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FROM PAGE 1The Mutual UFO NetworkMUFON is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to scientifically study UFOs for the benefit ■ of humanity.Annual budqet: $300,000 Membership: 3,000 t Field investigators: 1,000} State and national directors: 50I Worldwide reports: About 8,000 annuallyOrange County reports: 50-100 annually O.C.'s most famous UFO case: The Heflin Photos. r Around noon on Aug. 3,1965, highway maintenanceengineer Rex Heflin took four pictures near theintersection of what is today Walnut Avenue and Myford Road in Tustin. The Polaroid photos show a hat-like object with a dark band that Heflin 1 estimated was 20 feet in diameter and one-eighth ofa mile from his truck. Nearly 50 years later, his * photos remain among the most analyzed UFOevidence on record, i* Web: mufon.com„ Phone: 949-476-8366Email: exe.dir(Smufon.com O.C. meetings: Third Wednesday of the month, 7:40-10:15 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, 1845 Park Ave., Costa Mesa1e from another planet, Ilarzans said.k Of those labeled unidenti-e fied, about 30 cases a yeare catch his eye because ofh proximity, witness reliabilityf- or an instance of electronicse being affected,c Harzan recognizes t hat hehas no physical evidence (no is UFO bumper, as he likes toi- say), but still, he said, all ofs these reports, from all ofI- these ix'ople, all of the time -l- they can’t all be mistaken.?- That’s where scientistsd disagree.’t “Could they all be wrong?e Yes, they could,” said SethShostak, senior astronomer with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. “There are thousands of reports of ghosts every year. I would not say that’s really great proof there are ghosts.”Harzan and others at MUFON brush off such criticisms as skeptics.“Our biggest challenge is dealing with people’s belief systems,” he said. If they don't believe UFOs can be here, then no matter what data you present, they won’t believe.”So which MUFON file excites hi“Thi one mi “couldFR/Shor MUFO from s have piAs i stories, with c story g several crashes aliens Mexict cation incider later, sc area,k San A* eral f: show s origin ;Wonponder“I’m physic; we car “I insisHe’s suits. I out, H; best jo“I Iw’hat p find m the poi the un fascimHe’s makirij MUFC a netw
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