The Battle for MUFON, Part 2/5, The Contract
The information below is from recent interviews by Jerry Pippen at www.ufoshows2go.com /mufon_under_siege.htm. The deal between MUFON and BAASS It changed MUFON. It generated mistrust, recriminations, secrecy, and bitter fights. The contract between MUFON and Bigelow Aeronautic and Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was signed in February 2009. Here is how the Committee to Reform MUFON described it in a March 2011 email to the members of MUFON: “According to the contract, Bigelow is buying ‘the Seller's existing CMS database. . .and all other data,’ as well as ‘field investigative services and all information and material derived from those services, including but not limited to. . .physical evidence. . .photographs, film, data from detection devices. . .radar. . .satellite data, ground disturbance site information. . .electronic information, interview transcripts, any testimony, including recordings. . .as well as any other item that may be recovered from prior, present and fut