DAY ON THE UFO PHENOMENON
UAP IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
After Greens EU MP Francisco Guerreiro called for a coordinated reporting and investigation procedure for unidentified anomalous objects in airspace (UAP/formerly UFOs) across Europe, the politician has formally presented a proposed resolution for civilian reporting, UAP collection and evaluation. sightings.
The Portuguese representative has constantly advocated for a new, equally serious and scientific approach to the issue of unidentified flying objects in the context of aviation safety and scientific interest in these phenomena through parliamentary participation. Most recently, in a speech during the February 5, 2024 plenary session, where Guerreiro called for what he has now formally presented.
Under the reference of the file “B9–0194/2024” of the European Parliament, the resolution presented by Guerreiro on March 11 says the following:
MOTION FOR RESOLUTION
in accordance with Article 143 of the Rules of Procedure on updating the EU Regulation on the reporting, analysis and monitoring of incidents in civil aviation to include UAP reporting
Francisco Guerreiro
B9–0194/2024
Proposal for a European Parliament resolution on updating the EU Regulation on notification, analysis and monitoring of incidents in civil aviation to include UAP reporting
The European Parliament, Having regard to article 143 of its Rules of Procedure,
1. Considering that unidentified anomalous phenomena remain a stigmatized topic, often inhibiting methodical data collection and analysis by the scientific community;
2. Whereas a significant number of UAP cases, including many first-hand sightings by airline pilots and their crews, remain unexplained or unreported;
3. Whereas Regulation (EU) No 376/20141 only allows aviation professionals to report on safety-related issues;
4. Whereas bipartisan lawmakers in the United States have proposed new legislation (Bill HR6967, Safe Airspace for Americans Act) to protect civilian pilots and aviation personnel who report UAP sightings;
- A. Considers that the EU should propose guidelines for a common methodology for reporting and analyzing UAP sightings, which could lead to a harmonized database and repository in the EU and thus allow a technical exchange of information between Member States; b. Calls on the Commission to propose updating current legislation, in particular Regulation (EU) 376/2014, to include a mechanism for the reporting and analysis of consistent, transparent and stigma-free data on UAPs in the airspace of the EU, even when such events do not pose any apparent and immediate risk to the safety of the aircraft in question.
1993
It is not the first time that the European Parliament has hosted an initiative on UFOs. In 1993, the Italian socialist, Tullio Regge, concerned about the wave of sightings that was occurring in Belgium, presented a first project.
In 1994, the Energy, Research and Technology Committee of the European Parliament, following the line initiated by Regge, drafted a report that proposed the creation of a central office to collect and coordinate information related to UFOs in the European Union. The report points out that the easiest and cheapest solution lies in taking advantage of the facilities of the French National Center for Space Studies (GEPAN). A scientific organization with decades of experience in UFO research. And he proposed that a community statute be granted to this center that would allow it to carry out research in the twelve States.
The proposal did not prosper.
2024
On this occasion, the initiative presented by Francisco Guerreiro focused on the threat posed to air traffic by the presence of unidentified aerial objects or phenomena.
Along with Guerreiro, several guests were present as speakers at the European Parliament on March 20. Like the scientist Beatriz Villaroel, who presented her scientific research model on astronomical anomalies, which she has been developing for years at Stockholm University.
Ufologists Joachim Dekkers (Netherlands) and Eduardo Russo (Italy), who presented to parliamentarians a summary of the history of the UFO phenomenon and its political implications. In Russo’s case he reviewed the initiatives of European parliaments and senates in relation to the UFO phenomenon. Including more than half a dozen initiatives, from four different political parties (PSOE, PP, Izquierda Unida and UPyD), carried out in the Spanish Senate and Congress of Deputies between 1979 and the present.
Two highly credible witnesses also participated:
The American fighter pilot, Ryan Graves, one of the witnesses to the UFO incidents of the US Navy that sparked the Pentagon’s interest in UAPs, and one of the deponents at the UFO session at the US Capitol on July 26 of 2023, stressed the urgency of ending the stigma surrounding pilots who declare having seen UFOs, since according to his experience cases occur daily around the world and the vast majority of these reports never come to the attention of investigators.
Commercial pilot Christiaan van Heijst, with almost 10,000 flight hours, supported this approach, acknowledging that during his professional career he observed unidentified aerial phenomena on four occasions. The most recent in 2010, during a flight from Germany to Spain, in which, according to him, an unknown object accompanied his flight for 55 minutes until he almost landed in Malaga. The commander was able to take several photos of the object.
In his opinion, UFOs may have a natural origin, be weapons development programs, new natural phenomena… but at a time of special aerial sensitivity in the skies of Europe, due to the war in Ukraine, where new types of drones, missiles, aircraft, etc., it is urgent to investigate the topic.
In addition, representatives of various ufological organizations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, etc., and members of the European Parliament who were in the room, contributed their points of view. Underlining the fact that these organizations have been compiling immense archives of UFO cases for 70 years that should be within the reach of the scientific community and any possible initiative initiated by the European Parliament. Insisting on the need to obtain funding from the European Union to be able to materialize this fusion of online files.
For his part, the Spanish parliamentarian José Penedo, Head of Political Affairs of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, assured that in the EASA there are already instruments so that pilots can report any type of air incident. To which van Heijst and Graves responded that these tools are not designed for the notification of UFO incidents, diluting this information among countless other types of aerial incidents, and therefore making it totally inoperative for the scientific community.
Surprisingly, Penedo left the room before receiving the pilots’ response…
Background: UFO and UAP handling in Europe: a brief summary
Since the wave of sightings of mostly triangular unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in BELGIUM from the fall of 1989 to May 1990, the Belgian Air Force cooperated with the Belgian civilian UFO research organization SOBEPS (now COBEPS), including publicly recognized by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Major General Wilfried De Brouwer, who supported this investigation. After extensive investigations into the incidents, it was concluded that some of the reported and partially documented events could not be rationally explained. The results of the investigation were then published in a 700-page final report in book form. Since then, the “UFO wave over Belgium” has been considered a standard work of scientific UFO research and cooperation between civilian and military UFO investigators. COBEPS continues to investigate UFO incidents in Belgium to this day, sometimes with the support of the authorities and the military. Web .
- In DENMARK, in 2009, the Air Force published 300 pages of previously classified UFO files from the years 1978 to 2002 and stated that future reports would be handled jointly with the Danish civilian UFO research organization SUFOI. The Danish Army (Forcvaret) has an online “UFO-Arkiv”.
While there was never an official UFO Investigation Office in GERMANY, several official archives of German ministries, departments and authorities were published through the German National Archive (Bundesarchiv). The book “Deutschlands UFO-Akten” compiles in 450 pages all the German UFO files known and available so far. There were also two essays compiled by the “Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Deutschen Bundestages” (WD, Scientific Services of the German Parliament) on the political handling and other issues of UFOs and SETI in Germany and within the EU.
-In FINLAND, the army also published in 2009 300 UFO files from the years 1933 to 1979. The handling of the files since then is unclear (at least to this author).
- In FRANCE there exists to this day a predominantly state-owned UFO research institution, run by the civil-military space agency CNES. Since 2007, the “Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés (GEIPAN)” has published, investigated and evaluated more than 2,500 UFO sightings in France. The French UFO authority concludes that 3.3 percent of sightings cannot be identified. Web .
-Even in the UK there was an official Ministry of Defense (MoD) “UFO Office” until 2009. When the office closed in December 2009, a spokesperson for the Ministry stated that it no longer saw any benefit in investigating reports of UFOs. According to official information, the UFO Office was mainly used to investigate possible threats to British territories by unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and not to study their supposed extraterrestrial origin. The published British UFO files can be accessed online.
- IRELAND: For 37 years, the Irish military also secretly investigated UFO phenomena in the island state since 1947 and documented each case in detail. The documents were released in 2007 through the “Freedom of Information Act” for the publication of previously secret government documents.ufoleaks (3)
- In ITALY, since 1978, the “General Security Division” of the Italian Air Force is responsible for documenting and investigating UFO sightings, gradually publishing its reports online.
- SWEDEN: Already in 1987, the Swedish military made its UFO research public and transferred the previously unclassified part of its files to the archive of the civilian UFO research organization UFO-Svenska. Since then, the Swedish military has continually entered new UFO sightings into the database. In the spring of 2016, Swedish UFO researchers working with the military, led by Clas Svahn, published thousands of unpublished files from the Swedish military archive of the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) on so-called “ghost rockets.”
UFO leaks
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-In SPAIN, between 1992–1999, more than 80 files with more than 1,000 pages on civil and military UFO sightings were also published, accessible and downloadable since then through the website of the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
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Guerreiro, who will soon end his term as a European parliamentarian, assured that he trusts that in the next term some colleague will take over this initiative, so that, as in previous cases, it will not be diluted into nothingness.
It is very important, in order for Guerreiro to be successful, to give visibility to this historic day. While the ridiculous spectacle starring Jaime Maussan in the Mexican Senate, or David Grusch’s unprovable claims in the US Congress about crashed UFOs and reverse technology had international media coverage, Guerreiro’s initiative has gone completely unnoticed by the media. Probably because it has fled from sensationalism and has focused on the real UFO phenomenon.
If you can help some media echo this initiative, it will have a better chance of prospering.
Manuel Carballal *
*Thanks to Beatriz Villaroel, Francisco Guerreiro and Andreas Müller for the information and images.
Links:
(1) https://europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-002375-ASW_EN.html…
(2) https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5AUs1hzhc8…
(3) https://uapcoalitienederland.nl
(4) https://europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2024-0194_EN.html
