MUFON's Dirty Tricks?

July 18, 2011

It would seem that the Mutual UFO Network will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting their image, even if it means destroying that very same image in the process. A recent incident involving the Jerry Pippin Show is a perfect example.

Jerry was scheduled to interview Elaine Douglass, the founder of The Committee to Reform MUFON, on Wednesday, July 13, but something happened right as the interview was supposed to be broadcast. Suddenly and without warning the broadcast was taken off the air due to a "denial of service." What that means is that somebody launched a cyber attack against the Pippin Show's Internet Service Provider and tried to shut it down or make its content unavailable, which they succeeded in doing for the duration of the show.

Elaine was supposedly going to reveal some potentially "bombshell" information that would expose all of the corrupt practices that MUFON had been engaged in and blow the lid off of the UFO organization's mild-mannered cover once and for all. It would therefor be understandable why Clifford Clift, MUFON's International Director, and the rest of the Board of Directors would want to stop it. However, by doing so they may have exposed themselves for who and what they really are.

Not just any John Doe off the street can hack into a computer system and deny service to a radio broadcast. It would take somebody with some serious computer hacking skills to pull it off. Perhaps even somebody with high-level government connections. We all know there are several members of the Board of Directors who would fit that description.

John Schuessler has a national security clearance that he obtained via help from Bigelow Aerospace, Tom Deuley used to work for the NSA, Clift and several other board members have backgrounds in Military Intel, and let's not forget Deputy Director of Investigations Chuck Modlin, who according to former MUFON STAR Team manager Chase Kloetzke once boasted that he had shaken hands with every US president except Bill Clinton. When it comes to connections, there aren't many higher levels of government than that.

Of course just because several of MUFON's board members have federal ties that does not necessarily mean that they used their influence to interrupt a radio broadcast. It could have just been a random occurrence...couldn't it?

If it had happened only once that would be a distinct possibility, but a few days later the underhanded trickery continued. On Sunday, July 17, Jerry Pippin planned to pod-cast a prerecorded interview that he had done with Elaine Douglass the day before. The pod cast was set to be unveiled at 10:00 PM Eastern time. Almost immediately after it was announced somebody once again tried to hack into the system and put a stop to it.

This time Jerry was ready for the cyber assault but even so the pod-cast was once again delayed, first for 30 minutes, then another 15. Finally the interview was divided in two and worked on i two different places. Part one eventually was released at 10:45 the night of the 17th, while part two was released the next day.

I just got finished listening to both parts and I must say that I was not at all shocked by what I heard. The accusations that Ms. Douglass made about MUFON were basically the same things that many people have been suspecting all along; that they have been taken over by the government, that they are working behind the scenes with billionaire businessman Robert Bigelow to further his own personal agenda, that they have been tampering with their own Case Management System in order to hide the best cases from the public while releasing nothing but worthless disinformation...even that they themselves have become part of the shadow government that is covering up the truth about UFOs. The accusation has even been made that MUFON is nothing more than a disinformation agency for Big Brother.

None of this has been conclusively proven of course, but MUFON's latest actions have gone a long way towards convincing people that it is true. Why else would they tamper with a radio broadcast and try to censor information? Of course, this isn't exactly the first time they have tried to control the flow of information either.

In July of 2010 MUFON actually canceled their own Internet forum because they did not like some of the discussions that were taking place. A handful of people were critical of MUFON and the BoD so hundreds of people had their forum taken away, without even as much as an explanation for why it happened. It just suddenly vanished without a trace. This forum was easy for MUFON to cancel because they actually owned the rights to it. All they had to do was push the "delete" button. There were other forums that were not so easy to deal with.

After the MUFON forum was shut down some of the former members decided to create their own forums. Three of them eventually came into being, all made up of very disgruntled MUFON forum refugees. One forum in particular was very critical of MUFON's International Director Clifford Clift and the rest of the board members and it wasn't long before that forum paid the price for their outspoken attitude.

Just a short time after the forum was created somebody hacked into the forum provider's main server and deleted the entire UFO section of the forum. Once again, this is not something that any computer-user on the web could have perpetrated. It took somebody with some serious cyber-hacking skills, possibly even government connections, to pull it off...and it was almost certainly MUFON that did it. They were not even trying to be subtle about it. Just like the latest incident with the Jerry Pippin Show...it is obvious to everybody who the culprit is.

The only question left is, if MUFON is responsible for perpetrating these dirty tricks why are they being so obvious about doing it? Are they so desperate to protect their image that they are willing to tarnish it in the process? By doing so they are only convincing people that the suspicions they have about the once highly-regarded UFO organization are correct, and that MUFON really has been corrupted by outside influences.

Of course it is possible that they just don't care about their image anymore. Maybe their unholy alliance with Bigelow and the Intelligence community has made them so big and so powerful that they no longer have to care what anybody thinks about them. Maybe they are finally revealing the truth about who they really are...and that might just be the dirtiest trick of them all.