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Your Paracast Newsletter — April 26, 2015


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THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
April 26, 2015
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The Paracast Honors the Work of the Late Thomas R. Adams

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Where Do We Go from Here and How Do We Get There? — Part One
By Christopher O’Brien

I think it goes without saying that the so-called science of Ufology has been spinning its wheels for almost 70 years. Of course we don’t know the extent of government/military efforts that attempt to gather scientific data, but I think we can all agree that this field of endeavor hit a brick wall decades ago. Instead of progress, we have ill-conceived attempts by a self-appointed “ambassador-to-the-universe” Dr. Steven Greer that consist of pointing lights and group meditations with the ambassador trainees laying their hands on the doctor as he attempts to draw the craft into their position for a landing and boarding. In this delusional reality view, the benevolent space brothers are here to save us from ourselves and solve all of our problems. Then there are dozens of sensationalized websites that gleefully post obvious CGI hoaxes, light reflection effects from glass, hub caps thrown up into the sky and photographed, and other easily explained images. Of course, scattered amongst the dross are real images that are lost in the shuffle and morass of BS. Let’s get real, shall we?

There are also the “data mining” attempts that notables such as Dr. Jacques Vallee have proposed. The thinking being that if we throw all the massive amounts of anecdotal Ufological sighting data against the wall, some of it might stick and reveal patterns. Of what, I’m not sure. In my opinion, why not face forward in the direction of travel instead of attempting to move forward backwards by putting the car in reverse and driving forward using the rearview mirror? Plus, there is always the “garbage-in/garbage-out” scenario. What percentage of cases of misidentified mundane activity, outright confabulations or misidentified classified project craft, will it take to render any so-called database unusable?

There are some of us who have a different idea. Why not identify regions that seem to have a documented history of repeated activity that ebbs and flows in waves and utilize instrumented arrays to capture these Ufological events in such a manner that we can begin to get a handle on what is really going on? There are three noteworthy efforts that are attempting to do just that.

The Hessdalen Project was the first. Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway, and from the end of 1981 all through 1984, residents of the valley were reporting strange, unexplained lights that appeared at a number of consistent locations throughout the region. According to the Hessdalen website, “hundreds of lights were observed. At the peak of activity there were about 20 reports a week.”

Project Hessdalen was established in the summer of 1983, a scientific field investigation was carried out between January 21, and February 26, 1984. Fifty-three anomalous light observations were made during this field investigation. There was an additional field investigation in the winter of 1985. However, no phenomena were seen during the period when the instruments were present. “Lights are still being observed in the Hessdalen Valley, but their frequency has decreased to about 20 observations a year.” An automatic measurement station was put up in 1998, and both data and alarm pictures (along with a live camera feed) can be viewed at their website (www.hessdalen.org/). The anomalous lights are most likely as-yet undefined natural phenomena, but the jury is still out as to the true nature of these events

This next effort is being conceived and spearheaded by Hollywood special effects wizard, Douglas Trumbull. Trumbull is listed on IMDb as a “Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer.” He was special effects supervisor for some of the most popular and important sci-fi films of all time, including: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner. Trumbull actually was forced to invent specialized technology to help the directors of these films to realize their cinematic vision.

Trumbull is also an aspiring UFO hunter. He has named his UFO hunting effort UFOTOG (combining UFO with photograph). This project originally included a Hummer decked out with photographic and scientific monitoring equipment that has been abandoned in favor of a new approach. Now, with the assistance of MUFON’s chief photo and video analyst, Marc Dantonio, UFOTOG is developing monitoring array platters that have miniaturized cameras and sensing gear that can be set up anywhere, remotely, to gather a variety of scientific data streams from Ufological events. They are even developing gamma ray detectors, specialized drones and other exotic sensing equipment and customized platforms.

In a recent conversation with Dantonio, I was extremely impressed with the well-thought-out vision the UFOTOG team is developing to actualize Trumbull’s desire to scientifically capture UFO events and gather a variety of hard scientific data to properly study the processes behind the phenomenon. I promised not to divulge the details for several cutting-edge aspects to the project, but rest assured, UFOTOG is a serious effort that boasts the participation of notable scientists with backgrounds at national labs and DOD development projects.

These are two of the three noteworthy efforts being developed to move this morass of a field called Ufology forward. Next week, in part two, I’ll look at the third project, one closer to home as far as my participation is concerned, The San Luis Valley Camera Surveillance Project.

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