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2:57 PM, Jan. 19, 2012  |  


Written by

Mike Boyer
 









The oldest and largest UFO investigating organization in the world now
calls Cincinnati home and in August will host as many as 1,000 UFO
investigators and others interested in unexplained phenomenon.

David MacDonald, president of Lunken Airport-based Flamingo Air
charter service, this week was named new international director of the
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an international organization with 3,000
members in 39 countries. A member of MUFON since 2008, MacDonald, who
lives in Florence, has served as Kentucky state chapter director.

He succeeds retiring international director Clifford Clift who lived
in Greeley, Colo.

MUFON has a network of 800 trained and certified investigators who
scientifically research reports of unidentified flying objects. The
reports are compiled in MUFON’s data base of more than 33,000
sightings. It also publishes the monthly MUFON Journal.

MUFON will hold its annual International Symposium featuring speakers
and workshops on UFOs Aug-3-5 at the Marriott Riverfront in Covington.

Although founded in 1969 in Illinois as the Midwest UFO Network, the
organization has been based for years in Colorado and other western
states.

“This is a perfect location for MUFON because we’re centrally
located,” said MacDonald. He estimated the organization has a few
hundred members in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

MacDonald, 65, said he’s been hooked on the subject since he read his
first book about flying saucers as an eight-year old.

“Ninety-two percent of the the UFO reports can be easily explained,
but its that eight percent that you can’t explain that keeps you
coming back,” said MacDonald. He said the organization logs an average
of 600 UFO reports a month. A licensed pilot, MacDonald said he’s
never seen a UFO.

MUFON’s office will be in Lunken Airport’s south terminal wing.
MacDonald said he’ll have one paid staff person in the office.





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