UFO on Showtime: MUFON's Pandora Project to Digitize Archives and Advance Aerial Phenomena Research

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Showtime’s UFO docu-series, executive-produced by J. J. Abrams, follows MUFON—the largest civilian group that investigates unidentified aircraft—through interviews with James Carrion and others to explain MUFON’s goals of documenting sightings, building a global database, advancing scientific research, and educating the public, tracing its late-1960s origins from the Midwest UFO Network with leaders like Dr. Allen Utke, Walter H. Andrus Jr., John F. Schuessle, Clifford Clift, David MacDonald, and Jan Harzan, noting collaborations with CUFOS and FUFOR to form the UFO Research Coalition funded by Robert T. Bigelow, highlighting Carrion’s Pandora Project and a near real-time Case Management System, including MacDonald’s critique of the DoD’s nine-page Unidentified Aerial Phenomena assessment, and stating all four episodes are streaming now with the finale on Aug. 29 and the premiere free on YouTube and Showtime, plus a caption about Ruben Uriarte presenting at a 2011 MUFON Symposium.