From: Joe McGonagle <joe.mcgonagle.nul>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:39:16 +0000
Archived: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:53:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Bigelow Backs MUFON


>From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
>To: post.nul
>Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:55:30 -0400
>Subject: Re: Bigelow Backs MUFON

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>>Billionaire real estate investor and entrepeneur Robert Bigelow
>>of Las Vegas, Nevada is now betting his bucks on MUFON to find
>>valuable new knowledge about alien propulsion systems.

<snip>

Hi Don, List,

>I think this is a significant development. But I have some
>questions; the foremost being, were the project to continue past
>June 30 [the project name is a bit corny - BTW] would this
>extended to investigations in Canada or even the UK or just the
>United States? Seems to me the more widely spread the
>investigations the more significant the results.

I agree, but can see the difficulty if it was intended to cover
the globe. Generally, the sooner an investigation begins, the
better. It's one thing to deploy a team with all the required
resources and local contacts to familiar territory, but to
deploy it even to the UK introduces logistical and practical
issues. These would be amplified in a region where little
English is spoken.

An alternative would be to have several regional teams, but I
doubt the budget will stand that?

I think that the most difficult aspect related to confining an
activity to a single continent even is the paucity of reports of
the required potential evidential collateral. Naturally, the
larger the area covered, the greater the possibility that
something of real interest will occur within that region.

>But judging by the Rapid Response Team set-up I'm guessing that
>this will be restricted to the United States.

>Any other thoughts out there re this piece of news?

Yes, I think it may be a missed opportunity and that the money
may be effectively wasted. This is due to my perception of
MUFON's standards of objectivity. For example, their Director of
Education and Media Relations, Alejandro Rojas was closely
linked to the Romanek fiasco and is giving Clifford Stone air
time on his next radio show. He would appear to me to be a
supporter of the broadly discredited 'Disclosure Project'. I
could dredge up more examples of questionable MUFON standards (a
glance at some of their annual conference presenters lists
should suffice), but that isn't necessary to make this point.

I think the money would be better spent on establishing a

non-partisan, credible panel of experienced investigators and
researchers.

I am not going to waste time on making suggestions as to who
might appear on such a panel, it would seem that the opportunity
to do so has passed.


Cheers,

Joe



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