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In honor of Fred Saluga, 1949-2025

MUFON West Virginia State Dir. and PA ASD Fred Saluga passed away. Fred was a Police Chief, Drug and Alcohol Counselor and paranormal investigator. Fred joined MUFON in Florida in 1996 and worked with Joe Jordan. In 2007, I noticed Fred’s name on our member list with a Florida address. I quickly recruited him into PA MUFON. When the 2008 Bucks County UFO Wave hit, our cases tripled. With the broadcast of Discovery Channels UFOs over Earth, our membership and investigators also tripled. With managing 7 states, Fred and Bill Weber were integral in helping me run PA-WV-DEL MUFON. I promoted Fred to WV SD and Bill to DEL SD, but we always worked as a team conducting training classes and 42 conferences in Erie, Pittsburgh, and Philly from 2008-2024. Fred was the people’s skills, and I was the manager’s skills. Fred and I did a monthly show on public TV called UFOs over Pittsburgh. After 44 episodes, we moved the show to my house under the name of String Theory of the Unexplained. In total, we did almost 100 episodes and they are available on YouTube. We made PA MUFON great!

Fred was a character.  He would refer to his hometown as Fayettenam so I would introduce Fred as the James Bond of Fayettenam. His passion for Bigfoot far exceeded his passion for UFOs. We lobbied MUFON to investigate the Bigfoot-UFO connection. Fred would conduct free UFO-Bigfoot conferences in extended rural locations to get the word out. Fred taught a UFO class at a local college which I have picked up as instructor. Fred, Bill, John Dousette, and I went to many Symposiums together. The most fun was in Vegas, of course, when we stayed on the Strip at my timeshare. Fred was a good friend and will be missed by many, especially me. I will miss our long drives around the state and our talks on conservative politics, UFOs, and cryptids. . . .John Ventre

Oct 1, 2021: It is with sadness that we report that long time Pa MUFON State Section Director Mark Zmigrodski (1960-2021) has passed away from lung cancer. Mark was an AT&T Fraud investigator who used those skills in his investigations. Mark closed over 100 cases and managed his Field Investigators in NW Pa. Mark will be missed and now knows the truths we have been searching for. . . .

LIFE BEYOND EARTHBy John Ventre; posted in Tribune Review Nov 18 2013In the Nov 5 article by the Associated Press entitled “Life beyond Earth just got more likely”, I was taken aback by the studies co-authors comment that “If we aren’t alone then there is a deafening silence in our Galaxy”. The article went on to say that the Milky Way Galaxy has 8.8 billion earth-like planets and has more habitable planets than humans living on earth. I find it amazing that main stream media and science ignores the over 10,000 UFO reports filed each year with organizations like the Mutual UFO Network. NASA, SETI and our Defense Department will concede that there has to be life in space but won’t admit it is already here. Every Roper or AOL poll that I have seen reports that 14% of Americans have seen a UFO and 3% believe they have been abducted. That amounts to millions of witnesses or victims if they have experienced abduction. In the Tribs daily poll last week, six of seven respondents said they believe in UFOs. MUFON has 75,000 UFO reports on file with pictures, video, radar, and sonar and witness testimony. This is the same type of evidence that would hold up in a court of law. I believe the more pertinent question is why won’t our Government disclose the truth regarding UFOs? Is it about acquiring the technology or is there a more sinister explanation to “Their” motives on earth?