A UFO “Flap”, is a large number of UFO’s over a location usually only for a short period of time. This is intense UFO activity at its best. UFO “Flaps” are most interesting and rewarding if you have one over your location, and you are vigilant enough to be witness to the incredible events that unfold before you. It will be an experience that will change your world forever.
Unlike “Waves”, UFO “Flaps” usually begin with full-on UFO activity, even if you have not been seeing or noticed the “indicators”.
There is no guarantee that each “Flap” situation will be the same in all cases, and are difficult to compare with previous “Flaps”, because each “Flap” event is unique in the type of objects that will be seen, the number of objects in the event, and the type of formations and groups they will be seen in. This is one interesting aspect of the UFO, the vast array of types of objects you will see. Size, shape and colour are not a
‘standard’ identifying feature with UFO’s. However, many of the same type of UFO may in fact return during the next “Flap”, but expect other types too.
Usually, your first sighting of an unfamiliar UFO will through your mind into confusion. Your natural “Human Instinct” will try to identify and analyses while you observe. The first thing that you think is, “what is it?” Then your mind takes time to tell you, “It’s a UFO!”
This happens especially with a close sighting. Then, when you realise what you are actually looking at, you get excited and possibly begin to shake or get nervous, even panic depending on how close or large the object is. This is a natural human “Survival Instinct”, but you quickly get over it. The more distant sightings do not have that ‘impact’ upon your thought processes.
UFO “Flaps” usually consist of the UFO disc and orbs, maybe even Cigar Mother Craft, and Triangles in some countries around the world more so than others. These discs vary in size from less then 1 metre (2.5 feet) to 100+ feet in some reports from around the world.
The discs I have seen were about 1 metre [even less] to 3 metre’s (10 ft.) dia. However, some of the high altitude ones could have been much larger.
A “Flap” will have UFO’s flying in small or large groups, usually surrounded with the fuzzy white haze of ionized charged air surrounding each object when seen in the atmosphere. Boomerang formations of various numbers of objects. There seems to be a set type of Boomerang and “V” formation for the disc UFO.
The ‘Staggered Boomerang Formation’ seen in the photo from the early book on UFO ‘Flying Saucers Have Landed’ by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski taken by Carl Hart Junior of Lubbrick Texas 1957, seems to be a specific formation rarely seen. I will presume that when you see this type of formation, then you are in for one big UFO “Flap” event, so be ready if you see one of these.
The “V” Formations of either five [5] or seven [7] UFO discs appears to be another ‘typical’ or ‘Standard’ formation used when the UFO is on the move. This is the most common formation UFO’s are seen when in numbers other then what I call ‘Loose Groups’. These are unorganized groups with no obvious set order, where the individual objects may change position within the group while in flight, whereas the Boomerang and 5-7 object “V” formations show that the objects in them, are literally ‘fixed’ or ‘locked’ into the formation during the full flight sequence as observed.
There is also the ‘loose “V” formations’ that are more randomly or chaotic in there positioning within the formation, when compared to the formations described above. These are similar to how flocks of birds form their “V” formations when flying to migration
areas. One ‘arm’ of the formation may not be geometrically opposed at the suitable angle, therefore looks unbalanced or ‘scrappy’, even not at all straight as you would expect from such apparently organised life forms as UFO’s.
“Flaps” may last 1-3 days, usually not lasting for any great length of time. “Flaps” may then reduce to the “Wave” situation and last months or years. If we look at the major UFO activity years, you will notice the peak periods for World Wide UFO activity during the decades of the 1950’s, 1970’s and the 1990’s. Can we expect another world wide influx of UFO’s in major “Flaps” in 2009? It is highly probable. There are periods of time between these dates where there is still UFO activity, but not on the general scale of continuous UFO activity during these decades. Each of these decades produced high incidence of UFO “Flaps” world wide. Between these decades, “Flaps”
were more localized to various countries, and may not have been the same type of UFO usually seen in the big “Flap” years, and less spread around the world. More like “Wave” activity of various intensities.
Skywatching.
Firstly I have to say, that Skywatching is just what the word implies, “watching the sky!” In recent years, some persons in the UFO field insist on calling this underestimated activity a “Night Watch”.
So what would that make day time Skywatching, a “Day Watch?”
Over the years, the dedicated Skywatcher from around the world have always referred to this activity as “Skywatch”. We need to maintain continuity of this UFO activity as ‘standard’ terminology. It is already
‘set in stone’ as the accepted word for the activity, so lets keep it that way. A bit like this twist on an old saying, “You can not teach a new dog, old tricks”.
Some in the UFO field do not consider the Skywatcher as a true UFO Researcher. I can assure you, that it is true Research of the highest order. It is in reality, on the front line of UFO Research.
Skywatche’s work in “The Now” time period, not in the past by flicking pages of old books looking for answers. It is the dedicated Skywatcher around the world that are getting the most and best UFO video footage that the world ever sees on the UFO subject.
If it were not for this dedicated few, the world would be lacking many hundreds of hours of some of the most amazing and important UFO footage ever taken. Imagine relying on the supply of chance footage where all we had to rely on was the ‘chance’ capture of UFO on video? How many of you carry a video camera with you all day every day? Very few I would imagine. One has to make the time and effort, and have the patience to be successful, and have the knowledge on identification of what to film. It all comes down to accumulated experience, and we all have to begin somewhere.
It is when a UFO Researcher/Skywatcher has over the years, spent hard earned dollars on suitable video equipment, spent thousands of dark, often cold hours at night and hot hours during the day Skywatching. Looking and learning how to identify the signs of UFO activity, then actually getting good video footage of genuine UFO’s that makes all the effort worth while and satisfying. There is now some
“hard evidence” to study and analyses. Even though some say that video or photographic evidence is not hard evidence, it is the next best thing to holding all or part of a UFO in your hand, especially when you take the footage yourself and know that it has not been tampered with. At least you have some NEW evidence to study. And this study and analysis of footage is also ground breaking research. How many people around the world are seriously doing it? A limited few.
It certainly is a controversial aspect of UFOlogy, mainly because very few do this type of research because it is so difficult. First you have to get the images. Very few in the UFO Research field have actually seen many, if any genuine UFO. That makes it difficult does it not? Then you have to get the suitable computer programs that will do the job you want. You learn what you are doing by many hundreds of hours experimenting, and learning how to accurately interpret the results. No University course for this type of work is there? Besides, who would teach it? In recent years in Mexico, they have seriously delved into this field through computer labs in learning institutes.
Mexico City Skywatche’s, known there as “Vigilantes”, were very successful during UFO “Flaps” in the 1990’s, and resulted in hundreds of hours of video footage of genuine UFO suitable for computer analysis. This is great stuff. They were learning as a result
of their dedicated and combined efforts. Way to go boys and girls!
Yes, other countries around the world have their video and photographic analysis facilities, either business or private personnel, this is, and will be an expanding aspect of UFO research as more footage is taken.
New computer software in the future will greatly assist this method of video and image analysis, and more UFO Researchers may eventually see the advantages of such research, and the new information that can be gained by identification and detailed analysis of the genuine UFO. It sure beats sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring. Or scratching your head wandering which of your 5,000 UFO books had the information you wanted to scan into your next magazine article.
But let’s get serious.
Personal observation of the UFO is the most rewarding and self educational way possible, where we can learn what the UFO is about. The study and analysis of any resulting video footage, no matter who takes it, or where it was captured. The opportunity to learn is greatly enhanced, purely because some dedicated Skywatcher has been rewarded for the thankless hours put into Skywatching, just to get a few seconds or if lucky, minutes of footage of a genuine UFO. Can you imagine a Micro biologist writing a thesis on microbes, when he/she has never studied them through a microscope? There would have to be a lot of guess work go into the thesis, or cut-and-paste from someone else’s hard work.
There are a few ways you can become aware of increased UFO activity. You can monitor various UFO email lists, UFO sighting report centers, attend UFO group meetings or you can become aware of UFO activity in your location by your own observations. And this is what this book is all about. You personally become aware of the UFO activity over your location. You will get the knowledge first hand, and see with your own eyes what is happening. You will be on the ‘front line’ as it were. And Skywatching is the ONLY way you can do this with any real success.
You can Skywatch from your own back yard or roof top if in an apartment complex in the city. The best locations are naturally, in rural areas, because you do not have the night sky masked by city lights. Find a location that is comfortable for you. Have at least two suitable observation locations.
One for your every night observations, and one location with a greater expanse of clear sky area. Use this second location, if you become aware that UFO activity is beginning or in progress. This is where you will see more and video objects for longer duration.