escabroso como este suelen presentarse como chamanes,
guías, contactados, gurúes, canalizadores, iniciados, maestros,
sacerdotes, profetas, santos, mesías o sanadores. Variopintos y a
veces en competencia, a menudo los une únicamente la carencia de
conocimientos y de escrúpulos. Con la difusión creciente que los
medios de comunicación masiva dan a los fenómenos aparentemente
inexplicables que a partir de 1983 parecen caracterizar a la “zona
Uritorco”, cada vez son más quienes entran en contacto con el
abanico de temas relacionados con las “otredades” de este paraje
de las serranías cordobesas, en ocasiones tornándose turistas
primerizos de la región. A ellos y a los que se acerquen al tema sin
preconceptos, con mente abierta y actitud crítica, está destinado
este libro, que conjuga la experiencia de doce profesionales
universitarios, quienes aportan su visión desde la antropología, la
arqueología, la historia, la sociología, la biología, la
quiropraxia, la psiquiatría, la psicología, el derecho, la
filosofía, la teología y el arte.</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">En
el blog de Alejandro Agostinelli FACTOR 302.4 se puede leer el índice
y el prefacio de Jeffrey J. Kripal:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2021/03/02/proyecto-erks/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://factorelblog.com/2021/03/02/proyecto-erks/</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Las
dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero
que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese
idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Paris,
Kentucky, 1949”. Una de las primeras fotos de ovnis post-Arnold
sirve de ejemplo como las Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses estaban
verdaderamente preocupas por investigar estos fenómenos. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
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Minutes Analyzed”, un repaso crítico al programa de televisión
emitido el pasado 16 de mayo en los Estados Unidos.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">The
Penultimate Leak from the US Navy”, donde se comenta la penúltima
filtración de videos ovni por parte de la marina de los EE.UU. a
diversos periodistas. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pcrAyH51vG4/YMecIp-xvxI/AAAAAAAACnc/24WMsSKADtw17K_K_Ug67mqNHIw_K2dbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1104/UAP%2Besf%25C3%25A9rico.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1104" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pcrAyH51vG4/YMecIp-xvxI/AAAAAAAACnc/24WMsSKADtw17K_K_Ug67mqNHIw_K2dbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAP%2Besf%25C3%25A9rico.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">*</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">“Redemption
of the Damned, Vol 2 – Sea & Space Phenomena” (La redención
de los condenados, Volumen 2. Fenómenos marinos y espaciales), el
segundo libro al alimón de dos grandes especialistas europeos,
Martin </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Shough
y Wim van Utrecht. Publicado por Anomalist Books, 2021.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W7szpM1E7nU/YMecNLQSbfI/AAAAAAAACnk/9hOKfQzDy-UQfmOFESxDFDdOAGJEQ27lgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1113/Fort.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="787" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W7szpM1E7nU/YMecNLQSbfI/AAAAAAAACnk/9hOKfQzDy-UQfmOFESxDFDdOAGJEQ27lgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Fort.bmp" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Mi
nieto Fernando (en el centro de la fotografía) ha cumplido ya cuatro
años. En la foto, con sus primos Matías y Lucas, escucha
atentamente las indicaciones de mamá Laura ante la gran tarta. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dfkRgTv1E6M/YMecR1pvlwI/AAAAAAAACno/eWhl9VNg6U0DC24ArGyzZMGLxlKtg4EGACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ni%25C3%25B1os.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1355" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dfkRgTv1E6M/YMecR1pvlwI/AAAAAAAACno/eWhl9VNg6U0DC24ArGyzZMGLxlKtg4EGACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ni%25C3%25B1os.jpg" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">Agradecimientos</u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">A
los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente
edición del blog: Fernando Soto Roland (Argentina), Alejandro
Agostinelli (Argentina), Kay Coggin (EE. UU.), Manuel Borraz Aymerich
(España), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Enrique Márquez (Argentina),
Barry Greenwood (EE. UU.), Brad Sparks (EE.UU.), Terry W. Colvin
(Tailandia) y Mikhail Gerhstein (Rusia).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>LIBROS
DEL AUTOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="69" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXMmVQcdFVw/YMeZ_6YyXsI/AAAAAAAACmI/nIgR9RLKq8QavBO6P2bBUwqGj32tJUtegCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h69/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
CUFOS, 1976</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></span></span></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Investigación
OVNI</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Plaza & Janés, 1984</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987 </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Expedientes
insólitos</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">,
Temas de Hoy, 1995</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>
</u></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">De
estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de
segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goZK4pS_vbg/YMeaQOQHOjI/AAAAAAAACmY/wM76KYvWnDMvLpj6FJv8Wdwo7DVzYDxoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h90/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></p><p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con O.J. Braenne), 2008</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>UFOs
and Government</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">(con
M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013 </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="break-after: avoid; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Wim van Utrecht), 2017</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="color: blue;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><u>The
Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">)
(con M. Borraz), 2020</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-decoration: none;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo
voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Entrega
de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos,
bibliografía, etc. </span></span></span>
</span></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones
para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente
correo electrónico:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></span></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-24797072010840481012021-03-06T09:25:00.799+01:002021-03-15T18:58:12.330+01:002021/MARCH/ (EN)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">English language editing: Martin Shough</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The current number of entries recorded in FOTOCAT is 12,731. Statisticians willing to perform analysis work, just have to ask! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Two Book Reviews of <i>The Marfa Lights</i></u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We are very proud to read Dr. David Clarke’s review of our book <i>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> in the issue #401 of the British magazine </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Fortean Times</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of December 2020, page 56. Clarke holds a Ph.D. in British folklore and cultural traditions and teaches investigative journalism in the Sheffield Hallam University. </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Fortean Times</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is the world’s leading publication on strange phenomena. Clarke writes: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The fully illustrated 174-page report is a classic example of what tends to happen when a rigorous scientific methodology is applied to extraordinary “evidence” of the type often associated with UAPs.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mentz Kaarbø, from the Norsk Ufosenter (Norwegian UFO Center), has authored a state-of-the-art article on the Marfa Lights, mostly based in our study. I quote this: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Manuel Borraz Aymerich have done a formidable and thorough job in explaining a phenomenon long regarded as a mystery.</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> It appears in the Norwegian journal UFO, #3, 2020, pages 18-21.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) <span>Online</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">:<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Print book: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Obama and UFOs</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every word vouchsafed on UFOs by a USA President is a remarkable revelation. Due to a huge number of requests, during Barack Obama’s presidency, the White House issued an official communique replying to people’s anxiety concerning what the US government truly knew about UFOs and aliens. It read in part: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye...The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.</i></span><b style="text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But there are people that do not listen to what they do not like to hear. It is kind of a selective audition. There is no firm, objective, non-speculative, non-paranoid reason to question Obama’s White House declaration. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last November 24, 2020, ex-president Barack Obama was interviewed for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show: President Obama Reflects On The Drone Program And "The Illusion That It Is Not War." One of the sections touched very briefly the topic of UFOs.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Let us put it in context, extracting the pertinent questions and answers, starting from minute 9:25:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q: <i>Did you ever ask for information and they said we can’t tell you?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: <i>No, but I will tell you that there were times when I asked for information and it came slower than I wanted.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then, Colbert makes a joke. It follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: <i>There are times when prying information out of the bowels over an agency can be challenging.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q: <i>UFOs. Did you ask about that?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: <i>Certainly asked about it.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Q: <i>And?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: <b><i>Can’t tell you, sorry.</i></b> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Colbert takes this as a yes. And says <i>If you would say there are none, there are none. You just 100% showed your cards</i>, while President Obama nonchalantly laughs, as if thinking: man, things are not so simple. And he says:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: <i>Feel free to think that.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Colbert says <i>I do and follows: It makes me happy to think you won’t tell me about UFOs</i>. (Is he guessing that a no comment reply means there are alien UFOs?)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A: (Making fun of the topic and laughing, Obama continues:) <i>Can I just say it used to be that UFOs was the, what is it, Roz, Roswell was the biggest conspiracy, and now that seems so tame, right, the idea that the Government might have an alien spaceship?</i> (Evidently, Obama, who hesitates before correctly spelling the name of Roswell, is comparing one absurd conspiracy with the latest horrible conspiracies aired by a number of maniac Trump followers.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It seems obvious to me that the unfeasibility of giving a clear reply to the question about UFOs by the ex-president is understandably due to Obama’s respect not to divulge military secrets. A “can’t tell” cannot cover UFOs as objects or phenomena of scientific nature, but as issues with military, national security implications: intelligence on other countries, espionage activities in one’s own homeland, etc. So clearly another slap to the face of those believers in plots regarding USA and alien civilizations visiting the Earth. But it will probably ignite the imagination of the conspiracy theorists. This is their problem. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notes</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1) Phil Larson, The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, September 22, 2011, <a href="https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet/">https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet/</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Q8MFjlQ2Y&feature=youtu.be" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Q8MFjlQ2Y&feature=youtu.be</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxUZg48Gy6Q/YENC44IAgiI/AAAAAAAACf8/XwekS0Y1eaQnuJPRW4u-qG1-n39mQzrPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s355/Obama.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="355" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxUZg48Gy6Q/YENC44IAgiI/AAAAAAAACf8/XwekS0Y1eaQnuJPRW4u-qG1-n39mQzrPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h169/Obama.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Barack Obama, interviewed by Stephen Colbert. Borrowed from the YouTube feature</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>James Oberg on DIA Interest in UFO Reports</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Military intelligence agencies being interested in UFO reports is an indication they believe 'UFOs are real". It equally plausibly could indicate they know they aren't. Videos such as recent missile launches in Russia and China and from around the world [and off it], over decades of observations, demonstrate how a collection of public observations [especially with video imaging] can provide insights into measurable characteristics of very interesting aerospace activities of highly classified or commercially private nature. The most fertile hunting ground for such worldwide reports over the last seventy-plus years has been the UFO literature, both print, oral, and now internet. Secondary sources might include astronomy club newsletters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Any national intelligence service anxious to appraise a potential adversary’s aerospace capabilities would therefore obviously seek hints in UFO reports and elsewhere, along with traditional espionage practices. Such an agency would also realize that an adversary’s recognition of the intelligence value of such generally-disregarded public reports could result in imposing censorship and thus a loss of such opportunistic insights. Any national military security service would recognize the symmetric informational vulnerability of their own highly secret aerospace activities if observed, misinterpreted, and reported as UFOs, if recognized overseas. As a defensive measure, such an agency would have to keep tabs on domestic UFO reports to detect any leakage of unrecognized clues to its own secret projects that it was responsible for protecting, that an insightful adversary might be able to exploit, in order to take steps to reduce [or scramble] easy observability. Consequently, a thorough national security program would have an excellent two-part justification for actively collecting and thoroughly assessing worldwide “UFO reports”, regardless of any potential additional stimuli.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliberate observable performances to calibrate actual accuracy of such reports might be a prudent measure. Deliberate activities to spoof adversary observers or evaluators might be feasible, even if merely to advertise to other intelligence agencies that such an information window was more unreliable than naively assumed. To preserve the value of such opportunistic unrecognized information resources, the agency’s justifiably-intense interest in such reports would necessarily have to be kept secret, or disguised, or misinterpretable. Additionally, a study of national ‘UFO reports’ is an excellent way to characterize the effectiveness and sensitivity and the blind spots of that nation’s aerospace monitoring technology, to identify exploitable weaknesses or single-point system failure possibilities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>DIA Releases Bigelow Aerospace UAP Work</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">United States UFO enthusiasts must be quite angry. 22 million bucks were spent in alleged UFO research (oh, sorry, I mean UAP), probably most of this amount invested in Bigelow Aerospace (UFO buff) contractor, with poor feedback on the findings and work done. Finally, some actual information is emerging. In December 2017, researcher Tony Bragalia submitted a FOIA request to the Defense Intelligence Agency, with this introductory terms: “Associated in the Department of Defense Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program of the US Pentagon (operating approximately 2009-2012) are warehoused in the Las Vegas, NV area scheduled to soon hold metal-like alloys recovered from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).” The requestor asked to be provided “with an Inventory List and all associated documentation of said material.” </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Response came on January 2021. DIA wrote back to state it has found 154 pages of “test results from the UAP material from Bigelow Aerospace”. See: </span><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (February 2021 entry).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lcj1gGiWUgA/YENDUpzCoxI/AAAAAAAACgE/qmDrq-lYvY4LlqCu21u3NGCsioJc_RtiACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DIA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lcj1gGiWUgA/YENDUpzCoxI/AAAAAAAACgE/qmDrq-lYvY4LlqCu21u3NGCsioJc_RtiACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DIA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the month of February, the media were alerted and hell broke loose. The easiest (and feeblest) interpretation is that it came from the true Roswell debris! It is good to be aware of more and more information on what AATIP/Bigelow Aerospace actually did with so much money, because I am convinced that we will realize it all was a waste. Can you image how many scientific papers <i>Nature, Science or The Astrophysical Journal</i> would have published if really outstanding findings on hypothetical extraterrestrial wreckage had been discovered during the period the AATIP was funded by US Defense (2008-2010)? It would represent a revolution in science. Have you heard anything about it? Not me. Bigelow’s work is, in the best of the cases, just <i>state-of-the-art in technology forecasting</i>, a regular topic in Defense sciences. Incidentally, the five reports provided are part of the 38 AAWSAP’s DIRDs produced, and these had already been disclosed to third parties. See: <a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program-aatip-dird-report-research/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program-aatip-dird-report-research/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John Greenewald has written a couple of worthwhile reading posts on this DIA release: <a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-real-story-behind-the-foia-request-and-ufo-debris-story-february-9-2021/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-real-story-behind-the-foia-request-and-ufo-debris-story-february-9-2021/</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/murky-waters-drowning-ufo-debris-claims/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/murky-waters-drowning-ufo-debris-claims/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>CIA and UFOs</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is sales disclosure time (but not what believers would dream of). In mid-2020, CIA consolidated in a CD-ROM its complete collection of UFO documents, 713 items, 2,780 pages in total, including prior releases of 1997 (1,260 pages) and 2012 (64 pages). It is sold for $10. In July 2021, J. Brewer disclosed a 33-page index to contents: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9-VMDZMk8DEbRQEBqWuXwj2qGl1oe4f/view" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9-VMDZMk8DEbRQEBqWuXwj2qGl1oe4f/view</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In January 2021, J. Greenewald of The Black Vault released the entire collection: <a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Presently, CIA’s online reading room includes 1,730 UFO items: </span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/UFOs" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/UFOs</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFO-Balloon in the Pakistan Air Space</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On January 23, 2021, an unidentified flying object was sighted and videorecorded from an airplane of the Pakistan International Airlines flying en route from Karachi to Lahore. The footage went viral immediately it was released to the local media: <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/513822-pilots-ufo-pakistan-video/">https://www.rt.com/news/513822-pilots-ufo-pakistan-video/</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncnTDxoxDk0/YENDseZYxrI/AAAAAAAACgM/1oqNFm2dvw8UjkJFn5f3qaZwwbB4kuATwCLcBGAsYHQ/s411/balloon%2Bcomma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncnTDxoxDk0/YENDseZYxrI/AAAAAAAACgM/1oqNFm2dvw8UjkJFn5f3qaZwwbB4kuATwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/balloon%2Bcomma.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was flight PK304, operated by an airbus A320, with apparently on time departure at 16:00 hours (local time, 11:00 UTC). This regular flight was scheduled to arrive at Lahore at 17:45 (12:45 UTC). The sighting occurred close to the town of Rahim Yar Khan (518 km from Karachi, midway between origin and destination, 1,025 km in full), so it happened at around 16:50 (11:50 UTC). Initially, it was connected with one of the Loon-type balloons whose mission is to expand internet access worldwide through stratospheric communication. Balloon #HBAL318 of this series ditched on the same day in the Indian Ocean, 8 km WSW of Medhukuburudhoo Island, in the Shaviyani Atoll, Maldives. This balloon was launched 35 days before from Puerto Rico. However, as we can see in the following map displaying the complete Loon trajectory from launch, the recovery point was never anywhere near the plane (actually, it was in the opposite direction), as the actual distance between the sighting spot and the fall location was 2,440 km. The killing issue here was the timing, as the splashdown took place more than five hours before the UFO sighting! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://stratocat.com.ar/globos/mapas/map_hbal318.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://stratocat.com.ar/globos/mapas/map_hbal318.html</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J0cgF9pST8A/YEND8XUFbHI/AAAAAAAACgU/cS0dsPGy338fQ6EL4U7uWNy1pLay7T3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1596/mapa.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1596" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J0cgF9pST8A/YEND8XUFbHI/AAAAAAAACgU/cS0dsPGy338fQ6EL4U7uWNy1pLay7T3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/mapa.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The featureless, spherical bright object carries sort of an appendage below, reminiscent of a balloon with its apparatus package or a solar panel. If not a research balloon (unlisted by Stratocat balloon data clearing house), was it a military one? The airplane was heading northeast and the Sun was behind it in the southwest (~232°N at ~24° height), allowing for a perfect reflection on something lighter than air in front of the aircraft. The region is geopolitically unstable and therefore prone to the emergence of flying, easily undetected devices to gather intelligence, eavesdropping, or tactical communication. I remember an incident in 2016 in Rajasthan (Indian state limiting with Pakistan) where a balloon-like object was intercepted and downed by an Indian jet fighter:</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQDOYI-xy8&feature=emb_logo" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQDOYI-xy8&feature=emb_logo</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fortunately, there are late news. Research source named "ufoofinterest" identifies the object as a weather balloon:</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sKDTvpGPM" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sKDTvpGPM</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>When Archetypes Land</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The tradition of using flying saucer landings and too-good-to-be-true photographs as journalist illustrations for April Fool’s Day is large in the USA. Newspapers have been carrying this type of photographs repeatedly, April 1, 1950 being probably the most recurrent date in the world-wide history of journalism. In other entries of this blog, I have shown funny examples. But surely the most original picture of this kind, hardly known in UFO circles, is that published in the <i>Lexington Leader</i> (Kentucky) of April 1, 1950. Not merely a single shot and a short caption but an elaborated story, a true tiny novel and two flying saucer photographs, one depicting the image of a big disc-shaped spacecraft closing to land “at 7:03 a.m. today,” preceded by the dropping of two transparent bubbles embedding one lady from Saturn each! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPMqdgtRPDg/YENEOhjIFWI/AAAAAAAACgc/XC-C3oODmuYe0Qpw61LqtYLkgduVXGg6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s810/inocentada.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="810" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPMqdgtRPDg/YENEOhjIFWI/AAAAAAAACgc/XC-C3oODmuYe0Qpw61LqtYLkgduVXGg6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/inocentada.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To give you a cursory idea of the tone of the narration, I am copying the main picture’s legend: <i>A large, silver disk swooped across the sky, nearer and nearer. When it was some 20 feet above the earth, a section of the bottom slide aside and two objects that looked like something like bubbles dropped out. As soon as the bubbles reached the ground, they collapsed, revealing two women believed to be from Saturn. This is what four people said they witnessed in a Fayette-county field this morning. Photographer Ralph Rooney said he was prevented from taking more pictures by four men, obviously from the same planet, who arrived in a kind of helicopter and spirited the women away. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In regard to this, I have a double commentary, both on precedents and on influences. On one hand, to highlight how this theme of small-sized spheres with male, female or robot characters inside has multiple precedents in the fiction literature. We see it even in art of centuries ago, like the famous Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights triptych (circa 1500-1505), exhibited in the Prado Museum, Madrid:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Py26PERGS3Q/YENEdiCXIqI/AAAAAAAACgg/Kv1x1jmPhaQ6RPIRshZZc-2eGE4SwUQCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1114/Bosco.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1114" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Py26PERGS3Q/YENEdiCXIqI/AAAAAAAACgg/Kv1x1jmPhaQ6RPIRshZZc-2eGE4SwUQCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bosco.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cropped image, borrowed from </span><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_delicias#/media/Archivo:El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_Delicias,_de_El_Bosco.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_jardín_de_las_Delicias_El_Bosco</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even Mother Nature conspires to produce optical effects extremely similar to a globe with a person within. This is the Brocken Spectre, a form of light refraction:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOH39LgyWCA/YENEzg47CTI/AAAAAAAACgs/eucGTuAcXZQ1iSRv3z7AYS592mgVi9StgCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/Brocken.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="903" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOH39LgyWCA/YENEzg47CTI/AAAAAAAACgs/eucGTuAcXZQ1iSRv3z7AYS592mgVi9StgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Brocken.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Image borrowed from </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/zoom/brockens-amazing-spectrum/">https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/zoom/brockens-amazing-spectrum/</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But, most importantly, the “inhabited” bubble pictorial concept is part of the American science fiction painting universe from, at least, the thirties of last century, as we can observe in the following illustrations from a variety of magazines and cartoons:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dj5fhLzISPg/YENFo4QUVpI/AAAAAAAACg0/xSNUbUjJwoMomc09uh8aEHkzJmyCTLz-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s841/01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="841" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dj5fhLzISPg/YENFo4QUVpI/AAAAAAAACg0/xSNUbUjJwoMomc09uh8aEHkzJmyCTLz-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h223/01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Thrilling Wonder Stories</i>, May 1940 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Flash Gordon comic strip, 1939</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EC-EHw3xWls/YENHSsDytHI/AAAAAAAACg8/c1uZODPe3jkar434g6oaKkZHE3o2RANDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s708/02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="708" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EC-EHw3xWls/YENHSsDytHI/AAAAAAAACg8/c1uZODPe3jkar434g6oaKkZHE3o2RANDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Super Science Stories</i>, November 1949 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Astounding Stories</i>, “Entropy”, March 1936</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxwHZ2DkbeU/YENHYYibkfI/AAAAAAAAChA/NSMNr73YvSo5GnVh5elqcw_tYcJqPS0SACLcBGAsYHQ/s708/03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="708" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxwHZ2DkbeU/YENHYYibkfI/AAAAAAAAChA/NSMNr73YvSo5GnVh5elqcw_tYcJqPS0SACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/03.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonder Stories</i>, March 1939 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Amazing Storie</i>s, March 1935</span></p></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vOKGss6j1Y8/YENHfKKloPI/AAAAAAAAChE/o9xykQ9mu-gLLnj9a1vg9awdurTH0WuWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s708/04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="708" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vOKGss6j1Y8/YENHfKKloPI/AAAAAAAAChE/o9xykQ9mu-gLLnj9a1vg9awdurTH0WuWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/04.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Astounding Science Fiction</i>, May 1938 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Brick Bradford, 1938</span></p></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yet the truly amazing thing, as far as UFO research is concerned, is that this motif took later the form of actual narrations reported by normal citizens in the years to come…which proves that the graphic imagination of pulp magazine illustrators is of the same order as the imagination of tale-spinning individuals all over the world. This reflection has the capacity for further academic study. In my view, after 50+ years of non-stop dedication to UFO investigation, I can safely conclude that all incidents of landings and humanoids that have been related over the past seven decades are false visions of the mind, some due to misidentification, some due to <i>ad hoc</i> hallucination or false recall and, probably, in a proportion higher than expected.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FelY6OYIZS0/YENIVVdH7cI/AAAAAAAAChU/g9KpAw_Wm8obtX3UDFvdM0l2uHjY2ICIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1907/05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1907" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FelY6OYIZS0/YENIVVdH7cI/AAAAAAAAChU/g9KpAw_Wm8obtX3UDFvdM0l2uHjY2ICIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/05.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Raveo, Italy, August 18, 1974. A. Chiumiento, <u>Alien Tra Noi</u>, pp 41-46 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Medulla, Florida, USA, October 18, 1968. <i>FATE</i>, May 1969, pp 44-50</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wsRema7XeFk/YENI80uHYNI/AAAAAAAAChc/BBV_jAwRInIwdSe1_EIPY8iqiNrxBd7JQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1235/06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wsRema7XeFk/YENI80uHYNI/AAAAAAAAChc/BBV_jAwRInIwdSe1_EIPY8iqiNrxBd7JQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/06.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August 28, 1963. Gordon Creighton, <i>FSR Special Issue</i> #3, <u>UFO Percipients</u>, 1969 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Maspalomas, Gran Canarias, Spain, June 22, 1976</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RZN_JjR5fjY/YE-f-0iQc0I/AAAAAAAACjU/9im24wrPUIolxjyWoUf2RU1ySUnvYeKZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RZN_JjR5fjY/YE-f-0iQc0I/AAAAAAAACjU/9im24wrPUIolxjyWoUf2RU1ySUnvYeKZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/07.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1947. © David Sankey/Spectre Artwork Studio - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gran Canaria, Spain, August 1959</span></span></p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U_s5t6w1zZs/YENKTlQV_5I/AAAAAAAAChs/WC97kC7-qpAVKvmpQlWglm69Na4ofMBFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1242/08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U_s5t6w1zZs/YENKTlQV_5I/AAAAAAAAChs/WC97kC7-qpAVKvmpQlWglm69Na4ofMBFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/08.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La Serena, Badajoz, Spain, June 26, 1987. Credit: P.M. Fernández - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sommerécourt, France, July 17, 1983. Credit: Raoul Robé</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TO6KdQWCYO0/YENLHFlSzdI/AAAAAAAACh0/NCF7kofobUYzdt_-d3BrimpSQhb1hSS-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1292/09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1292" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TO6KdQWCYO0/YENLHFlSzdI/AAAAAAAACh0/NCF7kofobUYzdt_-d3BrimpSQhb1hSS-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/09.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">San Francisco Solano, Argentina, July 20, 1965, Credit: <i>Cuarta Dimensión</i> - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Feignies, France, August 26, 1973</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In short, archetypes land…in people’s minds. This figuration rests in the collective unconscious, a sort of Jungian mandala, common in the subconscious inspiration, unreal, naturally, strictly creative, and imaginative, in which graphic artists and paperback writers, as well as narrators of close encounter experiences, coincide. <i>Everything is in the mind</i>. It is the fantasy expressed in comics, futuristic illustrations or stories of flying saucers and their humanoid passengers. The researcher of these alienating odysseys, of such aberrant stories of spaceship landings and the descent of their crews, must not succumb to ingenuity but confront with skepticism what it is told to them. Otherwise, the UFO student will only get to believe these fables and to deceive himself, entering, like those images I have shown here, into a bubble of vain illusion and spurious conviction, that is, a question of Faith. The opposite to Science and Certitude.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I cannot resist the temptation to include another newspaper prank from that April 1, 1950. Because it possesses another unusual feature: a landed object photographed from the air. That Saturday, <i>The Carey Progress of Carey</i>, Ohio, carried two exciting pictures of a flying saucer in flight and also grounded, wrapped with a story headed with this statement: “May Be Best Sighting Ever.” </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MHB_cxaOvzQ/YENL48cb1KI/AAAAAAAACh8/jsS7ZJJBiykwqfOg3Q3YUZyLLQ7ma50zACLcBGAsYHQ/s492/10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="492" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MHB_cxaOvzQ/YENL48cb1KI/AAAAAAAACh8/jsS7ZJJBiykwqfOg3Q3YUZyLLQ7ma50zACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The tale surrounding the two photographs published to prove the true occurrence of the UFO event, said that Project Blue Book officials at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, informed the newsmen that <i>the object spotted by various National Lime and Stone Company employees last Friday</i> [March 31st] <i>was “the most confirmed flying object that has ever been reported.”</i> The account continued as follows: <i>25 N.L. & S. workers, who have all asked to have their names withheld from publication, have undergone questioning and, according to officials at Wright-Patterson, have given stories “remarkably similar for an observance of this sort.”</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The journalistic article disclosed that the observers underwent psychiatric examination at the USAF base as well as intensive grilling on the details of their sighting. According to the military, they did actually see the saucer-shaped object. But fate seems to be playful and Progressor editor Stephen C. Zender was at the time and place riding aboard an airplane piloted by a friend when they spotted the strange craft. The story evolved like this: <i>A chase in the small aircraft proved futile as the UFO sped away from the plane at will. The two men lost sight of the craft at N.L. & S. and saw the craft land. The National workers who saw the strange object viewed it from the pit.</i> For Wright Pat officials, the spacecraft must have been having mechanical difficulty which forced it to land. Other sources reported that a strange object hovered over a power station near Crawford only minutes before it was sighted at Carey at 2 p.m. Typically, residents in that area had complained that their power had weakened Friday afternoon too. Obviously, the craft being extremely heavy crushed rock at its touch down site in a quarry. Huge, charred areas were also left at the place. Remember dear reader: this is literature of 1950, many years before the waves of “real” UFO close encounters allegedly leaving marks and electromagnetic effects. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I will shorten the narrative with its ending: <i>One of the men who made the sighting stated that none of them were frightened. “We just couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” he explained. “If it had been April 1, we would have probably believed it was just an April Fool’s joke,” he concluded. It probably would have been</i>, added the editor. Which speaks for itself. It is plain to see that in those years, journalists unleashed their talents as fiction writers with stories around the flying discs that were so swarming in the press. The April Fool’s Day was an excellent opportunity and many did not waste it, even anticipating the core of future UFO reports.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Miraculously, 18 years later a twin flying saucer appeared in a photo supposedly taken by the daughter of the infamous contactee Daniel Fry, in Merlin, Oregon. There is nothing new under the sun. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-134_TCu1L2w/YENMfXWj_DI/AAAAAAAACiE/8bOryW8HGa8xEE_NA9DUNuIlLF81u8qKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Merlin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-134_TCu1L2w/YENMfXWj_DI/AAAAAAAACiE/8bOryW8HGa8xEE_NA9DUNuIlLF81u8qKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Merlin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">© Tahalita Fry. Credit: AFU, Sweden</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Zdany, Poland</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 2006 I published a series of UFO photos taken on January 8, 2006 in the Polish city of Zdany. My interest was to generate comments and reactions: <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2006_06_30_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2006_06_30_archive.html</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ufZIKMb6UM/YENMnX0gxAI/AAAAAAAACiI/Os4d7-DamowFcqobPpDR1DpEbqfHkiGRACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Zdany.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ufZIKMb6UM/YENMnX0gxAI/AAAAAAAACiI/Os4d7-DamowFcqobPpDR1DpEbqfHkiGRACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Zdany.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thought these were non-legitimate pictures myself, and I wish not to have given the impression that somehow I was endorsing the photos, so I have asked photographic consultant Andrés Duarte to examine the images. His valuable remarks follow:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;">When the distance between a reflective sphere and another object is equal to the size of the latter, the maximum size of the reflection of the object that is seen on the sphere is equal to 23% of the diameter of the sphere, and the size of this reflection is reduced as that distance increases. The object in Zdany's photos is reflective and the sector of this object in which the reflections are seen is approximately spherical, so that the reflections seen on the object must obey the size ratio I explained above. The reflection of the tree canopy seen on the surface of the object in some of Zdany's photos has a width approximately equal to 20% of the diameter of the object which it implies, according to what I said before, that <u>the object is very close to the tree, which in turn implies that the object is small</u>. An empirical confirmation can be made by observing the reflections formed on a reflective sphere of any size.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjRJfYTsAaw/YENM1F2eoNI/AAAAAAAACiQ/z8ZAQU_C07E3KGELCRsvQADT1Iphcsf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjRJfYTsAaw/YENM1F2eoNI/AAAAAAAACiQ/z8ZAQU_C07E3KGELCRsvQADT1Iphcsf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/closeup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">Invited Articles</u></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In “ufology” (the terrain devoted to study reports of UFOs), wild claims on extraordinary flying machines and their occupants count by thousands. After 70+ years of such accounts, no material, non-anecdotal evidence came to light. The prospect of a mind-related response is more than obvious for a portion of those tales. In any case, the need for in-depth study of the witness (the raw material sustaining the reports) is more and more a subject covered by both amateurs and academics. The following two articles address the crucial issue of witness reliability. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ACCURACY OF TESTIMONIES – INFLUENCES ON THE MEMORY PROCESS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jochen Ickinger</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When evaluating eyewitness testimonies, the focus is currently not on the general credibility of the person, but on the credibility of the concrete testimony, its accuracy and reliability. This is to be evaluated independently of the reputation or the general credibility of a person, which can only hint at a credible testimony</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. In addition, there are many influences that can encourage false testimonies, be it a deliberate lie, error or suggestion. Since the fallacy is more widespread than the conscious lie, which also applies to reported UFO sightings, relevant influences on the three stages of the memory process (perception, memory, recollection) that affect memory capacity and can cause errors are presented below</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Influences on perception</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the perception, the following variables can be identified, which influence the perception of event information</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4,5,6</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. physical and sensory conditions. These include the external conditions under which the perception takes place, such as spatial and temporal conditions (visual conditions, observer position, movement situation), e.g. the observation took place outdoors, through a window, with auxiliary means, in motion or in a stationary position.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. social and psychological conditions, which include differences in perception based on expectation and experience. This includes the priming effect, in which one's own ideas, convictions, expectations, knowledge or previous experience influence the perception</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. This is an effect that needs to be taken into account when observing unknown phenomena. This problem is partly considered via the question of thematic bias of UFO witnesses.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. distribution and allocation of attention. Was it a targeted observation or rather a random perception on the periphery? Was the witness able to devote his full attention to the event and how long did the observation last? Was the witness busy with something else?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4. personal situation (emotional situation) in which the witness is at the time of observation. Was he or she relaxed, stressed, excited or angry, tired or wide awake, or did the event itself lead to particular emotional states in the witness? Such personal emotional states can make it difficult to record the entire event accurately and above all objectively and soberly.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Influences on memory</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Perceptions are not stored unalterably in memory, but are also subject to influences. A main factor here is time. The more time passes between the event and the interview situation, the greater the risk of changes in the original perception. In concrete terms, there are two influencing factors:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. the forgetting curve. Forgetting is a normal process to which most memories are subject to a larger or lesser extent. The forgetting curve is not linear over the years and varies in intensity depending on the event. Thus, autobiographical or important personal events are remembered predominantly even after several years, while those with little or no personal significance are subject to high memory loss. However, all memories become weaker over time, most clearly within the first months or first one or two years. After that, the forgetting curve becomes slower</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8,9</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Childhood memories as an adult should be evaluated particularly carefully.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. suggestive influences (misinformation). Subsequent information obtained by witnesses after the actual event can distort and alter memories. This so-called misinformation effect is triggered, for example, by conversations and exchanges of opinions with other people or witnesses or by media information</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. This effect must also be taken into account in the case of UFO sightings, since phenomena unknown to an observer cannot be calibrated on known objects and they then deal with them, seek possible analogies and make interpretations. In a later questioning, details may be described that were not observed originally, because they were interpreted or adapted based on subsequent information. This change in one's own memory occurs unconsciously, so that the witness believes he is telling the truth.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Media influence is of great importance in UFO sighting waves, so that further witnesses who have observed something may interpret it accordingly in the context of the depicted information and report sightings (social contagion)</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Influences on recollection and reproduction (interview)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the interview situation, witnesses are expected to recall and replay their memories of the event in question correctly and comprehensively. However, there are also influences that can influence the result, the final witness report. For this again two major factors can be described:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. reproduction by the witness. Distortions in the reproduction by levelling (simplifying details), accentuation (emphasizing details) or assimilation (changing and adjusting details)</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The witness's verbalization ability and language skills also play a role in the description of the event. Here it is recommended that the interviewer use what is known as active listening and pay attention not only to what is said, but also to how it is said. An audio recording of the questioning is recommendable in order to be able to understand the situation later if necessary.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. suggestive influences by the interviewer. Suggestive questions or question techniques can also lead to false information in the interview situation. For example, corresponding misleading questions can lead to witnesses reporting things that were not there in the first place</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Therefore a neutral and open questioning should always be used. Even questions about details that are not well remembered because they were not given sufficient attention can lead to misinformation effects. Suggestive influences can be minimized by using the cognitive interview</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Is the certainty of a witness an indication of correctness?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Is the own conviction of a credible witness that he is able to remember with certainty an indication for the correctness of his memory performance? This argument is often put forward by investigators, especially when the witness reports his observation factually. Yet, studies show that subjective conviction is not related to objective accuracy, as the brain constantly fills in the gaps in the experience with expectations, thoughts and stereotypes. It is therefore misleading to assume that a very convinced witness is also a good witness</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15,16</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The testimonies of witnesses who believe they can remember everything even after a long time must be viewed with greater skepticism than testimonies of witnesses who admit to memory gaps. Testimonies of witnesses who want to tell the truth with honest and convinced intent can thus be subjectively true but objectively false due to erroneous statements.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Conclusions</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Making testimonies about events in the past is a complicated and very error-prone process and faultless recall is not the rule but the exception. Selective perception and different conditions during the event distort the perceived information. Subsequently, memory content changes through suggestive influences, reflections become facts and existing information is lost or filled up by invented details. Memory details are further distorted by suggestive questioning. An investigator can only try to conduct a cognitive interview as soon as possible after the event in order to obtain reasonably reliable memories. However, it is not possible to draw a reliable conclusion about an objective reality, so that the deduction of abnormal object characteristics in UFO sightings from witness testimonies lacks a scientific basis.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><u>Notes</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">1. cf. Fiedler: Die Überprüfung der Glaubhaftigkeit von Aussagen, in: Frank Stein (ed): </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Grundlagen der Polizeipsychologie, Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2003, p. 183.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">2. cf. Steller/Volbert: Glaubwürdigkeitsbegutachtung, in: Steller/Volbert (ed): </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Psychologie im Strafverfahren: Ein Handbuch, Bern 1997, p.15</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">3. cf. Aronson et al.: Sozialpsychologie, 4th ed., Pearson Studium, 2004, p. 13</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">4. cf. Aronson et al.: Sozialpsychologie, 4th ed., Pearson Studium, 2004, p. 588 ff.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">5. cf. Loftus/Loftus/Messo: Some Facts about «Weapon Focus», Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 11. No. 1, 1987, p. 55–62</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">6. cf. Greuel et al.: Glaubhaftigkeit der Zeugenaussage, Beltz/Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1998, p. 32.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">7. cf. “Priming“, at Online Lexikon für Psychologie und Pädagogik, available at <a href="https://lexikon.stangl.eu/1378/priming/">https://lexikon.stangl.eu/1378/priming/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">8. cf. Greuel et al.: Glaubhaftigkeit der Zeugenaussage, Beltz/Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1998, p. 30</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">9. cf. Hafter: Strategie und Technik des Zivilprozesses, Einführung in die Kunst des Prozessierens, 2nd ed., Zürich 2011, p. 19</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">10. cf. Greuel et al.: Glaubhaftigkeit der Zeugenaussage, Beltz/Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1998, p. 33</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">11. cf. Abrassart: The beginning of the Belgian UFO wave, in SUNlite, Vol 2 No 6 2010, p. 21-23 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">12. cf. Bartlett: Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1932</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">13. cf. Loftus/Palmer: Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory’, Journal of verbal Behavior 13, 1974, p. 585–589.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">14. cf. Geiselmann/Fisher: Ten years of cognitive interviewing, in D.G. Payne & F.G. Conrad (ed): Intersections in basic and applied memory research, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1997, p. 291-310</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">15. cf. Aronson et al.: Sozialpsychologie, 4th ed., Pearson Studium, 2004, p. 595</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">16. Lindsay et al., 1981, cit. after Aronson et al.: Sozialpsychologie, 4th ed., Pearson Studium, 2004, p. 595</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THREE SIMPLE TESTS TO EYEWITNESS RELIABILITY</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ulrich Magin</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The main sources of our knowledge about UFOs are eyewitness reports. These are often treated, by believers and sceptics alike, like reliable accounts of something external that has actually happened. But how reliable are eyewitness reports (not to speak about human perception)? </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are three ways to find out – in simple exercises that anyone can do, and without going into specialist jargon of the psychologists (although there exists a large body of academic papers and investigations that confirm the simple things I am about to say here).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Misperception during perception</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In Marklohe, Lower Saxony, Germany, a 64-year-old hunter shot a 44-year-old comrade in mid-March 2020 because he thought he was a deer in a distance. (web.de 2020) In Germany, the completion of an official hunting exam is required to get a hunting license. One can say, therefore, that a hunter is an expert in his or her field. Still, at least a dozen people are killed each year in Germany by hunters who believe them to be boars, or roe, or deer, even when they wear flashing orange safety vests. (Magin 2020a).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A recently published French study presents 29 cases from 1976 alone (of a total of 138 UFO cases reported in that year) where people mistook the full moon for an alien spacecraft that had landed in their garden – surely, a misperception several times more massive than misperceiving a bolide for a spaceship. (Maillot et al. 2019).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In other cases, people have watched the disintegration of a bolide in the earth’s atmosphere and reported rocket-like spaceships with windows! (Borraz Aymerich 1990, pp. 15–24). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">People have seen, and reported in great detail, volcanoes that erupted – in regions with sandstone or limestone where no eruption has taken place for millions of years. (Magin 2011, p. 127–163). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even pilots are prone to make mistakes: A recent “drone manufacturer DJI, and an Academy of Model Aeronautics study found only 27 out of 764 drone sighting reports by aircraft pilots were legitimate near misses.” (Anon. 2020). </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Perception is far from certain, and sometimes fatal. You can test this yourself by going to google news and entering “hunter” and “mistake”, or “pilot” and “mistake”. There are updates each day!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Changes over time</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kenneth Arnold, the first UFO witness, changed the story what he had seen several times over the years – regarding size, behavior, and appearance of the half-moon-shaped objects he saw on 24 July 1947.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In autumn 1866, Maria Schrott saw a tatzelwurm, a kind of dragon in the Alps in South Tyrol, when accompanied by her husband – or so she told researchers in the 1930s. However, as she was 78 in 1934, she would have been married at an age of 10 or 11 years. Clearly, time distorts memory. (Steinböck 1934, p. 459).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mrs. Winifred Cary saw the Loch Ness monster for the first time in 1918. Or in 1920. Or in 1917. Depends on when and whom she told of her report. It was “as big as a whale and the hump must have been at least six or seven feet out of the water.” Yet, in another retelling, it was “over 20 feet long and about 4 feet above the water”. She saw the monster dozens of times, and no two lists of her sightings can agree. Even Roland Watson, who is a strong promoter of the monster’s reality and Ms Cary’s reliability, has to admit: “The one big difference in the two accounts is that she told Cooke the hump rose to about six or seven feet out of the water whereas she told Dinsdale it was about four feet. Moreover, one account says it was a quarter mile from Temple Pier, but the other says a mile. […] The only quibble with the fifth sighting is one is stated as happening in August 1962 and the other states August 1963.” (Watson 2020). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">An English couple, the Spicers, allegedly encountered the Loch Ness monster on a road in 1933. It was six to eight feet long and carried a lamb in its mouth. The Spicers changed his story after his initial report. When asked by researcher Constance Whyte in 1957, they complained that people had made fun of him: “Reports were circulated that the Monster had been seen ‘with a lamb in its mouth’; this and other distorted or incomplete accounts were common at the time and, much to the annoyance of Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, were frequently repeated afterwards.” To Mrs. Whyte they now said that “[o]n reflection, [they] decided that it must have been the end of the tail.” Regarding the size of what they had seen, the Spicers started to enlarge the six to eight feet previously given. In an interview with Tim Dinsdale in 1960 the Spicers judged the length as 25 feet (7.5 m), Nick Witchell has, in the middle of the 1970s, 30 feet (9 m). (Magin 2011, p. 210–11) Stories row, eyewitness reports adapt to criticism.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One can test this phenomenon by following up interviews if eyewitnesses over a range of time, although admittedly this is arduous. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Group sightings</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sometimes, more than one witness observes an anomalous phenomenon. Generally, in the literature, the main witness is quoted, and the remaining ones confirm what he or she has just said. At other times, someone has the presence of mind to interview the witnesses separately. Often, very different stories emerge.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In November 1960, 50 pupils of Fort Augustus School watched the Loch Ness monster for 10 minutes. Their master collected 47 individual reports. Not two agree. There are some who observed one hump, others two hums, some three humps, there were those who saw a head and neck, or a tail, some who said it was always above the surface, some who saw it dive etc. A multitude of reports should give us more certainty, bit that is not always the case. If a monster had appeared, with three humps and a head and neck, those who saw only one hump seriously misperceived. If it was only a wave, those who reported a monster misperceived. We do not know what was there to be seen, the only lesson we learn is: eyewitness reports per se are faulty. (Burton 1961, p. 26–35).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On 4 February 1977, children at school recess in Broad Haven, Wales, saw a landed UFO in a nearby field. 15 kids were interviewed. To some it looked like two saucers piled on each other, and it hummed. Another kid saw landing gear. Still another a silvery man with pointed ears. Another said the UFO looked like a saucer with a cupola on top, and an orange light. Some said the UFO appeared suddenly, others said it came out of a bush. No two reports or drawing of the craft agreed. If there was a humanoid at the saucer, the 14 witnesses who did not see it were mistaken. If not, one witness was mistaken. How can we judge whose report can be relied on and which one is not? (Pugh & Holiday 1981, p. 21–31).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This confusion can grow as time passes, and not only perception, but memory gets faulty. Early in the 1960s, Mildred Nye was present when a giant 5 m long tadpole-like sea creature was carried away on a lorry at Orford in England. Monster experts Tim Dinsdale researched the case – only to learn that monster had been a common 3.3 m long blue shark, just half the size and girth of the “tadpole”. Yet Ms Nye was an honest reporter, her memory just had been distorted to the extreme. (Dinsdale 1976, p. 151–155).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are mot random problems. In two longer papers (Magin 2020b, Magin 2020c), I have listed first 22, then 17 instances where reports by more than one witness have separately been protocolled, and there were gross distortions and disagreements in each case.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Conclusions</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We can only see how reliable an eyewitness account is when we can check it against a known object. If the witness portrays a fire balloon, Venus, a meteor, or a plane, we can judge whether he or she is a reliable reporter, because we do know what the objects look like, independent of the witness. This is why we can certainly discern IFOs or identified flying objects. We can calibrate the tale we are being told.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On the other hand, we have no “real UFO”. We cannot evaluate whether a report tells us anything about a genuine UFO. We cannot calibrate it against something we know and find out how accurate the report is. This is why categories like Problematic UFO, Good UFO, or Best UFO are completely senseless and worthless. We only have eyewitness reports talking about them, and these cannot be calibrated, as we do know nothing about Good UFOs, or Best UFOs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is an old hat. Aimé Michel wrote, already in 1958, “An isolated phenomenon – one that evades not only systematic experiment but even systematic observation – cannot be the subject of scientific inquiry; it is at best a historical fact; and if its truth is in question it is not even that. […] Hitherto the only ‘study’ of saucers that has been possible has been analysis of the reports of witnesses after sightings. But this is not the scientific method. The analysis of testimony properly belongs to the law courts and to history, which attempt to weigh human uncertainties; for the present at last, science cannot apply its methods there.” (Michel 1958, p. 13).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UFO reports are just that, reports, and the science that takes care of reports is humanities, and all research says such reports are unreliable and cannot constitute proof of anything we do not know.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><u>Notes</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Anon.: Hu-hum or not? Fortean Times 391, April 2020, p. 17</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Borraz Aymerich, M.: Meteoros con ventanillas. Cuadernos de Ufologia, 2ª época, no. 9–10, 1990, pp. 15–24</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Burton, Maurice: The Elusive Monster. London. Hart-Davies 1961</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Dinsdale, Tim: The Leviathans. London: Futura 1976</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Magin, U. (2020a). Zuverlässigkeit von Augenzeugenberichten. UFO-Information, <a href="http://www.ufo-information.de/index.php/aktuelles/weblog/463-zuverlaessigkeit-augenzeugen-bigfoot">http://www.ufo-information.de/index.php/aktuelles/weblog/463-zuverlaessigkeit-augenzeugen-bigfoot</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Magin, U. (2020b). Das Problem der Gruppensichtungen. JUFOF (in press) </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Magin, U. (2020c). Problemfall Gruppensichtung. UFO-Information. <a href="http://www.ufo-information.de/index.php/aktuelles/weblog/466-gruppensichtung-augenzeugen-ufo">http://www.ufo-information.de/index.php/aktuelles/weblog/466-gruppensichtung-augenzeugen-ufo</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Magin, U.: Investigating the Impossible: Anomalist Books 2011</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Maillot et al.: Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: the ‘Saros Operation’. Research into the Paranormal, vol 50, November 2019. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Michel, Aimé: Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery. Criterion 1958</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Pugh, Randall Jones & Holiday, F. W.: The Dyfed Enigma. London: Coronet 1981</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Steinböck, Dr. Otto: Der Tatzelwurm und die Wissenschaft. Der Schlern, 1934, p. 459</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Watson, Roland: The Monster Sightings of Winifred Cary 2020) <a href="http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-monster-sightings-of-winifred-cary.html">http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-monster-sightings-of-winifred-cary.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">web.de. <a href="https://web.de/magazine/panorama/jaeger-jagd-erschossen-34542650">https://web.de/magazine/panorama/jaeger-jagd-erschossen-34542650</a>, 23.03.2020</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) Case #111 of the book Wonders in the Sky (J. Vallée and C. Aubeck) describes the observation of a fleet of seven mysterious lights that were seen during four consecutive Saturdays falling over El Puig (Valencia, Spain), in the year 1237. The conjunction of J.C. Victorio, M. Borraz and J.A. Fernández has given the legend its correct perspective. It is read in the indispensable blog Misterios del Aire (in Spanish): <a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/12/maravillas-en-el-cielo-7-el-puig-1237.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/12/maravillas-en-el-cielo-7-el-puig-1237.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) The following BBC feature commemorates the 40</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> anniversary of the legendary RAF Woodbridge/Rendlesham incident in England: </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This requires to be complemented with Dr. David Clarke’s unique interview with the MoD UFO desk officer, Simon Weeden, who dealt with the incident in 1980-81. He confirms that nothing was seen on radar and the incident was filed away as of no significance at the time:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/12/26/rendlesham-ufos-40th-anniversary-the-man-from-the-ministry-speaks-for-the-first-time/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/12/26/rendlesham-ufos-40th-anniversary-the-man-from-the-ministry-speaks-for-the-first-time/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Not to forget that the whole incident was triggered by a 3 a.m. fireball, as Ian Ridpath notes. “This is an aspect that often gets overlooked, yet it is crucial. Without that initial stimulus there would have been no Rendlesham Forest UFO case,” <a href="http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham1d.html">http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham1d.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3) The following photograph was declared extraordinary by the “Hessdalen Project”, but in reality it has a most prosaic origin, as shown by the study carried out by Christophe Spitzer Isbert and Gilles Fernandez, who proposed the most plausible hypothesis to explain the lights that appear in this image and in the video that would have been obtained on the same occasion: military flares of the type that are launched from fighters as an infrared decoy. The analysis can be read here: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31659349/Report_on_Aerial_Phenomena_Observed_near_Hessdalen_on_September_20_th_2007_An_alternative_Hypothesis_is_proposed" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Aerial_Phenomena_Observed_Hessdalen_Alternative_Hypothesis_is_proposed</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SUGYkvmjA3w/YENPQoktelI/AAAAAAAACic/_xs9WpM90rI2sNKsyATc1ZcM_FejhGnqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s695/Hessdalen.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="695" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SUGYkvmjA3w/YENPQoktelI/AAAAAAAACic/_xs9WpM90rI2sNKsyATc1ZcM_FejhGnqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hessdalen.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Sciencenter.no (Bjørn Gitle Hauge). Picture reproduced here under the "Fair Use" permission granted by copyright legislation for scientific, non-commercial purposes </span> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4) Last year, the <i>Annals of Psychiatry and Treatment</i> published the paper “Alien abduction experience: definition, neurobiological profiles, clinical contexts and therapeutic approaches,” by the psychologist and forensic criminologist Giulio Perrotta. It appears to be a major work by the amount of research done and the clear-cut conclusions achieved: <i>The phenomenon of “alien abductions” seems to have a clear psychopathological origin. In the absence of definitive evidence, especially in terms of “alien” implants, the conclusions are clearly oriented towards a clinical diagnosis that finds its basis between voluntary mystification for gainful or psychological purposes (for example, the need to attract the attention of borderline and histrionic personalities), post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and/or sleep disturbances associated with personalities with psychotic traits and (in severe cases) psychotic profiles.</i> Find it here:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43296592/Alien_abduction_experience_definition_neurobiological_profiles_clinical_contexts_and_therapeutic_approaches">https://www.academia.edu/Alien_abduction_neurobiological_clinical_therapeutic</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(5) Manuel Borraz’s 2010 study of the 1965 Fort-de-France (Martinique) UFO sighting has just been translated into French by Gilles Munsch and Éric Maillot, it is now located on Academia.edu:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/45042165/Gerald_Michel_Jacques_Les_observations_de_Fort_de_France_1965_en_perspective" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Gerald_Michel_Jacques_Les_observations_de_Fort_de_France_1965_en_perspective</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(6) A masterly work entitled “Prehistoric art and science fiction: the challenges of scientific divulgation,” by Alberto Lombo Montañés (Ph.D., sciences of antiquity, University of Zaragoza). The text is in Spanish, with this abstract in English: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Prehistoric art has been used as an evidence of the visit of extra-terrestrials during prehistory. The theory of the Ancient Astronauts is part of an esoteric prehistory whose origins go back to the nineteenth century. This theory was popularized by Von Däniken in the sixties of the last century and has been recently brought up in the film Prometheus (2012) by Ridley Scott, where the horses of Chauvet are shown. Why do the Chauvet horses appear in an alien movie? Herein we present the main ideas of the esoteric prehistory in relation to prehistoric art in order to try to understand the huge success of this theory in the collective mentality. </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">See: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2t9l8mlv" style="font-family: helvetica;">tinyurl.com/2t9l8mlv</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7) David V. Forrest, "Alien abduction: a medical hypothesis," <i>Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry</i>, Fall 2008, Vol. 36, No. 3, pages 431-432. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Abstract: <i>In response to a new psychological study of persons who believe they have been abducted by space aliens that found that sleep paralysis, a history of being hypnotized, and preoccupation with the paranormal and extraterrestrial were predisposing experiences, I noted that many of the frequently reported particulars of the abduction experience bear more than a passing resemblance to medical-surgical procedures and propose that experience with these may also be contributory. There is the altered state of consciousness, uniformly colored figures with prominent eyes, in a high-tech room under a round bright saucer-like object; there is nakedness, pain and a loss of control while the body's boundaries are being probed; and yet the figures are thought benevolent. No medical-surgical history was apparently taken in the above mentioned study, but psychological laboratory work evaluated false memory formation. I discuss problems in assessing intraoperative awareness and ways in which the medical hypothesis could be elaborated and tested. If physicians are causing this syndrome in a percentage of patients, we should know about it; and persons who feel they have been abducted should be encouraged to inform their surgeons and anesthesiologists without challenging their beliefs, </i></span><a href="https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jaap.2008.36.3.431" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jaap.2008.36.3.431</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(8) UFO museum in Argentina, a visit by History professor Fernando Soto Roland: </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41341092/UN_MUSEO_DE_OTRO_MUNDO_EL_MUSEO_OVNI_DE_VICTORIA" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/MUSEO_DE_OTRO_MUNDO_EL_MUSEO_OVNI_DE_VICTORIA</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(9) “Beliefs and opinions about the existence of life outside the earth: The UFO Experiences Questionnaire (UFO-Q),” by Álex Escolà-Gascón, Mary O’Neill and Josep Gallifa: </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291121000206" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291121000206</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10) Mare Kõiva, “Angels and Demons in the Contemporary Personal Experiences. Changing of Mythological Beings and Experiences,” 1998, Jawaharlal Handoo; ISFNR 11th Congress papers. Abstract: <i>The paper investigates the belief narratives and beliefs at the end of 20th century: 1) interpretations of unusual personal experiences; 2) replacement of older mythological beings with new phenomena (UFOs and aliens, etc.); 3) reinvention of rituals and belief (transferring diseases to trees, creating shrine or a sacrificial site of their own)</i>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/6414332/Angels_and_Demons_in_the_Contemporary_Personal_Experiences_Changing_of_Mythological_Beings_and_Experiences" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Angels_Demons_Personal_Experiences_Changing_of_Mythological</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(11) Explaining UFO waves through the psycho-social hypothesis (in French): “Expliquer les vagues d'ovni dans le cadre du modèle socio-psychologique,” by Jean-Michel Abrassart, in R. Evrard and E. Ouellet, <i>Vers une sociologie anomalistique: Le paranormal au regard des sciences sociales</i>, Editions Universitaires de Lorraine (Nancy, France), 2019, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41498286/Expliquer_les_vagues_dovni_dans_le_cadre_du_mod%C3%A8le_socio_psychologique" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Expliquer_vagues_dovni_dans_cadre_du_modèle_socio_psychologique</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(12) The yearly report of UFO cases reported to the Argentine Air Force during 2020 has been released, authored by Commodore Rubén Lianza of CIAE: </span><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(13) In Spanish: 100 Pictures of Extraterrestrials, by Luis Ruiz Nóguez, <a href="https://bit.ly/36f7p7K">https://bit.ly/36f7p7K</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>What You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u> <u><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></u></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">The two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you to practice your Spanish by reading some articles not translated into English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content):</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Invited article, “Sobre la falacia del residuo” (On the fallacy of the residue), by Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Invited book review by Luis Ruiz Nóguez of <i>Érase una vez en ovnilandia, Tomo 3</i> (Once upon a time in UFOland, volume 3), authored by Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Spain), Dr. David Clarke (UK), Ian Ridpath (UK), Manuel Borraz Aymerich (Spain), Kay Coggin (USA), Mauricio Fuentes (Chile), Dr. David V. Barrett (<i>Fortean Times</i>, UK), Chris Aubeck (Spain), Luis R. González (Spain), Martin Kottmeyer (USA), Wim van Utrecht (Caelestia, Belgium), Clas Svahn (AFU, Sweden) , Björn Borg (FUFORA, Finland), Luis Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Jaime Servera (Spain), Laurent Chabin (France), Gilles Munsch (France), David Sankey (England), James Oberg (USA), Álex Escolá (Spain), Joan Plana (Spain), Commodore Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Diego Zúñiga (Germany), Julio Plaza del Olmo (Spain).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BkfedOgvqqA/X_mTu3EZ_rI/AAAAAAAACbw/BinddoBbPpsC63RtPnSka6eIKpiUBMztACLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BkfedOgvqqA/X_mTu3EZ_rI/AAAAAAAACbw/BinddoBbPpsC63RtPnSka6eIKpiUBMztACLcBGAsYHQ/w588-h101/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="588" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u>, 1976, </span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u> (UFO Investigation), 1984</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs), 1987,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u> (Unusual Files), 1995</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UNILIBER: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFMz8fxcFDM/X_mUNHFqAlI/AAAAAAAACb4/PHpsGae2x2UzT2iSKagYzhjBeT_8T-YjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="103" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFMz8fxcFDM/X_mUNHFqAlI/AAAAAAAACb4/PHpsGae2x2UzT2iSKagYzhjBeT_8T-YjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w367-h103/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="367" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012, </span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (with Wim van Utrecht), 2017,</span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007) </u>(with M. Borraz), 2020, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are several options you can follow: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>*</b> </span>Volunteer work, onsite or remote *</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc. *</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations to help defray research expenses. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to: </span><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es" style="font-family: helvetica;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>
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2021/MARZO (ES)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: red;">BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT</span></b> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A esta fecha, el catálogo FOTOCAT recoge 12.731 casos. Aquellos estadísticos e investigadores que necesiten información, sólo tienen que pedirla. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Dos reseñas de nuestro libro <i>The Marfa Lights</i></u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Estamos muy orgullosos de señalar la reseña del Dr. David Clarke sobre nuestro libro <i>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</i></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> en el número 401 de la revista británica <i>Fortean Times</i> de diciembre de 2020, página 56. Clarke tiene un doctorado en folclore británico y tradiciones culturales y enseña periodismo de investigación en la Universidad de Sheffield Hallam. <i>Fortean Times</i> es la publicación líder mundial sobre fenómenos extraños. Clarke escribe: <i>El informe de 174 páginas, ampliamente ilustrado, es un ejemplo clásico de lo que tiende a suceder cuando se aplica una metodología científica rigurosa a la “evidencia” extraordinaria del tipo que a menudo se asocia con los UAP.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mentz Kaarbø, del Norsk Ufosenter (centro ovni noruego), es autor de un artículo de vanguardia sobre las luces de Marfa, basado principalmente en nuestro estudio. Escribe allí: <i>Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Manuel Borraz Aymerich han hecho un trabajo formidable y minucioso al explicar un fenómeno considerado durante mucho tiempo como un misterio</i>. Aparece en la revista noruega UFO, número 3, 2020, páginas 18-21. Gracias a ambos. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) Online<span style="font-size: x-small;">: </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Libro impreso:</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>La DIA informa sobre los trabajos “ovni” de Bigelow Aerospace</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Los entusiastas de los ovnis de Estados Unidos deben estar bastante cabreados. Se gastaron 22 millones de dólares en una supuesta investigación UFO (lo siento, quería decir UAP), la mayor parte de cuya cantidad se invirtió en el contratista Bigelow Aerospace (Bigelow es un creyente en los ovnis extraterrestres), al no disponer de gran información sobre los hallazgos y el trabajo realizado. Finalmente, está surgiendo alguna documentación concreta. En diciembre de 2017, el ufólogo Tony Bragalia presentó una solicitud FOIA a la Agencia de Inteligencia de Defensa (DIA), con estos términos introductorios: “Asociados al Programa avanzado de identificación de amenazas aeroespaciales (AATIP) del Departamento de Defensa del Pentágono de los EE. UU. (operativo aproximadamente entre 2009 y 2012) están almacenados en Las Vegas, Nevada, aleaciones similares a metales recuperadas de fenómenos aéreos no identificados (UAP)”. El solicitante pide que se le proporcione "un inventario y toda la documentación relativa a dicho material". La respuesta llegó en enero de 2021. La DIA respondió indicando que había encontrado 154 páginas de "resultados de pruebas de material de UAPs de Bigelow Aerospace". Ver: <a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com">https://www.ufoexplorations.com</a>/ (entrada correspondiente a febrero de 2021).</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lcj1gGiWUgA/YENDUpzCoxI/AAAAAAAACgE/qmDrq-lYvY4LlqCu21u3NGCsioJc_RtiACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DIA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lcj1gGiWUgA/YENDUpzCoxI/AAAAAAAACgE/qmDrq-lYvY4LlqCu21u3NGCsioJc_RtiACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DIA.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En el mes de febrero se alertó a los medios y se desató la marimorena. ¡La interpretación más fácil (y más débil) fue que esos análisis procedían de los verdaderos restos de Roswell! Es bueno saber cada vez más sobre lo que AATIP/ Bigelow Aerospace realmente hicieron con tanto dinero, porque estoy convencido de que nos daremos cuenta de que todo fue un desperdicio. ¿Puede el lector imaginarse cuántos artículos científicos se habrían publicado en <i>Nature, Science o The Astrophysical Journal</i> si de verdad se hubieran analizado hipotéticos restos extraterrestres durante el período en que el AATIP fue financiado por el ministerio de Defensa estadounidense (2008-2010)? Representaría una revolución en la ciencia. ¿Ha oído algo al respecto? Yo no. El trabajo de Bigelow es, en el mejor de los casos, lo último en <i>vigilancia tecnológica</i>, un tema habitual en las ciencias de la defensa. Por cierto, los cinco informes proporcionados ni eran exclusivos ni nuevos, ya que forman de los 38 documentos “DIRD” producidos durante el programa AAWSAP/AATIP y estos ya fueron divulgados a terceros hace tiempo: </span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program-aatip-dird-report-research/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program-aatip-dird-report-research/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John Greenewald ha escrito un par de artículos clarificadores que vale la pena leer sobre este material: </span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-real-story-behind-the-foia-request-and-ufo-debris-story-february-9-2021/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-real-story-behind-the-foia-request-and-ufo-debris-story-february-9-2021/</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/murky-waters-drowning-ufo-debris-claims/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/murky-waters-drowning-ufo-debris-claims/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>La CIA y los ovnis</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Es momento de rebajas en la divulgación de documentos oficiales (pero no aparece lo que los creyentes soñaban con descubrir). A mediados de 2020, la CIA consolidó en un CD-ROM su colección completa de documentos ovni, 713 artículos, 2.780 páginas en total, incluidas las desclasificaciones anteriores de 1997 (1.260 páginas) y 2012 (64 páginas). Se vende por diez dólares. En julio de 2021, J. Brewer reveló un índice de su contenido en 33 páginas: </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9-VMDZMk8DEbRQEBqWuXwj2qGl1oe4f/view" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9-VMDZMk8DEbRQEBqWuXwj2qGl1oe4f/view</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En enero de 2021, J. Greenewald, dueño del sitio web The Black Vault, hizo pública la colección completa de documentación: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En la actualidad, la biblioteca virtual de la CIA incluye un total de 1.730 referencias distintas: </span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/UFOs" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/UFOs</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Zdany, Polonia</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En 2006 publiqué una serie de fotos de ovnis tomadas el 8 de enero de 2006 en la ciudad polaca de Zdany. Mi interés fue generar comentarios y reacciones: <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2006_06_30_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2006_06_30_archive.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ufZIKMb6UM/YENMnX0gxAI/AAAAAAAACiI/Os4d7-DamowFcqobPpDR1DpEbqfHkiGRACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Zdany.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ufZIKMb6UM/YENMnX0gxAI/AAAAAAAACiI/Os4d7-DamowFcqobPpDR1DpEbqfHkiGRACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Zdany.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yo mismo pensaba que se trataba de fotografías no legítimas y no me hubiera gustado dar la impresión de que de alguna manera estaba respaldando las fotografías, así que le he pedido al consultor fotográfico Andrés Duarte que las examine. Estos son sus valiosos comentarios:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cuando la distancia entre una esfera reflectante y otro objeto es igual al tamaño de éste último, el tamaño máximo del reflejo del objeto que se ve sobre la esfera es igual al 23% del diámetro de la esfera, y el tamaño de este reflejo se reduce a </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">medida que aumenta aquella distancia. El objeto de las fotos de Zdany es reflectante y el sector de este objeto en que se ven los reflejos es aproximadamente esférico, de manera que los reflejos que se ven sobre el objeto deben obedecer a la relación de tamaño que expliqué arriba. El reflejo de la copa del árbol que se ve en la superficie del objeto en algunas de las fotos de Zdany tiene un ancho aproximadamente igual al 20% del diámetro del objeto lo que </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">implica, de acuerdo con todo lo que dije antes, que <u>el objeto está muy cerca del árbol, lo que a su vez implica que el objeto es pequeño</u>. Puede hacerse una confirmación empírica observando los reflejos que se forman en una esfera reflectante de cualquier tamaño.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjRJfYTsAaw/YENM1F2eoNI/AAAAAAAACiQ/z8ZAQU_C07E3KGELCRsvQADT1Iphcsf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjRJfYTsAaw/YENM1F2eoNI/AAAAAAAACiQ/z8ZAQU_C07E3KGELCRsvQADT1Iphcsf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/closeup.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Artículo invitado</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El Dr. Félix Ares de Blas detenta una abultada bibliografía en ufología científica entre los pasados años sesenta a noventa. Para los más jóvenes, Ares de Blas tiene un currículo imponente, entre otros méritos es doctor en Informática e ingeniero superior de Telecomunicaciones, ha cursado varios másteres (desde el MBA hasta criminología), ha sido profesor titular en el área de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores en la Universidad del País Vasco y director del Kutxa Espacio (Museo de la Ciencia de San Sebastián). Es el comunicador científico por excelencia. Coautor con David Gustavo López del sobresaliente trabajo “El fenómeno OVNI. Análisis de 30 años de observaciones en España”, que constituye una pieza de insustituible lectura: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Le he pedido que escriba para este blog un ensayo de fondo sobre un error metodológico en el que incurren muchos ufólogos, que consiste en pensar que en el mínimo resto de sucesos que no se ha explicado todavía (el “residuo”) puede todavía encontrarse algo nuevo y sustancialmente distinto -una anomalía- para la ciencia. Este artículo es verdaderamente alimento para el intelecto y es un privilegio presentarlo aquí y ahora. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">SOBRE LA FALACIA DEL RESIDUO</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas (</span><span style="font-family: times;">Febrero de 2021)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Es habitual que muchos ufólogos (no todos) admitan que se han explicado el 95% o más de casos de supuestos ovnis, pero que queda un residuo cuya explicación es que se trata de naves extraterrestres tripuladas o de algún otro fenómeno desconocido para la ciencia (una anomalía). Desde los años ochenta del siglo pasado, he sostenido el argumento de «la falacia del residuo»</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Una crítica diría que en todas las ciencias hay residuos y que son esos casos los que la hacen evolucionar. Ahora, muchos años después, comprendo que la razón de esa crítica es que posiblemente me expliqué mal. Hoy voy a intentar explicarme mejor. Para hacerlo, lo primero que tengo que hacer es diferenciar entre residuos falsos y residuos verdaderos. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Residuos falsos</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Hagamos el siguiente ejercicio mental. Imaginemos una protociencia</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> observacional en la que se trata de determinar si un hecho es de un tipo o de otro. Un ejemplo podría ser tratar de determinar a partir del registro fósil en un yacimiento determinado si allí había tan solo dinosaurios de sangre fría o si también los había de sangre caliente, que son mucho menos abundantes. Supongamos que hay un 95% de observaciones que son sumamente claras: son de sangre fría; pero que hay un 5% dudoso. En nuestro ejercicio mental, vamos a suponer que, en el caso de los dudosos, la investigación exhaustiva de los fósiles para llegar a una conclusión lleva dos años. Y vamos a suponer también que en todos los casos el resultado final será que son de sangre fría. Hay un intervalo de tiempo de dos años, en los que existen unos cuantos casos inexplicados, a los que vamos a llamar </span><b style="font-family: times;">residuo</b><span style="font-family: times;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">La existencia de ese residuo no significa absolutamente nada. No significa que hay un 5% de casos de dinosaurios de sangre caliente. Significa que todavía no sabemos la respuesta. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Hablemos ahora de ovnis y más concretamente de observaciones de ovnis en España. Digamos que tenemos un corpus de varios miles de observaciones. Digamos que los ufólogos, poco a poco, han ido explicando los casos y que solo quedan un 5% de inexplicados. Pero ocurre un fenómeno curioso, según va pasando el tiempo, parte de los inexplicados se convierten en explicados. Realmente, de los casos clásicos –de los que tenemos suficientes datos como para poder hacer una investigación– no queda ninguno sin explicar</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Pero se ha tardado mucho tiempo en encontrar una solución. Durante ese tiempo han aparecido muchos más casos, de los cuales el 95% son claramente objetos identificados y un 5% son inidentificados. O, mejor dicho, inidentificados </span><b style="font-family: times;">de momento</b><span style="font-family: times;">. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Por lo tanto, que en una proto ciencia observacional (la ufología) haya un 5% de «residuos» significa muy poco. Quiere decir que la proto ciencia todavía no está madura y poco más. Basarse en eso para demostrar ciertas hipótesis <u>es a lo que yo llamé la falacia del residuo</u>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Residuos verdaderos</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Críticos han señalado son precisamente las anomalías (los residuos) son los que hacen avanzar a la ciencia. Es obvio que en toda ciencia hay residuos y que estos pueden ser el origen de nuevas teorías sumamente interesantes. Por poner tan solo tres ejemplos, el movimiento retrógrado de Marte era un «residuo» muy mal explicado por la teoría geocéntrica</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">, pero se explicaba perfectamente con la teoría heliocéntrica. Ese «residuo» sirvió para establecer con toda claridad el heliocentrismo</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. La precesión del perihelio de Mercurio era una anomalía (llamémosla «residuo») que la física Newtoniana no explicaba, pero que sí lo hacía la Teoría General de la Relatividad. La «catástrofe del ultravioleta» era una anomalía que no se correspondía con la física clásica y dio origen a la mecánica cuántica, etc.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">En el desarrollo de la ciencia, las anomalías son muy importantes. Y soy absolutamente consciente de ello, pero todas las anomalías en ciencia tienen unas características muy claras:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">PRIMERA: para que algo se pueda definir como anómalo debemos saber qué es lo normal. Lo normal debe ser definido de modo claro y de forma que cualquier investigador sepa si ante un cierto hecho (o relato) pertenece o no a la categoría de normal. Eso exige una definición positiva. No sirve la definición negativa que suele dar de los ovnis, porque es negativa<b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></b>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">SEGUNDA: todo estudio que se haga debe ser <b>repetible</b>. Si alguien hace un estudio, pero no puede replicarse por grupos de investigadores independientes (en este texto he usado «laboratorio» como sinónimo), difícilmente se puede considerar ciencia. Ese fue, por ejemplo, el caso de Lisenko<b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></b> o de los rayos N<b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></b>. Para que sea repetible, una vez más, es imprescindible que la definición sea positiva.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">TERCERA: a la hora de establecer una hipótesis explicativa de la anomalía esta debe ser falsable en el sentido de Popper</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">CUARTA: Entre dos hipótesis explicativas, hay que elegir la que menos elementos extraños introduzca</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Quizá sea bueno señalar que, aunque la navaja de Occam no es una necesidad estricta de la ciencia, sí que ha contribuido enormemente a su evolución. Un ejemplo de la aplicación de Occam es la diferencia entre la teoría de epiciclos (que era falsable) y la copernicana (que también era falsable). La de Copérnico necesitaba muchísimos menos entes explicativos que la de los epiciclos. Un hecho no siempre evidente es que Occam actúa sobre varias teorías </span><b style="font-family: times;">falsables</b><span style="font-family: times;">. Cuando Copérnico lanza su teoría, era menos precisa que los epiciclos de Tycho Brahe, que era tremendamente compleja. Pero Copérnico/Kepler era más simple: más elegante.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Vayamos al tema de los avistamientos de ovnis. Hay una serie de ellos que no se pueden explicar en un momento dado. Posteriormente se explican, pero en el intervalo de tiempo transcurrido, han surgido nuevos casos, y algunos no han sido explicados todavía. Y muchos ufólogos se agarran a esos casos aún inexplicados como a un clavo ardiendo para salvar su hipótesis.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Creo que aquí es donde me expliqué </span><span style="font-family: times;">mal en un antiguo trabajo</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Para entenderlo hay que situarse en aquella época y ver qué decían y hacían los ufólogos del momento. Y muchos, hacían lo que he explicado más arriba. Aunque todos los casos anteriores a ese momento del tiempo habían sido explicados, siempre había un residuo inexplicado </span><b style="font-family: times;">en los nuevos. Cuando yo hablaba de «la falacia del residuo» me refería a esos «residuos» que van siendo distintos en el tiempo, los no explicados <u>todavía</u></b><span style="font-family: times;">. «Los antiguos han sido explicados, pero los nuevos no». Esa era la falacia que yo quería señalar. Aunque todos los casos fueran explicables, como hay un retraso entre su aparición y la explicación, hay un intervalo de tiempo donde hay un conjunto de inexplicados. Y esa es la falacia, es posible que se expliquen en el futuro, pero de momento no están explicados. Pero dado que no cumplen ninguna de las cuatro exigencias que debe cumplir un residuo verdadero, esa «no explicación» no significa absolutamente nada; mejor dicho: significan muy poco.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">También se ha criticado dar un salto absolutamente ilógico entre el 5% de inexplicados</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> y la falacia de la hipótesis extraterrestre. Hay que señalar que, en aquellos residuos, fuera su número el 5% o el 90%, no había nada que obligase a pensar en naves extraterrestres</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Simplemente eran acontecimientos para los que no teníamos explicación. La mayoría de aquellos ufólogos, no todos, decían que no-explicación era igual a extraterrestre. Hoy en día creo que está claro para todos los ufólogos serios que </span><b style="font-family: times;">no explicado significa no explicado</b><span style="font-family: times;">, no extraterrestre. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Quiero insistir en el tema de que los experimentos (o las observaciones) sobre residuos deben ser repetibles. El movimiento retrógrado de Marte, la precesión del perihelio de Mercurio o la catástrofe del ultravioleta podían ser comprobados por todos. Eran hechos repetibles. Para que algo se convierta en «residuo» <b>debe ser una anomalía en el seno de una hipótesis</b>. Si no hay hipótesis, difícilmente se puede hablar de normalidad o anomalía.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">El movimiento retrógrado de Marte era anomalía en el sistema geocéntrico, que era una teoría muy bien expuesta y matematizada. La precesión del perihelio de Mercurio era una anomalía en la teoría Newtoniana, igualmente descrita con precisión y matematizada. La catástrofe del ultravioleta era una anomalía en la teoría clásica del electromagnetismo, ni que decir tiene que perfectamente expuesta y matematizada. Pero ¿los no-identificados son una anomalía respecto a qué teoría? Si no hay teoría, difícilmente puede haber anomalía. Y aquí no me queda más remedio de insistir en la idea de que «teoría» en el sentido científico tiene un significado muy distinto del que tiene en el lenguaje popular. Una teoría científica es el mayor estatus que puede tener una idea científica. Es algo perfectamente verificado cientos o miles de veces.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Los ovnis hablan de observaciones</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Las observaciones, es decir, los relatos, pueden convertirse en repetibles, pero ello exige una teoría y una metodología. Eso en algunos casos es lo que hacen, por ejemplo, los sociólogos. Pero, debo insistir en que ellos tienen unas metodologías que han probado ser efectivas. ¿Cuál es la teoría de los ufólogos? ¿Cuál es su metodología probada y contrastada?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">En el tema de los avistamientos de ovnis, nos encontramos con relatos únicos, para los que no tenemos metodología para hacer experimentos/estudios que sean replicables. Entre otras cosas porque <b>no hay una definición positiva de ovni</b>. Por lo que incluir un caso en la lista de no-identificado o no incluirlo, va en los gustos o la creencia de los investigadores. No hay una forma única de hacerlo. Al no ser única, no es repetible. Esa falta de definición positiva hace que sea imposible la repetición. Pero, aunque ese es un problema tremendo, no es el único problema. Hay muchos más. Uno de ellos es el mismo con el que se encuentran todas las ciencias que se basan en los testimonios: criminólogos, jueces, policías, etc. Los testimonios son muy frágiles. La memoria de los testigos es muy imprecisa y, lo que es mucho peor, es sumamente plástica, maleable e influida por mitos y creencias. Los criminólogos, sociólogos, psicólogos ... han establecido formas rigurosas de obtener un testimonio con el <b>menor</b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> número de deformaciones posibles, y, así y todo, experimento tras experimento, se demuestra que es sumamente difícil saber lo que hay de realidad en lo que cuenta un testigo. Eso ocurre con expertos bien formados en técnicas de entrevista contrastadas y verificadas en laboratorio. Además, se hace sobre temas cotidianos bien conocidos; por ejemplo, en un accidente de coche, qué coche chocó contra quién y de qué color era el vehículo o el semáforo. Cuando se trata de un suceso inusual los testimonios empeoran y los estereotipos cobran mayor importancia. Se ven vírgenes o brujas cuando se cree en vírgenes o brujas, canales en Marte si crees que es un planeta habitado, rayos N si crees en ellos, u ovnis cuando se cree en ovnis.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Vayamos por un momento al testimonio de alguien que ha visto un ovni. Le interrogan generalmente ufólogos sin ninguna formación en técnicas de entrevista, y, lo que es peor, muchos de ellos van con ideas preconcebidas de lo que es un ovni. Isabel Loftus</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> demostró que introducir falsos recuerdos en los testimonios era sumamente fácil. Inducir una respuesta, debido a cómo se ha hecho la pregunta, es muy habitual. Entonces, de lo que me llega que ha dicho el testigo, ¿cuánto es real y cuánto inducido por el entrevistador? Lo que es peor, una vez que se ha introducido la falsa memoria, el testigo se cree que lo falso es lo real. Por lo tanto, si tras el ufólogo poco formado va un investigador bien formado, el testigo le contará las falacias que ha metido en su mente el primero</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. (Y no, no estoy fantaseando, en Estados Unidos fueron condenados muchos padres porque el entrevistador de turno había metido el recuerdo de falsas violaciones</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">). Esto plantea un problema metodológico terrible. Por ejemplo, si elaboramos un método estadístico para analizar los testimonios y estos coinciden con los estereotipos, no hay forma [al menos yo no la conozco, aunque intuyo algunos métodos de análisis covariante] de saber si es debido a lo que el testigo presenció o a lo que ha sido introducido como falso recuerdo, por los ufólogos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Otro tema sumamente importante, es que la hipótesis que se haga para explicar los testimonios (que no hechos), debe ser falsable. La hipótesis extraterrestre, tal como se presenta usualmente, no lo es. Se trata de una hipótesis todopoderosa, que lo mismo explica una cosa que la contraria y todas sus intermedias. La hipótesis extraterrestre para los ovnis es equivalente a la hipótesis “dioses” para la geología. ¿Por qué hay fósiles marinos en la cumbre el Everest</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">17</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">? Respuesta: porque los dioses lo hicieron así. ¿Por qué si retrocedemos en el registro fósil vemos la forma en la que unos organismos van cambiando progresivamente? ¿Por qué las rocas sedimentarias hablan de una edad de la Tierra muy superior a lo que dice la Biblia? Porque los dioses hicieron el mundo así. La hipótesis dioses no es falsable. La hipótesis extraterrestre (tal como está concebida), tampoco. La </span><b style="font-family: times;">no-falsabilidad</b><span style="font-family: times;"> es la forma de saber si algo es con seguridad una creencia.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Por fin, quisiera comentar un último detalle, en su día, David G. López y yo mismo dirigimos un grupo de investigación en la universidad Complutense de Madrid, que trató de que la definición de ovni fuera positiva, para que se pudieran hacer estudios repetibles. Con esa definición en la mano, establecimos una serie de filtros computadorizados, para diferenciar ovnis de no-ovnis. Por muy mal que estuviera hecho, había un método REPETIBLE, para que otros investigadores pudieran llegar a nuestras mismas conclusiones o refutarlas y para ir perfeccionando la metodología. Se trataba de una metodología, muy primaria, con muchos errores, pero un principio que nunca fue continuado. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Una cosa interesante de aquel estudio es que los no-ovnis y los ovnis mostraban los mismos parámetros estadísticos. Es decir, el residuo (ovnis) mostraba las mismas características que los no-ovnis. De ahí que pensar que el residuo era algo distinto –en nuestro estudio– era una falacia. <b>La falacia del residuo</b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Residuos para hacer ciencia</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Para concluir, quisiera decir que cuando el residuo (por pequeño que sea) se obtenga a partir de observaciones repetibles (lo que exige una definición positiva), que se hayan obtenido a partir de entrevistadores entrenados en técnicas de interrogatorio, que esos entrevistadores hayan sido los primeros en llegar, tendremos que considerarlos dignos de recibir el nombre de anomalía. Pero<b> que sean residuos de verdad, no falacias</b>. Yo mismo he planteado muchas veces, que de la basura se pueden sacar diamantes. Los relatos ovni son esencialmente basura; según la sabiduría clásica, al utilizar el dicho informático «basura de entrada, basura de salida»</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19</span></b><span style="font-family: times;"> nos dejaría sin ninguna posibilidad de sacar los diamantes. Yo soy de los que piensan que «basura de entrada, debidamente procesada = diamantes de salida». El problema es encontrar la buena forma de procesarla</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">20</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Tuve la inmensa suerte de participar en un proyecto de la NASA de espacio profundo. En su día tuve que firmar un convenio de confidencialidad para poder acceder a los datos, pero supongo que cincuenta años después ya no tiene vigencia. Cuando descubrí el truco para obtener imágenes de Marte que se emitían por un emisor muy poco potente, me quedé atónito. Era sumamente simple. Y era exactamente lo que acabo de decir: basura de entrada, </span><b style="font-family: times;">tratada inteligentemente</b><span style="font-family: times;">, daba imágenes de Marte preciosas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Una vez que tenemos los auténticos diamantes (los residuos que se obtienen a partir de la basura), para explicarlos habrá que desarrollar hipótesis <b>que sean falsables</b> y entre todas las hipótesis elegiremos una de acuerdo con <b>Occam</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Es decir, mi idea de la falacia del residuo no era sobre que un 5% o un 2% no tenga importancia sino porque el residuo está mal obtenido, porque <b><u>el «residuo» no era residuo</u></b>. Si, con las metodologías apropiadas, se obtiene un 0,1% de residuos, o incluso un 0,000000001%, será algo sumamente interesante y digno de estudio. No nos olvidemos de que digo <u>con metodologías apropiadas y debidamente contrastadas</u>. Las otras cosas que muchos ufólogos llaman «residuos» simplemente nos muestran las creencias de un grupo de individuos</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">21</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. Nada más y nada menos</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">22</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">En resumen, el problema no es que los residuos sean pocos o muchos, el problema es la forma de definir residuo. <b>Si no se define residuo de forma unívoca (lo que exige que sea definición positiva), obtengamos lo que obtengamos será una falacia.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">En la hipótesis extraterrestre, el problema no radica en la palabra extraterrestre, lo hace en la palabra hipótesis. Hipótesis es una palabra polisémica que no significa lo mismo en ciencia que en el lenguaje vulgar. Hipótesis en el lenguaje científico es algo que no está probado, pero que podría estarlo y, desde luego, que incluye de forma ineludible que sea falsable y «occamnizable». <b>En la hipótesis extraterrestre, el gravísimo problema es que no es una hipótesis</b>. Lo de extraterrestre no tiene importancia</span><b style="color: red; font-family: "Liberation Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></b><span style="font-family: times;">. De forma similar a que la no cientificidad de la hipótesis extraterrestre no deriva de extraterrestre sino de que no es realmente una hipótesis, puesto que no es falsable, en la falacia del residuo, el problema está en que los llamados residuos (anomalías) </span><b style="font-family: times;">no lo son</b><span style="font-family: times;"> realmente. No se pueden llamar residuos en lo que solo son creencias sin fundamento.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u>REFERENCIAS</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">1</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Félix Ares de Blas, “La falacia del residuo”, <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, 1ª época, Nº 13-14, 1985-1986, páginas 46-48. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Félix Ares de Blas, “Magos, ovnis y creencias”, Aula de Cultura de El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco, Tomo VIII, José Manuel Azcona y Elena Mariezcurrena (editores), noviembre de 1989, páginas 29-66.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">2</span></b> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>No sé muy bien que nombre darle a lo que es hoy la ufología, donde se ha realizado mucho trabajo de recolección de datos y de clasificación, pero que todavía está en una fase que no dispone de teorías en el sentido científico del término y que no es predictiva. A fuer de generoso, voy a usar proto ciencia.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">3</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> En este sentido quisiera señalar que ninguno de los casos ovni que dieron origen a la ufología en Estados Unidos –y en el mundo– , han resistido un análisis crítico. Ha habido una enorme cantidad de literatura al respecto; pero me gustaría señalar la obra de Martin Kottmeyer, que, en mi opinión, ha remachado el último clavo en el ataúd de los ovnis clásicos de USA: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/0244546495/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_t1_E7D4F07ZKC3N2FMSMBVB" style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">https://www.amazon.es/dp/0244546495/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_t1_E7D4F07ZKC3N2FMSMBVB</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="color: red;">4</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Para explicarlo, hubo que introducir una enorme complejidad de círculos, epiciclos, eferentes y ecuantes. Una complejidad asombrosa. En el fondo, lo que estaban haciendo era conseguir la ecuación de la elipse sumando </span><span style="font-family: times;">varias sinusoides, lo que hace el análisis de Fourier que todavía no había sido inventado.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">5 </span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aristarco de Samos, Copérnico, Kepler.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">6</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Por qué esto es así es sumamente simple. Supongamos que los fenómenos identificados forman un conjunto X de clases de objetos (o de relatos). El conjunto complementario tiene infinitas clases y, por lo tanto, casi <u>cualquier cosa</u> puede pertenecer a él. Obviamente, <u>cualquier cosa</u> no puede actuar como filtro seleccionador y, mucho menos hacer que todos los investigadores estén de acuerdo, lo que impide la repetibilidad de los estudios. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">7 </span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;">8</span> <a href="https://recuerdosdepandora.com/ciencia/fisica/el-descubrimiento-de-los-rayos-n-la-radiacion-que nunca-existio/" target="_blank">https://recuerdosdepandora.com/ciencia/fisica/el-descubrimiento-de-los-rayos-n-la-radiacion-que nunca-existio/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">9 <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">10</span></b> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Navaja de Occam. <i>Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate</i> (La pluralidad no se debe postular sin necesidad). <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navaja_de_Ockham">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navaja_de_Ockham</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">11</span></b> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hoy en día 2%., según GEIPAN.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">12 </span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Quizá aquí sea bueno volver a hablar de Occam, entre las hipótesis extraterrestres y otras hipótesis hay que quedarse con la más simple. ¿Qué es más simple, en un caso concreto, una posible explicación mundana, aunque no verificada plausible, o una explicación extraterrestre que implica naves venidas del espacio con seres humanoides…? Quiero creer que la solución no es sencilla. Si la hipótesis mundana es terriblemente alambicada, es posible que la extraterrestre sea más sencilla y, por lo tanto, elegible por Occam, pero hay que verlo caso a caso. Quiero resaltar que no rechazo la hipótesis extraterrestre siempre que sea más sencilla (en el sentido de Occam) que sus alternativas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">13</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Menor. Los errores nunca son cero.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">14</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">15</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recuerdo el caso Gallarta, Vizcaya (España), donde fuimos los segundos en llegar, alertados por mi excelente amigo Jesús Martínez Villaro. ¿Cuál no sería nuestra sorpresa cuando el testigo nos dijo que había visto «una nave de guerra del tipo II», tal como le había dicho el anterior «ufólogo» que había hablado con él? Permítanme que no dé el nombre de este. ¿A partir de ahí de qué podía servirnos su testimonio?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">16</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://repository.ucc.edu.co/bitstream/20.500.12494/15678/4/2019_falsas_memorias.pdf">https://repository.ucc.edu.co/bitstream/20.500.12494/15678/4/2019_falsas_memorias.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">17</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/05/13/ciencia/1305289053.html">https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/05/13/ciencia/1305289053.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">18</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>David G. López y Félix Ares de Blas, <u>El fenómeno OVNI. Análisis de 30 años de observaciones en España</u>, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA" style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI_ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">19</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://pmigps.com/not_ago.htm">http://pmigps.com/not_ago.htm</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">20</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Que, desde luego, no se trata de que un investigador más o menos listo [miembro de Mensa] o famoso me diga «esto es residuo», «esto otro no». Debe haber una metodología debidamente verificada por varios «laboratorios» que me digan lo que es residuo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">21</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lo que, dicho sea de paso, es sumamente interesante, pues demuestran cómo se crea una religión (creencia no falsable) o un mito en nuestra época.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">22</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Digo «nada menos» pues sus creencias son muy interesantes para estudiar muchos aspectos sociológicos; por ejemplo, de cómo nace, crece y se consolida un mito y una religión.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">23</span></b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Entendámonos, no tiene importancia para el tema de este trabajo. Me encantaría que existieran los extraterrestres y los viajes entre estrellas, y sería fantástico el viaje entre galaxias a través del hiperespacio, pero mis deseos tienen muy poco que ver con la realidad, con la navaja de Occam o con algo que se pueda demostrar.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) El caso número 111 del libro <i>Wonders in the Sky</i> (J. Vallée y C. Aubeck) describe la observación de una flota de siete luces misteriosas que se vieron durante cuatro sábados consecutivos cayendo sobre El Puig (Valencia, España), en el año 1237. La conjunción de los estudiosos Victorio Uranga, Borraz y Fernández Peris ha conseguido dar a la leyenda su perspectiva correcta. Se lee en el indispensable blog Misterios del Aire: </span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/12/maravillas-en-el-cielo-7-el-puig-1237.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/12/maravillas-en-el-cielo-7-el-puig-1237.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) Este artículo de la BBC conmemora el 40 aniversario del legendario incidente de la RAF Woodbridge / Rendlesham en Inglaterra: </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Que tenemos que complementar con la entrevista exclusiva del Dr. David Clarke con el oficial del gabinete ovni del Ministerio de Defensa británico, Simon Weeden, quien se ocupó del incidente en 1980-1981. Confirma que no se vio nada en el radar y que el incidente se archivó en aquel momento como sin importancia: </span><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/12/26/rendlesham-ufos-40th-anniversary-the-man-from-the-ministry-speaks-for-the-first-time/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/12/26/rendlesham-ufos-40th-anniversary-the-man-from-the-ministry-speaks-for-the-first-time/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Y no hay que olvidar que todo el incidente fue provocado por un bólido a las 3 a.m. de ese día, como señala Ian Ridpath: “Este es un aspecto que a menudo se pasa por alto, pero es crucial. Sin ese estímulo inicial, no habría habido ningún caso ovni en el bosque de Rendlesham”, </span><a href="http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham1d.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham1d.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3) La siguiente fotografía fue declarada nada menos como <i>extraordinaria</i> por el “Proyecto Hessdalen”, pero en realidad tiene un origen de lo más prosaico, como demuestra el estudio llevado a cabo por Christophe Spitzer Isbert y Gilles Fernandez, que han propuesto una verosímil hipótesis para explicar las luces que aparecen en esta imagen (y en el vídeo que también se obtuvo entonces): bengalas militares del tipo de las que se lanzan desde los cazas como señuelo infrarrojo. El análisis se puede leer aquí:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31659349/Report_on_Aerial_Phenomena_Observed_near_Hessdalen_on_September_20_th_2007_An_alternative_Hypothesis_is_proposed" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Aerial_Phenomena_Hessdalen_An_alternative_Hypothesis_is_proposed</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SUGYkvmjA3w/YENPQoktelI/AAAAAAAACic/_xs9WpM90rI2sNKsyATc1ZcM_FejhGnqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s695/Hessdalen.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="695" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SUGYkvmjA3w/YENPQoktelI/AAAAAAAACic/_xs9WpM90rI2sNKsyATc1ZcM_FejhGnqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hessdalen.png" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">© Sciencenter.no (Bjørn Gitle Hauge). Foto reproducida aquí acogiéndonos al permiso “Fair Use”. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4) Que los académicos también desbarran en esto de los ovnis es algo bien sabido. En ambos sentidos. En proponer para el “fenómeno ovni” una solución global que carece de base o en asignarle un valor impropio (dar por reales las abducciones, por ejemplo). Recientemente, los investigadores Alexander Wendt (Ohio State University) y Raymond Duvall (University of Minnesota) han publicado un artículo titulado “Sovereignty and the UFO” (La soberanía y el OVNI). El veterano estudioso uruguayo Milton W. Hourcade ha redactado en su web unos sustanciosos comentarios cuya lectura no puedo dejar de aconsejar: <a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2021/02/comentario-al-articulo-soverignty-and.html">https://www.uapsg.com/2021/02/comentario-al-articulo-soverignty-and.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(5) El año pasado, <i>Annals of Psychiatry and Treatment</i> publicó el trabajo titulado “Alien abduction experience: definition, neurobiological profiles, clinical contexts and therapeutic approaches” (Experiencia de abducción alienígena: definición, perfiles neurobiológicos, contextos clínicos y enfoques terapéuticos), del criminólogo forense Giulio Perrotta. Indudablemente se trata de un informe destacable, por la cantidad de investigación realizada y las rotundas conclusiones a las que se ha llegado: <i>El fenómeno de las “abducciones extraterrestres” parece tener un claro origen psicopatológico. En ausencia de evidencia definitiva, especialmente en términos de implantes “extraños”, las conclusiones están claramente orientadas hacia un diagnóstico clínico que encuentra su base entre la mixtificación voluntaria con fines lucrativos o psicológicos (por ejemplo, la necesidad de llamar la atención de los límites y personalidades histriónicas), trastorno de estrés postraumático, trastorno disociativo, trastorno obsesivo compulsivo y / o alteraciones del sueño asociadas a personalidades con rasgos psicóticos y (en casos graves) perfiles psicóticos.</i> Se puede leer aquí: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43296592/Alien_abduction_experience_definition_neurobiological_profiles_clinical_contexts_and_therapeutic_approaches" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Alien_abduction_neurobiological_clinical_therapeutic</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(6) Manuel Borraz continúa publicando en Academia sus trabajos de años atrás, que no pierden actualidad. Son </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Maravillas de la naturaleza y ovnis”, </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44074568/Maravillas_de_la_naturaleza_y_ovnis" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44074568/Maravillas_de_la_naturaleza_y_ovnis</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“<i>ENIGMAS</i>, el caso Manises y la peor de las conspiraciones”,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42774837/ENIGMAS_el_caso_Manises_y_la_peor_de_las_conspiraciones" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/ENIGMAS_el_caso_Manises_y_la_peor_de_las_conspiraciones</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El estudio de la observación ovni de 1965 en Fort-de-France (Martinica), </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42774887/Gerald_Michel_Jacques_Los_avistamientos_de_Fort_de_France_1965_en_perspectiva" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Gerald_Michel_Jacques_Avistamientos_Fort_de_France_1965</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7) En un trabajo magistral titulado “Arte prehistórico y ciencia ficción: los retos de la divulgación académica”, Alberto Lombo Montañés (doctor en Ciencias de la Antigüedad, Universidad de Zaragoza) señala en su resumen: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">El arte prehistórico ha sido utilizado como una prueba de la visita de extraterrestres durante la prehistoria. La teoría de los Antiguos Astronautas forma parte de una prehistoria esotérica cuyos orígenes se remontan al siglo XIX. El discurso de esta teoría fue popularizado por Von Däniken en los años sesenta del siglo pasado y ha sido recientemente planteada en la película de Ridley Scott Prometheus (2012) en donde aparecen los caballos de Chauvet. ¿Qué hacen los caballos de Chauvet en una película de alienígenas? En el presente estudio investigamos las principales ideas de la prehistoria esotérica en relación con el arte prehistórico para intentar comprender el enorme éxito de esta teoría en la mentalidad colectiva</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Ver: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2t9l8mlv" style="font-family: helvetica;">tinyurl.com/2t9l8mlv</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(8) Cada vez son más los ensayos sobre abducciones que se publican en revistas científicas especializadas. Véase: David V. Forrest, "Alien abduction: a medical hypothesis" (Abducción alienígena: una hipótesis médica), en el <i>Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry</i>, 2008, Vol. 36, Nº 3, páginas 431-432. Re</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">sumen: E<i>n respuesta a un nuevo estudio psicológico de personas que creen que han sido secuestradas por extraterrestres, que descubrió que la parálisis del sueño, una historia de hipnotización y la preocupación por lo paranormal y extraterrestre eran experiencias que les predisponían, he apreciado que muchos de los detalles más frecuentes de la experiencia de la abducción guardan más que un parecido pasajero con los procedimientos médico-quirúrgicos y sostengo que dicha experiencia puede influirlas. Está el estado alterado de conciencia, personas con uniformes de colores y ojos prominentes, en una habitación de alta tecnología debajo de un objeto redondo brillante parecido a un platillo; hay desnudez, dolor y pérdida de control mientras se sondean los límites del cuerpo; y, sin embargo, esas personas se consideran benévolas. Aparentemente, en el estudio mencionado anteriormente no se tomó ningún historial médico-quirúrgico, pero el trabajo de laboratorio psicológico evaluó la formación de recuerdos falsos. Discuto los problemas en la evaluación de la conciencia intraoperatoria y las formas en que se podría elaborar y probar la hipótesis médica. Si los médicos están causando este síndrome en un porcentaje de pacientes, deberíamos saberlo; y se debe alentar a las personas que creen haber sido secuestradas a que informen a sus cirujanos y anestesiólogos sin cuestionar sus creencias: </i></span><a href="https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jaap.2008.36.3.431" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jaap.2008.36.3.431</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(9) Visita a un museo ovni en Argentina por el profesor de Historia Fernando Soto Roland: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/41341092/UN_MUSEO_DE_OTRO_MUNDO_EL_MUSEO_OVNI_DE_VICTORIA">https://www.academia.edu/41341092/UN_MUSEO_DE_OTRO_MUNDO_EL_MUSEO_OVNI_DE_VICTORIA</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10) A las seis de la madrugada del pasado 16 de febrero, se observó una bola de fuego desde el sur de España y Portugal, “producida por la reentrada en la atmósfera de una roca procedente de un cometa”, informó José María Madiedo, de la Red de Bólidos y Meteoros del Suroeste de España, <a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4587036/0/detectan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-suroeste-peninsular-a-213-000-km-hora/">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4587036/0/detectan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-suroeste-peninsular-a-213-000-km-hora/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(11) Se ha publicado el informe anual de análisis y resolución de casos ovni denunciados a las autoridades militares argentinas, realizado por el CIAE de la Fuerza Aérea, a cuyo cargo se encuentra el comodoro Rubén Lianza. Es un espejo donde cualquier ufólogo sincero debe mirarse: </span><a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_ciae_2020.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(12) “Beliefs and opinions about the existence of life outside the earth: The UFO Experiences Questionnaire (UFO-Q)”. Un investigador español de la Universidad Ramón Llull ha publicado este trabajo (Creencias y opiniones sobre la existencia de vida fuera de la Tierra: El cuestionario de experiencias ovni), Álex Escolà-Gascón, junto con sus coautores Mary O’Neill y Josep Gallifa: </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291121000206" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291121000206</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(13) Mare Kõiva, “Angels and Demons in the Contemporary Personal Experiences. Changing of Mythological Beings and Experiences” (Ángeles y demonios en las experiencias personales contemporáneas. Cambio de seres y experiencias mitológicas), Jawaharlal Handoo, ISFNR 11st Congress papers, 1998. Resumen: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">El artículo investiga las narraciones de creencias y las creencias a finales del siglo XX: (1) interpretaciones de experiencias personales inusuales; (2) sustitución de seres mitológicos más antiguos por nuevos fenómenos (ovnis y extraterrestres); (3) reinvención de los rituales y creencias (transfiriendo enfermedades a los árboles, creando un santuario o un lugar de sacrificio propio): </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/6414332/Angels_and_Demons_in_the_Contemporary_Personal_Experiences_Changing_of_Mythological_Beings_and_Experiences" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Angels_Demons_Contemporary_Personal_Experiences_Changing_Mythological</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(14) La hipótesis psicosocial explica las oleadas ovni: "Expliquer les vagues d'ovni dans le cadre du modèle socio-psychologique”, escrito por Jean-Michel Abrassart y publicado en el libro editado por R. Evrard y E. Ouellet, <i>Vers une sociologie anomalistique: Le paranormal au regard des sciences sociales</i>, Editions Universitaires de Lorraine (Nancy, Francia), 2019, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41498286/Expliquer_les_vagues_dovni_dans_le_cadre_du_mod%C3%A8le_socio_psychologique" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Expliquer_vagues_dovni_dans_le_cadre_du_modèle_socio_psychologique</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Reseña invitada</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Érase una vez en ovnilandia, Tomo 3: El gran enigma de la imaginación ufológica</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por Luis Ruiz Nóguez</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, Editorial Coliseo Sentosa, 2020. Rústica, 299 páginas, tamaño A5. Se puede adquirir aquí: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5qvamoe">https://tinyurl.com/y5qvamoe</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79GsxHg62T8/YENYhxHitLI/AAAAAAAACik/jsfj_0DXct4-k3cz2EgzheqJq4S6sgQ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ovnilandia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1404" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79GsxHg62T8/YENYhxHitLI/AAAAAAAACik/jsfj_0DXct4-k3cz2EgzheqJq4S6sgQ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ovnilandia.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Si ya está hasta la coronilla de conspiraciones, divulgación, ovnis del Pentágono, Roswell y casuística ovni que no llega a nada, es hora de ver otros horizontes y darse una ducha de ideas que, aunque ya son viejas, son muy refrescantes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">¿Se pueden reducir los ovnis a los contenidos de la ciencia ficción? Esa es una pregunta que surgió al leer el libro más reciente de Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, <i>Érase una vez en ovnilandia, Tomo 3: El gran enigma de la imaginación ufológica</i>, de la editorial Coliseo Sentosa. Pero no fue la única. El libro es una fuente casi inagotable de preguntas y sorpresas. Nos lleva de la mano a entender la evolución de la ufología francesa, desde la HET (Hipótesis extraterrestre) del primer y segundo grados, pasando por la paraufología hasta llegar a la HPS (Hipótesis psicosociológica).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Me imagino la labor titánica de Sergio al haber leído la mayor parte de lo publicado en la ufología francesa (o de habla francófona), desde <i>Lumières dans la Nuit, Phénomènes Spatiaux, Revue de Soucoupes Volantes, Ovni-Présence a Inforespace</i>, pasando por los libros clásicos de Aimé Michel, Michel Carrouges, Jacques Vallée y de otros autores como Michel Monnerie, Thierry Pinvidic o Bertrand Méheust. No sólo eso, sino ordenar y estructurar de forma coherente toda esa información.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Si algún ufólogo francés quiere conocer la historia y los entresijos de la ufología francesa indudablemente tiene que leer los libros de Sergio. Los ufólogos franceses deberían leer la serie “Érase una vez en ovnilandia” para entender su propia ufología, porque, como dice Sergio: <i>“La historia de la ufología francesa no es como te la han contado”</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta obra es el hilo de Ariadna que nos guía a través del laberinto de la ufología francesa. La ufología francesa no es tanto una ufología de casos como de ideas. Ideas que van de los disparates del “Sistema de control” de Jacques Vallee, la pseudociencia de las “Ortotenias de Aime Michell, a la propositiva “Hipótesis Psicosocial”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Este es, quizás, el libro más completo de esta (hasta ahora) trilogía por los temas que trata y por su estructura. La parte más sorprendente del libro, para mí, es cómo logra estructurar una visión entendible de la ufología francesa de aquellos años. Sánchez funciona como un perfecto guía de museo ayudándonos con toda la información que apareció en esas revistas y libros mostrándonos y explicando cada una de las salas de exhibición. El libro es toda una aventura intelectual.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sergio señala que no considera que la ufología sea el resultado de la “incultura científica” y que la creencia en ovnis sea, ante todo, manifestación de “falta de racionalidad” o, necesariamente, de “pensamiento mágico”. Pero no estoy de acuerdo con eso. Justo tenemos ejemplos muy recientes, no necesariamente del mundo de la ufología, que demuestran que una mal preparación siempre lleva a teorías conspirativas. Cuantas personas hay que no creen en la existencia del coronavirus? Pero eso sí señalan que el virus es transmitido por las antenas 5G (aun cuando en muchos países no han sido instaladas); que las vacunas van a contener microchips desarrollados por Bill Gates para controlar a la población mundial; que rezando al santo o dios de su devoción o bebiendo agua bendita no se van a contagiar; o que promueven el uso de dióxido de cloro o de Lysol tomado para desinfectarse (saludos Trump); que ellos no usan cubrebocas porque a ellos nadie los controla (y aceptan las condiciones de Facebook, Twitter o de las apps que descargan en sus teléfonos).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>La ufología está repleta de teorías de la conspiración. Ella misma es una enorme teoría de la conspiración</b> [énfasis mío, VJBO]. Por lo mismo tiene mucho en común con otras teorías de la conspiración. Uno de esos puntos es el tipo de personas que creen en sus postulados. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En efecto, sólo personas que no tienen los conocimientos básicos en ciencias, aquellas que reprobaron naturales pueden creer que un ente material, por más pequeño que sea, se puede transmitir en forma de ondas electromagnéticas. Considero que serían muy pocos infectólogos o virólogos y no tantos físicos o especialistas en electromagnetismo quienes puedan considerar que un virus se puede transmitir a través de un medio electromagnético. Es imposible, y además no se puede, que algo que contiene masa, por más pequeña que sea, se pueda transmitir a través de una antena 5G.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Y qué decir de quienes creen que la tecnología en microprocesadores está tan avanzada que va más allá de las nanopartículas y se está utilizando en inocular personas en lugar de explotarse en tecnologías que hagan realidad los sueños más alucinantes de la ciencia ficción; y de los que dicen que la fórmula del agua bendita es H Dios O, y por lo tanto, tomarla los va a salvar de contagiarse; y de los que no saben que un fuerte desinfectante o un bactericida y sanitizante tomado puede ocasionar lo que quieren evitar: la muerte.[Como se aprecia, el autor de esta reseña es químico de profesión, VJBO]. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Acá vemos que el conocimiento, la experiencia, la cultura científica es básica para entender que esas teorías de la conspiración son tonterías perfectas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No estoy diciendo que personas que, se supone, que conocen algo de ciencias están exentas de hacer y decir tonterías. Ejemplos sobran, y dentro de la ufología. Ahí tenemos a Harold Puthoff, Eric Davis y otros asesores “científicos” de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias To the Stars, de Tom DeLonge; o los ufólogos John Schuessler, Bruce Maccabee, Stanton Friedman o Jacques Vallee. Todos ellos sosteniendo las pseudociencias más variopintas: energía del punto cero, mundos paralelos y sistemas de control. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tampoco afirmo que personas fuera del ámbito de las ciencias naturales por ese hecho apoyen las pseudociencias o no entiendan las bases del conocimiento científico. Y también hay ejemplos de eso. Esta vez del lado latinoamericano tenemos a los periodistas Alejandro Agostinelli y Diego Zúñiga y al propio autor de la obra reseñada, el abogado Sergio Sánchez.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lo que sí digo es que es más probable que aquellos que sólo son capaces de leer los 288 caracteres de Twitter o los posts de Facebook, WhatsApp, o los videos de YouTube y Tik-Tok, pero que nunca abren un libro, son más propensos a caer en las garras de pseudociencias como la ufología. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pero estoy desviándome del tema. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Aclaro que no he leído el libro de Bertrand Méheust, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Science-fiction et soucoupes volantes – Une réalité mythico-physique</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, sólo referencias y críticas al mismo. Sergio nos dice que Méheust intentó otra cosa distinta a la que entendieron los ufólogos y los escépticos: el libro no postula un origen sociocultural del fenómeno ovni en las revistas y la literatura de la ciencia ficción, es decir, no era una obra escéptica, aunque así se interpretó.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De acuerdo con Sergio, el escepticismo clásico o estándar descarta que exista un fenómeno original inexplicable y plantea que su origen son algunos estereotipos culturales, como los contenidos de la ciencia ficción y otros, es decir, reducía los ovnis a una explicación convencional. Esa explicación podría tener un origen en los fenómenos naturales o artificiales mal reconocidos o desconocidos por el testigo (Venus, nubes lenticulares, centellas, aviones…); o una especie de contagio mental (histeria o psicosis colectiva) amplificado por los medios de comunicación.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La llegada de la HPS vendría a respaldar estas conclusiones, aunque para Sergio esta crítica sería más bien interna, es decir, de ufólogos como Monnerie. Otra diferencia es que la crítica venía ya no de la astronomía, la meteorología o la física atmosférica sino de la psicología social (del testigo), la sociología (del rumor) o la antropología (del mito). El enfoque ya no es en el “objeto” sino en el testigo, en la sociedad y en la cultura en donde se ha desarrollado el mito ovni.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Un mito que es sostenido por los ufólogos que, en muchos casos ayudan más que a recrear a crear el avistamiento ovni en turno hasta convertirlo en algo completamente distinto e “inexplicable”. Pero cuando son reencuestados estos casos se encuentra que tienen un origen en un estímulo banal como los anteriormente enlistados. Esta reencuesta, las más de las veces no es realizada por los ufólogos sino por críticos y escépticos porque los primeros sólo están interesados en acrecentar su colección de casos y no van a permitir que un fuereño venga a romperles sus juguetes. En última instancia su respuesta es: “bien el caso X fue explicado, pero tengo otros cientos de casos más”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Algo así ocurrió cuando dos ufólogos Gérard Barthel y Jacques Brucker decidieron reencuestar la oleada de platos voladores de 1954 y produjeron su libro <i>La grande peur martienne</i>. Encontraron que eran los testigos, los periodistas y finalmente los ufólogos quienes habían manipulado los datos hasta crear casos ovni con alta extrañeza. Sergio dice que “<i>se trata de rumores deviniendo mitos</i>”. En palabras de Barthel y Brucker: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">“Los adultos que han contribuido a consolidar el sueño, son los ufólogos de la primera hora. Pero una diferencia fundamental subsiste entre ellos y los padres que hablan de Papá Noël a sus hijos. Ni papá ni mamá creen realmente en el bondadoso Noël, mientras que los ufólogos tienen por verdaderas y sólidas las extraordinarias historias sobre las que se apoyan. He aquí por qué todos han caído en la trampa y por qué nosotros hemos caído con ellos”</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (1).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El enfoque “caso por caso” es un acercamiento muy poco económico porque <i>“demostrar que los protagonistas mienten o que se han confundido, es una tarea muy difícil para los escépticos</i>” y, por otro lado, quienes tienen la carga de la prueba de demostrar que el caso en turno es auténtico no les interesa hacerlo (me refiero a los ufólogos). Era necesario tomar otras vías, como la que tomó Michel Monnerie. Al hacer la pregunta fundamental ¿Y si los ovnis no existieran? (<i>Et si les OVNIs n’existaient pas?</i>). Monnerie piensa que los ovnis “existen” porque los ufólogos son quienes lo sostienen para reforzar su sistema de creencias. Sin embargo, acepta que puede haber un residuo anómalo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No obstante, ya Allan Hendry, el principal investigador del CUFOS y, posteriormente, Paolo Toselli y Claude Maugé, demostrarían que los entes llamado ovis y ovnis son materialmente indiscernibles. Esto es de hecho uno de los temas centrales de la HPS. En palabras de Maugé: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">“Es claro que ni la indiscernibilidad OVNI/OVI, ni la falta frecuente de fiabilidad de los ufólogos constituyen, en sí mismas, una prueba de la inexistencia de los OVNI. Por el contrario, la combinación de estos dos factores podría ser particularmente ‘desestabilizadora’ para la ufología. En efecto, si el 99% de los casos de revistas o ficheros nada tienen que ver con un eventual fenómeno OVNI en sentido estricto, esto implica que prácticamente todo lo que ha sido publicado en ufología, luego de una cuarentena de años, vale prácticamente nada, y en particular, tampoco valen las bellas construcciones teóricas. Entonces, todo el edificio, más allá de sus bellas apariencias, no estaría más que vacío…”</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (2).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Otro punto de la HPS es si el fenómeno ovni es universal o sólo un invento exclusivo del mundo occidental, es decir, ¿se ven ovnis en lugares no occidentalizados? Thierry Pinvidic investigó esto en el Este de Argelia en la década de los ochenta, cuando todavía no estaba lo suficientemente occidentalizada. No encontró experiencias ufológicas, sólo se hablaba de fantasmas o de djinns del desierto.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Algo similar ocurría en China hasta antes de la aparición del libro de Shi Bo, <i>La Chine et les extraterrestres</i>. Este ufólogo chino prácticamente no encuentra casos ovni en China en el periodo entre 1947 y 1980. Luego los casos se disparan después de la aparición de un artículo del periodista Zhou Xinyian en 1979 y de la publicación, un año después, de la revista Exploración Ovni, en donde por primera vez los chinos escuchan del tema ovni.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Una investigación similar a la de Pinvidic fue realizada por Bertrand Méheust en 1977 en Gabón. Bautizó esta investigación como “Proyecto Nabokok” y consistía en mostrar ilustraciones que cualquier “occidental” interpretaría como de índole ufológico: platillos volantes, ovninautas pálidos, calvos y macrocéfalos, y una mujer que les observa. El plato volador es interpretado como un sombrero o el caparazón de una tortuga. Casi todos los gaboneses piensan que los “ovninautas” son “niños blancos”. Sólo uno dice que “ellos no son terrestres. Ellos vienen del espacio a visitar la Tierra”. Aunque este entrevistado nunca ha escuchado sobre los ovnis, es el único que habla francés y recientemente uno de sus hermanos le había regalado un libro de ciencia ficción. Es decir, parece ser que el <b>factor occidentalización</b> es primordial para la existencia misma de casuística ovni.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Es importante que estos estudios se hayan hecho en los setenta y ochenta dado que en estos tiempos, con Internet, es difícil encontrar un lugar que no se haya “occidentalizado”. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay un párrafo del libro de Sergio que me parece importante resaltar: </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">“Los ovnis son un mito, fascinante y maravilloso, pero que ha tenido a los ufólogos presos, como por una suerte de encantamiento. Los aficionados a los platillos volantes han construido, lo sepan o no, un gran sistema de creencias, donde “los extraterrestres” han de sustentarse en una serie de ideas fantásticas precedentes; por ejemplo, la historia ideal del campesino iletrado, que ve el aterrizaje de un ovni, sin haber escuchado jamás hablar de marcianos, ni leído jamás una revista que incluyera dibujos de platívolos. Monnerie ya se encuentra en condiciones de responder: ese ser ingenuo, “idealmente aislado de la Humanidad”, es un imposible sociológico, por más que los ufólogos hayan aprendido a convencerse de lo contrario (la credulidad empática se aplica para con los testigos campechanos y sencillos; la perspicacia, en cambio, para con las explicaciones oficiales)”.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sólo echo de menos una cosa en este libro al que le daría 5 estrellas: la falta de un índice, principalmente para aquellos de nosotros que nos gusta investigar y escarbar un poco más en este tipo de textos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><u>Notas</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1) Barthel, Gérard y Brucker, Jacques, <i>La grand peur martienne</i>, Nouvelles Éditions Rationalistes (París), 1979, p. 217.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(2) Maugé, Claude, “Le phénomène OVNI: un bref état de la question”, en T. Pinvidic (ed.), <i>OVNI: Vers une anthropologie d’un mythe contemporain</i>, Heimdal (París), 1993, p. 39.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>100 fotos de extraterrestres</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El proyecto editorial "Coliseo Sentosa" ha publicado una reedición, ampliada, actualizada, corregida, mejorada y embellecida de este libro del investigador mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez. Es un texto de más de 500 páginas, ricamente ilustrado, que revisa algunas de las fotografías de presuntos alienígenas más conocidas en el mundo. Disponible en Lulu.com: <a href="https://bit.ly/36f7p7K">https://bit.ly/36f7p7K</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_glq1Zz5ic/YENaEWjlvOI/AAAAAAAACis/57Ag2QBtGrI9rXNOyYFhWEeT15SHm8FgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/100%2Bextraterrestres.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_glq1Zz5ic/YENaEWjlvOI/AAAAAAAACis/57Ag2QBtGrI9rXNOyYFhWEeT15SHm8FgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/100%2Bextraterrestres.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Más contenidos en la sección en inglés</u> (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Las dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese idioma en la sección superior de este blog):</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Obama and UFOs”. En una reciente entrevista, le preguntan al expresidente de los Estados Unidos sobre los ovnis: ¿qué respondió?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxUZg48Gy6Q/YENC44IAgiI/AAAAAAAACf8/XwekS0Y1eaQnuJPRW4u-qG1-n39mQzrPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s355/Obama.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="355" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxUZg48Gy6Q/YENC44IAgiI/AAAAAAAACf8/XwekS0Y1eaQnuJPRW4u-qG1-n39mQzrPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h169/Obama.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“James Oberg on DIA Interest in UFO Reports”. Oberg explica por qué es del todo normal que la agencia de inteligencia de la defensa norteamericana se interese por los ovnis. Aunque no es por lo que los crédulos imaginan.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“UFO-Balloon in the Pakistan Air Space”. Avistamiento de un objeto volante no identificado (finalmente identificado como un globo sonda) sobre el espacio aéreo paquistaní.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCipJEjvOi0/YENaXk7lshI/AAAAAAAACi0/q8oOvHdrc6Mz6td87qHMxVr1jYn7FbZ4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s411/balloon%2Bcomma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCipJEjvOi0/YENaXk7lshI/AAAAAAAACi0/q8oOvHdrc6Mz6td87qHMxVr1jYn7FbZ4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/balloon%2Bcomma.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“When Archetypes Land” (Cuando los arquetipos aterrizan). A partir de las fotos que acompañaban a una inocentada periodística del 1 de abril de 1950, defino la figuración de una esfera transparente con seres en su interior como una especie de arquetipo propio del inconsciente colectivo, una suerte de mandala jungiana, que ha inspirado el arte y la ciencia ficción. Pero lo asombroso es que esa imagen irreal, estrictamente creativa e imaginativa, también ha servido en la creación de presuntos casos de encuentros cercanos en todo el mundo. Y es que todo está en la mente. Es la fantasía plasmada -al mismo tiempo- en tebeos (cómics), ilustraciones futuristas o historias de platillos volantes y sus pasajeros humanoides. El investigador de estas odiseas alienantes, de estas historias aberrantes de descenso de naves espaciales y sus tripulantes, no debe sucumbir a la ingenuidad sino afrontar lo que se cuenta con escepticismo. De otra forma, solo conseguirá creerse dichas fábulas y autoengañarse, entrando, como esas imágenes que he mostrado aquí, en una burbuja de vana ilusión y espuria convicción, o sea una cuestión de Fe. Lo opuesto a la Ciencia y a la Certidumbre.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dj5fhLzISPg/YENFo4QUVpI/AAAAAAAACg0/xSNUbUjJwoMomc09uh8aEHkzJmyCTLz-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s841/01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="841" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dj5fhLzISPg/YENFo4QUVpI/AAAAAAAACg0/xSNUbUjJwoMomc09uh8aEHkzJmyCTLz-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h223/01.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Thrilling Wonder Stories</i>, mayo de 1940 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Historieta de Flash Gordon, 1939</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxwHZ2DkbeU/YENHYYibkfI/AAAAAAAAChA/NSMNr73YvSo5GnVh5elqcw_tYcJqPS0SACLcBGAsYHQ/s708/03.jpg" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="708" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SxwHZ2DkbeU/YENHYYibkfI/AAAAAAAAChA/NSMNr73YvSo5GnVh5elqcw_tYcJqPS0SACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/03.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonder Stories</i>, marzo de 1939 - </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Amazing Stories</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, marzo de 1935</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s06I06bkLlU/YENbsNKUflI/AAAAAAAACi8/54PxvFeUVDYZn9-Z6E0Y9nqC4rr-CAg8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1446/11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1446" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s06I06bkLlU/YENbsNKUflI/AAAAAAAACi8/54PxvFeUVDYZn9-Z6E0Y9nqC4rr-CAg8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Medulla, Florida, EE. UU., 18 de octubre de 1968. <i>FATE</i>, mayo de 1969, pp. 44-50 - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 28 de agosto de 1963. Gordon Creighton, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">FSR Special Issue </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">#3, </span><u style="font-family: helvetica;">UFO Percipients</u><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, 1969</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U_s5t6w1zZs/YENKTlQV_5I/AAAAAAAAChs/WC97kC7-qpAVKvmpQlWglm69Na4ofMBFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1242/08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U_s5t6w1zZs/YENKTlQV_5I/AAAAAAAAChs/WC97kC7-qpAVKvmpQlWglm69Na4ofMBFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/08.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La Serena, Badajoz, España, 26 de junio de 1987. Fuente: P.M. Fernández - </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sommerécourt, Francia, 17 de julio de 1983. Fuente: Raoul Robé</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Accuracy of Testimonies: Influences on the Memory Process” (por Jochen Ickinger) y “Three Simple Tests to Eyewitness Reliability” (por Ulrich Magin), dos artículos invitados dedicados a examinar un tema fundamental en ufología, la fiabilidad y credibilidad del testimonio de los testigos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA PERSONAL</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mis nietos. La verdad es que fue un privilegio prejubilarme a los 57 años (ventajas de haber trabajado 30 años en una multinacional americana -Ford- y llegar al nivel de gerencia), así que mi compartimentada vida laboral, familiar y ufológica quedó proporcionalmente alterada. Confieso que el estudio de los ovnis absorbió gran parte del excedente temporal, aunque hallé al fin tiempo para colaborar con una ONG (Fundación DASYC). En su momento, no llegó a haber síndrome de nido vacío porque frecuentemente tienes a unos u otros en casa, pero cuando vinieron los nietos (eso sí que es un fenómeno afectivo anómalo, pero, como los otros, claramente identificable), el tiempo personal se tuvo que compartir: a la vida familiar, social y casera, la lectura, la música (audición, no creación, no crea el lector), las series (¡esas <i>Fargo, Homeland o Vikings</i>!) y la ufología, añadí la dedicación a los nietos. Y con lo que me gustan las niñas, me han tocado tres chicotes, pero tres bien bonicos. Esos paseos por los parques cercanos a casa, por Los Viveros, las visitas al Museo de Ciencias Naturales, la Plaza Redonda, las tiendas Paris-Valencia que nos abastecen de toda suerte de álbumes de pegatinas y libros para colorear al menor precio, esas sentadas en el salón de casa dibujando -¡ya quisiera Kandiski- o mirando dibujos (uno ya es un experto en la Patrulla Canina o los PJMasks), recogerlos del cole y otros pasatiempos. Y las fotos, como ésta del perfil helénico de los dos mayores, lograda mientras que estaban hipnotizados viendo sus dibujos preferidos. Bueno, apenas quería escribir el pie para esta reciente fotografía que les hice, pero me ha salido casi una oda. Bueno, los otros abuelos me comprenderán. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bONFiGP-oxU/YENb_zq750I/AAAAAAAACjE/qw_5wzzo_1gQBQgCVnMvly_-6kAU1_PpACLcBGAsYHQ/s1328/ni%25C3%25B1os%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1328" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bONFiGP-oxU/YENb_zq750I/AAAAAAAACjE/qw_5wzzo_1gQBQgCVnMvly_-6kAU1_PpACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h180/ni%25C3%25B1os%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Lucas, al fondo, y Fernando.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (España), Dr. David Clarke (Inglaterra), Ian Ridpath (Inglaterra), Manuel Borraz Aymerich (España), Kay Coggin (EE.UU.), Mauricio Fuentes (Chile), Dr. David V. Barrett (<i>Fortean Times</i>, Inglaterra), Chris Aubeck (España), Luis R. González (España), Martin Kottmeyer (EE.UU.), Wim van Utrecht (Caelestia, Bélgica), Clas Svahn (AFU, Suecia) , Björn Borg (FUFORA, Finlandia), Luis Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Jaime Servera (España), Laurent Chabin (Francia), Gilles Munsch (Francia), David Sankey (Inglaterra), James Oberg (EE.UU.), Álex Escolá (España), Joan Plana (España), Comodoro Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Diego Zúñiga (Alemania), Julio Plaza del Olmo (España).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>LIBROS DEL AUTOR </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GpGgO31MFc/X_mlvPICnyI/AAAAAAAACdw/NTaP_W8CAJEHaaXVsktG-Ncz_6xzFzwjACLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="76" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GpGgO31MFc/X_mlvPICnyI/AAAAAAAACdw/NTaP_W8CAJEHaaXVsktG-Ncz_6xzFzwjACLcBGAsYHQ/w440-h76/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u style="text-align: left;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u><span style="text-align: left;">, CUFOS, 1976, </span></span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1984 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u>, Temas de Hoy, 1995 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UNILIBER: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xSBqPuYVOo/X_mmcAw82iI/AAAAAAAACeA/Yd49T7rpEnQH6_yF_Ub9IwifiNLGdJ3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xSBqPuYVOo/X_mmcAw82iI/AAAAAAAACeA/Yd49T7rpEnQH6_yF_Ub9IwifiNLGdJ3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (con O.J. Braenne), 2008, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012, </span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (con Wim van Utrecht), 2017, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u> (con M. Borraz), 2020, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber: </span><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">*</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia <b>*</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc. <b>*</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-14310377456858171452021-01-09T10:49:00.507+01:002021-01-10T12:18:34.444+01:002021/JANUARY/09 (EN)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">English language editing: Martin Shough</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The catalog, database and archive collect 12,713 cases as this date. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Borraz-Ballester Olmos Marfa Lights Study</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last July we released through Academia.edu the FOTOCAT report #8, <b>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b>, totally free:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In September, UPIAR from Turin published the version in print and full color:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We believe this report has achieved the important goal of solving, once and for all, the seeming enigma of the ghost lights seen and photographed close to the Texan town of Marfa. We encourage other researchers to apply similar methodology to other phantom-lights locations in the world. We are convinced the findings will be outstanding.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHaDhqgM-o8/X_mGwe6CgZI/AAAAAAAACZ8/k4vbQLn-WNs86XctxsxtpRSBNY-uOwXcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Portadas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1600" height="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHaDhqgM-o8/X_mGwe6CgZI/AAAAAAAACZ8/k4vbQLn-WNs86XctxsxtpRSBNY-uOwXcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w292-h206/Portadas.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Las balizas del 11 de noviembre de 1979</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The beacons of November 11, 1979 (in Spanish). By V.J. Ballester Olmos, Joan Plana, Jaime Servera and J.A. Fernández Peris. On November 11, 1979, an airborne UFO incident took place over the Mediterranean sea. Known as the “Manises case,” it is probably the most internationally-known Spanish UFO incident. It all started with the detection of an emergency signal, a radio beacon. We have recently learned of the existence of quite another emergency beacon in French waters and we have investigated whether it could be related to the beacon that started the Manises case. The present report is the result of our inquiry. The paper can be read in this link:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979">https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Incidente en la costa de Ayamonte, marzo de 1987</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Incident on the coast of Ayamonte, March 1987 (in Spanish). By V.J. Ballester Olmos and Marcos A. Benítez. On March 23, 1987, the Spanish media reported the alleged fall of a burning object into the sea, near Ayamonte (Huelva). An investigation carried out since then has determined that, despite the strenuous search by Navy ships and Air Force helicopters, no trace was found. Everything points to unreliable or even entirely false information. It is the conducted research and the data verification process that is truly relevant. Perhaps Ufology 01. Click here to read or download the paper:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987">https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>V.J. Ballester Olmos Personal Bibliography 1965-2020</u>: </span><a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>UFO RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFO Hunt: Arkansas City, August 24, 1972</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For one of the more than thirteen thousand FOTOCAT cases I have dealt with, I have recently received a direct press source with a slightly better image quality than I already had. The renewed conclusion is not going to surprise anyone, but I judge that from the witnesses’ descriptions one can draw‒once again‒outstanding inferences that confirm the common errors in visual perception, made both by ordinary citizens, experienced journalists, and police officers, as in the present example. Basic conclusions to which those refractory to reality still do not adhere, stumbling in their deficient "field" investigations. Because we know that no observer is immune to error, exaggeration, or the addition of more or less fictitious details. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the August 24, 1972 edition of the <i>Arkansas City Traveler</i>, reporter Beth Lilley published an article entitled, with a local touch: <i>Twinkle, Twinkle UFO, We Want You Back Fo’ Some Mo</i>’. At 5:20 a.m. that same day, the journalist took three pictures of a strange light from the front yard of her residence in the 300 block of East Pine Avenue, Arkansas City. Only the second photo was published, and it shows‒greatly enlarged‒a light source more or less central over a tree top, above which are two white spots, called “stars” by the percipient. According to the witness, “The center of the UFO seemingly gave off the brilliant glow just prior to rays of light being beamed earthward.” Such beams do not appear in the shots. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W_fYf_67SBY/X_mJ9I81ttI/AAAAAAAACaI/rDJ7hszrYn887PGoqZf-rNcHyAIcypJ6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s595/ARKANSAS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="423" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W_fYf_67SBY/X_mJ9I81ttI/AAAAAAAACaI/rDJ7hszrYn887PGoqZf-rNcHyAIcypJ6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ARKANSAS.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That information basically was in the printed picture’s caption, and it was followed by an accompanying article reporting how at 4 a.m., three Arkansas Police Officers, Lt. Merton Darnall, Patrolmen Mike Rankin, and Ron Jordon, watched the UFO for twenty minutes before they telephoned the reporter. “At 4:20 a.m.‒Lilley wrote‒I drove to the Methodist Church hill and observed the UFO for approximately 15 minutes. At first it appeared as an extremely large and white object, somewhat round in appearance with varying lengths of light rays beaming from its edges. In a few minutes, a large glowing circle appeared entirely around the UFO and twinkling red lights could be seen on what appeared to be the front of the object and at one end of one of the rays of light. After two to four minutes, the bright glow seems to be absorbed into the body of the UFO and it then appeared to change from an oval shape into a triangular shape with rounding points. Police officers maintained a vigil at various points over the city while taking care of other duties during the remainder of their shift. Darnall and Rankin also watched the UFO from in front of the police station and I was watching from the front yard of my residence. My neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Earle, 315 E. Pine Ave.‒usually early risers‒joined me in my vigil of the UFO for more than one hour. They two, saw the twinkling red lights, the light rays beaming from the brightly lighted body and the body of the UFO change shape.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the journalist, the UFO was, at times, “too bright to stare at without hurting your eyes.” The narration says the sighting occurred “directly east of Arkansas city but quite high in the sky.” Around 5 a.m. they checked the light was moving over so slightly. With the advent of the dawn the UFO “started sending longer and brighter light beams toward earth and the same time, it seemed to start an ascent into the heavens.” The observation lasted until 7:05 a.m., when the UFO had risen so high in the sky “that it appeared pin head size and barely visible to the naked eyes. “We ended the watch at that point,” Lilley wrote. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We know the hour, the direction, and the‒lasting‒duration. At that time, we have Venus with a magnitude of -4.47 (very bright), in a position of 84º (east), and 26º of altitude over the horizon. The planet was slowly ascending until the solar illumination made it vanish around 7 a.m. The coincidence with the Arkansas episode is complete. Interesting for UFO investigators is how the astronomical body was described by the observers. Imagination, atmospheric optical effects, you name it. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HT6NYEuSvC8/X_mKQG-PS-I/AAAAAAAACaQ/T48noyB2x-kLh1p9AF_iYeaNGH_UtkCWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1366/Venus.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HT6NYEuSvC8/X_mKQG-PS-I/AAAAAAAACaQ/T48noyB2x-kLh1p9AF_iYeaNGH_UtkCWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Venus.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The picture contains two other factors that presumably confirm the planetary theory. It shows two stars‒Lilley affirmed. These can be seen located at approximately the 11:30 and 2:00 o’clock positions around the object at different apparent distances. The two following <i>Stellarium</i> closeups also show <i>Alhena</i> and <i>Mebsuta</i> stellar bodies in the same celestial configuration (position and relative distance) to Venus as the photograph exhibits. To our consultant Juan Carlos Victorio, the light seems very large and bright and the expected camera shake of a photo taken freehand is not noticeable: could it be the Moon standing in the SSW that night? This would imply the journalist had faked the image, and the assumption seems too risky to me. Also, the two little stars are very weak to show up without long exposure, and for that a tripod would be needed, in which case the shot would evince the planet’s track. Without a first-generation print, photo, and camera data, that is impossible to define. In conclusion, the UFO sighting is definitely Venus. Concerning the problem photograph, it most probably displays the planet Venus as well.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LP3XmO_ZYjI/X_mLbEj2RsI/AAAAAAAACas/YKpW_7khhS4-K2i8uHK8ZoU0n63d6A19QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2745/Stellarium.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2745" height="135" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LP3XmO_ZYjI/X_mLbEj2RsI/AAAAAAAACas/YKpW_7khhS4-K2i8uHK8ZoU0n63d6A19QCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h135/Stellarium.png" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Those Three US Navy UFO Videos</u></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is Mick West’s analysis of the “official” UFO videos. He wrote: This is a live virtual talk I gave for the Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium series at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver on October 1, 2020. Abstract: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>In 2020 the US Navy officially released three videos of UFOs, or, as they call then “UAPs” – Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The media and the UFO community got really excited. One video appears to show a cigar-shaped craft performing impossible maneuvers, one seems to be a very fast, low flying but oddly cold craft, the most interesting one seems to show an actual flying saucer flying along then rotating to hover on its edge. But what do these videos actually show? I discuss the overlooked information in the videos, how I extracted it, mistakes people made in their analyses, and the challenges of communicating all this to an audience with only an average understanding of geometry, infrared optics, and physics. </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">See: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrySRAuk-WQ" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrySRAuk-WQ</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Everything that has to do with those videos (and, above all, the AATIP program which handled them) sounds dark, confused, irregular, like a bad spy novel. Do you want to know how the infamous three US Navy videos came to light? Read this. The penultimate story we will hear about the damned subject: </span><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Curse of the AATIP UFO Files</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The following well-documented entry in John Greenewald’s The Black Vault requires full attention. According to a March 13, 2020 legal response to a prior FOIA on the AATIP UFO files, the Director of the Navy’s General Litigation Division produced several statements to be noted. Greenewald had originally requested access to “All photographs/videos/reports/letters/memos/ etc. that were sent by your agency, to the Office for the Secretary of Defense (OSD)/the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI), or to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in regard to the ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’ or AATIP.” As initially no responsive records existed, a second FOIA appeal was issued and this is the core of the response:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">·</span></b> Here, the IDA [Initial Denial Authority on availability of Department of the Navy records] instructed each of these commands and offices to search their electronic records for the terms “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,” “AATIP,” “Unidentified Flying Object,” “UFO,” “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” “UAP,” along with some vernacular terms such as “Alien,” “phenomena,” “unexplained,” “Extra-Terrestrial,” and “ET.” While the terms “phenomena,” and “unexplained” yielded responsive results, further review of these positive results found they had no relevance to the AATIP. T<u>he other search terms yielded no responsive results</u>. </i>[My emphasis]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">·</span></b> </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Second, you argue that Luis Elizondo, a supposed former director of AATIP, stated the organization received records from the various military services and therefore Navy records must exist. However, <u>the Department of Defense specifically has stated Mr. Elizondo never served as the Director of the AATIP and his statements are pure speculation</u> that do not otherwise undermine the IDA search.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">·</span></b> </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Third, AATIP was disbanded in 2012 [according to a press source] and therefore <u>any records you seek, if they ever existed, may have been permanently transferred, destroyed, or otherwise no longer able to be located</u> by the IDA, therefore not undermining an otherwise reasonable search.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Source:<a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/evidence-of-u-s-navy-involvement-in-ufo-program-may-have-been-destroyed/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/evidence-of-u-s-navy-involvement-in-ufo-program-may-have-been-destroyed/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As a spin-off of this untransparent UFO program (2008-2010), conceived from and for believers and shamefully kept a total secret, then and currently, most recently, and clearly under the influence of alien proponent scientists associated to AATIP, Bigelow and environment, a report by Franc Milburn has been edited by the Israeli think tank Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, which proves how terribly wrong specialists can be when they touch issues out of their specialty fields or they just lack the necessary experience. See:</span><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/11/paper-on-uap-published-by-begin-sadat.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/11/paper-on-uap-published-by-begin-sadat.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, 2018-2020</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Unlike the old USAF Blue Book project or the University of Colorado UFO study, the US top military brass intervention in UFO matters in the present century seems to be rather imprecise and overlapped. Prompted by the publicity of three Navy UFO videos, and the pressure and influence of certain scientists obsessed by UFOs and the paranormal, in 2018 the US Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) created a UAP Task Force. Let us call it the Pentagon’s UAPTF. On June 8, 2020, the US Senate passed the Bill to the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. It included a Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Advanced Aerial Threats which “directs the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies…to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena…to include…(a) detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence.” Status: Pending Congress review and approval.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On August 4, 2020, the DOD established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) to “gain insight into the nature and origins of UAPs…and detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to the U.S. national security.” The Department of the Navy (under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security) will lead the UAPTF, </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8ruj25t" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y8ruj25t</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Concerning the UAP Task Force created within the Pentagon in 2018, according to two confusing posts by <i>The Debrief</i> released recently, that year it already issued one classified intelligence position report. It included the picture of a triangular unidentified object taken 2018 off the East Coast of the US by a pilot’s personal cell phone (the picture has been leaked December 2020). A second intelligence position report was issued by the Pentagon’s UAPTF in the summer of 2020. It contained another photograph of a triangular object, this time with spherical white illuminated areas in each corner, taken 2019. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--OLLYzPJUBQ/X_mMwDDl6pI/AAAAAAAACa4/yHRYh0AwNl8uM57kF_GJX6TnjMLudT_5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1101/UAPTF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--OLLYzPJUBQ/X_mMwDDl6pI/AAAAAAAACa4/yHRYh0AwNl8uM57kF_GJX6TnjMLudT_5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAPTF.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Alleged UAP airborne photograph from the Pentagon UAP Task Force, according to “The Debrief”. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles-the-pentagons-uap-task-force/">https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles-the-pentagons-uap-task-force/</a> and </span><a href="https://www.thedebrief.org/leaked-photo-surfaces-of-purported-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.thedebrief.org/leaked-photo-surfaces-of-purported-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This picture has raised a large fuss in the UFO community, although It is more than risible that the image under discussion has been taken by a personal cell phone, not through the sophisticated imaging capabilities of such an advanced military aircraft. Additionally, Keith Basterfield and other commentators have reason to date it to March 4, 2019 (at 3:02 p.m.) not 2018. However, the source (Tim McMillan) insists it was obtained in 2018. The fact is that this picture has been circulating on internet since, at least, February 2020. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Apparently, there is a different airborne photograph, taken in similar circumstances, known since the summer of 2019. But holders do not show it as part of the release conditions! I do not know whether to laugh or cry if we have to believe that aliens fly in tiny, plastic-like vehicles like this. </span><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-history-of-and-some-comments-about.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-history-of-and-some-comments-about.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Back to the Senate initiative, an article by Andrew Daniels in <i>Popular Mechanics</i> of November 23, 2020 says that still President Donald Trump (for not too long, fortunately) is threating to veto the latest defense bill that includes language directing a government task force to investigate UAPs. A selection of what the article reports follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“President Donald Trump says he’ll veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual bill that sets the budget and policies for the U.S. military, if lawmakers don’t remove a bipartisan amendment to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders, according to an NBC News report. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The NDAA, which must be passed and signed before Congress adjourns on January 3, covers troop pay raises and funding for new equipment, among other items. But it also includes language that could ultimately change what the American public knows about UFOs in a significant way. A Trump veto of the NDAA may stall the momentum of a movement that has rapidly captured mainstream attention over the last two years.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“In August, the Department of Defense (DoD) officially approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The task force will investigate the sightings of UAPs, also known as unidentified flying objects or UFOs. The DoD formed the UAPTF to <i>improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security</i>, Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough told <i>Popular Mechanics</i> at the time. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“In June’s Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) authorized appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the UAPTF and supported its efforts to reveal any links that UAP <i>have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The Senate passed the NDAA, which included the IAA containing the language about the task force, in July. Though the House’s version of the NDAA, which also passed in July, did not include the IAA, the Senate re-passed a version of the NDAA just last week under the House bill number (H.R. 6395) that does include the IAA and its attendant instructions for the UAP task force.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“In the IAA, the Select Committee on Intelligence said it <i>remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on [UAP], despite the potential threat, and so it directed the task force to report its findings on UAP, including observed airborne objects that have not been identified</i>, within 180 days.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“In July, SSCI chair Marco Rubio said he wants the UAPTF to find who’s responsible for UAP spotted over American military bases. Rubio said he hopes <i>the Chinese or Russians or some other adversary haven’t made some sort of technological leap</i> that ‘allows them to conduct this sort of activity’.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Contrary to what credulous ufologists hope (this task force will bring to light visits from Martians), my prediction is that, in a near future, when this UAP working team closes and reports its findings, we will read that nothing in the collected evidence collected points to an origin anywhere off this planet at all. Just let matters drift.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Refuting wild claims, biased journalism and bogus information takes time and specialized knowledge. Fortunately, the scientific community is prompt to fight bad science. The 'Fast Movers' and 'Transmedium' vehicles terms applied to the latest known UFOs (sorry, UAPs) have been subject to a wise discussion in a thread started by Mick West, December 2, 2020, a source I belligerently recommend being read. West has this to say about the recently disclosed case histories allegedly from official sources: (the information) “ultimately does not advance the quest for actual physical evidence. The sources were either anonymous, vague, or speculative.” See: </span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles.11477/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles.11477/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally, on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the $2.3 trillion US government bill. Now we have to wait six months to see what the Pentagon has to say on UAPs. Believers: be ready for disappointment. But do not lose faith in the ultimate disclosure. It will arrive together with the Second Coming. </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdown-for-ufo-disclosures/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdown-for-ufo-disclosures/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla, Spain), May 11, 1970</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The UFO mystery has been‒and, unfortunately, continues to be‒a hotchpotch where everything that looks weird fits, all that we initially we do not understand. This gives the "phenomenon" an added, artificial complexity, diverting resources and time for the investigation of important sightings. What is worse, it gives rise to sensationalism and cheap conjectures from a certain sector of ufologists. This is the case of the "strange" traces found in the morning of May 11, 1970 in a field of sunflowers in the town of Morón de la Frontera, in the Sevilla province. Two circles of about 25 meters in diameter were found inside which the plants appeared with burned stems, but with fresh green leaves. Inside the circles there were several holes that were entering under the soil. The previous night a strong electrical storm developed in the area and around 3 a.m. a loud thunder was heard.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Most of the Spanish ufologists at that time wrote about to the incident, some went to the scene, others went by hearsay, and some applied their professional knowledge to reviewing what happened. An example of the latter is the study of Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, an agricultural engineer by trade and an experienced UFO sighting field inquirer and analyst, who analyzed the extensive documentation, reports, interviews, photographs, sketches, etc., compiled by our southern colleagues, to write in 1984 a 78-page report that concluded the following:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The most reasonable hypothesis is a lightning strike during the night of May 10 to 11, most likely around 3 a.m. on the 11th. We base this on the known meteorological data, supported by a certain number of corroborating testimonies. This hypothesis is enough to explain the observed effects: the disappearance of sunflower plants due to the pressure wave, the holes in the ground due to the propagation of a very intense electric current, and the local drying of the soil and the burns of the plants due to the heating produced.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The existence of the two traces, with a certain degree of similarity and at a relatively short distance, can be explained by a possible branching, at a short height from the ground, of the main discharge channel.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fernández Peris also affirmed, stating a fundamental fact in ufology: <i>This event reveals, once again, in all its nakedness, the lack of concordance that exists in general between the psychosocial repercussion caused by an event labeled as extraordinary and its true nature, which may actually be even vulgar.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Everything happens, I add, when “investigators” deem to be neutral keep on their intellect sort of a bandage printed with the sentence “UFOs exist, they are extraterrestrial or from other dimensions”.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30JBUtMWluA/X_mPOY36T1I/AAAAAAAACbE/sDzV-WZFC90HlNefB7bNrtWCbOOphwMVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Mor%25C3%25B3n%2Bcollage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1407" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30JBUtMWluA/X_mPOY36T1I/AAAAAAAACbE/sDzV-WZFC90HlNefB7bNrtWCbOOphwMVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mor%25C3%25B3n%2Bcollage.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This example of a violent Nature’s ground effects is found repeated elsewhere, showing copycat marks and traces. Identical origin, identical impacts in the environment. Some French events of this kind have been well studied by researchers Vachon and Seray in their little tome <i>Marliens et les cas similaires</i> (Marliens and similar cases), an indispensable consulting work: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2593puq">https://tinyurl.com/y2593puq</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ6six5u-Us/X_mPdZ7Co3I/AAAAAAAACbI/r51W8e5pHVk7tepNTkUFyXOSJ1QUyt9nACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Marliens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1392" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ6six5u-Us/X_mPdZ7Co3I/AAAAAAAACbI/r51W8e5pHVk7tepNTkUFyXOSJ1QUyt9nACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Marliens.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The reason for bringing up this case right now is purely anecdotal. Among the decoration elements of my studio in Valencia there is a small transparent plastic block (already worn, 9 x 6 cm) containing an embedded sample of the soil of the affected area of one of the circles of the sunflower field. It is a triangular piece of about 12 mm on a side. It was a gift I received from the CEI of Barcelona during those years. Every day that I go in and out of my office I look at it and today it occurred to me to share it with my readers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WepIXWa1zD0/X_mQbsc7S1I/AAAAAAAACbU/RDOY2TT170sr2ddx5iWyLd_U4D8uXjaywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2570/Mor%25C3%25B3n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2570" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WepIXWa1zD0/X_mQbsc7S1I/AAAAAAAACbU/RDOY2TT170sr2ddx5iWyLd_U4D8uXjaywCLcBGAsYHQ/w357-h169/Mor%25C3%25B3n.jpg" width="357" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IMPORTANT ADDENDUM: Thanks to the kindness of the author (J.A. Fernández Peris) and the assistance of Juan Pablo González, the full, unpublished paper on the Morón "UFO landing" has been uploaded to Academia.edu. You can reach it through this link:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44872761/Analisis_de_un_clasico_Moron_de_la_Frontera_11_mayo_1970_Por_J_A_Fernandez_Peris">https://www.academia.edu/44872761/Analisis_de_un_clasico_Moron_de_la_Frontera_11_mayo_1970_Por_J_A_Fernandez_Peris</a></span></div><u style="font-family: helvetica;">FOTOCAT and Population</u><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (By Julio Plaza del Olmo)</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A pattern that has been historically studied in ufology is the distribution of cases as a function of population. It has been systematically observed that <i>the number of cases increases with population</i>: more population implies a higher probability of any person having an observation. FOTOCAT also follows this trend, as we see in figure 1.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VVG2qipA0Z4/X_mQ4Hdqd5I/AAAAAAAACbc/drLygJRb_nIf2kiL8c7nHF05r5DnrPqOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Figura%2B1%2B.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VVG2qipA0Z4/X_mQ4Hdqd5I/AAAAAAAACbc/drLygJRb_nIf2kiL8c7nHF05r5DnrPqOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Figura%2B1%2B.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Figure 1: Number of cases versus country population in FOTOCAT. Only countries with more than 50 cases have been represented. Red line shows the trend. </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The more population in a country, the more likely that any person witnesses a phenomenon. Or, in the case of FOTOCAT, the more likely the person can take a picture (either consciously or not) of an alleged anomaly.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If instead of looking at the <i>number of actual cases</i>, we focus on the <i>number of cases per inhabitant</i>, we obtain figure 2:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a3B-VUoi1Eg/X_mRMtIM56I/AAAAAAAACbk/W1_addemWYUDwQX0EJCdeTc-1YrWYVLQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Figura%2B2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a3B-VUoi1Eg/X_mRMtIM56I/AAAAAAAACbk/W1_addemWYUDwQX0EJCdeTc-1YrWYVLQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Figura%2B2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Figure 2: Number of cases per inhabitant versus country population in FOTOCAT. Red line shows the general trend.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The figure seems to represent the opposite: a decrease of cases with population. We have to remark that the variables are different: Number of cases versus cases per inhabitant. <i>There are more cases when population increases, but there are less cases per inhabitant.</i> If the population doubles, one would expect the number of cases to double too. However, what really happens is that the increase does not reach the double. Population grows faster than observations, therefore, the ratio of number of cases to population, decreases. This is an effect that has been observed and contrasted in multiple catalogs of different types</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and FOTOCAT is no exception.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FOTOCAT is different to other catalogs in that it has a technological component. Nevertheless, it behaves in a similar way to the rest of the catalogs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1) Plaza del Olmo, J. “A Review on the Relation between Population Density and UFO Sightings,” <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, Volume 29, No 3, pages 425-448 (2015), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) Pierre Lagrange’s "Qui croit aux petits hommes verts? De l'iconoclasme sociologique aux cultures visuelles," (Who Does Believe in Little Green Men? From Sociological Iconoclasm to Visual Culture), is one of the writings included in the book Politiques Visuelles (Visual Politics), by Gil Bartholeyns (ed.), Les Presses du Réel, 2016, pages 253-271, one that presently is available through Academia: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y753uetx" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y753uetx</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The abstract reads: <i>This paper describes the history of little green men from its invention as a science fiction stereotype to its translation as a media cliché for UFOs in the middle of the 1950s with the Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky, flying saucer landing and "little men" sighting (that were translated into "little green men" by the journalists). It also explores what the history of this stereotype teaches us on the sociology of UFOs and of alleged "irrational beliefs"</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) “Telling the moment: Seeing a UFO,” by Catherine Woods and Robin Wooffitt of the University of Southampton/University of York,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/26407960/Telling_the_moment_Seeing_a_UFO" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/26407960/Telling_the_moment_Seeing_a_UFO</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Abstract: <i>In this paper we examine how the features of an on-going experience are identified as having subsequently reportable properties. Using transcripts of the audio track of a video posted on YouTube purporting to capture the movements of a UFO (or at least, ostensibly anomalous lights in the sky), the analysis examines how the participants exhibit and negotiate their understanding of the object/lights, how they evaluate the evidence provided by the video in comparison to what they can see, and the way that another’s failure to see the same phenome-non is managed to ensure that the absence of corroboration does not undermine implicit claims about its objectivity and potentially anomalous features.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3) Eric Maillot, “The PAN D of October 21, 1982, called ‘L’amarante’: A Great Illusion?” This famous UFO case is one of the strangest UFO or PAN-D studied by GEPAN/CNES. The detailed official survey was published in 1982 by GEPAN in its Technical Note #17:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=4856">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=4856</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After a complementary investigation of several years conducted by the author, it is now possible to describe the mechanisms of an astonishing visual illusion that provoked the extremely close vision of a UFO. See the paper through this link:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_">https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4) In 2014 Robert Sheaffer wrote his “Special Report: The Trent UFO Photos - the "Best" of All Time - Finally Busted?”, </span><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/09/special-report-trent-ufo-photos-best-of.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/09/special-report-trent-ufo-photos-best-of.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It included the long-time unavailable study by Joel Carpenter (1959-2014): </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/n9aaxxm" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/n9aaxxm</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To which a proponent of the real deal, Brad Sparks, has commented: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Walter is seeing patterns in noise like string-like lines where none exists by "pareidolia" effect (brain imagining a pattern), which even Sheaffer admits is possible and that the whole thing needs confirmation. After six years we're still waiting. Walter's line is not in the same position as anyone else's alleged string or thread. The debunker IPACO group's invisible line is tilted 11 degrees unlike Walter's. A copy of the photo has the "drawing-in" line because otherwise you might not "see" it or imagine that you do. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The truck mirror (or car mirror) theory has no known mirror from the 1940s or 1950 that matches the UFO shape. For a terrestrial hoax, the object has to exist. The model has to exist. Many people have searched catalogs and photos of old 1940s/1950 vehicles looking for any mirror that matches and no one has found any -- you can be sure if they did they would be shouting it from the rooftops. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The reason Sheaffer says IPACO "statistically" detected its line or purported "thread" is because you can only find it on a graph of density data. It is invisible - which IPACO does not explain because it blows up their bogus theory. When you do check their graph, and you scale the linear dimensions, it turns out that the so-called "thread" is almost 1 inch in width or thickness and is actually a thick rope -- yet no one can see it. IPACO cannot enhance this 1-inch-thick rope so that is visible -- because it does not exist, it is a figment of IPACO's debunker imagination imposed on noisy grainy background data. IPACO covers up its own data showing that the UFO must be around 200 feet away and therefore about 6 feet in diameter and 40 feet higher than the height level of the telephone wires, thus obviously not a 5-inch truck mirror or pie pan.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Many other "lines" can be found in the grainy background of the Trent photos and most do not even meet up with the UFO, and some are even below the UFO so obviously cannot suspend it.” </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think that ideas and counter ideas as always intellectually stimulating, however, calling the French research company IPACO a “debunker group” is pure name- calling and a distortion from reality that does not dignify Spark’s otherwise excellent work. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(5) Sharon A. Hill (science education)’s 2012 thesis “Being Scientifical: Popularity, Purpose and Promotion of Amateur Research and Investigation Groups in the U.S.” A good, well-inquired study, <span>whose conclusions</span> I cannot <span>forebear</span> highlighting a portion:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The results partially confirm my original hypotheses. The evidence and documentation produced by ARIGs [amateur research and investigation groups] are not of high quality and would not be persuasive to the scientific community. Many make sweeping claims and assumptions that reach far beyond what the data suggests and venture outside the realm of scientific inquiry into supernatural causes.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>There were widespread examples of mimicked science talk (“scientese”) and attempts to appear scientific. Examples of scientific misunderstandings abounded. These examples prompted the use of the word “scientifical” in the title of this paper. This is not a dictionary word, but a slang term used to describe when a person is attempting to sound sophisticated and complex by speaking in sciencey-sounding jargon. Being “scientifical” may fool the public into thinking one is “scientific”. Contrarily, the two terms have very different meanings. ARIG activities exhibit many qualities of “pseudoscience.” Processes can frequently be characterized as “sham inquiry” instead of scientific inquiry. I chose to refer to pseudoscientific methodology as “sham inquiry” (see Haack, 1997 and Peirce, 1931) to reflect the attempt at questioning that falls short of legitimacy. There are a few ARIGs that make realistic, honest attempts at inquiry. They admit to recognizing that a truly scientific process is difficult, that their questions about phenomena may be impossible to answer or that the real answer is mundane. Those groups seek the best answers instead of verification of a preexisting belief in the supernatural. Nearly half of ARIGs did not use “science”. </i>Read here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ydyp46jk">https://tinyurl.com/ydyp46jk</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(6) “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles,” by Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter A. Reali: is this paper an example of science-appearing, science-mimicking, bad science, or a true breakthrough? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7) Prepared for his doctoral research, “Toward a Psychology of UFO Abduction Beliefs,” by Scott R. Scribner (2003), is a captivating paper on the nature of the “phenomenon” of abductions: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7d4wh5a">https://tinyurl.com/y7d4wh5a</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(8) On November 18, 2020, Dr. David Clarke has been the guest speaker on the Martin Willis live show, sharing his perspectives of UFO lore and more. The interview is great and it represents a synthesis of many years of investigation you should not miss: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc6g8dan">https://tinyurl.com/yc6g8dan</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As a follow-up, veteran UFO investigator Kevin Randle wrote this entry in his blog: </span><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/11/nick-pope-revisited.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/11/nick-pope-revisited.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(9) New research study by James Oberg:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/hawaii_mothership_final2.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/hawaii_mothership_final2.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jim explains his work as follows: <i>my report on the October 24, 2020 Hawaii 'reentry fireball UFO' in the perspective of 50+ years of previous spectacular 'motherships' caused by reentries. The most spectacular events of this type involved actual rocket stages, probably because their structure included highly-survivable rocket engine bells and propellant tanks, creating a large swarm of independent objects that more or less kept pace until flame extinction. In two bizarre cases [1990 and 1996] with very-short-lived rocket stages, multiple witnesses reported 'searchlights' scanning the skies [i.e., changing pointing direction]. Since this occurs high enough above sensible atmosphere to eliminate an actual projected light source illuminating a cloud, it must represent material spraying from the stage. Possibly leftover rocket fuel that has not leaked out yet. Just how this material glows deep in Earth's shadow is a puzzle. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10) Just released in the Academia.edu portal, the paper “Sex! Aliens ! Harvard? Rhetorical Boundary-Work in the Media (A Case Study of Role of Journalists in the Social Construction of Scientific Authority,” by Linda Billings, submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Journalism, Indiana University. October 2005. It can be read in the following link: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycyaon7b">https://tinyurl.com/ycyaon7b</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(11) Engineer and UFO analyst Manuel Borraz has reedited some articles of deep significance for the UFO student. In Spanish, it is entitled “Paradojas Ufológicas” (Ufological Paradoxes). These are a few essays devoted to four major paradoxes we have found while studying UFOs: the impossibility of reaching a consensus in ufology, the difficulty of translating experiences into images, the fallacy derived from the Battelle Memorial Institute statistics, and a bitter curse: we will never learn enough to encompass the entire future. See: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44201905/Paradojas_ufol%C3%B3gicas" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44201905/Paradojas_ufol%C3%B3gicas</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(12) In 2018, scientists from the Oxford University proposed a clever alternative to the Fermi paradox: "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, and Toby Ord, all from the Future of Humanity Institute, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A pertinent article on this work has been recently signed by Mind Matters News:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/particle-physicist-offers-75-reasons-we-dont-see-aliens/">https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/particle-physicist-offers-75-reasons-we-dont-see-aliens/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(13) Key question and article: “Why do smart people lie about alien encounters?” </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By Matthew Rozsa and Keith A. Spencer, posted on December 10, 2020, </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc7c4cjm" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/yc7c4cjm</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(14) Published July 2020 the paper, “Laboratory investigation of earthquake lightning due to landslide,” by Y. Enomoto, T. Yamabe, K. Mizuhara, S. Sugiura & H. Kondo in Earth, Planets and Space, volume 72, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-020-01237-8" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-020-01237-8</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(15) Brett Holman, “The Phantom Airship Panic of 1913: Imagining Aerial Warfare in Britain Before the Great War,” 2016,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/20026478/The_phantom_airship_panic_of_1913_imagining_aerial_warfare_in_Britain_before_the_Great_War" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/The_phantom_airship_panic_of_1913</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For students of UFO waves and other social sudden resurgences of ghost air vehicles, see my 2015 paper “UFO Waves: An International Bibliography,” in </span><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(16) “Not Coming from the Cold” is a review by British long-time UFO researcher Nigel Watson of <i>Roswell. The Ultimate Cold Case</i>, a book by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt (New Page Books, 2020): </span><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/09/not-coming-in-from-cold.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/09/not-coming-in-from-cold.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(17) For those interested in knowing more about Spanish UFO events investigated by the military authorities, and about the corresponding civilian surveys, there are two specially interesting studies using the scientific approach to probe unusual phenomena (both in Spanish):</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Canary Islands, November 24, 1974 (visual, radar), a paper by engineer Manuel Borraz, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/44116237/Canarias_24_11_1974">https://www.academia.edu/44116237/Canarias_24_11_1974</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bárdenas Reales fire range, January 2, 1975 (visual, landing), a paper by physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712314/Expediente_750102_Bardenas_Reales" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/31712314/Expediente_750102_Bardenas_Reales</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(18) UFO analysts J.C. Victorio Uranga and Manuel Borraz continue their review of alleged Unidentified events of ancient times in Spain, evaluating the cases in the book <i>Wonders in the Sky</i> by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck. In Spanish: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/maravillas-en-el-cielo-6-caravaca-ano.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/maravillas-en-el-cielo-6-caravaca-ano.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Late Minute Flash: A New Book by Dr. Campo</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ricardo Campo (Ph.D., Philosophy), an experienced UFO investigator from the Canary Islands, has just published another book, the second part of his mammoth review of UFO sightings in that part of the Spanish territory in the Atlantic Ocean. <i>El fenómeno ovni en Canarias (Desde 1981 a 2005)</i>, has been released by Coliseo Sentosa publishing House, with 788 pages: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08RB2HH36?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08RB2HH36?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a following edition of this blog, a proper book review will be included.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>PERSONAL LOG</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you want to swap (or buy) UFO books? Please check this list:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://app.box.com/s/20iifl6k0ml7cpzaitgcehcv11mpo8fv">https://app.box.com/s/20iifl6k0ml7cpzaitgcehcv11mpo8fv</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Manuel Borraz Aymerich, Luis Ruiz Noguez, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, James Oberg, Dr. David Clarke, Barry J. Greenwood, Marcelo Moya Sanhueza, Manuel Carballal, Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez, Kay Coggin, Matías Morey Ripoll, Keith Basterfield. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BkfedOgvqqA/X_mTu3EZ_rI/AAAAAAAACbw/BinddoBbPpsC63RtPnSka6eIKpiUBMztACLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BkfedOgvqqA/X_mTu3EZ_rI/AAAAAAAACbw/BinddoBbPpsC63RtPnSka6eIKpiUBMztACLcBGAsYHQ/w588-h101/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="588" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u>, 1976</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), 1978, 1979</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science),1981, 1989</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u> (UFO Investigation), 1984</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs), 1987</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u> (Unusual Files), 1995</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</a> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UNILIBER: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFMz8fxcFDM/X_mUNHFqAlI/AAAAAAAACb4/PHpsGae2x2UzT2iSKagYzhjBeT_8T-YjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" height="103" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFMz8fxcFDM/X_mUNHFqAlI/AAAAAAAACb4/PHpsGae2x2UzT2iSKagYzhjBeT_8T-YjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w367-h103/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="367" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne), 2008,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell), 2012, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (with Wim van Utrecht), 2017,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007) </u>(with M. Borraz), 2020, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are several options you can follow:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>·</b> </span>Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">·</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">·</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Donations to help defray research expenses</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
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2021/ENERO/09 (ES)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El catálogo, la base de datos y el archivo reúnen a fecha de hoy 12.713 casos, debidamente documentados y compilados.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Estudio Borraz-Ballester Olmos sobre las Luces de Marfa</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En julio pasado anuncié la publicación, a través de Academia.edu, del informe FOTOCAT número 8, <b>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b>, de acceso gratuito:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En septiembre, la editorial italiana UPIAR publicó una magnífica versión impresa a todo color: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Creemos que este trabajo ha logrado el objetivo de resolver, de una vez por todas, el enigma de las luces fantasma que se ven y fotografían cerca del pueblo tejano de Marfa. De hecho, animamos a nuestros colegas a recrear nuestra misma metodología sobre otras localidades del mundo donde surgen semejantes luces tan misteriosas como recurrentes. Estamos convencidos de que los resultados serán relevantes y definitivos. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHaDhqgM-o8/X_mGwe6CgZI/AAAAAAAACZ8/k4vbQLn-WNs86XctxsxtpRSBNY-uOwXcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Portadas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1600" height="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHaDhqgM-o8/X_mGwe6CgZI/AAAAAAAACZ8/k4vbQLn-WNs86XctxsxtpRSBNY-uOwXcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w292-h206/Portadas.jpg" width="292" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Las balizas del 11 de noviembre de 1979</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Artículo por V.J. Ballester Olmos, Joan Plana, Jaime Servera y J.A. Fernández Peris. El 11 de noviembre de 1979 tuvo lugar un incidente ovni aéreo en sobre el Mediterráneo. Conocido como el "caso Manises", es probablemente el avistamiento ovni español más conocido internacionalmente. Todo comenzó con la detección de una señal de emergencia, una radiobaliza. Recientemente hemos sabido de la existencia de otra baliza de emergencia en aguas francesas y hemos investigado si podría tener alguna relación con la baliza que inició el caso Manises. Este informe es el resultado de nuestra encuesta. Este trabajo se halla en el siguiente enlace: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44150004/LAS_BALIZAS_DEL_11_DE_NOVIEMBRE_DE_1979</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Incidente en la costa de Ayamonte, marzo de 1987</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Artículo de V.J. Ballester Olmos y Marcos A. Benítez. El 23 de marzo de 1987, los medios de comunicación españoles informaron de la presunta caída al mar de un objeto en llamas, cerca de Ayamonte (Huelva). Una larga y persistente investigación realizada desde entonces ha determinado que, a pesar de la denodada búsqueda por buques de la Armada y helicópteros del Ejército del Aire, no se halló ningún rastro. Todo apunta a una información poco fidedigna o incluso enteramente falsa. Es el proceso de investigación y de comprobación de datos lo que resulta verdaderamente de interés en este contexto. Para leer o bajarse el artículo, haz clic sobre este enlace:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987">https://www.academia.edu/44213938/Incidente_en_la_costa_de_Ayamonte_marzo_de_1987</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Bibliografía personal actualizada, de 1965 a 2020</u>: </span><a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Caso Militar 24 de noviembre de 1974, Canarias</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Escribe Manuel Borraz: <i>Salvo que algún día se conozca nueva información relevante, todo hace suponer que los sucesos canarios del 24 de noviembre de 1974 (expediente 741124 del Mando Operativo Aéreo) van a permanecer, para los más escépticos, en el limbo de los incidentes no del todo aclarados y, para los menos exigentes, en el olimpo de los encuentros con “auténticos ovnis”. De todas formas, hay que enfatizar que estamos hablando de unas modestas luces que no coincidieron con ninguna detección por radar, mientras que, por su parte, los ecos no identificados detectados en la misma noche no tuvieron correlación visual. He colgado un análisis de este caso que hice años atrás, con algunas propuestas de explicación, en el siguiente enlace: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44116237/Canarias_24_11_1974" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44116237/Canarias_24_11_1974</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Por mi parte, sólo puedo añadir algo: este es el enfoque preciso a la hora de investigar la fenomenología ovni.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>El aterrizaje del 2 de enero de 1975 en el Polígono de Tiro de Bárdenas Reales</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El expediente militar desclasificado por el Ejército del Aire español 750102 (<a href="https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/es/consulta/resultados_busqueda_restringida.do?tipoResultados=BIB&id=43349&forma=ficha&posicion=1">https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/es/consulta/resultados_busqueda_restringida.do?tipoResultados=BIB&id=43349&forma=ficha&posicion=1</a>) es uno de los pocos que subsiste como inexplicado. Pero no porque la evidencia apunte a algo extraordinario desconocido para la aeronáutica, astronáutica o ciencia en general. Simplemente porque en su momento no se hizo una investigación adecuada. Ni tampoco la hicieron años después los periodistas del misterio que se ocuparon del caso. Esas encuestas ineficaces y deficientes fueron incapaces de resolver los hechos dada su falta de profesionalidad y su nivel de incompetencia. En 2015 y 2017 el físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo analizó el caso y encontró algunas claves, constatando que la falta de datos fidedignos que hubiera proporcionado una encuesta correcta impiden solucionarlo. La pericia de esta investigación debe ser un canon para muchos:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Expediente 750102: Bárdenas Reales”, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712314/Expediente_750102_Bardenas_Reales">https://www.academia.edu/31712314/Expediente_750102_Bardenas_Reales</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Bárdenas Reales: Confusión en el campo”, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712315/Bardenas_Reales_Confusion_en_el_campo">https://www.academia.edu/31712315/Bardenas_Reales_Confusion_en_el_campo</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Periodistas, policías y ovnis, Arkansas, 24 de agosto de 1972</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Entre los muchos casos fotográficos que manejo, de uno de los trece mil de FOTOCAT recibí hace poco una información de prensa directa con una reproducción gráfica de la imagen algo mejor de la que ya tenía. La conclusión no va a sorprender a nadie, pero juzgo que de las descripciones de los testigos se pueden extraer ‒una vez más‒ interesantes conclusiones que confirman los errores de la percepción visual, tanto de ciudadanos corrientes, periodistas avezados y agentes de la policía. Conclusiones básicas que aquellos refractarios a la realidad siguen sin tomar al pie de la letra, yendo a trompicones en sus deficientes investigaciones “de campo”. Porque nadie es inmune a la equivocación, a la exageración o a la agregación de detalles más o menos ficticios. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La reportera Beth Lilley, del <i>Arkansas City Traveler</i> publicó en su edición del 24 de agosto de 1972 un artículo titulado, con tintes navideños y a la manera local: <i>Twinkle, Twinkle UFO, We Want You Back Fo’ Some Mo’</i>. A las 5,20 horas de la mañana de ese mismo día, la periodista sacó tres fotos de una extraña luz desde su residencia del bloque 300 de la avenida East Pine, en la ciudad de Arkansas, capital de dicho estado. La segunda de las fotos, la única publicada, muestra ‒grandemente ampliado‒ un foco de luz más o menos central sobre las ramas de un árbol, sobre el que se aprecian dos estrellas, según dijo la observadora. Del centro del ovni emanaba un resplandor brillante antes de que despidiera rayos de luz en dirección a la tierra. Estos rayos no aparecen, sin embargo, en las fotos. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cezsKTZFAYw/X_mWt_lZOtI/AAAAAAAACcE/gO7X13Oa38oZyzLJwh3ZIqUggucmkUwrACLcBGAsYHQ/s595/ARKANSAS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="423" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cezsKTZFAYw/X_mWt_lZOtI/AAAAAAAACcE/gO7X13Oa38oZyzLJwh3ZIqUggucmkUwrACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ARKANSAS.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Esa información básicamente estaba en la leyenda de la imagen impresa y fue seguida por un artículo que exponía cómo a las 4 de la madrugada tres oficiales de policía de Arkansas, el teniente Merton Darnall, los patrulleros Mike Rankin y Ron Jordon, observaron el ovni durante veinte minutos antes de llamar por teléfono a la reportera. “A las 4:20 ‒escribió Lilley‒ conduje hasta la colina de la Iglesia Metodista y observé el ovni durante aproximadamente 15 minutos. Al principio, apareció como un objeto extremadamente grande y blanco, de apariencia algo redonda con diferentes longitudes de rayos de luz emitiendo desde sus bordes. En unos minutos, apareció un gran círculo brillante alrededor del ovni y se pudieron ver luces rojas parpadeantes en lo que parecía ser el frente del objeto y en un extremo de uno de los rayos de luz. Después de dos a cuatro minutos, el resplandor brillante pareció ser absorbido por el cuerpo del ovni y luego pareció cambiar de una forma ovalada a una triangular con puntos redondeados. Los agentes de policía mantuvieron una vigilia en varios puntos de la ciudad mientras se ocupaban de otras tareas durante el resto de su turno. Darnall y Rankin también vieron el ovni desde el frente de la estación de policía, mientras que yo estaba mirando desde el patio delantero de mi residencia. Mis vecinos, el Sr. y la Sra. Robert Earle, del 315 de la avenida E. Pine ‒usualmente madrugadores‒ se unieron a mí en mi vigilia del ovni durante más de una hora. Los dos vieron las luces rojas parpadeantes, los rayos de luz que emanaban del cuerpo brillantemente iluminado y como el cuerpo del ovni cambiaba de forma".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Para la periodista, el ovni era, en ocasiones, "demasiado brillante para mirarlo sin lastimarse los ojos". La narración dice que el avistamiento ocurrió "directamente al este de la ciudad de Arkansas, pero bastante alto en el cielo". Alrededor de las 5 horas comprobaron que la luz se movía levemente. Con la llegada del amanecer, el ovni "comenzó a enviar rayos de luz más largos y brillantes hacia la tierra y, al mismo tiempo, pareció comenzar un ascenso hacia los cielos". La observación duró hasta las 7:05, cuando el ovni se había elevado tan alto en el cielo “que parecía del tamaño de una cabeza de alfiler y apenas era visible a simple vista. "Terminamos la vigilancia en ese momento", escribió Lilley.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Conocemos la hora, la dirección y la larga duración. En ese momento, tenemos a Venus con una magnitud de -4,47 (muy brillante), en una posición de 84º (este) y 26º de altitud sobre el horizonte. El planeta ascendía lentamente hasta que la iluminación solar lo hizo desaparecer alrededor de las 7 de la mañana. La coincidencia con el episodio de Arkansas es completa. Es interesante para los investigadores de ovnis cómo los observadores describieron el cuerpo astronómico. Imaginación, efectos ópticos atmosféricos, lo que sea.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GV2pNf0BhMg/X_mW2T5C80I/AAAAAAAACcI/NM8f2fE3gCw-LuXXHux48VooOy5ah9OpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1366/Venus.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GV2pNf0BhMg/X_mW2T5C80I/AAAAAAAACcI/NM8f2fE3gCw-LuXXHux48VooOy5ah9OpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Venus.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La imagen contiene otros dos factores que presumiblemente confirman la teoría planetaria. Muestra dos estrellas ‒según afirmó Lilley. Estas se pueden ver localizadas alrededor de sus 2 y 11½ (marcación del reloj) a diferentes distancias aparentes en la foto. Las dos siguientes cartas celestes ampliadas de <i>Stellarium</i> también muestran las estrellas <i>Alhena</i> y <i>Mebsuta</i> en la misma configuración celeste (posición y distancia relativa) con Venus que muestra la fotografía. Para nuestro consultor Juan Carlos Victorio, la luz parece muy grande y brillante y no se aprecia la esperada trepidación de una foto tomada a mano alzada: ¿será la Luna que se hallaba en el SSW esa noche? Esto implicaría que la periodista estaría falsificando la imagen, y la suposición me parece demasiado arriesgada. También señala que las dos estrellitas son muy débiles para aparecer sin exposición y para eso se necesitaría entonces un trípode y, en consecuencia, la toma evidenciaría el trazo de los astros. Sin una copia de primera generación, datos fotográficos y de la cámara es imposible de definir. En conclusión, el avistamiento es definitivamente Venus. Con respecto a la fotografía-problema, lo más probable es que también muestre al planeta Venus.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LP3XmO_ZYjI/X_mLbEj2RsI/AAAAAAAACas/YKpW_7khhS4-K2i8uHK8ZoU0n63d6A19QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2745/Stellarium.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2745" height="135" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LP3XmO_ZYjI/X_mLbEj2RsI/AAAAAAAACas/YKpW_7khhS4-K2i8uHK8ZoU0n63d6A19QCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h135/Stellarium.png" width="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los tres videos de ovnis de la Marina de EE. UU.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Este es el análisis de Mick West de los tres videos ovni "oficiales", divulgado durante una charla virtual en directo que dio para la serie de coloquios del Departamento de Física y Astronomía en la Universidad de British Colombia en Vancouver el 1 de octubre de 2020. Resumen:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>En 2020, la Marina de los EE. UU. hizo público oficialmente tres videos de ovnis, o, como ellos llaman entonces "UAP", fenómenos aéreos no identificados. Los medios y la comunidad ufológica se emocionaron mucho. Uno de los videos parece mostrar una nave con forma de cigarro que realiza maniobras imposibles, otro parece ser una nave muy rápida, que vuela a baja altura pero extrañamente desconocido, y el más interesante parece mostrar un auténtico platillo volante volando y luego girando para flotar sobre su eje. Pero ¿qué muestran verdaderamente esas grabaciones? Desvelo la información pasada por alto sobre dichos videos, cómo la extraje, los errores que varias personas cometieron en sus análisis y los desafíos de comunicar todo esto a una audiencia con solo un conocimiento medio de geometría, óptica infrarroja y física. </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrySRAuk-WQ" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrySRAuk-WQ</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Todo lo que tiene que ver con esos videos (y, sobre todo, con el programa AATIP de donde proceden) suena oscuro, confuso, irregular, como una mala novela de espías. ¿Quiere saber cómo salieron a la luz los infames tres videos de la Marina de los Estados Unidos? Lea esto. Será la penúltima historia que escucharemos sobre el condenado asunto:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos">https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpm45/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>La maldición de los archivos ovni del AATIP</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El siguiente artículo, francamente bien documentado, en la web The Black Vault de John Greenewald ha capturado toda mi atención. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/evidence-of-u-s-navy-involvement-in-ufo-program-may-have-been-destroyed/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/evidence-of-u-s-navy-involvement-in-ufo-program-may-have-been-destroyed/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De acuerdo con una respuesta legal de la Marina norteamericana fechada el 13 de marzo de 2020 en respuesta a una solicitud FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) anterior sobre los archivos ovni de AATIP, el Director de la División de Litigios Generales ha puesto de manifiesto varios puntos para tener en cuenta. Greenewald había solicitado originalmente acceso a "Todas las fotografías / videos / informes / cartas / memorandos / etc. que fueron enviados por su agencia a la Oficina del Ministro de Defensa (OSD) / Subsecretario de Defensa para Inteligencia (USDI), o a la Agencia de Inteligencia de Defensa (DIA) con respecto al 'Programa avanzado de identificación de amenazas aeroespaciales' o AATIP". Como inicialmente se le respondió que no existían registros de respuesta, Greenewald se quejó de que la búsqueda había sido insuficiente y emitió una segunda apelación de la FOIA, que fue respondida con esta carta. Este es el núcleo de su respuesta (remito al lector más interesado a la sección en inglés del blog):</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">• <i>La IDA</i> [Autoridad de Denegación Inicial, sobre la disponibilidad de registros del Departamento de la Marina] <i>instruyó a cada uno de estos comandos y oficinas para buscar en sus registros electrónicos los términos “Programa avanzado de identificación de amenazas aeroespaciales”, “AATIP”, “Objeto volador no identificado, "OVNI", "Fenómenos aéreos no identificados", "UAP", junto con algunos términos vernáculos como "Alien", "fenómenos", "inexplicables", "Extraterrestres" y "ET". Si bien los términos "fenómenos" e "inexplicables" arrojaron resultados receptivos, una revisión adicional de estos resultados positivos encontró que no tenían relevancia para la AATIP. <u>Los otros términos de búsqueda no arrojaron resultados susceptibles de respuesta</u>.</i> [Mi énfasis]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>• En segundo lugar, usted argumenta que Luis Elizondo, un supuesto exdirector de AATIP, afirmó que la organización recibió registros de los distintos servicios militares y por lo tanto deben existir registros de la Marina. Sin embargo, el Departamento de Defensa ha declarado específicamente que <u>el Sr. Elizondo nunca se desempeñó como Director de la AATIP y sus declaraciones son pura especulación que de otra manera no socavan la búsqueda de la IDA</u>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>• En tercer lugar, AATIP se disolvió en 2012 </i>[según una fuente de prensa]<i> y, por lo tanto, <u>cualquier registro que busque, si alguna vez existió, puede haber sido transferido permanentemente, destruido o de otra manera ya no puede ser localizado</u> por la IDA, por lo tanto, no ponen en duda una búsqueda por lo demás razonable.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Grupo de trabajo (Task Force) UAP del Pentágono, 2018-2020</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A diferencia del antiguo proyecto Blue Book de la USAF o del estudio ovni de la Universidad de Colorado, la intervención militar de alto rango de los Estados Unidos en asuntos ovni en el presente siglo parece ser bastante imprecisa y solapada. Impulsada por la publicidad de tres videos de ovnis de la Marina y la presión e influencia de ciertos científicos obsesionados por los ovnis y lo paranormal, en 2018 la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval de la Marina de los EE. UU. (ONI) creó un grupo de trabajo (Task Force) UAP. Llamémoslo UAPTF del Pentágono. El 8 de junio de 2020, el Senado de los Estados Unidos aprobó el Proyecto de Ley de Autorización de Inteligencia para el año fiscal 2021. Incluía un Informe del Comité Selecto de Inteligencia sobre Amenazas Aéreas Avanzadas que “dirige el DNI [Director de Inteligencia Nacional], en consulta con el Ministro de Defensa y los jefes de otras agencias ... para presentar un informe dentro de los 180 días de la fecha de promulgación de la ley, a los comités de inteligencia y servicios armados del Congreso sobre fenómenos aéreos no identificados ... para incluir ... (a) análisis detallado de datos de fenómenos aéreos e informes de inteligencia recopilados o conservados por la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval ”. Estado actual: Pendiente de revisión y aprobación del Congreso.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El 4 de agosto de 2020, el Ministerio de Defensa (DOD) estableció el Grupo de Trabajo de Fenómenos Aéreos No Identificados (UAPTF) para "obtener información sobre la naturaleza y los orígenes de los UAP ... y detectar, analizar y catalogar aquellos que podrían representar una amenaza para la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos". <u>El Ministerio de Marina</u> (con el conocimiento de la Subsecretaría de Defensa de Inteligencia y Seguridad) <u>encabezará el UAPTF</u>, </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8ruj25t" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y8ruj25t</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Con respecto al grupo de trabajo UAP ya creado en el Pentágono en 2018, según dos recientes y confusas publicaciones de <i>The Debrief</i>, aquel mismo año ya se emitió un informe de posición de inteligencia clasificado sobre el tema. Incluía la imagen de un objeto triangular no identificado tomada en 2018 frente a la costa este de los EE. UU. Hecha desde el teléfono celular personal de un piloto (filtrada en diciembre de 2020). La UAPTF del Pentágono emitió un segundo informe de posición de inteligencia en el verano de 2020, que incluía otra fotografía de un objeto triangular con zonas esféricas iluminadas en blanco en cada esquina, tomada en 2019. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a8zV9vGQPPQ/X_marJJU3HI/AAAAAAAACcY/1P5QrMHTRvURsZLjOiDz7U8HPFs2ZnOPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1101/UAPTF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a8zV9vGQPPQ/X_marJJU3HI/AAAAAAAACcY/1P5QrMHTRvURsZLjOiDz7U8HPFs2ZnOPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/UAPTF.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Supuesta fotografía aérea de un objeto no identificado (2018) de los archivos del grupo de trabajo UAP del Pentágono, según “The Debrief”. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles-the-pentagons-uap-task-force/">https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles-the-pentagons-uap-task-force/</a> y </span><a href="https://www.thedebrief.org/leaked-photo-surfaces-of-purported-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.thedebrief.org/leaked-photo-surfaces-of-purported-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Esta imagen ha levantado un gran revuelo en la comunidad ovni, aunque es más que risible que la imagen en discusión haya sido tomada por un teléfono móvil personal, no a través de las sofisticadas capacidades de toma de imágenes de un avión militar tan avanzado. Además, Keith Basterfield y otros comentaristas tienen motivos para fecharla el 4 de marzo de 2019 (a las 3:02 pm), no en 2018. Sin embargo, la fuente (Tim McMillan, diciembre de 2020) insiste en que se obtuvo en 2018. El hecho es que esta imagen ha estado circulando en Internet desde, al menos, febrero de 2020.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Aparentemente, también existe una fotografía aérea diferente, tomada en circunstancias similares, conocida desde el verano de 2019. Pero los receptores no la dan a conocer, ¡por ser parte de las condiciones de entrega! No sé si reír o llorar si tenemos que creer que los extraterrestres vuelan en pequeños vehículos hechos de plástico, como ese.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-history-of-and-some-comments-about.html">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-history-of-and-some-comments-about.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Volviendo a la iniciativa del Senado, un artículo de Andrew Daniels en <i>Popular Mechanics</i> del 23 de noviembre de 2020 dice que el todavía presidente Trump (por no mucho tiempo, afortunadamente) está amenazando con vetar el último proyecto de ley de defensa que incluye un párrafo que dirige a un grupo de trabajo del gobierno a investigar los ovnis (llamados ahora UAP para distanciarse del término UFO, tan asociado a lo extraterrestre; en el contexto de defensa, UAP tiene una connotación más cercana al espionaje militar por parte de potencias extranjeras que a otra cosa, aunque algunos traten de arrimar el ascua a su sardina). A continuación, muestro una selección de lo que informa el artículo:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“El presidente Donald Trump dice que vetará la Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional (NDAA) de 2021, el proyecto de ley anual que establece el presupuesto y las políticas para el ejército de los EE. UU., Si los legisladores no eliminan una enmienda partidista para cambiar el nombre de las bases militares con el nombre de líderes confederados , según un informe de NBC News.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“La NDAA, que debe aprobarse y firmarse antes de que el Congreso suspenda la sesión el 3 de enero, cubre los aumentos salariales de las tropas y la financiación para nuevos equipos, entre otros elementos. Pero también incluye una frase que en última instancia podría cambiar lo que el público estadounidense sabe sobre los ovnis de manera significativa. Un veto de Trump a la NDAA puede detener el impulso de un movimiento que ha captado rápidamente la atención de los medios en los últimos dos años.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“En agosto, el Departamento de Defensa (DoD) aprobó oficialmente el establecimiento de un grupo de trabajo sobre fenómenos aéreos no identificados (UAPTF). El grupo de trabajo investigará los avistamientos de UAP, también conocidos como objetos voladores no identificados u ovnis. <i>El DoD formó el UAPTF para mejorar su comprensión y obtener información sobre la naturaleza y origen de los UAP. La misión del grupo de trabajo es detectar, analizar y catalogar los UAP que podrían representar una amenaza para la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos</i>, dijo la portavoz del Pentágono Sue Gough a <i>Popular Mechanics</i> en ese momento.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“En la Ley de Autorización de Inteligencia (IAA) de junio, el Comité Selecto de Inteligencia del Senado (SSCI) autorizó asignaciones para el año fiscal 2021 para la UAPTF y apoyó sus esfuerzos para revelar cualquier vínculo que <i>los UAPs tengan con gobiernos extranjeros adversarios y la amenaza que representan para activos e instalaciones militares estadounidenses.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“El Senado aprobó en julio la NDAA, que incluía la IAA (con la mención al grupo de trabajo ovni). Aunque la versión de la NDAA de la Cámara de Representantes, que también se aprobó en julio, no incluyó la IAA, el Senado volvió a aprobar una versión de la NDAA la semana pasada con el número de proyecto de ley de la Cámara (HR 6395) que sí incluye la IAA y las correspondientes instrucciones para el grupo de trabajo sobre UAPs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“En la IAA, el Comité Selecto de Inteligencia dijo que<i> le sigue preocupando que no exista un proceso unificado e integral dentro del gobierno federal para recopilar y analizar inteligencia [sobre UAPs], a pesar de la amenaza potencial, por lo que ordenó al grupo de trabajo que informara sus hallazgos sobre UAPs, incluidos los objetos observados desde el aire que no han sido identificados</i>, dentro de los siguientes 180 días.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“En julio, el presidente del SSCI, Marco Rubio, dijo que quiere que la UAPTF encuentre quién es el responsable de los UAP detectada sobre bases militares estadounidenses. Rubio dijo que <i>espera que los chinos, los rusos o algún otro adversario no hayan dado algún tipo de salto tecnológico</i> que ‘les permita realizar este tipo de actividad’".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Al contrario de lo que esperan los ufólogos crédulos (esto es, que este grupo de trabajo sacará a la luz visitas de marcianos), mi predicción es que, en un futuro próximo, cuando este equipo de trabajo sobre ovnis se cierre e informe de sus hallazgos, leeremos que nada en la evidencia reunida apunta a un origen exterior a nuestro planeta. Dejemos que las cosas fluyan por sí mismas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Refutar afirmaciones descabelladas, periodismo sesgado e información falsa requiere tiempo y conocimientos especializados. Afortunadamente, la comunidad científica se apresura a luchar contra la mala ciencia. Los términos 'Fast Movers' y 'Transmedium' aplicados a los últimos ovnis conocidos (lo siento, UAPs) han sido objeto de una sabia discusión en un hilo iniciado por Mick West el 2 de diciembre de 2020, una fuente que recomiendo beligerantemente que se lea. West tiene esto que decir sobre las historias de casos recientemente reveladas, supuestamente de fuentes oficiales: (la información) “en última instancia, no aporta nada en la búsqueda de evidencia física real. Las fuentes eran anónimas, vagas o especulativas ". Ver: </span><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles.11477/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/fast-movers-and-transmedium-vehicles.11477/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finalmente, el 27 de diciembre de 2020, el presidente Trump firmó el proyecto de ley de Defensa de los Estados Unidos, con un monto de 2,3 billones de dólares. Ahora tenemos que esperar seis meses para ver qué tiene que decir el Pentágono sobre los UAPs. Creyentes: prepárense para una nueva desilusión. Pero no pierdan la fe en la revelación final. Llegará junto con la Segunda Venida. </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdown-for-ufo-disclosures/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdown-for-ufo-disclosures/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla), 11 de mayo de 1970</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El misterio de los ovnis ha sido -y, por desgracia, sigue siendo- un cajón de sastre donde meter cualquier cosa rara que, en principio, no sepamos entender. Eso confiere al “fenómeno” una complejidad añadida, artificial, que distrae recursos y tiempo para la investigación de avistamientos importantes. Y, lo que es peor, da pie a para el sensacionalismo y la ufología barata de algunos. Ese es el caso de las “extrañas” huellas encontradas en la mañana del 11 de mayo de 1970 en un campo de girasoles del municipio de Morón de la Frontera, en Sevilla. Se hallaron dos círculos de unos 25 metros de diámetro en cuyo interior las plantas aparecieron con los tallos quemados, pero con las hojas verdes y frescas. En el interior de los círculos había varios orificios que se introducían bajo la tierra. Aquella noche una fuerte tormenta eléctrica se desarrolló en la zona y sobre las tres de la madrugada se escuchó un fuerte trueno.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Muchos ufólogos españoles dedicaron escritos al incidente, algunos fueron al lugar, otros lo hicieron de oídas y alguno aplicó sus conocimientos profesionales a la revisión de lo que ocurrió. Ejemplo de esto último es el estudio de Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, ingeniero técnico agrícola y experimentado ufólogo y encuestador, que analizó la amplia documentación, informes, entrevistas, fotografías, croquis, etc., recopilados por nuestros colegas sevillanos, para redactar en 1984 un informe de 78 páginas donde se concluía lo siguiente:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>La hipótesis más razonable es la caída de un rayo durante la noche del 10 al 11 de mayo, muy probablemente hacia las 3 de la madrugada del día 11. Nos basamos para ello en razón a los datos meteorológicos conocidos, apoyados en un cierto número de testimonios corroborantes. Esta hipótesis es suficiente para explicar los efectos observados: la desaparición de plantas de girasol por la onda de presión, los agujeros en el suelo por la propagación de una corriente eléctrica muy intensa, y la desecación local del suelo y las quemaduras de los vegetales por el calentamiento producido. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>La existencia de las dos huellas, con un cierto grado de similitud y a una relativamente corta distancia, puede explicarse por una posible ramificación, a corta altura del suelo, del canal de descarga principal.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fernández Peris afirmaba, dejando constancia de un hecho fundamental en lo ufológico: Este suceso revela, una vez más, en toda su desnudez, <i>la falta de concordancia que existe en general entre la repercusión psicosocial que provoca un hecho etiquetado como extraordinario y el verdadero carácter del mismo, que puede ser en realidad incluso vulgar.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Todo pasa, añado yo, por mantener puesta la venda del intelecto que lleva grabada la sentencia “los ovnis existen, son extraterrestres o de otras dimensiones”. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4Dpt1CI_IA/X_mdSjH_LyI/AAAAAAAACck/AFhguyqnFVUk0xwnCIl8ly082bZZCATfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Mor%25C3%25B3n%2Bcollage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1407" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4Dpt1CI_IA/X_mdSjH_LyI/AAAAAAAACck/AFhguyqnFVUk0xwnCIl8ly082bZZCATfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mor%25C3%25B3n%2Bcollage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Este ejemplo de los efectos en el suelo de una violenta madre naturaleza los hallamos repetidamente en todo el mundo, dejando semejantes marcas y huellas. A un origen idéntico, impacto medioambiental idéntico. Varios casos franceses de este tipo han sido estudiados por las investigadoras francesas Vachon y Seray en un tomito titulado <i>Marliens et les cas similaires</i>, un trabajo de consulta indispensable: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2593puq">https://tinyurl.com/y2593puq</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ocbz2AFLZY/X_mdf11JRTI/AAAAAAAACco/ne0FLq_28bECB_hbpE9kZwO4U0D3ERCmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Marliens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1392" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ocbz2AFLZY/X_mdf11JRTI/AAAAAAAACco/ne0FLq_28bECB_hbpE9kZwO4U0D3ERCmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Marliens.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La razón de sacar este caso a colación es puramente anecdótica. Entre los elementos de decoración de mi estudio en Valencia (“STUDY” anuncia la placa que rotula la puerta de entrada) se halla un pequeño bloque de sólido plástico transparente (ya ajado, de 9 x 6 cm) en el que está encastrada una muestra del suelo de la zona afectada de uno de los círculos del campo de girasoles. Es una pieza triangular de unos 12 mm de lado. Fue un regalo que me hizo el CEI de Barcelona por aquellos años. Cada día que entro y salgo del despacho lo miro y hoy se me ha ocurrido compartirlo con mis lectores. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WepIXWa1zD0/X_mQbsc7S1I/AAAAAAAACbU/RDOY2TT170sr2ddx5iWyLd_U4D8uXjaywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2570/Mor%25C3%25B3n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2570" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WepIXWa1zD0/X_mQbsc7S1I/AAAAAAAACbU/RDOY2TT170sr2ddx5iWyLd_U4D8uXjaywCLcBGAsYHQ/w357-h169/Mor%25C3%25B3n.jpg" width="357" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ÚLTIMA HORA. Gracias a la gentileza del autor (J.A. Fernández Peris) y la ayuda de Juan Pablo González, el trabajo inédito completo sobre el "aterrizaje ovni" de Morón de la Frontera se ha subido al portal Academia.edu, desde donde puedes descargarlo a través del enlace:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44872761/Analisis_de_un_clasico_Moron_de_la_Frontera_11_mayo_1970_Por_J_A_Fernandez_Peris" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44872761/Analisis_de_un_clasico_Moron_de_la_Frontera_11_mayo_1970_Por_J_A_Fernandez_Peris</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-family: helvetica;">FOTOCAT y Población</u><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> (Por Julio Plaza del Olmo)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Un patrón que se ha estudiado históricamente en la ufología es la distribución de casos en función de la población. Sistemáticamente se ha observado que <i>el número de casos aumenta con la población de un lugar</i>: más población implica mayor probabilidad de que alguien sea testigo de una observación. FOTOCAT también sigue esta tendencia, como muestra la figura 1. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fM6n3xPpSFQ/X_me08Och1I/AAAAAAAACc0/b1url66lcNkrQByBO2deQXTm9kHhR7WjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Figura%2B1%2B.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fM6n3xPpSFQ/X_me08Och1I/AAAAAAAACc0/b1url66lcNkrQByBO2deQXTm9kHhR7WjACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Figura%2B1%2B.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Figura 1: Número de casos totales frente a la población del país en FOTOCAT. Sólo se han tenido en cuenta países con más de 50 casos. La línea roja representa la tendencia general.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cuanta más población haya en una región o país, más probable es que alguna persona pueda ser testigo de un fenómeno. O en caso de FOTOCAT, realizar una fotografía o filmar un vídeo donde se capte (ya se de forma consciente o inconsciente) una presunta anomalía.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Si en vez de representar el <i>número de casos</i>, se representa <i>el número de casos por habitante</i>, se obtiene la figura 2:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y0FJ5KoR_vY/X_me5yBOEPI/AAAAAAAACc4/YL_OYiXc85Ing90sP9_vsM-tTjm3iK5TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Figura%2B2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y0FJ5KoR_vY/X_me5yBOEPI/AAAAAAAACc4/YL_OYiXc85Ing90sP9_vsM-tTjm3iK5TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Figura%2B2.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Figura 2: Número de casos por habitante frente a población del país en FOTOCAT. La línea roja representa la tendencia general.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La figura parece representar lo contrario: una disminución de casos. Hay que hacer notar que las variables son distintas: Número de casos frente a casos por habitante. Hay <i>más casos al aumentar la población, pero menos casos por habitante</i>. Si la población aumenta al doble, uno esperaría que el número de casos aumentara al doble también. Sin embargo lo que ocurre es que el aumento de casos no llega a ese doble. La población crece más rápido que el número de casos, y por tanto, disminuye la relación de casos por habitante. Este es un efecto que se ha podido comprobar y contrastar en multitud de catálogos de diverso tipo</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> y FOTOCAT no es una excepción.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FOTOCAT se diferencia de otros catálogos en que tiene una componente tecnológica. Pero se comporta de forma similar al resto de catálogos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(1) Plaza del Olmo, J. “A Review on the Relation between Population Density and UFO Sightings”, <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, Volumen 29, Nº 3, páginas 425-448 (2015),</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) Ufología en el siglo XXI. Entrevista a Rubén Lianza en el programa “Fenómenos” del 2 de octubre de 2020. Por favor, siéntese en clase y aprenda:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://youtu.be/KQ_Kut3YZIY">https://youtu.be/KQ_Kut3YZIY</a> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/MJ72StWCjQk" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://youtu.be/MJ72StWCjQk</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/HxCtDiY7JuI" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://youtu.be/HxCtDiY7JuI</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) Los “ovnis” de Punta Arenas (Chile),17 de agosto de 2020, una investigación de Marcelo Moya, </span><a href="http://aion.cl/casos-ovnis-de-punta-arenas17-de-agosto-2020/" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://aion.cl/casos-ovnis-de-punta-arenas17-de-agosto-2020/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">El mismo autor ha escrito un artículo en su sitio web sobre la frecuente confusión de insectos (moscas, mariposas, abejorros), pájaros y aves en general con supuestos objetos volantes no identificados que aparecen en videos y fotografías digitales. Una interesante lectura:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/11/ufologia-y-entomologia-una-relacion.html">https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/11/ufologia-y-entomologia-una-relacion.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(3) Del blog Misterios del Aire de J.C. Victorio Uranga, un auténtico cuaderno de análisis ufológico, leemos “Un viaje increíble” (Argentina, 2020) y “Un vuelo<i> anómalo </i>y<i> paranormal</i>" (20 de julio de 2007, El Cairo-Barcelona) en estos enlaces:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/09/un-viaje-increible.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/09/un-viaje-increible.html</a> y </span><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/un-vuelo-anomalo-y-paranormal.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/un-vuelo-anomalo-y-paranormal.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(4) “Divulgación científica y medios: seudociencia, mala ciencia y polémicas en la divulgación de la astrobiología”, una tesis en Biología de Jorge Armando Romo Bonilla, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb9t8zzr">https://tinyurl.com/yb9t8zzr</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(5) Recientemente, Manuel Borraz ha encontrado tiempo de hacer algo que gran valor potencial para cualquier investigador y estudioso, volcar en línea una serie de ensayos como su "Refranero Ufológico Popular", donde presenta un conjunto de reflexiones que son una síntesis de los clichés y falacias ufológicas más habituales. Es una crítica a los más vulgares lugares comunes de la creencia en ufología más rancia y pobre intelectualmente. Una lectura tan profunda como divertida. Es la versión castiza española de las leyes de Klass o de Randles: </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44351830/Refranero_Ufol%C3%B3gico_Popular" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44351830/Refranero_Ufol%C3%B3gico_Popular</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Otro de los trabajos que ha reeditado, de profunda significación por el aficionado, se titula “Paradojas Ufológicas”, un grupo de textos que examinan cuatro paradojas principales con las que nos hemos topado en la investigación ovni: la imposibilidad del consenso en ufología, la dificultad de plasmar las experiencias en imágenes, la falacia derivada de las estadísticas del Battelle Memorial Institute y una amarga maldición: nunca aprenderemos lo suficiente como para abarcar todo el futuro: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44201905/Paradojas_ufol%C3%B3gicas" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/44201905/Paradojas_ufol%C3%B3gicas</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Otro de los muchos palos que ha tratado Borraz, con su esmero y rigor extremos, y al que también podemos acceder ahora online es un artículo con interesantes comentarios e informaciones sobre he subido un breve artículo con comentarios sobre auroras boreales, espectros de Brocken, círculos de hielo, anillos de hadas y luces sísmicas: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44074568/Maravillas_de_la_naturaleza_y_ovnis">https://www.academia.edu/44074568/Maravillas_de_la_naturaleza_y_ovnis</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(7) J.C. Victorio Uranga y Manuel Borraz continúan su serie de ensayos desmitificando supuestos fenómenos ovni de siglos pasados en España:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/maravillas-en-el-cielo-6-caravaca-ano.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/10/maravillas-en-el-cielo-6-caravaca-ano.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(8) “Estudio sociológico de la ufología en España”, por Ignacio Cabria, un análisis comparativo de dos encuestas sobre el movimiento ufológico español realizadas en 1988 y en 2003):</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40789551/Estudio_sociol%C3%B3gico_de_la_ufolog%C3%ADa_en_Espa%C3%B1a" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/Estudio_sociológico_de_la_ufología_en_España</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(9) Manuel Carballal ha escrito esto recientemente: “Por si a alguien puede interesar, creo que es muy reveladora la entrevista que Javier Cavanilles hizo hace un par de días a J. J. Benítez. Al menos le pregunta las cosas que todos queríamos saber pero nadie se atrevía a preguntar”: </span><a href="https://www.ivoox.com/j-j-benitez-8220-yo-no-tengo-demostrarle-nada-audios-mp3_rf_60406655_1.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.ivoox.com/j-j-benitez-8220-yo-no-tengo-demostrarle-nada-audios-mp3_rf_60406655_1.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(10) En 2018, científicos de la Universidad de Oxford propusieron una alternativa a la paradoja de Fermi, que encuentro muy bien planteada. Creo que os gustará leerla: "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", por Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler y Toby Ord, del instituto Future of Humanity, Oxford University: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En su web Marcianitos Verdes, Luis Ruiz Noguez ha traducido al castellano un artículo acerca del mismo tema: </span><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2020/12/fsico-de-partculas-ofrece-75-razones-por-las-que-no-vemos-extraterrestres/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2020/12/fsico-de-partculas-ofrece-75-razones-por-las-que-no-vemos-extraterrestres/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(11) Trabajo de julio de 2020 sobre las luces de terremoto, “Laboratory investigation of earthquake lightning due to landslide”, por Y. Enomoto, T. Yamabe, K. Mizuhara, S. Sugiura y H. Kondo, publicado en <i>Earth, Planets and Space</i>, </span><a href="https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-020-01237-8" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-020-01237-8</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(12) Aliens en tebeos (comics) españoles. Con su característico buen humor (su bonhomía está en su DNA), Luis R. González, autor del trabajo <i>Alienígenas carpetovetónicos ilustrados</i>. <i>Tebeos y ovnis en España (1907-1987)</i>, escribe: “El confinamiento ha traído algo bueno para la Humanidad. Gracias a él puedo anunciar que he concluido mi primer informe sobre la presencia alienígena en España, más concretamente en los tebeos españoles (y aledaños). Tras varios años de trabajo y la revisión de miles de ejemplares, he finalizado una magna obra de 544 páginas profusamente ilustradas donde se analiza de forma minuciosa y pormenorizada (he trabajado a partir de más de 5400 referencias y 2000 chistes gráficos relacionados con la ufología) las influencias mutuas entre la iconografía de los tebeos españoles y el fenómeno ovni y asimilados. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Estoy a la espera de editor. Desearme suerte”. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qatyIX88aak/X_mgIFtCjaI/AAAAAAAACdI/iOg-sPVgYDsk3GeqdEUah_PoTC9SW4BqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s758/tebeos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="534" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qatyIX88aak/X_mgIFtCjaI/AAAAAAAACdI/iOg-sPVgYDsk3GeqdEUah_PoTC9SW4BqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/tebeos.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(13) Pierre Lagrange, "Qui croit aux petits hommes verts? De l'iconoclasme sociologique aux cultures visuelles," (¿Quién creen en los hombrecitos verdes? De la iconoclasia sociológica a la cultura visual), participa con ese ensayo en la obra colectiva <i>Politiques Visuelles</i>, de Gil Bartholeyns (coordinador), Les Presses du Réel, 2016, páginas 253-271. Se trata de historiar el concepto de los hombrecillos verdes desde su invención como un estereotipo de la ciencia ficción a su traducción como un cliché ovni a mediados de los años cincuenta en los Estados Unidos. , disponible en Academia.edu: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y753uetx">https://tinyurl.com/y753uetx</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(14) “Telling the moment: Seeing a UFO”, por Catherine Woods y Robin Wooffitt, de las universidades de Southampton y York,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/26407960/Telling_the_moment_Seeing_a_UFO" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/26407960/Telling_the_moment_Seeing_a_UFO</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver resumen en el apartado (2) de Miscellaneous, en la sección en inglés del blog. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(15) Eric Maillot, “The PAN D of October 21, 1982, called ‘L’amarante’: A Great Illusion?” Este famoso caso ovni es uno de los más extraños no identificados estudiados por el GEPAN/CNES. Una detallada encuesta oficial se publicó en 1982 en la Nota Técnica Nº17: </span><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=4856" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=4856</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tras una Investigación complementaría realizada por Maillot, ahora es factible conocer los mecanismos de la asombrosa ilusión visual que provocó esta visión extremadamente cercana de un ovni. El trabajo se encuentra en este enlace:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_">https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(16) Sobre las fotos de McMinville de 1950. En 2014 Robert Sheaffer escribió un informe titulado “Special Report: The Trent UFO Photos - the "Best" of All Time - Finally Busted?”, </span><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/09/special-report-trent-ufo-photos-best-of.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/09/special-report-trent-ufo-photos-best-of.html</a> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">que incluía un estudio perdido durante mucho tiempo del desaparecido investigador Joel Carpenter (1959-2014): <a href="https://tinyurl.com/n9aaxxm">https://tinyurl.com/n9aaxxm</a> (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">En la sección en inglés del blog (apartado 4 de Miscellaneous) copio también unos comentarios críticos de Brad Sparks, quien cree que se trató de discos volantes auténticos).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(17) tesis académica de Sharon A. Hill (educadora de la ciencia) del año 2012: “Being Scientifical: Popularity, Purpose and Promotion of Amateur Research and Investigation Groups in the U.S.” Un magnifico estudio que demuestra la mediocridad de la investigación aficionada y de grupos no institucionales en los EE. UU. Se puede leer desde aquí: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ydyp46jk">https://tinyurl.com/ydyp46jk</a> (</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver resumen en el apartado (5) de Miscellaneous, en la sección en inglés del blog). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(18) “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles”, por Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell y Peter A. Reali. Describe, nada menos, que las características del vuelo de los ovnis: ¿es este trabajo justamente un ejemplo de lo que acaba de señalarnos Sharon Hill, una mera apariencia científica, simplemente ciencia equivocada o nos hallamos ante un verdadero descubrimiento?,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(19) Preparado como investigación de doctorado, “Toward a Psychology of UFO Abduction Beliefs” de Scott R. Scribner (2003), es una excelente monografía sobre la naturaleza del “fenómeno” de la abducción: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7d4wh5a">https://tinyurl.com/y7d4wh5a</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(20) El 18 de noviembre pasado, David Clarke (doctor en Periodismo y profesor en la Universidad de Sheffield) fue la estrella invitada en el programa de entrevistas en directo de Martin Willis, donde repasó y argumentó su perspectiva sobre el folclore ovni. La entrevista es magnífica y supone la síntesis de tantos años de investigación en este asunto que, amigo lector, no te puedes perder: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc6g8dan">https://tinyurl.com/yc6g8dan</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Como apéndice, el veterano ufólogo Kevin Randle dejó esto escrito en su blog:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/11/nick-pope-revisited.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/11/nick-pope-revisited.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(21) Nueva presentación de James Oberg, esta vez dedicada a la espectacular reentrada observada desde Hawái el 24 de octubre de 2020: </span><a href="http://www.satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/hawaii_mothership_final2.pdf" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/hawaii_mothership_final2.pdf</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ver resumen en el apartado (9) de Miscellaneous, en la sección en inglés del blog. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(22) Recién publicado en el portal Academia.edu, el ensayo “Sex! Aliens! Harvard? Rhetorical Boundary-Work in the Media (A Case Study of Role of Journalists in the Social Construction of Scientific Authority”, que discute el rol de los periodistas en la construcción social de la autoridad científica, que Linda Billings sometió en 2005 en cumplimiento parcial de los requisitos para el grado de Doctor en Filosofía en the Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Indiana. Puede leerse en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycyaon7b">https://tinyurl.com/ycyaon7b</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(23) Matthew Rozsa y Keith A. Spencer se preguntan ¿por qué personas inteligentes mienten sobre encuentros cercanos? <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc7c4cjm">https://tinyurl.com/yc7c4cjm</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(24) Sobre la sociología del pánico (de aplicación a las oleadas ovni), ver Brett Holman, “The Phantom Airship Panic of 1913: Imagining Aerial Warfare in Britain Before the Great War”,</span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/20026478/The_phantom_airship_panic_of_1913_imagining_aerial_warfare_in_Britain_before_the_Great_War" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/The_phantom_airship_panic_of_1913</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A ese respecto, puedo sugerir la bibliografía internacional sobre oleadas de informes ovni, que se aloja en la página web del GEIPAN: </span><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(25) “Not Coming from the Cold” es la crítica escrita por el curtido ufólogo británico Nigel Watson de <i>Roswell. The Ultimate Cold Case</i>, el (pen)último libro sobre Roswell, esta vez a cargo de Thomas J. Carey y Donald R. Schmitt: </span><a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/09/not-coming-in-from-cold.html" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/09/not-coming-in-from-cold.html</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(26) Recién nos llega esto sobre Argentina y la investigación ovni de la Fuerza Aérea, una entrevista al responsable del CIAE: <a href="https://www.zona-militar.com/2020/12/22/entrevista-a-ruben-lianza-quien-esta-a-cargo-del-centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial/">https://www.zona-militar.com/2020/12/22/entrevista-a-ruben-lianza-quien-esta-a-cargo-del-centro-de-identificacion-aeroespacial/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>¡Última hora! Nuevo libro del Dr. Campo</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ricardo Campo, doctor en Filosofía, experimentado investigador y encuestador y prolífico escritor, nos proporciona el mayor regalo de las Navidades 2020, un nuevo libro, la segunda parte de su exhaustivo estudio de la casuística ovni en las Islas Canarias. <i>El fenómeno ovni en Canarias (Desde 1981 a 2005)</i>, lo ha publicado Coliseo Sentosa ediciones y tiene, como nos tiene acostumbrado el autor, la nada despreciable cifra de 788 páginas. En una próxima edición del blog espero presentar la correspondiente reseña. La obra se puede adquirir desde aquí: <a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08RB2HH36?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860">https://www.amazon.es/dp/B08RB2HH36?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A modo de presentación, incluyo seguidamente el Prefacio del libro. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">PREFACIO</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">He considerado oportuno escribir un breve prefacio a la segunda y última parte de esta obra que sirva como orientación al interesado que desconozca la amplia introducción que figura en la primera (<i>El fenómeno ovni en Canarias desde el siglo XVIII a 1980</i>). Recomiendo su lectura para una comprensión más amplia del objetivo de la obra.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; text-align: left; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Esta monografía no trata sobre un supuesto enigma porque ni siquiera se reconoce que tal exista. Tampoco es, por tanto, un producto del periodismo del misterio, una especialidad que traiciona el espíritu de esta profesión con el aplauso de sus aficionados y los empresarios que dictan –o aprovechan‒ los gustos del público consumidor. Su contenido es ejemplo de un mito o leyenda que alcanzó relevancia mundial desde los años 50 del pasado siglo: las apariciones de luces, objetos o fenómenos de origen desconocido atribuidos popularmente a la presencia de entidades extraterrestres en la tierra, y concretamente de la incidencia de estas visiones en las islas Canarias.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">La ufología, en cuanto estudio especializado de esos relatos, es una actividad que imita el proceder de algunas disciplinas científicas, pero en su mayor parte es simple expresión de creencias en visitas de platillos y alienígenas al planeta. Perdió puestos en el mundo de las creencias alternativas en los últimos veinte años, tanto como práctica social de los interesados como en el número de avistamientos. Quizá los individuos que antes veían ovnis ahora detectan <i>chemtrails</i>. Y a quienes formaban parte de grupos de investigación ahora les basta con capturar amigos virtuales a través de alguna red de contactos en Internet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Tres años después de la publicación del primer tomo de esta obra, la situación de la ufología mundial y nacional sigue siendo la misma, si acaso con creciente distanciamiento entre los interesados por una perspectiva crítica, en número residual, y los que se mueven por asombros y encantamientos, y se dejan llevar por maniobras publicitarias manejadas por gurús del márquetin ufológico y paranormal, con especial incidencia en los Estados Unidos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Si en décadas pasadas los supuestos misterios ufológicos tenían aún cierto aire de anomalía científica (entre sus proponentes, quienes eran honrados así lo aseguraban por auténtico convencimiento), en la actualidad se parecen más a pequeñas dosis de droga, caramelos psicológicos para satisfacer durante unas horas la sensación de que vivimos en un mundo mágico y que guarda secretos que coinciden con imaginaciones nacidas del deseo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Los 415 “casos ovni” que figuran en este tomo completan los 319 del primero. En total, los 734 sucesos, avistamientos, apariciones o historias –elija el lector el término que prefiera– de que se compone esta obra son un ejemplo de la manifestación de una leyenda mundial y de cómo el público asimila la información y la propaganda, asignando determinadas etiquetas a fenómenos en algunos casos reales que, de otra forma, habría ignorado por intrascendentes o interpretado de una manera muy distinta.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Desde una perspectiva <i>emic</i>, los relatos sobre ovnis y apariciones semejantes están relacionados con la vida extraterrestre y con las visitas de civilizaciones más desarrolladas técnicamente que la nuestra al planeta. Los relatos ufológicos, los testimonios, las versiones literarias de los supuestos hechos, ya sean de carácter periodístico o no, deber ser abordados como si los extraterrestres no hubiesen visitado jamás la tierra. Es lo más probable, y, de hecho, ni siquiera sabemos si tales alienígenas existen en algún punto del universo. Cuando el interesado se encuentre con algún periodista que asegura conocer los secretos de los ovnis y las razas de seres que ha contabilizado le recomiendo pase de largo como se pasa de alguien que regala duros a cuatro pesetas (o euros a ochenta céntimos, para que se entienda). Esta perspectiva debe ser apurada al máximo: la búsqueda de explicación racional y probable para cada avistamiento es el objetivo principal de cualquier investigador. Aunque no sea posible en todos los episodios, no lograrla se puede considerar un pequeño fracaso. En las páginas que siguen aparecen algunos de estos pequeños “fracasos”. Quizá el más destacado sea el del suceso de la playa de Abades, en el municipio tinerfeño de Arico, el 9 de julio de 1992. O el extraño fenómeno de 13 de abril de 1993 en La Victoria de Acentejo. Espero que alguien pueda dar con las claves explicativas a las que yo no fui capaz de llegar.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Como el primer tomo, este segundo está compuesto por un muy heterogéneo conjunto de historias supuestamente extrañas, aproximadamente la mitad de ellas con explicación más o menos segura. En todas, ya se trate del caso más documentado de cuantos lo componen o de la hablilla periodística más dudosa, se debe tener en cuenta que los hechos vienen transformados por los informadores iniciales; que las creencias de los testigos influyeron en la percepción del fenómeno extraño; que en nuestra cultura estas historias forman parte de un repertorio de extrañezas estandarizado; y que el público interesado se ve expuesto a materiales culturales en forma de revistas, libros, rumores de Internet o reconstrucciones de programas televisivos bufonescos. Si alguna vez hubo indicios o señales de naturaleza extraterrestre en todo este complejo mito de los ovnis ‒algo muy dudoso y poco probable en sí mismo‒ han quedado diluidos en el maremágnum citado. Tal vez la señal sea el propio ruido generado, un ruido humano y autorreferencial.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Cuando la crítica está mal vista, el negocio es sagrado y todas las opiniones valen lo mismo, en el ecosistema de los misterios los astrólogos cambian el sombrero de cucurucho por un programa informático, los espiritistas hablan de física cuántica y los gurús de la <i>new age</i> cambian el disfraz oriental por traje y corbata y se cuelan en las facultades de psicología. En cambio, aquí, la crítica es permanente, no hay negocio que fomentar y se destacan las opiniones más informadas frente a las homilías ufológicas. Recorra el lector interesado las maravillosas y asombrosas historias –o casi‒ de los ovnis en Canarias bajo estos tres pequeños principios.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) Ver mi reseña personal de esta obra en el siguiente enlace: </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36102619/El_fenomeno_OVNI_en_Canarias" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/36102619/El_fenomeno_OVNI_en_Canarias</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Un marciano en Alemania: Una fotografía que no cambió la historia</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Diego A. Zúñiga, ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, septiembre de 2020: <a href="https://amzn.to/2TaF4s2">https://amzn.to/2TaF4s2</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>AGENDA PERSONAL</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(1) ¿Te interesa intercambiar libros? Mira esta lista: </span><a href="https://app.box.com/s/20iifl6k0ml7cpzaitgcehcv11mpo8fv" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://app.box.com/s/20iifl6k0ml7cpzaitgcehcv11mpo8fv</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(2) Los nietos progresan adecuadamente… y el abuelo también.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2V7aP3VMsw/X_mlBsONuOI/AAAAAAAACdk/sM6xW4n5WEchoWjfRwVmXBtqnGkbVZgIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Lucas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1570" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2V7aP3VMsw/X_mlBsONuOI/AAAAAAAACdk/sM6xW4n5WEchoWjfRwVmXBtqnGkbVZgIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lucas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"> ”Lucas y Matías” “Fernando y abuelito Vicen”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes amigos y colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Manuel Borraz Aymerich, Luis Ruiz Noguez, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, James Oberg, Dr. David Clarke, Barry J. Greenwood, Marcelo Moya Sanhueza, Manuel Carballal, Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez, Kay Coggin, Matías Morey Ripoll, Keith Basterfield. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>LIBROS DEL AUTOR </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GpGgO31MFc/X_mlvPICnyI/AAAAAAAACdw/NTaP_W8CAJEHaaXVsktG-Ncz_6xzFzwjACLcBGAsYHQ/s3827/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="3827" height="76" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GpGgO31MFc/X_mlvPICnyI/AAAAAAAACdw/NTaP_W8CAJEHaaXVsktG-Ncz_6xzFzwjACLcBGAsYHQ/w440-h76/LIBROS%2B1.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><br /><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u>, CUFOS, 1976<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1978, 1979</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (con Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés, 1981,1989</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1984 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (con J.A. Fernández Peris), Plaza & Janés, 1987, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u>, Temas de Hoy, 1995 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc">https://tinyurl.com/y9xtdruc</a> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">UNILIBER: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://tinyurl.com/y3xllmnb</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw">https://tinyurl.com/yccxcaaw</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xSBqPuYVOo/X_mmcAw82iI/AAAAAAAACeA/Yd49T7rpEnQH6_yF_Ub9IwifiNLGdJ3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2630/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="2630" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xSBqPuYVOo/X_mmcAw82iI/AAAAAAAACeA/Yd49T7rpEnQH6_yF_Ub9IwifiNLGdJ3AwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LIBROS%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (con O.J. Braenne), 2008,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell), 2012, </span><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio), 2013, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (con Wim van Utrecht), 2017,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u> (con M. Borraz), 2020, </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">·</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">·</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">·</b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></p>ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-34045722973745541032020-09-15T00:00:00.009+02:002020-09-14T21:04:44.733+02:002020/SEPTEMBER/15 (EN)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As usual, I am reporting the current number of cases recorded in the FOTOCAT database: 12,694. Little by little we are approaching a nice and significant mark of 13,000. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A regular help to our cataloguing and documentation work comes from Terry W. Colvin, retired military [U.S. Army Signal Corps], a Vietnam veteran, fond of surface archaeology, and with a long-time interest in UFOs and fringe science subjects, living in Thailand. ขอบคุณ, Terry. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>THE MARFA LIGHTS </b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>NEW EDITION: FULL-COLOR BOOK IN PRINT</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Last July, we announced the online release of this book (by Manuel Borraz and V.J. Ballester Olmos), with the unprecedented support and praise of 17 worldwide scientists and specialists. In barely two months, this monograph dealing with an in-depth analysis of the best available series of photographs of the so-called “Marfa Lights”, has enjoyed close to 1,000 views and downloads in the Academia.edu portal where it was uploaded for free: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We are especially pleased to note the positive feedback received from recognized scholars and investigators from both sides of the UFO spectrum of opinion, for example:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Ian Ridpath (<i>well done!</i>), Dr. Richard Haines (<i>congratulations on yet another major contribution to this field of research</i>), Bill Chalker (<i>congratulation for the excellent work in the Marfa Lights study</i>), Thierry Rocher (<i>Félicitations, J'espère qu'il sera traduit un jour en français</i>), Frank Warren (<i>congrats on the book!</i>), Robert R. Young (<i>Good job!</i>), Roderick Dyke (<i>a very eye opening book!</i>), Dr. Gennadi Milinevsky, University of Kiev (<i>a very good book</i>), Alain Hubrecht (<i>I did investigate Marfa lights 20 years ago. Your study is very good!</i>), Commodore Rubén Lianza, Argentine Air Force (<i>un grandioso trabajo, muy educativo, un trabajo impecable</i>), Marc Hallet (<i>Encore bravo pour ce travail qui, dans le genre, deviendra sans doute incontournable</i>), Milton Hourcade (<i>felicitaciones por el libro</i>), Martin Kottmeyer (<i>cool</i>), etc.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Yet there are many book lovers who like to flip through the sheets of paper of books, read them in their favorite armchair, and keep them on their bookshelves, public libraries that supply printed books to their many readers, librarians who buy volumes for their institutions, etc. For them all, paper books are essential.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For this reason, the Italian technical publisher UPIAR (Turin) has published our book in full color, as a softcover, A4 format (30cm x 21cm), available at the following link:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">On August 19, 2020, the Tass news agency reported that Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, while videotaping aurora borealis displays in the Southern hemisphere, between the Antarctic and Australia, recorded the flight of five luminous point-like objects above the earth’s disk, moving in a parallel course: <a href="https://tass.com/science/1191653">https://tass.com/science/1191653</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the footage distributed by Vagner from the International Space Station (ISS) you can see in the brief sequence from time 0.09 to 0.12 the quick motion of this orderly group of objects in space: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://vk.com/ivan_mks63?z=video-193482660_456239046%2Fpl_-193482660_-2">https://vk.com/ivan_mks63?z=video-193482660_456239046%2Fpl_-193482660_-2</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">At 14:31 GMT of August 18, SpaceX launched the Starlink flight 10, a train of 58 satellites to an orbital altitude of 550 km with an inclination of 53º for their high-speed low earth orbit internet constellation. The odds are high that this what Vagner has filmed. </span>Some other possibilities have been enumerated as well: <a href="https://www.perm.kp.ru/daily/217171/4272893/">https://www.perm.kp.ru/daily/217171/4272893/</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Since ~2019, the US Navy created, through its Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), a UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] Task Force. On June 8, 2020, the US Senate passed the Bill on the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. It included a Select Committee on Intelligence Report on “Advanced Aerial Threats” as follows:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i> The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on </i></span><i>unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination cross the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.</i></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i> Therefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as “anomalous aerial vehicles”'), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1. A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including </i><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">data and intelligence reporting held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force;</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2. A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by:</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> a. geospatial intelligence;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> b. signals intelligence;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> c. human intelligence; and</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> d. measurement and signals intelligence;</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3. A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4. A detailed description of an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government, regardless of which service or agency acquired the information;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 5. Identification of an official accountable for the process described in paragraph 4;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 6. Identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by the unidentified</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">aerial phenomena to national security, and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries;</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 7. Identification of any incidents or patterns that indicate a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk; and</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8. Recommendations regarding increased collection of data, enhanced research</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and development, and additional funding and other resources.</i></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The next step is the discussion in the US Congress for potential approval (with or without amendments) on a date still unknown. If it is passed, the US Navy’s ONI will be in charge to make such a study of UAP (i.e., UFO) reports within 6 months of the date the Bill is passed. Let us wait and see. </span>Reference: </div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/intelligence-authorization-act-fiscal-year-2021#">https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/intelligence-authorization-act-fiscal-year-2021#</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I cannot but allow myself to advance that if such study ever takes place it will be willfully ambiguous. Domestic drones and similar objects in areas restricted to flight, raw UAP unexplained sightings (actually due to undetected balloons, birds, bugs, radar artifacts, etc.), will always be a nuisance and a reason to continue enjoying a funding from the pantagruelian US Defense budget. The menace from the exterior will always work. Not from the outer space anymore but from China, Russia, or North Korea. Or even from internal dissent (defunded police, black lives matter righteous sloganeers, at one end of the spectrum, or from ultra-right wing and rifle association radicals, at the other, both coinciding in opposing to the status quo, especially the military one). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It is important to understand what a UAP means in this context, and the following post is relevant in this regard: </span><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/05/pentagon-answers-on-navy-uap.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/05/pentagon-answers-on-navy-uap.html</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I just hope that US National Budget controllers do not fall again in the trap of the AAWSAP/AATIP, when funds were finally allocated to Bigelow’s company, fully preoccupied to test reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology (i.e., propulsion systems) from UFO photographs, alleged UFO fragments, or military UFO reports.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I cannot resist the temptation to establish a comparison. Bigelow’s search for metamaterials (the clue for lucid-dreamed quantum advances in space travel) reminds me the story of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León (first governor of San Juan de Puerto Rico and discoverer of Florida) when in his last travel (1520) he was determined to find the Fountain of Eternal Youth. The latter, an indigenous legend, the former a figment of the imagination of the founder of the big aerospace company. It will die with the proponents.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A most recent article by SETI authority Seth Shostak points out some clever remarks to be taken into consideration:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/pentagon-admits-ufo-program-still-exists-navy-s-alien-sightings-ncna1235395">https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/pentagon-admits-ufo-program-still-exists-navy-s-alien-sightings-ncna1235395</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Let me close this brief note with a revealing phrase dated back 1979 that looks appropriate as an epilog: <i>I have cured myself of the fascination I once felt for the Intelligence community. The realization came when I observed how easily they were fooled by others and fooled themselves</i>. (Jacques Vallée, <i>Forbidden Science, Vol. II</i>, Documatica, 2017, page 486.)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The last action on this emerged on August 15, 2020, when Paul Szoldra and Jeff Schogol, published a post in the Task & Purpose site to report that David Norquist, deputy secretary of defense, officially established the UAP Task Force to learn more about the nature and origin of unidentified aerial phenomena, “with the mission to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs <i>that could potentially pose a threat to the U.S. national security</i>” (my emphasis). The article says that the new office will be led by the Navy's office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security. At this regard, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough was clear in the following statement of the aim behind:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-ufo-task-force">https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-ufo-task-force</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/fbclid/IwAR0TLQ5ARzj2TY76J9EELrJ4bTVZprEtKXNz8GxGYsO05WjlYV8UFKxGT-I/" target="_blank">https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">OK, then, we are not talking of the Blue Book UFOs which some people thought could be flying saucers from another planet, but another ballgame! They are simply fearing that Russians or Chinese have developed advanced aviation weaponry technology and they just need to find out. Nothing to do with the dreams ufologists entertain of catching aliens! Time will tell. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Speaking of UFO or paranormal studies within the military and the intelligence community (who said that military and intelligence is an oxymoron?), it is quite evident that there is a bunch of people, perfectly qualified, obsessed with UFOs and the strange, who have been trying during all their life to attempt to prove their monomania with UFOs as extraterrestrial visitors aboard fantastic spacecrafts whose technology we could emulate as weapons of the future, and at the same time make a living through Governmental funding. There are few but noisy, the same names here and there over 40 years. Being a high-ranking military, a scientist, or an intelligence asset is not incompatible with being a crackpot, but if they have the contacts, the relationships, and they know the threads to move within the Administration and have a budget management know-how, they can create the false history that UFOs represent a great field in State affairs (yet invisible to the people in the street), when these are just repeated, never-ending attempts of this group of individuals to arrive to their targets. Curt Collins shows this very clearly in this blog’s entry: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/ufo-study-programs-and-us-military.html">https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/ufo-study-programs-and-us-military.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It can be also said in another way: “No evidence of space aliens has come to light, but a small group of people has made a lot of money off of this,” Jason Colavito in</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Colavito has an even more recent post on a similar issue, see what he writes here:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-new-republic-runs-lengthy-piece-puzzling-over-to-the-stars">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-new-republic-runs-lengthy-piece-puzzling-over-to-the-stars</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In relationship with all the above, as seen from the ethics' viewpoint, this June 2020 post by Jack Brewer devoted to “UFO Research Integrity” is worth reading: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufo-research-integrity.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufo-research-integrity.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Back then, lights in the sky were just one of the many natural phenomena or man-made flying objects that produced luminous displays in the atmosphere. Take this photograph that appeared in The Minneapolis Star of Wednesday, August 5, 1931. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>All Minneapolis gazed skyward about 7:30 p.m., Tuesday when a flaming meteor flashed its way across the heavens and disappeared across the horizon in the southwest. Quite by accident, George E, Luzton, The Star cameraman, secured a picture of the blazing meteor. He was “shooting” pictures at Prospect field and was able to “catch” the phenomenon as it blazed its way like a streak of fire across the sky. The top flash in photo above is the meteor, surrounded by flaming particles, while streak below is either a second one, or a reflection in the sky of the first.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">But can you imagine the same text if written since 1947, when flying saucers were so fashionable? </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It was not a unique bolide fireball that evening. Residents of western Minnesota saw and heard up to three meteors as well. Reports from Redwood Falls described a “heavy denotation” when a first meteor lit up, at twilight around 8 p.m. flashing swiftly westward. It left a long trail of greenish-blue flames, and from the ball itself, darts of flame shot forth. After it disappeared below the horizon, “snake-like trails of smoke” remained in the sky for half an hour. At 11:05 and 11:15 two more celestial visitors dropped out of the sky.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">To those who cannot accept that airplane pilots grossly err in their estimates, it is quite pertinent to note that observers who got the best look at the ball of fire were seven pilots from Winnipeg, just approaching Minneapolis on a good-will tour. <i>It looked as if it were no more than 50 yards from my ship</i>, said H.W. Hewson, squadron commander. This was certainly a stream of debris from the Perseid cloud, generating multiple meteoroids from mid-July to the end of August, peaking August 12-13. If it were a random, unscheduled meteor, during the height of the flying disc era, sighted by a crew sympathetic to UFOs, the same phenomenon could perfectly be reported as unidentifiable. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is just a summary of a note the reader of this blog will find enlarged in the Spanish section below as “La ONU, los OVNIS y España en 1978.”</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">December 5, 1978, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes to the General Secretary for Defense Policy Affairs, Ministry of Defense (A), to inform that the Spanish Ambassador in the UN reported a speech by a French scientist in the Special Policy Committee (#126 of 1978) mentioning that the Spanish Armed Forces had recently published a report on UFOs. The Ambassador requested information on such study. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">On a personal note, the French scientist who spoke to the United Nations on UFOs in 1978 should be either Claude Poher or Jacques Vallee. The latter has just emailed to me confirming he did not state such a thing, therefore it had to be Poher, who misinterpreted a 1977 commercial book by a journalist with a number of UFO documents from the Spanish Air Force as an official UFO study. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Argentina was one of the first countries in the world to establish an inquiry commission dedicated to the UFO phenomenon, specifically the Navy in 1952, located at the Puerto Belgrano naval base. <i>The Revista Nacional de Aeronáutica</i> published information on UFO sightings in 1955, 1956, and 1960. The Argentine Navy created a permanent commission for the study of UFOs in 1962, and that same year the country's Air Force (FAA) established a "division" for the same purpose. After several vicissitudes, ups and downs, and project cancellations, a commission to study UFOs operated in the FAA between 1979 and 1987, within the National Commission for Space Research (CNIE). Between 1991 and 1997, the Argentine Ministry of Defense formed CITEFA, a research center for defense technologies – it had a small staff informally devoted to the study of UFO cases. In May 2011, the Argentine Air Force created CEFAE for the study of aerospace phenomena which, since 2015, has been managed with rigor and transparency by Commodore Rubén Lianza. The center was renamed to CIAE (Aerospace Identification Center) since 2019.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">However, it is logical to think that institutions such as the Air Force or the Navy, mainly, had archives with case studies and UFO reports from past years. But they no longer exist, unfortunately. At least, not in official agencies. And the reason is that (as it happens in other countries), the Argentine Armed Forces have a Regulation that stipulates the maximum time of custody of files. More specifically, in the decades that we are interested in studying, the maximum time of custody of files of a general nature, did not exceed five years.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For this reason, researchers in Argentina and in other countries (myself included) have striven to obtain‒before their irremediable loss‒official reports on UFO observations and make them known to the public.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2-5</span></b></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It should be clarified that the archive treatment’s policy of the Argentine Ministry of Defense changed as of Decree No. 1131 of 28 October 2016, which regulated the digitization and archiving of documents in electronic format, empowering the Secretariat of Administrative Modernization (Ministry of Modernization) to "issue the operating rules ... relating to the conservation and storage periods of electronic documents and files in the Electronic Document Management System (GDE), as well as for the process of digitization, archiving and conservation of management documents in paper format in the national public sector". In short, since that date it is the Ministry of Defense which stipulates what is kept and for how long.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Before that date, each of the Argentine Armed Forces had its own Manual for the Treatment of Archival Documentation. In the case of the Argentine Air Force, it was called MAPG 4. This Manual specified in its Paragraph 82, points (a) and (b) that <i>the custody time for "Minutes" or "Information" type of files on administrative matters, related to personal topics, accidents or incidents suffered by military and civilian personnel</i> [within which reports of UFO sightings are included] <i><u>will be a maximum of 5 years, after which the documentation must be destroyed by incineration.</u></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963">https://www.academia.edu/32940669/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1963</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965">https://www.academia.edu/33007775/Formularios_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1965</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962._By_Roberto_E._Banchs">https://www.academia.edu/33000080/Formulario_OVNI_de_la_Armada_Argentina_1962._By_Roberto_E._Banchs</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(6) Secretaría General de la Armada (Navy General Secretariat), February 27, 2020.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This article, in the form of a bilingual text, has the following permanent link:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification">https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Queen of UFOs at Wichita, 1956</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>LIFE</i> magazine issue of July 30, 1956 published a photo captioned as “Puzzler over Prairie,” with a short descriptive note: “In southeastern Kansas last week hundreds of excited people saw a bright saucer like object flying in the Sky.” It added that the Air Force dismissed it as “reflection from burning natural gas,” an explanation that apparently Kansans did not buy. Curiously, the Blue Book files does not contain any such sighting, except for a “No Case (Information Only) July 1956 SE Kansas” sheet just alluding to the <i>LIFE</i> news!</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The usually precise journal <i>CSI Newsletter</i> (for Civilian Saucer Intelligence, a UFO group of New York) reported this in its bulletin number 5 of September 21, 1956 (page 5): “July 20, 1956. Another photograph was taken of an object to the east of Wichita, Kansas at 4:30 a.m. by Jim Nelson, of the Wichita <i>Eagle</i>. This report followed numerous accounts of flying objects sighted over parts of south-central Kansas the preceding morning. Several of these Kansas observations appear to be misidentifications of Mars and/or Venus. The object photographed by Nelson was obviously neither.” As the illustrated magazine did not deliver any additional information, that was CSI’s own input.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the booklet by Max B. Miller, Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?, edited by Trend, 1957, pages 114-115, a big close up of the “object” was printed with the indication that it was taken on July 19, a “ball of light” seen by thousands of persons throughout central Kansas. As usual in Miller, the picture’s caption also included invented stuff on military planes chasing UFOs. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The last contemporary reference to this photograph I know of showed up as a cover illustration in Kevin Randle’s article “The Truth about the 1957 UFO Flap,” in <i>Official UFO</i> of March 1967, page 24. This time, the date was given as August 20, 1957! Finally, remarkable UFO historian Loren Gross, use this case in his <i>UFOs: A History. 1956. May-July</i>, 1993, pages 98-100. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Fortunately, the Nelson’s snapshot defined the observer’s horizon in the picture: geographical reference points in any UFO photograph is a must. In our study of this event, we happily have the date, location, time, direction, and position in the night (already clearing) sky. Just checking the stellar map, Spanish consultant J.C. Victorio Uranga immediately realized that that night and hour, at 15 degrees over the skyline, a very bright Venus (magnitude -4.68) elegantly stood at 78.5º (almost due East). 100% match! </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>My name is Victor Martínez, a Spanish ufologist by hobby and a geologist by trade, currently living in Chile, being the author of the website “Informe OVNI” (UFO Report), </i><a href="http://www.informeovni.net/">http://www.informeovni.net</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>The main reason of this message is to inform you about a current project I am carrying out in collaboration with V.J. Ballester Olmos, concerning Peter Rogerson’s INTCAT (</i><a href="http://intcat.blogspot.com/">http://intcat.blogspot.com/</a><i>), a catalog which contains about 5,000 UFO close encounter and entity entries. I think that, after the immense compilation job done by Rogerson in collecting so many landing reports all over the world, the next step is to transfer such amount of data into an Excel spreadsheet, in order to have a global overview, and being able to process different variables for their analysis. I started this process a few weeks ago, focused from 1947 onwards.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Since the inception of the flying saucers, this topic has captured the imagination of kids, especially those oriented to school science-projects, fond of photography, skilled children, and intellectually active boys. There are lots of *UFO* pictures taken by young lads (hardly ever gals, by the way). The case in the US is more than noticeable. Yet such kids have also been good in making practical jokes or building contrivances looking like “flying saucers” to surprise or amaze rural folks. Lo and behold, the bad quality of the images is inevitable. Sometimes I happen to wonder how many UFO snapshots would be recovered from visiting newspapers’ photograph archives. The following two examples, in obvious concomitance with local periodicals, show funny photos. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>The Knoxville News-Sentinel</i> of El Paso, Texas, of March 17, 1950, published an “Acme Telephoto” entitled Little Man From Mars? The caption read: “Keyed up by the recent hysteria in the Southwest over “flying discs,” this hunter gets ready to capture, alive or dead, the Martian he was so sure he’d found hiding behind a big yucca plant near El Paso. The cautious gunman was disappointed, however, when he found his well-dressed “disc pilot” was a 2-year-old boy who had heard too many stories about men from Mars-or possibly had been subjected to too many comic books, accounting for the weird dress.”</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Now, 15 years have elapsed, but the newspapers keep on reflecting the same revolving thoughts of the population frequently assaulted by UFO sightings. It was the August 11, 1965 edition of the <i>Casa Grande Dispatch</i>, Arizona, that took its own picture of a landing, explained as follows: “Prompted by reports of unidentified flying objects over Casa Grande, <i>Dispatch</i> newsboys Steve and Mike Jones retouched one of their ‘weird-ohs’ and fabricated a flying saucer to put in desert setting south of the city. And since no Valley residents has actually seen a flying saucer or a man from Mars, who’s to dispute the authenticity of their handiwork?</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As far as the UFO realm is concerned, the combination of two teenagers and a <i>Polaroid</i> (or another camera type for that matter) is terrible. Ricky Sharp and Danny Gay, both 14, of Bellow Falls (Vermont) said they went out to take pictures with a simple box camera of the 140-year old bridge near North Westminster when they saw for 90 seconds a noiseless object “black and white…with a shiny coil around the top,” about 25 feet wide and hovering at about 100 feet over treetops. The two junior high school students said the object then descended toward them and “then went straight up” and disappeared in the late afternoon overcast. It was the day after Thanksgiving, November 25, 1966. No other witnesses, as usual. Parents and friends of the youths failed to believe them (I wonder why?) </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">When the photos (six) were developed, they were taken to the town’s journal, from where were sent to NICAP (spokesman Walter Hicken, of Keene, cleverly stated: “the best I’ve ever seen of a UFO-and the closest. They look valid, but we’ll have to study them more.”) Last word on it. Well, except the note “Hints on Photos” published in the January-February 1967 issue of <i>The UFO Investigator</i> (page 5): “…while a picture taken by an inexpensive box camera is far better than no picture, the better camera, the better picture.” NICAP’s journal continued: “What we need is detailed, close-up pictures. This requires either overwhelming luck, or a telephoto lens.” I ask myself if they needed a more close-up photo for analysis. Yes, those kids were overwhelmingly lucky! (Strangely, if the series of pictures was so good, why did they never attempt to submit it to the US Air Force? Bets accepted.) </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The perfect flying saucer we see above was caught on film while soaring near the Crossroads Presbyterian Church in the North Hills, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 7, 1966 by Roger Latham, 16. The “saucer” is actually just the lid of a cooking pan suspended by unseen wires. </span>And so, on and on…A few curiosities from FOTOCAT archives.</div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(1) It is well known that science fiction literature portrayed flying saucers imagery predating the flying saucers craze of 1947. Now, Spanish jurist and experienced UFO scholar Matías Morey Ripoll has found a precedent illustration of the alien bighead dwarf, arising in the UFO saga. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The drawing appears in a compilation by Alexandra Sankova, the author of <i>Soviet Space Graphics</i>. <i>Cosmic Visions from the USSR</i> (Phaidon, 2020), a work that reviews the graphic design of the USSR linked to the space race (<a href="https://de.phaidon.com/store/design/soviet-space-graphics-9781838660536/">https://de.phaidon.com/store/design/soviet-space-graphics-9781838660536/</a>)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The big-headed Martians were depicted by L. Epple for Boris Anibel’s science-fiction novel <i>Sailors of the Universe</i>, about a mission to the Red planet (page 196), according to the magazine <i>Knowledge is Power</i>, issue 5, 1940, an important bulletin edited by the Youth Communist Party where remarkable scientists contributed articles. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(2) The field of atmospheric optics is very important in the environment of UFO work, as mirages and refraction effects play a mischievous role in the production of anomalous images. A great source for information about mirages, especially for the phenomenon of “green flash” can be found in Dr. Andrew T. Young (Astronomy Department, San Diego State University)’s own web site, “An introduction to Mirages,” here: </span><a href="https://aty.sdsu.edu/mirages/mirintro.html">https://aty.sdsu.edu/mirages/mirintro.html</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A major particular paper on a specific kind of mirage known as “Fata Morgana” is entitled “Mirages at Lake Geneva: the Fata Morgana,” by A.T.Young and E. Frappa, published in <i>Applied Optics</i>, 2017,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.vk2krr.com/Andrew%20t%20Young%20Fata%20Morgana%20article%202017.pdf">https://www.vk2krr.com/Andrew%20t%20Young%20Fata%20Morgana%20article%202017.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The composite picture below shows the alternation of erect and inverted images that are common to all mirages: Top is a reference image taken at 15:22:37 UT, April 21, 2015. Middle, April 22 at 15:24:21 UT. Bottom, April 22 at 15:40:16 UT. Photographs by Eric Frappa, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(3) Isaac Koi has posted a very educative item: "Official UFO Disclosure 'May Be Imminent' – A Historical Perspective, </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1264719/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1264719/pg1</a> </div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(4) A case of rampant UFO disinformation discovered: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yafnwaoe">https://tinyurl.com/yafnwaoe</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(5) Ted Molczan’s paper on debris recovery in Spain after space decay on November 3, 2008:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE-ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008-010B_SPAIN_-_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC">https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE-ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008-010B_SPAIN_-_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC</a> </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Abstract: <i>Pre-dawn sightings of a fireball over Spain on November 3, 2015, and the subsequent discovery of three composite overwrap pressure vessel (COPV) spheres and other suspected space debris, pointed to a re-entry as the cause. The resource of record for re-entries is the USSTRATCOM (U.S. Strategic Command); however, its Space Track web site reported neither predictions nor historical data that correlated with the events in Spain. The mystery was solved by estimating the orbital elements from the fireball sightings and positions of the debris and finding a matching object in the orbital data of independent sources. The re-entering object was the Centaur upper stage with the international designation 2008-010B, and the USSTRATCOM catalogue number 32707.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(6) Manuel Borraz’s classic paper on “meteors with windows” (in Spanish) can be read here: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/42949504/Meteoros_con_ventanillas">https://www.academia.edu/42949504/Meteoros_con_ventanillas</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(7) Space tests and rocket launches by Russia have provoked many UFO sightings. NASA scientist Jim Oberg has written a number of reports of great value: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Ground observations of Soviet FOBS warhead tests in 1967 (Solved. The 1967 Soviet Union "Crescents-in-the-Sky" Wave):</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Space clouds (Strange Spinoff of the Space Age: Accidental Observations of Artificial Clouds):</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/molniya_clouds_over_south_america.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/molniya_clouds_over_south_america.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Likewise, for a continuing source of updated, contemporary eerie effects in the atmosphere, we also have Oberg’s specialized blog on “rocket spotting”: </span><a href="https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/">https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(8) Belgian researcher Marc Hallet’s latest work (July 2020). The text is in French but most of the 165-page book is composed by facsimiles of illustrations extracted from old science fiction magazines. Title is: "Avant l’éclosion des ovnis et de l’ufologie" (Before the emergence of UFOs and ufology), and can be read here: <a href="https://ia601408.us.archive.org/11/items/avant-leclosion-des-ovnis-et-de-lufologie/Avant%20l%27%C3%A9closion%20des%20ovnis%20et%20de%20l%27ufologie.pdf">https://ia601408.us.archive.org/11/items/avant-leclosion-des-ovnis-et-de-lufologie/Avant%20l%27%C3%A9closion%20des%20ovnis%20et%20de%20l%27ufologie.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Abstract: <i>Ufology started in June 1947 with the memorable observation of Kenneth Arnold. It grew quickly because the public was willing to accept the idea of extraterrestrials visiting us. This idea came from the abundant science fiction literature that had invaded all sections of the population since the end of the 19th century. The so-called “pulp” magazines had popularized in the collective unconscious all kinds of cylindrical or spherical spaceships, but also platforms and discs. These are such objects that people imagined seeing in our skies from June 1947...You will find here a collection of illustrations taken from pulp magazines in which you will discover spacecrafts or events that prefigured from the '20s and '30s the ufological stories recorded after June 1947.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(9) The Spanish research physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo published in 2015 a remarkable paper in the peer-reviewed <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>. It was a synthesis of all prior work on the subject it covered, under the title “A Review on the Relation between Population Density and UFO Sightings.” Abstract: </span><i>In the search for patterns of the UFO phenomenon, the relationship of sightings to population density has historically shown contradictory results. After more than 40 years of studies, there is not yet a clear conclusion on whether the relationship between the number of reports and population density is direct or inverse. We have reviewed some of these works and found out how to reconcile all of them. We found that there is a direct relationship between the number of sightings and population density; however, the increase in number of reports is not proportional but sub-lineal with respect to the increase in population. </i>This important study can be accessed here:</div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(10) Manuel Borraz’s paper on a novel perspective on the 1965 UFO sightings of Fort-de-France (in Spanish), </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42774887/Gerald_Michel_Jacques._Los_avistamientos_de_Fort-de-France_1965_en_perspectiva">https://www.academia.edu/42774887/Gerald_Michel_Jacques._Los_avistamientos_de_Fort-de-France_1965_en_perspectiva</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(11) Commodore Rubén Lianza, head of Argentina’s official Aerospace Identification Center, replies to <i>Quora</i>’s question: "Why isn't studying UFOs considered to be a real science?"</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(12) Two scientists who share past work on UFOs are presently (independently) developing new theories of the universe:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Dr. Claude Poher, <a href="http://www.universons.com/">http://www.universons.com</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Dr. Robert M.L. Baker, Jr., <a href="https://youtu.be/3UcJfvfoQIQ">https://youtu.be/3UcJfvfoQIQ</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(13) Dr. Ricardo Campo’s latest essay, “La luz de Mafasca. Una aproximación crítica a la leyenda majorera” (in Spanish), about the legend of the Mafasca “ghots light” in the Canary Islands,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43954146/La_luz_de_Mafasca_Una_aproximaci%C3%B3n_cr%C3%ADtica_a_la_leyenda_majorera">https://www.academia.edu/43954146/La_luz_de_Mafasca_Una_aproximaci%C3%B3n_cr%C3%ADtica_a_la_leyenda_majorera</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(14) In Spanish. Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga and Manuel Borraz have published a documented historical entry in the blog "Misterios del Aire" (Air Mysteries) related to case #100 in the book by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, <i>Wonders in the Sky</i>, where the observation of a weird luminous object is exposed. It led to the foundation of the city of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) in the year 1171: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-5-teruel-ano-1171.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/09/maravillas-en-el-cielo-5-teruel-ano-1171.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>UFOs and Intelligence: A Timeline</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">After an effort of about three years, bibliographer George M. Eberhart has updated (August 2020) a comprehensive timeline of UFO history to a point where it will be most useful to UFO researchers and historians and can be distributed selectively. UFOs and Intelligence is an up-to-date retrospective of UFO history (from Agobard of Lyons to the newly appointed US investigation agency UAPTF). It is now 625 pages and 523,000 words (plus a 31-page “Sources and Further Reading” supplement). Readers will rediscover many events, people, and UFO cases that they may have forgotten about, and will find it useful for many current or planned research projects. A timeline like this allows us to view events from a different perspective, letting us make connections we might not otherwise see. It forces us to view the big picture, amid the grand flow of UFO cases, military security decisions, a vast swathe of personalities, and world history. Link to download a free PDF:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart">https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The PDF of a book (in Spanish) released 2001. Authored by several specialists, it displays several UFO sightings that occurred in Rociana, province of Huelva (Spain): </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43279776/EL_CONDESITO">https://www.academia.edu/43279776/EL_CONDESITO</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Just published is volume 3 of <i>Once upon a time in ufoland</i> (in Spanish) by the Chilean lawyer Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez. Highly recommendable, it can be purchased from the following publisher’s link: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyfh39hz">https://tinyurl.com/yyfh39hz</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>What You Miss from the Spanish Edition</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice your Spanish by reading some articles or entries not translated into English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“El par de ovnis de la pareja de la Guardia Civil” (A couple of UFOs sighted by two Civil Guards).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Meditaciones ufológicas” (Ufological disquisitions).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Acknowledgments</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Jim Oberg (USA), Matías Morey Ripoll (Spain), Mercedes Pullman (Spain), Kay Coogin (USA), Marc Hallet (Belgium), Commodore Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Milton Hourcade (Uruguay), Igor Kalytiuk (Ukraine), and Mikhail Gershtein (Russia). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Investigación OVNI</u> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs),</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u> (Unusual Files)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u> (with M. Borraz)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>·</b> Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>·</b> Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>·</b> Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to: </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">2020/SEPTIEMBRE/15 (ES)</span></b></div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><b>BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT</b></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">Como de costumbre, actualizo primeramente el número de casos registrados en la base de datos FOTOCAT: 12.694. Poco a poco nos vamos acercando a una cifra tan redonda como significativa de 13.000.</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Una colaboración regular en nuestro trabajo de catalogación y documentación proviene de Terry W. Colvin, militar retirado del US Army Signal Corps, veterano de Vietnam, aficionado a la arqueología e interesado desde hace mucho tiempo en los ovnis y temas científicos marginales. Vive en Tailandia. ขอบคุณ, Terry. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>THE MARFA LIGHTS </b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">NUEVA EDICIÓN EN PAPEL A TODO COLOR</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En julio pasado, anunciamos el lanzamiento <i>online</i> de nuestro libro (Manuel Borraz y V.J. Ballester Olmos), con el apoyo y elogios sin precedentes de 17 científicos y especialistas de todo el mundo. En apenas dos meses, esta monografía que trata de un análisis en profundidad de la mejor serie de fotografías disponibles de las llamadas "Luces de Marfa", ha recibido cerca de 1.000 lecturas y descargas en el portal Academia.edu, donde se halla disponible:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_">https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El libro, asimismo, ha recibido muchos y positivos comentarios de reconocidos investigadores de ambos lados del espectro de opinión sobre los ovnis, por ejemplo: Ian Ridpath (<i>well done</i>!), Dr. Richard Haines (<i>congratulations on yet another major contribution to this field of research</i>), William Chalker (<i>congratulation for the excellent work in the Marfa Lights study</i>), Thierry Rocher (<i>Félicitations, J'espère qu'il sera traduit un jour en français</i>), Frank Warren (<i>congrats on the book</i>!), Robert R. Young (<i>Good job</i>!), Roderick Dyke (<i>a very eye opening book</i>!), Dr. Gennadi Milinevsky, Universidad de Kiev (<i>a very good book</i>), Alain Hubrecht (<i>I did investigate Marfa lights 20 years ago. Your study is very good</i>!), Comodoro Rubén Lianza, Fuerza Aérea Argentina (<i>un grandioso trabajo, muy educativo, un trabajo impecable</i>), Marc Hallet (<i>Encore bravo pour ce travail qui, dans le genre, deviendra sans doute incontournable</i>), Milton Hourcade (<i>felicitaciones por el libro</i>), Martin Kottmeyer (<i>cool</i>), etc.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Pero hay muchos amantes de los libros que gustan de pasar las hojas de papel de los libros impresos, leerlos en sus butacas favoritas y guardarlos en los anaqueles de sus librerías, bibliotecas públicas que surten de libros en papel a sus muchos lectores, bibliotecarios que compran volúmenes para sus instituciones, etc., para los que los libros en papel son imprescindibles. </span>Pues bien, para ellos, la editorial técnica italiana UPIAR (Turín) ha editado nuestro libro a todo color, en tapa blanda y formato A4 (30c x 21cm), disponible en el siguiente enlace: </div>
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<b style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>OVNIS en video desde la ISS</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El 19 de agosto de 2020, la agencia de noticias Tass informó que el cosmonauta ruso Ivan Vagner, mientras grababa en video las auroras polares del hemisferio sur, entre la Antártida y Australia, registró el vuelo de cinco objetos luminosos puntiformes sobre el disco de la Tierra, moviéndose en un curso en paralelo: <a href="https://tass.com/science/1191653">https://tass.com/science/1191653</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En el metraje distribuido por Vagner desde la estación espacial internacional (ISS) se puede ver en la breve secuencia temporal de 0.09 a 0.12 el rápido movimiento de un ordenado grupo de objetos en el espacio: </span><a href="https://vk.com/ivan_mks63?z=video-193482660_456239046%2Fpl_-193482660_-2">https://vk.com/ivan_mks63?z=video-193482660_456239046%2Fpl_-193482660_-2</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A las 14:31 GMT del 18 de agosto, SpaceX lanzó el vuelo 10 de Starlink, un tren de 58 satélites a una altitud orbital de 550 km con una inclinación de 53º para su constelación de satélites en órbita terrestre baja para el internet de alta velocidad. Hay muchas probabilidades de que esto sea lo que haya filmado Vagner. </span>También se han enumerado algunas otras posibilidades:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.perm.kp.ru/daily/217171/4272893/">https://www.perm.kp.ru/daily/217171/4272893/</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://rg.ru/2020/08/20/uchenye-vydvinuli-versii-vozniknoveniia-nlo-sniatyh-na-video-s-mks.html">https://rg.ru/2020/08/20/uchenye-vydvinuli-versii-vozniknoveniia-nlo-sniatyh-na-video-s-mks.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Personajes singulares los hay en todos los órdenes de la vida. También en el diplomático. Muchos ciudadanos del mundo no habían oído hablar de Granada (Pequeñas Antillas, Caribe) hasta 1978. Se trata de una isla de 340km</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> y 103.000 habitantes, independiente del Reino Unido desde 1967. El 12 de octubre de 1978, el primer ministro de Granada, Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, habló ante la 33ª sesión de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. Él y otros sujetos apostados en derredor de la ONU llevaban años tratando de elevar el temita ovni a la categoría de asunto internacional. Su discurso fue colorista y especiado. Un poco de religión por aquí, algo de economía por allá, un toque sobre derechos humanos, mención al Año del Niño y broche final dedicado a los “objetos volantes no identificados y fenómenos conexos”. Concretamente, Sir Gairy pretendía que la ONU se involucrara activamente en coordinar la investigación sobre el fenómeno ovni. Para ello, reunió a un papel de “expertos”: los científicos J. Allen Hynek, Claude Poher, Jacques Vallée, David Saunders, los ufólogos Leonard Stringfield, Ted Phillips, Pedro Guillermo Bravo, el productor Lee Spiegel y el astronauta Gordon Cooper, quienes ya se reunieron en privado con el Secretario General de la ONU Kurt Waldheim el 14 de julio anterior. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Después de años de intentos, una propuesta para el “establecimiento de una agencia o departamento de las Naciones Unidas para emprender, coordinar y diseminar los resultados de una investigación sobre los objetos volantes no identificados y fenómenos conexos” fue expuesta en el apartado 126 de la agenda de la Comisión de Política Especial (Special Political Committee) de la ONU, con fecha de 6 de octubre de 1978.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El 27 de noviembre, la delegación de Granada presentó el borrador de resolución, que recomendaba a la ONU iniciar y conducir un estudio sobre la naturaleza y origen de los ovnis. Específicamente, urgía al Secretario General a que “invitara a los Estados Miembros, agencias especializadas y organizaciones no gubernamentales a transmitirle con fecha 31 de mayo de 1979 información y propuestas que facilitaran el estudio propuesto”. La propuesta fue defendida por Gairy, acompañado por un panel de científicos, militares y otros (Hynek, Vallée y el teniente coronel Coyne, por ejemplo). Finalmente se presentó una filmación. La sesión finalizó a las 12,45 p.m.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">*que invite a los Estados Miembros a coordinar a nivel nacional investigación sobre “vida extraterrestre, incluyendo objetos volantes no identificados…e informar al Secretario General…de tales actividades</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">*que se transmitan los documentos de la delegación de Granada al Comité para los Usos Pacíficos del Espacio Exterior, que los pueda considerar en su reunión de 1979.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En román paladino, ni caso. No prosperó nada, como era de prever. Unas pinceladas acerca de la personalidad del proponente pueden ser adecuadas:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Sir Eric Gairy es un producto de la exuberancia tropical…encaramado a un escenario con su impecable traje blanco, su oratoria clerical podía inflamar a sus compatriotas de orgullo y rebeldía…salió elegido en las primeras elecciones y repitió en cinco de las seis siguientes…Su estratega político podría haber sido Groucho Marx. Irrumpía con una banda de calypso en los mítines de sus adversarios, tomaba medidas populistas, consiguió colarse en el jurado que eligió Miss Universo a una compatriota…</i> (Miguel A. Barroso & Igor Reyes-Ortiz, <i>El País</i>, 19 de agosto de 1994, página 8). Y no abundamos más por simple vergüenza ajena. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Precisamente cuando Gairy se hallaba en Nueva York en marzo de 1979 “enfrascado en su pasión: convencer a la ONU de que era prioritario dotar fondos para investigar el fenómeno ovni” una revolución interna le defenestró del poder, hasta que en 1983 el Estados Unidos de Ronald Regan invadió el pequeño país, a la sazón gobernado por un político de izquierdas. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Así se escribe la historia. Tómese un personaje con cierta influencia, poder o dinero (político, empresario millonario, cantante de éxito, empleado de agencia de inteligencia, por ejemplo), con sobredosis de credulidad en la llegada de extraterrestres a la Tierra. Moviendo sus hilos y relaciones con organismos internacionales o ministerios de defensa, tarde o temprano no resulta difícil concertar reuniones, liberar propuestas, crear comités, o lograr financiación. Al final, todo queda en nada. Porque, nos guste o no, nada extraordinario hay.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Pero todo lo anterior, amigo lector, no es sino una larga introducción para lo que realmente quiero mostrarle hoy. En su discurso, Claude Poher parece que hizo alguna mención a España</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. Hay una microhistoria del efecto oficial que tuvo en nuestro país, desconocida hasta hoy. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El hecho es que con fecha 5 de diciembre de 1978, el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores escribe al Secretario General para Asuntos de Política de Defensa. El embajador representante permanente de España en las Naciones Unidas ha informado que durante el debate de la Comisión de Política Especial, “del tema 126 de la agenda de este año, relativo a los OVNIS, un científico francés…hizo alusión a un estudio recientemente publicado por las Fuerzas Armadas de España sobre ese tema”. Nuestro diplomático, naturalmente, para estar bien informado, requería confirmación y documentación, así que la consulta a Defensa era inevitable.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Diez días después, el Secretario General para asuntos de Política de Defensa pregunta por escrito a quien debería saberlo, el Estado Mayor del Aire (EMAIRE), remite los antecedentes y solicita la remisión de la “información que estime oportuna”. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El general jefe del EMAIRE no tarda más de 24 horas en responder. Tras indicar que se han notificado “varios casos de supuesta aparición de objetos voladores no identificados”, añade que se ha nombrado un juez instructor para su investigación, de acuerdo con las normas elaboradas para ello. Según los antecedentes de dichos jueces informadores, agrega la misiva, <i>algunos de los fenómenos han sido motivados por causas naturales y otros no han podido ser determinados con exactitud, considerándose estos últimos como fenómenos aéreos no identificados.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Y con respecto a la consulta concreta, señala que<i> fuera de estas Informaciones…no se ha realizado ningún otro estudio general concerniente al tema citado.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Es evidente que el equivocado comentario que se hizo de pasada sobre España se refería al libro del periodista J.J. Benítez, que incluía una docena de casos del Ejército del Aire, publicado en 1976, no a ninguna investigación realizada por nuestras Fuerzas Armadas.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(1) He querido hacer una comprobación de este dato, casi trivial pero de interés, consultando con Jacques Vallée, el otro científico francés en hablar aquel día ante la comisión especial de la ONU: “Debe haber salido en las discusiones generales (no en el discurso que yo preparé) y no recuerdo quien lo dijo. Puede haber sido Poher. La información no vendría de mí porque no conozco ningún estudio de ese tipo por la Fuerza Aérea Española.” (J. Vallée al autor, 24 de agosto de 2020).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Argentina fue uno de los primeros países del mundo en contar con una comisión de encuesta dedicada al fenómeno ovni, concretamente la Armada en 1952, ubicada en la base naval de Puerto Belgrano. Por su lado, la <i>Revista Nacional de Aeronáutica</i> publicó informaciones sobre avistamientos en 1955, 1956 y 1960. La Armada argentina creó una comisión permanente para el estudio de los ovnis en 1962, y ese mismo año la Fuerza Aérea del país estableció una “división” con igual propósito. Tras varias vicisitudes, altibajos y cancelaciones de proyectos, entre 1979 y 1987 funcionó en la FAA una comisión para estudiar ovnis, dentro del seno de la Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales (CNIE). Entre 1991 y 1997, el Ministerio de Defensa argentino formó CITEFA, un centro de investigación de tecnologías para la Defensa dentro del cual un grupo de trabajo se dedicaba informalmente al estudio de casos ovni. En Mayo de 2011, la FAA creó la CEFAE para el estudio de los fenómenos aeroespaciales, que desde 2015 viene impulsada con rigor y transparencia por el comodoro Rubén Lianza, organismo renombrado a partir de abril de 2019 como CIAE (Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial).</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Sin embargo, es lógico pensar que instituciones como la Fuerza Aérea o la Armada, principalmente, dispusieran de archivos con casuística e informes ovni de años pasados. Pero ya no existen, por desgracia. Al menos, no en los organismos oficiales. Y la razón es que (tal como ocurre en otros países), en Argentina, las Fuerzas Armadas tienen un Reglamento que estipula los tiempos máximos de custodia de archivos. Más específicamente, en las décadas que nos interesa estudiar, los tiempos máximos de custodia de archivos de carácter general no excedían de los cinco años.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Por esa razón, investigadores argentinos y de otros países (yo mismo, en particular) nos hemos esforzado en recabar -antes de su pérdida irremediable- informes oficiales sobre observaciones ovni y darlos a conocer al público.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2-5</span></b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Cabe aclarar que la política de tratamiento de archivos del Ministerio de Defensa Argentino cambió a partir del Decreto N°1131 del 28 de octubre de 2016 mediante el cual se reguló la digitalización y archivo de documentos en formato electrónico, facultando a la Secretaría de Modernización Administrativa (Ministerio de Modernización) a “dictar las normas operativas…relativas a la conservación y plazos de guarda de los documentos electrónicos y expedientes en el Sistema de Gestión Documental Electrónica (GDE), así como también para el proceso de digitalización, archivo y conservación de documentos de gestión en soporte papel en el ámbito del sector público nacional”. En resumidas cuentas, desde esa fecha es el Ministerio de Defensa quien estipula qué se conserva y durante cuánto tiempo.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Antes de tal fecha, cada una de la Fuerzas Armadas Argentinas tenía su propio Manual de Tratamiento de la Documentación de Archivo. En el caso de Fuerza Aérea Argentina, se llamaba MAPG 4. Dicho manual especificaba en su párrafo 82, apartados (a) y (b) que <i>el tiempo de custodia para archivos de tipo “Acta” o “Información” sobre asuntos administrativos, relativos a cuestiones personales, accidentes o incidentes sufridos por personal militar y civil</i> [dentro de la cual se encuadran las denuncias de avistamientos] <i><u>será de un máximo de 5 años, después de lo cual la documentación debe ser destruida por incineración.</u></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Por ello, ante recientes solicitudes de desclasificación de archivos “ovni”, la Armada Argentina amparada en lo estipulado por la regulación de tratamiento de archivos vigente en las fechas de interés, haya respondido -verazmente- que carece de antecedentes documentales.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></b></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Nuestras esperanzas de que el Estado Argentino pudiera proveer a los investigadores de información ovni que todavía se hallara oculta en archivos oficiales anteriores a 2016 se evapora. La Administración y su burocracia son así. Cualquier posible demanda de “desclasificación” queda abortada desde antes de hacerse. Hay que afrontar la cruda realidad con realismo.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification">https://www.academia.edu/43711706/Argentina_Desclasificacion_OVNI_-UFO_Declassification</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Revisar viejos recortes de prensa, de cuando todavía se les llamada platillos volantes, y testar con ellos los utillajes científicos actuales es siempre gratificante. De paso, al hallar soluciones, podemos comparar la descripción de unos fidedignos -aunque equivocados- testigos oculares con la imagen real del fenómeno presenciado. <i>La Vanguardia Española</i>, diario publicado en Barcelona, informaba lo siguiente en su edición del 23 de febrero de 1968:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“En varias ocasiones se les vio avanzar hacia el Norte y para comprobar que este movimiento no podía ser imaginario por efecto visual de alguna posible nube alta que, por otra parte, hubiese ocultado la luz de tan extraños objetos, los observadores se colocaron debajo de uno de los cables del alumbrado eléctrico que cruzan la plaza, y con esta referencia fija, se comprobó perfectamente, que eran los extraños objetos los que se desplazaban”.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La fe en la existencia de extraterrestres en base a los informes de ovnis es irracional porque -siguiendo a Mario Bunge- contradice la racionalidad gnoseológica y ontológica: no hay apoyo empírico, suscita conjeturas incompatibles con el grueso de la ciencia y de la tecnología del día y adopta una concepción del mundo incoherente con la misma. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En pocas palabras, ni hay pruebas de la llegada de astronaves alienígenas, ni las leyes físicas deben modificarse para concebir el encontronazo -de unos minutos- con un aterrorizado observador, con vuelta asegurada al sistema solar de origen. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Pero que nadie crea que esto lo escribe un desacreditador impenitente. Hubo un tiempo que, quien esto firma, aceptaba -siempre con cortafuegos- la HET. Pero resulta fútil no evolucionar en tus pensamientos a lo largo de los años, en un campo con cambiantes datos y estudios como este, ni admitir las disyuntivas alternativas que se planean. Yo no me he dedicado a esta investigación para perseguir o confirmar creencias, sino para descubrir lo que hay detrás de lo que convenimos en llamar fenómeno ovni. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">No quiero recurrir a la auto-cita, pero ya he escrito en varios ensayos las razones que me han llevado a valorar la hipótesis psico-social como la adecuada para resolver el significado de tantos informes ficticios de naves espaciales en nuestro entorno. De un lado, la gente (con información preconcebida) malinterpreta fenómenos con los que se topa inopinadamente. Pura ignorancia. No es inhabitual que sea en grupo. De otro, los relatos más asombrosos, los encuentros cercanos, los aterrizajes, los humanoides, las abducciones tienen un componente parcialmente psicológico y parcialmente de mixtificación. Las proporciones, a establecer, sin duda.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Y no hablo de oídas. Son muchos años (55 sin ir más lejos) de entrevistar a numerosos testigos y de incontables referencias en la literatura especializada. </span>Pero, como he dicho otras veces, al haberme alojado a ambos lados de la creencia (de credulidad a agnosticismo), sé por qué el creyente se aferra a su convencimiento de que solo los episodios ovni cobran sentido si se interpretan bajo la óptica de la interacción con vehículos del espacio exterior, en suma, con una inteligencia. O con un sistema de control. O con una conciencia cósmica capaz de materializarse. Llámele usted como más le convenga.</div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">¿En qué se basan los crédulos? Mal si se basan en experiencias propias, personales e intransferibles. Peor si su base de datos son relatos leídos en revistas y libros de procedencia extranjera y lejana (e incluso autóctona) para los que no ha mediado encuesta alguna por parte del proponente. A eso se le llama hablar de oídas. Y eso, en este asunto, es pecado mortal.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Para mí, lo más trágico de esa postura irracional es no darse cuenta de cómo transcurren las décadas y ninguna institución, ninguna facultad, ningún gobierno aporta evidencia incontrovertible que apoye su propuesta. Lo que deviene en un sueño, más que en una hipótesis de trabajo. Han pasado 73 años desde que un comercial de alto nivel vio una bandada -perdón, conjunto- de ovnis en forma de murciélago o bumerán en 1947. Pero, una vez que equivocadamente se les llamó platillos volantes, la gente empezó a ver discos, elipses o círculos volantes. O sea, variaciones de platos, no la forma inicial. Hasta el presente, después de millones de informes. Pero nada material pervive. Solo palabras.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Reconozco que es difícil cambiar de paradigma mental -requiere volición y coraje ser capaz de esa transgresión-, pero aseguro que es un proceso creativo, transformador e intelectualmente gratificante. Es como trascender de nivel y sentir que nuestra investigación se desarrolla y no se enquista. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Mi nombre es Víctor Martínez, soy español, ufólogo de hobby y geólogo de profesión, actualmente residiendo en Chile. Soy autor de la web “Informe OVNI”, </i><a href="http://www.informeovni.net/">http://www.informeovni.net</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>La razón de esta carta abierta es informar del proyecto que actualmente estoy llevando a cabo con la cooperación de V.J. Ballester Olmos, relativo al INTCAT de Peter Rogerson, (</i><a href="http://intcat.blogspot.com/">http://intcat.blogspot.com/</a><i>), que contiene unos 5.000 casos de encuentros cercanos con ovnis y de humanoides. Estoy convencido de que, tras el enorme esfuerzo de Rogerson de recopilar tal muestra de informes de aterrizaje en el mundo, el siguiente paso es transferir los datos a una hoja de cálculo Excel que nos permita tabular y procesar diversas variables, para su análisis. Comencé este proceso hace semanas, a partir del año 1947 en adelante. </i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(1) Es bien conocido que la literatura de ciencia ficción mostró imágenes de platillos volantes que precedieron a la manía de los platillos volantes de 1947. Ahora, el jurista y experimentado estudioso español Matías Morey Ripoll ha descubierto una magnífica ilustración que precede a la saga de enanos cabezones de la fenomenología testimonial de la ufología. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El grabado se encuentra en una recopilación de Alexandra Sankova, autora de <i>Soviet Space Graphics. Cosmic Visions from the USSR</i> (Phaidon, 2020), una obra que repasa el diseño gráfico de la URSS vinculado a la carrera espacial (<a href="https://de.phaidon.com/store/design/soviet-space-graphics-9781838660536/">https://de.phaidon.com/store/design/soviet-space-graphics-9781838660536/</a>)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Los marcianos de cráneo sobredimensionado fueron realizados por L. Epple para la novela de Ciencia ficción de Boris Anibel, <i>Sailors of the Universe</i>, relativa a una misión al planeta rojo, según publicó la revista <i>Knowledge is Power</i>, número 5, 1940, el boletín editado por las Juventudes del Partido Comunista, donde colaboraron importantes científicos rusos de la época. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(2) La disciplina de la óptica atmosférica es muy importante en el entorno de la Investigación ovni, ya que espejismos y efectos visuales de la refracción juegan un papel engañoso en la producción de imágenes aparentemente anómalas, por distorsionadas. Una gran fuente de información sobre espejismos, especialmente sobre el fenómeno conocido como “rayo verde”, se puede hallar en la web del Dr. Andrew T. Young (departamento de Astronomía de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego), titulada “Introducción a los espejismos”: </span><a href="https://aty.sdsu.edu/mirages/mirintro.html">https://aty.sdsu.edu/mirages/mirintro.html</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En particular, un excelente trabajo sobre un tipo muy específico de espejismo llamado “Fata Morgana” podemos leerlo aquí: “Mirages at Lake Geneva: the Fata Morgana,” por A.T.Young y E. Frappa, publicado en <i>Applied Optics</i> en 2017,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.vk2krr.com/Andrew%20t%20Young%20Fata%20Morgana%20article%202017.pdf">https://www.vk2krr.com/Andrew%20t%20Young%20Fata%20Morgana%20article%202017.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(3) Isaac Koi ha editado un trabajo muy instructivo, una perspectiva histórica del fracasado concepto de la inminencia de la revelación oficial sobre los ovnis: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1264719/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1264719/pg1</a> </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(4) Un ejemplo de evidente desinformación ovni al descubierto: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yafnwaoe">https://tinyurl.com/yafnwaoe</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(5) Artículo de Ted Molczan acerca de la recuperación sobre España de restos de una reentrada espacial el 3 de noviembre de 2008:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE-ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008-010B_SPAIN_-_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC">https://www.academia.edu/27848168/RE-ENTRY_SIGHTINGS_AND_DEBRIS_RECOVERY_OF_2008-010B_SPAIN_-_2015_NOVEMBER_03_UTC</a> </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(6) Pruebas en el espacio y lanzamiento de cohetes rusos han sido responsables de numerosas observaciones ovni. El científico de la NASA Jim Oberg ha publicado varios informes de lectura imprescindible: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Solved. The 1967 Soviet Union ‘Crescents-in-the-Sky’ Wave”:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/molniya_clouds_over_south_america.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/molniya_clouds_over_south_america.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Su blog especializado “rocket spotting” se nos presenta como una fuente actualizada sobre extraños efectos luminosos en la atmósfera: </span><a href="https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/">https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(7) El último ensayo del investigador belga Marc Hallet es un texto en francés de 165 páginas compuesto mayoritariamente de facsímiles de ilustraciones extraídas de viejas revistas de ciencia ficción. Su título es "Avant l’éclosion des ovnis et de l’ufologie" y puede leerse aquí:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://ia601408.us.archive.org/11/items/avant-leclosion-des-ovnis-et-de-lufologie/Avant%20l%27%C3%A9closion%20des%20ovnis%20et%20de%20l%27ufologie.pdf">https://ia601408.us.archive.org/11/items/avant-leclosion-des-ovnis-et-de-lufologie/Avant%20l%27%C3%A9closion%20des%20ovnis%20et%20de%20l%27ufologie.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(8) El físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo publicó en 2015 un notable estudio sobre la relación entre densidad de población y observaciones ovni, un tema clásico en la ufología estadística que no tiene desperdicio:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings">https://www.academia.edu/31712515/A_Review_on_the_Relation_between_Population_Density_and_UFO_Sightings</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(9) El comodoro Rubén Lianza, director del Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina responde a la pregunta de la revista Quora: "¿Por qué el estudio de los ovnis no se considera una ciencia?": </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-studying-UFOs-considered-to-be-a-real-science/answer/Ruben-Lianza?prompt_topic_bio=1">https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-studying-UFOs-considered-to-be-a-real-science/answer/Ruben-Lianza?prompt_topic_bio=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(10) De la obra de Manuel Borraz. Un trabajo ya clásico, brillante como acostumbra, fue su ensayo sobre “meteoros con ventanillas”, que ahora puede leerse aquí:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">No menos modélico es el artículo “Gerald, Michel, Jacques. Los avistamientos de Fort-de-France (1965) en perspectiva”, que también hallamos en Academia.edu:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42774887/Gerald_Michel_Jacques._Los_avistamientos_de_Fort-de-France_1965_en_perspectiva">https://www.academia.edu/42774887/Gerald_Michel_Jacques._Los_avistamientos_de_Fort-de-France_1965_en_perspectiva</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(11) Bólido observado desde el sur de España a las 02,49 horas del 22 de julio de 2020:<a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4334939/0/detectan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-sur-de-espana-a-220-000-km-hora/">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4334939/0/detectan-una-bola-de-fuego-sobrevolando-el-sur-de-espana-a-220-000-km-hora/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(12) Ricardo Campo, doctor en Filosofía y autor de los mejores trabajos sobre casuística ovni en las Islas Canarias, nos aporta dos trabajos recientes: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Bromas útiles”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/43202902/Bromas_%C3%BAtiles">https://www.academia.edu/43202902/Bromas_%C3%BAtiles</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“La luz de Mafasca. Una aproximación crítica a la leyenda majorera”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/43954146/La_luz_de_Mafasca_Una_aproximaci%C3%B3n_cr%C3%ADtica_a_la_leyenda_majorera">https://www.academia.edu/43954146/La_luz_de_Mafasca_Una_aproximaci%C3%B3n_cr%C3%ADtica_a_la_leyenda_majorera</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(13) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga y Manuel Borraz han preparado una documentada entrada de carácter histórico en el blog “Misterios del Aire” relativa al caso número 100 del libro de Jacques Vallée y Chris Aubeck, <i>Wonders in the Sky</i>, donde se expone la observación de un misterioso objeto luminoso que propició la fundación de Teruel (Aragón) en el año 1171. Este suceso marcó el lugar dónde se levantaría la ciudad de Teruel: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Matías Morey escribe: Está disponible para su descarga, en formato PDF, el libro <i>El Condesito. Un viaje al corazón del fenómeno OVNI</i>, de José Miguel Alcíbar Cuello (2001): <a href="https://www.academia.edu/43279776/EL_CONDESITO">https://www.academia.edu/43279776/EL_CONDESITO</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La obra, realizada por un equipo multidisciplinar de estudiosos sevillanos al que pertenecía el autor, fue el resultado del análisis de una serie de casos ocurridos entre 1974-1975 en la localidad de Rociana, provincia de Huelva. En aquella época, el desaparecido investigador D. Manuel Osuna Llorente recogió los primeros datos, entre los que destaca la captación mediante la técnica fotográfica del infrarrojo de una imagen considerada durante más de 20 años un "ser extraterrestre"; que recibió el apelativo de la finca El Condesito, ubicada en el término de Rociana, donde se centraron los hechos investigados. Todo el trabajo permitió además profundizar en la figura y obra de D. Manuel Osuna Llorente, que destacó como pionero en el estudio y recopilación de observaciones entre los años 60 y 70. Para el análisis de las imágenes y otros datos se utilizaron novedosas técnicas que permitieron formular una explicación sólida y se diría que definitiva de este insólito fenómeno. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Esta obra recibió el Premio Zurich 2000 a la investigación, otorgado por la Fundación Anomalía. Libro ya completamente inencontrable, ahora se pone a disposición de todos los interesados que quieran leerlo por primera vez o recuperarlo en formato digital.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La editorial Coliseo Sentosa acaba de publicar (julio de 2020) el tercer volumen de la serie firmada por el abogado chileno Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, con el título específico de “El gran enigma de la imaginación ufológica”. Según el estudioso mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez en una magnífica crítica, “El libro es una fuente casi inagotable de preguntas y sorpresas”:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La obra, que juzgo de lectura obligada para el investigador hispanohablante (¡ojala haya pronto una traducción al inglés!), puede adquirirse a través de este enlace: </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyfh39hz">https://tinyurl.com/yyfh39hz</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Acaba de publicarse (gratis, por Academia.edu) una inmensa recopilación de hechos y figuras relativas al fenómeno ovni, desde la primera referencia conocida hasta hoy, que el destacado bibliógrafo y autor George M. Eberhart ha reunido en 625 páginas, más otras 31 de fuentes y bibliografía. Como señala Eberhart, <i>UFOs and Intelligence</i> es una retrospectiva actualizada de la historia de los ovnis”. Para investigadores es una guía de consulta insuperable. Se puede descargar a través de este enlace: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Más contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Las dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Pentagon Study of UAPs” (El Pentágono anuncia que la Marina de los EE.UU. va a estudiar informes de fenómenos aéreos no identificados).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Same Dogs, Different Necklaces” (Los mismos perros con distintos collares, sobre ciertos vividores del erario público en lo paranormal y ufológico). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“When There Were No UFOs” (Cuando no había ovnis, sobre una foto de 1931).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Queen of UFOs at Wichita, 1956” (La reina de los ovnis en Wichita, 1956).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“UFO Trivia in Images” (Algunas fotos triviales de ovnis hechas por adolescentes estadounidenses entre 1950 y 1966). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Los críos crecen. Mis dos nietos mayores son ahora dos pequeños bomberos aficionados (Fernando, a la izquierda, y Lucas). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Jim Oberg (EE. UU.), Matías Morey Ripoll (España), Mercedes Pullman (España), Kay Coggin (EE. UU.), Marc Hallet (Bélgica), Comodoro Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Milton Hourcade (Uruguay), Igor Kalytiuk (Ucrania), Mikhail Gershtein (Rusia) y Juan Pablo González (España). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Investigación OVNI</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g">https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>UFOs and Government </u>(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)</u> (con M. Borraz)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>· </b>Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>· </b>Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>· </b>Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a steady cadence, the FOTOCAT database increases. Limited until December 31, 2005 (with some exceptions), the catalog owns 12,610 cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) “<u>An Illustrated Review of <i>The Close Encounters Man</i></u>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With this title, I have recently uploaded in the portal of Academia.edu a detailed book review of Mark O’Connell’s biography of J. Allen Hynek:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This book has two particular features: its length and its level of illustration. Additionally, it contains two items which add value, Appendix 1 on a 3D slide of a supposed UFO taken by Dr. Hynek while flying in an airliner at cruise height, and Appendix 2 with the original typewritten text that he sent to me to contribute the foreword to one of my books. It has never been published in English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me humbly submit some comments from early readers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A good read, and very fair minded</i> – Mark O’Connell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I’m impressed as a book review</i> – Barry J. Greenwood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Wonderful</i> – Greg Eghigian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Great article, and much more than a book review</i> – Curt Collins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Beautifully done</i> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Kathleen E. Erickson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Left. J.Allen Hynek & V.J. Ballester Olmos, London, 1979. Photo by Perry Petrakis. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Right. J. Allen Hynek, Oxford Street, London. Photo by V.J. Ballester Olmos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have received a positive and encouraging feedback to this work from many fronts. There is one commendation, however, that I have valued and appreciated in a special way, because of its author’s closeness to the personage:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>An insightful book review. You have restored the portrait of Allen to its rightful proportions, which have been distorted or recently minimized both in print and in the fairly ridiculous «Project Bluebook» series on TV.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacques Vallée</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) In Spanish, an essay concerning the debate on-the-spot case inquiry vs in-house analysis, “OVNIS: ¿Cuál es la Investigación prioritaria hoy?,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy">https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Personal bibliography updated to 2019: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) “An indispensable book yet to be written,” uploaded to Academia from last blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written">https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">UFO SPONSORSHIP: THE CASE OF FUNDACIÓN ANOMALÍA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">V.J. Ballester Olmos & Matías Morey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For years, UFO organizations have come and gone with the alleged purpose of patronizing UFO research. The bare truth is that, seen with a 70-year perspective, this has hardly been true. Someone someday will be entitled to write <i>in extenso</i> about this: who did what at worldwide level. In the meantime, we wish to put on record one of the few cases where a UFO organization was set up with the aim of providing cash grants, prizes, and scholarships to promote real investigation on the so-called UFO phenomenon. This was Fundación Anomalía</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Anomaly Foundation), in Spain, 1996 to 2012. This note is written as a tribute to its accomplishments, most of them unknown at international scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Anomaly Foundation (AF) was legally constituted on July 12, 1996 and was approved by the Ministry of Culture on January 7, 1997. It emerged within the "CdU Group", a loose collective of UFO researchers and several private entities such as the CEI (Barcelona), RNC (Seville), CIOVE (Santander) and GEIFO (Cadiz) that originated around the specialized publication <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, created in 1983 and soon to become an indispensable reference for critical ufology in the Spanish language. It was directed by a Board of Trustees, a collegiate body where different trends and generations of ufologists were represented, with the support of a team of advisors in various areas. It was based in Santander (Cantabria, Spain).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The list of Anomaly Foundation’s first patrons follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chairman: Julio Arcas Gilardi. Vice-Chairman: José Ruesga Montiel. Communication: Ricardo Campo Pérez. Research: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos. Treasurer: Matilde González García. Legal: Matías Morey Ripoll. Member: Luis R. González Manso. M</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ember: Antonio Petit García</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Investing in UFO research</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In accordance with the AF’s legal statutes, the object and purposes of the not-for-profit Anomaly Foundation were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. The promotion of the study of the influence on popular culture of advances in science and technology, of scientific anomalies and of the marvelous, as well as of the social responses they generate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. The preservation and management of archives, bibliography and cultural legacies relating to these subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. The granting of awards and scholarships to support research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. The carrying out of museum activities and the promotion and dissemination of the historical, artistic, and cultural heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Multiple donations from individuals, institutions, and companies allowed to disburse funds devoted to encouraging UFO research. The established FA’s awards were as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Investigation Fund “Ricardo Caruncho”: to reward field work or cabinet analysis on UFO sightings reported in Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Universitas” Scholarship: for carrying out research work related to the UFO phenomenon that will advance new ideas and paths to investigation in scientific areas in connection with UFOs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Zurich” International Prize (financed by Zurich Insurance Co., Spain): awarded to investigation of actual UFO events or to any theoretical contribution, based on strict scientific methodology, which is considered outstanding. A table of awards and announced endowments follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Financial awards were provided from 1996 to 2004. A full amount of 1,675,000 Pts. was disbursed up to 2001, and 4,950 € were spent from 2002 to 2004. It is equivalent to a total of ~2,500,000 Pts., or ~15,000 €, which is a significant sum of money for an amateur group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to the aforementioned grants, FA awarded other prizes (honorific) to highlight the attitude, trajectory, assistance, work quality, constancy, or investigation career of selected ufologists and UFO journals, both national and international. The <u>Cuadernos de Ufología Prize</u>, named for the journal around which the Anomaly Foundation was actually created, rewarded Anomalia, the Portuguese CNIFO magazine, in 1997, Pere Redón, general secretary of CEI (Barcelona) in 1998, Joaquín Abenza’s radio program in 1999, the British journal <i>Magonia</i> en 2000, <i>La Nave de los Locos</i>, Chilean UFO bulletin, in 2001, Craig Roberts of the EJUFOAS in 2002, Italian CISU’s Edoardo Russo in 2003, Luis A. Gámez’s <i>Magonia</i> website in 2004, UK journal <i>Fortean Times</i> in 2005, Mexican researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez in 2006, Marc Moravec of Australia in 2007, and Chris Aubeck in 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <u>Anaparéstesis Prize</u> was awarded from 1998 to 2006 to members of the Foundation, outstanding collaborators, and sponsors. Recipients were Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Julio Arcas Gilardi, Matías Morey Ripoll, Manuel Blanco Gutiérrez, Fernando Calderón López de Arroyabe, R&M Arquitectos Asociados, Francisco Cabrera Delgado (Zurich Insurance Co.), and Antonio Calzada Sáinz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, the </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Génesis Prize</u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> rewarded the continuing labor in favor of the cohesion and operation of the Cuadernos team: Matilde González García, Martí Flò García, Luis R. González Manso, José Luis Ramírez Lagares, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, and José Maria González Infante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Germinal to AF was CdU’s Group, which published <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i> from 1983 to 1997 as a first epoch. Since 1998, the Anomaly Foundation was the source of some impeccable journals. <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was the foremost, regular publication, the carrier of the fleet, very well illustrated, neatly printed, ranging from 100 pages quarterly in late 1990s to 250 pages as yearly volumes from year 2000 to 2010, in 35 issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1992, Monograph #1 was published with Manuel Borraz’s outstanding paper on the June 22, 1976 UFO sighting in the Canary Islands</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and Dr. Willy Smith’s article “From Blue Book to UNICAT Project” (in Spanish). On top of that, 16 issues of companion journal @<i>nomalía</i> were also released from 2000 to 2011, 60 pages each, four on paper and twelve online.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> CdU press also printed four addenda</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and 12 issues of CdU International</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (focused on foreign UFO reports) between 1995 and 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During those years, hundreds of national and internationally-recognized UFO scholars contributed to the Anomaly Foundation’s journals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In conjunction with providing grants and editing UFO journals editing, the Anomaly Foundation was also a dedicated book publisher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even before the AF started, the “CdU Group” published Ignacio Cabria’s <i>Entre ufólogos, creyentes y contactados</i>.<i> Una historia social de los OVNIS en España</i> (1993). This social history of UFOs in Spain, authored by anthropologist Cabria, is available online here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40420679/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados._Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_Espa%C3%B1a" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados_Una_historia_social_de_ovnis_en_España</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Anomaly Foundation, as such, released eight books in a period of twelve years, a good record indeed and a large financial effort:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <i>Diccionario Temático de Ufología</i> (Theme Dictionary of Ufology), edited by Matías Morey Ripoll, in 1997.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">José Miguel Alcíbar Cuello was the author of <i>El Condesito</i>. <i>Un viaje al corazón del fenómeno OVNI</i> (El Condesito. A travel to the heart of the UFO phenomenon), 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also in 2001, a book was issued with two contributions: <i>Transmutaciones</i> (Transmutations), by Martin Kottmeyer, and <i>La mitopoyesis ufológica</i> (Ufological mithopoiesis), an academic thesis by Stefania Genovese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ignacio Cabria García, <i>Ovnis y ciencias humanas. Un estudio temático de la bibliografía, 1947-2000</i> (UFOs and human sciences. A theme study of the bibliography, 1947-2000), 2002,</span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I._Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS.pdf" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I._Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Milton W. Hourcade, <i>OVNIS: La agenda secreta</i> (UFOs: the secret agenda), 2005.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Vida en el universo. Del mito a la ciencia</i> (Life in the universe. From myth to science), Ricardo Campo (ed.), 2008, with 12 authors specializing in fields ranging from biology to astrophysics, from anthropology to philosophy, and from journalism to SETI, <a href="https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3">https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1999 onwards, the Board of Directors experiences some ins and outs. New patrons were Ricardo Campo, Martí Flò and Pedro Ojalvo. After 17 years of activity, financial donations began to fail and previously-generous annual budgets had to be cut. In 2011, the Anomaly Foundation changed to Ikaros Foundation, mostly based on unfunded, household work, yet keeping the objective to preserve historical UFO-related information. It extinguished in 2013. The accumulated library was delivered to the local government’s Biblioteca Central de Cantabria (Central Library of Cantabria) so that those resources continued to be available to the public at large. Concerning the huge amount of collected press and media information, it is presently (2020) in the process of being restored and organized, by a Santander-based local team under the leadership of Ignacio Cabria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seen with the perspective that time provides, the overall balance of AF is quite positive: several original, research books were published, thousands of glossy paper pages were released in a number of specialized journals, some UFO archives were recovered from potential oblivion, quality investigation was encouraged, healthy, sympathetic debate between opposite viewpoints was animated under an inclusive intellectual umbrella, hard work was invested to make visible the field of ufology in cultural and academic realms. In brief, an intense fight was fought to supersede the amateur environment in which until then </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spanish ufologists had moved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Borraz Aymerich, Manuel,</span><br />
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43000371/Los_gigantes_de_G%C3%A1ldar_y_los_avistamientos_canarios" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/43000371/Los_gigantes_de_G%C3%A1ldar_y_los_avistamientos_canarios</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybbmlrbp">https://tinyurl.com/ybbmlrbp</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yam2vkqh">https://tinyurl.com/yam2vkqh</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7trdpha">https://tinyurl.com/y7trdpha</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To Martin Shough, for editing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This article has been uploaded in Academia.edu, with an additional Gallery of photographs of Anomaly Foundation personnel over the years. The formal link is:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Night-Spotted UFO</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently received a press clipping from the New York’s <i>Daily News</i> of October 22, 1966. It reported a long-lasting sighting (over 4 hours) from the town of Patchogue on Long Island early the previous morning. Suffolk County policeman James Tate saw a glowing thing, hovering and rising in the night sky south of the town. “Sometimes, it darted quickly, it gave off a pulsating light and the light changed color from red to white to green,” reporter Henry Machirella wrote. The sighting started at 1:13 a.m. At 2 a.m., <i>News</i> photographer James Mooney was alerted and rushed to the observation point, near the Montauk Library to meet Tate and police officers Enrico Maimoni and Fred Kruger. He would have not bothered with it, but when he saw it “change color and zig-zag in the sky,” he knew they had something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Long duration, night, multicolored and light-changing indicates a star. Yes, <i>Stellarium</i> confirms that Sirius was in sight, South-Southeast (129º), low on the horizon (15º) and bright (-1.45 magnitude). Four hours later, the bright star was at an angular height of 27º, effectively rising. This sighting and others around received a large amount of publicity and was reported to the USAF. Project Blue Book handled the case. BB files contain, among other documents, the standard summary record card, explaining it as a mistaken Sirius, a letter by civilian consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and a field investigation report by William T. Powers, system engineer of the Dearborn Observatory and Hynek’s staff. Hynek’s brief letter indicates that he asked detective Tate to check Sirius at 2 a.m. on October 27. “He reported back‒Hynek writes‒to report that the star Sirius was just about in the same place and looked very much like the object which he reported.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love old cases because they lack the flying saucer influence that has existed since 1947. When Kay Coggin sent me this press clipping, although brief and without any illustration, I liked having the opportunity to study it. In fact, I passed it on to my collaborator Juan Carlos Victorio, who soon gave it a probable solution. Let us review the facts. <i>The Winnipeg Free Press</i>, July 24, 1917 carried a short but intriguing report:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>While the vivid electrical storm was in progress at 1:45 this morning, an observer at St. Norbert telephoned the Free Press to state that he, together with friends, had been watching a strange, globular, red light that hung suspended high in the sky in the east. He made a photographic exposure in an attempt to get a permanent record of the phenomenon. After remaining without moving for ten minutes or so, the odd light disappeared. The body was so bright, he says, that it remained visible even during the lightning flashes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sky panorama that dawn was showing planet Jupiter at its maximum luminosity (magnitude -2.15) at the East-Northeast (azimuth of 67º), but only 8º angular altitude and rising (by “high in the sky”, did he just mean distant?) For ten minutes of observation, yes, a planet seems suspended and unmoving. That it was not seen for longer may be explained by local clouds obscuring the vision further. This stands as a (more than) probable identification.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On April 27</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the Department of Defense of the United States published an official “Statement on the Release of Historical Navy Videos.” It referred to three video clips of alleged UAP infrared airborne recordings that occurred off the California coast (“Flir,” November 14, 2004) and off the Florida coast (“Gimbal” and “Go Fast,” January 21, 2015), during military exercises of the US Navy. It included a link where everybody can download the original videos, one of these having been in circulation since 2007 (if not before) and the three of them aired in an unauthorized way since 2017. Then, why this, now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically, to officially authorize the release of the never-classified videos and to provide official sources where every interested citizen could have access to them in a safe, unmanipulated form. Videos that, since 2017, have been used and abused by the To the Stars Academy enterprise, a mercantile, unscientific company which has been using the videos for self-promotion and business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The communiqué says that the official release “does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.” Obvious. It is the duty of any Defense administration to take care of its air space. Also, regarding whether or not there is more to the videos, it simply reports: “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as "unidentified”,” which in my interpretation means these have not been subjected to an in-depth, scientific scrutiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because it they had been, the Navy would have come across the same conclusions other analysts have reached, like Mick West, for example: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is, the screen images represent two airplanes and one balloon, respectively. If you wish more details, here you have additional references: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-new-navy-ufo-videos.11234/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-new-navy-ufo-videos.11234/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this context, it seems suitable to bring here Joe Nickel’s reference “Navy Pilot’s 2004 UFO: A Comedy of Errors,” <a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/05/navy-pilots-2004-ufo-a-comedy-of-errors/">https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/05/navy-pilots-2004-ufo-a-comedy-of-errors/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On February 5, 2009, the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics of Chile sent to ufologists Alfredo and Fernando Nilo a 122-page report with 20 UFO sightings by pilots and air traffic controllers, that occurred between 1984 and 2007, collected by the Chilean air authorities. This report has remained unpublished until today. While preparing a new paper on UFO declassification worldwide, I have had the opportunity to communicate with the Nilo brothers who have kindly sent me this report, which I have immediately uploaded to the internet for the knowledge and study of interested researchers. The document is available at the following link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>More on AATIC, the Pentagon UFO Study & the Skinwalker Ranch</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two documented posts, “The Pentagon UFO Program’s Secret Partner,” a blog entry released on March 17, 2020 by Roger Glassel and Curt Collins, providing factual insights on this convoluted issue, lacking due transparency:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/the-pentagon-ufo-programs-secret-partner.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/the-pentagon-ufo-programs-secret-partner.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And its follow-up: “Breaking the Silence: AATIP's Secret Partner Speaks,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/breaking-silence-aatips-secret-partner.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/breaking-silence-aatips-secret-partner.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Complemented by two other significant articles: “The Pentagon UFO Money Trail. From Skinwalker Ranch to Bigelow Studies,” by Curt Collins and Roger Glassel (with research assistance from Keith Basterfield and Marc Cecotti),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-ufo-money-trail.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-ufo-money-trail.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And “The Pentagon-funded Paranormal Research at Skinwalker Ranch,” by Curt Collins,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-funded-paranormal-research.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-funded-paranormal-research.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another good source for related information is, as usual, John Greenewald of the Black Vault project. It has just provided documented, first-hand information on UFO political issues. Read “The Pentagon Corrects Record on ‘Secret UFO Program’,” here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-pentagon-corrects-record-on-secret-ufo-program/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-pentagon-corrects-record-on-secret-ufo-program/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other pertinent, clarifying, informative articles are found in these outlets:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack Brewer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-years-after-aatip-story-many.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-years-after-aatip-story-many.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mick West, <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/identified-art-bells-ufo-aluminum-louvered-sheets-heat-exchanger-fins.11012/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/identified-art-bells-ufo-aluminum-louvered-sheets-heat-exchanger-fins.11012/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason Colavito, <a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch-s01e01">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch-s01e01</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Carrion, <a href="https://historydeceived.blogspot.com/2020/02/wag-ufo.html">https://historydeceived.blogspot.com/2020/02/wag-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Sheaffer, <a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2020/04/microwaves-dead-cows-and-light-pillars.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2020/04/microwaves-dead-cows-and-light-pillars.html</a> and <a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/claims-about-pentagon-ufo-program-how-much-is-true">https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/claims-about-pentagon-ufo-program-how-much-is-true</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1972, Dr. J. Allen Hynek published his first book on UFOs, titled “The UFO Experience.” In it he presented what he felt was a scientific case for the importance of UFO research, himself having advised the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations for 21 years. One oddity in the book stood out in the section of photographic plates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hynek had reproduced two photographs of what appears to be a “UFO.” There is little said of the images except for the caption</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a strangely cryptic remark but was quickly interpreted to mean that Hynek himself took the photos. Why other details were left void is not clear, particularly coming from the former Air Force advisor to Project Blue Book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now fast-forward to March 2020. For the last three years, I have traveled to Chicago at the home of Mary Castner in an effort to scan the holdings of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Mary had hosted the bulk of case work and other Center documents for about ten years after CUFOS found it necessary to close their office in Chicago, Il. Due to a forthcoming relocation, she had to have the files moved out to another location in Chicago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of her housecleaning, she had periodically passed along to me parts of her own collection (which sometimes inadvertently contained CUFOS material) she no longer needed. One box, sent in March 2020, contained an assortment of slide boxes and cassette tapes. When the slide boxes were checked, it was quickly evident they weren’t normal slides. Each one was elongated with two images on each. These were slides made with a stereoscopic camera. There was vague identifying information on each slide (later identified as Hynek’s handwriting by Mark Rodeghier of CUFOS) that wasn’t always very helpful. They appeared to be pictures of UFO sighting locations, group pictures taken at conferences, or individual people known in UFO circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn’t clear from the labeling who had been the owner of these slides, only that they were from CUFOS and hadn’t been widely mentioned by anyone as existing for many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in June 2017, a new book on Hynek’s life was released by Mark O’Connell</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. This year my friend, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos wrote an extensive review of O’Connell’s tome based upon his many years of knowing and working with Hynek</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. One thing that caught my eye was a discussion of Hynek’s mysterious airliner photos from his 1972 book in Appendix 1 of the review. Ballester Olmos said he contacted John Timmerman of CUFOS some years back and asked about the details of these pictures. Timmerman said, “Allen never revealed the date or location of this photograph, </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">taken with a binocular camera</u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (underlining added).” Instantly, it was obvious that the boxes of stereoscopic slides Mary had sent were Hynek’s own slides. The subject matter of the slides was rather too insider to have been taken by anyone, for example:</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Right. Former Blue Book head, Hector Quintanilla and son Ross, 1964.</span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LVGS7dzdIDg/XttiT8zkjLI/AAAAAAAACTs/SI0YCWXWh5QIsjThjLqovOwhG5ytqqPywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/mexican%2Bcopia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1600" height="162" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LVGS7dzdIDg/XttiT8zkjLI/AAAAAAAACTs/SI0YCWXWh5QIsjThjLqovOwhG5ytqqPywCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/mexican%2Bcopia.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drury was a witness to a UFO incident in 1953 when he exposed movie footage of a streaking object that made headlines in Australia. The full footage has never been found but extracted frames remain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I could see the subject matter in the tiny frames of the stereo slides, I didn’t have a viewer or projector to enlarge them. Some years back I had obtained a slide scanner for 8mm film, negatives and 35mm slides. It had no adapter for stereo images but in looking at it there was nothing to say I couldn’t insert the stereo slides without an adapter. One just had to be careful inserting them so as not to damage the images. There were 73 slides, meaning I have to create a scan of 146 images, each of which had a slightly different image of the same scene. To my surprise, the images scanned quite well as you can see in the samples here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the famous airliner UFO slide was not included in these boxes. There is a good but peculiar reason for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I checked Hynek’s airliner images in his book, it seemed that at first glance, and with the hindsight of knowing the object was photographed with a stereo camera, the two photos were too different to be good stereo. A “shadow” in one image was completely absent in the next. With a camera having lenses 2-3 inches apart, at least part of that shadow should have shown in both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his O’Connell book review, Ballester Olmos mentioned having consulted Jacques Vallee’s first volume of diary entries for a mention of the photos.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Vallee did not have, nor knew the location of the photos. John Timmerman said he only had an 11X14 color print that was used for a later Hynek book.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It was time to contact Jacques Vallee. On May 23, 2020, I sent an inquiry asking how the airliner photos became known to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The two frame pairs you mention have to do with an incident that Allen quoted briefly in <u>UFO Experience</u> where he reproduced them on page 52. The actual story is that he took two stereo exposures of the object, entrusted the development to KODAK in Evanston, and only received <u>one slide from each pair</u> from the shop.They said they sent out such special items to KODAK itself, so they had no idea why one view from each pair was gone.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>As a result, he could not determine distance or size for the target, hence the rather short description in the book of two photographs he could "absolutely vouch for."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>We had many discussions among us (with Fred Beckman) about this even and what it meant, as you can imagine... The relationship between KODAK and Air Force Intelligence at the time was a little-known fact.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hadn’t heard (nor had Mark Rodeghier of CUFOS) of the fact that the stereo images of Hynek’s <u>two</u> photographs of the UFO had vanished after being sent to Kodak and returned as two single images. This explains the difference in the pair of images in <i>The UFO Experience</i>. It also injects a layer of strangeness into the story. There are 73 stereo slides in these three boxes taken between 1962 and 1982 which were processed as stereo. Then, for no apparent reason, two exposures of Hynek’s UFO were the subject of tampering and nothing from Kodak as to why. It seemed pointless after the fact because even if the images came back as the proper stereo slides, the lack of other identifying data forgotten by Hynek severely limited their use as evidence. But it still would have been interesting to see them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I contacted Hynek’s son, Paul, to see if any of this could be explained. He in turn copied my inquiry to his brother, Joel.6 They explained that their dad took “thousands” of stereoscopic slides since 1954, presumably the Hynek family’s participation in the 3-D craze of the early 1950s. Joel said his dad loved doing this and was able to get good quality without using a light meter. But as is common, a good bit of archival news is sometimes paired with a bad bit of archival news. Virtually all the slides were destroyed at Joel’s house in the Los Angeles area due to the Woolsey wildfire of November 2018. Some single images and stereo pairs were digitized prior to their destruction and do survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At any rate, I have created an index of all the stereo images with markings on the slides, slide numbers and a best guess as to content since the descriptions on the slides are less than adequate. The slide numbers stamped on each slide tended to jump around and not be in the same sequence. With the loss of so many of Hynek’s slides, it is unlikely this will be remedied. I’m sure some of these existing images will be identified through more scrutiny by those familiar with the subjects that were photographed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.magiceye.com/faq-items/help-how-do-i-see-in-3d/">https://www.magiceye.com/faq-items/help-how-do-i-see-in-3d/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Mark Rodeghier and the Center for UFO Studies, Jacques Vallee, Mary Castner, Paul and Joel Hynek and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos for assistance in the production of this report.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Hynek, J. Allen, <i>The UFO Experience</i>, Henry Regnery, 1972, Figures 9 and 10 facing page 53.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) O’Connell, Mark, <i>The Close Encounters Man</i>, Dey Street Books, 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Ballester Olmos, V.J.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42856955/Book_Review_of_The_Close_Encounters_Man">https://www.academia.edu/42856955/Book_Review_of_The_Close_Encounters_Man</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Vallee, Jacques, <i>Forbidden Science: Journals</i> 1957-1969, North Atlantic Books, 1992, page 410.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Hynek, J. Allen & Jacques Vallee, <i>The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects</i>, Henry Regnery, 1976.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) E-mails, Paul and Joel Hynek, May 29, 30, 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This article has been uploaded to Academia.edu with an appendix containing the list of every 3D slide from Hynek’s collection:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/43271216/Lost_Films_Found._Allen_Hyneks_3-D_Photos">https://www.academia.edu/43271216/Lost_Films_Found._Allen_Hyneks_3-D_Photos</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) <i>Pensar</i> (Think) is a new Latin-American journal, the best antidote against pseudoscience and false beliefs : <a href="https://pensar.org/">https://pensar.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Impressive fireballs over Spain on March 7 and 22, 2020 at 20:33 and 23:01 hours, respectively:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-enorme-bola-de-fuego-atraviesa-el-cielo-de-andalucia-YN6438010">https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-enorme-bola-de-fuego-atraviesa-el-cielo-de-andalucia-YN6438010</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-espectacular-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-sevilla-huelva-y-badajoz-NY6515942">https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-espectacular-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-sevilla-huelva-y-badajoz-NY6515942</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) The joint book from Ballester Olmos & Van Utrecht, <u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> has received a very favorable review from iconic Swedish UFO researcher Clas Svahn in the issue of September 2019 of <i>UFO Aktuellt</i> (Vol.4, No.4). Svahn has written:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The images found in this book are thus taken with older analog cameras that used film. And the main part of them also find their explanation in this most of the time pedagogical approach where the reader is presented with all the important information that the authors used to reach their conclusions. For anyone who is trying to find explanations for pictures that are captured by the public, the book is a gold mine and a piece of fascinating reading.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our book was released online two years ago through Academia.edu in order to facilitate free reading to the community of investigators and students. To date, it has received close to 3,000 views. This is the access link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For lovers of books in classical paper format, bibliographers, librarians, and others, UPIAR publisher has the version you wish:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) “Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience,” a paper published in Cortex, Volume 44, Issue 10, November–December 2008, pages 1387-1395, by Christopher C. French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox, and Michael A.Thalbourne, at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2007.11.011">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2007.11.011</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Previous research has shown that people reporting contact with aliens, known as “experiencers”, appear to have a different psychological profile compared to control participants. They show higher levels of dissociativity, absorption, paranormal belief, and experience, and possibly fantasy proneness. They also appear to show greater susceptibility to false memories as assessed using the Deese/Roediger–McDermott technique. The present study reports an attempt to replicate these previous findings as well as assessing tendency to hallucinate and self-reported incidence of sleep paralysis in a sample of 19 UK-based experiencers and a control sample matched on age and gender. Experiencers were found to show higher levels of dissociativity, absorption, paranormal belief, paranormal experience, self-reported psychic ability, fantasy proneness, tendency to hallucinate, and self-reported incidence of sleep paralysis. No significant differences were found between the groups in terms of susceptibility to false memories. Implications of the results are discussed, and suggestions are made for future avenues of research.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) James Oberg reports on the 17</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> flight of KYSST (Kasputin Yar to Sary Shagan Topol) missile, a defense-dodging warhead test in Russia on November 28, 2019, with unique, astounding visual effects:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) In November of 2015, I published in the official GEIPAN site an international bibliography of works devoted to the phenomenon of “waves”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then, I have collected 14 new published items, the latest of them being this paper by Canadian researcher Marc Leduc, “Vague d’ovnis, une notion impressionniste? (UFO waves, an impressionistic notion?), that can be read here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38464728/Vague_d_ovnis_une_notion_impressionniste_">https://www.academia.edu/38464728/Vague_d_ovnis_une_notion_impressionniste_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Consistent correlations were made using UFO sightings reports, experimental groups and reporting control groups using a selective rating. The ones presented here are about the hours of the day, the days of the week, the months of the year, and the so-called “UFO wave” years. Although this notion is widely conveyed in specialized literature and among amateurs, it seems to be impressionist, a conjecture without firm evidence. In addition, we correlated the reports with books publications (frequencies) on the subject, in English and French. Our research links the notion of UFO-wave to a characteristic of the observers’ population more than to the phenomenon described itself.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Collections of organized UFO material are always meaningful for the investigator. <u>Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships</u> is one such censuses. Compiled by Antonio F. Rullán, it can be found here: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/navy/bbpdf.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/navy/bbpdf.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Jorge Soto Roland, professor of History, a graduate of the Faculty of Humanities, National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, and author of many papers on contemporary folklore, writes now (in Spanish) on the Flatwoods monster and on cryptozoology:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Latest UFO photographs and videos taken in Chile, probed by investigator Marcelo Moya:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/03/ovnis-cruzan-la-zona-de-central-de-chile.html">https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/03/ovnis-cruzan-la-zona-de-central-de-chile.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) An important paper to read: “Report on Aerial Phenomena Observed near Hessdalen on September 20, 2007: An alternative Hypothesis is proposed,” by Christophe Spitzer Isbert and Gilles Fernandez, Ph. D.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) James Oberg’s “Rocket-Spotting Around the World,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/2019/01/introduction.html">https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/2019/01/introduction.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) Did Ray Palmer invent the flying saucers? The 2017 article by Mark Seifert “Roswell, The Beginnings Of The UFO Craze And What It Has To Do With DC Comics,” is not to be missed:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bleedingcool.com/bc-network/recent-updates/roswell-ufo-craze-dc-comics/">https://bleedingcool.com/bc-network/recent-updates/roswell-ufo-craze-dc-comics/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Chemtrails, another modern myth, fortunately one where it is easier doing pedagogy than with UFOs because, among other things, in this field there is a criterion of authority:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/quantifying-expert-consensus-against-covert-geoengineering-chemtrails.7824/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/quantifying-expert-consensus-against-covert-geoengineering-chemtrails.7824/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) SpaceX’s <i>Starlink</i> Satellites and How to Find Them. In order to check the visibility of the <i>Starlink</i> constellation of satellites from anywhere on the planet, go to: <a href="https://findstarlink.com/">https://findstarlink.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) The upper stage from the Russian <i>Soyuz</i> rocket that boosted the Progress MS-14 cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the ISS on April 25, 2020, decayed over northwestern Spain, at 6:45 L (4:45 UT) on April 28</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It was nicely video-recorded:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-reentry-of-soyuz-rb-2020-026b-over.html">https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-reentry-of-soyuz-rb-2020-026b-over.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(16) The extraordinary alien encounter of José C. Higgins, July 23, 1947 in Brazil, explored by J.C. Victorio Uranga (in Spanish):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/04/el-extraordinario-encuentro-de-jose-c.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/04/el-extraordinario-encuentro-de-jose-c.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(17) Jack Brewer on UFO charlatanism and malpractice: “Normalizing the Fantastic and Resisting the Rational,” <a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2020/05/normalizing-fantastic-and-resisting.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2020/05/normalizing-fantastic-and-resisting.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(18) The 1908 Tunguska explosion over the Russian Taiga has been solved. See the paper “On the possibility of through passage of asteroid bodies across the Earth’s atmosphere,” by Daniil E. Khrennikov et al, <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, Volume 493, Issue 1, March 2020, pages 1344–1351,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We have studied the conditions of through passage of asteroids with diameters 200, 100, and 50 m, consisting of three types of materials – iron, stone, and water ice, across the Earth’s atmosphere with a minimum trajectory altitude in the range 10–15 km. The conditions of this passage with a subsequent exit into outer space with the preservation of a substantial fraction of the initial mass have been found. The results obtained support our idea explaining one of the long-standing problems of astronomy – the Tunguska phenomenon, which has not received reasonable and comprehensive interpretations to date. We argue that the Tunguska event was caused by an iron asteroid body, which passed through the Earth’s atmosphere and continued to the near-solar orbit.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Flying Saucers in the Sky</u> is the latest book written by the painstaking, long-time Italian UFO researcher Maurizio Verga. I have found an extremely positive review ‒certainly deserved‒by veteran British colleague Jenny Randles in <i>Magonia Magazine</i> (<a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/03/in-beginning.html">https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/03/in-beginning.html</a>) and I am reproducing it here in its entirety. Thanks to John Rimmer and Jenny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maurizio Verga. Flying Saucers In The Sky: 1947: <i>When UFOs Came From Mars.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every now and then a UFO book arrives where you just have to go Wow! This is most assuredly one of them. Maurizio Verga is a UFO researcher of great repute from Italy, who deserves wider recognition globally than the language barrier tends to allow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This remarkable work will change that and deservedly so. It is a culmination of his four decades in the field and lengthy research. Non-Italian readers need not worry, as this book is not parochial, nor hard to read as the English text flows easily. It is not a small book and is crammed with illustrations – from reproduced newspaper articles to sketches and cartoon strips. It is a tour de force on one year in UFO history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That year –1947– is, of course, seminal. It was the time when the TERM flying saucer was created by a journalist misinterpreting the words of private pilot Kenneth Arnold after he saw a formation of strange 'craft' crossing the Cascade Mountains of north western USA on 24 June. A date that UFO enthusiasts still regard as the anniversary of the subject. Indeed, in 1997, for the 50th anniversary, ITV networked across the UK a live 90-minute special of TV series Strange But True? Revealing just how important that year was considered historically. Five decades on several million viewers were still fascinated by what 1947 kick-started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, whilst, of course, the Arnold case gets a thorough dissection here, 1947 was so much more than one event. It featured other legendary incidents such as the alleged Roswell, New Mexico, 'crash' with alien occupants. this famous saga is an incident that has ALSO spawned a popular TV drama series loosely extrapolating forward. Very loosely you might think, Though when you see what happened back in the day, less so!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The real strength of this labor of love is not just the phenomenal research into the background of well-known events, but the other incidents that presaged and followed them. For 1947 began in January with RAF encounters over the North Sea in a time when 'saucers' did not yet even exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is not until page 93 before we get to the supposed starting point of the Arnold sighting. Verga sets out the context of why society then was primed to 'discover' or 'invent' or 'misperceive' an invasion from beyond, with a cogent assessment from the 1897 phantom airships, via science fiction stories and other events that tilled the ground to be planted with saucer stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From there on the book has multiple sections devoted to the key moments, influential people who were early players in the nascent UFO community and a useful time-line of first events or mentions that resonate with cases many modern readers will likely associate with more recent times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Throughout the text the book is just stuffed full of the raw accounts, articles and images reproduced from the time. These help show how and why thought processes developed and the movers and shakers who by accident or design set in train the things we take for granted today and shows that did not spring up out of nowhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How and why these things came about matters now as much as it did back then. But thanks to this well told account of what occurred we can perhaps see more lucidly than many did in those distant post war days. The strength of a book like this is in not skimping on presenting the raw data. You can use it to test your own ideas and theories. It is treasure trove of historical evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Considering the self-produced nature of this book – with Amazon's help ensuring it does not look like some amateur UFO magazine by youthful enthusiasts – this is well presented and easy to follow. The larger format helps make it look and feel weighty and easier to read the newspaper small print reproduced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This book has a moment that matches the substance it reveals. Yet it is not overpriced as many books are these days. If you have any interest in how the UFO mystery began and the twists and turns of how society viewed it and newspapers across America and the world interpreted this new quirky phenomenon – then don't hesitate to buy it, you will not be disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is quite possibly the most important UFO book of the 21st century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Cinquante ans d'ufologie civile au Québec (1966-2016), Historiographie et bibliographie</u>, by Yann Vadnais, (GARPAN, 2016). The 123-page book "Fifty years of civil ufology in Quebec (1966-2016), Historiography and bibliography" is the only study of its kind concerning ufology in Quebec, which makes it a valuable guide to bibliographic and historical references for investigators and researchers, amateurs and the general public:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yann Vadnais (1981, B.A. in Ancient Studies) is a ufologist from Quebec (Canada) since 2009, the founder and director of the Groupe d’assistance et the recherche sur les phénomènes aérospatiux non Identifiés (GARPAN, 2012), one of the most active UFO groups in Canada. He represents the new generation of serious UFO researchers, well-trained and hard-working, with remarkable capacity for coordination and leadership, for example, the organization of the 2nd academic symposium on ufology in Canada, in 2018: <a href="https://congres.garpan.ca/">https://congres.garpan.ca/</a> The methodology he follows to face the subject and the reported events clearly distances him from old, obsolete approaches: taking of testimony, field investigation, ethics with witnesses, psychological assistance, descriptive analysis, linguistic analysis, psychoanalysis, phenomenological description, video and photo analysis, validation of meteorological, geological and astronomical data, calculation of apparent dimensions and speeds, geospatial reconstruction , typological and spatiotemporal comparisons, archiving, statistical computation, and writing of annual reports. Yann’s main interests are the analysis, criticism, and deconstruction of the ufological tradition, translation, and the study of Canadian ufologists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yann has edited other books confined to UFO phenomena in Canada. Of special interest is the 120-page monograph, <u>Illustrated Catalog of Physical Trace Cases (CE2) in Canada, 200 Cases from 1880 to 2015</u>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably the most influential 17 books on the subject of ancient astronauts are on sale as a single set: <a href="https://app.box.com/s/47pzionvonf7mrtemrckfsd79ngevuc3">https://app.box.com/s/47pzionvonf7mrtemrckfsd79ngevuc3</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice your Spanish by reading some articles or entries not translated into English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Manuel Borraz’s clever book review of the latest volume written by Ricardo Campo, Ph.D., on the (in)famous, multitudinous UFO sighting from the Canary Islands of March 5, 1979. The book is almost as grandiose (371 pages) as the event it documents “to death” both figuratively and in reality. You can purchase it through Ediciones Idea:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libreriacanaima.com/libro/el-ovni-de-canarias_574773">https://www.libreriacanaima.com/libro/el-ovni-de-canarias_574773</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Ramón Álvarez (Spain), Joan Plana (Spain), Alejandro Borgo (Argentina), Enrique Márquez (Argentina), James Oberg (USA), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Spain), Kay Coggin (USA), Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Matías Morey Ripoll (Spain), and Roberto Labanti (Italy).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u> (Unusual Files)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g">https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>·</b> Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>·</b> Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>·</b> Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En una cadencia constante, la base de datos FOTOCAT aumenta. Limitado hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2005 (con algunas excepciones), el catálogo posee ya 12,610 casos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) <u>El Hombre de los Encuentros Cercanos. Reseña Ilustrada de la Primera Biografía de J. A. Hynek</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He escrito y subido al portal Academia una minuciosa crítica literaria del libro <i>The Close Encounters Man</i>, de Mark O’Connell, la biografía del Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Gracias al entusiasmo del periodista, autor e investigador argentino Alejandro Agostinelli, y con la colaboración inestimable del antropólogo español Ignacio Cabria en la traducción del texto original en inglés, este trabajo se acerca al público y a los estudiosos de habla hispana:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/">https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta reseña tiene dos características particulares: su amplitud y detalle y el número de sus ilustraciones. Además, contiene dos elementos que agregan valor, un primer apéndice sobre una diapositiva 3D de un presunto ovni tomada por el Dr. Hynek mientras volaba en un avión a altura del crucero, y (en la versión en inglés) un segundo apéndice con el texto mecanografiado original que me envió como prólogo a mi libro <i>Investigación OVNI</i>, el cual nunca antes se había publicado en inglés.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Déjenme que humildemente consigne algunos comentarios de sus primeros lectores:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Una buena y muy imparcial lectura</i> - Mark O’Connell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Estoy impresionado como crítica de un libro</i> - Barry J. Greenwood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Realmente has invertido tiempo y esfuerzo en esa reseña. Un trabajo impresionante</i> - Clas Svahn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Espléndido</i> – Greg Eghigian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Un gran artículo, mucho más que la reseña de un libro</i> - Curt Collins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Muy bien hecho</i> – Kathleen E. Erickson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Derecha. J. Allen Hynek, Oxford Street, Londres. Foto de V.J. Ballester Olmos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He recibido muchos comentarios positivos y estimulantes sobre este ensayo. Sin embargo, tengo que admitir que hay uno que valoro y aprecio de manera singular, porque proviene de alguien muy cercano al personaje glosado:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Una perspicaz reseña. Has restaurado el retrato de Allen a sus correctas proporciones, que se han distorsionado o minimizado recientemente tanto en forma impresa como en la ridícula serie «Proyecto Bluebook» en la televisión.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacques Vallée</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Mi bibliografía personal actualizada a 2019: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Acerca de un libro indispensable que necesita escribirse (texto en inglés):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written">https://www.academia.edu/42220531/An_indispensable_book_yet_to_be_written</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MECENAZGO OVNI: LA FUNDACIÓN ANOMALÍA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">V.J. Juan Ballester Olmos & Matías Morey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Introducción</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Durante muchos años, las organizaciones dedicadas a estudiar los OVNIS han ido y venido con el supuesto propósito de patrocinar la investigación del fenómeno. La verdad es que, visto con una perspectiva de 70 años, esto apenas se ha cumplido. Alguien algún día tendrá que escribir <i>in extenso</i> sobre esto: quién hizo qué a nivel mundial. Mientras tanto, queremos dejar constancia de uno de los pocos casos en los que se creó una organización OVNI con el objetivo concreto de estimular una auténtica investigación OVNI, a base de proporcionar subvenciones en efectivo, premios y becas. Se trata de la Fundación Anomalía, en España, entre 1996 y 2012. Hemos redactado esta nota como homenaje a sus logros, la mayoría de ellos desconocidos a escala internacional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fundación Anomalía: cuando y para qué</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La Fundación Anomalía (FA) se constituyó legalmente el 12 de julio de 1996 y fue aprobada por el Ministerio de Cultura el 7 de enero de 1997. Surgió en el seno del “Colectivo Cuadernos”, un grupo investigadores del fenómeno ovni y de varias entidades privadas como el CEI (Barcelona), RNC (Sevilla), CIOVE (Santander) y GEIFO (Cádiz). Tuvo su origen en la publicación especializada <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, creada en 1983 y que pronto se convertiría en referente insoslayable para la ufología crítica en lengua española. Estaba dirigida por un Patronato, órgano colegiado donde estaban representadas diferentes tendencias y generaciones de ufólogos, con el apoyo de un equipo de asesores en diversas áreas. Tuvo su sede en Santander (Cantabria, España).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Presidente: Julio Arcas Gilardi, Vicepresidente: José Ruesga Montiel. Prensa : Ricardo Campo Pérez. Investigación: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos. Tesorería: Matilde González García. Legal: Matías Morey Ripoll. Vocal: Luis R. González Manso. Vocal: Antonio Petit García</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De acuerdo con el artículo 5º de sus Estatutos, el objeto y las finalidades de la Fundación eran las siguientes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. La promoción del estudio de la influencia en la cultura popular de los avances de la ciencia y la tecnología, de las anomalías científicas y de lo maravilloso, así como de las respuestas sociales que generan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. La preservación y gestión de archivos, bibliografía y legados culturales relativos a estas materias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. La divulgación de su labor mediante sus órganos de difusión y por cualquier otro medio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. La concesión de becas de ayuda a la investigación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. La realización de actividades museísticas y el fomento y difusión del patrimonio histórico-artístico y cultural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Múltiples donaciones de particulares, instituciones y empresas permitieron reunir fondos dedicados a estimular la realización de investigación OVNI. La Fundación Anomalía creó las siguientes modalidades de financiación:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fondo de Investigación “Ricardo Caruncho”: se trataba de financiar el trabajo de campo y la investigación analítica a distancia (de gabinete) sobre casos de avistamientos ovni denunciados en España.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beca “Universitas”: para el desarrollo de trabajos de Investigación ufológica en el ámbito universitario desde la perspectiva de cualquiera de las ciencias naturales o sociales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Premio Internacional “Zurich” (patrocinado por Zurich Seguros, Barcelona): dedicado a una investigación de sucesos OVNI o a una aportación teórica, basada en una estricta metodología científica, que se considere sobresaliente.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La siguiente tabla presenta los premios y sus dotaciones:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La FA dotó premios económicos entre 1996 y 2004. Hasta 2001, se gastó la cantidad de 1.675.000 Pts. y entre 2002 y 2004 se gastaron 4.950 €. Ello suma ~2.500.000 Pts., o ~15.000 €, cifras significativas para una entidad de corte </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">amateur</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Además de los premios arriba citados, la Fundación Anomalía concedió varios galardones honoríficos para destacar la actitud, trayectoria, colaboración, calidad de su trabajo, constancia o carrera investigadora de selectos estudiosos o revistas especializadas, nacionales y extranjeras. Así, el </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Premio Cuadernos de Ufología</u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, llamado así por la publicación alrededor de la que se creó la FA, distinguió en 1997 a </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Anomalia</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, la revista del CNIFO portugués, a Pere Redón, secretario general del CEI (Barcelona) en 1998, al programa de radio de Joaquín Abenza en 1999, a la publicación británica </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Magonia</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> en 2000, a La Nave de los Locos, destacado boletín chileno en 2001, a Craig Roberts, de EJUFOAS, en 2002, a Edoardo Russo del CISU italiano en 2003, a la web </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Magonia</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> de Luis A. Gámez en 2004, a </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortean</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Times (Inglaterra) en 2005, al investigador mexicano Luis Ruiz Noguez en 2006, al estudioso australiano Marc Moravec en 2007, y a Chris Aubeck en 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El <u>Premio Anaparéstesis</u> se entregó desde 1998 a 2006 a los miembros destacados de la Fundación Anomalía, a distinguidos colaboradores y a patrocinadores. Receptores fueron Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Julio Arcas Gilardi, Matías Morey Ripoll, Manuel Blanco Gutiérrez, Fernando Calderón López de Arroyabe, R&M Arquitectos Asociados, Francisco Cabrera Delgado (Zurich Seguros) y Antonio Calzada Sáinz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por último, el <u>Premio Génesis</u> reconoció la labor continuada en favor de la cohesión y operatividad del Colectivo Cuadernos: Matilde González García, Martí Flò García, Luis R. González Manso, José Luis Ramírez Lagares, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga y José Maria González Infante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Revistas OVNI de la Fundación Anomalía</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El germen de la FA fue el Colectivo CdU, que publicó Cuadernos de Ufología de 1983 a 1997 en su primera época. A partir de 1998, la Fundación Anomalía editó algunas revistas impecables. <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fue la principal publicación periódica, el portaaviones de la flota, magníficamente bien ilustrada, con una impresión de calidad que incluía de 100 páginas trimestralmente a finales de los años noventa, a 250 páginas en sus volúmenes anuales entre los años 2000 a 2010, confeccionando un total de 35 números memorables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En 1992, se publicó la Monografía #1, con un extraordinario trabajo de Manuel Borraz sobre el avistamiento del 22 de junio de 1976 desde las islas Canarias</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, y el artículo del Dr. Willy Smith “Del Blue Book al Proyecto UNICAT”. Además, 16 números del boletín complementario @<i>nomalía</i> vieron la luz de 2000 a 2011, con 60 páginas cada una, cuatro en papel y doce <i>online</i>.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> La editorial CdU sacó también cuatro addenda</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5 </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y 12 ediciones del <i>CdU International</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6 </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(enfocado a casos OVNI del extranjero) entre los años 1995 y 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Durante aquellos años, cientos de especialistas, españoles y foráneos, de reconocido prestigio, llenaron las páginas de las publicaciones de la Fundación Anomalía.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Además de la concesión de subvenciones y la edición de revistas sobre el tema OVNI, Fundación Anomalía resaltó como editorial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Incluso antes de que existiera la FA, el Colectivo CdU publicó <i>Entre ufólogos, creyentes y contactados</i>. <i>Una historia social de los OVNIS en España</i> (1993), escrito por el antropólogo Ignacio Cabria, libro actualmente disponible en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40420679/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados._Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_Espa%C3%B1a" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados_Una_historia_social_de_ovnis_en_España</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como tal, la Fundación Anomalía editó los siguientes ocho libros en un periodo de doce años, mostrando un excelente registro y un destacado esfuerzo financiero:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Diccionario Temático de Ufología</i>, obra coordinada por Matías Morey Ripoll en 1997.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El expediente Manises</i>, de Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, 2000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">José Miguel Alcíbar Cuello fue el autor de <i>El Condesito. Un viaje al corazón del fenómeno OVNI</i>, 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">También en 2001, salió un volumen compartido por dos notables trabajos: Transmutaciones, de Martin Kottmeyer, y <i>La mitopoyesis ufológica</i>, una tesis académica fruto de Stefania Genovese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ignacio Cabria García, <i>Ovnis y ciencias humanas. Un estudio temático de la bibliografía, 1947-2000</i>, 2002,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I._Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/37558932/I._Cabria_OVNIS_Y_CIENCIAS_HUMANAS.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Humanoides en Conil</i>. Estudio sobre un encuentro polémico, de la autoría de Ángel Carretero Olmedo, publicado en 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Milton W. Hourcade, OVNIS: La agenda secreta, 2005.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El último libro de la fértil aunque corta historia editorial de la Fundación Anomalía fue <i>Vida en el universo. Del mito a la ciencia</i>, obra colectiva dirigida por Ricardo Campo en 2008, con doce autores cuyas especialidades van de la biología a la astrofísica, de la antropología a la filosofía y del periodismo a la SETI, <a href="https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3">https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De 1999 en adelante, los miembros del Patronato de la FA fueron cambiando. Unos lo dejaron. Y se incorporaron nuevos patronos, como Ricardo Campo, Martí Flò y Pedro Ojalvo. Tras 17 años de continuada actividad, las donaciones económicas se fueron reduciendo considerablemente y los presupuestos financieramente generosos de años previos tuvieron que cortarse. En 2011, la Fundación Anomalía modificó su denominación a Fundación Ikaros, abriéndola a aspectos más culturales del fenómeno OVNI, al tiempo que se vinculaba con el principal proyecto que por entonces la Fundación se había marcado: hacer posible la creación de un museo, a partir de la colección de obras pictóricas de Fernando Calderón, conocida precisamente como “Ícaro en Urantia”, que a su vez cumpliese la función de centro de interpretación de las anomalías en la sociedad contemporánea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La Fundación Anomalía se extinguió en 2013, y todos sus fondos de publicaciones y libros se donaron a la Biblioteca Central de Cantabria para que pudieran seguir a disposición del público. Con respecto al enorme archivo de información de prensa y otros medios de comunicación acumulados, en la actualidad (2020) se halla en proceso de restauración, ordenación y catalogación por un equipo de personas sito en Santander, bajo la dirección de Ignacio Cabria. Parte de su legado documental digital está en proceso de recuperación y difusión en la web <a href="http://cdufo.info/">http://cdufo.info/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visto con la perspectiva que nos da el tiempo, somos conscientes de que el balance de conjunto de la actuación, producción y rendimiento de la Fundación Anomalía han sido extremadamente positivos y nos atrevemos a aseverar que históricos y sin precedentes: varios libros de auténtica investigación publicados a través de la Biblioteca Camilo Flammarion, miles de páginas en papel couché divulgados por medio de distintas revistas especializadas, archivos recuperados de una inevitable pérdida, empeño por animar una investigación de calidad, así como el debate entre posiciones distanciadas bajo un inclusivo paraguas intelectual, un trabajo intenso enfocado en hacer visible el campo de la ufología en los entornos culturales y académicos. En suma, se libró una lucha temporalmente breve pero intensa en pro de superar el entorno de aficionados en el que el estudio OVNI se había movido en España.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921104245/http://www.anomalia.org/">https://web.archive.org/web/20120921104245/http://www.anomalia.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyqfveh9">https://tinyurl.com/yyqfveh9</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Borraz Aymerich, Manuel, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybbmlrbp">https://tinyurl.com/ybbmlrbp</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yam2vkqh">https://tinyurl.com/yam2vkqh</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7trdpha">https://tinyurl.com/y7trdpha</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Este artículo se encuentra online en el portal Academia.edu. Dicha versión formal incluye una galería fotográfica de patronos y amigos de la Fundación Anomalía. Su enlace es el siguiente:</i></span><br />
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/43205665/Mecenazgo_OVNI_la_Fundacion_Anomalia</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recientemente participé levemente en un debate online sobre investigación “de campo” <i>versus</i> investigación “de gabinete”. La primera se refiere a la encuesta de avistamientos ovni cara a cara con el testigo. Se trata de adquirir la información sobre lo observado. La segunda corresponde al estudio complementario de esa información, con vistas a su posible resolución.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">La adquisición de datos del sujeto perceptor se logra a través de su transmisión directa al investigador, lo que se puede hacer de muchas maneras, de forma presencial y no presencial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Supongamos que el ovni es un ente físico. Entonces son los datos de magnitud, azimut, altura angular, dimensión aparente, dinámica, duración, reacciones fisiológicas, efectos sobre el entorno, desarrollo del suceso, etc., los que importa recabar. Datos y mediciones en una exacta cronología espacio-temporal. Métrica, rangos y gradientes, las “propiedades” de ese fenómeno que se plasman en papel y que el tele-analista examina para determinar su naturaleza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Si la encuesta está bien hecha y los datos acumulados son completos, técnicos y objetivos, estos permitirán la solución del caso (a menos que sea una anomalía desconocida). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No resulta imperativo, pues, que el analista (con las herramientas tecnológicas actuales disponibles) tenga que acudir al lugar de autos con el testigo para resolver un avistamiento ovni, como está patentemente demostrado. Su laboratorio (despacho), portátil o PC y programas astronómicos, geográficos y otros son suficientes para evaluar las características observadas y explicar los sucesos con garantías.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Supongamos que el ovni es una manifestación de un folclore o mitología contemporánea surgidos en plena guerra fría y era espacial. Historiadores, antropólogos, sociólogos y académicos de otras disciplinas han realizado descubrimientos notables y planteado teorías y paradigmas esenciales en base a legajos, libros y documentos, actuales o antiguos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Días atrás terminé de leer <i>Groundless</i>, una obra de Gregory Evans Dowd, profesor de historia y cultura americana de la Universidad de Michigan. Es un estudio de la génesis, propagación y efectos del rumor, las medias verdades y las falsedades en la América colonial del siglo XVIII. Como el rumor se transforma en leyenda y la leyenda da forma a una historia equivocada. El profesor Evans establece una tesis erudita que se ha convertido en un modelo específico de comportamiento sociológico en una época épica concreta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿Alguien cree que el hecho de que esta investigación ejemplar se realizara desde la oficina de una universidad o el despacho de una vivienda queda inhabilitada por no haberse visto en persona con los indios Seneca o los colonos británicos de entonces?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Son los datos y la información, conservados en papel durante tres siglos, lo que cuenta. Tampoco es, pues, imprescindible la encuesta vis a vis el narrador de la historia en este supuesto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En mi trayectoria personal de investigación, pareja a tres décadas de actividad profesional ajena, he dedicado gran parte de mi trabajo ufológico al campo teórico, estadístico, metodológico y de análisis de casos. Pero tengo una nada despreciable experiencia en la investigación sobre el terreno, acreditada en numerosos artículos y libros. No es imprescindible la última para aclarar un relato ovni, pero sí te proporciona una sensibilidad añadida: fundamentalmente, comprobar cuán convincente es el testimonio de una persona que cuenta haber observado algo fenomenológicamente irregular y que resuelves que ha sido Venus, la Luna o simplemente fruto de su imaginación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En resumen, sostener la dicotomía entre encuesta a pie de sujeto o análisis a distancia es un planteamiento falso. La verdadera investigación, idealmente, debería ir al unísono, la unificación de ambas. Pero raramente el encuestador está interesado en (o es competente para) ir más allá de su reunión con el testigo. Y entonces es cuando debe aparecer la investigación subsidiaria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">El debate al que aludía inicialmente se preguntaba también qué resulta más prioritario en la actualidad, si una tarea u otra. Siendo ambas importantes, cuando nuestros archivos rebosan casos, seguir con las encuestas ‒como si la siguiente fuera a contribuir algo que las anteriores no han aportado‒ solo sirve para añadir casos que serán falsados en los años siguientes. A mi juicio, prima analizar la masiva “evidencia” recogida durante siete décadas y realizar un análisis de conjunto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En otras palabras, como escribí: “la encuesta es el principio, no el fin. A mi parecer, tenemos toneladas de Pechblenda, si hay Radio escondido hay que buscarlo allí, no excavar unos gramos más porque eso solo conducirá a alargar <i>ad infinitum </i>la resolución del misterio”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Para finalizar, un par de apuntes empíricos, que no pueden soslayarse. La verdad es que la calidad de la mayoría de las encuestas ovni en España dista mucho de ser impecable. Generalmente contienen el grave sesgo de la presunción “extraterrestre”. Seamos sinceros y reconozcámoslo. Y lo que habitualmente no pasa de ser una mera entrevista periodística coloquial se queda a medias. No hay discusión crítica. Y, sin solución de continuidad, pasa a la revista de turno, eso sí, convenientemente ilustrada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Como argumento en favor de la indispensable investigación sobre el terreno se habla de que la comunicación no verbal ayuda a evaluar al testigo. Cierto. Siempre que se tenga la capacitación requerida, que brilla por su ausencia en el 99% de las veces. Y, en todo caso, solo serviría para detectar los casos fraudulentos. Porque para establecer que el observador se confundió con un planeta, una estrella, un bólido o una reentrada espacial no se necesita ver si sonríe entre dientes, es petulante o tímido, condescendiente, cínico, ignorante o está doctorado. Además, si es tan importante para conocer al testigo, ¿por qué la mayoría de las encuestas ufológicas son incapaces de explicar los casos que luego se aclaran posteriormente?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Valencia (España), 12 de abril de 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quisiera señalar rotundamente la necesidad de <u>datos ciertos</u>, ni conjeturas bienintencionadas ni experiencias personales descontextualizadas. Hay que pasar de deseos a realidades. Veamos los datos reales. Proceden del GEIPAN, organismo oficial nada sospechoso. En este estudio de diciembre de 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.geipan.fr/index.php?id=181&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[backPid]=211&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=205">http://www.geipan.fr/index.php?id=181&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[backPid]=211&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=205</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">se indica que el porcentaje de casos inexplicados en los casos investigados en los últimos 10 años ha caído al <b>2%</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero lo más importante es que <u>sólo el <b>10%</b> de los casos ha requerido una investigación sobre el terreno</u>. Y señala que “El uso de nuevas herramientas digitales e Internet está revolucionando la técnica de investigación”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La frecuencia de uso de cada tipo de investigación avala el grado de relevancia de uno sobre otro, cara al futuro. Al fin y al cabo, “todo el material recabado de una investigación de campo se trae al gabinete para ser analizado. Es en ese ámbito donde se efectúa el análisis y también donde se elaboran las conclusiones”.</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nadie dice que no hay que hablar con el testigo sino que la manera personalizada <u>no es imprescindible</u> para la resolución de los casos, como generalmente se asume de forma equivocada. Ni mucho menos. Es un enfoque mínimo en la solución de la casuística. Y, como he escrito en mi anterior artículo, habiendo recogido la inmensa cantidad de material ya, lo que procede es analizarlo, no dar preponderancia a las "salidas al campo".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Porque ha sido históricamente la investigación de gabinete o a distancia, siguiendo estrictas pautas científicas, lo que ha hecho avanzar nuestro conocimiento sobre el “misterio” de los ovnis, y lo ha hecho en una dirección inequívoca: mayormente los testigos creen ver -imaginan- lo que no es. Y muchos de los encuestadores aficionados aumentan la distorsión. Y es la acumulación de testimonios erróneos lo que produce el “fenómeno ovni”. El efecto multiplicador de los exégetas del sensacionalismo, la subcultura ufológica y el cine y la televisión del entretenimiento han creado un para-fenómeno, una mitología moderna de la que historiadores y científicos sociales ya van explicando su génesis y evolución.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No se trata de negar, por negar. Es que la nula evidencia de visitas extraterrestres a nuestro planeta no solo lo atestiguan los malvados escépticos, negativistas, reduccionistas y desacreditadores. Leía días atrás la obra de un astrobiólogo de la Universidad de Victoria (Canadá), firme impulsor y proponente de la búsqueda de vida y comunicación con inteligencia extraterrestre, quien escribe al inicio de su libro: "A pesar de las afirmaciones de los entusiastas de los ovnis, la vida extraterrestre no ha aparecido espontáneamente en nuestras puertas".</span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Rubén Lianza, Comodoro de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina, director del Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE), e-mail a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, 13 de abril de 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Jon Willis, <i>All These Worlds Are Yours</i>, Yale University Press, 2016, p. 2. “Despite de claims of UFO enthusiasts, alien life has not spontaneously appeared on our doorsteps."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy">https://www.academia.edu/42724005/OVNIS_Investigacion_prioritaria_hoy</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El 5 de febrero de 2009, la Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil de Chile remitió a los ufólogos Alfredo y Fernando Nilo Bastias un informe de 122 páginas con 20 avistamientos ovni por parte de pilotos y controladores aéreos, ocurridos entre 1984 y 2007, recogidos hasta entonces por las autoridades aéreas chilenas. Con motivo de la preparación de un trabajo sobre la desclasificación a nivel mundial, he tenido ocasión de comunicarme con los hermanos Nilo quienes han tenido la gentileza de hacerme llegar dicho informe, el cual inmediatamente he subido a internet para conocimiento y estudio de los investigadores interesados. El documento está disponible en el siguiente enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este “post” altamente documentado, “The Pentagon UFO Program’s Secret Partner”, por Roger Glassel y Curt Collins, aporta información contrastada sobre este asunto tan enrevesado por falta de transparencia:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/the-pentagon-ufo-programs-secret-partner.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/the-pentagon-ufo-programs-secret-partner.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Que se complementa por este otro de no menos valor, “Breaking the Silence: AATIP's Secret Partner Speaks”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/breaking-silence-aatips-secret-partner.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/03/breaking-silence-aatips-secret-partner.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otros dos ensayos de lectura necesaria, de los mismos autores, son: “The Pentagon UFO Money Trail. From Skinwalker Ranch to Bigelow Studies”, de Curt Collins y Roger Glassel (asistidos por Keith Basterfield y Marc Cecotti),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-ufo-money-trail.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-ufo-money-trail.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y “The Pentagon-funded Paranormal Research at Skinwalker Ranch”, por Curt Collins,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-funded-paranormal-research.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2020/04/the-pentagon-funded-paranormal-research.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como acostumbra, John Greenewald, del proyecto The Black Vault, da una información contrastada y de primera mano sobre los asuntos políticos de los ovnis en los EE. UU. Lea el artículo “The Pentagon Corrects Record on ‘Secret UFO Program’” aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay otros trabajos imprescindibles para bucear en tema tan controvertido:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack Brewer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-years-after-aatip-story-many.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-years-after-aatip-story-many.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mick West, <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/identified-art-bells-ufo-aluminum-louvered-sheets-heat-exchanger-fins.11012/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/identified-art-bells-ufo-aluminum-louvered-sheets-heat-exchanger-fins.11012/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason Colavito, <a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch-s01e01">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch-s01e01</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Carrion, <a href="https://historydeceived.blogspot.com/2020/02/wag-ufo.html">https://historydeceived.blogspot.com/2020/02/wag-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Sheaffer, <a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2020/04/microwaves-dead-cows-and-light-pillars.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2020/04/microwaves-dead-cows-and-light-pillars.html</a> y <a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/claims-about-pentagon-ufo-program-how-much-is-true">https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/claims-about-pentagon-ufo-program-how-much-is-true</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este es un breve extracto del artículo que se encuentra en la sección en inglés del blog.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una versión extendida está en:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43271216/Lost_Films_Found._Allen_Hyneks_3-D_Photos" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/43271216/Lost_Films_Found._Allen_Hyneks_3-D_Photos</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Durante los últimos tres años, he viajado a Chicago a casa de Mary Castner en un esfuerzo por escanear las pertenencias del Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Mary había alojado la mayor parte de los informes de casos y otros documentos del Centro durante unos diez años después de que CUFOS cambiara su sede en Chicago, Illinois. Debido a una próxima reubicación, tuvo que sacar los archivos de su casa. Actualmente están en almacenamiento temporal hasta que se pueda determinar una nueva ubicación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary periódicamente me pasaba partes de su propia colección que ya no necesitaba. Una caja, enviada en marzo de 2020, contenía varias cajas de diapositivas y cintas de cassette. Cuando revisé las cajitas de diapositivas, me di cuenta enseguida que no eran diapositivas normales. Cada una era alargada con dos imágenes en cada uno. Eran diapositivas hechas con una cámara estereoscópica. Había una vaga información en cada una de ellas. Parecían ser fotos de lugares de avistamiento de ovnis, fotos grupales tomadas en conferencias o personas individuales conocidas en los círculos ovni, investigadores, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">De su etiquetado no quedaba claro quién había sido el propietario de estas diapositivas, solo que eran del CUFOS y que nadie las había mencionado antes durante muchos años.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En junio de 2017, Mark O’Connell</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> publicó un libro sobre la vida de Hynek. Este año, mi amigo Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos escribió una extensa reseña del tomo de O'Connell basado en sus muchos años de conocer y trabajar con Hynek</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Una cosa que me llamó la atención fue una discusión en el Apéndice 1 del artículo, sobre las misteriosas fotos aéreas que Hynek tomó en fecha indeterminada y de las que habló muy sucintamente en su libro de 1972</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Ballester Olmos dijo que contactó a John Timmerman del CUFOS hace algunos años y le preguntó sobre los detalles de estas imágenes. Timmerman dijo: "Allen nunca reveló la fecha o ubicación de esta fotografía, tomada con una cámara binocular". Al instante caí en la cuenta de que las cajas de diapositivas estereoscópicas que Mary me había enviado eran las propias diapositivas de Hynek. El tema de las diapositivas era demasiado personal como para haber sido tomadas por nadie más, por ejemplo las que muestran a militares del Proyecto Blue Book en estampas privadas, viajes de Hynek o Vallée en reuniones con estudiosos internacionales o con testigos locales y extranjeros.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Izquierda. Hallada la serie de diapositivas 3D de Hynek. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Derecha. Robert Friend, antiguo jefe del Blue Book, 1962.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Izquierda. Comandante Héctor Quintanilla, del Blue Book, con su hijo Ross en brazos, 1964.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Por ejemplo: Drury fue testigo de un incidente ovni en 1953 en Australia y obtuvo una película que mostraba un veloz objeto aéreo, de la que nunca se ha encontrado el metraje completo, aunque han sobrevivido algunos cuadros sueltos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En total, hay 73 parejas de diapositivas en la colección de Hynek. Aunque, por desgracia, no está el dúo de fotos que sacó desde el avión, es una recuperación histórica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Agradezco a Mark Rodeghier y al Center for UFO Studies, Jacques Vallee, Mary Castner, Paul y Joel Hynek y a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos por su ayuda en la producción de este informe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) O’Connell, Mark, <i>The Close Encounters Man</i>, Dey Street Books, 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Ballester Olmos, V.J., <a href="https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/">https://factorelblog.com/2020/05/07/hynek-primera-biografia/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Hynek, J. Allen, <i>The UFO Experience</i>, Henry Regnery, 1972, figuras 9 y 10 junto a la página 53.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="es-ES">Izquierda. V.J.
Ballester Olmos, Londres, agosto de 1979. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Derecha. J.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) La revista iberoamericana <i>Pensar</i>, un antídoto contra las pseudociencias y las falsas creencias: <a href="https://pensar.org/">https://pensar.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Los días 7 y 22 de marzo pasados fueron testigo de sendos espectaculares bólidos sobre España, a las 20:33 y 23:01 horas, respectivamente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-enorme-bola-de-fuego-atraviesa-el-cielo-de-andalucia-YN6438010">https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-enorme-bola-de-fuego-atraviesa-el-cielo-de-andalucia-YN6438010</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4180423/0/detectada-bola-fuego-visible-desde-almeria-granada-sevilla/">https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4180423/0/detectada-bola-fuego-visible-desde-almeria-granada-sevilla/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-espectacular-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-sevilla-huelva-y-badajoz-NY6515942">https://elcorreoweb.es/sevilla/una-espectacular-bola-de-fuego-sobrevuela-sevilla-huelva-y-badajoz-NY6515942</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asimismo, otra bola de fuego de origen natural cruzó el país a las 03:43 horas del 5 de mayo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2020-05-06/bola-fuego-sobrevolando-espana-82000-km-hora_2581635/">https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2020-05-06/bola-fuego-sobrevolando-espana-82000-km-hora_2581635/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) El libro conjunto de Ballester Olmos y Van Utrecht, <u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> ha recibido una reseña muy favorable del icónico ufólogo sueco Clas Svahn en el número de septiembre de 2019 de <i>UFO Aktuellt</i> (Vol.4, Nº 4). Svahn ha escrito lo siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Las imágenes que se encuentran en este libro se han tomado con antiguas cámaras analógicas que usaban película. Y la mayor parte de ellas también encuentran su explicación en este enfoque pedagógico fundamental, donde se presenta al lector toda la información importante que los autores utilizaron para llegar a sus conclusiones. Para cualquiera que intente encontrar explicaciones para las imágenes que son captadas por el público, el libro es una mina de oro y una pieza de lectura fascinante.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Derecha. Selfie de Clas Svahn en las oficinas del AFU, marzo de 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nuestro libro vio la luz hace dos años, de forma gratuita (<i>online</i>) para facilitar su lectura por parte de la comunidad de investigadores y estudiosos. A fecha de hoy, ha tenido cerca de 3.000 vistas. Este es el enlace de acceso:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para quienes disfrutan las obras en papel, bibliófilos, bibliotecarios y otros, la editorial UPIAR lo tiene en la versión que deseas:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) “Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience”, un trabajo publicado en la revista especializada en neurología Cortex, volumen 44, número 10, noviembre-diciembre de 2008, páginas 1387-1395, por Christopher C. French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox y Michael A.Thalbourne, en <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2007.11.011">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2007.11.011</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) James Oberg escribe sobre el decimoséptimo vuelo del misil KYSST (Kasputin Yar to Sary Shagan Topol), una prueba de ojivas de defensa en Rusia el 28 de noviembre de 2019, con efectos visuales únicos y sorprendentes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) En noviembre de 2015 publiqué en la página oficial del GEIPAN una bibliografía internacional de estudios dedicados al fenómeno de las “oleadas” de ovnis:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Desde entonces he recopilado otros 14 nuevos trabajos, el último de los cuales es este ensayo del investigador canadiense Marc Leduc, “Vague d’ovnis, une notion impressionniste? (Oleadas ovni, ¿una noción impresionista?), que puede leerse en el enlace que sigue:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38464728/Vague_d_ovnis_une_notion_impressionniste_">https://www.academia.edu/38464728/Vague_d_ovnis_une_notion_impressionniste_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Las colecciones de informes ovni organizados son siempre útiles para el estudioso. <u>Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships</u> (Los informes del Blue Book de casos ovni desde barcos en el mar) es uno de dichos censos. Los ha recogido Antonio F. Rullán y se halla aquí: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/navy/bbpdf.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/navy/bbpdf.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Jorge Soto Roland, profesor de historia, licenciado en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, es autor de muchos ensayos sobre folclore contemporáneo. Presento ahora dos de sus trabajos, uno sobre el monstruo de Flatwoods y otro sobre criptozoología:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34641000/EL_MONSTRUO_DE_FLATWOODS_-_La_larga_persistencia_de_lo_absurdo">https://www.academia.edu/34641000/EL_MONSTRUO_DE_FLATWOODS_-_La_larga_persistencia_de_lo_absurdo</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40400560/DOCUMENTANDO_MONSTRUOS_La_televisi%C3%B3n_los_documentales_criptozool%C3%B3gicos_y_la_construcci%C3%B3n_del_imaginario" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/DOCUMENTANDO_MONSTRUOS_Documentales_criptozoologicos_y_construccion_del_imaginario</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Las últimas fotografías y videos captados en Chile, revisados por el investigador Marcelo Moya:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/03/ovnis-cruzan-la-zona-de-central-de-chile.html">https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/2020/03/ovnis-cruzan-la-zona-de-central-de-chile.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Investigación para no perderla de vista sobre las luces de Hessdalen: “Report on Aerial Phenomena Observed near Hessdalen on September 20, 2007: An alternative Hypothesis is proposed”, realizada por Christophe Spitzer Isbert y el Dr. Gilles Fernandez,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31659349/Report_on_Aerial_Phenomena_Observed_near_Hessdalen_on_September_20_th_2007_An_alternative_Hypothesis_is_proposed" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Report_Aerial_Phenomena_Observed_Hessdalen_09/20/2007_Alternative_Hypothesis_proposed</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) James Oberg, “Rocket-Spotting Around the World”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/2019/01/introduction.html">https://rocketspotting.blogspot.com/2019/01/introduction.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) ¿Inventó Ray Palmer los platillos volantes? Este artículo de Mark Seifert de 2017 no hay que perdérselo: “Roswell, The Beginnings Of The UFO Craze And What It Has To Do With DC Comics”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bleedingcool.com/bc-network/recent-updates/roswell-ufo-craze-dc-comics/">https://bleedingcool.com/bc-network/recent-updates/roswell-ufo-craze-dc-comics/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Chemtrails, otro mito moderno, afortunadamente con el que es más fácil hacer pedagogía que con los ovnis, porque en este campo sí se acepta el criterio de autoridad:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/quantifying-expert-consensus-against-covert-geoengineering-chemtrails.7824/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/quantifying-expert-consensus-against-covert-geoengineering-chemtrails.7824/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Web para determinar la visibilidad de la constelación de satélites <i>Starlink</i>, de la empresa SpaceX, en cualquier punto del planeta: <a href="https://findstarlink.com/">https://findstarlink.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) A las 4:45 (6:45UT) hora local del 28 de abril de 2020 decayó sobre La Coruña (España) la etapa superior del cohete ruso <i>Soyuz</i>, lanzador de la nave de carga <i>Progress</i> MS-14 que el día 25 llevó suministros a la Estación Espacial Internacional. Hay una magnífica grabación de video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-reentry-of-soyuz-rb-2020-026b-over.html">https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-reentry-of-soyuz-rb-2020-026b-over.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(16) El extraordinario encuentro con extraterrestres del topógrafo brasileño José C. Higgins en julio de 1947. Lo explora J.C. Victorio Uranga en su blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/04/el-extraordinario-encuentro-de-jose-c.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2020/04/el-extraordinario-encuentro-de-jose-c.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(17) Jack Brewer escribe sobre charlatanería, malas prácticas y abducciones ovni en “Normalizing the Fantastic and Resisting the Rational,” texto que Luis Ruiz Nóguez ha traducido aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2020/05/normalizando-lo-fantstico-y-resistiendo-lo-racional/">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2020/05/normalizando-lo-fantstico-y-resistiendo-lo-racional/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(18) Según este reciente estudio, la explosión de 1908 sobre la taiga rusa de Tunguska ha sido resuelta: “On the possibility of through passage of asteroid bodies across the Earth’s atmosphere”, de Daniil E. Khrennikov <i>et al, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, volumen 493, número 1, marzo de 2020, páginas 1344–1351, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa329">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa329</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“El OVNI de Canarias. Historia y análisis de una creación periodística”, de Ricardo Campo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Reseñado por Manuel Borraz (abril de 2020).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colección 2.0 Books, Ediciones Idea (Sta. Cruz de Tenerife), 2019. 371 páginas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libreriacanaima.com/libro/el-ovni-de-canarias_574773">https://www.libreriacanaima.com/libro/el-ovni-de-canarias_574773</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Si existiera la Ufología Experimental, uno de sus proyectos más ambiciosos sería el diseño de un experimento multitudinario, con un largo periodo de seguimiento social posterior, en el que la “x”, es decir, la incógnita habitual, el “objeto no identificado”, estuviera bajo control. El meollo del asunto sería crear un estímulo espectacular que no pasara desapercibido y no fuera identificable por la mayor parte de la población, con una apariencia suficientemente ambigua como para admitir diversas interpretaciones entre lo natural y lo artificial. Si la técnica lo permitiera, podría tratarse de una proyección holográfica nocturna de, por ejemplo, “nubes” luminosas completamente atípicas, sugerentes de naves desconocidas. Algo suficientemente inusual y complejo como para no tener una explicación obvia a primera vista, pero con cualidades mundanas que permitieran —a quien se lo propusiera— llegar a descubrir su auténtica naturaleza. Se presentaría a gran altura para que pudiera ser visto desde una amplia región habitada, pero a suficiente distancia para quedar fuera del alcance de los potenciales observadores, del tráfico aéreo habitual y de los radares locales. La presentación debería ser efímera pero de duración suficientemente larga para que el fenómeno llamara la atención y pudiera ser fotografiado a placer desde muy diversos puntos para posterior referencia. Advirtamos desde buen principio que si existiera la Ufología Experimental no dispondría de los medios técnicos, la logística y el presupuesto desorbitado que requeriría un experimento por todo lo alto de estas características. Algo así sólo estaría al alcance de agencias como la NASA, pero precisaría un nivel de secretismo que sólo sería capaz de aportar un entorno militar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Una vez sembrado el estímulo llegaría el momento de recopilar, para su estudio, las percepciones, las reacciones y las interpretaciones informadas por los observadores. Seguramente, se constataría la fiabilidad de los testigos en términos generales, aunque no tanto a la hora de estimar tamaños y distancias, dado el desconocimiento de lo observado. Y, sin duda, aparecerían algunos testimonios discordantes y absurdos —incluso por parte de personas a priori cualificadas, como pueden ser los pilotos aéreos—, el tipo de historias que pasan a ocupar un puesto de honor en las crónicas “platillistas” en lugar de ser puestas prudentemente en cuarentena. Si la aparición se programara coincidiendo en el tiempo con alguna circunstancia fuera de lo corriente (por ejemplo, una huelga afectando al suministro eléctrico) podría valorarse el papel de las coincidencias comprobando qué conexiones de causa y efecto llegarían a proponerse posteriormente. Otro de los focos de interés del estudio sería la forma en que los medios informativos se harían eco del asunto, así como las explicaciones que le irían dando, las reacciones que suscitaría en diversos ámbitos —desde el institucional al de los investigadores de misterios— y cómo influiría todo ello en la opinión pública. También sería interesante comprobar cuánto tardaría en salir a la luz la explicación correcta, cómo se llegaría hasta ella y qué efecto tendría la noticia. Una elección adecuada del país escenario del experimento podría garantizar no sólo la puesta en marcha de alguna investigación oficial militar sino también la oportunidad de conocerla después en detalle, en caso de preverse una futura desclasificación del expediente. El estudio podría darse por concluido décadas después del inicio del experimento, lo cual daría una oportuna perspectiva sobre la evolución del asunto con el paso de los años.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Pues bien, ¡el experimento ya tuvo lugar! Nos lo sirvió en bandeja, sin pretenderlo, la Marina de los EE. UU. cuando disparó varios misiles balísticos de largo alcance el 5 de marzo de 1979 desde un submarino situado en aguas del Atlántico. En cuanto al estudio y las conclusiones los aporta, en este reciente libro, el tinerfeño Ricardo Campo Pérez, doctor en Filosofía y curtido investigador del tema de los no identificados. El “experimento” ha reunido todos los requisitos enunciados arriba y ha satisfecho todas y cada una de las expectativas mencionadas. Y aunque los lanzamientos de misiles se repitieron en ocasiones previas durante la década de los setenta, con el riesgo de hacerlo menos efectivo, en la práctica lo reforzaron, afianzando la creencia popular en un archipiélago canario bendecido por las visitas extraterrestres. Diez años después, en un telediario de la primera cadena de TVE, el presentador Luis Mariñas informaba de un posible aterrizaje extraterrestre en la ciudad rusa de Vorónezh con algunas de las fotos canarias de 1979 en pantalla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> El interés del libro no estriba en ningún desenlace —lo conocemos desde el principio— sino en los detalles, en la exhaustiva información recopilada. Los capítulos de esta obra definitiva sobre las observaciones del 5 de marzo de 1979 se dedican sucesivamente a describir el contexto ufológico, a repasar cronológicamente la información divulgada sobre el caso (principalmente en la prensa, las revistas especializadas y algunos libros), a echar un vistazo al material fotográfico del que se tiene noticia, a poner en evidencia el tratamiento que han dado al asunto conocidos divulgadores del misterio, a considerar la problemática de la fiabilidad de los testimonios, a comentar mi propio ensayo de 1990 sobre este tipo de casos y a desgranar el contenido del expediente oficial desclasificado por el Ejército del Aire, todo ello complementado con una elocuente presentación final de ejemplos similares —algunos, francamente idénticos al de Canarias— de lanzamiento de misiles y cohetes, repartidos por todo el globo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Por cierto, el lector no encontrará indicios de ocultación o manipulación por parte de nuestro Ejército del Aire, sino descarnada evidencia de divergencia de criterios y opiniones. A pesar de que el Juez informador militar que investigó el caso concluyó descartando el misil para sugerir la actividad de “naves de origen desconocido”, el General Jefe del Mando Aéreo de Canarias siguió convencido de que todo se debió al lanzamiento de dos misiles... soviéticos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> El único punto débil del libro —no achacable al autor— reside en las ilustraciones, que aparecen publicadas con muy baja resolución. Por otro lado, el tema merecería que al menos algunas de ellas estuvieran reproducidas a todo color. Confiemos en que todo ello se subsane en futuras reediciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> La lectura de “El OVNI de Canarias” suscita, inevitablemente, una reflexión sobre cómo ha cambiado el acceso a la información en los últimos cuarenta años. La vigencia de los resultados del estudio es obvia en muchos sentidos pero también es cierto que reflejan una época que ya es historia. Y la historia se repite pero a otro nivel, en un contexto distinto. Hoy serían impensables algunas cosas. La explicación misil, plenamente documentada, estaría circulando por Internet en menos de 24 horas, a disposición de todo el mundo. Claro que también lo estarían las elucubraciones más delirantes. En el siglo XXI aún hay personas que creen que la Tierra es plana. Y lo proclaman en páginas web y en las redes sociales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Vida en el universo. Del mito a la ciencia</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta obra, fruto del trabajo colectivo de doce autores, fue el último libro de la Biblioteca Camille Flammarion, colección editada por la Fundación Anomalía (Santander, España), publicado en diciembre de 2008 pero apenas publicitado. Quiero ponerlo en valor porque lo que es bueno resiste el paso del tiempo y porque sería un error y un desperdicio no divulgarlo como se merece. Bajo la coordinación del Dr. Ricardo Campo, este volumen de 219 páginas aúna la labor de autores que proceden de campos tan variados como la biología, la astrofísica, el periodismo, la antropología, la filosofía y la búsqueda de vida extraterrestre. Dice el libro de sí mismo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Como es sabido, los extraterrestres, como mito, acompañan al hombre desde la Antigüedad, pero sólo en los últimos tiempos su posible existencia ha sido objeto de análisis científico. Esta obra pretende acercar al lector una perspectiva general tanto de esa mitología ufológica como de los últimos avances de la astrobiología.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se divide en dos partes. En la primera (Los extraterrestres entre nosotros: un mito de la era espacial) encontramos los siguientes trabajos: “Ascenso y caída de los extraterrestres: de los marcianos a la hipótesis psicosociológica” (Ignacio Cabria), “Españoles a la caza de marcianos” (Luis Alfonso Gámez), “Ovnis, científicos y extraterrestres. Los científicos echan un vistazo” (Manuel Borraz Aymerich), “Ellos: taxonomía y filogenia de los visitantes” (Luis R. González Manso), “Extraterrestres y ovnis en el cine. Alienígenas y platillos volantes como argumentos cinematográficos” (Matías Morey Ripoll), “Conspiraciones y encubrimientos: el mito autoprotector” (Ricardo Campo Pérez), “El chupacabras y el impacto social de una creencia mediatizada” (Diego Zúñiga). La segunda parte (La Astrobiología y la búsqueda de vida extraterrestre) comprende estos ensayos: “Los extraterrestres y sus mundos: de los antiguos griegos al proyecto SETI” (Ricardo Campo Pérez), “La vida ¿una rareza o un fenómeno universal?” (Manuel Vázquez Abeledo), “Los fundamentos físicos y biológicos de la búsqueda de vida en el universo” (Julián Chela-Flores), “Exoplanetas: los nuevos mundos” (Eduardo Martín Guerrero de Escalante), “El Gran Silencio. La paradoja de Fermi y las visitas ET en el pasado” (César Esteban López), “El Observatorio de Arecibo y los alienígenas” (Daniel Altschuler).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro, que recomiendo a todos los interesados en el concepto de la existencia de vida extraterrestre, se puede bajar gratis en PDF desde aquí: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://bit.ly/3eYdvw3</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Cinquante ans d'ufologie civile au Québec (1966-2016), Historiographie et bibliographie</u>, por Yann Vadnais, (GARPAN, 2016). El libro (de 123 páginas) "Cincuenta años de ufología civil en Quebec (1966-2016), Historiografía y bibliografía" es el primer y único estudio de este tipo sobre ufología en Quebec, que lo convierte en una guía valiosa de referencias bibliográficas e históricas para investigadores e investigadores, aficionados y público en general:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39901612/Cinquante_ans_dufologie_civile_au_Qu%C3%A9bec_1966-2016_Historiographie_et_bibliographie">https://www.academia.edu/39901612/Cinquante_ans_dufologie_civile_au_Qu%C3%A9bec_1966-2016_Historiographie_et_bibliographie</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Más contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Las dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese idioma en la sección superior de este blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Presentación de un avistamiento nocturno de más de cuatro horas desde Patchogue, Long Island (Nueva York) en la madrugada del 21 de octubre de 1966, una confusión perfecta con Sirio. Ilustrado con magníficas fotografías astronómicas: “Night-Spotted UFO”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “The 1917 Canadian UFO”, un recorte de prensa canadiense del 24 de julio de 1947 con la observación de un objeto globular rojo suspendido inmóvil en el cielo nocturno. Todo apunta al planeta Júpiter con su máximo brillo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Reseña de Jennie Randles del sobresaliente nuevo libro de Maurizio Verga, <i>Flying Saucers in the Sky</i> (Platillos volantes en el cielo).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) La última nota de prensa del departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos sobre tres videos UAP de la Marina estadounidense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Ramón Álvarez (España), Joan Plana (España), Alejandro Borgo (Argentina), Enrique Márquez (Argentina), James Oberg (USA), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (España), Kay Coggin (USA), Rubén Lianza (Argentina), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Matías Morey Ripoll (España) y Roberto Labanti (Italia).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Investigación OVNI</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g">https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFOs and Government </u>(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To date, the FOTOCAT spreadsheet contains 12,586 data lines, equal to the number of independent series of images taken of supposedly unexplained phenomena. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (The encyclopedia of UFO close encounters) was a 383-page book authored by me and J.A. Fernández Peris, released 1987 by Plaza & Janés, Barcelona publishers. Long time out of print, only a few copies exist available through the second-hand market. Ukrainian UFO researcher Igor Kalytyuk kindly digitalized a copy I had submitted years ago to Dr. Vladimir Rubtsov (already deceased), and I have taken this timely opportunity to place it online for the benefit of fellow colleagues. The book is a detailed presentation and analysis of close to 600 “landing” reports from Spain and Portugal, occurring before 1985, both explained and unexplained. Click in this link to access its full content:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following text has been written jointly with Mexican researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez.<span style="color: red;">*</span> For citation purposes, the formal reference is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This note illustrates a fact already noticed in many countries and different times: how mediatized cases influence one another in a concatenated way. Recently, our collaborator Kay Coggin, a non-stop seeker of UFO information in old press sources, found a photograph we had not seen previously. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The front page of Ohio’s <i>Dayton Daily News</i> of October 17, 1973 carried a picture credited to staff photographer Bill Shepard. The accompanying caption summarized the event well: “</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">SILVER CLAD ‘HUMANOIDS’ LURK NEAR THEIR BEAVERCREEK HOME</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Pre-Halloween Prank Ended When Disbelieving Police Arrived.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">October 16, 1973 evening, Beavercreek (Dayton, Ohio), spacemen with feelers. © Bill Shepard, <i>Dayton Daily News</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The newspaper’s writer Don Steward developed the story. His initial sentences are copied literally:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Three “humanoids” in silvery-white wrinkled skin, sprouting antennas and carrying a red blinking light, halted motorists along a desolate section of the U.S. 35 Xenia bypass late Tuesday </i>[October 16]<i> night. But it was nothing more than an early Halloween </i>[October 31] <i>prank perpetrated by Beavercreek township youths…Two of the youths were taken into custody without charges by Xenia police. They were identified as Mark K. Klentzman, 18, 2746 Edwin Drive in Beavercreek and Steven D. Lowe, 20, 3359 Sunnyside Drive, Dayton. Lowe identified the third youth, who eluded police, as Mark Stevens, 13, 1531N. Fairfield Rd., Beavercreek.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This event‒and the amazing shot‒received ample publicity. Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News of October 17 briefly reported on the Ohio police investigation of space creatures seen walking by the highway, with a crude “creatures arrested” ending the reportage.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> On the following day, the news was distributed widely across the nation, being printed in journals from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New Jersey, Louisiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Texas, and Georgia, at least that we have collected.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ideas never come out of the blue, and never was this truer than in the case of flying saucers. According to UFO lore, in 1973 the United States of America was under an intense wave of extraterrestrial spacecraft landings, with occupants showing blatantly. With 55 such cases registered in the country from August to December, 36 of them allegedly occurred in the month of October (nine in two single days, October 16-17!).</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This very joke had a very direct influence and was a consequence of the tale of a supposed abduction in Pascagoula (Mississippi), on October 11, 1973. On the night of that Thursday, two Walker Shipyard workers, Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, both of Gautier, were fishing on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, within sight of the two tollbooths and within reach of the security cameras at the Ingalls Shipyard, when they heard a buzzing sound behind them. As they turned, they saw a bright egg-shaped object with two flashing blue lights on its front floating about 40 feet (12 m) above the river's edge. The object was about 30-40 feet (9-12 m) long and 8 feet (2.5 m) high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frozen with fear, the two men saw a door open and three creatures with leathery grey skin and crab-like claws floated over the river towards them. Two of the creatures captured Hickson and the third grabbed Parker who "passed out from fear," according to Hickson. Parker said he was conscious but paralyzed. "The creatures had legs but didn't use them," Hickson told <i>The Mississippi Press</i> in 1973." They were about 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, they had bullet heads without necks, slits for their mouths and where their noses or ears would be, they had thin, tapered objects sticking out, like carrots from a snowman's head. They had no eyes, gray and wrinkled skin, round fused legs ending in elephant legs, and claw hands. The creatures moved mechanically and robotically. They took them by the forearms and levitated them on board the spaceship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hickson claimed that inside the ship he somehow levitated or hovered a few feet above the ship's floor, where he was examined by what appeared to be a large mechanical eye in the shape of a soccer ball, 6 to 8 inches (15-20 cm) in diameter, which appeared to scan his body. "They gave me a thorough examination, like any doctor would," he recalled to a journalist 40 years later.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parker said that he could not remember what had happened to him inside the ship, although later, during certain medically-unguaranteed hypnotic regression sessions he was subjected to, he offered some confusing details. More than 20 years after the incident, he claimed that he was placed on a tilted table and examined by a "petite" being, evidently female. Although he was paralyzed, he was able to observe the being injecting a needle into the base of the lower part of his penis. The being then communicated with him telepathically, suggesting that he had been taken for a reason. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The men were released after about 20 minutes and the creatures levitated them back to their original positions on the river bank. The UFO was gone. Hickson said he needed three shots of liquor from a bottle in his car to calm his nerves before deciding whether to report what happened. They sat in their car for 45 minutes, trying to calm down. Thinking they would be ridiculed if they told anyone what had happened, Hickson and Parker initially decided to keep quiet. Finally, they decided to talk to Jackson County Sheriff Fred Diamond, who thought the men seemed sincere and really scared. Young Parker was especially disturbed. Hickson’s drinking whiskey admission and the fantastic story caused the Sheriff some doubts. Diamond and Captain Glenn Ryder interviewed the men, who then were left alone in a room which was equipped with a hidden microphone. For Ryder, they were genuinely scared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Hickson believed he had been subjected to radiation, they were then taken to Keesler AFB at Biloxi, where they were examined by several doctors. In the coming days, a polygraph test was made to Hickson. Parker refused. Later on, though, he passed a lie detector test he contracted himself. There are grounds to conclude that the tests were unreliably taken.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The shipyard’s lawyer refused to have his clients tested by the very experienced Captain Charles Wimberly, head polygraph operator for the nearby Mobile Police Department. In any case, the validity of the lie detectors is severely questioned by the American Psychological Asssociation.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine reporter Joe Esterhas discovered that none of the guards who had been at the tollbooths and none of the operators saw anything that night. Nor did the surveillance cameras at the Ingalls shipyard record anything unusual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The aftermath depositions of the two individuals took their story to an eerie limit. Parker claimed that he contacted the same ship again 19 years later. This time he voluntarily walked aboard the ship and encountered the same female being who had examined his body in 1973. He claimed that he had a conversation with the being, in English, in which she communicated a religious message to him. She informed him that they shared the same God, that the Bible was an authentic text and that her species wanted to live on Earth but could not because of humanity's tendency towards war and destruction. For his part. Hickson claimed in a book he coauthored that he was contacted by aliens three times after the abduction: in January 1974 at a local tree farm, in February 1974 at his home, and on Mother's Day 1974 in Mississippi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“How they looked, this is how the 5-foot spacemen looked, according to Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker who said they were taken aboard a space craft. This drawing by Jim Flynt of Walker Shipyard was made as described by the men.” © <i>The Mississippi Press Register</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a matter of fact, the Pascagoula alleged close encounter with extraterrestrials began to be consumed by the local press on the next day, and it was on October 15th that it reached the TV news report</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the first graphical representation of the Pascagoula entities was printed in the regular press.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is reasonable to think that this portrait robot induced the three Xenia-Beavercreek youths to concoct the joke on the night of October 16th, as a certain resemblance exists between the two images</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Pascagoula abduction has accomplished wide propaganda in the UFO milieu since it broke the news. From the immediate log released by The Mississippi Press Register, with a collection of its own’s news clips published in the climax period of October 12th to 19th, a 13-page A-4 illustrated edition</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, to books published hardly a few months later capitalizing on the October reports, like the 99-page booklet on Tennessee Valley UFOs,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or straight on Pascagoula, as a Bantam paperback,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> up to books written by the abductees themselves.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11,12</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It also attracted critical appraisals, as could not be otherwise.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Did the Xenia-Beavercreek picture inspire another major photography of a flying saucer pilot? We refer to the amazing encounter with a silver-suited man from space that Falkville, Alabama police officer Jeffrey Greenhaw had at around 10:45 p.m. on October 17, 1973. We know for sure it was the real date of the event (i.e., not backdated), as chief Greenhaw called the local newspaper at 11:30 p.m. that night to report the incident, and it was posted in the front page of <i>The Decatur Daily</i> on the following day.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was just after 10 p.m. on October 17, 1973, when policeman Jeffrey Greenhaw, of Falkville, Alabama, was resting in his home. Suddenly the phone rang. It was an emergency call. On the other end, a neighbor whom the policeman knew very well reported that she had just seen a flying saucer land with flashing lights in a meadow west of the city. Greenhaw, 26, was off duty at the time, but decided to go to investigate. He jumped out of his seat and ran to his vehicle, the official radio patrol car. Within minutes, he showed up at the spot where the lady said she saw the UFO land and conducted an eye inspection: the ground was clear and there was absolutely nothing unusual there. He got into the car again and drove along the road a little bit, until he came to a left route, gravelly and narrow. He entered the road, paying close attention to what might be on either side of the road, illuminated by the vehicle's headlights. A few hundred meters ahead, he saw a man standing in the middle of the road. He was about the size of an adult human being. He stopped the car, got out to ask him who he was and if he could help him with anything. No reply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The figure was dimly (indirectly) illuminated by the car's headlights and it was approaching to the policeman, slowly, walking awkwardly. He then noticed that the figure was dressed in a metallic-looking overall, with his head covered with a helmet. An antenna seemed to sprout from the top of it. Greenhaw took his Polaroid camera and made four snapshots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He turned on the rotating light of his car and the strange being stopped for a moment, as if bewildered. Then the figure turned and ran "faster than any human I have ever seen." The police officer tried to chase the creature, but his abrupt acceleration made the car skid into the ditch. When he regained control of the car and got back on the road the figure had vanished.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to his testimony, Greenhaw saw the entity when it was at about 50 feet (15 m), grabbed his Polaroid camera from his car and took one picture of the entity from 40-50 feet (~14 m), another from 30-40 feet (~11 m) and two last from 10 feet (~3 m).</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Concerning the fate of the instant pictures, two different sources state that the original prints were destroyed in the fire that gutted the policeman’s trailer home on November 9, but Huntsville’s ufologist Warren E. York photographed them before the evidence was totally lost.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16,17</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> On the other hand, the four pictures we are showing here come from “miniature copy negatives of the originals” in possession of ICUFON.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NICAP, the non-skeptically-oriented, leading US UFO organization then, had major field investigator Marion Webb studying the case as soon as it was publicized. After three years of investigation, it concluded that “The analysis revealed that the garment of the alleged creature is a hot suit, manufactured from fire retardant materials, then coated with aluminum covering.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Likewise, in the opinion of other independent investigators, “the creature is an adult human mostly wrapped up in aluminum foil.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">17</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In our files we have examples of similar-looking fire-protecting equipment that, disguised in the night and pictured with a Polaroid camera, would very much resemble the Alabama entity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The question now is: was it a joke played on the young (23) police officer, or was he involved in the theater? In a response to the Letters to the Editor section, NICAP president John Acuff also pointed explicitly: “The Greenhaw case is a hoax. This hoax has been admitted by one of the participants.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">20</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there is more detail to this statement. In a private letter to the noteworthy American UFO researcher Richard Heiden, Acuff added this: “The omission of the confessor’s name in the Greenhaw case was deliberate. The person in question is a minor who worked with Greenhaw on the hoax and we felt that because of his age (17) that we should not publish his name. The boy is the one who dressed as a humanoid.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">21</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ground saucer Watch, an organization specializing in computer image enhancement22 of UFO photographs very active in the 1970s-80s, did analyze the Falkville prints. Its technical study concluded that the photographs “represent a humorous attempt at hoaxing a space creature.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was another prank; this is beyond question. But what stimulated it? We established a chronology of the three occurrences:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although one might believe there is a direct relationship between Beavercreek and Falkville, knowing that the last case’s date is actual, then we have to infer that both tales and happenings derived from the publicity given to the Pascagoula abduction case, a fabrication itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As stated before, the distribution of the fall 1973 of “humanoid” reports had a climax in October. The spread of 54 US reports of this kind is concentrated in one single month. Why? The reply seems quite evident if we look at the plot of 32 October reports by two-day periods. The Pascagoula abduction (October 11) figures prominently as the fueling point for following narratives. With the passing of time, we now know that these were just imaginative, inconsequential stories prompted by the media exposure to the Pascagoula affair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Monthly plot of humanoid reports in the United States, August to December 1973. Data from David Webb.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a couple of those entity sighting reports had photographic evidence. Both are recognized pranks. One (Falkville) got international attention, especially in UFO journals and books. Not in vain, it has been graded as “the second most famous UFO-abduction case in history.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">24</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Another (Beavercreek) had a low profile, only in terms of national press consumption. This article has reviewed both cases in their connection to the Pascagoula temporary kidnapping, that hit the news a few days before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This brief note gives us an opportunity to explore somewhat the magnitude of the 1973 UFO wave of UFO landings and their spacemen crews in the United States. As UFO waves sociologically and mediately behave, the intensity of the reporting recrudescence reaches a saturation point and then more or less sharply declines toward average or background figures, the time amplitude of the wave depending of the promotion it receives in press and TV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order to measure the impact of the UFO wave in the context of surrounding years, both nationally and internationally, we have resorted to the largest database of UFO landing reports, the over 5,000-case Peter Rogerson’s INTCAT.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">25</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following chart shows numbers of reports of UFO touchdowns from 1971 to 1975 in the United States of America, side by side with the rest of the world panorama. Immediately, it is realized the quantified hit of the US 1973 wave (362 reports) at worldwide level, with an effect of 172% over the sum of similar cases in the rest of the countries (only 210 reports). A paramount figure. Yet the second evident feature we discover is how “UFO landings” are typically an American product. In the set of the five years reviewed (Σ828 US, Σ1069 all others), flying saucer disembarkations in the US amount to 4 out of 5 such stories in the planet. Even more, when you go through the succession of reports in the Rogerson catalog, you discover that most of the ensuing reports come from English-speaking countries like United Kingdom, Australia, or Canada, natural beneficiaries of the American culture and mythologies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The specificity of tales of landings and related entities as an American (then, Anglo-Saxon) influence is apparent when you plot another type of global UFO data, the events where UFOs were photographed. We have tallied FOTOCAT’s database</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">26</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the same period (1971-1975), divided by USA (Σ192 entries) and rest of the world (Σ891 entries). Here, not only is the effect of the 1973 spike much softer, but the statistical structure of the incoming reports is totally different. Are Americans more prone to (non-censurable) spin tales than to (appraisable) photography?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be that as it may, the essential need for a social study of “flaps” and “waves” in UFO reporting</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">27,28</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> runs parallel to the imperative need of research into the few significant UFO events that still remain unidentified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(*) <a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/category/ovnis/">https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/category/ovnis/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My3D5M2bval">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My3D5M2bval</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) A sample of other press items delivering the humanoid prank news: <i>Evening Herald</i> (Shenandoah, Pennsylvania), October 18, 1973. <i>Knoxville News-Sentinel</i> (Knoxville, Tennessee), <i>Galesburg Register-Mail</i> (Illinois), <i>The Tennessean</i> (Nashville), <i>The Record</i> (Hackensack, New Jersey), <i>Advocate</i> (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), <i>Marietta Journal</i>, <i>San Antonio Light</i> (San Antonio, Texas), all for October 18, 1973. South Haven Daily Tribune, October 22, 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) David Webb, <u>1973-Year of the Humanoids</u>, 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> edition, Center for UFO Studies (Evanston, Illinois), May 1976.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Jeff Amy, <a href="https://apnews.com/56d45e5966324e7d968e50b4ac94f908">https://apnews.com/56d45e5966324e7d968e50b4ac94f908</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Philip J. Klass, “’Abduction’ in Pascagoula,” in <u>UFOs Explained</u>, Random House (New York), 1974, pages 293-311.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) <a href="https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph">https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) Kenly Jones, reporter, <a href="https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/467241">https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/467241</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) The Mississippi Press Register, <u>UFOs Over Mississippi…A 7-Day Space Odyssey</u>, Mississippi Press (Pascagoula), 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9) W.A. Darbro & Stanley L. Ingram, <u>Unidentified Flying Objects over the Tennessee Valley</u>, South Publishing Co. (Huntsville, Alabama), 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(10) Ralph Blum with Judy Blum, <u>Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs</u>, Bantam Books (New York), April 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(11) Charles Hickson & William Mendez, <u>UFO Contact at Pascagoula</u>, Wendelle C. Stevens (Tucson, Arizona), 1983.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(12) Calvin Parker, <u>Pascagoula – The Story Continues</u>, Flying Disk Press (UK), September 2019, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1688698620">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1688698620</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(13) <i>The Decatur Daily</i>, October 18, 1973, pages 1 and 8, <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-18-1973-1538461/">https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-18-1973-1538461/</a> and <a href="https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-18-1973-1538464/">https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-18-1973-1538464/</a> And October 19, 1973, page 10,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(14) Luis Ruiz Noguez, “El robot de Falkville,“ in <u>Extraterrestres ante las cámaras. Volumen VII</u> (Lulu), 2010, pages 69-121, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/luis-ruiz-noguez/extraterrestres-ante-las-c%C3%A1maras-volumen-vii/paperback/product-13585635.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/luis-ruiz-noguez/extraterrestres-ante-las-c%C3%A1maras-volumen-vii/paperback/product-13585635.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(15) Colman VonKeviczky & Karl L. Veit, “Police Chief Jeffrey Greenhaw of Falkville (Ala.) Encounter with an Extraterrestrial Entity,” 1974. <i>Official UFO</i>, August 1975, pages 20-27 & 52-54.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(16) Warren Smith, SAGA, October 1974, page 48.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(17) Walt Greenawald, letter to NICAP, December 10, 1974.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(18) Colman S. VonKeviczky, letter to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, September 18, 1975. Photographs submitted to VJBO on October 11, 1975.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(19) <i>UFO Investigator</i>, January 1977, page 4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(20) John L. Acuff, “Response,” <i>UFO Investigator</i>, April 1977, page 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(21) John L. Acuff, letter to Richard W. Heiden, August 4, 1977.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(22) William H. Spaulding & Fred Adrian, “Usage of Computer Photographic Evaluation Techniques,” <i>UPIAR Research in Progress</i>, Vol. I, No. 1, 1982, pages 11-22, <a href="http://cdufo.info/tra/tra00008.pdf">http://cdufo.info/tra/tra00008.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(23) William Spaulding, “Falkville Creature Photographs Analyzed,” <i>The MUFON UFO Journal</i>, November 1976, cover and pages 3-5.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(24) Jerome Clark, <u>High Strangeness: UFOs from 1969 through 1979</u> (The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 3), Omnigraphics (Detroit, Michigan), 1996, pages 389-396.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(25) Peter Rogerson, INTCAT, International catalogue of close encounters and entity reports, 1752-1986, <a href="http://intcat.blogspot.com/">http://intcat.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(26) Based in Valencia (Spain), FOTOCAT is an Excel-spreadsheet-formatted worldwide catalog of over 12,500 UFO events with a photographic record, generally up to yearend 2005, <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(27) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “UFO Waves: An International Bibliography,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(28) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The UFO Waves Review Project,” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To Martin Shough, for editing. To Kay Coggin, for newspaper research. To Julio Plaza del Olmo for technical assistance. To Matías Morey. To Dr. Mark Rodeghier (J.A. Hynek CUFOS). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This note is somehow connected to my own conception and personal early work in ufology: the absolute requirement to collect all scientific intelligence on UFOs, dismissing the unacceptable and pushing progress on what was well-founded. To this purpose, I published a number of preliminary themed bibliographies.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1-7</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> More recently, I have published in the French GEIPAN website a comprehensive bibliography on work performed on UFO waves.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Others, professional bibliographers, released massive compilations of UFO-related essays and investigation.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9-13</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I saw this only as a first phase of what should be done. I always envisaged an academic continuation to preparing bibliographies strictly oriented to scientific-minded work on UFO reports: the analysis of the best literature by proficient personnel. The following reflection outlines this thinking. Don´t get me wrong: it is far from wishing to debunk people’s pet theories. Everybody is free to believe anything. But, from my perspective, something emerges clear as crystal. I have reached the conviction, sustained by the facts, that there does not exist any material phenomenon in the flow of UFO reports which is new to science, nothing extraordinary or paraphysical has emerged. It is unreal in the physical sense. It only exists as a sociological, anthropological, historical, cultural construct. Physically speaking, UFOs are but a mirage. Seven decades of reports and testimonies and events prove that there are no unidentifiable flying machines, it is a “phenomenon” devoid of any material proof. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The history of ufology is the narration of 70 plus years of scientific failures. Since the early times when flying saucers, then UFOs, later on UAPs rose into our cultural space, academics as well as scientifically oriented amateurs decided to apply scientific knowledge in an attempt to decipher the nature of the phenomenon, how these alleged spacecraft could fly, where they came from, how they could be detected, how they interacted with the Earth, how their activity fluctuated in an intelligent way, hard data that could be extracted from soft eyewitness testimony, patterns hidden in the mass of reports, constant features of UFO shapes and behaviors, and a long etcetera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottom line in all this well-intentioned work has been to prove that UFOs were alien in origin, showing a technology or laws of physics foreign to our planet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After millions of so-called UFO claims produced all over the world (as many cases as different descriptions), not a single material trace of the actual presence of extraterrestrial navigators in our airspace and on the ground has been delivered. On the other hand, nevertheless, it has been made abundantly obvious that the vast majority of the human and automated sightings are soluble in basically traditional terms. No exotic realm needs to be postulated to explain the raw case reports. Therefore, a psychosocial model (a popular, media-stimulated myth in progress) emerges as a fundamental, empirical solution to the UFO matrix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, what to do with all the proposals made public in recent UFO history? A real encyclopedia of bad science can be erected upon books and articles and papers (some of them published in scientific journals) exhibiting remarkable errors in formulation, methodology, and twisted manipulation of certain theories, hypotheses, techniques, or approaches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Miscalculations, flawed statistics (GIGO), false assumptions and worse development, wild hypotheses on motion, flight patterns and capabilities, fantasized propulsion theories, etc. Ufology has created all sorts of scientific monsters in the form of factual errors and wrong application of mathematical, statistical, physics, engineering, electrical, magnetic, or gravitational principles, when not plainly pseudoscience.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Universal culture needs a critical thinker (mainly a physicist) who is able to make a synthesis of all those works disregarded by the history of science, never to be recognized by the mainstream scientific establishment. Not disregarded for being too audacious for an epoch, but for being misguided, lost and off base. I can imagine an annotated catalog of scientific falsehoods in ufology, placed in a historical context of vogues and trends and waves, disclosing how personal belief spoiled potential discoveries, not as sensational as those promised but much more realistic and down to Earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I thank History professor Greg Eghigian for discussing the topic with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Science and UFOs: A Selected Bibliography of UFO Research Papers,” <i>DATA-NET</i>, July 1972, pages 6-9, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_61_1972.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_61_1972.pdf</a> and March 1973, pages 4-5, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “A List of References on Formal Methods and Speculations for the Automatic Detection of UFO Phenomena,” DATA-NET, June 1972, pages 10-11, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_60_1972.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_60_1972.pdf</a> and March 1973, page 5, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Census of Technical Works and Discussions Directly Related to the UFO Propulsion Problem”, <i>DATA-NET</i>, August 1972, pages 7-8, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_62_1972.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_62_1972.pdf</a> and March 1973, page 5, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_69_1973.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Index of Articles about UFOs and Geophysics”, DATA-NET, September 1972, page 2, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_63_1972.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_63_1972.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Bibliografía sobre propulsión de los OVNIS,” <i>Stendek</i>, 28, June 1977, pages 14-16, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y89rjkt3">https://tinyurl.com/y89rjkt3</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Aids to the UFO Investigator: A Bibliography,” <i>The MUFON UFO Journal</i>, October 1980, pages 12-14. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “UFO Research Bibliography,” <i>UPIAR Research in Progress</i>, Vol. 1:1, 1982, pages. 48-54; Vol. 1:2, 1982, pages 65-71; and Vol. 2:1, 1983, pages 61-70.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “UFO Waves: An International Bibliography,” November 2015, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/typo3conf/ext/dam_frontend/pushfile.php?docID=11383</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9) Lynn E. Catoe, <i>UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography</i> (Library of Congress/Air Force Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.), 1969.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(10) Martin H. Sable, <i>Exobiology: A Research Guide</i> (Green Oak Press, Brighton, Michigan), 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(11) George M. Eberhart, A <i>Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies</i>, Greenwood Press (Westport, Connecticut), 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(12) George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography. Volume One: Unidentified Flying Objects ( The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey), 1986.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(13) George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography. Volume Two: The Extraterrestrial Contact Movement ( The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey), 1986.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(14) What follows is just a sample of references on books displaying scientific error ranging from speculative and inaccurate science to wishful thinking, or concepts and theories dismissed by the academia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Leonard G. Cramp, Space, <i>Gravity and the Flying Saucer</i>, British Book Centre (New York), 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jean Plantier, La propulsion des soucoupes volantes par action directe sur l’atome, Maison Mame, 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aimé Michel, <i>Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery</i>, S.G. Phillips (New York), 1958.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, Sir Joseph Causton and Sons (London), 1967.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bruce L. Cathie, <i>Harmonic</i> 33, A.H. & A.W. Reed (Wellington), 1968.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Eugene Burt, <i>UFOs and Diamagnetism</i>, Exposition Press (Jericho), 1970.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">James McCampbell, <i>Ufology</i>, Jaymac Company (Belmont), 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">F. Aréjula, Hacia una física de los OVNIS, 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yvan Bozzonetti, La propulsion des soucoupes volantes. Énigme résolue? UGEPI-OURANOS (Bohain), 1975.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Trevor James Constable, <i>The Cosmic Pulse of Life</i>, Merlin Press (Santa Ana), 1976.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Michael A. Persinger & Gyslaine F. Lafrenière, <i>Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events</i>, Nelson-Hall (Chicago), 1977.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bruce L. Cathie, <i>The Pulse of the Universe</i>, A.H. & A.W. Reed (Wellington), 1977.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maurice G. de San, <i>Hypothesis on the UFO Origin</i>, Editecs (Bologna), 1978.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Karl Brunstein, <i>Beyond the Four Dimensions</i>, Walker Publishing Co. (New York), 1979.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thomas E. Bearden, <i>Excalibur Briefing</i>, Strawberry Hill Press (San Francisco), 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jean-Charles Fumoux, <i>Preuves scientifiques OVNI : L’Isocélie</i>, Éditions du Rocher (Paris), 1981.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Alexandre Laugier, <i>Détection du Phénomène OVNI</i> en France, 1982.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Berthold E. Schwarz, <i>UFO Dynamics-Books I and II</i>, Rainbow Books (Moore Haven), 1983.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">John Ackerman, <i>To Catch a Flying Star</i>, Univelt, Inc. (San Diego), 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jean-Pierre Petit, <i>Enquête sur les OVNI</i>, Albin Michel (Paris), 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paul R. Hill, <i>Unconventional Flying Objects: a Scientific Analysis</i>, Hampton Roads Publishing Co. (Charlottesville), 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A celebrated series of UFO photographs obtained from our continent, considered unusual by all parties, was taken at Moignelée (Belgium) in 1990 by 15-year-old David T. (name on record). Work published by Ferryn</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and Boitte</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> defined the origin of the images in the shots as unknown. Over the years, the pictures have been reproduced in several magazines and books. All authors regarded them as proof of the existence of anomalous, self-luminous objects crossing the Belgian skies. Until now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the course of his research for the second volume devoted to the study of UFO photographs in Belgium</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Wim van Utrecht tackled this amazing set of snapshots, reviewing in full detail the circumstances of the event, and the concurrent space-time data. Checks with other experts from Spain, USA and Chile pointed towards a particular cause for this phenomenon. Van Utrecht conducted a thorough and exemplary investigation revealing the nature of what can be seen in the photographs. The reader of his final report, “Examining A Peculiar Series of Photographs Shot During the Belgian UFO Wave of 1989-1991” will be surprised by the outcome. The resulting paper can be read here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As if Wim van Utrecht was lately under a Moon spell, the last issue of Tim Printy’s <i>SUNlite</i> carries a masterly, educational piece of his on pages 16 to 26, titled “Lunar Terror in Poland. A Doctor’s Dilemma" (<a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite12_2.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite12_2.pdf</a>). It exemplifies a case of severe misinterpretation, by which the Moon created a frightening close encounter episode. Wim’s article illustrates that UFO reports triggered by a distorted vision of our natural satellite are much more frequent than generally assumed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Patrick Ferryn, in <u>Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique</u>, SOBEPS, 1991, pages 412-413 & plates 7.16bis a-d. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Franck Boitte, <i>UFOmania</i>, 68, Autumn 2011, pages 19-21, and <a href="http://www.cobeps.org/pdf/belgian_wave_130310.pdf">http://www.cobeps.org/pdf/belgian_wave_130310.pdf</a>, pages 32-36.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Wim van Utrecht, <u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u>, <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most significant UFO landing cases in France occurred on August 29, 1967, on the outskirts of the village of Cussac. It was a characteristic CE3 event. In the last years, four detailed reviews have been published on this happening. Two studies support the hypothesis that the object which landed and took off in the presence of several kids was a civilian or military helicopter “Alouette II”. Two other papers sustain the view it was unexplainable, or at least not a helicopter. Chronologically speaking, we have, firstly, 2004 Eric Maillot’s inquiry in two parts. One centers on an old newspaper which presents new details on the case,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2016/03/20/cussacenquetemeconnue/cussacenquetemeconnue.pdf">https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2016/03/20/cussacenquetemeconnue/cussacenquetemeconnue.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, we have chapter #10 of the book <i>Les OVNI du CNES, trente ans d’études officielles (1977-2007)</i>, “Cussac (1967)” by David Rossoni, Éric Maillot and Éric Déguillaume, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a more positive side, we have Alain Delmon’s paper “Les cas solides: Cussac, 1967, RR3” (Solid cases: Cussac 1967, CE3), claiming it was a real, anomalous flying object. See: <a href="http://adelmon.free.fr/Cussac/5-helicono_Rossoni.html">http://adelmon.free.fr/Cussac/5-helicono_Rossoni.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The latest work on this most relevant mystery occurrence is the study written by Jean-Marc Gillot, <i>Cussac 1967-2007</i>, reporting no trace of an “Alouette II” helicopter flight was found in official archives, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Close encounter of the 3</span></span><span style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">rd</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> kind at Cussac. Image borrowed from <i>Phénomènes Spatiaux</i>, June 1968.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Bad UFO reporting</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. David Clarke (Communication & Journalism, Sheffield University, England), described it to me with a typical English flavor: “This is a storm in a teacup,” and certainly it is true. What worldwide media reported lately about the exciting release of a new batch of secret UFO materials from the UK Ministry of Defense (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/tt358me">https://tinyurl.com/tt358me</a>), with the usual characters adding noise to the theme, was rubbish. Fortunately, there are rational, really well-informed researchers who know what they are talking about and the clarification and rebuttal came soon. This blog entry needs to be read: <a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/01/29/the-truth-in-not-in-here/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/01/29/the-truth-in-not-in-here/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>What You Miss from the Spanish Version</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two versions of this blog are not identical. I suggest you practice your Spanish by reading some articles or entries not translated into English, so that you do not miss an iota of the present issue’s content:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Article “Mentiras y periodismo aficionado: Una combinación fatal,” when lies and amateur journalism proves to be a fatal combination, as far as UFO investigation is concerned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Article “El OVNI del Batallón de Transmisiones Número 3,” on a 1950 UFO sighting by over one hundred military from the Transmissions Battalion Number 5 of Valencia, Spain. Co-authored with Juan A. Fernández Peris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note on the ultimate fate of the library of deceased Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note on a bright object photographed from Manresa, Barcelona province, Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note on medical research work on visions produced during the dream state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Brad Sparks has updated his “Comprehensive Catalog of 2,200 Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns: Database Catalog”, a work in progress, 1.30 version as of January 26, 2020: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) The picture of a phantom airship circa 1907? Read this very nice entry in Airminded, the superb website of Dr. Brett Holman, a historian from Melbourne, Australia: <a href="https://airminded.org/2008/08/12/a-phantom-airship/">https://airminded.org/2008/08/12/a-phantom-airship/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) On the Moon and impostor UFOs, E. Maillot, G. Munsch, L. Danizel, I. Dumas, P. Fournel, R. Robé, C. Zwygart, and J.-M. Abrassart, have authored this very eye-opening, interesting paper, “Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: The “Saros Operation,” <i>Anomaly - Journal of Research into the Paranormal</i>, Volume 50, November 2019, pages 8-17,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_">https://www.academia.edu/41852623/Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_The_Saros_Operation_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) UFO myths in the first Moon landing. Let me suggest the reading of a Power Point that James Oberg presented last July at the Houston Space Center, commemorating the 50</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Clarifying and demystifying. See: <a href="http://www.astronautix.com/data/apollo11mythtakes.pdf">http://www.astronautix.com/data/apollo11mythtakes.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Another anniversary, ten years since the December 9, 2009 ‘Norway spiral’ mystery, and the new internet culture that has embraced any non-missile theories, a new paper by James Oberg: <a href="http://www.astronautix.com/data/norwayspiral.pdf">http://www.astronautix.com/data/norwayspiral.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) I like humor in general and I enjoy UFO-related humor as well. It helps us not to take the subject matter too seriously. I recall Hynek was very fond of collecting printed press jokes that he used as slides in his speeches. Recently, there came to my attention a journalist-hoaxed image that was accompanied by a funny column written by Lawrence Brown, one I am enclosing here. I find myself laughing especially at the so-called “AF General”’s fictitious statement regarding the Zanesville, Ohio flying disc picture of barber Ralph Ditter, November 13, 1966. The dialog follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>REPORTER: General sir, surely you have seen accounts of the UFO which was photographed over Zanesville, Ohio.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>GENERAL: Nice town Zanesville. Got its share of nuts though.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>REPORTER: I was more interested in the UFO, sir, the one sighted in Ohio. What does the Air Force say about that?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>GENERAL: The Air Force says there’s no such thing as a UFO. The Air Force is not even ready to admit that there is an Ohio.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) A thought-provoking essay by Johan Grimonprez is to be found here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35528729/MAYBE_THE_SKY_IS_GREEN">https://www.academia.edu/35528729/MAYBE_THE_SKY_IS_GREEN</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Steven T. Parsons, “Orbs, some definitive evidence that they are not paranormal,” <i>Paranthropology; Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal</i>, Vol. 5, No. 2, January 2014, pages 42-44, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Back on Mantell. Recently, Kevin Randle posted a study on the known Mantell 1948 aircraft-crash case:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Mantell_UFO_Sighting_A_Reevaluation.pdf" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Mantell_UFO_Sighting_A_Reevaluation.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, a paper has been released by Brad Sparks on the same incident:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/sparks/MANTELL_OXYGEN_COVERUP-Sparks_Jan_6_2020..pdf">http://www.nicap.org/papers/sparks/MANTELL_OXYGEN_COVERUP-Sparks_Jan_6_2020..pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debate in the UFO arena, with serious arguments is always valued. I wanted to know if this last work contributed original information to the discussion, and asked Randle. He replied as follows: <i>There is nothing in Brad’s analysis that is new. Everything I have to say about the Mantell incident is in the paper that has been published.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me finish this entry by adding a YouTube interview to illustrate the issue: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYI8_-DMOA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYI8_-DMOA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Dr. Gary P. Posner’s research findings, first-hand correspondence and documentation concerning the 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO-radiation case follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://gpposner.com/Cash-Landrum.html">https://gpposner.com/Cash-Landrum.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) Do not miss this if you are one of those who do not like to be swindled on UFO matters: Mick West writes “TTSA Exotic Material vs. Thermite Slag,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ttsa-exotic-material-vs-thermite-slag.11123/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ttsa-exotic-material-vs-thermite-slag.11123/</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>El fenómeno OVNI. Estudio de 30 años de observaciones en España</u> (The UFO phenomenon. A study of 30 years of sightings in Spain). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the late seventies, a large group of university and UFO students, led by senior engineers David Gustavo López (Aeronautics) and Félix Ares de Blas (Telecommunications), carried out an ambitious project: the computer analysis of 2,500 reports of UFO sightings that occurred in Spain between 1950 and 1978. The goal being to establish for the first time in Spain, following a strict scientific methodology and equipment, the characteristics and substance of the so-called “UFO phenomenon”. In 1982, a multidimensional study with the above title was completed. The resulting work had 270 pages and 22 chapters. It remained practically unpublished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have just uploaded this impressive piece of research, and to this end the authors have contributed a 2020-updated new introduction, a text as elegant as it is smart and deep. I fully recommend its Reading to anyone with a certain knowledge of the Spanish language. The work is available here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first volume of the complete works of Martin Kottmeyer has been published in Spanish, under the expressive title of “Aliens under the magnifying glass”. Kottmeyer is one of the most acute and creative thinkers of contemporary ufology. In this tome, the author reviews, from novel perspectives, different classics of UFO history, such as the Arnold case, the sighting of Father Gill, or the famous abduction of the Hill couple. A happy initiative, articles that have left an intellectual mark in the study of UFOs have been collected in a single volume, for the enjoyment of fans of one of the main mysteries of the last decades. It can be purchased in Lulu: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Ballester Olmos Bibliography</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My personal research bibliography 1965-2019 is hosted, as usual, in the following link: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PERSONAL LOG</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few personal and family issues are scattered in the Spanish section of this blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Acknowledgements</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material, references or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Matías Morey Ripoll (Spain), Kay Coggin (USA), James Oberg (USA), Wim van Utrecht (Belgium), Laurent Chabin (France), Jean-Marc Gillot (France), Eric Maillot (France), Joan Plana Crivillén (España), Albert Joan Maria Alá (Spain), Jean-Michel Abrassart (Belgium), Dr. Antonio Bueno (España), Dr. David Clarke (England), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Spain), Dr. Félix Ares de Blas (Spain), David G. López (Spain), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Juan A. Fernández Peris (Spain).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</u> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Investigación OVNI </u>(UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS">https://www.academia.edu/41625252/ENCICLOPEDIA_DE_LOS_ENCUENTROS_CERCANOS_CON_OVNIS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Expedientes insólitos</u> (Unusual Files)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g">https://tinyurl.com/veh9x7g</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to: </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A fecha de hoy, la hoja de Excel que reúne el catálogo FOTOCAT contiene 12.586 líneas, igual al número de series independientes de imágenes tomadas de supuestos fenómenos inexplicados. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS fue un trabajo meticuloso realizado con Juan A. Fernández Peris y publicado por Plaza & Janés (Barcelona) en 1987 en un volumen de 383 páginas de concentrado contenido. Hace tiempo que el libro está agotado y solo se encuentra en el mercado de segunda mano, a veces a precio considerablemente superior al de venta original. Ahora, el investigador ucraniano Igor Kalytyuk ha tenido la gentileza de digitalizar un ejemplar que hace años regalé al Dr. Vladimir Rubtsov, desgraciadamente ya fallecido. He aprovechado esta oportunidad para subirlo a internet para beneficio de todos los estudiosos, que ahora pueden libremente acceder a su información. La obra es una detallada presentación y análisis de cerca de 600 informes de “aterrizaje ovni” denunciados en España y Portugal hasta 1985, tanto casos explicados como inexplicados. Ahora el lector lo tiene a golpe de un clic en este enlace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “Pictures of aliens in USA, October 1973” (Fotos de extraterrestres en EE.UU, octubre de 1973), es un artículo que acabo de publicar conjuntamente con el experto investigador y autor mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Firmado por Wim van Utrecht (con la colaboración de V.J. Ballester Olmos), el trabajo “Examining A Peculiar Series of Photographs Shot During the Belgian UFO Wave of 1989-1991” va a sorprender al lector por su inesperado desenlace. El destacado estudioso belga Van Utrecht sometió a estudio una serie de fotos ovni supuestamente tomadas en el verano de 1990 en la comunidad de Moignelée. Su análisis reveló que las fotografías no se tomaron en la fecha indicada sino, realmente, durante el eclipse lunar del 9 de febrero de 1990. El trabajo resultante se puede leer en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Estudio de 30 años de informes ovni en España</u> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A finales de los años setenta, un nutrido grupo de estudiantes universitarios y estudiosos de los ovnis, dirigidos por los ingenieros superiores David Gustavo López (Aeronáutica) y Félix Ares de Blas (Telecomunicaciones), llevaron a cabo un ambicioso proyecto: el análisis informático de 2.500 informes de avistamientos ovni ocurridos en España entre 1950 y 1978. Se trataba de establecer con metodología y equipamiento científico, por primera vez en nuestro país, las características y la sustancia, digamos, el ADN, del llamado “fenómeno OVNI”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En 1982, se completó un estudio multidimensional, <i>El fenómeno OVNI. Análisis de treinta años de observaciones en España</i>. El trabajo resultó en un volumen de 270 páginas y 22 capítulos cuyas conclusiones rezaban así:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El fenómeno real se comportaba de acuerdo con los postulados establecidos para el modelo teórico: Fenómeno <u>físico</u> y <u>real</u>, manifestándose <u>aleatoriamente</u> en la atmósfera…Todo nos induce a pensar que son precisamente esas falsas interpretaciones, con su multiplicidad de características, las que configuran el comportamiento global del fenómeno OVNI.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El estudio, repleto de tablas, gráficos y cálculos, presentado en un ciclo de conferencias de la Universidad de Granada, apenas fue difundido a unos pocos investigadores, si bien algunos de los capítulos más significativos se publicaron en una serie de artículos en la revista especializada <i>Stendek</i> (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/stxt8dj">https://tinyurl.com/stxt8dj</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yo fui uno de los afortunados en recibir copia de tan elaborado, preciso y riguroso manuscrito. Nunca se había hecho en España una investigación estadística tan exacta y metódica sobre la casuística ovni. Y apenas unos ensayos similares en otras partes del mundo, la Fuerzas Aérea de los Estados Unidos, Jacques Vallée, se pueden contar con los dedos de una mano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por desgracia, los resultados no percolaron lo necesario. De haberlo hecho, creo que el futuro de la ufología hubiera sido otro. Decenas de investigadores, encuestadores, comunicadores y aficionados, después de pasar por esta cátedra, habrían aprendido lo que hoy en día siguen sin aprender. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo cierto es que se me ha ocurrido plantear a los autores la posibilidad de subir a internet tan extraordinario trabajo, para que sea tan conocido como se merece. Concretamente, someterlo al portal Academia.edu. López y Ares de Blas han encontrado la propuesta de interés y, para ese propósito, han redactado una introducción que sintetiza con tanta elegancia como profundidad, el significado y trasfondo del “fenómeno OVNI”, cuarenta años después de escrita aquella impecable pieza de investigación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si la expresión “lectura obligatoria” cobra sentido realista, se aplica absolutamente a este estudio. El trabajo completo se encuentra disponible en el siguiente enlace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI._ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA">https://www.academia.edu/42153967/EL_FENOMENO_OVNI._ANALISIS_DE_30_ANOS_DE_OBSERVACIONES_EN_ESPANA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seguidamente incluyo la Introducción 2020 que han firmado los autores, a quienes agradezco la amabilidad mostrada conmigo para usar su brillante texto en mi blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">I congreso nacional de ufología, Barcelona, 1977. De izquierda a derecha: V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Guasp, P. Redón, D.G. López, A. Salaverría y F. Ares de Blas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">II congreso ibérico sobre el Fenómeno OVNI, Mérida, 1981. De izquierda a derecha: F. Ares de Blas, J.J. Benítez, V.J. Ballester Olmos y A. Ribera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Seminario organizado por la Fundación Anomalía, San Rafael, 1988. D.G. López, en el centro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Félix Ares y David G. López</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Normalmente, según pasan los años, adquirimos nuevos conocimientos y nuevas habilidades. Debido a ello suele ser habitual que cuando releemos las investigaciones que habíamos hecho años atrás nos parezcan flojas, echamos en falta cosas que tendríamos que haber dicho pero que no dijimos. Por ejemplo, eso suele ocurrir al releer las tesis doctorales o los proyectos fin de carrera. Siempre pensamos que habría que haber incidido en ciertos puntos que entonces los mencionamos a vuelapluma, «tal vez hubiera que haber dicho …». Sin embargo, con la obra que nos ocupa nos ha pasado un poco lo contrario. Nos hemos quedado sorprendidos de la profundidad a la que habíamos llegado hace cuarenta años. Eso no quiere decir que en estos momentos estemos de acuerdo con cada uno de los detalles de la obra, ni que no echemos en falta alguna cosa; pero por lo general nos ha sorprendido el grado de detalle. Y es necesario recalcar que también lo ha hecho la cantidad de trabajo de los colaboradores que tuvimos y que en muchos casos ni siquiera mencionamos. Nos disculpamos por ello. Era un trabajo monótono y pesado y lo hicieron voluntariamente sin poner ninguna pega. Sin ellos aquel trabajo hubiera sido imposible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nos ha llamado la atención la insistencia sobre los «rayos globulares». Tal vez por la novedad les dimos demasiada importancia. Hoy sabemos que ni siquiera está totalmente probada de modo irrefutable su existencia</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, y si lo estuviera, se trataría de un fenómeno poco frecuente, por lo que no es probable que sea la causa de muchos de los avistamientos ovni, como parece desprenderse de la obra. Hoy en día sabemos que hay objetos astronómicos que han sido confundidos con ovnis; entre ellos Júpiter, Venus e incluso la Luna, de los que no se hace mención en el texto. Probablemente el «ovni» más visto sea el planeta Venus que fue la figura estelar de los avistamientos por los pilotos en la Guerra de Corea, entre 1950 y 1953. Venus fue el «ovni» visto por el expresidente de Estados Unidos Jimmy Carter</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Y la Luna ha sido la protagonista de varios ovnis</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hoy en día, 2020, los ovnis ya apenas son noticia. Para los medios generalistas es un tema que ya no interesa. Por ello, es muy posible que los lectores jóvenes no entiendan porque se dedicó tato esfuerzo, incluso un seminario universitario</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, a la investigación de ese tema. Para entender la razón hay que situarse en el momento. Debemos pensar que aquellos años los ovnis sí eran noticia y estaban a la orden del día. Debemos recordar que en muchos países se crearon organismos gubernamentales para estudiarlos</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Otros probablemente echen en falta una profundización en los aspectos mítico-religiosos, sociales, en los problemas de percepción visual o incluso de un comentario sobre los problemas de obtener testimonios. Todo el trabajo se basa en los testimonios aportados por los testigos, y ninguno de los entrevistadores eran, éramos pues nos incluimos entre ellos, expertos en entrevistar para conseguir un relato fiel. En nuestra disculpa podemos decir que había muy pocos expertos e incluso que los experimentos que probaron las mejores técnicas de interrogatorio para obtener un relato con los menores errores posibles todavía no se habían realizado. Hoy sabemos que los testimonios, si no se utilizan las técnicas adecuadas, pueden no reflejar nada de lo que ocurrió en realidad. También sabemos que un investigador inexperto, a través de sus preguntas sesgadas, puede modificar el testimonio del testigo e incluso cambiar sus recuerdos</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6-17</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Todos estos errores de testimonio lo son para sucesos cotidianos, si nos enfrentamos a fenómenos poco habituales, los errores todavía son mayores</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Si tenemos en cuenta que los grupos de investigación ovni creían en la procedencia extraterrestre de los mismos y que no eran expertos en técnicas de interrogatorio, pocas dudas hay de que, en parte, los testimonios de los testigos reflejan las creencias de los investigadores. Y si, además, tenemos en cuenta que la memoria es sumamente maleable, una vez que se ha hecho una mala entrevista, sus errores se graban en la memoria de los testigos y estarán convencidos de que presenciaron lo que les ha insinuado el investigador. Estos hechos ponen en un grave aprieto a los testimonios de encuentros cercanos y de abducciones</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19-21</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Pensemos por un momento en esos programas de radio y televisión que van a la búsqueda de los misterios, incluyendo los ovnis. Los «investigadores» están convencidos de su procedencia extraterrestre, o si no lo están, hacen como si lo estuvieran pues es eso lo que conviene al programa; eso es lo que vende. Entrevistan a un testigo de modo inicial, antes de que cuente su relato en antena, y hacen una pésima entrevista y, sin querer o queriendo, introducen falsos recuerdos</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">22</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> en la memoria de los testigos; estos, cuando posteriormente se expliquen en el medio de comunicación, creerán que han presenciado y que son sus recuerdos lo que en realidad son falsas memorias. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Estos hechos hacen que, en parte, algunas de las características de los ovnis, sobre todo las de los que hemos llamado tipo I, de las que hablamos en el estudio, no sean otra cosa que una manifestación de las creencias del momento y no respondan a una realidad objetiva; pero, sinceramente, no se nos ocurre ninguna metodología para evitar estos errores. La historia nos suministra muchos casos en los que la creencia colectiva ha modificado las percepciones de los testigos. Por recordar solo algunos de ellos, pensemos en las brujas de Salem</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">23</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">; otros casos curiosos fueron los de 1518 en Estrasburgo donde la gente se puso a bailar sin cesar durante horas, semanas y meses; o el llamado «asesino de Halifax» que «atacó» a muchas personas, aunque luego se demostró que los daños habían sido autoinfligidos</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">24</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Ni que decir tiene, que los errores se minimizarían con investigadores expertos en las técnicas de interrogatorio para conseguir un relato veraz. Pero esto sería aplicable en el futuro, no en los relatos que tenemos del pasado. La técnica que sugerimos es la llamada «entrevista cognitiva»</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">25-27</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, muy utilizada por personas que tienen que tomar decisiones en base a los testimonios: policías, antropólogos, sociólogos, psicólogos, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lo dicho en los párrafos anteriores cobra más fuerza si tenemos en cuenta que, en los cuarenta años transcurridos, los avances de la neurociencia nos han descubierto un panorama científico nuevo o casi nuevo, en una especie de carrera, como antes lo fue la espacial, a la que también podríamos aplicar la ley de Moore, que afirma que la potencia de computación se duplica cada dieciocho meses. Hoy, la interfaz cerebro-máquina, en especial mediante resonancia magnética, permite que las señales eléctricas que emanan del cerebro puedan ser descodificadas parcialmente en un lenguaje digital que entendemos y que, todavía en niveles precarios, hace posible registrar los recuerdos, la lectura de la mente, la grabación de nuestros sueños e, incluso, la telequinesia mediante acción electromagnética</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">28-31</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. De todo ello se apuntan nuevas posibilidades en cuanto a la naturaleza del fenómeno ovni, porque los científicos van constatando desconocidas realidades a partir del hecho de que la mente no es otra cosa que la visión subjetiva de procesos objetivos. De ahí surgen fenómenos como las experiencias místicas y religiosas, constreñidas, claro está, al campo de las creencias, sueños y motivaciones subconscientes de cada cual, entre las que hoy cabe integrar el ya mítico tema de los ovnis. Los neurofisiólogos han conseguido hallar los centros donde se encuentran las áreas que dan lugar a estas experiencias, apuntando al sistema que es origen de las emociones, es decir, el sistema límbico, interaccionando con el sistema nervioso vegetativo</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">32</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Se ha demostrado, por ejemplo, que la estimulación electromagnética mediante EMT</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">33</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (también por patología epiléptica</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">34</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">) de las estructuras profundas del lóbulo temporal derecho produce alucinaciones complejas y tan intensas que la persona las cree más reales que la propia realidad</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">35</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Pero, más allá todavía, es un hecho constatado que la mente genera alucinaciones continuas por sí sola, las cuales son filtradas por la corteza cingulada anterior, que las separa de estímulos exteriores y las anula. Pero, a veces, el filtro falla por alguna patología y la fantasía se impone a la realidad</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">36</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. A esta causa, se pueden atribuir, por ejemplo, los casos ovni de abducciones</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">37</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. De este tema, entrando en lo que hoy es ciencia ficción, pero que mañana será realidad casi con certeza. Se ha llegado a apuntar la extraña idea, conceptual de la física cuántica, de que la conciencia podría ser la base fundamental de toda la realidad</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">38</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aunque se menciona de pasada, también se echa en falta, una profundización en la evolución del tema. De las sencillas estelas de los aviones a reacción de 1950, pasamos a una compleja mitología en la que hay hombrecillos verdes, altos y bajos; naves de diversos tamaños; mensajes enviados a pequeños grupos que están en contacto con ellos; secuestros por extraterrestres; operaciones quirúrgicas en platillos volantes; grupos que rezan a los dioses del espacio; etc. Estudiar cómo ha evolucionado el tema nos parece apasionante y que merece una investigación en el futuro. De hecho, pensamos que es una ocasión única de analizar a fondo cómo, a partir de un origen realmente simple y sencillo, surge toda una mitología compleja. Podríamos decir que los ovnis nos dan un ejemplo de cómo nace, evoluciona y se consolida una creencia mitológica, en muchos casos completamente religiosa, como es el caso de la secta «Heaven´s Gate</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">39</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">», aunque, ciertamente, por desgracia, no es la única</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "liberation serif" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">40</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Así, con los ovnis, podemos estudiar el nacimiento de una religión. Una tarea que pensamos sumamente interesante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Agradecemos a Vicente J. Ballester Olmos su ayuda en todo lo relativo a esta edición tardía). (28 de febrero de 2020)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre;">(1) </span>Rayo Globular, Wikipedia. Recuperado el 19 de febrero de 2020 de: <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo_globular">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo_globular</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sheaffer, R. (1994). <i>VEREDICTO OVNI. Examen de la evidencia</i>. Tikal Ediciones, Gerona. Capítulo 2, pp. 15-26. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Uno de los autores investigó un caso de una pareja que había visto un ovni en Guipúzcoa y resultó ser la Luna. Otros casos pueden verlos en el blog «En el cielo estrellas». <a href="https://guillermoabramson.blogspot.com/2010/10/ovnis.html">https://guillermoabramson.blogspot.com/2010/10/ovnis.html</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nos referimos a un seminario cuyo objetivo era estudiar el fenómeno, no a conferencias o ciclos de conferencias, donde los creyentes en el tema exponían sus ideas. Hasta donde sabemos, el que realizamos en el Centro de Cálculo de la Universidad de Madrid, fue el primero que se hizo en nuestro país. La referencia bibliográfica se da dentro del texto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>List of investigations of UFOs by governments, Wikipedia. Recuperado el 24 de febrero de 2020 de: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_investigations_of_UFOs_by_governments">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_investigations_of_UFOs_by_governments</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Balsells Cid, M. (2014). La fragilidad de la memoria del testigo: la transferencia inconsciente [entrada de un blog]. El Jurista. 12 de noviembre de 2014. [Fecha de consulta: 12 de abril de 2018]. Disponible en: <a href="http://www.eljurista.eu/2014/11/12/la-fragilidad-de-la-memoria-del-testigo-la-transferencia-inconsciente/">http://www.eljurista.eu/2014/11/12/la-fragilidad-de-la-memoria-del-testigo-la-transferencia-inconsciente/</a> El artículo hace referencia a un vídeo de National Geographic, disponible en: <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnnhe7">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnnhe7</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Buckhout, R. (1974). Eyewitness Testimony. <i>Scientific American</i>, diciembre 1974, vol. 231, nº 6, pp. 23-39. ISSN: 0036-8733 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;">)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cebeiro Belaza, M. (2017). Reportaje. Un falso recuerdo me llevó a la cárcel. </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">El País Semanal</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. 12 de marzo de 2017, sec. Eps. Disponible en: </span><a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/12/eps/1489273551_148927.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/12/eps/1489273551_148927.html</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;">)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chabris, C. y Simons, (s.f.). D. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us [entrada de un blog]. The invisible gorilla. [Consulta: 18 de abril de 2018]. Disponible en: </span><a href="http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(10</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;">)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Colegrove, F. W. (1899). Individual Memories. </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The American Journal of Psychology</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. 1 de enero de 1899, vol. 10. Disponible en: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/jstor-1412480" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://archive.org/details/jstor-1412480</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(11</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;">)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Loftus, Elizabeth F. (1979). </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Eyewitness Testimony</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979, 253 págs. Referenciado en: </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3675329?%20seq=1" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://www.jstor.org/stable/3675329?%20seq=1</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(12</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;">)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Loftus, E. y Ketcham, K. (1991). </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Juicio a la memoria</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Testigos presenciales y falsos culpables</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. Barcelona: Alba Editorial, 1991. 406 páginas, p. 54. ISBN: 978-84-8428-556-4 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La ignorancia es osada y la credulidad peligrosa. En este caso coinciden las dos discapacidades. He leído con asombro este artículo en una web de parapsicología: <a href="https://www.mundoparapsicologico.com/ufologia/ovnis-espana/">https://www.mundoparapsicologico.com/ufologia/ovnis-espana/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El artículo es una insensatez y una sarta de despropósitos infundados. En “otoño de 2016” el articulista fue al cuartel general del Ejército del Aire a consultar los expedientes desclasificados sobre ovnis, cuando desde septiembre esa documentación ya estaba accesible <i>online</i> en la biblioteca de Defensa.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Desclasificación, por cierto, que se inició el 14 de abril de 1992 (con el primer expediente liberado el 25 de septiembre de 1992), no a “comienzos de 1991” como erradamente aparece en el artículo de marras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El primer toque de misterio -imprescindible en estos relatos de posverdad- aparece cuando un militar habla de “un archivo general situado en unas instalaciones que el Ejército del Aire tiene al sur de Madrid”. La ambigüedad, parte esencial de este tipo de narraciones, impide entender si se trata de archivos propios del Ejército del Aire o de archivos específicos sobre ovnis. Si se trata de lo segundo, niego la mayor. No existen archivos ovni clasificados del Ejército del Aire. Se admiten refutaciones documentadas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El articulista se basa enteramente en una “fuente de información” -naturalmente anónima- que describe como un supuesto “agente del CNI de Cataluña”, a quien llama “Rafael”. Éste habla de “variada documentación y procedimientos” que son secretos oficiales. El CNI (antes CESID), como cualquier agencia de inteligencia, tiene obligación de estar informada de todo lo que tenga incidencia social, aunque sea mínimamente y sean memeces. Ovnis incluidos. Yo mismo sostuve correspondencia al respecto con el director del CESID. Nadie lo niega. Puedo imaginarme, perfectamente, algún protocolo o procedimiento que se aplicaría, dada la ocasión. Sin embargo, discrepo frontalmente de la afirmación de que el CNI tiene seis efectivos dedicados a tiempo completo a la información ovni. O que se pruebe fehacientemente, no con palabrería hueca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una certeza, si debemos fiarnos de nuestra agencia de inteligencia nacional, en carta firmada de su puño y letra en 1992, el director general del Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) me decía que:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>No existe en este Servicio ningún departamento dedicado específicamente al fenómeno OVNI y que tampoco se ha producido la participación del Centro en el seguimiento ni en la investigación de los casos de avistamientos registrados...No obstante, en los casos detectados hasta el momento, no se han identificado riesgos concretos, a corto plazo, para la Seguridad Nacional, por lo que el Centro no se ha visto en la necesidad de definir y destinar recursos específicos a este asunto.</i></span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Más claro, agua. Pueden haber cambiado las cosas desde 1992, pero no hasta este punto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se habla de un caso en Cuenca en 2014 donde el testigo fue entrevistado por dos agentes del CNI. Como es normal, sin dar detalles que puedan verificarse. Bien puede ser que ocasionalmente el CNI explore el asunto, para estar al tanto de qué pasa. Es parte de su cometido de conocerlo todo. Pero que esto sea algo habitual, a mi juicio, seguro que dista gran trecho de la realidad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el apartado de archivos secretos de información ovni, el articulista se luce. Pobre, con unas tragaderas propias de Pantagruel, ha absorbido sin dudar todo lo que se le ha ocurrido largar al tal “Rafael”: nada menos que “se encuentran en un bunker subterráneo” en Villaviciosa de Odón. En ese magnífico castillo, ubicado al oeste del área metropolitana de Madrid, sencillamente se guarda el Archivo Histórico del Ejército del Aire, que tiene la misión de recoger, conservar y difundir la documentación producida por el Ejército del Aire a lo largo de su historia. Contrariamente a lo que el articulito señala, su acceso es libre. Yo mismo lo he visitado, he departido cordialmente con su director y me he sentado frente a sus ordenadores para consultar informaciones relativas a personal del EA involucrado en algún avistamiento.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lo único que contiene el castillo de Villaviciosa sobre ovnis son fotocopias de los expedientes desclasificados, sobradamente conocidos por todos, otra copia exacta de los cuales está en la biblioteca del CGEA en el distrito madrileño de la Moncloa y que se hallan en formato digital en la web de Defensa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se llega a decir, en el colmo del sensacionalismo, que la base aérea de Torrejón de Ardoz es el Área 51 española y que cuenta con un bunker subterráneo. ¡Naturalmente! Es “Pegaso”, el centro coordinador del sistema de alerta y control de la Defensa nacional. Es público y notorio. En la actualidad se está reconvirtiendo en un complejo de alta tecnología, por mor de la relación con la OTAN, como corresponde a un país avanzado como España, para el control del espacio aéreo, responsabilidad que compete al Ejército del Aire. Yo personalmente fui invitado a sus instalaciones. Y allí no hay archivos de ovnis que valga. El tal “Rafael” tiene algunas nociones, ha oído campanas pero no sabe dónde y no es otra cosa que una fuente de intoxicación y un batiburrillo de medias verdades, detalles tergiversados y mentiras totales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Según el verborreico supuesto agente del CNI, el Ejército del Aire destina nada menos que 20 personas en régimen de dedicación exclusiva a la investigación ovni. ¿Cómo puede uno dar por buenas tamaña fantasía? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La incongruencia se hace torpemente visible cuando “Rafael” cuenta que “hay una ley no escrita, una nota [sic] que se les mandaba y se manda a los cuartelillos de toda España [para que en el caso de avistamientos ovni] se llamase en el acto a un teléfono dedicado a este tipo de situaciones”. Ya comienza la mezcolanza, EA, CNI, GC. Mucha gente ha acudido desde hace décadas a denunciar observaciones ovni a la Guardia Civil. Y este instituto armado siempre ha facilitado a los investigadores la información. De hecho, hace años yo mismo obtuve una habilitación de la Dirección de Información e Investigación de la GC para recibir colaboración de los cuarteles de la Benemérita. Es totalmente posible que, años atrás, cuando había mucha emoción popular en esto de los ovnis, la Guardia Civil mandara una nota a sus acuartelamientos para que remitieran a la dirección general las informaciones sobre ovnis, ¡sobre todo para respondernos a nosotros, los ufólogos que las solicitábamos!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A ciertos propagandistas mediáticos de lo paranormal se les abren las carnes cuando les cuentan avistamientos de militares, aceptándolas y asumiéndolas como si nada con una enorme capacidad de candor e ingenuidad, cuando no de ganas de enrarecer y desinformar, como se ha demostrado en muchas ocasiones.</span><span style="color: red; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">5,6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En suma, hemos leído una serie de afirmaciones, confusas unas, plenamente falsas otras, convertidas en un relato sensacionalista propio de la prensa amarilla, con tufo de gacetillero crédulo, ávido de exclusivas, caiga quien caiga. En este caso, se desmorona la verdad. Terminaré en modo castizo: al articulista se la han metido doblada y, pretendiendo haber tenido acceso único a sensacionales “secretos de Estado” y a pruebas de la supuesta actividad investigadora militar en ovnis, que, puedo predecir y predigo, nunca se mostrarán ni se comprobarán.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Ricardo Campo Pérez, “OVNIS y militares, una fábrica de leyendas”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10363926/OVNIS_y_militares_una_fabrica_de_leyendas">https://www.academia.edu/10363926/OVNIS_y_militares_una_fabrica_de_leyendas</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El Brigada don Eleuterio Chueca Sánchez nos escribe en nombre de doscientos soldados del Batallón de Transmisiones número 3, campamento de Manuel, y nos comunica en la carta, fechada el 20 de los corrientes, que sobre las doce horas del día 19 observaron en campamento un objeto de los llamados “platillos volantes”. Lo vieron perfectamente evolucionar sobre un pequeño círculo de humo, observándose una pequeña cola. Su color era grisáceo, o más bien plomizo, de un brillo inmenso. El objeto parecía una estrella en pleno día, y su velocidad era rapidísima: durante cinco minutos estuvo evolucionando, y su evolución la efectuaba en dirección a la tierra para subir nuevamente, como si fuera dirigido desde arriba. Después siguió dirección SO a una velocidad fantástica. El Brigada Chueca Sánchez logró encajarlo en el plano visual de sus prismáticos, y entonces pudo observar una pequeña nebulosa mientras evolucionaba, y su cola de pequeña longitud. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La noticia ‒doblemente inusual por el tema y por la fuente que denunciaba los hechos‒ fue copiada por otros diarios españoles el día 27 de abril. Mal copiada, deberíamos añadir. Por ejemplo, el periódico Unidad de San Sebastián cambió el primer apellido del informador de Chueca a Sueca y atrasó el suceso de las doce horas del mediodía a medianoche. La Tarde, de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, fechó el caso el día 10 de abril, lo situó nada menos que a las tres de la madrugada y llamó Clemente al Brigada, en lugar de Eleuterio. Por su parte, la edición sevillana del ABC dijo que el fenómeno se produjo “a las doce de la noche del día uno” y también llamó Sueca al Brigada Chueca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A pesar de residir en Valencia, los autores sólo disponíamos desde hace muchos años de las tres citadas fuentes secundarias y no ha sido hasta que hace días, en el curso de la realización de un Catálogo Valenciano de Observaciones OVNI, que hallamos en la hemeroteca municipal la crónica auténtica que desató tal ristra de errores periodísticos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Examinemos ahora la noticia original. La información es muy escasa, pero a nuestro entender suficiente para una evaluación realista. Estaríamos ante un fenómeno de las siguientes características:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· De color grisáceo, o más bien plomizo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Parecía una estrella en pleno día</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Su velocidad era rapidísima</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Con prismáticos se pudo observar una pequeña nebulosa mientras evolucionaba, y su · cola de pequeña longitud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ante lo anterior, parece que estaríamos probablemente ante un ejemplo de una de las primeras observaciones desde el suelo del vuelo de un avión militar de nueva generación (bien turbohélice o de motor a reacción), posiblemente extranjero (norteamericano o francés) que dejaba su característica estela de condensación. Coinciden con aviones de combate realizando vuelos de reconocimiento a gran altura, cuyos fuselajes resplandecen al reflejar la luz solar y presentan estela de condensación. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los testigos españoles de 1950, poco habituados a este tipo novedoso de aeronaves, los denominaban “platillos volantes”, por influencia de lo que la prensa contaba de esas apariciones en Estados Unidos desde 1947. Precisamente aquel año se desarrolló en nuestro país lo que llamamos “oleada”, un incremento súbito de observaciones de objetos volantes desconocidos.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1,2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> De hecho, la oleada tuvo carácter mundial.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> En cuanto a España se refiere, la asociación de la llegada de los “platillos volantes” y confusiones con aviones a reacción, cuyas estelas de condensación sobre el cielo azul era algo novedoso, ha sido expuesta antes por otros estudiosos.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4,5</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El año 1950 aportó algunas imágenes compatibles con el avistamiento de los soldados del regimiento de Transmisiones de Valencia, como la observación y fotografía de William Slater a unas 50 millas al este de Tucson (Arizona) alrededor del 20 de marzo de 1950.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volviendo a España, tal parece que se trató de vuelos esporádicos, no de ningún programa de fotogrametría sistemática del territorio nacional. De acuerdo con las fuentes técnicas consultadas, no hubo vuelos programados para la fotografía aérea del territorio nacional durante el año 1950.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7,8</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Valencia, febrero de 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Carlos Orlando, “Notas estadísticas sobre la oleada de 1950 en España y Portugal”, <i>Stendek</i>, 8, marzo de 1972, páginas 23-33, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ya6glzby">https://tinyurl.com/ya6glzby</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Carlos Orlando y Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Ampliación al ensayo sobre 1950”, <i>Stendek</i>, 9, agosto de 1972, páginas 26-29, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9ejqelc">https://tinyurl.com/y9ejqelc</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Jacques Bonabot, “The World-Wide Wave of 1950: Further Enquiries”, <i>DATA-NET</i>, octubre de 1972, páginas 2-9, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_64_1972.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/Data-Net/Data_Net_64_1972.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Félix Ares de Blas y Mª Carmen Garmendía, “Reflexiones en torno a las observaciones OVNI en 1950”, <i>Stendek</i>, 27, marzo de 1977, páginas 26-30 y 39, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8k2zwle">https://tinyurl.com/y8k2zwle</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Ignacio Cabria García, “Ya tenemos platillos volantes”, <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, 1997, páginas 18-35, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yxhcgb85">https://tinyurl.com/yxhcgb85</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) <i>Miami Daily News</i>, 23 de marzo de 1950.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) <a href="https://pnoa.ign.es/pnoa-historico">https://pnoa.ign.es/pnoa-historico</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) <a href="https://www.albedomedia.com/cultura/historiografia/el-vuelo-americano/">https://www.albedomedia.com/cultura/historiografia/el-vuelo-americano/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Los autores agradecemos información recibida de Kay Coggin y de Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los archivos de Antonio Ribera</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el ámbito de la ufología española ha destacado notablemente el escritor catalán Antonio Ribera Jordá. Eso es un hecho innegable, con independencia de su particular interpretación del significado del “fenómeno ovni”, para lo que cultivó siempre un enfoque de credulidad. No voy a desvelar ahora la orientación “marciana” de su obra; probablemente no podría haber vivido de la pluma si hubiera roto puentes con la orientación enigmática de los ovnis. Como amante previo de la ciencia ficción, su dedicación a escribir sobre los ovnis fue un continuo natural de sus aficiones. Lo cierto y verdad es que, como mínimo, todos los estudiosos más veteranos del tapiz de la ufología española nacimos debido a su influencia. Yo tuve con él una relación muy estrecha y cordial durante más de treinta años, con sus altibajos, y compartimos algunas experiencias especialmente palpitantes, como nuestras reuniones con Aimé Michel o Jacques Vallée. Mi álbum de recuerdos y fotografías es enorme, no digamos su carpeta de correspondencia. Este año 2020 se cumplen los 100 años de su nacimiento1 y, con ese motivo, tengo la satisfacción de aportar una información que era desconocida sobre el destino ‒al menos gran parte‒ de su biblioteca. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">De izquierda a derecha, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Marcos Antonio Benítez y Antonio Ribera, Torremolinos, abril de 2001. Posiblemente la última instantánea que se sacó de Ribera con colegas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ribera falleció en septiembre de 2001 y, al haber vivido solo sus últimos años, a su muerte el caos se adueñó de sus archivos, libros y otras pertenencias. Baste decir que una parte terminó en el contenedor callejero. Algunas cosas se salvaron, como gran parte de su biblioteca personal y profesional. Por alguna razón tenía yo en mente que una persona que tuvo que ver con la salvaguarda de sus libros fue un aficionado de Lérida, Albert Joan Maria Alá, un leal seguidor de la figura y trabajos de Ribera. Le he escrito para que me cuente cual fue su papel en lo relativo a las pertenencias del escritor. Su respuesta ha sido muy esclarecedora y quiero compartirla con mis lectores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>La historia es un poco rocambolesca por mi parte. En el año 2001 estando en Magic Internacional, en compañía de una buena amiga paseando, si no me equivoco era en el Palau de Sant Jordi (Barcelona), al llegar al stand del Sr. Miguel G. Aracil, como se conocían se saludaron y de paso me presentó a mí. Al rato, me espetó si quería la biblioteca del Sr. Antonio Ribera, el más prestigioso Ufólogo de España. Me sorprendí muchísimo, dijo que si no se iba a Sudamérica y me puso en contacto con el librero [barcelonés] Sr. Josep Mª. Farré, que efectivamente la tenía, aunque le interesaba más la de su padre. Salvé todo lo que pude, me dejo a mi aire, creo que son cerca de mil libros, casi todos dedicados por otros eminentes Ufólogos de toda España, Europa, Asía, es decir de todo el mundo. También recogí sobres, etc., la pagué y, por cierto muy cara, pero como también soy ufólogo amateur, me ilusioné, en poder preservar el legado de él.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.000 libros rescatados de su disgregación o de algo peor. Los libros son cultura, traten de lo que traten, y ese salvamento es algo que merece nuestro reconocimiento. Desde aquí mi satisfacción y aplauso por la decisiva ‒aunque onerosa‒ determinación del Sr. Alá.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Alejandro Agostinelli, “Hace 100 años nacía Antonio Ribera y tengo una maravillosa historia para contarles”, <a href="http://factorelblog.com/2020/01/21/hace-100-anos-nacia-antonio-ribera-y-tengo-una-maravillosa-historia-para-contarles/">http://factorelblog.com/2020/01/21/hace-100-anos-nacia-antonio-ribera-y-tengo-una-maravillosa-historia-para-contarles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Objeto brillante sobre Manresa</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alrededor de las cinco de la tarde del jueves 23 de enero pasado, se vio en el cielo de Manresa (provincia de Barcelona) y poblaciones aledañas un brillante objeto. Núria Camps Masana, presidenta de la Agrupación Astronómica de Manresa tuvo oportunidad de observarlo y fotografiarlo con su telescopio desde su domicilio. Informa el diario digital Regió7: “Estaba situado hacia el noroeste, a unos 50º de altura en dirección a la estrella polar, aproximadamente. Una vez fotografiado, con 100 aumentos, Camps pudo comprobar que se trataba de algún tipo de globo sonda meteorológico . Explica que <i>se desplazaba por el cielo como si fuera a la deriva y presentaba unos filamentos que colgaban de debajo del globo”</i>. Ver:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conocemos muchas historias de encuentro con seres extraños junto a la cama alrededor del periodo del sueño. Sabemos ya de las alucinaciones hipnagógicas e hipnopómpicas, pera hay muchas otras alteraciones del sueño que producen alucinaciones en personas normales, sin tener que aludir a delirios postoperatorios o episodios de estrés postraumático. La doctora Mª Alena Erro Aguirre, del servicio de Neurología del Hospital de Navarra, coordinó en 2007 un importante trabajo sobre <i>Las Enfermedades del sueño</i>, que cito aquí como elemento de estudio en contraposición con los banales cuentos de “visitantes de dormitorio”: <a href="http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1137-662720070002&lng=es&nrm=iso">http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1137-662720070002&lng=es&nrm=iso</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uno de los casos más importantes de presunto desembarco de ovnis en Francia ocurrió el 29 de agosto de 1967, en las afueras de la aldea de Cussac. Fue un evento CE3 característico. En los últimos años, se han publicado cuatro revisiones detalladas sobre este hecho. Dos estudios respaldan la hipótesis de que el objeto que aterrizó y despegó en presencia de varios niños fue un helicóptero civil o militar <i>Alouette</i> II. Otros dos documentos sostienen que era inexplicable, o al menos no un helicóptero. Cronológicamente hablando, tenemos, en primer lugar, la investigación de Eric Maillot de 2004 en dos partes: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36800466/Une_enqu%C3%AAte_m%C3%A9connue_sur_lovni_de_Cussac_-_Hebdo_Toulouse_12_10_1968">https://www.academia.edu/36800466/Une_enqu%C3%AAte_m%C3%A9connue_sur_lovni_de_Cussac_-_Hebdo_Toulouse_12_10_1968</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luego, tenemos el capítulo 10 del libro <i>Les OVNI du CNES</i>, <i>trente ans d’études officielles (1977-2007)</i>, "Cussac (1967)" de David Rossoni, Éric Maillot y Éric Déguillaume,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Más en positivo, tenemos el artículo de Alain Delmon "Les cas solides: Cussac, 1967, RR3", que afirma que era un verdadero objeto volador anómalo. Ver: <a href="http://adelmon.free.fr/Cussac/5-helicono_Rossoni.html">http://adelmon.free.fr/Cussac/5-helicono_Rossoni.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El último trabajo sobre este suceso misterioso es el estudio de Jean-Marc Gillot, <i>Cussac 1967-2007</i>, que resuelve que no se encontró evidencia de ningún vuelo de un helicóptero <i>Alouette</i> II en los archivos oficiales,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Las dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero que practiques inglés con este artículo que sólo aparece en la sección superior de este blog: V.J. Ballester Olmos, “An indispensable book to be written”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Wim van Utrecht acaba de publicar en <i>SUNlite</i>, revista especializada editada por Tim Printy, un educativo ensayo en las páginas 16 a 26 de su último número. Titulado “Lunar Terror in Poland. A Doctor’s Dilemma", ejemplifica un caso de severa mala interpretación visual, por la cual la Luna creó un episodio aterrador de encuentro cercano. El artículo de Wim ilustra que los informes de ovnis provocados por una visión distorsionada de nuestro satélite natural son mucho más frecuentes de lo que generalmente se supone:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite12_2.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite12_2.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) <i>La Razón</i> y los ovnis. Encontramos en la sección de Ciencia del diario el artículo titulado “Los OVNIs están en tu cabeza, no ahí afuera”, de amena y certera lectura:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.larazon.es/ciencia/20200216/fwtgbkmhzjehnfwhkwcpkxa4rq.html">https://www.larazon.es/ciencia/20200216/fwtgbkmhzjehnfwhkwcpkxa4rq.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Mitos ovni en el primer alunizaje. De interesante lectura resulta este <i>Power Point</i> que James Oberg presentó en julio pasado en el Space Center de Houston conmemorando el 50 aniversario del alunizaje del Apolo 11. Desmitificador y clarificador. Ver: <a href="http://www.astronautix.com/data/apollo11mythtakes.pdf">http://www.astronautix.com/data/apollo11mythtakes.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Otro aniversario, el de la “espiral noruega” del 9 de diciembre de 2009, también glosado en plan didáctico por Oberg: </span><a href="http://www.astronautix.com/data/norwayspiral.pdf" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.astronautix.com/data/norwayspiral.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Mi bibliografía personal de investigación actualizada a 2019 se encuentra, como siempre, en este enlace permanente: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) En enero de 2020, el psicólogo hispano-argentino Heriberto Janosch González, ha defendido su tesis doctoral en Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas, en la rama de investigación en Criminología, en la Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid). El flamante nuevo doctor es un experto estudioso en el fenómeno ovni desde hace décadas, con varios trabajos importantes a sus espaldas, entre los que se cuenta el libro <u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u>, firmado también con V.J. Ballester Olmos, M. Borraz y J.C. Victorio, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Brad Sparks, “Comprehensive Catalog of 2,200 Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns: Database Catalog”, se trata de la versión 1.30 actualizada a enero de 2020 de una esmerada recopilación de los casos teóricamente inexplicados del Proyecto Libro Azul de la USAF: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) ¿La primera fotografía de una nave aérea (airship) en 1907? Aconsejable esta entrada de <i>Airminded</i>, la soberbia web del Dr. Brett Holman, historiador de Melbourne, Australia: <a href="https://airminded.org/2008/08/12/a-phantom-airship/">https://airminded.org/2008/08/12/a-phantom-airship/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Sobre la Luna y ovnis impostores, aconsejo de E. Maillot, G. Munsch, L. Danizel, I. Dumas, P. Fournel, R. Robé, C. Zwygart y J.-M. Abrassart, este convincente trabajo: “Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: The “Saros Operation”, publicado en <i>Anomaly-Journal of Research into the Paranormal</i>, volumen 50, noviembre de 2019, páginas 8-17,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Un ensayo de Johan Grimonprez. De los que te hace pensar:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) Recomendable artículo de Steven T. Parsons, “Orbs, some definitive evidence that they are not paranormal” (o los “orbs” no tienen nada de paranormal), en P<i>aranthropology; Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal</i>, volumen 5, Nº 2, enero de 2014, páginas 42-44, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) Nuevamente el caso del piloto Mantell. No hace mucho, Kevin Randle posteó un estudio al respecto del avión estrellado mientras perseguía un ovni en enero de 1948: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Mantell_UFO_Sighting_A_Reevaluation.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Mantell_UFO_Sighting_A_Reevaluation.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brad Sparks acaba de sacar otro informe sobre el mismo incidente, aquí: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/sparks/MANTELL_OXYGEN_COVERUP-Sparks_Jan_6_2020..pdf">http://www.nicap.org/papers/sparks/MANTELL_OXYGEN_COVERUP-Sparks_Jan_6_2020..pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debates con argumentación seria y documentada siempre resultan valiosos, por eso quise saber si Randle tenía algo que replicar en el curso de la discusión abierta. “No hay nada en el análisis de Brad que sea nuevo. Todo lo que tengo que decir sobre el episodio Mantell es lo que ya expuse en mi anterior informe”, fue la respuesta a mi pregunta. Quisiera ilustrar este antiguo caso con una entrevista de YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYI8_-DMOA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYI8_-DMOA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Resultados de Investigación, correspondencia de primera mano y documentación facilitada por el Dr. Gary P. Posner sobre el famoso suceso Cash-Landrum en 1980, de presunta radiación producida por un ovni, se encuentran aquí: <a href="https://gpposner.com/Cash-Landrum.html">https://gpposner.com/Cash-Landrum.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Y para todos aquellos que no quieren dejarse engañar en este tema de los ovnis, no dejen de leer lo que Mick West ha escrito: “TTSA Exotic Material vs. Thermite Slag”, <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ttsa-exotic-material-vs-thermite-slag.11123/">https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ttsa-exotic-material-vs-thermite-slag.11123/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) Y esta aclaratoria nota firmada por el profesor David Clarke: <a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/01/29/the-truth-in-not-in-here/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2020/01/29/the-truth-in-not-in-here/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este es el primer tomo de las obras completas en español de uno de los pensadores más agudos y creativos de la ufología contemporánea. Martin Kottmeyer revisa, desde perspectivas novedosas, distintos clásicos de la historia de los ovnis, como el caso Arnold, el avistamiento del padre Gill o la famosa abducción del matrimonio Hill. Por primera vez, artículos que han dejado huella están reunidos en un solo volumen para disfrute de los aficionados a uno de los misterios más populares de las últimas décadas. Se puede adquirir en Lulu: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/martin-kottmeyer/obras-completas-de-martin-kottmeyer-1-extraterrestres-bajo-la-lupa/paperback/product-24378644.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/martin-kottmeyer/obras-completas-de-martin-kottmeyer-1-extraterrestres-bajo-la-lupa/paperback/product-24378644.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El pasado 27 de diciembre ‒casi una inocentada‒ cumplí 71 años, cariñosamente arropado por mi esposa y mi familia más próxima. Se supone que ya he entrado en la venerable ancianidad pero, caramba, me siento como a los 50, con el entusiasmo de los 30 y la mente de los 20, así que me temo que hay Ballester Olmos para rato, coronavirus mediante. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Serán cosas de abuelo, o simplemente de querencia, pero dejarme que exponga dos retratos recientes con mis dos nietos “mayores”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Con mi nieto Fernando. Foto de Laura Ballester Miquel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para la edición anterior de este blog se me ocurrió reunir tres caricaturas que me han hecho durante mi “carrera” ufológica. Difundido éste, el jurista y reconocido investigador mallorquín Matías Morey Ripoll me recordó ‒cosa que había olvidado completamente‒ un dibujo que él me hizo con motivo de la felicitación navideña de 1993. Inmediatamente busqué en la correspondiente carpeta de correspondencia y allí estaba, con su buena dosis de simpatía y humor. Me apresuro a dejarla caer a esta sección íntima, al tiempo que agradezco a Matías el aviso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes amigos que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Kay Coggin (EE.UU.), James Oberg (EE.UU.), Wim van Utrecht (Bélgica), Laurent Chabin (Francia), Jean-Marc Gillot (Francia), Eric Maillot (Francia), Joan Plana Crivillén (España), Albert Joan Maria Alá (España), Jean-Michel Abrassart (Bélgica), Matías Morey Ripoll (España), Dr. Antonio Bueno (España), Dr. David Clarke (Inglaterra), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (España), Dr. Félix Ares de Blas (España), David G. López (España), Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Juan A. Fernández Peris (España). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg">https://tinyurl.com/rjc2smg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</u> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFOs and Government</u> (con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</u> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u> (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></div>
ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-51406815329984214552019-12-18T08:46:00.000+01:002020-02-11T09:20:54.349+01:002019/DECEMBER/18 (EN)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12,571 is the current number of entries in the catalog. One single entry equates to one individual picture/video sighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) <u>UFO Landing during Spanish Army Exercises</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1990, a witness disclosed the sighting of a big disc-shaped object landed, showing what we would call a beam of solid light, shared on July 7, 1986 with a group of 30-40 soldiers during a night march by the Spanish Army in Páramo de Masa, Burgos. Take-off and disappearance. This was the tale. I was involved in the documentation of the case during 1991 and 1992. Then, silence. There was no more possible follow-up and the event rested for 30 years frozen in ufologists’ archives as a typical close encounter. Until I revisited it last month, with an unexpected (or should I say expected) outcome. A report by myself and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga is included in the Spanish section of the present blog. Or you can find it here as well:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) <u>UFOs and Space Decays</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have revised an article I published in a magazine ten years ago, with new illustrations, updated links, added information and annexes, on a spacecraft reentry in Africa: “¿Qué ocurrió en Kandi? (Reentrada espacial sobre África)”, written in Spanish, the title translates as “What happened at Kandi? (Space reentry in Africa)”, and it has just been uploaded in the Academia.edu portal: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/41096531/_Que_ocurrio_en_Kandi">https://www.academia.edu/41096531/_Que_ocurrio_en_Kandi</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kandi (Republic of Benin, Africa), object landed from the space on June 28, 1997. © <i>Le Matin</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish to take this opportunity to mention other papers I have written over the last few years where the fiery atmospheric course of decaying satellites or rocket bodies were taken as UFOs. I believe these will probably be of interest to some of my readers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos & Matías Morey Ripoll, “27 noviembre 1999: ¿La última reentrada del milenio?” (November 27, 1999: The last reentry of the millennium?),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See additional information and video clips in the following link (scroll down to “The reentry of Shenzhou” and “Appendix II for this blog”): </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_10_21_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_10_21_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos & Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Despliegue luminoso sobre Canarias en noviembre de 1997” (Luminous display over Canary Islands in November 1997), <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx4zJ8DK">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx4zJ8DK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See video clip at: <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_04_13_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_04_13_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Avistamientos del 2/6/2004: el Ejército del Aire informa” (Sightings on June 2, 2004: The Spanish Air Force reports), <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxW4">http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxW4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additional information and images here (scroll down within the two blogsites):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“New Data on the June 2, 2004 Fireball,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2007_01_29_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2007_01_29_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Desclasificación OVNI: El último expediente” (UFO declassification: The last file),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “A Gorgeous Space Junk Decay,” (scroll down within the blogsite): <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) <u>French Translation</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the last blog’s entry, I released a report (in Spanish) entitled “An F-18 in Pursuit of a UFO?” Now, thanks to Thierry Gaulin, it has been translated into French and published in the September issue of the magazine <i>Logosphères</i>, pages 5 to 9: <a href="https://www.ovni-languedoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/N%C2%B010.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ovni-languedoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/N%C2%B010.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) “The Alien Reports We Have,” a brief piece containing some thoughts on the value of the alien claims reported during the history of ufology, which I penned for the past blog’s entry, is now lodged in the Academia.edu resources, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFO RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>The Gay Fifties, March 1950</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Innocent years when an US newspaper could, for instance, print on the cover the presumed picture of a flying saucer, even though it just shows the Moon (or another celestial body, for that matter) taken in time exposure. Or make intentional fakes just to make the reader smile. My collaborator Kay Coggin, a nurse hailing from the land of Jimmy Rodgers who actively searches (and better yet, finds) old journals’ UFO clippings with photographs of mysterious sky lights, flying or grounded contraptions, anomalous phenomena and the like, has presented me with many examples to feed my image catalog. Two of them follow to illustrate the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nothing less than “Flying Saucers Fell on North Alabama,” was the title <i>The Haleyville Advertiser</i> of March 31, 1950 used to report a supposed local UFO sighting that occurred at 03:36 a.m., as indicated in the daily’s clipping. The size and look of the image remind us very much of the appearance of the Moon taken with a long time-exposure. We checked and, yes, we spotted that the Moon was clearly present in the western night sky of Haleyville, Alabama, going down to its setting, with 91% of the lunar disc illuminated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the inclination of the track does not correspond to the actual Moon movement on the celestial sphere. As we have observed on many occasions before, the picture was printed inverted. The real lunar motion would leave a trace from up to down and left to right in the frame. Mars was also visible at that hour but, given its angular size (14.38”), a gross closeup would not produce such sharp edges as the photo evinces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Along the Highway with Robert Tyre,” was a column regularly published by <i>The Leader-Post</i> of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada). In the edition of March 23, 1950, the writer wrote a satirical story illustrated by the picture of a rugby-ball-shaped object in the sky, being pointed to by a man with a hat. The funny and naïve introduction to the text follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What it is plainly evident is that this is a journalistic hoax. One they could have saved for the coming April’s Fools Day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my routine tasks in my operation of the FOTOCAT database is trying to upgrade the level of information on events, as well as finding causes that would produce the sighting or image reported. No special method is followed in the selection of cases to review. One way or the other I handle tens of cases every week and I fix my attention on this or that to that purpose, old or less old, local or foreign, outstanding or low-profile. I have just stumbled on a Portuguese report which contains minimal information: according to <i>Diario Popular</i> (a source I do not have), on January 1, 1977, a strange object was seen in the sky and filmed by a local TV station in Leça da Palmeira, a town near Porto (Portugal). The footage was showed in the late news program. The key data was that it was observed in the evening for four consecutive days and it always disappeared around 9 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This regular sequence of sightings is usually connected to an astronomical body. To this end, it must satisfy two elements: the presence in the heavens of a brilliant planet or star, and the matching with its setting at that hour. Said and done. Consulting <i>Stellarium</i> for this date and time, we discover the planet Venus with a magnitude of -4.33 (very bright), stationed in the SW sky and setting at 21:01 local time. A cold case for 42 years can be solved in a matter of minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A recent entry by blogger John Greenewald reproduces the statement by Joseph Gradisher, official spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare: “The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena.” When asked why the phrase “UAP” is now utilized by the U.S. Navy, and not “UFO,” Mr. Gradisher added: <i>The ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges.</i> A word to the wise is sufficient. See:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also known now that, out of three different sightings by different pilots at different locations, there are only TWO, the “Tic Tac” (off San Diego coast, November 14, 2004) and both the “Gimbal” and “Go Fast” on the same date, January 21, 2015, in the same area (Jacksonville, Florida), by the same pilot, probably separated some 20 minutes one from the other. Why this one was separated into two pieces, pretending to be two different events, implying that numerous Navy pilots are seeing UFOs, should be a good question, but the reply is easy to imagine. Incidentally, the first part of the footage looks like an aircraft, and the second seems to be a bird. Read this other entry by John Greenewald:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-releases-dates-of-three-officially-acknowledged-encounters-with-phenomena/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-releases-dates-of-three-officially-acknowledged-encounters-with-phenomena/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Complementary information obtained by Greenewald, via FOIA, concerns e-mails from the Navy and the Air Force expressing different views on what they refer to as “phenomena,” along with showing disagreement with how the overall story is being reported by the mainstream media:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/internal-air-force-navy-e-mails-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-revealed/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/internal-air-force-navy-e-mails-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-revealed/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>History: UFO Investigation at NASA</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On July 21, 1977, Frank Press, director of the Executive Office of the President of the United States (Jimmy Carter), wrote a letter to Robert A. Frosch, NASA administrator. Because of the flow of incoming correspondence on UFOs, he asked NASA to handle those enquiries. He also recommended that “a small panel of inquiry could be formed to see if there are any new significant findings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before I continue, this illustrates the lack of cover-up from the US Government, when it internally suggests that a review of concerned queries should be in place to look for any potential discovery. From that date onwards, there was a mail exchange between the two institutional bodies, NASA naming a project officer who would review reports and literature that had emerged in the last ten years before a final, formal recommendation would be produced. On December 21, 1977, Administrator Frosch wrote to the Office of the President with the following, glaring assessment (my emphasis):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We have given considerable thought to the question of what else the United States might and should do in the area of UFO research. <u>There is an absence of tangible or physical evidence available for through laboratory analysis. And because of the absence of such evidence, we have not been able to devise a sound scientific procedure for investigating these phenomena.</u> To proceed on a research task without a disciplinary framework and an exploratory technique in mind would be wasteful and probably unproductive…I would therefore propose that NASA take no steps to establish a research activity in this area or to convene a symposium on this subject.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contrary to those reality-resistant, pro-UFO buffs, NASA clearly indicated its “open mind and a keen sense of scientific curiosity.” However, if there is no evidence to work with, nothing valuable can be done. It was in 1977. Nowadays the situation is the same, with the aggravating fact that 42 additional years has passed by with no contact or material evidence to prove that flying saucers are the real deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The subsequent NASA standard reply to UFO queries, dated February 1, 1978, can be found here: <a href="http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1978nasalett.pdf">http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1978nasalett.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Searching for Patterns in UFO Data</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason why UFO data are chaotic and produce no patterns is mainly because databases mix UFOs and IFOs. There are UFOs, in my opinion, because of bad investigation or wrong data acquisition. On the other hand, the statistical signature of IFO catalogs is the same found in UFO case inventories. In this perspective, on Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 195–233, 2015, of the <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, the Spanish physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo published a science paper entitled “Modeling the Law of Times,” showing the “Law of the Times” to simply be a socio-astronomical artifact, unrelated to the nature of origin of UFOs. Now it can be accessed through Academia.edu in the following link: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times">https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Law of Times is a constant pattern present in every catalog of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings that describes the number of sightings occurring at a certain hour of the day. It shows that most sightings occur at night, reaching a maximum at about 21 h, and sometimes a secondary peak at about 2–3 h, whereas for daylight hours the percent of cases is low. It has long been suspected that the decrease in sightings during the night is due to social factors such as people staying indoors and thus not being able to witness UFOs. An increase in sightings occurs at earlier or later hours in the same way that the sunset time varies during the year. Considering these features, this paper develops a mathematical model to reproduce the Law of Times. It is based on astronomical factors such as the altitude of the Sun and the Visual Limiting Magnitude that relates to the probability of a phenomenon being visible; and a second factor related to the social habits of the population, accounting for their availability to witness the phenomenon. These two factors alone can accurately reproduce the main peak at 21–22 h of the Law of Times.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surely it is timely to recall a second research article that Julio Plaza del Olmo published in the <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 425–448, 2015: “A Review on the Relation between Population Density and UFO Sightings,” indicating that basically the more potential observers, the more sighting reports. It also can be found online in this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In the search for patterns of the UFO phenomenon, the relationship of sightings to population density has historically shown contradictory results. After more than 40 years of studies, there is not yet a clear conclusion on whether the relationship between the number of reports and population density is direct or inverse. We have reviewed some of these works and found out how to reconcile all of them. We found that there is a direct relationship between the number of sightings and population density; however, the increase in number of reports is not proportional but sublineal with respect to the increase in population.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some writers opine on the latest UFO scam, metamaterials. Will it become the new Roswell, Majestic 12, Abductions, or the Alien Autopsy? More rubbish for consumers, distracting from real research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/10/to-stars-covertly-publishes-bob-lazars.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/10/to-stars-covertly-publishes-bob-lazars.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/to-the-stars-academy-pays-premium-price-for-metamaterial-to-tom-delonge">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/to-the-stars-academy-pays-premium-price-for-metamaterial-to-tom-delonge</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30498/the-army-wants-to-verify-to-the-stars-academys-fantastic-ufo-mystery-material-claims">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30498/the-army-wants-to-verify-to-the-stars-academys-fantastic-ufo-mystery-material-claims</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/whitley-streiber-confirms-to-the-stars-alien-metal-is-just-1990s-era-arts-parts#">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/whitley-streiber-confirms-to-the-stars-alien-metal-is-just-1990s-era-arts-parts#</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/10/on-army-deals-metamaterials-and-the-ufo-group-that-never-was-the-confusing-saga-of-ttsa-so-far/">https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/10/on-army-deals-metamaterials-and-the-ufo-group-that-never-was-the-confusing-saga-of-ttsa-so-far/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/10/ttsa-metamaterial-and-us-army.html">https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/10/ttsa-metamaterial-and-us-army.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815220312/http:/www.artbell.com/rosreprt.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20010815220312/http:/www.artbell.com/rosreprt.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Argentine Air Force’s CIAE (Center of Aerospace Identification), under the apt direction of Commodore Rubén Lianza, has released its annual report for 2019, a 61-page document devoted to study UFO cases received from citizens:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All cases were supported by images, as evidence. 24 reports were analyzed, 23 incoming claims directly to the agency plus one additional event included in the section “Mystery cases.” 22 from Argentina, 1 in the Brazilian-Argentina airspace and 1 from Mexico. The monograph is a true notebook of how to scientifically probe photographic cases and it covers the period 2014 to 2019 plus one case from year 2000. All sightings were explained, as follows: 6 lens flares, 9 birds & bugs, 2 astronautical, 2 astronomical, 2 balloons, 1 dirt on lens and 2 other causes. Highly recommended (in Spanish).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) French UFO researcher Eric Maillot has written a critical expose of the “Amarante” landing event. That incident was duly studied by the GEPAN and was the object of one of its remarkable monographs. The new article, “The PAN D of October 21, 1982, called "L’Amarante": a great illusion?”, proposes how a mylar-type, small-sized balloon could have entered into a home garden, stayed there for 20 minutes until it elevated again and disappeared from the sight of the only eyewitness. Read the hypothesis in this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_">https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) In the Project 1947 forum list, Jan Aldrich reports that, this year, Tom Tulien, Barry Greenwood and he made some research trips around the country to interview persons involved with the UFO phenomenon, with the aim to gather material for archiving. A short report on these trips is compiled here: <a href="http://www.project1947.com/articles/2019trip.htm">http://www.project1947.com/articles/2019trip.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) “Les OVNI du CNES, trente ans d’études officielles, 1977-2007” (The CNES UFOs. 30 years of official study), is an e-book that critically reviews the GEPAN/SEPRA/GEIPAN work. Under the authorship of David Rossoni, Eric Maillot and Eric Deguillaume, it has 418 pages and was originally published in a limited edition in December 2007. Now it is enlarged as of October 2016:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.book-e-book.com/e-books/158-les-ovni-du-cnes-pdf-30-ans-d-etudes-officielles-1977-2007-9782372460286.html">https://www.book-e-book.com/e-books/158-les-ovni-du-cnes-pdf-30-ans-d-etudes-officielles-1977-2007-9782372460286.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A very detailed description of its table of contents, with links taking the reader to some 201 pages of the original book is available in the following link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Wayne McCarthy has published “The Scareship Age, 1892-1946: Collected Blog Posts from Airminded,” a collection of notes on the airship phenomenon in various countries, as a precursor of the flying saucer phenomenon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/25556483/The_Scareship_Age_1892-1946_Collected_Blog_Posts_from_Airminded">https://www.academia.edu/25556483/The_Scareship_Age_1892-1946_Collected_Blog_Posts_from_Airminded</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The original auhor of the "</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Airminded" blog is the Australian historian Dr. Brett Holman, <a href="https://airminded.org/about/">https://airminded.org/about/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Mickhail L. Shmatov & Karl D. Stephan, “Advances in ball lightning research,” published in the <i>Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics</i>, volume 195, 15 November 2019. This is the paper’s abstract:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ball lightning is a rarely observed phenomenon whose existence is attested to by thousands of eyewitness reports, but which has so far evaded a widely accepted scientific explanation. This review paper summarizes theoretical, observational, and experimental work in the field since approximately 2000. In particular, several situations when mobile phone cameras as well as scientific instruments have been used to capture numerous events that are candidates for ball lightning sightings are considered. We evaluate recent experimental attempts to produce laboratory ball lightning, review what is known about possible ball lightning hazards, and conclude with recommendations for future research in this area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Andrew Jay Harvey, alumnus of the Edinburgh College of Art, writes about the creation of an urban legend: “How and why did the Mothman come into being?”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/542721/How_and_why_did_the_Mothman_come_into_being?">https://www.academia.edu/542721/How_and_why_did_the_Mothman_come_into_being?</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Rich Reynolds on the Betty & Barney Hill alleged abduction incident. Was it a sexual assault whose trauma was covered with an alien encounter? See:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-betty-and-barney-hill-sexual.html">https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-betty-and-barney-hill-sexual.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Curt Collins has presented in his blog “The Cash-Landrum UFO Case Document Collection,”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) A reanalysis of the <i>Trident</i> test of September 10, 2013 and other tests, including a UFO sighting from the Canary Islands. This post analyzes a case from that date that turned out to be a <i>Trident </i>SLBM test launch. New information on the launch trajectory provides information on the missile's apogee. The test launch trajectory is compared to those of several other Atlantic <i>Trident</i> test launches in subsequent years:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-reanalysis-of-trident-slbm-test-of-10.html">https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-reanalysis-of-trident-slbm-test-of-10.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) 2017 reedition of <u>Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century</u>, a book with 17 papers edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert of the New York University at Shanghai. This 443-page volume contains some work of obvious interest to ufologists, for example: “Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space,” by Steven J. Dick, “Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908,” by Claudia Schmölders, “A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–1947,” by Pierre Lagrange, or “Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France,” by James I. Miller. See:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) I found a beautiful example of “light pillars” in the following link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://culturainquieta.com/es/foto/item/16180-un-fotografo-captura-el-fascinante-fenomeno-de-pilares-nocturnos-en-el-cielo-de-ontario.html">https://culturainquieta.com/es/foto/item/16180-un-fotografo-captura-el-fascinante-fenomeno-de-pilares-nocturnos-en-el-cielo-de-ontario.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a complete information on the natural formation of this atmospheric phenomenon, I recommend the reading of Wim van Utrecht’s excellent Caelestia site: <a href="http://www.caelestia.be/article01a.html">http://www.caelestia.be/article01a.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) Do you remember when we all criticized Governments for keeping UFO information secret? It was before most Governments became transparent and declassified their confidential records. Today, the situation has reversed. It is UFO organizations like (now defunct) NIDS or Patrons like BAAS which withheld their relationship to State agencies like NSA or DIA, and, of course, their acquisitions. Read: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/09/national-security-agency-fort-meade-md.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/09/national-security-agency-fort-meade-md.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) As every experienced UFO inquirer knows, the Moon produces many false UFO observations. French investigator Eric Maillot has written a paper entitled “Analyse clinique de cas de méprises ovnis avec la Lune" (Clinic analysis of UFO mistakes with the Moon): <a href="http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/articles/meprises_lune.html">http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/articles/meprises_lune.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For his part, Spanish researcher J.C. Victorio Uranga has published in his blog over 40 examples of UFO misidentifications with the Moon as the culprit:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/search/label/La%20Luna">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/search/label/La%20Luna</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his last blog’s post, Victorio Uranga has shown yet another close encounter to be created by the unexpected nocturnal appearance of our natural satellite:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/11/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-burgos.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/11/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-burgos.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) After launch, the SpaceX’s <i>Falcon9</i> second stage had a deorbit burn over Western Europe at 14:56UT on November 11, 2019. It generated spectacular images and, naturally, UFO reports from the space-tech misinformed. Jim Oberg has released a detailed report:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>J´AI VU UN OVNI, perceptions et réalités, de Xavier Passot</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soft cover book edited in June 2018 by Cherche Midi Editions, Collection Documents, 143 pages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About the author: Xavier Passot, astronomer and amateur photographer, computer engineer at CNES, National Center for Space Studies, head of GEIPAN (Study and Information Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena) from 2011 to 2016. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The prologue is by Pierre Lagrange, a sociologist, who is interested in the question of extraterrestrial beliefs and phenomena from an open perspective. He is the author of several books, including “La rumeur de Roswell” and “La guerre des mondes a-t-elle eu lieu?” He recommends this work to potential witnesses of unidentified flying objects to encourage them to distrust perceptions of misleading stimuli, whilst at the same time intending no criticism of ufologists, with whom Xavier Passot has always enjoyed good relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike previous agencies, the CNES opened its doors to the public and GEIPAN established a fluid dialogue with the researchers, even admitting some of them to its experts committee, Xavier Passot being the architect of this approach and the organizer of the first colloquium opened at CNES venues in Paris in 2014. An important step had been taken that would never again be reversed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following some considerations of scientific objectivity, of ufologists, and of the new methods that can be applied today, Pierre Lagrange concludes his foreword proposing that the reader takes into account that this work is the beginning of a dialogue proposed by its author since, as the philosopher Isabelle Stengers wrote, “the future where we will know what the word UFO means is perhaps a future where we will be surprised that for so long the sciences have been deaf to the problems that concern public opinion”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who hasn´t encountered witnesses totally confused by some strange appearances in heaven? Our first reaction will then be to check if other people have witnessed the same phenomenon in order to be able to check and compare the testimonies in the light of our own perceptions, beliefs, experiences and knowledge. In France for more than forty years, an official body, the Aerospace Phenomenon Studies and Information Group (GEIPAN), which is under the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), collects and researches these testimonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Xavier Passot, its former manager, presents in this book a range of cases aimed at unmasking the illusion of reality in the UFO phenomenon, describing in detail the phenomena observed, unfolding the most common errors and illusions of perception; </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he provides us with the methodology and technical means currently in use, clarifies </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the riddles of heaven and the mysteries of the human helping us to understand our perceptions in a level-headed way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He structures his work in four blocks (GEIPAN dossiers, complementary research, the UFO challenge and conclusions) and in its final pages, we find a bibliography with comments of the author proposing some works on the foundations of ufology, tools for analyzing UAP reports (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena, PAN in French), reflections on the UFO phenomenon and the review of three books on unexplained case reports with some drawings supplementing a series of color photographs in a central booklet. After touching briefly on the history of GEIPAN, the author comments that this Agency usually receives about two hundred testimonies a year, which after examination and research are classified into four categories according to their level of consistency and strangeness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a) explained cases</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> b) cases likely explained</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> d) unexplained cases</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He leads the reader along the same route he took during his mission in GEIPAN, that is to expose the complexity of human witness by a scrupulous study of individual cases. Here we find re-entries of satellite parts, meteor falls, shooting stars, the International Space Station, Venus, the Moon, and countless stimuli, most of them luminous, misunderstood by witnesses. Xavier Passot details in depth the steps taken in an investigation from the time of reception of a report or testimony to the final conclusions, the witness being at the center of the investigation. He summarizes a sample of seventeen French cases, some of relevance, between 1965 and 2015. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The actions of the French Ministry of Defense and the Air Force are mentioned here in broad terms, highlighting the good relation and collaboration of the GEIPAN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He refers in a very summary way to the Cometa report, drafted by a group of experts, most of them from the Institute for High Studies of National Defense (IHEDN) and which was hand-delivered to the French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, being disclosed in 1999. Interestingly, the strangeness and consistency of some cases in the Cometa report were assessed according to the GEIPAN procedures and can be found in an annex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He talks unevenly about the complex relations with the media, always difficult, tumultuous at times, since although UFOs belong to the realm of the fantastic anyone can witness one and generate sensational news to exploit for an eager audience. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He raises several questions: are the UAP supernatural experiences, aliens, secret devices or unknown phenomena? Commenting very briefly on each of them but recognizing that the UAP exist as phenomena whose identification escapes, for now, our scientific and technical knowledge. One day we may come to know the origin of them but in the meantime, and without falling into the trap of lazy “stopgap” explanations (bouche-trou as he calls them), we must face the challenges that constitute these phenomena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The serious and in-depth study of human testimony is extremely complex and requires particular methods to manage the reliability of the witness and the richness of his original testimony. Is ufology a science then? Xavier Passot personally believes that ufology deserves the qualifier of science insofar as it applies all the means at its disposal to explain the phenomena that are presented to it, but it is not when non-measurable elements are systematically and voluntarily introduced into the investigation. This is to blow hot and cold at the same time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my opinion, this is a book that does not contribute anything specially remarkable to the study of the unidentified flying objects, beyond the author´s own experience in his time at GEIPAN, an agency of worldwide prestige and proven reliability throughout its years of existence, although it is rather interesting to know better the situation of ufology in France and its fluid relations with the French authorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In July 2019, an exquisitely documented (German style) book on the alleged Roswell flying saucer crash has been released by GEP and CENAP, under the authorship of Uli Thieme. With the title of <i>Roswell</i>. <i>Ein UFO Mythos</i> (Roswell, a UFO myth), it presents the supported conclusion that the collected debris was produced by the fall of a <i>Mogul</i> balloon train in the New Mexico desert. Rancher Brazel, animated by some acquaintances that he might have found a flying disc, reported the find to the sheriff of Roswell. Even before it was discovered what kind of debris it was, an overzealous press spokesman called the media and reported it in a sensationalized way. It started the myth. What happened has nothing to do with alien spaceships. This is a belief far from reality. Specially remarkable is the fact that this 197-page, highly illustrated publication is available free as a PDF through the following link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ricardo Campo, Ph.D. in Philosophy, investigator, lecturer and author, has just published a new book, entitled in Spanish <u>El OVNI de Canarias: Historia y análisis de una creación periodística</u> (The Canary Islands UFO. History and analysis of a media creation). Entirely devoted to one single UFO episode, the multiple sightings of March 5, 1979, the book reviews all implications of these events in 372 pages. There you will find everything concerning this case, one of the most important UFO occurrences in the Spanish UFO chronicles. This volume represents a noteworthy contribution to the documentation of past, relevant UFO mysteries that became elucidated years later after intense research work, where Dr. Campo played a significant role. I deeply advocate the conclusions (US Navy missile launches) and urge that a copy of this book is in the shelves of every ufologist. It can be purchased through these links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Among Ufologists, Believers and Contactees</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Spanish: “Entre ufólogos, creyentes y contactados”, is a salient opus, a text of compulsory reading in order to apprehend and understand the history of ufology in Spain. It was written by anthropologist Ignacio Cabria, who described it as “a social history of UFOs in Spain”. Printed in 1993, now it has been uploaded as a free PDF in Academia.edu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40420679/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados._Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_Espa%C3%B1a" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados.Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_España</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PERSONAL LOG</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Last November 6, I had the pleasure to meet Chilean investigator Diego Zúñiga. M.A. in Journalism, with a thesis on the advent of UFOs, codirector of the past journal <i>La nave de los locos</i> and author of <u>Notícias de Marte</u>, he currently works in the German Deutsche Welle and lives in Bonn (Germany). It was a most friendly encounter in which two of my coworkers in Valencia, Jaime Servera and J.P. González, also participated, an interesting and heartwarming chat that we immortalized in the following snapshot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valencia, November 2019. From left to right, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Diego Zúñiga, Jaime Servera and J.P. González.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) This final part of my blog is designed for family events, meetings with colleagues, visits, etc. Being formal and serious is not incompatible with being relaxed and humorous. Today, the Spanish section below contains details of three different caricatures of mine drawn by artists or friends between 1969 and 1998. I thought it was nice to let you know the history behind them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Caricature of V.J. Ballester Olmos made by Javier Salvador, 1998.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Acknowledgements</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material, analysis or assistance to the current edition of this blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Mexico), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Spain), Luis E. Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Hans-Jürgen Köhler (CENAP, Germany), Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez (Spain), Joan Plana (Spain), Juan P. González (Spain), Pablo Petrowitsch (Chile), and Jaime Servera (Spain).</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFO BOOKS AND SCIENCE BOOKS FOR SALE OR SWAP</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the following spreadsheet list of books for sale or swap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government</b> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can reach Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos directly by e-mailing to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El número de líneas del catálogo en la actualidad es de 12.571. Cada línea se corresponde con un avistamiento fotográfico o de vídeo individual.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">V.J. Ballester Olmos & J.C. Victorio Uranga</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En marzo de 1990, el primer autor supo del incidente a través de Joan Plana Crivillén, del CEI de Barcelona, quien a su vez había sido informado por Eusebio González, del grupo CICO (Centro investigador de casuística OVNI) de Torrelavega, Cantabria, dos meses antes. El testigo, J.S.O., conoció a un miembro de dicha asociación en un grupo de amigos a quienes les había contado el avistamiento que había protagonizado. A partir de ese momento, González y sus colaboradores realizaron varias entrevistas para recabar todos los datos de la observación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En aquel momento, los hechos ocurridos a la 1:30 del 7 de julio de 1986, en Páramo de Masa, Burgos, eran los siguientes, según se habían narrado: un grupo de entre treinta y cuarenta soldados, junto con sus correspondientes mandos, pertenecientes al Ejército de Tierra, con destino en la Capitanía General de Burgos, se encontraba realizando unos ejercicios nocturnos en el campo. Repentinamente observaron, a unos 100 metros de distancia, un objeto de forma lenticular de un tamaño inmenso (unos 300 metros) que se hallaba a baja altura o quizá posado en el suelo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alertado por la presencia de los militares, el objeto empezó entonces a elevarse lentamente en vertical y, al tomar altura, fue apareciendo por su parte inferior un gran haz luminoso dirigido al suelo, que tenía forma cónica (o vertical, en otra versión del testigo). El objeto era luminoso blanco y en cada extremo tenía una luz de color rojo (en otra versión indica que las dos luces rojas estaban casi en el centro del objeto). El haz que desprendía era de color blanco neón, continuo, sin variaciones y no efectuó movimientos laterales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ante la visión del fenómeno algunos soldados quedaron muy impresionados, otros tuvieron miedo y el resto mostró incredulidad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Según contó el testigo, un sargento llamado Higueras tomó nota del suceso y posteriormente le enseñó un archivo oficial que contenía informes de acontecimientos similares. Dicho archivo se hallaba en la Sección de Archivos Históricos de la Capitanía General de la Quinta Región Militar Pirenaica Occidental, con sede en Burgos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uno de los autores (VJBO) se especializaba entonces en el estudio de los informes OVNI de procedencia militar y había realizado varios trabajos sobre avistamientos de supuestos “aterrizajes” de OVNIS</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, por lo que este suceso era doblemente interesante. Primeramente, mandamos formularios específicos al CICO para conseguir más datos del testigo. A la par, el 21 de mayo de 1990 le escribimos directamente a su domicilio familiar en un pueblo de Cantabria. En octubre lo hicimos a su casa de una localidad madrileña. Nunca hubo respuesta, lo que nos causó gran perplejidad habida cuenta que hasta el momento había sido más que parlanchín.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entretanto, seguíamos nuestra correspondencia con González, del CICO, para ampliar información. Además, solicitamos que interviniera el historiador y veterano ufólogo José Antonio Cezón, quien con las pistas que le facilitamos localizó y entrevistó al joven testigo, entonces Vigilante Jurado en Prosegur prestando sus servicios en el aeropuerto de Barajas. Escribe Cezón</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Al mencionar la palabra clave…Páramo de Masa…casi inmediatamente me ha dicho que tiene prohibido hablar del tema, por dos razones:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>1ª Por trabajar en Aviación Civil</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>2ª Por la estabilidad psíquica que se supone a un guarda jurado</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El testigo le hizo a Cezón varias manifestaciones: que perteneció a un Cuerpo que nunca hacía marchas y menos nocturnas; que hubo investigación oficial y que a todo el grupo les ordenaron decir que aquella noche habían estado en sus barracones; que tuvo la impresión de que sus jefes ya esperaban la presencia del fenómeno; y que había muchos testigos más, de alguno de los cuales conservaba sus direcciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Procedía entonces hacer las comprobaciones de rigor. Plana, con quien durante la década de los noventa el primer autor realizaba investigaciones sobre presuntas observaciones OVNI por personal de los ejércitos</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, escribió al jefe de la Sección de Archivos de la Capitanía General de la Región Militar Pirenaica Occidental. El 21 de noviembre de 1991, el General Fernando Martínez Valín respondía así:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>…le comunico que en el Cuartel General no se dispone de archivos relacionados con el tema OVNI, y por ello no es posible atender el resto de las peticiones que efectuaba en la citada carta.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No satisfecho con esta respuesta, Plana se dirigió ahora a la jefatura del Estado Mayor del Ejército de Tierra, en Madrid, de donde obtuvo contestación del Teniente General Ramón Porgueres Hernández, jefe del EM del ET, quien tras acusar recibo de su carta relativa al tema OVNI, añadía:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>…sobre el particular le comunico que en la Región Pirenaica Occidental no existe información alguna sobre dicha casuística.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ya hemos escrito antes que una respuesta oficial, debidamente firmada, es un documento administrativo vinculante y si contiene, como en este caso, una respuesta no ambigua, es singularmente cierta</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Por ello, si hay que dudar de alguien, sería de las afirmaciones del testigo acerca de haber visto unos supuestos archivos oficiales. En el mejor de los casos, ¿no serían más bien papeles particulares del suboficial antes citado, aficionado a los OVNIS?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ya bien entrado 1992, proseguíamos nuestra correspondencia con Eusebio González, del CICO, quien ya apuntaba varias contradicciones en el testimonio de su informador.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este resulta un informe OVNI característico. Alguien cuenta algo extraordinario y no hay más pruebas que su palabra. Puede haber incluso mucha información (muchos detalles) pero que no se pueden comprobar ni, por otra parte, refutar. O sea, un caso de platillo volante aterrizado en Burgos delante de un destacamento militar. Así queda para siempre, formando parte del acervo de casuística que avala la realidad del fenómeno OVNI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero, lo cierto y verdad, es que hay algunos elementos que llaman la atención y crean dudas sobre la veracidad del caso (además de la negativa oficial de los archivos OVNI del ET, cuya existencia se basa en el testimonio del testigo).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La zona del supuesto avistamiento es un verdadero desierto. Con una extensión de más de 160 km</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, en 1970 el municipio de Masa tenía apenas 127 habitantes. Ideal para no haber testigos externos que pudieran corroborar lo sucedido. Imprecisión, además, en la localización del punto del “encuentro”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De los supuestos numerosos soldados y oficiales que vieron el OVNI cerca del suelo, nadie jamás ha salido a la palestra a confirmar los hechos. Solo se dispone de la versión de J.S.O.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No hay ningún dato del avistamiento (relato, cuestionarios, etc.) que venga directamente del testigo. Toda la información se conoció a través del mencionado grupo CICO. Por alguna razón de peso, halló excusas para no proseguir con ese relato en los años posteriores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Destinado en la Capitanía General de Burgos, era un destino cuyo personal no realiza maniobras ni marchas nocturnas y menos en un mes de vacaciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay un dato especialmente crítico, sin embargo, que hemos averiguado ahora y que parece poner en entredicho esta historia. En uno de los cuestionarios se dice que, cuando el testigo observó el OVNI tenía a su espalda a la Luna. A la 1:30 del día 7 de julio de 1986, momento de la supuesta observación, <b>no había Luna</b>. Cuando el citado astro se ocultó, ese día, a las 21:53 horas, todavía no había oscurecido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estos datos poco claros y contradictorios nos hicieron pensar en una broma de J.S.O. que se le fue de las manos. En este sentido, recordamos la alternativa planteada en su día por Cezón: “Un testigo bromista que ha jugado a tomarle el pelo al grupo de Cantabria y no quiere reconocerlo”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> En uno de los libros del primer autor se instaba a reinvestigar los casos no resueltos una vez que transcurrieran muchos años, por las oportunidades que eso conlleva en varios aspectos.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Eso nos espoleó a “revisitar” este episodio inconcluso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y, para ello, nada mejor que ir directos al responsable de todo: J.S.O. Dado que conocíamos su nombre completo, las Páginas Blancas nos dieron su dirección. Y en octubre de 2019 -treinta años después de los sucesos- le escribimos una carta, avanzándoles nuestro propósito de estudiar los hechos narrados en 1990. Pocos días después, recibimos este correo electrónico:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>En relación con la misiva que he recibido, solo constatar que como ustedes presuponen, fue un error de juventud por mi parte. Siento mucho las molestias causadas a su grupo, y por mi parte los animo a seguir con su proyecto. Espero sepan perdonar mi temeridad.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asunto resuelto. Una confesión diáfana. En posterior intercambio de mails, agregó la razón última para ello: <i>Quizás fue el encajar o no sentirse desplazado lo que me llevó a contar dicha historia, no con intención de reírme de ellos, ni mucho menos, ya que yo también creo que no estamos solos. Pero, ya se sabe, la bola va creciendo y no sabes cómo salir.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Podemos aprender algo de este acontecimiento? En nuestra opinión, ello debería hacer reflexionar a más de uno que cree que la encuesta ufológica consiste en tomar nota de lo que la gente le cuenta, sin ponerlo en tela de juicio</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7-11</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. No. La verdadera investigación de campo pasa por considerar críticamente los relatos que oímos y establecer, lo más objetivamente posible, las causas que los provocan. Otra cosa sería querer creer. O, peor, necesitar creer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Juan Antonio Fernández Peris, <u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u>, Plaza & Janes (Barcelona), 1987.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) José Antonio Cezón Alonso, comunicación personal a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 9 de septiembre de 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Los archivos OVNI militares son ya de dominio público”, <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i> (II), Núm. 16-17, 1994, páginas 5-13, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y74k3do4">https://tinyurl.com/y74k3do4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Morón, sensacionalismo y respuestas oficiales”, septiembre de 2001, <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxXQ">http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxXQ</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) José Antonio Cezón Alonso, comunicación personal a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 17 de febrero de 1992.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Miguel Guasp, “Las contraencuestas de casos antiguos”, en <u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1989, páginas 175-180.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “¿Qué fue del ovni de Barbate?”, <a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/08/que-fue-del-ovni-de-barbate.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/08/que-fue-del-ovni-de-barbate.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Sobre el "platillo volante" visto y fotografiado en Castejón”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/03/sobre-el-platillo-volante-visto-y.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2017/03/sobre-el-platillo-volante-visto-y.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Una historia increíble de OVNI gigante”, <a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2013/02/una-historia-increible-de-ovni-gigante.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2013/02/una-historia-increible-de-ovni-gigante.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(10) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “¿Un robot extraterrestre en Burgos?”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(11) Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Un agricultor vasco a punto de descifrar el misterio de los "platillos volantes", <a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2006/12/un-agricultor-vasco-punto-de-descifrar.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2006/12/un-agricultor-vasco-punto-de-descifrar.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A los efectos de cita formal, el enlace de este trabajo es el siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hace diez años publiqué en la desaparecida revista <i>Karma-7</i> un artículo sobre la reentrada sobre Benín (África occidental) de un cohete portador japonés. Acabo de revisarlo, actualizando enlaces e ilustraciones y añadiendo alguna información. Lo he subido al portal de Academia.edu con este enlace:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fechada a finales de abril de 1998, se recibió en la redacción de la revista Cuadernos de Ufología</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> una carta firmada por el doctor Ange Noudehou, director de “Assouka”, un periódico independiente editado en Cotonou, capital de la república de Benín. Se trata de un pequeño estado de África occidental emplazado entre Nigeria y Togo. “Hace varios días (sic) -decía la misiva, traducida del inglés- un objeto volante no identificado aterrizó en una región al norte de mi país…Solicito su ayuda para examinar este objeto, actualmente en manos del Gobierno, que no tiene recursos, ni intelectuales ni de laboratorio, para examinarlo”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julio Arcas, director de CdU, me remitió la carta en mi calidad de director de investigaciones de la Fundación Anomalía e inmediatamente respondí, adelantando que con seguridad estaríamos hablando de una reentrada de chatarra espacial, solicitando copia de cualquier información publicada y sugiriendo que requirieran al Gobierno acceso a los restos. El Dr. Noudehou contestó en septiembre, adjuntando fotocopias de “Le Matin”, diario local en lengua francesa, correspondiente al 7 de julio de 1997, con un artículo titulado <i>Que s’était-il-passé à Kandi?</i>, elaborado por Laurent Djiguy, enviado especial a la localidad de cuya información nos haremos eco a continuación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para entablar conversación con el gobierno nacional, el Dr. Noudehou nos solicitaba un documento acreditativo de la Fundación Anomalía, así como “instrucciones, consejos, materiales y finanzas”. Nuestra contestación dio pautas para una investigación y documentación de lo ocurrido y le facilitamos un certificado formal dirigido a las autoridades del Gobierno de la República de Benin, nombrándole “representante oficial” de la Fundación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los hechos que han motivado el presente trabajo tuvieron lugar entre las 19,45 y 20 horas (L) de la noche del sábado 28 de junio de 1997 en una aldea conocida por Gando Kossi kanan, de unos 2.000 habitantes, situada a ocho kilómetros del pueblo de Kandi. Aunque no hubo que lamentar desgracias personales ni materiales, la caída de un objeto luminoso no identificado del espacio suscitó un gran sobresalto entre la población musulmana de Gando Kossi kanan, que tuvo que emprender la desbandada cuando se encontraba en plena oración.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Según una versión recogida en la localidad vecina de Gamia, el objeto se precipitó del cielo ardiendo, siendo visibles tres partes (un cuerpo y como dos alas) que a unos 40 metros del suelo tomaron trayectorias distintas. Por el contrario, en Pédé y Gando Kossi kanan, los lugareños afirmaban unánimemente que solo hubo un objeto, el cual produjo una serie de detonaciones antes de caer a tierra en una zona de difícil acceso. Efectivamente, el objeto vino a parar a una estepa pedregosa sembrada de zarzas adonde sólo llegaban los peatones y los <i>zémidjans</i> (moto taxis).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A la mañana siguiente, se encontró en el lugar una lámina metálica, “casi carbonizada”, de unos 10 kilogramos de peso y forma cóncava, como una enorme oreja. Su base tenía una estructura circular con un pequeño dispositivo en forma de “T” en el centro y tornillos de fijación en la periferia. El objeto mostraba también un tapón de depósito dotado de una mecha negra dañada. Un detalle curioso -con toda seguridad espurio- fue aportado por Ati Inoussa, director de la única escuela pública de la aldea y uno de los primeros testigos oculares del suceso, cuando contó que “los niños que cometieron la torpeza de tocar el objeto comenzaron a rascarse el cuerpo; podría ser que hubiera una sustancia radioactiva muy perjudicial para el hombre”. Inicialmente se barajaron dos hipótesis principales acerca del origen del objeto: que se tratara de un fragmento del ala de un avión o bien, más probablemente, que fuera parte de algún satélite (una opinión que compartía, por ejemplo, Touré Nouhoun Isa, Jefe de la Circunscripción de Kandi).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No hace falta ser un gran experto para reconocer de inmediato que los restos caídos en esa zona del África occidental pertenecen a algún vehículo espacial (terrestre, naturalmente) que había penetrado en la atmósfera. Las fotografías publicadas en el periódico (véanse las Figuras 1 y 2) son estereotipos perfectos de la quincalla de una reentrada</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2-3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El siguiente paso era, obviamente, identificar el causante del decay. Para ello, recurrí al <i>Spacewarn Bulletin</i>, publicación del World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites, del Goddard Space Flight Center de la NASA (Maryland, Estados Unidos), donde se informa de lanzamientos de cohetes, probables fechas de su reentrada y fechas definitivas de las mismas. La información es pública y se accede a la versión electrónica a través de su correspondiente página web</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Lo primero fue localizar aquellos ingenios astronáuticos que decayeron el 28 de junio de 1997. El boletín Nº 525, de julio de 1997, señalaba que sólo se produjo una reentrada aquel preciso día. Se trata del siguiente objeto</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1987-012B</b> (designa el año de lanzamiento, un número secuencial y una letra que designa como A el satélite que se puso en órbita, como B el cohete impulsor y sucesivas para otras partes del complejo tecnológico enviado al espacio exterior).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>17481</b> (número del catálogo del USSPACECOM, Mando Espacial de los Estados Unidos, con sede en el NORAD).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>R/B M-3S2 </b>(<i>rocket body</i> o <i>booster</i>, cohete de lanzamiento y tipo de impulsor).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seguidamente procedí a repasar los boletines de 1987 hasta encontrar los datos del lanzamiento numerado 1987/012. En efecto, en su Nº 400, de febrero de ese año, el <i>Spacewarn Bulletin</i> informaba de los detalles técnicos de la experiencia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lanzado desde el centro espacial de Kagoshima, del Instituto de Ciencias Astronáuticas y del Espacio de Japón, el 5 de febrero de 1987, un cohete puso en órbita el <i>Astro</i> C (1987-012A/17480), un satélite dedicado a la astrofísica de alta energía dotado de contador y monitor de rayos X para todo el cielo y de un detector de rayos gamma. Este satélite emitía dos frecuencias de telemetría en las bandas de 400.0 MHz y 2280.5 MHz. Los elementos orbitales del objeto satelizado tenían un periodo de 95.9 minutos, 593 kilómetros de apogeo y 528 kilómetros de perigeo -una órbita casi circular-, con una inclinación de 31.2 grados. Al satélite se le dio el nombre de <i>Ginga</i>, galaxia en japonés.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En efecto, componentes de satélites o de los potentes misiles que los propulsan a sus órbitas sobreviven eventualmente al enorme calor del proceso de reentrada en la atmósfera y alcanzan el suelo. Un ejemplo reciente de chatarra espacial, procedente de la segunda y tercera etapas de un cohete <i>Delta</i> II, lo tenemos en un tanque de combustible de acero inoxidable de más de 200 kilogramos (Figura 3) y un tanque esférico de titanio de 30 kilogramos (Figura 4), que se estrellaron en dos localidades cercanas de Texas el 22 de enero de 1997</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volviendo al incidente que nos ocupa, lo que cayó sobre la aldea africana fueron los restos -después de su cruce abrasivo a través de la atmósfera- del cohete usado para poner en órbita al satélite japonés de investigación científica Astro C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finalizada esta investigación, comuniqué el hallazgo al Instituto de Ciencias Astronáuticas y del Espacio de Japón. Me respondió el profesor Yasunori Matogawa, director del Kagoshima Space Center, que desconocía esta información por completo. Tras alguna correspondencia facilitándole los datos pertinentes, que le resultaron extraordinariamente interesantes, el centro espacial japonés decidió hacer una donación económica a la Fundación Anomalía, que ayudó a cumplir nuestros objetivos de preservar los fondos de la “cultura ovni” en España y proseguir nuestro programa de publicaciones y edición de libros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyqfveh9">https://tinyurl.com/yyqfveh9</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan, “El peligro que viene del cielo”, <u>Expedientes Insólitos</u>, Temas de Hoy (Madrid), 1995, páginas 78-96.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan, “La reentrada del <i>Cosmos</i> 749”, <u>Investigación OVNI</u>, Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1984, páginas 113-121.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx525.html">https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx525.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) <a href="https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/reentry/recovered.html">https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/reentry/recovered.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">El autor expresa su agradecimiento a Manuel Borraz y a Jaime Servera por su colaboración en distintas fases de la preparación de este artículo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quiero aprovechar esta ocasión para citar algunos otros trabajos que he escrito en los últimos años sobre la misma materia, reentradas atmosféricas de cohetes o satélites que se han tomado por ovnis. Creo que a más de un lector de este blog le serán de interés:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos & Matías Morey Ripoll, “27 noviembre 1999: ¿La última reentrada del milenio?”, <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx68649U</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al respecto, véase información complementaria y video clips en el siguiente enlace (hay que bajar hasta “La reentrada del Shenzhou” y “Apéndice para este blog”): <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2009_10_21_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2009_10_21_archive.html#es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos & Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Despliegue luminoso sobre Canarias en noviembre de 1997”, <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx4zJ8DK">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx4zJ8DK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ver un video aquí: <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_04_13_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2009_04_13_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Avistamientos del 2/6/2004: el Ejército del Aire informa”, <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxW4">http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxW4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Más información e imágenes en estos blogs (bajar hasta “Nuevos datos sobre la bola de fuego del 2 de junio de 2004”),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_10_27_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_10_27_archive.html#es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2007_01_29_archive.html#es">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2007_01_29_archive.html#es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Desclasificación OVNI: El último expediente”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12561888/DESCLASIFICACION_OVNI_EL_ULTIMO_EXPEDIENTE">https://www.academia.edu/12561888/DESCLASIFICACION_OVNI_EL_ULTIMO_EXPEDIENTE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* V.J. Ballester Olmos, “A Gorgeous Space Junk Decay”, (bajar en el blog hasta la noticia): <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2014_09_25_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He escrito una reflexión sobre la probable naturaleza más profunda de los abundantes relatos de encuentros con extraterrestres que tenemos en la casuística ufológica. Espero les parezca sugerente…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Song miraba al hombre que llamaba padre en el porche trasero cada noche, hablando con su cuello y trazando las trayectorias de las estrellas con una pluma de líquido corrector, en el reverso de un mapa estelar, buscando ovnis. Las obsesiones de muchas personas, razonó Song, tenían un precio. De las muchas cosas que ella sabía que a él preocupaban por entonces, ésta parecía la más inofensiva.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;">1</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los investigadores de ovnis (desacreditadores, escépticos o creyentes, todos por igual) somos completamente conscientes de un aspecto particular de este enigma: con unas pocas excepciones, la mayoría de la pequeña fracción de avistamientos sin resolver (antiguos, generalmente) son efímeros, ambiguos o están pobremente documentados. Esto es un hecho. Y esta es la razón fundamental de la falta de fiabilidad de las "pruebas" y de la desconfianza en su valor por parte de la sociedad científica y los gobiernos. Sin embargo, el verdadero núcleo de acontecimientos aparentemente impresionantes e insolubles, que sólo una teórica presencia alienígena puede explicar, son los "encuentros cercanos". Historias de aterrizajes de naves espaciales de otro mundo en suelo terrestre, con sus correspondientes pilotos humanoides a bordo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En cuanto a las cualificaciones de los observadores -ya sean pilotos, militares, científicos, clérigos, oficiales de la ley, políticos o jueces, por ejemplo-, no importan realmente en el análisis final. Al fin y al cabo, son personas comunes y corrientes que afirman haber experimentado el Primer Contacto. No tiene sentido discutir si un observador desde un avión en vuelo vio un objeto volador o la bola de fuego de un bólido. O si una mancha en imágenes pixeladas de un video de la Marina estadounidense es un globo, un pájaro o un dron. Si los discos voladores de los años cincuenta representan un punto de inflexión fundamental en el siglo, entonces la humanidad debería concentrar importantes recursos de investigación en los <u>miles</u> de testimonios de estas apariciones de la era espacial, recogidos por las organizaciones ovni a lo largo de los años, especialmente durante los años sesenta y setenta, aunque no limitados a ese periodo de tiempo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Por qué los defensores a ultranza de la realidad ovni extraterrestre no defienden los numerosos ejemplos de esta supuesta intervención alienígena en nuestro planeta como base para su creencia? ¿Por qué no proponen estos incidentes a las Naciones Unidas, a los gobiernos nacionales, a la Academia de Ciencias o a las revistas científicas? Esta debería ser su principal prioridad y objetivo, en lugar de discutir detalles insignificantes sobre el tamaño angular o la distancia de la observación de una luz en el cielo a finales de los años cuarenta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se supone que esos son los mejores casos. La prueba definitiva. Sin duda alguna. Sin embargo, no se señalan como importantes o decisivos. No tan fundamentales como para demostrar que hemos sido visitados por viajeros de otras partes del universo. ¿A nadie le parece extraño?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tengo una teoría. Llámelo una suposición o una sospecha. Una razón para esto. Incluso para el creyente más ferviente, el relato que cuentan del breve aterrizaje de una nave espacial con sus ocupantes deambulando resulta difícil de tragar. No solamente porque en la masa de informes no hay coincidencias entre ellos. Básicamente, porque son casos de un solo testigo. Sucesos extraordinarios vividos por espectadores únicos, o por dos, con suerte. En ocasiones, ciertos ovnis atmosféricos (ovis) son vistos por cientos de personas a la vez, pero ¿por qué estos augustos episodios de interacción con razas extraterrestres apenas ocurren a almas aisladas y solitarias?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por lo tanto, es legítimo preguntarse: ¿fueron reales estas experiencias? No se encuentran ni tuercas ni tornillos. No queda un papel, fórmulas, holografía o mensaje digital. Ni un solo regalo. Nunca, jamás. Miserables hombrecitos verdes. Apenas aparecen para asustar a pacíficos campesinos, granjeros o conductores. ¿Y si éstas fueran apariciones imaginadas? Considerando la ausencia de pruebas en forma de materiales exóticos o de algo más sólido que las huellas circunstanciales en el suelo, tenemos el derecho a aumentar la probabilidad de que las narraciones de la llegada de las supernaves espaciales sean meramente historias que en realidad no ocurrieron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frente a este escenario, entiendo que solo existen dos opciones: son historias ciertas o no lo son. Patentemente, no son verdad. Las implicaciones de que los extraterrestres aterricen en nuestro patio trasero durante unos pocos minutos, después de un viaje de años luz, para enseguida escapar rápidamente, son absurdas y demenciales. Por lo tanto, la alternativa racional es que esto no ha ocurrido. Y el debate está abierto: o es una invención y una fábula, o es una alucinación y una creación de la mente. O una mezcla de ambas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el primer caso, el informador relata una invención, una mentira que se sale de control, una falsedad consciente que repite una y otra vez y colorea y exagera ante los periodistas de televisión. En esta opción, el comunicador, empujado por una de múltiples causas posibles, simplemente se inventó la historia. Punto. Es el investigador experimentado, ahora, quien deberá determinar las claves del fraude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el segundo caso, el sujeto se encuentra bajo un éxtasis psicológico no traumático de breve duración. En este escenario, algo se ha imaginado, probablemente bajo estrés, sin una secuela mental que no fuera el recuerdo de la supuesta experiencia. ¿Quién decidirá cuándo se aplica esta opción? De hecho, el trabajo queda para psicólogos, terapeutas y psiquiatras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta clase de "encuentro cercano" es una experiencia límite (<i>borderline</i>). Límite en el sentido de que existe dentro de la interfaz entre lo fantástico y lo verdadero. No es retórico. Como los eventos reportados no ocurrieron en el mundo real, es un problema mental, todo está en la mente. Yo lo llamo el mundo interior. Nuestro trabajo es reconocer cuando alguien cuenta un cuento, inventa una historia y la crea conscientemente, o desarrolla el autoengaño de una visión fantasmagórica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el primer caso, la persona simplemente se comporta como un mentiroso habitual o compulsivo. No es necesario que nos explayemos. En el segundo, la causa es un estado psicológico de corta duración, extremo pero recuperable, que engendra avistamientos fantasmales basados en recuerdos, sueños, lecturas o películas. Y no cualquier tipo de visiones extrañas: el contacto con astronautas extraterrestres, específicamente. Si tenemos una razón para defender la sinceridad de este narrador individual (más robusta que la ingenuidad ideológica), ¿qué más queda?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los informes falsos pueden tener muchas motivaciones, desencadenantes y excusas. Es nuestra incapacidad para evidenciarlos lo que deja sin resolver este tipo de informes. Me gustaría ahora concentrarme en la pregunta de si el proceso cognitivo que produce una experiencia falsa tiene una firma psicológica única. ¿O muchas? La experiencia de fondo es que alguien piensa que ha tenido un encuentro con seres de otro planeta. Ciertamente, un desorden de personalidad limitado en tiempo e intensidad. Pero ¿cuál? Si estaba completamente despierto, ¿fue una alucinación visual de libro? ¿Una disociación temporal? ¿Epilepsia del lóbulo temporal? ¿Un falso recuerdo? Si está relacionado con el sueño, ¿un trance hipnopómpico o hipnagógico? ¿Parálisis del sueño? ¿Sueño lúcido? Se necesitan especialistas para explorar esta categoría de presuntas observaciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo que pongo en duda es que exista un tipo de falso recuerdo o una visión falsa que abarque exclusivamente la noción de la visita extraterrestre, es decir, cuando un individuo aparentemente normal (aunque no evaluado psicológicamente) afirma haber observado durante un lapso de tiempo suficiente (en ausencia de testigos presenciales que lo corroboren) la escena típica de un encuentro cercano con una nave espacial. Esto conecta indisolublemente con la mitología de los platillos volantes, que se desarrolló durante una época determinada, dentro de un entorno cultural y social determinado. Pero si este existiera, encontrar y modelar esta "alucinación alienígena" sería ciertamente una contribución importante de las historias de los ovnis a la Psiquiatría.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En lo que a mí atañe, apoyo la hipótesis de una forma muy sutil de falsedad o engaño, en lugar de un episodio tipo sueño despierto que se centra exclusivamente en la llegada de seres de otro planeta. <u>Tiendo a favorecer el engaño por encima de la visión subjetiva</u>. A menos que los psicólogos creen un modelo formal específico para una "alucinación alienígena", me inclino a favorecer la hipótesis más económica, es decir, una forma suave de mentira, para la mayoría de los eventos de esta naturaleza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta breve exposición delinea dos alternativas para esas experiencias individuales solitarias de alta extrañeza: en lo que respecta a los perceptores, los relatos pueden ser verdaderos (pero de naturaleza psicológica) o no verdaderos (es decir, engaños). Respaldo la proposición de la falsedad, en base a 50 años de mi propio trabajo de campo, entrevistas a muchas personas y el procesamiento de las investigaciones <i>in situ</i> realizadas por colegas internacionales. Sin embargo, se ha sugerido una tercera alternativa: las narraciones de encuentros alienígenas serían la revelación contemporánea de la experiencia histórica trascendente de lo sagrado y lo santo. En la extensa tradición de experimentar la cercanía con lo sobrenatural, en una sociedad tecnológica los dioses se convertirían en seres del espacio exterior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En mi opinión, tal cosa no se sostiene. En primer lugar, porque todavía vemos y recolectamos tales experiencias religiosas en forma de milagros, apariciones de la Virgen o curaciones a cargo de santos. Por lo tanto, no parece una evolución de un mito a otro. Sobre todo, hay una gran diferencia en la fenomenología. ¿Cuán física ha sido una experiencia trascendente a lo largo de la historia? En los encuentros alienígenas encontramos una máquina 3D perfectamente descrita, la distancia, hora, duración y otros parámetros y medidas claramente definidos, con seres que muestran rostros, expresiones y vestimentas retratadas al detalle, con un comportamiento de los tripulantes de las presuntas naves espaciales debidamente explicado, o con las maniobras de aterrizaje y despegue pormenorizadas detalladamente. Es una narrativa bien definida y carente de ambigüedad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tampoco puedo estar de acuerdo con esta tercera "alternativa" porque parece ser más bien una especulación teórica de los estudiosos del folclore o de la religión, lo suficientemente abstracta como para no poderse refutar. Hay autores ufólogos que son también maestros en esta técnica de redacción. Esta me parece más bien una hipótesis de salón que pretende vincular los relatos de aterrizaje de ovnis con el campo profesional del proponente. Fusionar un problema concreto dentro de una categoría más genérica y vaga no ayuda a resolverlo, sino a esconderlo para siempre tras un muro de incomprensión.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi opinión es que al estudiar estos casos nos situamos en el límite de nuestra propia competencia (¿cómo evaluar profesionalmente tales testimonios extraños de la gente?) e ideología (¿cómo acomodar en nuestra mente liberal que la gente normal pueda engañarnos y tomarnos el pelo por nada?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los relatos de encuentros con humanoides interplanetarios nos hacen preguntarnos sobre el significado y la naturaleza de esos mundos imaginarios. Ahora es el momento de racionalizar en términos psicológicos aquellos relatos inmateriales e infundados que pertenecen al ámbito de la Psicología.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Todavía me apego a la dicotomía verdad/falsedad, ciertamente apoyando la opción de la falsedad, básicamente porque la evidencia es nula después de 70 años. Realmente, esto tiene un gran significado. Recordemos cuántos cacharros nuestros astronautas han dejado en la Luna y las sondas espaciales han dejado en la superficie de Marte, solo en un puñado de aterrizajes. ¡Nuestros registros de aterrizajes de ovnis ascienden a miles y ni una sola pieza de quincalla "marciana" ha sido recuperada!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comentario aparte, obviamente relacionado con este tema, la forma más elemental y destartalada de falsificación sistemática de encuentro con personas del espacio es el contactado (<i>contactee</i>). De otro lado, la forma más compleja de trastorno mental asociado con el contacto extraterrestre parece ser el fenómeno de la abducción.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para muchos, los testigos de los fenómenos de encuentros cercanos (EC) son no-testigos, ya que estos son no-sucesos. Otros creen que los testigos fueron espectadores de buena fe de una ilusión que es el producto de múltiples factores, que van desde lo puramente personal -"psicológico"- hasta cualquiera de los diversos contextos culturales en los que ha ocurrido el fenómeno. Finalmente, para la legión de "creyentes", los eventos EC representan verdaderamente visitas extraterrestres. Este escrito informal no pretende convencer de la bondad de una hipótesis u otra, sino dar pie a la reflexión y abrir nuevas vías de investigación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Rusty Barnes, “Song & Jimmy: Four Scenes”, en <u>Mostly Redneck Stories</u>, Sunny Outside (Buffalo), 2011, página 121.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Agradezco los valiosos comentarios recibidos del Dr. Greg Eghigian, profesor de Historia de la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania, y de Fernando J. Soto Roland, profesor de Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La razón fundamental por la que la información ovni es un caos de datos y no arroja patrones ni constantes y menos leyes universales es porque las bases de datos mezclan ovnis y ovis (esto sin mencionar algo clave: que la inmensa mayoría de casos no identificados son perfectamente identificables). En mi modesta opinión, debido a una mala encuesta y una forma inadecuada de adquirir los datos. De otro lado, la firma estadística de los catálogos de informes ovni explicados es la misma que la que producen los inventarios de presuntos casos ovni inexplicados. En este contexto, el volumen 29 de 2015, número 2, páginas 195–233 del <i>Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, el físico español Julio Plaza del Olmo publicó un trabajo titulado “Modeling the Law of Times” (Modelando la Ley Horaria) que la convertía sencillamente en una estructura socio-astronómica, sin ninguna relación con la naturaleza u origen de los ovnis. Este excelente ensayo puede leerse ahora en línea en el siguiente enlace de Academia.edu:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times">https://www.academia.edu/31712514/Modeling_the_Law_of_Times</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>La Ley Horaria es un patrón constante presente en cada catálogo de avistamientos de objetos volantes no identificados (ovnis) que describe el número de avistamientos que ocurren en cada hora del día. Muestra que la mayoría de los avistamientos ocurren de noche, alcanzando su máximo a las 21 horas, a veces con un pico secundario a las 2-3 horas, mientras que para las horas de luz diurna el porcentaje de casos es bajo. Durante mucho tiempo se ha sospechado que la disminución de avistamientos durante la noche se debe a factores sociales tales como que las personas se quedan dentro de sus casas y por lo tanto no pueden ser testigos de ovnis. Un aumento en los avistamientos ocurre en horas más tempranas o más tardías de la misma manera que la hora del atardecer varía durante el año. Tomando en cuenta estas características, este trabajo desarrolla un modelo matemático para reproducir la Ley Horaria. Se basa en factores astronómicos como la altitud del Sol y la Magnitud Visual Límite que se relacionan con la probabilidad de que un fenómeno sea visible; y un segundo factor relacionado con los hábitos sociales de la población, responsable de su disponibilidad para presenciar el fenómeno. Estos dos factores por sí solos pueden reproducir con precisión el pico principal de las 21-22 horas de la Ley Horaria.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es ciertamente oportuno ahora recodar un segundo artículo de investigación que Julio Plaza del Olmo publicó en la misma revista, volumen 29 de 2015, número 3, páginas 425–448, “A Review on the Relation between Population Density and UFO Sightings” (Revisión de la relación entre densidad de población y observaciones ovni), que básicamente indicaba que a mayor número de observadores potenciales, se dan más informes de observación. Este trabajo se halla también en línea en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>En la búsqueda de patrones del fenómeno ovni, la relación de los avistamientos con la densidad de población ha mostrado históricamente resultados contradictorios. Después de más de 40 años de estudios, aún no se ha llegado a una conclusión clara sobre si la relación entre el número de informes y la densidad de población es directa o inversa. Hemos revisado varios de estos trabajos y hemos descubierto cómo conciliarlos todos. Encontramos que existe una relación directa entre el número de avistamientos y la densidad de población; sin embargo, el aumento en el número de informes no es proporcional sino sub lineal con respecto al aumento de la población.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Investigación en España: proyectos en marcha</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El veterano investigador valenciano Juan Antonio Fernández Peris ha retomado su dedicación a la ufología desarrollando un catálogo de avistamientos ovni en la Comunidad Valenciana (Castellón, Valencia y Alicante), ocurridos hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1989. Sirva esta nota a modo de llamada a la colaboración para investigadores o agrupaciones que dispongan de casos de esta parte de España, que propicien aportar o intercambiar información. De momento, pueden ponerse en contacto directamente conmigo: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">También desde Valencia, el ingeniero Juan P. González, estudioso del tema desde los años setenta, gestiona el Catálogo Unificado de Casos OVNI (CUCO), un sumatorio de los registros de 25 catálogos distintos de casos ovni de España y Portugal, que asciende a cerca de 10.000 informes. Una base de datos ciertamente útil para próximos estudios técnicos. Aprovecho la oportunidad para dirigirme a quienes hayan creado listados, catálogos o bases de datos de observaciones ovni en la península Ibérica, que se pongan en contacto con nosotros para que su trabajo forme parte de este proyecto de coordinación de catálogos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El CIAE de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial), bajo la experta batuta del comodoro Rubén Lianza, acaba de difundir su informe anual para 2019, un documento de 61 páginas con las denuncias de avistamientos ovni recibidos de ciudadanos:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Todos los casos llevan asociadas imágenes, como evidencia. Se han analizado 24 informes, 23 llegados directamente a la agencia y uno más viene incluido en la sección histórica “Casos enigmáticos”. 22 son de Argentina, uno sucedió en el espacio aéreo entre Brasil y Argentina y otro ocurrió en Méjico. La monografía es un verdadero tutorial sobre como investigar casos fotográficos científicamente y cubre el periodo 2014 a 2019, más un caso del año 2000. Todas las observaciones han sido resueltas, de esta forma y proporción: 6 reflejos en la cámara, 9 pájaros o insectos, 2 astronáuticos, 2 astronómicos, 2 globos, y 3 causas varias. Lo recomiendo sin ambages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Más contenidos en la sección en inglés</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Las dos versiones de este blog no son idénticas, por lo que te sugiero que practiques inglés con estos artículos que sólo aparecen en ese idioma en la sección superior de este blog: “The Gay Fifties, March 1950”, “Portugal, First Day of Year 1977”, “On Disclosed US Navy UAP Footage”, “History: UFO Investigation at NASA” y “Metamaterials: ‘To The Stars’ Scrap”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Una buena síntesis del estudio ovni del Pentágono, los videos de la Marina de los EE.UU. etc., por Milton Hourcade:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.uapsg.com/2019/10/diseccionando-el-caso-de-los-uap-de-la.html">https://www.uapsg.com/2019/10/diseccionando-el-caso-de-los-uap-de-la.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Más -y muy bueno- acerca de los vídeos ovni de la Marina estadounidense:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2019/06/los-ovnis-del-new-york-times.html">https://tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2019/06/los-ovnis-del-new-york-times.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Matías Morey Ripoll, “Apuntes para una historia de la ufología balear”, un meritorio trabajo que vio la luz en <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, en 2001, y que ahora podemos encontrarlo en línea en Academia.edu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/5288219/Apuntes_para_una_historia_de_la_ufolog%C3%ADa_balear">https://www.academia.edu/5288219/Apuntes_para_una_historia_de_la_ufología_balear</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Nuestro antropólogo de cabecera, profundo pensador y distinguido autor Ignacio Cabria nos escribe: “Me he dado cuenta de que se cumplen los 31 años de la publicación de aquel dossier especial de <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i> (segunda época, Nº 3, septiembre de 1988) sobre UMMO que agitó las aguas ummitas. Además del famoso artículo de Carles Berché en el que hacía una denuncia de Jordán Peña como autor de UMMO, el dossier contenía un artículo mío que era la primera historia completa de la saga de contactos que tuvieron lugar alrededor de Sesma y la tertulia del café Lyon: "Sesma, Saliano, UMMO y La Ballena Alegre: una historia del contactismo español". Lo he puesto en Academia.edu en este enlace”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40469677/Sesma_Saliano_UMMO_y_la_Ballena_Alegre_una_historia_del_contactismo_espa%C3%B1ol" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Sesma_Saliano_UMMO_y_la_Ballena_Alegre_una_historia_del_contactismo_español</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Una sabia frase para tener en cuenta. Del erudito filósofo de la ciencia Mario Bunge, quien en su libro <u>Las pseudociencias, ¡vaya timo!</u> (editorial Laetoli) escribe que “los crédulos son más que los escépticos…la paradoja es que la educación, tal y como está, en vez de hacer que la gente piense en forma científica hace que se vuelva más supersticiosa”. Citado por Antonio Calvo Roy, en su artículo “Neil Armstrong contra el efecto placebo” (<i>El País</i>, Babelia, 3/8/2019, página 8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Un bello ejemplo de “light pillars” o pilares de luz, lo tenemos en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://culturainquieta.com/es/foto/item/16180-un-fotografo-captura-el-fascinante-fenomeno-de-pilares-nocturnos-en-el-cielo-de-ontario.html">https://culturainquieta.com/es/foto/item/16180-un-fotografo-captura-el-fascinante-fenomeno-de-pilares-nocturnos-en-el-cielo-de-ontario.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para tener una información completa sobre la formación de este fenómeno atmosférico, recomiendo la lectura de la magnífica web de Wim van Utrecht, Caelestia: <a href="http://www.caelestia.be/article01a.html">http://www.caelestia.be/article01a.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) El trabajo de Matías Morey “Hollywood contra los platillos volantes. Extraterrestres y ovnis como argumentos cinematográficos”, que se publicó en <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i> en 2006, se ha subido también a Academia.edu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4985348/Hollywood_contra_los_platillos_volantes._Extraterrestres_y_ovnis_como_argumentos_cinematogr%C3%A1ficos" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Hollywood_contra_los_platillos_volantes.Extraterrestres_y_ovnis_como_argumentos_cinematográficos</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) El estudioso francés Eric Maillot ha redactado una exposición crítica sobre el suceso de aterrizaje conocido como el “Amarante”. Este reseñable caso fue estudiado en su día a conciencia por el GEPAN y objeto de una de sus magníficas monografías. Este nuevo artículo, “The PAN D of October 21, 1982, called "L’Amarante": a great illusion?”, propone que un globo pequeño de Mylar podría haber penetrado en aquel pequeño jardín casero, permanecer allí durante 20 minutos hasta elevarse de nuevo y perderse de vista del único testigo ocular. La hipótesis se halla en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_">https://www.academia.edu/40492558/The_PAN_D_of_October_21_1982_called_L_amarante_a_great_illusion_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Informe sobre entrevistas de carácter histórico llevadas a cabo para el Project 1947 por Jan Aldrich, Tom Tulien y Barry Greenwood:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.project1947.com/articles/2019trip.htm">http://www.project1947.com/articles/2019trip.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) “Les OVNI du CNES, trente ans d’études officielles, 1977-2007” es un libro digital que revisa críticamente el trabajo realizado durante décadas por GEPAN/SEPRA/GEIPAN. Bajo la autoría conjunta de David Rossoni, Eric Maillot y Eric Deguillaume, tiene 418 páginas y se publicó inicialmente en una edición limitada en diciembre de 2007. Ahora disponemos de una versión corregida, aumentada y actualizada a octubre de 2016: <a href="https://www.book-e-book.com/e-books/158-les-ovni-du-cnes-pdf-30-ans-d-etudes-officielles-1977-2007-9782372460286.html">https://www.book-e-book.com/e-books/158-les-ovni-du-cnes-pdf-30-ans-d-etudes-officielles-1977-2007-9782372460286.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una detallada descripción de su índice temático, con enlaces a 200 páginas del libro original, se encuentra aquí: <a href="http://www.zetetique.fr/les-ovni-du-cnes-trente-ans-detudes-officielles-1977-2007/">http://www.zetetique.fr/les-ovni-du-cnes-trente-ans-detudes-officielles-1977-2007/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) Wayne McCarthy ha publicado “The Scareship Age, 1892-1946: Collected Blog Posts from Airminded”, una recopilación de notas de blog sobre el fenómeno de la nave voladora (“airship”) en varios países, como precursor de la llegada de los platillos volantes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/25556483/The_Scareship_Age_1892-1946_Collected_Blog_Posts_from_Airminded">https://www.academia.edu/25556483/The_Scareship_Age_1892-1946_Collected_Blog_Posts_from_Airminded</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El autor del blog original "Airminded" es el historiador australiano Dr. Brett Holman, <a href="https://airminded.org/about/">https://airminded.org/about/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) Para aficionados al estudio del rayo globular. Mickhail L. Shmatov & Karl D. Stephan, “Advances in ball lightning research”, publicado en el <i>Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics</i>, volumen 195, 15 de noviembre de 2019. (El resumen está en la versión en inglés de este blog).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Andrew Jay Harvey, alumno del Edinburgh College of Art, escribe sobre la creación de una leyenda urbana: “How and why did the Mothman come into being?”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/542721/How_and_why_did_the_Mothman_come_into_being?">https://www.academia.edu/542721/How_and_why_did_the_Mothman_come_into_being?</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Rich Reynolds, sobre el incidente de la supuesta abducción de Betty y Barney Hill. ¿Fue realmente un asalto sexual cuyo trauma fue reconvertido en un encuentro alienígena? Ver:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-betty-and-barney-hill-sexual.html">https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-betty-and-barney-hill-sexual.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) Curt Collins ha presentado en su blog este importante archivo documental: “The Cash-Landrum UFO Case Document Collection”, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html">https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(16) Nuevo análisis de la prueba del misil de la clase <i>Trident</i> del 10 de septiembre de 2013 y de otros lanzamientos, incluyendo una observación ovni en las Islas Canarias. Este artículo analiza un avistamiento de aquella fecha debido al lanzamiento de un misil balístico intercontinental desde un submarino (SLBM). Una nueva información que atañe a la trayectoria del lanzamiento ha conseguido determinar el apogeo del misil. Esta trayectoria se compara con otros lanzamientos de estos misiles en los años posteriores: <a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-reanalysis-of-trident-slbm-test-of-10.html">https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-reanalysis-of-trident-slbm-test-of-10.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(17) Reedición de 2017 de <u>Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century</u>, un libro con 17 trabajos editado por Alexander C.T. Geppert, de la New York University en Shanghai. Este volumen de cerca de 450 páginas contiene ensayos que obviamente interesan a los estudiosos del fenómeno ovni, como por ejemplo, los siguientes: “Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space” de Steven J. Dick, “Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908” de Claudia Schmölders, “A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–1947” de Pierre Lagrange, o bien “Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France” de James I. Miller. Véase este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/326706/Imagining_Outer_Space_European_Astroculture_in_the_Twentieth_Century">https://www.academia.edu/326706/Imagining_Outer_Space_European_Astroculture_in_the_Twentieth_Century</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(18) ¿Recuerda el amable lector cuando todos los ufólogos criticábamos a los Gobiernos porque mantenían secreta la información ovni? Eso era antes de que la mayoría de los Gobiernos siguieran una política de transparencia y desclasificaran sus archivos reservados. Hoy, la situación se ha revertido. Son algunas organizaciones privadas como la ya extinta NIDS o la BAAS quienes ocultan sus relaciones con agencias estatales estadounidense como la NSA o la DIA, así como, naturalmente, sus registros documentales. Lean esto al respecto: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/09/national-security-agency-fort-meade-md.html">https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/09/national-security-agency-fort-meade-md.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(19) Como cualquier encuestador experimentado sabe, la Luna produce muchas falsas observaciones ovni, más de las que se cree. El investigador galo Eric Maillot ha escrito un artículo titulado, precisamente, “Analyse clinique de cas de méprises ovnis avec la Lune" (análisis clínico de errores ovni con la Luna):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/articles/meprises_lune.html">http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/articles/meprises_lune.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por su parte, el colega español J.C. Victorio Uranga ha publicado en su blog más de 40 ejemplos de confusiones lunares:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/search/label/La%20Luna">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/search/label/La%20Luna</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y en su última entrada, Victorio Uranga ha dado cuenta de otro “encuentro cercano” que se debió realmente a la aparición inesperada de nuestro satélite natural:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/11/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-burgos.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/11/encuentro-cercano-con-un-ovni-en-burgos.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(20) Después de su lanzamiento, la segunda etapa del cohete <i>Falcon</i> 9 de la compañía SpaceX tuvo una maniobra de cambio de órbita abandonando su carga y quemando combustible sobre Europa occidental a las 14:56UT del 11 de noviembre de 2019, antes de caer sobre el océano. Esto generó imágenes espectaculares y, como era de esperar, observaciones ovni por parte de personas mal informadas sobre tales efectos, propios de la más reciente tecnología espacial. Jim Oberg es autor de un detallado y clarificador informe: <a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/191111-spacex_pdf1.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/191111-spacex_pdf1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Entre ufólogos, creyentes y contactados</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En 1993, la extinta Fundación Anomalía publicó una obra extraordinaria, un texto de lectura obligatoria para conocer la historia de la ufología en nuestro país: <u>Entre ufólogos, creyentes y contactados</u>, del antropólogo Ignacio Cabria, que la describe como una “historia social de los ovnis en España”. Ignacio ha tenido la excelente idea de colocar en forma de PDF su libro, ya agotado, en los anaqueles de Academia.edu, poniéndolo al alcance de todos los estudiosos a través de un clic en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40420679/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados._Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_Espa%C3%B1a" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/Entre_Ufologos_creyentes_y_contactados.Una_historia_social_de_los_ovnis_en_España</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yo recomiendo su lectura sin paliativos. Esto aparece en la contraportada del libro:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Los platillos volantes nacieron en los Estados Unidos en 1947 y en 1950 hicieron su aparición en España en una muestra más de la colonización cultural norteamericana a la que estábamos siendo sometidos. Los medios de comunicación habían anunciado ya que los discos voladores podían estar pilotados por seres procedentes de Marte. En los últimos 25 años España ha sufrido una avalancha de observaciones de OVNIS y un bombardeo de reportajes periodísticos, libros, películas y programas de cine y televisión que han convertido el fenómeno OVNI en un gran mito de nuestro tiempo. Ignacio Cabria es antropólogo. Perteneció durante años al mundo de la ufología, y fruto de su investigación y su experiencia personal es esta historia social de los ovnis, donde se habla de la comunidad de ufólogos, de los contactados (practicantes de esa nueva forma de misticismo que es el contacto extraterrestre), del tratamiento del tema en los medios de comunicación y de las creencias de la sociedad en su conjunto. A través del desarrollo de las teorías ufológicas, expone la hipótesis de que han sido los ufólogos y divulgadores del tema quienes han introducido el estereotipo de los ovnis y han moldeado la opinión pública para asentar este gran mito de nuestro tiempo que es la llegada de los extraterrestres.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Carl Sagan en línea</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El más que sobresaliente libro del Dr. Carl Sagan <u>El mundo y sus demonios</u> fue publicado en español por la editorial Planeta hace años. Ahora se puede descargar libremente de este enlace: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/sdfo99k">https://tinyurl.com/sdfo99k</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recuerdo ahora el intercambio de un par de cartas que tuve en los 1970s con el extraordinario astrofísico y comunicador que fue Sagan, interesándome por sus trabajos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Xavier Passot dirigió el GEIPAN entre 2011 y 2016 y, al dejar el cargo y jubilarse, decidió escribir un libro para contar su experiencia e ideas. Me lo ha mandado gentilmente y he pedido a Jaime Servera que escriba un breve resumen, que sigue a continuación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Libro de tapas blandas editado en junio de 2018 por la editorial Cherche Midi, en su colección Documents, 143 páginas,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sobre el autor: Xavier Passsot, ingeniero informático en el CNES, Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales, responsable del GEIPAN (Grupo de estudios e información sobre los fenómenos aeroespaciales no identificados) de 2011 a 2016, astrónomo y fotógrafo aficionado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El prólogo corre a cargo de Pierre Lagrange, sociólogo, que se interesa por la cuestión de las creencias y los fenómenos extraterrestres desde una aproximación abierta. Es autor de varios libros, entre ellos “La rumeur de Roswell” y “la guerre des mondes a-t-elle eu lieu?” Recomienda esta obra a los testigos potenciales de objetos volantes no identificados incitándoles a no fiarse de lo que pudieran observar puesto que las percepciones y estímulos son engañosos, pero no significando por ello una crítica de la ufología ya que Xavier Passot nunca tuvo el más mínimo complejo de superioridad hacia los ufólogos sino más bien lo contrario a tenor del hecho de sus buenas relaciones con ellos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A diferencia de anteriores organismos, el CNES abrió sus puertas al público y el GEIPAN estableció un dialogo fluido con los investigadores e incluso admitió a algunos de ellos en su comité de expertos siendo Xavier Passot el artífice de esta aproximación y el organizador del primer coloquio abierto en los locales del CNES en Paris en 2014. Un importante paso se había dado que ya no tendría marcha atrás.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tras algunas consideraciones sobre la objetividad científica, los ufólogos, y los nuevos métodos que pueden aplicarse actualmente, Pierre Lagrange concluye su prólogo proponiendo que el lector tenga muy en cuenta que esta obra es el comienzo de un dialogo propuesto por su autor ya que como escribió la filósofa Isabelle Stengers, “el porvenir en dónde sabremos lo que quiere decir la palabra ovni es quizás un porvenir donde nos extrañaremos de que durante tanto tiempo las ciencias hayan estado sordas a los problemas que preocupan a la opinión pública”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Quién acaso no ha escuchado algún testigo totalmente confuso por alguna extraña aparición en el cielo? Nuestra primera reacción será entonces verificar si otras personas han presenciado el mismo fenómeno para poder comprobar y comparar los testimonios a la luz de nuestras propias percepciones, creencias, experiencias y conocimientos. En Francia desde hace más de cuarenta años, un organismo oficial, el Grupo de Estudios e Información sobre los Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (GEIPAN), que depende del Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES) recopila e investiga estos testimonios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Xavier Passot, su antiguo responsable, nos presenta en este libro un abanico de casos tendentes a desenmascarar la ilusión de la realidad en el fenómeno ovni, describiendo con detalle los fenómenos observados, desgranando los errores más comunes y las ilusiones de percepción; nos aporta la metodología y los medios técnicos que actualmente se utilizan; nos aclara sobre los enigmas del cielo y los misterios de lo humano; nos ayuda a comprender nuestras percepciones mediante una mirada aséptica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estructura su obra en cuatro bloques (dosieres del GEIPAN, complementos de investigación, el desafío ovni y conclusiones) y en sus páginas finales, encontramos una bibliografía con comentarios del autor proponiendo algunas obras sobre los fundadores de la ufología moderna, instrumentos de análisis de los informes FANI, fenómenos aeroespaciales no identificados (PAN en francés), reflexiones sobre el fenómeno ovni y la reseña de tres libros sobre informes de casos no explicados, completándose con algunos dibujos una serie de fotografías en color en un cuadernillo central.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tras una breve pincelada sobre la historia del GEIPAN, el autor comenta que este organismo suele recibir unos doscientos testimonios al año, los cuales tras examen e investigación son clasificados en cuatro categorías según su nivel de consistencia y extrañeza:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a) casos explicados</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">b) casos probablemente explicados</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">c) casos insuficientemente documentados</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d) casos sin explicación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lleva al lector por los mismos caminos que los que él tomó durante su misión en el GEIPAN, es decir, por el escrupuloso estudio de cada uno de los casos que ciertamente descubren la complejidad del testimonio humano. Aquí encontramos reentradas de partes de satélites, caídas de meteoritos, estrellas fugaces, la estación espacial internacional, Venus, la Luna, y un sinfín de estímulos, la mayoría luminosos, malinterpretados por los testigos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Xavier Passot nos detalla minuciosamente los pasos llevados en una investigación desde el momento de la recepción de un informe o testimonio hasta las conclusiones finales, siendo el testigo el centro de la investigación. Relata de forma resumida un muestrario de 17 casos franceses, algunos de relevancia, entre 1965 y 2015. Las actuaciones del Ministerio de Defensa francés y del ejército del Aire son aquí mencionadas a grandes rasgos, destacando sobremanera las buenas relaciones y colaboración existentes con el GEIPAN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se refiere de forma muy resumida al informe Cometa, redactado por un grupo de expertos, la mayoría de ellos pertenecientes al Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Defensa Nacional (IHEDN) y que fue entregado en mano al primer ministro francés Lionel Jospin, siendo divulgado públicamente en 1999. Es interesante la evaluación de extrañeza y consistencia de algunos casos del informe Cometa, aplicada según el procedimiento del GEIPAN y que podemos encontrar en un anexo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habla sin tapujos de las complejas relaciones con los medios de comunicación, relaciones siempre complicadas, tumultuosas a veces, puesto que los ovnis pertenecen a lo fantástico, aunque cualquiera pueda ser testigo de su observación y generar por ello un sensacionalismo a explotar entre el público ávido de noticias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Plantea varias preguntas, los FANI, ¿son experiencias sobrenaturales?, ¿extraterrestres?, ¿ingenios secretos o fenómenos desconocidos?, comentando muy brevemente cada una de ellas, pero reconociendo que los FANI existen realmente como fenómenos cuya identificación escapa por ahora a nuestro saber científico y técnico. Un día quizás lleguemos a conocer el origen de los mismos, pero mientras tanto y sin caer en la facilidad de explicaciones “para acallar” (<i>bouche trou</i>, como las denomina), debemos enfrentarnos a los desafíos que constituyen estos fenómenos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El estudio serio y en profundidad del testimonio humano es extremadamente complejo y exige métodos particulares tendentes a gestionar la fiabilidad del testigo y la riqueza de su testimonio original. ¿Es acaso, pues, la ufología una ciencia? Xavier Passot opina personalmente que la ufología merece el calificativo de ciencia en la medida en que pone todos los medios a su alcance para explicar los fenómenos que se le presentan, pero no lo es cuando elementos no mensurables son sistemática y voluntariamente introducidos en la investigación. Una de cal y otra de arena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A mi parecer, es un libro que no aporta nada destacable en el estudio de los objetos volantes no identificados, más que la propia experiencia del autor en su paso por el GEIPAN, organismo de prestigio mundial y fiabilidad demostrada a lo largo de sus años de existencia, aunque resulta interesante para conocer mejor la situación de la ufología en Francia y sus fluidas relaciones con las autoridades galas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Reunión</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El pasado 6 de noviembre tuve la satisfacción de reunirme en Valencia con el investigador chileno Diego Zúñiga. Licenciado en Periodismo, con una tesis sobre el advenimiento de los ovnis, codirector que fue de <i>La nave de los locos</i> y autor de <u>Noticias de Marte</u>. En la actualidad se desempeña en la Deutsche Welle, el servicio de radiodifusión internacional de Alemania, en Bonn. Al encuentro asistieron dos de mis compañeros de cuitas ufológicas en Valencia, Jaime Servera y J.P. González. Fue una muy interesante y grata conversación que inmortalizamos en la foto que sigue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Valencia, noviembre de 2019. De izquierda a derecha, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Diego Zúñiga, Jaime Servera y J.P. González.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Recuerdos en caricatura</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Circunstancias fortuitas han aflorado, casi al mismo tiempo, tres dibujos -caricaturas realmente- que me han hecho a lo largo de los años. Por esa razón, se me ha ocurrido reunirlos y exponerlos juntos con algunos comentarios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al renombrado poeta español Carlos Murciano, el madrileño diario <i>ABC</i> le encargó convertirse en “corresponsal en el mundo de los ovnis” y entrevistar a los ufólogos más representativos de la época en España, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos. Para ello, Murciano se reunió con 37 personas (o personajes) entre los que se hallaba su seguro servidor. Las entrevistas se publicaron en 1969, la mía, concretamente, el 15 de enero de 1969. No recuerdo que, en su visita, Murciano fuese acompañado por fotógrafo o dibujante alguno, pero la entrevista, como todas, se ilustró con un dibujo a plumilla firmado por Cañizares. Probablemente se usó alguna foto mía, quizás incluso la que se publicó en el diario <i>Las Provincias</i> de Valencia apenas unas semanas antes. El hecho es que, habida cuenta del éxito de la serie, todos los reportajes se reunieron en un libro de 371 páginas editado por Prensa Española (Madrid, 1969).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Durante una de las reuniones que celebramos los patronos de la Fundación Anomalía en Santander, en abril de 1995 José Ruesga Montiel, </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">alma mater</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> de la misma y pintor de talento, me dibujó un perfil en cuestión de segundos, añadiendo, en la servilleta del restaurante, cual genial Picasso, una de sus características frases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pepe Ruesga, Santander, 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La tercera y última ocasión -que recuerde- que fui caricaturizado data de 1998 cuando Javier Salvador, un buen amigo de mi hija Laura, captó bastante de mi esencia en una pintura que me muestra en el estudio de mi casa de campo en La Eliana (Valencia), con algunas de mis filias: los libros, la astronomía, mi colección de gorras de beisbol, la cerveza, la música y, naturalmente, la ufología.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Caricatura por J. Salvador, 1998.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes amigos y colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Luis Ruiz Noguez (Méjico), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (España), Luis E. Pacheco (Stratocat, Argentina), Hans-Jürgen Köhler (CENAP, Alemania), Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez (España), Joan Plana (España), Juan P. González (España), Pablo Petrowitsch (Chile) y Jaime Servera (España).</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LIBROS DEL AUTOR </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia </b>(con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Expedientes insólitos</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4">https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7x7rktd">https://tinyurl.com/y7x7rktd</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government </b>(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1</b> (1950-1988) (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Entrega de información sobre casuística, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos al siguiente correo electrónico: <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a> </span></div>
ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-81507919298527841462019-09-21T11:16:00.000+02:002019-11-15T13:46:40.975+01:002019/SEPTEMBER/20 (EN)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">English language editing: Martin Shough</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The number of case reports collected by FOTOCAT’s register and archive amounts to 12,525 as of today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lightning-Like Phenomenon on 1893 Photograph</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wim van Utrecht & Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the XIX century, interest in both photography and lightning were high on the scientific agenda. Journals published articles showing the effect of lightning on time-exposed plates in standing cameras. Naturalists and scientists were not only eager to analyze the nature of lightning discharges, they also developed a fascination for the enigmatic phenomenon of ball lightning (BL for short).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The present authors share this century-old passion for collecting and evaluating alleged BL episodes, especially when images in the form of pictures, movie footage, video recordings or digital media are presented. One of us holds a catalogue of 140 events of supposed ball lightning manifestations captured on film between 1891 and 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently, our US collaborator Kay Coggin, an efficient specialist in acquiring historical accounts of weird sky phenomena from press records, unearthed an 1893 article from the science magazine Knowledge. The item was entitled “Lightning Photographs or Photographic Defects” and focused on a curious letter dated October 14th of the same year written by Irish citizen Robert R. Levingston.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mr. Levingston reported that “at the latter part of August last, on a beautiful moonlight night,” while vacationing in Switzerland, he had placed his small hand camera on the window-sill of his bedroom and exposed the plate for one hour, from 10 to 11 p.m. “Soon after placing the negative in the developer, the peculiar marks showed up,” Levingston wrote, adding that “I can only attribute the zigzag marks to lightning.” He submitted the print together with a daytime snapshot he had taken the next morning of the same view and from the same spot to the science magazine thinking they would be interested in examining them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">August 1893, somewhere in Switzerland. Left: weird luminous trace on a time exposure of one hour. Right: shot of the same view taken the next morning. Photos by R. L. Levingston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The magazine asked their Irish correspondent about the camera’s focal length and inquired if there had been a storm during the night the picture was taken. Levingston’s reply was published in the same issue. The focal length turned out to have been 4.5 inches and the photographer emphasized that it had been “an extremely bright moonlight night”, with no electrical activity in the atmosphere (“not aware of any lightning or thunder”). Levingston had developed the pictures himself and was convinced that there were no marks on the plate negative before he had placed it into the developer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a lengthy comment</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the magazine’s editor, A. C. Ranyard, remarked that, in the case those tracks would have been produced by one or more lightning strikes, these would have occurred “very close to the hotel window” and “would probably have been accompanied by a clap of thunder which the visitors at the hotel could hardly fail to have heard.” Ranyard dismissed the lightning hypothesis for this and a number of other reasons, and proposed an alternative solution: “it is not improbable that Mr. Levingston, after having made his moonlight exposure, took his little camera up from the window-sill, and, forgetting that the direct light of the moon would make a trace upon the plate, turned the camera upwards while he looked about for the cap with which to cover the lens, or while he passed the camera from one hand to the other and closed the shutter over the dry plate. The block [photograph above left] is about the same size as the original negative, and the white band upon it is about the twentieth of an inch, which corresponds to the diameter of the moon as photographed by a camera of 4½ focus.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a consecutive issue of the magazine, the photographer expressed his sentiments that the shutter was closed before the camera was removed from its position. With regard to Ranyard’s statement, he underlined that “the plate received no such irregular exposure as you imagine.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “But,” Mr. Levingston continued, “it has been suggested to me that the lightning-like marks may be due to some phosphorescent insect having crawled over the lens or plate.” In a new comment, Ranyard dismissed the firefly concept on the basis of the sharp edges of the luminous traces, and the fact that it does not extend to the edge of the plate, but stops at the line which marks the edge of the dark side (suggesting that the line was traced while the plate was exposed in the dark slide). The idea of a firefly flying in front of the camera was also rejected because its image would have been out of focus and soft at the edges in a camera which gave sharp images of a distant mountain.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is little to add to Ranyard’s comments, but modern tools enabled us to verify if the moon hypothesis is at least feasible. An intensive search by one of the authors using Google Earth and Google Earth’s Street View to compare mountain skylines around Swiss lakes with the landscape features in Levingston’s pictures was rewarded with the finding of the actual location of the event: the city of Thun on the northern shore of Thunersee, an Alpine lake in Bernese Oberland. The prominent mountain in the problem photograph turned out to be Mt. Niesen. It is at an azimuth of about 186º when viewed from Thun, i.e. in the SSE. The distance from Thun to the mountain is 11.6km, the height of Mt. Niesen is 2,363m, so the angle subtended by the mountain on the picture should be close to 11º, this implies that the vertical picture size covers an angle of about 37° and that the upper edge of the image coincides with an elevation of about 19°.5 The horizontal angle covered by the lens was found to be approximately 46°.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The actual location: Lake Thun, canton of Bern, Switzerland. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Swiss landscape photo borrowed from:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bergwelten.com/t/w/27859)">https://www.bergwelten.com/t/w/27859<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">)</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Full moon was on August 27, 1893. Viewed from Thun city, the lunar disc was in the SE sky, traveling from an elevation of 19º (azimuth 132º) at 10 p.m. to 26º (azimuth 146º) at 11 p.m. At the end of Mr. Levingston’s time exposure, the moon would have been only about 7° to the left of the left edge of the picture and another 7° above the photo’s upper edge (i.e. less than the portion of the sky that can be covered with a fist at arm’s length). Under these conditions, any accidental movement of the camera upward and to the left would have captured it and would have created a linear trace the width of the lunar disc on the negative. So Ranyard’s hypothesis can be considered a reasonable explanation. It is certainly not as far-fetched as it may seem at first sight. Similar cases abound, also in recent time exposures that are purported to show unidentified lights, like in the much publicized Popocatépetl photograph from 2001.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Google Earth image of the area with indication of the suspected location of the camera, the horizontal picture angle (blue lines), the location of Mts. Niesen, Fromberghorn and Drunengalm, and the position of the moon at 11 p.m. (yellow line)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Analyzing an ambiguous image captured on a photographic plate 126 years ago, with no initial data about date or location is risky, but we believe the moon offers a reasonable solution to the images. Of course, this geographical/ astronomical model becomes redundant if a firefly had passed in front of the lens that Summer night in 1893.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Notes</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) FOTOCAT is a database that currently contains over 12,500 reports of imaged unidentified aerial phenomena having occurred up to December 31, 2005 (up to present time for ball lightning events). http://fotocat.blogspot.com/ is the online newsletter that informs about progress under way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) <i>Knowledge. An Illustrated Magazine of Science</i>, edited by A. Cowper Ranyard (London), Volume XVI, December 1, 1893, page 234,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/knowledgev140nov16londuoft/page/234">https://archive.org/details/knowledgev140nov16londuoft/page/234</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) Ibidem, pages 234-235.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) <i>Knowledge</i>, Volume XVI, January 1, 1894, page 18,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/knowledgev140nov17londuoft/page/18">https://archive.org/details/knowledgev140nov17londuoft/page/18</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(5) Obviously, calculations are approximate (the camera may have been closer to or further away from the center of Mt. Niesen, and a “beautiful moonlight night” does not necessarily mean it was full moon).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(6) Salim Sigales, “Informe de resolución del caso Alfonso Reyes,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://ifpa.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Informe-de-resoluci%C3%B3n-del-caso-Alfonso-Reyes-Extendido.pdf">http://ifpa.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Informe-de-resoluci%C3%B3n-del-caso-Alfonso-Reyes-Extendido.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The present article is formally sourced in the Academia.edu portal as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39936310/LIGHTNING-LIKE_PHENOMENON_ON_1893_PHOTOGRAPH">https://www.academia.edu/39936310/LIGHTNING-LIKE_PHENOMENON_ON_1893_PHOTOGRAPH</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>The Landing at Turís, 1979</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During my 50+ years as UFO investigator, I have been unable to explain or solve a few UFO reports. Probably the thorniest puzzle is the close encounter of the third kind that allegedly occurred at Turís (Valencia), on July 25, 1979. A suggestive idea, however, has been propounded by Spanish researcher and author Luís R. González. A fully-illustrated article I wrote on the event, revamped with a renewed field inquiry we jointly made in 2008, has just been uploaded in Academia.edu, and this is the proper link to read it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39927304/IMAGINATION_OR_REALITY_THE_LANDING_AT_TURIS">https://www.academia.edu/39927304/IMAGINATION_OR_REALITY_THE_LANDING_AT_TURIS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably the reason‒not to dodge the issue‒is that the cause of the phenomenon is psychological, and only a specialist in the field can endorse it with certainty. This is why when recently I found that French colleagues Raoul Robé and Jean-Michel Abrassart did study an analogous case (landing, entities, one sole witness) proposing hallucination or false recall based on a TV movie on Martians, I felt it would underwrite the possible solution to the Spanish event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For years, I have been suggesting that many UFO CE episodes are the territory of psychologists and psychiatrists, who would find new modalities of virtual apparitions and experiences charged with symbolism and specific extraterrestrial imagery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The essay by Robé & Abrassart was published on pages 4 to 6 of Tim Printy’s <i>SUNlite</i> bulletin, November-December 2017: “Case study of a Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Nancy, France, 1969): Hallucination or false memory?”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35030468/Case_study_of_a_Close_Encounter_of_the_Third_Kind_Nancy_France_1969_Hallucination_or_false_memory_SUNlite_vol._9_n_6_p.4-5_" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/CasestudyofaCloseEncounteroftheThirdKindNancyFrance1969_Hallucinationorfalsememory</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the same vein, another paper by Jean-Michel Abrassart (Ph.D. in psychology from the Catholic University of Louvain) is to be considered in the context:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_">https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>An F-18 in Pursuit of a UFO?</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the night of September 20, 2018, from Los Santos de la Humosa, in the province of Madrid, the guard of a scrapyard saw a point of light moving at high speed in the sky for a few seconds. The observation was followed by the appearance of an F-18 fighter. Was it a UFO? Was there any relationship with the military plane? The Spanish section of the current blog edition contains the article “¿Persiguió un caza español F-18 a un OVNI?”. This can be also reached here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/40155045/PERSIGUIO_UN_CAZA_ESPANOL_F-18_A_UN_OVNI">https://www.academia.edu/40155045/PERSIGUIO_UN_CAZA_ESPANOL_F-18_A_UN_OVNI</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Personal Essay</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Summertime in Spain‒even overheated‒and vacation in the countryside is a good time to read. My readings mean diversity, novel, history, biography, science fiction, ufology, etc. The good thing about reading is that it stimulates reflection, somehow inter-neuronal exchanges combine data, access to recall is easier and you feel an impulse to writing. The small text below is the result of that. I hope you enjoy (not necessarily agree!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Alien Reports We Have</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Song saw the man she called father on the back porch every night, talking into his collar and charting the paths of stars with a correcting-fluid pen on the back of a star map, looking for UFOs. Most people’s obsessions, Song reasoned, came up with a price. Of the many things she knew him to preoccupy his days with, this seemed most harmless.<span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UFO researchers (debunkers, skeptics or believers, alike) are fully aware of one particular aspect of this riddle: with a few exceptions, most of the small fraction of (usually dated) unsolved sightings are ephemeral, ambiguously recorded or poorly documented. This is a fact. And this stands as the basic reason for the unreliability of the “evidence” and the distrust in its value by the powers that be. Yet the true core of apparently impressive, unsolvable events that only alien presence can account for are the “close encounters.” Tales of landings of other-worldly spacecraft on Earthly soil, with companion humanoids on board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for the qualifications of observers‒pilot, military person, scientist, clergyman, law enforcement officer, politician, or judge‒none of it really matters in the final analysis. These are ordinary people claiming to have experienced the First Contact. There is no point in discussing if an airborne observer sighted a flying object or a fireball meteor. Or if a blob in pixeled Navy footage is a balloon, a bird or a drone. If the flying discs of the fifties do represent a pivotal turning-point type of incident in the century, then humankind should concentrate major investigative resources on the <i>thousands</i> of testimonies of this space-age-coming, collected by UFO organizations down the years, especially during the sixties and seventies, although not restricted to that time frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why are the hardcore defendants of the UFO/ET reality not highlighting examples of this supposed alien intervention in our planet as the basis for their belief? Why don’t they propose these incidents to the United Nations, national governments, the Academy of Sciences, or scientific journals? This should be their top priority and target, instead of discussing minute details about angular size or distance of the observation of a light in the sky back in the late forties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are meant to be the best cases. The ultimate proof. No doubt. Nonetheless, they are not flagged as important or decisive. Not so fundamental as to demonstrate that we have been visited by travelers from other parts of the universe. Does no one find it strange?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a theory. Call it a guess or a suspicion. A reason for this. Even for the most fervent believer, the story of the brief landing of a spaceship with its walking occupants is difficult to swallow. Not only because in the mass of reports there are no matches between them. Basically, because they are one-witness cases. Extraordinary occurrences lived by single onlookers, or by two, with luck. On occasion, certain atmospheric UFOs (IFOs) are viewed by hundreds at a time, but why do these august episodes of interaction with extraterrestrial races only happen to isolated, solitary souls?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therefore, it is legitimate to ask: were these real experiences? No nuts and bolts are ever left behind. No paper, formulae, holography, or digital message left. Not a gift. Never, ever. Miserable LGM. Just to scare a pacific peasant, farmer or driver. What about if those were only imagined apparitions? Considering the absence of proof in the form of exotic materials or anything more solid than circumstantial ground traces, we have the right to raise the probability that the narrations of the arrival of super spacecraft are merely stories that did not actually occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Facing this type of scenario, we have only two options: it was true or it wasn´t. Patently, it was not true. The implications of aliens landing in our backyard after a trip of light years for a few minutes’ appearance, only to rapidly escape, are preposterous and insane. Thus, the rational alternative is that this did not happen. And the debate is open: either it is a fabrication and a fable, or it is a hallucination and a creation of the mind. Or a mix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first plot, the claimant relates a subterfuge, a lie that went out of control, a conscious falsehood that they repeat time after time and color and exaggerate in front of TV journalists. In this instance, pushed by one of a myriad possible causes, the communicator simply made up a tale. It is the experienced investigator who would ascertain the clues to the fraud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the second plot, the subject is under a short-term, non-traumatic psychological ecstasy. In this scenario, something was imagined, probably under stress, without a mental aftermath other than a memory of the alleged experience. Who is to decide when this option applies? Indeed, the work is left for psychologists, therapists and psychiatrists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This class of “close encounter” is a borderline experience. Borderline in the sense that they exist within the interface between the fantastic and the veritable. Not rhetorical. As the reported events did not happen in the real world, it is a mental issue, it’s all in the mind. I call it the inner world. Our job is to recognize when someone either spins a tale, invents a story and consciously makes it up, or is involved in a self-delusion, a bogey vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the first case, the person simply behaves like the usual liar. We do not need to elaborate. The second cause is a short-lived, extreme but recoverable psychological state engendering ghostly sightings based on recalls, dreams, readings, or movies. And not just any kind of weird visions: the contact with spacemen, specifically. If we have a reason to defend the sincerity of the single narrator (more robust than ideological naïveté), what else remains?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fake reports may have many motivations, triggers and excuses. It is our failure to expose them that leaves reports of this type unresolved. I would like now to concentrate on asking whether the cognitive process producing a false experience has a unique psychological signature. Or many? The bottom-line experience is when someone thinks he or she underwent an encounter with beings from another planet. Certainly, a personality disorder limited in time and strength. But which one? If fully awake, a standard visual hallucination? Temporary dissociation? Temporal lobe epilepsy? A false memory? If sleep-related, a hypnopompic/hypnagogic trance? Sleep paralysis? Lucid dreaming? Specialists are in demand to explore this category of alleged observations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just doubt that there exists a false memory of a false vision that exclusively encompasses the notion of the extraterrestrial visitation, i.e., when an apparently normal individual (yet psychologically untested) claims to have observed over an extended lapse of time (in the absence of corroborating eyewitnesses) a typical scene of a close encounter with an spacecraft. It connects indissolubly to the flying saucer mythology, which developed during a given time of history within a given cultural and social environment. But if it exists, finding and modelling this “alien hallucination” will certainly be a serious contribution from UFO stories to Psychiatry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I personally support a very subtle form of falsehood or deception, rather than an awake-sleep-type episode that centers on the coming of beings from another planet. I tend to favor a deceit over a subjective vision. Unless psychologists create a distinct model for an "alien hallucination," I am inclined to favor the most economical hypothesis‒i.e., a soft form of fib, for a majority of events of this nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This brief exposé delineates two alternatives for those lone individual experiences: percipient-wise, accounts can be either true (but psychological in nature) or not true (this is, prevarications). I back up the untrue position, based on 50 years of my own field work, interviews of many people, and processing the on-site inquiries made by international colleagues. However, a third alternative has been suggested: alien encounter narratives would be the contemporary revelation of the historical transcendent experience of the sacred and the holy. In the long tradition of experiencing closeness to the supernatural, in a technological society gods would become spacemen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my view, it does not hold water. Firstly, we still view and collect such religious experiences in the form of reported miracles, virgin apparitions, or cures by saints. So, it does not appear like an evolution of one myth into another. Above all, there is a major difference in the phenomenology. How physical has a transcendent experience been across history? In the alien encounter we find a 3D machine perfectly described, distance, time, duration and other parameters and measurements clearly defined, beings with faces, expressions and clothes portrayed without a doubt, spacecraft crewmembers’ behavior properly explained, landing and launch maneuvers depicted in detail. It is a well-defined narrative lacking ambiguity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cannot agree with this third “alternative” because this seems to be more a theoretical speculation from folklore or religion study scholars, abstract enough to be refuted. There are UFO authors who are masters in this writing technique as well. This looks like an armchair hypothesis that pretends to link the UFO landing story to the field of one’s expertise. Merging a concise problem into a more generic, vague category does not help to solve it but to hide it forever behind incomprehension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sentiment is that in studying these cases we place ourselves at the limit of our own competence (how to professionally assess people’s weird testimonies?) and ideology (can we accommodate in our liberal mind that normal people can fool and cheat us for nothing?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tales of encounters with extraplanetary humanoids make us wonder about the significance and nature of those imaginary worlds. It is now time to rationalize in psychological terms those immaterial, groundless accounts which belong to the realm of Psychology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still stick to the true/untrue dichotomy, certainly supporting the untrue one, basically because evidence is nil after 70 years. This has great significance, indeed. See how much hardware astronauts left on the Moon and space probes left on the surface of Mars, just in a handful of landings. Our UFO landing records amount to thousands and not a single piece of a “Martian” gadget has been retrieved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an aside, obviously related to this theme, the most elementary and shabby form of systematic counterfeit of the encounter with spacepersons scenario is the contactee. On the other hand, the most convoluted type of mental disorder associated with extraterrestrial contact seems to be the abduction phenomenon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For many, witnesses of CE phenomena are non-witnesses, as these are non-events. Others feel they are bona fide viewers of an illusion that is the product of multiple factors, ranging from the purely personal‒“psychological”‒to the diverse cultural contexts in which the phenomenon has occurred. For the legion of “believers,” CE events truly represent alien visits. This informal writing does not purport to convince one way or the other, but to give some food for thought and open new avenues for research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Rusty Barnes, <i>Song & Jimmy: Four Scenes</i>, in <u>Mostly Redneck Stories</u>, Sunny Outside (Buffalo), 2011, page 121</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am grateful for valuable comments received from Dr. Greg Eghigian, professor of History in the Pennsylvania State University, and Fernando J. Soto Roland, professor of History, Universidad Nacional de Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Fakes at the Baskatong Lake</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canadian press (<i>Citizen, and Montreal Star</i> of March 13, 1978) reported that on March 11, Jacques Lavoie (30) and Richard Huôt (36), both of Île Perrôt, near Montreal, shot four photographs of a nearby brightly glowing UFO hovering over the Baskatong Lake, while they were camping in the hills of La Vérendrye Park, a wildlife reserve located about 225 kilometers north of Ottawa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At around 6:30pm, they had started a small fire and were setting their sleeping bags when they saw a comet-like object falling from the sky “at an incredible speed, it seemed to leave a fiery trail behind it, blue bright like the fire of a welder’s torch,” the pair of weekend campers described. The vision of the UFO was lost behind the trees, but they ran through the bushes toward the lake to find it was hovering it at an altitude between 500-1000 feet. During the next 20 seconds, Lavoie took snapshots with his 35mm camera. The UFO was “wobbling.” In five seconds, “the object began to rise up fast, like a white streak of light into the night sky.” The <i>Montreal Star</i> wrote that “considerably shaken after the incident, both men gathered their belongings and returned home.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the <i>UFO Canada</i> bulletin of March 1978, page 4, both its editors and Wido Hoville (of UFO Quebec) had trouble locating the witnesses. Finally, Hoville managed to discuss the sighting and the photos with the witnesses. “I think the photographs are genuine,” the Quebecois ufologist affirmed. The bulletin wrote that witnesses “are being misguided by a friend who insists that they should hold out to the highest bidder,” therefore the pictures were not available for study. Mainstream UFO journals like the <i>International UFO Reporter</i> also covered the story in the April 1978 issue (page 2) with a brief note with credit to Associated Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canadian writer Yurko Bondarchuk dedicated several pages of his book “UFO Sightings, Landings and Abductions” (Methuen, Toronto, 1979) to this case, with much more detail than that we find in the local newspapers. He confirmed that Mr. Lavoie realized “the potentially lucrative commodity he now possessed, held out for higher stakes.” Four months later, during a visit to Canada, Hoville introduced Lavoie to Dr. J. Allen Hynek and showed him the prints. “If the analysis of the negatives proved to be positive, then it would probably constitute the best photographic case in the last thirty years,” Hynek said. Once the negatives were secured, with the assistance of Don Donderi, a psychologist in the McGill University, these were examined by a photo technician of the same institution called Lamarche, who revealed them to be “absolutely authentic since they showed no sign of falsification or artificial manipulation.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No mass circulation outlet ever printed the photographs. Probably if they had to pay a large sum of money, their own photo technicians would be much stricter in the analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The case past to sleep the sleep of the just. Until now. Last July, Canadian researcher Marc Leduc, who holds CASUFO, a databank of UFO sightings in Canada, emailed to me to inform that another colleague, Christian Page, found out that the lead witness’s son (Lavoie) admitted that his father was taking a photography class and had fun making false UFO photos. A model was placed near the lens and then photographed while illuminating it with a flashlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the view of the shot, today, who of you would dare to proclaim the above was a real UFO picture? Naivety, belief and bad science are wrong tools to confront potential hoaxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to ascertain both the popular impact of the flying saucer concept in the United States, and the extent of the imagination and inventiveness of newspaper editors and the public, you just have to look at newspapers on the magic date of April 1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Fool’s Day. Specially in the 1950s-1980s. A real harvest of photographic stories of flying saucers. I’d like to show one example of many such annual celebrations, commemorated with practical jokes and hoaxes. That of the year 1967.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The News-Messenger</i>, published in Fremont, Ohio, released this photo: UFO over the courthouse? The caption indicated that the picture shows three viewers of the flying saucer, Charles Gavitt, Frank Miller, pointing, and son Ralph. “The UFO is actually a picture of a small egg incubator used in schools and standing only six inches high.” The staff photographer superimposed it on a photo of the building. “In case you have forgotten, this is April Fool’s Day,” the newspaper recalled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gerry Levin was the photographer of <i>The Capital Journal</i> of Salem, Oregon. Page 9 of the edition of that day was totally covered with five different types of flying saucer snapshots: “ashtaucer”, “falsaucer”, “pussaucer”, “spinisaucer” and “garbagsaucer”. Titled “backyard bonanza,” the newspaper editor wrote that a rash of flying saucer reports did not surprise their photographer. “He sees them all the time. Properly encouraged, he took a few pictures of the saucers he saw flying over his backyard. Appropriately he had the pictures here available for use today, April 1.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another simplistic double exposure picture showing a fleet of flying saucers over the otherwise pacific Homer City, Pennsylvania, appeared in <i>The Indiana Gazette</i> of Indiana, PA, on the same date. The photo legend timely and humorously blended a local fire incident and UFOs as follows: “Flying saucer invasion repelled. Firemen from Homer City are shown using water streams on a group of flying saucer craft in an attempt to ‘short out’ electrical equipment in the strange outer spaceships. One ship, (foreground) was felled and another at left is shown a split second before it hit the street, narrowly missing the pedestrian at left. Federal and state investigators together with armed troops and police surrounded the down craft within minutes as radar scopes pinpointed the Homer City attack. Authorities are attempting to find an opening into the felled ships to determine what creatures are contained inside. No one was injured in the fires touched off by the space crafts’ deadly laser beam rays. Fire damage was confined to the roofs of several Main St. buildings. Since today is April 1, everyone should realize the photo above is the yearly Gazette ‘you-know-what-day-it-is-again’ picture. Kudos to the writer of this science fiction short tale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was the day a flying saucer invaded Anniston, according to the photo by Mac McElroy, printed in <i>The Anniston Star</i> of Alabama. The caption read: “This curious object soared over the city early this morning, terrifying residents. It was believed to have been lost on a return flight to Mars. Actually, it is a bit of Tomfoolery created especially for April Fool’s Day by Steve Johnson of 625 Highland Ave. Johnson father Franklin is information officer at the Anniston Army Depot.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But not everything was made in good faith with a sense of humor. The hoax perpetrated by two New Orleans (Louisiana) teenagers, Jerry Egan, 16 (3040 Deers) and Leonard Evans, 15 (2752 Bay) was first introduced in <i>The Times-Picayune</i> of April 9, 1967. They vow that regardless of the date, the produced photograph of a flying saucer over Lake Pontchartrain was not an April Fool’s prank. On Saturday April 8, Egan reported to the newspaper that they were near the lakefront in the vicinity of Franklin Ave., at about 4:30 p.m. April 1 taking pictures with Evan’s new camera “when the gray, saucer-shaped object approached in the north from the north...the object made no audible sound and was visible for a short time. After Evans hurriedly snapped three pictures, the ‘saucer’ rose rapidly into the air and departed back toward the north, they added.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only one crude photograph was ever published. Larry Robinson, a low-profile but keen UFO analyst (and accomplished QQ technician by trade</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), has noted there is a visible problem in the focus, the object is close to the camera and therefore it is a thrown model, probable a simple dinner plate. The USAF Blue Book Project examined the case. The summary index card in their files indicates:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The observers sighted and photographed a dark disc shaped object that made a low humming sound and had a gold gleam to it when reflecting sun light.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the BB conclusion was: <i>Sighting: HOAX. Photos: Small man-made object (There are several discrepancies between the Form 164 and the newspaper accounts. Photo analysis determined the object to be 6-9 inches </i>[~20cm]<i> in diameter.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture found its way in many UFO books and magazines, including <i>The TRUE Report on Flying Saucers</i> (#2, 1967), Paris Flammonde’s <u>UFO Exist</u>! (G.P. Putnam’s, 1976), David C. Knight’s <u>UFOs. A Pictorial History from Antiquity to the Present</u> (McGraw-Hill, 1979), or Milt Machlin & Tim Beckley’s <u>UFO</u> (Quick Fox), 1981.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Blue Book archives contain many pages of correspondence and questionnaires concerning this case.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The summary for this April 1, 1967 day, is: 4 journalistic fakes and 1 intentional fake. That is, good humor 4, bad intentions 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) <a href="http://midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/ufopage.htm">http://midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/ufopage.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) <a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/7456632">https://www.fold3.com/image/7456632</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Cloud or UFO? Cloud, Definitely!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes I ask myself why I am devoting so much time and energy to the specialism of UFO images: 20 years developing what it is currently considered the largest database of UFO reports supported with photography, still or film. Probably‒I said this already elsewhere‒it is my attraction to the aesthetic side of the matter. There are no two flying saucer pictures equal. UFO photos run unaltered in magazines, books, or documentaries despite their absolute solution. Why not use an intriguing-looking image if it is beautiful? Who cares about its real nature?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This short introduction may apply to hundreds of UFO photographs. Now I am applying it to a snapshot taken on November 23, 1966, near the touristic village of Benidorm, province of Alicante (Spain), by a Mr. Gunther Fensky Wildemann. It was first published in the cover and page 39 of (none less than) Ray Palmer’s <i>Flying Saucers</i> (“Mysteries of the Space Age”) magazine, issue number 68, March 1970. The photo’s legend already anticipated it was either a “cloud or UFO”. Yet many of the countless reproductions of the picture did not mention the cloud possibility and emphasized the disk-like shape of the object in the air. The German visitor who spotted and photographed it is said to claim that it was a spinning, stationary object in sight for 15 minutes until it took off at a great speed at 5:30 pm. But, as other colleagues already warned, it is just a lenticular cloud, typical of the Spanish eastern coast. It is nice, but please don’t be deceived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By coincidence, the day before, a Ph.D. biochemist took a UFO picture that for several years was considered as the ultimate proof of the existence of the flying saucers. November 22, 1966, Willamette Pass, Oregon. It was, certainly, for brainy astrophysicist and ufologist Dr. Pierre Guerin, whose physics could explain how a material, domed, disc-shaped craft appeared three-fold in the picture. During a lunch in France with Aimé Michel, Claude Poher and others, he tried to undo me with his calculations and reasonings, I being his table companion. He missed an insignificant detail: the sighting tale was an invention and the chance picture of the background just unexpectedly caught a road sign that the motion of the car distorted in the UFO-looking image. The case was solved in a superb analysis work performed by Dr. Irwin Wieder in <i>The Journal of Scientific Experience</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Cincinnati Enquirer</i> of March 22, 1956 published a full-page, detailed news item on a UFO sighting (in fact a series) at North Bend, a village along the Ohio River. In addition to one column by William Collins (“Saucer” Object Seen in Western Sky; Viewed by Many Down River Residents) and three more demi-columns by Mike Maloney & Joe Green (Flying Object “Too Bright” to Be Star, Seems to Hover, Many Observers), it incorporated a mosaic of four pictures of a light against the black, night sky taken by staff photographer Kain, made with different time exposures: top left, 30 seconds, top right, one minute; bottom left, three minutes; and bottom right, snapped seconds before it disappeared. “The pictures were made with a 36-inch lens which gave approximately six times magnifications on four-by-four-inch film. In each case, the object moved during the exposure,” the photo caption said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The newspaper’s accounts related that “an unidentified object burned like a bright beacon for at least 45 minutes high in the western sky last night.” After checking the several reports received by the press, the total estimated viewing time was over one hour and a half. The description of the strange-looking light to the naked eye was “an extraordinarily intense bluish-white light, suspended at about 30-degree angle above the horizon.” The printed information also indicated that “the object moved almost imperceptibly away to the northwest, growing smaller and dimmer until, at 9:45 p.m., it disappeared.” Area residents reported it was the third consecutive night “the thing” appeared. On two previous nights, the light disappeared at 10:22 p. m., according to some witnesses. From other observers, we gather that a repeated light was sighted for more than one hour and a half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have enough data to verify the most probable hypothesis: astronomical. The celestial chart we find through the Stellarium software shows a very bright Venus (-4.3 magnitude) in the west-northwest (azimuth of 279º) and at ~20º of altitude at 9 p.m. on March 21, 1956, moving downward toward the twilight in the northwestern horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The actual track of the planet was going down from left to right, therefore the photos were printed‒once more‒inverted. The image below shows how the visible planet time-exposure would really look like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was after I had written this account that I consulted other sources treating this case at that time. These references confirmed our finding. <i>Saucer News</i>, April-May 1956, page 13, said that “a leading saucer researcher suggested that the object in question was only the planet Venus.” L.H. Stringfield’s <i>CRIFO Orbit</i> of April 6, 1956 devoted space to these sightings of March 20-23. It concluded: “As it turned out, the mysterious object in Cincinnati’s west was the celebrated ‘whipping girl’, Venus.” In an article written by Alex Mebane in the <i>CSI Newsletter</i> of May 6, 1956, he reviewed the several area sightings and clearly stated: “there is no reasonable doubt that all observers were looking at the planet Venus.” As a sort of Post Scriptum, regarding the observed colors of the planet, these are not much different to what we have seen from Venus in other examples of similar misidentifications, like the following image, a frame from a video filmed in Valencia, October 10, 1999 by local Canal 9 TV channel.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Venus, ¡otra vez tú!” (Venus, you again!), <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See actual video footage at: <a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2008_12_15_archive.html">http://fotocat.blogspot.com.es/2008_12_15_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The thinker behind the penname of “Parabunk” has just written a delicious, insightful, sensible and fair piece combining and unifying data spread out for this issue, one that, as Tim Printy has summarized, is nothing but a mere publicity campaign: “In late May, there was an orchestrated media blitz to promote the “To the Stars Academy” (TTSA) and their upcoming television program”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I refer to a July 7, 2019 post under the title “AATIP, Tic-Tacs and more - A reality check,” an indispensable reading that you will find here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2019/07/aatip-tic-tacs-and-more-reality-check.html">http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2019/07/aatip-tic-tacs-and-more-reality-check.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the author,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> this text is a review and update of the primary events and his thoughts so far. “It's really about the history (and History) repeating itself, with the help of people who can't handle the truth, or worse, couldn't care less about it,” he declares. But for me, it is much more: it is a most welcome synthesis of a plethora of profoundly biased information. The chapter “The UFO (or not) program (or not) that Elizondo led (or didn't)” is quite to the point, stating what many of us had in mind at the sight of the poor, disorganized outcome: “The picture that has emerged is far from an official serious scientific study, but rather of a network of UFO/paranormal enthusiasts and friends helping friends and arranging financing for their interests.” Plain as the nose on your face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the three videos highly publicized as evidence of real UAPs, “Parabunk” comments: “The only reason those were supposed to be evidence of something extraordinary is because they weren't supposed to be just unidentified, but unexplainable, and that's not what they are. The mystery and need for extraordinary explanations are gone, and hence they can't really function as evidence of anything like that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The conclusion of this synthesis of what’s going on to date is, in the words of the author, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>So, where does that leave us? None of the videos show anything that would defy conventional explanations, and the claims TTSA has made about them hold no water…If those videos are evidence of anything, they are evidence of how easily pilots, UFO investigators, and so-called experts are misled. There's of course nothing new in that.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Collating the various analyses performed, for the time being, the no-nonsense, non-credulous evaluation of the videos suggests these explanations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">November 14, 2004, 16:20 (“Tic-Tac”), ~110 nautical miles SSW off San Diego, California. FLIR footage taken by Chad Underwood, US Navy pilot (USS Nimitz Carrier): Possible aircraft</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">January 20, 2015, (“GIMBAL”), Jacksonville, Florida. FLIR footage taken by unknown US Navy pilot (USS Roosevelt Carrier Group), during COMPTUEX exercises, Jan 8-Feb 8, 2015: Possible aircraft </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early February 2015 (a few weeks after GIMBAL), (“Go Fast”), off coast of Florida, FLIR footage taken by unknown US Navy pilot (USS Roosevelt Carrier Group), during COMPTUEX exercises, Jan 8-Feb 8, 2015: Possible bird</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regularly news slots flow on the subject, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273">https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one is commented on by Tim Printy in SUNlite</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: “In part of the TTSA publicity campaign, Chris Mellon wrote an article which asked congress to investigate UFOs. Where have we heard this before? A few senators did have time for a closed door briefing by the Pentagon in June. This seemed to be more of a response by the Pentagon to explain to the Senators the background behind the stories told to the media in late May. They seemed to be concerned about unidentified aircraft entering military airspace and not chasing after alien spaceships. If Congress is not concerned about a serious threat of something like climate change, why would they be interested in investing money to investigate UFOs?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-the-ufos-navy-pilots-are-encountering-be-airborne-radar-reflectors">https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-the-ufos-navy-pilots-are-encountering-be-airborne-radar-reflectors</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hardcore UFO believers practically salivate when hearing that a top official denounces the military for concealing alleged UFO information. A Washington congressman has requested additional information from the US Navy on the UAP sightings recently disclosed and is frustrated by the lack of detailed response:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cannot this politician imagine that if documents on these 2005 and 2014 events survived, the key (obviously classified) information they will contain is about operational issues, more than research on anodyne images that say nothing of significance about dangers to homeland security? If the Navy, the Air Force, or another agency in North America had the slightest suspicion that foreign aircraft are spying on their tactical maneuvers, wouldn’t they have dragged hundreds of millions to alleviate this risk, in a budget they couldn’t hide? You never know if certain politicians are dumb, populists or simply publicity seekers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaking News: media information is currently dominated by sensationalism. Specially, if related to UFOs. And more, if it has to do with a military origin. In the last days, the worldwide press circulated headlines on the authenticity of the three well-known US Navy UAP videos.<sup style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">5</sup> <span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Do not panic, please! Basically, it says that they are not fake videos. Nothing new, that was assumed all along. The footage presented </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shows nothing new either. Finally, the Navy spokesperson stated: "The 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings / observations of unauthorised / unidentified aircraft / objects that have been observed entering / operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges." It is evident that the pro-alien association behind all this is attempting to draw statements from the US Navy for publicity purposes</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #201f1e; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) <i>SUNlite</i>, July-August 2019, editorial, page 1,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) “Parabunk” is a skeptical researcher, but not in the sense of one who systematically debunks UFO sightings into prosaic observations to prove that there are no “genuine” UFOs. That is certainly not true in his case. He is an honest searcher of any genuine UFOs, which obviously entails not accepting what is normal. As for qualifications, he holds an academic degree and does research and engineering work on a routine basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) Speaking of that blob, Mick West has made a nice illustration how the blob can be a plane,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/simulating-the-nimitz-ufo-video-as-a-blurry-plane.t10794/">https://www.metabunk.org/simulating-the-nimitz-ufo-video-as-a-blurry-plane.t10794/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fact, “Parabunk” proposed that could have been just another participant of the same exercise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) Mick West he has also found a bit better quality version of the Gimbal footage, which proves the rotation was just a camera artifact. It was already pretty evident, but now there's no question about it anymore: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr1cfpos6vo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr1cfpos6vo</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, it's also almost certainly just another plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Parabunk” says: “Now that the dust has settled, the visual part of the Nimitz encounter really is pretty much the only interesting and still unexplained part of this whole AATIP/AAWSAP/TTSA saga.” And I add: because core information is still missing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(5) </span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.sciencealert.com/us-navy-finally-confirms-ufo-footage-is-real-says-we-were-never-meant-to-see-it" id="LPlnk974753" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.sciencealert.com/us-navy-finally-confirms-ufo-footage-is-real-says-we-were-never-meant-to-see-it</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a bad feeling when last July, the message I had sent to Dr. Sergey Chernous reporting my blog’s update came returned. A repeated, now personal one had the same fate. Imagining the worst, I emailed his scientific partner and close friend Dr. Yulii Platov, who informed me of the sad news: Sergey died March 1, 2019 of a heart attack at 75, after a few years fighting the disease. He leaves a widow, and a daughter who lives in Norway. For many years, Dr. Chernous had been working in the Polar Geophysical Institute of the Kola Science Center, an institution belonging to the Russian Academy of Sciences. A specialist in aurora borealis, he authored over 150 professional papers</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and three technical books.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sergey Alexandrovich Chernous (1944-2019), graduated from Leningrad State University (Department of atmospheric physics), 1966. Got a Ph. D. in 1972. Measurements of geomagnetic pulsations in the Arctic revealed a new type of pulsation (PiP) associated with the sub-storm development. Also, he participated in rocket experiments of an applied nature. In the Polar Geophysical Institute since 1969, he rose from junior researcher, to senior researcher, to head of the laboratory of optical methods, then to director of the Institute from 1992. For 12 years he took part in Arctic expeditions. Under his leadership, a photometric network was created in the Arctic and Antarctic, two generations of highly sensitive optical television equipment for observing polar lights and low-luminous objects were developed. Author of fundamental and applied works on the study of plasma-forming, plasma-quenching and neutral mixtures injected from missiles in active experiments at various missile ranges and in joint work with astronauts. Work supported by major institutions. Work In the laboratory of the Arctic atmosphere covered the interaction of combustion products of rocket and space technology with the atmosphere; short-period fluctuations in the total ozone content on a planetary scale; and the study of the impact of geo-cosmic agents on the human body. Academician and full member of international academies and scientific societies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Yulii Platov (IZMIRAN, Moscow) was his close colleague in UFO research for many years, and I had the privilege of meeting both during the 1995 BUFORA Congress held at Sheffield University, UK. I keep very pleasant memories of our working reunions, the three of us, checking photographs of weird luminous effects of missile launches and other space anomalies that had been improperly considered as UFOs, whilst at the same time we took some vodka and caviar! I wrote an article on that conference for the excellent Spanish journal <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, now defunct but available online through AFU.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the years we continued to be in touch eventually by email, and Sergey and I arranged to meet two more times, both at Barcelona (Spain), in August 2010 and June 2012. I echoed these fruitful encounters in my blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ufology has lost one of the few real scientists doing real UFO investigation, I will miss him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergey_Chernouss">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergey_Chernouss</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=paVE4zgAAAAJ&hl=en">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=paVE4zgAAAAJ&hl=en</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) <i>Experimental studies of the space-time structure of pulsating auroras and geomagnetic pulsations, 1977; Coordinated observations of auroral phenomena on the Kola Peninsula and in Finland, 1979 </i>(co-author)<i>; On the dependence of heart rate on geomagnetic disturbances, 1996 </i>(co-author)<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “8º Congreso Internacional de BUFORA (Diario de un Ponente),” <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, 1995, pages 58-65, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9qvyzd9">https://tinyurl.com/y9qvyzd9</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N. Scott Nomaday is a native American writer, poet, teacher, painter and storyteller. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969 for his novel <i>House Made of Dawn</i>, Harper Perennial Modern Classics (New York), 2010. A touching, enjoyable reading, I’d like to share this curious segment of chapter 1, pages 21-23, “The Longhair. Walatowa, Cañón de San Diego, 1945”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>He awoke on the side of a wooden hill…He didn’t know where he was, and he was alone. No, there were men about, the bodies of men; he could barely see them strewn among the pits, their limbs sprawling away into the litter of leaves, and leaves were falling in the shafts of light, hundreds of leaves, rocking and spiraling down without a sound. But there was a sound: something low and incessant, almost distant, full of slow, steady motion and approach. It was above and behind him, across the spine of the hill, coming…The mortar fire had stopped; there someone, some human force far away and out of sight, was making way for the machine that was coming…His vision cleared and he saw the countless leaves dip and sail across the splinters of light. The machine concentrated calm, strange and terrific, and it was coming…The sound of the machine brimmed at the ridge, held, and ran over, not intricate now, but whole and deafening…</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Then, through the falling leaves, he saw the machine, It rose up behind the hill, black and massive, looming there in front of the sun. He saw it swell, deepen, and take shape on the skyline, as if it were some upheaval of the earth, the eruption of stone and eclipse, and all about it the glare, the cold perimeter of light, throbbing with leaves…Then it came crashing down to the grade, slow as a waterfall, thunderous, surpassing impact, nestling almost into the splash and boil of debris. He was shaking violently, and the machine bore down upon him, came close, and passed him by. A wind rose and ran along the slope, scattering the leaves.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please note that the English and Spanish sections of this blog are not clones. There are articles specific for the Anglo Saxon or Hispanic readership, respectively, in every blog’s instalment that are not translated. You can miss them. In addition to the F-18 case of 2018 I already informed above, I am listing what is different and new to be found if you scroll down to the Spanish chapter:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“El caso Hausmann: Una aproximación desde Ibiza” (The Hausmann Case: An Approach from Ibiza), an invited article authored by Matías Morey Ripoll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Sobre casos inexplicados” (On Unexplained Cases), a short entry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) The second part of Martin Kottmeyer’s work on Roman UFOs (“Revisions for the Classical period”) has appeared in Tim Printy’s online journal SUNlite, see pages 24-35, <a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite11_4.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite11_4.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Paolo Toselli’s UFO Theses and Dissertations Database has been updated to 352 items, covering the period 1948 to 2018, having affixed 69 new works, 14 for the last two years. The database provides the following information for every thesis: author, title, year, university, pages, discipline, language, and academic level. For 315 where the exact degree tier is known, the tally shows 67 for Bachelor, 141 for Master and 117 for Ph.D. In the grand total, 136 theses proceed from the United States. You may like to read this:</span><br />
<a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="http://www.euroufo.net/2019/09/ufo-theses-at-the-university-an-updated-database/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #338fe9; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.euroufo.net/2019/09/ufo-theses-at-the-university-an-updated-database/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) In 2012, Alexander C. T. Geppert, New York University Faculty Member published a very inquisitive and intelligent paper in History and Technology (September 2012, pages 335-362), entitled “Extraterrestrial Encounters: UFOs, Science and the Quest for Transcendence, 1947–1972.” The abstract reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beginning in 1947, with the first waves of UFO sightings, and continuing in the subsequent decades, debates on the existence and gestalt of extraterrestrial life gained unprecedented prominence. Initially an American phenomenon, flying saucer reports quickly became global in scope. Contemporaneous with efforts to legitimize the possibility of spaceflight in the years before Sputnik, the UFO phenomenon generated as much sensation in Europe as in the USA. In the public imagination, UFOs were frequently conflated with technoscientific approaches to space exploration. As innumerable reports of sightings led to a transnational movement driven by both proponents and critics, controversial protagonists such as ‘contactee’ George Adamski became prominent media celebrities. Incipient space experts including Willy Ley, Arthur C. Clarke, and Wernher von Braun sought to debunk what they considered a great swindle, or, following C.G. Jung, a modern myth evolving in real-time. Yet they failed to develop a response to the epistemic-ontological challenge posed by one wave of UFO sightings after another. Studying a phenomenon whose very existence has been non-consensual since its genesis presents a particular challenge for historians. Posing complex questions of fact and fiction, knowing and believing, and science and religion, this article analyzes the postwar UFO phenomenon as part of a broader astroculture and identifies transcendental and occult traditions within imagined encounters with extraterrestrial beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The paper finishes with a demolishing sentence: “A modern myth, triggered by and deeply inscribed into the Space Age, the UFO is a phenomenon that historians have hardly begun to understand.” This conclusion is becoming a mantra for historians and other scholars who approach the UFO phenomenon with a 70-year perspective. Believers, please awake!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/2228956/Extraterrestrial_Encounters_UFOs_Science_and_the_Quest_for_Transcendence_1947_1972" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/ExtraterrestrialEncountersUFOsScienceandtheQuestforTranscendence_1947_1972</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) On the meta-materials of “To the Stars”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-source-of-to-stars-ufo-debris.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-source-of-to-stars-ufo-debris.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) The Pentagon UFO Study. Luis Elizondo and AATIP, yes or no? See the latest news by John Greenewald, Jr.:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) University of the West (California) folklorist Dr. Peter M. Rojcewicz writes about the “Men in Black" experience and tradition:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) I have just found some interesting papers by Ryan Cook in the literature’s gold mine of Academia.edu. Cook defines himself as a cultural anthropologist (University of Chicago) who has studied new religious movements and heterodox sciences in high-stakes situations, attending to the varied uses of claims to (non)expertise and (non)knowledge. Two papers from him seem especially pertinent: “Gods Descending in Clouds (Flying Saucers)” and “Why UFOs are ideal for new religions, and why they fail”. They can be accessed from these links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Article of note by LA journalist Hadley Meares: “That Time ‘UFOs’ Took Over Los Angeles,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://losangeleno.com/strange-days/battle-of-los-angeles/?fbclid=IwAR0Tsdt8PVcecfCigEBE75Ou1g9Q39ZyEScB4LLEax0E36HCScU6r2PF3TM" target="_blank">https://losangeleno.com/strange-days/battle-of-los-angeles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Rightly we complain usually of the lack of good investigations on UFO reports. Veteran UFO researcher Tom Tulien has informed me of a web site devoted to the study of UFO events in the Minot AFB. Intro starts as follows: In the early morning hours of 24 Oct. 1968, United States Air Force (USAF) maintenance and security personnel stationed within the <i>Minuteman</i>, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) complex surrounding Minot AFB, North Dakota, observed one—and at times—two UFOs. The Minot Base Operations dispatcher initiated radio communications with personnel reporting in the field, Minot, Radar Approach Control (RAPCON), and the crew of a returning B-52H aircraft. You are advised to continue reading the rest of the well-documented investigation here: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://minotb52ufo.com/index.php">http://minotb52ufo.com/index.php</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) On British “X-Files”, by Dr. David Clarke:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-secret-search-for-aliens/">https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-secret-search-for-aliens/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) A paper by Mare Kõiva, from the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum, with the title “Some Aspects of UFO-lore” is to be downloaded from this link: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/6414616/Some_Aspects_of_UFO-lore">https://www.academia.edu/6414616/Some_Aspects_of_UFO-lore</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) As Gándaras (Lugo, Spain), facilities of a powder magazine belonging to the Spanish Army, November 28, 1995. A long-duration, strange-looking light is recorded by the surveillance cameras. J.C. Victorio Uranga reviews the case in his blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/08/resucitando-al-ovni-de-as-gandaras.html">https://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2019/08/resucitando-al-ovni-de-as-gandaras.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Argentine journalist, investigator and author Alejandro Agostinelli writes about the myths of the first landing on the Moon, with a surprising local event:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://factorelblog.com/2019/08/02/luna-de-avellaneda/">http://factorelblog.com/2019/08/02/luna-de-avellaneda/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Sometimes, it is appreciated to read a synthesis of convoluted issues on which a lot of ink has been spilled. For example, Roswell. Subject devilishly convoluted, but aptly summed up by journalist Alfonso Galán, of <i>Esquire</i>, here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/a28296530/caso-roswell/">https://www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/a28296530/caso-roswell/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) A “Holmesian” set novel has just been published by Spanish researcher Luis R. González (under the pen name of Reinaldo Manso): “Las variaciones Malaka” (Malaka Variations), an anthology of five stories, 160 pages, format of 21x15 cm. The book can be purchased emailing to <a href="mailto:reinaldomanso2015@gmail.com">reinaldomanso2015@gmail.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(16) The respected Mexican ufologist Luis Ruiz Noguez has reedited and improved his book “La autopsia extraterrestre. Un mito dentro de un mito” (Extraterrestrial Autopsy. A Myth Within a Myth), reviewing the 1995 hoax footage which achieved a remarkable media coverage. More information here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/07/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-presentacin/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/07/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-presentacin/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/08/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-solapa/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/08/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-solapa/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My older daughter, Laura, is a Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance and professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia. She has just received the Award for Teaching Excellence in the 2019 edition. The University website says: "The prizes for Teaching Excellence are part of the University Awards, which this year are celebrating its XXIII edition, and aims to highlight the professionalism of professors linked to the University of Valencia". Congratulations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From left to right: Dr. J. Suso, Director, Financial and Actuarial Economy Department; Dr. Laura Ballester, professor, Faculty of Economy; Ximo Puig, President of the Valencian Community; and Dr. J.M. Pastor, Dean of Faculty of Economy, University of Valencia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For almost 50 years, U.S. ufologist Richard W. Heiden has provided a big service to the UFO community by translating from Spanish and Portuguese UFO incidents and articles that would have otherwise gone unnoticed by English-speaking researchers. Rich, as his friends call him, has also published numerous articles, letters to the editor, and book reviews of his own, in journals including <i>Flying Saucer Review, International UFO Reporter, Journal of UFO Studies, Stendek, Fortean Times, and Wisconsin Law Enforcement Journal</i>. He also cooperated on the worldwide catalog of UFO landings, edited by Peter Rogerson and serialized in Magonia magazine. Rich is very interested in the life and claims of notorious contactee George Adamski, and has collaborated with Marc Hallet of Belgium on his magnum opus <i>George Adamski/ The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rich joined APRO in 1970, CUFOS in 1974, and MUFON in 1975, and investigated a number of cases for all three organizations (mostly in the 1980’s). Starting in 1978, and until the end of APRO nine years later, he was assistant editor of <i>The APRO Bulletin.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rich hails from Milwaukee. After a first career in engineering (he spent his junior year of college at the Tec in Monterrey, Mexico), he obtained another degree in accounting and is an accountant by profession. He is also an inveterate book collector; his personal library comprises several thousand books on UFOs and lots of UFO magazines. For decades, I have had the privilege to count on him as my main translator and text reviewer. Both then and now, a number of my papers saw the light in English-speaking journals thanks to his meticulous translations. We met in person only once, in 1987, on the occasion of the annual MUFON conference, that year held in Washington, D.C., where I presented a paper. Pity we do not have a picture to mark that encounter. Let this brief note serve to express my gratitude and recognition for his valuable and loyal help during so many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Kay Coggin, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Terry W. Colvin, Marc Leduc, Dr. Yulii Platov, Wim van Utrecht, Richard W. Heiden, Matías Morey Ripoll, and Enrique Márquez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These books are available in the second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government</b> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the following spreadsheet list of books for sale or swap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>· </b>Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El número de casos registrados en el catálogo fotográfico y archivo material alcanza ya 12.525, una cifra nada despreciable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hacía algún tiempo que no escuchábamos batallitas de ovnis y reactores militares sobre espacio aéreo español. Las últimas ya quedaron bien desacreditadas.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Es evidente que el binomio ovni-militar parece exaltar el nivel de adrenalina de ciertos ufólogos, aunque las historias que se cuentan naufragan miserablemente.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2-7</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Y eso que España es uno de tantos países que ya decidió hace años desclasificar la totalidad de los archivos históricos de informes ovni que tenía bajo custodia del Ejército del Aire.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">8-11</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo cierto es que recientemente, el investigador vasco Juan Carlos Victorio llamó mi atención sobre un audio que hablaba de la visión de un ovni asociado directamente con la aparición de un avión militar.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">12</span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Era una entrevista en un programa radiofónico dedicado a los misterios, tan en boga en los últimos años. El hecho es que los medios de comunicación han advertido la existencia de un nicho de audiencia sobre estos temas y lo explotan, importándoles un comino que su nivel de rigor sea cercano a cero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La presentación del “incidente” por parte de los locutores acercó la fecha del suceso a la de emisión. Supongo porque eso aumenta el valor de la noticia. La entrevista fue, primero, a quien dio la pista de la novedad y que estaba conversando por teléfono con el testigo. Justamente durante la charla ocurrió la observación. De repente, el diálogo se interrumpe “durante 5 o 6 segundos” y el observador le dice: “se me acaba de helar la sangre, acabo de ver un ovni pasar a gran velocidad”. Seguidamente, se escucha el ruido de un caza (o dos, según la persona al teléfono) que durante 10-12 segundos se supone que persigue a una bola blanca que iba a una velocidad “100 veces mayor” que la de los presuntos aviones perseguidores, de acuerdo con el testimonio de segunda mano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El programa añade una serie de especulaciones vacuas pero lo primordial es la entrevista a Rafael Extremera, el testigo ocular. He preferido recabar los datos del avistamiento de primera mano y le he planteado una docena de cuestiones básicas para conocer las circunstancias exactas de lo sucedido. A continuación, describo los hechos en base a las respuestas recibidas directamente en varios e-mails del testigo, de 43 años y vigilante en un desguace de la localidad madrileña de Los Santos de la Humosa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A las 21:15 horas del jueves 20 de septiembre de 2018 (“la noche empezaba a ser oscura”), estando en su lugar de trabajo, observó una “pelotita blanca pasear por el cielo a gran velocidad” que creyó se trataba de algún satélite de comunicaciones. “Mi sorpresa fue como si esa cosa me pudiera leer el pensamiento…y se detuvo. Se me heló la sangre por unos segundos. Acto seguido, cogió una velocidad de la leche (sic) y se perdió en el cielo”, continúa el testigo con dramatismo. 15 o 20 segundos después se escuchó el “impresionante ruido del que solo puede ser un F-18 (con luces azules de combate, según tengo entendido), seguía el mismo recorrido que la pelotita, no creo que la alcanzara de ninguna manera”. La luz, que se desplazaba “de suroeste a noreste”, ya había desaparecido cuando el supuesto caza apareció y lo tuvo a la vista durante unos 30 segundos en la misma dirección (“en un reloj analógico formando una línea de las 8 de la tarde a las 2 y 10 de la mañana”), esto es, SW→NE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El brillo de la luz lo describe como “un poco menos brillante que Venus”. Acerca de la altura angular a la que se encontraba la luz, dato que ayudaría en el proceso de su identificación, Extremera se disculpa por ser incapaz de calcular su altitud en grados y señala: “diría que a la altura en la que orbita cualquier satélite”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preguntado específicamente por la duración total del avistamiento de la luz, desde que empezó a verla hasta que desapareció de su vista, Extremera afirma que fue “unos 50 segundos” (incluida la parada, que estima fue de 2-3 segundos).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El caza, en opinión del testigo, vendría de la base aérea de Torrejón (situada a 19 km al WSW), porque procedía de esa dirección y porque cree saber que allí se encuentra ese tipo de avión (en efecto, además de en las bases aéreas de Zaragoza y de Canarias).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Con independencia del juicio que asignemos a la pretendida lectura del pensamiento del observador por parte de la luz, en el mismo instante que imaginó era un ovni, debemos recordar que estaba en ese momento enfrascado en una profusa charla telefónica sobre música y cine, que duraría 45 minutos, con su amigo Mimi Sanemeterio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No tenemos noticia de ningún otro avistamiento ovni ese día a esa hora. Tampoco nadie llamó ni escribió a los conductores del programa Cantabria Oculta, lo que demuestra que lo observado debió de ser algo extremadamente nimio y de interpretación muy personal. En el municipio de Los Santos de la Humosa, situado a una altitud de 900 m sobre el nivel del mar, residen alrededor de 1.300 habitantes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En la entrevista radiofónica, Extremera dice haber visto en el F-18 las “luces azules de combate”. Revisadas las luces estroboscópicas de navegación y las de anticolisión (beacon) de esta aeronave, no se aprecia ninguna de color azul, y menos que se active en modo de combate. O dosis de imaginación o ignorancia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Diríamos que lo que más se asemeja a lo observado sería un meteoro de corta duración que sorprendió al testigo mientras estaba inmerso en su charla telefónica. Evidentemente, el meteoroide visto debió ser de magnitud más que modesta, ya que no hay registro de observación de bólidos en España en esa franja horaria aquel día. Los bólidos más cercanos en el tiempo avistados en España, registrados fotográficamente, tuvieron lugar los días 6, 14 y 17 de septiembre y su origen fue esporádico (no relacionados con radiantes conocidas). No hay nada acreditado para el 20 de septiembre.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">13</span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luego debió de tratarse de una estrella fugaz común, para las que, por su nula trascendencia, no hay catálogos astronómicos. Quizás la coincidencia casual de la aparición de un breve meteoro con el paso de un avión militar (a un minuto escaso a velocidad de crucero de la base aérea de Torrejón) hizo que se unieran ambos hechos subjetivamente y se imaginara que el caza “perseguía” a la luz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La no identificación de un simple meteoro como este no es extraña en los anales de la ufología, todo depende del grado de emoción del testigo, de su predisposición y del nivel de sorpresa que le ocasionó. Por ejemplo, en la muestra de 1.307 informes estudiados por Allan Hendry</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">14</span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, el 9,3% de los casos resueltos eran meteoros (naturales y artificiales) y en la base de datos belga del COBEPS (824 casos recogidos desde 2010), el 6,2% de los fenómenos explicados fueron meteoros</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">15</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Consultado el GEIPAN francés, los 2.126 informes registrados principalmente entre 2008 y 2018 que contienen un campo informático para ese dato, consignan que el 6,4% quedaron explicados como meteoros</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">16</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Finalmente, la mayor muestra conocida, la de los 12.257 casos identificados del Proyecto Blue Book, incluye el 9.5% de meteoros, dentro de la clase genérica de explicaciones astronómicas</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">17-18</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El dato de la altura presenta un problema serio. Si la luz se movía a la altura de los satélites (500-800 km los de baja cota) o si se trató, como creo, de un meteoro que se desintegra en la termosfera (80-120 km de altura), no tiene sentido que un avión de combate con un techo de 15 km se lance en persecución de una luz situada a ese superior nivel de altura. En el gráfico siguiente he expresado los rangos de altura de los distintos elementos que podríamos contemplar, para mostrar lo poco racional del escenario de la “persecución”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay otra incongruencia en el relato del suceso. En opinión del testigo, la totalidad del avistamiento, descontando el tiempo de pausa, fue de ~47 segundos, en los que la luz se movía a una velocidad de “grande” a “la leche” (o sea, altísima, o “de otro mundo”, como confesó el testigo). Aunque la luz fuera de lado a lado del horizonte, o no iba a tal velocidad o, más que probablemente, si tuvo esa impresión de celeridad, la duración fue muchísimo menor. El lector puede hacer una comprobación por sí mismo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Cuánto menor? Tal como yo lo veo, la clave es cuando el amigo que estaba al teléfono relata que la conversación se cortó durante “5 o 6 segundos” tras de lo cual Extremera le dice que ha visto un ovni. Una docena de segundos más tarde (ya desaparecido el “ovni”) aparece el caza. Si el fenómeno hubiera durado cerca de un minuto, como creo que afirma equivocadamente el testigo, la conversación durante esos largos segundos hubiera girado en torno a la contemplación de la “pelotita blanca” voladora. No fue así. Todo ocurrió en apenas seis segundos. Esa duración es del todo compatible con la observación de una estrella fugaz. He solicitado al testigo repetidamente que recalculase la pervivencia del fenómeno para que casen los parámetros. Pero no ha encontrado tiempo para hacerlo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El caso no da para más. Pero ¿de verdad un reactor de la fuerza aérea española fue puesto en alerta para rastrear a un objeto volante no identificado? Ello implicaría, primeramente, una detección por radar por parte de los sistemas de Defensa y, posteriormente, la preparación de los informes internos correspondientes a la misión, la cual quedaría debidamente registrada en los libros de control. Dentro de la institución que se ocupa de nuestro espacio aéreo, el Ejército del Aire, es el Grupo Central de Mando y Control (GRUCEMAC), perteneciente al Mando Aéreo de Combate (MACOM), el encargado de los sistemas de vigilancia radar y de las operaciones aéreas subsiguientes. Está ubicado en la base aérea de Torrejón (Madrid). Por ello, el paso inmediato era consultar con el coronel jefe del GRUCEMAC: ¿Hubo alguna salida en scramble (interceptación) el 20 de septiembre de 2018 alrededor de las 21 horas? Lamentablemente, no hubo respuesta directa. Tras insistir, la recibí de la Oficina de Comunicación del Ejército del Aire. Por desgracia, carecía de información que pudiéramos usar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Lamento comunicarle que debido a la escasez de personal que sufre actualmente el Ejército del Aire no disponemos de personal para atender temas que no estén estrictamente relacionados con las misiones operativas que debemos cumplir las 24 horas del día, 365 días al año. Esperamos que a la mayor brevedad poder dedicar recursos humanos a estas otras funciones, como se hizo en el pasado.</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: super;">24</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una fuente de confianza, el especialista catalán en asuntos de Defensa Joan Plana, consultó un registro de la OTAN que contiene resúmenes de movimientos aéreos militares a escala europea, en los que aparecen también las interceptaciones del sistema Quick Reaction Alert (QRA). Para el día que nos ocupa no consta ninguna anotación para la península Ibérica (el documento, sin embargo, registra para esa mañana scrambles de cazas Typhoon británicos para interceptar aviones Tupolev Tu-160 rusos en el Mar del Norte).</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">25</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Ello indicaría que el reactor visto al poco de aparecer la luz nocturna en la provincia de Madrid sería, en el mejor de los casos, un vuelo ordinario, de entrenamiento nocturno, por ejemplo, sin las implicaciones de una salida en interceptación. Indudablemente, la aparición de un caza militar en la zona sería una concurrencia casual y nada especialmente raro dada la cercanía del lugar de observación a la base aérea española.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para finalizar, este relato me ha recordado un incidente ocurrido el 6 de junio de 2018 en Italia y que recibió bastante publicidad. A las once de la noche, muchos vecinos de Corio y otras poblaciones del valle del Malone, en la provincia de Turín, se alarmaron al escuchar un gran estruendo que hizo temblar los cristales de las ventanas, al tiempo que observaban dos aviones militares que presuntamente perseguían a una luz blanca que se desplazaba velozmente en el cielo. Según algunos testimonios, la luz se movía inicialmente a velocidad lenta, y se inmovilizó para seguir luego a gran velocidad. La Fuerza Aérea italiana no estuvo muy transparente en esta ocasión, pero admitió finalmente que un caza del tipo </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tornado</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> había sobrevolado la zona en un ejercicio de entrenamiento nocturno.26-28 La luz no fue identificada: ¿fue acaso parte del ejercicio aéreo, u otra cosa? Los astrónomos no registraron ningún bólido esa noche. Salvando las distancias (fundamentalmente el gran número de testigos del suceso italiano), ¿sirvió la divulgación de este suceso de elemento inspirador de alguno de los ingredientes del episodio español?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Ignacio Cabria, Antonio Gutiérrez-Rivas (Cantabria Oculta), Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Joan Plana Crivillén, Mercedes Pullman (INCEA), Edoardo Russo (CISU), Jean-Marc Wattecamps (COBEPS), Wim van Utrecht (Caelestia), Roberto Labanti (CISU), Julio Plaza del Olmo, Michael Vaillant (GEIPAN) y Rafael Extremera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Ballester Olmos, V.J., “OVNIS y militares, más desinformación”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION">https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) Ballester Olmos, V.J. y Ricardo Campo, “OVNIS y militares, una fábrica de leyendas”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10363926/OVNIS_y_militares_una_fabrica_de_leyendas">https://www.academia.edu/10363926/OVNIS_y_militares_una_fabrica_de_leyendas</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) Ballester Olmos, V.J., “Documentos oficiales online (III): La monografía OVNI del Capitán González de Boado”</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/9237337/La_monografia_OVNI_del_Capitan_Gonzalez_de_Boado">https://www.academia.edu/9237337/La_monografia_OVNI_del_Capitan_Gonzalez_de_Boado</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) Ballester Olmos, V.J., “Morón, sensacionalismo y respuestas oficiales”, <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxXQ">http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxXQ</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(5) Ballester Olmos, V.J., Manuel Borraz y Joan Plana. “Mirage III rumbo a Valencia”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36897206/MIRAGE_III_RUMBO_A_VALENCIA">https://www.academia.edu/36897206/MIRAGE_III_RUMBO_A_VALENCIA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(6) Ballester Olmos, V.J. y Julio Plaza del Olmo, “Expediente militar 660402, Carreira (A Coruña)”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA">https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(7) Plaza del Olmo, J., V.J. Ballester Olmos y Mercedes Pullman, “El OVNI de La Graña”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(8) Bastida Freijedo, A., “Los OVNIS y el Ejército del Aire”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/29862891/LOS_OVNIS_Y_EL_EJERCITO_DEL_AIRE">https://www.academia.edu/29862891/LOS_OVNIS_Y_EL_EJERCITO_DEL_AIRE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(9) Ballester Olmos, V.J. “El hombre del MOA”,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A">https://www.academia.edu/31131375/EL_HOMBRE_DEL_M.O.A</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(10) Ballester Olmos, V.J., “Documentos oficiales online (IV): Desclasificación OVNI en España: El Mando Operativo Aéreo busca casos perdidos”, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(11) Ballester Olmos, V.J., “Los expedientes OVNI desclasificados–Online”, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(12) Cantabria Oculta, <a href="https://www.ivoox.com/un-caza-f18-persigue-ovni-guadalajara-audios-mp3_rf_28787253_1.html">https://www.ivoox.com/un-caza-f18-persigue-ovni-guadalajara-audios-mp3_rf_28787253_1.html</a> (a partir del minuto 4:34).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(13) <a href="http://www.spmn.uji.es/ESP/SPMNlist.html">http://www.spmn.uji.es/ESP/SPMNlist.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(14) Hendry, Allan, <u>The UFO Handbook</u>, Doubleday & Company (Garden City, New York), 1979.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(15) Wattecamps, Jean-Marc, e-mail al autor, 16/12/2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(16) Vaillant, Michael, e-mail al autor, 15/1/2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(17) Hynek, J. Allen, “The Air Force Numbers Game”, en <u>The Hynek UFO Report</u>, Dell (New York), 1977, p. 259.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(18) Otro importante catálogo de casos, FOTOCAT, reúne (en agosto de 2019) un total de 12.500 casos fotográficos conocidos hasta 2005, de los cuales 6.236 están explicados. De ellos, el 2.7% corresponde a bólidos, meteros y reentradas. Esa cifra, sin embargo, no es comparable con las anteriores por la especial característica de la muestra, que consiste en observaciones en las que se ha tomado fotografía, película o video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(19) Wertheimer, Michael, “A case of “autostasis” or reverse autokinesis”, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol. 26, 1968, pp. 417-418.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(20) Hendry, Allan, op. cit., pp. 44-45.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(21) Fraisse, Paul, “Perception and estimation of time”, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 35, 1984, pp. 1-36.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(22) Loftus, Elizabeth F. <i>et al</i>, “Time Went by so Slowly: Overestimation of Event Duration by Males and Females”, <i>Applied Cognitive Psychology</i>, Vol. 1, 1987, pp. 3-13. Resumen: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acp.2350010103">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acp.2350010103</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(23) Tatum, Jeremy B., “Tracking a Fireball from Eyewitness Accounts-II”, <i>Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada</i>, Vol. 99, octubre de 2005, pp. 177-182, <a href="http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2005JRASC..99..177T&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf">http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2005JRASC..99..177T&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(24) Teniente Ángel Vegas, e-mail al autor, 30/7/2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(25) Joan Plana Crivillén, e-mail al autor 12/12/2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(26) <a href="http://www.euroufo.net/2018/06/ufo-chased-by-italian-air-force-near-torino/">http://www.euroufo.net/2018/06/ufo-chased-by-italian-air-force-near-torino/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(27 ) <a href="http://www.euroufo.net/2018/07/italian-air-force-now-admits-military-planes-flew-above-corio/">http://www.euroufo.net/2018/07/italian-air-force-now-admits-military-planes-flew-above-corio/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(28) <a href="http://www.euroufo.net/2018/08/mods-answer-to-the-parliamentary-question-only-one-tornado-above-corio/">http://www.euroufo.net/2018/08/mods-answer-to-the-parliamentary-question-only-one-tornado-above-corio/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Lightning-Like Phenomenon on 1893 Photograph”, escrito por Wim van Utrecht y V.J. Ballester Olmos, éste artículo aparece completo en la sección en inglés del presente blog. También se puede acceder al mismo con este enlace formal:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como creo que, a estas alturas, todo el mundo que sigue mi trabajo sabe que mi espinita es el caso Turís, un encuentro cercano del tercer tipo que no he logrado resolver del todo, excepto con una sugestiva idea de Luis R. González, avalada por mi colaborador Carlos González. El informe del incidente está aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/39622667/IMAGINACION_O_REALIDAD._EL_ATERRIZAJE_DE_TURIS">https://www.academia.edu/39622667/IMAGINACION_O_REALIDAD._EL_ATERRIZAJE_DE_TURIS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probablemente la razón ‒y no es por echar balones fuera‒ es que la causa del fenómeno es psicológica, y solo un especialista en la materia puede avalarla con certidumbre. Por ello, al encontrar que dos colegas franceses, Raoul Robé y Jean-Michel Abrassart, han estudiado un caso parecido (aterrizaje, humanoides, una sola testigo) y han propuesto como explicación una alucinación o falso recuerdo basado en una película de televisión sobre marcianos, siento que ello respalda la solución del caso español, que posiblemente tuviera un origen semejante. Vengo diciendo hace muchos años que la casuística ufológica tiene centenares de episodios para psicólogos y psiquiatras, quienes hallarían nuevas modalidades de apariciones y experiencias virtuales cargadas de simbolismo e imaginería extraterrestre. El trabajo de Robé-Abrassart se publicó en las páginas 4-6 de <i>SUNlite</i>, el boletín editado por Tim Printy, de noviembre-diciembre de 2017: “Case study of a Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Nancy, France, 1969): Hallucination or false memory?”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35030468/Case_study_of_a_Close_Encounter_of_the_Third_Kind_Nancy_France_1969_Hallucination_or_false_memory_SUNlite_vol._9_n_6_p.4-5_" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/CasestudyofaCloseEncounteroftheThirdKind_Nancy_France_1969_Hallucinationorfalsememory</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otro trabajo de Jean-Michel Abrassart (doctorado en Psicología por la Universidad Católica de Lovaina), también abunda en el interfaz alucinaciones y visiones ufológicas extremas y podemos considerarlo relevante en este contexto:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_">https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El primer caso fotográfico español fue el registrado a finales de marzo (la concreta fecha no puede determinarse con certeza, todo lo más entre el 25 y 29 de ese mes) de 1950 en la localidad mallorquina de Montuïri, donde un fotógrafo alemán residente en la isla, Enrique Hausmann, captó la imagen de un cuerpo luminoso con cinco brazos que parecía girar como si se tratara de una diminuta galaxia en espiral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hemos analizado extensamente este incidente, que en realidad está poco documentado pese a su carácter pionero, en otro artículo, al que necesariamente hemos de remitir al lector que quiera conocer más detalles sobre el suceso y sus circunstancias</span><span style="text-indent: 0.64cm; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. En resumidas cuentas, la hipótesis más plausible es que se trató de un fraude con finalidades comerciales, ya que de esta manera se hizo publicidad indirecta de la tienda de material de fotografía que Hausmann regentaba en Palma; práctica que no fue entonces poco habitual, ya que Ignacio Cabria menciona un montaje fotográfico con idéntica finalidad en Gijón por esa misma época</span><span style="text-indent: 0.64cm; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ahora bien, pese a lo añejo del asunto, recientemente el investigador Luis R. González ha localizado un ejemplar de 9 de abril de 1950 del Diario de Ibiza (el único rotativo balear que se encuentra digitalizado y permite su consulta en internet) que proporciona una singular perspectiva del incidente mallorquín desde la vecina isla</span><span style="text-indent: 0.64cm; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. En efecto, el avistamiento de Hausmann fue recogido en el periódico pitiuso el 31 de marzo de ese año, en un artículo de portada que resumía el reportaje publicado en el diario <i>Baleares</i> de 30 de marzo, durante un periodo prolífico en noticias de observaciones de supuestos platillos volantes en todo el mundo. Suponemos que, debido a la secular rivalidad entre las islas del archipiélago, la redacción del <i>Diario de Ibiza</i>, no queriendo ser menos que los mallorquines, perpetró un deliberado fraude periodístico a modo de sátira del caso Hausmann (otra indicación de la escasa credibilidad de dicho incidente, ya percibida en aquel entonces). Con esa intención, el mencionado 9 de abril la portada del rotativo incluía un recorte con el título “El platillo con bombo”, ilustrado con una fotografía de un objeto con cinco brazos en espiral (“de semejantes características al publicado en la prensa palmesana, pero evolucionando en sentido inverso”), que anunciaba en el interior una extensa información del suceso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En la segunda página, al completo, se publicaba efectivamente el artículo “Mirando al mar, vi un platillo volante” de un tal Claudio Rabassó Clavell. No hemos podido determinar de quién se trataba, y todo apunta a que sea un pseudónimo, pues ese nombre no tiene precedentes en el periódico ni hemos encontrado ninguna referencia posterior al mismo; a excepción de dos relatos de corte humorístico (atribuidos a “Mr. Cocktail”), de fechas 5 de abril y 8 de agosto de 1975, en que el señor Rabassó aparece como cómico protagonista de los mismos. Se trataría, por tanto, de un personaje ficticio que se utilizaría por los periodistas en contextos jocosos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El incidente al que se refiere el artículo puede resumirse así: Claudio Rabassó se traslada a la Cova de Can Marçà (Port de Sant Miquel, en el municipio de Sant Joan de Labritja, al norte de la isla) donde encuentra a un antiguo marinero, que le refiere de forma muy pintoresca como cuatro grandes faroles han efectuado diversos vuelos por la zona. En la cuarta ocasión que los vio, a las cuatro de la tarde, una especie de cacerola se situó sobre él y empezó a absorber plantas y piedras, de tal manera que destrozó el huerto del testigo. Éste, además, quedó fosforescente, cosa que le causa el rechazo social y una sensibilidad eléctrica a los platillos, que le obliga a “colaborar en las maniobras de esos artefactos diabólicos”. El periodista decide sacar todo el partido posible, y tras cenar con el anónimo marinero, se apostan esa noche a esperar el regreso de los faros. Antes del alba, tienen suerte y captan la imagen de la portada. Poco después, habiendo ya amanecido, vuelve a presentarse el platillo, que esta vez toma tierra cerca de ellos. Del mismo surgen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>[…] tres pequeñajos tripulantes, orondos, redondos y relucientes, que al unísono olfatearon el suelo y precipitadamente cargaron sus bolsillos de arena y piedrecitas blancas, cazaron cinco moscas y robaron un membrillo verde de la tanca de Catoi</i></span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4</span></span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. Antes de regresar a su carlinga, perseguidos con precaución por mi fiel “Arístides” [el perro del reportero], entonaron a coro “La Cumparsita” y “La Salvaora”, ocasión que fue aprovechada para obtener la fotografía que ilustra, sin música, estas líneas.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Minutos después, el platillo reanudó su vuelo en dirección a Pollença (Mallorca). El texto se acompaña de una presunta fotografía del aparato y sus ocupantes, aunque la mala calidad de la misma no permite distinguirlos demasiado bien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En la página cuatro del referido ejemplar del <i>Diario de Ibiza</i>, se nos desvela (bajo el epígrafe “La verdad del truco”) todo el engaño: el corresponsal no existe, y el platillo es una cacerola con ventanillas dibujadas. Los marcianos son tres sonajeros comprados en un bazar, y el perro de la foto es de trapo. En cuanto a la imagen de la portada (con el supuesto ovni de cinco brazos en vuelo), se trata de “un papel blanco sobre fondo negro y desenfocada la máquina”. El importe total de la farsa asciende a 40 céntimos. La nota acaba diciendo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Dios quiera que al final de ese período, podamos decir que todo no ha sido más que pura fantasía.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Desde luego, el diagnóstico no era equivocado, pero la conclusión no llegaría a extraerse después de esa primera oleada de 1950, sino décadas después. Sea como fuere, este fraude nos ilustra, primeramente, sobre el contexto en que se produjeron una serie de sucesos que, en cambio, tuvieron siempre pretensiones de realidad. Y, en segundo lugar, nos previene sobre el temprano desarrollo que el mito platillista tenía ya incluso en aquellos primeros momentos, pues en la broma pitiusa están presentes ya elementos que serán después habituales en la casuística: luces lejanas, efectos sobre el terreno, efectos sobre las personas, contactismo, aterrizajes, visiones de ocupantes, pruebas fotográficas, etcétera. Ni siquiera en la Ibiza preturística, por más alejada que entonces pudiera estar del mundanal ruido, se era ajeno a determinadas influencias; y ello debería hacernos reflexionar sobre la abusiva apelación a la ingenuidad de los protagonistas con que a menudo se han querido salvar sus inverosímiles testimonios, la cual, puesta frente a casos como éste (fabulados en una época tan prístina), no parece ni mucho menos justificada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Morey, Maties.” El cas Hausmann” en Nous Papers d’Ovnis, núm.2, 2016, pp. 2-30.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) Cabria García, Ignacio. “Ya tenemos platillos volantes” en <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, núm. 1, 3ª época, 1997, p. 22, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yxhcgb85">https://tinyurl.com/yxhcgb85</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) Se puede consultar en la web del Arxiu Històric d’Eivissa, sección de hemeroteca: <a href="http://5.135.40.100/pandora/cgi-bin/index.py?lang=es">http://5.135.40.100/pandora/cgi-bin/index.py?lang=es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) En el texto, como es habitual en la prensa balear, se introducen expresiones en lengua catalana intercaladas en el texto en castellano. Ésta haría referencia al cercado (tanca) de Catoi (antropónimo, no infrecuente en las Islas Baleares, que parecer ser un hipocorístico, masculinizado, de <i>Caterina</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La razón por la que algunas observaciones ovni quedan sin explicación (aparte del hecho fundamental que no son evaluadas por profesionales cualificados e independientes), no es porque lo visualizado tenga una naturaleza diferente a lo conocido, sino por un par de factores primordiales:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) El testigo deforma (consciente o inconscientemente) los datos y parámetros de su avistamiento. Esta alteración (hora, duración, dirección, velocidad, forma, etc.) hará imposible su identificación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) El encuestador afronta la vivencia como un suceso anómalo. De partida, considera que la narración a investigar hay que tomarla al pie de la letra, sin contar con las alteraciones añadidas por el observador. Además, no profundiza lo suficiente en el testigo (motivaciones, situación psicológica, familiar o laboral, influencias, etc.) ni en las circunstancias del suceso a través de un enfoque realista que incluya todas las posibles causas de confusión.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A mi juicio, en la tarea de analizar los casos ovni, se debería tener muy en cuenta estas consideraciones, que podríamos resumir de esta forma, aunque no guste a algunos: no podemos tomar como ciertas o exactas las aseveraciones de los testigos. Este es un axioma vital en ufología.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ese proceso de estudiar presuntos ovnis extraterrestres y llegar a resolverlos es tan de sentido común que podemos encontrarlo expuesto en antiguos textos, relativos a otros asuntos que parecen enigmáticos a unos, pero normales a los más instruidos. Déjenme citarles una frase leída hace poco:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Concluiré con una observacion: los tres dias de julio se parecieron á un brillante meteoro que deslumbra y encanta á los pueblos que no conocen ni la causa que lo produce, ni su esencia. Al verle forman mil congeturas que se cuentan progresivamente abultadas por las imaginaciones exaltadas…mas luego que á aquellos hombres arrobados se acerca un varon sabio y les analiza y aclara lo que es, desvanécese el prestigio, redúcense los juicios á la exactitud, y miran como natural y comun lo que antes juzgaban milagroso y raro. </i>(<b>sic</b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Les suena la disquisición? Tiene cerca de 200 años, pero sigue siendo tan certera como cuando se escribió.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es el valor necesario de la investigación real a prevalecer sobre el rumor y la ignorancia. En términos ufológicos, la resolución de avistamientos contra la confusión y el error. Pero ese proceso se ve confundido por la charlatanería ufológica, que es inmensa en internet y en reportajes y programas de televisión. Uso el término de manera idéntica a la que Singh & Ernst definen la charlatanería médica, que abarca las pseudociencias de la acupuntura, la homeopatía, el <i>shiatsu</i>, la reflexología y otras tantas memeces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y es que vivimos una involución cultural de la mano de lo que se ha venido a llamar “misterios” que aparentemente nos rodean a diario (bueno, a unos más que a otros, por lo que parece). Y es tal área de lo mistérico que vemos sobreexplotada por los mercenarios de lo oculto, lo paranormal y lo pseudocientífico, parapetados en revistas de quiosco, programas de televisión y canales pretendidamente divulgativos. No trato de hacer campaña, pero ya es hora de decir ¡basta!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Ildefonso Mompié, <u>El Cometa de 1832, o Estado y Esperanzas de la Europa</u>, Valencia, 1832.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) Simon Singh y Edzard Ernst, <u>¿Truco o tratamiento?</u>, Capitán Swing, Madrid, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>¿Nube u ovni? ¡Nube, definitivamente!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A veces me pregunto por qué dedicar tanto tiempo y energía recogiendo y estudiando imágenes de ovnis: 20 años desarrollando lo que actualmente se considera la mayor base de datos de informes de “ovnis fotografiados”. Probablemente ‒ya he dicho esto antes‒ es mi atracción por el lado estético del asunto. No hay dos imágenes de platillos volantes iguales. La condición o esencia de las fotos de ovnis se copian inalterables de revista a revista, de libro a libro, a pesar de que se conoce su solución. Pero ¿por qué no usar una imagen de aspecto intrigante si es bella? ¿A quién le importa su naturaleza real?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta breve introducción puede aplicarse a cientos de fotografías de ovnis. Por ejemplo, a la instantánea tomada el 23 de noviembre de 1966, cerca de la turística ciudad de Benidorm, en provincia de Alicante, por un tal Gunther Fensky Wildemann. Fue publicado por primera vez en la portada y en la página 39 de (nada menos que) la revista de Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, número 68, de marzo de 1970. La leyenda de la foto ya anticipaba que era “una nube o un ovni". Sin embargo, muchas de las innumerables reproducciones de la imagen no mencionaron la obvia posibilidad de una nube e incidieron en la forma de disco del objeto aéreo. Se dice que el visitante alemán que lo vio y fotografió afirmaba que se trataba de un objeto estacionario, giratorio y que estuvo a la vista durante 15 minutos hasta que despegó a gran velocidad a las 5:30 de la tarde. Pero, como ya advirtieron otros colegas, es solo una nube lenticular, típica de la costa oriental española. Es bonita de ver, pero no tanto como para dejarse engañar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por coincidencia ‒porque las coincidencias se dan, y muy a menudo‒, el día anterior, un bioquímico doctorado tomó una fotografía que durante varios años fue considerada como la prueba definitiva de la existencia de los platillos volantes. Fue el 22 de noviembre de 1966, en Willamette Pass, Oregon. OVNI inexplicable, sin duda, para el sesudo astrofísico y ufólogo convencido Dr. Pierre Guerin, cuya física podría explicar cómo una nave material, con cúpula y en forma de disco, aparece apilada tres veces consecutivas en la imagen. Durante un almuerzo en Francia con Aimé Michel, Claude Poher y otros, intentó convencerme con sus cálculos y razonamientos, siendo yo su compañero de mesa. Pero no imaginó un detalle insignificante: la historia del avistamiento fue una mera invención y la imagen resultó de una foto casual al paisaje durante la que se interpuso inesperadamente una señal de tráfico que el movimiento del automóvil distorsionó hasta producir la figuración del platillo volante. El caso se resolvió en un excelente trabajo de análisis realizado por el Dr. Irwin Wieder en <i>The Journal of Scientific Experience</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El pasado 12 de abril se aprobó la Estrategia de Seguridad Aeroespacial Nacional (ESAN), que reconoce la vulnerabilidad del espacio aéreo y ultraterrestre como una de las principales amenazas para la seguridad nacional por el gran valor estratégico que tienen para la actividad de la sociedad española. La ESAN identifica medidas que permiten proteger los intereses nacionales en el aire-espacio como un ámbito único, el ámbito aeroespacial, en base a la inexistencia de límites físicos o funcionales entre ambos y a la continuidad que, por consiguiente, debe existir en la prestación de seguridad para que sea realmente efectiva.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuve un mal presentimiento cuando el pasado julio, el mensaje grupal que suelo enviar para anunciar la actualización de mi blog rechazó el del Dr. Sergey Chernous, con quien he estado en contacto regularmente en los últimos años. Imaginándome lo peor, escribí a su asociado más cercano en Rusia, el Dr. Yulii Platov, quien me dio las indeseadas malas noticias: Sergey falleció el 1 de marzo pasado de un ataque al corazón, a los 75 años, tras varios luchando contra la enfermedad. Durante muchos años, el Dr. Chernous ha trabajado en el Polar Geophysical Institute del Kola Science Center, centro perteneciente a la Academia de Ciencias rusa. Especialista en la aurora boreal, ha escrito más de 150 ensayos profesionales y tres libros técnicos. Chernouss fue también un dedicado estudioso de los fenómenos aéreos inusuales y un activo miembro de la comisión sobre fenómenos atmosféricos anómalos de la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia. En la sección en inglés de este blog complemento su bibliografía con más datos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El Dr. Yulii Platov (IZMIRAN, Moscú) ha sido su colega más cercano en investigación ovni durante décadas. Tuve el privilegio de coincidir con ambos durante el congreso que BUFORA celebró en la Universidad de Sheffield (Inglaterra) en 1995. Guardo recuerdos muy agradables de nuestras reuniones de trabajo, fuera del paraninfo, los tres, revisando fotografías de extraños efectos luminosos producidos durante el lanzamiento de misiles y de otras anomalías espaciales que han sido impropiamente considerados como no identificados. Al mismo tiempo, ¡nos regalábamos con auténtico vodka, caviar y ahumados! Escribí un artículo sobre aquel simposio para <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, excelente publicación que ahora tenemos disponible en línea en la web del AFU</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pasados los años, seguí en contacto ocasionalmente con ambos científicos. Con Sergey, concretamente, me reuní además en dos ocasiones en Barcelona en agosto de 2010 y junio de 2012. Mi blog de entonces se hizo eco de aquellos encuentros tan fructíferos como amigables:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La ufología ha perdido uno de los pocos científicos de peso que realizaba una verdadera investigación ovni. Le echaré mucho de menos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “8º Congreso Internacional de BUFORA (Diario de un Ponente)”, Cuadernos de Ufología, 1995, páginas 58-65, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9qvyzd9">https://tinyurl.com/y9qvyzd9</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El lector del blog debe saber que las secciones en español e inglés no son clónicas. En cada actualización aparecen trabajos y ensayos específicos para el lector anglosajón o hispanohablante, que no se traducen al otro idioma. Con el fin de que no se los pierdan, señalo a continuación algunos de dichos artículos y entradas en el blog: además del trabajo sobre una foto de 1893 ya señalado en otro lugar, el ensayo “The Alien Reports We Have”, varios estudios de fotografías (“Fakes at the Baskatong Lake”, “U.S. April 1, 1967”, “Flying Object Too Bright to be a Star”) o nuevas informaciones sobre “UFO Sightings by US Navy Pilots”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) As Gándaras de nuevo. Escribe el estudioso Victorio Uranga en su blog: El ufólogo gallego, Miguel Pedrero, publicó el pasado mes de julio, en las páginas de la revista comercial <i>Año Cero/Enigmas</i>, un antiguo incidente ufológico ocurrido en una instalación militar durante la llamada "oleada gallega" (1995-1996). El suceso se produjo en el polvorín de artillería de As Gándaras (Lugo), durante la noche del 27 al 28 de noviembre de 1995. Aconsejo no perderse el resto en:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Mitos sobre el primer alunizaje. El periodista Alejandro Agostinelli revela “el increíble caso del radiotécnico argentino que el 20 de julio de 1969 le reveló a una revista haber interceptado la transmisión de la NASA desde la Luna, usando una antena budinera y un televisor Admiral”. Una lectura de lo más entretenida:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://factorelblog.com/2019/08/02/luna-de-avellaneda/">http://factorelblog.com/2019/08/02/luna-de-avellaneda/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) A veces es de agradecer leer una síntesis de asuntos enrevesados sobre los que se ha vertido mucha tinta. Por ejemplo, Roswell. Asunto endiabladamente complejo, pero resumido acertadamente por el periodista Alfonso Galán, de <i>Esquire</i>, aquí: <a href="https://www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/a28296530/caso-roswell/">https://www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/a28296530/caso-roswell/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Nuestro amigo Luis R. González (bajo el nombre de Reinaldo Manso) ha publicado su segunda novela, titulada “Las variaciones Malaka”, una antología de cinco relatos de ambiente holmesiano, de160 páginas en formato 21x15 cm. El PVP de esta obra es de 12 euros. Para adquirir este primer volumen, basta con mandar un correo electrónico con los datos de envío y la forma de pago deseada, a la siguiente dirección de correo: <a href="mailto:reinaldomanso2015@gmail.com">reinaldomanso2015@gmail.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) El estudioso mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez ha reeditado una versión ampliada de su obra “La autopsia extraterrestre. Un mito dentro de un mito”. De lectura amena, es un libro imprescindible para conocer los entresijos de aquel fraude de 1995 que tuvo una gran repercusión mediática a nivel mundial. Más información en:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/07/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-presentacin/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/07/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-presentacin/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/08/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-solapa/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2019/08/la-autopsia-extraterrestre-un-mito-dentro-del-mito-segunda-edicin-solapa/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Segunda entrega del inventario de Martin Kottmeyer sobre ovnis en el periodo clásico: <i>SUNlite</i>, páginas 24a 35,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) En su última actualización, la base de datos de tesis y disertaciones sobre ovnis de Paolo Toselli, alcanza ya nada menos que 352 referencias, entre 1948 y 2018. Para los 315 trabajos donde se conoce el grado del autor, 67 corresponde a licenciatura, 141 a máster y 117 a doctorado. Del total, 136 trabajos proceden de los Estados Unidos. (Tengo razones para creer que a su debido tiempo un doctorado español se añadirá a esta lista). Véase:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="http://www.euroufo.net/2019/09/ufo-theses-at-the-university-an-updated-database/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #338fe9; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.euroufo.net/2019/09/ufo-theses-at-the-university-an-updated-database/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Hace unos años, Alexander C. T. Geppert, miembro de la facultad de la Universidad de Nueva York, publicó un inteligente e inquisitivo artículo en la revista <i>History and Technology </i>(septiembre de 2012, páginas 335-362), con el título “Extraterrestrial Encounters: UFOs, Science and the Quest for Transcendence, 1947–1972”. El ensayo finaliza con una frase demoledora: “Un mito moderno, desencadenado por y profundamente inscrito en la era espacial, el OVNI es un fenómeno que los historiadores apenas han comenzado a entender”. Parece que esta conclusión se está convirtiendo en un mantra para los historiadores y otros académicos que abordan el fenómeno OVNI con 70 años de perspectiva. Creyentes, ¡despierten, por favor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/2228956/Extraterrestrial_Encounters_UFOs_Science_and_the_Quest_for_Transcendence_1947_1972" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/ExtraterrestrialEncountersUFOsScienceandtheQuestforTranscendence_1947_1972</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Con relación a los supuestos metamateriales de “To the Stars”, leemos esto:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-source-of-to-stars-ufo-debris.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-source-of-to-stars-ufo-debris.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Sobre el estudio ovni del Pentágono. Luis Elizondo y el programa AATIP, ¿sí, no, o todo lo contrario? Una ceremonia de confusión. Aquí lo último del investigador John Greenewald:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) El afamado folclorista de la University of the West (California), Dr. Peter M. Rojcewicz ha escrito sobre la experiencia y tradición de los “hombres de negro” (MIB):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) Dos interesantes artículos del antropólogo cultural de la Universidad de Chicago Ryan Cook: “Gods Descending in Clouds (Flying Saucers)” y “Why UFOs are ideal for new religions, and why they fail”. Se pueden encontrar aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Artículo de nota de la periodista de Los Ángeles, Hadley Meares: “That Time ‘UFOs’ Took Over Los Angeles,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Un raro ejemplo de excelencia en la investigación relativa a un caso aparentemente inexplicable. El veterano estudioso norteamericano Tom Tulien ha creado una web dedicada al estudio de los sucesos ocurridos a primeras horas del 24 de octubre de 1968 cerca de la base aérea de Minot, en Dakota del Norte. Una lectura aconsejable y un material para la crítica inteligente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://minotb52ufo.com/index.php">http://minotb52ufo.com/index.php</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) El Dr. David Clarke sobre los “Expedientes X” del ministerio de Defensa británico:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(16) Mare Kõiva pertenece al departamento de folclore del Museo Literario de Estonia y ha publicado una pieza titulada “Some Aspects of UFO-lore” que se puede descargar desde este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi hija mayor, Laura, doctorada en Finanzas Cuantitativas y profesora en la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de Valencia, ha sido distinguida con el Premio a la Excelencia Docente en la XXIII edición de los Premios del Consell Social de la Universidad de Valencia. El acto formal de entrega de los premios, con la presencia de autoridades académicas, civiles y políticas y del Presidente de la Comunidad Valenciana, tuvo lugar el pasado 16 de julio en la sede de la Fundación Universidad-Empresa ADEIT. Según describe la web de la Universidad, estos premios “tienen por objetivo destacar la profesionalidad de los docentes vinculados a la Universitat de València”. ¡Enhorabuena!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por último, y no por ello menos importante, ayer, 19 de septiembre de 2019, Laura defendió y ganó el concurso-oposición a Profesor Titular de la Universidad de Valencia. Doble enhorabuena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Durante casi 50 años, el ufólogo estadounidense Richard W. Heiden ha brindado un gran servicio a la comunidad de estudiosos al traducir del español y portugués casos y artículos sobre ovnis que de otra forma hubieran pasado desapercibidos a los colegas de habla inglesa. Rich, como le llamamos sus amigos, ha publicado numerosos artículos, cartas al director y crítica de libros en destacadas revistas, como <i>Flying Saucer Review, International UFO Reporter, Journal of UFO Studies, Stendek, Fortean Times y Wisconsin Law Enforcement Journal</i>. También participó en la realización del catálogo mundial de aterrizajes, dirigido por Peter Rogerson y serializado en el boletín Magonia. Rich se hizo miembro de la APRO en 1970, del CUFOS en 1974 y de la MUFON en 1975, e investigó varios casos para las tres organizaciones, principalmente en los ochenta. Desde 1978 hasta la clausura del APRO nueve años después, fue director adjunto de su publicación, <i>The APRO Bulletin</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rich se ha interesado mucho en la vida y las reivindicaciones del conocido contactado George Adamski, y ha colaborado con el investigador belga Marc Hallet en su gran obra George Adamski: <i>The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers (GA: El hombre que habló con los hermanos del espacio).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rich vive en Milwaukee, estado de Wisconsin. Estudió una primera carrera en ingeniería (que incluyó un año de estudios en el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey) y más tarde contabilidad, desempeñándose muchos años como contable de empresa. Como empedernido bibliófilo, su biblioteca personal reúne varios miles de libros sobre los ovnis, e innumerables revistas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Durante décadas, he tenido el privilegio de contar con él como mi principal traductor y revisor de textos. Tanto antes como ahora, algunos de mis escritos han visto la luz en lengua inglesa gracias a sus meticulosas traducciones. Sólo una vez hemos coincidido en persona. Fue durante mi presencia en Washington, D.C. en 1987, con motivo de una conferencia que di en el congreso de la MUFON. Lástima que no exista ninguna foto que inmortalice aquel momento. Sirva esta nota para mostrar públicamente mi agradecimiento y reconocimiento por su valiosa y leal ayuda durante tantos años.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información o consejo a la presente edición del blog: Kay Coggin, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Terry W. Colvin, Marc Leduc, Dr. Yulii Platov, Wim van Utrecht, Richard W. Heiden, Matías Morey Ripoll, Enrique Márquez y J.P. González.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Investigación OVNI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government</b> (con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) FOTOCAT collects UFO/IFO-imaged events that occurred before December 31, 2005 (with controlled exceptions). The current database arrives at 12,421 entries. When one individual takes one or more photographs, it yields one entry, therefore one event can generate as many entries as photographers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) The logistics of FOTOCAT archives. The above count of case reports materially corresponds to an equal number of single files, containing all-inclusive paper and photographic information resources for every case, chronologically ordered. This project is 20 years old by now, and the gathered documentation amounts to 215 binders, equivalent to 13 linear meters of files. The following picture shows a partial view of the archives. To this, we have to add another 9 binders with circa 3,600 slides. On top of that physical FOTOCAT, we have the immaterial catalog, the digital storage of tens of thousands of digital images, grouped by country folders filling 40GB capacity in a hard disk. Finally, the databank, an Excel spreadsheet listing one line by entry with 28 data columns feeding the selected basic parameters of the events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) One of the European UFO researchers who owns extensive records is the Belgian Wim van Utrecht, creator of the excellent website Caelestia, <a href="http://www.caelestia.be/">http://www.caelestia.be/</a> Wim and I are working on the Belgium in UFO Photographs project, one that already produced volume one of a two-volume work: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His latest contribution to FOTOCAT is the transference of information on photographic cases from his files for the Netherlands. As a result, over 60 new reports will be added to the database, in addition to improvements in the already known data and lots of supplementary documentation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) What percentage of actual reports has FOTOCAT covered to date? Can we loosely calculate the full number of photographic cases reported in the world? Let’s try to figure it out. Our catalog includes ~12,000 cases from 1947 to 2005. In terms of assurance that the collection of reports in a given country is close to comprehensive, the catalog can be divided into two blocks. One is for nations well or extraordinarily-well represented: USA, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and “Space” (~8,000 cases in total). Another is for the remaining countries (~4,000 cases). I reckon that I still miss 50% of cases for the first block and 200% for the second. Therefore, I’d conservatively calculate the worldwide amount of photo cases up to end of 2005 (FOTOCAT’s close point) as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the assumptions are wise, the good news is that presently FOTOCAT puts together one half of the estimated total, not a bad accomplishment. Of course, the bad news is that it took me 20 years to save and concentrate all this information. Yet the remaining stretch can be shortened with volunteers willing to review certain online sources, mainly UFO journals and magazines, to extract accounts on photographic cases to feed the database. Are you one? Please, get in touch with me! (<a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Too Good to be True</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an abridged version of a longer, more personal text that you can find in the Spanish section of this blog. But the basics are here. A sort of biographical self-criticism, of a time in my youth when I received some photographs that really freaked me out. In 1969 I found myself faced with the following two pictures showing a true flying saucer landed in a jungle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got the 2 color photos and the negatives from a friend residing in Mexico, Jorge Reichert, who told me that he had received them from an uncle of his, who in turn received them from the Cuban engineer who witnessed the events. According to the testimony of the lucky observer, he was hunting in early 1967 in an area of the Mexican jungle when he came across nine discs that had landed in a nearby valley. He approached with his car to see them better, stopped, got out of the vehicle when the saucers were taking off and he only had time to take two photos of the last of the spacecraft. The objects had a dome on top, they were bright white, and their base was dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At that time, there was little I could do with such imagery except to report that I had them and to offer them to interested investigators with technical resources, for a modest consideration to cover development and shipment by airmail. So, I sent the photographs to <i>Saucers, Space & Science</i>, edited by Gene Duplantier, the most influential Canadian UFO publication of the time, of which I was then "correspondent" in Spain. Drawings of the photos were published in number 55 (1969), page 14, along with a note from me with the details I knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are you asking me if I was impressed by the photos? Yes, I confess. When you are twenty you are impressionable, with limited training and credulous. And have no analysis resources. In your naiveté, it does not enter your mind that people casually lie without compunction. I'm not going to make this longer. My growth as a researcher made me lose interest in the photos. In fact, I lost them, or I gave them to someone with more capacity to study them and I never recovered them. I cannot remember. A few years later I learned that these were photographs taken during the filming of the movie <i>The Ambushers</i> (titled in Spanish, <i>Emboscada a Matt Helm</i>), shot in 1967 in Acapulco, Mexico, starring Dean Martin and a cast of voluptuous actresses. I got to see the film and the scene in question: no doubt these images were taken during the filming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The full movie can be watched here: <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvgu7">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvgu7</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I said, I discovered this outcome many, many years ago, but I bring this up now because a colleague has just sent them to me again: currently these pictures are circulating on <i>Facebook</i> wrapped in another story. Myths never die! And I have decided to record this fraud in these pages, for those who want to listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that pictures of science fiction movies are passed off as genuine UFO portraits. Because I intervened in their clarification or disclosure, I would like to mention two cases in particular:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The alleged UFO crash in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, off Inglewood, California, on January 12, 1972. See the post entitled “UFO footage or science-fiction movie?” in a past blog’s entry: </span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_06_30_archive.html" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_06_30_archive.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A flying saucer landing on June 7, 1981 in Andenne (Belgium). See pages 345 to 349 of my book with Wim van Utrecht, “Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)”, freely available through this link: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Mexican Salim Sigales holds a degree in computer science and is an IT expert by trade who focuses on the study of UFO sightings. He has reviewed the widely publicized, single picture taken by journalist Alfonso Reyes on December 19, 2000 at 6 a.m. some 5km from the Popocatépetl volcano, in the state of Puebla. This was a 20-sec time exposure, and the photograph was taken without a tripod, with the camera laid on the ground. Nothing weird was observed at the time, only a strange luminous track was noticed later in the print. Sigales has concluded that “a quick involuntary movement of the camera…. generated the sweeping of the Moon to enter into the frame, in a descending motion, as shown by the yellow line trace.” Yes, the Moon was positioned outside the frame just above the start of the luminous trail, as can be checked with a sky map. Certainly, in the last second of the exposure, the camera moved upwards, producing the interfering curvilinear trace down through the photograph. The Sigales report‒in Spanish‒can be found here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for the remark made by some critics that all other light points in the image should also show the same smearing effect, I requested the evaluation of FOTOCAT consultant in image analysis Andrés Duarte. He firstly confirmed Sigales conclusion and pointed to the Moon as the unique culprit due to camera motion. The technical explanation given by Duarte to this criticism follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>All the lights form traces, but a trace can be imperceptible when its light source is not intense enough, that's the reason why you do not see some of the traces that you expected to see in the photo, but the traces left by the lights of the antennas</i></span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> can be positively seen. The film was exposed for 20 seconds to form imprints of the stars that are barely visible in the photo, then how do you expect to see their traces formed for only a fraction of a second? The same reasoning applies to all dark and dim areas seen in the photo, which were exposed for 20 seconds while the camera was static, which allowed to obtain a well-formed image of those areas, while the camera movement occurred in a very brief period of time during which only those very bright elements would leave visible traces.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We can be certain that the movement was short and quick because the trace is smooth, unlike the strokes formed by slow movements, being irregular and trembling. All the lights leave traces with a very similar geometry, although it seems that this was not the case, but that is a false appearance because the trace left by the moon only shows its lower part, and the rest of that trace does not appear in the photo because it is outside the field of view of the photo, upwards, while the traces left by the lights of the antennas only show their upper part, and the rest of those traces do not appear in the photo because they are outside the field of view of the photo, downwards, so that we see different parts of each trace, which makes them look very different, although in reality the complete traces are very similar. In synthesis, all the features of the photo agree very well with the hypothesis raised in the report by Sigales. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are lots of analogous images in my catalog of UFO photographs. I once wrote a brief article</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> about a series of photos a teenager claimed to be of a UFO freely flying through the atmosphere in August 1998. It was risibly obvious that they were time-exposure images of the full Moon. As a canonical comparison, see one of the photos I achieved myself in the summer of 1997, when I made the simple experiment to snap pictures of the Moon with the camera shutter open while I moved it erratically. The resulting effect was the same as what the Spanish boy had presented as strange. As in the Mexican example, it is evident that such luminous tracks are created by our natural satellite and a camera’s motion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cannot avoid citing one more Moon-produced track photograph linked to UFOs. It occurred on July 3, 2009 in Houthalen (Limburg, Belgium), and I am extracting this from the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt 2010 annual report.</span><span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Around 22:30 hours, a Mrs. D. M., very interested in the paranormal, was taking pictures of the Moon when she suddenly saw “two orange streaks shooting out of the Moon with great speed,” she reported. When watching the pictures on the computer afterwards she noticed that the Moon had made “strange jumps”. She had not noticed these “tumbling motions” with the naked eye and was convinced it was not the Moon. In spite of her fantasy, there is no doubt, the Belgian analysts determined, that the photos show the illuminated Moon. The “jumping” and “tumbling” movements detected are due to camera movement. The following is one of the images from the series of pictures taken that night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A standard job for the FOTOCAT project is reviewing books and magazines to find photographic cases and adding them to the files and the catalog. Lately I have been checking old issues of the French UFO journal <i>Ouranos</i>. In issue #27, September 1979 (pages 36 to 38), this story is narrated: Dominique Roussel, marine fireman in the port of Marseille, started his work’s night shift at 10pm on June 6, 1977. In order to pass the time, he took his camera to clean up the lenses. Raising his eyes, he saw a luminous object stationed above a building, not far from his location. The object looked like an overturned bowl of orange color, with neat contours, no halo and making no sound. The phenomenon was present for 20-30 seconds, during which Dominique took two pictures. The witness was quite excited and said he entered the barracks to alert another of his colleagues to the phenomenon, but a few minutes later it had disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At that time, J.L. Casero and F. Louange were working in the ESA satellite tracking station of Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid. Both were interested in UFOs and especially keen in the analysis of UFO photographs. They received the picture for examination. The journal’s article indicated “without questioning the good faith of the witness” (wrong: you cannot take for granted that the claimant is always sincere), that it was surprising that the negatives show no sign of movement (two pictures taken from the very same point, no tripod used, 3-4sec paused). “The fake hypothesis is to be discarded,” <i>Ouranos</i> stated. (Again, too simplistic. You do not need to use a model to present as real something that it is not.) “The negatives comprise several optical effects,” as depicted in the following image: (A) the object, (B) the halo over it, (C) a lens flare, due probably to the closest streetlamp, (D and E) two ellipse-shaped optical effects. The contributed analysis indicated that a superposition of the two prints on transparent paper showed a coincidence of all elements in the pictures (the street, houses, streetlamps, etc.) excepting the two arc-shaped effects, which were rotated a few degrees. All five effects would match exactly if the photos were subjected to a small rotation, as if there was actually a small movement at the time the two pictures were shot. For the article writer, it means that the five effects “form a whole that varies from shot to shot…Three of them (C, D, E) are optical effects. It seems likely (but not demonstrated) that the two other effects (A and B) are also optical effects, although their origin cannot be identified.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because the shape of the object allegedly sighted by the witness was different to what the pictures show, the article’s writer (surely Pierre Delval, the journal’s editor in chief) speculates about the Moon or a balloon, forgetting the most simple reality: that the firefighter simply took test photos with his camera during idle time and round lens flares and other optical artifacts appeared on the prints after development. Truly, he did not see anything strange, he just created a story around the effects. Too typical. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have just read a book on archaeology, or should I say on false archaeology. No, this is not off-topic. Because ufology‒as a pretending science or protoscience‒has produced a fiasco and is hardly more than pseudoscience, as far as equating UFOs to extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting Earth is concerned. I can say I speak from a first-hand stance, as I have been on both sides of the line: from a moderate believer to a reasonable skeptic. 30 years ago, I was one of those researchers who attempted to create a discipline out of the study of UFOs. Yet a main problem was found: the amassed UFO reports were taken for granted, that is, UFO observations with mundane explanations were included in the “genuine” database. So, the input was fake data. To this, you must add inaccurate math, biased and poor computing and, above all, wrong assumptions. This has happened repeatedly in UFO photograph or video analyses, for example, as well as with instrumented-supported sightings. In the next years, many instances of work which delusively proved that UFOs defied the laws of physics or showed capabilities beyond known technology will be highlighted as bad science in reports and monographs and essays and books and academia theses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have received this book from the US Library of Congress exchange program I´m in. It is “Lost City, Found Pyramid”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> edited by Jeb J. Card (assistant professor of anthropology at Miami University in Ohio) and David S. Anderson (visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Roanoke College, Virginia). The editors describe this volume as an examination and a critique of bad practices in archaeology done by alternative researchers, religious performers, media producers and the public in relation to pseudoarcheology. The book is quite illustrative of how an established branch of science can be corrupted and the various authors touch upon very intriguing aspects of actual and historical archaeology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a response to questions posed by Washington-based <i>Politico</i> (the magazine that “Political professionals read”), the US Navy has stated: "There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years. <i>For safety and security concerns</i> [my emphasis], the Navy and the USAF takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report. As part of this effort, the Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities. A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The article can be found here: <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290">https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, no surprise here, this is their duty: to survey and protect the course of their marine operations, over and under the seas. In this sense, it is expected that the military are worried if intrusions are detected. “In recent years,” the US Navy says. So, we are not speaking of the flying saucers of the late 40s, or the UFOs from the 50s onwards, the landings of the 60s, or the humanoids of the 70s. But of recent espionage activities, probably through advanced flying gadgets launched from vessels originating in countries like China, Russia, perhaps others as well. Or virtual phantoms in late generation radar equipment. . Or even simpler, just perceptual errors involving aircraft or birds. In contradistinction to what ufologists dream, I am convinced that the US Navy is not planning to study any “extraterrestrial” UFOs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some additional official wording is provided by <i>The Washington Post</i> (April 24, 2019). In a sensationally entitled article by Deanne Paul, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, vowed: “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who’s doing it, where it’s coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it.” Quite logical, and the Navy spokesman draws upon “safety and security concerns,” not search for extraterrestrial life, or pursuit of aliens’ wonder flying machines. This is your homeland officers honestly worried about spying with someone else’s little eye. Not the classic UFOs and, less still, SETI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this context, let me reprint here a timely commentary by an experienced European researcher, Theo Paijmans, hailing from The Netherlands, written in the NICAP-research UFO forum list: </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my haphazard, slap-dash, off the cuff analysis of the situation, a few different strands have come together by the careful orchestration of a few players, namely, Robert Bigelow, George Knapp, Luis Elizondo and a few nameless media hacks out for a few attention grabbing headlines since each day they have to fill the newspaper pages. The main players:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bigelow: the shadowy millionaire who bought data from MUFON in a controversial deal, meddled around at Skinwalker ranch, and through a senator friend of his, was contracted millions of dollars to do work for Luis Elizondo's whatever threat program.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New player arrives: To The Stars Academy, the newest revenue model of a former rock star. Promises a lot, has not delivered anything. But who turns up? Elizondo.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NYT or another respected print news outlet writes an article or two on two very dubious videos purportedly showing UFOs chased by fighter pilots - but the provenance is unsure as well as what we are looking at. Had it really been of national ‘blah blah’ security interest, I suspect Elizondo would be hurled in the slammer next to a guy called Assange. But I see no government hindrance. So, either Elizondo got approval to release these videos - and for what reason? My assessment: because what we see is not UFOs but that is what they want us to think. Incidentally, I think the Navy is upgrading its recognition protocols since more and more countries such as China are building fifth-generation fighters and are even working on sixth-generation ones. 'UFO' is a tried and tested ruse. Meanwhile, the player act on stage with a background noise echoing one word constantly: 'disclosure'. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now the Washington Post has written a bit about UFOs which is nothing special as news media these days are not trend setters, but rather trend followers. Since UFOs have become as mainstream as Coca Cola, baseball or chewing gum, it is no miracle it does not signify anything out of the ordinary. Holding one’s breath because, geez, the WP has dropped the UFO word is to grossly misunderstand current, modern media. Newspapers and print are nothing. The real news power is found online. A couple of years ago the ad revenue profit for online media on a global scale surpassed that of print media. So, if you want to find profound meaning in what is for the newspaper the minute it is printed is already yesterdays; news, is equivalent to, well, waiting for rain to be dry or fire to be cold.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just my two cents‒and I have worked in the media for three decades so on a day to day basis‒I see how editorial decisions are made and why they are made. That the WP chose to write about UFOs is because *you* my dear friends send out waves of anticipation and hunger and beat the drums. Not because they act on some secret signal *they* know but we don't.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When everybody on the credulity bandwagon expected the US Navy would be into the UFO business, a few days later Joseph Gradisher cooled down expectations by affirming to <i>The Washington Post</i> that the “reporting of hazards to aviation [is retained] as privileged information in order to preserve the free and honest prioritization and discussion of safety among aircrew.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> He continued to say that any generated report would contain by necessity classified material. “Therefore‒Gradisher added‒no release of information to the general public is expected.” In my view, thinking that the US Navy is searching for aliens, rather than exclusively ensuring that the airspace is free from foreign vigilantes, is hokum. Somehow, recent media pressure on three airborne videos taken from Navy aircraft from 4 to 15 years ago, made the institution react by stating “everything is under control, we are checking this” but for no other reason than ensuring that no foreign countries watch over their maneuvers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even confessed non-skeptics like John Greenewald have woken up to the fact that what the US Navy is concerned about “unidentified aircraft,”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> rather than flying saucers, as Robert Sheaffer pointed out in this Badufos blogsite. Every decade, new characters emerge with beliefs which ultimately converge to let everybody waste time and to discredit the study of UFOs. We had Roswell, the MJ12, or the alien autopsy. Nowadays we have “To the Stars Academy.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The New York Post</i> of past May 22, quite excitedly headlined that “The Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs,” because a DOD spokesman declared in exclusive‒sacred words‒that the secret AATIP study (2008-2011) “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena.” Yet what spokesman Christopher Sherwood said next was crystal clear, at least to me: “The Department of Defense is always concerned about maintaining positive identification of all aircraft in our operating environment, as well as identifying any foreign capability that may be a threat to the homeland…The department will continue to investigate, through normal procedures, reports of unidentified aircraft encountered by US military aviators in order to ensure defense of the homeland and protection against strategic surprise by our nation’s adversaries.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Whoever reads here between lines that the DOD is currently investigating flying saucers, alien UFOs or the like, is simply dreaming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But UFO stories sell newspapers, and even serious journalists know that one such story, if timely dropped and dramatically verbalized, can become international in scope‒go viral, as we’d say today. It has happened with another NYT post, where a Navy Lieutenant pilot of an F/A-18 Super Hornet reported that strange objects “appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> If a sensational press’ item on UFOs is pushed by someone who has proved to hold an absolute belief in alien UFOs (in spite of lack of material proof after 70 years of reporting), as in this case, the relevance of the message drops. But pitifully it has been hungrily consumed by the printed, telecasting and online media all over the world. Because of their lack of criteria and background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“A Forensic Analysis of Navy Carrier Strike Group Eleven’s Encounter with an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle,” is the title of the latest report by the so-called Scientific Coalition for Ufology (apparently now revamped to Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies), authored by Robert Powell <i>et al</i>, that can be read here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>On November 14th of 2004, the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group Eleven (CSG 11), including the USS Nimitz nuclear aircraft carrier and the USS Princeton missile cruiser, were conducting a training exercise off the coast of southern California when the Navy’s radar systems detected as many as 20 anomalous aerial vehicles (AAV). These AAVs were deemed a safety hazard to an upcoming air exercise and the Captain of the USS Princeton ordered an interception with two F/A-18F Navy jets. This paper examines the publicly available subset of these data: Eyewitness information from the pilots and radar operators; Freedom of Information Act releases of four navy documents; and a Defense Intelligence Agency released video taken by an F/A-18F jet using an AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR). Analytical calculations based on radar notes, testimony from the pilots, and the ATFLIR video are used to derive the velocity, acceleration and estimated power demonstrated by the AAV maneuvers. Calculated AAV accelerations ranged from 40 g-forces to hundreds of g-forces and estimated power based on a weight of one ton ranged from one to nine gigawatts. None of the navy witnesses reported having ever previously seen military or civilian vehicles with these maneuvering abilities. Manned aircraft such as the F-22 and F-35 are limited to nine g-forces and the F-35 has maintained structural integrity up to 13.5 g-forces. Our results suggest that given the available information the AAV’s capabilities are beyond any known technology. The public release of all navy records associated with this incident to enable a full, scientific and open investigation is strongly recommended.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cannot hide my lack of trust in the conclusions of the SCU report (made, incidentally, without the US Navy disclosing the full information relative to the incident): “…the object encountered displayed properties unexplainable within our current understanding of physics.” If right, the report would deserve a Nobel Prize-level award! But I am afraid that over time the findings will be rebutted, and the results proved false. Time will tell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a matter of fact, there is an alternative analysis of the 76-sec video</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> showing that, for example, the fast acceleration claim was just a camera artifact. On his analysis of the various uncertainties emerging during the November 14, 2004 incidents, the analyst identified as “Parabunk” penname has concluded:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a precedent already to sustain my personal skepticism. In its prior report, the SCU team found an unexplainable behavior of another object filmed by IR video, including its versatility to enter and leave the sea surface! However, a fresh analysis performed by Commodore R. Lianza, chief of the Argentine Air Force UAP study showed that it was just a pair of Chinese lanterns. See the following link (scroll down to “The Aguadilla Video”): </span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2017_08_25_archive.html" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2017_08_25_archive.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something must be clearly stated. It is a very atypical “UFO encounter”, with timing and location data poorly established and with contradictions arising. In fact, it was not one sighting but several “incidents” that lasted over <u>five hours</u> during complex tactical exercises that involved the use of live fire, as well as several ships and new-generation aircraft and equipment. But several unrelated episodes have been combined attempting to increase the general strangeness of the case. Let us see the schedule: we firstly have none less than 14 “objects” detected on ship’s radar at 11:30 hours (Local). Then we have the occurrence of an object over the sea surface</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> described as a children’s Tic-Tac mint candy, sighted by each of the two pilots of a couple of F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft (called-signed “Fast Eagles”), David Fravor and Jim Slaight.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This intercept and visual contact do not seem to have been investigated by the US Navy. It happened at 14:30 (according to the USS Nimitz log). The two aircraft landed at 15:04.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can someone imagine the same *UFO* object fluttering in this critical zone, over five hours since an initial fleet of targets was discovered on the radar screen? From past experience</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, I guess this long-duration event will be explained by dividing it into various, unconnected pieces, where the fleet of radar echoes are addressed firstly, then the sea surface effect, then the purely Tic-Tac object, and finally the FLIR tracking, episodes occurring in quite different time segments and space locations. There, jamming, just-implemented radar software artifacts, secret prototypes under testing, a nuclear submarine practicing live fire, or another mundane anomaly may have been involved. The major mistake is to consider as one single event what is a matrix of different incidents or phenomena. As data from a military exercise of this class are routinely classified (even more if some of the unknowns were the result of accidental error), it is not likely we would be able to access clues soon. For a more precise timeline review of the various logged “incidents”, see this post by “Parabunk”: </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/27920724/THE_MANISES_UFO_FILE" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.academia.edu/27920724/THE_MANISES_UFO_FILE</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Yes, AATIP existed, and it “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told me. However, he added: “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI [the Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence], up until the time he resigned effective 10/4/2017.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/">https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Immediately, it has been commented on in detail by John Greenewald, Jr., a well-informed ufologist who has been extremely successful in providing formerly classified UFO information through his site “The Black Vault”, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All I can say is, stay tuned, as probably many opaque issues will appear. Robert Sheaffer has added his two cents' worth to the debate with the following entry: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is clear that this all is a true mess, a combination of true believer politicians, intelligence employees blinded by UFO enthusiasm, former Government officers with rampant credulity, popular book writers promoters of the alien reality with little competence in science, an entertainment multimedia company, and the figure of an important tycoon in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/to-the-stars-academy-of-arts-science-tom-delonge-and-the-secret-dod-ufo-research-program/">https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/to-the-stars-academy-of-arts-science-tom-delonge-and-the-secret-dod-ufo-research-program/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presently, when old newspapers can be consulted at distance by internet, one continues finding new “UFO” reports from the past. I am now referring to a picture that today would be included in the UFO category. By 1932, it was just a “mystery.” The <i>Democrat and Chronicle</i> newspaper of Rochester (New York) of Friday September 2, 1932 carried a photograph with this overhead title: “Eclipse Photo Shows Mystery.” The caption reported that at 3:15 p.m. of the prior Wednesday (this is, August 31</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), Mr. H. Merrill Webster (of 86 Hampden Road) took a photo of the sun eclipse with a <i>Graflex</i> camera on <i>Verichrome</i> film, “using an eye glass from sunlight goggles as a filter.” He wondered if the round spot that unexpectedly appeared at the lower right of the picture, one that was not in the sky at the time of the shot, was a star. “So far as we learned, no planet or star was in that direction from the sun at the time of the eclipse and no stars or planets were visible in this vicinity,” the newspaper wrote. So, it has remained a riddle for all these years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Fairy circles (FCs) are extremely ordered round patches of bare soil within arid grasslands of southwestern Africa and northwestern Australia. Their origin is disputed because biotic factors such as insects or abiotic factors such as edaphic and eco‐hydrological feedback mechanisms have been suggested to be causal. In this research, we used a multi‐scale approach to shed light on the origin of Australian FCs. At a local scale, we investigated the potential cause of FCs using analyses of soil compaction and texture within FCs, the surrounding matrix vegetation, and in nearby large bare‐soil areas. We found that soil hardness and clay content were similarly higher inside the FCs and in the large bare‐soil areas. When compared to the matrix soils with protective grass cover, the 2.6–2.8 times higher clay content in FCs and large bare‐soil areas is likely sourced via multiple abiotic weathering processes. Intense rainfall events, particle dispersion, surface heat, evaporation, and mechanical crust building inhibit plant growth in both areas. At the landscape scale, a systematic survey of 154 soil excavations within FCs was undertaken to evaluate the presence of pavement termitaria that could inhibit plant growth. We show that in up to 100% and most of the excavations per plot, no hard pavement termitaria were present in the FCs. This fact is substantiated by the observation that small, newly forming FCs are initiated on soft sand without evidence of termite activity. At the regional scale, we investigated the spatial properties of FCs and common termite‐created gaps in Western Australia, using spatially explicit statistics. We mapped three 25‐ha FC plots with a drone and compared them with three aerial images of typical vegetation gaps created by harvester and spinifex termites. We demonstrate that the small diameters, the lower ordering, and the heterogeneous patterns of these common termite gaps strongly differ from the unique spatial signature of FCs. Our multi‐scale approach emphasizes that FCs are not trivial termite gaps and that partial correlation with termites at some sites does not imply causation. Instead, we highlight the need to study the edaphic and eco‐hydrological drivers of vegetation‐pattern formation in water‐limited environments.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kevin Randle has released a meticulously documented and accurately investigated report on the UFO sightings and subsequent plane crash on January 7, 1948 in Franklin, Kentucky, with the result of the killing of aircraft pilot, USAF Captain Thomas F. Mantell. Randle and his associates have shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the visual sightings had mundane explanations and the crash was accidental. I am copying a significant paragraph from the conclusions section:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Spanish section of this blog contains an article of mine with thoughts and meditations about several aspects of ufology and ufologists. If someone wishes to practice his/her Spanish, feel free to read “Apuntes varios sobre la cosa ufológica” further below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) NASA’s worldwide database for fireballs detected from space sensors since 1988, certainly a useful tool: <a href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/">https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “A Critique of Budd Hopkins’ Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda Napolitano,” by Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler and George P. Hansen, is a very illuminating paper prepared 1993 on one of the most infamous UFO kidnapping claims, now uploaded here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) “Alien Fears: Toward a Psychology of UFO Abduction,” by Scott Robert Scribner, is a profound, dense, long (337 pages) monograph on the phenomenon of abductions, released 2003, which is unfavorable to their materiality: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS">https://www.academia.edu/30207679/TOWARD_A_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_UFO_ABDUCTION_BELIEFS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) UFO narratives and reports of the past will be mainly a theme for social sciences, anthropology, sociology, psychology, folklore, journalism, history, etc., more than for physics, astronomy, or astronautics. An illustration is this little-known article originally published in the <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i>, 13, 2007, pages 901-915, by Eirik Saethre (University of Pretoria): “Close encounters: UFO beliefs in a remote Australian Aboriginal community,” currently available in this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) However, there are stubborn researchers who still deem there is a material, physical component in the UFO occurrences. A major example is my friend for 50 years, Dr. Jacques Vallée. The following is a lecture he did in France in June 2017, presenting a joint paper with Dr. Garry Nolan: “What do we know about the material composition of UFOs? Work in progress: a status report,” which we can find uploaded in the Academia.edu portal: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37136826/What_do_we_Know_about_the_Material_Composition_of_UFOs">https://www.academia.edu/37136826/What_do_we_Know_about_the_Material_Composition_of_UFOs</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Martin Shough is one of most prominent UFO scholars in Europe (in fact, it is a privilege to have him as English editor of this blog). Probably not many people know a short and nice article by him on globular lightning: “A Social History of Ball Lightning,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Jack Brewer has written a smart, insightful post on the dogmatic traits of UFO belief. There is a sentence with which I could not be more in agreement: “We indirectly encourage runaway irrationality by enabling it. We each have personal responsibilities to support best practices in research and reporting.” Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) The Argentine Air Force has reshuffled its web site, so the modernized link to its official UFO study is now:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) The video of an aircraft in pursuit of a UFO popped up again recently since it first was on YouTube in 2007. I have this one in FOTOCAT with some additional information: the filming was done during a formation flight test over Edwards AFB, in California, on February 21, 2003. But Mick West reviews and clarifies the event:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) French researchers Francine Cordier and Patrice Seray have studied the advertisement photograph taken by Martin Aircraft Co. of the brand-new B-57B on September 1954, when flying over Edwards AFB at California. Their investigative article, in English and French, can be read here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) CNEGU is a French association devoted to the study of UFO reports. Now it turns 40, and in order to celebrate this anniversary it has presented a 144-page book as a global summary of its work and activities. The appropriate PDF can be accessed from here: <a href="https://www.fichier-zip.com/timer.php?id=76703">https://www.fichier-zip.com/timer.php?id=76703</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of its main representatives, <i>Monsieur </i>Raoul Robé (four decades of experience investigating UFO cases and the similarities between science fiction and ufology), has been kind enough to summarize his personal conclusions in an email to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I think that the UFO phenomenon is composed of a large majority of observation errors with natural phenomena (Moon, stars, reflections.) or perfectly terrestrial artificial objects (airplanes, helicopters, satellites) with a psychological and mythological component. The notion of the collective unconscious (Carl G. Jung) composed by myths (giants and dwarves, elves, fairies) and the "wonderful scientist" (precursor of science fiction, for example the novel "Le péril bleu" by Maurice Renard, 1911) strongly influences the interpretation of witnesses, most of them honest. A series of coincidences or synchronicities can appear like strange events and traumatize the witness. Contrary to my beginnings in ufology, I no longer believe in the intervention of an extraterrestrial intelligence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) <i>Méprises-du-ciel</i> (celestial misconceptions) is a beautifully illustrated web site teaching about countless photographic artifacts and other natural and artificial sources that contribute stimuli to deceive the observer. A must to every analyst: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just printed, this book by Martin Shough with Wim van Utrecht is, in the words of Edoardo Russo, “an accurate re-evaluation after one hundred years of the work by Charles Fort, an often quoted, little read, even less understood author. For the first time the eyes and the skills of contemporary researchers have recovered the original sources of all the anomalous observations reported by Fort in the fields of astronomy, meteorology and atmospheric optics, subjecting them to a careful critical examination, correcting mistakes, contextualizing each case, analyzing everything in the light of current knowledge, methods and resources, in an attempt to find rational explanations, something that was possible in a large number of cases (with solutions that can sometimes shock the general public and even surprise specialists), while some well documented events remain unexplained.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The large format, long volume of 412 pages, extremely well illustrated in color (with 250 illustrations in total), sells by US $35.00 through the publisher, Anomalist Books: <a href="https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=105">https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=105</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Now, on the centenary of Charles Fort’s first book, The Book of the Damned, comes a detailed study of this work. The authors have tackled all 82 of Fort’s anomalous observations in the fields of astronomy, meteorology and atmospheric optics and subjected them to detailed critical scrutiny against period maps, investigation reports, and additional first-hand testimony. In this research, the advancing digitisation of the world’s historical, intellectual and scientific media – so much of which was not available to Fort at the time – is demonstrated to be a tool of considerable value... Redemption of the Damned is set out clearly and precisely, and there is the promise of more to come. It is the sort of study that true forteans have long hoped for and will welcome unequivocally as adding considerably to what we know of Fort, his work and its implication.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Translated from Spanish, “Once Upon a Time in UFOland. Volume 2: To Magonia Without a Passport,” is the second tome authored by Chilean lawyer and criminologist‒as well as reputed UFO scholar‒Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez. In his second book, he “offers a history of the development of ufology in France since its origins back in the 1950s up today,” the back cover says. If that effort is well done, and surely it is, reading this book prevents the researcher from diving into decades of literature, so this work, whatever it costs, is one of the best investments that the serious Spanish-speaking ufologist can make. This is why the first thing I am doing is to give the link where the book can be purchased: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Review of Érase una vez en Ovnilandia. Vol. 2: A Magonia sin pasaporte (“Once upon a time in ufoland.Vol. 2: “To Magonia without a Passport”), by Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, Santiago de Chile, 2018.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Spanish-speaking ufologists know Sergio Sánchez as co-editor with Diego Zúñiga of the magazine La Nave de los Locos (The Ship of Fools), a fundamental reference in Latin American ufology in those years of the turn of the millennium. Sergio Sánchez has been involved for a number of years in the analysis of the French ufology that he has called “Érase una vez en Ovnilandia”. The term Ovnilandia (“ufoland”) may sound pejorative, but for Sánchez it means something very serious: it defines the social environment that surrounds the great myth of UFOs. He already used it in 1999 in his first book, subtitled Pasaporte a Ovnilandia, an early exercise in the analysis of the different schools of ufology, and where he already put priority attention to French ufology. This current project has as its axis the world of UFOs in France and other French-speaking countries, but what he tells us is actually the evolution of ideas in ufology and beliefs about UFOs in general. His work is a reflection, sometimes philosophical and sociological, on a type of unorthodox thought that manifests itself in ufology, contactism and new cults of extra-terrestrials.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The first volume of the project Érase una vez en Ovnilandia (“Once Upon a Time in ufoland”) appeared in 2016 with the subtitle La gran invasión marciana (“The Great Martian Invasion”). In that first instalment, Sergio reviewed the beginnings and the classic period of French ufology. It was composed by authors such as Jimmy Guieu, Aimé Michel, Michel Carrouges or René Foueré, who explained the flying saucers from the simple extra-terrestrial hypothesis, that of the ship manned by beings from other planets that came to explore the Earth. At first people thought of a very close origin, Mars, hence the subtitle. Sergio analyzed the ideas of some of those authors in their transition to what in France was called "extra-terrestrial hypothesis of the second degree", which allowed more sophisticated speculations about the mimicry of UFOs with our culture through the ages, the absurd character of many of its manifestations, the apparent immateriality of its nature, etc. In that book, Sánchez paid attention to the occult interests of ufologists such as Aimé Michel and Jacques Vallée, and how these interests influenced their ufological visions. This is how scientists like Pierre Guerin and Jacques Vallée turned to visions related to esotericism. There was also a review of the French proposals within that editorial fashion that was called "the ancient astronauts", popularized especially by Erich von Däniken.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The second volume of the series appeared at the end of 2018 with the subtitle A Magonia sin pasaporte (“To Magonia without a Passport”), in clear reference to the work of Vallée Passport to Magonia, which marked a milestone -as a break of traditional ufology in search of deeper meanings of the phenomenon than the simple materiality of the flying saucer-. Sanchez thus devotes this second volume to an era, the seventies, of the emergence of innovative trends in ufology, relating it to parapsychology, symbolism, depth psychology, folklore, etc., with tendencies that were called "paraufology", "paraphysical ufology", "new wave of ufology" and others. Sánchez analyses here the work of Pierre Vieroudy, Pierre Delval, Thierry Pinvidic and others, all of them critics of the simple extra-terrestrial hypothesis, which at the end of the seventies opened new speculative horizons to the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. For example, Vieroudy argued that the witness, himself, influenced the very production of the phenomenon; Pierre Delval thought the UFOs as a satanic manifestation; for Pinvidic, the phenomenon challenged our sense of reality... Other authors proposed more heterodox alternative hypotheses. Anything was worth in times of change.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A central part of this second volume is dedicated to the contactees and the alien cults that emerged in France, among which the Raëlians stands out, a movement that has produced different academic studies. Sergio also includes the sociological interpretations of the belief in extra-terrestrials as modern cults, where he quotes extensively the sociologist Jean-Bruno Renard.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This second volume has gained in internal consistency with respect to the first, which suffered from a certain thematic dispersion, with excerpts and annexes not linked to the central issue. It has, however, the same rigor in the analysis and insightful reflections. For Spanish-speaking readers not familiar with the ufology that was made in France forty years ago, the work as a whole has the interest of compiling the main theories of a generation that was the forefront of international ufological thought. There is an interest for the third volume of the series (it seems that there are going to be four). Commercially, I think it would have been preferable, with an additional effort of synthesis on the part of the author, to concentrate the project "Ovnilandia" in two volumes. But it is good if the new media facilitate us access to these works that will never appear in a large publishing house. The work of Sergio Sanchez may not appeal to people used to the most superficial aspects of the UFO phenomenon or for sightings collectors. It is a reflective and analytical work, which tells us a lot about ways of thinking the myth of our time that are UFOs and aliens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With long-time UFO student and friend Luis R. González visiting my hometown on June 12, it was excuse enough to call for a reunion among a few of my local coworkers, having a coffee (or a Pint) together and updating each other. A nearby Irish Tavern was the meeting point and the following picture reveals the friendly ambience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you wish to exchange books and/or if you want to buy some books from the list I am inserting here below, please write to me at <a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government</b> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) FOTOCAT recoge informes de apariciones de ovnis en los que hay imágenes, ocurridos antes del 1 de enero de 2006 (con algunas excepciones controladas). La base de datos actual alcanza 12,421 registros o entradas. Cuando una persona toma fotos, se produce una entrada en el catálogo, por ello un mismo suceso puede generar tantas entradas como fotógrafos diferentes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Logística de los archivos FOTOCAT. El anterior cómputo de informes se corresponde con igual número de carpetas que contienen toda la información conocida para cada suceso, ordenadas cronológicamente. Este proyecto ya tiene 20 años y la documentación reunida ocupa 215 archivadores, equivalentes a 13 metros lineales de archivos. La fotografía que acompaña a estas líneas muestra sólo una parte del archivo físico. A esto hay que añadir otros 9 archivadores con cerca de 3,600 diapositivas. Y luego está el FOTOCAT virtual, decenas de miles de imágenes digitales, agrupadas por país, almacenadas en un disco duro externo que ocupa 40GB. Por último, el catálogo en sí, una hoja de cálculo Excel con una línea para cada entrada y 28 columnas de datos, representando los datos básicos de cada suceso. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Uno de los investigadores europeos que posee archivos importantes de casuística centroeuropea es el belga Wim van Utrecht, creador del excelente sitio Caelestia (<a href="http://www.caelestia.be/">http://www.caelestia.be/</a>). Wim y yo estamos trabajando en el proyecto “Bélgica en fotografías OVNI”, que ya ha producido el primero de una serie de dos volúmenes: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Su penúltima colaboración con FOTOCAT es la transferencia de documentación acerca de unos 60 casos nuevos para Holanda, con lo que nuestra cobertura para ese país ya será prácticamente completa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) ¿Qué porcentaje de informes cubre FOTOCAT? ¿Hay alguna manera sencilla de estimar el número total de casos fotográficos ocurridos en el mundo? Veamos si esto sirve. El catálogo reúne ~12.000 casos de 1947 a 2005. En relación con la seguridad de que el monto de informes recogidos hasta ahora para una nación dada sea exhaustivo, pueden considerarse dos grandes bloques. Uno reúne aquellos países que están bien o extraordinariamente bien representados, como, por ejemplo, EE.UU., España, Bélgica, Italia, Suecia, Noruega, Suiza, Finlandia, Australia, Méjico, Chile, Argentina y “espacio exterior” (~8.000 casos en total). Otro lo forman los países restantes (~4.000 casos). Diría que me falta recopilar todavía alrededor de un 50% más de casos del primer bloque y un 200% más para el segundo. Así, una estimación conservadora del número de avistamientos fotográficos a nivel mundial hasta fin de 2005 sería:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si las suposiciones son correctas, la buena noticia es que en la actualidad FOTOCAT ya integra la mitad del total, lo que es todo un logro. Por contra, la mala noticia es que acumular y clasificar esa información me ha llevado la friolera de 20 años. Pero el trecho que falta se puede acortar con la colaboración de voluntarios que quieran revisar revistas y periódicos especializados para extraer las noticias y artículos relativos a casos ovni fotográficos. ¿Te interesaría colaborar? En tal caso, ponte en contacto conmigo (<a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Quién no ha cometido errores en su vida? ¡Que tire la primera piedra! De alguno me arrepiento en particular, pero ¿qué vas a hacer, si por entonces eras de los que cantaban <i>Ara que tinc vint anys</i>? En ufología, normalmente se comienza muy joven, demasiado joven, a decir verdad. Sin formación, sin criterio, pero con la imaginación a flor de piel. Y entonces lees que hay gente mayor, y pilotos (¡oh, los pilotos!) que dice haber contemplado platillos volantes. Y lees libros, escritos por personas bien adultas (pretendidamente serias y concienzudas), que te cuentan historias de ovnis extraterrestres. ¿Y qué vas a hacer tú, chaval de 17 años escasos? Pues creerlos. Y luego, si sigues en el estudio de ese asunto, te pasas la vida en el proceso que discurre entre la creencia y el descreimiento. ¿Un trauma? No. Evolución y aprendizaje. He publicado 500 artículos y una decena de libros y es evidente la migración de ideas desde la aceptación acrítica al enfoque racionalista. Como así debiera ser en la mayoría de los investigadores. Aunque eso no ocurra en casos notorios, por cierto, lo cual se debe a dos causas fundamentales; en unos, la creencia ‒el <i>Will To Believe</i> señalado por Karl T. Pflock‒ que ciega las entendederas y la necesaria capacidad crítica mientras que otros, aposentados en máquinas de hacer dinero (programas de TV, negocio editorial, etc.) simplemente se dejan llevar por lo que la audiencia consume y a ellos interesa. Los primeros morirán en su fe, los últimos lo harán sabiendo que se han pasado décadas engañando a la gente, para poder pagarse la hipoteca e irse de vacaciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo siento, esto ha sido una digresión. Yo iba a otra cosa, a una especie de autocrítica biográfica, de cuando recibí en mi juventud unas fotografías que, como dirían ahora los jóvenes de escaso vocabulario, me <i>fliparon</i>. En 1969 recibí estas dos fotos. Fue por correo aéreo postal ‒era la modalidad más rápida por entonces de comunicarse, ¡parece que hayan pasado mil años! Un platillo volante aterrizado en una selva. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me llegaron las dos fotos a color y sus correspondientes negativos de un amigo residente en Méjico, Jorge Reichert, quien me dijo haberlos recibido de un tío suyo, que a su vez las recibió del ingeniero cubano que fue testigo de los hechos. Según el testimonio del afortunado observador, se encontraba de caza a principios de 1967 en una zona de selva mejicana cuando se topó con nueve discos que habían tomado tierra en un valle cercano. Se acercó con su coche para verlos mejor, paró, descendió del vehículo cuando los platillos despegaban ya y sólo tuvo tiempo de sacar dos fotos de la última de las naves espaciales. Los objetos tenían una cúpula en su parte superior, eran de color blanco brillante y su base era oscura. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por aquel entonces, poco podía hacer con tales documentos gráficos excepto informar que los tenía y ofrecerlos a los investigadores, previo un <i>modicum</i> para cubrir revelado y envío por avión. De hecho, poseedor de tal evidencia, mandé las fotografías a <i>Saucers, Space & Science</i>, editada por Gene Duplantier, la más influyente publicación especializada canadiense de la época, de la que yo era su “corresponsal” en España. Dibujos de las fotos se publicaron en el número 55 (1969), página 14, junto con una nota mía que contaba de quién las había recibido. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Preguntas si me impresionaron las fotos? Sí, lo confieso. Y es que a los veinte eres impresionable (algunos siguen así toda la vida). Y con poca formación. Y crédulo. Y sin recursos de análisis. En tu ingenuidad, no te cabe en la cabeza que la gente mienta sin más. No lo voy a hacer más largo. Mi crecimiento como investigador me hizo perder interés en las fotos. De hecho, las perdí, ¡yo que no pierdo nada! A lo mejor las entregué a alguien con más capacidad para estudiarlas y jamás las recuperé, ¡yo, que hago seguimiento de todo! La verdad, no me acuerdo. Pocos años después supe que se trataba de fotografías sacadas durante el rodaje de la película <i>The Ambushers</i> (titulada en español, <i>Emboscada a Matt Helm</i>), rodada en Acapulco, Méjico, en 1967 y protagonizada por Dean Martin y un elenco de actrices voluptuosas. Conseguí visionar el filme y la escena en cuestión: sin duda estas imágenes se tomaron durante la filmación. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como he dicho, supe de la solución hace muchos años, pero traigo esto ahora a colación porque un colega me las acaba de hacer llegar nuevamente: en la actualidad circulan por <i>Facebook</i> envueltas en otra historia. Y es que los mitos nunca terminan de morir. Pero al menos quiero dejar constancia del fraude en estas páginas, para quienes quieran atender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En 2013, el distinguido investigador argentino, el psicólogo Roberto E. Banchs me facilitó su archivo fotográfico. Entre las fotos, había un grupo de ocho que procedían del ufólogo brasileño Claudier Covo, sin datos. Origen “desconocido” ponía en las fichas. Así que me puse a dar patadas. Concretamente las envié a la lista brasileña de internet “Revista UFO”. El estudioso mejicano Leopoldo Zambrano identificó una de ellas. A mí, francamente, se me había pasado. Y es que FOTOCAT maneja fotografías de casi 12.500 casos diferentes. Zambrano me informó que se trataba de una versión corrida de un fotograma de la película de Dean Martin en la que el platillo aparece en primer plano, foto que he expuesto antes arriba. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No es la primera vez, ni será la última, que se usan fotos de películas de ciencia ficción para colarlas como retratos genuinos de ovnis. Por haber intervenido yo en su esclarecimiento o divulgación, quiero citar estos dos casos, como colofón a esta nota:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estrellamiento de un ovni en aguas del Océano Pacífico, cerca de Inglewood, California, el 12 de enero de 1972. Ver la entrada de mi blog, “¿OVNI filmado o cine de Ciencia Ficción?” en: </span><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_06_30_archive.html#es" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2006_06_30_archive.html#es</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aterrizaje de un platillo volante el 7 de junio de 1981 en Andenne (Bélgica). Véanse las páginas 345 a 349 de mi obra con Wim van Utrecht, “Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)”, accesible desde: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Salim D. Sigales es un licenciado en Informática mejicano que trabaja profesionalmente en TI (tecnología de la información) y que también se aplica al estudio del fenómeno ovni. Acaba de revisar una foto tomada a las seis de la mañana del 19 de diciembre de 2000 a unos cinco kilómetros del volcán Popocatépetl, en el estado de Puebla, por el periodista Alfonso Reyes. Foto que causó gran revuelo por lo que aparece en ella. Se trató de una fotografía hecha con una exposición larga, de 20 segundos, sin trípode (la cámara estaba apoyada en el suelo), y no se observó nada especial en el momento de la toma. La extraña traza luminosa apareció más tarde en la fotografía. Sigales concluye que “un rápido movimiento involuntario de la cámara…generó el barrido de la Luna”, que se hallaba justamente fuera del cuadro en dirección ascendente en la prolongación de la estela luminosa, línea que coincide con la ubicación de la Luna según se comprueba en un mapa estelar. Todo apunta a que en el último segundo la cámara cabeceó hacia arriba y produjo la traza luminosa curvilínea que se aprecia en la foto. El informe de Sigales se encuentra en este enlace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Algún crítico ha comentado que, de ser así, todos los demás puntos de luz en la imagen deberían mostrar también este efecto de barrido. Por ello, solicité la evaluación de Andrés Duarte, consultor en análisis de imágenes para FOTOCAT. Duarte, primeramente, confirmó la conclusión alcanzada y resolvió que en efecto la Luna era la única culpable, debido al movimiento de la cámara. En cuanto a la citada crítica, se resolvía con la siguiente explicación técnica:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Todas las luces forman trazos, pero un trazo puede ser imperceptible cuando su fuente de luz no es suficientemente intensa, esa es la razón por la cual no se ven algunos de los trazos que esperabas ver en la foto, pero los trazos dejados por las luces de las antenas</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> sí se ven. El film se expuso durante 20 segundos para formar impresiones de las estrellas que son apenas visibles en la foto, entonces ¿cómo esperas ver sus trazos formados durante solo una fracción de segundo? El mismo razonamiento se aplica a todas las zonas oscuras y poco brillantes que se ven en la foto, las cuales fueron expuestas por 20 segundos mientras la cámara estaba estática, lo que permitió obtener una imagen bien formada de esas zonas, mientras que el movimiento ocurrió en un lapso de tiempo muy breve en el que solo los elementos muy brillantes pueden dejar trazos visibles. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Podemos tener cierta certeza de que el movimiento fue breve y rápido porque el trazo es suave, a diferencia de los trazos formados por movimientos lentos que son irregulares y temblorosos. Todas las luces dejan trazos con una geometría muy similar, aunque parece que éste no fuera el caso, pero esa es una falsa apariencia que se debe a que el trazo dejado por la Luna solo muestra su parte inferior, y el resto de ese trazo no aparece en la foto porque está fuera del campo visual de la foto, hacia arriba, mientras que los trazos dejados por las luces de las antenas solo muestran su parte superior, y el resto de esos trazos no aparece en la foto porque están fuera del campo visual de la foto, hacia abajo, de manera que vemos distintas partes de cada trazo, lo que los hace parecer muy diferentes, aunque en realidad los trazos completos sean muy similares.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otro distinguido analista que ha hecho su aportación al estudio de esta fotografía es el Comodoro Rubén Lianza, que dirige el CIAE de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina. Lianza optó por medir la anchura angular del trazo luminoso y compararlo con la dimensión angular de la Luna (31’38”, equivalente a 0.527º), para ver si había una coincidencia en el tamaño. Usando el programa IPACO y los datos de la cámara, midió dos secciones diferentes del trazo, que arrojó un valor de 0.527º, correspondiente precisamente al tamaño angular de la Luna, que es la fuente que realmente originó el trazo en la foto. Como era predecible, el azimut lunar (128º) es muy cercano al centro de la fotografía (140º), hacia donde la cámara estaba apuntando en el momento de la exposición. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si se me permite añadir algo propio, me pregunto si todo ello no fue intencionado. La oposición del fotógrafo a mostrar el resto de la tira de negativos (lo que permitiría comprobar si hubo otros intentos previos) resulta muy sospechoso. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y no me gustaría finalizar esta sección sin hacer un poco de ufología comparada. En torno al 8 de noviembre de 1989, desde su vivienda en Rotterdam (Holanda), un testigo vio un resplandor brillante a través de las nubes y sacó dos fotos con exposición de dicha sorprendente luz. La evaluación de Wim van Utrecht señala a la Luna. Invito al lector curioso a comparar el rastro luminoso con la foto mejicana que acabo de describir. Semejante, ¿verdad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay muchas imágenes análogas en mi catálogo de fotos ovni. En 2005 escribí un articulito</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> acerca de una serie de fotos que un joven calificó de ovni, volando libremente en la atmósfera en agosto de 1998. Era risiblemente obvio que se trataba de imágenes de la Luna llena hechas con exposición. Como comparación canónica, adjunto una de las fotos que yo mismo obtuve en el verano de 1997, un simple experimento de fotografiar la Luna mientras movía la cámara erráticamente con el objetivo abierto. El resultado muestra lo mismo que el joven había presentado como extraño. Como en el caso mejicano, es evidente que tales trazos luminosos se producen por la luz de nuestro satélite natural y una cámara en movimiento. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No puedo dejar de citar un caso más de huella impresa en la película por la Luna que ha sido vinculado a los ovnis. Éste ocurrió el 3 de julio de 2009 en Houthalen (Limburg, Bélgica). La información completa se encuentra en el anuario de 2010 de la organización belga Belgisch UFO-meldpunt.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A las 22,30 horas, la señora D. M., persona que se declara muy aficionada a lo paranormal, estaba sacando fotos a la Luna cuando de repente vio como “dos rayas luminosas salían disparadas a gran velocidad”, según manifestó. Posteriormente, viendo las fotos en el ordenador, notó como si la Luna diera “extraños saltos”, los cuales no había apreciado a simple vista. Las imágenes le convencieron de que lo que había visto no podía ser la Luna. Pero, a pesar de sus fantasías, no hay duda, como los estudiosos belgas dictaminaron, de que las fotografías sólo muestran una Luna brillante movida. Los “saltos” detectados por la testigo fueron debidos al movimiento de la cámara. Anexo ahora una de las fotos conseguidas aquella noche de luna. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por entonces, los investigadores J.L. Casero y F. Louange trabajaban en la estación de seguimiento de satélites de la ESA en Villafranca del Castillo, cerca de Madrid. Ambos estudiaban asimismo el tema ovni y más concretamente se ocupaban del análisis de fotografías que mostraban objetos volantes no identificados. La revista les hizo llegar las fotos para su examen pericial. El artículo de <i>Ouranos</i> señala que “sin cuestionar la buena fe del testigo” (craso error: uno no puede dar por hecho que el informante siempre es sincero), era sorprendente que los negativos no mostraran signo de movimiento, al tratarse de dos fotos hechas desde el mismo punto, con una pausa de 3-4 segundos y sin apoyo ninguno. “La hipótesis de fraude hay que descartarla”, se lee (una vez más, demasiado simplista; no se necesita usar un modelo para presentar como real algo que no lo es). La parte de análisis del trabajo dice: “Los negativos reúnen varios efectos ópticos”, que se muestran en la imagen que sigue: (A) el objeto, (B) el halo que lo recubre, (C) un reflejo, debido probablemente a la farola más cercana, (D y E) dos efectos ópticos en forma de elipse. El estudio realizado por los expertos indica que una superposición de las dos placas sobre papel transparente muestra una coincidencia de todos los elementos de las fotos, a excepción de dos efectos en forma de arco que estaban rotados unos pocos grados. Los cinco efectos coincidían exactamente si se sometía a las fotos a una pequeña rotación, como se hubiera habido un pequeño movimiento durante la toma de las mismas. Para el escritor del artículo, esto significa que los cinco efectos “forman un todo que varía de foto a foto, siendo tres de ellos (C, D, E) efectos ópticos. Parece probado (aunque no demostrado) que los otros dos efectos (A y B) son también efectos ópticos, aunque su origen no puede ser identificado”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debido a que la forma del objeto supuestamente visto por el testigo era diferente del que aparecía en las fotos, el articulista (con seguridad Pierre Delval, el editor en jefe de la revista) especula con la Luna o con un globo, olvidando la realidad más sencilla y probable: que el bombero simplemente se dedicó a hacer fotos de prueba para matar el tiempo y al revelarlas encontró reflejos circulares y otras imperfecciones ópticas espurias en las placas. En mi opinión, Dominique no vio nada fuera de lo común, solo creó una historia basada en los singulares efectos ópticos que la iluminación del entorno produjo en las lentes. Muy típico. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">40 años más tarde he contactado con el Dr. Louange, actualmente director de IPACO (<a href="http://www.ipaco.fr/page24.html">http://www.ipaco.fr/page24.html</a>), sobre esta fotografía que estudió en su día. “Sigo pensando que con gran probabilidad fue un complejo juego de reflejos en las lentes de la cámara, y hoy tendería a posicionarlo en la categoría de probablemente explicada”, me escribe en una amable respuesta. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He pedido a Andrés Duarte que revise este curioso caso. De su estudio se desprende la estructura más refinada y definitivamente podemos clausurar el caso. El experto chileno en análisis de imagen lo explica así:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El flare A parece ser un lens flare ordinario (i.e. un flare causado por </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">reflejos en las superficies de los lentes), los flares B y C parecen ser </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aperture ghosting (i.e. flares causados por difracción en el diafragma), </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y creo que los flares D y E son causados por una sucesión de reflejos </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">internos y scattering de luz. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los lens flares son aproximadamente </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">simétricos respecto a la línea recta que pasa por el centro de la foto y </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">por la fuente de luz que los origina. En el diagrama adjunto tracé esas </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">líneas rectas para mostrar que aquella simetría se cumple en este caso. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Usé elipses para destacar la silueta de cada flare. Cada color </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">corresponde a una fuente de luz diferente. El color rojo corresponde a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">una fuente de luz que está fuera del campo visual de la foto. Los flares </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D y E están un poco distorsionados y no se pueden ajustar muy bien a las </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">elipses que dibujé.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hace poco leí un libro que versaba sobre arqueología, o debería decir sobre falsa arqueología. Y no, no es este un tema fuera de contexto. Porque la ufología ‒como presunta ciencia o proto ciencia‒ ha resultado un fracaso y un fiasco, acabando apenas en una pseudociencia, en tanto en cuanto a igualar observaciones ovni con visitas de naves espaciales extraterrestres. Puedo hablar de primera mano, ya que en 50 años de investigación me he situado en ambos lados de la línea que divide la credulidad del escepticismo. Hace 30 años, con Jacques Vallée y Aimé Michel como mis “mentores” intelectuales, fui uno de los estudiosos que trató de crear una disciplina del amasijo de información ovni. Hasta que identifiqué el mayor de nuestros problemas: dábamos por sentado que los informes se correspondían al 100% con lo que había pasado. ¡Nada más lejos de la realidad! Avistamientos que tenían explicaciones triviales y vulgares iban a la par con fenómenos más difíciles de resolver, pero todos se volcaban en una misma base de datos de fenómenos “genuinos”. Así que el <i>input</i> estaba formado por datos equívocos. Añádase a eso cálculos erróneos, trabajos tendenciosos y nada imparciales y, por encima de todo, presunciones y suposiciones falsas. Esto lo hemos visto repetidamente en presuntos análisis científicos de fotos o videos ovni, por ejemplo, o sobre otros sucesos con apoyo instrumental. Por lo que en los próximos años veremos resaltados en ensayos y monografías y libros y tesis académicas muchos ejemplos de disección de mala ciencia, de aquellos trabajos que ilusoriamente pretendían probar que los ovnis desafían las leyes de la física o que mostraban capacidades superiores a la tecnología actual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vuelvo al principio. Recibí el libro del que hablo a través del programa de intercambio de la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos en el que estoy enrolado desde hace décadas. Se trata de la obra titulada “Lost City, Found Pyramid”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Ciudad perdida, pirámide encontrada), dirigida por los antropólogos norteamericanos Jeb J. Card y David S. Anderson. Describen este volumen como un examen y crítica de las malas prácticas en arqueología llevabas a cabo por investigadores alternativos, actores religiosos, medios de comunicación y el público en lo tocante a la falsa arqueología. El libro ilustra perfectamente como una fundada rama de la ciencia se puede corromper y varios autores en esta obra repasan intrigantes aspectos de la arqueología actual e histórica. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para mí, sin duda, el capítulo 6 fue especialmente valioso y lo recomendaría del todo a otros consumidores de libros: "Cómo crear pirámides", del Dr. Tera C. Pruitt (Universidad de Cambridge), páginas 102 a 117. Se ocupa de la historia sin sentido creada alrededor de la supuesta pirámide de la edad de piedra que existiría cerca de la ciudad de Visoko, en Bosnia-Herzegovina, impulsada por Semir Osmanagić, un personaje peculiar dotado de "ideas marginales profundamente enraizadas en el hiper difusionismo, el misticismo de la cultura pop y esotérica, en la tradición de Erich von Daniken". Un texto muy crítico con libros y documentales televisivos como "Ancient Aliens" (y otros similares en los canales History, Discovery o National Geographic), trata básicamente de la afirmación de que una pirámide de tipo egipcio se erige en terreno nacional, algo que ha encendido el orgullo nacionalista, la demanda turística, una marejada política y el sensacionalismo mediático, motivaciones que se han combinado para apoyar el concepto de tan maravilloso como ficticio descubrimiento. Este es un ejemplo de arqueología marginal, esto es, "afirmaciones promovidas fuera de la ciencia tradicional ... creadas por detectives arqueológicos aficionados a quienes les disgustan las teorías respaldadas por la mayoría de los arqueólogos". Lo cierto es que nada sobre las pirámides de Bosnia es objetivamente cierto. No hay ningún "material probatorio encontrado en el lugar" para respaldar la disparatada teoría de una pirámide levantada en el centro de Europa. Tal pseudo arqueología la desempeña el tal Osmanagić "basada en suposiciones inexactas sobre el material de origen, obteniendo interpretaciones ilógicas de los resultados". Durante la lectura, encontré un párrafo que me pareció del todo aplicable a la ufología y que me incitó a citar este libro en mi blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El documento “Evidencia científica” ilustra que lo que dice Osmanagić es menos importante que la forma en que lo presenta. Este formato "científico" se basa en gran medida en la confianza y el poder de las normas de presentación científica ... Aquí, el documento del proyecto imita el patrón de lenguaje de los documentos científicos genuinos, formateados en un estilo formal y oficial. Pero no emplean apoyo probatorio real ni argumentos académicos para respaldar sus afirmaciones. Esto le da al trabajo una sensación de peso y valor al aparentar la autoridad de las tradiciones científicas establecidas, aparentando autoridad al interpretar la imaginería de la ciencia.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) <a href="https://www.amazon.es/Lost-City-Found-Pyramid-Pseudoscientific/dp/0817319115">https://www.amazon.es/Lost-City-Found-Pyramid-Pseudoscientific/dp/0817319115</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No sé a cuantos de mis lectores les interesa estar al día sobre las novedades que casi diariamente surgen en los Estados Unidos sobre el programa AATIP de la DIA en el Pentágono (2008-2011), la implicación de las empresas del magnate Bigelow, los videos difundidos por la “academia de artes y ciencias” To the Stars, o los recientes movimientos de la US Navy con relación a los avistamientos de sus pilotos. Yo me preocupo en hacer un cierto seguimiento del tema, para mi propio conocimiento y para sintetizar el estado de la cuestión en este blog. Pero, dado que toda la información está en inglés, mis escritos al respecto también lo están. Y traducirlos, lo admito, me da pereza. Por eso, a quienes tengan inclinación a estar mejor informados les sugiero que escalen a la sección en inglés del blog y lean estos tres artículos: “US Navy and Unknown Aircraft Incursions”, “More on the Tic-Tac Video” y “Breaking News on the AATIP Mess”. Seguidamente, sin embargo, menciono muy de pasada algunas noticias clave y sus correspondientes enlaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por razones de seguridad (no porque llegue Independence Day), la Marina de los EEUU ha actualizado sus protocolos de información de “incursiones sospechosas” en el espacio aéreo nacional: <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290">https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por cierto, y como era de esperar, por razones de confidencialidad y porque esas denuncias se desarrollan durante ejercicios militares y contienen información clasificada, tales informes no verán la luz pública:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sobre el mismo asunto (el interés de la US Navy por encuentros aéreos con “ovnis”), Mick West ha añadido su cuarto de espadas con esta nota: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ufólogos no escépticos como John Greenewald han recalcado cuál es realmente la preocupación de la Marina USA en lo relativo a “aviones no identificados”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-drafting-ufo-reporting-guidelines-but-what-does-that-mean/">https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-drafting-ufo-reporting-guidelines-but-what-does-that-mean/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El Pentágono ha confirmado que el programa AATIP (septiembre 2008-septiembre 2011) investigó informes de ovnis, pero lo hizo para identificar cualquier avión extranjero en el entorno operacional patrio, como es natural: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2019/05/22/the-pentagon-finally-admits-it-investigates-ufos/">https://nypost.com/2019/05/22/the-pentagon-finally-admits-it-investigates-ufos/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si alguien cree leer entre líneas que el Departamento de Defensa de los EE.UU. ha estado recientemente investigando platillos volantes u ovnis alienígenas, simplemente está soñando. Mi apuesta segura es que los videos que están circulando por ahí serán debidamente aclarados, como ya lo fue uno de ellos:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El grupo de ufólogos (crédulos) bajo la denominación SCU ha publicado un “análisis forense” del video conseguido por un caza de la Marina norteamericana el 14 de noviembre de 2004, comúnmente denominado “Tic Tac”. Su conclusión sería de Premio Nobel, si fuera cierta: “Nuestros resultados sugieren que, dada la información disponible [¡ajajá!], las capacidades del vehículo aéreo anómalo [AAV, otro acrónimo más] están más allá de cualquier tecnología conocida”. Ver:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgURI1Fzrkij3utVvcPISGTyEUNX4Z0J/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgURI1Fzrkij3utVvcPISGTyEUNX4Z0J/view</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este informe debería leerse, en mi opinión, conjuntamente con esta interesante discusión: <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1235764/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1235764/pg1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo_22.html">http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo_22.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y es que este caso es bien atípico. En realidad, es la suma de diversos incidentes diferentes ocurridos a lo largo de cinco horas, hechos sin relación entre sí, pero convenientemente combinados como si de uno solo se tratara. Vamos, lo mismo que se hizo con el Caso Manises español y que, como éste, su explicación pasará por la partición del incidente entre varios subapartados de distinta naturaleza (<a href="https://www.academia.edu/27920724/THE_MANISES_UFO_FILE">https://www.academia.edu/27920724/THE_MANISES_UFO_FILE</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un competente analista anónimo que firma como “Parabunk” (tal como está el asunto de desacreditado, ¿qué científico se atreve a sumergirse en investigación ovni?), ha escrito en detalle sobre las fases de este caso: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html">http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A raíz de que se conociera que el Pentágono financió con 22 millones de dólares un programa ovni (AATIP) entre 2008 y 2011, el funcionario de Defensa Luis Elizondo se ha hecho famoso por ser el mayor altavoz de este estudio, como director del mismo. Pero, por sorpresa, un portavoz del Pentágono ha declarado que Elizondo no tuvo responsabilidades en dicho programa. ¡Un verdadero lío!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/">https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y el investigador escéptico Robert Sheaffer ha escrito una interesante nota en su blog sobre un estudio tan falto de transparencia: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/pentagon-ufos-to-the-stars-academy-ttsa-ufo-media-frenzy/">https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/pentagon-ufos-to-the-stars-academy-ttsa-ufo-media-frenzy/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probablemente el compendio informativo más exhaustivo sobre el citado “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” (AATIP) aparece en un extenso trabajo del nombrado John Greenewald: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actualmente, gracias a lo fácil que resulta consultar a distancia colecciones de periódicos antiguos a través de Internet, continuamos encontrando nuevos "ovnis" del pasado. Me refiero concretamente a una imagen que hoy se incluiría en la categoría ovni. En 1932, era solo un "misterio". El periódico <i>The Democrat and Chronicle</i> de Rochester (Nueva York) del viernes 2 de septiembre de 1932 llevaba una fotografía con este título: "Foto del eclipse muestra un misterio". La leyenda de la foto señalaba que a las 3,15 de la tarde del miércoles anterior (es decir, el 31 de agosto), el Sr. H. Merrill Webster (de 86 Hampden Road) tomó una placa del eclipse solar que hubo ese día con una cámara <i>Graflex</i> y película <i>Verichrome</i>, "usando un cristal de gafas de sol como filtro”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comprobando el <i>software</i> astronómico, en aquella tranquila tarde neoyorquina, las estrellas todavía no eran visibles. Cerca del Sol, Júpiter estaba presente (magnitud -1,71) pero estaba demasiado cerca y tampoco podía ser visible. Además de eso, su posición era dispar a la ubicación de la extraña luz que revela la fotografía. La siguiente captura de <i>Stellarium</i> muestra su relación con el Sol: el planeta no se vería en la foto debido al efecto de la luz solar. Finalmente, el diámetro angular de Júpiter es de 31", mientras que el misterioso punto blanco mide 31', en otras palabras, 60 veces más grande que el tamaño aparente del planeta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si no fue visto a simple vista, entonces no estaba allí. No existe ni un solo informe de una extraña luz en el cielo en dicha fecha. Lo más probable es que sea un reflejo en la lente o un defecto de revelado. La primera opción surge como la más adecuada y Wim van Utrecht ha proporcionado la prueba. En cualquier fotografía sin recortar, siempre hay una estructura óptica entre el objeto que crea el reflejo (en este caso, el Sol) y el reflejo en sí. Ambos están alineados con el centro geométrico de la imagen. Y esto es precisamente lo que vemos en el siguiente esquema. Enigma resuelto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://thatsideofthefamily.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/the-spectacle-and-the-mystery-new-york-1932/">https://thatsideofthefamily.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/the-spectacle-and-the-mystery-new-york-1932/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://streetsofsalem.com/2017/08/20/the-great-new-england-eclipse-of-1932/">https://streetsofsalem.com/2017/08/20/the-great-new-england-eclipse-of-1932/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tener un cuaderno de bitácora como este blog, donde sabes que te siguen, en dos de los idiomas principales del mundo, muchos miles de lectores cada trimestre, entre los que se cuentan todos los que cuentan, te anima a dejar constancia de tus pensamientos, más que nada por si le sirven al prójimo. Recién atravesada la barrera de los 70, y aunque uno se siente mucho más joven que esa cifra, parece oportuno dejar negro sobre blanco aquellas reflexiones que suponen el decantado de cincuenta años de acción o actividad intelectual en el tema de los ovnis. Por eso, aprovecho esta tribuna para expresarme con la libertad que da el reconocer que uno no habla, precisamente, de oídas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Profesar lo amañado. Raro es el sector de la vivencia humana que sea ajeno a la adulteración. Lo vemos en casi todos los ámbitos: la política, el deporte, la religión, etc. Es la naturaleza humana. En mi opinión, esto es especialmente trágico en lo tocante al conocimiento, la educación, la información. Porque crea generaciones de personas equivocadas. Por eso, leyendo el periódico el otro día encontré una frase que me hubiera gustado escribir a mí. Me apropio de las palabras del escritor Lluís Bassets ‒redactadas para un entorno totalmente distinto</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‒ porque son absolutamente aplicables a la situación que vive la ufología en España, cuando describe la latente “cultura de la falsificación y de la falacia argumental”. Y, puestos a robar palabras de escritores, lo hago también de las del novelista francés Michel Houellebecq (redactadas en un contexto distinto), para calificar la posición de los crédulos y creyentes devenidos en propagandistas crematísticos de los ovnis extraterrestres, como una “tentativa espectral, de pesadilla y falsa”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Porque, como señala la profesora Stephanie Kelley-Romano, “el hecho de que miles de personas, quizás millones, estén contando historias en las que los humanos necesitan un rescate extraterrestre [en sus vidas] es importante porque, por cualquier razón, estos humanos son incapaces de rescatarse a sí mismos y de encontrar a un salvador sancionado culturalmente. El auge de este mito es también una perturbadora indicación de la rapidez con que las personas llegan a aceptar una nueva realidad, incluso aquella que tiene un escaso apoyo probatorio”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Divulgación dogmática. Hay mucha gente que mantiene posturas radicales en muchos ámbitos, especialmente en los ideológicos. Las creencias extremas no son buenas, pero me temo que son inevitables. Pero cuando tales creencias abarcan lo improbado, lo que queremos que pase más que lo que de verdad ocurre, entonces adquiere rasgos de una sutil manía, fijación o delirio. Se trata de enajenados o alienados cuyas mentes han derivado hacia ideas irracionales e imaginarias. En nuestro campo de estudio hay muchos. Autores, articulistas, blogueros, aficionados. Basta con soportar algún episodio de ciertos canales comerciales de televisión que, bajo la excusa de hablar de historia o de descubrimientos, muestran a presuntos expertos propagando ‒cual telepredicadores‒ (des)informaciones absurdas y delirantes. Es una forma mayúscula de desproporción entre creencias aberrantes y el peso de su evidencia, en la situación que nos ocupa, la falta de ella. Se cree en supuestos irreales. Hay que estar ojo avizor sobre lo que leemos y vemos porque bajo el supuesto de que lo sensacional y morboso vende, algunos medios tratan de buscar acólitos a lo irracional. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nuestro estudio. La ufología, a efectos metodológicos, se comporta más como las ciencias sociales y las humanidades que como las ciencias naturales, la física, la astronomía o la ingeniería, fundamentalmente por el gran peso que tiene el subjetivismo y las relaciones entre el observador y lo observado. Por ello mismo se genera la incapacidad de sumar conocimientos empíricos y estamos inmersos en un bucle donde se parte de cero continuamente. Como ha escrito el académico ruso V. Kudriavtsev: “Es bastante difícil acumular conocimiento en las ciencias sociales o en las humanidades. Mientras que en las ciencias exactas cada <i>bit</i> de conocimiento se basa en un sistema de concepciones precedentes, como un nuevo ladrillo que se añade al muro levantado, la variabilidad del tema en sí y la llegada de nuevos eventos y procesos sociales en las humanidades, inhiben cualquier extrapolación directa a partir de los preceptos científicos existentes hacia el futuro”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El ufólogo como creador de casos. Hubo un tiempo en que los ufólogos eran investigadores –más o menos preparados, algunos excepcionalmente adiestrados– que acudían a los lugares donde se había denunciado avistamientos ovni para llevar a cabo una entrevista sobre el terreno a los testigos y una encuesta de los hechos. Los rastreadores –inevitablemente con sus sesgos y limitaciones– hacían su trabajo de recogida y análisis de datos, producían un informe y lo compartían con sus colegas. Hace poco, revisando una serie de fotografías argentinas logradas en una zona concreta, me vino a la mente algo que ya había discurrido en muchas ocasiones anteriores: ahora el fenómeno lo producen los propios investigadores, que, apostados en ciertos lugares, normalmente no muy alejados de su hábitat civil, toman fotos de todas las luces distantes que ven, en el cielo o sobre el suelo, y añaden múltiples casos a la ya gruesa casuística. Son –<i>de facto</i>– generadores de sucesos y no estudiosos desvinculados de los mismos, son parte misma del fenómeno ovni. Yo soy de los que piensan que esos mismos fotógrafos, situados en las mismas fechas en lugares distintos, hubieran logrado también tomas de presuntas luces no identificadas. Si asignamos extrañeza al fenómeno ovni por su aparición irregular e irrepetible, la suerte de estas personas que salen de excursión nocturna a “verlos venir” escapa a toda lógica. Claro, no es éxito excepcional: son errores sistemáticos de observación con aviones, cuerpos celestes, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La historia demuestra que muchos ufólogos no aprenden porque no quieren aprender, solo seguir sometidos a sus dogmas menores y a sus ilusiones vanas o a su ambición por sobresalir. La verdadera ufología creativa y científica ha resultado ser el proceso de resolver los casos más significativos y fundamentales sobre los que se ha basado el relato extraterrestre. Incluyendo los grandes clásicos. En base a investigaciones minuciosas, largas y esmeradas por parte de aficionados y estudiosos. Últimamente, el ejemplo más notorio es el de la comisión de estudio ovni de Argentina.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Por desgracia, años y años después del inicio de los avistamientos de platillos volantes (luego ovnis), todavía los supuestos expertos de la ufología mundial son incapaces de distinguir un insecto o un ave en una fotografía digital (donde el fotógrafo no observó nada anormal). O sea, estamos como en los cincuenta. No hay progreso, hay decadencia, vuelta atrás. Lo opuesto al avance científico, que va escalando a medida que se producen nuevas teorías y descubrimientos. Aquí, lo que se escribe, si es contrario a tus ideas o creencias, no lo aceptas. En realidad, ni lo lees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ufología de salón. La ufología que se suele practicar en España es la que llamo de sensación, entretenimiento y manutención. Nada que ver con la ufología de investigación, que puede realizarse en tres grandes apartados: investigación bibliográfica y documentalista, investigación de campo y análisis de casos e investigación estadística y teórica. Yo personalmente he abarcado las tres áreas, pero comúnmente el ufólogo se ocupa del segundo apartado, el de la entrevista, porque es el que puede tener alguna recompensa económica en forma de artículo en revistas comerciales dedicadas al misterio o en forma de documental televisivo. Aunque también es el que más fácilmente se puede hacer mal. Pero sea buena, mala o peor, al menos es investigación. De hecho, gracias a esa información (aunque sesgada, tremendista y acrítica) los analistas de casos podemos resolver los incidentes descritos desde la quietud de nuestros gabinetes de trabajo. En efecto, y salvando las distancias, y nunca mejor dicho, de la misma forma que técnicos en la sala de control analizan los datos de las sondas espaciales, los investigadores “de tierra” analizamos observaciones ovni en nuestros estudios o despachos. Con programas astronómicos como <i>Stellarium</i>, herramientas geográficas como <i>Google Earth/Street View</i>, registros de lanzamientos de cohetes, misiles o globos sonda, datos de los catálogos de reentradas de la NASA, información de vuelos y muchos recursos más al alcance de un “clic”, los supuestos avistamientos se pueden diseccionar con la mayor fiabilidad. Los propagandistas que han alentado el calificativo de “ufología de salón” han mostrado una vez más su ignorancia y, peor, su mala fe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conductores y ovnis. Para que una persona observe objetos volantes que no puede identificar, se requiere que el cielo esté expuesto a su visión. Que tenga amplia visibilidad. Por razones obvias, esto ocurre mayoritariamente en el exterior de las ciudades, o sea, al aire libre, en el campo, la montaña, la playa, frente a un volumen de espacio o una gran extensión de terreno a la vista. ¿Y cuándo una persona se encuentra en el campo? Por razones de vivienda o trabajo, por ocio, o desplazándose entre localidades por cualquier causa. Luego, en teoría, deberíamos esperar que el número de avistamientos de fenómenos no identificados ocurridos a conductores sea elevado, como así es. Luego no es este ningún atributo del fenómeno sino más bien una de las condiciones necesarias para la generación del tipo que experiencia que nos ocupa, una de las situaciones propicias para la (confundida) observación ovni. Por ello, la selección de casos según este criterio carece de sustancia y no es significativa, no más que seleccionar casos por testigos con corbata o cuyo apellido comience por una letra del alfabeto. Cosa distinta sería tabular la actividad del observador a la hora del avistamiento y constatar que una alta proporción de personas iban conduciendo. Entonces se puede colegir que ese resultado “simplemente” sigue la predicción que se espera de los fenómenos ópticos. Esa consistencia con lo esperable sería un apoyo al carácter real de lo observado; pero, naturalmente, sin prejuzgar su naturaleza, ya que los planetas, los bólidos, aviones, etc. confundidos en el cielo nocturno, lo son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probabilidades. Hace unos años leí en una web española el relato de un presunto aterrizaje ovni que tenía dos características especiales: antes del suceso, el sujeto había estado conversando sobre ovnis con un amigo. Y con posterioridad al hecho, la misma persona tuvo la oportunidad de avistar otro ovni mientras volaba en avión. ¿Cuán probable es eso, me pregunto? Calculemos a vuela pluma: ¿cuál es la probabilidad de que un español tenga un encuentro cercano auténtico a lo largo de su vida? En el periodo de 61 años que va entre 1950 y 2010 mis catálogos LANIB, NELIB y NEWCAT contienen 1.040 informes de aterrizaje. 532 no han sido valorados, el resto se han solventado. Si de acuerdo con las mejores estadísticas sólo el 2% del total serían inexplicables, tendríamos 20 casos potencialmente reales. Si la población media en España en ese periodo es de 36,4 millones de habitantes, y la esperanza de vida de 83 años, tenemos:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Cercano a cero? Esto es lo que me hace adoptar <i>a priori</i> una postura escéptica en este caso concreto y me temo que si el articulista no ha hallado una solución reveladora se debe enteramente a que el informador es más hábil que el investigador o que el segundo no ha sabido resolverlo. Esta es la sensación que yo mismo tengo, por ejemplo, con mi propio “caso estrella”, Turís, 25 de julio de 1979</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Pero hay un problema adicional en ese caso que comento, el redactor señala que ese mismo testigo tiempo después tuvo un avistamiento espectacular desde un avión. ¿Computamos la probabilidad añadida? Infinitesimal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El ufólogo dibujante. Una digresión que no puedo evitar hacer aquí es un problema suplementario en la secuencia de distorsiones encontradas desde que el fenómeno aparece ante los ojos del testigo. Es ese enfoque periodístico, de aficionado, que generalmente encuentra su camino en la literatura y los medios de comunicación. Es similar a un análisis de la escena del crimen mal conducido. Perturba la evidencia, en realidad la estropea. Se trata de las ilustraciones hechas por ciertos ufólogos y editores de libros ‒su tendenciosa reconstrucción gráfica‒ que tratan de recrear la escena de los hechos y que son abrumadoramente horripilantes, porque de hecho son apenas interpretaciones artísticas que reinventan el suceso. Por lo tanto, el evento original, cualquiera que haya sido, ahora se congela en otro, una imagen plástica mucho más derivada de los conceptos imaginativos del dibujante que de lo real. Ya de por sí es difícil deducir y representar lo que un testigo, normalmente impresionado, te cuenta y plasmarlo en un bosquejo, en una ilustración neutral. Pero si quien lo hace tiene en mente la noción de la aparición de un platillo volante, el resultado es terrible porque induce situaciones torcidas, amañadas y ficticias. Recuerdo esta frase de una novela de V. Volkoff: “<i>Y cuando digo auténtico. ¿Quién puede garantizar la exactitud de su memoria? Para comenzar, ¿quién se atrevería a ilustrar con diálogos un relato presuntamente vivido?</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y no digamos lo pernicioso que resultan ‒por mendaces‒ esas reconstrucciones cinematográficas </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ad lib</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> de avistamientos ovni que vemos en algunos programas de televisión y que para nada son fieles a la realidad de los hechos contados por los testigos. Si estos, por sí solos, ya modifican subjetivamente lo que de verdad ocurrió, después de pasar por las manos de los especialistas en infografía y efectos especiales, lo que ve el espectador es pura fantasía.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Le ha parecido al lector un duro manojo de juicios de valor? Puede serlo. Pero es realista, legítimo en todo caso y, sobre todo, fruto de cincuenta años de dedicación al estudio de los informes de “ovnis” y de todas sus ramificaciones, influencias y efectos. Queda escrito por si a alguien le interesa y, sobre todo, le sirve como orientación. En esta materia, y a la hora de justipreciar unas hipótesis sobre otras, yo me atengo siempre al dictado de Guillermo de Ockham (1285-1347): <i>Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate</i>, un concepto universalmente aceptado en el reduccionismo metodológico. Es decir, cuando varias explicaciones se ofrecen para un fenómeno, la más simple siempre es la más es preferible. No deben multiplicarse las hipótesis innecesariamente. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Lluís Bassets, “El imposible duelo independentista”, <i>El País</i>, 29 de marzo de 2019. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Michel Houellebecq, <u>Sumisión</u>, Anagrama (Barcelona), 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) Stephanie Kelley-Romano, “Mythmaking in Alien Abduction Narratives”, <i>Communication Quarterly</i>, Vol. 54, Nº 3, agosto de 2006, páginas 383–406.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Vladimir Kudriavtsev, “The Long Way to the Truth”, <i>Science in Russia</i>, Nº 6, noviembre-diciembre de 1995, páginas 4-7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) Félix Ares de Blas, “Magos, ovnis y creencias”, Aula de Cultura de El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco, Tomo VIII, José Manuel Azcona y Elena Mariezcurrena (editores), noviembre de 1989, páginas 29-66. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) <a href="http://www.noticiasenvuelo.faa.mil.ar/articulos.asp?idn=1947">http://www.noticiasenvuelo.faa.mil.ar/articulos.asp?idn=1947</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(8) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “¿Imaginación o realidad? El aterrizaje de Turís (Valencia)”, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(9) Vladimir Volkoff, <u>La reconversión</u>, Argos Vergara, 1980, página 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Base de datos de la NASA de bólidos detectados por sensores desde el espacio, a partir de 1988: <a href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/">https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “A Critique of Budd Hopkins’ Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda Napolitano”, un revelador trabajo de Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler y George P. Hansen, publicado en 1993, sobre una de las más famosas historias de abducción. Ahora se puede leer desde aquí: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38734707/A_Critique_of_Budd_Hopkins_Case_of_the_UFO_Abduction_of?email_work_card=view-paper">https://www.academia.edu/38734707/A_Critique_of_Budd_Hopkins_Case_of_the_UFO_Abduction_of?email_work_card=view-paper</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Una profunda, densa y extensa monografía de 337 páginas sobre el fenómeno de las abducciones, inicialmente publicada en 2003, que avala su inmaterialidad, es “Alien Fears: Toward a Psychology of UFO Abduction” (Temores alienígenas: Hacia una psicología de la abducción ovni), escrita por Scott Robert Scribner: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Las narraciones ovni y los informes del pasado serán principalmente tema para ocupación de las ciencias sociales, antropología, sociología, folclore, psicología, periodismo, historia, etc., más que para la física, astronomía o astronáutica. Como ejemplo, sirve este poco conocido artículo que apareció en el <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i>, 13, 2007, páginas 901-915, de Eirik Saethre (Universidad de Pretoria): “Close encounters: UFO beliefs in a remote Australian Aboriginal community”, actualmente disponible en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Hay, sin embargo, tozudos investigadores que aún teorizan con el componente material y físico asociado con los incidentes ovni. Hablo de un amigo durante cincuenta años, nada menos que del Dr. Jacques Vallée. En junio de 2017 presentó una conferencia con el Dr. Garry Nolan: “What do we know about the material composition of UFOs? Work in progress: a status report”, que ahora se puede consultar en el portal de Academia.edu: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Martin Shough es uno de los más destacados investigadores en ufología de Europa (de hecho, es un privilegio contar con él como revisor de la sección en inglés de este blog). Probablemente no mucha gente conoce este corto ensayo suyo sobre el rayo globular: “A Social History of Ball Lightning”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Jack Brewer ha escrito un inteligente y perspicaz post sobre los rasgos dogmáticos de la creencia ovni. Hay una frase con la que no puedo estar más de acuerdo: “Indirectamente incentivamos la irracionalidad desenfrenada al habilitarla. Cada uno de nosotros tiene responsabilidades personales para apoyar las mejores prácticas en investigación y comunicación”. Amén. Se lee desde aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/03/indoctrination-by-any-other-name.html">http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2019/03/indoctrination-by-any-other-name.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) La Fuerza Aérea Argentina ha modernizado su página web, con lo que el enlace actualizado a su oficina de estudio ovni es ahora el siguiente: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero lo realmente importante es el reforzamiento de las misiones del centro, ahora denominado Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE), elevando su nivel orgánico y adecuando sus capacidades para el cumplimiento de la nueva tarea, que es la de organizar, coordinar y ejecutar la investigación y análisis de eventos, actividades o elementos de interés presentes u originados en el espacio aéreo; así como identificar sus causas e informar las conclusiones a los Organismos pertinentes que las requieran. Con más personal a su cargo, seguro que la excelencia y rigor de su trabajo quedan asegurados con el tiempo. A efectos de informar de supuestos avistamientos ovni, esta es su dirección de contacto electrónico: <a href="mailto:identificacionaeroespacial_sg@faa.mil.ar">identificacionaeroespacial_sg@faa.mil.ar</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) “Roman UFOs”, de Martin Kottmeyer, en el último boletín de Tim Printy, páginas 16 a 19: <a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite11_3.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite11_3.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Véase la grabación de un avión militar que parece perseguir un objeto volante no identificado. Este video fue dado a conocer en YouTube en 2007, pero acaba de reemerger. Tengo el caso en FOTOCAT con algunos datos adicionales, como que la filmación tuvo lugar durante un vuelo de prueba en formación sobre la base aérea Edwards de California el 21 de febrero de 2003. Mick West clarifica la realidad de las imágenes en este sitio:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (11) Los investigadores franceses Francine Cordier y Patrice Seray han estudiado la fotografía publicitaría hecha para la compañía Martin Aircraft del entonces nuevo modelo B-57B en septiembre de 1954, mientras sobrevolaba Edwards AFB en California. El artículo que han escrito, en inglés y en francés, se puede leer en estos enlaces:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) CNEGU es una veterana organización francesa dedicada al estudio de informes de ovnis. Acaba de cumplir los 40 años de existencia y para celebrar el aniversario ha publicado un libro de 144 páginas como resumen global de su trabajo y actividades. Se puede acceder a este PDF a través de este url: <a href="https://www.fichier-zip.com/timer.php?id=76703">https://www.fichier-zip.com/timer.php?id=76703</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uno de sus principales representantes, <i>Monsieur</i> Raoul Robé, con cuatro décadas de experiencia en ufología de campo y activo estudioso de las semejanzas entre la ciencia ficción y los relatos de ovnis, ha tenido la gentileza de resumirme sus conclusiones personales, en un email, que traduzco: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Creo que el fenómeno OVNI está compuesto en su gran mayoría por malentendidos con fenómenos naturales (la Luna, estrellas, reflejos) o con objetos artificiales bien terrestres (aviones, helicópteros, satélites) con un componente psicológico y mitológico. La noción de inconsciente colectivo (Carl G. Jung) compuesto por mitos (gigantes y enanos, elfos, hadas) y el "científico maravilloso" (ancestro de la ciencia ficción, por ejemplo, la novela "Le péril bleu” de Maurice Renard, 1911) influye fuertemente en la interpretación de testigos, en su mayoría honestos. Una serie de coincidencias o sincronicidades pueden parecer sucesos extraños y traumatizar al testigo. A diferencia de mis inicios en ufología, ya no creo en la intervención de una inteligencia extraterrestre.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) <i>Méprises-du-ciel</i> (engaños celestes) es un sitio web bellamente ilustrado acerca de los muchos efectos y defectos en fotografía, así como fenómenos naturales y artificiales que se presentan ante los ojos del observador como estímulos que conducen a observaciones engañosas. La información resulta altamente pedagógica. Es imprescindible. <a href="http://meprises-du-ciel.fr/">http://meprises-du-ciel.fr/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) Kevin Randle es autor del último estudio de los avistamientos ovni y subsiguiente estrellamiento del avión pilotado por el capitán Thomas F. Mantell, en Franklin, Kentucky, el 7 de enero de 1948. El trabajo demuestra la confusión inicial con el planeta Venus desde tierra y la persecución aérea de un globo secreto de investigación <i>Skyhook</i>, al tiempo que el avión de Mantell excedió la altura recomendada y el piloto tuvo un episodio de hipoxia que le ocasionó pérdida de conocimiento y del control de los mandos del aparato, que terminó estrellándose. Mantell falleció. Este enlace lleva a la investigación de Randle: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) El origen natural de los “anillos de hadas”. En el desierto de Namibia, los círculos de hadas se forman por procesos naturales. La disolución del suelo causada por la lluvia, el calor y la evaporación, explica el misterio. El siguiente artículo aparecido en “Tendencias científicas”, una revista electrónica de ciencia, tecnología, sociedad y cultura señala que los extraños círculos de hadas, rodeados de misterio desde su descubrimiento hace más de 40 años, están formados por procesos abióticos, como la disolución del suelo causada por la lluvia intensa durante los ciclones, el calor y evaporación. El lector hallará más información en el siguiente enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Acaba de salir de imprenta, “Redención de los condenados”, una obra maestra de Martin Shough con la colaboración de Wim van Utrecht. El libro es, en palabras de Edoardo Russo, “una reevaluación precisa después de cien años del trabajo de Charles Fort, un autor a menudo citado, pero poco leído e incluso menos comprendido. Por primera vez, los ojos y las habilidades de investigadores contemporáneos han recuperado las fuentes originales de todas las observaciones anómalas reportadas por Fort en los campos de astronomía, meteorología y óptica atmosférica, sometiéndolas a un cuidadoso examen crítico, corrigiendo errores, contextualizando cada caso y analizando todo a la luz de los conocimientos, métodos y recursos actuales, en un intento por encontrar explicaciones racionales, algo que fue posible en un gran número de casos (con soluciones que a veces pueden sorprender al público en general e incluso sorprender a los especialistas), mientras que algunos de los eventos bien documentados permanecen sin explicación”. El volumen es de gran formato, tiene 412 páginas, está extremadamente bien ilustrado a color (con 250 ilustraciones en total) y se vende al precio de 35 dólares USA a través de la editorial Anomalist Books: <a href="https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=105">https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=105</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este es el segundo volumen del abogado y criminólogo chileno, y al mismo tiempo reputado estudioso de la ufología, Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez. En su segunda obra “ofrece una historia del desarrollo de la ufología en Francia, desde sus orígenes en los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días”, según señala la contraportada. Si ese empeño está bien hecho, y a buen seguro lo está, la lectura de este libro evita al investigador bucear en décadas de literatura, por lo que esta obra, valga lo que valga, resulta una de las mejores inversiones que el ufólogo serio ‒no el cantamañanas‒ puede hacer. Por ello, lo primero que haré es dar el enlace donde se puede adquirir:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">para, seguidamente, publicar la reseña del libro que he invitado que escriba otro destacado especialista en la materia, el antropólogo español y autor Ignacio Cabria</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Reseña de </i>Érase una vez en Ovnilandia, tomo 2: A Magonia sin pasaporte<i>, de Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa, Santiago de Chile, 2018.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Gracias a los modernos medios de edición y distribución podemos disfrutar de una obra que, siendo lógicamente minoritaria por su exigencia intelectual y falta de concesiones al sensacionalismo y al mercado, es de gran interés para el conocimiento del pensamiento y las creencias en torno al mundo de los ovnis y los extraterrestres. Los ufólogos de habla hispana conocen bien a su autor, Sergio Sánchez. Fue coeditor con Diego Zúñiga de aquella revista llamada </i>La Nave de los Locos<i>, una referencia fundamental en la ufología latinoamericana en aquellos años del cambio de milenio. Sergio Sánchez está embarcado desde hace años en un proceso de análisis del pensamiento ufológico francés que ha llamado “Érase una vez en Ovnilandia”. El término Ovnilandia puede parecer peyorativo, pero para él significa algo muy serio: define el entorno social que rodea al gran mito de los ovnis. Ya lo utilizó en 1999 en su primer libro, titulado Pasaporte a Ovnilandia, un ejercicio temprano de análisis de las distintas escuelas de la ufología, y donde prestaba ya una atención prioritaria hacia la ufología francesa. Pues bien, este proyecto actual tiene como eje el mundo de los ovnis en Francia, ampliable al entorno geográfico de habla francesa. Aunque esta delimitación del proyecto parezca muy particularista, de lo que nos habla Sánchez en realidad es de la evolución de las ideas en la ufología y de las creencias sobre los ovnis en general. Lo que busca Sánchez en esta historia por capítulos es una reflexión, a veces filosófica y sociológica, sobre un tipo de pensamiento heterodoxo que se manifiesta en la ufología, el contactismo y los nuevos cultos a los extraterrestres.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El primer volumen del proyecto Érase una vez en Ovnilandia apareció en 2016 con el subtítulo La gran invasión marciana. En aquella primera entrega Sergio repasó los inicios y la etapa clásica de la ufología francesa. La componían autores como Jimmy Guieu, Aimé Michel, Michel Carrouges o René Foueré, que explicaban los platillos volantes desde la hipótesis extraterrestre simple, la de la nave tripulada por seres de otros planetas que venían a explorar la Tierra. Al principio se pensó en un origen muy cercano, Marte, de ahí el subtítulo. Sergio analizaba las ideas de algunos de aquellos autores en su tránsito a lo que en Francia se llamó “hipótesis extraterrestre de segundo grado”, que permitía elucubraciones más sofisticadas sobre el mimetismo de los ovnis con nuestra cultura a través de las épocas, el carácter absurdo de muchas de sus manifestaciones, la aparente inmaterialidad de su naturaleza, etc. Sánchez prestaba atención en aquel libro a los intereses ocultistas de ufólogos como Aimé Michel y Jacques Vallée, y a cómo estos intereses influyeron en sus visiones ufológicas. Es así que científicos como Pierre Guerin y Jacques Vallée giraron hacia visiones relacionadas con el esoterismo. Había también una revisión de las propuestas francesas dentro de esa moda editorial que se llamó de “los antiguos astronautas”, popularizada muy en especial por Erich von Däniken.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El segundo volumen de la serie ha aparecido a finales de 2018 con el subtítulo A Magonia sin pasaporte, en clara referencia a la obra de Vallée Pasaporte a Magonia, que marcó un hito, el de la ruptura de la ufología tradicional en búsqueda de significados más profundos del fenómeno que el de la simple materialidad platillista de los ovnis. Sánchez dedica así este segundo volumen a una época, los años setenta, de eclosión de tendencias innovadoras en la ufología, relacionándola con la parapsicología, el simbolismo, la psicología profunda, el folklore, etc., con tendencias que se llamaron “paraufología”, “ufología parafísica”, “nueva ola de la ufología” y otros. Sergio analiza aquí la obra de Pierre Vieroudy, Pierre Delval, Thierry Pinvidic y otros, críticos todos ellos de la hipótesis extraterrestre simple, que a finales de los setenta abrían nuevos horizontes especulativos a la investigación del fenómeno ovni. Por ejemplo, Vieroudy planteaba que el testigo influía en la producción misma del fenómeno; Pierre Delval pensaba en los ovnis como una manifestación satánica; para Pinvidic el fenómeno desafiaba nuestro sentido de realidad… Algunos irrumpían con hipótesis alternativas muy heterodoxas. Todo valía en tiempos de cambio.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Una parte central de este segundo volumen está dedicado a los contactados y los cultos sobre los extraterrestres surgidos en Francia, entre los que destaca el movimiento raëliano, que ha dado lugar a distintos estudios académicos. Sergio recoge también las interpretaciones sociológicas sobre la creencia en los extraterrestres como cultos modernos, donde cita abundantemente al sociólogo Jean-Bruno Renard.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Este segundo volumen ha ganado en consistencia interna con respecto al primero, que adolecía de una cierta dispersión temática, con excursos y anexos no vinculados con el asunto central. Tiene, eso sí, el mismo rigor en el análisis y reflexiones perspicaces. Para los lectores de habla hispana no familiarizados con la ufología que se hizo en Francia hace cuarenta años, la obra en su conjunto tiene el interés de recopilar las principales teorías de una generación que fue la avanzada del pensamiento ufológico internacional. Nos quedamos a la espera del tercer volumen de la serie, de lo que parece que ya van a ser cuatro. Comercialmente, pienso que hubiera sido preferible, con un esfuerzo adicional de síntesis por parte del autor, concentrar el proyecto “Ovnilandia” en dos volúmenes. Pero bien está si los nuevos medios nos facilitan el acceso a estos trabajos que nunca van a aparecer en una gran editorial. La obra de Sergio Sánchez no es para curiosos de los aspectos más espectaculares del fenómeno ovni ni para coleccionistas de avistamientos. Es una obra reflexiva y analítica, que nos dice mucho sobre maneras de pensar el mito de nuestra época que son los ovnis y los extraterrestres.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entre personas, no con ovnis, no vaya usted a pensar. Y entre buenos amigos. Y colegas en este <i>affaire</i> de los ovnis de nunca acabar. Con ocasión de un viaje por estas tierras de Luis R. González, el pasado 12 de junio montamos una reunión para acompañarle con la presencia de Juan A. Fernández Peris, Juan P. González, Jaime Servera, Josep Carles Laínez y yo mismo. El ambiente fue más que grato y aprovechamos para dar un repaso al momento actual de la ufología y, como era de esperar, resolvimos el misterio de los ovnis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay un episodio de mi vida al que nunca antes me he referido en primera persona, únicamente porque es parte de mi bagaje biográfico estrictamente familiar. Hasta hoy. Es solo una curiosidad, sin mayor trascendencia (aunque sí podría haberla tenido si los hechos fueran otros). Mi nombre de pila es Vicente-Juan, compuesto. Y aunque así me han llamado desde niño, el primero de los nombres, Vicente, siempre ha tenido preeminencia. Me lo pusieron por San Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419), predicador y filósofo valenciano que, según la tradición, obró numerosos milagros al tiempo que alzaba su dedo índice. Yo fui bautizado en la pila del Santo en la ciudad que conquistó El Cid, porque mis padres y otros familiares han sido siempre muy devotos de tan ilustre figura. Parte de la familia de mi madre se apellida precisamente Ferrer Olmos. Aquí en Valencia hay varias asociaciones llamadas Vicentinas que organizan actividades anuales en honor del Santo. Una costumbre local es que una imagen del <i>Pare Vicent</i> a tamaño natural pasa un año en el domicilio de uno de los miembros de tales asociaciones. Corría el año 1955, yo cumpliría siete años ese diciembre. En casa, mis padres custodiaban fervorosamente la imagen de San Vicente Ferrer. Según me cuentan, yo era un niño muy travieso y precipitado (creo que aún lo soy) y un día, tras llegar acalorado a casa del colegio, entré precipitadamente en la cocina para beber agua, cogí el primer vaso que encontré con un líquido transparente que tomé por agua y, como si me hubiera estado esperando para calmar mi sed, lo bebí de golpe. Inmediatamente sentí un doloroso ardor en la garganta. El vaso contenía lejía. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo que ocurrió seguidamente ha quedado estrictamente en la intimidad familiar hasta que en 1980 (para mi sorpresa) se publicó en la revista de la asociación a la que mis padres y algunos de mis hermanos pertenecen. Un amigo de la familia firmó un breve relato en la revista de la asociación vernácula Sant Vicent del Tossal. Él lo contó así</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">…[Vicente-Juan] <i>se asustó y se le ocurrió acudir a la imagen de San Vicente diciendo ¡Ajudam Sant Vicent! [San Vicente, ¡ayúdame!] A continuación, vomitó. Enterados sus padres de lo ocurrido, lo llevaron a varios médicos, los cuales todos coincidieron al diagnosticar en que era un caso milagroso: ¡ni siquiera se ha quemado la garganta!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Supongo que esto es algo hiperbólico, de hecho, yo nunca me he expresado en valenciano y dudo mucho que me dirigiera <i>motu proprio</i> a la imagen del Santo a solicitar ayuda. Probablemente mis padres sí me colocaron delante de <i>Sant Vicent</i> y le pidieron intercesión. Honradamente, yo no me acuerdo de ese lance. Es verdad que ni requerí hospitalización ni tuve secuela alguna. Para mis padres, aquello fue un verdadero milagro. Rememorando el incidente 64 años después, no sé si el Santo no tenía nada mejor que hacer que evitar que se le abrasara la garganta a un chaval valenciano, o más bien que la causticidad de la lejía era más baja de lo habitual. Como agnóstico tiendo a creer en la segunda opción, pero ¡sabe Dios!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dado que un blog como este es una especie de diario íntimo, se me ha ocurrido en la fecha conmemorativa en la que lo escribo, citar esta pequeña efeméride autobiográfica. No sé bien por qué, pero ahí queda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Valencia del Cid, a 29 de abril de 2019, día de San Vicente Ferrer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Desde hace 14 años participo como voluntario en una ONG, la Fundación Dasyc, que este año cumple los 25 de existencia solidaria. Con ese motivo, quería añadir dos letras en el apartado más personal de mi blog. La misión clave de la ONG es llevar a cabo iniciativas sociales que promuevan el progreso humano, educativo y cultural de las personas, tanto en nuestro propio entorno como en los países en vías de desarrollo. Dasyc promociona el voluntariado social y la formación en valores de los jóvenes, a través de proyectos de acción social con los colectivos de infancia y juventud, personas mayores y mujeres para prevenir la exclusión social. En suma, la Fundación Dasyc trabaja para el establecimiento, impulso y apoyo a proyectos, así como a toda clase de acciones y actividades educativas, culturales y asistenciales, y también el apoyo a programas de Cooperación al Desarrollo. En general, a aquellas iniciativas que redunden en beneficio del ser humano. Amig@ mí@, si tienes unos minutos, mira la más reciente memoria anual de la entidad y colabora, si te es posible. Gracias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Enrique Márquez, Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez, Matías Morey, Theo Paijmans, Kay Coggin, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Patrice Seray, Mick West, “Parabunk”, Wim van Utrecht, Gilles Munsch, Andrés Duarte, Comodoro Rubén Lianza, Salim Sigales, Ignacio Cabria, Julio Massé, Josep C. Laínez y Juan P. González.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia </b>(con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De estas obras agotadas se encuentran ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o">https://tinyurl.com/y2z6ce5o</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and Government </b>(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a nosotros por correo e</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">lectrónico: </span><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1) The FOTOCAT census has reached 12,388 records to date. It feeds data to researchers worldwide by request and it is fed by data from colleagues all over the world on a continuing basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(2) The indefatigable Barry Greenwood has submitted a second set of digitalized CUFOS photo binders. The essence consists of 200 photographic files with excellent historical information that is being added to the existing FOTOCAT archives. Many pictures are known but here we rescue originals and first-generation copies, or good quality prints, that allow a better analysis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Since the last update of this blog, I have not added any new work to the bibliography. As you know, research takes time, usually a lot, and I am currently working on three reports (three books, really) at the same time, projects that I started years ago and that will hopefully be released in 2019, 2020 and 2021. For the more inquisitive, one is an analysis of the best series of photographs of the so-called Marfa Lights obtained in 2003 and 2004. In this study I collaborate with Manuel Borraz Aymerich. A second essay is a compendium of the imagery associated to the reporting of flying saucers during the year 1947 around the world ‒that is being done with Barry Greenwood. The third book (prepared jointly with Wim van Utrecht) will be volume No. 2 of "Belgium in UFO Photographs", which covers picture and video cases that occurred between 1989 and 2005, including shots and frames achieved in the outstanding wave of 1989-1992. The three monographs are written in English. By now, close to 700 pages have already been written and the first of these volumes will be out soon. Naturally, these books will be available <i>gratis et amore</i> to the students of our especially-liked pastime, as they will be posted online at the Academia.edu portal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Or else some articles devoted to the process pursued by the Spanish Air Force (1992-1999) to declassify its UFO archives, incorporating my own first-hand intervention on it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Spanish Air Force UFO Files: The Secret´s End” (1993), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“UFO Declassification in Spain (Military UFO Files Available to the Public: A Balance)” (1995), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/30444424/UFO_Declassification_in_Spain._Military_UFO_Files_Available_to_the_Public_A_Balance.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Monitoring Air Force Intelligence (Spain’s 1992-1997 UFO Declassification Process)” (1997), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING_AIR_FORCE_INTELLIGENCE.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/28130360/UFO_Declassification_The_Spanish_Model">https://www.academia.edu/28130360/UFO_Declassification_The_Spanish_Model</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>UFO Filmed in Manchester, Georgia, September 9, 1973</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">September 1973 witnessed a considerable outbreak of UFO reports in the United States. The wave of sightings was particularly intense in Georgia in the first part of the month (later it extended also throughout Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas). The Georgia rush provided a few photographic examples. I’d like to review now one of the sightings that probably can be discounted. In our days, we can easily submit any first-hand data to the verdict of astronomical programs, like <i>Stellarium</i>. Leaning on such tools we can arrive at a positive identification of the stimulus that was sighted and, as in the present case, also filmed with a 16mm camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
observation by Dan Keever, a news film cameraman at WAGA-TV
(Atlanta), was known after NICAP’s </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>UFO
Investigator </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">covered
it in their October 1973 and February 1974 issues</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
But it was not until recently that I accessed to the original UFO
form filled out by the direct observer, one that was stored in the
NICAP files currently maintained in the CUFOS archives. It was thanks
to the invaluable efforts of Barry Greenwood, who spent innumerable
hours scanning documents in Chicago, that I got it for inspection.
Evidently, the more objective and less manipulated, the information
presented to the analyst, the easier it is to find a resolution to a
UFO experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By examining a raw UFO questionnaire, you learn the first lesson in ufology: witness reporting is not like math, it is a subjective assertion or statement with a large error bar. In fact, UFO proponents cling to the exact words of a testimony as being totally true, like those misguided minds who take the Old Testament to be rigorous truth. Nothing could be further from reality. Eyewitnesses attempt to bring we investigators their best recollection of what they saw, but neither their eyes nor their memories are precise recording instruments. They make mistakes. They forget data. They misrepresent certain aspects of the events. Even with their best will. Therefore, we must approach a witness report as an approximation. And do our best to match the appearance and location of their sightings to conventional objects, lights or phenomena. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dan Keever, 32, was standing on the side lawn of the State Patrol Office at Manchester city with his camera on a tripod, reportedly filming interviews with eyewitnesses of prior UFO occurrences. It was 4,30 a.m. when others at the scene pointed out on that clear nighttime an “apparently self-luminous, small source of bright light which appeared to change color, red, blue, yellow and green in flares, once brighter, once dimmed, standing still all the time, showing no motion, brighter than surrounding stars, the size of a pinhead.” The sighting, that was shared by others, lasted two hours but the light remained there as he did not see it disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The film has not been available, except one blurry frame (the camera’s mount was loose, and it caused some movement on the film, the observer remarked). Some press representative who saw the film described it as “90 seconds of a hovering glow that changes color rapidly.” Finally, 150 feet of film were obtained while the camera was running 30 minutes during the 2-hour show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Left: O</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ne single frame of the film, as it has been reproduced up to now. Right: </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One photograph found in another set of NICAP files at CUFOS, just discovered. First time it is released. If we assume this is an original print, then the prior image has been rotated. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next step in the screening process has been to see how the night sky looked like at that time and date in the Eastern direction, as long duration sightings of stationary lights in the night sky are synonymous with astronomical sources. The Stellarium program provides us with a neat view, where we see at the bottom Sirius, as the film maker reported, and then the star Procyon to its left, eight degrees over the horizon with a magnitude (brightness) of 0.40. Above it and slightly to its left we find the planet Saturn, some 34º in height and with a magnitude of 1.00 (less brilliant than the star ‒in Astronomy, higher values represent lower brightness). In principle, it appears to match with the sketch designed by the main witnesses, with the expected errors in angular altitude or position estimates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, we doubt that the star Procyon was actually filmed. There are a number of possibilities within the general concept that the cause was astronomical. Because the description of the luminous source is much more akin to the brighter Sirius than to any other smaller star or planet that night, we feel it is fairly sure to conclude that Mr. Keever saw and filmed Sirius. Not a 100% certainty, I’d call it a probably correct conjecture, far likelier than the alien alternative. Anyway, I prefer not to speculate why the photographer claimed not to have filmed Sirius but another tiny bright point in the sky that probably a 1973 vintage camera would not capture. See below a comparative example of the star magnified 300 times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) <a href="http://www.cufos.org/UFOI_and_Selected_Documents/UFOI/091%20OCTOBER%201973.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/UFOI_and_Selected_Documents/UFOI/091%20OCTOBER%201973.pdf</a></span></div>
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2.0 Chatbot: World's First "Robot Ufologist"?</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Isaac
Koi is the pen name of a British barrister who is doing fresh,
solitary and remarkably generous work for the UFO community at large.
Notably, getting permission from past UFO journal editors for
digitalizing old issues in several languages in massive numbers. As I
already reported this all is stored and accessible through AFU, the
Swedish UFO organization. Now, Isaac has developed a tool which helps
in sifting UFO reports and finding probable explanations, based on
the rudimentary features and parameters of the sightings. He
describes this digital instrument in his own blog:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://ufoinquiry.blogspot.com/2018/12/robert-20-chatbot-worlds-first-robot.html">http://ufoinquiry.blogspot.com/2018/12/robert-20-chatbot-worlds-first-robot.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Isaac
applied Artificial Intelligence principles to create this automated
aid to the UFO investigator to trying to filter UFO reports. This was
based on a flowchart routine or scheme developed by Jenny Randles in
her book </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>UFO
Study</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
lately updated by UK colleague Robert Moore. The appropriate
searchable PDF is available in the following link:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Randles,%20Jenny%20and%20Moore,%20Robert%20-%20UFO%20Study.pdf">http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Randles,%20Jenny%20and%20Moore,%20Robert%20-%20UFO%20Study.pdf</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
my considered opinion, what Isaac Koi has done is one of the best,
most proactive and original developments in UFO research in the last
decades. For an historical </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">precedent,
we can look to the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(less sophisticated) automated program for calculating in UFO
research was established in 1995 by </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Terry
Groff, with an on-line JavaScript calculator based on the
Ballester-Guasp evaluation system</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
as the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">official
report evaluator of the MUFON’s Case Management System (CMS). See:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/bge/bge.pl">http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/bge/bge.pl</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050205000326/http://terrygroff.com/ufotools/eval/eval_calc.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20050205000326/http://terrygroff.com/ufotools/eval/eval_calc.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos & Miguel Guasp, “Standards in the Evaluation of UFO Reports,” in <u>The Spectrum of UFO Research</u>, Mimi Hynek (editor), J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (Chicago, Illinois), 1988, pp. 175-182, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Spectrum_of_UFO_Research.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Spectrum_of_UFO_Research.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Robert D. Barry, director of the 20<span style="font-size: x-small;">th </span>Century UFO Bureau of Collingwood, N.J., reported that three teen-age boys of Carbondale, a small town of 15,000 souls in northeastern Pennsylvania, saw an object fall into a near pond about 7:30 p.m. on Saturday November 9, 1974. “They saw a yellow-white in the center of the pond. The glow shifted shortly afterward to a point about 25 feet offshore,” we read in <i>Midnight</i> of January 27, 1975. According to the journal information, the boys were ordered to remain in a police car for more than three hours. During that time, floodlights, vans and a crane were brought to the lake, in the dark of night, of course. Carbondale citizen Jerome Gillon (or Gillette) took some pictures of the underwater light with a 35 mm camera: “they reveal a circular glowing object, sometimes larger, sometimes smaller.” The following photographs show the path allegedly followed by the UFO and the spot where it landed in some 15 feet of water, as well as what the underwater light looked like, as released by <i>Midnight</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More details were originally published in the November 12, 1974 issue of the <i>Lebanon Daily News</i>. It reported that after Bill Lloyd, 15, his brother John, 13, and a neighbor, Bob Gillette, 14, notified the occurrence to the authorities, police chief Francis Dottie and 12 regular and special policemen went to the scene. Patrolman Joseph Jacobina was authorized to fire his service revolver into the water; apparently, the glow moved when it was shot at. “The police-watch continued until after midnight, then firemen from a nearby company arrived armed with a huge net,” the newspaper wrote. “The net was pulled upward, but just as it began to break surface the glowing object slipped free and settled into the silt at the bottom of the pond.” Two professors from Philadelphia’s Temple University, Dr. Lawrence Berry, a psychologist, and professor George Kelly, meteorology instructor, volunteered to scuba dive the pond’s bottom, which they did early on Monday afternoon, November 11. Chief Dottie delivered a press conference Monday night. Asked if there was any truth to the story of a crashed UFO, “he glared and held up a small silvery object about three inches in diameter and not more than eight inches in height. It had a half-ring-shaped handle and was made of some highly polished metal.” It was a flashlight. “The instructors brought up this floodlight. I’m told they discovered nothing else. It was still burning when they brought it in,” Dottie said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The first of the two sources (<i>Midnight</i>) reports the lantern finding differently: “With a crowd of 1,000 looking on, Mark Stamey, a scuba diver from Auburn, N.Y., braved the cold, dark water. He came out 19 minutes later, shivering and holding a railroad lantern with two bulbs and a six-volt battery.” Probably this difference is solved by reading what expert in marine UFOs Carl W. Feindt writes in his book <i>UFOs and Water</i> (Xlibris Corporation, 2010). Page 321 discloses that Robert J. Gillette, Jr., then a boy of 14, created the story by tossing a flashlight into the pond and spun the tale of a whirring, sparking, red ball flying over Salem Mountain and plunging into the pond, in an effort to frighten his sister, María, and his friends. “The flashlight burned out in the meantime and we had to get another one and that happened to be the lantern,” a 39-year-old Gillette told journalist R. Mates, 25 years later, as interviewed for <i>The Sunday Times</i> of Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1999. Two light devices, two immersions, two findings. This is a little-known case for which I have been able to collect some rare illustrations of some historical value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Searchers in Carbondale, probing the waters of the small pond hold aloft a lantern that authorities say was mistaken for a UFO that landed in the water. Resident Jerome Gillette holds the lantern. Credit: Lebanon Daily News. © UPI Telephoto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At the beginning of February, the Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAE), the official UAP study committee of the Argentine Air Force, released its annual report on the results of its evaluation of cases received in the previous year, which can be read at the following link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As we have come to expect, the 80-page monograph written by Commodore (Col.) Rubén Lianza, with the approval of Brigadier (General) Fabián Otero, head of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force, is a paradigm of authentic research, in capital letters, on UFO sighting reports. Following this yearbook is like staying in the classroom of a technical university listening to the professor's teachings. 21 cases, from 2013 to 2018, are probed and solved. Anecdotally, pages 10 to 12 show and explain the photograph of an alleged UFO image which resembles the infamous “Ummo" logo. I prefer not to advertise the solution, which is unexpected. But this time, Lianza has surpassed himself with true magisterial analysis of two old cases, sufficiently enigmatic to require a fresh inquiry. In one, complementing a previous work, a well-known airborne observation is resolved as a barium cloud in the high atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But the most significant is the study of the Bariloche incident (Rio Negro province, July 31, 1995), one of the most famous UFO events in Argentina, when unidentified lights were sighted from two different airplanes at the same time, one commercial and the other a military aircraft. The investigation of Lianza, which confirms a previous review by Heriberto Janosch, has not only included the interview in person of some of the most outstanding eyewitnesses, but also, to verify his resolution hypothesis (reflections in the clouds of a light cannon directed to the sky from a disco), a 3D model of the aeronautical situation and the light source was created in order to check the dependence and correlation between the movements of the light cannon (thanks also to the direct participation of the individual who managed it) and the different sequences of the sighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On January 16, 2019, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has responded to a FOIA request raised by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on the research reports prepared under the Advance Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP). This was a 2-year study (September 2008-September 2010) funded by DIA under its Defense Warning Office’s Advance Aerospace Weapon System Application Program (AAWSAP). It was run by Dr. J.T. Lacatski at the Pentagon, funded with $22 mils mostly outsourced to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). Just one year before, a DIA communication to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services clearly established that “the purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present to the next 40 years.” Now we are aware of the 38 research reports finally produced under the AATIP contract. You can find the list of such DIA products here: <a href="https://fas.org/irp/dia/aatip-list.pdf">https://fas.org/irp/dia/aatip-list.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It appears evident that the sub-contracted work was mainly focused on futuristic technology capabilities in areas like propulsion, human effects, armament, or space-time translation, with a sub-focus on psychotronic weapons, anomalies in the space-time construct, penetration of solid surfaces, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It all points to the conclusion that the vague definition of this program, demanded and backed by a small group of politicians and intelligence officers with a common belief in extraterrestrial UFOs, was just an excuse to acquire funds to find convincing evidence on the existence of alleged unconventional flying objects, i.e. flying saucers. And that the aim to study UFOs was covered up from (not by) the Government. Unlike past Government-sponsored UFO projects like Blue Book or University of Colorado, here the definition was not explicit, hiding the intent to search for alien UFOs under subtle terms. See, for example, one of the items in the AATIP’s mission statement</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: super;">1</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: “…to take advantage of a generation of highly advanced technologies…that may be currently employed by other countries, </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">actors, or entities</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> [my emphasis] and use this technology to the benefit of the Department…” In my humble opinion, the usage of this obscure, ambiguous wording (with even a double-sense meaning) subtracts reliability from the program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the period September 2010 to September 2017, the project was not funded by the DoD anymore, while it was headed by Luis Elizondo, one of the many intelligence guys crowding the Pentagon. Between 2010 and 2011 it was financed by Bigelow Aerospace. Afterwards, it moved to the Office of Secretary of Defense (just where Elizondo worked), hardly a low profile, informal network of colleagues, where it lasted loosely 2012 to 2017. (Dates and periods above may not be 100% accurate, as basic information is still starting to circulate. Being a program within a black budget, details are quite secretive, as their initiators wanted it to be. Long live the transparency of UFO believers!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It seems to have been a wrongly-managed UFO-oriented project with a faulty research output. None of the reports produced during the contract interim term appears to have a direct relationship with unearthing material evidence of any non-mundane UFO phenomena. The funding criterion for those papers seems to be to explore the limits of science into science fiction realms. I hope sooner or later mainstream science will establish how much real, practical science and how much fiction, speculation and junk science was within such work. In my view, the black program’s trick was to sell to the DIA novel ways of space travel, conjectural biotechnology advances, and some fantastic aerospace platforms, whilst hiding the real interest of the freak group of program supporters to investigate UFOs. Up to now, we have only seen 3 videos showing nothing very extraordinary. What else did they achieve? The bottom-line question is: are those 38 reports worth 22 mils of taxpayers’ monies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Recently, more criticism has been raised against aims of AATIP</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: super;">2</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or the papers it produced</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3,4 </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from inside and outside the UFO skeptic front. The so-called UFO program was so obscure that even some of its basic data are confused and every other day more indications of this emerge.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In a recent message to the “nicap-research” Google group, the Australian-based ufologist Paul Dean wrote that the United States Air Force has “a highly classified science and technology center which is dedicated (in part) to assessing long-term and future aerospace threats, unexpected foreign technologies, unmanned systems, cutting edge physics, on and on and on.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I have checked the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)’s mission statement and it affirms that “NASIC analysts create predictive intelligence to ensure the nation is at the cutting edge of understanding foreign threats to U.S. air and space operations.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I see therefore that AATIP goals are certainly encompassed by NASIC ones. Evidently, a waste resources, a blunt duplicity, only explained by an almost religious desire of pursuing some aliens that nobody finds, except in the Hysteria (sorry, History) Channel features. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Keith Basterfield, <a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/images-of-briefing-slides-for-advanced.html">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/images-of-briefing-slides-for-advanced.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Robert Sheaffer, <a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/01/we-learn-more-about-aatip-and-its.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/01/we-learn-more-about-aatip-and-its.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) Joseph Trevithick, <a href="http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26056/heres-the-list-of-studies-the-militarys-secretive-ufo-program-funded-some-were-junk">http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26056/heres-the-list-of-studies-the-militarys-secretive-ufo-program-funded-some-were-junk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(6) Keith Basterfield, <a href="https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-defense-intelligence-agency-and_13.html">https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-defense-intelligence-agency-and_13.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(7) Paul Dean, <a href="http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2019/02/foreign-aerospace-threats-emerging-and.html">http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2019/02/foreign-aerospace-threats-emerging-and.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The following picture, taken in Paris by a boy of 13, J.C. Moreau, self-appointed director of the “Martian Club”, was printed alongside a UFO article in the French magazine <i>Tout SAVOIR</i> of June 1956, page 48. Truly a crude fake by the kid in question, I am calling it to the attention of the more veteran French UFO students to see if they have any further information on the print. In order to catalogue it correctly, I would need to know, at least, a decent date. Can anyone help?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apparently in the early hours of last February 8, something impacted on the roof of an uninhabited house in the town of Cogollos de Guadix (Granada, Spain, coordinates 37º13'28''N, 3º09'39''W). My interest in this event was more than tangential, perhaps because of the possibility that it was a reentry that caused the damage, which would be quite unusual. I immediately checked the US NORAD Space Track, which lists all the spacecraft launches and re-entries. There was no space decay between February 7 and 12, so that hypothesis is discarded. Consulted experts indicated it was not a meteorite fall. The press suggestion of ball lightning lacks any proof, in fact, the broken tiles did not show any vitrification or other special effect apart from the mechanical force. For his part, engineer Manuel Borraz verified that the locality in question is under an airway, designated as N865 for flight levels between 4,100 and 7,500 meters (FL135 to FL245) and as UN865 for levels between 7,500 and 14,000 meters (FL245 to FL460). It is consequently more than probable that an ice meteor, a chunk of frozen water detached from the wings of an airplane or liquid remains from the sink of an aircraft, fell over this quiet village of the Granada province. For additional information and details I refer the interested reader to the Spanish section of this blog, under the title “Susto en Cogollos de Guadix”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On August 7, 2019 I traveled once again to the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. This was a continuation of an effort to scan as many of the important files on hand, either case reports or other ephemeral information that would otherwise be difficult to consult. All UFO compilations could be considered endangered unless as many duplicates as possible exist so that any single loss in a location is minimized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I spent three weeks of 16-hour days hauling armloads of folders, picking out rusted paper clips and staples, repairing damaged copy, pasting up labels that over time had fallen of pages, that would have otherwise been hard to identify. The general goal was to do as many complete years as time available. An exception was that folders devoted to Allen Hynek's copies of Project Blue Book were left for another time. These records are quite important to be duplicated as they reflect Hynek's own work with Blue Book, often having his notations and comments. However, I had a choice. Blue Book records exist in other forms. Hardcopies and microfilms exist in many researchers’ files. They also exist online at: <a href="https://www.fold3.com/title/461/project-blue-book-ufo-investigations">https://www.fold3.com/title/461/project-blue-book-ufo-investigations</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Do I spend the time scanning what is largely already available to researchers or do I use the time to duplicate the relatively inaccessible files of NICAP/CUFOS which are not online? It was an easy decision. In my first visit to Chicago, I concentrated on significant individual case files which contained considerably more documentation than published sources which had discussed them previously. This time a push to completely duplicate a time frame seemed a logical follow-up. The result was a thorough duplication of everything other than the Blue Book files cited above for 1960 to early 1963. The year 1957 was entirely done as well except for the wave time of November. Many cases during this wave were copied in the past and the month consumed an entire file drawer. So, the rest of the lesser known parts of 1957 were scanned instead. Wave periods in March-April 1973 and September 1973 were scanned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I also had to inspect the contents of twenty boxes of topical and "people" files to scan any obscure holdings. An entire box of early NICAP administrative records were done along with a large collection of letters by or to UFO personalities of the time. Five binders of assorted photos were scanned that were not in the case files. Some were impossible to identify but all the more reason to insure a duplicate set existed elsewhere. Issues of UFO periodicals that had not been incorporated into existing online collections were scanned to complement primarily the work of Isaac Koi but also AFU in Sweden and many others in making these available for research. In all, approximately 35,000 scans were created, then combined into topics and case files. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The findings of Greenwood’s first working trip to the Center for UFO Studies can be read in a prior article with the same title, here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1) This Italian CISU publication reviews the 1978 wave, the highest-magnitude period of UFO reporting in the country:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(2 ) Issue #8 of "Cielo Insolito" (Weird Skies), the e-zine edited by Giuseppe Stilo & Maurizio Verga dedicated to flying saucer and UFO history, is now available for download at: <a href="http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito8.pdf">http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito8.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(3) Marcelo Moya is a meticulous Chilean researcher (49, rock band drummer) whom I have known for a few years. He has just started his own blog "ovni estación", dedicated to the analysis of images of recent UFO cases in Latin America. It is certainly a reference to be followed regularly: <a href="https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/es">https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/es</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6) Mother-ship or bolide fireball? Around 2am of December 29, 1976 a powerful luminous streak was sighted in Portugal and Spain. The vintage yellow press and the current fake-news providers have publicized the incident as a raw example of ET mother-ship visitor. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. It was a fireball, a big meteoroid that disintegrated in the atmosphere. During its passage, it generated a few UFO sightings, one of them of special importance in the annals of the history of Spanish UFO events. A recent blog entry by J.C. Victorio Uranga studies the phenomenon and categorizes it with the feet on the ground:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(7) “A preliminary catalogue of alleged “fragments” reportedly associated with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena where analysis(es) was/were conducted”, compiled by the reputable Australian investigator Keith Basterfield, November 2018:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(8) Analyzing airborne UFO-type video recordings: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(10) Brian Dunning writes on the Cash-Landrum episode of alleged medical injuries inflicted on UFO observers: <a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4652">https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4652</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(11) In a recent post by David Marler, I learned of the death of Larry Hatch. Larry developed the *U* database, with close to 19,000 UFO sightings recorded up to 2006: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycj7uyhb">https://tinyurl.com/ycj7uyhb</a> I did enjoy every one of my regular email exchanges with Larry during the 1990s and up to early 2000s, until he had a severe stroke that put him in a nursing home. Another prominent researcher lost. See this remembrance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(12) “An Alien craft sending energy beams to the ground – Or what?”, by Mark Easen (BUFORA Investigations), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(13) Once upon a time I had blind trust in scientists. I naively assumed that carrying a Ph.D. or being a member of a major faculty imbued instant credibility. Yet experience taught me this is far from true. Some people pursue their preconceived ideas, weird beliefs, and obsessions during all their careers. There is a fine line between the genius and the crackpot. Remember Tesla, and so many others. In the UFO arena, we have lots of examples, the most prominent being Harvard professor John Mack of abduction fame. Well, I do not wish to make this longer, but now Harvard has produced another bearer of extraordinary claims: a possible interstellar probe navigates through our Solar System. The first two accompanying references touch upon the issue, one formally, another informally. Time will tell what is speculation and what is pure science. Meanwhile, alternative theories are starting to jump into the astrophysical arena, as indicated in the third source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(14) This is for ball lightning students. The following, large chapter on the subject of globular lightning, “Ball Lightning: A New Step in Understanding,” by two Russian authorities in the discipline, Vladimir L. Bychkov and Anatoly I. Nikitin, appears in the book <u>The Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Elementary Processes, Monitoring, and Ball Lightning (Physics of Earth and Space Environments)</u>, by V.L. Bychkov, G. V. Golubkov & A. I. Nikitin (eds), © Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3y54d3k">https://tinyurl.com/y3y54d3k</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Abstract: Apart from the more or less successful effort to positively identify objects reported in UFO sightings, an appreciation of the value of the reports is required. The indices of strangeness (É) and of probability (P) concocted by Joseph Allen Hynek stand out. We have systematized them into a selective, convenient, defined and graphical rating, which we use in the © CASUFO databank. We use it to create experimental groups of reports and control groups. This is part of a method of progressive identification of reported objects and also serves to test various hypotheses.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(16) “Mythmaking in Alien Abduction Narratives,” by Stephanie Kelley-Romano, originally published in <i>Communication Quarterly</i>, Vol. 54, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 383-406, is now available in the Academia.edu portal,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Abstract: Examination of alien abduction discourse has the potential to inform our understanding of symbolic practices. This essay uses 130 narratives of individuals who claim to have had contact with extraterrestrial beings to argue that alien abduction discourse is a living myth. This myth—the Myth of Communion—is rhetorically significant because it illustrates the formative power of narrative while also revealing certain characteristics about our cultural condition.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(17) Nick Redfern writes of the book by Andy Roberts about the 1974 Berwyn Mountain (North Wales) UFO crash: “(it) demonstrates how an investigation of such event should be undertaken, even if the conclusions aren’t what some solely belief-driven souls wish to hear,” </span><a href="https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/investigating-a-tale-of-a-crashed-ufo/" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/investigating-a-tale-of-a-crashed-ufo/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pietro Torre is the compiler of a superb collection of unusual aerial phenomena over the Italian peninsula during the centuries before 1900, just released by UPIAR publications. It contains the terrific amount of 3,400 case stories, presented in two full color volumes, totaling over 1,000 pages. The outstanding work (in Italian) is titled “Strane luci nella storia d’Italia” and can be purchase here: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=179" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=179</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Under this title, the long-time American-Uruguayan ufologist Milton Hourcade has edited a book that includes the result of a survey conducted in 2018 among 22 UFO specialists from eleven different countries, 10 from Europe, 7 from the United States, and 5 from Latin America, who were subjected to the same eight questions. The constant of the interviewees is their reputation and extensive experience in the study of the UFO phenomenon. Although the range of ideas proposed in the answers is wide and differs considerably in some specific cases, clearly a general trend emerges. I prefer that the reader discovers it for himself/herself. Besides being one of the respondents, the author had the deference to ask me to write the preface of this volume.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Mexican investigator Luis Ruiz Noguez has published many excellent books on UFOs. The last one of his works has just been published under the title of La invasion británica (The British Invasion), subtitled as “the day flying saucers landed in England”. For 356 pages, it inspects the Warminster-centered UFOs of the sixties and the subsequent wave of 1967 in the UK. The book can be purchased from Lulu here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5h2gz4j">https://tinyurl.com/y5h2gz4j</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The myth of flying saucers is multi-faceted, and one of these is the photography of alleged beings, entities, occupants, tripulants, pilots, humanoids, visitors, you name them, the aliens whom witnesses associate with landed UFOs. Luis Ruiz Noguez, Mexican chemist and long-time experienced UFO researcher, author, and blogger of the acclaimed “Marcianitos verdes” (Little Green Martians), has collected 380 cases where photographs of supposed outer space navigators come up. He is releasing all his material in a series of extremely well-documented books: Extraterrestres antes las cámaras. Up to now, 10 volumes have seen the light. These are written in Spanish, so I will quickly enumerate them for the benefit of those who are not well aware of advances made by Spanish-speaking ufology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Volume 10 verses on Italian contactees, including one chapter on Porto Rican hybrids:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">To the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Isaac Koi, Barry Greenwood, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Wim van Utrecht, Michael Hudson, Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas, Dr. Ricardo Campo, Roberto Labanti, Kay Coggin, Matías Morey, Manuel Borraz, and Ángel Rodríguez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje </b>(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1) El censo de FOTOCAT alcanza ya 12,388 registros a fecha de hoy. El catálogo aporta datos a investigadores de todo el mundo que solicitan listados específicos, y se nutre al mismo tiempo de información recibida de colegas internacionales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(2) El infatigable Barry Greenwood nos ha hecho llegar un segundo lote procedente de los archivos fotográficos del J.A. Hynek CUFOS. En esencia, se trata de unos 200 archivos fotográficos digitalizados, con su correspondiente información documental, que estamos añadiendo al acervo FOTOCAT. Muchas de las fotos nos eran conocidas, pero aquí rescatamos originales, copias de primera generación o impresiones de buena calidad, lo que permitirá un mejor análisis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Desde la última actualización de este blog, no he añadido ningún trabajo nuevo a la bibliografía. Como sabéis, la investigación requiere tiempo, a veces mucho, y en la actualidad estoy trabajando en tres informes (tres libros, realmente), proyectos que comencé hace años y que irán viendo la luz en 2019, 2020 y 2021. Para los más curiosos, se trata de un análisis de las mejores series de las conocidas como Luces de Marfa, obtenidas en 2003 y 2004. En este estudio colaboro con Manuel Borraz Aymerich. Un segundo ensayo es un compendio de las imágenes relativas a la locura mediática que se desencadenó sobre los platillos volantes en 1947, principalmente en los Estados Unidos. Lo escribo conjuntamente con Barry Greenwood. El tercer libro será el volumen Nº 2 de “Belgium in UFO Photographs”, que abarca la casuística entre 1989 y 2005, incluyendo los fotogramas de la sobresaliente oleada de 1989-1992. Lo firmo como segundo autor con Wim van Utrecht. Espero no resulte decepcionante saber que los tres ensayos están escritos en inglés, pero es que trabajos de tal envergadura hay que dirigirlos a la mayor audiencia posible. A estas alturas ya hay redactadas cerca de 700 páginas y el primero de estos tomos estará disponible en breve. Naturalmente, los libros estarán al alcance del lector estudioso <i>gratis et amore</i>, ya que se colgarán en línea en el portal Academia.edu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Entretanto, ¿puedo hacer alguna sugerencia de lectura? Por ejemplo, investigación de avistamientos en los que participaron militares españoles de los ejércitos de Tierra, Mar o Aire:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“<i>Mirage</i> III rumbo a Valencia” (con Manuel Borraz y Joan Plana), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36897206/MIRAGE_III_RUMBO_A_VALENCIA">https://www.academia.edu/36897206/MIRAGE_III_RUMBO_A_VALENCIA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Expediente militar 660402, Carreira (A Coruña)” (con Julio Plaza del Olmo), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA">https://www.academia.edu/37772999/EXPEDIENTE_MILITAR_660402_CARREIRA</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“El OVNI de La Graña” (con Julio Plaza del Olmo y Mercedes Pullman), <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">O quizás la serie “Documentos oficiales online”, con cuatro títulos tan significativos como estos:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“La monografía de Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea Nº 5: Los informes perdidos de 1975”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“La monografía OVNI del Capitán González de Boado”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Desclasificación OVNI en España: El Mando Operativo Aéreo busca casos perdidos”, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En la anterior edición del blog informé de la publicación de un artículo que he firmado con Julio Plaza del Olmo y Mercedes Pullman: “El OVNI de La Graña”: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">La larga investigación, llevada a cabo a lo largo de varios años, finalizó desmontando la historia de un ovni visto sobre Ferrol en 1966, pescado después por unos marineros que faenaban cerca del Cabo de Peñas, transportado a La Coruña, llevado a la estación naval de La Graña, donde estuvo custodiado un tiempo, durante el que una persona ha manifestado haber visto claramente las letras NASA en su fuselaje. Artículos, libros, webs y blogs se han hecho eco repetidamente de este “suceso”. No hubo tal. La realidad es muy otra y mezcla una observación ovni de poca monta, el hallazgo marino de unas boyas de la NATO en el Mar del Norte y otros elementos, que tuvieron lugar en los años setenta, para producir una verdadera leyenda urbana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Como se comprueba en el informe citado, todas nuestras afirmaciones están debidamente respaldadas con una serie fidedigna de documentos y cartas oficiales, así como reportajes de la época y entrevistas a varios de los participantes en este embrollo. Terminado y divulgado ya el trabajo, nos ha llegado otro documento que queremos mostrar a los lectores. Al inicio de nuestra encuesta remitimos algunas cartas a la Armada solicitando cualquier información que pudiese existir acerca de ese incidente de recuperación y custodia naval en 1966, que era la historia contada en los medios ufológicos. Una de nuestras consultas ‒evacuada concretamente por Julio Plaza‒ fue dirigida al archivo central de la Armada en Madrid. También se efectuó una visita presencial a dicho archivo, para buscar información que pudiera ayudar en la localización de algún expediente relevante. En aquellos momentos todavía manteníamos la hipótesis de que un artefacto de la NASA se recuperó y custodió en La Graña (Ferrol), que era lo que mantenían las fuentes originales de la historia. Así pues, bajo esos parámetros se realizó la búsqueda en el Archivo Central. Con fecha 17 de diciembre de 2018 nos ha llegado su respuesta, con tal retraso (13 meses) que interpretamos es fruto de una búsqueda verdaderamente profunda. Con la firma del director del archivo central del Cuartel General de la Armada, el capitán de navío José Ramón Fernández de Mesa y Temboury, se nos dice lo siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>En relación con la petición de S/REF., comunico que, una vez consultados los elementos de descripción disponibles en este Archivo Central NO CONSTAN ANTECEDENTES relativos al hallazgo en el mar de un artefacto de la NASA en el año 1966.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El abogado e investigador inglés Isaac Koi (<i>nom de plume</i>) destaca por su original y solidario trabajo en pro de la comunidad ufológica mundial. Notable por haber digitalizado docenas de colecciones de revistas en varios idiomas en el sitio web del AFU sueco, ahora nos sorprende con el desarrollo de una herramienta que sirve para cribar los informes de casos ovni aislando aquellos potencialmente solucionables, esto es, un chatbot ufológico (un programa informático interactivo). Aquí describe este instrumento digital con sus propias palabras:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Isaac ha aplicado principios de inteligencia artificial para crear esta ayuda automatizada para el investigador, dirigida a filtrar y resolver informes de avistamientos ovni. Se basó en un diagrama de flujo o esquema que había desarrollado Jenny Randles en su libro <u>UFO Study</u>, posteriormente actualizado por Robert Moore en este PDF:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En mi opinión, lo que Isaac Koi ha creado es uno de los mejores y más proactivos desarrollos en investigación ovni de las últimas décadas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Probablemente el único precedente en nuestro campo de estudio, aunque menos sofisticado, es el programa automático de cálculo establecido en 1995 por Terry Groff, dotado de una calculadora en línea JavaScript basada en el sistema de evaluación Ballester-Guasp</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, integrado oficialmente en el evaluador de informes del Case Management System (sistema de gestión de casos) del MUFON estadounidense. Véanse estas dos referencias: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos y Miguel Guasp, “Standards en la evaluación de los informes OVNI”, <u>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</u>, Plaza & Janés, 1989, páginas 117-135. “Standards in the Evaluation of UFO Reports”, en <u>The Spectrum of UFO Research</u>, Mimi Hynek (editor), J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 1988, páginas 175-182, <a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Spectrum_of_UFO_Research.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Spectrum_of_UFO_Research.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A primeros de febrero de 2019, la Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAE) de Argentina hizo publico su informe anual de evaluación de casos recibidos durante el año anterior y que puede leerse en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_cefae_2018.pdf">https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/informe_cefae_2018.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Como ya nos tiene acostumbrados, el Comodoro (coronel) Rubén Lianza, con la correspondiente aprobación del Brigadier Fabián Otero, secretario general del Estado Mayor General de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina, las 80 páginas de esta monografía representan el paradigma de la verdadera investigación, en mayúsculas, de los avistamientos ovni. Seguir el informe es sentirse en el aula de una universidad técnica escuchando la disertación del profesor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pero en esta ocasión, Lianza se ha superado a sí mismo con dos análisis verdaderamente magistrales de casos antiguos, pero suficientemente enigmáticos como para requerir una nueva indagación de primera mano. En uno, complementando un trabajo anterior, se resuelve una conocida observación aérea en base a la aparición en el cielo de una brillante nube de bario. Pero el más significativo es el estudio del incidente Bariloche (provincia de Rio Negro, 31 de julio de 1995), uno de los más afamados sucesos ovni en Argentina, cuando unas misteriosas luces fueron vistas nada menos que desde dos aviones al mismo tiempo, uno civil y otro militar, sobre el lago Nahuel Huapi. La investigación de Lianza, que confirma resultados previos de Heriberto Janosch, no solo ha incluido la encuesta personal a algunos de los más destacados testigos oculares sino que, para verificar su hipótesis resolutiva (reflejos en las nubes de un cañón de luz dirigido al cielo desde una discoteca), creó una maqueta en 3D de la situación aeronáutica y de la fuente luminosa y contrastó la dependencia y correlación entre los movimientos del cañón de luz (gracias también a la participación directa de quien lo manipulaba) con las diversas secuencias del avistamiento. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A título anecdótico, y a nivel español, en las páginas 10 a 12 se explica la fotografía de un aparente ovni con una imagen que nos recuerda al logotipo de “Ummo”. Seguro que será de especial interés a nuestro amigo José Juan Montejo. No les adelanto la solución, que resulta inesperada. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mi más efusiva felicitación al Comodoro Lianza por la calidad del informe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El ufólogo gaditano y suboficial de Marina Ángel Rodríguez me alertó de las noticias que se publicaban en la prensa digital sobre observación de luces y la presunta caída de una de ellas sobre el tejado de una casa deshabitada en la población de Cogollos de Guadix (Granada) el pasado mes de febrero. Esta localidad se halla en las coordenadas 37º13'28''N, 3º09'39''W. Mi interés en este suceso era más que tangencial, acaso por la posibilidad de que se tratara de una reentrada que hubiera ocasionado daños, lo que no es nada usual. Hay mucha información periodística, pero es pésima, de hecho, ni siquiera la fecha se conoce con exactitud. La hora en que se produjo el boquete aún está menos clara, si bien el alcalde del pueblo indicó que el boquete se produjo en la madrugada del jueves 7 al viernes 8 de febrero. Tal parece que las presuntas luces se vieron poco después de las siete de la tarde del domingo 10 de febrero o en la madrugada del lunes, quizás fueron meras estrellas fugaces vistas por residentes alarmados y ya predispuestos. Las especulaciones de la prensa abarcaban desde un meteorito a un rayo globular, pasando por la pieza de un satélite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inmediatamente revisé el <i>Space Track</i> del NORAD estadounidense, que consigna todos los lanzamientos y reentradas habidos a nivel mundial desde 1957 hasta hoy. Ninguna caída de chatarra espacial se produjo entre el 7 y el 12 de febrero de 2019. Así que esa hipótesis está descartada. Consulté al profesor Josep Mª Trigo, astrofísico y experto en meteoritos, quien confirmó que no se trata de un meteorito. La sugerencia de un rayo en bola es totalmente gratuita, sin mediar ninguna prueba, de hecho, las tejas no presentaban ninguna vitrificación ni otro efecto especial aparte del impacto mecánico que produjo el agujero. Por su parte, el ingeniero de Teleco e investigador Manuel Borraz verificó que la localidad en cuestión está bajo una aerovía, designada como N865 para niveles de vuelo entre 4.100 y 7.500 metros (FL135 a FL245) y como UN865 para niveles entre 7.500 y 14.000 metros (FL245 a FL460). Esto hace más que probable que se tratara de lo que se conoce como un hidroaerolito, agua congelada desprendida de las alas de un avión o restos líquidos procedentes del lavabo de una aeronave. Por la gravedad, un pedazo de hielo caído de tal altura adquiere gran velocidad y se convierte en un verdadero misil con capacidad de producir los daños observados, no olvidemos que la energía generada es igual a la masa por el cuadrado de la velocidad. Además, al fundirse no quedaría ningún resto material. Matías Morey Ripoll, jurista balear que ha estudiado bien el tema de los hidrometeoros, señala que la hipótesis de un hidro aerolito de origen aeronáutico, justo en la vertical de una aerovía, no puede descartarse. Y añade: “El tipo de daños materiales producidos, además, es similar al que se registra en este tipo de incidentes, muy localizados (sin dispersión) y con alto poder de penetración a través de construcciones”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hace años publiqué un articulito sobre una de estas caídas de bloques de hielo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, que luego complementé con una carta al director</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, en la revista especializada </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cuadernos de Ufología</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, cuya lectura podría resultar de interés en la presente ocasión. Por cierto, recuerdo de aquel suceso que un periodista quiso “analizar” el trozo de hielo con el sentido del gusto y lo lamió generosamente, ignorante de que contenía orines y restos de heces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finalmente, sólo añadir que, como suele ocurrir, cuando una historia de esta clase salta a la luz, da motivo a que algunos miren más al cielo y confundan lo que desconocen que de verdad tienen ante sus ojos. El estudioso vasco J.C. Victorio Uranga acaba de escribir una entrada en su blog acerca de un reciente suceso: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos y F.J. Oliver Bayona, “El último suceso que Charles Fort hubiera coleccionado”, <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, Nº 11, 1991, páginas 34-37, </span><a href="http://anomalia.hypermart.net/fort.htm" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://anomalia.hypermart.net/fort.htm</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) V.J. Ballester Olmos, <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, Nº 12, 1992, página 104, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9kvgyvv">https://tinyurl.com/y9kvgyvv</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A uno le gusta también leer materias alejadas de nuestro tema favorito, para airearme intelectualmente y seguir un aprendizaje de nunca acabar. Literatura, novela, biografía, ciencia, etc. El otro día me topé con un interesante ensayo del profesor Fernando Jorge Soto Roland, historiador de la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina), titulado “La ciudad perdida de Kong”, que se publicó en 2017 en <i>La Razón Histórica</i>: <a href="https://docplayer.es/52781070-La-ciudad-perdida-de-kong.html">https://docplayer.es/52781070-La-ciudad-perdida-de-kong.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Encontré en la introducción alguna cita citable, como diría el <i>Reader’s Digest</i>, esas frases profundas que dan de pensar, pero toda la primera parte del artículo ofrece tantos paralelismos con la escritura, escritores e investigadores ufológicos que han convertido lo que podría haber sido un estudio serio en un vergonzante sinsentido, que no me resisto a recomendar su lectura, al tiempo que felicito al profesor Soto Roland por sintetizar tan cabalmente las motivaciones de esos “exploradores” de pacotilla. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Ovni filmado en Manchester (Georgia, EEUU), 9 de septiembre de 1973</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Remito al lector que encuentre fascinante, como yo, el análisis de viejos sucesos dados como ovnis, a la sección en inglés de este blog, donde encontrará la resolución de la filmación en 1973 de una misteriosa luz que fue divisada durante más de dos horas en el cielo nocturno. </span></div>
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<u> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">El ovni subacuático de Carbondale</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">También para el lector en lengua inglesa, he escrito en el apartado anglosajón de esta edición una gacetilla que narra un episodio llamativo sobre el avistamiento de un ovni por unos avispados adolescentes estadounidenses y una luz submarina en un lago de Pennsylvania, fechado en 1974. El caso era conocido, aunque con escasos detalles, y al haberme topado con información de prensa de la época con ilustraciones novedosas he decidido reseñar el suceso y su desenlace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Si hay seguidores aquí del farragoso asunto del programa ovni que se desarrolló en el Pentágono entre 2008 y 2010, un claro asunto de proyecto turbio donde los haya, y no precisamente por interés del gobierno sino de los creyentes en ovnis que lo pusieron en marcha, aprovecho para señalar que, en la primera parte de este noticiario, en inglés, dedico un apartado para dar a informar de las últimas novedades acerca de lo que poco a poco se va conociendo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(1) La destacada, magníficamente bien gestionada y envidiablemente productiva organización italiana Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) ha pasado revista a la oleada de 1978 en su último congreso anual. Ese año representó en el vecino país el periodo de mayor intensidad en cuanto a recepción de informes ovni:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(2) El número 8 de "Cielo Insolito", la revista digital dirigida por Giuseppe Stilo y Maurizio Verga, dedicada a la historia de los ovnis y platillos volantes, se halla disponible online en este enlace: <a href="http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito8.pdf">http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito8.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(3) Marcelo Moya Sanhueza (49 años, batería de una banda de rock) es un meticuloso investigador chileno al que conozco hace años y que ahora ha iniciado su blog “ovni estación”, dedicado al análisis de imágenes de casos ovni recientes en Latinoamérica. Ciertamente es una referencia para seguir regularmente: <a href="https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/">https://ovniestacion.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(4) “El monstruo de Flatwoods. La larga persistencia de lo absurdo” es el título de un nuevo trabajo de la pluma de Fernando Jorge Soto Roland, profesor de Historia en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(5) Para aficionados a los vuelos espaciales, así como para los estudiosos de la ufología, esto es lo último de Jim Oberg, tres ensayos sobre las observaciones del lanzamiento del SpaceX el 8 de octubre de 2018, con ejemplos de confusiones por parte de observadores en tierra visionando la singular fenomenología del encendido de los motores para la reentrada, en: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Y un trabajo sobre observaciones del lanzamiento de la nave Soyuz el 3 de diciembre de 2018: <a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/181203-soyuz_launch.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/181203-soyuz_launch.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(6) ¿Nave nodriza? Alrededor de las dos de la madrugada del 29 de diciembre de 1976 una estela poderosamente brillante fue avistada sobre Portugal y España. La prensa amarilla del momento y los actuales fabricantes de <i>fake news</i> de la ufología ya se han encargado de convertir este incidente en un visitante extraterrestre. Por desgracia para los crédulos, venía del espacio exterior, sí, pero no tenía nada de artificial. Porque se trató de un gran meteoroide, un bólido, que se desintegró mientras penetraba en la atmósfera de la Tierra. Durante su travesía sobre la península ibérica provocó varias observaciones ovni, una de ellas de especial relevancia en los anales de la historia de la casuística ovni en España. Recientemente, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga ha dedicado a este fenómeno dos entradas en su siempre instructivo blog: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(7) Catálogo preliminar de análisis de supuestos “fragmentos” materiales que se han relacionado con observaciones ovni. Recopilado por el veterano investigador australiano Keith Basterfield (noviembre de 2018), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(8) Pedagógico análisis del video de un supuesto ovni grabado desde un helicóptero: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(9) Ovni gemelo sobre el famoso lago Ness en Escocia que se resuelve en un reflejo sobre una ventana de doble panel:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(10) Brian Dunning escribe sobre el suceso de Cash-Landrum, durante el que los observadores sufrieron supuestas lesiones que requirieron tratamiento hospitalario: <a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4652">https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4652</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Y también sobre el mismo asunto vemos esto en el blog de Curt Collins: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(11) Me he enterado en un post de David Marler del reciente fallecimiento de Larry Hatch. Este ufólogo norteamericano es conocido principalmente por haber creado una base de datos llamada *U*, con cerca de 19.000 informes ovni registrados hasta el año 2006: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycj7uyhb">https://tinyurl.com/ycj7uyhb</a> Durante la década de los noventa y principio de este siglo sostuve un intercambio regular de emails con Larry, que combinaba la exactitud de su información y su enorme capacidad de cooperación con una gran simpatía y afabilidad, hasta que tuvo un ataque fulminante, probablemente un ictus, que lo dejó imposibilitado y que lo llevó a una residencia. Hemos perdido a otro prominente investigador. Véase este recordatorio:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(12) Traduzco del inglés: “¿Nave alienígena emitiendo haces de energía, o qué? Es una publicación de Mark Easen, del departamento de investigaciones del BUFORA británico: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(14) Esto va dirigido a los estudiosos del rayo en bola. Encontramos este extenso capítulo sobre la materia del rayo globular, “Ball Lightning: A New Step in Understanding”, de dos autoridades rusas en esta disciplina, Vladimir L. Bychkov and Anatoly I. Nikitin, en el libro <u>The Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Elementary Processes, Monitoring, and Ball Lightning (Physics of Earth and Space Environments)</u>, editado por V.L. Bychkov, G. V. Golubkov & A. I. Nikitin y publicado por Springer International, Suiza, 2014, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3y54d3k">https://tinyurl.com/y3y54d3k</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(15) “Cote sélective d'appréciation (CSA) des signalements ovniens” (Calificación de evaluación selectiva de avistamientos ovni), ensayo de Marc Leduc, 2019, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38441431/Cote_s%C3%A9lective_dappr%C3%A9ciation_CSA_des_signalements_ovniens?email_work_card=view-paper">https://www.academia.edu/38441431/_CSA_des_signalements_ovniens?email_work_card=view-paper</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Resumen: <i>Aparte del esfuerzo más o menos exitoso de identificación positiva de los objetos reportados en informes de ovnis, se hace necesaria una apreciación de su valor. Los índices de extrañeza (E) y probabilidad (P) elaborados por J. Allen Hynek fueron importantes. Los hemos sistematizado en una forma de calificación selectiva de apreciación (CSA) conveniente, definida y gráfica, que utilizamos en la base de datos CASUFO. La usamos para crear grupos experimentales y grupos de control. Todo está integrado en un método de identificación progresiva de los objetos observados y también sirve para testar varias hipótesis.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(16) “Mythmaking in Alien Abduction Narratives” (Creación de mitos en las narraciones de abducción alienígena), por Stephanie Kelley-Romano, publicado originalmente en la revista Communication Quarterly, Vol. 54, Nº. 3, agosto de 2006, pp. 383-406, ahora está disponible en el portal Academia.edu: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Resumen: <i>El examen del discurso de abducción alienígena tiene el potencial de informar nuestra comprensión de las prácticas simbólicas. Este ensayo utiliza 130 narraciones de individuos que afirman haber tenido contacto con seres extraterrestres para argumentar que el discurso de abducción extraterrestre es un mito viviente. Este mito, el Mito de Comunión, es retóricamente significativo porque ilustra el poder formativo de la narración y también revela ciertas características de nuestra condición cultural.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(17) Nick Redfern glosa el libro de Andy Roberts sobre el supuesto estrellamiento de un ovni en la montaña Berwyn (norte de Gales) en 1974 y dice: "(la obra) demuestra cómo se debe emprender a investigación de un evento de tales características, aunque las conclusiones no son lo que algunas almas exclusivamente guiadas por sus creencias desean escuchar", <a href="https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/investigating-a-tale-of-a-crashed-ufo/">https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/investigating-a-tale-of-a-crashed-ufo/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(18) El sector crédulo de la ufología, combinado con aquellos que hacen de este tejemaneje su patética razón de llegar a fin de mes, pone el grito en el cielo cuando explicamos los avistamientos ovni como, por ejemplo, los producidos por la observación de un planeta. Y es que los hechos son así de tozudos, la inmensa mayoría de los informes ovni son errores de observación, exacerbados por los articulistas de turno. Hace días, revisando viejos papeles me encontré con un artículo publicado en el boletín <i>El Ojo Crítico</i> de octubre de 2008: “¿12km perseguido por un <i>foo-fighter</i>?”, decía. Enseguida me olí la tostada, algo astronómico estaba acosando a los impresionables testigos, cuyo relato magnificó un investigador de poca monta. Pregunté a uno de nuestros mejores analistas de observaciones ovni, el vasco Juan Carlos Victorio. Y al segundo me respondió, en su día ya estudió y resolvió el caso: se trataba de una confusión estándar de Venus. Aquí va el enlace a su blog con la resolución del caso: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Reseña de La Invasión Británica</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Luis Ruiz Nóguez, ingeniero químico mejicano e infatigable investigador, es un autor prolífico y formidable recopilador de información en varios ámbitos de lo insólito y desconocido, no en vano su web es una de las más contundentes y abarrotadas de noticias del universo ufológico, la afamada “Marcianitos Verdes” (<a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/</a>). Ruiz acaba de publicar su enésimo libro, “La invasión británica”, subtitulado “El día que aterrizaron los platos voladores en Inglaterra”, de 356 páginas: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5h2gz4j">https://tinyurl.com/y5h2gz4j</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El primer párrafo de la Introducción ya revela el pensamiento del autor, la quintaesencia de sus conclusiones tras décadas de dedicación al estudio de supuestos avistamientos de ovnis:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>No hay algo como el fenómeno ovni, pero hay un montón de fenómenos que producen los informes ovni. No hay tal cosa como “ovnis verdaderos”. Los relatos de experiencias ovni forman el núcleo del síndrome, pero las historias no constituyen “evidencia”, son folclore. La cultura, no la experiencia, crea la interpretación ovni, pero algunas experiencias son independientes de la cultura. El síndrome ovni cumple el papel de lo “Otro” sobrenatural. La hipótesis extraterrestre y otras teorías exóticas no pueden explicar los ovnis. La idea de una super conspiración para ocultar la verdad sobre los ovnis es infalsificable. El denominador común en las historias de ovnis son los seres humanos y creer en ellos. La gente quiere creer en los ovnis. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pero no es mi propósito, con esta nota, valorar el (por otra parte, certero y realista) razonamiento de Ruiz, sino comentar este último volumen con el que nos ha regalado. Cubre lo que en ufología llamaríamos un <i>flap</i> o incremento súbito, más o menor elongado en el tiempo, de denuncias de observaciones ovni en una región geográfica muy acotada. Estas oleadas son algo muy característico del “fenómeno ovni”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, de hecho, ese patrón que se clona aquí y allá, afianza la naturaleza sociológica de esta quimera de los no identificados.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En el caso concreto de este libro, los incidentes se centran en la localidad de Warminster, en el condado inglés de Wiltshire, fundamentalmente en el verano de 1965. Tras unos preliminares consistentes en noticias de inquietantes sonidos escuchados por algunos vecinos a finales de 1964, a principios de 1965 se pasó de fenómenos auditivos a visuales, lo que llamaríamos “ovnis”. Un papel preponderante en la difusión ‒y, seguro, la extensión‒ de esta oleada lo jugó Arthur Shuttlewood, entonces reportero de <i>The Warminster Journal</i>, posteriormente mutado a ferviente creyente y autor nada menos que de seis libros sobre este asunto, publicados entre 1967 y 1979. A eso se le llama explotar algo hasta la saciedad. Escribe Ruiz:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Shuttlewood estima que, a mediados de 1966, 420 personas habían visto “La Cosa” </i>[vocablo usado localmente para denominar el ente transgresor]<i> y que, a fines de 1966, el propio equipo de Shuttlewood había visto 972 ovnis. El pico de la actividad ovni ocurrió en los años 1965 a 1966 </i>(página 53)<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Me centraré en los casos ovni propiamente dichos, pero antes un apunte de una situación insólita que indica el tenso ambiente creado hasta entonces (y una motivación para instigar posteriores contagios, dicho sea de paso): el 25 de agosto de 1965, el presidente del consejo municipal de Warminster y el jefe de la Cámara de Comercio convocaron una reunión pública en el Ayuntamiento, “para disipar los temores de que los sucesos fueran un peligro para la Tierra”. Más de 200 personas atiborraron la reunión. Lo bien cierto es que ese fin de semana la población de la ciudad pasó de 11.000 a más de 18.000 habitantes. Ruiz cita a Christopher Evans: “los pubs se secaron de cerveza por primera vez desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial” (página 68).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El libro, además de ser un relato pormenorizado de todo lo que sucedió en torno a Warminster, en lo tocante a ovnis, es una galería de personajes, un quién hizo qué en las vivencias e historias de la época ‒mediados de los sesenta‒ en la región. Dividido en dos partes, la primera (once capítulos), versa fundamentalmente en el papel jugado por Arthur Shuttlewood en la larga serie de acontecimientos que allí ocurrieron. La segunda (seis capítulos) se dedica a la subsiguiente (y más que previsible, inevitable más bien) oleada nacional británica de 1967. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">La obra recoge a la perfección los prolegómenos, la intensidad central y la paulatina desaparición (aunque estas cosas nunca terminan de desvanecerse) de la oleada de Warminster de 1965. Y muestra el papel que jugaron periodistas e investigadores en la trama. Un capítulo que me ha fascinado particularmente es el séptimo, “El juego de los datos”. Es especialmente significativo porque abunda en una de las peores facetas de la práctica ufológica: la degradación de la información. Ruiz ha aflorado este problema con claridad. Los relatos de los avistamientos, las horas, los nombres, las circunstancias. Los datos. Todo es sujeto de distorsión y de cambio de un autor a otro, de una fuente a otra. Este trasfuguismo de la información siembra la duda perenne de que las declaraciones de los testigos sean inexactas cuando las leemos en una publicación. La sensación ‒más que eso‒ es que lo que estudiamos es apenas una forma de literatura de ficción sin siquiera retazos de realidad. Por todo ello, esos reportajes, esos artículos, esos libros carecen de valor probatorio y lo que arrojan no pueden considerarse datos fidedignos. El análisis estadístico o temático conduce irremediablemente a falsas conclusiones. Esa es una de las tragedias del estudio de los ovnis. No podemos fiarnos de la información que circula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lo que ocurre es que determinar el fondo de ciertas narraciones cuesta un tiempo considerable y, generalmente, no compensa, ya que muchas veces verificamos que los eventos o incidentes originales resultan irreales, falsos o, simplemente, son de naturaleza más que prosaica. </span></div>
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este contexto, viene a cuento un ejemplo que hemos analizado
recientemente. La prensa ufológica española se ha ocupado en
bastantes ocasiones de un acontecimiento supuestamente acaecido en
1966 con varios ingredientes, un avistamiento ovni por militares, una
fotografía, el vuelo de un ovni sobre Ferrol (La Coruña) y la
recuperación en el mar de un vehículo aeronáutico de la NASA. Una
serie de sucesos que se presentaron como directamente relacionados
entre sí. Después de una laboriosa investigación, logramos llegar
al fondo del asunto y lo que encontramos fue una torpe mezcla de
hechos sin conexión y que tuvieron lugar en años distantes entre
sí. Les aconsejo la lectura del informe que redactamos</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></span></sup></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Podría pensar que lo que estoy mostrando aquí es cuán poco confiables eran los datos que se estaban grabando y transmitiendo en Warminster. Pero creo que es mucho peor que eso. Creo que esto muestra cuán poco fiables pueden ser los datos forteanos; particularmente aquel primero escrito o en algún momento reescrito por los periodistas. Y si se puede cambiar tanto ‒incluso elementos simples como fechas, horas y números‒ al cruzar el Atlántico, piense cuánto más daño se puede hacer cuando los datos cruzan la barrera del idioma </i>(página 134). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">La oleada de Warminster trajo consigo el gran abanico de la fenomenología, ufológica, incluyendo los casos de “humanoides”, al que Ruiz dedica el extenso capítulo 8. En cuanto a fotografías, apartado que me interesa sobremanera en el contexto del proyecto FOTOCAT, se hace hincapié en que las dos colinas principales de la zona, Cradle Hill y Starr Hill, se convirtieron en el centro de reunión de aficionados, creyentes, curiosos e investigadores, desde donde se tomaron muchas fotografías nada concluyentes: <i>Arthur Shuttlewood se convirtió en el gurú, un sumo sacerdote de los ufólogos que visitaron las colinas de Warminster,</i> leemos en la </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">página 85.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El testimonio gráfico más popular y mediático de la época fue la imagen conseguida por el joven de 23 años Gordon Faulkner el 29 de agosto de 1965, detalladamente documentada en el capítulo 9. No quiero adelantar nada de lo que Ruiz ha escrito al respecto, baste decir que documenta perfectamente todo lo relativo a la foto dichosa, así como otras menores. Algún otro debió gastarse una fortuna en carretes de película y revelado, como Bob Strong, que llegó a tomar 3.623 fotografías, de varios cientos de aeronaves, y 3.500 películas (en éstas, curiosamente, no se materializó nada)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El documentadísimo libro de Ruiz no menciona, sin embargo, el informe sobre la fotografía de Faulkner que hizo en julio de 1967 el Cambridge University Group for the Investigation of UFOs, un grupo de miembros de esta universidad, a solicitud de Charles Bowen, director de la <i>Flying Saucer Review</i> (FSR), quien mandó a James Wadsworth, uno de los investigadores principales del proyecto ovni de la Universidad de Colorado, una versión mecanografiada del informe manuscrito. Este informe, junto con otros papeles de la correspondencia del proyecto dirigido por el Dr. Edward Condon, se hallaba en los archivos del NICAP, y fueron felizmente escaneados en 2017 por Barry Greenwood. La conclusión de dicho informe avala el veredicto de fraude y dice concretamente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Las resultantes fotos del “fenómeno” se publicaron y analizaron en la FSR. El reputado astrofísico francés Dr. Pierre Guérin las estudió y afirmó que no solamente no podían ser falsificadas, sino que, al presentar diferencias entre las imágenes registradas y lo que se observó visualmente, eso implicaba que el ovni emitía luz ultravioleta. Fue un escándalo cuando los autores del experimento confesaron el fraude. La posición de Guérin y la de aquellos que habían sostenido que se trató de un ovni verdadero quedó muy deteriorada. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Los autores del experimento han publicado varios artículos al respecto</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3,4</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Esto es lo que concluyeron:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Los engaños han sido una herramienta útil para evaluar la destreza para la observación y las habilidades de investigación de los ufólogos. Éstos han ilustrado claramente que los humanos ven lo que quieren ver y que la calidad de las investigaciones sobre ovnis es generalmente muy pobre.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En España, años después también se experimentó con el mismo concepto. En 1978, un grupo de personas interesadas por la investigación científica del fenómeno ovni, pertenecientes a los grupos CEP y CEI, coordinados por Félix Ares de Blas, decidieron comprobar si una oleada se podía inducir, o cuán fiables eran los relatos de los testigos. Para ello, pusieron en marcha el Proyecto Iván. Primero hicieron una campaña de activación, en la que unos testigos experimentales contaron a la prensa que habían visto un ovni. Tales noticias crearon el ambiente propicio para que se dieran más casos espontáneos. Posteriormente, un día de luna nueva usaron las luces de un coche con filtros de distintos colores que encendieron intermitentemente desde una montaña próxima a Irún (Guipúzcoa). Un grupo de encuestadores registraban lo que describían los observadores en Irún. Se comprobó cómo se estimulaba una “oleada” y que los testigos se inventaban colores y movimientos inexistentes, incluso algunos vieron "aterrizar" al ovni y haber visto un humanoide. Hasta un conocido reportero dijo haber entrevistado a dos testigos que los encuestadores se habían inventado y que no existían</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Se pregunta Ruiz: ¿hay una explicación para “La Cosa”? En el capítulo 11, se relacionan los avistamientos de Warminster con operaciones en las instalaciones militares de la zona, en alguna de las cuales se ensayaban nuevos y secretos tipos de aviones de la tecnología más avanzada. Y, curiosamente, se conecta el efecto de la lectura de los libros de Shuttlewood con la motivación de la pareja de jubilados Doug Bower y Dave Chorley para comenzar la creación de círculos en las cosechas de maíz, que luego dio pie a sofisticados y artísticos glifos, luego exportados a otros muchos países y asociados, como no podía ser de otra forma, con la llegada de los extraterrestres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tras tanto tiempo de noticias en los medios locales, el contagio se extendió a nivel nacional, de ahí la siguiente oleada de 1967 en el Reino Unido. Un catálogo de cerca de 90 casos, de todas clases y a lo largo de Gran Bretaña, se expone en el capítulo 12. La saga de los platillos volantes contiene altas dosis de fraude-broma en los episodios más notables. Así, por ejemplo, la siembra en suelo inglés (Kent, Somerset y Wiltshire) el 4 de septiembre de 1967 de varios artefactos manufacturados por jóvenes estudiantes de ingeniería, con la forma estereotípica de discos volantes. Ruiz se ocupa extensamente de esta peripecia y de su impacto en el país y en el ministerio de Defensa en los últimos cinco capítulos de su obra, así que no lo alargaré más, excepto añadir esta foto de uno de los cacharros que se diseminaron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ya de cosecha propia, diré que en enero de 2019 FOTOCAT tenía 12.358 casos fotográficos, de los cuales 525 pertenecen a Gran Bretaña (UK, Gales y Escocia), un 4,2% del total. Si la población mundial es de ~7.500 millones de habitantes y la británica de ~66 millones (0,9%), esto significa que el índice de casos producido en el país es cuatro veces superior al que demográficamente le correspondería. Y no es de extrañar porque el fenómeno ovni tiene fundamentalmente una raíz anglosajona. Es un dato que constatamos. Para el Reino Unido, FOTOCAT tiene registrados 510 informes gráficos entre 1950 y 2005. Su distribución por década es la siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este libro contiene, además, 28 páginas de ilustraciones, facsímiles y fotos y la obra se cierra con un imponente listado de referencias que llena siete páginas. Algo desacostumbrado para los libros en español de esta materia, un índice de 18 páginas clausura el volumen. Muy recomendado. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “UFO Waves: An International Bibliography”, GEIPAN web,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(2) Julio Plaza del Olmo, V.J. Ballester Olmos y Mercedes Pullman, “El OVNI de La Graña”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(3) David I. Simpson, “Experimental UFO Hoaxing”, MUFOB New Series, 2, marzo de 1976,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(4) David Simpson y Ken Raine, “An Account of Experimental UFO Hoaxing”, Magonia, 75, julio de</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2001, <a href="http://magonia.haaan.com/2009/ufo-hoaxing/">http://magonia.haaan.com/2009/ufo-hoaxing/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pietro Torre (CISU) ha recopilado una soberbia colección de casos de fenómenos aéreos raros, insólitos o excepcionales ocurridos a través de los siglos, anteriores a 1900. En más de mil páginas y dos volúmenes a todo color, encontramos nada menos que 3.400 relatos, bellamente editados por la editorial UPIAR. El magnífico trabajo se titula “Strane luci nella storia d’Italia” y puede adquirirse en este enlace </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bajo el título (traducido del inglés) “Alienígenas, astronaves y fraudes”, el veterano investigador uruguayo afincado en los Estados Unidos Milton Hourcade, ha publicado un libro que recoge el resultado de una encuesta realizada en 2018 a 22 especialistas de once países de Europa (10), Estados Unidos (7) y Latinoamérica (5), que fueron sometidos a las mismas ocho preguntas. La constante de los entrevistados es su reputación y extensa experiencia en el estudio del fenómeno ovni, aunque el rango de ideas propuestas en las respuestas es amplio y difiere considerablemente en algunos casos concretos, la tónica general es clara. Prefiero que el lector la descubra por sí mismo. Además de ser uno de los encuestados, el autor tuvo la deferencia de pedirme que escribiera el prefacio de la obra. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tras las primeras 177 páginas y hasta la 266, el libro incluye la exposición de dos avistamientos de los llamados clásicos y que, en opinión de algunos expertos, siguen siendo inexplicados. El del RB-47 de la Fuerza Aérea norteamericana, equipado con dispositivos de contramedidas electrónicas y tripulado por seis oficiales, que el 17 de julio de 1957 fue presuntamente seguido por un objeto volante no identificado durante 700 millas durante una hora y media, sobrevolando Misisipi, Luisiana, Tejas y Oklahoma. El otro caso incluido ocurrió en la mañana del 24 de octubre de 1968 en la base aérea de Minot (Dakota del norte), cuando el personal de seguridad y mantenimiento estacionado en el complejo de misiles balísticos intercontinentales <i>Minuteman</i> observó hasta dos ovnis. El objeto (en realidad, una luz intensa) fue visto también por la tripulación de un B-52H en vuelo en aproximación a la base. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">El mito de los platillos volantes tiene muchos lados, multitud de facetas. Una de tales son las pretendidas fotografías de seres, entes, tripulantes, ocupantes humanoides, pilotos ‒llámenles como quieran‒ de las supuestas naves que les transportan por el espacio. Son los alienígenas que algunos testigos vinculan a los ovnis que han aterrizado. Luis Ruiz Noguez, experimentado investigador, autor y bloguero, de cuyo penúltimo libro me acabo de ocupar, ha recopilado nada menos que 380 casos donde aparecen presuntos visitantes del espacio. Luis está publicando todo ese material en una serie de volúmenes extremadamente bien documentados, bajo el título genérico de <u>Extraterrestres ante las cámaras</u>. Hasta ahora lleva editados 10 tomos, que relaciono seguidamente, a través de las mismas palabras de su autor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En este segundo volumen nos ocupamos de las fotografías de supuestos fetos y bebés extraterrestres. Desfilan los casos de los cochihumanos, los extraterrestres punk, Toy y el humanoide de Colombia, Aleshenka, los extraterrestres enlatados, el bebé Schmied, Rubber Johnny, las momias ET de Tutankamon, Dora la niña de las estrellas y Casper la momia ET de Wyoming:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Este tercer tomo fue revisado por Diego Zúñiga Contreras, uno de los editores de la revista La Nave de los locos. La edición rústica cuenta con fotografías en blanco y negro y pasta blanda:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Este cuarto tomo está dedicado al comandante Clomro. El libro contiene 130 fotografías en blanco y negro y cuenta la historia de Clomro y de todos los "extraterrestres" relacionados con él:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Argentina, tierra de ovnis. Una de las casuísticas ufológicas más ricas es la de la República Argentina. En el tema de las fotografías de supuestos extraterrestres no se podía quedar atrás. Este es un libro prologado por el Dr. Roberto Banchs y en él nos ocupamos de los ETs fotografiados en Argentina:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Para finales del siglo pasado y principios del presente, la ufología chilena se había convertido en un hervidero. No sólo mis amigos estaban muy activos, también y sobre todo los ufólogos. El chupacabras hizo su aparición, lo mismo que otros bichos y entes supuestamente provenientes de las estrellas. En poco tiempo Chile se hizo de un grupo muy nutrido de “fotografías de extraterrestres”. No podía dejar de ocuparme de ellas:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En este séptimo volumen nos ocupamos de algunos casos clásicos de la ufología que comprenden “evidencia fotográfica” de humanoides. Hay tres casos europeos, dos de ellos ingleses (Ikley Moor y Templeton) y uno italiano (Monguzi). Por la parte americana son tres casos, todos de USA (Ronnie Hill, Falkville y Loco):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Existe una extraña fascinación con los contactados. Es muy similar a la que tienen ellos con los extraterrestres. De no ser porque se inclinaron por la mentira patológica, algunos de ellos hubieran podido ser buenos escritores de ciencia ficción. En este volumen número 8 repasamos algunos casos particulares relacionados con fotografías de supuestos extraterrestres:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En la actualidad si uno habla de contactados ineludiblemente se tiene que referir a Billy Meier. El suizo ha llevado el contactismo a niveles nunca vistos. Sus fotografías de platillos volantes superan en mucho a la de todos los demás contactados juntos. No podemos decir lo mismo de sus fotografías de extraterrestres. Las obtenidas por Meier son de las peores que han aparecido en la historia de la ufología. En este noveno volumen, además de Meier, nos ocupamos de varios otros contactados, como El Príncipe Neosom, la Princesa Lechuza Lunar y otros:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">En el volumen número 10 nos ocupamos de las fotografías de supuestos extraterrestres obtenidas por los grupos contactistas italianos. Hay un capítulo especialmente dedicado a la ufología de Puerto Rico, con sus "híbridos" y contactados:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nos guste o no, estimado lector, esto es de lo que trata la ufología, o la ovnilogía en versión Latina. Son la clase de historias que algunas personas cuentan. Fiabilidad nula, falsedad total, pero arropadas por mucha cobertura mediática. A estudiar la razón de ello. Cargas de desinformación a un público que ignora que todo ello es tramposo y mentira. Luis Ruiz, con sus libros, educa a los interesados. ¡Buen trabajo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">La familia crece en edad y en número. A mis nietos Lucas y Fernando se les ha unido el bebé Matías.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Isaac Koi, Barry Greenwood, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Wim van Utrecht, Michael Hudson, Prof. Dr. Félix Ares de Blas, Dr. Ricardo Campo, Roberto Labanti, Kay Coggin, Matías Morey, Manuel Borraz Aymerich, Ángel Rodríguez y Jaime Servera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">De estos libros, hay ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) The case counter reflects 12,339 entries to date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Barry Greenwood sent a 217-item file of photographic UFO cases from the archives of Dr. Michael Swords. Both images and reports are being added to our digital database and physical records.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am glad to announce the publication of two brand-new papers I have written in collaboration with other partners. Both articles have in common the event location: Ferrol, a city of the A Coruña province, in the Spanish northwest. If added to another recent release, these give shape to a trilogy of works centered on year 1966 in Spain. These certainly contribute novel and creative information certain to interest both UFO researchers, students of contemporary legends, and space research buffs. Let me first remind you this paper already notified in the last blog’s update:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a paper coauthored with physicist Julio Plaza del Olmo. It treats an alleged UFO picture taken by a Navy first-class corporal from a radio reception facility close to Ferrol (A Coruña). Entitled “Expediente militar 660402, Carreira” (Military File 660402, Carreira), it reviews a UFO file dated April 1966 that was released by the Spanish Air Force during its declassification process held 1992-1999. The official report includes a picture that we have analyzed, leading us to conclude that the object seen and photographed could be the Moon. In addition, the date of the event would be different from what the original report indicated. The formal link to the paper (written in Spanish) is the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were more than rumors that in 1966 a UFO was sighted in Ferrol, a city that houses an important Spanish Navy base. The story, as published in pulp and gossip UFO magazines, tells about a UFO overflying the city, crashing on the sea, the subsequent finding of wreckage by sailors, and its custody in La Graña naval station. Finally, the UFO is said to be an American military drone or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle prototype being tested or directly spying over the naval base. The story has become sort of an urban legend in UFO circles in Spain. An interdisciplinary team formed by Mercedes Pullman, Julio Plaza and I has been investigating in depth this case to find out what was true and what was fiction. The research sailed unto several different fields of expertise and the inquiry has disclosed unexpected, untold pieces of historical information that mix some real facts and lots of imagination. The resulting paper is 51 pages long, written in Spanish, entitled “El ovni de La Graña” (The La Graña UFO), and can be found here: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Author’s Research Bibliography 1965-2018</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the last months, thanks to the invaluable initiative of Isaac Koi, lots of major and minor UFO journals in various languages have been placed online in the Swedish AFU server. It has allowed me to add online links to dozens of my articles originally written in Spanish or translated into French, published in magazines of Europe and Latin America. Therefore, my bibliography of over 50 years, now including the input of year 2018, has been revamped and updated in this permanent link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>The Inexhaustible Wave of 1954</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had reasonably inferred that the information on UFO events for the year 1954 had already been exhausted, at least as far as photographic reports are concerned, when in 2008 I released my monograph <u>The Year 1954 in Photos (Expanded)</u>, <a href="https://app.box.com/shared/y1mufymo8w">https://app.box.com/shared/y1mufymo8w</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But far from true. A few unbeknown cases came to light through the cooperation of international colleagues. Now, the indefatigable Kay Massingill, has found no less than a trio of new gems. Nothing out of the world if we think of the items as possibly related to the ETH, rather to the psychosocial scheme of the things. Let us see what we’ve got. The Australian <i>Daily Telegraph</i> of Sydney of June 16, 1954 inserted a news item which also carried the solution plainly in its title: “Flying Saucer (Imaginary). Hoax picture was ‘taken’ in boarding-house room.” It was accompanied by a photograph that will be familiar to many readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The newspaper informed that 24-year-old German Alfred Tauber, who arrived in Australia just two years before, brought two pictures to the editor saying he took those at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 1954, when he was with a friend on the Mt. Kembla Road. This came one day after the same newspaper reported about a UFO sighting by two members of the local Weather Bureau, Messrs. Smith and McKinnon, in those very Sydney skies on June 14 (incidentally, probably a hot air balloon). “It took eight hours of the time of two of our representatives and a trip to the South Coast to prove this picture was a hoax,” the journal remarked. In view of this, young Herr Tauber confessed he had drawn two views of the saucer, painted parts of them, and then pasted the drawings on a black carton. He had then photographed the drawings in the room, moving the camera slightly to get a blurring effect. He then said he set it out “to show how easily ‘evidence’ of saucers could be faked.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As any reader will have realized, the resemblance (i.e. inspiration) of the UFO fake was one of the saucers made by the infamous US contactee George Adamski.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second case rescued from oblivion is dated January 10, 1954, also from Down Under, now in Blackwood, South Australia. The edition of the daily tabloid The News of Adelaide of January 14 reproduced a crude snapshot of a disc-shaped odd spot appearing above a telegraph pole, a “flying saucer” according to the cameraperson, a certain Miss L. Buckley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She had submitted a letter to the newspaper which read in part: “Herewith authentic photograph of a flying saucer seen over Cliff Street, Blackwood, on Sunday afternoon.” But it added a revealing Post Scriptum: “We’re one saucer short in our crockery set now.” Of course, the journal had a staff comment to close: “I respectfully suggest that Miss Buckley has as much chance as her famous namesake of winning the Mail’s £100 award.” Probably a couple of clarifications are in order: William Buckley (died 1856) was an English convict transported to Australia who escaped and lived with aboriginal people until reincorporated to the society. <i>Wikipedia</i> explains that “Buckley's improbable survival is believed by many Australians to be the source of the vernacular phrase "you've got Buckley's,” which means "no chance". Secondly, the Mail (now <i>Sunday Mail</i>) is an Adelaide newspaper covering weekend sports. Like other press outlets in Europe, this journal established a prize in cash to anyone who provided a true picture of a flying saucer. Also, the <i>Melbourne Argus</i> offered £1000 for the first fully authenticated picture of a flying saucer taken in Victoria. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third recovered picture case comes from the US. It is said to be the year’s first “saucer”, as the <i>Jersey Journal</i> of January 2, 1954 titled this photograph with the following caption: “Joseph Lutz, left, and Herman Flavel show how an object they thought was a flying saucer struck traffic light pole at Henderson Street and Pavonia, Jersey City.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It clocked in at 8:35 last night,” the periodical reported, when a flying thing attempting a landing struck a traffic signal and went winging into the side of a tavern at 160 Pavonia Avenue. Three local men standing at the intersection with Henderson witnessed the phenomenon. All of a sudden: “Whoosh…The ‘saucer’ zoomed past them and into the side of the building…Upon closer inspection, it had a striking resemblance to that of a crumpled bread box,” the <i>Journal</i> wrote. Apparently, it had been kicked up by a passing motorist at “90 miles an hour down Henderson Street.” The thing was white and decorated with the portrait of a large red rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The paper’s editor -not knowingly- anticipated that this “saucer probably may set the 1954 fashion for flying saucers all over the world.” Little did he know that in the months to follow, such a magnificent volume of UFO reports, including lots of alleged “real” landings, would be spread in Europe and abroad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Are We Alone?</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I happened to find this item: <a href="https://theconversation.com/are-we-alone-the-question-is-worthy-of-serious-scientific-study-98843">https://theconversation.com/are-we-alone-the-question-is-worthy-of-serious-scientific-study-98843</a> It immediately evoked in me some thoughts and reactions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speculative and utopian thoughts are free. Be you a laureated scientist, an amateur science-lover, or a layperson. Kevin Knuth is an associate professor of physics in the University of Albany in New York. In the online journal <i>The Conversation</i> of June 28, 2018, he posited the old question “Are We Alone,” for a self-reply. I was amazed to read unproved statements such as: “Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.” Why does he imagine that this social behavior is the ordinary, widespread one? Is he speaking of the US society, the Asiatic world, or the European community? The truth is that people go <i>en masse</i> to watch sci-fi movies where extraterrestrials come to our planet. People are more than familiarized with the concept. I would even bet that sympathy towards the concept is more generic than antipathy or fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone should make a poll of citizens: are you afraid that we find intelligent life in the universe? Or even a more direct one: “Would you be afraid if friendly extraterrestrials arrived on the Earth?” In my opinion, most people would be seduced by the possibility. Perhaps not in the same proportion in Scandinavia as in the US conservative States, yet globally speaking I am certain that curiosity and expectation would overcome apprehensiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boring Fermi paradox is also brought up. If, in theory, there are lots of technologically advanced civilizations in our galaxy, why have they not contacted us yet? Damn! Because of the distances and speed limitations. Or because they have not found us. Or because we are uninteresting. Or dangerous. There are so many responses. Matter-of-factly, there is no need to invoke the idea that the lights in the sky some persons misperceive are the missing alien spacecrafts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author Knuth seem to feed from rumors: “Many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters,” he writes. Yes, during decades governments were unable to handle population’s UFO reports, and the military responsible for the air space closed the data under seven keys. By pure ignorance and a brute tendency to use the SECRET stamps. But this is already history. Even a physics professor must do his homework. In the last years, many nations have disclosed their entire UFO archives and placed them in the public domain, as nothing scientifically extraordinary has been detected, including no threat to national security or flight safety. The article I am commenting on, however, conveys the wrong impression that governments know more than they declare. The conspiracy fable moves on. For me, to disseminate false, unconfirmed information is unforgivable for a member of the education collectivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The UFO topic is a taboo,” Knuth goes on to affirm. This is another fad. Has he probed the history of ufology? He should be aware that many respected scientists have studied or tackled the UFO mystery along the years. Mainstream periodicals like <i>Science</i> or the <i>Astrophysical Journal</i> have published about UFOs. There must be over 50 UFO books written by scientists. A few hundreds of Ph.D. theses and other university dissertations have covered the UFO problem worldwide. Is this a taboo theme? Come on. Quite another thing is that scientists, once they have reviewed the authentic level of evidence in existence, end up convinced that there is nothing that can advance current scientific knowledge by plunging into UFO reports. If a given subject is dismissed by established science workers, it does not mean it is taboo, it is simply that it is recognized as unexploitable, useless, or dumb. Who in the professional world would avoid a subject which potentially could bolster one’s career? Unless it is gauged not to render any intellectual profit if you are a physical or natural sciences investigator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the extreme of illogical thinking is found in another sentence: “I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda.” Who is speaking here, a university professor or a member of the Exopolitics sect? Is the rational, down-to-earth, canonical approach a belief? Is now William of Ockham convict to the stake? Not the preposterous claims, not the wild contacts, not the absurd interpretations of cases, not the sensation-seeker and money-seeker motivations? I do not know which world you are living on, Mister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last part of this biased text has to do with government information. The information we find in this section is superficial and poor. It would be acceptable as an initial work for alumni but not for a professor. Knuth exclaims: “If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent.” A perfect idea. Only that it comes 70 years late. In all this time, no flying saucer visits have been substantiated. On the contrary, most of the big, important, classic cases that served to sustain the ETH have proved solvable. Other unknowns arise from bad observation, limited data, or misleading preliminary study. If someone disagrees, I invite them to submit the evidence to any major scientific journal. Referees will be glad to check and verify the evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above reflections have been refined, expanded and formalized into a brief paper that I have presented to the 5th international UFO congress of Montreal (Canada), organized by Yann Vadnais, leadership of GARPAN (<a href="https://garpan.ca/en/">https://garpan.ca/en/</a>), held October 27-28, 2018 at the Université du Québec à Montreal (UQÀM). The formal reference to the article is “Remarks to Professor Knuth’s “Are We Alone?”, and it is available here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37728828/Remarks_on_Prof._Knuths_Are_We_Alone_">https://www.academia.edu/37728828/Remarks_on_Prof._Knuths_Are_We_Alone_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Boston Globe</i> (Plymouth county, Massachusetts) of November 2, 1966 reports about this picture offered by a local man who claimed to have seen and photographed a UFO on previous October 26. His “evidence” is a small snapshot showing a window frame, the roofs of two nearby houses and a wooden utility pole. Above the houses is a saucer-shaped object. He said the flying contraption hovered in the vicinity, a quarter-mile from Plymouth Center, around 5 p.m., and remained long enough for him to grab his camera and take a photo. “Ostracized by his neighbors, unbelieved by his family, the man, who wishes to remain anonymous -the newspaper writes- told only Stephen Putnam, of Bossy Lane, Scituate, about the sighting.” Of course, because he would be more than willing to listen and believe: Putnam is the president of the New England UFO Study Group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My assessment goes right to the bone: the image simply features the cutting of a typical flying saucer (oval-shaped with a cupola) pasted on a window pane and snapped through it. I thought to myself: if someone disagrees, please prove it is an interplanetary visitor! But I decided to have a second opinion from one of the few gurus of UFO photography, the Chilean chemist Andrés Duarte. “I fully agree. I think this is the most plausible explanation.” This case has been opened and closed at the same time. It just becomes another line for any IFO catalog. And, of course, a new entry in FOTOCAT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) More about the “Pentagon UFO study”. Parabunk’s blog “Close Encounters of the Rational Kind” attempts to clarify the confusion with three outstanding entries:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/06/aatipaawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/06/aatipaawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/08/harry-reids-aatip-letter.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/08/harry-reids-aatip-letter.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/aawsap-dirds.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/aawsap-dirds.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And concerning the “Tic Tac” 2004 video, it shows evidence of bad information:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the above video event (dated November 14, 2004), there is also another recent sharp article, written by Dr. Joe Nickell for the <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.csicop.org/si/show/navy_pilots_2004_ufo_a_comedy_of_errors">https://www.csicop.org/si/show/navy_pilots_2004_ufo_a_comedy_of_errors</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Oberg in the <i>Reader’s Digest</i>, July 2018, an interview by Krista Carothers, “12 UFO Myths Scientists Wish You Would Stop Believing,” in <a href="https://www.rd.com/culture/ufo-myths/">https://www.rd.com/culture/ufo-myths/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) On practical debunking, Mick West writes “In Defense of Debunkers”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Pierre Lagrange’s latest work is “The Ghost in the Machine. How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-1947”. The online access link and author’s abstract follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For decades, social scientists have explained the emergence of flying saucers in 1947 as a by-product of the cold war context. They claimed that people were influenced by cold war and "saw" Russian flying disks while the rest of the population, scared by the context, believed in the reality of these saucers. In this paper, I show that the explanation in terms of cold war influence does not explain the situation. For several reason. First because people in 1947 were not afraid of saucers, they spent their time making jokes about them. Only 1% of the people interrogated for a Gallup poll on the subjects mentioned the Russians as an explanation. This fact can be clearly understood when we compare the flying disks wave of 1947 and the ghost rockets wave on 1946 in Europe. We see that the reactions to the two events were very different. While Europeans took very seriously the existence of ghost rockets on 1946, the American public didn't take seriously the disks in 1947! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We may therefore think that the cold war explanation works for the ghost rockets and not for the disks, but the situation is a little more complex. This cold war explanation should be discussed for a second reason: sociology and social history cannot use explanation in terms of influence because social actors are not sponges that absorb the context: they define it, they discuss it, they chose among the elements from that context that they will take seriously and that they will reject. Social studies of subjects like UFOs as a lot to learn from the tools developed by social students of science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) One interesting reading I had missed: “Four Types of Explanations of CE IV UFO Reports,” by professor Dr. Gerald L. Eberlein (Pöcking, Germany), published in <i>Zeitschrift für Anomalistik</i>, 1 (2001), pages 39-49. The online access link and author’s abstract follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Based on a review of recent CE IV explanations in the literature the author distinguishes, from the point of view of the analytic philosophy of the social sciences, four different types of hypotheses: The first, <i>naive-realistic</i> hypothesis of actual alien abductions seems indefensible due to a lack of evidence. If -from a pragmatic point of view- a multi-faceted explanation is considered, the second, <i>psycho-reductionist</i> hypothesis could serve as an explanation for the neurophysiological mechanisms of the experience. This mode of explanation could apply to personality traits of experiencers. The third, <i>constructionist hypothesis</i> -with concepts such as archetypal imagery, synchronicity and imaginal realm- includes the sociocultural dimension (actualization of depth-psychological potential) and societal situation of the mainly Anglo-Saxon experiencers. The fourth hypothesis, that of a “<i>Universal Consciousness</i>”, or a “Mind at Large”, is not scientific but metaphysical and therefore untestable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) “Extraterrestrials Contact Human Beings: An Original Approach to Set the Authenticity of Alleged Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind,” by Dr. Julio Acosta-Navarro et al, <i>World Journal of Research and Review</i>, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2016, pages 35-47. The online access link and authors’ abstract follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.wjrr.org/download_data/WJRR0205018.pdf">https://www.wjrr.org/download_data/WJRR0205018.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the past, the negative about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligences coming into contact with the humankind was due to several factors, but at present, there is evidence from several fields challenging this mainstream. We hypothesized that authentic Close Encounters of Fifth Kind (CE5thK) could probably be happening. We designed and applied an original approach with qualitative and quantitative variables constituting a rule of 12 criterions for defining a high probability, low probability or inconclusive evidence in order to set the authenticity of 72 cases of alleged CE5thK. A high probability was considered as authentic. We found 47 cases to be low probability, none case to be inconclusive evidence and 25 cases to be high probability to be an authentic phenomenon. Using an original approach, we found evidence to support that advanced contact from ETI with human beings probably is happening on the Earth at present. Additionally, in these authentic CE5thK cases, there are important and revolutionary information with amazing potential for our society in several fields of knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Dr. Persinger Passes Away. Controversial, heterodox psychologist Dr. Michael Persinger, professor of the Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) has deceased August 2018: <a href="https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204">https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had occasional correspondence with him, he was one of the few established scientists who did science with the UFO data (right or wrong, that is another question), a very prolific writer and author of books and monographs and articles of true interest. My only contribution at this point is to provide a link to his ample bibliography, one that deserves being known and -of course- checked and verified, to find pitfalls or actual gems:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://neurocogconsultants.app.box.com/s/l9f7tld3yjny4b00eqbq">https://neurocogconsultants.app.box.com/s/l9f7tld3yjny4b00eqbq</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have requested Dr. John S. Derr, a geologist in the US Geological Survey (ret.) who co-wrote several papers with Dr. Persinger, to pen a few lines on this occasion, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of my colleague Prof. Michael Persinger. I met him in person only once, but worked with him for many years by email, co-authoring a number of papers on earthquake lights. All of his research was cutting-edge and most of it controversial, but he persevered and opened new frontiers. He was always generous in sharing authorship with collaborators and leaves many students to carry on his work. I valued our distant friendship and will miss our semi-annual exchange of solstice greetings.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Rocket spotting and UFO sightings. International astronautical activity creates weird sky illumination effects that prompt UFO reports. Jim Oberg provides due resolutions. Read and enjoy the following set of power-point presentations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 2, 2017 Long March 5 launch failure seen from Philippines,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/18_chisat_fail_phil_final_draft.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/18_chisat_fail_phil_final_draft.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oct 26, 2017 ICBM launch over Siberia – new clues on spiral formation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/171027-siberia.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/171027-siberia.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nov 25, 2017 Trident SLBM launch off California – more eyewitness misperceptions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/151107-cali_slbm_witness_analysis.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/151107-cali_slbm_witness_analysis.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dec 22, 2017 Falcon 9 VAFB launch – weird launch freaks out witnesses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/Dec_22,_2017_falcon-9_Vandenberg_launch.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/Dec_22,_2017_falcon-9_Vandenberg_launch.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 10, 2018 Falcon 9 stage 2 fuel dump observation from Australia,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/180510-falcon9s2-spiral-australia-ROUGH.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/180510-falcon9s2-spiral-australia-ROUGH.pdf</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) A current analysis of an ancient mystery is found in this French blog’s entry: “Le mystérieux phénomène de Cherbourg,” exposing a mysterious phenomenon seen at Cherbourg on March 30, 1905:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://oncle-dom.fr/paranormal/ovni/confusions/planetes/cherbourg/cherbourg_1905.htm">http://oncle-dom.fr/paranormal/ovni/confusions/planetes/cherbourg/cherbourg_1905.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Quite another classic event questioned, Exeter 1965:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-1965-exeter-incident-shooting-down.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-1965-exeter-incident-shooting-down.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) In March 2018, Dr. Sergey Chernouss, of the Polar Geophysical Institute, (Apatity, Russia), and Dr. Yulii Platov, of the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (Russian Academy of Sciences), presented a joint paper to the 37th International Scientific Conference of Eurasian Scientific Association. Titled “Instruments, Methods and Networks of Optical Auroral and Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena (AAP) Observations in Arctic”, it is a fascinating scientific article of interest to both the mainframe academia and the ufological community. I was glad to have it uploaded to the internet. The online access link and authors’ abstract follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37856069/Instruments_Methods_and_Networks_of_Optical_Auroral_and_Abnormal_Atmospheric_Phenomena_Observations_in_Arctic._By_S._Chernouss_and_Y._Platov">https://www.academia.edu/37856069/Instruments_Methods_and_Networks_of_Optical_Aur</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37856069/Instruments_Methods_and_Networks_of_Optical_Auroral_and_Abnormal_Atmospheric_Phenomena_Observations_in_Arctic._By_S._Chernouss_and_Y._Platov">oral_and_Abnormal_Atmospheric_Phenomena_Observations_in_Arctic._By_S._Chernouss</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The report devotes mostly to the Russian instrumental optical observations, which were carried out in Arctic and Antarctic regions in last decades. In this report, we describe typical equipment for observations of aurora and airglow during dark and twilight time, including the hyper-spectral camera designed together with Norwegian scientists in frame of the joint NORUSKA project. Glowing of the exhaust products of rockets and man-made aurora are also under consideration. We discuss their common features, appearance, visual outline, general properties and physical mechanisms. Routine ground-based all-sky cameras, spectrographs and, later Low-light TV and CCD all-sky cameras were used during many years to collect data for natural and artificial “auroral” phenomena. A number of interesting pictures have been collected by amateurs and analyzed as unusual atmospheric phenomena. The Polar Geophysical Institute (PGI) was a leading organization for investigation of optical aurora, many abnormal atmospheric phenomena were observed through its many observation points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (12) On the Airship Hoax of 1909:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/11/05/the_great_airship_delusion.html">https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/11/05/the_great_airship_delusion.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Who is Nick Pope? <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>The Roswell Deception</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Carrion (former MUFON International Director) has just released an e-book online with the above title. Thanks to Isaac Koi’s titanic task to render UFO documentation to the UFO community at large, this 523-page volume has been added to the AFU archives. Here is a direct link to the searchable pdf:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The author’s theory is defined on page 13 of the book, as follows: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I propose that the flying saucer summer of 1947 and the Roswell Incident itself were the outcome of deception operations perpetrated by the United States against the Soviet Union in what were the opening shots of the Cold War. Fought in the shadows and protected through obfuscation for over 70 years – it is time for these operations to be revealed to the public and for the history books to be rewritten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up to now we have the alien, Mogul balloon, meteorite, and governmental operation readings to interpret the Roswell incident. More to add to this ceremony of confusion?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>I Have Seen a UFO</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edoardo Russo has written a synthesis of the latest French UFO book, one with the added value of being authored by Xavier Passot, an ex-director of GEIPAN, the official French unit dealing with UFO phenomena. The book is entitled “J’ai vu un OVNI: Perceptions et réalités” (I Have Seen a UFO: Perceptions and Realities): <a href="http://www.euroufo.net/2018/07/a-book-by-geipan-chairman-xavier-passot/">http://www.euroufo.net/2018/07/a-book-by-geipan-chairman-xavier-passot/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is published by Cherche Midi publishing house, June 2018 (144 pages, foreword by sociologist of science Pierre Lagrange) and it is a book highly advisable, as it explains the views of someone who handled UFO reports in France at the top level of the chain of need-to-know for five years:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.lisez.com/livre-grand-format/jai-vu-un-ovni/9782749152301">https://www.lisez.com/livre-grand-format/jai-vu-un-ovni/9782749152301</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Book-e-Book Publishing House</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a presentation by Henri Broch, a retired professor of the Nice Sophia Antipolis University (Nice, France) and director of a collection of books, he writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Scientific attitude and civic behavior require the same mental-moral substratum for their development…It is therefore serious to see the very foundations of critical thinking crumble. The scientific method, the Art of Doubt, is indeed a real bulwark against all forms of obscurantism and it allows to "fight" against the violence which is often the daughter of the ignorance</i>. This is a segment of a larger introduction to put forward a wide array of books that critically examine several types of false beliefs. Printed in the language of Descartes, those volumes are highly recommendable and a site worth of visiting: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.book-e-book.com/6-livres">https://www.book-e-book.com/6-livres</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Vehicle Interference Report</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BUFORA, the oldest living UFO organization in Britain, has released a report on the so-called vehicle interference UFO cases, comprising 1188 reports from 1908 through 2013. The official website offers the following abstract for this publication:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Time and time again, UFO witnesses have consistently reported an inexplicable loss of vehicle engine power, radio signal, electrical function or interference in compass orientation whilst in proximity to an anomalous object or light. On behalf of BUFORA, Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson have carefully complied such vehicle interference incident summaries fully sourced and referenced. In doing so, they have presented us with a compelling case for the reality of at least one tangible aspect of an otherwise elusive and controversial subject. What these bizarre interference effects may ultimately represent is open to debate, but the inescapable fact is that in each case highlighted in the publication something that we do not yet fully understand has left a distinct and scientifically measurable footprint.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The A4 softcover 283-page report may be purchased through this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bufora.org.uk/VEHICLE-INTERFERENCE-CASES.php">http://bufora.org.uk/VEHICLE-INTERFERENCE-CASES.php</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jerome Clark’s omnibus work has been reprinted by Omnigraphics (October 2018, 1,520 pages) as a revised, updated third edition of a work originally published in three volumes between 1990 and 1996. This new edition includes over one hundred new entries and it can be surely described as a reference book: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://omnigraphics.com/shop/ufo-encyclopedia-3rd/#descriptionT">https://omnigraphics.com/shop/ufo-encyclopedia-3rd/#descriptionT</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFO Photos</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have received the PDF of a book authored by a Jason Gleaves on so-called computer analysis of UFO photography (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFO-PHOTOS-COMPUTER-ANALYSIS-WORLDWIDE/dp/1976779812">https://www.amazon.com/UFO-PHOTOS-COMPUTER-ANALYSIS-WORLDWIDE/dp/1976779812</a>). I have requested a colleague to review it for my blog: Tobias Lindgren, the photographic analyst of UFO Sweden and AFU, whose published work has proved to be very reliable, a condition that is scarce in current times in our field of investigation. This is his critique:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A book which features pictures of alleged UFOs, from the nineteenth century up until today, that have been analyzed by computer, certainly attracts much interest. What can be done with the power of a modern computer to investigate these remarkable UFO pictures?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>UFO Photos</i> - <i>Computer analysis of worldwide UFO images through the decades </i>- Jason Gleaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hope, of course, is that in this book we get a lesson in how the computer finds explanations in these images, but very soon we learn that this is not the case. Try as I might, I cannot understand the purpose of this book. I have many years in the field as an investigator of strange events and, for me, the aim of investigating is to find underlying explanations, but here I don’t find much of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the purpose of this book is to show that the author is good at using a variety of features in Photoshop, then Jason Gleaves succeeds very well. He must have devoted a lot more time to fixing the images for the book, than to do real analysis that might dispel some mysteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pretty soon you will see a pattern, unfortunately not in the images analyzed, but in the arrangement made by the author. First, we get rudimentary background information for each image he intends to analyze. It is then followed by a series of changes by using Photoshop, where digital images are adapted to fit in the book. I miss the photos' stories and an analysis of what the whole image tells and what seems strange. The people behind the camera, what is there to tell about them? There is much that we lose when the author chooses to focus only on the image and its technical structure, not the actual information you need to solve a puzzle, if there is one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pictures from famous cases, well researched by others through the ages, are presented again, but without adding anything useful. Gleaves’ conclusion is "unidentified" in virtually every case he takes up, and he sometimes resorts to speculation and wishful thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One may wonder what computer analysis has to do with it, for me it's just false advertising. In this case the computer can do nothing. It is in fact the author who is manipulating these images, and such “computer analysis” is no excuse for avoiding a very basic level of real investigatory work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Photoshop is not a magical instrument that gives you the missing information on an image, but if correctly used it can contribute as a tool in the process leading up to a possible explanation of mystery images. How good you are at Photoshop, means little if you do not know much about the rest of the way the world works, when it comes to investigating UFO reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A strong interest in UFOs and Photoshop skills alone will not make you a good ufologist, nor is it a quick way to find explanations easily. This requires significantly more work, possibly even forcing you out in the field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jason Gleaves surely has many strings to his bow, but this is one book he should not have Photoshoped - I mean, written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is there nothing positive about this book? Yes, on page 117, in which he writes what should be contained in a report form for those who wish to report their sighting. Of course, many of Gleaves’ reporting recommendations do make sense; unfortunately, his own method is no more than a conveyor belt of images passing through the assembly line of Photoshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All UFO cases are unique and must therefore be treated according to their conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Conclusion: Avoid this book if you can. Although it's thin, it's unfortunately a waste of time to read it or even to look at the pictures. This book will only make you disappointed; you might as well see the pictures on the Internet and make up your own opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’m still convinced that Jason Gleaves can do a better job with his next book, when maybe he will have learned his lesson, and can step out of the Photoshop box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Encounters with Extraterrestrials in Chile</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Spanish-speaking readers, I advise you to scroll down to find in the Spanish language section of this blog my review of the excellent book “Encuentros con extraterrestres en Chile” (Coliseo Sentosa, Chile, June 2018) by Sebastian von Kleist (a pen name). This book can be purchased through:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2003-published book “OVNIS y Ciencias Humanas”, by Spanish anthropologist Ignacio Cabria, has just been uploaded into the Academia.edu portal, where it can be read and downloaded for free. This volume of 307 pages is IMHO compulsory reading and it is divided into four chapters, as follows: Psycho sociological ufology, Psychology applied to UFO observations and abductions, Sociology of the UFO phenomenon, and Towards a topology of the UFO and extraterrestrial subject. The proper online access link is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Milton Hourcade’s 2018 large international survey to UAP investigators and scholars, contains an entry by yours truly. It can be read here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uapsg.com/2018/09/a-survey-among-uap-investigators-and_9.html">http://www.uapsg.com/2018/09/a-survey-among-uap-investigators-and_9.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Grandsons grow. Lucas is on the right in this photograph made last July during summer vacation. By his side is Fernando, my other grandchild. Despite those precious family duties, I still must seek time to continue working on a subject about which we are so passionate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Edoardo Russo, Jim Oberg, Tim Printy, Matías Morey, Kay Massingill, Keith Basterfield, Barry Greenwood, Enrique Márquez, Philip Mantle, Pierre Lagrange, John Derr, Tobias Lindgren, Sergey Chernouss, Isaac Koi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b> (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are available in the usual second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UFOs and the Government (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>HOW YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018/DECEMBER/14 (ES)</span></u></b></span></div>
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<b style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">BASE DE DATOS FOTOCAT</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) El contador de casos del catálogo registra 13.339 entradas a esta fecha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Barry Greenwood ha aportado a este proyecto un compendio de más de 200 casos fotográficos de los archivos del Dr. Michael Swords. Los Informes e imágenes están siendo añadidos a FOTOCAT.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NUEVAS PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me satisface mucho presentar dos nuevos trabajos que he escrito en colaboración. Ambos tienen en común que tratan de sucesos supuestamente acaecidos en Ferrol (A Coruña). Si los añadimos a otra publicación reciente, forman una trilogía que se centra en episodios ‒también presuntamente‒ fechados en el año 1966. En mi opinión, los tres artículos aportan documentación amplia e inédita en torno a los temas que analizan. Por su contenido, su lectura ciertamente complacerá tanto a investigadores del fenómeno ovni, estudiosos de las leyendas urbanas y aficionados a las ciencias del espacio. Permítanme que les recuerde el primero de los trabajos de esta serie:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Fotografía ovni en abril de 1966</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este nuevo informe lo he redactado con el físico Julio Plaza del Olmo y lleva por título “Expediente militar 660402, Carreira”. Versa sobre la fotografía que tomó un cabo primero de la Marina desde la estación de radio de La Carreira, cerca de Ferrol. El caso estudiado es uno de los expedientes ovni desclasificados por el Ejército del Aire español durante el proceso que se llevó a término entre 1992 y 1999. Como suele ocurrir cuando un suceso ovni se escudriña en profundidad, aparece un desenlace inesperado que lo explica todo. Aquí lo vamos a ver. El artículo se puede leer aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ha habido más que rumores de que se avistó un ovni en Ferrol, urbe que alberga una importante base naval. La historia, publicada en revistas sensacionalistas y en libros poco serios, habla de un ovni que sobrevuela la ciudad, se estrella en el mar, del hallazgo posterior de restos por parte de marineros y de su custodia en la estación naval de La Graña. Por último, se dice que el ovni es un <i>drone</i> militar estadounidense o un prototipo de vehículo aéreo no tripulado que se está probando o espiando directamente sobre la base naval. La historia se ha convertido en una especie de leyenda urbana en los círculos ufológicos españoles. Un equipo interdisciplinar formado por Mercedes Pullman, Julio Plaza y yo hemos estado investigando en profundidad este caso para descubrir qué era verdad y qué era ficción. La investigación abarcó diversos campos de especialización y la encuesta ha revelado innumerables datos inesperados e información histórica desconocida que mezcla hechos reales y mucha imaginación. El trabajo resultante tiene 51 páginas y puede leerse en este enlace: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana">https://www.academia.edu/37908857/El_ovni_de_La_Grana</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Magnífico trabajo y acertadísimas conclusiones” – Alejandro Anca Alamillo (Documentalista naval y coautor del libro <i>La Graña - La Cabana. Base e industria naval 1726-2015</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Reconozco el alto nivel de la investigación y el brillante resultado obtenido” –Matías Morey Ripoll (Jurista y coordinador de la obra <i>Diccionario Temático de Ufología</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Muy buen trabajo” – Belén López Cayón (Secretaria de la Cofradía de Pescadores de Burela)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Excelente trabajo. Un ejemplo más de las dificultades que se presentan al indagar en incidentes antiguos” – Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga (Investigador y autor del blog “Misterios del Aire”)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Aprecio un arduo y complejo trabajo de investigación en un asunto que es más una leyenda urbana que un hecho contrastado. Siento las dificultades que han tenido que sufrir para esclarecer el asunto y les doy la enhorabuena por el resultado final del informe” – Capitán de Navío Diego Ruiz y Ruiz de Cortázar (Comandante-Director de la Estación Naval de La Graña)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hace poco leí un artículo bajo ese título que firmaba Kevin Knuth, profesor de física de la universidad de Albany, en Nueva York, el cual me evocó inmediatamente varios pensamientos y reacciones de reprobación. La plasmación de mis críticas en un texto, coincidió con la solicitud de que aportara una ponencia a un congreso que iba a celebrarse en la universidad de Quebec en Montreal, así que allí lo envié. Entretanto se edita el libro que recogerá las actas de dicho congreso, he publicado aquí mis reflexiones, ¿bajo el título “Remarks to Prof. Knuth’s “Are We Alone?” y que se puede leer aquí (en inglés):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37728828/Remarks_on_Prof._Knuths_Are_We_Alone_">https://www.academia.edu/37728828/Remarks_on_Prof._Knuths_Are_We_Alone_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para aquellos que hablan francés, pueden escucharlo en esta presentación de YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=gG7TrvmaBSI&t=0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=gG7TrvmaBSI&t=0s</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He actualizado mi bibliografía personal, añadiendo las Investigaciones finalizadas durante 2018. En esta ocasión, gracias a la valiosa iniciativa de Isaac Koi, por la que muchas colecciones de revistas ovni internacionales se han digitalizado en el servidor del AFU sueco, he incluido docenas de nuevos enlaces online a artículos míos publicados en diversas publicaciones de Europa o Latinoamérica. Véanse 50 años de ufología personal en este url permanente: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He escrito para la sección en inglés de este blog (ver arriba) dos entradas que, traducidas, llevan estos títulos: “La inagotable oleada de 1954” y “Una foto ovni de 1966 recién encontrada”. Tratan de cuatro fotografías ovni desconocidas, halladas en diarios locales de Australia y Estados Unidos en los citados años.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Estudio de la distribución geográfica de los fenómenos OVNI del tipo “encuentro cercano” en el territorio español</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este es el título de un trabajo que acaba de publicar Mercedes Pullman, que se perfila como un brillante y relativamente reciente “activo” de la ufología nacional. Ucraniana, formada en la Unión Soviética, antropóloga social y afincada hace años en Madrid, estudia el fenómeno ovni desde una perspectiva fresca y profesional. Persona sin complejos a quien le gusta tender puentes entre puntos de vista distantes ‒lo cual dice mucho y bueno de ella‒, nos muestra un estudio social realizado con informes de casos de “aterrizaje” en España, para lo que ha dispuesto de la muestra más completa existente hasta el momento. Para la consecución de este artículo ha llevado a cabo previamente lo que es un capítulo esencial en cualquier tesis científica, la revisión de la literatura sobre este particular, con la cita de ensayos históricos de gran valor olvidados por muchos de los más asentados ufólogos patrios y, lo que es peor, desconocidos o no apreciados por muchos nombres de la periodística ufología emergente. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>En este artículo se realiza un análisis de la distribución geográfica de la localización de los informes de presuntos avistamientos OVNI en España desde el año 1900 hasta el año 2012. La muestra es de 975 casos de “aterrizaje” procedentes de tres catálogos construidos por V.J. Ballester Olmos y sus colaboradores J.A. Fernández Peris y José Antonio Cezón. Con este trabajo se pretende determinar de qué provincias españolas proceden los informes de dicho fenómeno y su relación con la demografía.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta interesante investigación, de un tema que puede dar todavía mucho más de sí, puede leerse a través de este enlace de Academia.edu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37524948/Estudio_distribucion_geografica_fenomenos_EC_en_Espana._By_Mercedes_Pullman.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/37524948/Estudio_distribucion_geografica_fenomenos_EC_</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) 13 años de despropósitos de Iker Jiménez y compañía en ‘Cuarto Milenio’:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://hipertextual.com/2018/07/iker-jimenez-cuarto-milenio?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=socialnetworks&utm_campaign=twitter">https://hipertextual.com/2018/07/iker-jimenez-cuarto-milenio?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=socialnetworks&utm_campaign=twitter</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Más sobre el “estudio ovni del Pentágono” en el perspicaz blog de “Parabunk”, “Close Encounters of the Rational Kind” (Encuentros cercanos de tipo racional), donde se clarifica la confusión existente con tres entradas de lo más interesantes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/06/aatipaawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/06/aatipaawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/08/harry-reids-aatip-letter.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/08/harry-reids-aatip-letter.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/aawsap-dirds.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/aawsap-dirds.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y con relación al video de 2004 llamado “Tic Tac”, otro ensayo demuestra que hay evidencia de información errónea:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por cierto, en lo concerniente al suceso del que este video forma parte (fechado el 14 de noviembre de 2004), hay un reciente y sagaz artículo de Joe Nickell en la revista <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.csicop.org/si/show/navy_pilots_2004_ufo_a_comedy_of_errors">https://www.csicop.org/si/show/navy_pilots_2004_ufo_a_comedy_of_errors</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Jim Oberg en el <i>Reader’s Digest</i> de julio de 2018, un entrevista realizada por Krista Carothers, “12 UFO Myths Scientists Wish You Would Stop Believing” (12 mitos sobre los ovnis que los científicos desean que dejes de creer), en <a href="https://www.rd.com/culture/ufo-myths/">https://www.rd.com/culture/ufo-myths/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Mick West ha escrito el sugestivo artículo “In Defense of Debunkers” (En defensa de los desacreditadores):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) Lo penúltimo de la pluma de Pierre Lagrange es la monografía “The Ghost in the Machine. How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-1947” (El fantasma en la máquina. Como la sociología ha tratado de resolver los platillos volantes de América y los cohetes-fantasma de Europa en 1946-1947). Enlace en línea y resumen del autor (en inglés) a continuación:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://pierrelagrangesociologie.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/lagrange-pierre-ghost-in-the-machine-geppert-2018-imagining-outer-space.pdf">https://pierrelagrangesociologie.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/lagrange-pierre-ghost-in-the-machine-geppert-2018-imagining-outer-space.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For decades, social scientists have explained the emergence of flying saucers in 1947 as a by-product of the cold war context. They claimed that people were influenced by cold war and "saw" Russian flying disks while the rest of the population, scared by the context, believed in the reality of these saucers. In this paper, I show that the explanation in terms of cold war influence does not explain the situation. For several reason. First because people in 1947 were not afraid of saucers, they spent their time making jokes about them. Only 1% of the people interrogated for a Gallup poll on the subjects mentioned the Russians as an explanation. This fact can be clearly understood when we compare the flying disks wave of 1947 and the ghost rockets wave on 1946 in Europe. We see that the reactions to the two events were very different. While Europeans took very seriously the existence of ghost rockets on 1946, the American public didn't take seriously the disks in 1947! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We may therefore think that the cold war explanation works for the ghost rockets and not for the disks, but the situation is a little more complex. This cold war explanation should be discussed for a second reason: sociology and social history cannot use explanation in terms of influence because social actors are not sponges that absorb the context: they define it, they discuss it, they chose among the elements from that context that they will take seriously and that they will reject. Social studies of subjects like UFOs as a lot to learn from the tools developed by social students of science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Una interesante lectura que acabo de encontrar es “Four Types of Explanations of CE IV UFO Reports” (Cuatro tipos de explicaciones para los informes de encuentros cercanos con ovnis del 4º tipo). Por el profesor Dr. Gerald L. Eberlein (Pöcking, Alemania), publicado en <i>Zeitschrift für Anomalistik</i>, 1 (2001), páginas 39-49. Enlace en línea y resumen del autor (en inglés) a continuación:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Based on a review of recent CE IV explanations in the literature the author distinguishes, from the point of view of the analytic philosophy of the social sciences, four different types of hypotheses: The first, <i>naive-realistic</i> hypothesis of actual alien abductions seems indefensible due to a lack of evidence. If -from a pragmatic point of view- a multi-faceted explanation is considered, the second, <i>psycho-reductionist</i> hypothesis could serve as an explanation for the neurophysiological mechanisms of the experience. This mode of explanation could apply to personality traits of experiencers. The third, <i>constructionist hypothesis</i> -with concepts such as archetypal imagery, synchronicity and imaginal realm- includes the sociocultural dimension (actualization of depth-psychological potential) and societal situation of the mainly Anglo-Saxon experiencers. The fourth hypothesis, that of a “<i>Universal Consciousness</i>”, or a “Mind at Large”, is not scientific but metaphysical and therefore untestable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) “Extraterrestrials Contact Human Beings: An Original Approach to Set the Authenticity of Alleged Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind” (Los extraterrestres contactan con los seres humanos: Un enfoque original para establecer la autenticidad de los supuestos encuentros cercanos del 5º tipo). Por el Dr. Julio Acosta-Navarro et al, <i>World Journal of Research and Review</i>, volumen 2, número 5, mayo de 2016, páginas 35-47. Parece que Hynek se quedó corto al dividir el fenómeno ovni en casos de los tipos 1º, 2º y 3º. Enlace en línea y resumen de los autores (en inglés) a continuación:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the past, the negative about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligences coming into contact with the humankind was due to several factors, but at present, there is evidence from several fields challenging this mainstream. We hypothesized that authentic Close Encounters of Fifth Kind (CE5thK) could probably be happening. We designed and applied an original approach with qualitative and quantitative variables constituting a rule of 12 criterions for defining a high probability, low probability or inconclusive evidence in order to set the authenticity of 72 cases of alleged CE5thK. A high probability was considered as authentic. We found 47 cases to be low probability, none case to be inconclusive evidence and 25 cases to be high probability to be an authentic phenomenon. Using an original approach, we found evidence to support that advanced contact from ETI with human beings probably is happening on the Earth at present. Additionally, in these authentic CE5thK cases, there are important and revolutionary information with amazing potential for our society in several fields of knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Señalar, con pena, que el controvertido y heterodoxo psicólogo canadiense Dr. Michael Persinger, destacado investigador del fenómeno ovni y profesor de la universidad Laurentian, en Ontario, falleció en agosto pasado, según leemos aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204">https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuve el placer de sostener correspondencia ocasional con él y debo admitir que era uno de los pocos científicos profesionales en activo que hicieron ciencia con datos extraídos de casuística ovni (si fueron correcta o incorrectamente interpretados, eso ya es esa cosa). Fue un escritor prolífico y autor de libros, ensayos y artículos verdaderamente interesantes. Lo único que puedo hacer para reseñar su trabajo es incluir el enlace a su amplísima bibliografía, la cual merece ser conocida y, naturalmente, verificada, con el fin de hallar gemas o carbón:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He pedido al doctor John S. Derr, geólogo (ret.) del US Geological Survey, que escribió varios artículos con Persinger, que dedicara unas líneas a su amigo y colaborador: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Me sorprendió y entristeció conocer el fallecimiento de mi colega, el profesor Michael Persinger. Lo conocí en persona solo una vez, pero trabajé con él durante muchos años por correo electrónico, siendo coautor de varios documentos sobre luces de terremotos. Toda su investigación fue de vanguardia y la mayor parte generó controversia, pero él perseveró y abrió nuevas fronteras. Siempre fue generoso al compartir la autoría con sus colaboradores y deja a muchos estudiantes que continuarán su trabajo. Valoré nuestra amistad distante y extrañaré nuestro intercambio semestral de saludos de solsticio.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Observación de cohetes y avistamientos ovni. La actividad astronáutica internacional crea efectos inusuales de iluminación celeste que promueve falsos informes ovni. Jim Oberg traslada en sus trabajos las oportunas soluciones. Lea, aprenda y disfrute con esta selección de presentaciones en Power-Point:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 de julio de 2017, fallo del lanzamiento del cohete “Larga Marcha 5” ‒ visto sobre Filipinas, <a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/18_chisat_fail_phil_final_draft.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/18_chisat_fail_phil_final_draft.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">26 de octubre de 2017, lanzamiento desde Siberia de un misil balístico intercontinental (ICBM) – nuevas pistas sobre la formación de espirales luminosas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">25 de noviembre de 2017, lanzamiento de un misil balístico mar-aire desde las costas de California – percepciones erróneas por parte de los testigos oculares,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/151107-cali_slbm_witness_analysis.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/151107-cali_slbm_witness_analysis.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">22 de diciembre de 2017, lanzamiento del cohete Falcon 9 VAFB – los efectos de un anormal disparo asombran a los observadores,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10 de mayo de 2018, avistamiento desde Australia de la emisión de combustible durante la separación de la segunda etapa del Falcon 9,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) En este blog francés se ha resuelto un misterioso fenómeno observado en Cherburgo nada menos que en 1905:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://oncle-dom.fr/paranormal/ovni/confusions/planetes/cherbourg/cherbourg_1905.htm">http://oncle-dom.fr/paranormal/ovni/confusions/planetes/cherbourg/cherbourg_1905.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(11) Uno nuevo caso clásico puesto en cuestión, los sucesos de Exeter de 1965:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-1965-exeter-incident-shooting-down.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-1965-exeter-incident-shooting-down.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(12) En marzo de 2018, el Dr. Sergey Chernouss, del instituto geofísico polar de Apatity (Rusia), y el Dr. Yulii Platov, del instituto Pushkov de magnetismo terrestre, ionosfera y propagación de ondas de radio, de la Academia de Ciencias rusa, presentaron conjuntamente una ponencia a la 37 conferencia científica internacional de la Asociación Científica Euroasiática. Titulada “Instrumentos, métodos y redes para fenómenos atmosféricos anormales (AAP) y fenómenos ópticos aurorales en el Ártico”, un fascinante artículo científico que interesará tanto a la academia tradicional como a la comunidad ufológica. Ha sido un placer tener la oportunidad de subirlo a internet para conocimiento de nuestros colegas. El enlace en línea y el resumen de los autores sigue a continuación:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37856069/Instruments_Methods_and_Networks_of_Optical_Auroral_and_Abnormal_Atmospheric_Phenomena_Observations_in_Arctic._By_S._Chernouss_and_Y._Platov">oral_and_Abnormal_Atmospheric_Phenomena_Observations_in_Arctic._By_S._Chernouss</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The report devotes mostly to the Russian instrumental optical observations, which were carried out in Arctic and Antarctic regions in last decades. In this report, we describe typical equipment for observations of aurora and airglow during dark and twilight time, including the hyper-spectral camera designed together with Norwegian scientists in frame of the joint NORUSKA project. Glowing of the exhaust products of rockets and man-made aurora are also under consideration. We discuss their common features, appearance, visual outline, general properties and physical mechanisms. Routine ground-based all-sky cameras, spectrographs and, later Low-light TV and CCD all-sky cameras were used during many years to collect data for natural and artificial “auroral” phenomena. A number of interesting pictures have been collected by amateurs and analyzed as unusual atmospheric phenomena. The Polar Geophysical Institute (PGI) was a leading organization for investigation of optical aurora, many abnormal atmospheric phenomena were observed through its many observation points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(13) Nota sobre la quimérica nave aérea (airship) de 1909:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/11/05/the_great_airship_delusion.html">https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/11/05/the_great_airship_delusion.html</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(14) ¿Quién es Nick Pope?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(15) Universidad de Burgos, III edición del curso de verano “Ciencia, pseudociencia y pensamiento mágico” (2018), dirigido por el periodista vasco Luis Alfonso Gámez: “La invasión de los platillos volantes. Los orígenes del mito”, <a href="http://www3.ubu.es/ubuinvestiga/presentaciones-del-curso-ciencia-pseudociencia-y-pensamiento-magico-iii-edicion-dirigido-por-luis-alfonso-gamez/">http://www3.ubu.es/ubuinvestiga/presentaciones-del-curso-ciencia-pseudociencia-y-pensamiento-magico-iii-edicion-dirigido-por-luis-alfonso-gamez/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El pasado mes de junio falleció repentinamente el veterano ufólogo sevillano Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, a los 87 años. Con él, desaparece el último bastión de la que denominé primera generación de investigadores españoles (Eduardo Buelta, Antonio Ribera, Manuel Osuna, Manuel Pedrajo y Oscar Rey Brea, principalmente)1. Darnaude, de florida prosa y vastos conocimientos, destacó fundamentalmente por ser el segundo mayor promotor de la difusión del ficticio caso UMMO, después del propio realizador del fraude, José Luis Jordán Peña. Creyente hasta la médula de la llegada de extraterrestres a nuestro planeta, practicaba lo que definía como “ufología heterodoxa”, en realidad un cajón de sastre de creencias en asuntos paranormales y meta científicos. Darnaude fue siempre una persona entrañable, colaborador sin prejuicios y amigo de todos. Ignacio y yo comenzamos una relación epistolar en 1966 y, con muchos intervalos, continuó (ya por email) hasta escasamente dos semanas antes de su fallecimiento. Con su muerte, se agota una forma personal e introspectiva de ver el enigma de los ovnis como parte de un continuo de anomalías, rarezas y misterios que, en mi modesta opinión, sólo resultan incomprensibles porque no se abordan con espíritu científico sino con un enfoque esotérico, ocultista, conspirativo y retórico. Ignacio, a mi modesto entender profundamente equivocado en su filosofía, fue un generoso ser humano que probablemente deja este universo físico sin enemigos, cosa que pueden decir pocos. Con mi cariñoso recuerdo, deseo cerrar estas letras con el enlace a su página web, que contiene una abundantísima y variopinta documentación en todos los órdenes del universo ufólatra: <a href="http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/">http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, "Cuatro generaciones", en </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Expedientes insólitos</u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, Temas de Hoy (Madrid), 1995, páginas 237-254.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta glosa tiene por objeto dar la bienvenida y comentar la salida de un nuevo libro en español sobre una de las esencias del fenómeno ovni, las historias de extraterrestres. Reviso, pues, ENCUENTROS CON EXTRATERRESTRES EN CHILE, firmado por el desconocido ‒y se rumorea eruditoSebastian von Kleist. La obra la publica Ediciones Coliseo Sentosa y ha visto la luz en junio de 2018, así que el ejemplar que me ha regalado el autor aún está caliente. Se puede ‒se debe‒ adquirir a través de: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/sebastian-von-kleist/encuentros-con-extraterrestres-en-chile/paperback/product-23680139.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/sebastian-von-kleist/encuentros-con-extraterrestres-en-chile/paperback/product-23680139.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El trabajo de recopilación del autor ha sido soberbio, no en vano le ha llevado 16 años (con interrupciones, claro). Es una pieza historiográfica mayúscula, que, con seguridad, jamás será superada y surge como la más completa cronología de las narraciones de presuntas apariciones de seres humanoides vinculados a platillos volantes que se han posado en tierra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Menos mal que este blog lo leen mayoritariamente estudiosos del fenómeno ovni, o lo que es lo mismo, el desarrollo de la increíble leyenda convertida en creencia de que estamos siendo visitados, interpelados, preguntados, raptados, violados o examinados por sujetos que llegan a la Tierra en naves procedentes de ignotas galaxias. Nada menos que desde 1947, sin que hasta el presente exista ninguna prueba fehaciente, y sí cientos de miles de contraargumentos, tantos como “experiencias” resueltas convencionalmente. Porque otros nos dirían: “¿Pero en qué planeta vivís? ¿Qué os gusta escaparos de la roma realidad y crearos un mundo paralelo? Menuda excusa para no afrontar los problemas económicos, sociales o políticos de nuestro entorno. Como dedicáis vuestra vida a temas esotéricos, paranormales, mistéricos, novelescos e imaginativos, que son más de fe que de razón, abandonáis vuestras responsabilidades civiles y ciudadanas y os sumergís en un mundo de fantasía y de ficción que se supone satisface vuestras inmaduras expectativas vivenciales”. Y no les faltaría razón.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volviendo al trabajo que nos ocupa, el libro que quiero reseñar es para ufólogos especialistas, sí, pero también para aquellos científicos sociales que quieran analizar hasta qué punto en extensión y profundidad llega el contenido y evolución de este tipo de narración contemporánea que sitúa ‒imaginariamente‒ a una persona normal en una esfera utópica y delirante de relación con seres venidos de otros mundos. Y, naturalmente, para lectores intelectualmente curiosos con las fábulas que convecinos y sujetos que nos rodean diariamente cuentan al menos una vez en su vida acerca de su confluencia con entidades de otros mundos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro ‒a ver si entro en materia de una vez‒ comienza con un texto que no tiene desperdicio, como todo lo que sale de la pluma del químico y ufólogo escéptico mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez. Todas las frases de su acertado prólogo conllevan la profundidad del veterano estudioso y sabio pensador: “Por todo lo que sabemos hasta el momento, en el así llamado fenómeno ovni no hay nada fuera de las leyes naturales; no hay viajeros de las estrellas que estén visitando la Tierra utilizando naves que viajan a velocidades supralumínicas…ni abducidos que tengan tiempos perdidos” (p. 16). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi reseña debería ser del libro de Von Kleist, pero no puedo sino resaltar otra máxima magistral de Ruiz Noguez, cuando señala a continuación que “La ufología es la novela más grande del género humano, es la novela completa, total”. Es una aseveración absolutamente pertinente.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El autor de la obra nos advierte ya desde su introducción: “Los reportes suelen carecer de información básica” (p. 23). En tales condiciones, ¿cómo evaluar objetivamente los relatos? Una encuesta particular con los relatores de los encuentros marcianos sería necesaria para repudiarlos, pero eso requeriría una profesionalización que solo ejercitan aquellos que explotan su lado efectista y sensacionalista. En Chile y en España.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero, como se comprueba durante la lectura del libro, el castillo de naipes de los chismes que se cuentan se derrumba por sí mismo con el propio repaso de los incidentes. La falta de lógica, la irracionalidad o la idiotez emergen enseguida. El autor inició este proyecto en 2002. Alabo su tenacidad. Y se ha encontrado con muchas sorpresas, de las que ha aprendido, como comprobar lo absurdo y heterogéneo de la casuística misma. Y no es lo único que ha constatado. Por ejemplo, cuando enfatiza que “un aspecto que es relevante mencionar es la nula capacidad crítica de los periodistas” (p. 28). Matiza, claro, que no quiere insultar a nadie. Pero es un hecho objetivo que se aplica a los periodistas del misterio. Tranquilo, autor, lo mismo ocurre en España.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De la página 33 a la 314 (de un total de 366 páginas), se enumeran y pormenorizan 231 casos presuntamente habidos entre 1927 y 2017. No hay apenas dos “encuentros” iguales, ni dos ovnis idénticos, ni dos pilotos afines. Cada informe es, como decimos en España, “hijo de su padre y de su madre”. O sea, fruto de la fértil imaginación de cada cual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y, no lo olvidemos, esta es la supuesta evidencia del fenómeno ovni en su mayor grado de intensidad. No es la luz que un piloto de vuelo comercial o de un caza distingue en el cielo nocturno (o sea, Venus, un bólido…o las llamaradas de la refinería de Escombreras). Aquí hablamos del descenso de astronaves procedentes de lejanos sectores del universo que transportan entes que se comunican con los seres humanos. ¡Ahí es nada! Uno solo de esos casos verificados supondría la mayor noticia desde la muerte de Cristo, ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم القريش o Gautama Buddha. Pero, no. No hay pruebas de nada. Solo palabrería. Y necesidad de creer. Y realizadores en medios de comunicación explotadores de ensueños y entelequias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay casos que se revelan claramente fraudulentos, otros se adivinan por el contexto, para otros se ofrecen sólidos alegatos que anulan la verosimilitud de lo contado, en otros la simple lectura de lo que se supone que aconteció aconseja reírse (o llorar), otros son descaradamente deficientes o incoherentes, en otros “se les ve el plumero”, otros se descalifican por sí solos o se dan claves que los hacen más que dudosos, patéticos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero hay otros (por ausencia de información/investigación) que quedan en el aire. Es una lástima, pero resulta inevitable, ya que la tarea de re-investigación de casos, sobre todo si son antiguos, es ardua y consume enorme cantidad de tiempo, como sé por propia experiencia1. Los académicos que se ocupan más o menos regularmente de este tema se deben mayormente a sus trabajos profesionales, no a entrevistar a sujetos que desvarían.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay casos en este inventario que solo contienen la relación o semblanza de los “hechos”, sin crítica, revisión o investigación. En ese sentido el trabajo queda algo cojo. Probablemente no era el objeto del proyecto en el que el autor se embarcó al comenzarlo, pero nos resistimos a tener que asignar la etiqueta de “sin explicación” a bastantes de estas aventuras, a buen seguro ilusorias o falaces. De otro lado, sin embargo, la presentación ordenada de los casos debe incitar a investigadores locales a la re-encuesta racional de algunos de estos episodios para los que todavía no hay impreso el sello de “resuelto”. Es un reto para los ufólogos serios de Chile. Yo los animo a ese empeño.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No lo voy a negar, he echado en falta al menos un capítulo de tratamiento estadístico de los datos. Si la información fundamental de cada episodio se hubiera informatizado, tendríamos tabuladas las respuestas a muchos interrogantes: ¿en qué monto los testigos hombres superan a las mujeres y porqué la visión de platillos volantes no se atiene a la universal proporción de género?, rangos de edades, profesiones, actividad en el momento del acontecimiento extraterrestre, categorías de explicación, duración de los sucesos, formas y tamaños (tanto de los objetos portadores como de sus tripulantes), y, en fin, muchos otros pormenores. El hecho es que el autor no lo ha hecho y punto. Ahora bien, si los resúmenes de los casos recogen ‒como esperamos y creemos‒ toda la información importante, entonces cualquier estadístico o investigador familiarizado con las técnicas correspondientes puede hacer un trabajo de diferente nivel que a buen seguro aportará elementos de interés. Invito a ello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El autor, es verdad, dedica las páginas 315 a 320 a elaborar unos cuadros “para hacernos una idea de qué relación tienen estos casos con las oleadas que se registraron en Chile en las últimas décadas”. Destacan (con más del 5% del total) los picos de 1968 y 1978. Con algo menos, 2000, 2001 y 2004. Curioso. Cuanto más evidente se hace (por el infructuoso paso del tiempo) la ausencia de pruebas trascendentes de ovnis extraterrestres, más numerosos son los casos pasmosos que se nos presentan. Es el influjo de los medios, su caldo de cultivo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El autor refiere que apenas 16 ciudades congregan el 48% del total de casos, o sea 111. Para éstas, consigna el número de casos y su población, así que me voy a permitir analizar esos datos con más detalle. Compruebo que, a excepción de Santiago, que por sí sola aporta 30 casos, en las demás, no importa si son poblaciones con baja cifra de habitantes como de una población media, los casos se reportan en frecuencia semejante: entre 4 y 10 [media de 5] para entidades de población ≤20.000 habitantes, entre 5 y 10 [media de 7,5] para ciudades de 100 a 200.000 habitantes y, finalmente, de 3 a 7 [media de 5] para localidades de entre 200 y 300.000 habitantes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La suma de los casos registrados en las poblaciones menores (seis), medianas (cuatro) y mayores (cinco) son del mismo orden que la de Santiago, como se observa seguidamente en la gráfica que no me he resistido a crear. Nada especialmente notorio excepto quizás que la difusión de las historias es independiente de la población. Como señala el autor, la presencia de ufólogos activos en ciertas ciudades explica el auge de casos allí.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me hubiera gustado también ver citadas referencias bibliográficas ‒al menos la investigación previa en castellano‒ que han tratado el tema de aterrizajes y humanoides. Simplemente para que este excelente compendio no aparezca aislado de sus precedentes. Créanme, no por ver citados mis ensayos y libros al respecto. Quizás, sin embargo, para equilibrar las fuentes de la bibliografía, muchas de las cuales son, por mor de la exhaustividad, lamentables (no por culpa del autor, Dios me libre). Cierto es que, siendo un libro referido a casos de Chile, no hay necesidad directa de mencionar las obras de otros precursores, pero en mi opinión no hay que olvidar nunca la oportunidad pedagógica en nuestros trabajos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como he dicho, la parte mollar del libro la componen los sumarios de 231 incidentes. Ciertamente, es el lector quien tiene que aplicar su juicio crítico para justipreciarlos. Pero ¿en qué sentido? Las cosas se pueden contar de varias maneras. En ufología (ufofília, normalmente), la parcialidad del vendedor de misterios tiende a decantarse por lo enigmático de la odisea, obviando los aspectos que la hacen ridícula o explicable. Al contrario, el autor de este libro sabe exponer con inteligencia y sentido común los “sucesos”, destacando lo irregular, anormal e improbable de tales “hechos” y exponiendo los rasgos sobresalientes que diagnostican lo inveraz del caso. Eso, verdaderamente, compensa la falta de investigación de campo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En realidad, quizás la característica más sustancial y preponderante de este libro, es la forma en que el autor narra los casos, haciendo que caigamos en la cuenta de lo dudosas, inverosímiles y excesivas que son las historias apiladas en este volumen. A mí me ha cautivado ese estilo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Historias, muchas de las cuales proceden de personas seguramente necesitadas de ayuda psicológica o psiquiátrica, aventadas por personajillos que medran con ellas. Pero, sea porque medió una dictadura y mejor alzar la vista al cielo y no a lo que pasaba a ras del suelo, o en tiempos de democracia por la necesaria libertad de expresión, los que inventan, los sugestionables, los confundidos, los que avivan fraudes y los que no saben lo que vieron de veras, tienen vía libre para exponer sus ensueños e ilusiones y, a su vez, ejercer un efecto cómplice, multiplicador e influyente, corrompiendo mentes débiles. Ello augura una continuidad del “fenómeno extraterrestre” que, como he escrito en alguna ocasión, solo procede del espacio interior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comprobamos también como media docena de ufólogos chilenos, que desvarían tanto como los supuestos testigos de tantos vis-à-vis con marcianos, emponzoñan con pésima y tendenciosa literatura y bufonas apariciones en TV la información que leen lectores inocentes y miran cándidos televidentes. Concretamente, la conclusión de algún sensacional caso reciente es muy elocuente, por convertirse en verdadero estereotipo de estas situaciones a nivel mundial. Por ejemplo, leemos en la página 246: <i>Lo sucedido en Las Piñas tiene mucho interés no solo por la explicación, que deja bastante mal parados a los ufólogos mediáticos, sino porque es una muestra de cómo actúa la prensa. Estamos frente a una evidente construcción mediática que sigue el curso natural que se espera de esto: un caso llamativo, su explotación hasta el paroxismo, el surgimiento de nuevos cuentos sin el interés del original ‒pero que sirven para rellenar por un tiempo‒ y la posterior desaparición del tema por carecer de novedad.</i> Añado: son las pautas más descaradas del sensacionalismo en acción, con las que unos pocos se lucran y otros tratan de sobrevivir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una relación de las 366 fuentes usadas finaliza la obra, que vuelve a demostrar el enorme esfuerzo del escritor en documentarse a fondo, cosa que es poco habitual en esta materia. Digno de un verdadero historiador.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro muestra la banda ancha y límites de la imaginación humana. He leído la sucesión de historias como cuando veo una serie de televisión en la que cada capítulo es una variación sobre el mismo tema. El contenido de las historias es a veces divertido, en ocasiones melodramático y siempre simplón. Von Kleist ha hecho una magnífica labor al reunirlas y relatarlas de forma amena, resaltando lo ridículo de las narraciones. Esta ha sido, en suma, una indagación magistral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos y Juan A. Fernández Peris, <u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con ovnis</u>, Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1987.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.libros-antiguos-alcana.com/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/enciclopedia-de-los-encuentros-cercanos-con-ovnis/libro">https://www.libros-antiguos-alcana.com/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/enciclopedia-de-los-encuentros-cercanos-con-ovnis/libro</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En 2003, la hoy extinta Fundación Anomalía publicó una obra de inmenso valor: OVNIS Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS. Con el subtítulo “Un estudio temático de 50 años de bibliografía”, su autor, Ignacio Cabria, Licenciado en Antropología Social y Cultural y Máster en Cooperación Internacional, abordó los procesos sociales y psicológicos en los que se producen los informes ovni, hasta su significación cultural. Es, como aclara la contraportada del libro, <i>una revisión crítica, que señala los puntos fuertes y débiles de cada investigación y nos proporciona una fuente insustituible del pensamiento que, desde la Sociología, Psicología y Antropología, se utiliza para mejorar el conocimiento de muchos aspectos de interés en este apasionante fenómeno.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Las 307 páginas de este volumen, de lectura obligatoria para quien ose llamarse o pretenda ser investigador del fenómeno ovni, cubren cuatro capítulos que abarcan estos temas: La ufología de enfoque psicosociológico, La Psicología aplicada a las observaciones ovni y a las abducciones, Sociología del fenómeno ovni, y Hacia una topología del tema ovni y extraterrestre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Su imprescindible lectura equivale a graduarse en información ovni de calidad. Por ello, cuando hace poco hablaba con Nacho Cabria sobre sus planes actuales de investigación y salió a colación esta obra, ya agotada, convinimos en la necesidad de que fuera nuevamente sacada a la luz pública. Me ofrecí a subirla al portal Academia.edu y ahora me satisface enormemente informar que este excelente libro puede encontrarse sencillamente a golpe de clic en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“El engaño de Roswell” es un libro digital de James Carrion (antiguo director internacional del MUFON). Gracias al esfuerzo titánico de Isaac Koi para acercar a los ufólogos de todo el mundo documentación y publicaciones ovni, este volumen de 523 páginas podemos leerlo en el servidor del AFU sueco, a través del siguiente enlace directo al PDF correspondiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La teoría del autor queda expresada sucintamente en la página 13 de la obra. Es la siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Propongo que el verano de los platillos volantes de 1947 y el propio incidente de Roswell fueron el resultado de operaciones de engaño perpetradas por los Estados Unidos contra la Unión Soviética en lo que fueron los primeros disparos de la Guerra Fría. Escondidas en las sombras y protegidas a través de la ofuscación durante más de 70 años, ya es hora de que estas operaciones se revelen al público y de que se vuelvan a escribir los libros de historia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hasta el momento teníamos a una nave extraterrestre siniestrada, al globo supersecreto del Proyecto Mogul, a la caída de un meteorito y ahora la operación gubernamental, como lecturas para interpretar lo que ocurrió en Roswell. ¿Hay más que añadir a la ceremonia de la confusión?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>He visto un ovni</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edoardo Russo ha escrito una síntesis del ultimo (¿penúltimo?) libro francés sobre ovnis, uno que tiene el valor añadido de que lleva la firma de Xavier Passot, exdirector del GEIPAN, la agencia oficial del CNES galo para la investigación del fenómeno ovni:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Titulado “J’ai vu un OVNI: Perceptions et réalités” (He visto un ovni. Percepciones y realidades), lo ha publicado la editorial Cherche Midi en junio de 2018 (144 páginas), está prologado por el sociólogo de la ciencia Pierre Lagrange y es una obra de lectura aconsejable para conocer cuál es el juicio que se ha formado quien ha manejado durante cinco años los informes sobre observaciones ovni en Francia al más alto nivel en la escala del “need-to-know”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Henri Broch, profesor emérito de la universidad francesa Sophia Antipolis de Niza, es el director de una colección de libros que ha presentado con un texto del que extractamos lo siguiente:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>La actitud científica y el comportamiento cívico requieren el mismo sustrato mental y moral para su desarrollo, y una sociedad verdaderamente democrática presupone necesariamente que los ciudadanos no son aptos para una marcha forzada, sino más bien aptos para pensar. Por lo tanto, es grave ver cómo se desmoronan los fundamentos del pensamiento crítico. El método científico, el Arte de la Duda, es de hecho un verdadero baluarte contra todos los oscurantismos y permite "luchar" contra la violencia que a menudo es la hija de la incultura.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esa colección de obras tiene como común denominador la revisión crítica de diversas formas de falsas creencias. Escritos en el idioma de Descartes, son libros muy recomendables. Esta es una web digna de visitar:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BUFORA, la más antigua de las organizaciones ufológicas europeas, ha editado un volumen dedicado a glosar 1.188 informes de episodios de interferencias en vehículos, supuestamente producidas por los ovnis, entre 1980 y 2013. La página web oficial de la entidad describe así la publicación: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Una y otra vez, testigos de los ovnis han informado consistentemente una pérdida inexplicable de la potencia del motor del vehículo, la señal de radio, la función eléctrica o interferencia en la orientación de la brújula, mientras se encuentran cerca de un objeto o luz anómala. En nombre de BUFORA, Geoff Falla y Michael Hudson han recopilado cuidadosamente los resúmenes de incidentes de interferencia de vehículos y sus correspondientes fuentes y referencias. Al hacerlo, nos han presentado un caso convincente para la realidad de al menos un aspecto tangible de un tema por lo demás esquivo y controvertido. Lo que estos extraños efectos de interferencia pueden representar en última instancia está abierto a debate, pero el hecho ineludible es que cada caso resaltado en la publicación ha dejado una huella obvia y científicamente medible.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El informe, 283 páginas en tamaño A4, se puede comprar a través de este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>The UFO Encyclopedia</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jerome Clark ha reeditado y ampliado su ya pantagruélica y eminente enciclopedia ovni (Omnigraphics, octubre de 2018, 1.520 páginas). Esta nueva edición incluye alrededor de cien nuevos artículos y es, verdaderamente, una referencia bibliográfica difícilmente superable: </span><a href="https://omnigraphics.com/shop/ufo-encyclopedia-3rd/#descriptionT" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://omnigraphics.com/shop/ufo-encyclopedia-3rd/#descriptionT</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFO Photos</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hace poco me regalaron el PDF de un libro de un desconocido Jason Gleaves, consagrado al análisis “por ordenador” de fotografías ovni (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFO-PHOTOS-COMPUTER-ANALYSIS-WORLDWIDE/dp/1976779812">https://www.amazon.com/UFO-PHOTOS-COMPUTER-ANALYSIS-WORLDWIDE/dp/1976779812</a>). La verdad es que me pareció malísimo y, sobre todo, inútil. Le pedí a alguien que conoce el tema que escribiera una reseña, para ver el grado de coincidencia que tenía conmigo y, sin adelantarle nada, le mandé el archivo. Se trata de Tobias Lindgren, el experto en análisis fotográfico de UFO Sweden y del AFU (Archives for the Unexplained: <a href="http://www.afu.se/afu2">http://www.afu.se/afu2</a>), cuyos trabajos son fidedignos, una condición rara en este campo de investigación nuestro. La crítica que Lindgren ha realizado se encuentra ubicada en la sección en inglés de este blog. Y encaja del todo con mis apreciaciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Milton Hourcade ha dirigido una amplia encuesta internacional a investigadores del fenómeno ovni, entre los que se encuentra su seguro servidor. Puede leerse aquí: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uapsg.com/2018/09/a-survey-among-uap-investigators-and_9.html">http://www.uapsg.com/2018/09/a-survey-among-uap-investigators-and_9.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “Viten” es como, con su lengua de trapo, mi nieto Lucas ha fundido mi primer nombre de pila. En la foto, hecha en julio en nuestro chalet de La Eliana, a la derecha. Junto a él, Fernando, mi segundo nieto. Y a pesar del desempeño extra de ejercer de abuelo, aún encuentro tiempo para seguir trabajando en esto que tanto nos apasiona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado alguna información a la presente edición del blog: Edoardo Russo, Jim Oberg, Tim Printy, Matías Morey, Kay Massingill, Keith Basterfield, Barry Greenwood, Enrique Márquez, Philip Mantle, Pierre Lagrange, John Derr, Tobias Lindgren, Sergey Chernouss e Isaac Koi.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Expedientes insólitos</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e</a></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and the Government</b> (con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Entrega de información sobre casos, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a nosotros por correo ele</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ctrónico: </span><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</a></div>
ballesterolmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291992369157354704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9810946.post-86723735124873300022018-06-27T00:03:00.004+02:002021-11-29T19:56:25.958+01:002018/JUNE/30 (EN)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The latest count of the FOTOCAT spreadsheet records 12,310 cases. Current emphasis is placed on feeding data to the catalog structure.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The author’s research activity is normally quite intense. Frantic of late. Several articles have been finished or are ready to be completed. Today I am announcing the release of one article that it is part of a trilogy based on UFO incidents‒reported in Spain‒dated in or around the year 1966. Although the work has been written in Spanish, the general flavor of the methodology and results will be easily acknowledged by foreign colleagues. One will be presented here, another has been submitted for publication to a professional journal, and the third one is still in the oven.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This section will also include the link to an old article just uploaded to the internet for general knowledge, as well as the latest comments on the publication of my book with Wim van Utrecht on UFO photography in Belgium.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Space Test UFOs</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This essay has been jointly produced with physicist and investigator Julio Plaza del Olmo. I hope this one will please both fans of space study and ufologists. The article (in Spanish) is entitled “La experiencia espacial del 22 de abril de 1966” (The Space Experiment of April 22, 1966). It deals with a space test‒the release of barium clouds in the atmosphere‒achieved through a rocket launched from the French base of Hammaguir, Algeria. The optical output of this scientific experiment transcended frontiers and was visually and photographically detected from many places in Spain and other European countries. The authors have analyzed a sample of reported observations, showing revealing findings. The proper reference link follows:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Rocket sounding of the atmosphere was a usual activity during last half of 20th century. One such test was done on April 22nd, 1966. A Rubis rocket launched from the French base of Hammaguir released two loads of metallic chemicals, producing ionizing clouds in the atmosphere that were seen from several points across Europe. This work gathers most of those sightings and compares reported variables like elevation, distance, direction, and apparent size against the calculated trajectory of the rocket and clouds. The fallibility of human observation is reviewed. A coincidental but unrelated UFO sighting in New Mexico (USA) is also presented and explained.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Vintage Review of UFO Occupant Cases</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I have devoted part of my UFO research life to exploring the subject of UFO landings, as reported in Spain and neighboring Portugal. In fact, I wrote three books on this segment of the case mix, as well as many articles and papers. By 1973 I had compiled a very modest catalog of 130 events1, and without thinking twice I rushed to l look at the cases reporting flying saucer crew members, just 19 stories. I wanted to examine “the morphology and behavior of animate beings in conjunction with UFOs, and the outstanding features of the objects themselves”. Therefore, I penned a simple tabulation of some critical aspects of the incidents, and an article with the title “Biometric Data in 19 UFO Occupant cases” was published in London’s reputable <i>Flying Saucer Review</i>, Volume 19, No. 3, May-June 1973, pages 22-26. I have just uploaded it to the Academia.edu portal, especially for students who were not in the pipeline back then:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As expected, no conclusion could be advanced with such a limited sample, except that (a) no salient typology emerged, (b) the behavior of the occupants was characterized as preposterous, and (c) UFOs had a circular symmetry of revolution (i.e., all saucers are round). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(1) Just for comparison, today this catalog has increased up to 1,000 reports!</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">My coauthor Wim van Utrecht and I are very satisfied to verify the good reception of our joint book, which nowadays has already reached 1,552 visits and downloads. It has two formats. The free, online book is here:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The printed book is available through UPIAR publishers:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Expert opinion continues to praise our book. Latest comments come from:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Kevin Randle: <i>I believe that important information is included in the book, and that the writer is someone who has an interest in the truth,</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/belgium-in-ufo-photographs-volume-1.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/belgium-in-ufo-photographs-volume-1.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">UFOCON (RRR Group): <i>This is, as all Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos materials are, </i></span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">germane and edifying,</i></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2018_03_10_archive.html">https://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2018_03_10_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In German, Hans-Werner Peinifer, <i>Journal Für UFO_Forschung </i>(JUFOF), No. 235, 2018, pages 29-32, highlighting several cases, describing our <i>modus operandi</i> and comparing our conclusions with parallel findings of the reviewer’s own research,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36817276/Book_Review_by_Hans-Werner_Peiniger.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/36817276/Book_Review_by_Hans-Werner_Peiniger.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b>UFO RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>The Pentagon UFO Study</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">My impression is that the so-called Pentagon UFO Study under the cryptic name of Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was something more akin to a classic UFO organization of the sixties (a group formed by believers in extraterrestrials) than any other thing. That some of those who ran it ended up in the profit-oriented company “To the Stars” makes things even clearer. The censored, partial and redacted materials disclosed to date (3 UFO videos) are being subjected to lot of criticism. The latest is a note blogged by Robert Sheaffer on March 14, 2018: <a href="https://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/to-stars-releases-another-video-and.html">https://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/to-stars-releases-another-video-and.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Sound, technical comment on the actual audio-visual clips can be consulted in Mick West’s blog, and we place them here by the order of approved public release. Please note that not even exact information on date and location has been disclosed, preventing or delaying independent investigation.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.metabunk.org/nyt-gimbal-video-of-u-s-navy-jet-encounter-with-unknown-object.t9333/">https://www.metabunk.org/nyt-gimbal-video-of-u-s-navy-jet-encounter-with-unknown-object.t9333/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“FLIR1” or “Tic Tac”, November 14, 2004, USS Nimitz carrier group F/A-18, 40 NM off San Diego, California: <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-flir-footage.t9190/">https://www.metabunk.org/2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-flir-footage.t9190/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Go Fast”, 2015, off the East Coast: <a href="https://www.metabunk.org/go-fast-footage-from-tom-delonges-to-the-stars-academy-bird-balloon.t9569/">https://www.metabunk.org/go-fast-footage-from-tom-delonges-to-the-stars-academy-bird-balloon.t9569/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A few investigations are being carried out by several professionals. These are starting to shed light on the possible nature of the objects recorded by the infrared sensors of the US Navy aviators involved in the video captures.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Every day, new articles provide clarifying clues about the obscure type of program it was and its continuation in the form of a “for profit” firm, for example:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Roger Glassel’s “The AATIP, Targeting Pod Videos and the DOPSR Process,” <a href="http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/04/the-aatip-targeting-pod-videos-and.html">http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/04/the-aatip-targeting-pod-videos-and.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Robert Sheaffer’s “To The Stars, or To The Dogs? The Case of the Missing Hot Dogs,” <a href="http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/to-stars-or-to-dogs-case-of-missing-hot.html">http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/to-stars-or-to-dogs-case-of-missing-hot.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>A Bright Track in Ireland, 1957</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">After so many books and newsletters checked, tracing UFO photographs not recorded in the FOTOCAT roster for the 1950s and 1960s starts to be rare. There just came into my hands the Dublin’s <i>Irish Independent</i> journal of December 4, 1957 with the following image and caption: <i>This picture, taken in Sligo town at 5.15 p.m. on Saturday evening last, shows a mysterious light in the sky which aroused considerable local interest and speculation. The object appeared as a pin-point of light, travelling in a North-East to South-West direction and was visible for almost three-quarters of an hour. The picture is a time exposure of four minutes, and was taken by James Eccles, of Sligo.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Brief but accurate information that allows us to check if an astronomical identification applies. Yes, it does. As we can see in the following sky chart, a most bright Venus (-4.42 magnitude) was placed in the SSW (200º) close to the horizon (9º). The track and the inclination are coincident with a long photographic exposure of the planet.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">If you think that detecting Venus as a prosaic explanation for UFO observations is something new, you are wrong. It has been a natural culprit for UFO events since UFO phenomena started to be reported (in fact, long before such visions were given a name). Recently, I was scanning old Spanish newspapers and found a curious note in <i>El Pueblo Gallego</i> of April 15, 1948. Yes, 1948, seventy years ago. A vernacular journal in the Galician region. On April 12<span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span>, the Strasbourg Observatory released a communiqué to report that it had been studying recent UFO observations reported by peasants and others in Eastern France and resolved these were caused by the apparition of Venus, then showing at maximum brightness. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Planet Venus is the most frequent candidate for UFO mistakes in the night. All UFO researchers have encountered cases where this astronomical body was the responsible. I have written much about it. For example, see an illustrated article (in Spanish) on a local sighting that was solved this way: “Venus, ¡otra vez tu” (Venus, you again?) in <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa</a> You can watch the video clip (scroll down) in the blog entry “Two UFO Video Analyses Online”, at</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">One of the most controversial official files declassified in Spain covers a UFO sighting from a two-seater <i>Mirage III</i> aircraft of the Spanish Air Force, flying over the Mediterranean Sea in 1973. It was also explained as due to the appearance of Venus and was the object of a detailed work carried out between Manuel Borraz, Joan Plana and myself. I think the report we wrote will be found instructive and its conclusion unarguable. Entitled "<i>Mirage III</i> Heading to Valencia", it can be read here (text in Spanish):</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I have stressed more than once that I am fascinated by the “art” in UFO photography. Fakes, camera artifacts, natural phenomena, and many other stimuli taken as UFOs provide rich chromatic structures and show capricious shapes. The following original copy was amongst the photographic materials that SOBEPS lent to the FOTOCAT Project thanks to Patrick Ferryn. There is not much mystery to it. The bottom line is, just a film flaw, a defect in the emulsion of the film. This picture was taken at 9,30am of January 25, 1971 by 18-year-old Gunar Gruenzner in the place known as “Ponta do Farol” at the Armaçao beach, Santa Catarina State (Brazil). The boy claimed to have seen a sort of “intense shine” in the brief seconds he was looking through the viewfinder to take another snapshot. Thinking it was a reflection, he dismissed it until he saw a weird shape in the developed picture.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The first time it was published (in color, a rarity) was in the Brazilian GPECE bulletin of July 1971. Technical appraisers stated it was a film defect, probably it was overdue. How quickly it was solved is another rarity. Then, the French <i>Lumières Dans La Nuit</i> (October 1972 issue, cover and page 13) commented this solution was “practically impossible” (<i>sic</i>), considering the young photographer said he saw a bright light. Next, Gordon Creighton of the British <i>Flying Saucer Review</i> got a the negative from Walter Buhler and wrote an article in the journal, followed by the evaluation of FSR’s photo expert Percy Hennell, who dictated “it was entirely accidental: if you hold the negative with the emulsion side towards you at an angle of about 45º to a reading lamp, and examine it with a glass magnifying ten times, you will see that there is a flaw in the emulsion…I think it is more likely to be a fault in the manufacture”. The photo has appeared in some books and UFO magazines. Wim van Utrecht also tackled this picture in the Caelestia web site, with the same result (<a href="http://www.caelestia.be/praia.html">http://www.caelestia.be/praia.html</a>). Last year, I asked photographic analyst Andrés Duarte to make a blind assessment about the image: “It is a defect in the emulsion, not a developing defect,” he clearly concluded. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Evidently, this all has been an excuse to publish the original color print. And, also, to draw attention from readers who have similar “UFO” photos in their files.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I’d like to complement this instance of a spurious image due to a film damage with a particularly beautiful but spoiled scene. During the 1964 World Fair, celebrated in Queens, New York, a visitor by the name of Lorentzen took a photograph of the recreation of a medieval Belgian village on the site. He did not spot anything strange when the picture was snapped. However, after processing, an eerie stain was prominent in the print. This case is contained in the files of the USAF Blue Book project and the original color print was rescued from oblivion by chance in 2013 (see following section). Another example of an emulsion flaw that readers should be familiar with when probing old photographic materials.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">May 30, 1964, New York. © Mr. Lorentzen. Blue Book files. Credit: Rob Mercer.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is one of those obscure Blue Book reports, rarely reproduced in the UFO press, if at all, probably because in the Project 10073 records, the BB case summary cards<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>, defined it as “missile activity”. Also, because of the poor image available. But when Rob Mercer acquired lost archives from the last Blue Book officer in charge<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span>, a better picture was found. Thanks to Mr. Mercer, I am presenting this photograph, along with a brief recap of the incident.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">At around 1555-1600Z of January 22, 1967, airborne observers in the Mid-Eastern Pacific area reported a halo that grew to several times larger than the diameter of the full moon, for 2 to 5 minutes. From the Johnston Island (North Pacific Ocean), a photograph was taken with a Baker-Nunn camera. Witnesses there reported the disc as slightly elongated with a perfect circular corona of even density. The object traveled toward the northwest in an arc passing north of the observers.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The BB card recorded: “The description is consistent with that of a missile launch. A missile was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 1544Z and impacted near Kwajalein Island at about 1612Z.” (The Kwajalein atoll is in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, 2100 nautical miles from Hawaii.)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Just for the sake of corroboration and accuracy, in 2017 I consulted Dr. Jonathan McDowell of Harvard, who confirmed that an Atlas missile 35D was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (Santa Barbara county, California) at the time.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>The 1947 UFO Wave Viewed in 1949</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">How was the arresting flying saucer scare of June-July 1947 in the United States perceived less than two years later? Like something that came to stay, or as a sort of mania that went out soon after it came in?</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Probably a reply to this question is found in a clipping I found in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> of February 21, 1949 (credit to Kay Massingill, the online newspaper morgue’s best explorer). The motif was the discovery in an old desert shack of a weird-designed object which finally was found to be a high-speed tow target, hauled aloft behind a Vultee training plane.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is how the editor introduced the story of the find:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Remember the flying disks?</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Remember the confused stories and the furore?</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Well, another one‒a real one‒has turned up!</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The object, hidden in the desert a few miles from Muroc test base (later renamed as Edwards AFB, Los Angeles, California), is made of metal, six feet in diameter with short horizontal surfaces tipped by odd looking tubes. Two feet thick at the hub, it apparently rotated in a vertical plane as it flew. The wreckage had its knife-edged circumference badly smashed at one point.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">More can be said about the piece and its use, but it is not my remit. I just intended to share how the editor of a major US newspaper described and recalled the spate of flying saucer narratives of 1947, hardly some 19 months later. One can guess why from 1949 onwards the belief in flying saucers skyrocketed without a new surge of visions (until 1952). Well, certainly, literature and movies came into action. That is, factors other than actual eerie occurrences, confirming evidence favoring the sociocultural fabric of the phenomenon. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Spirals, Spheres and other XXI Century Space Wonders</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">These days, our astronautics produce spectacular daytime or nighttime sky shows. Jim Oberg‒no need to introduce him‒writes to provide several links to “final draft” papers on orbital venting, fuel dump or stage burn or deorbit events that have produced amazing visual sightings in different parts of the world in the period 2010-2018. Oberg is to be commended for the detailed documentation he contributes, something that very much helps us as ufologists not to label as “UFOs” things that have an earthly origin.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Very timely, Oberg advises: <i>While mainly of interest in developing methodology to recognize and interpret spacecraft functions causing specific apparitions, the detailed reports also have profound value in showing a double-blind test series of observation of bizarre sky spectacles, to calibrate witness limitations in accuracy. Both genuine accident investigations, and 'UFO studies', might benefit from studying the results</i>. I am listing the six papers he has just released:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Belgian psychologist Dr. Jean-Michel Abrassart et al have presented June 2018 at the Perspectives on Contemporary Legend congress (36th meeting of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research) a paper titled "Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: The Saros Operation". The full text has been submitted for publication to a scientific journal and now it is under peer-review. In the meantime, the abstract is already available:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is an extremely professional paper from someone quite versed and qualified in aeronautics and physics:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/the-1973-coynemansfield-helicopter-ufo.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/the-1973-coynemansfield-helicopter-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I have always hated work from anonymous sources, and I expect this source will sooner or later disclose his identity. I am sensible, however, of the fear a mainstream scientist may feel to put his reputation at stake for being publicly involved with UFOs.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Kevin Randle has done a service to the UFO community by quoting this research and, on top of that, because his own comments have elicited further input from the author of the original report, “Parabunk”:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Robert Powell, former MUFON director of research, said in a UFO forum that the evidence that there was a refueling flight that day (the core of the resolution thesis) was needed to support it.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Funny how dumb we have been in handling alleged close encounter reports. The veil of belief inhibits your critical thinking. It is an incontrovertible fact. No one is to teach it to us, we know from own experience. In a first phase of UFO research you approach the subject candidly with lots of ignorance. You have read in books by an older generation that flying saucers exist, and you do not dispute this assertion. Moreover, eyewitnesses always tell the truth, why should they lie? This naïve sentiment typically lasts several years. Or, worse, all your life. Commonly, the more you learn and investigate, the more you realize that observers usually misinterpret what they see. After processing UFO claims over a wide range of years, you find that you missed obvious explanations because you were not enough in the non-believer mode. Well, to cut a long story short, one of the classic “landing” cases in Spain (Ordenes, Coruña, November 1, 1954) has been revisited by the acute UFO detective J.C. Victorio Uranga to draw a probable solution: a natural fireball. Viewed with new, more skeptic eyes, the explanation is perfectly satisfactory. Victorio has written an entry (in Spanish) in his excellent blog:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Everything in space that looks strange to the layman, and especially to a ufologist of the believer kind, rapidly becomes a UFO. It takes the advice of a professional to discern the nature of things that surround our astronauts.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Last year, certain news outlets attached this announcement to a video clip: “Is this UFO in NASA footage evidence of an alien craft?” Pure sensationalism. But one that needs to be deflated. Jim Oberg, a major space expert and communicator, emailed to me: “Shapes like this have been caught on several shuttle launches by the cameras watching the External Tank as it separates, they are attributed to ice molds on the interface junctions that form from humidity frozen by the super-cold metal piping.”</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“I think we are on the precipice of potentially understanding a new paradigm,” Luis Elizondo dixit in an interview by Chase Kloetzke, Kerry McClure, and Roger Marsh in <i>The MUFON UFO</i> Journal of May 2018 (page 15). I simply hope to see this sentence in the context of what has happened in ten more years. I am sure someone will have fallen from the precipice. Who? You bet. In the meantime, hordes of people will have been deceived by false expectations. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Recently, the National UFO Center let the cat out of the bag by reporting that <i>New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times</i> of July 26, 1909 carried the testimony of an “airship” seen in the down under skies. I like to work on first-hand stuff, so I decided to see it by myself. Thanks to Kay Massingill, I collected a copy of the press cutting (attached). Otago is a township located southwest of New Zealand and its local journal published the telephone and telegraph report received from a Mr. Gibson of Kelso. Today, Kelso is an abandoned small settlement. In the 1960s, population was only 300. Some sixty years before I guess there were enough people to require a school, because Mr. Gibson stated that at noon on Friday July 23, 1909, “the school children beheld in the air a strange machine, which they described as shaped like a boat, with what seem like the figure of man seated in it.” Please feel free to add herewith your favorite emoticon. A pilot seated in the exterior of a spacecraft!</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Over one hundred years have passed. Nowadays we know for sure that there were neither such airships, nor such navigators or aviators. It is a direct influence of visions and books by Jules Verne. But there were accounts. Alleged eyewitnesses. Even pictures. A certain airship enthusiasm started in the United States, and copycat “sightings” poured from other English-speaking countries. Historians, sociologists and anthropologists will tell us how invented stories about elusive aeroforms became endemic to the early century XX. This unreal phenomenon was the prelude to the flying saucer surge in 1947. I have the conviction that history does not do quantum jumps, it is a continuing tale, one story is based on past stories and so soon. Nothing is new under the sun. We need more historians and social scientists to follow the queue from A to Z. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(1) <i>Cielo Insolito</i> (Weird Sky) issue number 6 (March 2018) is out with articles on UFO history in English and Italian: <a href="http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito6.pdf">http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito6.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(2) Tony Bragalia seeks official information from the DIA regarding the Pentagon UFO study findings. Apparently, he’ll wait long for a reply. Read the following link:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/researcher-demands-alien-metal-test">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/researcher-demands-alien-metal-test</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(3) Luis R. González writes an answer to Robbie Graham’s “Don’t Forget UFOlogy: The Influence of UFO Lore in Pop Culture,” in the May-June issue of <i>SUNlite</i>, pages 4-7, <a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite10_3.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite10_3.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(4) Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena <i>et al</i>, “Optical Illusions and Spatial Disorientation in Aviation Pilots,” <i>Journal of Medical Systems</i> (2018) 42:79,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(5) Quite revealing is Kentaro Mori’s blog entry of 2008 on “extraordinary explanations,” <a href="http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/extraordinary-explanations/">http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/extraordinary-explanations/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(6) “Alien Sightings and OVNI Culture in Argentina,” a paper by David M.K. Sheinin, professor of History at Trent University (Canada), </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36287154/Alien_Sightings_and_OVNI_Culture_in_Argentina?auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest">https://www.academia.edu/36287154/Alien_Sightings_and_OVNI_Culture_in_Argentina?auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(7) In Spanish: “Alienígenas superstar,” (Superstar Aliens), by Luis R. González & Alejandro Agostinelli, <a href="http://factorelblog.com/2018/04/14/alienigenas-superstar/">http://factorelblog.com/2018/04/14/alienigenas-superstar/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(8) <u>UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth</u>, a 439-page book by James R. Lewis published 2000 by ABC-CLIO (Santa Barbara, California), <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybwbaumf">https://tinyurl.com/ybwbaumf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(9) Exposing Nick Pope: <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It was very sad to learn, from John Rimmer’s announcement, that Peter Rogerson died on March 6<span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span>. He was a most appreciated UFO colleague and a very inspiring mind. He was an eye-opener, no doubt, for those who are in this field to investigate, not to follow a blind faith. There was no one like him‒with his very personal prose‒to produce fascinating reviews of both rare and standard books. He was such a prolific writer of profound and captivating book critiques, that I started the custom of adding a Xerox copy of his reviews to the UFO books in my shelves. He was a very insightful brain, a true researcher far from public visibility, centered on pure, intellectual activity. Probably from the early beginning, Peter was aware that UFOs were not a nut and bolts issue, but a matter attached to the sign of the times. A non-material artificial construction. It’s all in the sociology, in the expectation and needs and influences of the masses, it’s an invention of the population impacted by the publicity and the cinema and the TV and the literature. He considered such theories when the whole world was thinking of flying saucers and UFOs. When one reads his monumental work in retrospect, his words acquire an immense, anticipatory value. In this field, he was a visionary, with every reason.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Ufology, I mean, the residual part of ufology which is still rigorous and rational, has missed a big intellect. I wish to vindicate his opus and I encourage academics and college scholars to study the works by Peter Rogerson to find the <i>voix de la raison</i> in a crazy world. He was the author of many admirable, erudite and mind-blogging articles. John Rimmer has compiled a selection of articles by Rogerson to browse:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">On a more conventional side of ufological work, Rogerson compiled INTCAT (international catalog of UFO landing reports). It covered 1880-1980, over 5,000 cases, a database that was never finally analytically exploited. See this site for an Introduction and the catalog listed by year: <a href="http://intcat.blogspot.com.es/">http://intcat.blogspot.com.es/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The first time I knew of Rogerson was when I received a letter dated December 27,1972 he sent to me with the purpose of enclosing a copy of his <i>Merseyside UFO Bulletin</i>, “in which an international catalogue of Type I reports is being commenced”. For newcomers, let me explain that Type I reports were UFO “landing” cases, in the terminology established by Jacques Vallée. By then I was personally quite centered in developing a catalog of landings in Spain and Portugal, so our aims coincided. My own work on landing or “close encounter” reports (Hynek’s terminology) produced lots of publications in the years to come, and I am listing below a sample of those.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1-7</span> And my snail-mail correspondence with Rogerson was quite intense during some ten years. After a long hiatus, we renewed our contact, this time through email, in the new century. His last communication arrived a few months ago.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Recently, when I started to write this short memoir, I played with the idea of scanning my correspondence with Rogerson and upload it to the public internet for all to read, but I finally have dismissed this because it is too premature, as there appear the names of several still living ufologists and researchers. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>I was interested in your article in Data-Net Report on “Occupants”<span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span>: the apparent aimless character of the activity is well established. Other reports have the occupants engaged in the same activities as human astronauts, in fact they tend to demonstrate the <u>layman’s idea</u> of how a superior civilisation would behave. What strikes us is the <u>humanistic</u> nature of the phenomenon, which so contradicts the </i>ETH.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>Keel was influenced by the ideas of Bowen and Creighton. I don´t think that Keel is paranoid (though he has a severe inferiority complex, which makes him try to act the scholar-which he is not), but Creighton certainly <u>is</u>. After my last letter in FSR, Creighton wrote, suggesting that changes in library classification were part of a plot by “elementals” to suppress the FSR. Apparently, everybody excepts Creighton is a puppet of the elementals. Bowen admits that C. is eccentric, but has to be given a bit of leeway, in order to ensure that he continues his translation work. I suppose that when you are one of the world’s greatest linguistics you are allowed to be looney. It is an old English custom.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>There’s not many British UFO buffs who’d agree with your approval of Alan Sharp, they really hate his guts. In general, MUFOB is disliked by British Ufologists, especially BUFORA because we have, in the past, printed some home truths about the irrational behavior of the UFO buffs, in particular the Warminster cult. A typical comment is “If you don´t believe in flying saucers, why do you publish a bulletin just to denigrate sincere seekers after the truth with your cynical attacks”. One group of UFO buffs actually managed to believe that my review of Hynek’s and Napier’s books was a “cynical attack” on something or other. To the UFO buffs, the whole thing is a religion “this sacred subject”, and they fiercely reject any attempt to rationally study the phenomenon.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>The sociological articles are not peripheral, as the sociological/psychological factor is probably the one which gives the report their special flavour. A physical stimulus behind the reports might be much less strange than people think, perhaps just something outside the witnesses’ own experience, but not perhaps new to physics. Many of the cases can be regarded in a whole psychological light. You will remember that Vallée argued in Magonia that it was only the landing traces which prevented a fully psychological explanation. So perhaps we ought to see whether such traces could survive a completely skeptical examination.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>About my theoretical position on UFOs, the thesis I suggested was that there was no separate UFO phenomenon at the level of individual cases, that is to say one could not select any single case and say that that case was caused by some new phenomenon not described by physics. However, there was a “UFO phenomenon” within groups of cases. In other words, that mass of UFO reports possessed a quality which made it something more than the sum of individual cases.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>As, the folklore, Magonians are both personifications of natural forces and projections of aspects of human personality. To get the true “feel” of folklore, you should read Lady Gregory’s “Visions and Belief in the West of Ireland”, to recognize the origin of mythology in the agony and despair of the peasants. Mythology is a means of adapting to the environment and rendering its incomprehensible forces “meaningful”. Today, perhaps, mythology is similarly helping us to adapt to the new manmade environment.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>I think it is a mistake to assume that “qualified” people are less likely that the general population to be subject to a variety of psychological and sociological pressures. The behavior of some of the ex-astronauts has been eccentric to say the least, and the history of parapsychology shows how the most qualified and hitherto rational people can be fooled under extreme circumstances. My own view is that the psycho-sociological pressures affect all levels of the community. I also suspect that percipients may be responding to the psychological needs of the community as a whole, rather than to their own personal needs.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">14 </span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>I would be interested in your comments on the current value of INTCAT which will have been going for 10 years next year. I am beginning to have very serious doubts as to its value, and the whole concept behind it, which no longer reflects my thinking on the subject. It seems that the last few years have seriously undermined the idea of the UFO experience being generated by some special external phenomenon (a view shared by and large by Hendry, Randles and Basterfield from their own studies), and as “classic” case after classic case goes down, I cannot help but feel that INTCAT may be seriously misleading. I think if I were starting today, I would limit it to CEIII’s, and also include all the “negative cases”, and present the abstracts more unambiguously as just stories.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">15</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>From my personal point of view, I would argue that the dichotomy is really an artifact of a false perception of the UFO problem as the “signal in the noise” ‒rather, than either a “structured noise” or “signals within noises”. My own working hypothesis would be that “the signal is imposed by human consciousness” on a wide variety of noises, a small proportion of which may be new empirical observations. That’s the ultimate ufological heresy, I suppose.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">16</span></i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(1) V.J. Ballester Olmos and Jacques Vallée, “Type-1 Phenomena in Spain and Portugal. A Study of 100 Iberian Landings,” in <u>UFOs in Two Worlds</u>, Charles Bowen (ed.), <i>Flying Saucer Review</i>, Special Issue No. 4, August 1971, pp. 40-64, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybhgaada">https://tinyurl.com/ybhgaada</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(2) Jacques Vallée and V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Sociology of the Iberian Landings,” Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 18:4, July-August 1972, pp. 10-12, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8yvxa8d">https://tinyurl.com/y8yvxa8d</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(3) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Record and Analysis of the Spanish Negative Landings,” Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 18:4, July-August 1972, pp. 31-32 and iii-iv. And Vol. 20:2, 1974, p. iii,</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(4) V.J. Ballester Olmos, “Biometric Data in 19 UFO Occupant Cases,” <i>Flying Saucer Review</i>, Vol. 19:3, May-June 1973, pp. 19-23 (also published in the US journal <i>Data-Net Report</i>),</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(5) V.J. Ballester Olmos, <u>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</u>, Center for UFO Studies (Evanston, Illinois), 1976,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(6) V.J. Ballester Olmos, <u>OVNIS: El fenómeno aterrizaje</u>, Plaza y Janés, S.A. (Barcelona), 1978,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.iberlibro.com/buscar-libro/titulo/ovnis-el-fenomeno-aterrizaje/autor/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/">https://www.iberlibro.com/buscar-libro/titulo/ovnis-el-fenomeno-aterrizaje/autor/vicente-juan-ballester-olmos/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Otros-Mundos-Ovnis-Fenomeno-Aterrizaje/dp/B00FEKGZM">https://www.amazon.es/Otros-Mundos-Ovnis-Fenomeno-Aterrizaje/dp/B00FEKGZM</a>I, <a href="https://www.amazon.es/Ovnis-aterrizaje-Vicente-Juan-Ballester-Olmos/dp/B00AO6GXEC">https://www.amazon.es/Ovnis-aterrizaje-Vicente-Juan-Ballester-Olmos/dp/B00AO6GXEC</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(7) V.J. Ballester Olmos and J.A. Fernández Peris, <u>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</u>, Plaza y Janés, S.A. (Barcelona), 1987,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(8) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, June 19, 1972.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(9) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, July 3, 1972.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(10) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, July 24, 1972.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(11) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, November 25, 1973.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(12) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, February 5, 1974.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(13) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, August 15, 1974.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(14) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, September 9, 1974.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(15) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, February 11, 1980.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(16) Peter Rogerson to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, August 14, 1981.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I owe thanks to Kay Massingill, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Jim Oberg, Giuseppe Stilo, Maurizio Verga, Tim Printy, Luis Ruiz Nóguez, and Jean-Michel Abrassart for their assistance or input.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">These are available in the usual second-hand market, for example:</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>· </b>Volunteer work, onsite or remote</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A fecha de hoy, nuestro catálogo alcanza ya 12.310 casos. Actualmente el énfasis va dirigido a alimentar con nuevos datos la estructura de la base de datos, más que en la adición de nuevos avistamientos.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El autor siempre ha desplegado una actividad de investigación bastante intensa. Últimamente es frenética. Varios artículos se han terminado o están por finalizar. Hoy quiero anunciar la publicación de un artículo que forma parte de una trilogía basada en incidentes ovni ocurridos en torno a 1966 en nuestro país. Uno lo presento a continuación. Otro lo he remitido para publicación a una revista técnica. Y un tercero está todavía en el horno.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Además, voy a añadir el enlace a un antiguo trabajo que acabo de subir a internet. Y, por último, quiero reseñar los nuevos comentarios que ha suscitado mi libro con Wim van Utrecht sobre fotografías ovni en Bélgica.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>La experiencia espacial del 22 de abril de 1966</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Este ensayo lo firmo al alimón con el físico e investigador español Julio Plaza del Olmo. Espero gustará tanto a ufólogos como a aficionados al estudio del espacio. El trabajo tiene que ver con las observaciones “ovni” originadas por una prueba espacial y la creación de nubes artificiales en la atmósfera. Testimonios y fotografías aparecieron en varios puntos de Europa. Nuestro estudio de tales avistamientos es bastante revelador. Este es el enlace formal del trabajo:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966">https://www.academia.edu/36433365/La_experiencia_espacial_del_22_de_abril_de_1966</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>El lanzamiento de cohetes para el estudio de la atmósfera ha sido una actividad rutinaria durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Una de esas pruebas se produjo el 22 de abril de 1966. Un cohete Rubis lanzado desde la base francesa de Hammaguir (Argelia) con dos cargas de sustancias químicas, produjo nubes de ionización en la atmósfera que fueron vistas desde varios puntos de Europa. En este trabajo, hemos reunido varios testimonios y comparado la información de variables como la elevación, distancia, dirección y tamaño aparente, con respecto a la trayectoria del cohete y las nubes. Con ello, revisamos la falibilidad de la observación humana. También mostramos y explicamos un avistamiento ovni en Nuevo México (EE. UU.) coincidente en fecha, pero sin relación con los sucesos analizados.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Estudio preliminar de casos de ocupantes</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">He dedicado gran parte de mi vida como investigador a explorar el tema de los llamados aterrizajes ovni en España y Portugal. De hecho, he escrito tres libros sobre el particular, además de muchos artículos y ensayos. En 1973, cuando solo había recogido un modesto compendio de 130 casos<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>, sin pensarlo dos veces decidí revisar el contenido de las “tripulaciones” de los platillos volantes, apenas un grupito de 19 sucesos. Pretendía ni más ni menos ‒¡osadía de juventud!‒ pasar revista a la “morfología y conducta de los seres animados observados en conjunto con los ovnis, así como las características más sobresalientes de los objetos mismos”. Así que, dicho y hecho, establecí una simple tabulación de los medibles principales de dichos incidentes. Los resultados se publicaron en un artículo titulado “Biometric Data in 19 UFO Occupant cases” en la reputada revista especializada londinense <i>Flying Saucer Review</i> (Vol. 19:3, mayo-junio de 1973), que acabo de subir al portal Academia.edu por si interesa a alguien (parece que sí, porque en unas semanas ha recibido más de 430 visitas). Este es el enlace: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36486629/Biometric_Data_in_19_UFO_Occupant_Cases">https://www.academia.edu/36486629/Biometric_Data_in_19_UFO_Occupant_Cases</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">También se publicó en francés en las dos mejores revistas del ramo de entonces (<i>Phénòmenes Spatiaux</i> y <i>LDLN</i>) y en un libro de Henry Durrant. La única versión en castellano es la traducción de ese capítulo: “Datos biométricos extraídos de diecinueve casos de pasajeros de OVNIS”, en <u>Humanoides extraterrestres</u>, Henry Durrant, Javier Vergara Editor (Buenos Aires), 1978, páginas 175-185.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Como cabría esperar, no se pueden avanzar grandes conclusiones, dada la muestra tan limitada, excepto que (a) no hay ninguna tipología repetida, (b) el comportamiento de los ocupantes es absurdo, y (c) los ovnis tienen simetría de revolución circular (o sea, todos los platillos son redondos). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">En 2016 se incluyó la versión digital de los expedientes ovni desclasificados en la página web del Ministerio de Defensa, concretamente en la Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa (BVD). En 2017 se realizaron algunas correcciones y mejoras y se añadieron un par de expedientes que se habían quedado descolgados. Finalmente, en 2018 la BVD acaba de incorporar un artículo mío que expone dicho proceso, “Los expedientes OVNI desclasificados – Online” y que se encuentra en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Mi libro con Wim van Utrecht dedicado en su primer volumen al análisis de las fotografías de ovnis conocidas en Bélgica entre 1950 y 1988 se publicó el año pasado, con una buena acogida por parte de la crítica especializada, como hemos visto en anteriores blogs. Estamos muy satisfechos con la recepción de los investigadores, ya que en estos meses la edición online ha tenido 1,558 visitas y descargas. Esta es la versión en internet:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Y esta es la edición impresa, para amantes del libro en papel, bibliotecarios y otros: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">No quiero obviar los últimos comentarios publicados, todos ellos favorables:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Escribe el conocido autor Kevin Randle: <i>Creo que este libro incluye información importante y que los autores están interesados en la búsqueda de la verdad</i>, <a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/belgium-in-ufo-photographs-volume-1.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/belgium-in-ufo-photographs-volume-1.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">UFOCON (el grupo RRR) ha escrito: <i>Este es, como todos los materiales producidos por Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, pertinente y edificante</i>,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2018_03_10_archive.html">https://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2018_03_10_archive.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El estudioso alemán Hans-Werner Peinifer ha publicado una magnífica reseña en el <i>Journal Für UFO_Forschung</i> (Revista de investigación ovni), número 235, 2018, páginas 29-32, escogiendo alguno de los casos de nuestra obra, describiendo nuestro <i>modus operandi</i> y mostrando la semejanza de nuestras conclusiones con las que se deducen de sus propias investigaciones, </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Traza brillante en Irlanda en 1957</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Tras una docena de años revisando un incalculable volumen de libros y revistas para crear la base de datos FOTOCAT, llega un momento que encontrar fotos desconocidas de las décadas de los 50 y 60 del siglo pasado casi resulta difícil. Y me alegra capturar viejos especímenes, como ese ejemplar del diario Irish Independent del 4 de diciembre de 1957 con esta imagen y pie de foto: <i>Esta fotografía, hecha en la ciudad de Sligo a las 5:15 de la tarde del sábado pasado, muestra una misteriosa luz en el cielo que levantó considerable interés y especulación. El objeto parecía un punto de luz moviéndose del noreste en dirección al suroeste y fue visible durante tres cuartos de hora. La foto, con una exposición de cuatro minutos, la hizo James Eccles, de Sligo.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La información es breve pero exacta, al punto que permite resolver el misterio, definido como un cuerpo astronómico (lo habitual de los avistamientos nocturnos de larga duración). La siguiente carta celeste muestra un brillante Venus con magnitud de -4.42 ubicado al sursuroeste (200º) y cerca del horizonte (9º). La traza e inclinación coinciden con la larga exposición fotográfica del planeta.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Si usted cree que tomar a este astro como canon para resolver luces en el cielo es fruto de la malvada elaboración de los escépticos, y algo reciente, sepa que está muy equivocado. Venus ha sido responsable natural de miríadas de observaciones ovni desde que empezó a hablarse de platillos volantes o de ovnis. De hecho, incluso antes de que se le asignara un nombre a la aparición de tales desconocidas luminarias celestes. No hace mucho, estaba revisando viejos diarios de coruñeses cuando me topé con una nota publicada en <i>El Pueblo Gallego</i> del 15 de abril de 1948. Sí, 1948, hace la friolera de setenta años. Según la noticia, el 12 de abril de ese año el observatorio astronómico francés de Estrasburgo hizo público un comunicado para dar cuenta del resultado de sus estudios con relación a diversas observaciones de platillos volantes hechas por campesinos y otros habitantes de Francia oriental. El informe resolvió que tales observaciones las había causado la aparición de Venus, que en aquel momento presentaba un brillo muy acusado. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Lo cierto es que Venus es el candidato más frecuente para producir equívocos en la observación nocturna. Todos los investigadores se han topado con casos en los que este astro era responsable del desacierto por parte del testigo. Yo he escrito bastante sobre el particular. Por ejemplo, el artículo “Venus, ¡otra vez tu”, que se halla en este enlace: <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa">http://www.webcitation.org/6mx5o4kaa</a> Si el lector siente curiosidad por ver la grabación, la tiene en la sección titulada “Dos estudios de videos ovni” de una anterior entrada del blog: </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Otro precedente lo encontramos en uno de los más controvertidos expedientes oficiales desclasificados, dedicado a un avistamiento ovni desde un avión militar biplaza que volaba sobre el Mediterráneo en 1973. También quedó resuelto por la aparición de Venus y fue objeto de un detallado trabajo realizado entre Manuel Borraz, Joan Plana y yo mismo. Creo que el informe que escribimos es suficientemente didáctico y de una actualidad insoslayable. Titulado “<i>Mirage III</i> rumbo a Valencia”, se puede leer aquí:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">He dicho más de una vez lo mucho que me fascina el “arte” de la fotografía ovni. Creativos fraudes, imágenes virtuales, fenómenos naturales, y muchos otros documentos gráficos que se toman por ovnis, proveen una rica mina de curiosas estructuras cromáticas y de formas caprichosas. Encontré la siguiente foto original entre el material gráfico que la sociedad SOBEPS regaló al proyecto FOTOCAT, gracias al concurso de Patrick Ferryn. No hay gran misterio en la imagen, pero es intrigante. Se trata de un defecto de la película -un defecto en la emulsión- lo que creó un retrato misterioso. La foto la tomó Gunar Gruenzner, un joven de 18 años, a las 9,30 de la mañana del 25 de enero de 1975 en el lugar conocido como “Ponta do Farol” (Punta del faro) en la playa de Armaçao, en el estado de Santa Catarina (Brasil). El chico afirmó haber visto una especie de “brillo intenso” en los pocos segundos que miró por el visor de la cámara al ir a sacar otra instantánea. Creyendo que era un reflejo, se olvidó del tema hasta que vio esta extraña figura cuando retiró las fotos del laboratorio de revelado. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La primera vez que se publicó la foto (en color, toda una rareza) fue en el boletín del grupo brasileño GPECE, en julio de 1971. Los peritos que la examinaron señalaron que era un defecto de la película, probablemente estaba caducada. Lo rápido que se aclaró fue otra rareza. Seguidamente, la revista francesa <i>Lumières Dans La Nuit</i>, en su número de octubre de 1972, comentó que esta solución era “prácticamente imposible” (<i>sic</i>), habida cuenta de que el joven fotógrafo dijo haber visto una luz brillante. Le siguió Gordon Creighton, de la británica <i>Flying Saucer Review</i>, quien recibió el negativo del ufólogo Walter Buhler. Escribió un artículo para la revista, reforzado con la evaluación del experto fotográfico de la FSR Percy Hennell, quien dictaminó que “fue algo enteramente accidental: si tomas el negativo con la superficie de la emulsión hacia ti con un ángulo de 45º delante de una lámpara y lo examinas con una lupa de diez aumentos verás que hay un defecto en la emulsión. Probablemente es un fallo de fabricación”. La foto ha salido en algunos libros y revistas. Wim van Utrecht se ha ocupado de la imagen en la web Caelestia, llegando a idéntica conclusión (<a href="http://www.caelestia.be/praia.html">http://www.caelestia.be/praia.html</a>). El pasado año, planteé al analista fotográfico Andrés Duarte un veredicto ciego de la fotografía y no hubo duda tampoco: “Es un defecto en la emulsión, no un problema debido al revelado”, afirmó. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Evidentemente, todo ha sido una excusa para mostrarles la instantánea en color que conservo. Y, naturalmente, para llamar la atención a los lectores que puedan tener tomas semejantes en sus archivos y advertirles que no son ovnis. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Llegado a este punto, me gustaría complementar este ejemplo de imagen espuria con otra escena echada a perder. Durante la feria mundial 1964 celebrada en Queens, Nueva York, un visitante apellidado Lorentzen fotografió la recreación de un pueblecito medieval belga allí levantado. Al sacar la foto no advirtió nada fuera de lo común. Pero cuando ésta llegó del laboratorio, una mancha fantasmal atravesaba gran parte de su superficie. Este caso aparece entre los archivos del Proyecto Libro Azul de la fuerza aérea estadounidense. En 2013, la foto se rescató de una destrucción inminente por puro azar (ver la sección siguiente). Tenemos aquí otro efecto producido un fallo en la emulsión de la película con los que los investigadores deberían familiarizarse al analizar materiales fotográficos antiguos.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Este es un informe escasamente conocido, seleccionado del alrededor de 15.000 avistamientos recopilados en el programa ovni de la USAF. Apenas citado en la literatura ufológica, probablemente porque las fichas<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> del “Project 10073” (el registro interno de datos fundamentales usado en el proyecto “Libro Azul”) ya reseñaron que se trató de “actividad de misiles”. Y también por la pobre imagen disponible hasta ahora. Pero cuando el ufólogo de Miami Rob Mercer compró los archivos pertenecientes al último oficial2 a cargo del Blue Book, se halló una fotografía de mejor calidad. Gracias a la gentileza del señor Mercer, me complace mostrar seguidamente dicha foto y recapitular sucintamente este incidente.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Alrededor de las 15:55-16:00 (hora Z) del 22 de enero de 1967, observadores en vuelo en la zona de Pacífico oriental informaron la aparición de un halo que fue creciendo hasta adquirir un tamaño varias veces mayor que el diámetro de la luna llena, lo que transcurrió entre dos y cinco minutos. Desde la isla Johnston (al norte del Océano Pacífico), se logró una fotografía del fenómeno con una cámara astronómica Baker-Nunn. Allí, los testigos vieron un disco ligeramente elongado con una corona circular de densidad uniforme. El objeto se dirigía hacia el noroeste en un arco que discurría al norte de los observadores. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La ficha-resumen del “Libro Azul” anota lo siguiente: “La descripción es consistente con el lanzamiento de un misil. Desde la base aérea de Vandenberg se disparó un misil a las 15:44Z, que impactó cerca de la isla Kwajalein alrededor de las 16:12Z.” (El atolón de Kwajalein se halla en las islas Marshall, en el Océano Pacífico, situadas a unas 2.100 millas náuticas de Hawaii). </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><u>Espirales, esferas y otros fenómenos luminosos espaciales</u></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">La actividad astronáutica suele dibujar sobre el tapiz diurno o nocturno del cielo espectáculos de una belleza y misterio inusitados. Jim Oberg -quien no necesita presentación alguna- ha escrito muy recientemente varios trabajos donde analiza la génesis de espectaculares fenómenos radiantes provocados por escape o emisión de combustible en el espacio, separación de etapas de cohetes, fenómenos de cambio de órbita, etc., que son los responsables de impresionantes y coloristas fenómenos luminosos que se han dado en diversas partes del mundo entre 2010 y 2018. Hay que felicitar a Oberg por el exquisito nivel de documentación, científica y gráfica, que aporta en sus trabajos, porque ayuda a los ufólogos a no etiquetar como ovni aquello que se produce en el exterior de la Tierra, pero cuyo origen es del todo terrestre.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Desorbitaje, Noruega, 19 de febrero de 2018 </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/180314-falcon9s2-australia.pdf">http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/180314-falcon9s2-australia.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Es chocante lo limitados que hemos sido en la práctica ufológica. Concretamente lo errados que fuimos al manejar algunos de los casos de aterrizaje ovni que teníamos entre manos en los primeros años de nuestra actividad como investigadores. El velo de la creencia inhibe el pensamiento crítico. Es un hecho incontrovertible. Nadie nos lo tiene que enseñar, ya que lo sabemos por experiencia propia. En una primera fase, uno aborda el estudio ovni con tanta inocencia como ignorancia. Hemos leído en los libros escritos por nuestros mayores que los platillos volantes existen. ¿Quién es uno para disputar tal deducción? Además, los testigos oculares siempre dicen la verdad, ¿por qué iban a mentir? Este sentimiento naif normalmente dura varios años. O, peor, toda la vida. Habitualmente, cuando más aprendes e investigas, más caes en la cuenta de que los observadores normalmente confunden lo que ven. Después de estudiar relatos de avistamientos ovni durante décadas, uno comprueba que has omitido explicaciones obvias porque todavía no habías alcanzado el preceptivo “modo escéptico”. Bueno, para no alargar esta introducción, quería decir que un caso “clásico” de aterrizaje ocurrido cerca de la población de Órdenes, en la Coruña, el 1 de noviembre de 1954, ha sido reexaminado por ese detective ufológico que es Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga para llegar a su más que probable solución: un bólido. Para mí es el desenlace natural y acertado. Victorio Uranga ha escrito al respecto en su blog:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El año pasado, ciertos mentideros sensacionalistas libraron un video clip con esta leyenda: “¿Es este video de la NASA evidencia de una nave alienígena?” Se trata de efectismo en estado puro. El comunicador y experto en temas espaciales Jim Oberg lo ha desinflado en este mensaje que ha llegado a mi correo electrónico: “Formas como esta se han registrado en torno a lanzamientos del transbordador espacial por las cámaras que graban la separación del tanque externo. Se atribuyen a un mantillo de hielo en las juntas de interfaz que se forma por la humedad congelada en ese tanque criogénico de combustible”. Ver: </span><a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1192227/pg1" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1192227/pg1</a></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hace poco, el estadounidense National UFO Center difundió una noticia que hacía referencia a la edición del 26 de julio de 1909 del diario de Nueva Zelanda, <i>Otago Daily Times</i>. Según el artículo, el periódico recogía un testimonio del avistamiento del famoso dirigible fantasma de principios de siglo. Esta vez, nada menos que visto en Oceanía. Yo manejo con información de primera mano, así que decidí comprobarlo por mí mismo. Gracias a mi estupenda colaboradora Kay Massingill me hice con el recorte original (adjunto).</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">El municipio de Otago se encuentra al suroeste de Nueva Zelanda. El periódico local publicó un informe recibido vía teléfono y telégrafo de un tal señor Gibson, de Kelso. Hoy en día, Kelso es un asentamiento abandonado. En la década de 1960, la población apenas tenía 300 almas. Supongo que sesenta años atrás habría suficiente gente como para albergar una escuela infantil, porque el señor Gibson declaró que al mediodía del viernes 23 de julio de 1909, “los niños de la escuela contemplaron en el aire una extraña máquina volante que describieron con forma de barco y lo que parecía la figura de un hombre sentado en él”. Añada el lector aquí su emoticono favorito. ¡Un piloto sentado en el exterior de una nave espacial!</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Han transcurrido más de cien años. Hoy en día sabemos con seguridad que nunca existieron tales dirigibles pilotados por enigmáticos navegadores y aviadores, construidos por inventores tan geniales como secretos. Eran efectos de la influencia de las visiones procedentes de los libros de Julio Verne. Pero había informes de observaciones. Presuntos testigos oculares. Incluso fotografías. El entusiasmo por los <i>airships</i> surgió en los Estados Unidos a finales del siglo XIX y avistamientos clónicos se desarrollaron en otros países anglosajones. Será tarea de historiadores, sociólogos y antropólogos dilucidar cómo unos relatos inventados sobre esquivas aeroformas se hicieron endémicos a principios del siglo XX. Este fenómeno irreal fue el preludio de la oleada de 1947. Tengo la convicción que la historia no se mueve en saltos cuánticos, es más bien un relato continuo y unos hechos se basan en otros anteriores y así sucesivamente. Nada es nuevo bajo el sol. Resulta evidente que hacen falta más historiadores y científicos sociales que reconstruyan el hilo conductor de la A a la Z en esta parafernalia de dirigibles, cohetes y aviones fantasma, platillos volantes, etc. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(1) <i>Cielo Insolito</i>, número 6, marzo de 2018. Contiene interesantes artículos dedicados a la historia del fenómeno ovni, en inglés e italiano:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito6.pdf">http://www.ufo.it/cieloinsolito/cieloinsolito6.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(2) Tony Bragalia busca información gubernamental de la DIA sobre los resultados de los trabajos del llamado estudio ovni del Pentágono. Tal parece que tendrá que esperar lo suyo. Véase este enlace:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/researcher-demands-alien-metal-test">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/researcher-demands-alien-metal-test</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(3) Luis R. González ha publicado una respuesta al artículo de Robbie Graham “No olvide la ufología: Influencia de la leyenda ovni en la cultura pop”, en el número de mayo-junio de <i>SUNlite</i>, páginas 4 a 7,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite10_3.pdf">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite10_3.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(4) Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena et al, “Optical Illusions and Spatial Disorientation in Aviation Pilots”, en el <i>Journal of Medical Systems</i> (2018) 42:79,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-018-0935-4">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-018-0935-4</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(5) Fue muy revelador, y por ello lo traigo a colación ahora, el informe que Kentaro Mori dedicó a las “explicaciones extraordinarias” en su blog en 2008,</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/extraordinary-explanations/">http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/extraordinary-explanations/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(6) “Alien Sightings and OVNI Culture in Argentina”, un gran trabajo de David M.K. Sheinin, profesor of Historia en la universidad canadiense de Trent, </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36287154/Alien_Sightings_and_OVNI_Culture_in_Argentina?">https://www.academia.edu/36287154/Alien_Sightings_and_OVNI_Culture_in_Argentina?</a>auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(7) “Alienígenas superstar”, ensayo de Luis R. González y Alejandro Agostinelli, <a href="http://factorelblog.com/2018/04/14/alienigenas-superstar/">http://factorelblog.com/2018/04/14/alienigenas-superstar/</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(8) <u>UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth</u>, este libro de 439 páginas examina el fenómeno ovni en el contexto de la cultura y mitos populares contemporáneos. El autor es James R. Lewis y la editorial es ABC-CLIO (Santa Barbara, California), 2000, <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybwbaumf">https://tinyurl.com/ybwbaumf</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(9) Desenmascarando a Nick Pope:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1207849/pg1</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(10) Hay que ser zoquete. Victorio Uranga corrige a García:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/06/fantasias-ufologicas.html">http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/06/fantasias-ufologicas.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(11) Jean-Michel Abrassart <i>et al</i>, "Mistaking the Moon for an Alien Spacecraft: The Saros Operation" (Operación Saros: Cuando la Luna se interpreta como una nave espacial),</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36791757/Perspectives_on_Contemporary_Legend_36th_ISCLR_Meeting_Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_">https://www.academia.edu/36791757/Perspectives_on_Contemporary_Legend_36th_ISCLR_Meeting_Mistaking_the_Moon_for_an_Alien_Spacecraft_</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(12) Nuevo enfoque para la cuasi-colisión de un “ovni” con un helicóptero del ejército el 18 de octubre de 1973 cerca de Mansfield, Ohio, tripulado por cuatro militares y pilotado por el capitán Lawrence J. Coyne:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://parabunk.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/the-1973-coynemansfield-helicopter-ufo.html">https://parabunk.blogspot.com.es/2018/04/the-1973-coynemansfield-helicopter-ufo.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(13) Véase la sección en inglés de este blog para estas secciones adicionales: “La oleada de 1947 vista dos años después”, “El estudio ovni del Pentágono”, y “La frase del año”.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Con enorme tristeza he conocido el fallecimiento de un ilustre estudioso, un intelectual de primera fila en el campo de la ufología, el inglés Peter Rogerson. En la edición en inglés de este blog he publicado una pequeña glosa, que incluye fragmentos de su extensa correspondencia conmigo. </span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Kay Massingill, Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, Jim Oberg, Giuseppe Stilo, Maurizio Verga, Tim Printy, Luis Ruiz Nóguez y Jean-Michel Abrassart.</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Investigación OVNI</b></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hay ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1990s – 8,941</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2006-2018 – 257 (various exceptions & special programs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Total FOTOCAT database: 12,270 entries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the latest entry of this blog, Barry Greenwood explained his recent trip to the core of J.A. Hynek’s CUFOS at Chicago. Barry copied hundreds of files and distributed them as pdfs to a few US and foreign colleagues, me among them. One of these files contained scans of 111 photographs and documents related to UFO photographs taken in the US, some European and Latin American countries, Iran or Australia. These are in the process of being dated, cataloged and added to the digital archives of FOTOCAT. These are some examples of the pictures received.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) I have revised and expanded the article included in my prior blog’s update, “The Wanaque Reservoir 1966 UFO Pictures” and it is now uploaded here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Ballester-Olmos UFO research bibliography, 1965-2017. In the following link, I have updated my personal bibliography of 53 years of active ufology:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) “El suceso que nunca ocurrió" (The event that never occurred). October 12, 1992, Ucanca Valley, near the Teide volcano, Tenerife (Canary Islands). The rumor of an Army covert operation to recover a crashed UFO was in the end resolved as the clearing of the slope of a mountain after a rockfall. Another example of excessive, heated imagination. Originally published (in Spanish) in <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, 1993: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “Spanish Air Force UFO Files: The Secret´s End”, a speech delivered to the 1993 MUFON Symposium at Richmond, Virginia, and a paper published in their annual proceedings, now reprinted here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This paper, with the following companion essay, documents in detail how the official UFO disclosure process took place in Spain (1992-1999) and my role in it. “Monitoring Air Force Intelligence (Spain’s 1992-1997 UFO Declassification Process)”, was a lecture presented to the 1997 MUFON UFO Symposium:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Reactions to <i>BELGIUM IN UFO PHOTOGRAPHS (VOLUME.1: 1950-1988)</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am happy to report that my book with Wim Van Utrecht has had a very good reception from readers, specialists and reviewers. Its free, online version at Academia.edu has received some 1,200 visits to date. The book is available in two formats. Online (free download, Academia.edu) and Hard copy in full color (UPIAR publishing house): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this note I will just go over a selection of the international comments the work has received in the first months since its publication, excerpts from book reviews, site commentaries and expert opinions: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Brookesmith (England): <i>The authors are nothing if not scrupulous, meticulous and exhaustive in analysing the pictures they consider…Overall, an extraordinary achievement; and indispensable for the impartial observer. (Fortean Times</i>, March 2018, p. 30).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Shough (Scotland):<i> …how the authors approach their task…I applaud this philosophy wholeheartedly…the authors’ logical and photogrammetric dissection of the evidence is inventive and seems impeccable…Their respect for the process of objective analysis…is an example to other researchers: This is how we keep our tools oiled and honed, and by the way it is how we demonstrate to scientists in conventional disciplines that thoroughly sound work really can be done in ufology. The acuity of their investigation is forensic, the clarity of their analysis is salutary, and the quality of its presentation in this book is virtually impeccable. I recommend it to all who want to know what UFO photographs are really worth, and to those who simply want to see the best of ‘citizen science’ in action. (Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, Spring 2018, in press).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theo Paijmans (The Netherlands): <i>…a meticulous analysis... Each and every of them is subjected to a thorough analysis and the conclusions are presented to the reader in clear language. The first volume of Belgium in UFO Photographs is a valuable tool. (Skepter,</i> Spring 2018, p. 42).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edoardo Russo (Italy): <i>The result of this transnational collaboration is a textbook example of how to analyze UFOs in a rational way, using various technical skills to extract useful data to look for an explanation whenever this is possible:</i> <a href="http://www.cisu.org/belgio-tutti-i-casi-fotografici/">http://www.cisu.org/belgio-tutti-i-casi-fotografici/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clas Svahn (Sweden): <i>Much is…of interest to us who work to investigate similar cases and…there are also classical theatrical images whose stories are explained in detail with subsequent investigation and conclusions:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">COBEPS (Belgium): <i>An indispensable book!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greg Eghigian (USA): <i>…considering how the scenarios surrounding identified flying objects can inform how we make sense of unidentified objects, it’s well worth your time. And here’s a big plus – it’s available for free:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufopast.com/2017/12/22/new-book-belgium-in-ufo-photographs-1950-1988">https://ufopast.com/2017/12/22/new-book-belgium-in-ufo-photographs-1950-1988</a>/ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frederick Delaere (Belgium): <i>This is undoubtedly a wonderful book about the Belgian UFO photographs. A book that must be in the bookcase of any serious UFO researcher.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patrick Ferryn (Belgium): <i>I am convinced that this book will be a landmark and I look forward to discovering it. It is really a must which should almost impose the reading to any ufologist. You have written here one of the most important books in the history of ufology, which will become a classic and rightly so. I encourage everyone around to read it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hans-Jürgen Köhler (Germany): <i>I have just browsed your new book and am thrilled. Have you really succeeded in picking up and explaining vividly the UFO photo topic? This can be understood well beyond the Belgian borders! Class!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thiago Luiz Ticchetti (Brazil): <i>very good job!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ole Henningsen (Denmark): <i>a great work, Super job done by two dedicated European UFO researchers.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gilles Fernandez (France): <i>Great work, bravo and thank you to put it once again in free access.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Manuel Borraz (Spain): <i>An impressive work for two reasons: on the one hand, the meticulousness and rigor of the process of documentation, analysis and discussion of almost four decades of photographic evidence of the "UFO phenomenon" in Belgium; on the other hand, the scarce, if not null, probative value that results from having that corpus of photographic records. Although the latter is something that, at this point, should no longer surprise us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roger Paquay (Belgium): <i>Very nice work.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacques Bonabot (Belgium): <i>I was thrilled by the work, it is unlike anything I have seen before…I look forward to reading the second volume. </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim Printy (USA): <i>It is a very well researched document and, best of all, it is free. I highly recommend that all readers of SUNlite download and read this book (SUNlite,</i> January-February 2018).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Sheaffer (USA), <i>The most impressive aspect of this volume is its painstaking methodology. Even if you're not interested in little-known retro UFO cases in Belgium, the book is worth looking into just to see how the authors go about their investigations:</i> <a href="http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-notes-belgian-ufo-photos-and.html?m=1">http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-notes-belgian-ufo-photos-and.html?m=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our announcement press release has also been reprinted on several blogs, websites and magazines from Europe and South America: Chris Evers’ <i>Outer Limits Magazine</i> (England); J.C. Victorio Uranga’s Misterios del Aire (Spain); Milton Hourcade’s UAPSG (Uruguay); Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt (Belgium); <i>El Ojo Crítico</i> (Spain); SPICA (France). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are images one has repeatedly seen which, in turn, have an obscure origin. It adds to their enigma. This picture I will deal with next is one of them. I practically knew it since I was a teenager and always during my lifetime as a UFO researcher I have wondered about it. But never thought of digging into it. By chance, very recently an American ufologist asked me about it and sent me his own records. He had finally found the original source where it was first published. I then checked all the bibliography I had compiled, dived into an undocumented Spanish track I had and managed to find what might well be the motivation of the photograph. Finally, I asked four photo-analysts to look at it. This all has ended in the following article, one that it is formally uploaded and referenced as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This story could be told in two ways. Starting with the problem and ending with the solution, or the reverse. In the case of this controversial UFO photograph from the early years of the flying saucers craze, I will not follow the chronology of when researchers became aware of the facts but the historical sequence, that is, when things developed, although they were known later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>La Voz de España</i> was a Francoist newspaper edited in San Sebastián city, province of Guipúzcoa, in the north of Spain, 20 km from the frontier with France. The cover page of the issue of Wednesday, March 22, 1950 shared its selected news with this amazing headline: “Flying Saucers [Platillos volantes] over San Sebastián”. It reported that at 3:30 pm on the prior Sunday, Mr. Mauricio Basurco, a dental technician, and his two twin sisters saw “something black” through one window of their apartment. “Immediately I thought of the flying saucers fad,” the man said. This object was lost to sight between roofs. One of the ladies went to the kitchen’s window and from there they witnessed two more objects. “They didn´t look like airplanes to us,” Mr. Basurco claimed. They were oval-shaped with a black stripe in the middle emitting sparks around. They crossed a cloud bank and reappeared on the background of the blue sky. Now, their shape was “black and they looked like a gramophone record.” Then, five more objects bobbed up, three of which marched almost altogether, “as in a squadron”. The sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my view, this is the unsuspected prelude, never told before, to a long story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <i>Teen-Age Times</i> was a short-lived<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">1</span> weekly magazine for youngsters edited in Dublin (Ireland). Sensationalism-bound, the March 24-26, 1950 edition carried on its cover page an extraordinary and <i>exclusive</i> news feature: Russians had developed a “suspension bomb” that would be “swinging like a red star over your city,” and this could somehow be related to the apparition of flying saucers. This piece was signed by “Nobel Price”. Hand in hand with the information was a photograph of nothing less than “the first sensational picture of The Flying Saucers.” Two bomb shells, indeed…if true. Regarding the so-called suspension bombs, nobody heard about this anymore. Regarding the picture, we will judge it later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The present article has been motivated by David Marler, a US UFO researcher who was investigating this picture for a long time. David queried me on the FOTOCAT assets concerning this photo. At that time, my catalog had this “case” in two different entries, one as located in Dublin, another in Mexico. The reason for this mistake will also become apparent later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover of <i>Teen-Age Times</i> of Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, 1950. Credit: D. Marler.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sensational shot pretended to show the flight of an armada of several saucers on a background of clouds. The only information is provided in a short caption that said nothing about provenance, date, or location. Just the image was the proof. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I favor the hypothesis that the young editors of <i>Teen-Age</i> knew about the Spanish case published a couple of days before. The scene of several black ovals flying in formation on the sky inspired them to design a UFO photo with of a fleet of five flying discs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This picture had a worldwide dissemination, both immediately and in the years to come. Because the original source lacked any information, every further release adapted it to the interest of the newspaper, magazine or book where it was reprinted, generating diverse environments for the plate, as far as date and location is concerned. Coming up next is a sample of bibliographical entries to document this statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first re-publication I know is a Brussels (Belgium) French-language newspaper by the name of <i>La Dernière Heure</i> of March 28, 1950 that inserted this on its first page, turned 90°. In a brief caption signed by “K.”, the newspaper repeated the Irish magazine’s speculation that flying saucers were “suspended bombs” and finished it with the locution: “Se non è vero” (even if it is not true…). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture and caption in <i>La Dernière Heure</i>, March 28, 1950. Credit: D. Marler.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It next appeared on the cover of the magazine <i>L’Avvenire d’Italia</i>, published in Bologna (Italy), March 30, 1950<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">2</span>. The caption presented it as “the photograph of five discs [that] appeared in the Mexican sky and [were] chased by aviators.” On March 12 and 16, 1950 there had been some UFO sightings in the Mexico City international airport, probably reported in the magazine before. This photo was opportunistically associated to these cases. Incidentally, the Mexican observations were caused by the flight of a balloon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poor reproduction from <i>L’Avvenire d’Italia</i>, March 30, 1950. Credit: G. Stilo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The Outspan</i> was a South Africa weekly magazine. In its January 1, 1954 edition, it printed an article by David Marais entitled “Are We Being Watched?” with the Irish photo published (inverted 180 degrees this time)<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">3</span>. The caption read: “Another photograph showing five metallic objects hovering under a cloud-filled sky. They were photographed in Britain.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The outstanding French thinker and ufologist Aimé Michel published his first book in 1954: <u>Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes</u>, Mame (Paris). There, in plate #28, this picture was described as “another American photograph of flying saucers”. I am afraid good old Aimé did not control the materials used to illustrate his book, or simply the US origin was added because the context had to do with US UFO sightings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Michel’s book was translated into English and published in the United States in many editions, both hardback and softcover and paperback. In 1956, Criterion Books (New York) released it as <u>The Truth about Flying Saucers</u>, which contained the same photo in plate #21, with the same caption. Keystone agency was listed as the source for the print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Truth about Flying Saucers, Aimé Michel, Criterion, 1956. Credit: O. Henningsen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next in our admittedly incomplete journey to the many places where this picture was used to illustrate articles and books, we come to the <i>Rand Daily Mail</i> of January 4, 1972, where we find it captioned with the following sentence: “Flying saucers over Dublin? The photograph -one of the 5 per cent “unexplained” recordings of UFOs- was taken in 1950.” In the year 1972, stating that only 5% of all UFO sightings were not explained was quite an advancement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An Italian book entirely devoted to UFO pictures, <u>Obiettivo sugli UFO</u>, by Gianfranco de Turris and Sebastiano Fusco (Mediterranée, Rome, 1975) included this shot in its collection (Keystone Photo). With a peculiar dating and location: “Newport News, Virginia, USA, July 14, 1952. This photo documents one of the most famous sightings, made aboard a DC4 of Pan American flying over Virginia with civilian pilots William B. Nash and W.H. Fortenberry.” It is true that the Nash-Fortenberry airborne event was a celebrated incident in the early 1950s but connecting the picture to this sighting is just a figment of the imagination of the book compilers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the absence of any bit of solid information from the source, every writer who profited from this image wrapped it with his own words. “These UFOs in a modified V formation were photographed somewhere in the U.S. in the 1950s,” is what we find in page 85f of a US compilation of UFO pictures, <u>UFOs. A Pictorial History from Antiquity to the Present</u>, by David C. Knight, published by Mc. Graw-Hill in 1979. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This clumsy and coarse flying saucer image has helped over the years to maintain the faith in the 20th century myth. Both generalist media and UFO specialists fell into the trap to bless the photographic document without any reason. Everyone added the literary comments they saw fit. If the image was good, why bother to check?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The best available print of this photograph was on sale on the internet some time ago and it was promptly acquired by David Marler. This still is “an uncropped and much larger version” than anyone else’s, he asserted.<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">4</span> There are other versions available in the market.<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">5</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This 8x10 glossy print had glued to its back a Keystone teletype news dated March 25, 1950 indicating it was reproduced from the Dublin’s newspaper <i>Teen-Age Times</i>. Credit: D. Marler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let us now examine the proper photo. Considering the source (basically an entertainment journal for youngsters), the text surrounding the picture, and the crude photography, you do not need to be very clever to realize it was an image fabricated to illustrate the self-created news feature where flying saucers were mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have consulted four different photographic analysts from Europe, US and Latin America to seek their opinion on the image. The consensus was unanimous: it was a fake. The discrepancy arose on the technique used to commit the hoax. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">John English (former National Technical Specialist, NARCAP) reported that “image embossment indicates circular components have been added to original background. Also shows implement marking adjacent to circular features [see arrows], possibly needed to aid in material application”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The US researcher used image edge enhancement to reveal “circular components consistent with a liquid deposit” (below, left) while the image background removal shows “circular components consistent with a liquid deposit onto a background” (below, right). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For John English, “image test results indicate the circular components in this photo have been added to the surface of the original photo or are an overlay. These components are consistent in form and feature with a liquid deposit.” In conclusion: “the artifacts appear to be drops, shape and features are consistent with a liquid over a substrate and exhibit what appears to be surface tension with a tension gradient at the edges.”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Belgian imagery analysis expert Benoît Mussche has examined the picture and this is his overview: “I have enhanced the photo and it does not look like objects in the sky. It looks a photo of the sky superimposed in the dark room with a photo of solid objects on a plane surface on a black background (or white, whatever). The objects themselves do not even look symmetrical or designed with any concern for aerodynamism in mind. In any case, definitely a fake.”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">7</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hailing from Mexico, Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez’s assessment is: “This photograph reminds me that of 1963 allegedly taken by a commercial pilot from the air over Venezuela.<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">8</span> It simply turned out to be a button on the image of an aerial shot and photographed again. The supposed shadow produced by the flying saucer on the terrain was drawn on the photo, then the set was re-photographed. Most probably it was a fake made the journal that published it in the first place.”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">9</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Claimed to be taken in a flight from Barcelona to Maiquetia (Venezuela) in 1963, it is one of a series of different hoaxes created by Delio Ribas <i>aka</i> Francisco Arrieta aka Iñaki Osés.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our last consulted expert, Mark Easen, BUFORA’s photographic analyst, observes that the various photographs available “appear to be different renditions of the same source (newspaper) image, each with different exposure levels, cropping and one is rotated 180 degrees to the other two…The images we have to work with are of insufficient quality to enable a positive identification of the objects to be made from the photograph alone, although I can say that the lighting of some of the larger objects appears a little inconsistent with the apparent direction of the main light source (Sun).”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">10</span> In summary, the study performed by Easen continues to indicate: “There is no witness statement available so we have very little to go on in our attempts to reach an objective decision as to exactly what the photograph depicts. In my opinion, the photograph could easily have been staged by taking it through a glass panel onto which some objects or shapes had been arranged, and this possibility might explain the apparent inconsistency of the objects lighting?” In conclusion, the British photo-analyst writes: “One thing is for sure though, there is nothing in the evidence provided or subsequently obtained to indicate any non-man made or 'ET' involvement.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wim van Utrecht, a veteran and canny UFO researcher from Belgium, sent his opinion to EuroUFO, the largest European internet forum of UFO scholars, where I had started a thread to document this picture: “For what it's worth -Van Utrecht stated-, and judging from the better picture, I wonder if the big objects could not have been chestnut mushrooms laid out on a glass plate and photographed against a sky background. The smaller blobs could be splatters of grease.”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">11</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But there is more. Van Utrecht noticed serious problems in the illumination of the various components of the photograph. Lighting comes from different angles. An incoherent situation that clearly reinforces the argument “against this being a formation of objects floating in the sky.”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">12</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Extending this brief essay would be a waste. The case does not deserve any more work. A fabrication is beyond any doubt. We have also exposed the evolution of a UFO picture, how it was possibly inspired and how writers use images without doing their homework. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) According to David Marler, the weekly tabloid was only published from November 1949 to April 1950, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) Giuseppe Stilo, <u>Scrutate I cieli!</u> UPIAR, 2000, page 344,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) <span style="color: blue;">http://www.project1947.com/fig/outspan54.htm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) David Marler, “The Flying Saucer Invasion of 1950 - Farmington, NM and Beyond,” in <u>2016 MUFON International Symposium Proceedings</u>, Orlando, Florida. 2018 update: <a href="http://www.davidmarlerufo.com/farmington-nm-1950">http://www.davidmarlerufo.com/farmington-nm-1950</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(5) <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/104408520">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/104408520</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/historia-ufo-sightings-caught-camera-gallery-1.2686711?pmSlide=1.2686705">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/historia-ufo-sightings-caught-camera-gallery-1.2686711?pmSlide=1.2686705</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(6) John English, e-mails to V.J. Ballester Olmos, February 16 and 17, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(7) Benoît Mussche, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, February 17, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(8) <i>The A.P.R.O. Bulletin</i>, March-April 1967, page 5, </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">http://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_mar_1967.pdf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(9) Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, February 18, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(10) Mark Easen, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, February 19, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(11) Wim van Utrecht, e-mail to EuroUFO, February 16, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(12) Wim van Utrecht, e-mail to V.J. Ballester Olmos, February 16, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Acknowledgements</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks are due to David Marler for inspiring me to review this repeatedly publicized non-event. To Ricardo Campo (Spain), Giuseppe Stilo (Italy), Mikhail Gershtein (Russia), Bruno Mancusi (Switzerland), Ole Henningsen (Denmark) and J.C. Victorio Uranga (Spain) for documentation. To Claude Maugé (France) and Ulrich Magin (Germany) for references. To John English (US), Wim van Utrecht (Belgium), Benoît Mussche (Belgium), Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez (Mexico) and Mark Easen (England) for image analysis. To Martin Shough (Scotland) for editing. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Pentagon UFO Study </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As expected, realistic views on the “Pentagon UFO Study” and the related video footage are being aired. Research comes later than sensationalism. Three valuable items appeared in February. First, Micah Hanks comments in:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/debunkable-pentagon-ufo-footage-falls-under-the-critical-eye-of-online-skeptics/">http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/debunkable-pentagon-ufo-footage-falls-under-the-critical-eye-of-online-skeptics/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the report published in the <i>Goddard’s Journal</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The rotating Gimbal UFO promoted by The New York Times is here shown to be a nearly perfect match to the rotating hot-engine exhaust of a jet recorded on the very same ATFLIR gimbal-camera system. Minor differences are shown to be attributable to circumstantial differences such as distance. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>If the contents seen in grainy footage alleged to be extraterrestrial (ET) technology are even fairly similar to human technology albeit not perfectly discernible, they are not evidence of ET technology. In other words, if we cannot rule out the ordinary we have no grounds to propose the extraordinary. Yet the similarity to human technology in the Gimbal Video exceeds a 'fairly similar' criterion. The Gimbal Video therefore presents no evidence of ET technology, it's just ordinary evidence of an ordinary phenomenon, jets. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5dP3sF2sw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5dP3sF2sw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally, the entry by Sarah Scoles in Wired:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-up-with-those-pentagon-ufo-videos/">https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-up-with-those-pentagon-ufo-videos/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) Since 2011, UFO student Curt Collins has been investigating one of the most striking cases in Americana ufology, the encounter of the Cash-Landrum family with a UFO that provoked radiation-like physiological effects. In the process, he has made an important contribution by sharing with his peers all the information available until now concerning this event: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html">http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, he has been able to assemble a major file on this episode. Once it is organized, it will be aggregated to the above list of documents; in the meantime, Cullins has written a thrilling entry in his blog about the contents of the collected archives and his first impressions. It appears that not all has been published or accurately reflected in the known literature:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/11/the-cash-landrum-ufo-original-case-files.html">http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/11/the-cash-landrum-ufo-original-case-files.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I look forward to knowing more details, findings and eventual conclusions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “How UFO Reports Change with the Technology of the Times,” an article by professor Greg Eghigian of the Pennsylvania State University in the <i>Smithsonian Magazine</i>: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7xrq6un">https://tinyurl.com/y7xrq6un</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Dr. David Clarke reports about the surviving small pieces of a small manufactured flying saucer found at Silpho Moor, in the Silpho Village, North Yorkshire (UK) on November 21, 1957. The remains of this tiny object (examination by experts disclosed its earthly origin) were deposited in London’s Science Museum in 1963 and have remained there unnoticed by ufologists until recently. Read the full story here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2018/02/08/yorkshire-ufo-crash-mystery-solved-after-60-years/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2018/02/08/yorkshire-ufo-crash-mystery-solved-after-60-years/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) Three views on Hynek. “The Secret Life of J. Allen Hynek,” by John Franch (2013), <a href="https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_secret_life_of_j_allen_hynek">https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_secret_life_of_j_allen_hynek</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The Close Encounters Man,” by Mark O'Connell, HarperCollins, 2017, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176">https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And David Halperin’s book review in the “Journal of a UFO Investigator” site: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-close-encounters-man-mark-oconnell-on-j-allen-hynek/">https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-close-encounters-man-mark-oconnell-on-j-allen-hynek/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) The book “Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers,” authored by Sharon Hill (McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC), 2017, is commented in: <a href="https://mattbille.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-review-scientifical-americans.html">https://mattbille.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-review-scientifical-americans.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) 2017 annual report by the Argentine UFO desk:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.faa.mil.ar/mision/informe_cefae_2017.pdf">https://www.faa.mil.ar/mision/informe_cefae_2017.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) “Ufology in Switzerland,” (in French), an article by Bruno Mancusi, originally published in <i>UFOmania Magazine</i>, #71, 2012, now online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36050532/Lufologie_en_Suisse_Ufology_in_Switzerland_">https://www.academia.edu/36050532/Lufologie_en_Suisse_Ufology_in_Switzerland_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) Latest in ball lightning research: “Synthetic electromagnetic knot in a three-dimensional skyrmion,” by W. Lee, A. H. Gheorghe, K. Tiurev, T.Ollikainen, M. Möttönen, and D.S. Hall: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaao3820/tab-pdf">http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaao3820/tab-pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) Off-topic. Long-time ufologist, amateur paleontologist and dinosaur hunter Ray Stanford made an extraordinary discovery in 2012, an 8.5-foot-long slab of rock in the parking lot of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Its upper surface is covered with Lower Cretaceous (~110 million years old) footprints of at least three types of mammals, which he was the first to detect. It also contains tracks of a variety of dinosaurs, like theropods, sauropods, and nodosaurs, and even footprints of pterosaurs. After years of research under the lead of top experts in this scientific field, a paper has just been finally published in a journal as important as <i>Nature</i>: “A diverse mammal-dominated, footprint assemblage from wetland deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Maryland,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18619-w">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18619-w</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The article has been acclaimed by the media, i.e. <i>Science</i> magazine:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycgpxl94">https://tinyurl.com/ycgpxl94</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a more personal note, you can read this article of mine (in Spanish) about the personage: “Encuentros cercanos con Ray Stanford” (Close encounters with Ray Stanford), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxV0">http://www.webcitation.org/6mmRSNxV0</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LITERATURE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>A Dark Red Sky</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With this literary title, the new book by Italian UFO researcher Giuseppe Stilo presents (UPIAR, 2017) the 1947-1949 arrival of flying disks over Italy and the world. A thorough and well-documented 414-page volume which, once more, places Stilo in an authoritative position in the study of the UFO phenomenon. And let me put it bluntly: if most of UFO students would speak French, Spanish and Italian, in addition to English, the advancement in our knowledge of the roots, influences, rhymes and reasons, and causes that shaped the most universal mystery of our times would have gained in traction. When one thinks that 20 years after the start of the UFO era, books were still released with titles like “flying saucers on the attack,” one becomes conscious of how much time was lost by a blind faith (and publishing greed) in a misconception. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to Stilo. This book inquiries into the initial period of the phenomenon, but this requires to be seen in the perspective provided by the author’s entire opus. It all began with <i>Operazione Origini</i> (Operation Origins), a CISU project started in 1984 to retrieve press cuttings for the early years (1946-1954) on which he embarked in 1988. He continued to produce a history of UFO reports in Italy and in the rest of the world. The encyclopedic erudition of Stilo in ufology has not many parallels. His work documenting what had happened and when and where is overpowering. Reading what is already a veritable library of books by him, might save a newcomer dozens of years’ worth of investigation and documentation. Therefore, I will hardly touch this one volume that, naturally, wanders by the Italian panorama in 1947 and the birth of the flying saucer phenomenon, the 1947-48 wave, the “phantom airplanes” of 1948-49, and the growth of the ETH during 1949 and the impact of foreign reports in the Italian media. The book makes a quantitative analysis of cases known in the 1947-1949 period in Italy and reviews the international panorama of the flying disk prodigy. This book (“Un cielo rosso scuro”) is available here: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=189&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=189&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giuseppe Stilo’s other books form an indispensable collection by themselves, thanks to the unpayable effort of UPIAR publishing house in Turin:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Scrutate I cieli!” (Watch the Skies!), UPIAR, 2000. 424 pages to document the 1950 wave, <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Ultimatum alla Terra” (The Day the Earth Stood Still), UPIAR, 2002. This large volume of 536 pages deals entirely with the 1952 UFO wave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=143">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=143</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“L’alba di una nuova era” (Dawn of a New Age), UPIAR, 2004. The 1946 ghost rockets phenomenon is examined in this 228-page book, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=144">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=144</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Il quinto cavaliere dell’Apocalisse” (The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse), UPIAR, 2006. This first volume, a mammoth tome of 680 sheets, covers the large wave of 1954 from January to October, <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=149">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=149</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Il quinto cavaliere dell’Apocalisse, Vol. 2,” UPIAR, 2016. The second tome with 504 pages is devoted to the months of November and December 1954, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Another look at the UFO phenomenon</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Belgian physicist Roger Paquay has spent many years studying the UFO phenomenon. He has analyzed the most outstanding observations reported during the celebrated UFO wave of 1989-1992 in his country. Paquay has just written a 186-page book (in French) with the results and conclusions of his investigation: “Le Phénomène OVNI. Un Autre Regard”, one that I do recommend. I was more than happy to upload it into the Academia.edu portal, from where it is downloadable free through this link: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Mysteries of the Marfa Lights Revealed</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a scientific book (published 2013) written for the layman, penned by a professional scientist, Robert Wagers, Ph.D. in electrical engineering (Stanford University) and his wife Judy, a retired department manager in a University Medical Center in Texas. They have explored the history, science, geography and meteorology of the Marfa plains, where the mysterious lights allegedly develop. The book comprises 262 pages, with very many illustrations devised to be pedagogic, with graphs, maps, plots, tables and photographs that make their reasoning understandable to every possible reader. There is also a good bibliography, specific for every chapter, that provides the reader with complementary information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To begin with, they know well that a local legend exists in the region at least since 1883 and from the very outset the authors state that “historic observations are consistent with known physical processes…[that] could have caused the observed light phenomena” (page 4). Chapter 2 gives such a complete orientation of the Marfa Plains that it makes you feel you know the locale as if you were a true Tejano. The following chapter reviews some early sightings and the people who have contributed to the popularity of the subject. The Wagers write: “In June of 2006, we got more than 30,000 hits [of Internet searches for “Marfa lights”]. By June of 2011, the hits had grown to 145,000.” (Page 19). I checked this right now (February 2018) and the figure has increased to 430,000! The subject warms up by itself through a real feedback effect. Chapter 4 centers in the 1880s in the region and it displays an original table with all possible types of lights available to be seen on the Plains since eons ago to current day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Mysterious lights have one thing in common with ordinary lights. They both require a source of light,” (page 57). With this starting, elementary point, the Wagers devote the next chapter to give an abbreviated course on Light and how various sources of lights are perceived by human vision. “Combine the high number of roads and ranches with the enormous distances that light can travel and still be perceptible to a person, and you have the opportunity for a lot of sightings,” they point out in page 73. Chapter 6 describes and studies one of the classic Marfa lights cases, that of Ruth Bownds. Basically, you can discount an explanation based on the wrong assumption that a light is close, but if this is over a dozen miles away, the analysis considers additional factors to repudiate the strangeness of the luminosity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following chapter examines some detailed, 1922-vintage sightings and they become the prelude to the story of the origin of many strange modern lights: automobile headlights! Chapter 8 (“Bending Light Beams”) introduces a central, major concept to be considered in the analysis of Marfa light examples: mirages. How they are created and why this area has a proclivity to this phenomenon, related to both optics and atmospheric physics: “Mirages of the sky are commonplace around Marfa,” the authors affirm (page 119). The study of other phenomena like temperature inversion and light propagation during night hours is shown to account for some reported incidents. The observation of geology student Robert Black camping in the area in December 1985, well publicized in topical books, is surveyed and solved in chapter 10 as ranch personnel car’s headlights, reflected off the roadway in front of them, encountering haze that reddened the light beams that were observed by the campers. The Wagers effectively write: “It takes just two sentences to sum up the mystery now. But it took years to put all the pieces together,” (page 171). Two more chapters present more sightings that have equally obscure explanations. What looked like lights “going up” or multicolored lights chasing cars were only misperceptions of automobile lights, or the moonrise light reflecting on ice crystals in cirrus clouds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a well-done job, the authors finally reach their chapter 13, “Conclusion”. “We found‒Robert and Judy Wagers write‒that generically the physical process responsible for all the lights was the thermal agitation of the molecules found in very hot matter.” They refer to the sunshine (in the form of mirages), a purely natural phenomenon, and tungsten, that is, high-intensity mobile lights from cars. In page 227, the authors supply this final thought: “In the thin, dry air of the Marfa plain, refraction and reflection make the perceived lights do unexplained things, like move upward or appear as large, iridescent balls.” They mean it and they can prove it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They apply science and common sense, the less common of the senses, and take you through an educated journey that convinces you altogether that there is no mystery behind the Marfa lights. If you are reading this blog it is because you are fond of anomalies, therefore this book is a must, to find awareness and deductive information within a most pleasant reading. There are a few versions available, Color, B&W and Kindle: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827115/">https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827115/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Once Upon a Time in UFOland</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under this title (“Érase una vez en ovnilandia” is the original book title in Spanish), Chilean lawyer, criminologist and UFO researcher Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez offers in this volume a history of the development of ufology in France, from the early fifties to the present day. UFO investigation in France has always had a very particular stamp and this book “reviews the hypotheses, speculations and theoretical debates that have marked the French ufological saga,” the author writes in the work’s synopsis. A scholarly text that you can find through Amazon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>SUFOI Position Statement and Book</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following January 2018 press release by veteran Danish organization SUFOI, under the title of “60 years of UFO research,” is self-explanatory and profoundly significant:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>People have always encountered mysterious aerial phenomena. In the latter half of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, the Cold War and cultural climate gave these phenomena the concrete form as flying saucers, and later UFOs interpreted as alien visitors – and this hasn't changed significantly since. In this climate of fear of a devastating nuclear war between the great powers and the hope that the “space brothers” from beyond would visit Earth and save us from annihilation, the organization “Scandinavian UFO Information” (SUFOI) was created on December 17th, 1957. Its purpose was simple in 1957. SUFOI would collect as many UFO reports as possible in order to convince scientists and politicians that Earth was being visited from outer space, and that the visitors could help us save the planet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Today –60 years later– SUFOI still exists, and people continue to see unexplained things in the sky. But the world has changed. The SUFOI of today is a completely different organization from that of 60 years ago. Today, the many years of experience and knowledge we have acquired allows us to interpret UFO phenomena in a new way: Nothing suggests that Earth is being visited from outer space, and there are many down-to-earth explanations for UFO sightings.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>With this approach to the UFO myth, SUFOI as an organization is currently very isolated. Around the world there are many UFO organizations that base their membership activities and publications on a belief or hope that some UFO encounters could be signs of alien visitors. For these organizations, the number of sightings is proof of these visits, and they still have the goal of collecting as many reports as possible – just as SUFOI did 60 years ago. These organizations seem uninterested in investigating the reports in depth, perhaps because they would then risk finding out that they have plausible explanations, even the ones that seem most mysterious. The livelihood of these organizations (member interest and income from the sale of publications) would then crumble. SUFOI’s experience is that this approach to people’s interpretation of aerial phenomena does not increase our knowledge about ourselves and our surroundings, but simply maintains the status quo and keeps the UFO business running.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>SUFOI goes against the stream and, to commemorate the organization’s 60th anniversary, it has published the book <u>UFO'er –Myter og viden</u> (UFOs – Myths and facts), the first Danish publication to bring together the many years of research, giving an insight into the historical development of the subject and our knowledge of UFOs. The book is bound in A4 format with 204 pages and 120 illustrations in black & white and color.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I fully agree with SUFOI in its 60-year-long assessment and I only disagree on one thing: they are not isolated at all in sustaining this thought. On the contrary, it is increasingly the global trend, both in independent researchers and organizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Danish-speaking ufologists and aficionados, the book (by P. Borgaard, H. Dethlefsen, K. Møller Hansen, T. Haunstrup and O. Henningsen) can be acquired from <a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?106,en_ufoer-myter-og-viden-b-087">http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?106,en_ufoer-myter-og-viden-b-087</a> or through the “Doner” button at <a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">www.sufoi.dk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As UFO phenomena develop all over the world, international data exchange is basic in the progress of this study. In the above book I have found one image that immediately caught my attention: a yellowish fireball-looking object supposedly flying parallel to the horizon. This photograph was taken on the afternoon of July 13, 1969, eight miles East of Femø island, located in Denmark, north of Lolland, over a tourist sailing. Mr. Preben Gelt intended to capture the small island (population 154), which you can see as a narrow strip low on the horizon. Nothing out of common was noticed at the time, but when the picture was developed (analog photo, chemical developing) he discovered this tiny ball of light, as a bright meteor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture was taken to SUFOI in 1977 and their technicians analyzed it, after astronomers rejected the idea of an actual daylight bolide. SUFOI photographic consultant Hans Bødker highlighted the fact that the tail of the “object” lies absolutely in parallel with the image edge, which would indicate a development flaw. It was, obviously, in line with the lack of any visual observation, either by the photographer, or by others in the boat or elsewhere. SUFOI requested an opinion from Ground Saucer Watch, a controversial US organization dealing with UFO photography. It concluded that “the yellow-streak is typical of the chemical that was accidentally spilled on the emulsion prior to the development of the color film.” That is, the image was caused during the processing of the film. SUFOI concluded the image’s signature was due to a faulty chemical processing. We concur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coincidentally -or not so much, given our common interests-, Belgian researcher Wim van Utrecht and I couldn´t avoid connecting this image to a relatively famous UFO photograph taken in the Summer of 1966 in the Zurich-Kloten airport (Switzerland). It is another example of the same processing flaw, this time double. The photographer was an airport security officer and at the same time a space visitors’ believer, not in vain he was the leader of the oldest UFO group in Austria, characteristically named “Interplanetarik Austria” (oh, how much I miss when there were still innocent witnesses!). During the documentation of this picture, Danish colleague Ole Henningsen informed me that back in 1985, SUFOI president Kim Møller Hansen already linked both pictures as having the same mundane nature. This is comparative ufology, and experience dictates that it always serves to resolve cases, never to add strangeness to a given UFO event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>An Outstanding Brand New Spanish Book</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ricardo Campo Pérez was born and lives in the Canary Islands, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (La Laguna University) and has been a UFO researcher since 1990. His approach to the subject of UFO phenomenology is straightforward, academic and down to earth. A tireless investigator that never drops a case-prey until solved, he already authored books on this matter in 2003 and 2006. But now he has released a giant volume of 700 pages where he examines, sighting after sighting, all UFO events (or assimilable phenomena) reported in the Canary Islands from the XVIII century up to 1980. This is what “El fenómeno OVNI en Canarias” (The UFO Phenomenon in Canaries) is about. The final work is uncommonly remarkable in this area of research and I have written a detailed review in the Spanish section of this blog. Undoubtedly, this book is highly advisable for anyone who wants to scout over the history of the UFO observations in the magical volcanic islands of the Canary archipelago. At a bargain price of 20 euros, it can be purchased from this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://lecanarienediciones.com/tienda/home/160-el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980.html">http://lecanarienediciones.com/tienda/home/160-el-fenomeno-ovni-en-canarias-desde-el-siglo-xviii-hasta-1980.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">PERSONAL LOG</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me add here a picture with a family touch: me and my two little grandchildren, Lucas and Fernando. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the current edition of this blog: Matías Morey, Luis Ruiz Nóguez, Edward Stewart, Dr. David Clarke, Edoardo Russo, Ole Henningsen, Björn Borg, Rubén Lianza, Dr. Robert Wagers, and Dr. Ricardo Campo. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje</b> (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia</b> (with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Investigación OVNI (UFO Investigation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS (with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in Spain) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Expedientes insólitos (Unusual Files)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are available in the usual second-hand market, for example: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b> (with O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and the Government</b> (with M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965 </b>(with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b> (with Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several options you can follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Volunteer work, onsite or remotely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can reach us directly </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">through e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018/MARZO/10 (ES)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un rápido vistazo al estado más reciente de FOTOCAT, el banco de datos mundial de informes ovni fotográficos, da cuenta de esta información resumen:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hasta 1800 – 1 (año 1762)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1800s – 25</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1990s – 8.941</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2000-2005 – 3.046 (total del catálogo principal: 12.013 registros)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2006-2018 – 257 (excepciones varias y proyectos especiales)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Total de la base de datos FOTOCAT: 12.270 registros</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Fotos del CUFOS agregadas a FOTOCAT</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En mi último blog, en un artículo invitado, Barry Greenwood expuso su reciente viaje de investigación a las entrañas del J.A. Hynek Center for UFO Studies de Chicago. Barry copió cientos de archivos y los ha distribuido en forma de PDFs a un puñado de estudiosos, entre los que me encuentro. Uno de esos archivos contiene escaneos de 111 fotografías y documentos relacionados con presuntos avistamientos ovni ocurridos en los Estados Unidos, Europa, Latinoamérica y otros países como Irán o Australia. Ese material está en proceso de ser catalogado e integrado a los archivos digitales del proyecto FOTOCAT. Seguidamente, unos ejemplos de las imágenes recibidas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) He revisado y ampliado el artículo publicado en mi anterior blog, “The Wanaque Reservoir 1966 UFO Pictures” y se puede leer en este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35633047/THE_WANAQUE_RESERVOIR_1966_UFO_PICTURES">https://www.academia.edu/35633047/THE_WANAQUE_RESERVOIR_1966_UFO_PICTURES</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Mi bibliografía de investigación de 1965 a 2017, o 53 años de ufología activa, está actualizada en: <a href="http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf">http://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) “El suceso que nunca ocurrió”. 12 de octubre de 1992, valle del Ucanca, cerca del Teide, Tenerife (Islas Canarias). El rumor de una operación militar encubierta de posible recuperación de un ovni se convierte en las tareas de saneamiento de la ladera de una montaña debido a un desprendimiento de rocas. Otro ejemplo más de exceso de imaginación y sensacionalismo. Fue publicado originalmente en <i>Cuadernos de Ufología</i>, número 15, 1993: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35757844/El_suceso_que_nunca_ocurrio.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/35757844/El_suceso_que_nunca_ocurrio.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) “Spanish Air Force UFO Files: The Secret´s End” (Los archivos ovni del Ejército del Aire español. El final del secreto) fue una conferencia que pronuncié en el simposio del MUFON de 1993, celebrado en Richmond, Virginia. El texto se incluyó en las actas del congreso. Ahora está disponible <i>online</i> aquí: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/35786573/Spanish_Air_Force_UFO_Files_The_Secrets_End.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta disertación, junto con el trabajo que sigue, considero que son dos documentos imprescindibles para conocer cómo se desarrolló el proceso de desclasificación ovni en España (1992-1999) y mi propio papel en el mismo. “Monitoring Air Force Intelligence” (Monitorizando la inteligencia de la Fuerza Aérea) fue la conferencia que presenté en el simposio del MUFON de 1997. El PDF que sigue es parte de las memorias del congreso: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Reacciones al libro <i>BELGIUM IN UFO PHOTOGRAPHS (VOLUME.1: 1950-1988)</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es una satisfacción anunciar que mi último libro, escrito con el especialista belga Wim Van Utrecht, ha sido objeto de una excelente recepción, lo cual nos complace porque hemos invertido gran cantidad de tiempo y materia gris en su concepción (ya estamos trabajando en el segundo volumen). Su versión gratuita en línea ha recibido más de 1.200 visitas en los escasos 4 meses desde su salida. El libro aparece en dos formatos. <i>Online </i>(descargable, sin coste, Academia.edu) e impreso en papel, a todo color (editorial UPIAR):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quisiera dejar constancia de una selección de extractos de recensiones, comentarios en blogs y webs y opiniones de expertos: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Brookesmith (Inglaterra): <i>Los autores no son sino escrupulosos, meticulosos y exhaustivos al analizar las fotografías que han recogido…En suma, es un logro extraordinario y un libro indispensable para el observador imparcial. (Fortean Times</i>, marzo de 2018, p. 30).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Shough (Escocia): <i>…la forma en que los autores enfocan este estudio y su filosofía son dignas de aplauso de todo corazón; la lógica y fotogramétrica disección de la evidencia es inventiva e impecable…Su respeto por el proceso del análisis objetivo resulta un ejemplo para otros investigadores: Es de esta forma como debemos mantener nuestras herramientas engrasadas y afiladas y es así como podemos demostrar a los científicos en disciplinas convencionales que se puede hacer un trabajo firme y exhaustivo en ufología. La exactitud de su investigación es verdaderamente forense, la claridad de sus análisis es de agradecer y la calidad de su presentación en el libro es virtualmente impecable. Lo recomiendo a todos los que quieran saber lo que valen realmente las fotografías de ovnis y a aquellos que simplemente quieran descubrir a la mejor “ciencia ciudadana” en acción. (Journal of Scientific Exploration</i>, primavera de 2018, en prensa).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theo Paijmans (Holanda): <i>Es un análisis meticuloso. Todas y cada una de las fotografías se somete a un elaborado análisis y las conclusiones se presentan al lector en un lenguaje claro. El primer volumen de Belgium in UFO Photographs es una valiosa herramienta. (Skepter,</i> primavera de 2018, p. 42).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edoardo Russo (Italia): <i>El resultado de esta colaboración transnacional es un ejemplo de libro de texto de como analizar imágenes ovni de forma racional, usando diversos utillajes técnicos para extraer datos útiles con los que buscar una explicación, cuando ésta sea posible:</i> <a href="http://www.cisu.org/belgio-tutti-i-casi-fotografici/">http://www.cisu.org/belgio-tutti-i-casi-fotografici/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clas Svahn (Suecia): <i>Mucho hay de interés para nosotros que trabajamos en el estudio de casos semejantes. Hay también clásicas imágenes teatrales cuyas narraciones se explican en detalle con las subsecuentes investigaciones y conclusiones: </i><a href="http://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?p=48120">http://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?p=48120</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">COBEPS (Bélgica): <i>¡Se trata de un libro indispensable!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cobeps.org/popup/belgium-in-ufo-photographs.html">http://www.cobeps.org/popup/belgium-in-ufo-photographs.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greg Eghigian (EE. UU.): <i>Considerando como los escenarios que rodean los casos de objetos volantes identificados pueden informarnos de cómo interpretar los de objetos no identificados, ya vale la pena el tiempo que se dedique a este libro. Y hay un gran plus, está asequible gratis: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ufopast.com/2017/12/22/new-book-belgium-in-ufo-photographs-1950-1988/">https://ufopast.com/2017/12/22/new-book-belgium-in-ufo-photographs-1950-1988/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frederick Delaere (Bélgica): <i>Indudablemente es un libro maravilloso sobre las fotografías ovni en Bélgica. Una obra que debe estar en la biblioteca de todo investigador serio.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patrick Ferryn (Bélgica)<i>: Estoy convencido de que este libro será un hito y estoy impaciente por descubrirlo. Es realmente una obra de obligada lectura para cualquier ufólogo. Habéis escrito aquí uno de los libros más importantes en la historia de la ufología, que se convertirá en un clásico y con toda razón. Animo a todos a leerlo.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hans-Jürgen Köhler (Alemania): <i>Apenas he ojeado vuestro libro y estoy emocionado. Habéis realmente tenido éxito en reunir y explicar vívidamente el misterio de las fotos de ovnis. Esto puede aplicarse bien más allá de las fronteras belgas. Un trabajo de clase</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thiago Luiz Ticchetti (Brasil): <i>¡Muy buen trabajo!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ole Henningsen (Dinamarca): <i>Un gran empeño, un super trabajo hecho por dos dedicados investigadores ovni europeos.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gilles Fernandez (Francia): <i>Un gran trabajo, bravo y gracias por ponerlo de nuevo en acceso libre.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Manuel Borraz (España): <i>Un trabajo que impresiona por dos razones: por un lado, la meticulosidad y el rigor del proceso de documentación, análisis y discusión de casi cuatro décadas de pruebas fotográficas del "fenómeno OVNI" en Bélgica; por otro lado, el escaso, por no decir nulo, valor probatorio que resulta tener ese corpus de registros fotográficos. Aunque esto último es algo que, a estas alturas, ya no debería sorprendernos.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roger Paquay (Bélgica): <i>Magnífico trabajo</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jacques Bonabot (Bélgica): <i>Me ha emocionado el trabajo, es un nivel que nunca había visto…aguardo impaciente a leer el segundo volumen. </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim Printy (EE. UU.): <i>Es un documento muy bien elaborado y, lo mejor de todo, es gratuito. Recomiendo muy mucho a todos los lectores de la revista que se descarguen y lean este libro. (SUNlite,</i> enero-febrero de 2018).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Sheaffer (EE. UU.): <i>El aspecto más impresionante de este volumen es su esmerada metodología. Incluso si no estás interesado en casos ovni retrospectivos y poco conocidos de Bélgica, el libro vale la pena adquirirlo para comprobar como los autores realizan sus investigaciones: </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-notes-belgian-ufo-photos-and.html?m=1">http://badufos.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-notes-belgian-ufo-photos-and.html?m=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nuestro anuncio de prensa ha sido reproducido en varios blogs, webs y revistas de Europa y Latinoamérica: <i>Outer Limits Magazine</i>, de Chris Evers (Inglaterra); Misterios del Aire, de J.C. Victorio Uranga (España); UASPG, Milton Hourcade (Uruguay); Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt (Bélgica); <i>El Ojo Crítico</i> (España); SPICA (Francia). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Deconstruyendo una foto falsa de 1950</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay imágenes que uno ha visto repetidamente que, a su vez, tienen un origen oscuro. Ello le suma misterio. Esta foto que traigo a colación es una de ellas. La conocía prácticamente desde que era un adolescente y en ocasiones durante mi vida como investigador de ovnis me he topado con diversas reproducciones. Pero nunca opté por investigarla. Por casualidad, hace poco un ufólogo estadounidense me preguntó al respecto y me envió su propia información. Finalmente había encontrado la fuente donde se publicó por primera vez. Me puse entonces a revisar toda la bibliografía que había compilado en FOTOCAT al respecto, me sumergí en una pista española de la que me puse a tirar y creo haber encontrado cuál podría haber sido la motivación original que llevó a crear esta fotografía. Ya puestos, he pedido a cuatro analistas fotográficos que la estudiaran. Todo esto ha culminado en el siguiente artículo, cuya referencia formal es esta: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36052967/DECONSTRUYENDO_UNA_FOTO_FALSA_DE_1950">https://www.academia.edu/36052967/DECONSTRUYENDO_UNA_FOTO_FALSA_DE_1950</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>DECONSTRUYENDO UNA FOTO FALSA DE 1950</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Traducción: Luis R. González)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Esta historia puede contarse de dos maneras. Comenzando con el problema y terminando con la solución, o a la inversa. En el caso de esta controvertida fotografía ovni, aparecida en los primeros años de la locura platillista, he preferido obviar la cronología de cuando los investigadores fueron descubriendo los hechos para seguir la secuencia histórica, es decir, cuando éstos se desarrollaron, aunque fuesen conocidos con posterioridad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>La Voz de España</i> era un periódico franquista que se editaba en San Sebastián, provincia de Guipúzcoa, en el norte de España y a escasos 20 km de la frontera con Francia. La portada de la edición del miércoles 22 de marzo de 1950 compartía las varias noticias seleccionadas con este asombroso titular: “Platillos volantes sobre San Sebastián”. Según esta información, a las tres y media de la tarde del domingo anterior, el señor Mauricio Basurco, mecánico dentista, y sus dos hermanas gemelas vieron “una cosa negra” por el cristal de la ventana de su piso. “Recordé en el acto la moda de los platillos volantes”, dijo el entrevistado. El objeto se perdió de vista por entre un tejado. Una de las hermanas fue a la ventana de la cocina desde donde vieron otros dos objetos. “A ninguno nos parecieron aviones”, afirmó el señor Basurco. “Tenían forma ovalada con una raya negra en medio y alrededor de esta se desprendía algo que brillaba como chispas. Se metieron entre unas nubes y volvieron a aparecer sobre el fondo azul del cielo. Ahora su forma era negra y, considerada desde nuestra lejanía, representaba un disco de gramófono”. Entonces surgieron cinco más, de los que tres marchaban casi juntos “como en escuadrilla”. El fenómeno duró en total de cinco a seis minutos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>La Voz de España</i>, edición del 22 de marzo de 1950. Fuente: J.C. Victorio Uranga.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Desde mi punto de vista, éste sería el insospechado preludio, revelado ahora por vez primera, de una larga historia. El <i>Teen-Age Times</i> fue un semanario para jóvenes editado en Dublín (Irlanda) y que tuvo una vida muy corta<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">1</span>. De corte sensacionalista, en su edición del 24-26 de marzo de 1950 dedicaba su portada a una extraordinaria <i>exclusiva</i>: Los rusos habrían desarrollado una “bomba en suspensión” capaz de “flotar como una estrella roja sobre cualquier ciudad”; tal hecho estaría de alguna forma relacionado con la aparición de los platillos volantes. La noticia estaba firmada por “Premio Nobel”. Junto al texto aparecía una ilustración calificada nada menos que como “la primera y sensacional fotografía de Los Platillos Volantes”. Dos verdaderos bombazos… de ser ciertos. En lo referido a las “bombas en suspensión”, nadie ha vuelto a oír de ellas nunca más. Con respecto a la foto, la juzgaremos más adelante. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Este artículo lo ha motivado el ufólogo norteamericano David Marler, quien ha dedicado mucho tiempo a investigar el origen de dicha fotografía. Hace poco tiempo, David me preguntó qué referencias existían en mi catálogo FOTOCAT sobre la misma. En ese momento, este “incidente” aparecía en dos entradas diferentes, una localizada en Dublín y otra en Méjico. La razón de este error se entenderá en los párrafos siguientes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Portada del <i>Teen-Age Times</i> del viernes 24 de marzo de 1950. Fuente: D. Marler.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La sensacional fotografía pretendía mostrar el vuelo de una escuadrilla de platillos volantes sobre un fondo de nubes. La única información facilitada por el medio aparece en una pequeña nota al pie que no indica ni procedencia, ni fecha, ni lugar. La propia imagen era la prueba.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Me inclino a pensar que los jóvenes editores del periódico irlandés supieron del caso español, publicado un par de días antes. La imagen de varios óvalos negros volando en formación por el cielo les habría inspirado para diseñar una foto ovni que mostrase una flotilla de cinco discos voladores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Cobertura mediática</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La foto alcanzó difusión mundial, tanto de forma inmediata como en años posteriores. Dado que la fuente original carecía de información, todas las reproducciones posteriores se adaptaron a los intereses del medio (periódico, revista o libro) donde se utilizaba, generando una multiplicidad de orígenes para la foto, tanto respecto a la fecha como al lugar donde habría sido tomada. A continuación, presento una muestra de distintas entradas bibliográficas a modo de ejemplo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La primera reproducción de la foto apareció en un periódico en lengua francesa de Bruselas (Bélgica) conocido como <i>La Dernière Heure</i>, correspondiente al 28 de marzo de 1950, que la insertó en su primera página, aunque girada 90°. El editor, que firmaba como “K”, apenas redactó un breve pie de foto repitiendo la especulación de la revista irlandesa de que los platillos volantes eran “bombas suspendidas” y lo finalizó con esta locución: “Se non è vero” (si no es verdad…). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Foto y texto aparecidos en <i>La Dernière Heure</i>, 28 de marzo de 1950. Fuente: D. Marler.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Le sigue la publicación en portada de la revista italiana <i>L’Avvenire d’Italia</i>, editada en Bolonia el 30 de marzo de 1950<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">2</span>. La segunda nota presentaba la imagen como “la fotografía de cinco discos que aparecieron en el cielo mejicano y fueron perseguidas por varios aviones”. El 12 y el 16 de marzo de 1950 habían tenido lugar varios avistamientos ovni sobre el aeropuerto internacional de Méjico D.F., de lo que ya se habría hecho eco probablemente este semanario. La foto se relacionó con estos casos de forma oportunista. Cabe añadir, que los avistamientos mejicanos fueron debido a las evoluciones de un globo meteorológico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The Outspan</i> fue un semanario sudafricano. En su edición del 1 de enero de 1954 incluía un artículo de David Marais titulado “¿Estamos siendo observados?” que incluía una reproducción invertida 180 grados de la foto irlandesa<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">3</span>. La nota al pie decía: “Otra fotografía que muestra cinco objetos metálicos flotando bajo un cielo lleno de nubes. Fueron fotografiados en Gran Bretaña”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">El destacado pensador y ufólogo francés Aimé Michel publicó su primer libro en 1954: <u>Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes</u>, Mame (París). Allí, en la imagen número 28, podemos encontrar la misma foto, descrita ahora como “otra fotografía americana de platillos volantes”. Me temo que el querido Aimé no siempre podía controlar los materiales empleados para ilustrar sus libros, o quizá la idea del origen norteamericano se añadió porque el contexto venía referido a los avistamientos ovni en aquel país.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes</i>, Aimé Michel, Mame, 1954. Fuente: B. Mancusi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">El libro de Aimé Michel fue traducido al inglés y publicado en los Estados Unidos en diversas ediciones, tanto en tapa dura como en rústica. Por ejemplo, Criterion Books (Nueva York) puso en circulación en 1956 una edición titulada <u>The Truth about Flying Saucers</u>, donde dicha fotografía aparecía con el número 21 e idéntico pie. Como fuente, se mencionaba a la agencia Keystone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Truth about Flying Saucers</i>, Aimé Michel, Criterion, 1956. Fuente: O. Henningsen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La siguiente etapa en nuestro viaje bibliográfico, que sabemos incompleto, por algunos de los lugares donde nuestra fotografía ha servido para ilustrar artículos y libros, nos lleva hasta el Rand Daily Mail del 4 de enero de 1972, donde aparece junto a la siguiente frase: “¿Platillos volantes sobre Dublín? Esta fotografía, perteneciente a ese 5 por ciento de documentos ovni inexplicados, fue tomada en 1950”. En el año 1972, manifestar que sólo el 5 por ciento de todos los avistamientos de ovnis quedaba sin explicar, suponía ya un avance considerable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Borroso recorte del <i>Rand Daily Mail</i>, fechado el 4 de enero de 1972. Fuente: M. Gershtein.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Un libro italiano dedicado enteramente a pretendidas fotografías de ovnis, <u>Objettivo sugli</u> UFO, elaborado por Gianfranco de Turris y Sebastiano Fusco (Mediterranée, Roma, 1975), incluía en la colección nuestra foto (Keystone Photo), con una fecha y localización muy particular: “Newport News, Virginia, USA, 14 de julio de 1952. Esta foto documenta uno de los avistamientos más famosos, el que tuvo lugar a bordo de un DC-4 de Pan American volando sobre Virginia, con los pilotos civiles William B. Nash y W.H. Fortenberry a los mandos”. Es cierto que el avistamiento aéreo de Nash-Fortenberry fue uno de los incidentes más sonados de los inicios de la década de los 50, pero la idea de vincular nuestra foto a dicho avistamiento es sólo ¡producto de la imaginación de los autores de dicho libro! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">En ausencia de cualquier tipo de información sólida sobre la fuente original, cada nuevo escritor que utilizaba la imagen para sus fines, la envolvía en sus propias palabras. “Estos ovnis en formación de V modificada fueron fotografiados en algún lugar de los Estados Unidos en los años 50”, son las que encontramos en la página 85f de una compilación norteamericana de fotos ovni, <u>UFOs. A Pictorial History from Antiquity to the Present</u>, de David C. Knight publicada por McGraw-Hill en 1979.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">La foto en la colección de David Knight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Esta imagen torpe y tosca de unos platillos volantes ha ayudado a lo largo de los años a mantener la fe en este mito del siglo XX. Tanto los medios generalistas como los especializados, cayeron en la trampa de aceptar la validez del documento sin cuestionarlo. Cada cual añadió los comentarios que estimó oportunos. Si la imagen era atractiva, ¿para qué molestarse en investigar y estropear la historia?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La mejor versión impresa de la fotografía fue puesta a la venta en Internet hace algunos años, siendo rápidamente adquirida por David Marler. Según me comentaba<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">4</span>, esta imagen era una versión sin recortar y mayor que cualquiera de las conocidas. En la actualidad, existen otras versiones disponibles en el mercado<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">5</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Esta imagen 8x10 en brillo, aparecía pegada en el reverso de un teletipo de noticias de la agencia Keystone fechado el 25 de marzo de 1950, indicando que había sido tomada del periódico dublinés <i>Teen-Age Times</i>. Fuente: D. Marler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Examinemos la foto en sí. Si consideramos la fuente (básicamente un periódico de entretenimiento para jóvenes), el texto que acompaña a la misma y su propia tosquedad, no hace falta ser muy listo para concluir que se trata de una imagen fabricada para ilustrar una noticia inventada referida a los platillos volantes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He consultado a cuatro analistas fotográficos expertos de Europa, Estados Unidos y América latina su opinión sobre la imagen. El consenso ha sido unánime: se trata de un fraude. Las discrepancias aparecen a la hora de determinar la técnica empleada para realizarlo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">John English (antiguo especialista técnico del NARCAP) concluye que “el realzado de la imagen indica que se añadieron componentes circulares al fondo original. Asimismo, muestra marcas de implementación cerca de dichos rasgos circulares (ver flechas), posiblemente necesarios para ayudar a su aplicación material”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">El investigador norteamericano ha empleado técnicas informáticas de mejora de los bordes para revelar “componentes circulares consistentes con un depósito líquido” (abajo, izquierda) mientras que la eliminación del fondo de la imagen muestra “componentes circulares consistentes con un depósito líquido sobre el fondo” (abajo, derecha).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Para John English, “los resultados de los análisis realizados muestran que los componentes circulares en esta foto han sido añadidos -o superpuestos- a la superficie de la foto original. Dichos componentes son consistentes en forma y características con un depósito líquido”. Por tanto, concluye: “Los artefactos parecen ser gotas, su forma y características son consistentes con las de un líquido sobre un substrato y muestran lo que parece ser tensión superficial con un gradiente de tensión en los bordes”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">6</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">El analista de imágenes belga Benoît Mussche concluye tras examinar la imagen: “He mejorado la imagen y no parece tratarse de objetos en el cielo. Más bien sería una foto del cielo a la que, en la sala de revelado, se le añadió una foto de objetos sólidos sobre una superficie plana en un fondo negro (o blanco, no importa). Los objetos en sí ni siquiera aparecen simétricos o diseñados con la menor preocupación por el aerodinamismo. En cualquier caso, un fraude claro”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">7</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Desde Méjico, la evaluación de Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez es la siguiente: “Esta fotografía me recuerda a la de 1963, supuestamente tomada por un piloto comercial desde el aire sobre Venezuela<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">8</span>. Resultó ser sencillamente un botón sobre la imagen de una toma aérea y vuelta a fotografiar. La sombra del platillo fue dibujada sobre la foto y después se re-fotografió el conjunto. Muy probablemente fue un fraude hecho por el mismo periódico que la publicó”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">9</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tomada supuestamente durante un vuelo nacional entre Barcelona y Maiquetia (Venezuela) en 1963, se trata de uno de los varios fraudes creados por Delio Ribas, también conocido como Francisco Arrieta o Iñaki Osés.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nuestro último experto consultado, Mark Easen, analista fotográfico del BUFORA británico, señala que las distintas fotografías disponibles “parecen ser versiones ligeramente distintas de la misma fuente (la imagen del periódico), cada cual con sus propios niveles de contraste, exposición, e incluso una está rotada 180 grados respecto de las otras dos versiones… Las imágenes con la que hemos podido trabajar tienen una calidad muy pobre, lo que impide una identificación positiva de los objetos a partir de la propia fotografía, aunque puedo decir que la iluminación de algunos de los objetos mayores parece algo inconsistente con la dirección aparente de la fuente de luz principal (el Sol)”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">10</span>. A modo de resumen, el estudio realizado por Easen continúa: “Al no existir ninguna declaración testimonial disponible, tenemos poco con lo que alcanzar una decisión objetiva sobre qué es exactamente lo que la imagen nos muestra. En mi opinión, la foto podría haber sido tomada a través del cristal de una ventana donde se hubiesen pintado o colocado algunas formas u objetos. ¿Quizá esta posibilidad explicaría la aparente inconsistencia en la iluminación de los objetos? El foto-analista británico concluye: “No obstante, una cosa es segura. No existe nada en la prueba aportada ni derivada de esta que indique la intervención de algo no humano, extraterrestre”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wim van Utrecht, un veterano e ingenioso ufólogo belga, envió la siguiente opinión sobre la foto al foro europeo “EuroUFO”, donde yo había comenzado un debate sobre la misma: “Por lo que pueda valer -manifestó Van Utrecht- y juzgando en base a la mejor de las imágenes, me pregunto si esos grandes objetos no podrían ser simples champiñones colocados sobre una placa de cristal y fotografiados contra un fondo nuboso. Los objetos más pequeños serían simples salpicaduras de grasa”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">11</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pero todavía dijo más. Wim van Utrecht señaló graves problemas en la iluminación de los diversos componentes de la fotografía. La iluminación de estos proviene de ángulos diferentes. Una situación incoherente que refuerza claramente el argumento “contra la idea de que se trate de una formación de objetos flotando en el cielo”<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">12</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Extender más este breve artículo sería una pérdida de tiempo. El caso no merece más dedicación. Se trata de un montaje más allá de toda duda. Pero esta presentación nos ha permitido exponer la evolución de una foto ovni, su posible inspiración y como muchos autores la han empleado sin documentarse como es debido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(1) Según David Marler, ese tabloide semanal fue publicado solo entre noviembre de 1949 y abril de 1950, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(2) Giuseppe Stilo, <u>Scrutate I cieli!</u> UPIAR, 2000, página 344,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(3) <a href="http://www.project1947.com/fig/outspan54.htm">http://www.project1947.com/fig/outspan54.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(4) David Marler, “The Flying Saucer Invasion of 1950 - Farmington, NM and Beyond”, en <u>2016 MUFON International Symposium Proceedings</u>, Orlando, Florida. Actualización 2018:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.davidmarlerufo.com/farmington-nm-1950">http://www.davidmarlerufo.com/farmington-nm-1950</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(5) <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/10440852">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/10440852</a><span style="color: blue;">0</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(6) John English, correos electrónicos a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 16 y 17 de febrero de 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(7) Benoît Mussche, correo electrónico a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 17 de febrero de 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(8) <i>The A.P.R.O. Bulletin</i>, marzo-abril de 1967, página 5, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(9) Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez, correo electrónico a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 18 de febrero de 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(10) Mark Easen, correo electrónico a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 19 de febrero de 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(11) Wim van Utrecht, correo electrónico a EuroUFO, 16 de febrero de 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(12) Wim van Utrecht, correo electrónico a V.J. Ballester Olmos, 16 de febrero de 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Debo agradecer a David Marler la inspiración para revisar este caso, inexistente pero repetidamente publicitado. A Ricardo Campo (España), Giuseppe Stilo (Italia), Mikhail Gershtein (Rusia), Bruno Mancusi (Suiza), Ole Henningsen (Dinamarca) y J.C. Victorio Uranga (España) por la documentación facilitada. A Claude Maugé (Francia) y Ulrich Magin (Alemania) por algunas referencias. A John English (EE. UU.), Wim van Utrecht (Bélgica), Benoît Mussche (Bélgica), Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez (Méjico) y Mark Easen (Reino Unido) por los análisis de la imagen. A Martin Shough (Escocia) por corregir la versión original en inglés. A Luis R. González, por la traducción al castellano. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Últimamente asistimos a una procesión de programas y documentales sobre ovnis (en sus múltiples facetas, a lo largo de la historia o en la actualidad) en canales de TV privada o pública, en abierto o de pago, generalistas o especializados, que arrojan toda suerte de despropósitos, alterando la realidad gracias a cinematográficas recreaciones, falsas reconstrucciones de los hechos de los que pretenden informar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lo grave del caso es que dichos productos para el consumo de masas engañan, tergiversan y desinforman, corrompiendo el conocimiento del público y creando estados de opinión infundados pero proclives al sostenimiento de lo misterioso, tratando de fomentar la audiencia hacia esos formatos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se presentan como algo anormal e insólito -en suma, inexplicables por la ciencia- experiencias y episodios que en realidad tienen un origen del todo usual, trivial o conocido, aunque a veces infrecuente.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A sabiendas. Porque sus directores tienen conocimiento de la verdadera razón de ser de esas supuestas anomalías espaciales. Pero no les interesa zanjar los temas, para no abortar su continuada explotación. Hay que hacer caja a toda costa, habida cuenta que el espectador ignora esos temas en profundidad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Se está ejecutando una verdadera barbarie cultural, una prevaricación intelectual que parece pasar desapercibida, gracias a que hay otros problemas de mayor envergadura a los que dedicar el ejercicio de la crítica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Libertad de expresión y de creencias? Siempre, a toda costa y por encima de todo. ¿Censura? Nunca. Pero sí el derecho a la crítica directa y nominativa al engaño deliberado. No se puede confundir al espectador desprotegido con historias aberrantes que manipulan la realidad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esperemos que los autores de este atropello a la racionalidad no se salgan de rositas, reciban la crítica del mundo científico, periodístico y cultural y la historia les juzgue con la severidad que merecen por conculcar la educación de la gente y falsificar sucesos puramente convencionales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El comodoro Rubén Lianza, de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina, director de la Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAE), ha logrado elevar a la categoría de sobresaliente la modesta unidad que existe en ese país para el estudio científico de los informes ovni que ciudadanos preocupados remiten a las autoridades en busca de una explicación. Cada año, como transparente servicio público que es, CEFAE difunde un informe con el resultado de todos los estudios realizados sobre presuntos “avistamientos ovni” que llegan a su conocimiento. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este año, el expediente tiene un notable valor añadido. Además de analizar con rigor los 16 casos denunciados durante el año 2017 (ocurridos entre 2009 y 2017), CEFAE ha estudiado tres emblemáticos casos históricos, algunos de ellos conocidos internacionalmente. Se trata del fenómeno que tuvo lugar en Campo de Mayo (Buenos Aires), el 2 de noviembre de 1972 y que ha sido resuelto al descubrirse que lo originó una nube de gas ionizado creada por el lanzamiento de un cohete de investigación espacial. O el de un objeto filmado pasando sobre la Luna que resultó ser el vuelo de un insecto enfrente de la cámara. O el muy difundido informe ovni video grabado con una cámara infrarroja desde un avión militar sobre el aeropuerto de Aguadilla (Puerto Rico) el 25 de abril de 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esos estudios suponen una verdadera clase magistral en técnica y metodología para la identificación de presuntos fenómenos ovni. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El siguiente enlace al Informe Final de Resolución de Casos 2017 CEFAE demuestra como se puede gestionar con precisión científica informes de supuesta fenomenología ovni en el siglo 21: </span><a href="https://www.faa.mil.ar/mision/informe_cefae_2017.pdf" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.faa.mil.ar/mision/informe_cefae_2017.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El pasado verano fallecía el coronel Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre. Conocido, además de por ser uno de los jueces instructores para observaciones ovni de la Zona Aérea de Canarias en los años setenta, en 1981 fue autor de una monografía dedicada precisamente al fenómeno ovni, “Método para la investigación de fenómenos aeroespaciales”, que todos los estudiosos han conocido desde hace once años gracias a que la subí a internet a través de este enlace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31515332/Metodo_para_la_Investigacion_de_Fenomenos_Aeroespaciales._A._Munaiz_Ferro-Sastre.pdf">https://www.academia.edu/31515332/Metodo_para_la_Investigacion_de_Fenomenos_Aeroespaciales._A._Munaiz_Ferro-Sastre.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi relación con Munáiz se retrotrae a 1991, cuando crucé correspondencia con él para tener sus impresiones de primera mano acerca de algunos de los casos que había investigado, justo cuando comenzaba el proceso de desclasificación de la documentación ovni del Ejército del Aire y a la que yo estaba teniendo acceso de primera mano. En 2006 me autorizó a escanear su trabajo y ponerlo online, lo que hice inmediatamente. También entonces publiqué un ensayo glosando la figura de este militar y mi relación con él y con su monografía, lo que me permitió exponer sus conclusiones en su justa perspectiva. Ver: “Documentos oficiales online (I): La monografía de Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre” en: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/31516261/La_Monografia_de_Antonio_Munaiz_Ferro-Sastre">https://www.academia.edu/31516261/La_Monografia_de_Antonio_Munaiz_Ferro-Sastre</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La mayoría de los avistamientos que le tocó encuestar fueron debidos a los efectos luminosos provocados por el lanzamiento de misiles del tipo “Poseidón” por submarinos de la marina estadounidense desde el banco de pruebas del Eastern Test Range (Océano Atlántico). Lamentablemente, cuando hizo estas investigaciones -con verdadera pericia y rigurosidad- esta información le era desconocida, aunque ya apuntaba a que podría tratarse de experiencias de esa categoría. Para profundizar en ello, sugiero la lectura de mi trabajo con Ricardo Campo publicado en la <i>Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica</i>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16027101/Identificados_Los_OVNIS_de_Canarias_fueron_misiles_Poseidon">https://www.academia.edu/16027101/Identificados_Los_OVNIS_de_Canarias_fueron_misiles_Poseidon</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uno de los casos más extraordinarios investigados en su día por Munáiz fue el espectacular y masivo avistamiento del 22 de junio de 1976. El siguiente minucioso informe del estudioso canario Ricardo Campo zanja la cuestión de forma terminante: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://naukas.com/2016/06/22/dos-gigantes-rojos-cabalgando-un-misil/">http://naukas.com/2016/06/22/dos-gigantes-rojos-cabalgando-un-misil/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En mayo de 2014 me reuní finalmente con Munáiz en su querida finca de Jávea (Alicante), encuentro personal tantas veces retrasado por mis ocupaciones. La foto que cierra este breve comentario (hecha por mi colaborador Jaime Servera, que me acompañó en la visita) sirve de homenaje a este apreciado militar que se vio obligado a hacer de ufólogo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Empezaré por el final. En 2012 el Ministerio de Defensa estadounidense cortó el grifo de la financiación del llamado Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), lo que significa que ese programa no llegó a ninguna parte. Se había creado con la supuesta pretensión de identificar modelos aeroespaciales avanzados que supusieran un peligro para el país. Y es que América sigue siendo la Tierra de Promisión, siempre que tengas las necesarias influencias: en 2007, un puñado de políticos en su senectud (dos de ellos ya fallecidos), funcionarios, militares y un empresario multimillonario que tenían en común su mutua amistad y su obsesión por los ovnis, lograron arañar 22 millones de dólares del presupuesto de Defensa (2008-2011) para que la DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) creara un programa encubierto para investigar ovnis. La mayoría de ese dinero fue a parar a Bigelow Aerospace, empresa de Robert Bigelow, un magnate que está verdaderamente obcecado con el tema de los ovnis extraterrestres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No crean que esa cifra es importante: el presupuesto de Defensa de los Estados Unidos es de 600.000 millones de dólares, así que eso es “na y menos”. Lo verdaderamente importante es que el portavoz del Pentágono Thomas Crosson ha declarado que el programa se finalizó porque “hay otros temas prioritarios que merecen financiación” y porque esa decisión se inscribía en “el mejor interés de del Ministerio de Defensa”. Se puede hablar más alto, pero no más claro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El tiempo sacará a relucir como ese “estudio ovni del Pentágono” fue algo muy diferente al Proyecto Blue Book (clausurado en 1969), o al Proyecto de la Universidad de Colorado (1966-1968), investigaciones institucionales de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos, sino algo pergeñado entre obsesos por los ovnis con influencia política y dinero. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El encargado del programa, Luis Elizondo, dice que, a pesar de la falta de dotación presupuestaria de Defensa, éste continuó hasta su dimisión en octubre de 2017, bajo la cobertura de la CIA y la Marina. De ahí pasó, junto con otros personajes, a crear la llamada Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias- A las Estrellas, una sociedad con afán de lucro que persigue inversores para financiar proyectos que, a mí al menos, me parecen descabellados. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Qué quieren que les diga? Algo vergonzoso. Pero si durante unos años ese trabajo fue pagado con fondos oficiales, todo el material recogido y los estudios hechos (por muy especulativos que sean) tendrán que ser expuestos a la luz pública. Porque, eso sí, a los que estaban en el ajo les gustaba más el secreto que a los niños las chucherías. Y es que no hay nada peor que militares, científicos y políticos crédulos, con fondos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poco a poco van apareciendo pantallazos de luz en el oscurantismo de ese programa ovni del Pentágono y de algún video que se ha publicado como prueba de que los ovnis existen. En febrero pasado se han aireado tres ensayos interesantes. El de Micah Hanks, el informe del Goddard’s Journal y el escrito de Sarah Scoles en <i>Wired</i>. Recomiendo su lectura:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/debunkable-pentagon-ufo-footage-falls-under-the-critical-eye-of-online-skeptics/">http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/debunkable-pentagon-ufo-footage-falls-under-the-critical-eye-of-online-skeptics/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5dP3sF2sw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5dP3sF2sw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-up-with-those-pentagon-ufo-videos/">https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-up-with-those-pentagon-ufo-videos/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) “El lanzamiento de SpaceX que sorprendió a California o cómo se forman las estelas de los cohetes”, por Daniel Marín, muy pedagógico:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://danielmarin.naukas.com/2017/12/26/el-lanzamiento-de-spacex-que-sorprendio-a-california/">http://danielmarin.naukas.com/2017/12/26/el-lanzamiento-de-spacex-que-sorprendio-a-california/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) Curt Collins ha creado un excelente índice documental sobre el encuentro ovni que tuvo la familia Cash-Landrum: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html">http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ahora, aporta nuevas y sorprendentes informaciones sobre el caso. Una traducción al español se la debemos a Luis Ruiz Nóguez:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/12/el-ovni-de-cash-landrum-los-archivos-originales-del-caso/">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/12/el-ovni-de-cash-landrum-los-archivos-originales-del-caso/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3) Alienígenas en los tebeos (comics) españoles, un trabajo de Luis R. González:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://grupolipo.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/y-siguen-bajando-de-los-cielos.html">http://grupolipo.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/y-siguen-bajando-de-los-cielos.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4) “How UFO Reports Change with the Technology of the Times” (Cómo cambian los informes ovni con la tecnología de los tiempos), un revelador artículo escrito por el profesor Greg Eghigian, de la Pennsylvania State University, en la <i>Smithsonian Magazine</i>: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7xrq6un">https://tinyurl.com/y7xrq6un</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(5) El Dr. David Clarke, consultor para el Ministerio de Defensa inglés en el proceso de desclasificación ovni, informa en su web sobre las piezas de un pequeño platillo volante manufacturado por algún bromista y hallado originalmente en Silpho Village (North Yorkshire, Inglaterra) el 21 de noviembre de 1957. Los restos de este artefacto de origen terrestre se depositaron en el Museo de las Ciencias de Londres en 1963 y allí ha pasado desapercibido para los ufólogos hasta hace poco. Toda la historia se puede leer en este artículo: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2018/02/08/yorkshire-ufo-crash-mystery-solved-after-60-years/">https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2018/02/08/yorkshire-ufo-crash-mystery-solved-after-60-years/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(6) Tres puntos de vista sobre Hynek, ahora de moda por un reciente libro biográfico, que dan una perspectiva de 360 grados sobre el científico y el hombre: “The Secret Life of J. Allen Hynek” (La vida secreta de J. Allen Hynek), de John Franch (2013), “The Close Encounters Man” (El hombre de los encuentros cercanos), de Mark O'Connell (HarperCollins, 2017) y una reseña de esta obra en el blog de David Halperin, “Journal of a UFO Investigator” (Diario de un investigador ovni), respectivamente en estos enlaces: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_secret_life_of_j_allen_hynek">https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_secret_life_of_j_allen_hynek</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176">https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7) Encontramos un comentario sobre el libro “Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers” (Americanos cientifistas. La cultura de los investigadores aficionados de lo paranormal), del que es autora Sharon Hill (McFarland, 2017), en este enlace:<a href="https://mattbille.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-review-scientifical-americans.html">https://mattbille.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/book-review-scientifical-americans.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8) “Ufology in Switzerland” (Ufología en Suiza), un artículo en francés de Bruno Mancusi, que se publicó primeramente en la revista <i>UFOmania</i> en 2012 ahora está en línea aquí: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36050532/Lufologie_en_Suisse_Ufology_in_Switzerland_">https://www.academia.edu/36050532/Lufologie_en_Suisse_Ufology_in_Switzerland_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(9) El último informe de laboratorio publicado sobre investigación del rayo globular se titula “Synthetic electromagnetic knot in a three-dimensional skyrmion” y lo firman W. Lee, A. H. Gheorghe, K. Tiurev, T.Ollikainen, M. Möttönen, y D.S. Hall: <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaao3820/tab-pdf">http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaao3820/tab-pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(10) Ray Stanford es un personaje controvertido. En los años cincuenta fue acérrimo seguidor del movimiento contactista, en los setenta patrocinó el uso de la tecnología para la detección de ovnis, pero sin duda está dotado de un avezado ojo para su segunda afición, la búsqueda de vestigios fósiles de dinosaurios. Este paleontólogo aficionado ha hecho unos descubrimientos importantes que acaban de publicarse nada menos que en la revista <i>Nature</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18619-w">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18619-w</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Como nota personal, cito un artículo que escribí hace unos años, “Encuentros cercanos con Ray Stanford” que se puede leer aquí:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Reunión informal en Feldkirchen-Westerham (Alemania), en noviembre de 2004. Ray Stanford, sentado con el ordenador portátil, de pie el Dr. Auguste Meessen y V.J. Ballester Olmos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Canarias y los ovnis</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay dos estilos de enfocar el estudio de incógnitas de la naturaleza, de la historia o de la sociedad. Una es tratar de resolver los misterios aplicando los conocimientos de la ciencia y otra perpetuarlos para su explotación comercial. Es la diferencia entre investigación y estafa. Así lo expresa Diego Zúñiga en su libro “Noticias de Marte”: “…la mayor paradoja de la ufología: ese gusto por premiar la ineficiencia. Si explicas un caso eres aburrido en términos mediáticos. ¿A quién le puede interesar la solución de un enigma? En cambio, si eres un inepto, si cada uno de los casos que llega a tus manos es calificado de “inexplicable”, entonces sí eres carne de los medios, eres reconocido y aplicado como “ufólogo” (p. 142). Y su prologuista, Sergio Sánchez, apuntala: “…el timo, el plagio y la estupidez han demostrado ser compañeros inseparables de la ufología mediática”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un distinguido ejemplo del acercamiento metódico, austero y riguroso -pero del todo compatible con una lectura amena- es el que nos ofrece Ricardo Campo, doctorado en Filosofía y ya veterano estudioso de los informes sobre objetos volantes no identificados en su Canarias natal con su nuevo (y tercer) libro, titulado “El fenómeno OVNI en Canarias” (desde el siglo XVIII hasta 1980). Y ya me apresuro a etiquetarlo: si hubiera un <i>Planeta</i> que premiara la excelencia en “investigación ovni”, Campo se habría hecho acreedor al mismo. Cuando la explotación inmisericorde de un asunto de interés popular -en este caso, la leyenda de los “platillos volantes”- es la tónica general de la producción editorial en España (sin extenderme a otros medios), este primer volumen sobre la historia de la casuística ovni en Canarias brilla por sí solo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Las Canarias, esa parte insular de España más cercana a África que a Europa, posee un rico patrimonio de narraciones de fenomenología ovni. Esto se debe a varios factores, entre los que destaca la observación desde el archipiélago de los efectos luminosos del disparo de misiles balísticos estadounidenses entre 1974 y 1979 y a la actividad propagandística del periodista aficionado y obseso de los extraterrestres, el tinerfeño Paco Padrón.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En una introducción que no tiene desperdicio y que sublima el conocimiento enajenado durante 30 años de estudio, Campo afirma: <i>Me atrevo a asegurar que buena parte de lo que usted ha leído sobre ovnis o todo aquello en lo que cree al respecto con la mayor sinceridad…puede ser completamente falso, producto sólo de mercadotecnia y de sus deseos de creer </i>(p. 13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cuando el autor compara los histogramas estadísticos de 4.915 informes generados en la España peninsular con los 319 casos canarios entre 1947 y 1980, señala ser “equivalentes” (p. 39). Yo me he molestado en computar el coeficiente de correlación entre ambas series y resulta un valor de 0,9 (0,868 para ser exactos), lo que, efectivamente, demuestra que las tendencias de creación de informes ovni en territorios separados 2.000 kilómetros son iguales. Y ello se debe a una misma lengua y un caudal de noticias (y de influencias) paralelo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La fórmula seguida por el autor para exponer las más de trescientas historias del periodo estudiado consiste en redactar un informe que comprime toda la información conocida de cada suceso -muchos encuestados o re-encuestados de primera mano-, incorporando el análisis del avistamiento, disquisiciones pertinentes y planteamiento de la explicación favorecida, cuando se encuentra. El tamaño de la memoria resultante es función de la documentación que se conserva: de media página a 22 páginas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nuestro doctor Campo no persigue la resolución de los casos a machamartillo. Cuando tiene a su disposición elementos de juicio suficientemente objetivos, da el caso por cerrado; cuando no, simplemente es un cold case, dicho en términos policiales americanos. De hecho, de los 319 casos que ha recogido, investigado y expuesto en este primer volumen, solo 196 quedan explicados. Un “bajo” 61% si consideramos que las estadísticas mundiales más profesionales -las del GEIPAN francés- señalan que el índice de informes sin resolver de los últimos 10 años es sólo del 2%. Pero con tantas noticias con un nivel informativo a nivel de basura, el porcentaje canario incluso es alto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campo ha sabido asesorarse bien por múltiples técnicos y especialistas en varias materias científicas. Cada informe termina con la relación completa de la bibliografía consultada, de forma que cualquier estudioso puede reconstruir la argumentación. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro pasa revista a algunos casos clásicos, que hemos leído en otros libros, aunque tratados desde una perspectiva dispar, y muchos otros desconocidos. Pero hemos visto que muchos de ellos acaban siendo ejemplos -a veces, sí, atrayentes, hasta seductores- de fenómenos naturales o artificiales no reconocidos por los observadores. La panoplia de avistamientos es amplísima, absurdamente incoherente y caótica, tan aleatoria como es el impacto que a cada uno produce la visión por sorpresa de algo que no sabe reconocer. Aviones, cuerpos celestes, globos, bólidos, misiles, reentradas, satélites artificiales, embarcaciones, sin olvidar algunos fraudes testimoniales o fotográficos, un largo elenco de confusiones potenciales que Campo aborda sin complejos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Esta metodología pone de manifiesto tanto que avistamientos aparentemente extraños esconden realmente revelaciones insustanciales o comunes, cuanto la incapacidad, negligencia o mala fe de esos reporteros del misterio cuya misión en la vida parece ser encontrar unas presuntas narraciones extraordinarias. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay entre los muchos acontecimientos que el libro reseña y enjuicia, algunos intrigantes, curiosos o espectaculares, con independencia de su esencia o condición. Y prefiero que los descubra el lector por sí mismo. Casos de aparente alta extrañeza, como la peripecia que dice haber vivido Isabel Almeida en el verano de 1958 o 1959 (pp. 112-122) de su encuentro con una esfera de luz que llevaba una persona dentro (aterrizaje con humanoide, en la jerga ufológica) y que Campo califica de “experiencia privada, ya fuera un sueño u otro estado transitorio”. Y es que hay un debate actual en torno a si esos eventos marginales unipersonales no son otra cosa que manifestaciones de “falsos recuerdos”, como Loftus y otros académicos han estudiado. Eso dejaría una opción más entre la pura realidad y la mentira: una especie de fantasía psicológica no patológica y no premeditada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Naturalmente que no se tiene una explicación terminante y segura para diversos sucesos. Pero hay dos factores que contribuyen a ello: la antigüedad de los hechos y la falta de investigación contemporánea de los mismos. A cuarenta, treinta o veinte años vista, investigar un episodio, en el que hay mucho de impresión y de emoción, resulta virtualmente imposible. Y menos racionalizarlo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Resulta obvio que seguirá habiendo ovnis, vamos, avistamientos de ovnis. Porque siempre habrá alguien que no sepa identificar lo que ve. Y en la medida que esté imbuido por informaciones espurias, mayor será la disociación entre la observación real y la contada. Además, la investigación ufológica, al no ser parte de nada reglado o reglable, se realiza a nivel <i>amateur</i> -aunque sea por titulados y expertos-, a tiempo parcial, sin el instrumental óptimo ni el apoyo técnico necesario. En tales condiciones, es innegable que siempre quedarán casos sin resolver. El “residuo” falaz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En sus artículos, Campo ha usado el término “hinbestigasión” para calificar lo que practican algunos epistularicidas (mi neologismo para los asesinos de las letras) que en realidad venden historias recordadas como hechos fidedignos y exactos, amparándose y aupándose en toda suerte de errores de observación por testigos que resultan asombrados ante la aparición de fenómenos naturales o artificiales, triviales o no, que son incapaces de explicar, que de buena fe malinterpretan y cuya apariencia tergiversan groseramente. Fenómenos normales que se convierten en extraordinarios en virtud de la sorpresa o la inquietud del perceptor, de su estado psicológico y de otros muchos factores humanos que potencian o alteran su sensibilidad sensorial. A tales confusiones visuales -ilusiones- hay que añadir una variada gama de alucinaciones pasajeras, incidentes de parálisis del sueño, falsos recuerdos, etc. Tal “hinbestigador” pretende hacer pasar la simple anotación o transcripción de la evocación de una “experiencia” por parte de un confundido testigo por una verdadera encuesta técnica o científica. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ricardo Campo es la antítesis del mal investigador. Es minucioso, documentado, preciso en la adquisición de datos y en su evaluación. Se nota que quiere llegar al fondo de las cosas y no quedarse en cuentos chinos que complacen a unos o que sirven para reforzar las creencias de otros. Porque la ufología -si es que el vocablo tiene algún sentido- debe significar la manera ordenada de acceder a lo que el observador ha visto o experimentado sin influirle, no una mera lectura de las impresiones personales subjetivas e imprecisas que narran algunos declarantes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ese genuino proceso de investigación es laborioso y los textos de Campo son la punta de un iceberg. Detrás hay un dilatado periodo de comprobaciones, averiguaciones y consultas que buscan trazar la verdad. Pero en ufología es la creencia y la posverdad lo que impera. Por ello no es de extrañar que la academia, quien detenta el saber, la cultura o la ciencia, o los poderes de los estados, no otorguen a esta materia ningún interés. Hubo un tiempo en que científicos, revistas especializadas, universidades y gobiernos se ocuparon del asunto de los ovnis. Eso ya pasó a la historia al constatar la falta de argumentos de los proponentes y la ausencia de evidencia de un fenómeno extraño. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El avezado lector de libros sobre ovnis de autores ilusos o crédulos (por incompetencia, ingenuidad, interés crematístico y/o creencia) no pasará por alto que nunca hay dos ovnis (máquinas aéreas) iguales, ni tampoco dos humanoides (seres vinculados) idénticos. Normal. Porque esas imágenes son el fruto de la imaginación exaltada del que narra en primera persona. Esas ensoñaciones, que pueden partir o no de un avistamiento inicial real, pero de distinta naturaleza, son creaciones del córtex cerebral del partícipe de la visión y si se recogen sin más y se ponen negro sobre blanco y se transmiten a una desprevenida audiencia, se convierte en un ejercicio falso. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si la guitarra del genial Woody Guthrie era una “máquina de matar fascistas”, la obra del filósofo Campo es una apisonadora para las observaciones equívocas. Si ejercicios de averiguación y pesquisa semejantes se desarrollaran en otras regiones, la incidencia de incidentes ovni misteriosos descendería abruptamente. Pero la moda actual de lanzar libros recopilatorios de toda suerte de misterios y leyendas locales, cuyos autores representan al anti-cronista, va en sentido opuesto a la racionalización y opta por la novelización de ciertos sucesos tradicionales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y si de filósofos hablamos, tengo la excusa para citar una notable reflexión de Fernando Sabater, que dejó escrita en su artículo “Drogas”, publicado en El País del 17 de febrero pasado y que bien se aplica a nuestro problema: “Las supersticiones son consideraciones falsas acerca de lo real, más influidas por el miedo que por la observación, a las que cualquier circunstancia vale como refrendo y nada sirve como refutación”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En la literatura científica o académica a lo largo de la historia hay algunos textos de referencia obligada. Son normalmente libros que marcan un antes y un después de su aparición en la disciplina correspondiente. Esta obra de Ricardo Campo, profunda y minuciosa, pero de fácil aprehensión, es un ejemplo de lo que significa el término esencial. Y lo es por dos razones fundamentales: por la información que aporta (enorme, cuidada, contrastada y bien escrita) y por las conclusiones definitivas que podemos deducir. Un libro de texto, en mayúsculas. Si yo fuera Rector de universidad o responsable de Educación preuniversitaria, incluiría este libro entre los recursos normalizados de los estudiantes, como el mejor antídoto contra el sensacionalismo, la charlatanería y el oscurantismo que rodean la falsa creencia en los platillos volantes y en los ovnis extraterrestres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este tomo de casi 700 páginas, denso en lo intelectual pero liviano en su comprensión, cubre únicamente los poco más de trecientos informes ovni canarios conocidos hasta 1980. Esto denota la cantidad -y calidad- del trabajo de investigación de campo de Campo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro tiene también un fantástico nivel de 304 ilustraciones, entre fotografías, dibujos, mapas, tablas y cartas celestes. “El fenómeno OVNI en Canarias”, un ejemplar que no puede dejar de constar en su biblioteca se puede comprar al excelente precio de 20 euros a través del siguiente enlace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>La gran invasión marciana</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este es el Tomo I del libro que, bajo el titulo de “Érase una vez en ovnilandia” nos presenta el abogado y criminólogo chileno Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez. En palabras del autor, esta es la sinopsis de la obra:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Érase una vez en Ovnilandia ofrece una historia del desarrollo de la ufología en Francia, desde sus orígenes en los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días. Concretamente, se trata de una historia de las hipótesis, especulaciones y debates teóricos que han marcado la saga ovnística francesa, y que le han dado un sello particular y característico, tan distinto del que viene siempre asociado a la ufología estadounidense, con sus platillos volantes estrellados y sus conspiraciones infinitas. Hacer la “historia francesa de las ideas ufológicas” ha sido un subterfugio, un procedimiento oblicuo que el autor ha usado para hablar de aquello que más le interesa: las controversias en torno a la naturaleza de un fenómeno dudoso, la difusión de las creencias colectivas, las “estrategias de combate” en la disputa entre creyentes y escépticos y, en fin, la pregunta de cómo puede ser aprehendido todo este acervo, respetando su riqueza, aunque poniéndolo siempre en el contexto imprescindible de su desarrollo histórico. Las creencias contemporáneas no serían lo mismo sin el influjo, reconocido o no, de las noticias provenientes de Ovnilandia, el lugar donde todo es posible y donde los contenidos más arcaicos se codean con la super-tecnología del futuro. Este primer volumen está dedicado, sobre todo (aunque no exclusivamente) al surgimiento, desarrollo y problemas de la llamada “hipótesis extraterrestre” (HET).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El libro puede adquirirse a través de Amazon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El físico belga Roger Paquay ha dedicado muchos años al estudio del fenómeno ovni y ha analizado las más importantes observaciones denunciadas durante la famosa oleada de 1989 a 1992 en ese país. Fruto de sus averiguaciones y conclusiones es este libro, en francés, “Le Phénomène OVNI. Un Autre Regard”, cuya lectura recomiendo muy especialmente y que se puede descargar gratuitamente (186 páginas) desde este enlace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Con este título literario se presenta la nueva obra del estudioso italiano Giuseppe Stilo (UPIAR, 2017) sobre la llegada en 1947-1949 de los discos volantes a Italia y al mundo. Es una tesis concienzuda y un trabajo muy bien documentado de 414 páginas que, una vez más, sitúa a Stilo con autoridad en el estudio del fenómeno ovni. En la sección en inglés de este blog comento este libro con más detalle. Sirvan estas pocas letras para recomendar su compra: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=189&st=1" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=189&st=1</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los otros libros de Giuseppe Stilo forman una biblioteca en sí misma, una colección indispensable, gracias al impagable esfuerzo de la editorial UPIAR. Seguidamente doy los títulos y sus correspondientes enlaces: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Scrutate I cieli!”, UPIAR, 2000, 424 páginas para cubrir la oleada de 1950: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=148</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Ultimatum alla Terra”, UPIAR, 2002. Un enorme volumen de 536 páginas dedicado exclusivamente a la oleada mundial de 1952: </span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=143" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=143</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“L’alba di una nuova era”, UPIAR, 2004. El fenómeno de los llamados cohetes fantasmas de 1946 examinado en un opúsculo de 228 hojas:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Il quinto cavaliere dell’Apocalisse”, UPIAR, 2006. Este es el primer volumen, un tomo de 680 páginas, para analizar la gran oleada de 1954, repasando de enero a octubre: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=149">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=149</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Il quinto cavaliere dell’Apocalisse, Vol. 2”, UPIAR, 2016. En este Segundo volumen, los meses de noviembre y diciembre de 1954 se estudian en otras 504 páginas: <a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=186">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?artID=186</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Mysteries of the Marfa Lights Revealed</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remito al lector interesado a la reseña que he escrito de este libro (publicado en 2013) en la sección en inglés del blog. “Los misterios de las luces de Marfa revelados” es un libro científico escrito de forma muy atractiva y didáctica para el público lego por el Dr. Robert Wagers, ingeniero eléctrico de la universidad de Stanford, y su esposa Judy, exgerente de departamento en un gran centro médico universitario de Tejas. Juntos, han explorado la historia, ciencia, geografía y meteorología de las llanuras de Marfa, donde se desarrollan estos fenómenos luminosos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los autores aplican la ciencia y el sentido común, el menos común de los sentidos, y nos conducen por un culto viaje que convence a cualquier mente crítica sobre la ausencia de misterio real tras las luces de Marfa. Este libro es una pieza de información imprescindible para los aficionados a este enigma: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827115/">https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827115/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827123/">https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marfa-Lights-Revealed-History/dp/0988827123/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8keaz5c">https://tinyurl.com/y8keaz5c</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Declaración de la SUFOI y libro conmemorativo</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A los 60 años de su fundación, SUFOI, una veterana organización danesa para la investigación de los informes de ovnis, ha querido conmemorar tal onomástica de dos formas. Una, haciendo público un comunicado que declara su posición y conclusiones después de tantas décadas de estudio. El contenido de este anuncio es profundamente significativo. Nuevamente debo enviar al lector que desee conocer en detalle este documento a la sección en inglés del blog. Pero no quiero dejar de extraer el párrafo más importante de dicho texto y que se explica por sí mismo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>En la actualidad, los muchos años de experiencia y conocimiento que hemos adquirido nos permiten interpretar los fenómenos ovni desde una nueva óptica: nada apunta a que la Tierra esté siendo visitada desde el espacio exterior, y hay muchas explicaciones realistas para los avistamientos de ovnis. Con este enfoque del mito ovni, SUFOI como organización está actualmente muy aislada. En todo el mundo hay muchas organizaciones ovni que ... no parecen interesadas en investigar los informes en profundidad, tal vez porque entonces se arriesgarían a descubrir que tienen explicaciones plausibles, incluso los que parecen más misteriosos.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Concedo toda la razón a SUFOI en su valoración y solo discrepo en una cosa: no están aislados en absoluto al sostener este pensamiento. Por el contrario, cada vez más es la tendencia mundial, en investigadores independientes y en organizaciones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La otra forma de celebrar este aniversario es publicando el libro “UFO'er –Myter og viden” (OVNIS – Mitos y hechos), tapa dura, 204 páginas, con 120 ilustraciones en blanco y negro y color. La obra, escrita colectivamente por P. Borgaard, H. Dethlefsen, K. Møller Hansen, T. Haunstrup y O. Henningsen, puede adquirirse a través de: <a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?106,en_ufoer-myter-og-viden-b-087">http://www.sufoi.dk/butik/?106,en_ufoer-myter-og-viden-b-087</a> o clicando el botón “Doner” en su página web: <a href="http://www.sufoi.dk/">www.sufoi.dk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Secuela inesperada</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En tanto en cuanto los “fenómenos ovni” se desarrollan en todo el mundo, el intercambio internacional de datos es básico para el progreso de este estudio. En el libro que acabo de citar he encontrado una imagen que inmediatamente me llamó la atención: un objeto amarillento parecido a una bola de fuego que supuestamente volaba paralelo al horizonte. Esta fotografía se tomó en la tarde del 13 de julio de 1969, a ocho millas al este de la isla Femø, ubicada en Dinamarca, al norte de Lolland, durante una travesía turística. El señor Preben Gelt pretendía capturar la pequeña isla (población 154), que se puede ver como una franja estrecha en el horizonte. En ese momento no apreció nada fuera de lo común, pero tras revelarse el carrete (foto analógica con negativos y revelado químico) descubrió esta pequeña bola de luz, con la apariencia de un meteoro brillante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La foto fue llevada a SUFOI en 1977 y sus técnicos la analizaron, después de que los astrónomos rechazaran la idea de que pudiera tratarse de un bólido diurno. El consultor fotográfico de SUFOI, Hans Bødker, destacó el hecho de que la cola del "objeto" se encuentra completamente en paralelo con el borde de la imagen, lo que indicaría un defecto de revelado. Esto se correspondía con la falta de una observación visual, ya sea por parte del fotógrafo o por parte de otros en el barco o desde otro lugar. SUFOI solicitó la opinión del Ground Saucer Watch, una controvertida sociedad estadounidense que se ocupaba del análisis de fotografías ovni. Llegó a la conclusión de que "la raya amarilla es típica del derrame accidental de una sustancia química sobre la emulsión antes del procesamiento de la película de color". Es decir, la imagen fue causada durante el revelado de la película. SUFOI concluyó que la firma de la imagen se debía a un procesamiento químico defectuoso. Estamos de acuerdo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">13 de julio de 1969, cerca de la isla de Femø (Dinamarca). © P. Gelt. Fuente: Ole Henningsen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Casualmente -o no tanto, dados nuestros intereses comunes-, el investigador belga Wim van Utrecht y yo no pudimos evitar conectar esta imagen con una fotografía relativamente famosa de ovnis tomada en el verano de 1966 en el aeropuerto suizo de Zurich-Kloten. Es otro ejemplo de la misma falla de procesamiento, esta vez doble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El fotógrafo era un oficial de seguridad del aeropuerto y, al mismo tiempo, un creyente en los visitantes del espacio, no en vano era el líder del grupo ovni más antiguo de Austria, característicamente llamado "Interplanetarik Austria" (¡cuanto echo de menos cuando aún había testigos inocentes!). Durante la documentación de esta fotografía, el colega danés Ole Henningsen me informó que ya en 1985 el presidente de SUFOI, Kim Møller Hansen, había relacionado ambas imágenes que claramente compartían el mismo origen, del todo común y corriente. A esto se llama ufología comparativa, y la experiencia dicta que siempre sirve para resolver casos, nunca para agregar extrañeza a un evento ovni dado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Verano de 1966, aeropuerto de Zurich. © Felix R. Maschek. Fuente: <i>Daily Mail</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>AGENDA PERSONAL</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Abuelo por partida doble</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es una satisfacción sostener en los brazos a dos retoños de la familia, mis nietos Fernando (a la derecha de la foto, de mi hija Laura) y Lucas (de mi hija Blanca). Esto de ser abuelo es toda una experiencia vital. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Agradecimientos</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mi gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información a la presente edición del blog: Luis Pacheco (Stratocat), Matías Morey, Luis Ruiz Nóguez, Edward Stewart, Luis R. González, Edoardo Russo, Dr. David Clarke, Ole Henningsen, Björn Borg, Rubén Lianza, Dr. Robert Wagers, Dr. Ricardo Campo y Jaime Servera. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>LIBROS DEL AUTOR</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OVNIS: el fenómeno aterrizaje </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Los OVNIS y la Ciencia </b>(con Miguel Guasp)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Investigación OVNI </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b> (con J.A. Fernández Peris) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Expedientes insólitos </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBERLIBRO: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNILIBER: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4">https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMAZON: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7x7rktd">https://tinyurl.com/y7x7rktd</a></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(con O.J. Braenne)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFOs and the Government </b>(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b> (con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Belgium in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 </b>(1950-1988) (con Wim van Utrecht)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COMO PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Entrega de información sobre casos, fotografías, archivos, bibliografía, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> · Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos corrientes de investigación</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Puede dirigirse directamente a nosotros por correo e</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">lectrónico: </span><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FOTOCAT
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Currently,
the database counts 12,239 cases. The raw catalog ends December 31,
2005 with 11,983 entries. It is followed by 256 additional, special
cases which split as follows:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Argentina
(standard), year 2006: 145</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spain
(standard), 2006-2008: 73</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ball
lightning, 2006 to-date: 33</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spain
(military/CE), 2006 to-date: 4</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Exception:
1 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NEW
PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NEW BOOK!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BELGIUM
IN UFO PHOTOGRAPHS. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">After
a number of years of dedicated and careful work of data collection
and case analysis, this book jointly authored by Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos (FOTOCAT Project, Spain) and Wim van Utrecht
(Caelestia, Belgium) has been released, November 2017. It is a
research book that makes no concessions to the literature. It is a
scientifically-driven inquiry on all known UFO reports in Belgium in
the period from 1950 to 1988 incorporating pictures, footage or
video. The reader will certainly find lots of minutely-described UFO
sightings and detailed analyses of UFO images. But also numerous
examples of how normal folks can be deceived by common phenomena,
revealing the dubious background against which some photographs
received worldwide endorsement and became famous. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
book is a documented history of four decades’ worth of UFO
incidents that we have investigated, weighing the evidence for real
anomalies that might be occurring in our atmosphere. Though only a
small country in Central Europe, Belgium’s rich UFO heritage serves
as a representative sample of UFO phenomenology worldwide, as any UFO
student will quickly realize. The analyses to be found in this volume
will perfectly fit to cases from other regions of the planet.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
book has over 400 pages, 366 illustrations (pictures, diagrams, maps,
sky charts, etc.) and, in addition to case stories, investigation and
image forensics, it contains a statistical review of the cases that
were studied. This is FOTOCAT Report #7 and, like the rest of the
series, it is available free online at the following link:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Especially
for book collectors, printed book lovers and libraries, a softbound,
large format edition in full color has been published by UPIAR
(Turin, Italy). It </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">can
be purchased through the publisher’s website at:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James
Oberg, one of the world's leading popularizers and interpreters of
space exploration, has contributed the book’s foreword. Oberg had a
22-year career as a space engineer in Houston, where he specialized
in NASA space shuttle operations for orbital rendezvous. These are
some excerpts from his foreword:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Vicente-Juan
Ballester-Olmos and Wim van Utrecht have been practicing a
methodology of research that—were it far more widespread—could
help determine the better theories from the more extreme ones . . .</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ballester-Olmos
and Van Utrecht, like me, believe that ‘IFOs’ have lessons to
teach ‘ufologists’ that are crucial to making sense of cases that
remain in the ‘true UFO’ data bases . . . The newfound power of
combining GOOD records keeping with Internet tools and search engines
can be seen in specific cases discussed by the authors . . . In case
after case, the authors apply wide knowledge of geometry, optics,
meteorology, human perception, and human cultural context, to
illustrate that plausible explanations often are found . . . The
approach shown by Ballester-Olmos and Van Utrecht should serve as an
example and as an inspiration to other ‘citizen scientists’ who
have played a crucial role in providing the resources that will allow
theorists with more data and wider insight to someday make more sense
about what lies behind this mysterious phenomenon.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We
expect you will find many items of interest in our book, one that you
can read with just one click. Of course, those who prefer reading a
printed book may acquire the UPIAR published version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">You
are kindly requested to extend this information to other colleagues,
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addition, any mention on your blog, website or magazine will be
greatly appreciated, as well as any book review you might want to
submit to any scientific or specialized UFO journal.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Incidentally,
as someone asked, a couple of words about the book cover
illustration, an ink drawing by the German illustrator and painter
Heinrich Kley (1863-1945). Readers will realize that he was making
fun of those who (early in the 20</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
century) hoped that photography would deliver the long-awaited proof
of the existence of ghosts, lake monsters and airships. But, as the
one with the dragon illustrates, mythological entities cannot be
photographed, obviously.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">We
are very pleased to report that, hardly one month after release, the
feedback has been extremely positive: over 800 views in Academia.edu, the
book most welcomed among our peers and favorably reviewed.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
a forthcoming edition of this blog I will include more details about
reception. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFOS
and Military: More Disinformation</u></span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">I
have extracted from my prior blog an article and this is now uploaded
in the Academia portal. It is in Spanish and it glosses the latest
attempt to poison the information related to the possible
intervention of the Spanish Air Force addressing UFO sightings. I
wrote this in order to short circuit a quite recent published
fantasy. For those interested: </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UFO
RESEARCH AND UFO REPORTS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<u style="font-family: arial, serif;">Pentagon UFO Study, 2007-2012</u></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">There has been a lot of fuss since mid-December concerning a UFO study having been performed‒and then abandoned‒at the Pentagon between 2007 and 2012. Plenty of media references are flooding the information channel these days, and it will take some time to dig into this in order to clarify the motivations, the names behind and the UFO reports collected while the program progressed. Now, I just want to repost an interesting insight by Jason Colativo:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-tangled-web-why-are-key-players-in-the-pentagon-ufo-agency-story-all-linked"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-tangled-web-why-are-key-players-in-the-pentagon-ufo-agency-story-all-linked</span></a></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Wanaque Reservoir Flap of 1966</u><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
is an event, or a group of events, that always fascinated me. For
years, a thick file labeled “Wanaque” was in a pile of paperwork
pending to be organized, processed and studied. Now the time has come
and for two months I have reviewed all the case documentation,
corresponded with previous investigators and done my homework with
the aim of presenting a chronology and synthesis of the various
incidents which have something in common: UFO photographs were
claimed to have been taken. The article that follows is the latest
draft of this piece of work. I will be happy to hear from
contributing comments, or to learn any additional information from my
colleagues in this field.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">THE
WANAQUE RESERVOIR 1966 UFO PICTURES</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">FOTOCAT
Project</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
1</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
January and then again in October 1966, a UFO flap</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>2</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
broke out over the Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. There is abundant
(yet poorly organized) information from newspaper and UFO journals
available online.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>3</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Over the years, there have been contradictory and misleading reviews
of data about the pictures taken during this period. My main purpose
with the present article is to clarify, to the best of my knowledge,
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>when,
where and by whom purported UFO photographs were taken</u></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
in this location and in these timeframes. Any published images will
accompany this text. My second intent is to request from</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my peers any additional
information that may improve this report.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
January 1966 wave of sightings did generate some pictures of the
alleged phenomena observed. The October uproar, on the contrary, did
not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On
the night of 11 January 1966, hundreds of residents of Wanaque, New
Jersey reported observing a strange, large white light which
maneuvered over the local Reservoir,” wrote </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The
APRO Bulletin </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">reporting
about the phenomenon.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>4</b></span></sup></span><sup style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In fact, there were many
eyewitnesses, including Mayor Wolfe, Councilmen Hagstrom, Barton and
Shutte, Civil Defense Director Spencer, and a number of patrolmen. In
addition to many local residents, of course. The phenomenon was also
seen from Oakland, Ringwood, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne, Butler and
other nearby towns. Reportedly “gliding oddly” and changing color
from white to red and back to white, as a very brilliant light “like
a star except that it didn´t flicker.” There are many press and
UFO magazine articles on this sighting but the information is so
confused and the case </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
inappropriately investigated that it </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is
difficult to assemble a </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">clear,
detailed, accurate and sequential picture for analysis.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Probably
the clearest chronology of the course of the January 1966 events is
in an article published in the October 1966 issue of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE
</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">magazine.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>5
</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Incidentally,
I am wondering if this release could have triggered the October UFO
revival in Wanaque Of course, this would depend upon when the
magazine arrived in the mail).</span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
11, 1966 – Roberts</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">According
to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
a magazine devoted to paranormal phenomena since 1948, it all began
at 6:20 p.m. when an initial report of “something in the sky”
came into Ringwood “and a flurry of reports followed between 6:30
and 9:00 p.m.” [All times EST-Eastern Standard Time]. UFO reports
arose from many cities in the northeast of the Garden State.</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Photographer
and UFO buff August C. Roberts, living in nearby Wayne, NJ took a
five-minute time exposure of the “light” at 11:30 p.m. on the
first day of sightings. The photograph’s caption informs that it
“clearly shows object brighter and larger than stars.” The
magazine reports that Roberts “captured the UFO as it vanished
straight up from a position above Raymond Dam…the object…leaving
a trail of light,” yet this description does not fit what the
actual image shows, a simple dot of light in the upper left-hand
section of the image. </span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A
much better reproduction of this photograph was printed in a booklet
coauthored by UFO writer Brad Steiger and August Roberts.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Here,
the surprisingly brief information provided about the picture merely
says that the glowing object in the snapshot “simply appeared,
hovered a few minutes, then shot off once more into space.” As
veteran ufologists are aware, the reliability of Roberts is in
question because of a number of suspicious pictures he produced or
with which he was involved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture
taken by August C. Roberts, January 11, 1966, Wanaque, NJ. © Brad
Steiger & August C. Roberts.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yet
a truly remarkable revelation about this picture is provided by
journalist Lloyd Mallan, who included the above photo in the series
of three articles he wrote for a known magazine. “Only when
photographer…was printing the shot did he notice bright white light
above hills.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>7</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Thus, according to this source, the point of light in the picture was
never observed visually.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
a later recollection of the Wanaque incidents, Roberts confirmed it.
He wrote about this particular shot: “when I was taking pictures of
the area, I took some pictures of the sky, and my pictures have ‘star
trails’…but in one of the pictures, there is a definite ‘glow’
way up in the sky. Something lit up and went out. I don´t know what
it was in there with the star trails.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
white spot labelled “UFO” could just be a developing flaw or a
stain on the negative or print. Three reasons support this
hypothesis. Firstly, nothing strange was optically seen during the
photography. Secondly, the shot presents many other similar white
dots all over the frame, typical of faulty processing and/or handling
of the film. Thirdly, another time-exposure photograph taken by
Roberts eleven days later also shows this type of spot and this one
passed unnoticed by the photographer (see the relevant entry below).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
12, 1966 – Theodora</u></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">20-year-old
reservoir policeman Charles Theodora first spotted an object from the
Reservoir Station a few minutes after seven o´clock on January 11,
1966, “the size of a street light...it raced about six miles up and
down the dam at supersonic speed. At one point, it flashed a ray of
light on the ice. When Patrolman Al Campana and I rushed to
investigate, we found a hole in the ice about 40 to 50 feet in
diameter.”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>5
</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
January 1966 spate of sky visions comprised a lot of misstatements
and false information. If it was due to the observer or the
reporter’s imagination, I do not know, but the “hole in the ice”
canard was one of the most conspicuous. Both the chief of the
reservoir police force (John Casazza) and newsman Howard L. Ball
vigorously denied it to Lloyd Mallan, special correspondent sent by
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Science & Mechanics </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to
the area: “we checked that whole area where the thing was supposed
to be…there was no such thing as a hole burned in the ice,” and
“That’s poppycock! That’s balderdash!”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">they
said, respectively.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>9</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">After
hours of observation, at 2 a.m. (or 2:40) Theodora snapped a
photograph of the object “in which it appears as a light blur
against the background of the dark sky.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>5</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
He watched the object until 4:30 a.m. with other officers: “Danced
from side to side, blinked on and off, or at times ascended at such a
fast rate that he couldn´t track it, for 2½ hours, after it headed
into the north and disappeared into the rim of the dam.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>4</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Theodora had a third sighting, at 8:00 on the evening of January 12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Officer
Charles Theodora.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>10</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
2011, retired officer Theodora confirmed to ufologist Anthony
Bragalia</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>11
</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that he took a
photograph, the image looking “as a very large bright white
‘unnatural’ object floating above a hill in the distance.” On a
report that Michael Swords blogged in 2013, he pointed out that
Theodora was in the company of two other policer officers, David
Sisco and Jack Wardlaw and that “the print showed only a small
fuzzy light.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>12</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If
the camera used was a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Polaroid</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
loaned from the police department station, and it depicted merely a
blob of light, it is difficult to believe the claim by A. Roberts
that he wanted $200.00 for it. “The Police Captain was trying to
get him some money for publication.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Roberts acts purely as a gossip-scatter, rumor-feeder individual.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wanaque
Police Chief John Casazza met Officer Theodora and Sergeant Ben
Thompson with a uniformed Air Force officer and ordered him to hand
the photograph to the USAF officer, because it was “Government
property”.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>12</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
However, after an “exhaustive research,” reporter Mallan “could
find no evidence whatever that any department of the U.S. Government
has sent a UFO investigator to Wanaque.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>9</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
January 1967, writer John A. Keel released a press column quoting a
statement by Col. George P. Freeman, Pentagon spokesperson for
Project Bluebook, concerning police officers and other witnesses in
Wanaque that were allegedly collected together by a man wearing an
Air Force uniform. Freeman declared, “We checked in the local AFB
and discovered that no one connected with the Air Force had visited
Wanaque on the date in question. Whoever it was, he wasn´t for the
Air Force.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>13</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">True.
There is not any Wanaque file for January 1966 in the files of the
Project Blue Book. Merely a report raised by a newspaper editor from
Wayne of a sighting at 6:20 p.m. on January 11, 1966, identified as
aircraft. Actually, he was Howard Ball, suburban editor of the
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Paterson Evening News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.
The case documentation contains a “second-hand report” assumed to
refer to two sightings at Wanaque. One “was observed from 1930 to
2030 on 11 Jan 66, reappeared at 0220 on 12 Jan 66, and continued for
the rest of the night.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>14</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The sighting was not officially reported to the Air Force, and only a
preliminary investigation was made, concluding that the sightings had
astronomical origin. Because of the time and source (calls from Mayor
and Sheriff from Wanaque), we can guess that the second sighting was
Theodora’s sighting. Blue Book explained it as Jupiter.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If
the sightings were not reported officially to the Air Force, was the
uniformed officer acting on a personal basis? The Blue Book case
index contains no other case file for New Jersey for that period.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>15</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
No photograph is mentioned either.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without
a photograph to examine, no evaluation is possible. However, it is
unavoidable to think of an astronomical explanation for a sighting
that long, on a night when, for example, the planet Jupiter was
prominently visible, very bright in the sky with a magnitude of -2.54
descending from 2 a.m. in the west (35º altitude) to 4:30 a.m. in
the WNW (9.5º altitude) on January 12, 1966. Jupiter set at 5:30
a.m. This seems to be a reasonable working hypothesis for the picture
event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
sky over Wanaque, January 12, 1966, Jupiter position at 2:10 (top)
and 4:30 a.m. (bottom). “O” (“Oeste”) stands for West.
(</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Stellarium
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">software).
Courtesy of J.C. Victorio Uranga.</span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
multiple sightings in this NJ area developed in four basic periods,
mainly over two days in the most intense moments, in the dusk and
pre-dawn hours:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">January
11, 1966: from 6:20 p.m. to 8:58 p.m.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">January
12, 1966: from 2:10 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">January
12, 1966: from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">January
13, 1966: around 4:10 a.m.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It
is not my intention to analyze the events testing for mundane
explanations, as the published database is a confusing mess, but for
what it’s worth, I cannot avoid noticing that these time clusters
matched the outstanding appearance of Jupiter. In those time
intervals, the bright planet was located at various angular heights
ascending in the evening from 37º to 67º and descending in the
early hours from 35º to 10º, while wandering from east (rising) to
west (setting).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
it has been noted, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"Sirius
should not be ruled out either. The brightest star in the heavens is
far more prone to atmospheric effects than Jupiter and Venus, and is
often described as moving with incredible speeds up and down and from
left to right and vice versa. Throughout the various sightings, the
star was visible on the ESE horizon in the evening and setting in the
WSW in the early morning hours."</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>30</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">NICAP
investigators went to the scene, assisted by Dr. John Pagano. Their
final report, drafted by the end of January, asserts ‒“the case
appears to be about 25 per cent UFO; 75 percent excited people seeing
planets.”</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>16
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We
have to ponder to which category the Theodora sighting belongs.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>January
11-12, 1966 – Cisco</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(no photography)</span></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Patrolman
Joseph Cisco of Wanaque “had made similar photos at the time,
though less clear than those by his colleague.” This claim, surely
made by August Roberts appears both in an article published by</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>
Probe</i></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>17</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and in the story printed in
the front page of a Paterson, NJ newspaper in October 1966.</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>18</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The colleague alluded to is the police officer who allegedly took the
“beam photo” to which I will refer later. The story repeatedly
cites the flying saucers that plagued the Wanaque Reservoir in
“February” 1966. As the numerous observations of the January
11-12 night are not mentioned at all, I am confident that this is an
error. Therefore, the supposed pictures by Cisco had to be taken in
January 1966, probably the same night his buddy Theodora took his. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
fact, Joe Cisco reported observing the UFO at about 6:45 p.m. on
January 11. It looked light a star or a planet “but the movement
and intensity of the light made him question his own observation.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>5
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">From
their house, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Mrs. Cisco
also spotted the object “at the same time his husband did…until
its disappearance at 4:15 a.m.” on the following day. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Nine
and a half hours hanging in the sky! It behaves like an astronomical
body, planet Jupiter being a good candidate, one that would finally
set in the western horizon one hour later after having crossed the
heavens from east to west in that period.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Consultant
Wim van Utrecht feels, however, that Venus is a better candidate for
Joe Cisco’s sighting: “In the evening of January 11, Venus with
magnitude -3.99 was very close to the horizon in the WSW. With
Jupiter setting in the WNW in the early morning, my guess is that
Jupiter was responsible for the final part of the sighting. It is
important to realize that stars and planets at elevations of 37° to
67° almost never generate UFO reports. That's way too high in the
sky for them to be interpreted as "strange", even if they
are brighter than stars that are seen close to the horizon.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>30</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">30
years later, ex-cop Cisco, then a dispatcher for the Wanaque
Reservoir police, does not acknowledge having snapped any UFO
picture. He perfectly recalls that on the night of January 11, 1966
he was patrolling the zone when a call asked him to “check out a
light” at the local sandpit. The police desk had been flooded with
calls about bright lights. In a retrospective interview,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
19</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Cisco says
he just spotted a blue-white bright light, silently hovering. Cisco
and some city officials watched the light for half an hour before it
zoomed away toward Wayne. Nevertheless, Cisco looks at his memories
from a skeptic mindset: “There was no light beam [emitted by the
object],” he believes people were seeing a reflection from a barn
light across the main dam.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
the absence of any recognition of pictures taken by him, we can
discard this police officer as a possible source for UFO photos at
Wanaque.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR">Officer
Joe Cisco.</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR"><b>9</b></span></span></span></sup></span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
13, 1966 – Goodavage</u></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
time, the</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
purported photo evidence of a UFO</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is described</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in an article by Joseph
Goodavage, “American journalist, writer and astrologer,”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>20</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
intended to review the UFO sightings around the Wanaque Reservoir in
January 1966. Just the first sentence of his account states: “I
shook a little with excitement, but kept the lens of the camera fixed
on that disc-shaped phenomenon flashing red in the cold night sky of
northern New Jersey.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>10</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Later on in the article, Goodavage explains that while he was taking
snapshots: “My fingers were numb and the shutter clunked dully in
the cold as I sighted on the aerial object…I followed this
apparently aimless movement, trying to get a decent picture.” </span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
</span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We
can deduce it was 10 p.m. of January 13, 1966 when he was standing
in the open air by the Reservoir, while patrolman Joe Cisco, who
drove him to the site, was awaiting in the cop car. “For about 20
minutes the object was pasted motionless against the sky. Then it
fluttered-wobbled slowly off toward the west,”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>10</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Goodavage affirmed.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> His
narration about the sighting, his subjective, deep impression (”the
object…to me looked totally alien”), and the associated physical
reactions he claimed to feel after a sudden vanishing of the object,
continued through the first part of this article.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR">Joseph
Goodavage.</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR"><b>20</b></span></span></sup></span></div>
</div>
<div lang="pt-BR" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
witness took picture after picture during the observation. “Got any
pictures?” officer Cisco asked when Goodavage returned to the
warmth of the car. “I don´t know,” the journalist replied. Can
we suppose they did not turn out? The only alleged UFO picture
illustrating the piece (see following entry) has a caption that
starts saying that the author “saw but failed to film the ‘thing’.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
in the Theodora unseen photographs, the event is difficult to assess.
Size of “about a quarter of the Moon,” motionless at first then
slowing and moving to the west until it turned off as you switch off
a light. Over 20 minutes in view. Celestial charts show a bright
Jupiter very high in the sky (72º) over the southern horizon
(azimuth 185º), moving westbound. Sirius was also present with
magnitude -1.45 and much lower (30º altitude) in the SSE. T</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">he
observer described periods of immobility as well as dramatic
movements and changes in brightness. Fast movements over short angles
and changes in brightness are typical of bright stars, not planets,
which would make Sirius better candidate for this one. Autokinesis
may also have been in play, but in the absence of a robust inquiry
(we are not being told where the witness was exactly and what
direction he was looking at), no definitive judgement can be
advanced. </span></span>
</span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
13+, 1966 – unnamed cameraman</u></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
is the story of a blunder, or a bloomer. Now, the purported UFO
picture appears in the frontispiece of the cited article by Goodavage
with only the shortest possible data: “</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Author…was
given this photo by cameraman who had better luck.” Period. Okay,
the journalist did not take the photo; he just used it to illustrate
his article. Nevertheless, he is to blame for that. Why? </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
the following issue of the UFO tabloid, a reader letter was published
revealing that the picture in question “is a very familiar sight to
most amateur astronomers…this is an underexposed photograph of
Messier 31 (NGC 224) a spiral galaxy showing the inner portions of
the arms and the central nucleus. The galaxy is better known as ‘The
Great Andromeda Nebula’.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>21</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UFO over Wanaque?</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>10</b></span></sup></span></span></div>
</div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There
is a recent indication that the camera operator “was with the
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Paterson Evening News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>22</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
but no other details have been ascertained.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
it is certain is that the image does not display a UFO at all. Tim
Printy, skeptic researcher and astrophotographer, wrote ‒“Yes,
somebody tried to pass off a photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy
(perhaps taken from a textbook) as a UFO photograph!”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>23</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Printy used an image he took himself to compare with the UFO photo in
the Goodavage article: “If you look closely, you will see all the
stars in my photograph match up with the stars in the UFO image,”
he advised.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR">Real
Andromeda galaxy </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR"><i>versus
</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR">UFO
picture. © Tim Printy.</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR"><b>23</b></span></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
19, 1966 ‒ Phoenix</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Wayne Eagle</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
of Sunday January 23, 1966 published on the cover of this day’s
edition a poor looking photograph, under a full-page garish title:
UFO Sightings Continue Unexplained. Wayne is located just 4.6 miles
(7.4 km) southwest of the reservoir. The only information available
is the following commentary under the picture: “Although it may
appear to be a speck in the sky, this photograph shows what thousands
of area people are talking about these days. Matzner Suburban
Newspaper Photographer George Phoenix, Jr. made this photograph from
the rear of his home off Rouse 23 in Butler Wednesday night as the
bright object dashed back and forth across the sky. Whether it is the
object seen by others over the Wanaque Reservoir lately is
undetermined.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Very
undetermined, yes. No time, no direction, no duration, no angular
height. In the reproduction I have, the speck is not even visible.
Just an opportunist picture of the staff photographer who did not
even bother to drive to the reservoir, got out to his backyard and
that`s it. If an astronomical object or a Martian saucer, who knows?</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The
Wayne UFO. © George Phoenix, Jr.</span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
22, 1966 – Roberts</u></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
his joint publication with Steiger,</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">August
Roberts includes another photograph of his taken at the Wanaque dam.
It contains the bare minimum possible of information, just the
picture’s caption, with the following account: “the light in the
lower left-hand corner…moving about under the ice of the Wanaque,
New Jersey reservoir.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The reader is led to believe that the UFO image is a short, vertical
streak of light found in the said position. The picture is undated
and untimed. The s</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">upposed
witnesses that were with him are unnamed. </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">An
underwater UFO? Looks like an o</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ver-imaginative
story. It is in a bulletin edited by ufologist Hayden Hewes that we
see this photograph also reproduced. The article on the Wanaque
incident indicates that it was taken exactly at 11:30 p.m. on January
22, 1966.”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>24</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
a joint book self-published twenty years later, Roberts described his
supposed experience in the following terms: “I went up there in
February 1966 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>sic</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">)
with another fellow [naturally, unnamed]. That was when we saw this
thing under the ice, coming towards us, I have a picture of it, and
all it shows is a streak. We had the camera on a tripod…it was a
frightening kind of a thing, because it is not a reflection. What we
saw under that ice was between 6 and 10 feet long. It was quite a
ways off from us when we first saw it, and it came ‘shimmering’
up under the ice towards us [up to] 100 or 200 feet away, it stopped
and …then it was gone after I got the photo.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Wanaque,
NJ January 22, 1966. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">©
August C. Roberts.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6</b></span></sup></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
upright white track may be a stain or a small scratch on the film.
The print shows several other white dots and smaller streaks all
over.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>25</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
about the tale? Well, it is certain is that the reliability and
credibility of August Roberts has always been in question. For
example, in his own review of the Wanaque incidents, Michael
Swords‒far from being a “debunker”‒characterized Roberts as a
“UFO mischief-maker…with no regard for truth.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>12</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Incidentally,
a light spot on the far left upper extreme of the image‒identical
to the alleged UFO displayed on his January 11 picture‒, is not
considered anomalous this time: is it a simple developing flaw‒as
it is probably in the first case as well?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
reason why this picture was made after the “flap” was exhausted?
A UFO bulletin reported that Roberts, who lived in Wayne, near
Wanaque, “spent many cold winter nights perched on the dam waiting
for the object to return.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>26</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">January
1966 (est.) ‒ Roberts?</u></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
addition to the flurry of UFO reports close to the Wanaque Reservoir,
New Jersey on January 1966, which generated several pictures or phony
news about photos, the most infamous UFO shots associated with this
reservoir are the “beam photographs”. They show the white
silhouette of a disc-shaped object with a cupola over a dark
background, dropping a searchlight-like beam from the bottom. These
pictures have been generally linked to the January 1966 sightings. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These
are a certainly convoluted set of photographs. In addition to the
fact that they lack any valid information for due analysis, including
the actual photographer’s identity, their origin is contradictory.
Again, August C. Roberts, photographer and known producer of fakes
and distributor of false UFO pictures, plays a key role in their
dissemination. The chronology of these photos follows.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
night of October 10, 1966 started another series of UFO sightings
over the Wanaque reservoir.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>3,27</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The Morning Call</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
of Paterson, New Jersey, published the following photograph on its
October 13, 1966 front-page edition</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>18</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.
The caption reads:</span></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Wanaque Saucer?</i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>This
exclusive photo shows one of the Unidentified Flying objects that
dozens of witnesses saw hovering above Wanaque Reservoir last
February [sic] and again Monday. The familiar saucer shape stands out
against the dark mountain, while the shore line shows in the middle
of the picture, visible through the twin beams of light that stabbed
the darkness, melting the thick, mid-winter ice, according to police
reports, according to police reports. Picture was made by a
patrolman, who says he surrendered negatives to Air Force
investigators. Picture was given to The Morning Call by August
Roberts of Wayne</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Seemingly,
the initial date is February 1966, but we know that the prior “wave”
of sightings in the area occurred in January. In a column on page 8,
it says that a Wanaque police officer made a batch of pictures “with
a simple, inexpensive camera.” According to the newspaper’s
source,” negatives” were “taken by the Blue Book investigators”
(it refers to the meeting between a supposed USAF officer with
patrolmen Casazza, Thompson and Theodora, see the entry of January
12, 1966 above).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It
adds that “Patrolman Joseph Sisco [there was a David Sisco and a
Joe Cisco] said he made similar photos at the time, though less clear
than those made by his colleague, who asked to remain anonymous.”
We know Cisco did not snap any photos and that patrol officers used
instant cameras with no negatives. Brief, poor and incorrect
information.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
next time this shot appears in print was in a large-format, 64-page
magazine coauthored by Steiger & Roberts.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Once
more, information is deficient and the statement that that the
photograph “was taken in Pennsylvania, in 1961” just about sums
up the mess. August Roberts himself insists: “It has been
erroneously associated with the UFO flap above the Wanaque
Reservoir.” Wanaque 1966 or Pennsylvania 1961?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="pt-BR">Pennsylvania,
1961</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">.</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR"><b>6</b></span></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When
the editors of a typical flying saucer bulletin of the sixties
reviewed the Wanaque UFO outbreak of October 1966, they started
remembering the past “February” plague. Undoubtedly influenced by
Roberts, they gave the wrong date to the photo. “The negative of
the photo at right [not published], is in the hands of Blue Book
investigators…”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>17
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">These
are the </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">same words found
in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Morning Call</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
quote. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Roberts
must have written a text and distributed it to all who wanted to
hear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Half
a year later, a Dell’s magazine devoted to flying saucers published
a sensational article. “The photos on these two pages were said to
have been taken during the March 1966 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>sic</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">)
sightings. The original negatives are said to have been confiscated
by the government and the photographer refuses to give his name. The
heavy ray descending from the UFO is one claimed to have burned a 10
foot hole in the two inches of ice that covered the reservoir.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The ice hole myth survives. Also, the confiscation theme (this one,
on the most generous interpretation, belongs to another event.) While
all pictures seem to represent the same scene, the caption of the
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>third</u></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
signals that some claim it was taken in Pennsylvania and others in
Wanaque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From
left to right, the five pictures of the UFO and beam scene.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Pennsylvania connection</i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now,
a twist of facts. B.C. is a multi-experienced UFO-sighter,
investigated by Berthold Schwarz, a psychiatrist and ufologist of
Montclair, New Jersey. In an article in the foremost UFO journal at
the time (1972), Dr. Schwarz reported on four UFO episodes recounted
by B.C.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>29</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
In one of these, this man attributed four of the five above photos to
a sighting he had experienced with several others‒including an
unknown amateur photographer from a local town‒during one
unspecified midnight in 1958 near Archbald, Pennsylvania. All, except
the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>fifth</u></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
one. B.C. got prints one year and a half after the close encounter.
Prints were submitted (presumably by Schwarz) to August Roberts, who
recognized the photos “as being previously published.” As Roberts
expressed doubts about date and State in his own booklet with
Steiger</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
and especially in the Dell publication,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
it obviously means that by 1967 he was already aware of the
Pennsylvania set of photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dr.
Schwarz continues his report with an astonishing assertion: “Only
part of the fifth picture is published [see above pack of five,
lower, left-hand margin]. The complete fifth picture, hitherto
unpublished, is from the files of August C. Roberts.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>29</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
This is the full photo #5:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Contrary
to what we knew up to now, all pictures were taken in Pennsylvania in
1958, except the fifth. Apparently, photo #5 shows landscape details
fitting with the Wanaque Reservoir environment, “unlike the other
four pictures.” Why Roberts decided to eliminate the round white
object from the picture is not known. Dr. Schwarz writes that,
according to Roberts, the original photographer presented the “five”
photos to the publication, and he tracked the mystery photographer
down but “he was unable to prove conclusively that this man had
taken any or all the pictures.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
his article, Dr. Schwarz is confusing, ambiguous and very speculative
with regard to the photos (and extremely gullible with respect to UFO
stories narrated by the witnesses he interviewed.) In addition to
the Archbald, PA incident, whose photos both B.C. and co-witness
“Rob” received from the unknown photographer, there seems to be
other pictures taken by none other than an unnamed New Jersey
contactee! (Everybody is anonymous in this story). In a footnote, Dr.
Schwarz tells about another series of similar photos. “Rob was
visibly shocked at the time I interviewed him and he examined the
silent contactee X’s photographs of an alleged UFO with a changing
and cut off beam of light. Although Rob had never before seen X’s
pictures, they resembled what he had seen in actuality when he was
with B.C., near Archbald, Pennsylvania, in 1958 and his own set of
photographs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
summary, the unknown photographer of the 1958 Archbald event took
photos of a UFO emitting a ray of light from the bottom; B.C. and
“Rob” had sets of four of these pictures. These appear to be
identical to both (1) those taken by a “silent contactee” in
northern New Jersey‒</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">undated,
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and (2) to four of the
five photos printed in October 1967.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
article by Schwarz revealed an important clue: in 1958, the source
called “B.C.” was involved with outspoken, public, naïve
contactee Howard Menger of High Bridge, New Jersey. He was one of
this gang of guys in the United States who in the fifties claimed to
have contact with extraterrestrials, fly in their spacecraft, visit
their worlds, etc. It was a period of lots of flying saucer scams in
the country. Recently, it was discovered that one of the various
faked probative films devised by Menger in late 1950s contained image
elements similar to the ones under scrutiny.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>30</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
is a frame from one of the films by Menger; allegedly made in the
Blue Mountains, Pennsylvania, 1958.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>31</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The vague dog-mouth appearance of the UFO and a vertical light track
reminds one very much the light-emitting UFO of the Wanaque 1966
series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Menger
was described‒in a comment written in his obit‒as “one of the
most charming and colorful of the golden era UFO contactees,”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>32</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Maybe. In addition to being a smoke-selling charlatan and trickster,
without the slightest doubt, who fabricated stories as well as
pictures and films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Howard
Menger and reincarnated Venusian wife.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>33</b></span></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Therefore,
the connection Pennsylvania 1958-Wanaque 1966 does exist, after all.
Photographs similar to the Wanaque series might have existed years
before 1966. Probably a degree more sophisticated that the simple
film aired by Menger. What else is important not to miss in this
puzzle? That old August C. Roberts was, during the late 1950s, an
associate and a close friend to Menger! In his 1967 booklet (page
27),</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Roberts
shows how UFO fakes can easily be executed with darkroom techniques
and describes his procedure: first, painting a plastic model of a
saucer with luminous paint, then, superimposing the glowing saucer
against the selected background. This is the result:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
method is the one that could have been used to achieve the PA/NJ
pictures. By the way, Menger was a sign painter.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">August
C. Roberts’s report</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Twenty
years after the Wanaque events, a gullible book of UFO photographs
revamped the NJ pictures. Based on a report by the same August
Roberts,</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
it is written in a novel-like, vague style probably quoted directly
from a recorded interview by Wendelle Stevens and contains memory
lapses (for example, everything seems to start in “late” January
1966). Roberts relates that someone was rumored to have taken a
picture of the UFO. During his investigation, he managed to obtain
the photograph we know as #5 (complete, this is, with the round
object at the right side). Finally, he “tracked down the people
involved in it.” When he thought to have found the person‒”one
of the Police”‒, he visited and interrogated him to get a
confession that he was the author. “No, I wasn´t,” the alleged
photographer responded repeatedly. However, the man (never identified
by name) told Roberts to come back in a couple of days. In the next
visit, this person “showed me other pictures than the ones [one?]
that I had. I think it was four or five more. I do have copies of
those photos now, and I had gotten them through a different source at
later time.” Roberts states that the man in question did not
identify the actual photographer because he did not know him. He was
clear “he wanted nothing more with me from that point forward.”</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If
we are to believe this story, it was before Dell’s UFO magazine
published the five photos in October 1967.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Also,
whoever this person was, he just happened to have prints taken by a
third party. Apparently, copies of this series (or similar series) of
photographs were circulating at the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
book published the five photographs. They were dated as taken “late
January 1966”.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Present-day
resurgence</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
Wanaque photos did not generate any fresh input in the following 25
years, until a June 2011 blog entry by US ufologist Anthony
Bragalia</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>34</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Concerning the five photos published, it confirms that “some of
the photographs found their way [anonymously] to the late…August C.
Roberts.” It reveals that the magazine </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Flying
Saucers. UFO Reports</i></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28
</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">received the
pictures “claiming to be of the craft and beam seen there. The
submitter wished no compensation and acknowledgement and did not seek
any compensation.”</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
a further entry, Bragalia reports that officer Theodora “believes
it's possible that his former colleague Sgt. Ben Thompson took
photographs of the Wanaque UFO.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>35
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">At
the end of the day, nevertheless, this is an unsubstantiated
suspicion, notwithstanding that special guest August Roberts “later
stated that he received them [the Wanaque beam pictures] from an
anonymous, unnamed Ringwood, NJ police officer.” The same Roberts
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">who submitted the series
of Wanaque photos that appeared in Dell’s October 1967 publication,
Bragalia wrote. At this point in time, the blogger held the
hypothesis that Sgt. Thompson took the shots and sent them to
Roberts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Incidentally,
I have asked 82-year-old Brad Steiger, associated with Roberts in the
editing of a magazine in 1967, to look back in time, and he recalls
well a “quiet, polite, and unassuming” Augie Roberts, who would
“submit the [Wanaque] photos to all UFO publications extant in the
late 1960s… [although] I do not remember that he claimed to have
taken them.”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>36</b></span></sup></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It
opened the Pandora box again. In 2013, emeritus professor Michael
Swords made a detailed literature review of the Wanaque sightings in
his own blog.</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>11,37,38</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Rich Reynolds from the RRR Group released a debate with Bragalia on
those takes, with opinions pro and con.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>39
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Nothing
definitive transpired, however. “I have already looked into the
1961 PA claim-not true. Steiger [actually Roberts] is completely
wrong. I traced the story in its entirety,” Bragalia wrote in a
February 21, 2013 comment there.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Especially
interesting was a contribution by Lance Moody: “Bob Zanotti was a
young man very interested in UFO's during the time. He had the Coffee
Klatsch show WFMU and often interviewed UFO personalities. Bob and
Augie went up to the Wanaque reservoir a few days after the UFO
reports and interviewed all of the principals. The fresh testimony on
that show sounds different from the way the story was later told…A
photo is mentioned.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang=""><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">But
it was taken by two reporters The reporters who got the photo were
from the Patterson </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">Call</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">….NOT
a policeman as Tony has concocted. I asked Bob's his thoughts on the
photo. He replied [my emphasis]: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">To
your question:</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span><strong style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">That
photo is either an outright fraud, or perhaps, to be kinder, only a
depiction of what had been reported, made perhaps by a local
newspaper. That was common in those days. I agree that it cannot be a
real photograph.</span></span></i></span></span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;"> If
Augie were alive, I suspect he might know about it.</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">"</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">40</span></b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chief
John Casazza at desk. © </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Science
& Mechanics.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>7</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Analysis</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Well,
sort of. In the absence of originals, sighting and camera data little
can be accomplished. However, some valid opinions have been aired. To
begin with, a comment to the original 2011 Bragalia blog’s entry by
a reader initialized E.H. (missed in the 2017 reprint). He reviewed
the photograph published by Steiger & Roberts</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>6</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
and wrote: “The left side of the craft is indistinct and does not
match the right side, yet there is little evidence of motion blur,
indicating a short exposure or a static subject (more likely the
latter given it is supposed to be a night shot and it has a
properly-exposed background. On the whole, it looks like a fake
produced by dodging a print (using an opaque or partially transparent
object to reduce exposure in a defined area of photographic paper).
There is a faint line coming from the 4 o’clock position on the
craft which may be the support wire used to hold the cutout used to
do the dodging.” </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tim
Printy, who has gained an authority in the analysis of both old and
new UFO sighting reports, bets for a “photo montage,”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>41</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
based on the cartoon appearance of the image. Consulted, image
analyst Andrés Duarte feels it is “a model.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>42</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Both experts agree that there is nothing to prove (or disprove, I
rush to add) those views.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dr.
Swords was very clear when commenting upon the pictures. “My
opinion only: the infamous light beam photos are probably an Augie
Roberts hoax. He claims that he got these things from someone else
but would not name nor describe anything about them…Roberts was one
of the least dependable "idiots" in UFO history, ruining
everything he touched and not caring.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>37</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Anyway,
the integrity of the beam photographs is below zero, as “the
original story for the ‘beam’ story was a misquoted engineer,
Fred Stein, who clearly debunked the misquote,”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>38</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">according
to Swords.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Regarding
the </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">hole-in-the ice
story, it has also been proven bogus by Chief Casazza. In fact,
NICAP’s bulletin published that Stein saw the UFO’s glow
reflecting from ice in the water. He added: “Garbling of this
report evidently caused a widely published account that a beam from
the UFO had cut a large hole in the ice.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>43</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet
it is always fun and encouraging to see how both skeptics and
believers coincide in a common judgement.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
photographer?</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
latest chapter in this unfinished record until now dates from October
2017. A significant discovery by Anthony Bragalia. </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He
affirms he has finally identified the person who took the five famous
photographs! It was someone by the name of Claude Coutant, 46 at the
time and a “factory worker for a rubber mill in Butler, NJ.”
Coutant died in 1985. Bragalia contributes two prints of photo number
five. He states that </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the
pictures were taken “on a cold winter night in late December
1966.”</span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>44
</b></span></sup></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Original
prints of the photo #5 of the Wanaque “beam” series. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On
the back is handwritten “Winter 1966”. Courtesy of Anthony
Bragalia.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>44</b></span></sup></span></span></div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under
this scenario, the chain of custody of those prints would be the
following:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">C.
Coutant (supposed photographer) → a woman (unnamed) formerly
engaged to Coutant → NJ woman from the Wanaque area, formerly
affiliated professionally with the </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Star
Ledger</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
newspaper (prefers to remain anonymous) → A. Bragalia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Bragalia
assigns to the testimony of Wanaque Reservoir Police Chief John
Casazza, 61, the major support for the real existence of a sighting,
which in his opinion would mirror the “beam” pictures. This is an
extract of Casazza’s tape-recorded deposition to reporter Lloyd
Mallan: “It was a bright white light…it was funnel-shaped…it
spread out as if it were focused through a telescope. It was narrow
at one end in the sky and spread out into a very wide beam as it
approached our upper gate house at the dam.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>7
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Casazza
was standing, in the company of other police officers, on the top of
Raymond Dam, the head works of the Wanaque Reservoir.) Bragalia adds:
“John Casazza, December 1966, describing the UFO that he viewed
while it was photographed by a nearby resident.”</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>44</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Checking this with Bragalia himself, he confirms that it was taken at
Wanaque and offers as authority for this assertion…Casazza’s son,
51 years after the event.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>45</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Some
clarifications seem indispensable. Firstly, the above sighting
occurred after 9:00 p.m. on January 11, 1966, as Mallan clearly
reports, not December. Secondly, Casazza also declared that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>this
light had been seen several times at the reservoir that evening but
no one had paid too much attention to it</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(my emphasis). Thirdly, the same light had been there about 20
minutes before, Casazza was viewing it for some minutes and it lasted
about half an hour more: one hour with “no motion…it seemed to
stay stationary over one spot in the reservoir.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>7</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Long-duration
sightings of this type are normally compatible with the observation
of an astronomical object. We do not know the viewing direction: if
it was southeast, there were two potential culprits. A white,
motionless light could be Jupiter, at its maximum radiance (-2.54)
located at an altitude of 67º. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Sirius</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
was also conspicuous, being visible lower (24º), less brilliant
(-1.45 magnitude) with characteristic multi-colored flashes.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
regards the upside-down funnel shape, the effect of cold winter
conditions on the eyes may produce optical distortions of this type,
as Belgian professor M. Minnaert explained in a master work</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>46</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On
the other hand, we cannot forget the illusion phenomena which cause
observers to distort and miscalculate their sightings,</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>47-51</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
or bona fide UFO eyewitnesses to exaggerate or inflate recollections
of their observations.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>52,53</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
have asked a panel of researchers and image experts that I respect to
pronounce about the validity of the “unique colorization analysis”
presented in the latest Bragalia entry. Their assessments follow:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1.
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>My opinion on the ‘unique
colorization process’ and the ‘analysis’ that supposedly
reveals ‘three-dimensional figures or forms floating within the
light shaft’: Fantastic garbage. The process is really only
heightening contrast, quantized in a grey-scale. Just turning the
result into pretty colors does not generate any new information.
There’s no reason to think the density pattern produced is any more
than a map of some gross brightness variations in the source
(whatever it is) broken up by random ‘noise’ in the emulsion
chemistry and processing. The noise probably masks any useful
information. I do not think it tells you anything.</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>54</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2.
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Nothing is said about what
software was used to color the gray tones of the photo, I find it
strange that this technique, or another, is used to find supposed
hidden things in the "ray" of light. </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en"><i>Besides,
the light is overexposed and lacks any details (I think nothing
hidden can be extracted from there), it is an analog picture (film)
that has been digitized and, in the process, it will have lost
quality and artifacts have emerged. The so-called three-dimensional
figures in the retouched image are rather pareidolia.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en"><b>55</b></span></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>I
feel this ‘analysis’ simply highlights noise in high contrast.
As I understand it, the process is just changing a monotonous gray
scale for luminous intensity (the more luminosity, the whiter; the
less luminosity, the blacker), for a color scale. This usually helps
to see details that are not evident in a gray scale. However, that
does not imply any relation with ‘three-dimensional shapes’. A
photograph is a 2D representation, it losses 3D information. The
‘colorization process’ only represents in color areas of more or
less luminous intensity, to better differentiate more or less bright
sections in the photograph, but it does not say anything about its
three-dimensionality.</i></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>56</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4.
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Ignoring the methods, file
formats used by Christian Toussay, ignoring his knowledge of imagery,
ignoring the story of the digital version of the image and the
process used to obtain it, I can only say that the chessboard pattern
could be due to jpg compression artifacts, revealed by the false
color palette used. The palette still allows highlighting the lighter
areas in the "beam". In particular, that the lightest area
is near the tip of the cone. Which is not inconsistent with the idea
of a beam. The lumps in the tip of the "beam" may very well
be only a consequence of the overall, structured background noise of
the image that can be seen throughout the upper half of the image.
This noise is still revealed by the chosen color palette.</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>57</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">5.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>That processing technique
enhances the contrast of the irregularities of the photo, but it's
just about trivial irregularities, like the granulation,
inhomogeneities of the emulsion, light gradations, etc.</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>58</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">6.
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Regarding the 'unique
colorization analysis', it is pseudoscientific nonsense. Similar
image ‘analyses' were performed on other fake UFO photos to prove
that there were pilots and instruments inside the photographed
‘ships’. Suggesting ‘three-dimensional forms' (presumably
hinting here at some sort of alien presence) in the light beam is
just an exercise in imagination.</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>30</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At
the same time, some of the consulted experts provided insights about
the photograph itself:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1.
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Based on the photo all I
would want to say is that some areas of a print emulsion have been
exposed to some source of light in some fashion, possibly involving a
lens. Assuming it is a true optical image of something, it could be
almost anything. I do not see any reliable data on camera and film
type, date, time, conditions, pointing direction, location, aperture,
exposure, etc., or any other collateral information of even the
vaguest kind that could help to interpret the photo.</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>54</b></span></sup></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2.</span><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>What appears in the image
can be anything. There is no spatial reference with which to compare
and the blog provides no data of the shot as focal, exposure time,
sensitivity, aperture, whether or not the photo is cropped, etc.</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>55</b></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3.</span><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>With regard to the
quasi-horizontal lines crossing the lower part of the beam: these are
not created by light reflecting off breaking waves near the
shoreline. Segments of the lines continue as darker lines inside the
beam, which is impossible if this were a reflection on water behind
the beam. The lines are wrinkles that are due to a glossy photograph
having been folded. Oddly, they miraculously end where the picture's
white frame starts (note that there are other sharper defined
wrinkles at the bottom right of the brighter version of Bragalia's
two prints which do run past the white frame). This proves that the
prints that Bragalia obtained are actually photos from other prints,
not originals. In fact, the edge of the photo that was
re-photographed is visible in Bragalia’s darker print, as can be
seen in the image below right.</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>30</b></span></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Consultant Wim van Utrecht has found more evidence of this. The edge of the photo that was re-photographed appears in Bragalia's darker print, as we can see in the images below:</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Final
comments</i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
photographs (one series or two) pivot around two queer personalities.
One is a hidden source of multiple, dramatic UFO adventures that
everyone would qualify as lunatic fringe, except psychiatrist Dr.
B.E. Schwarz. The other is a discredited character in UFO
photography, A.C. Roberts. The only available, supposedly
first-generation print of the series </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">satisfies
none of the conditions for scientific analysis: </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">no
negatives, no camera data, no exact timing, no first-hand deposition,
etc. With no elements to study the pictures, the quality of the
originators of the material </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">must
weigh heavily in the balance. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Precedents
in photography (footage) are found in a film by a popular contactee
from New Jersey, closely related to the two above personages. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Personal
conclusion</i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
photograph is a fake. The series is a fake. The method of analysis
employed is simple, useless and ineffective for the purpose, if not
entirely erroneous. The pair of prints from the alleged author Claude
Coutant are reproductions of prior-generation prints, not originals
as implied. The probable author of the present series of photographs
was August C. Roberts. He could do it and was in the central place at
the right time. The date of December 1966 cannot be valid as the
first print was released mid October 1966. My best guess is that
Roberts made the series of pictures during or after the January flap,
and presented it on the occasion of the October recrudescence. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prior
series of pictures resembling these may exist, probably related to
Howard Menger and probably fabricated by August Roberts as well.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">~</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>October
10, 1966 – Debris, Press Photo</u></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wanaque
received a second major avalanche of UFO sightings starting October
10, 1966, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">one that received ample media coverage.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>3,27</b></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
On this occasion, however, no photographs were achieved. Even though
multitudes met around the reservoir expecting to see a UFO. As the
press reported: “Entire families, bored with the usual television
fare, turned out with thermoses of hot coffee, cameras, and
high-powered binoculars hoping to see a UFO.”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>59
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It
should have been a glorious spectacle to watch!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Suburban
Trends</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
is a New Jersey newspaper providing coverage for local areas such as
Bloomingdale, Pompton Lakes, Ringwood, Wanaque, and others. In 2007,
a publication’s staff writer published an interview with Wanaque
longtime resident Frank Cavallaro who disclosed an up-to-now unknown
aspect of the “Jan. 11 and 12, 1966” UFO flap around the Wanaque
Reservoir.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>60
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">According
to this information, in 1971 Cavallaro was working for a molding
company in the borough. One day, UFOs popped up in the conversion
with his coworkers. Two of them “would just roll on the floor
laughing hysterically.” When approached, “the two…admitted
responsibility for the whole UFO hoax and provided him with a
detailed explanation of how they pulled it off.” Apparently, the
two men, youngsters in 1966, “filled clear plastic dry-cleaning
bags with propane from a nearby tank off a forklift and then sealed
off the tops. After setting each aflame, a fiery ting would appear
and the bags would lift high into the air, similar to a hot air
balloon.”</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>60
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Without
a doubt, this is important knowledge: young people were creating
false UFO sightings with their own Chinese Lanterns! How many
sightings they provoked, and whose, we do not know.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
question myself if they did it really in January 1966. Because there
was a posterior flap in Wanaque in October 1966. Is a feasible
hypothesis considering that those prankers performed their flying
hoaxes during the October outbreak? I base my assumption on a jocular
letter published in </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
in spring 1967 where the writer reported that high school boy
practical jokers hoaxed a whole nation by faking sightings over
Wanaque Reservoir. “Take a plastic bag‒the kind dry cleaners use
to wrap clothes‒, a wire hanger, a strip of electrical wire, a wad
of cotton, a can of lighter fluid, a roll of tape, and a six-inch
piece of string.”</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>61
</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">With
those elements miniature hot balloons “may account for the numerous
sightings of UFO’s over Wanaque Reservoir.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
the very same issue, the mystery and occult magazine publishes an
apparently confirming photograph with the following caption: “Police
Sgt. Edward Earles discovers that UFOs reported in November, 1966, in
Roselle Park, New Jersey, were dry cleaners plastic bags fashioned
into balloons.”</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>62</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
It is the third time in a row where hand-made balloons are associated
with the New Jersey 1966 UFO observations. To what extent these
boyhood pranks relate to the January or October flaps we do not know,
but there must be certainly something to it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">November
1966 find at Roselle Park, NJ. © </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>FATE</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes</u></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(1)
FOTOCAT is a worldwide database of over 12,000 UFO and IFO sightings
that contain photographic images, having occurred up to December 31,
2005: </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://fotocat.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://fotocat.blogspot.com/</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)
A sudden increase in the rate of UFO sighting reports in a given area
during a short period (days or weeks).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(3)
The NICAP website has collected and uploaded information compiled by
Michael Swords, Barry Greenwood, and Robert Swiatek:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.nicap.org/660111wanaque_dir.htm"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.nicap.org/660111wanaque_dir.htm</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(4)
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The APRO Bulletin</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
May-June 1966, p 3.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(5)
Edward J. Babcock & Timothy Green Beckley, “UFO Plagues N.J.
Reservoir,” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
October 1966, pp 34-44.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(6)
Brad Steiger & August C. Roberts, “The Many Weird Nights at
Wanaque,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>The
Flying Saucer Menace</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Award (New York), 1967, pp 22-26.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(7)
Lloyd Allan, “What Happened at Wanaque, N.J.?” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Science
& Mechanics</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, July 1967,
pp 52-57 & 66-69.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(8)
Wendelle Stevens & August C. Roberts, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>UFO
Photographs Around the World (Vol. 1)</u></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
UFO Photo Archives (Tucson), 1986, pp 203-211. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(9)
Lloyd Allan, “What Happened at Wanaque, N.J.?” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Science
& Mechanics</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, June 1967,
pp 42-47 & 70-72. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(10)
Joseph Goodavage, “Seeing is Prickles, Pressure and Belief,”
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Flying Saucers. UFO Report</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
No. 2, spring 1967, pp 6-11.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(11)
Anthony Bragalia,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/returning-to-wanaque-silence-broken"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/returning-to-wanaque-silence-broken</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(12)
Michael Swords,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-1966-part-one-microcosm-of.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-1966-part-one-microcosm-of.html</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(13)
John A. Keel, “Mystery Men Flash Government Credentials,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Saucer
Scoop</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
March 1967, p 12, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y74b8rsz"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">https://tinyurl.com/y74b8rsz</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(14)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/8722320"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">https://www.fold3.com/image/8722320</span></a></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
to image 8722360.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(15)
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=MAXW-PBB2-570"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=MAXW-PBB2-570</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(16)
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The
Jersey Journal</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Jersey City, N.J.), January 25, 1966.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(17)
Armand Laprade & Joseph Ferriere (editors),</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“When
the Flying Saucers Returned to Wanaque,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Probe</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
spring 1967, pp 27-29.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(18)
Thomas Sullivan & Jerry Pulwer, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The
Morning Call</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Paterson, New Jersey), October 13, 1966, cover and p 8. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(19)
Justo Bautista, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Record</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Hackensack, New Jersey), December 9, 1996. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(20)
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.velikovsky.info/Joseph_Goodavage"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://www.velikovsky.info/Joseph_Goodavage</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(21)
Mike Moss, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Flying Saucers.
UFO Reports</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, No. 4, winter
1967. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(22)
Rich Reynolds,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2011/09/1966-wanaque-ufo-sightings-revisited.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2011/09/1966-wanaque-ufo-sightings-revisited.html</span></a></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Comment
dated September 21, 2011.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(23)
Tim Printy, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>SUNlite</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
November-December 2011, p 3,</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite3_6.pdf"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite3_6.pdf</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(24)
Hayden Hewes, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Interplanetary
Intelligence Report</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, March
1966, p 14. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(25)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, e-mail dated December 3, 2017.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(26)
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Saucer News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
June 1966, p 27.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(27)
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The Record</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Hackensack, NJ), October 11, 12, 13 and 17, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Paterson
Evening News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, October 11,
13 and 14, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Newark
Evening News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, October 11
and 12, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Herald News</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Passaic, NJ), October 11, 14, 16 and 17, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The
Jersey Journal</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, October 13,
1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Sunday Star-Ledger</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Newark, NJ), October 16, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Evening
Times</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> (Trenton, NJ),
October 19, 1966. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>World
Journal Tribune</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, October
24, 1966. (A sample). </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(28)
Carmena Freedman (editor), “How It Was At Wanaque,” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Flying
Saucers. UFO Reports</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
October 1967, pp 58-59.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(29)
Berthold E. Schwarz, “Beauty of the Night,” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Flying
Saucer Review</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, Vol. 18, No.
4, July-August 1972, pp 5-9 & 17, </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3ndsmtv"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://tinyurl.com/3ndsmtv</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(30)
</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wim van
Utrecht, e-mails dated December 16 and 18, 2017.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(31)
Michael Hesemann & Natalia Zahradnikova, 2000, </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lD2xCceakY"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lD2xCceakY</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(32)
Greg Bishop,</span>
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/howard-mengers-final-journey/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/howard-mengers-final-journey/</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(33)
Howard Menger, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>From Outer
Space to You</u></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, Saucerian
Books (Clarksburg, West Virginia), 1959,</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.universe-people.com/english/svetelna_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_from_outer_space_to_you.htm"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.universe-people.com/english/svetelna_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_from_outer_space_to_you.htm</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">(34)
Anthony Bragalia,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/witness-to-wanaque-great-mass-ufo"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/witness-to-wanaque-great-mass-ufo</span></span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">(35)
Anthony Bragalia,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/returning-to-wanaque-silence-broken"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/returning-to-wanaque-silence-broken</span></span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(36)
Brad Steiger, e-mail dated December 11, 2017.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(37)
Michael Swords,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-1966-part-two.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-1966-part-two.html</span></a></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>
</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(comment April 10,
2017).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(38)
Michael Swords, </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/wanaque-part-three.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/wanaque-part-three.html</span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(39)
Rich Reynolds,
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-bragalia-vs-reynolds.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://ufocon.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/wanaque-bragalia-vs-reynolds.html</span></a></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Page
not found, 2017).</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(40)
Lance Moody,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://ufo-scepticisme.forumactif.com/t3744-la-photo-de-wanaque-1966#66679"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://ufo-scepticisme.forumactif.com/t3744-la-photo-de-wanaque-1966#66679</span></a></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Reply
#18).</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(41)
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tim Printy, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>SUNlite</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
November-December 2017, p 3,</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite9_6.pdf"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite9_6.pdf</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(42)
Andrés Duarte, e-mail dated October 26, 2017.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(43)
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>UFO
Investigator</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
January-February 1966, p 3. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">(44)
Anthony Bragalia, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.ufoexplorations.com/copy-of-home-1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR">https://www.ufoexplorations.com/copy-of-home-1</span></span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(45)
Anthony Bragalia, e-mail dated November 12, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(46)
Marcel Minnaert, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>The
Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Dover (New York), 1954, pp 95-96. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(47)
Helen Ross & Cornelis Plug, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>The
mystery of the moon illusion. Exploring size perception</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508625.001.0001/acprof-9780198508625"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508625.001.0001/acprof-9780198508625</span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(48)</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Don McCready,
“On size, distance and visual angle perception,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Perception
& Psychophysics</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Vol. 37, No. 4, July 1985, pp 323-334,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03211355">https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03211355</a></span></u></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(49)
Denis K. Burnham, “Apparent relative size in the judgement of
apparent distance,” </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Perception</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Vol. 12, No. 6, 1983, pp 683-700.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(50)
W.H. Ittelsonn & F.P. Kilpatrick, “Experiments in Perception,”
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Scientific
American</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
August 1951, pp 50-55.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(51)
Roger N. Shepard & Sherryl A. Judd, “Perceptual Illusion of
Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Science</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
Vol. 191, No. 4230, March 5, 1976, pp 952-954.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(52)
Manuel Jimenez, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Les
phénomènes aerospatiaux non-identifies et la psychologie de la
perception</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">,
Technical Note #10, GEPAN (Toulouse), 1981, </span></span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=204&no_cache=1&tx_damfrontend_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=1574"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=204&no_cache=1&tx_damfrontend_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=1574</span></span></a></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(53)
Jean-Michel Abrassart, “L’influence de la culture sur les
observations d'OVNI,”
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fileadmin/documents/30_ABRASSART_full.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fileadmin/documents/30_ABRASSART_full.pdf</span></span></a></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(54)
Martin Shough, e-mail dated December 13, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(55)
Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, e-mail dated December 13, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(56)
Julio Plaza del Olmo, e-mail dated December 14, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(57)
Laurent Chabin, e-mail dated December 16, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(58)
Andrés Duarte, e-mail dated December 16, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(59)
Jerry Pulwer & Jerome Morgan, “Saucer Buffs Crowd Wanaque,
Claim Sighting,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The
Morning Call </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Ringwood,
New Jersey), October 14, 1966. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(60)
Tim Fox, “Man says UFO incidents around reservoir in mid 1960s were
a hoax,” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Suburban
Trends</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(Butler, New Jersey), April 11, 2007, p A6.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(61)
G.B. Pshaw, “Clever Hoaxes?” </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
April 1967.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(62)
“I see by the papers” section, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>FATE</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
April 1967, p 15.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Acknowledgements</u></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thanks
are due for information or assistance to: Anthony Bragalia, Juan
Carlos Victorio Uranga, Kay Massingill, Barry Greenwood, Doug
Skinner, Brad Steiger, Martin Shough, Julio Plaza del Olmo,
Jean-Michel Abrassart, Gilles Fernandez, Laurent Chabin, Wim van
Utrecht, and Clas Svahn. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last
August, the celebrated US UFO historian Barry Greenwood spent two
weeks in Chicago researching the archives of the J. Allen Hynek
Center for UFO Studies. The outcome was a massive scan of materials,
periodicals, case reports, photographic and audio records that will
serve as a duplicate set for serious researchers to consult in the
event the original files are unavailable. I have asked Barry to let
us know about this field work in some detail in an article written
for this blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stoneham,
Massachusetts</span><br />
<u style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:uhrhistory@verizon.net"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uhrhistory@verizon.net</span></a></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 17,
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From
August 8 through August 22, 2017, I paid a visit to the J. Allen
Hynek Center for UFO Studies as it is currently constituted. When the
Center left its public headquarters in November 2009, it had
consisted of a three-room suite in a small office building. The
contents of the rooms had to be divided between the private homes of
the Director, Dr. Mark Rodeghier and the CUFOS webmaster, Mary
Castner. Mark held the book collection, and selected case work
related to Roswell, UFO abduction studies, Dr. Hynek and government
UFO documents while Mary stored the enormous case files and
periodical collections. The purpose of the visit was two-fold: 1) To
catalog the periodical collection, of which little was known about
the specific contents by having been stored in large boxes unseen for
many years, and 2) To continue an attempt to duplicate the case files
which were stored in 58 file drawers within four and five-drawer
metal file cabinets.</span></div>
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typical CUFOS case file drawer. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">There
are 58 of these plus many boxed records. © Barry Greenwood.</span></span></span></div>
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of the CUFOS case files in drawers. Non-English periodicals stacked
in boxes on top. © Barry Greenwood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now to
preface why I felt this was necessary beyond just being curious of
what was there, some description of an overarching problem is needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Generally
the infrastructure of the UFO topic is in great danger. Lack of
funding, facilities, manpower and time has forced much of UFO history
to be kept in the hands of overseers and collectors who do what they
can to preserve the information but have increasingly found the job
to be a daunting task. While in the early years of UFO interest the
volume of reports and organizational activities were manageable, the
march of time has added considerably to the pile of paperwork, and
now electronic storage, to the point that the old piles are now
mountains. The researchers of the past are now getting older, grayer
and sometimes physically unable to manage the work that they
approached so enthusiastically before. This is coupled with a
slackening of interest in UFOs, reflected in the disinterest of much
of the media that use to report UFO data widely. Newsstand
publications have practically disappeared. Much UFO commentary has
shifted to the Internet where in a positive sense interesting,
serious work is much more commonly available than before through club
newsletters of the past. Negatively though the Internet has a
tendency to create a false equivalency between serious attempts at
UFO investigation and wild-eyed speculation and outright
prevarication presented in a professional-looking fashion, far beyond
the meager efforts of many of the cheap publications of the past.
This applies to the presentations of cable television channels as
well, seeking ratings by selling UFO information in the most bizarre,
exaggerated and unconvincing manner. All in all, not a good picture.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Older
researchers know the horror stories of files and collections
disappearing through one means or another due to four administrative
problems mentioned earlier. Files have literally gone into the trash,
forever lost. Other records have been handed over to unscrupulous
characters who wish to capitalize on the information or who disappear
entirely with it all as some form of personal treasure chest that
none may see. I know personally of several spouses who in their
outrage that their other halves spent so much time researching UFOs
decided to "wipe the record" of that spouse's interest and
involvement by destroying everything that was left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UFO
researchers are very familiar with the story of APRO, the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organization, last based in Tucson, Arizona. The
organization was begun in 1952 in Wisconsin by husband and wife James
and Coral Lorenzen. From then to 1980, the Lorenzens built a large
organization said to consist of 18 four-drawer file cabinets among
other bulk records collected. The Lorenzens grew older and eventually
passed away, leaving their organization's substance to other parties
less concerned about access to researchers. The files were said to
have been sold to a couple, at which point the APRO records became
unavailable from the late 1980s to this day. The Lorenzens had the
foresight to microfilm their files but only one of the films covering
their beginnings to 1956 is available, with the survival of the
others unknown.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the
advent of electronic scanning, many of the old worries are gone.
Photocopiers with their irregular quality and bulk are no longer
needed. Large amounts of records are saved in virtually no space at
all. Once scanned, and especially duplicated beyond single copies,
files will endure even beyond the originals which could be lost or
accidentally destroyed. With multiple accessible collection sites for
scans, survivability is insured. No more APROs or permanent
destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So back to
CUFOS. Working essentially 16-hour days, more than half the time was
needed to pull down ultra-heavy periodical boxes from storage, go
through issue by issue and enter into an Excel file. UFO periodicals
can be an odd lot with missing and askew dating/volume conventions,
or non-conventions as it often turns out. While not completely
finished in the limited time available, over 800 titles were listed,
allowing researchers to know in much greater details what CUFOS has.
The rest of the time was for scanning important files. This means not
just scanning but prepping files as well. Rusted clips and staples
must go for less-damaging modern pressure clips. Labels, photos and
news clips are literally falling of the papers they were mounted and
must be reattached properly. CUFOS incorporates not only their own
records, begun in 1973, but also inherited records of CSI of New York
(Civilian Saucer Intelligence) and NICAP (National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena) for earlier years. Eventually CUFOS
will be moved to another location. While open access by concerned
researchers to historical records is an aspiration, it is often not
reality. Holdings are managed at the whim of the holders. One hopes
those holders are idealistic in allowing use at non-punishing cost to
the inquirers. Remote access for users would save the original files
from being worn out through multiple usage by patrons and save time,
manpower and travel expenses. With CUFOS, duplication of the case
record is vital to its survival. While researchers have used the
Center to copy information over the years and selected information is
available on the CUFOS web site, there is no centralized access for a
"deep" archive of important work not typically in the open.
Those new to the subject simply don't know where to go, who to know
or how to access very well outside of the small staffs of existing
groups. While that could be clarified over time, the priority task at
hand is to do the deep scanning work as soon as possible before
accidents, or deliberate mishandling, take over. I created over 450
.pdf files which have already been seeded in several trusted
locations for safety storage. I could only concentrate mainly on
1966-1968, such was the enormity of the paper bulk for all years. It
would take many single-person visits, or, even better,
multiple-person visits with good equipment to do high-speed scanning
work at the limited number of locations holding large-scale records
of current or defunct groups and specialized collectors. This is to
where the investment of existing research funds should go without
delay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Creating
a periodical database with CSI/NICAP/CUFOS behind. © Barry
Greenwood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>Military
UFO Files in Spain: Improvements in the Defense Virtual Library </u></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last
year, the collection of UFO files from the Spanish Air Force was
digitalized and uploaded to a microsite in the Defense Virtual
Library for online access to all citizens. With this purpose I wrote
an article to gloss this initiative. There, I highlighted a few minor
oversights and shortcomings in the process:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
article has had the desired effect and since then, the virtual
library has corrected the few found defects (basically, missing pages
and three missing entire files). The updated listing of available
files is in the following link: </span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/indice_campo.cmd?campo=idtitulo&posicion=1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/indice_campo.cmd?campo=idtitulo&posicion=1</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Another
of the files will be added next January. It is not a sightings file
but an 18-page dossier compiling the various listings of UFO records
created by the Spanish Air Force over the years to account for the
UFO cases it had investigated from 1962 to 1995. Titled “Listado de
Expedientes” </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Listing
of files), it was the last file declassified, dated April 21, 1999.
For me, it is of the utmost importance because it materially proves
that absolutely all the reports officially known have been made
public. By the time being, I have uploaded this dossier in the
Academia portal, as follows:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35175086/LISTADO_DE_EXPEDIENTES"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">https://www.academia.edu/35175086/LISTADO_DE_EXPEDIENTES</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As
a curious note, the present copy lacks the characteristic
"DECLASSIFIED" stamps on every sheet. It is because I
received it directly from the Air Combat Command (MACOM) before it
was formally declassified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Blue
Book Unknowns According to Sparks</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
following “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,700 Project Blue Book UFO
Unknowns” is the latest version (December 2016) of a work in
progress developed by US engineer and long-time UFO researcher Brad
Sparks. I do not always agree with Brad in case studies and we
sometimes differ in UFO-philosophizing but calling a spade a spade,
the job Brad does is stringent and serious and meticulous. And this
is a rare flower in the ufological garden. It merits respect and I am
glad to report here the link to access his database, for inspection
and consideration of UFO students:
</span></span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>New
UFO Dissertation</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">By
João Francisco Schramm, “A Força Aérea Brasileira e a
investigação acerca de objetos aéreos não identificados (1969-
1986): segredos, tecnologias e guerras não convencionais”
(Brazilian Air Force and UFO Research, 1969-1986: Secrets,
Technologies and Non-Conventional Wars), for the degree of M.A. in
History, Institute of Human Sciences, Department of History, Brasilia
University, 2016, 166 pages. The abstract reads as follows: </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The
objective of this research is to discuss the involvement of the
Brazilian Air Force in the study and research of the phenomena
related to unidentified aerial objects (Oanis) in the XX century. In
1969, the IV Air Zone created the Research System of Unidentified
Aerial Objects (SIOANI), with the mission to carry out scientific
research on the subject. Even with the closure of SIOANI in 1972, the
Air Force in 1977, investigated the phenomenon during Operation
Prato, in the northern state of Pará, upon request of the local
authorities, who alleged a hostile attitude of the Oanis towards the
native population. In 1986, the Brazilian Air Force undertook an
interception mission in response to the invasion of national airspace
by Oanis, an event that became to the public in a ceremony at the
Presidential Palace, by decision of the Air Force minister at the
time. Given these events, the objective of this research is to
analyze the different positions of the Brazilian Air Force regarding
the phenomenon of Oanis in the 20th century, through its official
documents, and in relation to the main evidence collected by the
institution of these phenomena under the context of an air war and of
the use of unconventional technologies.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
monograph can be downloaded from this link: </span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/21434"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/21434</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Where
Have All UFO Landings Gone?</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
the Spanish section of this blog, I am dedicating an article to show
how an old (1976) alleged close encounter in Spain has just been
resolved as a case of lunar misperception. This visual
misapprehension is much more common than one would expect. Events
like these confirm the existence of a perceptual mechanism (an
“illusion” or something a degree beyond that) by which surprised
observers under peculiar conditions (in this instance, a Moon low in
the horizon seen briefly through a cloudy cover) can generate a
spurious sighting by being unable to identify an ordinary object. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This
text was preceded by a commentary on the magnitude of UFO landing
reporting in Spain and Portugal. I have accumulated nothing less than
1,076 such reports in a continuing research lasting 50 years! By
calculating the average number of reported cases annually, we find
the following trend:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 1950-1985:
21.9 reports per year</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1986-1999:
13.5 reports per year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2000-2012:
4.5 reports per year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
tendency is clear and it signifies that the influence of yellow press
(pulp magazines, books, including radio and television programs) on
the population has decreased considerably. And it seems it is not
going to stop here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>UFO
Observing and Psychopathology</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belgian
psychologist Jean-Michel Abrassart has authored the paper entitled
“UFO phenomenon and psychopathology: A case study”. Its abstract
reads:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The
Psychosocial Model explains the UFO phenomenon with the following
mechanisms: simple mistakes, elaborate mistakes, hallucinations,
false memories and hoaxes. This article will specifically focus on
the topic of hallucinations in relation to UFO sightings. If
illusions are perceptive distortions of an objective stimulus,
hallucinations are by definition perceptions without any stimulus.
Those cases are probably rare, but they do exist. Research in
psychology has shown that the prevalence of psychopathologies is not
bigger amongst UFO witness than the general population. Nevertheless,
we also know today that people can have hallucinations, including
visual hallucinations, without suffering from a psychopathology.
We’ll present a case study after a brief review of the literature.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This
reading has been of special significance to me as my UFO-interview
experience has proved that apparently normal people can develop
unreal UFO visions, that is, the sort of visual hallucinations Dr.
Abrassart explains in this essay. Probably this is applicable to
certain unique-observer, high-strangeness reports for which our
impression is that the witness faithfully believes what he has seen,
i.e., when it is not an invention or a fabulation but, at the same
time, the episode narrated has never really happened. This is the
link:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Bright
Fireball over the Mediterranean Sea</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See
computer graphics and information in the following link:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CDpbhFHEFL8"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://youtu.be/CDpbhFHEFL8</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This
bright fireball was recorded on the night of Dec. 6, 2017 at 5:22
local time (4:22 universal time) over the Mediterranean Sea, between
the coasts of Mallorca and Valencia. The event was produced by a
meteoroid that hit the atmosphere at about 140.000 km/h. It began at
an altitude of around 100 km over the sea. It ended at height of
about 52 km. This meteor event has been recorded in the framework of
the SMART project (University of Huelva) from the astronomical
observatories of La Hita (Toledo) and Calar Alto (Almería).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Miscellaneous</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
British author Peter Brookesmith has reviewed my recent paper with
Dr. Thomas E. Bullard, “The Nature of UFO Evidence: Two Views” in
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Fortean
Times</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
#358, October 2017, page 30. He generously writes: “In this, as in
all his work, V-J is nothing if not thorough. He covers, and
dismantles, all the bases of ETH-enamoured ufology…His take on
ufological history and the grip of the ETH upon it is illuminating.”
The above mentioned paper by Ballester-Olmos & Bullard is
reprinted in </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Outer
Limits Magazine</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(October 2017, pages 24-34), a UFO journal edited by Chris Evers in
the UK. Another British UFO publication, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Phenomena
Magazine </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(Brian
Allan, editor) has released the first part of the paper in the
December 2017 issue, pages 5-13 (unfortunately, they used Bullard’s
portrait instead of mine!)</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(2)</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
The subject of finding good sources of UFO research literature is of
primordial importance, especially for many newcomers from the
university milieu who want to access to valid data and insightful
readings on UFO phenomena. One such source is the Italian publisher
UPIAR, with printed books and works in several languages:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">UPIAR
books: </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=14">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=14</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">UPIAR
publications:</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=13">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=13</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">CISU
monographs:</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=4"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=4</span></a></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(3)
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>SUNlite</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
is a critical, online UFO newsletter published regularly by Tim
Printy, a remarkable successor of late Philip Klass’ </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>SUN</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
(</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Skeptical
UFO Newsletter</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">).
It is a voice of reason in the Americana ufology. Every issue teaches
something even to veteran students. Here it is the web site where
every issue of the journal can be retrieved:
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite.htm"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite.htm</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4)
On October 7, 2017 there was a massive space sighting from Argentina
and Uruguay. Here, a report (in Spanish) by Commodore Rubén Lianza:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.aeroespacio.com.ar/fenomenos-aeroespaciales/masivo-avistamiento-de-un-fenomeno-aeroespacial-en-varias-provincias-argentinas/"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.aeroespacio.com.ar/fenomenos-aeroespaciales/masivo-avistamiento-de-un-fenomeno-aeroespacial-en-varias-provincias-argentinas/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(5)
Issue five of the Italian publication </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Cielo
Insolito</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(Unsual Skies) is out. It cleverly explores the history of
UFO-related events:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.wikiufo.org/cieloinsolito5.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.wikiufo.org/cieloinsolito5.pdf</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(6)
An astronomical treatise published 1646 by Francesco Fontana (ca.
1585-1656): </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Novae
coelestium, terrestriumq[ue] rerum observationes et fortasse hactenus
non vulgatae</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
It is in Latin, and translates as “New observations of celestial
and terrestrial things, and possibly not disseminated to date”),</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=1851"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=1851</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(7)
Gabriel McKee’s “A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian
Books,”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/17008532/A_Contactee_Canon_Gray_Barkers_Saucerian_Books"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/17008532/A_Contactee_Canon_Gray_Barkers_Saucerian_Books</span></span></a></span></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(8)
Many ufologists are also interested in other planet’s mysteries and
legends, e.g. the Yeti. Biological science has taken a look to the
best physical evidence collected and a conclusion has been reached.
Read it here (in Spanish):</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-misterio-yeti-resuelto-esto-realidad-201711290209_noticia.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-misterio-yeti-resuelto-esto-realidad-201711290209_noticia.html</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(9)
Goodbye to a friend. Last December 12th, Belgian ufologist and author
Franck Boitte died at the age of 77 after eleven days at hospital in
Challans, France. Boitte was an active member of SOBEPS and one of
the founders of </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Inforespace</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
In the last years I had an intense exchange with him, mainly in
relation with my research on a catalog of Belgian UFO photographs
developed jointly with Wim van Utrecht. In 2015, Boitte sent me the
enclosed portrait that I am using today in his memory.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Meeting</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last
month I met with two of my local collaborators, industrial engineer
Juan P. González and Josep Carles Laínez, a philologist and
theologist, to review one of the most outstanding close
encounter cases of 1974, a precursor to the wave of that year. A
fresh, cool look at the event will be carried out by Josep who will
examine all documentation from scratch. The complete file
contains manuscript letters from the witness, filled questionnaires,
press information, inquiry reports, the official Air Force
investigation, the assessments of several ufologists, as well as
everything that has been published in this regard. I expect
that some interesting insight can be gained from revisiting this
important episode of Spanish ufology.</span></span></div>
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from left to right: González, Ballester-Olmos and Laínez.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Family
Issues</u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just
a couple of family photographs: one shows me and my first grandchild,
Lucas, aged now 21 months, last summer in my vacation residence. In
the other, my wife, my daughter Laura, myself and my son Daniel, in
the Valencia University graduation day after finishing his degree in
Finance & Accounting. A happy grandfather and a proud father.</span></span></span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">To
the following colleagues who have sourced material or analysis to the
current edition of this blog: Alejandro Agostinelli, Francis Ridge,
Luis Ruiz Noguez, Maurizio Verga, Josep Carles Laínez, Matías
Morey, and Patrick Ferryn. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>BOOKS
BY THE AUTHOR </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO
Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>OVNIS:
el fenómeno aterrizaje</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Los
OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with Miguel Guasp) (UFOs and Science)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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OVNI</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(UFO Investigation)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with J.A. Fernández Peris) (Encyclopedia of UFO Close Encounters in
Spain) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Expedientes
insólitos</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">
(The Unusual Files)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">These
are available in the usual second-hand market, for example: </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4">https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y89qc5ay"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">https://tinyurl.com/y89qc5ay</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with O.J. Braenne)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFOs
and the Government </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">(with
M. Swords & R. Powell and C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood, R.
Thieme, J. Aldrich, and S. Purcell)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(with M. Borraz, H. Janosch & J.C. Victorio) </span></span><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(with Wim van Utrecht)</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>HOW
YOU CAN COLLABORATE WITH FOTOCAT PROJECT</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There
are several options you can follow:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.
Volunteer work, onsite or remotely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.
Deliver sighting reports, photographs, archives, bibliography, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.
Donations to help defray research expenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You
can reach us directly </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">through e-mail: </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:ballesterolmos@yahoo.es"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">ballesterolmos@yahoo.es</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>2017/DICIEMBRE/26 (ES)</u></span><br />
<b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BASE
DE DATOS FOTOCAT</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nuestra
base de datos reúne 12.239 casos. El catálogo propiamente dicho
termina el 31 de diciembre de 2005 con 11.983 entradas. Le siguen
otros 256 casos especiales que se distribuyen así:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Argentina
(estándar), año 2006: 145</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">España
(estándar), 2006-2008: 73</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rayo
en bola, 2006-2017: 33</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">España
(militar/EC), 2006-2017: 4</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Excepción:
1 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NUEVAS
PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTOR</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¡NUEVO LIBRO!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BELGIUM
IN UFO PHOTOGRAPHS. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Tras
varios años de ímprobo trabajo de recogida y análisis de
información, sale a la luz este libro firmado por V.J. Ballester
Olmos y Wim van Utrecht (noviembre de 2017). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Belgium
in UFO Photographs – Volume 1</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Bélgica en fotografías OVNI‒ Volumen 1) es una obra de
investigación sin concesiones a la literatura. Se trata de un
trabajo que sigue estrictos criterios científicos aplicados a los
casos OVNI de Bélgica del periodo 1950 a 1988 que incorporan
fotografía, película o video. El lector hallará muchas
observaciones OVNI descritas minuciosamente y detallados análisis de
presuntas imágenes OVNI. Pero también numerosos ejemplos de cómo
gente normal se confunde ante fenómenos ordinarios, pero
inesperados, revelando el dudoso entorno que rodeó a varias
fotografías que recibieron un aplauso unánime internacional y se
hicieron famosas. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
libro es la documentada historia de cuatro décadas de incidentes
OVNI que los autores hemos estudiado escrupulosamente, sopesando la
evidencia de que pudieran tratarse de verdaderas anomalías que se
manifestaran en nuestra atmósfera. Aunque Bélgica es un pequeño
país centroeuropeo, su rico patrimonio ufológico emerge como una
muestra representativa de la fenomenología OVNI que se produce a
nivel global, como cualquier estudioso podrá comprobar. Los análisis
que aparecen en este volumen son perfectamente aplicables a los casos
de cualquier otra parte del mundo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este
volumen tiene más de 400 páginas, 366 ilustraciones (fotografías,
diagramas, mapas, cartas estelares, etc.) y, además de los informes
de avistamientos, estudios de casos e investigación forense de las
imágenes, incluye un capítulo de revisión estadística de los
datos. Este es el informe FOTOCAT número 7 y, como el resto de la
serie, se publica a través de internet para acceso libre y gratuito
de los estudiosos en el siguiente enlace:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM_IN_UFO_PHOTOGRAPHS._Volume_1_1950-1988_</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Y
especialmente para coleccionistas, amantes de los libros en papel y
bibliotecas, la editorial UPIAR (Turín) ha publicado una edición en
tapa blanda y a todo color, que se puede adquirir a través de este
enlace: </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James
Oberg, uno de los más conocidos divulgadores científicos de la
exploración espacial, ha escrito el prólogo de la obra. Oberg tiene
en su haber una carrera de 22 años como ingeniero espacial en
Houston, donde se especializó en operaciones del transbordador
espacial para encuentros orbitales. He aquí unos fragmentos de su
prólogo:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos y Wim van Utrecht han venido practicando una
metodología de investigación que, si estuviera mucho más
extendida, podría ayudar a aislar las mejores teorías de las más
extremas… Ballester Olmos y Van Utrecht creen, como yo, que los
"OVIS" contienen lecciones para enseñar a los "ufólogos"
que son cruciales para dar sentido a los casos que permanecen en las
bases de datos de "OVNIS auténticos"…</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
La </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>recién
descubierta facultad de combinar BUENOS sistemas de mantenimiento de
archivos con las herramientas de Internet y los motores de búsqueda
se hace explícita en casos específicos discutidos por los
autores…En caso tras caso, los autores aplican amplios
conocimientos de geometría, óptica, meteorología, percepción
humana y contexto cultural humano, para ilustrar que a menudo se
encuentran explicaciones plausibles…El enfoque mostrado por
Ballester Olmos y Van Utrecht debería servir de ejemplo y de
inspiración a otros investigadores que siguen el método científico
y que han desempeñado un papel crucial en la provisión de los
recursos que permitirán a los teóricos con más datos y una visión
más amplia averiguar algún día lo que hay detrás de este
misterioso fenómeno.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amigo
lector, espero que encuentre nuestro trabajo verdaderamente
interesante, al que puede acceder con un solo “click”. Y para
quienes prefieran no consultar un libro en la pantalla de su
ordenador sino en papel, tienen a su disposición la edición de
UPIAR.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Le
solicito cordialmente que haga correr este anuncio a otros colegas,
organizaciones, instituciones científicas y a bibliotecas. Además,
apreciaré que mencione este libro en su blog, página web o revista,
así como que redacte alguna reseña para cualquier publicación
científica, técnica, cultural o ufológica. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Por
cierto, quiero añadir un par de palabras acerca de la ilustración
de la portada del libro, un dibujo a tinta del ilustrador y pintor
alemán Heinrich Kley (1863-1945). Los lectores habrán caído en la
cuenta que el artista se estaba burlando de aquellos que a comienzos
del siglo XX todavía confiaban en que la fotografía produciría la
prueba largamente esperada de la existencia de espíritus, monstruos
marinos y aeronaves misteriosas. Sin embargo, como muestra la
ilustración del dragón, los entes mitológicos no se pueden
fotografiar, obviamente. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Me
complace mucho informar que en el escaso mes transcurrido desde su
salida, la recepción ha sido magnífica y favorable. Más de 800 visitas en
Academia.edu, por ejemplo. Ya han aparecido algunas reseñas
literarias y comentarios en revistas y en internet. En el próximo
blog me haré eco de algunas de éstas. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>OVNIS
y militares, más desinformación</u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He
extraído de mi último blog este breve artículo porque considero
que debe aparecer como referencia independiente y tener su enlace
formal propio, ya que es necesario que se airee lo máximo posible
los casos de información falsa, en lo que se refiere a los muchos
rumores interesados y ejemplos de intoxicación que circulan en
España sobre la intervención del Ejército del Aire en presunta
casuística ovni. Se trata de “OVNIS y militares, más
desinformación”, que se encuentra aquí:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/34400045/OVNIS_Y_MILITARES_MAS_DESINFORMACION</span></span></a></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>INVESTIGACIÓN
Y CASUÍSTICA</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Programa ovni en el Pentágono, 2007-2012</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">Desde mediados de diciembre hay un verdadero follón mediático con relación a un recién revelado programa de investigación sobre ovnis en el Pentágono llevado a cabo‒y luego abandonado‒entre 2007 y 2012. Los canales de información vienen inundados de noticias y declaraciones desde entonces. Como es natural, llevará tiempo aclarar las motivaciones de ese estudio, los nombres que hay detrás y los informes de avistamientos acumulados mientras duró ese programa. De momento, solo quisiera dejar caer esta preclara visión del tema escrita por el autor neoyorquino Jason Colativo (traducción de Luis Ruiz Noguez):</span><br />
<a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/12/por-qu-los-jugadores-clave-en-la-historia-de-la-agencia-ovni-del-pentgono-estn-todos-vinculados/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/12/por-qu-los-jugadores-clave-en-la-historia-de-la-agencia-ovni-del-pentgono-estn-todos-vinculados/</span></a></div>
<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">La
micro-oleada de 1966 en el pantano de Wanaque (New Jersey)</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Se
trata este de un suceso, o de un grupo de casos, que siempre me ha
fascinado. Principalmente por el dramatismo de la fotografía
principal que lo acompaña: sobre fondo oscuro, un objeto luminoso
emite un haz de luz hacia la superficie del embalse. Bueno, eso es al
menos con lo que quien fabricó la foto nos quería impresionar.
Durante muchos años he tenido un grueso expediente rotulado así,
“Wanaque”, a la espera de hincarle el diente, dicho en otras
palabras, organizar la documentación y analizarla. Ahora le ha
tocado su turno. Durante dos meses he revisado a fondo todo el
material relativo al caso, he sostenido correspondencia con otros
colegas que lo han investigado y he hecho mis deberes. El resultado
es un detallado artículo que presenta una cronología y síntesis de
los varios incidentes acaecidos en la zona en aquel enero de 1966,
siempre y cuando se hubieran tomado fotografías, que es al fin y al
cabo el objetivo del proyecto FOTOCAT. En la edición en inglés de
este blog incluyo el último borrador del trabajo, con la finalidad
de escuchar comentarios constructivos y recabar cualquier información
complementaria que pueda existir. </span></span>
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o trucaje en el pantano de Wanaque, 1966. Cortesía de Anthony
Bragalia. </span></span></span>
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invitado</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
pasado mes de agosto, el historiador ufológico estadounidense Barry
Greenwood giró una visita de investigación de dos semanas a los
archivos del J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, en Chicago. El
resultado fue un escaneado masivo de material, revistas, informes de
casos, fotografías y registros de audio que se ha distribuido entre
varios investigadores para su preservación y consulta. He pedido a
Barry que escriba un artículo para mi blog sobre este trabajo
documental de campo.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Visita de
investigación al CUFOS</span></b></div>
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Greenwood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stoneham,
Massachusetts</span><br />
<a href="mailto:uhrhistory@verizon.net"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uhrhistory@verizon.net</span></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17 de
septiembre de 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Traducido
por Luis R. González)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entre el 8 y el 22 de agosto de 2017, tuve ocasión de visitar la ubicación actual del J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Cuando el Centro abandonó su antiguo cuartel general de cara al público en noviembre de 2009, aquel se componía de tres despachos en un local dentro de un pequeño edificio destinado a oficinas. El contenido de las mismas tuvo que repartirse entre la casa del Director, Dr. Mark Rodeghier y la de la encargada de la página electrónica del CUFOS, Mary Castner. Mark conservó la colección de libros y varios expedientes sobre casos seleccionados como Roswell, trabajos de abducciones alienígenas, y diversos documentos personales del Dr. Hynek y de fuentes gubernamentales. Por su parte, Mary custodia todos los abundantes archivos de casuística y colecciones de material periódico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El propósito de mi visita era doble: 1) Catalogar la colección de publicaciones periódicas, cuyo contenido específico era poco conocido ya que llevaban almacenados en grandes cajas desde hacía décadas, y 2) Proseguir con el intento de duplicar los archivos de casuística, almacenados en 58 cajas y carpetas protegidas dentro de cuatro o cinco grandes archivadores metálicos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Archivador del CUFOS para casuística. Existen 58 de ellos, más enorme material guardado en cajas. © Barry Greenwood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">La mayoría de los casos investigados por el CUFOS se encuentran en archivadores. Encima se almacenan las cajas con todos los boletines no anglosajones. © Barry Greenwood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Para mostrar por qué considero necesaria toda esta labor, más allá de la propia curiosidad de conocer los contenidos, se hace necesario comentar un problema acuciante. Hablando en general, la infraestructura de todo el tema OVNI se encuentra en grave peligro. La falta de financiación, ubicaciones apropiadas, personas y tiempo han llevado a que buena parte de la historia ufológica haya acabado en mano de simples almacenistas y coleccionistas que hacen todo lo que pueden para preservar la información pero que, cada vez más, se enfrentan a una tarea desalentadora. Mientras en los primeros años de interés por los OVNIS el volumen de los informes y las actividades organizativas eran manejables, el paso del tiempo ha añadido un material considerable al montón de papeleo (sin olvidar el volumen de información derivado de la producción digital), y los antiguos montones son hoy en día verdaderas montañas. Al mismo tiempo, los investigadores del pasado han envejecido y son a menudo incapaces de hacer frente a la tarea que emprendían con entusiasmo en el pasado. A ello debemos sumar la pérdida de interés popular en el fenómeno OVNI, reflejada en el escaso interés de los medios de comunicación social que antes eran fuente de tantos datos valiosos. Las revistas especializadas han dejado de llegar a los quioscos y la mayoría del debate sobre los OVNIS se ha trasladado a Internet. Desde un punto de vista positivo, ello ha permitido conocer, divulgar y organizar mucho trabajo serio e interesante con mayor facilidad que a través de los antiguos grupos y boletines. Pero el lado negativo es que Internet tiene tendencia a crear una equivalencia falsa entre esos intentos serios de investigación ufológica y las más desaforadas especulaciones, cuando no mentiras descaradas, presentadas con un aspecto mucho más profesional que cualquiera de los limitados esfuerzos de la mayoría de las publicaciones baratas del pasado. Esto es también de aplicación a los canales de televisión por cable que, a la búsqueda de su propia rentabilidad, tratan la información ufológica de la forma más exagerada, espectacular y poco convincente. En su conjunto, una escena penosa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Todos los investigadores veteranos hemos conocido historias terroríficas sobre archivos y colecciones perdidas para siempre por causa de alguno de los cuatro problemas administrativos que he mencionado antes. Muchos archivos han acabado literalmente en la basura, perdidos para siempre. Otros han pasado de mano en mano, muchas veces cayendo en las de personas sin escrúpulos que sólo buscan capitalizar su información o, aún peor, los apartan por completo de la circulación para formar parte de algún tesoro personal que nadie más volverá a ver. He conocido personalmente a varias esposas de ufólogos que, molestas por todo el tiempo que sus maridos habían dedicado a los OVNIS, decidían “hacer borrón y cuenta nueva”, destruyendo todo lo que éstos habían acumulado durante su vida de esfuerzos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los ufólogos conocen el triste caso del APRO, el Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, que estuvo en Tucson, Arizona. La organización fue creada en 1952 en Wisconsin por los esposos James and Coral Lorenzen. Hasta 1980, los Lorenzen llegaron a montar una gran organización y acumular mucha información, estimada por algunos en 18 archivadores metálicos de cuatro alturas y otro considerable material. Cuando los Lorenzen fallecieron, dejaron el contenido material del grupo a otras personas menos preocupadas por mantener y permitir el acceso a los investigadores. Finalmente, se dice que fueron vendidos a una pareja, momento en que desaparecieron de la circulación, hasta hoy. Aunque los Lorenzen tuvieron la precaución de microfilmar sus archivos, sólo se conoce una de las cintas del período hasta 1956, sin que se sepa si las demás han sobrevivido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Con la aparición del escaneo digital, muchas de estas antiguas preocupaciones se han desvanecido. Ya no hacen falta esos montones de fotocopias de calidad irregular. Es posible conservar grandes volúmenes de información prácticamente sin ocupar espacio. Una vez escaneados, y sobre todo duplicados en copias de seguridad múltiples, el contenido de los archivos podrá sobrevivir y ser consultado incluso si los originales se perdiesen o fuesen destruidos accidentalmente. La supervivencia está garantizada si logramos escanear el material y conservarlo en lugares de acceso múltiple para cualquier interesado. No habrá más APROS ni destrucciones permanentes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volvamos por tanto al CUFOS. Fueron jornadas agotadoras de 16 horas de trabajo; más de la mitad del tiempo la empleé en sacar las super-pesadas cajas de material del lugar de almacenaje, revisar cada ejemplar de revista o boletín y catalogar su contenido en un archivo Excel. Los boletines ufológicos tienen la complicación añadida de que pocas veces se ajustan a las convenciones profesionales mínimas de numeración y fechado; a veces, simplemente son inexistentes. Aunque no se pudo completar la tarea en el limitado tiempo disponible, pude catalogar más de 800 títulos, lo que permitirá a los investigadores saber con mucho mejor grado de detalle lo que el CUFOS contiene. El resto del tiempo lo dediqué al escaneo de archivos prioritarios. Aparte del propio procedimiento electrónico, ello conllevaba la necesidad de preparar el material. Los clips y grapas oxidados debían cambiarse por modernos cierres a presión. Las etiquetas, fotos y recortes de prensa que se despegaban literalmente de los papeles debían ser vueltos a montar y pegar de la forma más correcta. Aparte de sus propios archivos, el CUFOS acumula los archivos del CSI (Civilian Saucer Intelligence) de Nueva York y del NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena). Eventualmente, el CUFOS tendrá que trasladarse a una nueva ubicación. El ideal de un acceso abierto de los archivos originales por parte de los investigadores, es una aspiración que difícilmente se hará realidad. El trato dispensado al material depende de las pretensiones de sus propietarios. Uno confía en que esos propietarios permitan idealmente su consulta a un coste no prohibitivo para los interesados. El acceso remoto de los usuarios permitirá preservar los archivos originales del desgaste derivado de tales consultas y ahorrar tiempo, personal y gastos de viaje.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En el caso
del CUFOS, resulta vital completar la duplicación de la casuística
recopilada, para garantizar su supervivencia. Mientras que muchos
investigadores han usado las facilidades del Centro a lo largo de los
años para acceder a datos de su interés, y bastante información
seleccionada está disponible en la página electrónica del CUFOS,
no existe ningún acceso centralizado para el archivo “profundo”
de trabajos de gran valor que no están disponibles. Los nuevos
investigadores ni siquiera saben dónde ir, a quién dirigirse o cómo
acceder al limitado elenco de personal de los grupos ufológicos que
todavía sobreviven. Aunque éste es un tema que debe aclararse, la
tarea prioritaria en estos momentos es realizar el escaneo de todo
ese archivo profundo tan pronto como sea posible, antes de que los
accidentes y los malos usos de algunos provoquen la desaparición del
material. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por mi parte, he creado más de 450 documentos (en formato
PDF) que he diseminado por distintas localizaciones a fin de lograr
un rescate seguro. Sólo pude concentrarme en los años 1966-1968,
dada la enormidad de papeleo existente en los largos años de vida
del Centro. Se necesitarán muchas visitas individuales o, mejor aún
de grupos organizados con buenos equipos, para alcanzar una elevada
velocidad de escaneo en las escasas ubicaciones donde se conservan
los mayores volúmenes de información sobre grupos ufológicos
actuales o ya desaparecidos y coleccionistas especializados. Esta es
la tarea concreta en la que deberían invertirse, sin demora, todos
los fondos disponibles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Creando
una base de datos de publicaciones con el material del
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Mejoras
en los expedientes OVNI de la Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Cuando
el pasado año se expusieron en la web del Ministerio de Defensa
español (Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa) los expedientes OVNI
desclasificados, que habían sido digitalizados para acceso inmediato
del público, escribí un artículo en donde glosaba esta iniciativa.
En mi texto reseñé algunas carencias que había identificado. Este
artículo ha tenido el efecto que pretendía y, gracias a la
profesionalidad de la Unidad de Coordinación Bibliotecaria del
Ministerio de Defensa, se ha subsanado la totalidad las carencias
apuntadas, fundamentalmente hojas que faltaban (por estar al dorso de
algunos documentos) y otras que ni siquiera constaban (por error de
fotocopiado) en los expedientes que se enviaron al Jefe del Estado
Mayor del Aire y que yo conservaba por haber recibido copia de muchos
de los expedientes originales directamente del Mando Aéreo de
Combate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De
especial interés es la adición del único expediente de casuística
que faltaba y que ahora es el número 81 en la secuencia de la BVD.
También se ha incorporado el expediente de Normativa histórica, que
tiene gran relevancia para conocer la actuación del Ejército del
Aire español sobre el tema de los ovnis a lo largo de las décadas
(expediente número 83).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Para
culminar íntegramente la trasposición de expedientes en papel a
digital, se va a incluir también el “expediente de listados”, un
archivo de 18 páginas desclasificado en abril de 1999 y que reúne
los varios listados de informes ovni conocidos por el Ejército del
Aire y archivados en sus dependencias. A mi juicio, es una
información esclarecedora porque sirve para comprobar que TODO lo
que había en los archivos oficiales sobre ovnis está ya puesto a
disposición del público. Mientras que no está agregado al resto,
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">dicho
expediente se ha alojado en el portal Academia: </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35175086/LISTADO_DE_EXPEDIENTES"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/35175086/LISTADO_DE_EXPEDIENTES</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Este
será el expediente número 84 y se subirá a la web a mediados de
enero de 2018. Como un apunte curioso, decir que esta copia carece de
los característicos sellos “DESCLASIFICADO” p</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">orque
es la que yo recibí directamente del MACOM antes de su
desclasificación formal.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
artículo al que hago referencia preveo se asiente pronto en la misma
web del Ministerio de Defensa. Entretanto, se encuentra alojado aquí:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/35429868/Los_expedientes_OVNI_desclasificados_-Online</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Un
listado del contenido completo del archivo digital o micrositio
“Expedientes OVNI” lo tenemos en el siguiente enlace, que recoge
también una entrevista que me hizo la </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Revista
Española de Defensa</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/indice_campo.cmd?campo=idtitulo&posicion=1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/indice_campo.cmd?campo=idtitulo&posicion=1</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">En
la misma web de Defensa se puede consultar un interesante ensayo de
Rocío de los Reyes Ramírez, Directora Técnica del Archivo
Intermedio Militar Sur, titulado “El acceso a la información
contenida en los archivos militares del Archivo Intermedio Militar
Sur” (2013), en el cual encontramos esta frase que viniendo de una
profesional de la documentación militar adquiere trascendencia: </span></span>
</span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>La
primera “desclasificación” real de documentos militares
realizada en nuestro país fue la promovida por el Estado Mayor del
Aire (sustanciada por la Sección de Inteligencia del Mando Operativo
Aéreo, MOA) entre los años 1992 y 1997.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=38603"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/exp_ovni/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=38603</span></span></a></span></div>
</div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>¿Dónde
fueron los aterrizajes de ovnis?</u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Cuando
en 1987 publiqué mi libro </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(Plaza & Janés) con Juan A. Fernández Peris, trabajé con dos
catálogos de casos de “aterrizaje” ocurridos en España y
Portugal (excepto Canarias), conocidos hasta 1985: LANIB (los casos
no explicados, por extrañeza propia o, mayoritariamente, por falta
de una adecuada investigación), con 230 informes, y NELIB (los
sucesos explicados), con 355 informes. De entonces acá, además de
transcurrir una treintena de años, se han dado estas magnitudes: dos
de los casos explicados han pasado al censo de los sucesos sin
explicación y 20 de los casos inexplicados se han resuelto de forma
convencional, de manera que los catálogos quedan ahora así, LANIB
(212) y NELIB (373). </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Pero,
lo más importante es que el inventario de casos del Tipo I
(clasificación de J. Vallée), encuentros cercanos (clasificación
de J.A. Hynek) o, sencillamente, “aterrizajes”, ha crecido
sensiblemente, conformando un tercer catálogo de informes ibéricos
denominado NEWCAT, para el que el desempeño del geógrafo castellano
y veterano estudioso del fenómeno ovni José Antonio Cezón, ha sido
fundamental. NEWCAT recoge los sucesos ocurridos en la península
ibérica desde 1985 (191), aquellos otros anteriores a ese año y que
he conocido desde la finalización del citado estudio (206), así
como la integración de los casos ocurridos en las Islas Canarias
(94). NEWCAT reúne en la actualidad 491 casos, que, sumados a los ya
analizados en el libro de referencia, hacen un total de 1.076
historias de “aterrizajes ovni” en España y Portugal. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Espero
algún día tener la oportunidad de volver sobre este apasionante
tema, pero si no lo hiciera, el material está a disposición de
antropólogos, sociólogos o historiadores que quieran profundizar en
estos episodios por los que ciudadanos aparentemente normales
informan haber tenido cerca de ellos un objeto volante desconocido
que ha llegado a tomar tierra o estar a muy corta altura del suelo.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quisiera,
sin embargo, hacer un comentario estadístico elemental uniendo los
datos de los tres catálogos para constatar cómo ha variado la
dinámica de información de relatos de aterrizajes de ovnis. Tomemos
los casos a partir de 1950 hasta 1985 y desde 1986 hasta 2012 (fecha
del último caso registrado) y veamos cuál ha sido el nivel anual de
denuncias:</span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"> <u>LANIB</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>NELIB</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>NEWCAT</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>TOTAL</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>ANUAL</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">1950-1985
(36 años) 226 340 223 789 21.9 </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1986-1999
(14 años) - - 189 189 13.5</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2000-2012
(13 años) - - 59 59 4.5</span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Observamos
que el </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>ratio</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
que expresa el número de casos supuestamente ocurridos por año va
descendiendo paulatinamente. De cerca de 22 en las primeras cuatro
décadas de la historia de esta casuística en la península a cerca
de la mitad en la década de los noventa y de nuevo a una tercera
parte durante este siglo. La gente ya no cuenta haber sido testigo de
este tipo de incidente o de aventura en la actualidad como en el
pasado. Y la tendencia va a la baja de forma clarísima. Tal parece
que la cordura se va imponiendo a medida que los medios
sensacionalistas –con su miserable adoctrinamiento– van perdiendo
fuelle entre la población. Los vendedores de misterios abandonan su
influencia pseudocultural y van quedando en un nicho de puro
entretenimiento sin mayor relevancia que los horóscopos, que todos
leen y nadie toma en serio.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Resolución
de un aterrizaje de los setenta</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Se
acaba de resolver uno de los muchos casos de aterrizaje que seguían
en la categoría de inexplicados. Ocurrió en Gerena-Olivares
(Sevilla) el 15 de febrero de 1976, una zona de Andalucía
especialmente rica en avistamientos de lo más pasmoso. La primera
noticia del percance la tuvimos al poco por el infatigable ufólogo,
en las antípodas de mi pensamiento y sin embargo amigo durante
cincuenta años, Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos. La información
apenas eran seis párrafos y señalaba a Joaquín Mateos Nogales como
investigador principal del caso. En 1984 me comuniqué con Mateos
(ufólogo local muy popular en la región) con ánimo de conseguir
abundamiento de datos; el ufólogo andaluz me dijo que los dos
testigos habían dejado la población de Olivares, pero me hizo
llegar su informe, firmado al alimón con Manuel Filpo (una página,
más un croquis de situación, que pone de manifiesto algunas
diferencias aparentemente más fiables que la nota de Darnaude, que
parecía ser una mezcla de versiones). El suceso quedó, pues,
congelado. Tal cual, lo incluí en mi libro </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Enciclopedia
de los EC con OVNIS</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">,
en el apartado de casos “inexplicados” (en ufología, algo queda
por explicar siempre en ausencia de una investigación suficiente e
imparcial). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">15
de febrero de 1976, Olivares-Gerena (Sevilla). Cortesía de J. Mateos
y M. Filpo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">En
resumen, a las ocho y diez de la tarde, dos vecinos de Olivares de 26
y 27 años, albañiles de profesión, circulaban en moto por la
carretera que une la población con Gerena, cuando, a unos 1000m de
una antigua torre-vigía conocida como “Torre Mocha”, ven
“aproximadamente a un metro del suelo, totalmente parado, en
posición horizontal y durante unos breves minutos” un objeto en
forma de cigarro puro de unos 30 de largo, con unas 20 ventanillas
que despedían “fulgores rojizos intensos”. Llegaron a situarse a
unos “100m” de distancia y, entonces, dieron vuelta atrás,
creyendo apreciar por el retrovisor como una luz blanca les seguía.
La persecución se alargó por 5km, llegando en estado de gran
excitación a una gasolinera a la entrada del pueblo, extremo
comprobado por Mateos y Filpo, tras hablar con el empleado. </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">El
estudioso Juan Carlos Victorio ha revisado recientemente este caso y
no le ha costado mucho encontrarle explicación. A unos y otros se
nos pasó por alto, probablemente por razones bien distintas. El
hecho es que los testigos circulan en una carretera orientada
Norte-Sur y ven a su derecha (dirección Este) un cuerpo luminoso a
poca altura del suelo. A esa hora exacta y en esa precisa dirección
se hallaba la Luna, situada a 10 grados escasos sobre el horizonte.
¿Cómo pudieron confundirse? Bueno, consultada la información
meteorológica en ese momento, comprobamos que había nubosidad y las
nubes bien pudieron distorsionar a nuestro satélite hasta darle la
apariencia observada por los testigos. Hay muchos ejemplos de
confusiones semejantes en todo el mundo. Recordemos, además, que no
vieron la Luna –que estaba justamente en la dirección del
avistamiento- y el ovni, sino solo el ovni. La presunta proximidad
del objeto, naturalmente, se explica por errores de percepción o un
fenómeno de ilusión. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Muestro
seguidamente la ubicación de los testigos, “Torre Mocha” y la
situación de la luna, de acuerdo con </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Google
Earth</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">.
Asimismo, la carta celeste </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Stellarium</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
con la posición lunar a esa hora. QED.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<u style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Los
“no identificados” del Blue Book</u></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
ingeniero y experimentado investigador estadounidense Brad Sparks ha
actualizado su trabajo “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,700 Project Blue
Book UFO Unknowns”. Muchas veces estoy en desacuerdo con Brad en
interpretación de avistamientos y también diferimos en nuestras
filosofías acerca del tema ovnis, pero siendo honesto es indudable
que su trabajo es de calidad y meticuloso. Y esto es una flor rara en
el jardín de la Ufología mundial. Merece respeto y es un placer
citar el acceso a su mentada base de datos:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Nueva
tesis sobre OVNIS</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Por
João Francisco Schramm, "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">A
Força Aérea Brasileira e a investigação acerca de objetos aéreos
não identificados (1969- 1986): segredos, tecnologias e guerras não
convencionais"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">,
realizada para el grado de maestría (licenciatura) en Historia en el
Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, departamento de Historia, Universidade
de Brasilia, 2016, 166 páginas. Este es el resumen oficial:</span></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Esta
pesquisa tem como tema discutir o envolvimento da Força Aérea
Brasileira (FAB) no estudo e investigação de fenômenos
relacionados aos objetos aéreos não identificados (Oanis) no séc.
XX. Em 1969 foi criado pela IV Zona Aérea o Sistema de Investigação
de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados (Sioani), que tinha como missão
empreender pesquisas científicas sobre o tema. Mesmo com o
encerramento do Sioani em 1972, a FAB, em 1977, investigou o fenômeno
durante a Operação Prato, no norte do Pará, em solicitação das
autoridades locais, já que era alegada uma atitude hostil de Oanis
junto a população nativa. Já em 1986, a FAB empreendeu uma missão
de interceptação em resposta a invasão do espaço aéreo nacional
por Oanis, evento que veio a público, em cerimônia no Palácio do
Planalto, na decisão do ministro da Aeronáutica na época. Tendo em
vista esses eventos, o objetivo dessa pesquisa é analisar as
diferentes posturas da FAB sobre ao fenômeno dos Oanis no séc. XX,
por meio dos seus documentos oficiais, ao relacionar as principais
evidencias coletadas por essa instituição sobre esses fenômenos
sob um contexto de guerra aérea e de utilização de tecnologias não
convencionais.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">La
monografía se puede descargar desde el siguiente enlace: </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/21434"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/21434</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Entre
Ufólogos, Creyentes y Contactados</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">En
1993, Cuadernos de Ufología editó el primer libro del antropólogo
cántabro Ignacio Cabria, cuyo subtítulo expresa mucho mejor su
contenido: Una historia social de los OVNIS en España. Cabria ‒lo
hace en todas sus obras‒, realiza una descripción minuciosa y un
análisis sociológico impecable, que hace que sus libros sean
materiales imprescindibles para cualquiera que desee indagar en el
asunto de los ovnis. Pues bien, de aquella edición agotada se han
recuperado 100 ejemplares que habían quedado almacenados y olvidados
y que la editorial Reediciones Anómalas acaba de sacar a la luz. Por
si el cupo se termina, aconsejo a quienes no la atesoren ya en su
biblioteca personal que la soliciten enseguida. Y desde ya pido a la
reeditora que la reedite. El libro se compra desde este portal: </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://reedicionesanomalas.bigcartel.com/product/entre-ufologos-y-contactados"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://reedicionesanomalas.bigcartel.com/product/entre-ufologos-y-contactados</span></span></a></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Psicopatologías
y observación ovni</u></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
psicólogo belga Jean-Michel Abrassart es el autor de un trabajo
titulado “UFO phenomenon and psychopathology: A case study” (El
fenómeno ovni y la psicopatología: Estudio de un caso). Esta es la
traducción de su resumen:</span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>El
Modelo Psicosocial explica el fenómeno ovni con los siguientes
mecanismos: errores simples, errores elaborados, alucinaciones,
recuerdos falsos y engaños. Este artículo se centrará
específicamente en el tema de las alucinaciones en relación con los
avistamientos de ovnis. Si las ilusiones son distorsiones perceptivas
de un estímulo objetivo, las alucinaciones son, por definición,
percepciones sin ningún estímulo. Esos casos son probablemente
raros, pero existen. La investigación en psicología ha demostrado
que la prevalencia de psicopatologías no es mayor entre los testigos
ovni que la población general. Sin embargo, también sabemos hoy que
las personas pueden tener alucinaciones, incluidas las alucinaciones
visuales, sin sufrir una psicopatología. Presentaremos el estudio de
un caso tras una breve revisión de la literatura.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Esta
lectura me ha resultado especialmente significativa porque en mi
experiencia como encuestador ha quedado patente que personas
aparentemente normales pueden generar visiones ovnis del todo
irreales, esto es, la clase de alucinación visual de la que habla el
Dr. Abrassart. Probablemente este modelo hay que aplicarlo a ciertas
observaciones de alta extrañeza, en las que hay únicamente un
testigo, para las que nuestra impresión es que el testigo cree a
pies juntillas lo que vio, o sea, no se trata de una fabulación
premeditada, pero al mismo tiempo el episodio narrado nunca ha
sucedido. Este es el enlace al citado ensayo:</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.academia.edu/16448052/UFO_phenomenon_and_psychopathology_A_case_study_full_paper_</span></a></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Brillante
meteoro sobre el Mediterráneo</u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Información
y gráficos por ordenador en el siguiente enlace analizando el más
reciente bólido observado en España: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CDpbhFHEFL8"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">https://youtu.be/CDpbhFHEFL8</span></span></a></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Esta
brillante bola de fuego sobrevoló el mar Mediterráneo en la
madrugada del 6 de diciembre de 2017, a las 5:22 hora local (4:22
tiempo universal). Se produjo como consecuencia de la entrada en la
atmósfera terrestre de una roca a una velocidad de unos 140 mil
km/h. El evento, cuya trayectoria se situó entre las costas de las
Islas Baleares y la Comunidad Valenciana, se inició a una altitud de
unos 100 sobre el nivel del mar, finalizando a una altura de
alrededor de 52 km. Las imágenes de esta bola de fuego han sido
registradas en el marco del proyecto SMART (Universidad de Huelva)
desde los observatorios astronómicos de La Hita (Toledo) y Calar
Alto (Almería).</i></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Miscelánea</u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(1)
Tratado astronómico de 1646 de Francesco Fontana, ca. 1585-1656:
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><u>Novae
coelestium, terrestriumq[ue] rerum observationes et fortasse hactenus
non vulgatae</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(“</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Nuevas
observaciones de las cosas celestes y terrestres, y posiblemente no
difundidas hasta la fecha”),</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></i></span></span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=1851"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="pt-BR" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=1851</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)
Luis Alfonso Gámez escribe sobre el origen del movimiento escéptico
español:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/el_origen_del_movimiento_esceptico_espanol"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/el_origen_del_movimiento_esceptico_espanol</span></span></a></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(3)
M</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">asivo
avistamiento espacial desde Argentina y Uruguay el 7 de octubre de
2017, informe del comodoro Rubén Lianza, director del CEFAE:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.aeroespacio.com.ar/fenomenos-aeroespaciales/masivo-avistamiento-de-un-fenomeno-aeroespacial-en-varias-provincias-argentinas/"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.aeroespacio.com.ar/fenomenos-aeroespaciales/masivo-avistamiento-de-un-fenomeno-aeroespacial-en-varias-provincias-argentinas/</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(4)
Biblioteca UPIAR, una fuente extraordinaria de libros y monografías,
en varios idiomas, sobre fenomenología ovni y su estudio:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=14">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=14</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=13">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=13</a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=4"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://upiar.com/index.cfm?mode=normal&catID=4</span></span></a></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(5)
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUNlite</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
es un boletín en línea editado regularmente por Tim Printy, notable
sucesor del que publicaba el fallecido Philip Klass (</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Skeptical
UFO Newsletter</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">,
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>SUN</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">).
Es la expresión de la voz de la razón entre tanta irracionalidad en
la ufología americana. En el siguiente enlace están todos los
números publicados:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite.htm"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/SUNlite.htm</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">(6)
Ha aparecido el número 5 de la revista digital italiana </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><i>Cielo
Insolito</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">,
como siempre explorando aspectos históricos de sucesos relacionados
con el fenómeno ovni: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.wikiufo.org/cieloinsolito5.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">http://www.wikiufo.org/cieloinsolito5.pdf</span></span></a></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">(7)
A muchos ufólogos también les interesan otros misterios y leyendas
de nuestro planeta, como por ejemplo la del Yeti. La ciencia
biológica ha examinado la mejor evidencia física recogida sobre
dicho ser fantástico. Y ha llegado a una conclusión que se puede
leer en este artículo: </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-misterio-yeti-resuelto-esto-realidad-201711290209_noticia.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-misterio-yeti-resuelto-esto-realidad-201711290209_noticia.html</span></span></a></u></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BIBLIOGRAFÍA</b></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Los
extraterrestres han muerto</u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Rodrigo
Bravo Garrido es piloto y ufólogo chileno que presenta en su nuevo
libro un planteamiento maduro y no sesgado del llamado misterio de
los ovnis, fruto de años de estudio. El autor señala: </span></span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A
setenta años del nacimiento de la llamada “Era Moderna de los
Ovnis”, consta en nuestra sociedad una subcultura muy potente y de
gran influencia en todos los medios de comunicación, como también
en las redes sociales, que promueve y ampara la creencia de que los
fenómenos anómalos observados y denunciados proceden de un origen
inteligente y de fuera de nuestro planeta. Esto por una base de
credos, actividades comerciales o simples pasatiempos que han elevado
este auténtico mito a horizontes sorprendentes, generando la
unificación del concepto “ovni” con “extraterrestre” como
una composición prácticamente indisoluble. Este libro analiza las
razones de cómo numerosos investigadores, ufólogos, contactados,
abducidos y escépticos han contribuido a la riqueza literaria,
verbal o virtual de este tema, ya que estarán detallados en una
línea de tiempo las principales efemérides con las que se ha
forjado la ufología.</i></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
libro (se trata del Tomo I) está disponible en Amazon:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9563687604?ref_=pe_870760_150889320"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9563687604?ref_=pe_870760_150889320</span></span></a></span></div>
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Minutes in June-Reseña</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">En
la última edición del blog publiqué la reseña de este reciente
libro del Dr. Bruce Maccabee, pero la escribí en inglés y sólo
apareció en la sección correspondiente de mi cuaderno de bitácora.
El investigador mejicano Luis Ruiz Noguez la ha traducido al
castellano y publicado en su conocido blog “marcianitos verdes”.
Seguidamente doy el enlace para los lectores de habla hispana: </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/09/maccabee-y-el-avistamiento-de-arnold/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/09/maccabee-y-el-avistamiento-de-arnold/</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>AGENDA
PERSONAL</b></span></span></div>
<div lang="es-ES" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Reunión</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">A
finales de noviembre me reuní con dos de mis colaboradores de
Valencia, el ingeniero industrial Juan P. González y Josep Carles
Laínez, filólogo y teólogo, con la finalidad de reexaminar uno de
los más sobresalientes encuentros cercanos de 1974, precursor de la
oleada de aquel año. Josep evaluará desde una perspectiva fresca e
imparcial ‒partiendo desde cero‒ el más completo dossier del
caso, que reúne la primera información de prensa, cartas y
formularios manuscritos del testigo, investigación del caso, los
informes emitidos por varios autores, el archivo del ejército del
aire, entrevistas recientes al testigo, etc. Espero que este nuevo
estudio arroje una aguda visión de lo que realmente pudo ocurrir en
ese episodio trascendental de la ufología española. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">De
pie, de izquierda a derecha: González, Ballester Olmos y Laínez.</span></div>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>En
familia</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Me
dispensarán ustedes si me permito presentarles a mi nieto mayor Lucas
(de 21 meses), a través de esta improvisada foto familiar sacada
este verano en nuestro chalet de La Eliana. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El
pasado mes de septiembre tuvo lugar en el Palau de la Música de
Valencia el brillante acto académico de graduación de la promoción
2017 de Finanzas y Contabilidad (FIC) de la Facultad de Economía de
la Universidad de Valencia. Con natural satisfacción, dejo
constancia gráfica del fin de carrera de nuestro hijo Daniel
Ballester Miquel, en la foto con sus padres y su hermana (y
profesora) Laura.</span></div>
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gratitud a los siguientes colegas que han aportado información o
análisis a la presente edición del blog: Alejandro Agostinelli,
Luis Ruiz Noguez, Maurizio Verga, Josep Carles Laínez, Luis R.
González, Matías Morey y Jaime Servera. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A
Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf</span></span></a></span></div>
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el fenómeno aterrizaje</b></u></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
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OVNIS y la Ciencia</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con Miguel Guasp)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Investigación
OVNI </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Enciclopedia
de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con J.A. Fernández Peris) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "symbol" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Expedientes
insólitos </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay
ejemplares en el mercado de segunda mano, por ejemplo:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">IBERLIBRO:
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb4lfx6e</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">UNILIBER:</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4">https://tinyurl.com/ycavb3x4</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">LIBRERÍA
ALCANÁ, Madrid: </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb44hf6e">https://tinyurl.com/yb44hf6e</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">AMAZON:</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Norway
in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(con O.J. Braenne)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=174&st=1</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>UFOs
and the Government</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(con M. Swords & R. Powell y C. Svahn, B. Chalker, B. Greenwood,
R. Thieme, J. Aldrich y S. Purcell)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64">http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=64</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/">https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Avistamientos
OVNI en la Antártida en 1965</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">
(con M. Borraz, H. Janosch y J.C. Victorio)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=182&st=1</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Belgium
in UFO Photographs. Volume 1 (1950-1988)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(con Wim van Utrecht)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1">http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=191&st=1</a></span></span><br />
<b style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">COMO
PUEDE COLABORAR CON EL PROYECTO FOTOCAT</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay
varias opciones de colaboración a su disposición, a saber:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 1.
Trabajo voluntario, presencial o a distancia</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"> 2.
Entrega de información sobre casos, fotografías, archivos o
bibliografía. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 3.
Donaciones para ayudar a sufragar gastos de investigación</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES">Puede
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