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Post by swamprat on Nov 7, 2018 17:58:57 GMT -6
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 7, 2018 18:04:30 GMT -6
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 jcurio on Nov 9, 2018 7:40:27 GMT -6
What is Steve R. up to these days? 🙂
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Post by swamprat on Feb 7, 2019 18:36:19 GMT -6
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 4, 2019 18:18:54 GMT -6
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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