UFO News Article (Blog): “For the cost of a New Year’s Eve bash ...”

By Billy Cox, 19 October 2015

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox writes about UFODATA, focusing especially on the crowd-funding initiative of the new UFO research organisation:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15393/for-the-cost-of-a-new-years-eve-bash/

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UFO Article: “New, Innovative Approach to the Scientific Study of UFOs”

By Mark Rodeghier, UFODATA and CUFOS

16 October 2015 (The UFO Chronicles)

Dr. Mark Rodeghier reports about the new UFO research organisation, UFODATA (UFO Detection and Tracking):

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2015/10/new-innovative-approach-to-scientific.html

Dr. Mark Rodeghier, Astrophysicist, Sociologist,

President & Scientific Director of CUFOS
(theufochronicles.com photo)

UFO Website: “UFODATA”

Quote from the website:

“UFODATA – A Way Forward in UFO Science

At UFODATA we seek to create a systematic, rigorous science of UFO phenomena. Such a science is needed because of misplaced certainties on both sides of the UFO debate: ‘believers’ convinced that UFOs are extraterrestrials, and ‘skeptics’ equally convinced that UFOs do not even exist. Our own view is that humanity knows very little about the true nature of unexplained UFO reports, and that the only way to resolve this lack of understanding is through serious scientific study. This is now possible for the first time in the history of UFO research as a result of an unprecedented convergence of high resolution digital camera technologies, off-the shelf scientific instrumentation, powerful low-cost computing platforms, and ubiquitous high-speed internet access.

The UFODATA Project

Our goal is to exploit this technological convergence by building a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors that will monitor the skies 24/7 looking for aerial anomalies. After over two years of developing our ideas, making plans, and testing relevant technologies we are now ready to move into the next phase – a ‘proof of concept’ by developing our first working prototype of a fully functioning monitoring station. This station will have a core optical unit with cameras capable of detecting and recording both an image and spectra, a magnetic sensing unit, instrumentation to detect microwave and other radiation, and other sensors to record atmospheric and local environmental data. Alarm triggers will initiate recording by all the equipment, permitting capture of a broad range of physical data that can then be analyzed by experts.

Our Team

UFODATA’s team is currently comprised of over a dozen volunteers – scientists, engineers, technologists, and UFO researchers with over 250 combined years of involvement in this area. Some of us already have extensive experience in fieldwork or automated scientific data collection on UFO phenomena. We are also joined by several ‘silent partners,’ all scientists and engineers at academic institutions who are prepared to lend a hand, but because of the cultural stigma attached to UFOs have chosen to keep their involvement private. Still, we have need of further forms of expertise and thus are actively seeking additional volunteers.

Crowd-Funding a UFO Science

To finance potentially large projects like this scientists usually look to official grants. However, it is impossible for us to pursue this funding model because both governmental and scientific authorities observe a ‘taboo’ on the whole subject. So if there is going to be a science of UFOs it will have to come from the bottom-up rather than the top-down. Thus, our strategy will be to rely on crowd-funding, small donations from the thousands – even millions – of you out there who, like us, think that UFOs deserve serious scientific scrutiny.”

http://www.ufodata.net

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U.S. Government UFO Documents/Audio Recording/Transcript/NICAP Article: The 1965 Edwards AFB Incident

(NICAP.org)

The Edwards Air Force Base (California) UFO incident occurred on 7 October 1965:

http://www.nicap.org/docs/edwards_docs.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/docs/edwards_docs2.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/docs/edwards_trans_corr.htm

http://www.nicap.org/docs/edwards_proof_clark.htm

Edwards Air Force Base is located to the east of Rosamond, California.

Satellite photo of Rosamond, California (tageo.com)

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Aerial view of the Edwards and George Air Force Bases (nicap.org)
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UFO Article: “UFO Alert At Edwards Air Force Base – A true account by Samuel M. Sherman”

Source: NICAP.org

Samuel M. Sherman, a Hollywood writer, producer, distributor and UFO researcher, reports on the acquisition and editing of the 7 October 1965 Edwards AFB (California) audio tapes:

http://www.nicap.org/edwards65b.htm

Aerial view of Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California

(wikimedia.org photo)

Google Searches: Focus On the National Institute of Aerospace Phenomena Investigations (Instituto Nacional de Investigação de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais) (INFA) (Brazil)

https://www.google.no/search?num=100&q=Instituto+Nacional+de+Investigação+de+Fenômenos+Aeroespaciais+(INFA) (Web)

https://www.google.no/search?num=100&source=lnms&tbm=vid&q=Instituto+Nacional+de+Investigação +de+Fenômenos +Aeroespaciais+(INFA) (Videos)

https://www.google.no/search?num=100&q=National+Institute+of+Aerospace+Phenomena+Investigations+(INFA) (Web)

UFO filmed (in Maranhão (state), Brazil on 27 March 2005) 

by a Brazilian airplane pilot – a case investigated by INFA 
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UFO Article: “The legacy of Claudeir Covo to Ufology”

By Paulo R. Poian, 14 May 2012

(Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine), Campo Grande, Brazil)

The Brazilian engineer and UFO researcher Claudeir Covo is co-editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine, president of the National Institute of Aerospace Phenomena Investigations (INFA), TV INFA and state representative of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON):

https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.ufo.com.br/noticias/o-legado-de-claudeir-covo-a-ufologia

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UFO News Article: “Interview: Claudeir Covo”

By Alexandre Marcos Lourenço Barbosa

Year 2, No. 14, February 2008 
(Jornal O Lince, Aparecida, Brazil)

Claudeir Covo is a Brazilian engineer and UFO researcher:

https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.jornalolince.com.br/2008/fev/entrevista/claudeir.php (1)

https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.jornalolince.com.br/2008/fev/entrevista/claudeir2.php (2)

Brazilian ufologists visited COMDABRA (Brazil’s Aerospace Defense Command) in Brasilia on 20 May 2005

(From left to right: Roberto Beck, Rafael Cury, Marco Petit,
A. J. Gevaerd, Fernando Ramalho and Claudeir Covo)
(rense.com photo)

UFO TV Reports/Documentary Film Excerpt: Zimbabwe School UFO 1994

Source: savedfaves2 (YouTube channel)

The mass UFO sighting occurred at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, on 16 September 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKC11SDnog

John Mack interviews one of the witnesses

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO Incidents At Interstate Highways: H-1, I-2, I-4, I-5 I-8, I-10, I-12 and I-15 (Main Interstate Routes)

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT):

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA):

“FHWA Route Log and Finder List”:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/index.cfm

“FHWA Route Log and Finder List:

Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways ”:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table01.cfm

Interstate H-1 (H-1) (Hawaii), Interstate 2 (I-2) (Texas), Interstate 4 (I-4) (Florida),  Interstate 5 (I-5) (California, Oregon and Washington), Interstate 8 (I-8) (California and Arizona), Interstate 10 (I-10) (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida), Interstate 12 (I-12) (Louisiana), Interstate 15 (I-15) (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Montana).

Website: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC.org):

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+H-1”+site:nuforc.org

(Search term: Interstate H-1 (Hawaii) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“H-1”+site:nuforc.org

(H-1 (Hawaii) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+2”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 2 (Texas) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-2”+site:nuforc.org

(I-2 (Texas) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+4”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 4 (Florida) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-4”+site:nuforc.org

(I-4 (Florida) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+5”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 5 (California, Oregon and Washington) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-5”+site:nuforc.org

(I-5 (California, Oregon and Washington) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+8”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 8 (California and Arizona) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-8”+site:nuforc.org

(I-8 (California and Arizona) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+10”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 10 (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-10”+site:nuforc.org

(I-10 (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+12”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 12 (Louisiana) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-12”+site:nuforc.org

(I-12 (Louisiana) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+15”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 15 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Montana) site:nuforc.org)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-15”+site:nuforc.org

(I-15 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Montana) site:nuforc.org)

Website: UFO DNA (thecid.com/ufo) 
(NOTE: Most of the reports come from NUFORC.org):

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+H-1”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate H-1 (Hawaii) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“H-1”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(H-1 (Hawaii) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+2”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 2 (Texas) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-2”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-2 (Texas) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+4”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 4 (Florida) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-4”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-4 (Florida) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+5”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 5 (California, Oregon and Washington) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-5”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-5 (California, Oregon and Washington) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+8”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 8 (California and Arizona) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-8”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-8 (California and Arizona) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+10”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 10 (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-10”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-10 (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+12”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 12 (Louisiana) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-12”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-12 (Louisiana) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“Interstate+15”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 15 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Montana) site:thecid.com/ufo)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=
“I-15”+site:thecid.com/ufo
(I-15 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Montana) site:thecid.com/ufo)

Wikipedia article: “Interstate H-1”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_H-1

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 2”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_2

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 4”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_4

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 5”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 8”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_8

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 10”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_10

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 12”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_12

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 15”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_15

U.S. Interstate Highway System Map (wikimedia.org)

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UFO News Article: “UFO sightings are released”

10 June 1976 
(Quad-City Herald, Brewster, Washington)

The article reports on five cases (in Washington State (two), Oregon, Idaho and Montana) that all involved a close encounter between a car and a UFO:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1015&dat=19760610&id=HtwkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uhAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=863,1508491

Quote from the article:

“Pateros City Hall received a reporting procedure this week from the Phenomena Research Center in Seattle, and a run-down on Unidentified Flying Objects and possible related events reported this past year worldwide.”

Satellite photo of Wolf Creek, Oregon (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Article (Blog): “Found: two more Australian government files on the 1978 Valentich disappearance”

By Keith Basterfield, 12 September 2015

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

The Frederick Valentich disappearance occurred on 21 October 1978:

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2015/09/found-two-more-australian-government.html

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UFO News Article: “Mystery objects set off Europe’s latest UFO scare”

7 November 1990 
(The Blade, Toledo, Ohio)

Quote from the article:

“But Belgium, where dozens of people reported a triangular object with three lights flying slowly and soundlessly to the southwest, said its air force was studying the reports with neighboring air force observers.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19901107&id=1VJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DwMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5771,1681062

Freeze-frame from a video of one of the triangular shaped UFOs which was seen over Belgium during the 1989/1990 UFO wave

(google.com image)

Map of Belgium (vidiani.com)

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UFO Article: “The Air Force of Peru is back investigating UFOs”

18 October 2013

(Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine), Campo Grande, Brazil)

The Peruvian government’s UFO research department is called Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (Department of Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena) (DIFAA):

https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://ufo.com.br/noticias/forca-aerea-do-peru-volta-a-investigar-ufos/

The Coat of Arms of the 
Peruvian Air Force (FAP)

(wikimedia.org image)

UFO News Article: “Judge orders more data in UFO case”

18 and 19 February 2000

(Today’s News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, Arizona)

The article reports on the 13 March 1997 Phoenix (Arizona) UFO case:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=875&dat=20000219&id=BVwdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sFkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6961,5722452

Quote from the article:

“ ‘It’s a start, it’s encouraging, it’s a step to learning the truth,’ attorney Peter Gersten, executive director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, said Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Stephen McNamee on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to provide spesifics by March 17 on how e-mail and a computerized index search were used to locate information on the lighted object.

The U.S. government initially said it had done a ‘reasonable’ search for the documents, but came up empty-handed and wanted the case dismissed.

Gersten said he is still skeptical the Defense Department will provide documents he believes exist, including eyewitness descriptions and sketches of the object.

‘This lawsuit has the possibility of being a landmark FOIA case for reasonableness of searches and good faith affidavits,’ he said. ‘This could change the future of UFO litigation.’ ”

Satellite photo of Phoenix, Arizona (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article: “Mysterious lights spotted over I-84”

30 April 1982 
(Evening News, Beacon, New York)

The article reports on a UFO observation made by David 
VanTassel, his wife and two other persons on the night of 
29 April 1982:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19820430&id=moRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mzINAAAAIBAJ&pg=1928,3886729

The UFO was sighted near Carmel/Brewster (New York), according to VanTassel.

Quote from the article:

“None of the lights were flashing, however, convincing me it was something more than a regular aircraft or helicopter.

He said the object was ‘shaped kind of like a V, with six red lights on it.’

VanTassel said when he and the group first saw the lights, the object ‘was hovering over St John’s Church. When we noticed it and got out to look, it was almost as if the object spotted us, because the lights all went off.’ 

VanTassel said the object gave off no sound whatsoever. ‘At first I thought it might be a blimp, but when the lights separated I knew it wasn’t,’ he said.”

Satellite photo of Carmel, New York (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article: “See UFO Overhead In Kansas”

30 January 1961 
(The Fort Scott Tribune, Kansas)

The UFO was sighted over the Kansas City area and other locales (Fort Riley, Schilling AFB in Salina, Hays, Larned, Hill City, Goodland and Kirksville) on 29/30 January 1961 (from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.):

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1906&dat=19610126&id=NdkfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QdkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1246,1078369

Quote from the article:

“The Federal Aviation Agency station at Hill City watched the object from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. It was northeast of that station.”

NOTE: The newspaper date is 30 January 1961.

Satellite photo of Kansas City, Kansas (tageo.com)

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Map of Kansas (lib.utexas.edu)

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