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Welcome to Oregon MUFON

At Oregon MUFON, we investigate UFOs and related phenomena and do our best to help people understand what we have learned. Oregon MUFON is affiliated with the Mutual UFO Network, Inc., which is the largest UFO investigative organization in the United States. It was formed in 1969 by UFO-interested citizens because it was felt that our government and the scientific establishment were not doing enough to find answers to this on-going mystery in our skies.

Meetings

We have monthly meetings if you'd like to attend. You don't have to be a member of MUFON to come. But we'd certainly like you to join eventually and even help us investigate UFOs by becoming a Field Investigator.

What's New

We have lots of material from our years of Oregon investigations and general research in the UFO literature and discussions with other ufologists and investigators. We'll be putting more and more of this material up on this site as time goes by. Come back periodically and see what is new. Check out the following:

• Here's another Oregon MUFON case study involving a small triangle of flashing lights.
• We've finished writing up some 2007 and a 2008 case study reports. Check them out.
• For the new year (2008), Oregon MUFON is instituting a suggested donation of $3 per person per meeting for our Oregon MUFON meetings. If you think you will be a regular, we suggest you sign up for a full year for $20. Your Assistant and State Directors serve MUFON without remuneration and have supported Oregon MUFON out of pocket for years, for example, by paying the $100 plus fee a year for the Oregon MUFON website. Except for a few generous donors (and we do thank you!), we've provided the lion's share of expenses. Please give a little to support us and Oregon MUFON. (We continue to open our doors to non-MUFON members.)
• Your State Director, Tom Bowden, was profiled in the 2007 Portrait: Amazing but true tales published as a special by the Gresham Outlook and Sandy Post.
• Your Assistant State Director, Keith Rowell, was profiled in the Southwest Weekly section of the Oregonian, October 25, 2007.
• Your assistant and state directors are presenting a program in Coos Bay this coming weekend (10-5-07). We'll be giving an overview of the history of UFOs in Oregon. Come and see us if you've got the time. See Oregon News.
• We've put up our Oregon MUFON Investigator's Guide on the Downloads page for your perusal just in case you were thinking about joining our team of investigators. We need competent, hard-working field investigators. Just last month (June 2007), Oregon was second (after California with 25) on MUFON's UFO case list with 16 case reports. We are swamped. It seems UFOs are buzzing the state lately.
• Your assistant and state directors are going over to Redmond, Oregon, on Saturday, June 23, 2007, to staff an Oregon MUFON booth at the Redmond Project Blue Book Festival. Activities begin at 10 AM. All the usual fun stuff like an alien costume contest, alien parade, alien ball, etc., will be there, but for people interested in the more serious side, there will be some formally organized opportunities to share UFO experiences with the public and other experiencers. We'll be there to listen, but also to educate the public about UFO facts, figures, investigations, research, etc. Come join us for a day of UFO talk and sharing.
• Portland cable access TV producer Jefferson Kincaid is sponsoring a local Portland UFO awareness celebration. He is inviting the public to a gathering at It's A Beautiful Pizza restaurant at 3342 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon from 11 AM to 2 PM on July 4, 2007. This is the 60th anniversary of widespread knowledge of the existence of UFOs. Portland and Oregon, like the rest of the nation, were swamped with sighting reports in the three to four weeks after Kenneth Arnold reported his famous June 24, 1947, sighting of multiple flying saucers flying between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams. To get rev'd up for the celebration, read through these 1947 UFO reports from Oregon's own newspaper of record The Oregonian.
• We've added another new Oregon MUFON Case Study report. This one involves 9.63 seconds of an alternately shiny and dark, oblong UFO videotaped near Medford, Oregon, on March 20, 2007. See Oregon Cases.
• Recently, we produced an Oregon MUFON brochure, which has a Q and A about UFOs and brief descriptions of some Oregon cases. Take a look.
• Oregon MUFON hosted Mike Schultz again at our March meeting. Mike creates DVDs for sale that gather together a lot of provocative ancient astronaut material. His two DVDs are an easy introduction to this material. See Oregon News.
• Once again Oregon MUFON will be at the annual UFO Festival in McMinnville, Oregon. In 2007, it'll be on May 18 and 19, a Friday and Saturday. Put this on your calendars and we'll see you there. See Oregon News.
• In Oregon Cases, you will find two new Oregon cases. Your Assistant State Director has finally documented two of his sightings in Oregon MUFON Case Studies format. Take a look and see what you think.
• In Oregon Cases, you will find a link to a Keynote presentation on the famous Trent family UFO photos case of 1950. Keith Rowell, Assistant State Director, gave the presentation to the May 9, 2006, meeting of Oregon MUFON.
• In Investigating, there's a link to IFOs (Identified Flying Objects). These are the conventional natural or human-made objects and/or phenomena that people mistakenly report as genuine unknowns. Check them out. Is your UFO really an IFO? Chances are pretty good it is because only around 10% of sightings turn out to be genuine UFOs after close, competent investigation.
• In Oregon Stories, we've put up a couple of UFO stories for you. Also, read about what a UFO story is in contrast to a UFO case. Briefly, stories are uninvestigated UFO narratives and cases are stories that have been investigated by credentialed UFO investigators.
• In Oregon History, there's a whole bunch of news articles from June/July 1947. This will give you a flavor of what the UFO fuss is all about. Judging from the articles, the people in 1947 were pretty convinced they had a genuine mystery on their hands and speculation about what the answers were was rampant. Take a look.
• In Recommended, we've got a list of UFO books that won't steer you wrong about what is publicly known about UFOs. But, be warned, some are academic books so put on your scholar's hat and get that dictionary out because you might need it. Those scholars and scientists can sometimes write some pretty turgid prose. Or just skip that stuff and go right to the much more accessible general summaries of the current state of affairs within ufology.
• In Report an Event, you will find a quick idea of what we need from you to make a report to MUFON. Also, if you like, you can contact MUFON directly since there is now a report form on line.