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Photos, Films, Videos of UFOs

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos is the #1 authority on UFO photos and is a primary consultant to the NICAP project. Since year 2000, Mr. Ballester Olmos owns and manages the FOTOCAT Project. It is aimed to develop a computerized database and material archive for world-wide UFO sightings where pictures, films or videos have been taken. Today, it has become the largest databank of photographic cases in the world. As of July 2011, FOTOCAT maintains 10,650 entries in the computer-based catalog. It is complemented with an immense file of individual folders containing all gathered documentation for every event, as well as archives for both analog and digital imagery. For information purposes on the project’s progress, Mr. Ballester Olmos releases a ~quarterly bilingual (English and Spanish) news report in the form of the UFO FOTOCAT BLOG: http://fotocat.blogspot.com/

The catalog closes case entry as of December 31, 2005. Information on photographic cases can be submitted to Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos at ballesterolmos@yahoo.es

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator


 

Other Information

FOTOCAT Project is a tool for the production of research reports and theme papers:

 

The Year 1954 in Photos (Expanded):  http://www.box.net/shared/y1mufymo8w

Argentina, The Year 1965 in Photos: http://www.ikaros.org.es/fotocat/argentina1965en.pdf

Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue (Extended) (With Ole-Jonny Brænne):

http://www.box.net/shared/jz8mqdxuss

Spheres in Airborne UAP Imagery (With Martin Shough):  http://www.ikaros.org.es/fotocat/spheres.pdf
<>An Approach to UFO Photographs in France: http://www.ikaros.org.es/fotocat/approach.pdf


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