From: Steven Kaeser <steve.nul>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:11:32 -0500
Archived: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:10:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Bigelow Backs MUFON


>From: Joe McGonagle <joe.mcgonagle.nul>
>To: post.nul
>Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:39:16 +0000
>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

><snip>

>>>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?

There are a couple of points to make here. The groundwork for a
Rapid Response Team has been developed by leadership with the
UFO Coalition, when there was funding from the Sci-Fi Channel in
the mix. But the actual scope of what we were looking at, as
well as the logistics in trying to get a team somewhere within
24 hours, became more than the group could really hope for in
funding.

We really only looked at trying to deal with the North
American continent, but even that was problematic when you had
to stage a "Go Kit" somewhere with your tools and a group of
experts willing to put their lives on immediate hold and race to
the scene. And what would be the criteria that would make this
type of exercise worth the effort? Would you test the process
with exercises to work out any kinks? What independent labs
would you have at the ready to handle any testing that was
needed? I can go on, but this gets very complicated very
quickly. Discussion never led to a resolution of some of these
questions, and in the end, the Sci-Fi Channel was bought by the
parent Company of NBC, and their UFO funding slowed to a
trickle.

Secondly, I wish MUFON well. But, knowing how Bigelow tends to
operate, they need to show results very quickly. The current
leadership of MUFON didn't work with him when the UFO Research
Coalition was formed with his backing, but he was a results
driven individual and unless you showed progress he quickly lost
interest. This happened to his backing of NIDS as well, which I
believe now exists only as a collection of documents.


Steve




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