Eyes Only – Key International UFO Groups UFO organizations cover the world, from India to South Africa, and Latvia to New Zealand. In all, some forty nations are home to UFOlogy groups of consequence. Here are groups—some UFO-only in orientation, others more broadly focused—based outside the USA that have especially broad reach and useful mandates. … Read more
UFO Organizations Eyes Only: Key USA UFO Groups Large UFO organizations with national reach, and smaller groups with significant resources, are noted here. Narrowly focused UFO research is carried out by state, regional, and local UFO organizations. Miami Valley UFO Society, for instance, investigates sightings in Ohio’s Miami Valley area from headquarters in South Vienna, … Read more
UFO organizations At this writing, at least fifty UFO-study organizations are active in the United States. A few, like MUFON and CUFOS, have national and international reach, that is, they make use of active investigator-members on the ground abroad. Others, such as the Cleveland UFOlogy Project and Hoosier State UFO Research, are active locally or … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 3) Rudolph “Rudy” Schild (b. 1940) Harvard astrophysicist and researcher who directs the 1.5-meter-telescope program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cambridge Observatories. The author and co-author of nearly three hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers, Schild is founding editor-in-chief (2009) of the peer-reviewed … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 2) Linda Moulton Howe (b. 1942) Researcher, archivist, and filmmaker known for A Strange Harvest, a 1980 documentary about cattle mutilations and their link to UFOs. A Peabody-winning television writer and producer, Howe unwittingly set into motion a great … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: A Selection of Leading Living UFOlogists (Part 1) Although one may be a UFOlogist (either self-described or identified as such by others), the term does not imply belief. Many UFOlogists do believe, but others are cautiously skeptical. Still others are firmly skeptical. Some, particularly radio hosts, … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: Some Notable UFOlogists of the Past (Part 1) Persons noted below engaged in various aspects of UFO study in the postwar era. A varied group, these UFOlogists came from many worlds: finance, science, journalism, philosophy, aviation, and the military. A few were contactees; others told personal … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: Some Notable UFOlogists of the Past (Part 2) John Keel (1930–2009) Influential and prolific American author, investigator, and lecturer whose conception of aliens as other-dimensional beings, rather than extraterrestrial, gives UFOlogists plenty to discuss. Based in New York City by the mid-1950s, Keel was a working … Read more
The UFO Community Experiences, Activities, and Agendas Eyes Only: Some Notable UFOlogists of the Past (Part 3) Ray Palmer (1910–77) Astute American magazine editor-writer who had equal, enormous influence on UFOlogy, science fiction and SF fandom, hollow- Earth speculation, and the conspiracy-theory subculture. Hunched and startlingly diminutive—results of a road accident suffered at age seven—Palmer … Read more
Credibility vs. Amateurism Today, UFO book publishing is defined by traditional houses (St. Martin’s, Tor, Haynes, Schiffer, Little Brown, et al.); specialty small presses (Feral House, History Press, Disinformation Books, Adventures Unlimited Press, New Page Books, et al.); e-books (many issued by Amazon Digital Services); and self- published books (Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing is the … Read more
