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SOME
INTERESTING HISTORY
| I began work on the NICAP site in late 1997, after a "career" of almost 40 years in research and investigation. I had planned on retiring, getting some people together and build a large telescope to study the moon. It didn't work out that way and, thank God, my next twenty years turned out to be the most fruitful. But here we are, in 2023, and a lot to cover here. My emphasis and priority for the new MADAR-III dataProbe project, supported by the coalition of NUFORC, MUFON and NICAP with Project MATCH (2018-date), has produced staggering results in just the last five years. It began with the finding of several "UFO sigatures" on MADAR, then the discovery of a report on Operation Foal Eagle.* http://www.nicap.org/match/ Some very important issues and reports were documented and highlighted in 2022: 1) On June 18, 2022 there was a YouTube report on the WOW Signal after 45 years https://www.youtube.com/watch? This follows my SCU paper of 22 April, in Vol. 3.2 http://www.nicap.org/match/ Other older news for new readers: On 1 Jan I released two reports regarding UFO detection, one extremely important. The first one regards a Top Secret Air Force program to detect and record data (images/motion pictures) on UFOs. http://www.nicap.org/match/ And on November 20th I released a short paper explaining how the AATIP/Pentagon report was good news, but that we need to remind the media and the public that UFOs and the seriousness of the subject is not new. Our A-Team work thoroughy documents this. http://www.nicap.org/match/ My latest book,
"CAP POINT" was released in September and is
available on Amazon or autographed on this site
(see link above). My earlier book, "REGIONAL
ENCOUNTERS" is also availavble there.
Rather than all of us packing up our files and shipping them to AATIP, why not just give them some good advice? If they want to find out where UAP come from and go to (and who they are) it seems to me they should want to contact somebody who already knows more about that than anyone: NORAD. If somebody is serious about all this, NORAD would be a real asset. We already have a good sense of what is going on from Operation Foal Eagle in South Korea. And Brad Sparks pulled up the BB Unknowns that are indicative of vertical ascents and descents.** http://www.nicap.org/match/ http://www.nicap.org/match/ http://www.nicap.org/match/ Stay tune for some great posts as we enter another year of discovery. Fran Ridge ==================== Be sure to check out and subscribe to the NICAP Official YouTube page at: youtube. My latest short paper regarding a NASA release concerning technosignatures: https://www.lunascan.com/ Also, the Lunascan Project site has been analyzing a new UFO video of objects observed moving over the moon: https://www.lunascan.com/Endymion/Endymion.htm https://lunascan.com/videos/Multiple_UFOs_Cross_The_Moon_And_Leave_Shadows_2020.mp4 NIMITZ/PRINCETON ENCOUNTER The Nimitz/Princeton UAP encounter case directory of 2004 has been updated http://www.nicap.org/20041114USS_Nimitz_dir.htm This report is almost 300 pages and should turns some heads. __________________________________________________________________________________________ ROUTINE NICAP WORK ___________________________________________________________________________________________ LOOKING FOR DATA ON UAP REPORTS & THE CHRONOS THE most important place on the NICAP site for researching over a century of UFO events is the Index of Chronos. The date of the incident may vary due to false information, but most people would probably just "Google-up" a UFO case and find some story to go with it somewhere on the internet. But the best way would be to go to the place where the NICAP A-Team used critical thinking to process an incident worth reading about, and that would be the appropriate NICAP Chrono. Cases are filed by year. But if one Googles-up a case and adds ",nicap" they will most probably find the case directory (for even "explained" cases) with all the supporting docs, comments, rating, etc, AND a link note that the case is on a chrono. Cases on chronos without active links to directories are either not well supported (therefore no dir) or they have not yet been processed. (See more on the Chronos below) NOTE TO NEW ENTHUSIASTS We have added some new people and groups to our audience, so a brief description of our primary goal is in order. No matter what you may think about UFOs and IFOs, the most important thing for NICAP is the continuation of work on the 130,000-plus documents that need to be processed, resized, made into pdf files and placed in the proper files and chronos. We do not want these documents to "disappear". Each case has a directory if it is worth doing and the dir has a synopsis and links to all docs and related material. Here is the file folder representing what we have accomplished so far the last few years: MORE HISTORY ON THE CHRONOS The rest would be news to any new web searcher, but old news to any of our regular enthusiasts, and is repeated and updated at each briefing: In 1997 I envisioned a web site with links to all the best UFO web sites at that time, along with some NICAP trivia, and data on casework. It was called "NICAP Interlink". Right after that simple beginning, and then being authorized to expand on the idea, I added the original UFO chronologies and began work on case directories. The chronos were skimpy. They had few cases from the Project Blue Book files and ended at 1963. In the fall of 2005 I began a major update of Richard Hall's NICAP UFO Sighting Chronologies. In nothing short of a crash program we produced qualitative and quantitative sighting summaries for the most important years in UFO history: 1947-1952. In December of 2005 we had posted a massive updated chrono on 1952. This included documentation but was basically a major update on sightings. By the end of 2006 we had drastically updated (with links to detailed key cases) incidents from pre-1947 to 1969. That total group encompassed the Air Force Project Blue Book years and the BB files. In January 2007 we established the goal to update the remaining chronos at a rate of one year per month, beginning with 1970. In July of that year we were able to add hundreds of foo-fighter sightings to the WWII period with the help of Keith Chester. The plan was to have all the chronos up and updated by March 15, 2010. We were able to accomplish that goal several months early. RADCAT & AVCAT
In 2009 we began the second major project, the new RADCAT, which is the re-issue and processing of all the radar cases in the Blue Book files and elsewhere. Later we started another major project, AVCAT (Aviation Catalog), to update directories on old cases of sightings from aircraft, and I created dirs for new ones. NICAP The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was formed in 1956 and flourished through about 1970, and, as an organization with field investigators and consultants, declined gradually thereafter. For a more detailed story about NICAP please check papers/hall-IUR1994, Richard Hall. What we have today, many years later, is the existence of the NICAP web site, a tremendous repository of the evidence collected by NICAP and other sources to continue the goal of public information. There have been millions of UAP sightings, but bonafide UAP events are more rare. We have more than 215,000 sightings on computer (UFOCAT, Donald A. Johnson). In addition we have massive evidence in the form of 11 different Categories * Category 11 - 3,000-plus
sightings from aircraft by Dr. Richard Haines
and over 240 cases listed on the NICAP site
with the AVCAT Project. To see the actual
breakdown by month see:
http://www.nicap.org/avcat_brief.htm
* Category 10 - Over 200
cases involving a nuclear connection,
several radiation injury cases, many
incidents from Robert Hastings files.
* Category 9 - With
the RADCAT Project we have produced
over 460 radar case directories along
with supporting documents from the
Blue Book files. To see the actual
breakdown and cases filed, see this
doc report
http://www.nicap.org/radcat_brief.htm
* About 1700
U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book
UNKNOWNS (Brad Sparks).
* Category 8
- Photographic Evidence.
12,199 cases (as of Sept 1,
2017) by Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos.
* Category
7 - Humanoid Cases
(hundreds) and Abduction
Reports
*
Category 6 - Over 5600
Physical Trace cases
documented, 4104 involving
UFO visual sightings
(CUFOS).
*
Category 5 - Medical
Cases. Being compiled
*
Category 4 - Over a
hundred cases of UFO
sightings involving
animal reactions on
the NICAP site alone
by Joan Woodward.
*
Category 3 - E-M
Effects. Over 500
cases associated
with UFO sightings
(CUFOS) and 185 E-M
cases documented
involving UFOs near
aircraft (Dr.
Richard Haines). 250
listed on the NICAP
site. 144 compass
needle cases listed
by Eric Herr.
*
Category 2 -
Hundreds, if not
thousands, of
excellent close
encounters by
credible observers
whose testimony in
court would be
taken at face
value
* Category 1 -
Probably
millions of
reports of
nighttime
objects
(Nocturnal
Lights) or
daylight objects
seen at a
distance.
The NICAP site
is the number
one source of
the best
evidence and
covers
material from
the dawn of
the UFO age.
If you would
like to
participate in
email
discussions on
nicapresearchgroups@Googlegroups.com
or file
information,
please email
me at the
address below
Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator & Archivist (812) 490-0094 skyking42@gmx.com 5847 River Walk Circle, Newburgh, Indiana, 47630 |