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- === UFO Organizations
- ------------------
-
- Throughout the world there are many civilian organisations which either have
- the study of UFOs or extraterrestrials as their main object of interest or
- include them as part of a wider remit. Each organisation has a different
- view of the subject ranging from the basically scientific to, in some cases,
- the frankly nutty.
-
- This list is not exhaustive, but is fairly extensive. The names of the
- officers and subscription rates of organisations may change and, unless
- the editor is informed, the updated information may not be available here.
- This is, of course, not the only list of organisations produced in the
- world. Readers are urged to consult other lists as well such as the excellant
- list of UFO organisations produced by John A. Hayes for UFOnet.
-
- 11.00: Aerial Phenomenon Research: The Indiana Group
- ----------------------------------------------------
- 18 Davis Drive Mt. Vernon, Indiana 47620
- Francis L. Ridge (Director)
- 812-838-3120 / 812-838-9843
- Publishers of : Indiana UFO Newsletter
- Founded in 1986
- A statewide organization which attempts to immediately respond to UFO
- sightings
-
- 11.01: The Aetherius Society
- ----------------------------
- 6202 Afton Place Hollywood,
- California 90028-8298
- Detroit Branch
- 17670 West 12 Mile Road
- Southfield, Michigan 48076
- 313-552-9153 / 313-552-9159
- Reverend Lesley Young
- (General Committeee) : 213~65-9652/ 213~67-HEAL (4325)
- Publishers of : The Aetherius Society Journal : Cosmic Voice
- Founded in 1960
- The Hollywood, California office is the American headquarters for The
- Society which was founded in England in 1955. In the US, the Society was
- incorporated in 1960 as a non-profit religious, scientific, and educational
- organization.
- The Society is a metaphysical, channeling organization whose
- founder/president, Sir George King, is a Western Master of Yoga and who has
- been in contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligences for over 35 years. He
- acts as a channel for the dissemination of Higher Wisdom from These
- Sources.
- The Society's objective is to explain the presence of UFOs around the Earth
- and to make known knowledge given to their president by Advanced Beings who
- reside in this Solar System. This information is disseminated through
- books, pamphlets, cassettes and albums and two newsletters, "The Aetherius
- Society Journal" and "Cosmic Voice".
- Also, study courses in: "Metaphysical and Occult Sciences" and "Cosmic
- Revelations" to further spread the word and to explain the cosmic
- significance of messages received from the Advanced Beings. Regular
- meetings at the U.S. and England headquarters as well as by associated
- branches throughout the world.
- Prayer Circles are organized during a Spiritual Push (or Magnetization
- Period) at different holy mountain sites, when the giant Interplanetary
- Spacecraft is brought into Earth's orbit by a Cosmic Master. Helpers who
- attend these Power Circles send out the Spiritual energies from this Cosmic
- Master to help mankind.
-
- 11.02: Ancient Astronaut Society
- --------------------------------
- 1921 St. Johns Avenue
- Highland Park, Illinois 60035-3105
- Gene M. Phillips (Founder) :708-295-8899
- Publication is Ancient Skies
- Founded in 1973. non-profit, tac-exempt organization operated for
- scientific, literary and educational purposes. The primary objectives of
- the Society are to search for evidence of whether Earth was visited in the
- remote past by intelligent beings from outer space and to determine whether
- a highly developed, technological civilization existed on Earth before our
- recorded history.
- The Society also provides complete study courses in: "Metaphysical and
- Occult Sciences" and "Cosmic Revelations" to explain the cosmic
- significance of messages received from Advanced Beings.
-
- 11.03: Ancient Truth Research Foundation
- ----------------------------------------
- 6146 Eleanor Avenue #205 Los Angeles, California 90~036
- Albert Rainey
- 213'464-5948
- Publication is Cosmic Current News
- Interested in many New Age topics, including UFOs.
-
- 11.04: The Awareness Reserch Foundation, Inc.
- ---------------------------------------------
- DeSoto Square
- No. 29, 35 Ritter Road
- Hayesville, North Carolina 28904
- Helen I. Hoag (Executive Director)
- 704-389-8672
- New Age organization with many interests, including UFOs; investigates
- various metaphysical activities and issues findings through publication of
- various books.
-
- 11.05: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (BSRF)
- -----------------------------------------------------
- P.O. Box 429
- Garberville, California 9544429
- Contact : Tom Brown
- Telephone Number : 707-986-7211
- Publication is : Journal of Borderland Research
- Founded in: 1945
- Functions as clearinghouse, specializing in rare and unusual information.
- BSRF is an alternative scientific movement which deals with a variety of
- borderland subjects, including UFOs; a
- non-profit organization; its members are people who take an active interest
- in observing the physical, mental, and spiritual environment. In addition
- BSRF studies: Light & Color affects on people, Radionics, Dowsing, Free
- Energy, Orgone Energy, Hollow
- Earth Mysteries, Anomalies, Fortean Phenomena, Hypnosis, Photography of the
- Invisible, etc. and offers a catalog of available books, reports, and
- tapes.
-
- 11.06: BRITISH UFO RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BUFORA)
- ------------------------------------------------
- Commonly called BUFORA. It was formed in 1962 as a federation
- of eight regional UK UFO groups. These included the London
- UFO Research Organisation (LUFORO, founded in 1959) the largest
- UK group at the time and the British Flying Saucer Bureau (BFSB,
- founded in 1952) which was the oldest UK group.
-
- BUFORA publishes six issues per year of the A4 magazine UFO TIMES.
- Current annual membership subscription is 18 pounds sterling.
- Approx membership 500. Current senior officers include Stephen
- Gamble (Director of Research) and John Spencer (Chairman).
-
- Contact address : BM BUFORA, London, WC1N 3XX
-
- 11.07: California UFO
- ---------------------
- 1800 South Robertson Blvd
- Box 355
- Los Angeles, California 90035
- Vicki Cooper (Editor); Don Ecker (Researcher)
- Telephone Numbers : 213-273-9409 /818-951-1250
- Publication : UFO
- Publishes the bi-monthly UFO" magazine. Additionally, this organization
- sponsors annual conferences which concentrate on a variety of UFO-related
- subjects.
-
- 11.08: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS)
- ------------------------------------------
- P.O. Box 218 c/o Mr. Lawrence Fawcett
- Coventry, Cormecticut 06238 [or] 471 Goose Lane
- Peter Gersten (Director) Coventry, Connecticut 06238
- Lawrence Fawcett (Asst Director & Publisher)
- Barry Greenwood (Research Director & Editor)
- P.O.Box 176, Stoneham, MASS, 02180, USA
- Publication is : Just Cause
- Founded in : 1978
-
- A non-profit organization to uncover all existing documentation relating to
- governrnent involvement in UFO investigations and research. To accomplish
- this, CAUS files numerous Freedom of Inforrnation Act (FOIA) lawsuits in an
- attempt to get the governrnent to release relevant documents.Their "Just
- Cause" quarterly newsletter carries events and provides updated UFO news
- from around the world. They published a book too -- "Clear Intent"
-
- 11.09: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
- Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
- ----------------------------------------------------
- Refer to: The Skeptical Inquirer
- P.O. Box 229
- Buffalo, New York 14215{)229
- Paul Kurtz (Chairman - Skeptical Inquirer)
- Philip J. Klass (UFO Subcommittee)
- Lynda Harwood (Public Relations)
- 716-834-3222
- 716-834-0841
- "The Skeptical Inquirer" is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
- CSICOP is headed by Paul Kurtz and investigates claims of the
- Paranorrnal, including UFOs and UFO-related activity.The committee's
- investigations, findings, commentaries, etc. are published in "The
- Skeptical Inquirern.
-
- 11.10: COMPUTER UFO NETWORK (CUFON)
- -----------------------------------
- Bulletin Board system run by UFO Reporting and Information Service. Date of
- formation not known. Information director : Dale Goudie, SYSOP: Jim Klotz
- Based Seattle, Washington, USA. Board number +1 206 776 0382, parameters
- 300/1200/2400 bps 8 bit no parity 1 stop bit.
-
- 11.11: Contactee
- ----------------
- P.O. Box 12
- New Milford, New Jersey 07646
- Ellen Crystall (Director)
- Studies UFOs by direct observation; quarterly newsletter, "Contactee"
- details activities.Tne primary goal of Contactee is to educate about
- world-wide contacts being made with UFOs and to disseminate information to
- all interested parties.
- Contactee also sells books and sponsors various conferences.
- Regular Member (those who claim to have had alien contact) and
- Auxiliary Member (those who do not claim UFO contact)
- membership fee is $20.00 per year and includes the newsletter.
- Contactee accepts articles for its newsletter.
-
- 11.12: Cosmic Awareness Communications
- --------------------------------------
- P.O. Box 115
- Olympia, Washington 98507
- Vikki T. (Correspondence Secretary)
- Pulication is : Reveltions of Awareness
- A tax-exempt organization.
- Studies New Age subjects, including UFOs. This group is centered around the
- "channelings" of a "Force" which refers to itself as "Cosmic Awareness". CA
- believes that this "Force" has expressed itself through selected people in
- history including Jesus, the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, and Edgar Cayce,
- among others.
- Publication, "Revelations of Awareness, has published over 300 editions and
- details various New Age subjects. Subscribers receive a catalog listing all
- available back issues and subjects covered. Membership is $30.00 per year.
- Will accept memberships for three month periods ($3.00 per month), prepaid.
- Individual/Family $ 3.00/ month or $30.00/ year New Age-related (including
- UFOs) books and tapes available.
-
- 11.13: CSETI
- ------------
- Dr. Steven Greer 704-274-5671
- Asheville,N.C.
-
- 11.14: Delval UFO, Inc.
- -----------------------
- 948 Almshouse Road
- Ivyland, Pennsylvania 18974
- Anthony Volpe (President)
- 215-357-2909
- Publication is the Awakening; the group was founded in 1973.
- A channeling, contactee UFO organization, founded in 1973.their publication
- "Awakening", is offered nine 9 times a year; they sell UFO-related books
- and tapes.
-
- 11.15: The Fair Witness Project, Inc.
- -------------------------------------
- Parent Organization: William L. Moore Publications & Research
- 4219 West Olive Avenue Suite #247
- Burbank, California 91505
- 213-463-0542
- Publication is : Focus
- A non-profit corporation whose income is used to fund the research efforts
- of qualified persons selected by the Directors of the Fair Witness Project.
- They accept donations and will send an acknowledgement of that donation for
- tax purposes.
-
- 11.16: The Federation
- ---------------------
- The Federation is a group of people who feel it is high time we got
- off this rock and started exploring the great unknown of space. The
- Federation has drawn out in blue print form a drive system that is a a super
- semi conducting crystaline structure. To get more information on the
- Federation send a 3.5 floppy and they will place an info packet on it and
- send
- it back to you. You must have a mac that has 5.0 microsoftword or better.Send
- to this adrress:
-
- The Federation
- C/O Lady Rhavyn
- Po box 231772
- Anchorage, Alaska
- 99523-1772
-
- If you have any questions feel free to send to this account.
- ASLJL@ACAD2.ALASKA.EDU
-
-
- 11.17: Flying Saucer Information Center
- ---------------------------------------
- 7803 Ruanne Court
- Pasadena, Maryland 21122
- James H. Wales : Update
- Founded in 1954
- Acts as a clearing house for the distribution of UFO information to the
- general public. Laura Mundo began this organization in 1954.
- Group feels the Earth is in danger due to upcoming radical changes in the
- atmosphere (sunspot activity) and Space Beings are here to help. They will
- be able to either solve the problem or take selected Earth people to safe
- locations (inside their insulated spaceships) until the atmospheric
- activity calms down. When humans return to Earth after surviving the
- atmospheric instability, they will begin the Universal Way of Life, which
- is a standard way of life on other planets. Also believe Space People
- living on Earth today are to here to monitor us and help.
-
- 11.18: FORTEAN RESEARCH CENTER (FRC)
- ------------------------------------
- This was founded in 1982 by Ray Boeche and deals with all aspects of Fortean
- Phenomena. The current Director is Scott Colbourn. The contact address for
- the Center is P.O.Box 94627, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68509, USA. The Center runs
- a Bulletin Board on +1 402 488 2587.
-
- 11.19: FUND FOR UFO RESEARCH (FUFOR)
- ------------------------------------
- [Duplicated entry - see 11.20 SG]
-
- 11.20: The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.
- --------------------------------------
- P.O. Box 277
- Mt. Rainier, Maryland 20712
- Bruce Maccabee, PhD (Chairman)
- Publication is: Quarterly Report
- Founded in 1979
- 2000 Members
- A non-profit, tax-exempt organization based in Washington, D.. whose
- mission is to provide grants for scientific research and public education
- projects dealing with the UFO phenomenon. Since 1979 has raised more than
- $150,000.00 from more than 2000 contributors. Also sponsors and awards the
- annual Donald E. Keyhoe Journalism Award."
- The Fund sponsors such projects the release of U.S.
- Government documents concerning UFOs under the Freedom of Informatioon
- Act,computer-aided analysis of UFO photographs, research into major UFO
- sightings around the world,
- research into "Operation Majestic 12", psychological testing of people who
- reported being abducted by apparent aliens, international symposiums and
- conducts interviews and lectures.
- The Fund takes the position that many reported UFOs cannot be identified as
- conventional aerial vehicles or phenomena. Thus, UFO reports are
- potentially of enormous significance and merit serious scientific research.
-
- 11.21: Gulf Breeze Skywatch
- ---------------------------
- 904-433-2737 (Bruce and Ann Morrison)
-
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