Jan Harzan
Jan Harzan is a former director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a nuclear engineer who attended Ben Rich's 1993 lecture at UCLA as an alumnus and provided eyewitness corroboration of Rich's statements about extraterrestrial technology. Harzan was later removed from the MUFON directorship following criminal charges.
| Role | Former MUFON Director |
|---|
Corroboration of Ben Rich's UCLA Lecture
Harzan attended the 1993 UCLA conference where Ben Rich, the second director of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, delivered what is alleged to have been an extraordinary disclosure. Harzan confirmed that Rich ended his formal talk with a slide depicting a black disc zipping into outer space, accompanied by the statement: "We now have the technology to take ET home." Harzan described the audience largely missing the literal implication of the statement.
Following the lecture, Harzan was part of a group of approximately 20–25 attendees who gathered around Rich for informal questions. When someone asked how "getting ET home" worked, Rich initially deflected. He then posed a question to an engineer in the group: "Do you think it's possible to travel to the Stars?" When the engineer responded that it would take a very long time, Rich replied: "No, it wouldn't. We found an error in the equations and we now know how to travel to the stars." When Harzan volunteered the statement "all points in time and space are connected" in response to a question Rich posed about how ESP works, Rich reportedly looked him in the eye and confirmed: "That's how it works."
Harzan's account corroborates that of Tom Keller, who also attended the lecture and published a 2010 MUFON article confirming Ben Rich's statements. However, UAP Gerb notes that Harzan's credibility as a witness was subsequently undermined when he was charged with criminal offenses involving a minor, leading to his removal as MUFON director.