Monthly Update
Multiple Anomaly Detection & Automated Recording
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 2023 ISSUE


NEWEST MADAR SITES

Node 223 is operated by Chris Harmon at Green Valley, Illinois. I am especially content with this new Illinois site as our midwest array needs further fortification. This makes six sites for Illinois. Kenneth Hartung runs the new site 224 at Affton, Missouri, giving us seven sites in Missouri. The midwest array includes Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Our Indianapolis node 21, operated by Terry Tolly, was shut down and moved 16 miles, and is now node 221 with a new history. The MADAR Network currently operates in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The program has 150 sites and presently, 50, or 34% are now DAS-equipped, which means the site teams can be alerted by an alarm system, go out and gather more data with selected equipment. The project has 204 members.

HOW WE DOING?
The MADAR-III program was operational by May of 2018 and Project MATCH, the combined effort of MUFON, NUFORC and NICAP was launched two months later in July. Since 2023 begins a new year, it is a good time to stop and look back at what we have accomplished so far. Right now the Case Status database shows 39 reports of correlations with UAP  Twelve (12) of these were code blue's. That means the MADARs magnetometers went into full alert, and those with DAS alarms alerted the ops to those alerts. Twenty-four incidents (24) were "data" situations where the MADARs were not triggered but showed data at the time of potential sightings of interest. Twenty-six (26) of these two categories had MSV or multi-sensor verification, meaning the onboard compass also showed variations.

There were (2) correlations in our first year, 2018. The next year, 2019, had (2) as well. There were (5) correlations in 2020 and (7) in 2021. While we are still working the 2022 incidents we are jut finishing the month of July and already have (22) correlations! (All this began after the war broke out in Ukraine).

Under the original Project MATCH plan (2018), it was the job of the MADAR Project UFO Officer, Jeremy Haslam, to go over all the NUFORC cases looking for potential correlations with sightings and recorded MADAR anomalies. And MUFON was responsible for submitting their potential sighting correlations. And since NUFORC had no investigators, MUFON became the primary agency. The sources of these 39 incidents are as follows: MADAR researchers found nineteen (19) compelling cases of UAP in NUFORC's database that had variations in MADAR data in nearby site logs.
MADAR Ops had a dozen incidents and either filed their own reports or had the state MUFON group investigate them. Five of those incidents (5) were investigated by case certification officers. While looking for leads the researchers ran across six (6) additional MUFON CMS listings. MUFON investigated (3) of these. Although MUFON has not submitted any potential sightings of interest near their own MADAR sites, and since the protocols have been recently updated, this may have been changed.

The good news is we are doing exceptionally well and we still have five months of data to go over for 2022! What we need to do, and concentrate on, is:  1) getting more Ops to incorporate a DAS into their system and have some extra task they can perform during an alert. The alert and task not only gets the Op in a position to see a UAP, but could upgrade the incident from an uncorrelated target to a madar/visual.  2) Getting as many Ops as possible to get their nodes in order so they CAN be of value. Many need to address issues that are making their chances less likely to detect a UAP.  3) Getting the MATCH protocols out to MUFON states so that they know what their responsibilities are. The prime duty (besides investigating assigned cases) is to provide potential sightings of interest to check against nearby MADAR sites.

We have learned more about UAP and detection the last four years than all the years previous. We knew many UAP appeared in pairs and that many exited the atmosphere vertically. What we did not know was that UAP many times enter the atmosphere vertically, create a tremendous EM disturbance, then idle down to a point where instruments show little or no EM. We know that in a dozen cases the threshold of the device had been set at under 30 milligaus. The bulk of the code blues were set at under 26 milligaus.  In spite of this, our default setting of 30 has worked out very well. In fact, our very best code blue had been set at 30. And not surprisingly, those devices equipped with a DAS (alarm) were the game changers. What would have been uncorrelated targets became MADAR/visuals. We also have learned that cell phones either work and show nothing or don't work at all. A major surprise came in the form of the "data" cases.  Twenty-four (24) devices that did not go into alert mode because the field readings were under the threshold, WAY under, but showed fluxuations during a nearby sighting! Most of these were verified by multiple sensor readings. So what will we learn in 2023? And like I said earlier, we still have 5 months of potential sightings of interest to go over yet this year.


Fran Ridge
MADAR OPERATIONS CENTER
Newburgh, Indiana
812-490-0094
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