PROJECT FOTOCAT

Fundaciòn Anomalia, Spain

di
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos  fotocat@anomalia.org

Valencia, Spain, 31/12/2002

PROJECT FOTOCAT NEWS, December 2002

FOTOCAT is a catalog of UFO photo events which presently contains 2800 records. Managed by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and owned by Fundaciòn Anomalìa, a bilingual News report appears in www.anomalia.org@fotocat1.htm, and a preliminary content report (in Spanish) can be found in www.anomalia.org@infofotocat.pdf.

We continue receiving various forms of cooperation from specialists located in many parts of the world. For example:

* Mexico is a country which has produced lots of UFO imagery. The critical researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez, much experienced in processing photographic cases, is assisting us by reviewing the Mexican section of FOTOCAT and sending new cases. This help is proving to be invaluable.

* Famous US writer Ronald Story has been kind enough to donate a copy of the CD Rom version of his huge UFO Encyclopedia, which includes a vast number of images of unidentified flying objects.

* Thanks to Patrick Ferryn, from the serious Belgian UFO association SOBEPS, we have received 10 years of old issues of its excellent journal Inforespace, to complete our collection.

* Ole Henningsen, an ufologist from the Danish group SUFOI, has helped by reviewing cases reported in Denmark.

FOTOCAT in the media

A Letter to the Editor describing the project has been published in the Winter 2002 issue of the CUFOS International UFO Reporter as well as in the January 2003 issue of Fortean Times (Great Britain).

Also, an interview by C. Riffo to this compiler has been released (in Spanish) in the Terra portal:

Cases Per Country

FOTOCAT has been tallied by country, and we present the distribution of cases for those countries contributing over 1 % of the total (28):

USA	795 cases	(almost 30% of the grand total are US cases!)
Spain	376 cases	(it represents the higher sample ever collected)
Australia	42 cases
Argentina	123 cases
Italy	119 cases
France	119 cases
Great Britain	119 cases
Japan	113 cases
Mexico	112 cases
Chile	95 cases
Poland	67 cases
Sweden	66 cases
Canada	52 cases
Brazil	47 cases
Switzerland	34 cases	(the effect of Billy Meier)
Germany	32 cases
Russia	28 cases
Space	55 cases	(astronaut cases or footage from spacecraft)

There are regions of the globe with a good coverage, while there are others still poorly documented in this catalog. The process of extracting cases from mainstream UFO journals like MUFON UFO Journal, Flying Saucer Review, Lumières Dans La Nuit and many others will balance the equation.
We also expect that the contributions from colleagues will generate a representative census of cases worldwide, larger than any other produced before. When it is posted in the internet for free access, we hope it will be a useful piece of information for students of this elusive phenomena.

Help Needed
Readers and investigators are requested to contribute lists of local cases to FOTOCAT by writing to fotocat@anomalia.org. Other ways to participate in this program are by reviewing the case lists we will produce for specific countries on demand, with the purpose to correct dates or location names, add the names of photographers, informing about potential explanations, and sending information on cases unknown to us.

© 2002/2003 Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Research Director, Anomaly Foundation (not-for-profit organization) <www.anomalia.org>

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