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symposiumspeakers discuss varietyof topics, p. 8.MUFON Forum, p. 11Salve

from

strange en-counter in Alaska ana-lyzed, p. 12.

"Tesla

crop circle,"

p. 18.

New witness in

Varginha case, p. 19.

UFO Press: RayFowler's

Synchronicity

reviewed, p. 22.

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MUFON

2004 InternationalUFO Symposium

The symposium was very successful thisyear. Attendance was excellent, the speak-ers did a super job, the extra events werequite enjoyable,

people look ad-

vantage of theopportunity totalk to others thatthey seldom see,and even theweather cooper-ated.The theme of the event was"The Body Of Technological

Evidence."

While we made it clear that there is firmevidence of the operation

of

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flying objects in the skies all over theworld, we only scratched the surface of thatbody of evidence. Much more is yet to bedocumented and revealed.Many thanks go to the participants:

Stephen

Bassett,

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Brandenberg,

Grant

Cameron,

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PaulDavids, John

Greenewald,

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Hopkins, Leslie Kean,Deborah

Lindemann,

Bruce

Maccabee,

Nick Redfern,

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Sereda, LeoSprinkle, Marshall Summers, Ken

Storch,

and Ryan Wood.

I am pleased

that 1 could also be one of the presenters atthis event.We also thank the outstanding ColoradoMUFON team for hosting the symposium.

State Director

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talented organization were everywhere,doing everything necessary to plan andconduct the event.

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