Organization for SETV Research

Instrumented Near Earth ET Search

• 1963

Lumieres dans la Nuit (LDLN)

The LDLN, French UFO Society, installed a network of magnetic field detectors. By 1969, 430 detectors were in use throughout the country. During 1968 and 1969 about 3% of the reported 332 visually observed suspected ET probe anomalous observational phenomenon (AOP -press "back" to return here) were event alerted by the detectors. However in 88% of the event triggers, suspected ET probe AOP were not visually verified, (Zan 1979). In each event where visual verification occurred suspected ET probe AOP were within 1 km (3280.4 feet or approximately 2/3 mile) of observers.
 
• 1966

Monsieur Perrinjaquet

Monsieur Perrinjaquet in Switzerland developed and distributed (GEOSS) an electronic (amplified) magnetic detector. Perrinjaquet's detector was used with some success. (Creighton 1966; Figuet/Ruchon 1979; Hendry 1978; Schneider 1981).
 
• 1970 - 1976?

Francis Ridge

Operated and documented anomalies using a magnetic field disturbance instrument system in Mt. Vernon, Indiana.  The instrument "Multiple Anomaly Detection and Automatic Recording" (MADAR) system was designed by both Lewis G. Blevins (GS-11 pay-grade engineer) and Francis Ridge (NICAP) in 1960 to attempt detection of field distortions in the magnetosphere caused by suspected operating ET probes.


• 1970 - 1972?

John Oswald and David Webb

Magnetic distortion variometers were deployed in New Hampshire, November 1970 through September 1972, with 22 documented events from a series of 659 utilizing an 'array' of 13 detector sites.
 
• 1972 - 1978

Harley Rutledge (Ph.D. Physics, UoM) and Graduate Students

Harley Rutledge, a professor of physics at the University of Missouri (Department Chair of Physics), became interested in suspected ET probe (AOP) when a neighboring township, Piedmont Missouri (midwestern USA) started experiencing high ricidivism, recurrent, serial suspected ET probe events. Being curious, Harley Rutledge approached his college and asked for funding to allow himself and several of his graduate students to participate in a field experiment where they would attempt to collect scientific instrument data of suspected ET phenomena. Dr. Rutledge conducted 15 years of studies during which time he and his graduate students experienced and observed multiple suspected probes of suspected extraterrestrial origin. Using his "field diary" as a research source, Dr. Rutledge published a book entitled, "Project Identification, the first scientific study of UFOs".

Indeed, Harley's book, reads similary to a field diary. The book is an excellent technical resource for matters relating to field usage of cameras, lens, problems, as well as diagnosing and understanding the nature of lens flare. Harley Rutledge clearly describes triangulating techniques to determine speed and distance from suspected ET probe.

Dr. Rutledge deployed several laboratory instruments which included a wide band RF spectrum analyzer, optical spectrum grating plates and magnetometers.

He also clearly describes the physical effect of the observation of an apparently coronal ensheathed 'ionized' suspected ET probe crossing between multiple observation teams located on towers, who were using 150 mHz radio transcievers for inter-team communications and apparent resulting multipath interference, as well as apparent broadband electrostatic noise. The interference often was used to alert triangulation teams that an event was transpiring! The book is out of print and is often hard to find, but well worth the effort.

Book, also clearly documents phenomenal discovery data which depicts apparent precision multi-member/element positioning control system (pod) behavior.



Suspected Precision Multi-NanoElement (Nanel) Navigation Control (pod behavior) Exhibition






This 'discovery' information is independantly (seemingly) demonstrated in Dr. Bruce Cornet's Pine Bush, (New Jersey, USA) data. See his "Performance", suspected ET probe studies.

Dr. Rutledge told W. Williams, (in a telephone interview, June 1997) that his book was not popular for two reasons:
 

• "UFOologists considered my observations as not reliable because, I saw too many".
• "The book was too technical."

Also in that same telephone interview, Dr. Rutledge said, "they [ET] must like me, as little balls of ionized, plasma appearing orbs of light, two to six inches (50.8 mm to 152.4 mm) diameter, typically orange or white and occasionally bluish-white, were following me around. Would become visible in the dark, when I 'thought' about them; often visible in lighted rooms or daylight. They were so persistent, that my wife finally exclaimed, "I don't give a damn where they are from, I want them the hell out of my kitchen!"
 
• 1972
  J. Allen Hynek (Ph.D. physics)
  
  Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Physicist, U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book consultant), retained Dr. David W. Akers, (Vogel Institute) to conduct instrumented studies of suspected ExtraTerrestrial phenomenon in the Yakima Indian Reservation in Toppenish Washington. See: Yakima Study
   

• 1976
  Ray Stanford (?engineer?)
  
  Ray Stanford formed a scientific SETV 'style' instrumentation group, Project Starlight International (PSI) to conduct instrumented studies of suspected ExtraTerrestrial phenomenon and probes.  In his experiments he employed a magnetometer and a gravimeter amongst an array of other instruments.
  
  In one notable event, July 19, 1976  his instruments detected simultaneous event transits with a WWV time-signal deviation while concurrently, he imaged (via motion-picture emulsion film camera) two suspected ET probes operating near his facility in the desert.
  
  Ray Stanford convinced that the suspected ET probes were intelligently directed, designed and constructed a bi-directional electro-optical signaling platform in an attempt to establish interactive contact with suspected ET probes. However, he claimed that all he needed do, was "think at them" and they would change their behavior.
  
  The following was excerpted from an interview between
  Ray Stanford and the Texas Monthly publication from: "There's more. Stanford leads me downslope into the center of the light circle, which consists of 91 150-watt spotlights forming a ring 100 feet in diameter. Until recently, all of the lights were activated by a sequencer Stanford and his wife made out of an old record turntable, an instrument that has been superceded by a solid-state sequencer put together by Al Mouton, a solid-state engineer from Motorola and a PSI fan.
  
  The lights flash on and off in a sophisticated sequence that is not immediately discernible. It's a hypnotic effect: the sudden flare-ups of light all around us accompanied by the soft click of the sequencer give the impression that the circumference of the circle is impenetrable.
  
  The light circle is here because UFOs have reportedly been attracted by such things in the past. As they are now, the lights can be manipulated in a number of different ways, including a dot-dot-dot pattern which is a crude form of pi, a concept dear to the humanoid heart. But on that day not too far off, when there is cash to install a central computer, PSI will be able to use the light circle to flash mathematical patterns and binary data to any spacecraft in the area, even read and duplicate its light-pulsations.
  
  The acronym "PSI" (derived from "Project Starlight International") possibly a literagistic 'play' on the idea that ET probes often apparently exhibit multiple exhibitions of autonomous cognition (telepathy) which Ray Stanford concluded via his personal interaction with suspected ET probes. Other exhibitions included apparent "bi-location".
   

• 1980
  George Hunt Williamson (Author of ~25 books about ET contact, student of Autonomous Cognition)
  
  George Hunt-Williamson, a puzzling man, was a prolific author of ET contact books during the 1950s was foremost an occultic student, with principle interests in Autonomous Cognition (AC) or "telepathy". Williamson apparently first became aware of purported ET AC communication through phenomena known as "Electronic Voice Phenomenon" (EVP) in the 1950s. John Keel an investigative newspaper reporter / writer, and the author of the now famous "Mothman Prophecy" and recently (2002) movie of the same name was also interested in EVP with regard to suspected ET communication through that medium and made acquaintance with George Hunt Williamson. Through the affiliation with Keel, Williamson became associated with a 'channel team' comprised of physicist Don Elkins (project manager), psychic Carla Rueckert and James A. McCarthy. These people channeled the "RA Material". Don Elkins was convinced that ET employ technology which apparently approximate Human perception of communicating through "consciouness resonance" or autonomous cognition (AC) or "telepathy, and further it seems he believed AC to be the standard method employed by ET for communication. Elkin's team channeled several "collective consciousness" or "collectives" known by these names:
  
  • RA - about whom the RA Material books were written
    
  • Quou - was model for the character 'Q' in "Star Trek: Next Generation" TV series
    
  • Hatonne - 'Ashtar Command', a purported 'space-fleet commander', "located beyond the solar-system frontier sensors", influenced thousands of Human devotees to move to the Denver Colorado area caves in the late 1980's, in preparation to survive a purported planetary wide cataclysm predicted to event in 2012.
  
  
  In 1972 and prior to George Hunt-Williamson's affiliation with the Don Elkin's "RA channel team", Williamson caused the fabrication of an electro-optical Morse-code SETV ETp style communication platform. Little information has been found regarding the operational results of Williamson's platform.
  
  
  The following is an excerpt from the "RA Material" ppg 78-79, around 1981:
  • Questioner: Was the pyramid then built by the mutual action of many?
  RA: I am Ra. The pyramids which we thought/built were constructed thought-forms created by our social memory complex.
  
  
  
  • Questioner: The rock was created in place rather than moved from some place else? Is that correct?
  RA: I am Ra. We built with everlasting rock the Great Pyramid, as you call it. Other of the pyramids were built with stone moved from one place to another.
  
  
  • Questioner: What is everlasting rock?
  RA: I am Ra. If you can understand the concept of thought-forms you will realize that the thought-form is more regular in its distortion than the energy fields created by the materials in the rock which has been created through thought form from thought to finite energy and being-ness in your, shall we say, distorted reflection of the level of the thought-form. May we answer you in any more helpful way?
  
  
  • Questioner: This is rather trivial, but I was wondering why the pyramid was built with many blocks rather than creating the whole thing as one form created at once?
  RA: I am Ra. There is a law which we believe to be one of the more significant primal distortions of the Law of One. That is the Law of Confusion. You have called this Law of Free Will. We wished to make an healing machine, or time/space ratio complex which was as efficacious as possible. However, we did not desire to allow the mystery to be penetrated by the peoples in such a way that we became worshipped as builders of a miraculous pyramid. Thus it appears to be made, not thought.
  
  
  

• 1980
  Al Holt, (NASA Astrophysicist, Engineer)
  
  Al Holt and John Schuessler (author of Cash-Landrum book) investigated close encounter sightings in a pseudo-NASA organization called V.I.S.I.T. Incorporated. (now defunct). Holt was formerly a VISIT investigator and known (in the early 'low-profile' SETV community) for designing and constructing instrumentation platforms for detection, surveillance and measurement of suspected ET probe AOP.
   

• 1992
  Bruce Cornet (Ph.D. paleontology/paleobiology)
  
  Dr. Cornet has conducted extensive film camera as well as video/camcorder observations of suspected ET probe AOP in Pine Bush, New Jersey, USA. See Dr. Cornet's Performance. Bruce Cornet's field data adds suggestive support that suspected ET probe AOP apparently establish a channel of autonomous cognition (AC) communication that exists between observer and suspected ET probe AOP. Cornet's 'data' also seems to illustrate suspected multi-element precision navigation control or nano-element (nanel) POD behavior. Similar ideas are predicted by
  Dr. Robert Frietas of nano-technology fame.
  Dr. Cornet, conducted a rigorous (~1200) multi-site magnetometer study of the suspected anomlistic, high recidivistic area around Pine Bush.
   

• 1992
  Bruce Maccabee (Ph.D. optical physics, US Naval Research Laboratory)
  
  Dr. Maccabee particpated in an instrumented search in Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA, in August, 1992. The 'instrumentation' used (low light level camera and 1600 mm f/11 telescope). Though the 'event' "was a bust UFO-wise", data acquired did provide solution to a strange sighting that would have been classified as a UFO event had there been no instrumentation.
   

• 1992
  Erling Strand (assistant professor, electrical engineering, Ostfold College, Norway)
  
  Erling Strand has been conducting instrumented studies of suspected ET probes and AOP phenomenon. The effort is known as Project Hessdalen.
  
  Strand has since the mid 1980s has operated various instruments in a portable field laboratory in an attempt to learn more about the suspected ET probes which are known to recivistically visit the Hessdalen Valley in Norway. In the day light hours discs can be seen to travel through the valley, as day transitions to the low light condition of night the discs gradually become glowing balls of light as the background light diminishes below the discs coronal ensheathment atmospheric ionization photon energy threshold. Erling Strand has operated numerous types of scientific instruments in his ongoing efforts to instrument suspected ET probes. Some of these instruments include, magenotometers, RF spectrometers, gravimeters, as well as a Hessdalen Airforce loaned RADAR set.
  
  Strand and W. Williams have since 1992 discussed many types of instrumentation that could be used to measure and detect the presence of suspected ET probes. Dr. Strand, lobbying for and then applying college funding (Ostfold College where he teaches Microprocessor Engineering) and motivating his graduate students to use their free time, --designed, constructed and field deployed a simple clever, functional autonomous optical trigger/detection system which gates CCD imaging system (CCD camera, attached to the InterNet) and other instruments for sensing and measuring suspected ET probes and anomalous observational phenomena (AOP).
  
  One of Strand's suspected ET probe detection experiments is facilitated using a Princeton Engineering Anomalous Research Labs (PEAR) research 'MindSong' random event generator (REG) autonomous cognition (AC) sensor as an element of the world wide Roger Nelson (Ph.D. psychology), Global Consciousness Project (GCP) EGG experiment. The research REG is a three JFET transistor (Josephson junction field effect semiconductor) circuit which generates multiple streams (three) of arbitrarially long digital random numbers. This stream is directed via an EIA interface into an Intel architecture PC for data capture. Each 'EGG' site is connected via the InterNet. Datasets generated at each EGG site are automatically uploaded via a Linux driven PC computer attached to the InterNet for uploading to Roger Nelson's central database site for statistical analysis and dataset archival. If a major event transpires which affects the consciousness of many Humans, it has been shown that the 'normally' random numbers generated by the random event generators (REG) generate coincidental hits. Statistically via computer software these 'hits' are temporally corollated with events transpiring around the world.
  
  Strand has been employing his 'EGG' sensor to detect the suspected consciousness of suspected ET probes and uses the detection event to gate other instrumentation.
   

• 1998
  Walt Williams (hardware / software development contractor) and Scot Stride (JPL - NASA microwave spacecraft engineer)
  
  The Organization for SETV Research or "OSR" was formed by two engineers, Walt Williams and Scot Stride to promote a research environment commensurate with the study of Near Earth SETV Studies, whose primary mission is the promotion of instrumented scientific studies of suspected extraterrestrial probes, craft, probes and proxies. The main body of the SETV doctrine and the instrument strategy was derived from data collected during 11 years of manuscript research, (1992 to present) for the book in-progress, titled, "Instrument Strategies for the Detection and Measurement of Suspected ExtraTerrestrial Objects", researched and written by Walt Williams. Scot Stride joined the effort in 1997, after being indoctrinated by Walt Williams regarding the state of science of the ET contact process and to join Williams' efforts to attract mainstream scientific community interest. A scientific paper has been published which in part was derived from Williams' manuscript data. A job well-done!
  
  In 1997, W. Williams experienced a daylight suspected ET contact event which occured on Williams' driveway at his home. Williams was discussing the design details of his 'dual-role' active meteor instrument platform with Scot Stride via Williams' 72 mHz FM full-duplex residential cordless 'phone'. As a result of this experience, Williams' became motivated to create the ETp, a SETV bidirectional electro-optical Morse-Code interaction and data logging instrument platform experiment. The experiment is computer programmable.
  
  ETp - an Experiment in Contact
  
  The ETp which was originally named the "ET phone" honoring Steven Spielberg's "ET" movie ("ET phone home") but was later renamed the "ExtraTerrestrial Primer" through the insistance of Scot Stride in an attempt to be more palatably received within the academic community.
  
  The ETp experiment is an attempt to replicate certain reported Human to suspected ET probe interaction events involving bidirectional interactive light signaling between suspected ET probes and Human observers. Erling Strand reported via his website in ~1992 his interactive light signaling experience. Steven Greer, M.D. (CSETI) and nurse Sherry Adiamak (ca 1992, Santa Barbara, Ca., USA) also reported interacting with a suspected ET probe using a podium LASER which Sherry used to 'signal' the suspected ET probe by blinking the LASER on-off which elicited a mimiced response from the suspected ET probe.
  
  The ETp consists of multiple visible solid-state narrow band light emitters which are modulated via a computer program. There is also a wide-band electro-optical receiver and a programmably selectable color filter wheel. Any light response above a selectable threshold level can be detected and logged.
  
  
  
• 2000
  Massimo Teodorani (astrophysicist) and Stelio Montebugnoli (astronomer), et al
  
  The Following paragraphs are excerpted from ppg 286 & 287 of Eamon Ansbro and Catherine Overhauser's paper titled:
  
  SETV: Oppotunity for European Initiative in the
  Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
  
  Eamon Ansbro and Catherine Overhauser
  Kingsland Observatory / Space Exploration Limited
  Ardmoyle, Kingsland, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
  tel: +353 907-70974 / fax: +353 907-70970
  e-maol: eansbro@eircom.net / cansbro@eircom.net
  
  ppg 286 and ppg 287
  
  PROJECT EMBLA
  
  In August 2000 a team of Italian radio astronomers, astrophysicists and technicians carried out an instrumented expedition in Hessdalen called the "EMBLA Project". It was the result of a collaborative effort between the Institute of Radio Astronomy (IRA) -- part of the National Council of Research (CNR) in Bologna, Italy -- and the Ostfold College of Engineering in Norway. Astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani headed the project with radio astronomer Stelio Montebugnoli, Jader Monari and others.
  
  The italian team used radio spectrunm analyzers that were in constant operation for 25 days. This led to the discovery of highly anomalous periodic signals that have so far defied any conventional natural explanation. The unusual signals were characterized by spike-like and Doppler-like characteristics and were mostly detected in the VLF radio range. The results are intersting because they could possibly indicate a technological source and/or the discovery of previously unknown natural phenomenon. Either scenario has important implications.
  
  The EMBLA team members also carried out formal visual monitoring sessions during this 25-day period. During this time they sighted many luminous atmospheric phenomena in various locations in the Hessdalen valley. Some of the phenomena were plasma-like and others seemed to show a structured morphology. In particular, the team plasma-appearing phenomena with a non-Gaussian point-spread-function (PSF) that has no obvious natural explanation. This is significant because a potential explanation could be the presence of a structured technological phennomenon surrounded by ionizing plasma. Unconventional natural explanations are actively being explored so that no stone is left unturned. Plasma physicists who attended the "ESA Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology" who had the opportiunity to examine the data confirmed its puzzling nature. A thorough discussion of the preliminary EMBLA data and the range of theoretical models under consideration can be found in Teodorani's paper in this same ESA publication.
  
  A crucial element in the near-Earth search for ExtraTerrestrial intelligence is the development of appropriate instrumentation. The research of both Project Hessdalen and EMBLA has revealed weaknesses in the area of optical instrumentation. High-quality optical devices are expensive, and purpose-built optical equipment expeciallyy so. The significant results already accomplished by the Norwegian and Italian teams with their SETV strategies are promising. SETV projects need to be considereed for substatntial ESA funding comparable to that invested in dedicated and skilful but un-productive conventional SETI projects. In the meantime, a new observatory at Kingsland Observatory (Ireland) is makking progress in the area of specially designed optics for SETV and the implementation of robotic sensing devices.
  
  

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  The OSR identified defined and named the search strategy known as "SETV". OSR is the 'parent' founding organization of the SETV search model and actively promotes the SETV search model.
  
  Qualified investigators who employ scientific methodology and who deploy scientific instruments or instrumentation to search for evidence of Near Earth Visitation are by this definition "SETV investigators" and OSR extends the priviledge to these persons to identify themselves as 'SETV investigators' under the definition without implied affiliation with OSR other than as the organizing search model standard. The phrase "SETV" is a scientific community nomenclature or term, and may be used by the community provided it is used in the above defined context.