ARIRA

[admin]

ARIRA (Aerospace Research Investigation Reporting Agency)

www.arira.org/

This is what happens when MUFON chases all of its people away. They go out and form other groups like this one. ARIRA was recently founded by Richard Lang, a former MUFON STAR Team manager who left MUFON because he was tired of all of their political BS. The Board of Advisers for this new group is made up almost entirely of former MUFON STAR Team investigators.

This is just one of many new UFO organizations that have been created by former MUFON people. The more UFO investigative groups there are out there the more competition MUFON is going to have. That may not be such a bad thing for the UFO community but it will make it harder for MUFON to be successful.

[starshipdisaster]

how many new organizations have gotten started? I know of one in Tampa simply called Openminds www.meetup.com/tampabayopenminds/ that is basically the old Tampa Mufon group, but i didnt know of others

[starkiller]

Ken Cherry, the former MUFON SD from Texas started a group called EPIC, and Chase Kloetzke went to a group called MABUS. I hear that some of the MUFON state chapters are incorporating themselves and telling the BoD to go stuff themselves. They basically are becoming their own organizations. I personally think that is an exellent idea. Each state should be independent while at the same time united together. That's how the US is. It seems to work there.

[starshipdisaster]

I agree it is a very good idea.

[starkiller]

If all of the states were to incorporate would that make the BoD powerless?

[starshipdisaster]

Jun 28, 2011 18:27:21 GMT -6 starkiller said:

If all of the states were to incorporate would that make the BoD powerless?

pretty much. it would render any power they had null and void

[starkiller]

I wonder how many of the states have done that already? I'll have to see if I can find out.