The NASA historical decision to run a UAP study has raised several comments from scientists including astronomers. Here is an article about such reactions, before the NASA report ot be made availalbe in a few months.World’s Astronomers Comment on NASA’s New UAP/UFO Study

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. It has around 30,000 individual members from 91 different countries. Our COI mission is to improve aviation safety by enhancing scientific knowledge, and mitigating barriers to, the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (#UAP). AIAA UAP Community of Interest. https://twitter.com/AIAA_UAP The […]

“Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics” https://www.docdroid.net/IO2hKxr/1-s20-s0376042121000907-main-pdf

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/12/defense-spending-bill-contains-most-significant-ufo-legislation-1960s/187440/ Some significant development as the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022 would mandate the formal establishment of a federal office, organizational structure, and authorities to confront unidentified aerial phenomena, the Defense Department’s modern term for UFOs. (Ref. pages 1491 onwards). Some very interesting content, in particular how finally the scientific research’s angle is […]

An interesting statistical paper on UAP was published in 2015 on the arXiv.org  University site.  Michaël Vaillant, a CNES/GEIPAN collaborator and two other persons from the Toulouse School of Economics, issued a serious analysis on the French UAP cases from the GEIPAN database. It should be recalled that GEIPAN is still currently the only official organism […]

With the 70th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting over a formation of crescent-shaped UAPs and of the Roswell “UFO crash”, I thought that this was a good time for providing a new blog entry with some reflections and links to some interesting information:   – PERSPECTIVES: UFO researchers Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Thomas E. Bullard […]

The 2015 Canadian UFO Survey has now been published. Since 1989, Ufology Research (formerly Ufology Research of Manitoba) has solicited UFO case data from known and active investigators and researchers in Canada. The goal has been to provide data for use by researchers trying to understand this controversial phenomenon. 2015 marked the 27th year of collecting […]

For the past couple of years, a small team of scientists and professionals (including myself), has been planning an innovative approach to the scientific study of UFOs. Our goal is simple: to build a network of automated stations with a variety of scientific instruments to capture comprehensive, scientifically valid data on the UFO phenomenon. We […]

A recent serious article about the interest of performing some scientific investigation: https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/blog/scientific-investigation-unidentified-anomalous-phenomana   About 5% of the reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — or so-called UFOs — can’t be explained and should be thoroughly investigated by mainstream scientists according to Etienne Caron (Canada). Together with Massimo Teodorani, astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute for […]

Exciting news. Next week on July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, after a very long journey of nearly a decade, will fly past Pluto and become the first spacecraft to make a close approach to this body (who was until recently classified as the ninth planet of our solar system). On the arrival date, this […]

D. J. Eicher wrote an article in the March 2015 issue of Astronomy Magazine entitled “Let’s cut the UFO crap”.  The title and footnote of this article are offensive and inaccurate.  Answering Mr. Eicher’s letter is necessary, and perhaps will contribute to a constructive debate.   Similar to scientists and skeptics who dismiss and disparage […]

My article for the March 2015 issue of the Astrosociological Insights Newsletter which focused on Astrobiology. Online (page 21) at: http://www.astrosociology.org/Library/PDF/Newsletters/ARI-Newsletter_Vol-4_Iss-1_04-2015.pdf   Picture below: Alleged UFO landing trace, Delphos ring soil, Kansas, 1971 Courtesy: MUFON

Background Similarly to other countries around the world, Italy represents an historical rich country with respect of the number of UFO observations and the different UFO researches undertaken. As a result of a wave of UFO sightings in 1978 and some questions raised by members of the Italian Parliament, the then Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti […]

As mentioned during the UAP worskop in Paris last July, CNES/GEIPAN have now made available on line the totality of the material presented. This represents a considerable resource for those seriously interested in the scientific potential of UAPs. CNES/GEIPAN shall be felicitated by this transparency and efforts for organising such event and making rapidly available […]

http://ufology-news.com/intervyu/intervyu-s-filippom-aillerisom.html     Background: Project “News Ufology”  as an alternative media was launched in July 2011. The aim of the project is to provide adequate information and networking opportunities for people interested in unidentified flying objects (UFO) [1] and the anomalous aerospace phenomena (AAP) [2]. The site provides the most current news ufology [3], the […]

Luc Dini, president of the French 3AF’ s Technical Commission “SIGMA 2” has published last July a clear communication about the composition, role and objectives of the commission. Compared to his predecessor (SIGMA), the planned activities for a duration of 3 years are aimed at being more technical and scientific (see illustration below and details under […]

An excellent report (pdf) summarizing 25 years of Canadian UFO reports. Ufology Research, formerly UFOROM (Ufology Research of Manitoba), has been collecting and reviewing Canadian reports since 1989, publishing the results as the annual Canadian UFO Survey. As explained by the authors “…When the 2013 edition was published in 2014, it marked 25 years of the […]

Poster presented by the Norwegian researchers during the April’s 2014 EGU conference in Vienna. Abstract EGU2014-HP Poster EGU Hessdalen 2014 red1    

UAP Observations Reporting Scheme spoke recently with Chris Rutkowski about Canadian Ufology. Last March, he published the 2013 Canadian UFO Survey on the following website: http://www.canadianuforeport.com/survey/essay/2013essayv2.html.  Data for that yearare available there, as well as various charts and graphs. Chris Rutkowski also mentioned to us that 2014 is also the 25th yer of the Canadian UFO survey […]

The Canadian UFO survey and statistics provided by Chris Rutkowski, a civilian science writer, shows that contrary to what what is thought UFO sightings are still at a high level, Hitting a total only seen once before in the past 25 years, 1,180 UFO sightings were reported in 2013, or about three each day, according to […]

In its May 2013 edition, Astronomy Magazine printed an article by Philip Plait entitled ”The science behind UFOs” and a column by Glenn Chaple ”Close Encounters”. As both articles are essentially a simple refutation of the ”extraterrestrial hypothesis” and do nothing to further serious investigation of the UAP phenomena, I have sent the below comments […]

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…