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Oregon MUFON has filled out the schedule for the 2018 McMenamins/Oregon MUFON Paranormal Pub events. Be sure to explore the speakers' websites to find out more about what is ahead. Paranormal Pubs are presented on the last Sunday of each month and doors open at 6 PM. The programs start at 7 PM and go to 9 PM. Check out the McMenamins website for the Mission Theater Paranormal Pub events or search on Facebook for "McMenamins Paranormal Pub" in the upcoming months for more information.
January 28. Esteban DeCorazon and Tom Hatsis on entheogens history and experiences. Portland Psychedelic Society. Many people believe that mind-altering substances, when used responsibly in the right set and setting, can produce profound life changes by connecting us with the divine. Is this for you? Come find out.
February 25. Rocky Smith on Oregon ghost stories. Oregon Ghost Conference. Popular ghost hunter Rocky Smith makes a return visit to the Paranormal Pub to share more real ghost stories from Oregon. Rocky is well-known for hosting the annual Oregon Ghost Conference. Oregon MUFON goes every year these days. It is well worth it.
March 25. Loren Christensen on the police and their paranormal experiences. Loren's website. Loren is a retired Portland police officer and life-long professional in security services both in the military and in civilian life. It makes sense security people might experience paranormal activity since they are up when you are asleep and they are trained to observers. Things do go bump in the night!
April 29. Dave King and Stacy Calvert on electronic voice phenomena. Washington State Ghost Society. Dave and Stacy specialize in the ghost-related field of electronic voice phenomena (EVP). You've seen this on the cable channel ghost shows. Now come hear some locally investigated EVP.
May 27. Neil McNeill on evidence for soul survival. Paranormal Studies Institute. A past Paranormal Pub speaker, Neil brings a wealth of knowledge about the parapsychology field, especially the under-appreciated parapsychology studies of the past. I've asked him to give us a primer on the evidence for "soul" survival. Yes, it does appear to be a fact that at least some important aspects of our personalities do live on after the brain dies.
June 24. Rocky Smith has been rescheduled to deliver the same presentation as he did in February on Oregon City history as it relates to ghost hauntings. Rocky was so popular that we filled the Mission Theater to capacity and had to turn away many. We are sorry about that and hope that those who missed his first presentation will be able to attended his second appearance for us. And thanks, Rocky, for agreeing to do your presentation again!
July 29. Kimberly Clark Sharp on NDE research and experiences. About Kimberly. Kimberly is one of the leading lights in near death experience education and research. I am very pleased she has agreed to speak at a Paranormal Pub event.
August 26. Montana Jordan on women's spirituality. Montana is an ordained minister and pagan high priestess and will present a talk on the various forms and practices of historical and modern day Goddess and nature worship. http://occultofpersonality.net/katie-montana-jordan/
September 30. Dave Markowitz on dealing with your feelings and experiences if you are an empathic/intuitive (psychic) personality. Dave's website. Dave is an empath/intuitive himself and seeks to help other people adjust to and maximize this gift. It seems that especially young children with psychic abilities suffer when they have no one close who understands these gifts and can, therefore, offer genuine caring help.
October 28. Tarot and divination presented by Iris Meredith Bell and Terrance Gamble of The Raven's Wing Magical Co. Ever want to know what your future holds? Is that special person the one? Will you ever be rich? These questions and more are answered every day by Tarot readers and diviners. Come with questions, and be ready to access your own power of intuition.
November 25. Jeremy Corbell's documentary film Hunt for the Skinwalker. This film documents the truly strange paranormal events happening over a couple of decades on a ranch in Utah. Robert Bigelow's scientific investigative group National Institute for Discovery Science did years of work trying to scientifically monitor the phenomena with varying degrees of success. Afterward Chief scientist Colm Kelleher along with Las Vegas KLAS TV news journalist George Knapp wrote a book about the study (Hunt for the Skinwalker). Reportedly, a Pentagon connected group is continuing the research today.
December. No program.
Mark your calendars and come get a taste of what some of your fellow human beings are experiencing, thinking about, and studying. And enjoy a McMenamins beverage and pizza to boot. What could be better!?
Oregon MUFON strives to find knowledgeable speakers on topics that should be addressed and studied by our academic establishment but are too often not. We believe that it is vital that the academic establishment study long-term and systematically the entire range of paranormal topics, so that we can all begin to appreciate all of human experience. When important societal institutions choose to ignore important parts of the entire range of human experience and the world around us, we all suffer.
Today, the science of near death experience, for example, is beginning to change our ideas about what human beings, human consciousness, and the reality around us may actually consist of. UFOs also seem to change long held ideas about reality, too, when they are studied in depth and that is how Oregon MUFON came to sponsor McMenamins Paranormal Pubs.
Join us at a Paranormal Pub event coming your way soon!
McMenamins Paranormal Pubs are a collaboration between McMenamins and Oregon MUFON.
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UFO researcher Jefferson Kincaid is once again holding his Portland July 4, 1947, UFO Sightings Celebration. This year it's at the same place as the last few years: the Green Dragon Brew Pub and Bistro at 928 SE 9th Ave. in Portland. The Celebration will be held July 4, 2016, from 12 to 3 PM.
Come hear about Jefferson's latest UFO research into the very beginnings of public information about UFOs. In the last eight years, he has worked diligently at the Oregon Historical Society to ferret out mostly newspaper UFO articles during the massive summer of 1947 wave of UFO sightings. Jefferson has uncovered articles from many small town Oregon newspapers along with some Washington papers.
In the past few years, Jefferson has spent time in Chicago at various special university library collections such as the J. Allen Hynek collection at Northwestern University, from which Hynek retired as a Professor in Astronomy. This past year, he has even researched in libraries in London and Paris! The 1947 UFO wave started on the west coast of the U.S. and ended up after a few weeks in Europe.
In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Hynek was the official U.S. Air Force consultant to Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, which studied the UFO problem. After finishing with Project Blue Book and after it closed thanks to the bogus conclusion of the official AF Condon Committee report, Hynek, who by that time knew that UFOs constituted a genuine mystery, founded the Center for UFO Studies, which continues today to do research into the nature of UFOs.
Come help Oregon MUFON celebrate the beginning of UFOs with Jefferson Kincaid at his event. We guarantee you will learn new and surprising facts about UFOs from the very beginning of the era of widespread public knowledge of the phenomenon.
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Oregon MUFON State Director Tom Bowden has decided to step down after serving more than 20 years as Oregon MUFON state director—the longest tenure of any state director of Oregon MUFON. He headed up our chapter of the national MUFON organization as state director from the beginning of his service.
Tom appointed This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to succeed him as state director as of December 1, 2024.
Over the years, Tom trained and served as a manager and consultant to over 50 MUFON field investigators while also working many cases himself. During his time, Oregon MUFON investigated and logged hundreds of cases. Most were IFOs but quite a number were judged to be genuine unknowns.
Tom was also the public face of MUFON in Oregon. He gave many talks about UFOs to audiences around the state. And he occasionally appeared on local TV and in print media.
Each year, he attended the annual MUFON symposium, and with fellow state directors learned about the many positive changes corporate MUFON made in his 20 years. These included implementing a greatly enhanced field investigator training program, adding a general UFO education program for the public, organizing and operating the Experiencer Resource Team (ERT) for abductees and experiencers, and starting MUFON TV programming and the MUFON global observers social network, along with other innovative programs. Tom also served on the ERT.
Just this year, MUFON corporate honored Tom by awarding him the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. We wish Tom the best and congratulate him for a job well done in his two decades leading Oregon MUFON. We will miss him.
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A message from Oregon MUFON State Director Dean Fassnidge:
Due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, Oregon MUFON meetings are being held on-line using the Zoom application. You can get more information about our meetings by sending a message to Dean Fassnidge.
Dean Fassnidge, Oregon State Director, MUFON
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A meeting notice from Tom Bowden, Oregon MUFON's State Director:
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