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UFO&PSI Glossary: O
Glossary comes from latin "glossarium, glossa" (foreign word), and is in fact a list of often difficult-to-understand words followed by their definitions. An encyclopedia of any kind cannot be considered complete without providing a comprehensive glossary.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 24, 2006 11:53 AM
Official French Committee fo UFO Studies: created in 1977 as part of CNES (Centre National Etudes Spatiaux); nowadays called SEPRA. It's been directed by physician Claude Poher; dr. Alain Esterle, and today by Eng. Jean Jacques Velasco.It is founded in Toulouse.
ONU: French "Organisation des Nations Unies" (United Nations Organization) . In 1967 the ONU, at the Space Affairs Committee, received Prof. James McDonald for a conference about UFOs. ONU secretary U Thant believed the UFO problem was the most important, after Vietnam war. Ufologist Colman Von Keviczky, member of the ICUFON, leaded a similar initiative at the ONU later, but resultness. In 1977, a member of the ONU asked 1978 to be "International Year Of UFOs" and also to form an international committee charged to study the problem. It was a small Caraibic island: Grenada. Sir Eric Gairy followed the official procedures and asked the problem to be discussed in the next general assembly on September 20. A meeting between Gairy and President Carter made rumors that Carter, a genuine UFOs man, wanted this initiative to bypass the cold American agents. The burocracies went on with positive results until 1979, before the 34th General Assembly that should have formally accepted the request. A golpe kicked out Gairy for a new leader called Maurice Bishop. Thanks to this, the initiative was frozen. Later, UFOs reappeared again at the ONU: in 1994 physicist Tullio Regge, as member of the European Parliament, wrote up a report after the request for explanations by Di Rupo about the Belgian sightings. Regge concluded his report with the proposition of creating a "European Centre For The Unknown Atmospherical Phoenomena". Regge is skeptical about UFOs, but is a honest scientist. His initiative did not succeed, he sent the initiative to the "Energy, Research and Technology Committee".
Orthoténie: French word deriving from Greek "orthotenos", it means arranged alongn a "line of fire". It describes the appearent tendence of UFO to fly along "air corridors" (like airplains), so showing intelligent settings, in a flap, for reconnaissance. Discovered by Eng. Aimé Michel studying the French 1954 dossier.
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