The "UFO DEFCON" national rating system is a new tool employed by UFO Examiner Roger Marsh to help alert the public to UFO hot spots, trends, and watch areas.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This announcement will be updated shortly with a new "twist" to the rating system name. We apologize to those who were alarmed at the use of the "DEFON" designation associated with UFOs. We originally meant only to use a name that was familiar to the public to draw attention to the UFO phenomena across the country. We are busy re-naming the program and assure everyone our attention is to simply offer the public a generic rating system that has current sightings to back it up. Again, our sincere apologies. - Roger Marsh and Michael Rambacher
The military DEFCON defense readiness alert posture invented in 1959 for the Joint Chiefs of Staff allowed various military commands to use the same system of alertness. The UFO designation is being added to this already popular name to aid public awareness of UFOs.
As with the military system, a UFO DEFCON 5 is the lowest state of awareness, and a UFO DEFCON 1 is the highest awareness.
Marsh announced the new rating system during the web radio show UFO Traffic Report on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, and made the first UFO DEFCON ratings.
East Coast U.S. and Gulf States, DEFCON 4, with high concentration of reports; Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, DEFCON 3, with two or more CE-1 and CE-2 cases within 7 days. Closely watching Idaho and Louisiana now and following up on recent reports.
Marsh has used other mainstream terms to help make UFO reporting popular. In 2009, he began writing the UFO Traffic Report along with his regular UFO features. And in 2010 with the addition of a web radio show with co-host Michael Rambacher, Marsh introduced the UFO Witness Protection Program segment as a way to allow the most recent UFO witnesses to come forward with details.
The UFO DEFCON ratings will now be used in all of Marsh's daily writing as the National UFO Examiner at Examiner.com, including the popular UFO Traffic Reports. The system will also be used during the weekly web radio show.
Marsh stresses that these ratings are based on casual data from selected reports coming into the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. "There's not a lot of science behind it," Marsh said. "It's pretty simple. If I cover five CE-2s in a single state over a period of just one week, all Close Encounters of the Second Kind, or where the witness observes a UFO under 500 feet in each case - then it's probably a good call to move that state up to a higher UFO DEFCON rating to get public awareness going that something is happening. It might move people outside to look up for a few days and help improve UFO sighting reports."
Marsh and Rambacher are also developing the "Paranormal Traffic Report" and the "Paranormal Witness Protection Program" for upcoming web radio show segments.
Comments
So where is the defcon ufo chart. I dont even see a link to it anywhere......
Unnecessary and redundant. MUFON's UFO Stalker site is available to the public and shows the most recent sighting reports. I have its icon on my desktop and check it daily. I don't need a third party to tell me what I can already see with my own eyes. Just another big ego trying to act like he knows more than we do.
Would be neat if it was a widget type chart maybe with streaming "latest and greatest" sightings... Perhaps this exists already???
DEFCON uses the higher number (5) to indicate peacetime conditions; why are you using the scale in the opposite manner?
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