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| Craig ROBERTS | Editorial | 1-2 |
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| Craig ROBERTS | Introduction to the editorial board | 3-5 |
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| Paolo TOSELLI, Renato FEDELE | Project for a database of ball lightning observations in Italy | 6-14 |
| | Abstract: Ball lightning sightings by casual eyewitnesses are often neglected by researchers. Yet any theoretical model has to consider and account for those described features. The present difficulty is that such sightings are rarely reported to scientific researchers. An effort to build a catalogue of alleged ball lightning reports in Italy has recently been launched by a small group of BL researchers stimulated by the Italian Centre for UFO Studies, which offered to open its files to interested scientists to look for pertinent data. A first surbey of more than 12.000 Italian reports of unusual aerial phenomena brought a sample of 40 possible ball lightning phenomena in the last 50 years. A more through search is presently being conducted, that will yield and expected total of 100 reports. A second important source is the impressive collection of ball lightning cases published by Ignazio Galli in the early years of this century. All such reports are presently being filed into an 'Italian Ball Lightning Archive' and a computer database is also being implemented, containing space-time coordinates (date, time, latitude, longitude, altitude) as well as descriptive (colour, size, shape, behaviour) and environment (meteorological, topographical) data. Similar projects have already been attempted in Austria and Hungary, and some more national catalogue have also been produced for countries (Russia, Japan) with very different ecology/geography/climate. A second planned step will thus be a comparison between the Italian database and those other ones. |
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| Albert BUDDEN | Preliminary identifications of alien contact / Abdcution experiences as allucinatory statesinduced by prolonged exposures to electromagnetic pollution in the environment | 15-29 |
| | Abstract: Case studies of subjects reporting consisten accounts of apparent abduction by alien have shown that such experiences have developed an environmental sensitivities syndrome (ESS) including electrical hypersensitivity (EH), induced by synergistic conditions in their environment, including major electrical event exposure (e.g. lightning strike proximity) and subsequent on-going electromegnetic hot spot irradiation. It is this sensitivity to environmental electromagnetic energies which produces as an acute end-state, hallucinatory/visionary perceptions on an on-going episodic basis, such as episodes previously identified as psychic experiences, and latterly, interactions with extraterrestrials. Furthermore, examples of minor physical trauma discovered after such apparent interactions have also been identified as dermal reactions of the subjects who in effect have developed an 'electrical allergy'. Note that previous studies using ELF milligauss megnetic fields specifically on the temporal lobes, contribute to the electromagnetic polution approach, but differs from it in that this latter approach identifies generalised bodily irradiation from multiple artificial sources, the identification of the clinical condition - electrical hypersensitivity as being primarily instrumental in alien abduction experiences and its fundamental connections to the ethos of holistic medicine. |
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| Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS | UFO declassification - the Spanish model | 30-41 |
| | Abstract: Since 1992 to 1999, all UFO records held by the Spanish Air Forca which were withheld from public consultation have been declassified. Now, documents formerly classified as secret are part of the public domain: 84 files containing near 2.000 pages of text which describe 122 different UFO events occurred in the period 1962-1995. The author's intervention proved instrumental in the generation of this historical declassification process. A collaboration offer from the author was accepted by the Intelligence unit in charge. It allowed the author to stay very close to the development of the process. From this unique position, the author was basically able to (a) confirm that full contents of the archives were totally released; (b) accelerate the speed of the file processing in various times, (c) manage the liberation of several confidential papers and protocols related to past military handling of UFO information, and (d) successfully achieve through timely proposals that the Air Force produced a search for missing UFO data, which took place in three different occasions, giving rise to an improvement in quantity and quality of the files. After a background introduction, the most representative dates in the official UFO declassification process are reviewed, the major achievements from the civilian cooperation are exposed, and a basic statistical overview of released UFO sightings is presented. |
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| | Forum Debate |
| Albert BUDDEN | Scum, Sludge and Residue - Refining Ufological Information | 42-45 |
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| | Press Release |
| | Canary Island UFOs in the 70s: Space experts confirm they where missiles | 46 |
