From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:06:03 Fwd Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 02:45:25 -0400 Subject: UFO Detection And Tracking Proposal The sender asked me to forward this. Stig *** From: jessica018@email.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:58:05 -0400 (EDT) To: stevew@magiclink.net, stig.agermose@get2net.dk Subject: ufo detection and tracking proposal Can you please forward this to the various relevant lists? I am not a subscriber and I don't really want to fill my mailbox with a mailing list. PROPOSAL FOR DETECTION AND TRACKING ANOMALOUS FLYING OBJECTS Hello, It seems to me one of the main problems the UFO field has is that it has notlaunched any long term effort to gather physical evidence in a systematic way with equipment for the purpose of recording and tracking the phenomena. One of the reason's SETI seems to get funding (all of it private at this point)and UFO research does not is because UFO research by and large has not set up any kind of monitoring station with sophisticated electronics. For instance usually what the public sees on TV regarding UFO investigation is a researcher listening to stories of "lights in the sky", or watching a hypnotic regression of an abductee. None of these has the "gee whiz" impact of those large radio telescopes, racks of electronic equipment, computer screens. When such a project was started in Europe it received funding and attracted volunteers from local universities. I am sure something similar could be organized here and what a better time than "the year 2000". All the testimonials in the world aren't worth a simultaneous clear multispectral, picture, video, magnetometer reading, and radar return. Things that physicists and othter people have asked for frm UFOlogists for years. Isn't about time we make this happen?? Well, I took it upon myself to begin putting together a set up similar to Project Hessdalen http://www.hiof.no/crulp/prosjekter/hessdalen/ So far I have a magnetometer which detects sudden distortions or anomalies in the magnetic field (unlike hessdalen's flux gate magnetometer which only made a longterm record of the magnetic field). It is as you may already know, widely thought that UFO propulsion effects the magnetic field. Many of the technologies described in Paul Hill's "Unconventional Flying Objects" infact would emit a electo magnetic signature which may distort the local magnetic field. Also esoteric technologies such as "warp drive", 'gravity modification" etc which are being investigated by NASA's Breakthrough Physics Program eould most definatly be detectable on this magnetometer. If there is a slight variation in the local magnetic field an alarm goes off and alerts me to check the radar for any anomalous objects. I also have obtained a marine radar unit slightly better than the one Project Hessdalen used. This radar is a phased array "search radar" similar to the kind used by air traffic controllers many years ago before the computerized systems (which ignore UFO's BTW) came online. This radar has tracked helicopters and airplanes as well as balloons, and even nearby birds and distant storms! So far no UFO's but that may have more to do with my Center City Philadelphia location. I would be interesting to set up something similar say in the "mysterious valley" in Colorado, or near Green River Utah, or perhaps near the Palmdale Plant in California or in Rachel, Nevada outside of "Area 51". In fact ANY UFO hotspot should have one of these monitoring stations. Other planned equipment for mine are a Gieger Counter, an Ultrasonic listening device, a CCD video camera and Silcon Graphics workstation, a multispectral photographic camera, a 3-D photographic camera. A night vision (infared) camera, a full frequency spectrum display (5hz-1500hz) and a gravitometer. The setup I am looking to have in the near future is simply: The Magnetometer: $200* The Radar Unit: $1300* The IR Viewer: $250 The Utrasonic Reciever $150 The 3-D Camera $300 * = indicates I already own this. I would LOVE to assist any investigation in this area, or build all of this into the back of a van (it would easily all fit in a corner of an average sized van) for mobile use to areas of high UFO activity. As you can see the total cost of the above setup is a mere $2200 dollars. This is only a fracktion of the cost of any a SETI program and is easily within the range of an ambitious individual or the budgets of a sufficiently large UFO organization (MUFON? FUFOR? NIDS? ISUR? BUFORA?) I just want to clarify, I am a skeptic when it comes to this phenomena. I could care one way or the other if there are aliens fliting about the skies, however I do believe there is an interesting phenomena that needs studied in a systematic way. (Just call me Scully.) If anyone else is interested in the specifics of this setup, how we can work together to gather data, or how one can build such a monitoring station (it was easy for me and I am certainly no physicist or electrical engineer, most components are usuable right out off the shelf thanks to current technology) they can email me at the above address. Likewise, if anyone is already running such an operation or is about to set one up, please by all means email me as there is no sense reinventing the wheel. truely, jessica johnson jessica018@email.com Project DATAFO (Detection And Tracking of Anomalous Flying Objects)
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