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    Archive for March, 2013
    23
    Mar

    Beyond prohibition of thought. Modules for reflexive UFO-research

    Comments Off on Beyond prohibition of thought. Modules for reflexive UFO-researchBlog, NewsMarch 23rd, 2013Philippe

    A new book has been published (in German) this month featuring my paper ” The Lure of Local SETI: 50 Years of Field Experiments”, a document that I had prepared for the First IAA Symposium on Searching for Life Signatures (UNESCO/Paris – September 2008).

    A very interesting book, a short introduction here:

    Michael Schetsche, Andreas Anton (Eds.

    To date UFOs have remained a mystery. Their appearance usually occurs unexpected and is always unpredictable. Probably this is why they have been hidden from academic sight for so long.

    UFOs are a fantastic phenomenon with a broad range of interpretation. It can raise inconvenient questions – it may even appear as a threat to scientific certainty itself. For most observers, it will ultimately stay a rather unreal reality.

    Are UFOs more than a cultural neomyth? Is it nothing but hard to explain yet natural phenomena – or is it a portent of extraterrestrial civilizations after all?

    UFOs are and remain a challenge to our thinking. After 65 years of helplessness it appears to be time for a new beginning.

    The new paradigm of reflexive UFO research claims: The only way to understand this contradictory phenomenon is through the interaction of natural and cultural sciences. This requires openness to theory and empirical willingness to cooperate on both sides.

    Only a natural and cultural scientifically informed approach to UFO research will have a chance to find a way into academic science: beyond all previous prohibition of thought.

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    Mar

    Hessdalen Transient Luminous Phenomena: A new scientific theory on an electrochemical model

    Comments Off on Hessdalen Transient Luminous Phenomena: A new scientific theory on an electrochemical modelBlog, NewsMarch 22nd, 2013Philippe

    The Italian researchers have came up last month with a new theory for explaining the Hessdalen Phenomenon. It suggests that the local characteristics of the valley lead to the production of cold plasmas and/or ion bubbles, by means of chemical effects and thanks to the self-consistency due to the polar properties of water.

    However, the document states that this paper does not aim to provide a solution to the origin of the Hessdalen Phenomenon and that ”…to better investigate this working hypothesis, future campaigns will have to focus on the acquisition of wider and higher‐resolution fully calibrated spectra, exploiting the professional instrumentation usually employed in astrophysical observations…”

    The English paper can be downloaded from the Italian Committee Project’s website:

     

     

    ‘HESSDALEN: a perfect “natural battery”

    Abstract: After 12 years of thorough research, we believe we added an important element to the comprehension of the mysterious phenomenon. The valley shows electrical anomalies, Moreover it has peculiar geological and mineral characteristics. Such features have helped us to put forward a working hypothesis on what we here call “natural battery”, an electrochemical That model could be tested conceiving proper experiments and field measurements.

     

    http://www.itacomm.net/PH/2013_Monari_et-al-en.pdf