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 ...