“Qualified, Competent, Sincere”: The MUFON Symposium Proceedings

Michael Grasso / May 12, 2026 Object Name: MUFON 1983 and 1985 UFO Symposium Proceedings Maker and Year: The Mutual UFO Network, Inc., 1983 and 1985 Object Type: Bound Proceedings Document Image Source: The author Description: (Michael Grasso) The Mutual UFO Network was founded in 1969 as the Midwest UFO Network. In the famed UFO flap year of 1973, MUFON expanded its remit and changed its name (but not its acronym, conveniently). The organization hosted an annual regional symposium in Peoria, Illinois, which became an international event over the course of the 1970s. MUFON’s stylish symposium proceedings covers from the decade gave way to these slightly simpler, clip art-festooned covers in the 1980s. The MUFON Symposium Proceedings contain introductory material from MUFON’s officers and full writeups of the presentations from each year’s convention. Amidst the mission statements from founder and longtime MUFON head Walter H. Andrus, Jr. are directories of all of MUFON’s worldwide…