From: Richard Hall <richardhall37.nul>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:43:43 -0400
Archived: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:59:18 -0400
Subject: Re: Bigelow Backs MUFON


>From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
>To: post.nul
>Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:17:18 -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

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>>>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

Your concerns are well based. Those of us who worked with
Bigelow in the past (or tried to) are snickering to ourselves.

I resigned from MUFON over the very sort of negative that Joe
cites, but they also have many good, well-trained, careful
investigators. Just like the UFO field at large, some purging of
kooks and airheads would be a big plus. But MUFON is the largest
and best organized U.S. group that actually has a large network
of people in the field, so it is not totally a crazy idea.

Bigelow himself is the main problem. We (the UFO Research
Coalition) recommended a rapid response team years ago, but
Bigelow has his own axes to grind and micromanages everything to
fit. After swearing that we would make all the decisions about
investigations, he (typically, as we learned) violated our
agreement and began dictating our actions.

My break with him came when he essentially unilaterally fired
our world-class investigator, Walt Webb, over our strong
objections.

All I can say is lots of luck to MUFON, and may the UFOs
cooperate by showing up and leaving physical trace evidence
within the next six months.

Snicker, snicker!


Dick



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