The EGU General Assembly 2013 (7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria) was again a great success with 4,684 oral, 8,207 poster, and, for the very first time, 452 PICO presentations. 448 unique scientific sessions together with 96 Poster Summaries & Discussions as well as 143 side events created an interesting programme. At the conference 11,167 scientists from 95 countries participated, of which 28% were students, 15,000 copies of EGU Today distributed, keen media presence and reporting, and thousands of visits to the webstreams as well as to the EGU blog GEOLOG.

Similarly to last year, the scientists studying the Hessdalen phenomena attended the event, participating to a Poster session (abstract + poster here attached). These scientists can be contacted through the quoted emails.

EGU2013-12725 abstract

EGU2013 Poster Hessdalen

On the 11th of January 2013, a series of meetings took place in Paris between the American Mutual UFO Network (MUFON, David MacDonald), the French Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group (GEIPAN, Xavier Passot) and various European Ufologists. These meetings were organised by John Tomlinson, a French MUFON Regional Director, and Jacky Kozan, one of the founders of the Academy of Ufology.

The overall goal of the MUFON coming to Paris was to set the basis of an international scientific cooperation between MUFON and different European UAP organisations. One of the first priorities was to define some cooperation between the MUFON and the GEIPAN, starting with the finalization of a memorandum of understanding regarding guidelines for sighting cases occured in France and collected by MUFON. Besides various individual meetings held during the day between the participants, a special MUFON presentation was organized on Saturday evening by Guy Loterre (OVNI-Paris) and Jacky Kozan in Paris-La Defense.

My summary notes of this event are attached here below:

2013 MUFON Paris meeting_notes