THE BATTLE FOR MUFON, part 6: At Last, Here's What Was Behind the Curtain
The wreckage from partnering with BAASS A lot of years have glided quietly beneath the bridge since I last blogged about the Battle for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). In recent years I’ve let my membership lapse, but I still support their cause and wish them well. Every nation needs a well-organized, professionally-run, trustworthy place to report their experiences, know that their information is secure, and feel that investigators care about the experiencers. MUFON was just such a well-run machine, staffed by dedicated and competent volunteers, until about 2009. Then they entered into a partnership with billionaire Robert Bigelow’s research organization called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace. For buckets of money that MUFON needed badly, Bigelow contracted a partnership with MUFON in 2009, in which the Network pretty much gave BAASS the key to all data collected thus far and access to new cases coming in. That’s when the wreck