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Post by swamprat on Nov 8, 2018 0:17:21 GMT
MUFON DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE NOVEMBER 2018 Jan C. Harzan Does Anybody Really Care?
UFOs are REAL, ETs EXIST, and there is a lot more to the story than that, but
does anybody really care? I know it sounds harsh, but that is my question. Well
sure, WE do. Those of us who have had personal experiences or are open
minded enough to understand the reality of what is going on around us every
day on this planet. But what about the rest of humanity? Do they really care?
Most people seem to be more interested in whether their Steelers won last week, or if they have enough money in their bank account to pay the rent this
month, or what they are going to do this weekend and with whom, than they
are about the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
I base this observation on the fact that we had probably the biggest NEWS day in UFO history in the last 50 years when The New York Times broke the front-page story about the Pentagon's secret UFO program, even though the Pentagon tried to cool the story by saying it had stopped funding the program in 2012 because it had better use for the funds. Then Luis Elizondo, the project lead, confirmed it is still running today with the help of CIA and Navy funding. BIG NEWS!
In fact, it was headline news for several months on over 60 major news programs and publications (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, to name a few) and now what? Crickets...People are off worrying about those Steelers, working hard to pay the rent, and planning what their weekend will look like without much regard for UFOs or extraterrestrials.
Now we are told that evidence is being collected and tested that will once and for all conclusively prove that we are not alone. I certainly hope so. But are we setting ourselves up for a repeat of the 1996 disclosure by NASA and then President Clinton holding a nationally televised news conference that we had found life on MARS? You may recall NASA scientist John McKay proudly proclaiming
that "the universe is teeming with life" only to be run over by a Mack truck
of venomous hate mail from the "scientific community" questioning the findings and refuting them every chance they got. It seems in science it is only good if you are the one discovering it, otherwise forget supporting colleagues in their pursuit of the truth. Even today, 22 years later, there is still chatter on the Internet debunking the Mars rock, as it became known. Will the same fate await the
test results of non-terrestrial matter being studied at present?
I certainly hope not.
It reminds me of a conversation I had with Dr. Steven Greer just prior to the 2001
Disclosure Project held at the Washington Press Club. He shared with me his thoughts that once the press conference was over the world would know the truth about UFOs and disclosure would be done. I, like everyone else, was hopeful, but politely cautioned him that our biggest enemy in the search for UFO truth is not the government, nor the CIA, nor the NSA, it is the ability of the human mind to
deny the truth even when the facts are right in front of it.
I hope and pray it will be different this time. It is time for the paradigm to change.
Source: MUFON
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Post by swamprat on Nov 8, 2018 0:22:38 GMT
UPCOMING MUFON MEETINGS AROUND THE COUNTRY
Arizona:
PHOENIX MUFON meets Saturday, November 10, 12 noon-3 p.m., Arizona Historical Society Museum, Tempe, AZ.
Guest Speaker will be Kathleen Marden. More at phoenixmufon.com.
California:
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MUFON SOUTH BAY - San Jose Chapter meets 3rd Sunday every other
month, 1-4:30 p.m., Community of Infinite Spirit Center, 1540 Hicks Ave.,
San Jose. Speakers and MUFON case reports, $5 admission. Open to public. Contact Ruben Uriarte at ruben_uriarte@hotmail. com or go to northerncaliforniamufon.com.
MUFON SHASTA Chapter meets in Redding, CA. Email Stacey at
shastamufon@yahoo.com.
MUFON MARIN-SONOMA Chapter meets 1st Saturday monthly, 1-3 p.m.,
Petaluma Senior Center, 211 Novak Dr., Petaluma, CA. Open to public.
$5 admission. Go to mufonmarinsonoma.com.
ROCKLAND MUFON meets 2nd Saturday monthly, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.,
Round Table Pizza, back room, 4885 Granite Dr., Rocklin, CA. Learn about
and discuss UFOs, ETs, underground bases, government cover-up,
disclosure, conferences, reporting sightings, and everything ufology. Experiencers welcome. See meetup.com/Rocklin-UFO.
SACRAMENTO MUFON meets last Saturday of every other month, 4-6
p.m., Coco's Restaurant, 7887 Madison Ave., Citrus Heights, CA. See mufonsacramento.net.
Connecticut: CONNECTICUT MUFON meets 1st Saturday monthly,
11 a.m., AD's Pizzeria Restaurant & Lounge, 377 S. Center St., Windsor
Locks, CT. Round-table discussions, self-purchase meals. Go to mufonct.com.
Delaware: DELAWARE MUFON meets Saturday, November 17th, 2-4 p.m. Woodlawn Library, Wilmington, DE, presenting Major George Filer (USAF,
retired) USAF Intelligence Officer. Free, open to the public.
Florida: LAKELAND MUFON meets Saturday, November 17th, 6 p.m. at "The Meeting Spot," 8025 Margate Way, Lakeland, FL
"MUFON CE5 #3 Our Quest Continues!" hosted by Teri Lynge-Kehl.
Bring a dish or snack to share.
Texas:
HOUSTON MUFON meets 1st Saturday monthly, 4-6 p.m., 7026 Old Katy Rd., Suite 264, Houston, TX. Go to HoustonMUFON.org.
SAN ANTONIO MUFON meets 4th Tuesday monthly 6:30 p.m.
Luby's, 4541 Fredericksburg Rd., San Antonio, TX. Free to public, livestreamed on Facebook with interactive chat.
facebook.com/search/top/?q=mufon%20san%20antonio.
Illinois: ILLINOIS MUFON (Rockford, IL, area) meets 4th Saturday monthly, 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Rockford Public Library East Branch,
community room, 6685 E. State St., Rockford, IL.
Open to public. See facebook.com/mufonrockfordil
Minnesota: MINNESOTA MUFON meets 2nd Saturday monthly, 2-5 p.m.,
New Brighton Community Center, 400 10th St. NW, New Brighton, MN.
$5 for MUFON members, $3 non-members.
Missouri: MISSOURI MUFON meets monthly, St. Louis, Kansas
City, Columbia, and Joplin, starting soon in Branson and Cape Girardeau. Go to missourimufon.org.
New Jersey: NEW JERSEY MUFON meets November 17th, 2-4:30 p.m.,
Monmouth County Library, Atlantic Highlands Branch,
100 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716. Organized by Joe Foster
and featuring Jennifer Stein, successful movie producer, UFO researcher
and world traveler, presenting "Crop Circles & UAPs," including personal
experiences. See UFOeventsNewJersey.com.
Pennsylvania: MAIN LINE MUFON meets Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 p.m. Tredyffrin Public Library, 582 Upper Gulph Rd., Strafford, PA. Featuring Annabella Wood discussing"The Night We Rocked the Pyramids."
Free. Open to public. Go to MainLineMufon.com.
Source: MUFON
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Post by HAL on Nov 8, 2018 23:55:56 GMT
...I hope and pray it will be different this time. It is time for the paradigm to change. ...
Ain't gonna happen.
For one simple reason.
There is no repeatable method of detecting ufo.
No way of knowing where something is going to appear.
You see, it doesn't allow for the Scientific Method to be applied.
It appears to be outside our fields of knowledge.
HAL.
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Post by HAL on Nov 13, 2018 17:00:07 GMT
Gort,
Nice find.
Sadly no mention by them of radar confirmation.
HAL.
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Post by vanis on Nov 28, 2018 3:10:51 GMT
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Post by HAL on Nov 28, 2018 16:37:14 GMT
Hi Vanis, How are things in your part of the world ? HAL  |
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Post by swamprat on Feb 8, 2019 0:46:34 GMT
February 2019
Director's Message
Jan C. Harzan
Project Blue Book
By now you have probably watched the show on History Channel as it is in the fifth week of its initial 10 episodes,with 10 more to follow. Initial reaction has been positive, and the show appears to be a hit.
A few short weeks ago MUFON was recognized by History by asking us to be part of its launch for Project Blue Book. A&E executive Arturo Interian and his team reached out to Communications Director Roger Marsh and asked if MUFON would participate in their Facebook Live event to launch the new TV program.
So early January 3, I drove to Los Angeles to the A&E offices in Century City for a 30-minute FB Live event. It was great publicity for MUFON and an awesome opportunity to rub shoulders with the cast and crew of the new TV show-as well as meeting Dr. Hynek's sons Joel and Paul Hynek, who are consultants for the show. For those of you who watched the FB Live event, I thought it was very well done.
Although much of the show is fictional and a dramatization about Hynek's life, it will help to bring the populace to the realization that UFOs are REAL and that a credible scientist who started as a skeptic became a believer,all because he was willing to look at the data.
And who's got the data today? We do!
By following the scientific method, Dr. Hynek came to the conclusion that not all UFO sightings could be explained away. In fact,it became his life's obsession to find out the truth behind UFOs-something all of us are still pursuing to this day.
Let's hope that 2019 brings us some answers. I am betting that it will.
From MUFON files
Lake Silverwood Event
Witness pursues aircraft career after 1983 UFO sighting
Silverwood Lake is a large reservoir in San Bernardino County, California.
A California witness at Lake Silverwood recalled a UFO incident from 1983 when a boomeranged-shaped object passed overhead, according to testimony in Case 95355 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The incident occurred at 2 a.m. on May 15, 1983.
"Me and two friends were going catfish fishing at Lake Silverwood," the witness stated.
"We were off road going to the south side of the lake and entered by the north side by the dam. We were on a switch back and as we came around a curve our view was northeast looking out over the valley and saw a bright white light way out in the distance many miles away."
The witness later Googled the location and discovered "it was coming from" Area 51.
"When we came around the next curve on the switch back it was just about on top of us.
My buddy yelled stop and turn off your engine. My cousin had a UFO burn out his electrical system on his car. I did and turned off my lights too. We jump out of my 4x4 and the three of us stood in front of my truck and were all looking at this thing as it came towards us."
The witness described the object.
"We noticed that the light was on the bottom of the object and it was huge. The front of it looked like wraparound sunglasses. We were able to see into it and counted that it was four decks thick. We were all talking to each other what we were seeing. We could see columns from deck to deck. On the most upper deck we could see humanoid figures moving about. We were like saying things like look at the guy looking out. Is he driving it or what? It looks as if someone was shining a light up at it like the one that was seen in China."
As the object continued to pass directly the group, it blacked out a good portion of the sky.
"Everything around us seemed to be crackling. I could feel my insides humming. Thinking of it now I'm glad I turned off my truck. As we were looking at the back of the craft it was like four boxes that were louvered and shimmered like a road on a hot summer day. The boxes looked like a TV when there's no channels on, black and gray from top to bottom of the craft. I had heard of small flying wings being seen on the Hudson in New York around the same time. This came to me later on in life. Four decks thick. Four boxes. Sixteen smaller craft would fit in this no problem. I worked in aircraft after this and was in the world's largest building by volume in Everett, Washington. It wouldn't fit in there. The ceiling would collapse with all the structure having to be removed to fit it. That's how large this craft was. Also, later on in life, the Phoenix Lights happened. Yep, now we're getting there, but what we saw was larger. I'm telling this story now and can still see it in my mind's eye. It changed my life in many ways - even what I went to as a career, aircraft structures final assembly. Did the B-1-B bomber and all three aircraft that was built at the Everett facility. The direction I figured it was going was towards Norton Air Force Base."
California MUFON Field Investigator Earl Grey Anderson closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.
"He never embellished his story," Anderson wrote in his report. "I even encouraged him to tell me what he 'thought' might have been happening here, but he simply would not go there. He stuck to what he remembered, which he described as being 'emblazoned in (his) thoughts.' The other main witness is deceased. He requested the main witness to please never talk about their sighting while he was alive, as he was afraid of 'repercussions.' Try as we may, we haven't been able to reach the second witness's girlfriend, the third witness on this case. All being said, I kept this case open, I grilled the witness repeated times. He never added, nor detracted from his original report.
"In interview, one can hear the witness become very pensive. He recounted this as a memory. It caused him to become very emotional, as a sighting such as this would cause one to feel. Considering the witness's background in aerospace. Considering the repeated interviews, I methodically conducted, and the witness's measured answers, which never once contradicted what he had said before. Considering that by all accounts he was putting into words that which he remembered: One of the most important and defining events in his lifetime."
Watch Jan C Harzan on San Diego's NEWS 8 on 1/22/19:
www.thecwsandiego.com/story/39832931/mufons-50th-anniversary-embracing-the-future?utm_source=+MUFON+NEWSLETTER+-+February+2019+&utm_campaign=Newsletter+2019&utm_medium=email
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Post by swamprat on Mar 5, 2019 0:07:57 GMT
MUFON Monthly President's Message
March 2019
Jan C. Harzan
Celebrating 50 Years of MUFON
Our 2019 MUFON Symposium will be held at the Hotel Irvine in Irvine, CA, this
coming July 26-28 where we will be celebrating 50 years as an organization.
The theme for 2019 is "MUFON's 50th Anniversary - Embracing the Future" and will be featuring speakers sharing their first-hand knowledge about UFOs and ET encounters from around the world and what it means to our future as humanity.
Leading off Friday night will be our keynote speaker John F. Schuessler.
John was one of the original six founders of MUFON, which officially began
May 31, 1969, and has been intimately involved in the evolution of the organization over the past 50 years. He'll be sharing some of the amazing things he has learned along the way, including his time at McDonnell Douglas and Boeing working on the manned spaceflight program and how he got involved in UFOs in the first place. Come hear his amazing story first-hand!
It is going to be an event you won't want to miss. Make your reservation now to attend MUFON's 50th Anniversary celebration at the 2019 MUFON Symposium.
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Post by swamprat on Jul 20, 2019 15:16:31 GMT
Mutual UFO Network
Director's Message July 2019 Jan C. Harzan
The Best of Times
As we prepare to head off to the 50th Anniversary MUFON International UFO Symposium in Irvine, CA and spend time discussing our favorite subjects'; UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life, the second of two UFO TV shows is completing its first season. The first was "Project Blue Book" which played for ten episodes and was a dramatization of some of the more significant Project Blue Book case files now preparing for its second season. And "Unidentified" finishing its first season.
The first four episodes of "Unidentified" followed the investigation started by the
Pentagon's secret UFO study group AATIP and now pursued by Lue Elizondo and the folks at "To the Stars Academy" (TTSA) of the Tic-Tac UFO incident off the coast of San Diego. Both shows were extremely well done, and I expect the same will be true of the remaining two episodes of "Unidentified" season one.
Hopefully you've had a chance to watch them and have formed your own opinion.
The point to be gleamed from these shows is something we've all known for at least 50 years, that UFOs are REAL, and they do not originate from any nation on Earth. This is not MUFON saying this, this is former high-level government officials saying this.
U-F-O-s are R-E-A-L and they do not originate from any nation on this planet.
Pretty profound words. Now the question is: is anybody listening? Anybody like our elected leaders, anybody like Congress, anybody like the media that has made fun of this topic for the past 50 years, and most importantly the public. And if they are listening, are they getting it? More importantly, are they going to do anything about it? Or, are we going to go through another 50 years of denial and cover-up because the truth is too hard to swallow, and nobody has the gumption to do anything different than what has been done the past 50 years. Ignore it, make fun of it, marginalize it, and forget about it. I don't think so.
The door has been opened and MUFON is already seeing military witnesses come forward to share their own UFO experiences after being emboldened by the latest episodes of Unidentified. As more and more witnesses come forth we will continue to gather information and insights to build an even bigger case that UFOs represent advanced technology by non-human intelligence and if we are willing to listen and observe we will learn an awful lot about our future and where humankind is headed. I can't think of a better time to be alive. These truly are the best of times.
Jan
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Post by swamprat on Dec 16, 2019 23:00:49 GMT
MUFON Director's Message Jan C. Harzan 2019 In Review As we head into the holidays, I think back on all that was accomplished in 2019 making it a very good year.
To begin with, we saw a record 106 new field investigators join our ranks-investigators being the heart and soul of our organization.
At the same time our membership grew 10% year-on-year, which is outstanding. We appear to be at a time when interest in the UFO subject is at an all-time high.
Media inquiries and TV Network interest on MUFON cases appear to be accelerating. In fact, the media has been overwhelmingly positive regarding the UFO subject.
Many are using the term UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, which very simply means UFO. Call it anything you want,
MUFON has been educating the public about UAPs/UFOs for 50 years now, and people are finally beginning to listen.
One way we do this is through our publishing arm, MUFON Books, which released three new books in 2019.
Project Blue Book debuted in January just in time for the first episode of the new hit History TV series by the same name.
Followed by what is sure to be a blockbuster The CIA UFO Papers: 50 Years of Government Secrets and Cover-ups.
This book is about the "one million" UFO files released by the CIA. I consider it a must read.
And finally, Kathleen Marden's book Extraterrestrial Contact: What to do When You've Been Abducted.
I hope you will consider reading these outstanding publications, all of which may be ordered through the MUFON STORE.
Another way we educate the public is though our website and social media.
We now have 102,000 Facebook followers and over 70,000 following us on Twitter-this on top of the 150,000 unique visitors to our website each month.
We were also able to carry our brand overseas to Barcelona, Spain,where MUFON was represented at the 3rd Annual UFO Congress in September.
At that conference keynote speaker Michio Kaku made the comment that "It used to be that believers had to prove that these objects were from an intelligent race in outer space. Now the burden of proof is on the government to prove they're not from intelligent beings in outer space."
Quite an exciting time it was to be there.
MUFON was also represented at the two AlienCons this year in Los Angeles and Dallas, TX, where we provided speakers, hosted panels, and signed up new members in record numbers. Thousands of avid UFO fans attended both events.
My hope is that this solid performance in 2019 will be followed by an even better one in 2020. With your help I am sure it will.
Meanwhile have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Post by swamprat on Jan 14, 2020 23:21:15 GMT
MUFON Director's Message January 2020
2020 Off to a Fast Start
Welcome to 2020! I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe we’re already here! Seems like only yesterday it was 1999 and we were preparing to enter the new millennium. Where does the time go? Too bad we can’t slow down time; perhaps someday we’ll be able to! Well, enough of the past. We have a bright future ahead of us. Thanks to the announcements in 2017, things are accelerating in the world and at MUFON, which is great news!
2020 begins with several projects on the launch pad looking for sponsors to bring them into reality. Probably the most interesting of these is a project to scan the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) case files. This is a joint project with Dr. Mark Rodeghier and our friends at CUFOS. Our hope is that this can be accomplished in 2020 and the files made available digitally to our members for their enjoyment and research. The project is in the planning stages, and bids are being obtained from multiple companies to see exactly how much will be needed to accomplish this task. Cost estimates are expected to be around $20,000 to have the files professionally scanned.
Another outstanding project is “The Great Questions,” which we talked about in the September issue. Dan Wright has been shepherding this project, which engaged our Ph.D. and M.S. members in writing essays on some of the more baffling questions that have stumped scientists and engineers for years regarding the advanced physics and sociological issues surrounding the UFO issue.
So far over 75 essays have been submitted and another 70 are in the pipeline. Look for a final report in 2020 and a number of research projects that will surely spring from it, all of which will require funding.
Other projects needing funding include a media project to help get the word out that MUFON exists as a service for members of the public to report their UFO sightings, abductions, and entity encounters to, as well as for permitting MUFON to communicate its better UFO cases to the public. One of the most frequent questions I get when I speak is “What’s the latest UFO sighting?” Well, we get 500–1000 of them a month, and some of them are downright incredible and need to be communicated quickly in a professional way to the media and general public.
Check out our entire list of projects on our website at MUFON.com under DONATE, or suggest a project of your own. The more people we can get actively involved in bringing this important subject to the attention of the world and our elected officials, the better.
And if you can’t do it yourself, help fund those who can. Together we will make this happen.
Here’s to a GREAT 2020!
Jan C. Harzan, Executive Director
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Post by swamprat on May 19, 2020 19:06:15 GMT
Mufon Director's Message May 2020
Pentagon makes it “Official”
The Pentagon has “officially” released three videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released to the public through other channels. As you well know, the videos originally released in 2017, show
unidentified flying objects moving rapidly while being recorded by infrared
cameras on our US Navy jet fighters.
The Navy previously acknowledged the veracity of the videos in September of last year. They are officially releasing them now, “in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough.
“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems,” said Gough in a statement, “and does not impinge on any
subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Former Senator Harry Reid quickly stated he was “glad” the Pentagon officially released the videos, but that “it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this
and any potential national security implications.”
I could not agree more. This latest flurry of UFO activity out of the Pentagon raises some serious questions. First and foremost, just how many more UFO videos exist in our government’s possession?
I have been told that there is video footage in the files taken within thirty feet of these craft. That would be like a selfie with a UFO directly behind you. So, why is it that you and I as taxpayers cannot see these videos? Seems like a fair request, don’t you think?
Perhaps more importantly, why is it that the US military and the US intelligence community do not seem to have an interest in this technology that is clearly far superior to anything we have on earth? Shouldn’t our federal and congressional leaders be stepping up to this issue with funding for our scientists and engineers to study this opportunity that would appear to have the potential for incredible advancements?
One would think so, but it doesn’t seem to be so easy.
So, what is holding us back? Is it politics? Belief systems? An election year? Who knows, but it’s time to put all this aside and embrace the reality of UFOs, UAPs, or whatever you wish to call them. By doing so, incredible breakthroughs await that will propel humanity and this planet into a new era of hope and prosperity never before seen on Earth. It’s time to get on with it.
Jan C. Harzan
Executive Director, Mutual UFO Network
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