Be prepared to read very soon an outstanding scientific paper written by UAPSG member, tha Italian Astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani, Ph.D.
The title of his work is: “Need to Know” vs. “Need to Believe” in Ufology.
It will be a privilege to have it here in our blog.
We are preparing a translation into Spanish. When it is ready we are going to make available the material to all our readers.
Thank you for your patience.
Milton W. Hourcade
Prepárense para leer muy pronto un sobresaliente trabajo científico escrito por el miembro del GEFAI, el Astrofísico italiano Dr. Massimo Teodorani.
El título de su trabajo es: “Necesidad de Conocer” vs. “Necesidad de Creer” en Ovnilogía”
Será un privilegio tenerlo aqui en nuestro blog.
Estamos preparando una traducción al español. Cuando esté lista vamos a poner el material a disponibilidad de todos nuestros lectores.
Gracias por vuestra paciencia.
Milton W. Hourcade
At this very moment, on the screens of “a theater near you”, are two films dealing with aliens: 
“District 9” and “Aliens in the Attic”.
But if you go to see any of them, you will find the trailer of another film that is coming in November 6. It is called “The Fourth Kind” and as you can guess, it deals with abductions! Abductions supposedly happened in a small Alaskan town named Nome.
And if it were not enough, although there is not a direct connection with UFOs, but with ideas about the end of Earth, or the end of an age, there is “2012” which is coming on November 13.
Just for the sake of the argument, if we accept for a moment that there are aliens among us, and they have been doing things that paved the way to reports of Daylight
Discs, Nocturnal Lights, Radar-Visual Cases, and Close Encounters of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Kind, what could be the next step on this escalate?
Well, I think in only one: disappearance.
Not the disappearance of isolated individuals here and there, but the disappearance of nearly a whole small population, mainly in rural areas, at the beginning, followed by massive disappearances in urban areas.
Do we have to be prepared for this kind of event? Would it be true or just mass hysteria?
What really is behind this barrage of films about aliens?
What kind of reaction is expected from the public, and why?
I think we have to follow closely this situation and see how it develops.
Milton W. Hourcade
Yesterday (August 23) I saw “District 9”. It is about aliens. Aliens that came to Earth 20 years ago and couldn’t go back because they have a problem with their spaceship.
Therefore, they left the big ship hovering over the sky of Johannesburg, and went down.
A world organization gives them a place to live, and there they are, living in a shantytown, until some problems emerge with the human population surrounding them, and they will be evicted and sent to a concentration camp, a move they resist.
There is when the problems start.
A stupid bureaucrat in charge of the operation, the brutality of soldiers trained only to kill, cannibalism, Nigerians exploiting the aliens, etc. and the unacceptable paradox of beings so intelligent to navigate through the space but so disorganized and ignorant as to live like irrational animals.
That is the absurdity of the script of this film. It is totally ridiculous.
On that basis, the rest are only special effects and brutality, weapons, more brutality and carnage.
That is what “District 9” is all about. I sincerely recommend skipping it of your agenda.
Don’t waste your time and your money.
Milton W. Hourcade
En este mismo momento, en las pantallas “de un cine cerca suyo” hay dos películas que tienen 
que ver con extraterrestres: “Distrito 9” y “Extraterrestres en el Ático”.Pero si uno va y ve cualquiera de ellas, se encontrará con la sinopsis de otro film que llegal el 6 de Noviembre. Se llama “El Cuarto Tipo” y como puede colegirse, trata sobre ¡abducciones! Abducciones que supuestamente ocurrieron en un pequeño pueblo de Alaska llamado Nome.
Y si eso no fuera suficiente, aunque no está en directa conexión con los OVNIs, pero con ideas acerca del fin de la Tierra, o del fin de una era, está “2012”, que se estrenará el 13 de Noviembre.Simplemente por argumentar, si aceptamos por un momento que hay extraterrestres entre nosotros, y que han estado haciendo cosas que abrieron camino a informes sobre Discos 
Diurnos, Luces Nocturnas, casos Radar-Visuales, y Encuentros Cercanos del Primero, Segundo, Tercero y Cuarto Tipo, ¿cuál puede ser el próximo paso en esta escalada?Bueno, pienso sólo en uno: desaparición.No la desaparición de individuos aislado aquí y allá, sino la desaparición de casi toda una pequeña población, mayormente en áreas rurales, al comienzo, seguida por masivas 
desaparaiciones en áreas urbanas.¿Tenemos que estar preparados para este tipo de acontecimiento? ¿Será cierto o simplemente histeria en masa?¿Qué es lo que realmente está detrás de esta andanada de películas sobre extraterrestres?¿Qué tipo de reacción se espera del público, y por qué?Creo que hay que seguir de cerca esta situación y ver cómo se desarrolla.
Milton W. Hourcade
Ayer (Agosto 23) vi “Distrito 9”. Es sobre extraterrestres. Extraterrestres que vinieron a la Tierra hace 20 años y no pudieron regresar porque tienen un problema con su nave espacial.
Por lo tanto, dejaron su enorme nave suspendida sobre el cielo de Johannesburg, y descendieron.
Una organización mundial le da un lugar donde vivir, y allí están, habitando en viviendas precarias, hasta que emergen algunos problemas con la población humana que les rodea, y serán sacados y enviados a un campo de concentración, a lo que ellos se resisten.
Allí es cuando comienzan los problemas.
Un estúpido burócrata a cargo de la operación, la brutalidad de los soldados entrenados sólo para matar, canibalismo, nigerianos explotando a los Ets, etc y la inaceptable paradajo de seres tan inteligentes como para navegar a través del espacio y tan desorganizados e ingnorantes, como para vivir como animales irracionales.
Eso es lo absurdo del libreto de este filme. Es totalmente ridículo.
Sobre esa base, el resto son sólo efectos especiales, brutalidad, armas, más brutalidad y una carnicería.
Eso es todo de lo que trata “Distrito 9”. Sinceramente recomiendo salteársela de la agenda.
No perder tiempo ni dinero.
Milton W. Hourcade
I like to tie up the loose ends. I think it is a good practice, and sometimes, maybe, it gives significant results.
The situation could be described as “The return of Aliens” or, if it were the title of a book, “When Aliens Return”.
What am I talking about?
I will give you the facts, and maybe you also would like to tie up the loose ends.
This Summer, there have been cinema at the open air, in the evenings at the Washington Mall. A brand new activity that started showing “Close Encounters”.
Now “at a theater near you” there are to films to see: something for children, “Aliens in the Attic”, and something for adults, “District 9”, both dealing with aliens.
And, last but not least, the cover page of the latest edition of “Newsweek”, the well known American magazine, portrays the title of an article under the presumptuous title “Aliens Exist”.
Is someone trying to distract the American people from the problems of the recession, unemployment, the debate on health care reform, and other issues, or is someone trying to prepare the minds for certain unexpected revelation?
Maybe it is just entertainment and business as usual during Summer. But anyway, it is convenient to look at it closely. Just in case.
Here follows the article written by Fred Guterl, and published by Newsweek.
Milton W. Hourcade
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Aliens Exist
In Hollywood, extraterrestrials always seem to favor the grand entrance. They land on the White House lawn and implore us to end our violent ways (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951). They replace the citizens of a California town with listless pod people (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956). They persuade Richard Dreyfuss to play with his mashed potatoes (Close Encounters, 1977). They even look like David Bowie (The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976). Right now, in fact, two unrelated alien posses are invading theaters near you: the insectoid stars of District 9, who make their presence known by parking a UFO above Johannesburg, and the hyperactive green gremlins of Aliens in the Attic, who battle a group of plucky tweens over a Midwestern rental home. (Listen to Andrew Romano on our fascination with whether aliens exist.)
But even if E.T. exists off the silver screen, the chances that he'll discover us any time soon are vanishingly slim (Reese's Pieces or not). After all, projects like SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been waiting since 1960 for aliens to make contact—without hearing the slightest peep. The good news, however, is that some scientists are finally focusing on the other side of the equation: a series of high-tech missions designed to help us find them. And even at this early stage, the circumstantial evidence they've gathered has made it clear that we're probably not alone in the universe.
Here's what we know. In 1995, Swiss astronomers pinpointed the first-extrasolar planet. Unfortunately, it was a giant ball of gas orbiting so close to its sun that it glowed with enough heat and radiation to vaporize even the hardiest little green men. But at least the discovery proved that planets occurred outside our own cozy solar system. A few years later, "super-Earths" started to reveal themselves—smaller, firmer, at a discrete distance from their companion stars. Although these planets are much larger and less temperate than ours, they prompted some astronomers to estimate that perhaps half of the 200 billion or so suns in the Milky Way support terrestrial, Earth-like worlds.
We've also discovered that water, the essential ingredient for life, exists elsewhere in the universe—starting with our own solar backyard. Robots have spotted gullies freshly carved in the sides of Martian hills—evidence of recent upwellings. In June, astronomers observed geysers of water vapor on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. Even ghastly Jupiter is a candidate—or at least its moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, the last of which may have oceans larger than ours hidden beneath its crust of perpetual ice.
The question now is how many of those 100 billion potential Earths can we reasonably expect to have harbored H2O and served as a cradle of life, intelligent or not? Enter Kepler, an ambitious new NASA mission. Launched via satellite in March, Kepler's $600 million space telescope uses a sophisticated photometer to stare at all 100,000 stars located in a particularly promising region of the Milky Way while measuring the size and orbit of every planet that passes in front of them. The larger the shadow, the larger the planet; the more often it appears, the closer the orbit. The point is to isolate for the very first time alien worlds orbiting alien suns at distances where temperatures are right for liquid water and possible life. "This mission is like Columbus," says principal investigator Bill Borucki. "We will get Earth-sized planets, terrestrial planets, in the habitable zone. It won't be 'close.' We will know."
The concept behind Kepler isn't new. Borucki—the sort of guy who skipped high-school projects to build elaborate UFO transmitters—constructed his first photometer in college; he started thinking about how to apply the technology to the search for extraterrestrial life shortly after arriving at NASA in 1962. It wasn't until the early 1980s, however, that Borucki began publishing papers on photometry and pushing his bosses to finance a photometric mission. Their response? It's impossible. Undeterred, his team slaved over the project for the next two decades, inventing new technologies, showing they could achieve the necessary precision, and applying for additional funding at every turn, until finally, in 2001, NASA "said uncle," as Borucki puts it. After only 10 days in orbit, the satellite measured a dip in starlight of a few parts per million caused by a distant Jupiter, proving that it's sensitive enough to detect Earth-like planets. By 2013, says Borucki, Kepler is likely to have located "hundreds or even thousands" of potentially habitable worlds.
Where we'll go from there is still unclear. But assuming that people are as fascinated by the discovery of real-life Earths as they are by, say, Will Smith fighting off alien invaders, we might launch a telescope designed to scan auspicious planets for the presence of CO2 and ozone, then invent a more intricate device to suss out whether these atmospheres contain isotopes of oxygen consistent with living systems. The final step, says Borucki, is "a probe that can travel near the speed of light and gets there, shows us pictures, listens to their radio stations and television stations, and gives us a much better understanding of this new planet."
We're not at the Star Trek stage yet. But given enough time and interest—and enough money—scientists believe the possibilities are limitless. "I've suggested nothing that we don't know pretty much how to do currently," Borucki says. "After Kepler, I cannot imagine people saying, 'I don't care about life. I don't care about these wonderful civilizations that might exist.' " So let the search continue—assuming, of course, that E.T. doesn't show up at the White House first.
Be prepared to read very soon an outstanding scientific paper written by UAPSG member, tha Italian Astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani, Ph.D.
Prepárense para leer muy pronto un sobresaliente trabajo científico escrito por el miembro del GEFAI, el Astrofísico italiano Dr. Massimo Teodorani.
“District 9” and “Aliens in the Attic”.
Discs, Nocturnal Lights, Radar-Visual Cases, and Close Encounters of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Kind, what could be the next step on this escalate?
Yesterday (August 23) I saw “District 9”. It is about aliens. Aliens that came to Earth 20 years ago and couldn’t go back because they have a problem with their spaceship.
que ver con extraterrestres: “Distrito 9” y “Extraterrestres en el Ático”.
Diurnos, Luces Nocturnas, casos Radar-Visuales, y Encuentros Cercanos del Primero, Segundo, Tercero y Cuarto Tipo, ¿cuál puede ser el próximo paso en esta escalada?
desaparaiciones en áreas urbanas.
Ayer (Agosto 23) vi “Distrito 9”. Es sobre extraterrestres. Extraterrestres que vinieron a la Tierra hace 20 años y no pudieron regresar porque tienen un problema con su nave espacial.
I like to tie up the loose ends. I think it is a good practice, and sometimes, maybe, it gives significant results.