org.rr0.im.business.event
Interface Sighting

All Known Implementing Classes:

SightingImpl

public interface Sighting

extends Event

The event for a people sighting something (multiple witnesses imply multiple sightings).
Some characteristics from Ballester-Guasp (MUFON Spain) evaluation (thanks to Terry Groff).

Author:

Jérôme Beau

Version: 21 avr. 2003 16:10:08

Methods inherited from interface org.rr0.im.service.function.classification.Classifiable

getForcedCategory

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface org.rr0.im.business.event.Endable

getEnd

Methods inherited from interface org.rr0.im.business.event.Timeable

getBegining, getHistory

Methods inherited from interface org.rr0.im.business.event.Durable

getDuration

Method Detail

getLocation

public Location getLocation()

Where the sighting occured

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Location}>

supplierRole location

public Moment getMoment()

When the sighting occured (begining, end, duration)

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Moment}>

supplierRole moment

public WeatherCondition getWeatherConditions()

The weather conditions when the sighting occured.

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.WeatherCondition}>

supplierRole weather conditions

public Being getWitness()

Returns the witness of the Sighting.
Multiple witnesses imply multiple Sightings.

Returns: A Being that witnessed something unexplained.

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.actor.Being}>

supplierRole witness

supplierCardinality 1

public boolean isAppearanceAnomalous()

The anomalous appearance will be the first clue for the researcher
to doubt the normality of what has been observed.
An apparently physical phenomenon will have such an anomalous aspect
when its shape or dimensions do not correlate with any identifiable flying craft.
Its shape may be that of disk, cigar, etc., or it can include in its description,
for instance, lights for which intensity or situation immediately
exclude other conventional lights to be sighted in the skies.

Returns:

public boolean isCloseEncounter()

A close encounter occurs when the witness has enjoyed a privileged position,
thanks to the proximity of the event, to observe in detail without the distortion of distance.
Quantitatively, this factor should follow Hynek's range
(i.e., within 500 feet or 150 meters).

Returns:

public boolean isTechnologyDetected()

The technological detection refers to the observing and/or recording
of the passage of the UFO through calibrated precision instruments
(technical or scientific): radar or laser tracking,
observation through telescope or theodolite, record in photograph,
film or videotape, light spectrum analysis, audio recording, etc.

Returns:

public boolean isThereAnomalousMouvements()

Anomalous movements are those dynamic characteristics of the observed phenomenon
which make it impossible to receive a logical explanation,
based on actual knowledge. Definition must include enormous horizontal or ascending speeds
(higher than those of the fastest aircraft); enormous accelerations (idem),
strange trajectories (mixed, broken, helicoidal, etc.);
ascent or descent in the "dead leaf" fashion (as if no gravity existed);
and in general, any contradiction with the usual movements of aeronautical devices,
astronomical bodies, birds, etc.

Returns:

public boolean isTherePhysicalSpatialIncongruities()

By physical-spatial incongruities we mean those elements
which are in flagrant contradiction with the intuitive sense of the dimensions
and the volumes (such as evident, well observed apparitions and disappearances sur place,
the merging of two objects into one, etc.), and/or that which seems
to violate the known behavior of the physical entities
(such as deformations of apparently material objects, "solid light" cases, etc.).

Returns:

public boolean isThereTracesOrEffectsProduced()

By traces and effects we mean those lasting physical or chemical characteristics
or residues left by a UFO after its disappearance,
provided that there matches some testimony that the traces or effects
were produced by the presence of the UFO.
These should include effects in people, effects of a mechanical nature,
physical changes in inanimate bodies, and electromagnetic effects on motors,
vehicles, or electric circuits.

Returns:

public Collection sightedBeings()

The presence of beings we mean the association of presumed occupants
with objects that conform to at least some of the requirements
of Anomalous appearance, Anomalous mouvements, and Physical-spatial incongruities.

Returns: A collection of Beings, or an empty collection if no beings were sighted.

Association Links

to Class org.rr0.im.business.actor.Being

Returns the witness of the Sighting.
Multiple witnesses imply multiple Sightings.

Supplier Role witness

Supplier Cardinality 1

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.actor.Being}>

return A Being that witnessed something unexplained.

to Class org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.WeatherCondition

The weather conditions when the sighting occured.

Supplier Role weather conditions

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.WeatherCondition}>

to Class org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Location

Where the sighting occured

Supplier Role location

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Location}>

to Class org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Moment

When the sighting occured (begining, end, duration)

Supplier Role moment

associates <{org.rr0.im.business.event.circumstance.Moment}>