Questioning The Director Of MUFON -Mutual UFO Network

Also Video Below:
Is This How ETs Make Crop Circles?

James Carrion was elected the new director Of MUFON in 2006 (Mutual UFO Network), a non profit organization toward the scientific investigation of UFOs “for the betterment of humanity”. They are volunteers – remember those folks. The field investigators are usually retired professionals who go out interview the witnesses and gather the evidence -– get dirty sometimes - but instead of getting the respect they deserve – they get attacked from all different corners. What does that mean in my book? Let me see - volunteers – balanced approach – talk directly to the people - sometimes get too emotionally evolved - sounds like my kind of people. How many cases have they investigated – I’ll let him answer that
Also do you have a question for James – leave a comment and I will let him respond.

His Bio:
http://www.mufon.com/carrion.htm
MUFON Web.
http://www.mufon.com/

UFOMM:
How is MUFON funded and who pays for the teams that investigate?


J. C.



MUFON is a non-profit organization funded by membership dues and merchandise sales.

UFOMM:
If MUFON had a very large budget guaranteed for the next 10 years,do you think MUFON would have verifiable proof that UFOs are real and probably craft from another place?

J. C.

I don’t think we can predict the outcome of 10 years of well funded research on such a complex subject. Many exotic scientific theories like quantum physics are long term projects without guaranteed results despite how well funded they are. Another complicating factor would be that no amount of research money can compete with the larger government funded black projects and their extreme security measures.

UFOMM
MUFON has had its distracters some saying their results have been mediocre considering their long history. How would you respond to this type of characterization?

J.C.
MUFON’s mission is the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity through investigation, research and education. We are the only surviving organization from the big three civilian research organizations (APRO and NICAP being the others). MUFON has done an excellent job in the area of investigation having amassed some 13,000 case reports. We have not done a great job in the area of research which we are now focusing our efforts on. We have a new Director of Research, Robert Powell and Deputy Director of Research, Ron Regehr who will each be leading a team of scientists in performing in depth analysis and data mining of the data we have collected.

UFOMM
What do you believe are the main reasons we never gain credibility in the science community, at least in America?

J.C.
Mainstream science shies away from the UFO phenomenon because there is no theoretical framework it can overlay the data on. It is widely accepted among scientists that UFO equates to ETH (The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis). ETH is not subject to the basic scientific tenet of falsifiability and therefore is outright rejected. Instead Ufology is relegated to the status of Pseudoscience. What is needed is a novel approach that kick starts intellectual curiosity in the scientific community. One way to do that is to offer an alternative hypothesis, as a starting point, that IS subject to falsifiability –the Human Manufacture (HM) hypothesis and reduce the data we have gathered to a subset that can be evaluated against that hypothesis. The goal is not to explain away all UFO sighting as manmade but to allow independent scientists to examine for themselves how the data matches up. Hopefully, when confronted with the conundrum of highly credible but highly strange case data, the scientist’s intellectual curiosity will be stimulated enough to conduct even more in-depth research and explore alternative hypotheses.

UFOMM
If ETs are monitoring us and one of the duties of MUFON is try and get evidence they exist, do you think using a more covert and quiet approach in investigation could increase chances of finding proof?

J. C.
If ETs themselves are here and want to remain unseen, then they would assume a passive covert position that would preclude their detection. But if they are actively making themselves visible to our planet’s inhabitants (flybys, landings, abductions, etc), then their active stance requires an active investigation on our part.

UFOMM
Most people in the UFO community agree there has been an astounding flap in Mexico that continues to today. In all of this time I see no MUFON investigation on what is going on down there. It is because of Money or other reasons.

J.C.
MUFON tries not to intrude in investigation where another UFO research organization is involved. OMIFO is the Mexican UFO organization that investigates these sightings and we have established a liaison relationship with them. Although we are an international organization, we are primarily US based and the bulk of our investigative network is in the US.

UFOMM
What mistakes, if any, do you believe MUFON has made in the past?

J.C.
Not being open minded to the changes that the UFO phenomenon has undergone over the years. Accepting at face value “insider” information when all such information must be called into question. The biggest mistake however was not focusing enough efforts in the area of UFO research, although in all fairness, the funding for such research has not been there.

UFOMM
What changes if any do you see for MUfON in the next ten years?

J.C.
Research, research, research! Engaging the mainstream science community to assist us in our research. Better educating the public to the reality of UFO reports. Beefing up our investigator network including forming a rapid response team that can travel quickly to a hot spot and document the phenomenon while the data is fresh.

UFOMM
There is much speculation that contact may be accruing in the near future what is your feeling on the possibility of contact this year.

J.C.
We may as well just speculate about the second coming of Christ. Predictions are made all the time that disclosure is at hand, aliens will make themselves widely known, etc. 60 years of unfulfilled predictions is a poor track record and doesn’t hold much credence.
UFOMM
Have you ever had a personal experience with UFOs?

J.C.
I have never had a UFO sighting.

While writing a post on my blog called "Do hoaxer see UFOs" I found out a little secret So I am going to tell you about it. Crop Circle Hoaxers see "UFOs" when they are hoaxing crop circles. According to their web site they call them "the real crop circle makers" Is this how the original crop circle makers make them? J.C UFOmedia.blogspot.com




Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Note: Have a question for MUFON Leave a
comment.