UAP IMAGED FROM AIRCRAFT

This preliminary report, authored by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Richard F. Haines, Ph.D., for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), provides an initial analysis of UAP imagery captured from commercial, military, and private aircraft. The report is based on data from the FOTOCAT project, which maintains a database of approximately 9,000 UFO photographic cases. The authors identified 171 specific incidents where UAP were captured on film, video, or still photography from airborne platforms. The report categorizes these incidents by decade, noting a distribution ranging from the 'foo-fighters' of World War II to cases in the 2000s. The authors highlight that 15% of these entries involve objects that were not visually observed by the photographer at the time of capture. Furthermore, they report that 45% of the cases have been attributed to conventional explanations, though they caution that this assessment is preliminary and subject to further investigation. The report identifies the United States as the primary source of these images, followed by Italy, Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Peru, Spain, China, Great Britain, and Norway. The authors explicitly state that the catalogue is 'under construction' and intended to stimulate further research and data sharing among the international scientific community. They request that researchers submit additional cases to help complete the dataset, which will eventually be used to assess potential air safety hazards. The document concludes with a series of notes detailing the methodology and specific contributors to the FOTOCAT project, including acknowledgments of work by specialists such as Marco Orlandi, Carlos Ferguson, and Ole Jonny Braenne.