But when the distinguished Spaniard Mr. Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos speaks, it is most than relevant, because he is a seasoned
investigator and student of the UFO subject.
V-JBO has dedicated his life to the phenomenon acquiring the experience
and expertise only reserved for the few.
Currently he works on his Project FOTOCAT, a selective world
catalog for the classification and analysis of presumed UFO photos.
That is why so important to know what he thinks about the
whole issue and the way it is treated in general.
Those who are newcomers in this field should pay great
attention to what VJBO says, because they need to learn, and nothing is better
than to learn from those who know what they are talking about.
The attitude of the people in general
"Commonly,
people are ignorant of the appearance of astronomical bodies and may be
surprised by the view of planets and stars. Probably, predisposition helps, if
not other factors. As a matter of fact, the files of UFO investigators are
filled with observational trash, misinterpretations and oversights, not to
mention hoaxes, fakes and frauds."
Scientists and military don't know basic things
"In Chile,
there has been done an extraordinary work of private investigation around the confusion
with airplanes or contrails that have been taken by presumed UFOs. Those are
observations that should never be part of a list of UFO cases, but which even
the meteorological, military and scientific authorities have not been capable
to clarify adequately.
If at this
point the investigators who have enough formation and resources are incapable
to see in some images that they are dealing with simple condensation trails and
airplane lights, who can believe that someday Ufology would be taken seriously?"
The quality of the information
"Generally,
the quality of UFO information is not as good as it should be. Sometimes it is
difficult to check and verify facts, hence the high proportion of sighting
reports branded as insufficient data".
The cyber-"UFOs"
"New
digital cameras produce splendid, immediate images you can download, transfer,
modify, enhance, etc. But the technology involved also provides a brand new
sort of imaging artifact. Those unreal images are taken to be UFOs by ignorant
or simply credulous ranks.
Basically, the common denominator in the spurious
images is that nothing strange was observed visually at the time of the
snapshot. In digital imaging, the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) is the image
sensor. When you focus the sun or a very bright source of light, the CCD is
over-burnt by the excessive illumination input and it manages to create false
–i.e., surreal– black orbs where the light density is greatest, that is, at the
center of the radiant body."
