Happy New Year! I trust your holidays were as fun and exciting as mine were. I began the holiday season early December traveling to Brazil at the request of our National Director, A.J. Gevaerd, to speak at his “V UFOZ 2016” Conference in Iguassu Falls. It was a very successful conference with 20 speakers and more than 300 people in attendance over the four-day event. Most were from South America, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay. Great people all, I just wish I knew more Portuguese and Spanish to be able to communicate more effectively with them, especially since all the lectures were in Portuguese!
A.J. and his team did an outstanding job running the conference as well as taking care of
his speakers putting us up at the Foz Presidente Hotel, the site of the conference itself. I was afforded the opportunity to present the MUFON story to a whole new set of International UFO researchers and interested parties. The information shared was well received and MUFON is seen as the gold standard of Ufology in South America and around the world. A number of people came up to me after my presentation asking how they could join MUFON. It’s easy, I told them, just go to our website and click on JOIN! Then get involved locally!
A.J. and his team did an outstanding job running the conference as well as taking care of
his speakers putting us up at the Foz Presidente Hotel, the site of the conference itself. I was afforded the opportunity to present the MUFON story to a whole new set of International UFO researchers and interested parties. The information shared was well received and MUFON is seen as the gold standard of Ufology in South America and around the world. A number of people came up to me after my presentation asking how they could join MUFON. It’s easy, I told them, just go to our website and click on JOIN! Then get involved locally!
But probably the most fulfilling time for me was getting to meet our South American MUFON team including Brazil National Director A.J. Gevaerd, and Thiago L. Ticchetti, our soon to be Assistant ND in Brazil. Also, Ruben Morales in Argentina, Fernando Alvarado in Peru, and Antonio Portugal Alvizuri in Bolivia. There were also a number of speakers like myself from outside of Latin America including Brien Foerster from Canada, Clas Svahn from Sweden, Dr. James Hurtak USA, and Michael Tellinger from South Africa. Everyone I spoke with had a great time at the conference and enjoyed all of the speakers and events.
Attending conferences like this affords one the opportunity to meet new people and spend time discussing a topic near and dear to all of us, UFOs and ETs, as well as sharing research and opinions with our colleagues around the world. Why not make plans now to attend the 2017 MUFON Symposium this July in Las Vegas, NV. Btw, you might be interested to know that at MUFON Headquarters we have more than seven languages that are spoken including English, Czech, Russian, Farsi, Spanish, Hindi, Bengali and a little bit of German. Personally, I’m working on my Portuguese for next year! Welcome to 2017, the Year of the International UFO.
Attending conferences like this affords one the opportunity to meet new people and spend time discussing a topic near and dear to all of us, UFOs and ETs, as well as sharing research and opinions with our colleagues around the world. Why not make plans now to attend the 2017 MUFON Symposium this July in Las Vegas, NV. Btw, you might be interested to know that at MUFON Headquarters we have more than seven languages that are spoken including English, Czech, Russian, Farsi, Spanish, Hindi, Bengali and a little bit of German. Personally, I’m working on my Portuguese for next year! Welcome to 2017, the Year of the International UFO.
