Here's the news … The executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest UFO research organizations in the United States, was arrested on charges of molesting a minor "for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity."
Ian Harzan, who has led Mufon since 2013, is accused of harassing and provoking "sexual activity from a detective he believed to be a 13-year-old girl," according to a press release from the Huntington Beach, California Police Department.
You know … the investigation, of course, knows better, but lately such accusations have been used very often to eliminate the unwanted. This is a blow to the MUFON - an organization, unlike our Cosmopoisk, is quite authoritative and which really was engaged in the study of the UFO phenomenon, and besides that it had authority among Western citizens who daily send reports on UFO sightings to the open archives of this organization.
Many of the videos that I publish here appeared thanks to this very authority of the MUFON, which in every possible way supports those who witnessed the appearance of a UFO and each person can upload a video or photo, or just a text observation of a UFO, which he witnessed.
Yan Harzan, head of MUFON since 2013, was arrested on July 3 …
The role of MUFON in the UFO world is enormous. The organization was founded in 1969 in Quincy, Illinois to track UFO sightings; they hold the largest and most detailed database of UFO sightings in the world.
The organization worked closely with government contractors, including Bigelow Aerospace, which received money from the federal government to investigate unidentified aerial events. According to the documents, Bigelow Aerospace paid MUFON to make technical reports on characteristics often reported in UFO incidents. Bigelow Aerospace also offered funding to MUFON to create a stellar team, a UFO investigation team, that could be in place within 24-48 hours of the UFO incident.
According to the organization's website, Harzan is a former IBM engineer who, when he was a child, “encountered a real UFO, no more than thirty feet from his brother and him, with no visible means of propulsion other than making a buzzing noise before rushing away Over the horizon. This event profoundly changed his life."
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We can only hope that what happened will not undermine the authority of this organization and it will continue its work in the same regime. The archives of this organization are truly a world library of files, reports, photos and videos of UFO sightings, which flocked there from all over the world and continue to come.
All this looks very strange … The latest events with the activation of UFOs on the ground and in orbit of the Earth, the shutdown of broadcasts from the ISS, the strict censoring of all publicly available information during launches of spacecraft to the ISS or launches of satellites of the SpaceX project, somehow very much all this coincided well with a powerful blow to the image of the most famous and authoritative Western UFO organization.