Welcome to the Insiders Section of our Website! Here you will find information on some of our more intriguing cases. You will also be able to learn more about Northland MUFON, MN MUFON, and our Field Investigators. As always, if you have any questions, would like to learn more, or if you would like to attend any of our monthly Field Investigator meetings, please contact us at NorthlandMUFONInfo@gmail.com.
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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Avi Loeb
Saturday June 21st
June 21st Avi Loeb’s Presentation:
“A Conversation with Avi Loeb”
Meeting Re-Cap:
The June 21st presentation by Dr. Avi Loeb on behalf of Northland MUFON would have been a good one to attend. Chances are, if you live in northern Minnesota it would have been too hot to be outside and if you didn’t lose power in the big storm the night before you really have no excuse.
Dr. Loeb is the teacher we all wish we had in college. Not only is he highly intelligent, he is also clever, engaging and humorous. If you want to know why we think he is a rock star, you will need to check out his Galileo Project website. There is not enough space on this website to list his full credentials. You can read all about Dr. Loeb here: https://avi-loeb.medium.com And here: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home
Dr. Loeb is determined to prove there are more beings in the universe than just us humans. He is known for looking in places that have been overlooked for decades by other organizations. For instance, Dr. Loeb is responsible for the Silver Star expedition where a magnetic sled was dragged across the ocean bottom. Why you ask? Because the ocean bottom is not magnetic but the meteorites from space likely ARE composed of iron and are therefore magnetic. If anything can pass through our atmosphere without being damaged, it must be of a material that can survive extreme temperatures on entry. It turns out he was correct, and the molten spheres collected contain much more than iron – they contain materials not found on Earth. You can read more about this here.
He also raised questions about the anomalous behavior of the meteor Oumuamua (Hawaiian word for Scout). You can read more about this here.
If you have read this far, you’re in luck. There is an exciting current event that you can watch along with the rest of the world. The Rubin Observatory in Chile will be sharing the first images of space with their new camera, the largest of its kind in the world. This will begin Monday, June 23rd at 10:00 am CST. You can follow this link for the first images here.
Next month Northland MUFON will host Dana Louise…Mark your calendars for July 19th. It should be a wild ride!
Avi’s Bio:
Abraham “Avi” Loeb is an Israeli and American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics. Loeb is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2015, he was appointed as the science theory director for the Breakthrough Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2018, he suggested that alien space craft may be in our Solar System, using the interstellar object ʻOumuamua as an example.
Read articles and Essays by Avi Loeb at his website:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com
MN MUFON Presents:
Joe Swenson
Saturday July 12th!
2:00pm – 5:00pm CDT
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) and Online!
Joe will Present:
“I was a Military Lab Rat Part II”
Joe will be with us via Zoom
Joe’s Bio:
My abbreviated autobiography by Joe Swenson. I know that this will be like Science Fiction. If I included other information, it would read like a horror story. What is written is my true story of being a Lab Rat for the military. As a Lab Rat, you are not told what experiments you are a participant in. If you are lucky, you will find out later.
Top Secret projects are in the black budget. Above top-secret projects are compartmentalized. “Above Black” projects are hidden in compartmentalized projects. One of my projects was above that in that I was listed as MIA in Viet Nam.
My 50-year NDA allowed me to talk about information I knew was publicly available. I did a lot of research before my NDA expired. There are still things that I do not feel comfortable speaking about in public. They are not in this book.
I have included reference material after my short stories that take up about half of this book for those that wish to investigate further.
Humans are not alone. Our existence is a very small part of a universe where infinite diversity in infinite combinations appears to be the rule. What we can perceive is a very small fraction of true reality. Thought travels faster than light.
Northland MUFON Presents:
Dana Louise
Saturday July 19th!
2:00pm – 4:30pm CDT in Grand Rapids, MN and Fargo, ND
and of course Online!
Dana’s Presentation:
“This is Going to Sound Weird”
Dana will be with us via Zoom.
“In 2023 Dana Louise printed her memoir about the multilayered experiences which began for her in the crib. Months later she gave a talk to her local Mufon branch in New Brighton, MN. Four months after that she received a phone call from (how she terms it) “A mysterious man with a ‘Baloney sandwich’ story.” She knew immediately who and what he was, even if she didn’t confront him about those facts. Dana fully believes that this man discovered her and came forward because of her talk with Mufon. They met in person and he handed over a file about her father. This was full confirmation of everything she suspected! Just to let you know, she wishes she had more time to speak to you today! Because she has a lot to say!”
Dana’s Bio:
“Dana Louise is a wife, and mother of two sons. She lives in St Paul MN and has worn many hats over the decades. Her PAST includes: A finalist on Norwegian Reality Show “ALT FOR NORGE,” a food-truck owner, a Death Doula, Reiki Master Teacher, Minister, TFT level II Practitioner, and more. Today Dana completely commits herself to her work as an Author and Speaker. Her personal experiences with the Weird are all covered in THIS.
Learn more about Dana at:
DanaLouise.com and THISisGonnaSoundWeird on YouTube.“
Northland MUFON Presents:
Bill Konkolesky
Saturday Aug. 16, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm CDT Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Bill Konkolesky, Michigan State Director
“Experiencer: Raised in Two Worlds”
Bill will be with us via Zoom.
Bill’s Bio:
Bill Konkolesky has been the State Director of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network since 2004.
After a lifetime of his own UFO and abduction encounters, he’s spent the last three decades actively investigating these otherworldly phenomena, trying to make some sense of the bizarre events that have happened to him personally. What he’s discovered confronting these cosmic mysteries is that reality is far stranger than he could have ever imagined.
Konkolesky is the author of the autobiographical “Experiencer: Raised in Two Worlds” as well the newly released “Experiencer: Two Worlds Collide,” and his personal abduction experiences have been chronicled in the SyFy documentary “Abduction Diaries,” streaming documentary “Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind,” and the ABC news special “UFOs: Seeing is Believing.”
He has also served as consultant to Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries,” the History Channel’s “Hangar 1” and “UFO Hunters,” National Geographic Channel’s “The Truth Behind,” as well as the Science Channel’s “Uncovering Aliens” and “Close Encounters.”
Bill’s Website can be found “here“
Bill’s books can be purchased on Amazon. Just click on the pictures!
Northland MUFON Presents:
Jim Penniston
Saturday Sept. 27, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm CDT Grand Rapids, MN and Fargo, ND
And of Course Online!
Jim Penniston Presents:
“The Rendlesham Enigma”
Jim will be with us via Zoom
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
Northland MUFON Presents:
Sev Tok
Saturday Oct. 25, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm CDT Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Sev Tok Will Present:
“TBD”
Sev will be with us via Zoom.
Sev’s Bio:
On September 16, 2017 Sev Tok’s life changed. The secret she had been hiding for 45 years exposed itself. The reality of her life-long ET Contact could no longer remain hidden. What she thought were dreams, were not – dreams don’t burn a red X into your back. On September 25, she had another shock to her reality. Another red X was burned into her back and she had a conscious memory of lying on her back on a table unable to move and coming face-to-face with a Grey. She was scared to death. She documents her struggles processing her ET encounters in her book, You Have The Right To Talk To Aliens. “I describe some of my ET Contact, the messages I was given, and how the ETs changed my life for the better. “Coming out” was very hard for me, but it has brought happiness and a deeper connection to my life purpose. Denying the truth about my reality inhibited my spiritually expansion, which did not allow me to express my authenticity.” She now offers help to Experiencers by creating the ET Encounters forum where she encourage Experiencers to share their story with her privately.
You can find out more about Sev through her website and Alien Spirit with Sev YouTube channel.
Northland MUFON Presents:
– To Be Announced –
Nov. 22nd, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm CST Grand Rapids, MN – Fargo, ND – And Online!
Guest Presentation:
“TBD”
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.
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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