The Organization
for SETV Research or OSR, is the parent organization which identified the process and
created the search model. The OSR is a private research organization whose
mission is dedicated to collecting scientific data by implementing processes
and principles developed to aid and conduct instrumented studies and studies of
data acquired from probes, proxies, machines, craft and phenomenon of suspected
extraterrestrial origin. It is OSR's principle purpose to promote the SETV
search model.
SETV Should Not Be Confused With UFOlogy or the study
of UFO reports! While some tiny fraction (<0.04% or 1 in 2,500) of the Anomalistic
Observational Phenomena (AOP), which people have reported seeing in past
decades may have been of intelligent ET origin, this has not been conclusively
proven. Data collected in past case reports is curious, yet primarily anecdotal
and 'soft' from an acquisition perspective. UFOlogy claims to have found some
statistical invariants in the reports, enough to develop a classification
system, but that is the most it has really accomplished. Considering the
scientific demands for hard data, orthodox UFOlogy is not a desirable approach
for a detailed low-level scientific analysis. Granted there are a few books on
the subject worth reading (see references ) which contain a variety of
useful, albeit mainly historical, information.
OSR is NOT
affiliated with alien abductions, crop circles, animal mutilations, or alleged
government conspiracies to cover up "the truth about aliens". These
fields of study may in some cases lend themselves to a scientific
investigation, but until an experiment or test is devised which includes
instrumentation, these fields of study mainly involve speculation and untestable
hypotheses. So if you are here to find information on these topics you've come
to the wrong place.
But
while you're here take a look at what SETV has to offer, and please read the
OSR/SETV Mission
Statement. We think you'll be pleasantly suprised at the rationale
for SETV, its scientific basis, and the very good possiblity that by using
today's instrumentation and computer technology we can acquire the first
scientifcally acceptable evidence upon which to formulate a working and
testable ETI hypothesis.
The time is long overdue for a serious study of this nature, and
we believe you'll agree that using "the scientific method" is the
ONLY WAY we will be able to solve the problem of detecting and possibly
verifying ETI probe visitations to the solar system or Earth, in whatever form
they take.
For more information please see http://www.setv.org/
