UFO Buster Radio News – 395: Wyoming UFO, NASA NIDS, and MUFON’s Jan Harzan Arrested - Scandal

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Douglas Family Reports UFO Sighting

Link: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2020/07/09/douglas-family-reports-ufo-sighting/

By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily

A Douglas family reported seeing an unidentified flying object in April, according to a recent posting to the National UFO Reporting Center.

The family’s report, posted to the private organization’s website, said family members were outside of Douglas on a night in mid-April when they saw a “somewhat transparent” object in either a crescent or saucer shape possibly fly across the sky and then change direction.

Family remembers reportedly saw the UFO at various points over a 45-minute period at different elevations and spots in the sky.

“My family and I have never seen anything like that, and know how planes act at night,” the report said. “Low flying craft with no lights or sound, with very little visual indication unless you see it at the right time.”

The family believed they were seeing strange clouds at first, but realized that wasn’t the case.

No one was able to capture any photos or video of the UFO because of dark conditions.

UFO reports from Wyoming are not unheard of. In August of 2019, a Jackson woman reported she may have recorded a UFO in the skies of Teton County.

However, experts, including Richard Beckwith, Wyoming’s director of the Mutual UFO Network, said when people report seeing UFOs, they are often seeing items that are terrestrial in nature.

“All that being said, most alleged UFO sightings can be explained by things such as meteors, airplanes, birds, balloons, fireworks, drones, etc.,” Beckwith said in an email to the Cowboy State Daily. “However, a hard core of approximately 5% to 10% of UFO sightings remains unexplained. That is as true for Wyoming as it is anywhere else, perhaps even more so. People do see strange things in Wyoming, and some of them cannot be explained.”

NASA: Alien Life is 'Highest Planetary Protection Priority' for Mars Missions

Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4bq/nasa-alien-life-is-highest-planetary-protection-priority-for-mars-missions

NASA wants to explore Mars, but a new agency directive shows that avoiding “extraterrestrial life and bioactive molecules” hitching a ride back to Earth is a top priority.

NASA made it clear that “safeguarding the Earth from potential back[ward] contamination is the highest planetary protection priority in Mars exploration,” in a NASA Interim Directive (NID) released last week that reforms the agency’s previous policies on this issue.

As for what the agency is worried about, the NID mentions “extraterrestrial life and bioactive molecules” such as prions, which are pathogenic misfolded proteins that cause neurological disease in humans and animals.

Nobody knows if Mars hosts life, though most scientists think that the Martian surface is probably too cold, dry, and irradiated to be inhabited. However, Mars had some of the right conditions to support life billions of years ago, and indigenous Martians, perhaps in the form of bacteria, may persist deep under its icecaps or in subterranean water reservoirs. Even the most remote chance of bringing alien life, or any extraterrestrial substances that could cause harm, back to Earth is a cause for serious concern.

Head of Major UFO Organization Arrested on Child Solicitation Charges

Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azpj9/head-of-major-ufo-organization-arrested-on-child-solicitation-charges

The 64-year-old Newport Beach resident now serves as the executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, an international research nonprofit -- head of the Mutual UFO Network, was arrested July 3 and is accused of soliciting "sexual activity from a detective he believed was a 13-year-old girl."

The executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest UFO research organizations in the United States, has been arrested on charges of soliciting...