Hi all,
History:
Many of today’s senior Australian UAP researchers, have, at one time or another, been members of the US based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON.) Click here for their website.
Between the 1970’s and 1990’s many of Australia’s “key” UAP cases were documented in the pages of the MUFON Journal, courtesy of Australian researchers. If you were to go back through issues of the Journal, you will find comprehensive investigation reports on the 1978 Valentich disappearance; the 1988 Mundrabilla “UFO lifts car off road” case; the mid 1990’s Kelly Cahill abduction, and numerous others.
Some of Australia’s most well attended UAP conferences, with a variety of local and international speakers, were organised by Australian MUFON supporters.
However, after that era, the MUFON network in Australia wound down, due to a variety of reasons.
2015:
The February 2015 issue of the MUFON ejournal announced that Adelaide based researcher, Cheryl-lee Vanagelis had been appointed as the new National Director for Australia for MUFON. The March 2015 issue advised that Adelaide based researcher Donna O’Halloran had been appointed as the Assistant National Director for Australia for MUFON.
The March 2015 issue also advised that Michael Robinson and Brian Johnson were now Australian MUFON Provincial Directors. Previous announcements had been made that Justin Busuttil and Laura Corbett were accredited MUFON field investigators in Australia.
I welcome this new version of MUFON in Australia, and look forward to working with the MUFON Australia team. This will now be our second national level network, the other being, the long standing Australian UFO Research Network (AUFORN) who have openly shared their data over the years, and publish the “UFOlogist” magazine.
Blog readers who have looked at the monthly Australian national level sightings listings that Melbourne researcher Paul Dean and I publish, will note that we already carry summaries of MUFON reports from Australia, which are carried in the MUFON case management system (click here to go to that publicly open database.) I look forward to reading details of MUFON Australia’s completed investigations, as they are conducted.
(For transparency reasons I must add that I am a current MUFON member and have just signed up to undertake their online field investigator training.)
