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>Dr. Richard F. Haines, NARCAP Chief Scientist
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>Ted Roe, NARCAP Executive Director
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> National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena
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>The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena is a
>nonprofit pending organization whose purpose is to review aviation
>incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena-UAP. NARCAP conducts
>research into these incidents to develop base metrics to assist the
>aviation community in mitigating safety related incidents.
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>Dr. Richard Haines and Ted Roe will be discussing pilot and air traffic
>controller reports of encounters with UAP from US government and
>official international sources and the role that NARCAP plays in
>addressing this global phenomena.
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>For more information, www.narcap.org.
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Ted Roe began the presentation by explaining that NARCAP is not yet a nonprofit, but that status is on its way. Then he showed us an org chart of NARCAP, which is broken into three divisions, those being the Executive Division, the Research Division, and the Executive Advisory Committee. Everybody involved in the organization is a Volunteer, although they do work with government agencies from other countries, where there is not as much of a taboo about studying such phenomena. The main databases of reported airiel phenomenon are maintained by the FAA and NASA. Most such phenomenon are explained quickly, but the rest are the stuff that interests NARCAP. He then turned the stage over to Dr. Richard Haines for a detailed description of UAP.
Dr. Haines explained that the earliest UAP report from an aviator was filed in 1927 by a stunt pilot who saw what looked like three manhole covers flying in formation parallel to his plane. Since then there have been thousands of the things. He shared about a dozen of them with us. Many of them contained descriptions of objects, many talked about speeds and changes of direction that are not possible with our technology. In all the cases he shared with us, the only injuries that happened were a result of evasive maneuvers by pilots. Sightings varied in length from a few seconds to as much as 180 minutes.
Ted Roe then returned to the stage. He explained that for this many to be reported there must be many more that actually happened but were not reported because the witnesses didn't want to be written off as kooks. He listed a number of known natural phenomenon that these things couldn't be (including ball lighting, solar reflections, Aurora Borealis, and meteorites) and then explained that any kind of help that would bring to light what was going on would be appreciated.
During the Q&A that followed their talk it was revealed that an analysis of sightings showed that in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, July was the month with the most UAP event reports. Also, more than 70% of such things happen after dark. One of the most interesting UAP groupings were what was called Foo Fighters during WWII. These were blobs of light that seemed to track the airplanes over the European Theater. The Germans thought they were ours, and we thought they were theirs. Several times, both speakers said that the place to go for additional information is their website, http://narcap.org/ .
Tian Harter