Quote: "If (people) think it's
nuts, why does the highest level of
clearance in the U.S. government
deal with UFOs and aliens?" asked
Lund, who served in the Army.

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UFO group: Truth will land in 2003
N.C. chapter suggests evidence will
force government to 'fess up HOWIE
PAUL HARTNETT Staff Writer

SALISBURY - Even with some
prompting, the crowd couldn't sing
"Happy Birthday" in unison.

Everyone gathered around the cake
mumbled the group's odd name.

Even after 13 years of documenting
UFO sightings in North Carolina,
many people still don't believe the
mission of the Mutual UFO Network
or MUFON.

But believers will have their day
-- and soon, if George Fawcett is
correct.

"By the end of the year, you will
see something," said the Lincolnton
resident and self-described UFO
researcher. "Most times we make a
prophecy, it never happens. (But)
I've never seen so much happen in
one year."

Many of the 37 people -- almost all
older adults -- who gathered at a
Rowan County recreation center
Sunday nodded solemnly.

Every three months, network members
from across the state meet to
discuss UFO conventions, trade
information about the latest
government coverups and talk about
the day when the rest of the world
will have its eyes opened.

"We try to open up to the public to
make them aware that it's not a
joke," said network State Director
George Lund.

Fawcett and about a dozen others
founded the N.C. chapter in 1989.
The group now has about 70 members.

So why is 2003 going to be the
year?

With all the sightings and
information available on the
Internet, the government won't be
able to hide the truth much longer,
network members say.

But can the average American
middle-class consumer, soccer mom,
suburbanite handle the truth?

Those in the so-called
military-industrial complex don't
think so, say network members.
That's why despite more than 50
years of what they cite as evidence
-- from the Roswell, N.M., crash of
a UFO and the alleged recovery of
aliens from it to crop circles --
aliens remain only in the movies.

"It could cause mass hysteria
depending on how it's revealed,"
said Charlie Aites, from
Statesville.

Sound a little nutty? You're not
seeing the big picture, Lund said.

"If (people) think it's nuts, why
does the highest level of clearance
in the U.S. government deal with
UFOs and aliens?" asked Lund, who
served in the Army.

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