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Have some concerns over a group I joined.

I recently joined a group called MUFON. It's an international organization for studying UFO reports.
They have a 350 page manual for how to do the UFO investigations but the instructions were written by someone with government experience and obviously never reviewed before release. It's also full of acronyms with no definition of them up front. I've created my own page and am basically renumbering and rewriting the thing so that it makes sense. A lot of it is also quite out of date. At least ten years.
I'm ok with getting and chasing down reports of meteorites and looking for debris. Apparently they get about ten cases a month.
Obviously no one has been taking this serious or they were never process engineers.
Some of the equipment listed is ok but some of it sounds like stuff out of the movie Ghost Busters.
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MUFON, sure.

J. Allen Hynek had his own center but was involved with MUFON.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@SomeMichGuy I thought it might be a bit edgy but when I start seeing documentation errors this big and stuff this outdated if really makes me wonder how real this stuff is. I'm cool with going out and looking for pieces of meteorites or space junk though.
@Tastyfrzz Perhaps they incorporated some of the Air Force's work in that area.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@SomeMichGuy A lot of it reads like something the military would write but then they left out obvious stuff like cloud types and how to calculate cloud decks and weather fronts. I found a great source on that in the FAA manual for hot air balloons. I was wondering if the thing I saw might have been a balloon but obviously didn't because it was at 10:00 PM and there was no flame in the center.
@Tastyfrzz But don't forget the Air Force's go-to: weather balloons.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@SomeMichGuy they're small. I used to use them to photograph my trees up north. Had a radio controlled camera. Welding supply places gave me the helium.