It's late one summer evening at your suburban backyard bar-b-que. You and 14 of your closest friends are standing around eating burgers and cole slaw. Suddenly a football field-sized triangular-shaped object silently moves toward a nearby field, hovers at about 200 feet, then gently touches ground.
Fifteen minutes later this hulking gray metallic object simply lifts off of the ground again and quickly disappears into the night sky. You move swifly to a computer and sign on to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) reporting center and complete a witness report.
A UFO "SWAT team" moves in the next day - set in motion from a nationally organized team led by MUFON International Director James Carrion. While the suburban bar-b-que story is fiction, this new team is very real.
MUFON's Star Team Impact Project (SIP) can be deployed anywhere in the U.S. to be on the scene of a close encounter of the second kind (a UFO landing) within 24 hours of a report.
MUFON recently took on a subcontracting role from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) on the UFO phenomenon, according to Alejandro Rojas, MUFON's director of public education.(Rojas was recently interviewed by Joe Diamo, host of Shifting Dimensions.)
"Data gathered from cases that we feel warrant a deployment will be shared with BAASS as well as physical or trace evidence that is being lab tested," Rojas said. "Lab test results are shared with MUFON. MUFON is free to publish its own related research or seek independent testing."
Rojas said the BAASS funding fits in with MUFON's mission.
"MUFON’s mission is the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity," he said. "To solve this mystery requires that we gather quality data on the most significant cases, especially those that involve physical or trace evidence. By having the financial means to deploy highly skilled investigators quickly to the scene of a significant case, we can gather all the initial crucial data before it is tampered with, destroyed or horded."
Incoming witness testimony into the MUFON reporting center database is monitored 24 hours a day. When cases come up that appear to be from reliable sources, and where there is the possibility of ground or other evidence, Carrion and a small group within MUFON make the decision to deploy SIP investigators and equipment immediately. Team members are organized from MUFON and move to the scene.
BAASS describes itself at its web site as "dedicated to developing next-generation crewed space complexes to revolutionize space commerce and open up the final frontier to all of humanity." BAASS founder Robert Bigelow previously funded a scientific team from the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) when they set up a "laboratory of the paranormal" on a Nevada ranch in 1996 and 1997. Colm A. Kelleher PhD. led a team of scientists with a well-funded equipment deployment. The resulting book was Hunt for the Skinwalker - by Kelleher and investigative reporter George Knapp - and an excellent read about this serious investigation.
STAR team member and field investigator Richard M. Webb was deployed to Stephenville, Texas, October 27, 2008, according to a story Webb wrote for the current February 2009 edition of the monthly MUFON UFO Journal. Webb recounts his interviews with many of the 30 to 40 witnesses who had come forward with reports to newspapers, police and the Erath County Sheriff's Department. Some witnesses were reporting what appeared to be military jet intervention during sightings, and Webb reviewed a statement from a military public affairs officer who admited only to a fighter squadron conducting normal training operations. Most witnesses were reporting seeing "round orange/yellow circles, that may or may not have been attached to a solid object."
The MUFON UFO Journal is available as a paid subscription to members. Visit the MUFON web site for details.
MUFON Pennsylvania State Director John Ventre said the funding and nationally organized team effort will help field investigations, especially in cases where a quick deployment is necessary to discover evidence. Ventre managed the 2008 field investigations in Pennsyvalnia when the area became a hot bed of UFO reports during the summer and fall months.
"We could have used this type of lab testing and expertise last year during the Pennsylvania UFO Wave that took place from July through November," Ventre said. "Denise's case in particular with the metallic sprinkles or probes had trace evidence. We put hundreds of unpaid hours into this flap."
SIP is a pilot program that will test the idea of improving quality collection of UFO data if paid field personnel are deployed rapidly to the scene. All data collected will be shared between MUFON and BAASS, where BAASS is attempting to achieve breakthroughs in commercial technology. BAASS is hiring a group of 50 scientists who may work with MUFON field investigators. The initial BAASS funding is for a five-month period, which may be renewed if the program proves successful. MUFON directors from all 50 states were recently contacted and asked if their state wanted to opt into the program.
The MUFON team was organized into an SIP Operations Manager, SIP Coordination Manager, and a SIP Dispatch Operations - a group that then coordinates with a SIP State Coordinator - which then works directly with field investigators coming onto the scene of either a close encounter of the second, or third kind.
Ventre recently discussed the Pennsylvania UFO wave in an InCahoots.TV video.
Some of the most recent UFO and interesting UFO activity in the U.S. includes the following stories.
Shape-changing UFO over Berks County, PA
UFOs active over 10 states
UFOs back over Salt Lake City
Orange light UFOs again over TX
Second PA low flying UFO reported
V-shaped UFO group low over PA
UFO 'discs' popular in March skies
UFO 'squadron' low over Salt Lake City
UFOs witnessed over four states
Do UFOs favor PA? Statistics say 'yes'
Strange lights over Chester County, PA
Two triangular UFOs 'scanning' Indianapolis
Robert Bigelow interview with Art Bell.
Comments
Could it be, that the SIP-Patch is a Freemason-Symbol? The Omega-Sign on the top of the patch is also a symbol for an eye. An eye on the top of a pyramide is a clear freemason-symbol.
My uncle was a freemason & he has told us that they run the goverment & that one day they will take over with new world order!!
That being said they themself's dont know what's going on with the UFO's. Maybe I shouldn't of even told that much but on the other hand they will not care cuz I'm just one voice telling you the truth.........
in ontario, canada these men walk around all night watching people. they don't even speak english and yet that is like the main laguage here. they stare at you with anger like they want to abduct you or somethinf. they are very frakey i saw them.i was told that they could read your mind and make you do things that youu never ever thought of doing in your entire life.i looked at one once and i was so scared it felt like someone was controling me or something.i've seen things and heard thingsall that what people told me.
My answer to Elting is a resounding NO. The SIP patch is meant to show a number of things. I personally know the person who designed the Star Team triangle patch and I specifically ask her what the "Omega" symbol meant. She said that it was more of a "religious" smybol, a greek letter meaning the end or being finished. A a former member of the MUFON STAR Team, that was our job, to investigate UFO cases and "finish" the job, to aquire all the facts.
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