Released: 18 April 2018
Duration: 66 minutes, 2 seconds
Paul Carr is joined by Chris Cogswell, recently resigned director of research at MUFON, about how he and his team are carrying on with an enterprise of scientific research into the UFO phenomena.
MUFON Director of Research Resigns
host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
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We’ll try to do about 1 video a month. Videos will cover both public education and awareness as well as Field Investigator and Skywatcher training. We hope you’ll subscribe.
Here is the first one, to introduce the series:
Witness Sketch
A triangle case from Rochester, New York. Unfortunately, only one of the witnesses was willing to go on record, even anonymously.
Please read the redacted ROI for the details.
An interesting CE case from Russia. Unfortunately, we are unable to fully authenticate the CAT scan shown in the report. If you have the knowledge to do so, please contact us.
I was recently asked two questions:
In this post I am going to address the first of these questions. A near future post will answer the second.
The report is from the 21st of February 2018 in Western New York state, USA. Multiple witnesses saw a triangle shaped object. If you saw something similar around that date, please contact us. Your report will be anonymous.
Witness Sketch
Recorded: March 23, 2018
Released: 10 April 2018
Duration: 71 Minutes, 4 seconds
Marsha Barnhart arranged a part two conversation with Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk 
Reference. In part two, they pick up the conversation discussing how Cheryl became interested in writing an on-line UFO sightings column, New York Skies, for the Syracuse New Times, and how she developed mind/consciousness interests via the practices of Shamanism, Buddhism and Remote Viewing. Additionally, Cheryl and Marsha talked about recent media reports of UFO’s by the military and how the media has reacted to this information.
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This time I am going to talk about a specific and easy to understand tool for revealing patterns in our data. It is called the Probability/Strangeness matrix, and it has been around for decades, although I’ve yet to see it used to its full potential.
The matrix is very simple. After we have investigated a case, we rate the case on a scale of 0 to 5 for both probability and strangeness. These two ratings are required to be independent – a case can be strange but improbable, it can be probable but not very strange, or any combination. What we are of course most interested in the small fraction of cases in the upper right hand corner of the matrix that are both probable and strange, and how they move on the matrix as the investigation proceeds. It’s very clear from the plot – usually done with probability on the horizontal axis and strangeness on the vertical – what is going on.
In our upcoming video series as well as our ongoing podcast API Case Files, we want to answer your 
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