1. Experimental Tactical Platform The ETP will be designed like a Mars NASA probe. It will be equipped with the cameras and sensors required to passively detect and record many forms of energy emissions coming from an AOP or suspected ETI probe. It will use COTS computer hardware/software and a telecommunication link via satellites to a central computer.

2. What Might an ETP System Look Like?

3. How Does the Process Flow?

4. Important Components of the ETP Search and Track sensors (polycamera, DAS). Solid State Imaging sensors (Optical, IR, UV). Broad band Spectroradiometer. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma burst radiation detectors. Radar and Radio frequency detectors. Motion sensors (Geophones and Seismic detectors). ELF and Ultrasonic detection microphones. EMI shielding (Faraday) cages. Battery, Wind and Solar Panel power sources. Data recorders (RAID or MO drives). Internal sensors computer for monitoring equipment operation. Computer tracking and analyzing software. Back-up & shielded computers and power supply. Fully Automated Weather Station. Retractable sensors for protection against severe weather. Warning devices to discourage animals and human vandalism.

5. How does one attract an AOP to come close to an ETP? Put out bait, such as a programmed sequence of light signals. An active approach that is not considered Low Observable. Have a rapid deployment team ready to set up an ETP in a new area. Has logistics challenges but workable if report is < 24 hours old. Monitor areas where AOP sightings are current or ongoing. Good a place as any to set up an ETP if the phenomenon repeats. Instrument humans and put them out in the field with the ETP Single-blind experiment to quantitatively measure “human factor”. Deploy many ETP around the world in hopes of catching something. Requires reliable funding, patience, and managing many platforms. If the ETP is designed to be “Low Observable”, and AOP sightings are random and unpredictable, what strategies can be used to get detection hits and close encounters?