Born in Barcelona (Catalonia), on November 13, 1965.
Master degree in physics and post degree both in anthropology and information studies.
He has been investigating odd phenomena since 1980 and he is interested, not only in potential physical facts, but also in relationships with folklore.

In 1994, he joined the Catalan U.F.O. group “CEI”, of which he is a steering member. He wrote several contributions in Spanish for Papers d’Ovnis, and now in Catalan for the website www.documentant.net.

Ardanuy has been collaborating with the Spanish Fundación Anomalía, he was member of the editorial advisory committee of Cuadernos de Ufologia and he also contributed in the collective work Diccionario Temático de Ufología (1997).

He is member of several organizations about science, folklore studies and humanities.

e-mail: jordi_ardanuy@telefonica.net
website: www.documentant.net

Julio Arcas Gilardi was born in Santander, in 1951.
First interested in UFOs in his teen years, in 1966 he was co-founder of CIOVE and took part in several coordination efforts of Spanish UFO organizations in the 70s.
Since 1971 he has published a UFO bulletin (at first titled Espacio y tiempo and later renamed Vimana). When it merged with J. Ruesga Montiel’s publication, in 1987, Arcas became co-editor of Cuadernos de ufologia.

He was also instrumental in organizing two international congresses in the early 90s and in founding the informal Colectivo Cuadernos. When the Fundacion Anomalia was created in 1996, he was its first president.

e-mail: gilard@wanadoo.es

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1977, he graduated in Economics and Quantitative Methods in Pavia (Italy). After working as a financial analyst in Milan and as a Portfolio Manager in Dublin, then in Londo, he’s currently Portfolio Manager in Luxembourg.
He has been actively dealing with UFOs since 1997, at first collaborating in the “Operazione Origini” with Giuseppe Stilo, then joining the Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU).

Within CISU, he has long been involved in the constant updating and standardization of the Italian National Catalogue of UFO cases, producing reports and summary statistics. He’s also been active in statistical analysis applied to UFOs, in particular UFO waves and seasonal adjustment of UFO sightings