During six hardly worked years our member of UAPSG-GEFAI, Italian Astrophycisit Massimo Teodorani, PhD, has collected, selected and prepared a slide-show of images in Power Point that covers 5 decades of Aerospace crafts.
This magnificent work is presented in 11 sets covering more than 5,200 images.
We recommend to take a look of this material and if you are interested, to get in direct contact with Dr. Teodorani.
Go to: http://www.box.net/shared/oialz4fkti
13 April 2009
TECNOLOGÍA AEROESPACIAL
Durante un arduo trabajo de seis años nuestro miembro de UAPSG-GEFAI, el astrofísico italiano Dr. Massimo Teodorani, coleccionó, seleccionó y preparó una muestra de diapositivos con imágenes en Power Point que cubre 5 décadas de aparatos Aéreos y Espaciales
Este magnífico trabajo está presentado en 11 grupos que cubren más de 5.200 imágenes.
Recomendamos ver este material y si alguien está interesado, tomar contacto directo con el Dr.Teodorani.
Verlo en:
http://www.box.net/shared/os07l7yxnr
Este magnífico trabajo está presentado en 11 grupos que cubren más de 5.200 imágenes.
Recomendamos ver este material y si alguien está interesado, tomar contacto directo con el Dr.Teodorani.
Verlo en:
http://www.box.net/shared/os07l7yxnr
XPOSE UFO TRUTH: A new Web page
The main purpose of this Web page is to provide a place for investigators to exchange their material and mainly to “separate genuine sightings from hoaxed or faked events”.
From here we salute the creation of this new Web page and we wish its responsible people very good luck.
You can link to this web page cliking on:
http://xposeufotruth.com/
XPOSE UFO TRUTH: Una nueva página Web
El principal objetivo de esta página Web es proveer un lugar para que los investigadores intercambien su material y principalmente para “separar observaciones genuinas de acontecimientos trucados o falsificados”.
Desde aquí saludamos la creación de esta nueva página Web y les deseamos a sus responsables muy buena suerte.
La misma se puede ver en: http://xposeufotruth.com/
10 April 2009
Beam of Light Over Villamarchante (Valencia, Spain) – by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
We welcome this work of investigation, study and analysis of a case done by our colleague and Member of UAPSG-GEFAI, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos. We are taking this report from Fundación Anomalía, in order to provide our readers in English the knowledge of the basic facts.
A few months ago, some acquaintances told me about a UFO sighting they had had, four of them, during a local trip in my native province of Valencia (Spain). My interest was aroused when I knew that one photograph had been taken. In the last months I have acquired all the basic details of the observation and, as a result of my inquiry into the case; a report (in Spanish) has been prepared and published at this link: http://www.anomalia.org/fotocat/villamarchante.pdf
For the benefit of the non-Spanish speaking readers, I am presenting now a very brief summary of the story. On the evening of April 19, 2008 two couples were travelling in a car near Villamarchante (Valencia) when they saw, some 45º high in the sky, an elongated beam of brilliant silver light which was growing in size from 20º up to some 40º in angular size. During the two to three minutes that the sighting lasted, its color was changing to fuchsia. Then, a ball of fuchsia light with a winding tail (like a “spermatozoid”) separated from the main trail, departed towards a “nearby” cloud and was seen no more. By then, the cloud acquired the same fuchsia-colored tone and the long trail disappeared - or they paid no more attention to it, being attracted by the curious cloud color. Exactly at 20:52 hours (before the ball of light appeared) a photograph was made by Alejandra Bitar, one of the witnesses. Most of the overcast sky began to change to fuchsia as well. They carried on towards their intended destiny, which was a friends’ house. They arrived a few minutes later and went inside.
Our conclusion is that what was photographed was nothing but an airplane’s condensation trail. Comparative ufology shows ample evidence that aircraft contrails produce such colorful shapes during sunsets, even certain atmospheric conditions may allow the sight of the lone plane’s fuselage even with a thin secondary trail. There is also photographic evidence to support this.
Finally, considering an airplane flying at the cruise altitude (h) of 36,000 feet (11,000 m), an angular height of 45º (α), the distance from the witnesses to the airplane (d) would be some 16,000 m (sen α = h/d). If the trail’s maximum angular size was 40º (α), then the trail’s longitude (L) was some 12 km (L = 2 X d X tag α/2). Taking a cruise speed of 800 km/h, during 2.5 minutes an airplane would have produced a trail of some 30 km long, within the order of magnitude of the found results. This would tend to confirm that the phenomenon photographed could be a contrail.
For those interested, a more detailed report lies at the above-mentioned link. Here, I am posting four video clips showing five recordings taken (four in Chile, one in Norway) which display both typical and atypical high-altitude aircraft contrails, for comparison. This graphically complements the series of static pictures included in the above report.
A few months ago, some acquaintances told me about a UFO sighting they had had, four of them, during a local trip in my native province of Valencia (Spain). My interest was aroused when I knew that one photograph had been taken. In the last months I have acquired all the basic details of the observation and, as a result of my inquiry into the case; a report (in Spanish) has been prepared and published at this link: http://www.anomalia.org/fotocat/villamarchante.pdf
For the benefit of the non-Spanish speaking readers, I am presenting now a very brief summary of the story. On the evening of April 19, 2008 two couples were travelling in a car near Villamarchante (Valencia) when they saw, some 45º high in the sky, an elongated beam of brilliant silver light which was growing in size from 20º up to some 40º in angular size. During the two to three minutes that the sighting lasted, its color was changing to fuchsia. Then, a ball of fuchsia light with a winding tail (like a “spermatozoid”) separated from the main trail, departed towards a “nearby” cloud and was seen no more. By then, the cloud acquired the same fuchsia-colored tone and the long trail disappeared - or they paid no more attention to it, being attracted by the curious cloud color. Exactly at 20:52 hours (before the ball of light appeared) a photograph was made by Alejandra Bitar, one of the witnesses. Most of the overcast sky began to change to fuchsia as well. They carried on towards their intended destiny, which was a friends’ house. They arrived a few minutes later and went inside.
Our conclusion is that what was photographed was nothing but an airplane’s condensation trail. Comparative ufology shows ample evidence that aircraft contrails produce such colorful shapes during sunsets, even certain atmospheric conditions may allow the sight of the lone plane’s fuselage even with a thin secondary trail. There is also photographic evidence to support this.
Finally, considering an airplane flying at the cruise altitude (h) of 36,000 feet (11,000 m), an angular height of 45º (α), the distance from the witnesses to the airplane (d) would be some 16,000 m (sen α = h/d). If the trail’s maximum angular size was 40º (α), then the trail’s longitude (L) was some 12 km (L = 2 X d X tag α/2). Taking a cruise speed of 800 km/h, during 2.5 minutes an airplane would have produced a trail of some 30 km long, within the order of magnitude of the found results. This would tend to confirm that the phenomenon photographed could be a contrail.
For those interested, a more detailed report lies at the above-mentioned link. Here, I am posting four video clips showing five recordings taken (four in Chile, one in Norway) which display both typical and atypical high-altitude aircraft contrails, for comparison. This graphically complements the series of static pictures included in the above report.
Haz de luz sobre Villamarchante (Valencia, España) - por Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Con mucho gusto presentamos este trabajo elaborado por nuestro colega y miembro de UAPSG-GEFAI, Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos. Aquí reproducimos lo publicado por la Fundación Anomalía, pero los lectores en español pueden obtener un detalle pormenorizado de la investigación, estudio y análisis del caso, yendo al enlace que se indica en el propio artículo.
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El 19 de abril de 2008 cuatro personas que circulaban en coche en las inmediaciones de la población valenciana de Villamarchante vieron un extraño haz luminoso que iba creciendo en dimensiones durante los 2-3 minutos en que fue visto, mientras viraba de color plata brillante a fucsia intenso. Durante la observación se tomó una fotografía digital.
Un estudio de esta observación y de la fotografía correspondiente, sirviéndonos tanto de un ejercicio de ufología comparada como del concurso de expertos internacionales, ha revelado la naturaleza real del fenómeno observado. Dicho informe –que juzgamos especialmente didáctico- se encuentra alojado en el siguiente enlace: http://www.anomalia.org/fotocat/villamarchante.pdf
Como complemento visual al trabajo arriba citado, incluyo seguidamente cuatro videos que muestran cinco grabaciones distintas, cuatro tomadas en Chile y una en Noruega, que ilustran típicas y atípicas estelas de condensación producidas por aviones navegando a gran altitud.
Un estudio de esta observación y de la fotografía correspondiente, sirviéndonos tanto de un ejercicio de ufología comparada como del concurso de expertos internacionales, ha revelado la naturaleza real del fenómeno observado. Dicho informe –que juzgamos especialmente didáctico- se encuentra alojado en el siguiente enlace: http://www.anomalia.org/fotocat/villamarchante.pdf
Como complemento visual al trabajo arriba citado, incluyo seguidamente cuatro videos que muestran cinco grabaciones distintas, cuatro tomadas en Chile y una en Noruega, que ilustran típicas y atípicas estelas de condensación producidas por aviones navegando a gran altitud.
06 April 2009
A book we enthusiastically recommend
The first day of last February, it was a real pleasure and a privilege for me to meet in Washington DC. Professor Albert Harrison, Ph.D.
In that occasion, Dr. Harrison was so kind to make me the gift of two of his books. The first of them was “Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion and Folklore” (Berghahn Books, New York, 2007, 231 pages) of which I ended its reading on March 11, 2009.
Dr. Albert A. Harrison is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is co-author of "Living Aloft, Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight" (1985), "From Antarctica to Outer Space: Life in Isolation and Confinement" (1991) and author of "After Contact: the Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life" (1997) and "Spacefaring: The Human Dimension" (2001). He was a member of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Committee, and of NASA's Space Human Factors Engineering Science and Technology Working Group.
The description of the book by the producer says:
“We live in an era of exploding scientific knowledge about the universe, and our place and future within it. Much of this new knowledge conflicts with earlier wisdom, and some has frightening implications. Cosmic evolution, space exploration, the search for extraterrestrial life, and concerns about humanity’s future prompt us to seek new answers to old existential questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Are we alone? What will become of us? In our search for answers, we turn to science, religion, myth, and varying combinations thereof. Exploring an ambiguous region between recognized findings and unfettered imagination, Starstruck explores the multifaceted, far-reaching, and often contentious attempts of people with contrasting worldviews to develop convincing and satisfying interpretations of rapidly accumulating discoveries in physics, astronomy, and biology.”
I have found that this authorized comment made by Dr. Steve L. Ellyson, a Psychologist of Ohio, is totally adequate for the book, and I am glad to share it with you:
Harrison's Starstruck is an instant classic that is a must-read for anyone interested in our place in the universe and human's use of science, religion, and folklore as a means of finding meaning in our lives. Written in a style that is accessible to laymen as well as scientists (not a trivial feat), Harrison cuts through a wealth of information about what we know and what we don't know about fundamental questions that have been at the core of human existence. All the while, he maintains a sense of wonder and imagination as he addresses mankind's fascination with the cosmos, with extraterrestrials, with space exploration. Harrison, true to his psychological roots, gives us tentative answers when he can, but often raises more questions along the way. And that makes the book all the better. This is a book that I could not put down and I plan to read again.
I only can add that I was very impressed for the vastness of the work done by Dr. Harrison and for his scientific as well as sensitive criteria to deal with different subjects.
Milton W. Hourcade
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