Capitola Dragonfly Drone UFOs Spotted On Prime Time!!

A couple of days ago, I made a Blog post on the Drone UFOs, “Dragonfly Drone Hunters – The Search For Rajinder/Rajman1977” which described how a group of members at the Open Minds Forum have paid to enlist the help of a couple of Private Investigators to try and locate the utility pole which is located in the, “Rajman1977” Drone images and subsequently locate the witness himself.

Well this story ran on the 18th March and the History Channels new UFO Flagship, “UFO-Hunters” heavily featured the Drone UFO images. I personally feel the UFO-Hunters presented the Drones with little in the way of middle ground, it appears that the UFO-Hunters team thought that they were either proof of reverse engineering of alien technology or a hoax.

The possibility that the Drones themselves could be manufactured or controlled by an extraterrestrial entity was strangely omitted, I say strangely as I feel the UFO Hunters (by definition if nothing else) should have at least of entertained this possibility. Bruce Maccabee was interviewed briefly and drew attention to the lack of any kind of aerodynamics present in the structure and design of the Drones yet still the investigation centred on the reverse engineering theory. If you are approaching the Drones from an evidence based perspective then after a quick browse the Isaac documents (which they possessed and discussed) it should be evident or at least very unlikely that the Drones were manufactured by human hands.

What follows is an excerpt from the Isaac documents under the, “Some Explanation for the Recent Sightings ” heading:

“I should first be clear that I'm not directly familiar with any of the crafts seen in the photos in their entirety. I've never seen them in a hangar or worked on them myself or seen aliens zipping around in them. However, I have worked with and seen many of the parts visible in these crafts…..These crafts have probably existed in their current form for decades, and I can say for sure that the technology behind them has existed for decades before that…..The technology itself isn't ours, or at least it wasn't in the 80's. Much like the technology in these crafts themselves .”

I probably should point out at this juncture that I personally believe the entire Drone phenomenon to be a complete fabrication but I still believe that any Drone investigation should have at least been conducted in a way that allowed for the possibility that the Drones weren't a result of human engineering or under human control.

Anyway, here's the relevant section/s from the recent UFO-Hunters (7th) episode, including Bruce Maccabee and James Carrion (head of Mufon).

Back to the Private Investigators and it's turning out to be money well spent if purely for raising the profile of the Drone reports and informing the public of their existence and the search for witnesses. They even made it to Fox News recently, here's a short Fox News Report on the two Private Investigators charged with locating the utility pole and commissioned by OMF.

After no news for nearly a year we no have the LA-Times story on the 18th, UFO-Hunters appearance on the 19th and the Fox News segment on the 20th March!! Perhaps the end is nearing for a collection of some of the most intriguing UFO images and UFO reports of recent times.

Sci-Fi Channel - UFO Hunters Special

I wrote about Mufon and the, “UFO Hunters” trademark link back on the 20th January 2008 but it was more about the motivations & implications that James Carrion (International Mufon Directory) may have had more on his mind than just obtaining information regarding the Drones and the recent PowerPoint release of a primer in these sightings, images and documentation. The foray into a public UFO Forum was always ill-advised in my humble opinion and one that (on the face of it) appeared a wholly fruitless pursuit. The original Blog post I made garnered quite a few comments and one of the people who commented (Manuel) researched the trademarks thoroughly, posting his subsequent findings and inquiring as to the point I was attempting to make.

I wasn’t attempting to make a point as such, but rather pointing out that a little further down the road there would inevitably be a dispute regarding the term, “UFO Hunters” this was compounded by the fact that Mufon already have a UFO Hunters logo on their home page which links directly to their, “How to become a field investigator” section.

Little did I realise when posting the recent filing for the trademark, “UFOHunters” by Mufon it was just a small part of the unfolding trademark story. James Carrion even referenced the History Channel show while at the forum, after being directly asked about it:

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“Can I ask- have you / MUFON been asked to contribute to the History channel's 'UFO Hunters' regarding the 'Drones' / CARET, in any way?”

James replied saying :

“Funny you should ask about the History Channel - their film crew was here on Thursday filming their reverse engineering episode of UFO Hunters and the PowerPoint presentation we have posted on the Internet was created expressly for briefing the stars of the show on what MUFON knew about DRONES/CARET. That also explains why there are fewer details/notes in the presentation as we had to keep it concise to fit their shooting timeframe. Our follow up MUFON Journal article will contain the details of our investigation.

John Schuessler, former MUFON International Director was also interviewed on camera talking about earlier claims of reverse engineering (Corso, Lazar, etc.)”

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Trademark Envy

I was more interested then (as I am now) about whether the History Channel show, “The UFO Hunters” were aware of this trademark application when conducting interviews with (and essentially promoting) Mufon. I should point out I’m not claiming foul play or pre-meditated deceit but rather highlighting what I found unusual at the time. In fact far from reflecting badly on Mufon it shows them in a favourable light as they apparently anticipated this and shrewdly registered the UFO Hunters trademark two months previous and had purchased the domain name, “UFOHUNTERS.ORG” as early as April 2007.

It got even more interesting when it was realised that the SCI-FI channel and the History Channel have not only both filed for a UFO Hunters trademark but both of them moved their respective programmes forward in a direct head-to-head battle. It has been mentioned that this is more than likely so neither could claim having showed the programme first and so neither would have the upper hand when being considered for the trademark, which would indeed seem the likeliest scenario.

But it’s still not quite as easy as that as it has also previously been reported that The History Channel & The Sci-Fi Channel are inextricably linked via their corporate ownership, namely NBC Universal. As NBC Universal not only owns the Sci-Fi channel but is also involved in the production company that is producing the show for the History Channel, i.e. “A&E Television Networks” which is a joint venture between The Hearst Corporation, ABC Inc., and NBC Universal.

The Sci-Fi Channel has already had success with their programme, “Ghost Hunters” and UFO Hunters appears to be a similar format as this so it’s a little strange why nobody thought to file for the trademark until after the History Channel did.

Also, the History Channel has already produced a programme named UFO Hunters, but this was the name of an episode in their popular, “UFO Files” series back in 2005 (rather than the name of the actual series) however this hasn’t stopped them claiming, “Previous use” of the trademark when filing (whereas Sci-Fi had to claim “Intent to use.”) But due to the tenuous claim of this previous use it remains to be seen who will be successful in their trademark applications.

The History Channel is running its UFO Hunters series weekly whereas it would appear that the Sci-Fi channels programme is still in development and billed it’s first programme as a, “Special” and has not confirmed any further dates as of yet.

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Sci-Fi Channel - UFO Hunters Special

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The timeline of the applications regarding UFO Hunters:

1. Domain Name:UFOHUNTERS.ORG
   Created On:18-Apr-2007
   Registrant Name:James Carrion
   Registrant Organization:MUFON, Inc.
2. UFOHUNTERS trademark
   Filed on August 30, 2007
   (APPLICANT) Mutual UFO Network, Inc.
3. Word Mark UFO HUNTERS
   Filing Date August 30, 2007
   Owner (APPLICANT) Mutual UFO Network, Inc.
4. Standard Characters Claimed
   Filing Date October 31, 2007
   Owner (APPLICANT) A&E Television Networks
5. Word Mark NY-SPI: UFO HUNTERS
   Filing Date November 5, 2007
   Owner (APPLICANT) Pilgrim Films and Television, Inc.
6. Word Mark UFOHUNTERS
   Filing Date November 5, 2007
   Owner (APPLICANT) Pilgrim Films and Television, Inc

Reason That Mufon Is Re-investigating 2007 “Drone flap”?

Recent Announcement of Mufon & UFO Hunters Collaboration Explains A Lot

James Carrion (Mufon Int. Director) visited a popular UFO forum recently to try and gleam a little information on what Mufon already classed as a, “Hoax”.

I must admit to being a little puzzled by the recent attendance at a popular UFO Forum by the International Director of Mufon. While I believe it was an unprecedented move in the right direction to try and unite the fragmented online UFO community I feared at the time that his motivations were a little less than sincere.

It quickly deteriorated into a crass show of, “Oneupmanship” and James left empty handed. This was purely as the UFO-Hunters show had requested information for an upcoming Mufon/Drone episode, information had already been provided for the television show in a very poor PowerPoint presentation by Mufon which quoted certain CGI expert/s without their prior knowledge and with information gleamed from private emails between Mufon and said expert/s.

(Mufon presentation in PDF format available here)

It has since been announced that according to the Jan 2008 edition of Mufon Journal (p2), Mufon is in the process of trade-marking the name "UFO Hunters" and are in the process of producing a website and logo.

One purpose of the website will be to,

“Inform the public about MUFON's mission and goals".

Thanks to Robert Moore for the information relating to this new announcement (UK-UFO.org).