DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

JAN C. HARZAN

The Media Gets It!

Area 51

I’ve been inundated with media requests this past week about MUFON and what we think about various issues related to the UFO topic. These are exciting times. The media has finally figured out that UFOs are real, or perhaps more truthfully the Pentagon is telling them they are, and to everyone’s surprise they are taking it seriously. That’s good news and a serious step in the right direction. They are so serious about the subject that they have even dropped the need for a debunker on every news or interview segment. Just the facts is what they seem to want which is a refreshing change after all these years of debunking, ridicule, and jokes made at our expense.

Case in point, I met with the PBS station in San Diego for an interview this week and every question and every topic brought up was serious and to the point. They want to know what MUFON knows, they want the 411, the full story. What a sea change from a short 18 months ago prior to the NYT front page article on the Pentagon’s secret UFO program called AATIP. Man have things changed and it appears there is no turning back. And boy am I on board for that! Then on the heels of the media frenzy that’s building we get a gift given to us by a Facebook blogger who suggested everyone storm Area 51 and another media blitz started. I’ve been fielding calls all week on that one news item alone. Storm Area 51; not a particularly smart idea, but certainly one the public has embraced and taken to heart. People want to know. They want to know what their government knows about the subject of UFOs and aliens. They want to know what the government isn’t telling them about our space program and extraterrestrial life, and they want to know what it is their $100 billion a year in black budget spending of their tax dollars is going towards. And much of that resides at Area 51.

Reporters ask me, why do I think this has garnered so much attention among the American people. Very simply I think that people are tired of being lied to, told to mind their own business, needlessly harassed and/or publicly humiliated all to keep a secret that there are advanced craft flying around our skies and there is not a darn thing we can do about it. I say it is time we stop putting on the charades and instead start putting out the welcome mat. We are definitely NOT alone. l