MUFON Colorado Newsletter

History

Colorado MUFON News published bimonthly from PO Box 471172, Aurora, Colorado 80047-1172, with Alejandro Rojas as editor and Barry Roth as co-editor. The chapter operated multiple meeting locations: Denver-area general meetings, a Colorado Springs series organised by Assistant State Director Ed Burke at the Gold Hill Police Station (705 South Nevada, first Saturday of even-numbered months), a Greeley group run by Clifford Clift, and a Western Slope section covering the Delta/Montrose area under Davina Ryszka. Annual membership cost $20. Non-members paid $5 per meeting.

The newsletter ran at six to eight pages per issue and combined field investigation reports with speaker summaries, meeting announcements, and reprinted articles of historical interest. John Schuessler, MUFON's International Director, contributed a January 2004 piece on US UFO cases as reported in foreign newspapers, opening with the London Daily Telegraph's coverage of 7 July 1947: "Capt. Tom Brown, of the United States Army Air force Public Relations staff, said here today that although all reports had been checked for ten days without result it was decided that there was 'something to them.'"

The chapter maintained a sightings hotline (303-451-5992) and regular field investigation operations under Director of Investigations Ethan Rich. The November 2004 issue documented a team of newly certified investigators travelling to Longmont to interview witnesses who had observed twenty or more spherical objects moving without apparent order on 9 October 2004. A separate Longmont witness reported a rectangular object with two rows of four glowing lights. The chapter also hosted speakers from across the paranormal research spectrum: Joe Fex presented his archival library of rare UFO and Bigfoot artefacts, connecting biblical "columns of fire" accounts to modern phenomena.

Colorado MUFON organised annual "Not of This Earth Day" events and maintained connections to the 2004 MUFON International Symposium circuit. The chapter's field investigator certification programme produced investigators who could reach remote sighting locations across the state's eastern plains, mountain corridors, and the San Luis Valley.