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danielgue

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A database with 4996 UFO/IFO cases from different countries and sources.

The features include image uploads, google maps, fuzzy search, advanced queries and some AJAX stuff.


Feedback is welcome. This is my new website and it probably has lots of errors.

Thanks.


Daniel Guenther
 
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Just a quick note, I was working on it and I think I vastly improved the interface.

After you login with the 'guest-login' button, you now have resulting cases beneath the query and not in a small window. I think it is better and more simple than ever.

Sorry for any inconveniences, this is a work in progress and I still tweak the website.


Thanks

Daniel Guenther
 
Dropping in on a site/forum just to pimp a project or a commercial product - while having a post count of 2 / not being a participating member - is really bad e-form.
 
GSB said:
Dropping in on a site/forum just to pimp a project or a commercial product - while having a post count of 2 / not being a participating member - is really bad e-form.
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I think you overreacted. It is not commercial as you can see, it is programmed by me in my spare time and it contains ufo information.

On the other hand, I could not care less about what you say.


Regards,

Daniel Guenther
 
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Now I think youre over-reacting. Each to their own I guess, I just know that I would feel a little uncomfortable doing that.

As you say though, its not a commercial product so not really that big a deal.
 
GSB said:
:frown:

Now I think youre over-reacting. Each to their own I guess, I just know that I would feel a little uncomfortable doing that.

As you say though, its not a commercial product so not really that big a deal.
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Maybe I did. Thanks for reply, though.
 
GSB said:
So you have any really compelling pictures that you havent seen anywhere else?
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Do you know what old UFO dean J.Allen Hynek said about UFO pictures?

"A picture is not necessarily worth a thousand words"...

I have some, a few, pictures hidden in the database in case descriptions, although the database contains a few thousand reports. So the ratio is not very big (it is more about textual data).

On the other hand there are very specialized projects out there.

You can use my old version of my database, use the query, click on "photos/footage" for a list of my personal favorite ufo photos.

In general, a photo is never worth more than the story (or person) behind it, IMO.


Regards,

Daniel Guenther
 
Daniel,

I appreciate your interest in the UFO topic, and we're happy to have you post here, but please think twice about telling one of our members "I don't care what you think", it's not exactly a way to establish yourself as a credible individual on these forums. We're all interested in this stuff, that's why we're here.

So tell us about yourself, why you decided to create this database, and what's the deal with accessing it.

dB
 
Hi again.

Sorry for any inconveniences.

What can I tell you about myself? Well, I am the guy behind that database...

This project is based on an UFO sightings database I developed back in 1997 which you still can access here. But this site has come to an end as I work now on this new project. I am now looking forward to any trial users.

This database is intended more for ufo researchers instead of people submitting their own ufo sightings. So I have setup a trial demo database where anybody can add, modify and submit new data.

Please login (no account or registration needed) at http://www.ufoboard.net/index2.php for the test account.

Please use it at your convenience, no data will be harmed!

Thanks again for letting me promote that website. I hope it can be useful to somebody!

Daniel G.
 
Daniel G., thanks for publishing these dbs on the Web. One quick suggestion about the user interface, would be to offer the "tag-cloud" up front (most people prefer to browse). A great thing would be to add a tags about the sighting classification either per Hynek (CE-I, CE-II etc) or Vallee. You're very modest in describing your effort as "just another UFO db", because there are very few UFO searchable db-driven databases publicly available, and they tend to come and go. Currently I'm aware of only one other UFO db, at ufodna.com. Also, Mark Cashman (temporaldoorway.com former director of MUFON CT) used to offer a public db with Web interface, but it's been down (404 file not found) since Feb-2008. Another searchable one (but not public-domain) was *U* UFO db by Larry Hatch, but again it's been down for several years.
 
Danielgue -- You're the man now, dog. I've long felt UFO study is sorely lacking a grand international "data warehouse".

My gut feeling is that there is gold in them thar datamined macro trends.
 
Thanks for the link and best wishes for your project.

Does anyone know what ever became of Larry Hatch's database? It seemed to be very well regarded but then dropped off the net last year sometime I think.

Any chance of integrating the NUFORC db?

I think about UFO sightings databases from time to time. It occurred to me recently that what I really wanted was something that was capitalized on Google Earth. I would like to be able to select tags for x numbers of characteristics and/or date ranges and then watch them pop up on Google Earth's globe. It seems to me that it could be useful to select a time window and then play out sightings reports in an animated, chronological way. For example, take the 1973 United States flap. Set a date range of something like October 1 -31, 1973, set the playback speed to 1 hour per second and then watch the geo-located sightings pop up on the globe. Then turn on/off daylight sightings, cigar, disk, sphere, color of lights, landed object, etc.

Pattern analysis was one of the very first things that scientists turned to when dealing with ufos but as far as I know there has never been one big serious and long-term project in this regards. People routinely make statements along the lines of "we don't see the classic disks anymore" or "nobody saw big triangles in the 1960's". It would be incredibly useful to know exactly how accurate statements like these regarding patterns actually are. It's my sense that these are generalized impressions of patterns rather than carefully researched analyses.
 
dorkbot said:
Thanks for the link and best wishes for your project.
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Thanks very much for your response. Larry Hatch had health issues and probably therefore could not keep up his website.
I don't know much more.

That are great ideas. Of course I had some of those as well, although not as much detailed. Maybe I can implement one of those one day into the project. At least now it is easier than ever because my new website is based on Java.

Probably text analyzing/data mining tools could be interesting as well because the raw data so much depends on the written statement.

Be assured that I will make my mind about those suggestions, thanks again. Also thanks to dhatz for his idea. Although I now disbanded the idea of using tags because I want to add specialized databases and sub-databases etc...


Daniel G.
 
Welcome to The Paracast, Daniel G! :)

Interesting database ya have there, I'll have to check it out more thoroughly, soon.

So...what exactly interested you in doing such a project?

And if I may ask: When did become interested in UFO's?

I've been interested in UFO and Paranormal phenemena from the age of 12 or so....

Bixyboo
 
danielgue said:
Probably text analyzing/data mining tools could be interesting as well because the raw data so much depends on the written statement.
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This Archipelago project may be of some interest to you if you have not already seen it.

Another interesting thing that, in some cases, should be possible for a sightings db integrated w/ Google Earth is to display a marker within Google Sky. You could easily show where Venus was located in the sky at the time in relation to where the sighting was etc. If everybody started using Google Earth to report sightings they would be able to look at satellite views and by identifying their location at the time of the sighting you could come up with some reasonably accurate latitude and longitude numbers that could be attached to every entry.

It almost seems like a long-term project that MUFON should take on. It would be cool to have one universal sightings db interface that people could use globally. If you didn't trust reports entered by random people you could filter them out and only view reports entered by trusted parties but at least the raw data would be in one place. Larry Hatch is a perfect example of why this is needed as one of the most widely cited and trusted UFO sightings databases just evaporated from public access because it depended on one individual.
 
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