MUFON NEWSLETTER
Monday, July 25, 2016
Mutual UFO Network

Raphael Terra
editor,  Roger Marsh, editor@mufon.com
archivist, Cassidy Nicholas, cassidy@mufon.com
contributors,  Jan C. Harzan, John Ventre, Jeff Krause, Marketa Klimova. 

The MUFON Newsletter is a twice-monthly series linking our latest news, features, tips and opinions - selections "Trending Now" in domestic and international UFO research. Join us at our website for UFO investigation, research and development updates. Stick around and enjoy the monthly  MUFON UFO Journal , our weekly "MUFON UFO Traffic Report" radio show on KGRAradio.com, a book publishing imprint as "MUFON Books," and our evolving network television presence. Media welcome.
 
Executive Director Jan C. Harzan
Director's Message
from Jan C. Harzan
Candid reports from MUFON's Executive Director as the group expands in 2016 on all fronts - including investigation, research and communications. 

MUFON SYMPOSIUM 2016

UFOs - From our Oceans to Outer Space

Please join us in Orlando August 25-28 - at the Hilton Lake Bueno Vista Hotel. See our incredible speaker line-up at the official Symposium website: mufonsymposium.com. 

MY UFO STORY 
First person accounts of UFOs

Read the best first-person accounts describing UFO encounters from witnesses. 
 
 

UFO VIDEO SERIES
Witness-submitted UFO video
 
Main video: UFO or drone?



by Roger Marsh
A Maine witness in Cumberland County reported watching and videotaping an unknown object that appeared to hover and then spin before disappearing, according to testimony in Case 77585 from the Mutual UFO Network ( MUFON ) witness reporting database.

 
 
MUFON UFO Traffic Report

KGRAradio.com

Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. ET
Real cases. Real witnesses. Real investigators.

 
MUFON YOUTUBE CHANNEL
The best UFO and interview videos
 
 


Check out all of our videos - at the  MUFON YouTube Channel
 
SUPPORT SEATS
The annual Symposium is MUFON's fundraising month -  this year August 25-28 in Orlando , FL. Funds raised during this event reflect one of the top four ways MUFON acquires funds and continues the UFO investigation process. 

Please show your support and purchase a Support Seat for just $2.

Please purchase as many as your budget allows. 

For those UFO enthusiasts who cannot attend the Symposium, this is a great way to show your participation from the sidelines - and keep MUFON's lights on. 

 
UFO NEWS
Reports on the latest witness sightings.
 
by Roger Marsh
A Pennsylvania witness at Rochester reported watching a cigar-shaped UFO that appeared to morph in shape, according to testimony in Case 77094 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

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Illustration by Raphael Terra
LOOKING BACK
Historical archived material 

Historical cache of UFO reports from various publications of the day

Reprinted from July 1988 Journal, #263

Thanks to John Ventre's archival work tracking these down and presenting them here unedited. 


by Bob Gribble

FORTY YEARS AGO - July 1948: Two pilots of Eastern Airlines, who thought they'd seen everything, soberly announced that they had encountered a giant, wingless, flame throwing aircraft straight out of Buck Rogers on the 24th. Capt. Clarence Shipe Chiles and his co-pilot, John B. Whitted, each corroborated the other's report of the fantastic craft. They were flying along serenely in a DC-3 Eastern airliner at 5,000 feet about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, at 2:45 AM when the UFO came at them. It looked like a B-29 "blown up about four times and stripped of its wings." In the seconds during which the craft swooped past and shot up into the clouds, it cast a light more vivid than lightning, they said. They also saw two decks of big square windows.


 
FIELD INVESTIGATOR'S TOOLBOX
Jeff Krause's Tips and Tricks

Read this series of short suggestions & recommendations from our Southern California State Director.

 
UFO NEWS
Reports on the latest witness sightings  
 
by Roger Marsh
An Oregon witness at Lebanon reported watching a fast-moving object crossing his property just four feet off of the ground that created a water-like distortion in the air, according to testimony in Case 77679 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
 
Case 53033: After a short time, the object came at the Woodbury, MN, witness shining headlights which engulfed the car in light. The witness jumped out and saw two lights about 10-12 feet apart moving away from her at tree top level. Illustration by Mark Hanley.
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
Reprinted from May 2014 edition.


by William I. McNeff
Minnesota Chief Investigator

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following report has been taken from the CMS file for an event that occurred on December 25, 2013.  Since the witness requested anonymity, identifying information has been removed.
 
SYNOPSIS
On Dec 25th, 2013, at approximately 9 p.m., the witness, a former businesswoman, was driving home in Woodbury, MN.  She was headed north on Century Avenue when she noticed a dark object with strobe lights maneuvering above the golf course across the street from the condo building where she lived.  The shape was hard to see due to darkness and obscuring trees.  The witness stopped the car and watched, then proceeded very slowly forward.  She was close to Pouliot Parkway.  After a short time, the object came at her shining headlights which engulfed the car in light.  There was darkness as it passed over her car. The witness jumped out and saw two lights about 10-12 feet apart moving away from her at tree top level.  Witness wrote: "So it must have disappeared, because I did not see it go anywhere."  This sudden disappearance suggests a possible time discontinuity in the account, or the object turned off its lights, or it may have been suddenly lost from sight because it was at a low altitude and was occluded by the trees.  The witness stated she was left terrified and in shock.

 
Cassidy Nicholas
MUFON Minutes
Meetings, News and Events

2016 MUFON SYMPOSIUM will be held August 25-28.  Hilton Lake Buena Vista Hotel, Orlando, Florida.  Visit mufonsymposium.com for details. 

GEORGIA MUFON hosts the Atlanta UFO Study Group on Saturday August 13, from 2-4:45 p.m. Northlake - Barbara Loar Branch Library (Dekalb Co. Library System), Tucker, GA.Directions at dekalblibrary.org/branches/nolk.

PHOENIX  MUFON welcomes Linda Moulton Howe on Saturday, August 20. The presentation will be entitled Symbols And Binary Code In High Strangeness Phenomena. The presentation will be held at the Arizona Historical Society Museum, in Tempe. 2-5 p.m.  All info can be found at  phoenixmufon.com.

ILLINOIS MUFON (Rockford, IL Area) will be holding meetings the 4th Saturday every month from 10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Held at the Rockford Public Library East Branch in the community room.  6685 E State St, Rockford, IL 61108. Open to the public. For more information see facebook.com/mufonrockfordil.

COLORADO MUFON
holds its regular monthly meeting open to the public on the second Saturday of every month in the greater Denver area. Please see comufon.org
for details.

ALABAMA MUFON
will hold monthly meeting at the China Grill Buffet, 9016 Madison Blvd, Madison, AL 35758 - Second Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m.

MUFON MINUTES ITEMS: Please send your state notices of meetings and other related events to Cassidy Nicholas at cassidy@mufon.com for inclusion here.