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UPDATE
By Fran Ridge
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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 the 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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