What does the SETV Search Strategy Involve?
• 3. What distinguishes SETV from SETI? A: The foremost difference is where we look for technical markers of extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI or formally the “Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence”, is a search model which uses microwave as applied to radio astronomy and very recently has (finally) accepted optical wavelengths as a valid search strategy. Incidentally, Stuart Kingsly, the Director of Columbus Optical SETI (COSETI) has been the vanguard of Optical SETI for years. Microwave SETI is essentially a radio based search model whose proponents look for technical signatures of ETI civilizations way-out-there or any location in the galaxy. Whereas, SETV proponents search for technical markers of probes, proxies, machines, craft and phenomenon of suspected extraterrestrial origin which are inside heliocentric radius of the Earth’s Solar System, or near the Earth, or are operating inside the atmosphere of Earth. • 4. Why do you claim SETV is not UFOology? A: UFOology is the st