Florida MUFON News

History

Florida MUFON News was the regional chapter newsletter of the Mutual UFO Network Florida section. The archive holds five issues from 1992, covering the period from February through May of that year. The Florida section's editorial focus reflects what was, at that moment, the most actively investigated UFO case in the United States: the Gulf Breeze photographic sequence by Ed Walters, which had been running since November 1987 and which had become the documentary centrepiece of Florida ufology. Gulf Breeze is in the Florida Panhandle, in the Florida section's investigative territory, and Florida MUFON's coverage of the case is the in-section editorial record.

The contributor list across the five issues includes Budd Hopkins on the Roper Poll abduction-rate findings, Petti Wetherill on the Gulf Breeze update, Boots Eckert on the Colin Andrews Pensacola visit and crop-circle research, the Fund for UFO Research on the abduction-rate analysis, and Dr Norma Milanovich and Whit Wise on the Templar crop-circle interpretation work. The mix of named contributors places Florida MUFON inside the larger national MUFON-and-Fund-for-UFO-Research network of the early 1990s, the period when the abduction-research wing of American ufology was at its most institutionally connected.