English language editing: Martin Shough. FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS The catalog contains 12,855 entries up to December 31, 2005. The rest up to a total of 13,124 entries are composed by general cases from Argentina (to 2006 year-end) and Spain (to 2008 year-end), plus ball lightning reports (worldwide), military-related events, and landing events (sourced from Spain), which are date unlimited for entry purposes. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Print Book:Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera The hard copy has just been released of a book that collects the complete correspondence that I exchanged w ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough. FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS The present-day FOTOCAT warehouse is both physical and digital. There is a 26-column data matrix on a computer catalog in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. It synthesizes the material information contained in documents, reports, investigations, press clippings, articles, case analyses, photography, etc. collected for every single case, kept in chronologically ordered individual folders, within hundreds of portfolios stored in large cabinets in a dedicated room. To date, the database gathers 13,115 entries, mostly for a period end ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Latest Book: My Correspondence with Antonio Ribera Released online July 2023. Thanks to Moisés Garrido and Claudia Moctezuma, who conducted an excellent scanning and editing job, as well as to writer Javier Sierra, who contributed invaluable archives, I have just compiled a 750-page PDF monograph titled Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera (My correspondence with Antonio Ribera). Ribera was a renowned ufologist of international prestige. I had an intense, albeit intermittent correspondence with him from 1966 until 2001, t ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough. FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS (1) Through the courtesy of Isaac Koi, I have received 217 photographic case folders from the archives of Dr. Michael Swords (Kalamazoo, Michigan). The information contains references to many sources and, although often redundant, I feel it will contribute not less than 50 new entries to the FOTOCAT records, when fully processed. (2) FOTOCAT’s latest count shows 13,080 cases. May I remind researchers that I will gladly make available segments from the catalog, needed for research purposes, in the form of spreadsheet lists for a g ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS Presently, the total number of entries in the FOTOCAT dataset is 12,832. As manager and owner of FOTOCAT, I am always willing to provide information to researchers, so I am encouraging data analysts to request regional, seasonal, time, or thematic sectors from the catalog, for specific projects. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR In Spanish. El País Semanal, the weekly magazine attached to the Sunday edition of El País,the Spanish newspaper with the largest circulation in the country, has published an interview with this writer. It is ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS Slow but sure, FOTOCAT catalog continues adding cases and feeding new references to the computer databank and physical archive, presently with 12,784 entries, mostly up to December 31, 2005. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR New Publications I am not very much inclined to self-biography, but recently a colleague was questioning me about certain issues of my activities in UFO research in the 1960s. To reply as accurately as possible, I felt forced to check my old files with some detail. Flipping through documents and publications from ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS The catalog marks 12,774 entries, everyday growing and content-improving. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Reprints A special feature of my March 2021 blog’s post ““When Archetypes Land” appears in the July issue of the Alternate Perceptions Magazine, a publication edited by Brent Raynes: http://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1688&Itemid=194 Interviews On July 4, 2021, the Science section of El País, the salient Madrid newspaper, carried an article by Antonio Jiménez Barca on the recent ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS The total number of cases stored in the FOTOCAT databank amounts to 12,763. This project is committed to research one hundred percent: those scholars who need information on cases that occurred in certain years, periods, areas, countries, etc., or data and references on a particular sighting, only have to ask for it. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR In August 2020, Manuel Borraz and I published our report The Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007): ttps://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_t ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS The catalog, database and archive collect 12,713 cases as this date.  NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR The Borraz-Ballester Olmos Marfa Lights Study Last July we released through Academia.edu the FOTOCAT report #8, The Marfa Lights. Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007), totally free: https://www.academia.edu/43589341/THE_MARFA_LIGHTS._Examining_the_Photographic_Evidence_2003-2007_ In September, UPIAR from Turin published the version in print and full color: http://www.upiar.com/index.cfm?language=en&artID=196& ..read more

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS 12,571 is the current number of entries in the catalog. One single entry equates to one individual picture/video sighting. NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR (1) UFO Landing during Spanish Army Exercises In 1990, a witness disclosed the sighting of a big disc-shaped object landed, showing what we would call a beam of solid light, shared on July 7, 1986 with a group of 30-40 soldiers during a night march by the Spanish Army in Páramo de Masa, Burgos. Take-off and disappearance. This was the tale. I was involved in the documentation of ..read more