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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In relation to the Norwegian’s spiral sighting (December 9. 2009) and others past UAP sightings, two Russian scientific papers explaining the physics behind such optical phenomena. Rockets launches and associated tracks left by expended rockets plumes moving through the sky are often responsible for UAP mis-identifications (e.g. Norway 2009, Petrozavodsk 1977).  Indeed most spectacular bursts [...]

On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s gate group who had committed suicide in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet Hale–Bopp, which was at its brightest.  Heaven’s gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California. Such situation should [...]

A professional website (http://www.ipaco.fr/page24.html ) has recently been launched designed to present a state-of-the-art stand point in the field of extracting objective information from digital still or video imagery in which a (so far) non-identified object or phenomenon appears. It also offers for sale user licenses of the IPACO software, which has been specifically developed for [...]

Three posters presented during the last EGU 2012 assembly, by the Norwegian/Italian/French scientists studying the Hessdalen Phenomena (ST3 – Solar-Terrestrial Sciences – Open session on the ionosphere and thermosphere), reflecting their activities’ progress.   1. Unknown radio emission at about 3 MHz recorded in Norway 1.1 Abstract: EGU2012-5186 1.2 Poster:Unknown radio emission at about 3 MHz [...]

Last May, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on GEIPAN, the official French bureau (part of the CNES, the French space agency, ” Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales”) in charge of investigating UFO sightings on the French territory (since 1977). I have prepared a small document in support of the presentation given by Xavier Passot, [...]

Spanish (courtesy of Sergio) and Italian (courtesy of Paolo) questionnaires added under the “Reporting blog” .  Now Just Arabic and Chinese (Mandarin) missing for completing the official languages of the United Nations.           Also, a Blog entry about ATC (Air Traffic Control) Spanish sightings…

 As this week I will atttend the EGU (European Geosciences Union annual conference)  in Vienna and meet the Hessdalen Norwegian researchers, I thought that it was the perfect time to post this interview of Erling Strand. (all articles’ photos are courtesy of Project Hessdalen, Erling Strand and Bjorn Gitle Hauge)   The Hessdalen Phenomena (HP) [...]

  For starting 2012, we would like to inform you that two new features have recently been introduced: * A new tab has been added on the website. It is called “viewing tips” and aims at giving general advice to the public on the best way to handle  any  unusual aerial perception, while it is [...]

In order to provide some complementary information and a different perspective about Ufologyto the readers, I have decided to run some (serious) interviews with different researchers and organisations involved in the field and to document these talks under the blog. My first session is directed towards one of the most serious North-American association, the CUFOS. [...]

Two recent additions: – Under Blog, a comparison between some recent iridescent cloud pictures taken in Nepal and two pictures that had been collected by the UK MoD in their UFO files; – A new reference document (under Document) pertaining to the topic of UFOs and Astronomers:  ”A statistical survey among Italian astronomical observatories” ( Pittella, Massimo. UPIAR [...]

Having participated to the last EGU assembly in Vienna, I would like to bring forward a short feedback and some materials (abstracts & posters PDF files) relating to the posters presented on the Hessdalen Phenomena and UAP topic. 1. The EGU The European Geosciences Union (EGU), founded in 2002 as a merger of the European [...]

Although not directly related to the project, I have added under the “About us” / Publications a paper that I wrote last January for the European Space Policy Institute. It is called “UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters”. Readers interested with the “Extraterrestrial hypothesis” (The hypothesis that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being extraterrestrial [...]

In addition to English and French, sightings report forms have also been made available in three other languages: Dutch, Portuguese and Russian. They can be found under the tab ” Submit a report”.

Various additions: – The new TWAN mystery has been posted under the Blog, – The information related to Satellites misidentifications has been expended in relation to the Naval Ocean Surveillance System/NOSS Double and Triple Satellite Formations. – A French article from the astronomical magazine “Ciel et Espace” (April 1992): OVNIs, l’avis des astronomes, has been [...]

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A rare Blue Book historical report has been uploaded under the tab “Documents”. Dated August 1952, the special report on conferences with astronomers on unidentified aerial objects was prepared by J. Allen Hynek and aimed at recounting personal opinions of 45 professionally trained astronomical observers regarding unidentified aerial objects. It also reported sightings by five [...]

Participation to two major European scientific conferences: * JENAM 2010, The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (Lisboa, Portugal), http://www.jenam2010.org/ * EPSC 2010, The European Planetary Science Congress (Roma, Italy), http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2010/ My presentation and poster (see poster herebelow attached) focused on promoting the project and providing some preliminary results, almost one year after its launch under the [...]

Update of the website: A new category of daytime misidentifications has been added under the tab “Misidentifications”: Vortex Rings

Collaboration has started with the programme “The world at night (TWAN)” http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp, in order to obtain pictures or films of intriguing natural/man-made phenomena, or even UAP. Launched in 2009 as a special project of the International Year of Astronomy, TWAN aims at producing and presenting a collection of stunning photographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks [...]

The UAP observations reporting scheme currently participates to the Global Astronomy Month (GAM, April 2010), an international project organised by Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) that builds on the achievements of the International Year of Astronomy, by combining a wide array of activities with the possibility of sharing experiences in real-time. “The excitement of bringing people [...]

Second press release Further advertising of the project has been on going in order to reach the widest possible astronomical audience. Last December, an important American Astronomical Organisation has accepted to distribute the project’s information to its network of astronomical and space science’s journalists. According to my interlocutor, one of the most common questions sent to this organisation is: [...]