UFO Science Lab Research Location Search
March 14, 2007 UFO Science Lab: We are searching for a rental space
Let's clarify. In this UFO Science Lab project, who exactly are "we"?
Me, 70 years old in April, retired, and two young men. Jean-Stéphane, 24, an infographics designer, and Julien, 28, a webmaster, with two years of physics bachelor's degree. Smart, motivated young men. Julien has continued to acquire specialized and self-taught knowledge. That's our research team. Both are currently searching for a space to set up our lab activities in Paris, within the city limits (so we can more easily access support and collaborations).
A rental space in Paris within the city limits, at 200 euros per month, which matches our current budgetary capabilities.
Ground floor, minimum 20 square meters, with a toilet corner, electricity, and ventilation.
As soon as we secure this space, we'll begin experimental research.
A simple clarification: Today, there is no truly reputable MHD lab in France, except for the one created by Moreau in Grenoble, which pumps seawater, and the one at Marbach, at the CEA, which pumps molten sodium. Nothing in gases.
We simply apply the principle: "Let's be realistic, let's consider the impossible." Some people, even among those I've known for years, believe this approach is merely provocative. No. The CNES has done absolutely nothing in thirty years. And there's no reason to think that will change. Patenet, the new head of the "GEIPAN" (Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena), is not a physicist. On March 22, 2007 (the day after the broadcast of Stéphane Bern's show, "L'Arène de France," aired on France 2 on March 21 at 10:30 PM), he will release the report on "thirty years of CNES activity on the UFO subject" in the form of 1,250 police reports, strictly devoid of any scientifically exploitable data.
On Friday, March 16, 2007, I recorded a five-minute flash interview that will be broadcast Saturday morning, March 17, at 7:15 AM on France Inter (unless canceled or changed). If we haven't found the space by then, I'll launch an appeal on the air for the space, equipment, money, and support.
This morning I received a 500-euro check from a reader for UFO Science.
Some people misunderstand. They imagine we're hoping to "provoke a reaction from research authorities." But those authorities haven't moved in thirty years. I find it unrealistic to count on that. What I fear is that the CNES will attempt, to hide a dismal failure, to create a "counter-fire," deploying a smoke screen. According to the reports I've heard from journalists, Patenet does not intend to hide from the French public the poverty of this thirty-year "research" record: 1,250 police reports. It's not his fault. He inherited this situation as-is. Vélasco lacked the competence to manage this file. He did nothing. In 25 years, he didn't even perform an electronic data capture of the reports. Patenet had to scan 100,000 pages of police reports.
The main responsible for this mess is Yves Sillard, now retired. Former president of the CNES, he told me, "I created the GEIPAN in 1977, and I alone." Yet this service deteriorated over 30 years because he never concerned himself with it, at any time. Today we witness the disaster. I don't want to hear phrases like:
- After this first approach to the problem, the CNES will now refine its data acquisition techniques...
That would be outright mocking the public, and I've warned Sillard about this point. The UFO subject is a serious one, requiring high-level expertise and people at the forefront of scientific knowledge. Poher was an "outsider," lacking scientific knowledge. His successor, the polytechnician Alain Esterle, was an ambitious young man, also lacking the required knowledge. After the clash of the 1980s and his "putting on the shelf" by the duo Hubert Curien - René Pellat, an obscure optics technician, later promoted to in-house engineer, Jean-Jacques Vélasco, took over. He managed the service for 25 years, and you'll discover the result of this management.
Are we now going to be served a "Cnesserie," as my friend Maurice Viton called it? I expect anything, including dramatic announcements where they'll declare "a committee composed of high-level scientists will be formed," etc., etc.
If that's the case, thanks to the Internet, I'll warn the public. I don't feel like enduring another such nonsense. I'll oppose the public being once again misled. Anyway, the operation of our mini-lab, where research results will be immediately available, I guarantee you, will serve to show, by contrast, the ineffectiveness of such hollow gestures we know all too well. You know Clemenceau's phrase:
- If you want to bury a scandal, create a commission.
Good heavens, let's get those twenty square meters and start soon!
I've just received (March 21, 2007) the latest book Jean-Jacques Vélasco has just published, co-written with journalist Montigiani. I'm currently writing a reading note on it, and I'll do the same for the book Yves Sillard, creator of the GEIPAN, is preparing to publish. Before you rush to a bookstore, wait a few days until I've posted my reading note online. I might save you some euros. After a quick first reading, that's exactly what I expected to find. Omitted facts, complete absence of scientific substance (due to lack of competence). For the facts, read my book "Investigation into UFOs," downloadable for free at http://www.ufo-science.com. You'll only need to replace "study group" with GEIPAN, Lebher with Poher, Lemerle with Esterle, Quellat with Pellat, etc., to easily decode the lamentable fabric of this UFO saga, completely ignored by Vélasco in his latest book. There are remarkable euphemisms. On page 12 you'll read:
- In 1983, Esterle was called to other responsibilities within the CNES.
The truth is that, following the misconduct described in "Investigation into UFOs," Esterle was swiftly transferred to a "closet," instructed to disappear, after Pellat reported to Curien about the MHD research program the GEIPAN brain trust had attempted to develop in Toulouse, involving a scientific plundering of my work and ideas, which ended in a disastrous failure. By rewriting history this way, Vélasco gives the whip to be beaten. He contradicts himself, in fact, compared to the content of his previous book, where he described the long interview Esterle had with a high-level scientist visitor, after which his boss emerged pale and resigned from the service, which was itself dissolved. Read in "Investigation into UFOs" the attempts made by Christian Perrin de Brichambaut to obtain a final meeting of the GEIPAN Scientific Council before closure, letters that remained unanswered. As for the GEIPAN, it's very simple: administratively, it never existed.
Page 13: "Today, the SEPRAs no longer exist. Vélasco was called to other functions within the CNES."
What functions? Answer provided by Yves Sillard over the phone in January 2006: He's in charge of youth clubs sponsored by the CNES, launching model rockets.
Everything else along these lines. So, before buying the book, wait for the reading note, a mix of deception and omissions.
Ah, one last detail. Vélasco performs a title shift. An obscure technician, he rebrands himself as a "scientist." As for me, I become, further on, "the scientist Jean-Pierre Petit."
Pathetic.
We must remove this UFO dossier from the hands of incompetents, the bad, the ignorant. This is high-level science, for heaven's sake! This dossier takes us to the boundaries of science. We'll need to hold information conferences in Paris to show the public that this is the case. If anyone has a room to offer, I'll come immediately. Conferences and entry are free. If scientists want to challenge our findings, they're welcome; I'll respond from the standpoint of scientific argumentation.
Patenet himself told me on the phone:
- Now it's up to scientists to react.
They won't react.
They're not crazy. The way the very rare scientists who dared to "react" to this invitation (Bounias, deceased, died of despair, and me) were treated by their hierarchies over thirty years is more than enough to discourage amateurs, and no one will "react." The conclusion is that if I don't do something, nothing will happen. In terms of genuinely scientific studies on the UFO dossier, nothing has been done in thirty years, except what I've managed to do, practically alone. If anyone disagrees, let them point out concrete, published scientific contributions from other scientists.
The debates on the "ummo-science" forum are merely lamentable farces. I've listened to the UFO colloquium in Châlons-en-Champagne. Aside from Christel Seval's remarks, the level was appalling. A concert of egos, endless chatter. I remember the endless speech of a young woman announcing the creation of something like an "International UFO Survey..." which was "resolutely European." What to say about the endless monologues of Jean-Marc Roeder, an epistemological mythomaniac, on the radio station "Ici et Maintenant"?
Wind.
There are concrete things to do. Who will find a manufacturer of digital cameras or mobile phones willing to equip their products with "network caps" to turn them into spectrometers (a brilliant idea from Claude Poher in 1977, spectacularly failed by the CNES over thirty years: not a single photograph, nothing. The caps were entrusted to the gendarmes, who have lost them for a long time). Vélasco, who managed this "scientific data collection," doesn't even know what happened to these caps. Patenet told me:
- I found a few photographs in a drawer, but apparently they're mostly tests from thirty years ago to calibrate the system.
There's that and a thousand other things to do, ad infinitum. I'm going to try to rebuild, starting from scratch, an MHD lab, whose photo in black and white you can see a bit further down. For this, for example, we need a rotary vacuum pump. I've found one, located in Marseille, which actually served on a shock tunnel forty years ago (it's one of the essential components for creating a primary vacuum in the test tube). I'm giving you its photo:
An old Leybold rotary vacuum pump, made available in Marseille
I'll send my old friend Jacques Juan to see if we can get it working again. Given its condition, it's far from certain.
A man offered to buy the stock of Lanturlu comics I had in my attic, the few remaining titles. Ten euros each. He said he'd come to pick them up and leave a check in the name of the association. That would give us several thousand euros in cash, to pay the rental for the space.
Meanwhile, after having "plucked" Alessandri (5,000 euros in damages and interest awarded in his defamation lawsuit, the ufologist having called him a fraud. The sum was covered by donations, following my appeal), Jean-Jacques Vélasco releases a new book and succeeds in positioning himself very well during the show you'll see on France 2 on March 21 at 10:30 PM: "L'Arène de France," hosted by Stéphane Bern. He doesn't mention that at the CNES he now oversees youth rocket clubs. Why did the SEPRA cease to exist? Why is he dedicating himself to these singular activities? Ask him.
Meanwhile, Yves Sillard, former president of the CNES, sole creator of the GEIPAN in 1977 (he told me so), is finalizing a book on UFOs, "written in collaboration." With whom? Mystery. Not with me, despite my being the only one to have done concrete, published scientific work related to the UFO phenomenon.
Sillard had never heard of the Ummo affair. And probably many other things.
But this morning I had an idea, a great idea. I'll also publish my own book, or even a series of books, volume I, volume II, etc.... I've reconnected with publisher Albin Michel.
The general title will be:
UFO-science.com
The books in the series will have an original aspect: all author royalties will fund the research we'll conduct at UFO-science. I'll retain control over contracts with foreign countries. Albin Michel has never managed to publish one of my books abroad. If I succeed in publishing in several countries, the royalties will go entirely to the research effort, 100%.
That's an original idea, beside which Vélasco and Sillard have passed. And we don't know where it might lead. Imagine the book translated into English, bringing in money. I have plenty of projects in my files. Like building several supersonic shock tunnels, with bursts where a shock tube spits argon at 10,000°C under a bar, for... 100 microseconds, and a cold burst tunnel. Burst duration one second, etc.
We can always dream. If the book sells abroad, we might one day have the means to build a lab worthy of the name. We sponsor transatlantic crossings. But there's one thing we've completely stopped believing in: that "public authorities will react." They've played this trick on me several times. The first deception, a handful of dust in the eyes, was the creation of the GEIPAN, endowed with a scientific council from which I was immediately excluded.
- Normal, Gilbert Payan said, you're not part of the CNES.
Then came the attempt to develop my MHD ideas at the GEIPAN by Esterle, which led to the service's disappearance to avoid any scandal. Finally, the "Rouen project," within a CNRS framework. Read "Investigation into UFOs" (this book has become free of rights, and we're currently creating a digital version, downloadable for free). At that time, Combarnous, director of the Department of Physical Sciences for Engineers at the CNRS, told me:
- It's over, the heroic era for you. We'll now develop this in a real lab, Professor Valentin's lab in Rouen.
Confident in his words, I sold my attic room in Aix, gave my equipment to colleague researchers (including Jacques Benveniste, another excommunicated figure). Six months later, Combarnous was replaced at the CNRS by a certain Charpentier, who scrapped the project and even went so far as to try to have me removed from the Marseille Observatory, my assigned laboratory.
- I'm terminating your assignment. You'll now be managed as an isolated researcher.
Nice...
Sillard: "We must now re-examine everything in a climate of serenity...." I believe he's simply oblivious.