UPDATE By Fran Ridge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 2022 ISSUE

NEW MADAR SITES
Charlot Symmonds is the new operator in Illinois at Springfield, node 198. This makes five MADAR sites in Illinois. We need additional sites in the NW corner, the eastern border and the SW section. Rob Duvall, a long-time supporter of the MADAR Project now lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico and operates node 199. This gives us four sites in that state with hopes of getting more nodes, especially the SE section. We have been very successful the last four years and have retained most of our sites despite the usual, expected changes, re-locations, and hopefully few deaths by COVID, etc. We 144 nodes in various stages of operation, about 13 sites in foreign countries. 46 sites are DAS-equipped. (See next section)

WHAT WE'VE  LEARNED
I have prepared a detailed report on what we have learned since we became operational with the new MADAR-III DataProbe in 2018. This will be submitted to MUFON for the journal and will be simultaneously released to all Ops. One of THE most important things we learned needs to be addressed here without any further delay. And that is, it is obvious that our success has been great but restricted because of the way MADAR anomalies are handled and the way UAP are reported.

With 46 sites DAS-equipped, that means we have 37% of our nodes capable of responding with a rapid deployment system of some degree. DAS originally was the acronym for "Delayed Alarm System" and was an alert siren that sounded until switched off manually. When we introduced MADAR-III the alert signal for the DAS was 3 minutes plus the actual alert, and it automatically shut off when the MADAR relay opened. The new DAS is a vastly-improved and affordable way to alert a response team, and sounds the klaxon for only one minute. The theory is that if the ops hear the one minute signal they can respond (weather-permitting, etc). If they DON'T hear the alert (not on the site for some reason, shopping, etc.) three minutes is of no benefit anyway. So in the sense that the alarm is a "proximity indicator", it is no longer considered "delayed". For that reason the acronym has been redesignated  "Detection Alert System". Ops still get an SMS alert on their cell phones, but due to providers, that alert message can be delayed and under the best conditions can't be relied on for a rapid deployment team to respond with hand-held equipment. It can, however, alert a team that an alert has taken place and a UAP may be active in the area. Operators still get the important email documenting the alert.

Thirty-four percent of reports of UAP are actually IFOs, "Identified" Flying Objects. It has been estimated that one in 20 witnesses would ever report a UAP, and the higher the strangeness (the better the UAP report) the numbers were even less. Witnesses use to call the police or the local newspaper. Today people check the internet and sometimes file a report with MUFON or NUFORC. Point is, the odds are against a team being notified that a UAP is active in the area. The best we can do is, being alerted, is to go out with our night vision goggles or cell phone cameras and document a MADAR/visual such as we have been able to do several times in the last four years. We therefore recommend a DAS for those wanting to respond to an active UAP situation, and that teams be prepared to go out and try to spot a UAP and get further scientific data.

MADAR 101 / INFORMATION SERIES
In March of each year we encourage all of our Ops to take part in MADAR 101.  A "refresher course" is given each year. The Ops print out the file below and check off the papers as they proceed, usually at a rate of one paper per week. These papers are subject to update at any time and this is done via email when appropriate.
http://www.nicap.org/match/MADAR_101/
Anyone seeking particular information or other informative topics can go to the alphabetical version at
http://www.nicap.org/match/papers/

Fran Ridge
MADAR OPERATIONS CENTER
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