Australian Reports
The start of a series:
This is the first of a series of monthly compilations of current UAP reports from Australia prepared by Melbourne colleague, Paul Dean (click here to see Paul’s own blog) and I. We are in the process of talking to various Australian civilian UAP organisations and individuals, with a view to acting as a central collection point for such reports. It is hoped that this monthly collection will build in volume as more groups and individuals participate. We make no comment, as to whether or not, these reports refer to examples of the “core” UFO/UAP phenomenon, or have mundane explanations. That is not the intent of this collection. (Reports are listed below)
Format:
The format of each report will be date, time, location, duration, either “raw” (that is an un-investigated report); “telephone report” (meaning that an investigator spoke to the witness by telephone;) or “investigated” (meaning someone has looked into the details of the report and published their findings.) Finally a source is cited for the report.
These monthly collections:
1. Will allow us all to gauge the volume of reports which are received nationally each month, and how this varies over time.
2. Should allow us to determine what percentage of all such incoming “raw” reports remain unidentified after investigation.
3. Should allow us to determine, which, if any, off the incoming “raw’ reports is worthy of a deeper study, and then allocate resources to this smaller number.
4. Will save others having to collect the same information. Paul and I are undertaking this for us all.
5. Will be useful when dealing with media inquiries about “recent reports”, “patterns in the data” and other such inquiries.
For a deeper discussion on why collect such reports, please see my VUFOA conference presentation at:
Submitting data to us:
For anyone wishing to submit (Australian only) reports to this monthly collection, we would appreciate you simply sending a summary (see examples below) as close to the last day of the calendar month as possible, by email to
keithbasterfield@yahoo.com.au
Once the monthly summary is prepared, it will be posted on this blog within a few days of the start of the next calendar month, e.g. first week in November for October reports. We will alert participants to the fact that it has been published.
Investigations:
You will note that most of the reports featured in this blog are labelled “raw” meaning that they are un-investigated. If you take an interest in any of the reports, and can undertake an investigation into that report, please take the time to do so. Then write up a report of what you find and send it to us at:
keithbasterfield@yahoo.com.au
Reposting:
Recipients of the information are free to re-post, re-publish, etc. The intent is to provide anyone who is interested, with summarised data. Naturally, when re-posting it would be nice of you to credit the source, namely Paul Dean and Keith Basterfield, given that we are taking the time to compile this resource.
Older reports:
You will see, that currently, the listing does not provide details of any older than the previous month’s cases. However, besides summaries of the month just gone; we are happy to report on cases once they have been investigated, however old they are. If the investigation report is lengthy, we would propose to provide a summary on this blog and a link to your website; blog, etc where your full investigation report may be read.
AUFORN:
The contents of these blog posts will also be forwarded to the Australian UFO Research Network (AUFORN) for their use, and possible publication in the “UFOlogist” magazine. Hopefully, this will assist with their work, given that many reports are now bypassing their national telephone hotline service, and appearing on such diverse websites as MUFON (USA); UFOINFO (UK); Sydney Observatory; etc. which no-one has the time to constantly monitor.
Keith Basterfield
http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
