organization researching UFOs. They did this at no cost to the
United States Air Force or any other governmental intelligence
service. There were no official records, and no accounting
trail. And best of all those doing the work and volunteering the
intelligence would pay for the privilege in the form of dues to
maintain the organization. If there is any question in the
reader's mind as to whether MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) has been
co-opted, ask yourself this question: would the intelligence
services of the United States government allow the largest
civilian intelligence gathering agency in the world to operate
within its purview without at least monitoring it? Of course the
answer is a resounding "no". This is one reason why MUFON is
allowed to remain in operation within the USA without attempts to
discredit it.
Given this sophisticated government intervention, would it not be
a simple matter not only to manipulate the incoming sightings
data, but to spin and confuse the debate concerning the origins
of UFOs, even setting the agenda for the entire inquiry? Perhaps
this is the reason MUFON has taken such a negative view of
terrestrially originating UFOs and of the German origin of UFOs
in particular. In the early 1990s, this writer was told via
telephone from his home in Texas by the head man of MUFON himself
that: "We investigated that a long time ago and found nothing to
it". The "that" referred to was German saucers.
As an aside, he further went on to say that the idea of a German
origin would for UFOs would not even be on the table for
discussion if it were not for one, Vladimir Terziski, who, "is
the guy pushing it", to directly quote this individual. Mr.
Terziski has formed his own ideas about German saucers which he
has never been afraid to share, and, to his undying credit, he
stood up and lectured on this topic to the faces of MUFON in the
very temples of the alien world, UFO conferences, worldwide. Mr.
Terziski, almost alone, forced these facts into those conferences
and subsequently forced all those UFO magazines to deal with the
subject of German flying discs. And although he never got credit
for it, he also supplied the technical assistance for a world
famous Japanese television producer to bring an hour of this
German saucer story to Japan in prime-time. Mr. Terziski, almost
single-handedly, opened up two continents to this UFO reality.
MUFON's successful existence is tied to their implicit and
explicit assumptions of UFOs as alien machines. The greatest
appeal the extraterrestrial hypothesis has for the government is
that this hypothesis is simply not testable. MUFON does not even
try to test anything. Instead, they chase sightings. They train
their followers to take meaningless celestial measurements
accompanying these sightings and then analyze this "data" into
gibberish. MUFON then lends itself to endless rambling
speculation involving increasingly more exotic alien scenarios.
It is not MUFON's rank and file membership which is to blame.
The individuals I have met are honest and sincere as are 99% of
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