Post by admin on Sept 3, 2011 14:53:26 GMT -6
Finally the CRM is back in action. I was beginning to get worried there for a while but they just recently posted this so I will share it here. Feel free to comment on it. 
~From Elaine and the Committee to Reform MUFON~
Dear Proposal Signers--
Sorry it has taken me so long to write to you since the Irvine symposium. Hope I can say something here of value.
“Hell NO! You’re not getting a vote”
As everyone knows, the MUFON Board rejected our proposal for an elected Board. I trust none of you are surprised. What the Board’s “Hell NO!” vote does is make perfectly clear to all that this Board has no intention of giving the Members of MUFON a say in running the organization. This is a milestone in our effort to reform MUFON, not an ending point. It was necessary to get that out in the open. Now the Members of MUFON know exactly where they stand.
At the state directors’ meeting (the Friday before the symposium began), Cliff said the Board received “several proposals and we rejected them all.” He did not say from whom the proposals were or what they called for. I saw an email Cliff sent out during the symposium saying the Board rejected the proposal you all signed because “it would not be good for MUFON.”
Cliff then turned around and told the state directors the Board had “formed a committee to study the possibility” of the state directors electing one member of the Board. I was told he then said the candidates would not necessarily have to be a member of MUFON, but that doesn’t make any sense.
I didn’t hear that the state directors asked questions about all of this at the state directors’ meeting, which is typical of the primitive information environment which prevails in MUFON.
No confrontations allowed
Prior to the symposium Jerry Pippin wrote to me saying, ‘Why don’t you get a group together and confront the Board at the symposium?’ What Jerry does not understand is there is no opportunity to “confront the Board” at the symposium or anywhere else. The MUFON Board never or seldom exhibits itself formally to the membership and submits to questions. There are no general meetings, etc. There is only periodic, cryptic output from the Board, through Cliff, in which Members are told what the Board has decided.
In fact, when a fellow named Larry Rimbert was for a short time editor of the MUFON Journal, at his own initiative he placed an item in the Journal inviting Members to ask the Board questions. He was severely rebuked for doing this and soon fired.
At the Friday night banquet at Irvine , Cliff had the Board stand up on the stage and be introduced. They said nothing; Cliff lauded them, then he brought on the 3 new Board try-outs, who were John Ventre, David McDonald, and Debbie Ziegelmeyer. Controversial Board member Marie Malzahn did not show up at Irvine .
Tom Deuley’s effort to “get” CRM falls flat
MUFON Board members usually say nothing, but just prior to the symposium, there was a departure from the usual in the form of the letter from Board member Tom Deuley to Elaine Douglass, which I forwarded to you, in which he accused the Committee to Reform MUFON of “slandering” Walt Andrus. Deuley said Walt never intended and doesn’t favor an elected Board in MUFON.
Included with Tom’s letter were two attachments. One was a letter from Walt; the other was Tom’s thoughts on why an elected Board would be a disaster for MUFON. I previously sent Walt’s letter to you, and with this email I am enclosing Tom’s thoughts.
Apparently, Tom decided to speak out because he was so elated at having a letter from Walt to show. Tom said his letter should be “widely circulated” and he seemed to feel that his accusation, along with Walt’s letter, would turn everyone against the Committee to Reform MUFON. My impression was it didn’t make much of a difference either way, and I was not worried about it because what Tom said about the Committee was not true.
Tom addressed none of the critique of MUFON the Committee to Reform MUFON has leveled since February, but instead he seemed to feel that if he simply said we had distorted Walt’s view, that was enough to justify his, and what I supposed he knew would be the Board’s rejection of our Proposal. He even claimed that if we had not distorted Walt’s view, then he might have given more favorable consideration to our Proposal. I don’t believe that since Tom said in his cover letter that voting should be avoided in MUFON “at all costs.”
I guess Tom forgot about the 2009 efforts of the “Advocacy Group,” a committee of Members (including Ken Cherry) which met and produced a report recommending limited changes in MUFON’s operations. The Advocacy Group met in private; it did not launch a public critique of MUFON, it did not invoke Walt Andrus, and did not ask for an elected Board, as we did. The written report the Group sent to the MUFON Board was never even given the courtesy of a reply and the Group was soon dissolved by James Carrion. I don’t recall Tom Deuley championing the Advocacy Group’s effort.
As I say, Tom was just trying to discredit the Committee as a way of justifying the Board’s vote, and trying to get people to pay attention to the Committee so they would pay less attention to the Board’s vote.
We held our suite at Irvine
Saturday night Bill McNeff, of the Committee to Reform MUFON, and I, held our suite, and about 20 people showed up. One of them was John Ventre, SD of Pa. , one of the new Board try outs, who openly let everyone know he wants to become the next International Director when Cliff’s term expires in a year. There was also a gentleman at the suite who is a fairly prominent member of the UFO community, and next day Cliff approached this man and said, “Do you have any questions?” The man then determined that Ventre had reported to Cliff who had been at the suite.
John Ventre, Pa SD, wants to be the next ID
On Sunday afternoon, when this man was leaving the symposium, getting in his car with the door open, he felt a forceful hand on his shoulder making him turn around. It was Ventre, who said, “I just wanted to tell you, don’t believe anything the Committee to Reform MUFON says.” This shows the kind of tactics used to discourage further consideration of reform, but it did not discourage this individual who is now assisting CRM.
Another thing that happened at the symposium is we heard from Richard Dolan. He approached Elaine and Bill at the symposium saying he had read all or most of the Committee’s output and listened to the Pippin interviews and he was extremely concerned about MUFON. At the end of his public talk Richard make some comments to the effect MUFON has to change the way it does business.
What is the Committee going to do now?
I understand that many of you want to know what’s next for the Committee to Reform MUFON. Given the Board’s vote, will the Committee abandon our effort? The Committee to Reform MUFON is not going to abandon our effort to reform MUFON. As for what are we going to do next, please understand that I am partially constrained in answering that question because this is a public communication.
Someone wrote asking, What is the Committee’s “plan”? Our plan is to continue to discover how MUFON operates internally, publish our findings, and be prepared for the unexpected. The other question I get is, What does the Committee to Reform MUFON think it is going to be able to do to change the power structure in MUFON? Someone said it “would take sticks of dynamite” to change MUFON.
This is how I assess things. Would you want to be holding the cards the MUFON Board is holding? Would you rather have their hand than ours? I wouldn’t. Things are going on in MUFON, and allegations are being made from within MUFON which suggest MUFON is suppressing information and forwarding information out of the organization and there is nothing to prevent that information from making it way to US intelligence. If people in MUFON are doing that, it is wrong. MUFON’s mission is to serve the public, not the government. If I were MUFON, I wouldn’t be confident going forward doing something that is wrong. It is not stable, and MUFON is not stable.
As a result, some people on the Board are paranoid. That is reflected in Tom’s thoughts where he says he is afraid of someone “taking over MUFON.” I heard this from another Board member as well, and Chase Kloetzke has described the paranoia of Marie Malzahn. That’s 3. Then there is John Schuessler. He appears to believe anyone who questions the MUFON Board is a very bad person. That’s 4. These individuals are fearful and embattled.
And they have reason to be fearful. MUFON abuses its Members. This is the “authoritarian” culture which has become entrenched in MUFON over the last 5 years. MUFON frequently betrays people and every time it does it leaves behind another disillusioned person. Many of these people have given information to the Committee to Reform MUFON, for example the unknown person who sent us the Bigelow contract, and there will be more of them because I don’t think MUFON is going to suddenly start treating the Members decently. If I were the MUFON Board, I wouldn’t be confident my secrets were secure.
That must be why Jimi Hughes and Marie Malzahn have not been fired. As I explained in my interview with Jerry Pippin in July, [google “MUFON under siege”] Jimi Hughes, state director of Montana, a couple weeks before the symposium called his old friend Steve Reichmuth (Steve is the former chief investigator for northern California), and told Steve this:
Bigelow is giving money to the Board of Directors. The membership doesn’t matter to the Board, whether it’s up or down. What matters is collecting high strangeness cases and sequestering them/making them disappear. It’s a fact the purpose is for the government to get an indication of how the phenomenon is impacting the general population. When the delete button is hit on CMS, the case goes to a place where no one can get access to it.
In speaking about Bigelow “giving money,” I believe Jimi is referring to now, not the past. And when he says “giving money to the Board,” I do not know, but I assume he meant Bigelow is giving money to MUFON the organization, not to individual Board members. That is how I interpret the statement.
Jimi attributed this information to Board member Marie Malzahn. You tell me, why haven’t Jimi and Marie been fired? I would think it is because both of them have a lot of information that the powers-that-be in MUFON don’t want known.
About Jimi’s statement, no one has called me to refute it. Not Marie, not Jimi. Beyond that, as far as I know, not a word has been spoken publicly about the statement. Dead silence.
What exactly does Jimi Hughes’ statement imply?
It is not a crime or an IRS violation for MUFON to continue to take money from Robert Bigelow. However Clifford Clift continually states MUFON has had no contact with Mr. Bigelow since the contract ended. If in fact the Board is working with Bigelow, that means the Board is not telling the truth. If the leadership of an organization does not tell the truth, that is corrosive. People in MUFON can see these things, they become disillusioned, and their behavior can become unpredictable.
And it is now much easier for people to see and interpret events in MUFON than it was a year ago due to the MUFON-wide letters sent out by the Committee to Reform MUFON. In speaking out, CRM has violated innumerable taboos in MUFON. Before CRM, no one ever publicly challenged the authority of the Board; no one ever publicly questioned practices in MUFON such as the written secrecy agreement for the Star Team.
The other implication of Jimi’s statement is sequestering cases, making them “disappear” according to the needs of some third party ( US intelligence?). CRM is not absolutely sure this is occurring, but if it is that is a crime in the eyes of the UFO community. It would make MUFON an ally of the UFO coverup—the coverup the entire UFO community is lined up against. It would make a mockery of the work of honest MUFON investigators, and worst of all, it endangers witnesses; I’ll go into that in a minute.
So basically if MUFON is doing the things Jimi Hughes’ statement implies, then MUFON is playing a very high risk game, and I don’t think MUFON is up to it. I don’t think MUFON has the information control and the people control to permanently maintain control of an unethical operation, if that is what MUFON is attempting to do.
In my Pippin interview I suggested that the authoritarian practices which have come to dominate MUFON in the last 5 years might be because of something we don’t see that is seeping through—that MUFON might be organizing itself to fit the needs of a government agency. I have said, ‘MUFON has begun to carry itself as though it were a public agency backed by the force of law.’ Thing is, MUFON isn’t. MUFON can try to intimidate Members with background checks, can try to swear Star Team members to lifelong secrecy, but if I were MUFON I wouldn’t be confident of making all this stuff stick. I agree, it is remarkable the extent to which MUFON’s pretentions of authority have been able to intimidate and regiment some Members.
Nonetheless, my eyes are on the honest people in the MUFON hierarchy, as well as those who have been and will be betrayed. Let’s see what they will do over time. My policy is to continue to discover how MUFON operates internally, publish the findings, and wait for the unexpected. MUFON is not a stable organization and it will not become stable until it becomes honest and transparent and lives resolutely up to its mission of serving the American people.
Why is the effort to reform MUFON important?
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you what is driving me in this effort to reform MUFON, why I think it is so important. It is not that I was fired from MUFON. It is not something small like that. It is because I always thought MUFON was on the side of the people, working for our interests. If MUFON is not doing that, I am inconsolable. It is the possibility MUFON might be disappearing some of the information it gets; and in particular, the possibility MUFON might be taking witness identities given by trusting people in the general public, handing this information to Robert Bigelow, and from him the information might make its way to US intelligence. Especially if these witnesses are abductees, they could become the target of intelligence activities on top of being a target of the aliens.
The “3rd party paragraph” has been removed from the MUFON website intake form. This was the option at the end of “Report a UFO” the witness could check off giving MUFON permission to transmit their “name, address and phone” to “third parties not affiliated with MUFON.” CRM has been assured this paragraph was put up at the time of the Bigelow contract to protect MUFON from liability when MUFON transmitted witness identities to Bigelow. CRM wrote about the 3rd party paragraph in our all-MUFON letters, and the paragraph has been removed.
Cliff wrote it was removed because it was “unnecessary.” I wonder if it was removed because it looked bad and someone assured MUFON there is zero chance any witness would ever learn of the transmission of their name. Has MUFON decided to bear that risk? If so, that is the same pattern which is so obvious in the Bigelow contract. (see http://www.reformmufon.org) The Bigelow contract systematically and explicitly transfers each, every, and any risk associated with the contract to MUFON.
That makes me think that if MUFON is playing ball with the alphabet agencies, and if the whole thing were to blow up in MUFON’s face, not the alphabets or Bigelow would be around to bail MUFON out.
The public interest is urgent
The Mission of MUFON commits our organization to serve the public and the public urgently needs MUFON to do just that. In the incalculable drama playing out in our world, the welfare of the public is not a priority. When I say “the public,” I mean you and me, not somebody else. We are like ants on the ground with giants struggling above us for control of this planet. To understand this requires imagination, since it is not in the news every day. To understand it, we ourselves have to think like intelligence agents--those who are trained to see what others do not want them to see. We have to use logic and inference to see a big picture when only some small parts of it are visible.
Who is protecting the public interest?
If we could see the whole picture, we would see a monumental struggle going on behind the scenes for control of the earth and its people. In this struggle, individual citizens are inconsequential and expendable. The public does not have a seat at the table and no one is looking out for our interests. Except that at least we had MUFON--“the intelligence agency for the people,” as I call it. It is supposed to be our intelligence agency, and we need it urgently to bring us information about what is going on. Our government has its intelligence agencies; the aliens certainly have theirs. MUFON is supposed to be ours.
If people in MUFON are continuing to transmit witness identities, they are doing it for money with the idea that Bigelow is just a fellow truth seeker and what harm does it do if he investigates some cases? The people doing this would be either turning a blind eye to the possibility Bigelow is an intelligence front, or, if they know the government is involved, they probably believe the US government has a greater need to know than does the public. They would also be pretending to themselves their actions would not have serious consequences for real people. But that is not the case.
This is where it can lead
To give you an example of just how dark these matters can become, I am sending you enclosed the 9th issue of JAR, the Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research. I call your attention to the abductee case described in the article “How the grey aliens trapped the Air Force. . .” It is about a man and his wife in Colorado who are the victim of a joint alien-US Air Force mind control program. The article states I broke down and cried when I learned the details of this case. That is true.
When I consider whether the reform of MUFON is worth all the time and effort and money and reputation it is costing, this case described in JAR is what I keep in my mind. If you take the time to read the case, I hope you will come to the same conclusion: it is. What is happening to this man and his wife could have happened to you or to me, and I don’t think we should turn a blind eye to it.
Thank you for your signatures & your support
I want to thank you all for your signatures on the Proposal to the Board calling for elections. It was a necessary step in what we are doing.
Prior to the symposium, several people collected signatures in their states. Thanks to Sandy Gonzalez of Florida, Marilyn Carlson of Oklahoma, Rob Hicks of Hawaii, Janet Smith of California, and David Wisbey and Davina Ryszka of Colorado. I also thank Morgan Sierra, who is running the discussion Forum associated with CRM’s website.
One thing the Committee to Reform MUFON needs at this time is an individual to take over our website www.reformmufon.org. The website is being run by a kind man, but it needs an improved appearance and more attention than I and other members of the Committee to Reform MUOFN are giving it.
And by the way, if any of you care to write on the matter of the Board’s rejection of our Proposal, or any of the issues raised in the last 8 months by the Committee to Reform MUFON, we will post your statements on our website www.reformmufon.org. I also encourage you to participate in Morgan Sierra’s Forum, which I mentioned above.
Kindest regards,
Elaine Douglass
For the Committee to Reform MUFON
~From Elaine and the Committee to Reform MUFON~
Dear Proposal Signers--
Sorry it has taken me so long to write to you since the Irvine symposium. Hope I can say something here of value.
“Hell NO! You’re not getting a vote”
As everyone knows, the MUFON Board rejected our proposal for an elected Board. I trust none of you are surprised. What the Board’s “Hell NO!” vote does is make perfectly clear to all that this Board has no intention of giving the Members of MUFON a say in running the organization. This is a milestone in our effort to reform MUFON, not an ending point. It was necessary to get that out in the open. Now the Members of MUFON know exactly where they stand.
At the state directors’ meeting (the Friday before the symposium began), Cliff said the Board received “several proposals and we rejected them all.” He did not say from whom the proposals were or what they called for. I saw an email Cliff sent out during the symposium saying the Board rejected the proposal you all signed because “it would not be good for MUFON.”
Cliff then turned around and told the state directors the Board had “formed a committee to study the possibility” of the state directors electing one member of the Board. I was told he then said the candidates would not necessarily have to be a member of MUFON, but that doesn’t make any sense.
I didn’t hear that the state directors asked questions about all of this at the state directors’ meeting, which is typical of the primitive information environment which prevails in MUFON.
No confrontations allowed
Prior to the symposium Jerry Pippin wrote to me saying, ‘Why don’t you get a group together and confront the Board at the symposium?’ What Jerry does not understand is there is no opportunity to “confront the Board” at the symposium or anywhere else. The MUFON Board never or seldom exhibits itself formally to the membership and submits to questions. There are no general meetings, etc. There is only periodic, cryptic output from the Board, through Cliff, in which Members are told what the Board has decided.
In fact, when a fellow named Larry Rimbert was for a short time editor of the MUFON Journal, at his own initiative he placed an item in the Journal inviting Members to ask the Board questions. He was severely rebuked for doing this and soon fired.
At the Friday night banquet at Irvine , Cliff had the Board stand up on the stage and be introduced. They said nothing; Cliff lauded them, then he brought on the 3 new Board try-outs, who were John Ventre, David McDonald, and Debbie Ziegelmeyer. Controversial Board member Marie Malzahn did not show up at Irvine .
Tom Deuley’s effort to “get” CRM falls flat
MUFON Board members usually say nothing, but just prior to the symposium, there was a departure from the usual in the form of the letter from Board member Tom Deuley to Elaine Douglass, which I forwarded to you, in which he accused the Committee to Reform MUFON of “slandering” Walt Andrus. Deuley said Walt never intended and doesn’t favor an elected Board in MUFON.
Included with Tom’s letter were two attachments. One was a letter from Walt; the other was Tom’s thoughts on why an elected Board would be a disaster for MUFON. I previously sent Walt’s letter to you, and with this email I am enclosing Tom’s thoughts.
Apparently, Tom decided to speak out because he was so elated at having a letter from Walt to show. Tom said his letter should be “widely circulated” and he seemed to feel that his accusation, along with Walt’s letter, would turn everyone against the Committee to Reform MUFON. My impression was it didn’t make much of a difference either way, and I was not worried about it because what Tom said about the Committee was not true.
Tom addressed none of the critique of MUFON the Committee to Reform MUFON has leveled since February, but instead he seemed to feel that if he simply said we had distorted Walt’s view, that was enough to justify his, and what I supposed he knew would be the Board’s rejection of our Proposal. He even claimed that if we had not distorted Walt’s view, then he might have given more favorable consideration to our Proposal. I don’t believe that since Tom said in his cover letter that voting should be avoided in MUFON “at all costs.”
I guess Tom forgot about the 2009 efforts of the “Advocacy Group,” a committee of Members (including Ken Cherry) which met and produced a report recommending limited changes in MUFON’s operations. The Advocacy Group met in private; it did not launch a public critique of MUFON, it did not invoke Walt Andrus, and did not ask for an elected Board, as we did. The written report the Group sent to the MUFON Board was never even given the courtesy of a reply and the Group was soon dissolved by James Carrion. I don’t recall Tom Deuley championing the Advocacy Group’s effort.
As I say, Tom was just trying to discredit the Committee as a way of justifying the Board’s vote, and trying to get people to pay attention to the Committee so they would pay less attention to the Board’s vote.
We held our suite at Irvine
Saturday night Bill McNeff, of the Committee to Reform MUFON, and I, held our suite, and about 20 people showed up. One of them was John Ventre, SD of Pa. , one of the new Board try outs, who openly let everyone know he wants to become the next International Director when Cliff’s term expires in a year. There was also a gentleman at the suite who is a fairly prominent member of the UFO community, and next day Cliff approached this man and said, “Do you have any questions?” The man then determined that Ventre had reported to Cliff who had been at the suite.
John Ventre, Pa SD, wants to be the next ID
On Sunday afternoon, when this man was leaving the symposium, getting in his car with the door open, he felt a forceful hand on his shoulder making him turn around. It was Ventre, who said, “I just wanted to tell you, don’t believe anything the Committee to Reform MUFON says.” This shows the kind of tactics used to discourage further consideration of reform, but it did not discourage this individual who is now assisting CRM.
Another thing that happened at the symposium is we heard from Richard Dolan. He approached Elaine and Bill at the symposium saying he had read all or most of the Committee’s output and listened to the Pippin interviews and he was extremely concerned about MUFON. At the end of his public talk Richard make some comments to the effect MUFON has to change the way it does business.
What is the Committee going to do now?
I understand that many of you want to know what’s next for the Committee to Reform MUFON. Given the Board’s vote, will the Committee abandon our effort? The Committee to Reform MUFON is not going to abandon our effort to reform MUFON. As for what are we going to do next, please understand that I am partially constrained in answering that question because this is a public communication.
Someone wrote asking, What is the Committee’s “plan”? Our plan is to continue to discover how MUFON operates internally, publish our findings, and be prepared for the unexpected. The other question I get is, What does the Committee to Reform MUFON think it is going to be able to do to change the power structure in MUFON? Someone said it “would take sticks of dynamite” to change MUFON.
This is how I assess things. Would you want to be holding the cards the MUFON Board is holding? Would you rather have their hand than ours? I wouldn’t. Things are going on in MUFON, and allegations are being made from within MUFON which suggest MUFON is suppressing information and forwarding information out of the organization and there is nothing to prevent that information from making it way to US intelligence. If people in MUFON are doing that, it is wrong. MUFON’s mission is to serve the public, not the government. If I were MUFON, I wouldn’t be confident going forward doing something that is wrong. It is not stable, and MUFON is not stable.
As a result, some people on the Board are paranoid. That is reflected in Tom’s thoughts where he says he is afraid of someone “taking over MUFON.” I heard this from another Board member as well, and Chase Kloetzke has described the paranoia of Marie Malzahn. That’s 3. Then there is John Schuessler. He appears to believe anyone who questions the MUFON Board is a very bad person. That’s 4. These individuals are fearful and embattled.
And they have reason to be fearful. MUFON abuses its Members. This is the “authoritarian” culture which has become entrenched in MUFON over the last 5 years. MUFON frequently betrays people and every time it does it leaves behind another disillusioned person. Many of these people have given information to the Committee to Reform MUFON, for example the unknown person who sent us the Bigelow contract, and there will be more of them because I don’t think MUFON is going to suddenly start treating the Members decently. If I were the MUFON Board, I wouldn’t be confident my secrets were secure.
That must be why Jimi Hughes and Marie Malzahn have not been fired. As I explained in my interview with Jerry Pippin in July, [google “MUFON under siege”] Jimi Hughes, state director of Montana, a couple weeks before the symposium called his old friend Steve Reichmuth (Steve is the former chief investigator for northern California), and told Steve this:
Bigelow is giving money to the Board of Directors. The membership doesn’t matter to the Board, whether it’s up or down. What matters is collecting high strangeness cases and sequestering them/making them disappear. It’s a fact the purpose is for the government to get an indication of how the phenomenon is impacting the general population. When the delete button is hit on CMS, the case goes to a place where no one can get access to it.
In speaking about Bigelow “giving money,” I believe Jimi is referring to now, not the past. And when he says “giving money to the Board,” I do not know, but I assume he meant Bigelow is giving money to MUFON the organization, not to individual Board members. That is how I interpret the statement.
Jimi attributed this information to Board member Marie Malzahn. You tell me, why haven’t Jimi and Marie been fired? I would think it is because both of them have a lot of information that the powers-that-be in MUFON don’t want known.
About Jimi’s statement, no one has called me to refute it. Not Marie, not Jimi. Beyond that, as far as I know, not a word has been spoken publicly about the statement. Dead silence.
What exactly does Jimi Hughes’ statement imply?
It is not a crime or an IRS violation for MUFON to continue to take money from Robert Bigelow. However Clifford Clift continually states MUFON has had no contact with Mr. Bigelow since the contract ended. If in fact the Board is working with Bigelow, that means the Board is not telling the truth. If the leadership of an organization does not tell the truth, that is corrosive. People in MUFON can see these things, they become disillusioned, and their behavior can become unpredictable.
And it is now much easier for people to see and interpret events in MUFON than it was a year ago due to the MUFON-wide letters sent out by the Committee to Reform MUFON. In speaking out, CRM has violated innumerable taboos in MUFON. Before CRM, no one ever publicly challenged the authority of the Board; no one ever publicly questioned practices in MUFON such as the written secrecy agreement for the Star Team.
The other implication of Jimi’s statement is sequestering cases, making them “disappear” according to the needs of some third party ( US intelligence?). CRM is not absolutely sure this is occurring, but if it is that is a crime in the eyes of the UFO community. It would make MUFON an ally of the UFO coverup—the coverup the entire UFO community is lined up against. It would make a mockery of the work of honest MUFON investigators, and worst of all, it endangers witnesses; I’ll go into that in a minute.
So basically if MUFON is doing the things Jimi Hughes’ statement implies, then MUFON is playing a very high risk game, and I don’t think MUFON is up to it. I don’t think MUFON has the information control and the people control to permanently maintain control of an unethical operation, if that is what MUFON is attempting to do.
In my Pippin interview I suggested that the authoritarian practices which have come to dominate MUFON in the last 5 years might be because of something we don’t see that is seeping through—that MUFON might be organizing itself to fit the needs of a government agency. I have said, ‘MUFON has begun to carry itself as though it were a public agency backed by the force of law.’ Thing is, MUFON isn’t. MUFON can try to intimidate Members with background checks, can try to swear Star Team members to lifelong secrecy, but if I were MUFON I wouldn’t be confident of making all this stuff stick. I agree, it is remarkable the extent to which MUFON’s pretentions of authority have been able to intimidate and regiment some Members.
Nonetheless, my eyes are on the honest people in the MUFON hierarchy, as well as those who have been and will be betrayed. Let’s see what they will do over time. My policy is to continue to discover how MUFON operates internally, publish the findings, and wait for the unexpected. MUFON is not a stable organization and it will not become stable until it becomes honest and transparent and lives resolutely up to its mission of serving the American people.
Why is the effort to reform MUFON important?
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you what is driving me in this effort to reform MUFON, why I think it is so important. It is not that I was fired from MUFON. It is not something small like that. It is because I always thought MUFON was on the side of the people, working for our interests. If MUFON is not doing that, I am inconsolable. It is the possibility MUFON might be disappearing some of the information it gets; and in particular, the possibility MUFON might be taking witness identities given by trusting people in the general public, handing this information to Robert Bigelow, and from him the information might make its way to US intelligence. Especially if these witnesses are abductees, they could become the target of intelligence activities on top of being a target of the aliens.
The “3rd party paragraph” has been removed from the MUFON website intake form. This was the option at the end of “Report a UFO” the witness could check off giving MUFON permission to transmit their “name, address and phone” to “third parties not affiliated with MUFON.” CRM has been assured this paragraph was put up at the time of the Bigelow contract to protect MUFON from liability when MUFON transmitted witness identities to Bigelow. CRM wrote about the 3rd party paragraph in our all-MUFON letters, and the paragraph has been removed.
Cliff wrote it was removed because it was “unnecessary.” I wonder if it was removed because it looked bad and someone assured MUFON there is zero chance any witness would ever learn of the transmission of their name. Has MUFON decided to bear that risk? If so, that is the same pattern which is so obvious in the Bigelow contract. (see http://www.reformmufon.org) The Bigelow contract systematically and explicitly transfers each, every, and any risk associated with the contract to MUFON.
That makes me think that if MUFON is playing ball with the alphabet agencies, and if the whole thing were to blow up in MUFON’s face, not the alphabets or Bigelow would be around to bail MUFON out.
The public interest is urgent
The Mission of MUFON commits our organization to serve the public and the public urgently needs MUFON to do just that. In the incalculable drama playing out in our world, the welfare of the public is not a priority. When I say “the public,” I mean you and me, not somebody else. We are like ants on the ground with giants struggling above us for control of this planet. To understand this requires imagination, since it is not in the news every day. To understand it, we ourselves have to think like intelligence agents--those who are trained to see what others do not want them to see. We have to use logic and inference to see a big picture when only some small parts of it are visible.
Who is protecting the public interest?
If we could see the whole picture, we would see a monumental struggle going on behind the scenes for control of the earth and its people. In this struggle, individual citizens are inconsequential and expendable. The public does not have a seat at the table and no one is looking out for our interests. Except that at least we had MUFON--“the intelligence agency for the people,” as I call it. It is supposed to be our intelligence agency, and we need it urgently to bring us information about what is going on. Our government has its intelligence agencies; the aliens certainly have theirs. MUFON is supposed to be ours.
If people in MUFON are continuing to transmit witness identities, they are doing it for money with the idea that Bigelow is just a fellow truth seeker and what harm does it do if he investigates some cases? The people doing this would be either turning a blind eye to the possibility Bigelow is an intelligence front, or, if they know the government is involved, they probably believe the US government has a greater need to know than does the public. They would also be pretending to themselves their actions would not have serious consequences for real people. But that is not the case.
This is where it can lead
To give you an example of just how dark these matters can become, I am sending you enclosed the 9th issue of JAR, the Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research. I call your attention to the abductee case described in the article “How the grey aliens trapped the Air Force. . .” It is about a man and his wife in Colorado who are the victim of a joint alien-US Air Force mind control program. The article states I broke down and cried when I learned the details of this case. That is true.
When I consider whether the reform of MUFON is worth all the time and effort and money and reputation it is costing, this case described in JAR is what I keep in my mind. If you take the time to read the case, I hope you will come to the same conclusion: it is. What is happening to this man and his wife could have happened to you or to me, and I don’t think we should turn a blind eye to it.
Thank you for your signatures & your support
I want to thank you all for your signatures on the Proposal to the Board calling for elections. It was a necessary step in what we are doing.
Prior to the symposium, several people collected signatures in their states. Thanks to Sandy Gonzalez of Florida, Marilyn Carlson of Oklahoma, Rob Hicks of Hawaii, Janet Smith of California, and David Wisbey and Davina Ryszka of Colorado. I also thank Morgan Sierra, who is running the discussion Forum associated with CRM’s website.
One thing the Committee to Reform MUFON needs at this time is an individual to take over our website www.reformmufon.org. The website is being run by a kind man, but it needs an improved appearance and more attention than I and other members of the Committee to Reform MUOFN are giving it.
And by the way, if any of you care to write on the matter of the Board’s rejection of our Proposal, or any of the issues raised in the last 8 months by the Committee to Reform MUFON, we will post your statements on our website www.reformmufon.org. I also encourage you to participate in Morgan Sierra’s Forum, which I mentioned above.
Kindest regards,
Elaine Douglass
For the Committee to Reform MUFON