MUFON Case Management System

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MUFON Case Management System

• A comprehensive way to investigate UFO sightings

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What is CMS?An easy to use system that

• Allows a witness to easily REPORT their UFO
  Sighting to MUFON via the Internet
• A REPOSITORY for sighting reports, investigation
  reports, and any audio, video, photo, drawings,
  sketches or other files related to a case.
• As an INVESTIGATOR gives you the ability to
  manage your cases and attach your investigation
  report and associated documentation and files
  directly to the sighting report so that
  everything is available in one place.
• Allows you as a State or National Director to
  MANAGE your organization and the investigative
  process including assigning a Field Investigator
  (FI) to a case and easily following up on the
  status of each case.
• Provides an Easy way to SEARCH the MUFON CMS
  database for other sightings of a similar or
  different nature as you wish.

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Design Specs

• Ease of use KEY!!!
• Use current investigative forms (Forms 12)
• Help manage the investigative process
• Security extremely important
• Individual sign-on and passwords
• Different data views depending on need
• Designed using open systems software
• MySQL and Perl
• Implement worldwide (French, Spanish)

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Database Design
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Future Enhancements Planned

• Offline FORM 2 for field work
• Advanced Search function on all 200 data points
  with query capability
• Scrollable Sighting Reports on Website
• Multi-language support (French, German, Spanish,
  Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese)
• Direct link to NUFORC with feedback loop

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What we need YOU to-do!!!

• USE CMS!!!! TRAIN Your Organization to USE
  IT!!!
• Go into CMS and Update your organization and the
  e-mails for the people in your organization
• OWN your data. Review all sighting reports for
  your State and update and close those you can
  (put them in status codes - IFO, Hoax, or
  Unknown)
• Assign all sighting reports not in one of the
  three statuss above, to an investigator AND
  INVESTIGATE!
• Enter your Old WUFOD investigation reports into
  CMS
• Enter Old reports never reported to MUFON into
  CMS
• Make CMS your Websites ONLY UFO Reporting
  vehicle

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Next Steps

• Continue with Enhancements
• Build Content
• Pandora DB added
• NUFORC DB Linked
• Filers Files added
• NIDS added
• NICAP added
• APRO added
• Communication Plan
• Link to Other Websites (MUFON States, Other UFO,
  Paranormal)
• Link to Police/Fire Departments Nationwide
• Link to FAA
• Link to Military
• Publicize in MUFON Journal, UFO Magazine, Radio,
  TV, Media Print
• Offer our Real Time Sightings Counter with live
  Data to other Websites
• Expand Globally