Ancient Aliens - The MUFON Files
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It is the world's most elite team of UFO hunters.
It's this huge network of investigators who are not just interested in UFOs, but want to do something about it.
For five decades, the mutual UFO network has gathered detailed evidence of unexplained aerial phenomena,
strange encounters, and alleged alien abductions.
out of all the cases that you've looked at.
Have you seen anything like this?
Not like this, and I've done over a thousand.
Look at, oh my God.
And now, they're collaborating with the United States government.
Mufant has been very well received in Congress.
Whether they believe it's a UAP from another world
or from one of our adversaries,
they want to know what's happening.
Could Mufon have within its vast files definitive proof
of alien visitation.
Here we have an outfit that has decades worth of investigation,
and some of their cases are, in my opinion, extraterrestrial encounters.
There is a doorway in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone. We have never been alone.
Denver, Colorado, July 7, 2022.
Thousands descend on the Mile High City to attend the 53rd International Symposium on UFOs.
At this annual conference, researchers from around the world gathered to share and examine the latest developments in the study of UFOs.
One resident claimed to have compiled a list of 110 persons who had witnessed blind objects out of the small town of only 2,000.
And it is hosted by an organization with the most highly trained UFO investigators in the world.
Mufon.
Shane Hurd is Mufon, Arizona Assistant State Director.
Mufon is the acronym for the Mutual UFO Network.
It's the largest UFO investigator.
UFO investigation organization in the world.
And its mission statement is the scientific study of UFOs
for the benefit of mankind.
Ron James is the president of Mufon Television.
Mufon is a all-volunteer organization that's grown to well over
4,000 members worldwide of field investigators
and people that want to participate in the quest for the truth.
At the core of Mufon is an investigative body that
exists to go out and investigate sightings that are worthy of investigation and compile our database.
But over the years, Mufon has grown into so much more. We offer kind of a community for people
that care about the topic. Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense.
Mufon is the coming together of people who are not just interested in UFOs, but want to do
something about it. They want to investigate the case. It's so it's like this huge network of
like-minded people all around the United States and indeed the world, brought together by their
shared passion for the subject and their shared interest in it. I became involved after having
been present for the Phoenix Lights incident here in Phoenix, Arizona, and
1997, my interest was captured.
Mindy Toutfest is the Mufon, Oklahoma State Director.
I first joined up with Mufon after a trip to Roswell with the family in 2019,
and it got me interested in it.
I had heard of Mufon before, but I didn't think being a nurse if I would be useful.
But I called the headquarters to see about just attending meetings, and I became an investigator,
and I've loved it ever since.
This is Roderick Martin, Mufon Investigator.
I was 12 years old when I saw my first UFO.
I was outside and then I lived in Dallas, Texas.
I saw this little white disc kind of just zigzagging.
So imagine that seared into you as a young kid.
As the years rolled by, I noticed that there was an organization called Mufon,
mutual UFO network.
Then I found their website, wait a minute, you can get behind the scenes.
You can become an investigator.
And so I said, you know what?
This is what I'm going to do.
Having now existed as an organization for more than five decades,
Mufant's mission is to objectively investigate the hundreds of eyewitness accounts
of UFOs and other aerial phenomena that are reported every year across the globe.
Ralph Blumenthal is an investigative
investigative journalist for the New York Times.
Mufon started in the 60s as an association of private citizens who trained themselves to ask questions to go to scenes where people had reported UFOs.
To question people, they developed a whole protocol.
They had a very sophisticated methodology that they used to document these things.
And they kept records.
Started in Quincy, Illinois,
Mufon originally stood for the Midwest UFO Network.
But by 1973, the organization had so many members across the country, its name was changed to the Mutual UFO Network.
The group remained relatively obscure, however, until 1980, when it played a key role in the sensational UFO case called the Cash Landrum incident.
Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum are driving through Texas.
When they encounter this giant diamond-shaped object hovering and spewing out blue flame from the bottom,
they stopped the car to investigate.
The local environment is actually being heated by this object to the point where they try to touch their car and it's hot to the touch.
And then what happens is they notice that there's an army of helicopters, Chinook helicopters,
seeming to escort this object.
Here is Vicki Landrum's call to the National UFO Reporting Center, February 2,
1981.
Now what makes this unique is that when they get home, after a couple of days,
they start to show symptoms of being exposed to ionized radiation.
David Childress is the author of Technology of the Gods.
The women all had their hair fall out.
They developed cancer, and they blamed to the children.
And they blamed the US government for this.
And this then became a very well-known court case
where they were suing the US government, essentially.
This was reported in major newspapers all over the United States.
They couldn't ignore this story.
Mufon investigators got the witness statements,
gathered the evidence, including things like medical records,
which were central to the legal case.
And although the witnesses didn't win their case,
what's important was that that gets it on the record.
Without Mufon, it's unlikely that it would have gone to court.
It helped Mufon come to the forefront.
It gave us credibility as a group,
and it was a really establishing moment for Mufon.
Mesa, Arizona, November 4th, 2022.
You can click on this, and you can click on your state
and see if your case is coming up, do soon.
40 UFO researchers have arrived in this small desert community
for the annual Mufon Investigator boot camp.
This intense three-day conference offers hands-on training
in techniques used to investigate cases
of reported extraterrestrial visitation.
Stay with your group.
We have five sites.
You guys are going to go to the site
and you're going to find stuff, tag it, back,
and you're going to submit it.
Moufon strives to train up their field investigators
to know photo and video analysis.
We're expected to know how to read astronomical charts.
We're expected to know how to look at flight radar returns,
and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
One of the strengths of Mufon
is that it brings together people with different skill sets.
So, for example, some of them
will be retired cops, also people who specialize in imagery analysis.
There are other people who know all about computers.
So all the different things that an organization investigating UFOs might need,
someone's going to have that skill set.
Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Sukhalos.
Mufon has many members from the military, from the police force,
lawyers, PhDs, doctors, those are highly, highly educated people.
So it's serious work that these investigators are doing.
Mufon is not an organization of wide-eyed believers.
These are not people who think everything's an alien spaceship.
And Mufon gets thousands of cases and they investigate, they analyze, and they conclude.
And Mufon pride themselves on trying to adhere to the scientific method.
The UFO phenomenon goes back, in my opinion, thousands of years.
The day when it becomes accepted knowledge globally that we are not alone and never have been alone,
on earth, I think that Mufon would be part of this paradigm shift.
For Mufon investigators, determining the source of an encounter is key to identifying what is
truly unexplained. And often, the most compelling cases are those in which eyewitness accounts
can be corroborated by physical evidence.
Wapwallopin, Pennsylvania, November 7th, 2022.
Former British Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope and Dr. Travis Taylor,
who is the chief scientist for the U.S. government's UAP task force,
have arranged to meet with two seasoned Mufon researchers who investigated a possible UFO landing here in the summer of 2022.
I'm really fascinated to see how Mufon do their investigations,
what resources and capabilities they can bring to bear on these investigations.
I'll find it really intriguing that at least they've taken on that role because in the United States,
there is no government office that's set up to take UFO reports.
With the UAP Task Force, we only looked at military scenarios.
We never looked into civilian events in detail because we had no authority to go and investigate
inside the walls of the United States, right?
Right.
I'm going to be interested to look at this case through the
lens of the way we did things at the UK Ministry of Defense. We took a very methodological approach
to these sorts of things. Before proceeding to the site of the alleged landing, Travis and Nick
meet up with Robert Spearing and Jason Albertson, the Mufon investigators who conducted the
original inquiry in July 2022. I'm Mufon's International Director of Investigations. I have a forensic
background and this is Jay Albertson he's a field investigator from Pennsylvania I'm also
retired military I'm a chemical biological radiological specialist so I guess one of the biggest
questions to me is a Mufant's become so huge how's it funded or is it all volunteer are you guys
getting paid to do this no everything's volunteer that's what I thought that's amazing
Moufan is mostly funded by its membership and we have about 500 field investigators right now from all
walks of life, geologists, biologists, rocket scientists, you name it.
So what's your process when someone makes a report to move on? What happens?
When a witness submits a report, it goes to one of five administrators and the state
director will then assign it to a person in that area. Jay lived in the general area where
the incident occurred and we immediately realized that this was a case of interest.
So what happened?
A woman about 2.30 in the morning heard her dogs barking.
She saw a white light coming down in the field behind her house.
The crickets in the cicadas had stopped making noise, which is unusual in the summertime
in Pennsylvania.
The woman was scared because the dogs was going crazy, running back and forth.
And the next morning, her husband went out and discovered what we call a saucer circle,
about two yards in diameter.
The pond is to your right, the impression is straight ahead.
There's three circles that are burned in the center.
If you have a 14-inch circle perfect in the center,
and you have two 12-inch circles on the left and right,
and they connect with the outside impression that comes down.
There's a circle here, and here's the big circle, right?
Yeah, there's another one right here.
It looks like...
Yeah.
Could that be landing gear?
Did the ring look dug into the ground, or
pushed into the ground. The outer ring that was pushed down about a half an inch.
They hadn't mowed before you got there or had they mowed over this? That's a good point.
Oh no, they haven't moat at all. Okay, got it. All right. You know if I were going to stay here and play the role of a debunker, right? I'd look at things trying to figure this out. I said, oh well, I've seen when I've bent my lawnmower blade, it cuts perfect circles like that. But you couldn't cut a perfect circle around it. Where you did that, I don't know how in the world, even with a zero turn.
radius more, you couldn't do that.
And then if it's actually depressed,
it means that there's something that was heavy sitting there.
Yes.
So I find this really interesting.
So when you get to the location,
is the first thing you do to go to these circles,
because that's what's been brought to your attention,
and what do you find?
The first thing I did was, you know, I went to the circle.
I was taking photographs and getting all my measurements first.
And then when I initially was down on the ground,
taking samples, I felt a burning sensation on the insides of my arms, on certain parts that I just
couldn't understand. Pain, nausea, headaches, and me being in the military, I knew exactly what that
could have been. And are you worried? Are you scared? Are you? At that point I was, because then I knew
exactly. Could be radiation or something? I knew it was a flash burn. I had to have been a flash burn.
So do you seek medical help for that? Yes. I went directly to the hospital.
They were initially just burns and then they circled.
They initially looked at it and they said,
is this a bug bite?
And I said, no.
Right.
Because, you know, everyone's been bitten by bugs before, right?
You know what that feels like.
And you're saying that was not what happened here.
This is something else.
Yes.
After I talked to the doctor and he determined that it was
unexplained skin eruption.
What other data did you collect with this?
with this.
When we got the lab results back from the Mufon Lab in Missouri, the technician there told
us that there were some heavy elements within the soil itself.
Yeah, if you look on the back of the test here, it states that where it was coal mining,
toxic metals were present, mercury lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, nickel, uranium.
This was all found in the samples.
The technician there told us that when heavy elements interact with the residuals
EMF field left over by whatever left the EMF field can become toxic for them and we believe
that's what started the blistering on Jay's body. The other thing the lab found was that some of the
vegetation within the circle had been burnt from the inside out. So I believe when you add in that the
plant matter was burned from within, you have more and more evidence suggesting that there was a
strong residual EMF field.
So out of all the cases that you've looked at,
have you seen anything like this?
Not like this.
I'd say this is one of the top three cases I've done
and I've done over a thousand.
Well, I'll tell you what I would like to do.
You guys still have your investigation kit with you?
Yes.
I would like to go back up there and you guys go back
through all the measurements you made
and we'll get to watch and see how you did that.
But at the same time, we're taking another measurement
that happened given amount of time after the event.
And if there are changes, that'll be very interesting data that we'll need to know.
Okay.
Well, let's go.
All right, let's go.
Great.
November 7, 2022.
Travis Taylor and Nick Pope are in Wapwallap in Pennsylvania to see how Mufon investigates UFO sightings firsthand.
They arrive at the home of Robert and Melissa Scurrchak.
The Scurrchacks are looking for answers as to what occurred on their property several months earlier.
So whereabouts did this take place?
Right behind you in the grass area.
Lead the way, show us.
So it's this close to the house?
Yes. Wow.
Yeah, in this area right here.
Over here.
I say we go back and get the equipment out of the vehicle
and then we'll let the Mufon guys come do their thing again.
Nick and Travis are joined by Mufon field investigators,
Robert Spearing, and Jason Albertson.
Jason and Robert will retest the area for radioactivity
and collect more soil samples on the Skirchak property.
The goal is to see if any lingering effects
from the initial incident remain.
Jay's gonna check for residual radiation,
an EMF field, residual EMF field,
and we're gonna see if there's anything subground,
metallic underneath.
When we do that, if it's safe to go back in,
we're gonna do some soil samples.
Sure.
So let's do it.
Jason actually has a pretty good background
for this type of investigation.
He's from a military background
doing chemical weapons disposal.
So he's familiar with radiation, electromagnetic fields,
and that type of scientific measurement.
Now, you remember where it was?
And understanding those phenomena.
Just about here.
Now, normal radiation levels in this area,
Pennsylvania, about 50 to 68 clicks per minute.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
It's pretty much 65 right now,
so I don't see any sort of dangerous radiation.
Did you find anything with the metal detector
on your initial search?
Initially, no. Nope.
So, Jason, you said you took samples outside of the spot.
Yes.
So you took soil samples from the pond, grass samples, water samples, soil samples here,
and the soil samples near the pond were not the same or they were the same as they were here?
They were different.
Okay.
The interesting thing, though, is that right here, just 10, 20 feet away, you have different minerals in the soil than you do there.
and you would expect the runoff since that's downhill,
it all to be the same, which is odd.
Jason and Robert are going to take fresh samples
of the soil to test it again.
Jason, this is where you kind of got set yourself, right?
As soon as I got down to the ground,
that's when I felt different spots of my arms
and the insides of my arms.
Yeah, we'll get some grass in here too from this.
All right, and then we'll get a control sample.
So this then gets labeled, gets sent back to the lab,
and you maintain the chain of custody.
You've got some initial data.
If it was just simply something on the surface,
it's been enough time now.
A lot of that should have washed away.
So it might be that you'll find a different sample
than what you've found before.
That's it. We're good.
I can't wait to see the results.
For Travis and Nick, the Scurchak case has shown them
the methodical nature of the Mufon investigations.
I think Mufon did a great job here.
I was very impressed with both the investigators.
Everything I witnessed them talk about and actually do
resonated with me in terms of the sort of thing
that we did in the government.
The case here at the Skirchak residence is a really interesting one
because there's actually some physical evidence left behind
that can be investigated.
And the Mufon guys did a good job taking
soil samples, electromagnetic measurements, gamma ray measurements, and things of that nature.
This is the type of process that we're going to have to standardize more if we're ever going
to get to the bottom of this phenomenon.
The Skirchak sighting is one of Mufant's most intriguing cases of 2022.
But deep in Mufant's files are a host of other sightings, many with video evidence.
That cannot be explained.
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Gosport, England.
January 9th, 2017.
Just before 11 p.m., residents of this city see something unusual in the night sky.
Dramatic video is captured of three lights converging, separating, and then reconverging.
For Mufon investigators, this footage was particularly exciting.
What makes this video especially compelling is that you have the visual evidence,
multiple witnesses, and it still stands out as something we can't explain.
That's what we call the Category 3 case.
It's the one with the most potential to be unexplained.
On December 31, 2021, an even stranger video of an alleged UFO was sent to Mufon by soldiers
at Toul Army Depot in Utah.
The soldiers filmed a strange light hovering in the sky for five consecutive nights.
Skyla Fever is a Mufon reporter.
If it were some kind of a military plane, we would be able to detect it.
We have our ways of finding out that this is a military craft.
We can check all the information in the area.
There was no craft at that time.
What makes this case so interesting to us is that after this happened,
all military personnel were released from the base.
After the fifth night, military executives suddenly showed up.
They interviewed people.
They told everyone,
on the base who had seen these UFOs that they were dismissed.
They told them also their clothes and things had been contaminated by this UFO.
Are the mysterious lights in these videos and accounts by witnesses like the Skirchacks,
evidence that extraterrestrials are visiting our planet.
For now, the answer remains a mystery.
But each Mufon investigation is added to their ever-growing database,
in the hope that one day they will provide vital clues.
Every time you investigate, you're adding to the database of knowledge,
and then you look for trends.
It's those sorts of little details that you just store away until they come up again.
And then maybe it tells you something interesting and important.
While Mufon has amassed a large inventory of reports that they cannot explain,
there are a few that stand out as truly astonishing.
One of the most compelling, of all, involved multiple witnesses who saw not only a craft, but also alien visitors.
Oklahoma, July 2021.
A man named Randy Young has come forward to report a UFO encounter that happened almost 50 years earlier in 1975.
The story begins when he was 10 years old at the Miracle Mountains border.
School in Hartshorn, Oklahoma.
Miracle Mountain was kind of out in the boonies of Oklahoma.
That day, my brother and I were out in the sandbox,
and we saw this circular shining light that was probably 2,000 or so feet up in the air.
And it didn't have the movements of an airplane.
It was just hovering.
And as it got darker, this craft got closer.
It had lights that went through the midsection all the way around,
around and it had his classic saucer type shape.
For decades, Randy and his brother kept their extraordinary encounter to themselves
for fear of how it would be received.
You didn't want people thinking that you're crazy, you didn't want to ruin your reputation,
but in the back of my mind that story was always there.
And with all that has been going on with the government, the military jets that are, you know,
tracking these things and there's been a lot more talk about it recently.
it recently. I'm like, okay, if they're talking this big at this level, they got to hear
this story. They need to know about what had happened in Hartshorn in 1975, and so I contacted
Mufon. The report reached the desk of Mindy Toutfest, the Oklahoma State Mufon director.
Randy filed an official report through Mufon.com, and I immediately knew after reading it that
this case could be a very, very important case to all of UFO history.
first reached out to Randy and interviewed him.
The next person I spoke to was Philip Buchanan.
Philip was one of the older children at the school at the time.
And so he has one of the more complete memories of what transpired there and the operations
of the school itself.
And then I spoke with the teacher via email.
And the teacher described that some of the kids were hiding under the beds because they
were very terrified.
And some of the kids were looking out the window.
They reported to see shape-shifting entities out there.
They just said it keeps changing.
What Mindy found out after doing all that work
is that these kids were recalling the exact same thing.
As these witnesses were telling their stories years later,
one of the things Mindy asked him to do
was to actually draw the UFO that they'd seen.
And the consistency is amazing.
And not only are they telling the same story,
but they're describing the same craft.
It shows us that these old historic cases
still have something to offer.
I think that we need an organization like Mufon.
I think we need to have a database
for all these different incidents.
And I think that we need to have as many eyes
and as many investigators on this as possible.
We need to figure out what's going on.
There's been a lot of excitement around this story,
because there were a lot of things that corroborated each other.
We find value in all UFO reports.
And some of the older ones served to validate
some other sightings that may be in our database.
And so the older historic cases
really have a lot of value whenever it comes to uphology.
This cold case is one of the most fascinating cases
that Mufans ever investigated, because students,
They had not spoken to each other since 1975, and they all replied with the same answers,
which indicates that something happened and everybody saw the same thing.
In the ancient astronaut opinion, those stories of UFOs today are the same stories
that our ancestors in the remote past also explored.
Their cell phone cameras were the walls of...
caves and reliefs and carvings in which they commemorated those incredibly significant events
that they were eyewitnesses to.
Is Mufon's growing database further evidence that extraterrestrial beings have been visiting
our planet for thousands of years, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
And if so, what do they want?
Perhaps clues can be found in Mufon reports that go beyond UFO sightings and describe terrifying encounters.
Each year, the Mutual UFO Network receives approximately 10,000 reports of UFO phenomena.
While most involve sightings of strange objects in the sky, in some cases, the witness claims to have come face to face with an alien and alien.
A lot of people that approach Mufon have these stories of having these personal encounters with entities that they can't explain.
But what we've found over the years is that there is serious validity to this phenomenon.
Kathleen Martin is the director of Mufon Experiencer Research.
I believe that worldwide there are millions of people who have had these encounters,
but it is very, very difficult for a lot of people.
for a lot of people to come forward.
Maybe they told their family,
maybe they told a good friend,
and they were laughed at.
They feel that they really need to talk to someone,
but they can't.
In 2011,
Mufon formed the Experiencer Resource Team.
A program dedicated to assisting those
who claim to have been traumatized
by extraterrestrial encounters.
We receive up to 150 reports per month from the people who believe that they have had a missing time event.
They've had a close encounter with a craft, sometimes observed non-human entities,
and we've worked with members of the military, we've worked with medical doctors,
we've worked with business owners, credible people who have a lot to lose.
Oftentimes they're frightened, so they,
So they are seeking assistance in overcoming the fear and in gaining a better understanding
of what is occurring.
One such encounter reported to Mufon was made by trauma nurse Earl Gray Anderson in 2016,
just weeks after he had joined Mufon as a field investigator.
Earl was at his home in Los Angeles when his room was suddenly illuminated by a mysterious light.
Our room started filling with light, and it was a light with no source.
It wasn't coming from an object or a lamp or outside.
And the wall opened up.
I couldn't move as paralyzed.
And that was when I first started feeling afraid.
I saw these little diminutive creatures.
You would call them the small grays.
It was almost like watching a surgical team work.
There were these tubes that they attached to the top of my chest,
and I felt like they were draining blood or energy life force from me.
I was yelling in my mind, and I was crying out for them to stop.
But they were not listening to me.
They pulled backwards out the same way they came in.
The wall seemed to swirl almost like a little galaxy in the room.
And it was back to normal, except there was still light in our.
room. The light didn't fade for a good five minutes with no source. After the experience, I didn't
tell friends and family. I mean, you're going to feel skepticism if somebody says that, you know,
that you just became a field investigator and I'm suddenly saying that I was visited by ETs,
but it scared the hell out of me. It was very, very serious.
Earl eventually reached out to Mufon's Experiencer Resource Team, and after sharing his encounter,
he decided to become a member of the E.R.T. himself.
It was very, very helpful to have someone to listen, and that's what I find in my own dealings with
experiencers now. The ERT is Moufons. It's like the compassionate wing of Moufon,
like social workers for experiencers.
By working closely with individuals who claim to have been abducted,
Mufon has compiled a wide range of data on the experiencer phenomenon.
The data that we collect is pretty interesting, and we try to find patterns.
It's really kind of astounding whenever you break it down and look at the different commonalities
between these different sightings or abductions.
Most experiencers have conscious continuous recall of being awake.
They become paralyzed.
They have a sense of an electrical tingling sensation through their bodies.
They might hear high-pitched buzzing tones in their heads.
We used to think that abduction occurred only once, but after years of research, we realize
that individuals are taken multiple times over a lifetime.
We are gaining a better understanding of what is occurring.
With the volume of empirical data that has been collected
over the years related to mysterious sightings
and reported encounters, is it possible that the organization
could be on the verge of a major breakthrough in UFO phenomenon?
For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer
is a resounding guess, and they believe it will come thanks to the emerging cooperative efforts
between Mufon and the United States government.
Washington, D.C., May 17, 2022.
UFO enthusiasts across the nation tune in to watch as a Congressional Subcommittee holds
a hearing on UFOs for the first time in more than 50 years.
Here is U.S. representative, Andre Carson, from the 7th Congressional District of Indiana.
Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated
that way.
The last hearing held in 1968 was called to discuss Project Blue Book, the U.S.
government's first official UFO investigations.
By the late 60s, Project Blue Book had been going for many years, and, you know, the U.S.
Whatever the US government knew about UFOs behind the scenes,
this public program was just considered by senior military officers a waste of time and money.
So they wanted to get out of the game, and they got the answer they wanted,
a recommendation that the Air Force disengage from this.
So we've had decades of playing the whole thing down,
and now it's as if they're putting it out there in front of us all.
We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomenon.
Some absolutely fascinating information was disclosed.
The briefers presented evidence, talked about how there had been near misses between UAP and military jets.
There was discussion about how these objects moved with no visible.
propulsion. Here is Ronald Moutree, under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
It looks reflective in this video, somewhat reflective, and it quickly passes by the cockpit
of the aircraft. So this was absolutely groundbreaking. A major contributor to the hearing was
Jessica Toko, a lobbyist who briefed committee members about civilian UFO encounters on behalf of
Bufon. Here is Jessica Toko.
The mutual UFO network was founded around the time that Project Blue Book was disbanded.
So to work with the government on this issue and that there were elected officials who
were very interested, that was groundbreaking and historic.
Many hailed the hearing as a historic breakthrough, one that could potentially usher in
a new era of government cooperation with civilian UFO research.
When that day comes, Mufon investigators believe their large database will prove vital to future investigations.
Mufon stands ready to assist the government in any way that we can.
We are really at the forefront of UFO investigation.
We have the world's largest database of UFO sightings and investigations.
Here's the thing, though, we'll never say, oh, it was definitely extraterrestrial.
We can't scientifically prove that.
Now, we can say that it's unexplained
and that we don't know what it was.
We're going after the truth.
Mufant has amassed this treasure chest
of investigative reports of cases that are very similar
to stories of our ancestors that say
that they have witnessed strange events up in the sky.
There is a connection.
between the two, and usually the simplest solution is the correct one.
In my opinion, the suggestion of extraterrestials is the simplest solution to explain this
phenomenon, this aerial thing that goes on up in the sky for thousands of years.
From ancient depictions of disk-shaped objects and strange figures to modern-day video footage
of UFOs and accounts of alien abduction.
Does evidence exist that for thousands of years, Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials?
And as the public becomes more open to discussing this incredible possibility and sharing personal experiences,
will we arrive at a definitive answer?
Perhaps as the evidence continues to mount and more witnesses come forward,
we will finally arrive at the undeniable truth that we are not.
alone.
