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Director’s Message
By James Carrion
James Carrion
MUFONUFO Journal
(USPS 002970)(ISSN 02706822)
Mutual UFO Network
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International Director
James Carrion, M.A.P.O. Box 279Bellvue, CO 80512-0279Tel: 888-817-2220Fax: 866-466-9173 jcarrion@mufon.com
Editor
Sally Petersen, M.A.Tel: 888-817-2220, 4-4-1Editor@mufon.com
Columnists
George Filer, M.B.A.Stanton Friedman, M.S.Gavin A. J. McLeodTed Phillips
Staff artists
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Fall is here and the holiday seasonwill soon be upon us. As I reflect onmy first year on the job as MUFONInternational Director, I can statecategorically thatit has been both arewarding andfrustratingexperience at thesame time. Asanyone who hasspent any signifi-cant period of time in the UFOfield will attest,you must have ahigh tolerance forambiguity, as well as the patience of Job. The phenomenon has hidden itssecrets for the last 60 years and is veryreluctant to give those secrets up.MUFON’s mission is to unravel thesesecrets for the benefit of all humanityand I thank you, the dedicated MUFONmember and investigator for taking thiscourageous journey in search of thetruth with me.
Update on the MUFON PandoraProject
The MUFON Pandora Project isback in full swing. After digitizing mostof MUFON’s paper case files, we aremoving on to Phase 2 of the project,and are now converting to electronicform the remaining files in our archives.In addition to the paper files, we areconverting audio and video tapes, andphotographic negatives and slides toelectronic form.MUFON has an enormous amountof historical data, from official govern-ment documents and project reports torare periodicals. Relevant historical datawill be used by the recently formedMUFON History Research Team in itseffort to understand the early days of the phenomenon. Data collected as partof the MUFON Abduction TranscriptionProject is also being digitized and will
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