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README.md

UFO Event Timeline Processing Tool

Copyrights:

Code:

Data files (in 'bin' directory):

  • George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022
  • LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005). Permission was given for use as long as he is attributed.
  • Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012
  • Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958
  • Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993
  • Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 - Commercial usage is acceptable as long as attribution is given.
  • NICAP - Unknown copyright status
  • *U* binary database file U.RND: Copyright 1994-2002 Larry Hatch. According to David Marler, Executive Director of the National UFO Historical Records Center, "The family has verbally given permission for the database to be used. If you need to speak with them, I have their contact info."

Note: Although the C++ tool itself is open source with a permissive license (Apache 2.0), any commercial use of the copyrighted data in this repository may require permission from one or more copyright holders.

Instructions

This C++ command line tool reads several source files containing UFO related events, which were compiled from a variety of sources, and converts each of them to JSON. It then sorts all of these events into a single large timeline and outputs them as the Markdown file "timeline.md" and the JSON file "majestic.json". pandoc can then be used to convert this Markdown text file to HTML.

Currently, the tool is Windows only, but it would be trivial to port to Linux/OSX. (I'll do this soon.) To run it: compile the .SLN using Visual Studio 2022. There are no external 3rd party dependencies. Run it in the BIN directory. It'll convert all the source files to JSON then output a file named timeline.md.

Here's the output Markdown file converted to PDF. The latest HTML timeline is published here.

Special Thanks

  • Thanks to David Marler, Executive Director of the National UFO Historical Records Center, for assistance in recovering Hatch's DOS-era UFO program.

  • Thanks to Jérôme Beau, creator of the "uDb" project, for releasing his database tool. His output and code was very useful.