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 […]
Göteborgs Informationscenter för Oidentifierade Flygande Föremål Swedish UFO research group, disbanded in 1978. Their archives were transfered to the Archives for UFO Research (AFU) References Håkan Blomqvist´s blog – Rapport-Nytt och dess föregångare Archives For the Unexplained Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige – ufoorganisationer UFO – en kort historik
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 […]
Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952. He remained head of Blue Book until late 1953. Author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1955) He is generally credited with coining the term “unidentified flying object” to replace “flying saucer” References wiki: Edward […]
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 Robertson Panel in 1953, this report set policy. Super important policy. Hella important, man. 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 […]
Sauvegarde Conservation des Etudes et Archives Ufologiques French for Preservation and Conservation of Ufological Studies and Archives. Founded in February 1990. References SCEAU Archives Euro UFO: SCEAU http://www.afu.info/recdons02.htm
Supreme Commander of APEN (Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network). This individual quite possibly never existed. (Revelations, 222-223) References mysteriousbritain: Messengers Of Deception
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) References project1947: Project […]
Project Sign personnel in the T-2 Conference Room at Wright-Patterson AFB (1948). Personnel from the left around the table: Lt. Col. Malcolm Seashore, chief of the Material Command Intelligence Technical Analysis (MCIAT) Unidentifiable person blocked by Seashore Lt. Col. J.J. Hausman Col. Howard McCoy, director of Air Material Command T-2 Intelligence Division Believed to be […]
(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 References http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SETV.html
CERES An organization which studies crop circles.
CSI-LA A UFO study group in California, active from around 1952 – 1954 LIFE Magazine – April 7, 1952: “Civilian Saucer Investigations” was organized by Sighter Ed J. Sullivan (standing), who urges other sighters to write to P.O. Box 1971, Main Post Office, Los Angeles. CSI includes Dr. Walter Riedel (behind Sullivan), who was chief […]
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, […]