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2nd December 2016, 15:32
A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal
By
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Valencia, Spain
This is a 1976 CUFOS publication that has just been put online, thanks to the kindness of Isaac Koi, AFU and Mary Castner. My combined thanks to them all. This 77-page booklet is a compilation of close encounter cases reported in the Iberian Peninsula, covering the period 1914-January 1975. Jacques Vallée wrote the foreword. Seeing this work with a perspective of 40 years, allows me to find the investigative flaws incurred when one does not take account of how commonly the witness deceives or is deceived. As a matter of fact, over time, several of these classic events have been put down to prosaic causes. Nevertheless, others remain enigmatic.
Footnote from author: Eleven years later, after long and intense research, I published a book with J.A. Fernández Peris that expanded the catalogue to 230 UFO and 355 IFO cases, reported up to 1985. The book “Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS” contained both a detailed summary of the observations and an informative statistical analysis.
PDF: http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf
By
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Valencia, Spain
This is a 1976 CUFOS publication that has just been put online, thanks to the kindness of Isaac Koi, AFU and Mary Castner. My combined thanks to them all. This 77-page booklet is a compilation of close encounter cases reported in the Iberian Peninsula, covering the period 1914-January 1975. Jacques Vallée wrote the foreword. Seeing this work with a perspective of 40 years, allows me to find the investigative flaws incurred when one does not take account of how commonly the witness deceives or is deceived. As a matter of fact, over time, several of these classic events have been put down to prosaic causes. Nevertheless, others remain enigmatic.
Footnote from author: Eleven years later, after long and intense research, I published a book with J.A. Fernández Peris that expanded the catalogue to 230 UFO and 355 IFO cases, reported up to 1985. The book “Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con OVNIS” contained both a detailed summary of the observations and an informative statistical analysis.
PDF: http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue_of_200_Type_I_UFO_Events_in_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf