MUFON
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is a US-based non-profit organization founded in 1969 dedicated to the scientific study and investigation of unidentified flying objects. It is one of the oldest and largest civilian UFO research organizations in the world, maintaining a network of field investigators, a case management system for public UFO reports, and an annual symposium. MUFON publishes the MUFON UFO Journal.
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Referenced in context of 'Tarzan' being a former MUFON director charged with disturbing crimes
Organization whose publication featured Tom Keller's article confirming Ben Rich's 1993 UCLA statements
Published the July 1999 MUFON UFO Journal issue referencing General LeMay's UFO encounter
Aurora Texas Investigation (1973)
In 1973, MUFON investigator Bill Case led the organization's investigation into the Aurora Texas UFO Crash of April 1897. The investigation identified new eyewitnesses including Mary Evans and Charlie Stevens, and found anomalous metal detector readings at the burial site in Aurora Cemetery where the alleged crash pilot was said to be interred. MUFON requested permission to exhume the site; the cemetery declined. After the investigation, the grave marker disappeared and a pipe was inserted at the gravesite. MUFON's final report was inconclusive but did not rule out the possibility of a hoax.
Ohio UFO Crash Connection — EJ Center Report
In 1992, a witness came forward to MUFON reporting that in the late 1950s, while dating the daughter of EJ Center — a senior chemical engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute — Center told him he had been "responsible for a project which required him to study Parts retrieved from a flying saucer." Dr. Irene Scott, a MUFON board of directors member based in Ohio, documented this account in the 1994 MUFON UFO Journal article "The Ohio UFO Crash Connection and Other Stories," under the subsection "Decoding the I-Beam." The account is significant because Center's private disclosure predates by more than fifteen years the 2010 declassification of his actual 1949 Battelle contract work on Nitinol (Nickel-Titanium Alloy) for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.