TULSA, (Okla.) — “We get about a hundred reports a year from the Sooner State,” said CJ Arabia. She is the Southwest Regional Director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, an organization that’s been gathering data for over 50 years, including here in Oklahoma.
“So we get reports from all over Oklahoma but there’s a few hotspots, like Oklahoma City, Tulsa, the TePee Mountains near Blair and along the Oklahoma Texas border where we see a lot of triangles,” she said.
Over the past few years, the topic of UFOs or UAPs has become so mainstream, there are routinely hearings before Congress.
“As we convene here, UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported. These sightings are not rare or isolated, they are routine,” said one man testifying to officials.
“Why the secrecy if it’s really no big deal and there’s nothing there, why hide it from the American people?,” said Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
“The American people have legitimate questions. I believe it’s critical that Congress should help address them,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California.
Last summer there was a documentary called the Age of Disclosure.
“Humanity is not the only intelligence in the universe. Humanity is not the only intelligent species. We are absolutely not alone. Non-human intelligence exists. UAPs are real, they’re here, and they’re not human,” said several people in a clip from the film.
And this summer there’s a Steven Spielberg movie called Disclosure Day.
“People are starved for the truth,” says one character.
“As far as I’m concerned disclosure happened, I mean when the pentagon says there’s these things in the sky and we can’t identify them, I remember thinking, it happened, it’s done and then it was like the Jedi mind trick like the very next day the same people who didn’t think UFOs were real didn’t think they were real, and the same people who thought they were real or know they were real thought, it didn’t change anyone’s opinions, and nothing changed, and I was absolutely shocked,” said Arabia.
MUFON has a total of 570 field investigators, but just one in Oklahoma, and they’re looking for more.
“We will train you, you don’t have to be an expert, you don’t have to already be a private investigator, we’re going to train you, all of that, we’ve created the MUFON university and it really walks you step by step through everything you need to know,” she said.
As for CJ, she says she had a sighting as a young child walking home from school.
“The boy that I was walking with grabbed me and pushed me under this little scrub oak that was on the side of the road, and I said, ‘What’s up?’ and he said, ‘They’re watching us,’ and he points up and there was a disc floating right over our head. And it didn’t zip off like some people talk about, it literally faded in front of my eyes and disappeared. And as a child I didn’t know what a UFO was, I said that I had seen a see-through metal cloud and it disappeared in front of my eyes,” she said.
The era of disclosure, with MUFON looking for more help to document Oklahoma cases, as nationally more and more people come forward to openly talk about what was once taboo.
“It’s going to continue to be like that, there’s more people waiting in the wings. I’ve met many people who are saying I’m waiting in line to testify before Congress,” she said.