Mutual UFO Network An international organization based in Texas comprised largely of UFO believers. Some prominent members (such as Stanton Friedman) have had high level government security clearances and/or ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. At the 1989 meeting Bill Moore proclaimed himself a deliberate disinformation agent of the government. See also: Majestic 12 . also: [...]
The National Institute for Discovery Science was founded by Bigelow Robert as a way to channel funds into the proper scientific study of paranormal phenomena. They were very interested in cattle mutilation and for a while they were the FAA’s sole recipient for black triangle reports. Most famously they bought Skinwalker Ranch”in Utah 1996. Rumors [...]
Geborgs Informations Center f Oidentifierade Flygande Frem Swedish UFO research group, disbanded in 1978. Their archives were transfered to the Archives for UFO Research (AFU) Links http://www.afu.info/
An early Air Force project investigating UFOs. Declassified on July 23, 1997, Project Grudge was originally released in August of 1949 as a SECRET Technical Report (NO 102-AC 49/15-100) by the headquarters of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio. Approved by Lt. Col. Hemstreet and Col. Watson, it is 406 pages long [...]
Head of Project Blue Book. Author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1955)
Founded in Sweden in 1973. “The collection represents more than 600 meters on our shelves.” AFU maintains a number of other services: A photo copier – sponsored by UFO-Sweden Collection of Access databases (also available on CD) Yahoo Mailing-list of recent Swedish UFO clippings (.pdf format) AFU Newsletter, four issues/year Lending library (for Swedish citizens [...]
The CIA’s first official interest in UFO’s, a change of attitute provoked in part by the Robertson Report. Members of the Panel were: Dr. H.P. Robertson, head of the Panel Dr. Samuel A Goudsmit Dr. Lloyd V Berkner Dr. Luis Alvarez Dr. Thorton L Page Associate members: Dr. J Allen Hynek Frederick C Durant III, [...]
Issued by the in 1953, this report set the policy for Project Blue Book for the next sixteen years. The report concluded that there was no logical explanation for some UFO. But the report also said that flying saucers did not constitute a threat to national security, so somebody else should worry about the unknowns. [...]
Sauvegarde Conservation des Etudes et Archives Ufologiques French for Preservation and Conservation of Ufological Studies and Archives
Supreme Commander of APEN (Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network). This individual quite possibly never existed. Also, “enquiry” isn’t necessarily a real word. (Revelations, 222-223)
Defunct UFO research group. From their history: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) in the early 80s, was an organization known principally, if not solely, for being the plaintiff in two actions under the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for 57 documents withheld pursuant to a previous court decision. From 1987-1998 CAUS has survived solely on the [...]
Dr (?) Michael Wolf claimed that MJ-12 appointed him manager of Alphacom Team, who had the objective of resuming negotiations with the visiting extraterrestrials. Other objectives of Alphacom Team were: to determine whether we can use the ETs’ technology to restore this planet to its former pristine state of natural balance.” to determine the number [...]
An Air Force project set up in the summer of 1949 to attempt to photograph and track the mysterious green fireballs seen around military compounds in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. Dr. Edward Teller, who was then working on the hydrogen bomb, was one of the witnesses to these fireballs. (Peebles, 32-33)
The first Air Force Project to research the nature of UFOs. Founded on December 30, 1947 by Maj Gen L C Craigie who issued an order creating a flying saucer investigation group to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere which can [...]
(SETI) The offical scientific search for aliens. Based on the Drake Equation, their search focuses on the communication traces of advanced civilizations. SETI signal analysis was one of the first distributed network applications using the Internet to harness to idle processor cycles of thousands of home computers Links http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SETV.html
CERES An organization which studies crop circles.
CSI-LA Active from 1952 – 1954 Links http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/index.html
Director of the Twentieth Century UFO Bureau, headquartered in Collingswood, New Jersey. According to Jaques Vallee: the Bureau is on of the groups that compose the fundamentalist religious organization headed by the Reverend Carl McIntire. Barry stated in June 1978 that he had three excellent sources, one in government, the others retired from highly sensitive [...]
APRO Based in Tucson, Arizona. Founded by James and Coral Lorenzen in 1952. It lasted into the 80s.
Director of the Twentieth Century UFO Bureau, headquartered in Collingswood, NJ. According to Jaques Vallee the Bureau is on of the groups that compose the fundamentalist religious organization headed by the Reverend Carl McIntire. Barry stated in June 1978 that he had three excellent sources, one in government, the others retired from highly sensitive position, [...]