Coast-to-Coast AM MADAR Notes and Sightings

Here is something that I believe. UFO research has stagnated for decades. We are doing the same things today that we did in the 1980s and 1990s. Someone would report a UFO and a researcher or investigator would head out to gather data about the sighting. If there were photographs or landing traces or radar confirmation, so much the better, but it was always after the fact. We weren’t proactive.

There were attempts to gather other sorts of data. At one time there was a government network of cameras set up in parts of the country that would photograph the night sky, to track meteors and other natural phenomenon. Once the photographs, made from film, were examined, they were tossed out.  UFO researchers asked for the photographs so that they might look for UFOs. Philip Klass caused some trouble about this and the photographs were thrown out. I’m not sure what he feared, and no taxpayer dollars were expended, but those running the program fearing, I guess, adverse publicity withdrew their support.

This, among other things is why I’m a fan of the MADAR network. These node centers hosting a variety of sensors and detectors, are gathering data all the time. There is a documented record from these centers and it is the sort of thing that Avi Loeb had suggested a couple of years ago. He wanted UFO research without the human factor in it.

On March 22 of this year, the witness, in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, said that he was in his backyard when he spotted a bright, steady light that appeared to drop down, out of the clouds. The witness was familiar with airplane traffic because one of the approach lanes for the airport was over his neighborhood.

At first, he thought the light might be a jet, but there was no white, flashing light on the tail of the craft and there were no navigation lights on the wings. He said that the light appeared to be round but he could see no other details. He thought his eyes might be playing tricks on him and he took no photos or videos of the object.

That same day he was reviewing his incoming emails and noticed that he had a MADAR alert about the same time as the sighting. There was a jump in the milligauss readings and a compass deviation as well. This does bring the nonhuman aspect of the case into focus, providing data about some anomaly. The human aspect adds to the information.

In keeping with this theme of alternative corroborations, MUFON reported that the witness, in Almena, Wisconsin, on February 12 of this year, said he was outside when the dogs began to bark. They moved to the southwest where the witnesses noticed a red light moving at them at a high rate of speed. As it flew closer, they saw one red light and two white lights. Following that craft was another, about five seconds behind the first.

At that point the witness said there was a low, deep hum that was felt more then heard. Both the craft’s lights were blinking in no real pattern. The witness did take photographs, saying that some were blurred but in a “zoomed” in picture, there was a definite triangular shape.

Wisconsin MUFON state director Fred Kohler investigated and said that the photographs contained a great deal of additional detail. He said that the body of the craft looked more U-shaped than triangular. He closed the case as an Unknown.