Posted on 02/24/2005 9:59:18 PM PST by ambrose
Expert Says Colorado Is Hotbed For UFO Sightings
Largest UFO Investigative Group Calls Colorado Home
POSTED: 1:38 pm MST February 24, 2005 UPDATED: 2:06 pm MST February 24, 2005
DENVER -- Everyone has heard about the infamous Roswell incident in 1947 in New Mexico but for Colorado UFO enthusiasts, it's only the tip of the iceberg.
"It's worldwide. It goes on all the time. It has been going on since World War II. It's unabated," said John Schuessler, the international director of MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network.
"It's a private non-profit group that's been around since 1969," he said.
It's a group based out of Morrison, Colo.
"Colorado is a hotbed for UFO sightings," Schuessler said.
Although MUFON is housed in Schuessler's basement, it claims to have 3,000 members worldwide with 450 field investigators.
"Wherever we hear about a UFO we go try and track it down," Schuessler said.
If it flies, hovers, or spins in the sky without explanation, everyday people call MUFON.
"The calls we get are generally people who are truly mystified because something happened to them," said Schuessler.
Schuessler enjoys a little alien humor as much as the next guy but as a retired aerospace engineer, he's dead serious about learning from the dozens of sightings he hears about each month.
"That's what I really want to see, is how these things are flying, what they do. From my very first day, the technology is what I've been interested in," said Schuessler.
Ryan Wood, of Broomfield, Colo., doesn't bother with sightings or supposed abductions. He's focused on something known as the Majestic 12.
"Majestic 12 is an organization started by President Truman," Wood said. "It's a high-level team of scientists who would want to understand and deal with this extraordinary gift from the heavens, so to speak."
Wood, an energy consultant by trade, focuses on government documents that were once top secret.
"We now have thousands of pages of documents," he said.
He believes the government has a moral obligation to fess up about UFOs.
"It is really a crime against all humanity not to share this fact that we are not alone," Wood said.
Wood said the government may be hiding what it knows so we won't panic.
"It will be a 9/11-type event when they disclose it. History will never be the same," he said.
Wood said he's never met an informed skeptic. But those who doubt often turn to Washington aerospace journalist Philip Klass. His numerous articles over the years have debunked both UFO sightings and the Majestic 12 documents. However, that doesn't discourage Wood or the MUFON group. In fact, they're in the majority. More than 80 million Americans believe earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
"MUFON" Muffin man! hahahahaha
Of course. That's where Cheyenne Mountain and Stargate Command are.
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This guy is behind the UFO sightings. Oh, and Bush too.
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Do illigal aliens count? Can we report them to this website? /Sarc
So did anyone see the Peter Jennings special??/ Thats 'real journalism', unlike us 'bloggers' who don't have 'editors'. /sarcasm
Has anyone using this argument as a basis to support their big government-UFO-cover-up conspiracy ever stopped to think how SILLY it is?
The theory of relativism tells us that travel even to the nearest star would take several years at the fastest theoretically possible speed. Yet 80 million Americans believe that beings from another planet have nothing better to do than to spend years traveling here in order to, essentially, play a few practical jokes on us and leave. (Science education is severely lacking.)
ah--Chief Pale Eyes/ Heavy Beard
I've filed a complaint with the administrator!
Well, OK- what's wrong with my UFO smiley?
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