Registre des Observations d’Ovnis en Suisse

Coordinator: Bruno Mancusi

Starting date: 1987

Subject: UFO/IFO sightings in Switzerland (and Liechtenstein)

Aims: The Registre des Observations d’Ovnis en Suisse (ROOS) is intended to compile all known testimonies of Swiss UFOs/IFOs sightings and to draw statistics from them.

Methods: Data collection comes from newspapers, direct reports by witnesses to UFO organizations, databases, UFO books and magazines. Cooperation with Swiss and international researchers has been kept since the beginning. Statistics were made on the year, canton, month, hour and Hynek-Randles classification. Data collected:
1. Date
2. Weekday
3. Time
4. Location
5. Canton
6. Hynek-Randles classification
7. Duration
8. Moment of the day
9. CNS (National map number)
10. Witness name
11. Number of witnesses
12. Occupation of the witness
13. Sex of witness
14. Credibility/strangeness
15. Explanation
16. Abstract
17. UNICAT parameters
18. Number of UNICAT parameters
19. References

Publications: A paper was published as a chapter in the collective book by Thierry Pinvidic (ed.), OVNI : vers une anthropologie d’un mythe contemporain, Heimdal, Bayeux, France, 1993, pp. 234-239. It describes the statistics that were made on the year, canton, month, hour and Hynek-Randles classification on 956 cases (UFOs and IFOs) from 1901 to 1991.

Results: Currently, ROOS catalog is on Excel and contains about 1500 cases from 480 to 2005. It is updated to 2005, but not after that year.