MUFON, Pedophile Charges, and Racism

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 a minor “for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity,” according to police. Jan Harzan, who has headed MUFON since 2013, is accused of soliciting “sexual activity from a detective he believed was a 13-year-old girl,” according to a release from the Huntington Beach, CA police department. VICE

Jan C. Harzan is listed as the Executive Director of the Mutual UFO Network.

"MUFON is currently headquartered in Irvine, California, under the direction of Jan Harzan, with chapters in every U.S. state. The organization claims to have more than 4,000 members worldwide, with a majority of its membership base situated in the continental United States." Wikipedia

The photograph of Jan C. Harzan on IMDb.

2018 M.U.F.O.N. International Symposium Speakers

Jan Harzan - MUFON International Director with John Brandenberg, Ph.D, Nick Pope, Bob Wood, Ph.D, Luiz Elidondo, Ted Peters, Dave Paulides, Don C. Donderi, Ph.D, Salma Siddich, Kathleen Marden, Randall Nickerson & Travis Walton. 

MUFON’s role in the UFO world is massive. The organization was founded in 1969 in Quincy, Illinois to track citizen sightings of UFOs; they claim to still hold the world’s “largest and most detailed database of UFO sightings.” The organization has worked closely with government contractors, including Bigelow Aerospace, which received money from the federal government to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena. According to documents reviewed by Motherboard, Bigelow Aerospace paid MUFON to make technical reports on characteristics often described in UFO incidents. Bigelow Aerospace also offered MUFON funding to put together the STAR Team, a UFO investigation team that could be on site within 24 to 48 hours of a UFO incident.

According to the organization's website, Harzan is a former IBM engineer who, when he was a kid, was "visited by a real UFO, no more than thirty feet from [his brother and him], with no visible means of propulsion other than making a humming noise, before shooting off over the horizon. This event profoundly changed their lives." 

In 2018 a former MUFON state director, John Ventre, made racist comments about African Americans on his personal Facebook page. Stating that white Americans were experiencing a “white genocide.” Jan Harzan did not condemn Ventre but instead expressed his concern for "the new social media world we now live in" and stated everyone should engage in open dialogue by writing, "There is no justice in hate, no matter what side of the fence you are on. On that we can all agree." MUFON eventually withdrew Harzan’s comments from its website and Ventre was removed from his position when public pressure mounted. 

Last month, Ken Pfeifer, head of MUFON Rhode Island, posted racist memes and comments on Facebook last month during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. “HOLY SHIT….I WOULD OF PICKED THEIR COTTON FOR THEM….IF I THOUGHT IT WOULD END THIS BLM RACIST MADNESS.”

Chris Cogswell, MUFON’s former Director of Research, who left because of what he said was a racist culture at the organization, said “the main leadership levels of MUFON have been problematic for a number of years, and provides essentially nothing to the individual chapters which are for the most part run by decent, intelligent, and caring members of their communities. Although everyone is entitled to the assumption of innocence until proven guilty, this is a heinous charge. I cannot foresee any possibility of MUFON continuing, but hope the individual chapters can put their time and energy into an organization that will benefit them as much as they benefit it." Source.

Deaths Aplenty in SoCal 2020

Due to other breaking death news, this posting has been updated overnight July 13-14, 2020.

Elvis' Grandson, Club 27, and Calabasas again

Benjamin Keough, the son of Lisa Marie Presley and grandson of Elvis Presley, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his torso. He was 27.

Lisa Marie is the only child of Priscilla and Elvis.

Keough died Sunday, July 12, 2020, Calabasas Park Estates, in Calabasas, California.

"Kobe [Bryant] died very near to the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District. 5.7 miles or 11 minutes from where Benjamin [Keough] died. Or less, as the crow flies." ~ diamondmind311

Calabasas again? This is near where Kobe Bean Bryant's helicopter crashed on January 26, 2020, killing him, his daughter, his pilot, and friends on board.

Calabasas =

It is generally accepted that the name of Calabasas is derived from the Spanish calabaza meaning "pumpkin," "squash," or "gourd." Some historians hold the theory that Calabasas is derived from the Chumash word calahoosa, which is said to mean "where the wild geese fly." Owing to vast presence of wild squash plants in the area, the squash theory is more prevalent among local residents. At the top of the Calabasas grade, which is east of Las Virgenes Road, legend has it that in 1824, a Basque rancher from Oxnard spilled a wagonload of pumpkins on the road en route to Los Angeles. The following spring, hundreds of pumpkin seeds sprouted alongside the road. The area was named Las Calabasas—the place where the pumpkins fell.
In honor of its namesake, the City of Calabasas and the Calabasas Chamber of Commerce hold an annual Pumpkin Festival in October, including carnival games, exhibits, demonstrations, and live entertainment. The festival has evolved from a small-town fair to a significant annual event. Though the current Pumpkin Festival is held at Juan Bautista de Anza Park in Calabasas, the original festival was believed to have taken place where the traveling wagon carrying pumpkins overturned and started the area's first pumpkin patch.
The city's official logo, depicting a red-tailed hawk flying over the Santa Monica Mountains. Source.

Keough also was the brother of actress Riley Keough and son of musician Danny Keough. (Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough divorced in 1994.) His maternal grandmother is Priscilla Presley. Keough also has twin sisters, Finley and Harper Lockwood, 11, whose father is Lisa Marie Presley's ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

Besides marriages to Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood, Lisa Marie Presley was married, in between those two husbands, to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Keough was said to be an Elvis look-a-like.

Scientology Syncs 

Lisa Marie Presley was brought into the Church of Scientology in 1977 by her mother, Priscilla. 

By coincidence, on July 12, 2020, Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, who was known by her stage name, Kelly Preston, died. She was married to John Travolta, with whom she collaborated on the science fiction film Battlefield Earth (2000). Both Preston and Travolta were Scientologists, and married on September 5, 1991, in Paris by a French Scientology minister.

When reporting on Benjamin Keough’s birth in Tampa, Florida, the Associated Press quoted a spokesperson who said the 24-year-old Presley delivered the 7-pound, 8-ounce boy “naturally and in complete silence in a calm and supportive environment” under guidelines set out by Scientology’s founder, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, in his book Dianetics.

Lisa Marie Presley grew discontented with Scientology and finally left the church in 2016. She released a song, “So Long,” in 2012 that decried churches that “don’t have a soul” and “corrupt” religions that run people’s lives.

In another temporal coincidence, on June 17, 2020, Los Angeles prosecutors confirmed that actor Danny Masterson had been charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s following a lengthy investigation. The That '70s Show alum, a noted member of the church of Scientology, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Mythbusters and Glee

Also...

Former MythBusters co-host Adam Savage has been accused of sexual abuse by his sister.
In a lawsuit filed June 30, 2020, in Westchester Supreme Court, Miranda Pacchiana says she was "sexually abused as a child by her brother."
Documents state that from 1976 to 1979, when they lived together in Sleepy Hollow, New York, Savage, now 52, "would repeatedly rape Miranda Pacchiana and force oral sex upon her, and forced Miranda to perform oral sex on him, along with other forms of sexual abuse."
At the time of the alleged abuse, Pacchiana was 7 to 10 years old and Savage was 9 to 12, according to the documents.
In a statement to USA Today provided by attorney Andrew Brettler, Savage denied the allegations.
"While I hope that my sister gets the help she needs to find peace, this needs to end. For many years, she has relentlessly and falsely attacked me and other members of my family to anyone that will listen," the statement says.
"By spreading numerous untrue stories about us in pursuit of a financial bonanza, she has tortured our entire family and estranged herself from all of us. I will fight this groundless and offensive lawsuit and work to put this to rest once and for all."
Brettler also provided a statement from Savage and Pacchiana's mother, Karen Savage.
"It makes me very sad to say this, but my daughter suffers from severe mental health challenges, and it’s devastating that she’s putting Adam and our entire family through this," she said.

Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of missing and presumed drowned (on July 8, 2020) Glee star Maya Rivera was recovered on Monday, July 13, 2020, at Lake Piru, Ventura County, California. This comes seven years to the day after Glee star Cory Monteith died in Vancouver, British Columbia. Monteith died from "a mixed drug toxicity" consisting of heroin and alcohol.

Intriguingly, behind Glee (2009–2015), as well as Nip/Tuck (2003–2010) and American Horror Story (2011–present), is Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 9, 1965), an American screenwriter, director, and producer. In Nip/Tuck, he decided to do a series of story lines on Scientology, and according to one site, has finished 15 Scientology completions.

Grant Imahara, 49, former MythBusters (208 eps) & White Rabbit Project host, dies July 13, 2020. Cause brain aneurysm. 

Jessi Combs, 39, MythBusters guest host (7 eps), dies in horrific land speed attempt accident, August 27, 2019.

MythBusters guest host Jessi Combs, 39, who died Aug 27, 2019, had appeared in a cryptofiction film, Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot (2019). The movie also starred folks with familiar names: Tom Green, Les Stroud, Stacy Brown, Jr., and Rick Dyer.

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Is there a thread, sync, dots to be connected here? Nay, just crazy coincidences, right?

June 24, 2020 Death

‪Wan Gengyu (Chinese: 万庚育) born January 29, 1922, died June 24, 2020, in Gansu, at 98. She was a Chinese painter, librarian & dunhuangologist [i.e. prominent scholar student of the Mogao Grottoes or Caves (also known as the Thousand Buddha Caves) built in the 4th-14th century. Caves appear to clearly show UFOs over the Buddhas, and Giants.]

July 12, 1947

How do you think it feels to be born nearly on the threshold of UFOlogy, on July 12, 1947, near a major American Naval base, in Norfolk, Virginia?

Eight Kenneth Arnold-like flying saucers were photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on my exact birthdate.

On July 12, 1947, Kenneth Arnold sent a telegram giving his permission, for the first time, to General Twining to disseminate information about Arnold's June 24th sighting to all military commands.

As many of you know, I, Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist and Fortean, was born on July 12, 1947. I co-wrote The Unidentified: Notes Towards Solving the UFO Mystery in 1975, and Creatures of the Outer Edge in 1978, both with Jerome Clark, published by Warner Books in New York City. It was republished as a combined volume with a new introduction in 2006 from Anomalist Books.

Jerry Clark and I had an intellectual side trek to get off our chests, and for me, my Jungian journey into ufology in our 1975 book was enough. But it is intriguing to me that my first book would, in essence, be about "ufology."

Also, Bertrand Méhuest, ufologist, was born on July 12, 1947. Méheust's early work was linked to ufo. His first book, in 1978, was on ufology. Méheust's mentor is Aimé Michel, who was also be a powerful influence on Jacque Valleé. It is a small world, after all.