Our Speakers

  Katie Paige is Colorado MUFON’s State Director. She is a STAR Investigator for MUFON and is the team lead/administrator for MUFON’s MARRS Team. She’s the host of MUFON What’s Up Radio Broadcast on KGRADB.com along with her cohosts Chris Deperno and Tara Diulus. 

Katie also conducts independent investigations and research, she has been a presenter at several conferences and has appeared on many radio shows and podcasts, including Coast to Coast with George Knapp, Spaced Out Radio, and Coast to Coast’s Dark Becomes Light with Heidi Hollis and many more. Most recently, Katie can be seen on Travel Channels UFO Witness, Gaia’s Beyond Belief with George Noory, Small Town Monsters; On the Trail of UFO’s Night Visitors and will appear in Ron James’s new film Accidental Truth.    

Katieis the author of; Letters of Love & Light - Four Decades of UFO Encounters, Experiences & Sightings Shared with Ufologist R. Leo Sprinkle Ph.D. 

She is currently writing her second book: High Strangeness on a Colorado Ranch; The Colorado “Skinwalker” Ranch – Craft, Cattle, Copters, Cryptids, and Cover-Ups. Katie has personal ties to the Colorado ranch. This is what has motivated her interest in ufology, to find answers to all her experiences.

Katie’s presentation will take you on a personal journey, as she shares with you what she’s uncovered in her decade-long pursuit of answers to her experiences on a Colorado Ranch. In UFO folklore, it was known as the “Clearview” Ranch and pre-dates the Skinwalker Ranch by over a decade and a half. 

Website: 

http://www.katiepaige.net

Email:

Authorkatiepaige@gmail.com   

     Mindy Tautfest is the Dean of MUFON University, Director of Oklahoma MUFON, and a member of the Experiencer Resource Team (ERT). She joined MUFON as a member in 2019, became a Field Investigator that year, and was promoted to SD in 2020. She joined the ERT in 2022 as a way to further help experiencers process their sometimes difficult encounters. In 2022, she began work revamping MUFON’s Case Management System which all Field Investigators use to conduct UFO investigations. Her work continued with major updates to the training curriculum found at MUFON’s online learning platform where she was officially named Dean of MUFON University by MUFON’s Executive Director David MacDonald.
An Oklahoma native, she got her start investigating hauntings in the Sooner State in search of answers to her own mystifying experiences. Mindy has worked as an ICU Nurse with ACLS certification on assignments across the nation and has volunteered her time to Disaster Relief efforts including the Colorado Black Forest Fires, Hurricane Katrina, and the devastating May 3,1999 Moore Tornado.
In 2016, Mindy suffered a brain aneurysm resulting in a Near Death Experience where she found herself in a place known as the Void. Although traditionally thought of as a separate phenomenon, in a recent study of submitted Experiencer Questionnaires, MUFON’s ERT has discovered that a staggering 55% of UFO Experiencers also reported having a Near Death Experience. This is a little understood statistic, but Mindy’s personal encounter with the Near Death phenomenon combined with years of investigations into UFO encounters, places her in a unique position to understand the underlying connections and after effects seen as a result of these enigmatic events. Her book, Dying To Meet Them, chronicling her incredible journey from NDE to UAP is due out in 2023.
Mindy has appeared as a guest on numerous podcasts across the United States speaking about UFO sightings, breaking news in Ufology, Near Death Experiences, and High Strangeness in Oklahoma. She has had articles published in the MUFON Journal as well as internationally in Outer Limits Magazine. Her investigation of the 1975 Miracle Mountains Schoolyard Encounter was designated as MUFON’s Top Case of Interest in 2021.This major U.S. schoolyard encounter mimics so many others from around the world including those taking place at the 1966 Australian Westall High School and the 1994 Zimbabwe Ariel School sightings. Mindy presented the incredible findings of her investigation into these unique encounters at the 2022 International MUFON Symposium in Denver, CO.

Alan Megargle is a filmmaker, event organizer, paranormal investigator and Bigfoot researcher. He produced the film Minerva Monster and directed the films, The Back 80: A Modern Day Bigfoot Encounter, Ghosts in Ghost Towns: Haunting the Wild West, The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed and the Friday Night Movie, Alien Contact in the Rockies. Alan currently produces and co-stars in the paranormal adventure series Trails to the Unknown on Amazon Prime. He began conducting Bigfoot investigations with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (B.F.R.O.) in his home state of Ohio over a decade ago. Alan has had numerous encounters and has witnessed many strange occurrences that have provided fuel to his quest for seeking answers. Now residing in Colorado, Alan continues to search for evidence and seeks to make definitive contact with the creature known as Sasquatch. Along with his friends, Alan runs a yearly Bigfoot campout called Bigfoot Adventure Weekends where he teaches attendees how to conduct their own investigations and takes them out to search for the elusive Sasquatch.

    Erin Taylor has been investigating the paranormal since 2013, although she has been obsessed with all things spooky since she was a little girl. Her first book, Sleeping Among Spirits, came out on Amazon Fall of 2022, and her second book Unfinished Business is currently underway (hopefully will be out for the conference!) She has also been published in The Morbid Curious journal and Haunted magazine. Erin has also been seen lurking in the background of the streaming series Haunted Hotels Live: Dead Inns as the chat producer. When she’s not chasing unseen entities with her team, Cheyenne Mountain Paranormal, Erin spends time with her family and fur babies, traveling, and attending concerts or the theater. She holds two master’s degrees and is licensed in Colorado as a Professional Counselor. 

Brenda Harris was born in Shiprock, New Mexico and raised in Farmington, NM. She is a Native American (Navajo) and married with three children. She has lived on the reservation in Upper Fruitland, NM since 1986. She has been doing Bigfoot research and investigations for over 25 years. She created the New Mexico Shadow Seekers team in 2010 which includes the YouTube channel under New Mexico Shadow Seekers.  She has also been on several TV shows including Monster & Mysteries, twice on Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Adventures and Unsolved Mystery.  She has also been a guest on many radio shows. Brenda’s message to people is to be careful out in the woods.

Jason Frank BSN, RN, MAT Specialist

A lifelong Colorado Native, hunter, fisherman, explorer and an Veteran Airborne Infantryman of the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Jason has been featured on “Coast to Coast AM”, “Blue Rock Talk”, “You Don’t know Squatch”, “Small Town Monsters”, “Bigfoot of the Rockies Outdoor Adventures”, and many more! Jason is the Author of the book “Hairy’s- True On Going Stories of Sasquatch In The Colorado Rockies”, which chronicles his journey from oblivious “normal person” to one of an “Intimate Knower”. Jason has had over 350 close encounters with these “Mythical Creatures”, most within 10ft, including accidental physical contact! Join him to learn and discuss the journey, future hopes and plans as Jason and his friend Kenny Collins strive towards a friendship with one particular Bigfoot Jason named “Elvis”.