UPDATE
By Fran Ridge


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 2022 ISSUE

NEW MADAR SITES

Joseph Jordan was the sole MADAR site operator in South Korea at Deagu from May of 2020 until May of 2022, node 155 serving two years at that strategic location. He has been moved to Titusville, Florida and his node 204 will be part of the Florida array. Gordon Merrill is the latest person to operate a node in Indiana, node 205 at Columbus. Node 58 at Oak Harbor, Washington has moved to Goldendale, Washington. Eric Calkins operates this unit, node 206, and is one of our tech support personnel.

The MADAR Network currently operates in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Presently, 48, or 32% are DAS-equipped.

COMPASS HEADING CHANGES
Anybody who has followed the MADAR Project knows that t
he first 22 years (1970-1992) involved one site and were all compass detections utilizing a novel vertical light beam system. The idea came from 150+ incidents involving compass deviations and UAP sightings. Early MADAR had success with correlations, clearly showing UAP were in the area, but the operator was never able to see and report anything visually. MADAR-II (2014-2016) used the same principal but employed improved technology but had no "hits". MADAR-III (2018 on) was a major breakthrough technology, with 30 sites, a magnetometer, an onboard compass, and a barometer. In 2021 the barometer was dumped and the onboard accelerometer was put to work. As of this date the system has 146 sites.

As one would suspect, MADAR has its downfalls, the false alarms, anywhere from 100-200 each week. We have learned to live with those, whittling them down to about 8-15 processed anomalies a week. One of the protocols we go by is that the magnetometer field reading in milligaus that sets off the madar when the reading exceeds the unit's threshold must also have multi-sensor verification. The onboard compass has to show a deviation and the heading change must be at least 3 degrees. We're being very generous because this MADAR unit is very sensitive, but it is paying off. In March and April we had at least three incidents where MADAR did not trigger, but the numbers showed suspicious spikes.

And it just got better. Now we are getting good UAP reports where the distance is really too much to expect MADAR to trigger, or even to show any field variations, but still have suspicious compass variations. This is not a step backward. This takes us back full circle to the original and proven concept of compass and UAP sighting correlations. It also adds data to the list that Eric Herr and I began a long time ago and these new findings are very refreshing and promising news.

The key is to get MUFON states to watch their data more closely and pull out potential sightings of interest. Anything that would turn some heads, especially the truly scientific-minded. An anomalistic  light in the sky may be a real unknown craft but a craft at close encounter range that exhibits little or no sound and has no visible means of propulsion is something that would more of interest, raise some eyebrows, and bring us closer to the answers we are looking for. This will also sustain our scientific minds while even better things are in the wings. We have learned more in the last four years than we have in the last sixty.

Fran Ridge
MADAR OPERATIONS CENTER
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