Chase Kloetzke
MUFON Special Assignment Team: SAT
SAT Group Coordinator: Chase Kloetzke
Mission: To serve as a supplemental strategic investigation resource to the MUFON Executive Management Team with a particular focus on cases associated with extreme witness or circumstance sensitivity. SAT is a high performance, multi-specialty team whose members are at all times aligned with the MUFON core competency standards of operational and investigative excellence. All SAT findings are founded in Team collaboration in order to leverage competencies and ensure the highest level of probability.
Purpose: The purpose of the Special Assignment Team (SAT) is to accept assignments from the Executive Director and Director of Investigations to delve more deeply into specific cases and/or topics that require a high degree of confidentiality and sensitivity, or very extensive, intense or long-term investigation.
“Discretion and credibility in research into unknown aerial phenomenon.”
Discretion is achieved through highest levels of confidentiality and carefully controlled access. Credibility is achieved through highly skilled specialists in a variety of areas collaborating throughout a case, enabling critical analysis and highest level of accountability.
Line of Reporting: SAT is a support team to MUFON leadership. Assignments are made and reporting is to the Executive Director and Director of Investigations. Those individuals disseminate information to the larger MUFON organization and to the general public based on the work of the Special Assignment Team.
The Special Assignment Team does not replace any established process within the MUFON investigative structure, it is supplemental. SAT Involvement includes, but limited to:
The witness cannot report through normal MUFON channels, is too highly placed in government or military;
The witness is a whistleblower with a high risk of exposure or harm;
Case is historical and does not fit within the 90-day timeline of a typical investigation policy;
Research is required by the Executive Director or Director of Investigations into a particular report or phenomenon for information purposes;
Assistance is requested by a State Director in a complex case;
Investigation requires interface with investigators outside of the MUFON structure.
Note: Often, a SAT investigation will result in subsequent collaboration with a State Director. This includes full involvement with the State Director or a member of state leadership they may assign. If a report includes a occurrence in a particular state, the State Director is always included and indeed may sometimes initiate involvement of the SAT through the Executive Director or the Director of Investigations.
Advantages of a SAT Model;
Collaborative focus-members of SAT are highly experienced with interdisciplinary teamwork abilities. The collaborative and complimentary nature of this method of investigation results in richer insights and a higher degree of accountability than can be achieved by most qualified investigators working alone. While working a case, SAT investigators utilize their maturity and have developed a level of trust that allows both challenge to as well as support of each other’s insights and conclusions.
Lack of time limits. Highly complex cases could take many months to investigate and the SAT model has this flexibility.
Complimentary skill sets. In addition to the experience in UAP/UFO investigation, each investigator/researcher on SAT processes multiple skills sets beyond a typical investigation in research, technology and human factors that can influence an objective manner when involved with reports of an unknown nature. In a sense, results produced in this synergistic model are greater than the sum of individual parts. Members of SAT; Members of the Special Assignment Team have expressed an interest and have agreed to take on additional responsibilities within the organization. Members are chosen based on their degree of experience and personal characteristics including professionalism, special and general competencies, credibility, dependability, availability and trustworthiness. These individuals have displayed a positive and respected influence in the field of Ufology and with the general public. If you are interested in joining the Special Assignment Team, contact your State Director. The State Director will in turn notify the Executive Director, Director of Investigations or the SAT Lead, Chase Kloetzke.
SAT Group Coordinator: Chase Kloetzke
Mission: To serve as a supplemental strategic investigation resource to the MUFON Executive Management Team with a particular focus on cases associated with extreme witness or circumstance sensitivity. SAT is a high performance, multi-specialty team whose members are at all times aligned with the MUFON core competency standards of operational and investigative excellence. All SAT findings are founded in Team collaboration in order to leverage competencies and ensure the highest level of probability.
Purpose: The purpose of the Special Assignment Team (SAT) is to accept assignments from the Executive Director and Director of Investigations to delve more deeply into specific cases and/or topics that require a high degree of confidentiality and sensitivity, or very extensive, intense or long-term investigation.
“Discretion and credibility in research into unknown aerial phenomenon.”
Discretion is achieved through highest levels of confidentiality and carefully controlled access. Credibility is achieved through highly skilled specialists in a variety of areas collaborating throughout a case, enabling critical analysis and highest level of accountability.
Line of Reporting: SAT is a support team to MUFON leadership. Assignments are made and reporting is to the Executive Director and Director of Investigations. Those individuals disseminate information to the larger MUFON organization and to the general public based on the work of the Special Assignment Team.
The Special Assignment Team does not replace any established process within the MUFON investigative structure, it is supplemental. SAT Involvement includes, but limited to:
The witness cannot report through normal MUFON channels, is too highly placed in government or military;
The witness is a whistleblower with a high risk of exposure or harm;
Case is historical and does not fit within the 90-day timeline of a typical investigation policy;
Research is required by the Executive Director or Director of Investigations into a particular report or phenomenon for information purposes;
Assistance is requested by a State Director in a complex case;
Investigation requires interface with investigators outside of the MUFON structure.
Note: Often, a SAT investigation will result in subsequent collaboration with a State Director. This includes full involvement with the State Director or a member of state leadership they may assign. If a report includes a occurrence in a particular state, the State Director is always included and indeed may sometimes initiate involvement of the SAT through the Executive Director or the Director of Investigations.
Advantages of a SAT Model;
Collaborative focus-members of SAT are highly experienced with interdisciplinary teamwork abilities. The collaborative and complimentary nature of this method of investigation results in richer insights and a higher degree of accountability than can be achieved by most qualified investigators working alone. While working a case, SAT investigators utilize their maturity and have developed a level of trust that allows both challenge to as well as support of each other’s insights and conclusions.
Lack of time limits. Highly complex cases could take many months to investigate and the SAT model has this flexibility.
Complimentary skill sets. In addition to the experience in UAP/UFO investigation, each investigator/researcher on SAT processes multiple skills sets beyond a typical investigation in research, technology and human factors that can influence an objective manner when involved with reports of an unknown nature. In a sense, results produced in this synergistic model are greater than the sum of individual parts. Members of SAT; Members of the Special Assignment Team have expressed an interest and have agreed to take on additional responsibilities within the organization. Members are chosen based on their degree of experience and personal characteristics including professionalism, special and general competencies, credibility, dependability, availability and trustworthiness. These individuals have displayed a positive and respected influence in the field of Ufology and with the general public. If you are interested in joining the Special Assignment Team, contact your State Director. The State Director will in turn notify the Executive Director, Director of Investigations or the SAT Lead, Chase Kloetzke.
