{"id":536,"date":"2024-05-26T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highstrangenessufo.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2024-05-26T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:08:37","slug":"eradicating-the-ufo-pestilence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highstrangenessufo.com\/2015\/06\/eradicating-ufo-pestilence.html","title":{"rendered":"Eradicating the UFO Pestilence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know how everyone keeps saying the members of the Roswell Dream Team should be banished to UFOlogy Siberia for their roles in the Roswell Slides fiasco? Well, last night I noticed that Mr. Jaime Maussan is a featured speaker at the MUFON 2015 Symposium this coming September, and so I decided to do something about it. I decided to write a letter to Mr. Jan Harzan, International Director of MUFON:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Hi Jan,<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>I&#8217;m the Chief Investigator and Assistant State Director for MUFON Wisconsin, and I have a request to make concerning this year&#8217;s Symposium.<\/em><br><br><em>No doubt you have followed the sad saga of the Roswell Slides hoax, and so you must realize how inappropriate it would be to have Jaime Maussan appear at the 2015 Symposium. In light of the apparent duplicity and\/or ineptitude of Maussan and the others involved, I would like to formally request that Mr. Maussan be removed from the speakers&#8217; roster. There is simply no way that MUFON can seriously present one of the perpetrators of the Roswell Slides fiasco as a speaker at this flagship event and retain any credibility. How can we say MUFON is dedicated to &#8220;The Scientific Study of UFOs&#8221; and then let a man who has just done immeasurable harm to our work come speak at our Symposium?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>I would like to request further that from here on out, Mr. Maussan and his colleagues Tom Carey, Don Schmitt, Richard Dolan and Anthony Bragalia be banned from all MUFON events. There is no place for these people at any gathering that is meant to further the cause of serious UFO study.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Thank you for your time and attention,<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Best regards,<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Mark O&#8217;Connell<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard back from him yet&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210725214721\/http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AenG0IHq740\/VYHlsSBtZtI\/AAAAAAAADtM\/1oGNUceEHfA\/s1600\/2015Symp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em>Maybe we need to shut a few doors while we&#8217;re at it&#8230;<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curiously, at the website for the Symposium, Maussan has\u00a0an unbelievably lengthy bio,\u00a0and yet there is not a single reference to the Roswell Slides or BeWitness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how everyone keeps saying the members of the Roswell Dream Team should be banished to UFOlogy Siberia for their roles in the Roswell Slides fiasco? 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