July 2008 No. 483 $4.00 UFO Journal In this issue Ambient (Abduction) Monitoring Project 3 Roy Craig Archives 8 1955 Alien Sighting – Shots were fired 9 WorldWide Telescope 11 USA Flight Patterns 13 Regular Features Director’s Message 2 Letters to the Editor 12 MUFON Volunteer: Patty Donahue 14 Calendar 13 Stan Friedman: Dateline “Documentary” 16 Filer’s Files 18 CMS Rankings 21 Night Sky 24 Can this device detect alien encounter activity? Research project, page 3. July 2008 Number 483 Director’s Message By James Carrion MUFON MUFOn shooting new TV show with Discovery UFO Journal Channel; Stephenville radar report released Exciting times and think it is a good candidate for the (USPS 002970) It’s an exciting time to be investi- series, please email me at (ISSN 02706822) gating and researching UFOs. Public [email protected]. and media interest is at an all time high Stephenville, Mutual UFO Network and UFO reports are on the rise. Texas MUFON 155 E. 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When the analysis is complete, the Journal will occurred, that particular case would come under very special publish a report. scrutiny and would have been handled with special pro- The Ambient Monitoring Program (AMP) is a scientific visions and special precautions. This was never necessary. research project that MUFON fully supported as a member In all of the cases we never saw any signs that would of the UFO Research Coalition (URC). The other members suggest that anyone or anything had attempted to so much as of the coalition are the Center for UFO Studies and the Fund touch the sensor unit. On occasions when it was touched for UFO Research. out of necessity by the subject or someone who lived in the AMP originally stood for Abduction Monitoring Project, same house as the subject, we found an explanation in the but after the early days of dealing with equipment and parts subject’s journal, or we sent a message to our installing suppliers, we changed the name and noticed that we got researcher to return to the subject to find out what the better service and more serious attention when we used the problem was, and there was never anything out of the word Ambient instead of Abduction. Actually, the term ordinary. On one occasion it was the subject’s cats walking Ambient Monitoring is probably more precise, so it was on the unit that caused very unusual signals, and on another adopted as the project name. occasion the subject had spilt a glass of iced tea that required The intention of the project was to place a data the monitoring unit to be moved to clean up the mess, after collecting sensor system in the homes of repeat abduction which the monitor had been returned to its original position. experiencers. We did this with great success and learned History many valuable lessons along the way. The experiment allowed us to collect very large amounts of data measure- The AMP project was the 28th proposal that had come ments that may or may not correspond to the abduction before the CFM Coalition. The basic idea had been around phenomena. for a long time, but was now in writing. For five years the UFO Research Coalition actively The CFM was made up of the Center for UFO Studies operated the project with basically two years devoted to (CUFOS), the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), and the instrument development and three years devoted to data Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the same three collection. organizations which later combined to form the URC. (CFM In the past—and it may still be heard today—it has been stands for the first letter of each organization.) alleged that attempts at physically monitoring abductees have After an initial loss of funding, the proposal was held for failed in one way or another. Often the failures have been about one year while the coalition was realigning and while attributed to some outside force which causes the device to we looked for sponsors and donors for this and other either quit working or to work so badly that no new projects. All the while the initial project idea—which was information was ever collected. During the course of this somewhat simpler than what I describe in this article—was project, we attempted to track down some of these alleged being perfected into a larger and more formal scientific situations, but never found any more than anecdotal proposal. information about such interference, and no documentation The proposal was given to the Fund for UFO Research, for such. We did find one report from researcher David a member of both the old and new coalitions, with the Jacobs about an attempt to use a video camera to monitor an intention that they in turn offer the idea to some prospective abductee, but the subject reported that just before the donors who might be interested in this project. abduction was about to occur, he got an overwhelming Over time the Fund’s efforts led to sufficient funding for desire to turn the camera off.