PDFs - Robert Bigelow's NIDS - Batch 1 of research material added to archive (with greenlight from Robert Bigelow / Colm Kelleher, Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff and Jacques Vallee)

I know it's terribly old-fashioned of me, but I do try to be fair in discussions about UFO research. So, although I've been critical of Robert Bigelow in the past for not sharing as much material with the UFO community as I'd like (click on the screenshots below for relevant discussions...), I thought I'd respond to some unfair criticism I've seen of Bigelow recently suggesting that he has never shared any research material.

It simply isn't accurate to say that Bigelow has never shared any research material.

Bigelow and his various entities (including NIDS, the "National Institute for Discovery Science") have shared _some_ material over the years with the public. Not as much as I'd like (far from it...), but _some_.

Firstly, in 1998, Robert Bigelow's NIDS funded the publication of some UFO research. In particular, NIDS published the book "Best UFO Cases - Europe" by Illobrand von Ludwiger (the founder of the Mutual UFO Network - Central European Section, MUFON-CES). I added a copy of that book to my online archive recently, with the permission of Illobrand von Ludwiger thanks to help liaising with him from the German group IGAAP, particularly from Frank Schäpel). I also had an exchange of emails with Colm Kelleher (currently involved in Robert Bigelow's new Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies). During this exchange, I asked if he or Robert Bigelow had any objection to my objecting the book and very promptly obtained a favourable response. I also asked about some further NIDS material and again very promptly got a positive response which included "we are fine with you archiving it".

Secondly, Robert Bigelow's NIDS posted some research material on its website. That website is now defunct. However, snapshots of that website (and the documents uploaded to it at various points during its existence) have been preserved on the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive. The website was never particularly user-friendly, making it difficult to find some material, and the archived copy is even harder to navigate to some documents. So, I can understand why many people seem unfamiliar with it and I don't think I've seen most of the documents on it being mentioned or reposted elsewhere, even when relevant issues have been discussed.

To make it much easier to access to this material, I thought it would be useful to crawl the archive for documents using some software I've previously recommended, re-organise them a bit (e.g. giving them file names that are a bit more descriptive / helpful), render them searchable and and upload them all as searchable PDFs to my UFO archive hosted by the AFU. I asked Colm Kelleher if this would be okay with him and Robert Bigelow, and he replied that they had no objection. I also mentioned this upload during a recent discussion with Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff and Jacques Vallee (the authors of several of these documents). They both kindly indicated that they also had no problem with this material being added to my archive.

I'll continue my discussions with Colm Kelleher and others about uploading some further NIDS research, but in the meantime here is a first batch of material:

 

1. Alan Holt, Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff - Space Testing of Electromagnetically Sensitive Materials for Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
2. Animal Mutilation Report in Cache County, Utah 2001
3. Antonio Rullan - Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships
4. Antonio Rullan - Odors from UFOs
5. Berthold Schwarz - UFOs Delusion or Dilemma
6. Brad Sparks - Blue Book UFO Unkowns - Version 1-6
7. Bruce Maccabee - Still In Default
8. Claude Mauge - Commentary on COMETA
9. Colin Ridyard - How Should We Really Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
10. Colm Kelleher - Retrotransposons as Engines of Human Bodily Transformation
11. Colm Kelleher - Scientific publications
12. Colm Kelleher, George Onet and Eric Davis - Investigation of the unexplained death of a cow in NE Utah 1998
13. Comparison of Unidentified Triangular or Deltoid Aircraft Location Patterns in Three Independent UFO Databases
14. Congressional hearings survey - Question 1
15. Congressional hearings survey - Question 2
16. Congressional hearings survey - Question 3
17. Congressional hearings survey - Question 4
18. Congressional hearings survey - Question 5
19. Congressional hearings survey - Question 6
20. Congressional hearings survey - results
21. Diana Palmer Hoyt - UFOCRITIQUE - UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Committee
22. DNA Analysis - Claw Original PCR
23. Dominique Weinstein - UAP 80 years of Pilot sightings - Catalog from 1916 to 2000
24. Eric Davis - Intersteller Travel by Means of Wormhole Induction Propulsion (WHIP)
25. Eric Davis - Wormhole-Stargates Tunneling Through The Cosmic Neighborhood - MUFON Symposium 2001
26. George Onet -  Check List for Scene Investigation in Animal Mutilation Cases
27. George Onet - Investigation of A Cattle Mutilation in which the Animal Survived
28. George Onet - Unexplained Death of 12 Calves In Oregon - March 2000
29. George Onet and Colm Kelleher - Histological Changes in Bovine Skin Exposed to Natural Environmental Conditions
30. George Onet and Colm Kelleher - Microscopic Changes in Bovine Tissues Exposed to Micorwave Radiation, High Heat and Cauterization
31. Greg Fewer - Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - An Archaeological Approach
32. Hector Quintanilla - UFOs, An Air Force Dilemma - Book Manuscript
33. Hypothesis - The Illinois Flying Triangle is A Department of Defense Not An ET Craft
34. Ivan Sanderson - What Could UFOs Be
35. J Allen Hynek - Foreword to The UFO Controversy in America by David Jacobs
36. Jacques Vallee - Crop Circles - Signs From Above or Human Artifacts
37. Jacques Vallee - Foreword to Richard Dolans UFOs and the National Security State
38. Jacques Vallee and Eric Davis - A Six-Level Model powerpoint presentation
39. Jacques Vallee and Eric Davis - Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness
40. James E Kennedy - The Capricious, Actively Evasive, Unsustainable Nature of Psi
41. James McCampbell - Effects of UFOs Upon People
42. James McDonald - Science in Default
43. Joachim Kuettner - Quo Vadis - Science and The UFO Problem
44. John Alexander - Refuting Fermi - No evidence for extraterrestrial life
45. John Schuessler -  UFOs - Why the Mystery Isnt Solved
46. John Schuessler - Detection and Identification of UFOs Using Existing Technology
47. John Schuessler - Public Opinion Surveys and UFOS
48. Keith Wolverton - A Wave of UFO Helicopters and Animal Mutilations in Cascade County Montana 1974 - 1977
49. Leonard Stringfield - The Fatal Encounter at Ft Dix-Mcguire - Appendix
50. Leonard Stringfield - The Fatal Encounter at Ft Dix-Mcguire
51. Low Flying Triangular Objects - A Safety Hazard - Addendum
52. Low Flying Triangular Objects - A Safety Hazard
53. Marc Millis - Prospects for Breakthrough Propulsion from Physics
54. Massimo Teodorani - EMBLA 2000 Mission in Hessdalen
55. Michael Grosso - Review of George P. Hansen’s The Trickster and The Paranormal
56. Mutilated Cow in Dupuyer Montana, June 2001 - Addendum
57. Mutilated Cow in Dupuyer Montana, June 2001
58. NASA Survey on Ball Lightning Characteristics
59. Newark Airport - Data From Radar, EWR Vicinity - 15 July 2001
60. NIDS - Partial List of Radio Interviews
61. NIDS Day After Surveys on Response of the Public to Extraterrestrials - Internet vs Roper
62. NIDS Day After Surveys on Response of the Public to Extraterrestrials - Roper Data
63. NIDS Day After Surveys on Response of the Public to Extraterrestrials
64. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - Age
65. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - Countries
66. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - Education
67. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - Gender
68. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - Occupation
69. NIDS Mailing List Demographics - States and Provinces
70. NIDS Master Book List
71. NIDS powerpoint presentation - MUFON 2000
72. NIDS UFO Database - Classification and Credibility Indices
73. Paul Davies - ET and God
74. Preliminary report - Reported UFO sightings near Gallup, New Mexico
75. Report on an Ice Circle in NE Utah, February 21, 2002
76. Richard McNally, Susan Clancy et al - Psychophysiological Responding - Abduction by Space Aliens
77. Robert Hemphill - Searching for Signals From Civilizations Spreading Life Among the Galaxies
78. Roger Pinson - UFO and Entity Sighting on Mcguire AFB, January 18, 1978 - Attachments
79. Roger Pinson - UFO and Entity Sighting on Mcguire AFB, January 18, 1978
80. Scott Little - Analysis of an Alleged Implant
81. Scott Little, Hal Puthoff and Colm Kelleher- The Case of the Flying Varistor
82. Sightings Over Carteret, NJ
83. Stanton Friedman - The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Flying Saucers
84. Stuart Appelle - The Abduction Experience
85. Thomas Tulien - 1952 Nash Fortenberry Sighting
86. Three Reports of Unusual Killing and Mutilation of Calves
87. Unexplained Cattle Deaths and Emergence of a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE)
88. Unexplained Deaths of Three Cows and a Bull Calf Near Valparaiso, Nebraska, 2003 - Part 1
89. Unexplained Deaths of Three Cows and a Bull Calf Near Valparaiso, Nebraska, 2003 - Part 2
90. Unexplained Deaths of Three Cows and a Bull Calf Near Valparaiso, Nebraska, 2003 - Part 3
91. Unusual Animal Injuries in Cache County, Utah

The quote above (“The most frequent complaint about Bigelow is that he gathers information, but will not share it”) is from the MUFON Journal, December 1998, page 19, in a review by Dwight Connelly of Roger Leir’s book "The Aliens and the Scalpel".

I think the criticism in the quote from the MUFON Journal is a tad unfair since Bigelow has in fact paid for the dissemination of _some_ UFO publications, so he clearly wants some information shared. 

One common theme in comments on Robert Bigelow's personality is that he is pretty strong willed (not a rare trait in very rich people and possibly a necessary one in order to attain his level of success in business). It seems that he usually wants things done his way. If he is paying the bills, that doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me. Remember The Golden Rule? The person with the gold makes the rules. No-one is _required_ to share the results of their work. 

However, it would just be desirable if more of Bigelow's material were shared, since this:
(a) may help the rest of us make more progress,
(b) may result in input to Bigelow from the rest of the UFO/scientific community which results in his team(s) avoiding errors. 

Anyway, as I mentioned above, I'll shortly be seeking permission to upload further Bigelow/NIDS material.