"Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unex- plained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) (voice: 1-877-979-7444 or e-mail: Reporting@baass.org)"
NOW, BEING THE TYPE OF PERSON I AM
SUSPICIOUS
THIS SEEMED ODD; WEIRD, STRANGE,
ALMOST FORTEAN. WHY WOULD THE FAA, AFTER ALL THESE DECADES, SUDDENLY, HAVE AN INTEREST IN UFO REPORTS AND WHY WOULD SUDDENLY - THERE BE A `SPECIFIC' GROUP TO CALL? WHY? AND WHO IS BAASS?
Good questions. Bigelow, as Barf Stew points out, is part of MUFON's "Starteam"
NOW, BELIEVE IT OR NOT - "THIS" IS WHERE ALL OF THIS BEGINS TO GET INTERESTING TO A UFO BLOGGER LIKE MYSELF. THE REASON BEING -- MR. BIGELOW RECENTLY BECAME THE MONEYMAN BEHIND A NEW MUFON ENDEAVOR CALLED `STAR TEAM' - A SUPPOSED 24/7 GROUP OF FOLKS READY TO INVESTIGATE UFO REPORTS OF AN ANOMALOUS NATURE. HERE'S THE LOWDOWN ON `STAR TEAM'HTTP://WWW.MUFON.COM/DOCUMENTS/STARTEAMIMPACTPROJECTOVERVIEW.PDF.
As Barf Stew comments, on the surface this seems like good news. Money coming to support UFO research - finally! But being suspicious, as I am, as Barf Stew is, and others seem to be, this doesn't seem like the good news it pretends to be. First of all -- and this should seem obvious -- the government's involved. And while, all along, the government has presented an indifferent face to us about UFOs, it's a logical and safe assumption to make that the government has been covertly working away at the UFO phenomena for decades.
This line makes me wonder: "UFO/ unex-plained phenomena reporting data collection center," -- anyone with a UFO sighting or "unexplained phenomena" and of "an anomalous nature" should take to Bigelow.
Are we to see a possibly mandated reporting of "anomalous" and "unexplained" events to para-governmental agencies? (This reminds me a bit of a novel I wrote twenty years ago or so; (unpublished and sitting in a box somewhere) where UFO sightings had to be reported to the government. If it were discovered you had a sighting and didn't report it, it was curtains!)
