From: Steve Sawyer <stevesaw.nul>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:07:32 -0700
Archived: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:20:46 -0400
Subject: Re: Bigelow Backs MUFON


>Source: The Examiner - Denver, Colorado

>http://tinyurl.com/beyqzs

>March 6 2009

>MUFON To Receive Major Funding From Billionaire Backer
>By
>Eddie Middleton

>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.

>Bigelow who has long been known to give millions of dollars to
>fund serious UFO research has just concluded a deal with MUFON
>whereby he will supply this organization with whatever it needs
>to be able to go out and bring back the hard evidence, not only
>to document the reality of UFOs interacting with us but most
>importantly to gather the kind of information that will truly
>advance scientific understanding of this phenomenon.

>This may well prove to be a historical occasion for MUFON and
>for the science of Ufology in general.

<snip>

>Now for the first time MUFON's members are going to be paid to
>do their work.

>MUFON's agreement with Bigelow is to train and qualify a special
>rapid response team of Field Investigators who can be deployed
>within 24 hours to the scene of a major UFO event, the kind
>designated as Category 2 or 3 in the classification system
>devised by legendary UFO researcher Jacques Vallee. These are
>the rarer cases where either physical traces are left or
>physiological effects are caused in the witness.

>Bigelow has hired 50 top-flight scientists to assist MUFON in
>this endeavor who will function as consultants and do expensive
>lab analysis of alien materials gathered at the location of a
>UFO event.

<snip>

>He thinks that even one category 2 or 3 case if properly
>investigated can yield significant scientific paydirt. Whatever
>high-tech equipment needed by the investigators on the scene
>will be drop-shipped to them overnight by BAASS. These high-
>profile cases will be investigated using the strictest methods
>of scientific protocol.

>Bigelow who has been known to keep his findings on the UFO
>subject secret has agreed per his contract with MUFON to hold
>nothing back from this organization that is revealed in the
>BAASS lab analysis of materials supplied by MUFON.

>This project which just launched on March 1st is code named SIP
>- Star Impact Project. It is a pilot experiment and will be
>reviewed on June 30th to see if it has proven successful enough
>to warrant funding for the rest of the year.

>Understandably there is a lot of excitement at MUFON
>Headquarters and among its membership. Now with this major
>infusion of funds from Bigelow, it will be better able than ever
>to carry out its stated mission. And Bigelow possibly will get
>what he wants to forward his goal.

>How this will all work out is hard to guess. This is something
>that has never been tried before. They are moving into
>unchartered territory here.
>
>In any case, Bigelow's investing so heavily in MUFON's ability
>to make SIP a successful search and find operation for greater
>knowledge about alien technology is some extremely good PR for
>MUFON whose credibility can be expected to take a significant
>leap forward in the eyes of the general public.


Hi, List

Does anyone else on the UpDates List find this announcement
rather... odd? Eddie Middleton, the MUFON State Director for
Tennessee, wrote the above article for examiner.com, but no
links or references to press releases or sources are cited or
appended to the article.

I checked several pages on both the Bigelow Aerospace and MUFON
websites, where news and/or press releases are otherwise noted,
but found no reference to this story at all.

Using google, I also found the only links or references to this
article all go back to the examiner.com article. As it has been
several days since this story broke, I find it very strange that
no other announcements, with further details, have appeared
either from MUFON or Bigelow themselves.

Also, assuming Middleton has his story straight, does anyone
else find it unlikely, given that this "Star Impact Project"
began March 1st, and "will be reviewed on June 30th to see if it
has proven successful enough to warrant funding for the rest of
the year" that any such required CE 2 or 3 case is going to
occur within the 5 month timeframe noted? Or that "Bigelow has
hired 50 top-flight scientists to assist MUFON in this
endeavor"?

Does anyone know of any other documentation from either MUFON or
Bigelow that would substantiate this article by Middleton? I
could find none, and therefore think that at least some things
about this announcement are probably, to say the least, suspect.


Steve



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