Mutual UFO Network - Wikipedia
Some basic background.....
"The
Mutual UFO Network (
MUFON) is an American-based
non-profit organization that investigates cases of alleged
UFO sightings. It is one of the oldest and largest civilian
UFO-investigative organizations in the United States. MUFON claims 3,000 members worldwide with chapters in every US state. The group maintains a number of investigators, who undergo training administered by MUFON. The organization has been criticized for its focus on
pseudoscience, and critics say its investigators fail to practice
scientific method. In 2015, MUFON founded an unaccredited online institution called MUFON University."
The stated mission of MUFON is the study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity through investigations, research and education. Along with the
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies(CUFOS) and the
Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), MUFON is part of the UFO Research Coalition, a collaborative effort by the three main UFO investigative organizations in the US
UFO Hard Evidence - The Bob White Experience goal is to share personnel and other research resources, and to fund and promote the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon.
According to science writer
Sharon A. Hill, MUFON's focus is "decidedly unscientific with talks on alien abduction, conspiracy theories, human-ET hybrids, hypnotic regression, and repressed memories" and reflects "a wide range of
pseudoscience". MUFON has been the subject of criticism for drifting away from their original "nuts and bolts UFO investigation" into "bizarre conspiracy and exopolitics talk". The organization receives large numbers of UFO reports every year, however the qualifications of the amateur volunteers examining the reports have been questioned. Hill wrote that MUFON's idea of scientific researchers "appears to be people who are not scientists or propose fantastic, anti-science tales"
James Carrion, one of the former directors, resigned and heavily criticized the group as being mishandled, bribery involved, and misinformation. Any simple search will bring up this past controversy. One could spend weeks reading negative stuff on these people.
UFO Hard Evidence - The Bob White Experience
The UFO Trail: MUFON, Science and Deception, Part One
btw....a few side notes....I decided to join them over 25 years ago and got their manual to be a 'field investigator'...but business and family obligations ended that idea but I since learned that there were many problems with the group. Mr Carrion and one or two others posted on a forum I was on over 5 years ago discussing many of these issues with MUFON. He was pretty upset about all the shenanigans going on and their lack of professionalism.
