Caithness filmmaker's new UFO documentary series and how you can get involved
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Wick-born filmmaker Ashley Cowie is producing a new UFO documentary series in Colombia and he wants Caithness folk to take part.
"You don’t have to believe in extraterrestrials to study unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)", says filmmaker, TV presenter and explorer Ashley Cowie.
"And this was also the tone of the seminal 2019 New York Times article that confirmed the Pentagon runs a secret UFO, or UAP, task force," added Ashley.
La Peña de Juaica is a famous hill in Colombia was baptised by Spanish colonists in 1608 as "the hill of dancing lights" after centuries of reports of mysterious lights (UAP) in the sky around it. For indigenous farmers, the hill has been known as "La Puerta De Los Dioses" – the Door of the Gods – but latterly, it is referred to as the "Aeropuerto de los OVNIS", which translates as the UFO Airport.
Germán Puerta Restrepo, director of the Bogota Planetarium, recently called Colombia’s famous mystery lights "the phenomenon" and adventurer-explorer Ashley is now setting out to determine the origins and nature of the mystery.
While most Colombians believe the mystery lights are UFOs, Ashley suspects they are caused by a geological occurrence known as "piezoelectricity" similar to the famous lights reported in the Hessdalen Valley in Norway and believed to be caused by electrical charges that accumulate in certain solid materials, such as crystals.
Ashley is flying six UAP investigators to Colombia to perform a range of experiments at the mysterious hill with the team being based in a traditional 130-year-old farm mansion at the foot of it.
Representing the UFO community is Vinnie Adams from Disclosure Team and Dan Zetterstorm from That UFO Podcast, which are two of the world’s largest UFO platforms. On the sceptical side of the investigation is a US remote sensing technology scientist and a New York judge.
Two years ago Ashley led a team of explorers in search of the "lost gold of El Dorado" which included 18-year-old Noah Wendrich from Thurso who, Ashley said, "assisted in all aspects of the exploration and making the film". Ashley's call to action for this new project is particularly aimed at Caithness residents with opinions on UFOs and UAP.
If you want to participate in Ashley’s new documentary series simply visit historyfuzz.com/phenomenology and register interest.
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