Chemist graduated from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Born in Lausanne in 1960 and active in ufology since 1984, he is also interested in paranormal, history, espionage, conspiracies and urban legends. In 1987 he created a database of Swiss sightings: Registre des Observations d’Ovnis en Suisse (ROOS), which has now more than 1400 cases, but not updated after 2000.

From 1988 to 1995, he was member of the editorial boards of Ovni-Présence and Anomalies (France / Switzerland).

Main affiliations:

• Member of the Association des Amis de la Maison d’Ailleurs (AMDA), since 1989 and member of the Maison d’Ailleurs museum board Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, since 2008.
• Swiss correspondent for Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU), since 1992.
• Member of the Sauvegarde et Conservation des Etudes et Archives Ufologiques (SCEAU), since 2003.
• Swiss correspondent for Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), since 2003.

Publications: articles mainly in Ovni-Présence, Anomalies, Il Giornale dei Misteri and La Gazette des Mousquetaires de l’Ufo; co-author of OVNI : vers une anthropologie d’un mythe contemporain (editor: Thierry Pinvidic), Heimdal, Bayeux (France) 1993. Online papers: Academia

Bruno Mancusi
Route d’Echallens 10
CH-1530 Payerne
Switzerland
swissufo@swissufo.ch

Born in 09/1954.
Education: Mechanical engineer
Career (retired): Professor of Mechanical Engineering -Trainer

Vosges (88) East of France

Active in ufology since 1978.

• Cercle Vosgien Lumières dans la Nuit (CVLDLN) – 1979-1995 (President).
• Comité Nord-Est des Groupes Ufologiques (CNEGU) – Since 1979.
• Sauvegarde Conservation des Études et Archives Ufologiques (SCEAU-Archives Ovnis) – Since 1990 (Co-founding member)
• Member of the VECA Group (Crop Circle) and author of the VECA Report.
• Geipan Expert and Investigator – Since 2008.

Main activities: investigation and expertise, research & archive preservation.

Other interests: astronomy (since 1974), meteorites (since 2003).

Laurent Chabin was born in 1968 in the suburbs of Paris.

Was drawn into the field indirectly because of the “1997 Phoenix Lights” case in 2007.

Electrical Engineer, currently developing the hardware of an untethered head mounted display for augmented reality as a full time job.

He sees what such a tool can bring during field investigations for the problem of the estimation of the angular sizes by the witnesses.

He has and will make use of this type of product in field investigations from 2021 on. A sort of SimOVNI of the 21th century.

Field investigator in need of the best set of research articles relevant to the discipline.

Member of SCEAU/Archive OVNI, he worked on open sourced tools helping the automation of conversion of scans into ocred pdfs. Made a little study for SCEAU listing a set of recommendations for the long term storage of files and choice of file formats. He developed a basic and now online full text search tool for FSR, LDLN and Inforespace.

contact is possible thru the euroufo maling list.

Yannis Deliyannis was born in 1973 and currently lives in Orange, France.

After graduating in Archaeology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1998, he took part in various field work in France, Greece and Turkey. He worked at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque universitaire des Langues Orientales in Paris where he participated in the development of a digital database of rare manuscripts.

In 2001, he took part in the creation of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris.

He developed a strong interest for the study of celestial phenomena in both ancient and medieval sources, actively contributing to the Magonia Exchange project.

He collaborated strongly with both Chris Aubeck and Jacques Vallée, most notably during the writing of their collaborative book, Wonders in the Sky.

He is also a supporter of the SCEAU project.

Belgian and born in 1971. He obtained a Master in Political Science (International Relations), a Diploma in Asian Studies and a Diploma in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. After university, he worked on a development project in Central Africa. Since 2001, he joined an international organisation and works in international policies, currently on environmental governance.

Interested in ufology since adolescence, it is mainly the interdisciplinary aspect that motivates him to better understand it. Daniel joined COBEPS in 2008 with a view to actively grasp what the UFO phenomenon is about, going beyond the reading of general books. He has carried out about ten investigations and this fieldwork is essential for him to understand the complexity of the UFO phenomenon. For him, meeting with the witnesses is an essential step to understand an observation and to deepen the elements, which cannot show through a few lines of a report.

Daniel has no belief and wishes to remain without a priori as to the origin and explanation of the UFO phenomenon.

Email: danielkun2002@hotmail.com

Born in 1965, Jean-Marc has been interested in the question of UFOs since teenage. He has Masters degrees in Geology, Environmental Sciences and school teaching qualification for Geography. He is currently teacher of Geography, Earth Sciences and Environment in secondary and higher schools. He has long been an activist and manager of two Belgian NGOs for awareness, training and education on environmental issues.

Jean-Marc has basically a profile of field investigator. His first investigations were carried out in the early 1990s within the Sobeps during the Belgian Wave. Thanks his education, the surveys are precise and detailed.

In 2008, he joined Patrick Ferryn, Léon Brenig, Auguste Meessen and some other former members of SOBEPS and participates to the COBEPS. He joins the group that updates the investigations methods and is then in charge of the coordination of the network of investigators.

Open to all aspects of the phenomenon, trained in cognitive interviewing, Jean-Marc has worked to make the investigation and their management more efficient from all points of view. He is particularly interested in angle determinations and their evaluation by eyewitnesses. He also seeks to take advantage of the new resources provided by the Internet for the identification of sightings. In the framework of the COBEPS special study: the complete re-examination of the first day of the Belgian wave (29/11/1989), he is interested in the evaluation of distances using a fuzzy logic model, the automatic classification between IFO and UFO by Machine Learning and the spatial analysis of observations.

Aware of the biases induced by the investigators themselves, of the importance of relationship with witnesses or with other researchers, methodology oriented, Jean-Marc has a socio-constructivist vision of Science. His concrete approach is action research. The researcher/investigator acts in the field of ufology looking collaborations, interdisciplinarity and trying to maintain a great rigor brought by empirical natural sciences.

Several of his investigations and publications are available on the cobeps.org website or in the Academia and ResearchGate profiles.

E-mail: jm.wattecamps@cobeps.org