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The letter we sent to Mr. Yvan Blanc, head of GEIPAN

Jean-Pierre Petit
Former Research Director at CNRS
President of the UFO-Science Association
8 Bd F. Buisson, 17300 Rochefort

To Mr. Yvan Blanc
DCT/DA/GEIPAN
Centre National d'Études Spatiales
18 av. Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE Cedex 9

Rochefort, September 30, 2010
Registered with acknowledgment of receipt
Copies sent to:

Mr. Pradines
J.C. Doré
M. Ader
X. Lafont
C. Nazet
Philippe Chambon
Alain Cirou
Yves Calvi

Sir,

Mr. Michel Padrines is organizing an international conference in Strasbourg on October 16 and 17. He informed me that he had tried three times to contact you without receiving a reply.

Given that the conference theme is "Astronomy-Space-OVNI," it seemed logical that you would participate, and I was therefore somewhat surprised by your lack of response to his invitations.

Mr. Nicollier, having received assurances that this conference would remain strictly scientific and free from any sectarian or delusional deviations, has confirmed his attendance. As you will see in the attached text (see annex), presentations will focus on methodology, trace analysis (thermal, biological), spectral acquisition, and vehicle modeling (MHD).

This last approach has been the subject of numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and international specialized conferences, not in "ufological" journals, as well as a doctoral thesis.

Most recently: the UFO-Science team will present, on October 10 and 13, 2010, through an oral communication, recent experimental results concerning the wall confinement of a MHD disc-shaped craft via magnetic field gradient inversion, at the international conference in Korea, which will gather over a thousand participants.

At this conference, the experimental research program of UFO-Science—funded by members—will be discussed, including the construction in 2011 of a hypersonic wind tunnel where we aim to eliminate shock waves and turbulence using MHD, a topic closely related to the OVNI subject.

Given your position, it is difficult to imagine how you could be absent from such an event, and it is at Mr. Padrines’ request that I am reiterating his invitation.

Following an idea already implemented by the Americans in the 1950s, we have, over the past two years, initiated a "network filter for OVNI spectra." To this end, we distributed three thousand diffraction gratings (500 lines per millimeter), in the form of simple slides. Since the cost of such an accessory was very low (0.1 euro), we sent them to anyone who requested one. The attached map shows the global reach of this first operation.

We then developed a more convenient device: a self-adhesive grating suitable for attachment to a mobile phone lens. We currently have a batch of one thousand units being manufactured in China. We are available to provide you directly with the contact details of the Chinese manufacturer.

Including manufacturing, packaging, and shipping, the cost of such a device should not exceed a few euros. The grating remains at 500 lines per millimeter. I will make these devices available to participants of the Strasbourg conference at a price that allows us to recover our costs.

However, the purpose of this operation is not commercial. This device has not been patented or registered as a model. The goal is to distribute these devices to the public as widely as possible, so that in the near future we may have a chance of capturing an actual OVNI spectrum.

You therefore have full freedom to collaborate in this effort, as you see fit—by ordering these devices directly from China at manufacturing cost and distributing them through your preferred channel.

We have enclosed one such Chinese-made diffraction grating with this letter.

Through Mr. Christian Nazet, we have maintained indirect contact with the research team led by Professor Erling P. Strand, working at the Hessdalen site. As you know, a phenomenon manifests there, typically appearing as fleeting, mobile glows. We have developed a tracking system for such sources, which we call UFOcatch, now fully operational thanks to the work of Mr. Jean-Christophe Doré.

This system, based on a surveillance camera equipped with a fish-eye lens, automatically and rapidly directs a mobile unit, dubbed the "lyre," toward any moving source, after applying a filter (e.g., to prevent UFOcatch from automatically tracking ordinary meteors). The device then performs an automatic zoom, centering the object in the frame to eliminate nearby light sources that would degrade the signal-to-noise ratio—a factor we consider essential.

A spectrum is then captured and automatically analyzed.

Two UFOcatch units pointing at the same source allow recording of the 3D trajectory and speed.

This device will be presented at the Strasbourg conference, along with the test bench that enabled the experimental results to be presented in Korea.

Following Mr. Nazet’s suggestion—whom we contacted at Mr. Padrines’ request and who provided his contact details—we have reached out to Professor Ervind Strand, head of the Hessdalen research team, hoping he might attend the conference, despite the late invitation.

Otherwise, again following Mr. Nazet’s suggestion, we plan to visit him after the conference, offering to provide him with a UFOcatch station. It is expected that he will accompany us, with UFO-Science covering his travel and accommodation expenses.

Hoping this letter receives a favorable response,

Yours sincerely,

Jean-Pierre Petit
Former Research Director at CNRS
President of the UFO-Science Association

More complete version of this letter, with illustrations and technical data