Just the other day, I
saw a request from MUFON to researchers looking to find a home for their files
to think of MUFON as that repository. It wasn’t all that long ago that I learned
that Dave Marler, along with Mark Rodeghier, were working to not only digitize
the Center for UFO Studies files, that included much of material collected by
NICAP but to collect the files of other UFO researchers as well. The project is
called The National UFO Historical Records Center. For those interested, the
APRO files are still in the hands of a family member but steps are being taken
to retrieve them for the Center. Those files would be a great asset.
Clas Svahn in Sweden,
has been collecting files of both UFO and paranormal interest for his AFU
(Archives for the Unexplained). I know that Clas Svahn has been in contact with
Dave Marler in Albuquerque to share their information. Philip Mantle, the owner
and publisher of the Flying Disk Press in England, has just shipped a great
deal of information to Marler.
Marler has organized
the effort to create digital files of this vast amount of information. There is
an army of volunteers using the latest in technology to convert paper files,
audio recordings, and all other kinds of collected material into a form that
can be used for online research purposes. Although it is in its infant stage, a
great deal of material has already been digitized.
MUFON’s effort is known
as Project Aquarius. The name, and not MUFON’s project, is somewhat problematic
(Project Aquarius being one of the first of the discredited MJ-12 documents). I
do know that some researchers have donated material to the project including the
estates of Len Stringfield and Bob Pratt.
A sighting that I would
add to an archive took place on April 7 of this year. The witness in Skowhegan,
Maine, said that he had been studying glowing orb UFO sightings and wondering
why they seemed to fly in triangular formations. He had been working at the
computer for about two hours, when he noticed something in the sky that
resembled the objects of his research.
He said that the object
was green, and looked as if it was triangular shaped. He heard no sound, said
the lights were fluctuating as opposed to flashing and it was floating across
the sky.
He had created a
circuit various components including fishing magnets with the idea of
generating a high Tesla magnetic field. He routed it through his computer. He
believes that this might have unraveled part of the UFO mystery, the suggestion
being that he had created an EM field like those reported in many UFO
sightings.
Finally, from
Broomfield, Colorado, the witness said that he noticed an object that changed
color on April 3 of this year. He said that he was looking west, over Boulder,
Colorado, and watched the object for ten minutes. He said that it was circular,
that it changed color and vanished after those ten minutes.
The Bloomfield, Colorado UFO |
The UFO seemed to be
shaped like that reported in the Japanese Air Line 1628 case from November 17,
1986. The pilot in that case reported a UFO that was confirmed by radar at the
time. I provided a chapter about the sighting in The Government UFO Files,
for those interested in the whole story. I will note here that I did interview
John Callahan, who was the chief FAA investigator on the JAL case. The drawing
made by the pilot of the jet looked like the object in the pictures taken in
Colorado.
3 comments:
Is there any video to the The Bloomfield UFO, please.
Hmmm...Your Broomfield sighting was probably Venus. It was at azimuth 290 degrees and 5 degrees elevation at 2200 (the time listed in the NUFORC database). The shape has more to do with the cell phone camera than the actual shape of the object. Look at the city lights. They have similar round shapes. There appear to be fainter stars visible in the image as well and they are round circles indicating the camera was not a precise focus for infinity. Venus set around 2235-40 which might explain the disappearance but it probably went behind the cloud bank that is clearly visible in the photograph before it set.
Kevin: Have you determined where your personal UFO files and materials are destined? This is an important decision for you to undertake, rather than allow someone else to make that decision.
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