Can These Sensors Scientifically Prove UFOs Exist?

[Judi Lynn]

Can These Sensors Scientifically Prove UFOs Exist?

This group of scientists seems to think so.

—By AJ Vicens
| Mon Oct. 19, 2015 6:00 AM EDT


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Star trails are seen in the sky over Naramata, British Columbia. Cultura/Zuma
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A group of scientists and academics from around the world has launched a new effort called UFODATA, which stands for UFO Detection and Tracking, to apply some rigorous scientific research to the study of UFOs. This all-volunteer, nonprofit project that includes scientists from the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Chile intends to use scientific data and research methods to advance an issue that has largely been confined to the margins (at best) of the traditional scientific community.

"It's abundantly clear that we're not going to make progress in understanding whatever is causing the unknown UFO reports and sightings without getting the type of data we want to collect," says Mark Rodeghier, scientific director and president of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, and now a UFODATA board member. "More witness testimony, where they fill out a form and tell you what they saw, is not going to help us solve the problem," he says. The problem that Rodeghier is referring to is the frequent, inexplicable sightings of aerial phenomena.

The group of about 15 scientists, engineers, astronomers, professors, and a journalist intend to install a series of automated surveillance stations loaded with scientific research tools at various locations in known UFO hotspots such as those in the western United States and in Hessdalen, Norway. The stations will be used to photograph unidentified objects and analyze the light coming from them in order to learn more about the sources of energy powering them. People have done this sort of thing in the past, but never before in such a coordinated and scientifically rigorous way.

The sensors that the group hopes to build will include several high-resolution cameras fitted with spectrographic grating, which is a method for analyzing the type of light the camera is seeing, and the ways that energy might be affecting the atmosphere around the light source. Here is a video explaining the process. Other equipment includes a magnetometer, used to measure electromagnetic radiation, as well as a Geiger counter and a weather station.

More:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/new-ufo-tracking-project-seti

[upaloopa]

1. I have always thought that if we are being visited

by extraterrestrials there should be some physical evidence remaining. I don't think anyone has any.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Under The Skin - My favorite movie of this genre

An alien disguised as a human, who eventually goes native and tries to be human with disastrous results. All seen from the point of view of the alien.