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Northland MUFON Insiders Content
Yes! Ufology is a Subject Academics Should be Researching!
Meet Matthew Hayes: A PhD that dared to complete his Doctorate with a Dissertation on the History of UFOs in Canada.
I’m an educator, researcher, and filmmaker.
Dr. Hayes teaches philosophy, politics, English, and ethics at Northern Lakes College. He received his PhD from Trent University and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. He studies conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, “cranks,” UFOs and the supernatural, and Cold War espionage.
My doctoral research was featured on CBC Radio’s Ideas, which became the subject of my book Search for the Unknown.
Dr. Hayes’ was kind enough to allow us to share his dissertation right here on our website. Here is Dr. Hayes’ Dissertation – Enjoy!
A_History_of_Canada_s_UFO_Investigation_1950_1995 Dr. Matthew Hayes
Thank you Dr. Matthew Hayes!
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Jim Penniston
Saturday September 27th, 2025
September 27th Jim Penniston Presentation:
“The Rendlesham Enigma”
Meeting Re-Cap:
If you thought you already knew the story of what happened in the Rendlesham Forest in December of 1980, you should have been with Northland MUFON this past Saturday. How often does anyone get the chance to talk face-to-face with someone who actually lived through one of the most well-documented UFO incidents in history?
That’s exactly what we experienced when Sergeant Jim Penniston, USAF Security Forces (Ret.), joined us for an incredible two-hour Q&A session. Jim hasn’t done a formal interview in years, but he graciously gave his time to Northland MUFON — and he didn’t hold back.
Jim recounted his extraordinary encounter, where he not only saw but actually walked around and touched the landed craft in Rendlesham Forest, just outside RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. With his impressive background — including multiple security clearances and even assignments guarding Air Force One — Jim made it clear: this was no misidentified aircraft.
The room was full of energy, with past military and Air Force personnel adding perspective to an open, unedited discussion you wouldn’t hear anywhere else.
One of the most intriguing parts of Jim’s story involves a sleepless night shortly after the incident. Unable to quiet his mind, he felt compelled to write in his journal. What poured out was 16 pages of ones and zeros — binary code. He kept writing until his mind finally calmed, then put the notebook away and didn’t revisit it for years. Others have attempted to interpret the code, but for Jim, the fact that it happened at all is what matters most.
For those who want the full story, Jim’s book The Rendlesham Enigma lays it all out in meticulous detail, including his encounter and the binary code. It remains one of the most compelling accounts of what truly happened on those December nights.
Northland MUFON is deeply grateful to Jim Penniston for sharing his time, honesty, and remarkable experience with us.
We hope to see you at our next meeting on October 25th, when our guest will be Shane Hurd. It’s sure to be another great evening you won’t want to miss!
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Jim’s Bio:
Jim Penniston, USAF Security Forces/Retired.
He entered the Air Force in 1973 and served over twenty years active duty in the US Air Force. He was assigned to the Strategic Air Command Elite Guard in Omaha Nebraska, providing security for General Officers, Congressmen, Foreign Heads of States, and the President and members of his Cabinet. Penniston held key assignments throughout the world. Including service in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He wrote defense, security, counter-terrorism, and contingency plans for the USAF and NATO. Additionally, he provided security support for Air Force One, and other classified aircraft weapon systems. Penniston held for the majority of his twenty year career, a U.S. TOP SECRET/BI/SCI and a NATO TOP SECRET COSMIC/ATOMAL security clearance. Sergeant Penniston and his team were “First Responders” to a security investigation of a craft-of-unknown-origin, located just outside RAF Woodbridge, England. In December 1980 that case, is known as the Rendlesham Forest Incident, and is the most documented account in military history. Jim is a frequent lecturer and presenter at numerous MUFON and other related events and conferences of similar subject matter. A speaker at two National Press Club events; His first responder’s account of the Rendlesham Forest Incident has been featured worldwide on numerous television and radio programs. In addition, Penniston is an Author and has been a contributor to other books concerning this phenomenon.
Learn More About Jim:
The Rendlesham Forest incident Official Blog
Get a Copy of Jim’s Amazing book on Amazon!
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MN MUFON Presents:
Steven Bassett
Saturday Oct. 11, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm CST
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Steven will Present:
“The political implications of UAP/ET phenomena and Disclosure”
Steven will be with us via Zoom
Steven’s Bio:
Stephen Bassett has spoken to audiences in 20 countries about the political implications of UAP/ET phenomena and Disclosure – the formal confirmation by heads of state of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is co-founder of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance and executive director of Paradigm Research Group, a 501c3 non-profit providing education, consulting, analysis and political activism for a post-Disclosure world.
His advocacy work has been well covered by national and international media including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Washington Post and New York Times. Bassett has appeared in many documentary films and his lectures and interviews are well represented on YouTube.
In 2013 PRG organized and conducted a “Citizen Hearing on Disclosure” at the National Press Club in Washington. In November of 2014 PRG launched a two-year political initiative out of Washington, DC that injected the ET issue into the 2016 presidential campaign.
In December 2023, Steve Co-Founded The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance in Los Angeles, a new, media-centric organization aiming to align those working within the UAP/ET research arena with writers/directors/producers working across every facet of the global entertainment industry.
PRG is presently working to help bring about ever more comprehensive congressional hearings in the U.S. House and Senate for a growing list of UAP witnesses.
Main website: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
HDA: www.hollywooddisclosurealliance.org
PRG Media coverage: https://paradigmresearchgroup.org/prg-media-coverage/
Northland MUFON Presents:
Shane Hurd
Saturday Oct. 25, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm CDT Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Shane will Present:
“Principals, Techniques and Logic for Investigating UFOs”
Shane will be with us via Zoom.
Q&A Session After the Presentation
Shane’s Bio:
Shane Hurd has spent his nearly 25 year government career in the fields of Civil Engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Information Technologies, and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Certified Public Manager program. As a member of the space race generation, he has been a lifelong space and science nerd, and sci-fi geek. It was the Phoenix Lights Incident in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona that sparked his interest in UFO’s.
Since that time, he has studied the subject intently and ultimately in 2015 joined MUFON, then became a MUFON Field Investigator in 2017. He is now a Star Team member, a field investigator trainer, a member of the Experiencer Resource Team and is the Assistant State Director for Arizona MUFON.
In June of 2020 he published his first book entitled “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: A beginners guide to researching UFOs”. He has appeared on “Ancient Aliens”, “History’s Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne”, other television and radio programs, and various podcasts. He is a proud grandpa, musician, a car guy, amateur astronomer, horse owner, and enjoys a good bourbon now and then.
MN MUFON Presents:
Dan Harary
Saturday Nov. 8th, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm CST
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Dan will Present:
“My Paranormal Life”
Dan will be with us via Zoom
Dan’s Bio:
Dan conceived the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance in 2023, and serves as its Chairman. He Co-Founded the HDA, based in Los Angeles, CA, along with noted UAP / ET Disclosure Advocate Stephen Bassett.
Dan’s two newest books are My Paranormal Life: Supernatural Stories From A Hollywood Insider, and FIVE; both of which were released in Summer 2024.
Born and raised near Asbury Park, New Jersey, Dan Harary is best known for his 40-plus years of work in Hollywood as an Entertainment Industry Publicist, and as Owner (since 1996) of the Asbury PR Agency in Beverly Hills, California.
Dan has personally experienced three UFO sightings. One near Edwards Air Force Base in 1996. Another in 2008, at the ECETI Ranch in Washington State, at the base of Mt. Adams. But most significantly, Dan had a dramatic UFO sighting in his hometown in 1970, where he shared the experience with his father, an Electronics Engineer / Physicist for the U.S. Army. He has been interviewed about that sighting by media outlets around the world — the story also became a feature article in the June 2023 edition of the MUFON JOURNAL.
After his father’s death in 2017, Dan recalled that encounter for the first time in 47 years, discovered the nature of his late father’s top secret work with radar systems, missiles, and military drone technologies, and was inspired to write his second book, After They Came.
Said UFO Expert Nick Pope of After They Came, “Dan Harary’s book is an entertaining and upbeat work of sci-fi that cleverly incorporates key parts of the UFO phenomenon’s lore and backstory – a delightful tale of wonder and hope.” Adds iconic UFO Experiencer Travis Walton, “The style of the images in After They Came are presented in such a graphic visual style that it could serve as the basis of an entertaining film adaptation.”
Northland MUFON Presents:
Fred Paulson & Rainer Haseitl
Nov. 22nd, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm Central Time Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Fred & Rainer Will Present:
“The Hessdalen Project”
They will be with us via Zoom.
Q&A Session After the Presentation
Bios:
Coming Soon
MN MUFON Presents:
Debbie Zeigelmeyer
Saturday Dec. 13, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm CST
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Debbie will Present:
“TBD”
Debbie will be with us via Zoom
More information soon!
Debbie’s Bio:
Debbie Ziegelmeyer joined MUFON in 2000 and became a Field Investigator shorty after. She is currently a MUFON Star Team Investigator, Missouri State Director, on the MUFON Business Board of Directors, a MUFON MARRS team member, co-founder of the MUFON Dive Team, and the MUFON Functional Director of Underwater Research and Recovery. She has over 1200 completed UFO investigations, with over 875 of them being MUFON sighting reports.
Debbie has been a Roswell 1947 crash investigator for over 25 years and is a member of Ted Phillips’s T.P.R.C. Team. In 2017 she was awarded both the “Roswell Incident Excellence Award” by the Roswell Daily Record, and MUFON “Field Investigator of the Year”. Debbie’s book “The Alien Colonization of Earth’s Waterways” which was released in September 2021, is A Reference Guide to UFO-USO Water Related Activity.
She and her husband Wayne currently live in southeast Missouri and own and manage Largo Properties, LLC. and Custom RV and Boat Storage. Debbie is also a PADI Scuba Instructor and owner of Missouri Scuba Diving, LLC.
Northland MUFON Presents:
Lenval Logan
Dec. 20th, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm Central Time Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Logan Will Present:
“A Conversation With Logan”
Logan will be with us via Zoom.
Q&A Session After the Presentation
Logan’s Bio:
Logan’s career bridges military intelligence, scientific skepticism, and public engagement with the unknown. Originally from the UK, Lenval “Logan” served for 20 years in the US Airforce and 15 years as a government contractor. He has had a long interest in and studied unexplained phenomena and scientific inquiry. He’s an active member of MUFON, Scientific Coalition for UAO Studies, and National Capital Area Skeptics. Became a member of the U.S. government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, focusing on analyzing and identifying unexplained aerial objects. He Investigated reports of unidentified craft near nuclear sites and military installations and advocated for transparency and better data collection in the field of UAPs.
He is the CEO of Phenom LLC, which developed the Phenom app—a platform for reporting UAP and paranormal sightings. The app aims to democratize data collection and reduce stigma around unexplained phenomena.
Media Appearances:
- Featured in James Fox’s documentary The Program
- Appears in The Age of Disclosure by Dan Farah and Lue Elizondo
- Participated in Season 5 of The Proof Is Out There on The History Channel
- Guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (Episode #2264)
MN MUFON Presents:
Camille James Harman
Saturday Jan. 10th, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm CST
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Camille will Present:
“TBD”
Camille will be with us via Zoom
Camille’s Bio:
Camille James Harman, MFA, is an actress and UFO experiencer with such credits as: the Oscar-winning film Vice, in the role of Mary Matalin, as well as Shameless, the Lifetime movie A Daughter’s Deceit and numerous films, web series, commercials and music videos. Harman was Executive Producer on the award-winning short film Toro de Oro. In 1992, she won the Storer Boone Award in New Orleans for Best Supporting Actress in The Playboy of the Western World. In 2022 she won three international Best Actress Awards for the short film Tigerlily.
In late 1995, soon after moving to LA from New Orleans, Harman had her first UFO sighting. Abduction experiences followed. She underwent hypnosis sessions with Barbara Lamb and Yvonne Smith, which revealed medical experiences with presumed aliens and human military as well as positive light beings of pure love. She also wrote for UFO magazine from 2000-2004, which allowed her to meet many legendary UFO researchers.
Read more on IMDB HERE
Northland MUFON Presents:
– To Be Announced –
Jan. 17th, 2026
2:00pm – 4:30pm CST Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Guest Presentation:
“TBD”
MN MUFON Presents:
Ryan Wood
Saturday Feb. 14th, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm CST
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Ryan will Present:
“TBD”
Ryan will be with us via Zoom
Ryan’s Bio:
Ryan S. Wood, born in Maryland and raised in Southern California, is a distinguished UFOlogist and researcher, following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Robert M. Wood, who was involved in UFO physics and anti-gravity research at Douglas Aircraft. Ryan graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1978, with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, later building a career in marketing, sales engineering, and corporate management across multiple industries, including aerospace, energy conservation, and fusion technology. He is currently the CEO of Electric Fusion Systems Inc.
Wood is widely regarded as a leading expert on the Majestic-12 documents and the 1941 Cape Girardeau UFO crash. He has lectured extensively, taught college courses on the subject, and organized seven international UFO crash retrieval symposia 2003-2009. He has been featured in numerous television programs, including on the History Channel and ABC News, and has been a guest on popular radio shows like Coast to Coast AM. Additionally, Wood manages the website MajesticDocuments.com and co-produced The Secret, a television documentary that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, exploring the authenticity of the Majestic-12 documents.
He has authored several books on the topic, including Majic Eyes Only: Earth’s Encounters with Extraterrestrial Technology, The AI UFOlogist and a soon to be published work UFOs: Who Knows? He is a key figure in UFO research conferences like MUFON and CITD. Through his investigative efforts, Wood has become a leading voice in unraveling the truth behind historical UFO cases, advocating for greater transparency and the release of classified information related to UFOs. His current interest is on building www.ufodex.com, an online AI-powered intelligence investigation and knowledge tool, along with a focus on Anti-Gravity investigations.
Dive into the experiences of Roger Kvande in his book “Extraterrestrial Odyssey”
Back on April 22, 1966, Roger Kvande had a remarkable experience. One that so very few of us humans can have. He piloted a UFO right down main street in the middle of the afternoon in Bagley MN! He has also had a lifetime of experiences that most of us can’t comprehend. Read all about Roger and what he’s gone through. You’ll think twice the next time look up in the sky! Roger has been so kind as to offer back to Northland a portion of each book he sells. Get them while they are available!
Available on Amazon and other outlets.
Read Stan Gordon’s Yearly update Click here!
Stan Gordon has presented to Northland in 2024, his presentation on The UFO, Bigfoot, and Orb connection was absolutely fascinating!
Check out our YouTube channel to watch that meeting. Or just scroll to our Past meeting archive on this page!
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