Born
in Valencia, Spain, on December 27, 1948. Educated
formally until pre-university,
with a further diploma on programming language
in 1973, V.J. Ballester Olmos is
basically a self-taught student of many scientific disciplines.
He has had a professional career
in Ford Motor Company from 1976 to 2005. He has
elected to early-retire in December 2005. From 1983, he
has held the position of Manager, Insurance, Benefits and
Pensions. During his career, he received
many courses,
technical training,
and professional studies in Spain and England on Finance,
Risk Management,
and Pensions.
Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos has been investigating UFO phenomena since
1966. He is an active promoter of scientific-oriented
ufology and he is proactively focused to team work. A
correspondent, collaborator and personal friend to the
most noted figures of the field in the last 35+ years.
Mr
Ballester Olmos is the author
of over 300 publications,
essays,
articles,
case inquiries,
bibliographies,
book reviews,
technical reports,
etc since 1965. His bibliography can be consulted
on-line in the following url: http://www.anomalia.org/bibliog1.pdf
Mr
Ballester Olmos has given frequent
speeches in many UFO congresses held in Spain,
France,
England,
Germany,
and the United States of America.
Awards
and grants
•
1982: Fund
for UFO Research (Washington, D.C.) scholarship
for the study of UFO close encounter cases reported in
Spain and Portugal
• 1983: Co-awarded with John Schuessler (NASA) the
Alvin Lawson Award,
"for his advances in the scientific comprehension
of the UFO phenomenon"
• 1998: Nominated to the
Isabel L. Davies Memorial Award, MUFON Inc.
• 1998: Premio Anaparéstesis,
Anomaly Foundation
Major
duties
•
1968-1973: Founder and President, Círculo de Estudios
sobre Objetos No Identificados (CEONI), Valencia, Spain
• 1969-1970: Founder of Equipo Nacional de Investigadores
(ENI), Spain
• 1978-1982: Coordinator of Consejo de Consultores
de Stendek, Spain
• 1983-1985: Journal editor-in-chief, UPIAR Research
in Progress, Milano, Italy
• 1992-1999: Director of Investigations, Centro de
Estudios Interplanetarios (CEI), Barcelona, Spain
• 1997-2004: Cofounder, Vice-president and Research
Director, Anomaly Foundation, Santander (Spain)
• 2005: member, Steering Committee, Euro UFO Network
Mr.
Ballester Olmos is a member, representative, adviser,
consultant to a number of the most important UFO societies
and journals in the world: Mutual
UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON),
J.
Allen Hynek Center
for UFO Studies (CUFOS),
Society
for the Scientific Exploration (SSE),
National
Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena
(NARCAP),
European
Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies, Cuadernos
de Ufología, amongst others.
From
1992 to 1999, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos played a fundamental
role in promoting and supervising the start and development
of the process of declassification of UFO archives from
the Spanish Air Force, through an active cooperation with
the Intelligence Section of the Air Operative Command
(now Combat Air Command).
From
year 2001, Mr. Ballester Olmos is managing the FOTOCAT
Project, an in-progress project from the Spanish not-for-profit
Anomaly Foundation, aimed to create the largest worldwide
catalogue of UFO cases where photographs, films or videos
have been achieved. Over 6,000 cases are recorded now.
Books
•
OVNIS: El fenómeno aterrizaje,
Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1978,1979, and 1984.
Foreword by Dr.
Jacques Vallée.
• Los OVNIS y la Ciencia
(with Miguel Guasp), Plaza & Janés (Barcelona),
1981, and 1989. Foreword by Dr.
J. Allen Hynek.
• Investigación OVNI,
Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1984. Foreword by
Dr.
Richard Haines.
• Enciclopedia de los encuentros
cercanos con OVNIS (with Juan Antonio Fernández),
Plaza & Janés (Barcelona), 1987
• Expedientes insólitos,
Temas de Hoy (Madrid), 1995. Foreword by Javier Sierra.
Epilogue by Dr.
Jacques Vallée.
Recognitions
•
1998: Biographical quotation in Marquis Who’s Who
in the World.
• 2001: Unique civil ufologist interviewed by the
Revista Española de Defensa (official publication
of the Spanish Ministry of Defense): http://www.anomalia.org/redef.htm
Sample
of papers published:
"Type-1 Phenomena in Spain
and Portugal" (with Dr.
Jacques Vallée), Flying
Saucer Review Special Issue 4, August 1971
"Sociology of Iberian Landings"
(with Dr.
Jacques Vallée), Flying
Saucer Review, Vol. 17:4, July-August 1971
"Record and Analysis of
the Spanish Negative Landings", Flying
Saucer Review, Vol, 18:4, July-August 1972
"Quantification of the Law
of the Times", Data-Net Report, June 1972
"Biometric Data in 19 UFO
Occupant Cases", Flying
Saucer Review, Vol. 19:3, May-June 1973
"A Catalogue of 200 Type-I
UFO Events in Spain and Portugal", Center
for UFO Studies, April 1976
"Are UFO Sightings Related
to Population?", in Proceedings
of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center
for UFO Studies, May 1976
"Dramatic Chase in Spain",
in The Encyclopedia of UFOs,
Ronald Story, 1980
"The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis"
(with M. Guasp), The APRO Bulletin,
Vol. 32:5, 7, and 8, August, September, and December 1984
"Investigating the UFO",
in UFOs 1947-1987. The 40-Year
Search for an Explanation, H. Evans and J.
Spencer (eds), Fortean Times,
1987
"Characteristics of Close
Encounters in Spain" (with J.,A. Fernández),
Fund
for UFO Research, June 1987
"Standards in the Evaluation
of UFO Reports" (with Miguel Guasp), in
The Spectrum of UFO Research,
Mimi Hynek (ed), Center
for UFO Studies, 1988
"The Spanish Air Force UFO
Files", International
UFO Reporter, January-February 1993
"Spanish Air Force UFO Files:
The Secret´s End", in MUFON
1993 International UFO Symposium Proceedings,
MUFON,
July 1993
"Alleged Experiences Inside
UFOs", Journal
of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 8:1, 1994.
"Ballester-Guasp Evaluation
of Completed Reports" (Jerold Johnson)
in MUFON Field Investigator´s
Manual, MUFON,
February 1995.
"UFO Declassification in
Spain", in UFOs:
Examining the Evidence, Mike Wootten (ed),
BUFORA,
August 1995
"Declassification! Military
UFO Records Released: The Spanish Experience",
in UFO 1947-1997. Fifty Years
of Flying Saucers, H. Evans and D. Stacy (eds),
John Brown, May 1997
"Monitoring Air Force Intelligence",
in MUFON 1997 International UFO
Symposium Proceedings, MUFON,
July 1997
"UFO Declassification -
The Spanish Model", European
Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies, launch
volume, September 1999.
Sources:
http://www.euroufo.net/2011/11/ballester-olmos-vicente-juan-spain/
http://www.nicap.org/bios/ballester-olmos.htm
