From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:17:18 -0400
Archived: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:14:21 -0400
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>

>>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.

Hi Joe,

It will be interesting to see what comes of this while and when
it runs it course.


Don Ledger



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