MUFON New York City Newsletter

History

The MUFON New York City Newsletter was the chapter publication of the Mutual UFO Network New York City section. The archive holds one issue, dated January 1992, addressed to NYC MUFON members in a "Letter from the Editor" format and signed from the section director's office. The letter documents the formation of the NYC chapter, the administrative challenges the chapter was working through, the local investigation-group arrangements the section was setting up, and the boundary lines between NYC MUFON and the surrounding regional MUFON sections.

New York City sits in unusual territory for a MUFON chapter. The state MUFON sections were organised by state, and the New York State section had been running for years; the metropolitan New York City chapter required a separate administrative arrangement because the field investigators, the witness population, and the meeting venues were all concentrated in the five boroughs rather than distributed across upstate New York. The January 1992 founding letter is the documentary trace of that organisational adjustment being worked out in practice.