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MUFON Case Management System. A comprehensive way to investigate UFO sightings. What is CMS? An easy to use system that …. Allows a witness to easily REPORT their UFO Sighting to MUFON via the Internet
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MUFON Case Management System A comprehensive way to investigate UFO sightings
What is CMS?An easy to use system that … • Allows a witness to easily REPORT their UFO Sighting to MUFON via the Internet • A REPOSITORYfor sighting reports, investigation reports, and any audio, video, photo, drawings, sketches or other files related to a case. • As an INVESTIGATORgives 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.
Design Specs • Ease of use KEY!!! • Use current investigative forms (Forms 1&2) • 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…)
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
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 status’s 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 Website’s ONLY UFO Reporting vehicle
Next Steps • Continue with Enhancements • Build Content • Pandora DB added • NUFORC DB Linked • Filer’s 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 • 95% of cases reported today are from English speaking countries