UFO Organizations: Eyes Only – Key International UFO Groups

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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.

  • Aerial Phenomena Research Association of Ireland: (Ireland) Research and investigation; special emphasis on Irish cases.
  • Anomaly Researchers UK: (United Kingdom) Yorkshire-based investigatory group that studies all manner of skyborne anomalies: saucers, glowing lights, and black triangles, plus aliens, abductions, and cattle mutilations. Mounts regular field trips to notable UFO sites around the UK.
  • Associacao Pesquisa Ovni: (Portugal) Studies latest sightings, abductions, and astronomy; special emphasis on Portuguese cases.
  • Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena: (Romania) Established 1989. Nonprofit, science-based investigatory body; special emphasis on Romanian cases.
  • Association Québécoise d’UFOlogie: (Canada) Photo and video analysis, UFO news, science news.
  • Astrotruth: (India) Strongly science-based emphasis on astronomy, astrophysics, and space propulsion. No interest in the paranormal.
  • Australian Close Encounter Research Network (ACERN; Australia) Research and therapeutics organization that provides counseling and health support for UFO contactees. Secondary interest in past lives, hypnotic regression, channeling, and government cover-ups.
  • Australian UFO Research Network: (AUFORN; Australia) Nonprofit established 1998. Active investigative teams across Australia.
  • Beta-UFO: (Indonesia) Established 1997 to study UFO accounts, abduction reports, and photographs.
  • British UFO Research Association: (BUFORA; United Kingdom) Sightings- report clearinghouse that does investigations, investigator training, and photo
    analysis.
  • Centro Ufologico Nazionale: (CUN; Italy) Investigations and conferences.
  • Committee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena: (CEFAA; Chile) Strongly science-based investigatory body that operates under the aegis of Chile’s Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics.
  • Consciousness Development and Research Group: (Australia) Personal- consciousness development as it relates to C-5 encounters with ETs (mutual, bilateral communication).
  • DEGUFO e.V.: (Germany) Objective, science-based body that investigates UFO reports in Germany and other German-speaking parts of the European Union. Maintains global archives of UFO sightings and research.
  • Drustvo za Ufoloska i Astroarheoloska Istrazivanja Polaris: (Croatia) Studies developments in astronomy, UFO cases past and present, and ancient astronauts.
  • Dubai Research Congregation: (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) Wide-ranging pursuits include UFOs, crop circles, ancient civilizations, portals and gateways, telepathy, healing, secret societies, and meditation.
  • Exopolitics UK: (United Kingdom) UFO study group with an exopolitical emphasis that incorporates a political and policy mindset into extraterrestrial studies. As with other exopolitical groups, Exopolitics UK assumes that ET life and contact are facts, at least until proof to the contrary surfaces. The organization is preoccupied with government conspiracies and cabals funded by so-called “black budgets.”
  • ExtraTerrestrial Association: (South Africa) Founded 1995 to “research extraterrestrial activity in South Africa and the African continent.”
  • Fundación Anomalía: (Spain) First European foundation dedicated to UFO research; considerable group research involves disclosure issues related to the Spanish government and aerodynamics.
  • Groupe de Recherche et d’Etude des Phenomenes Insolites: (GREPI; Switzerland) French-language Swiss group positioned to appeal to longtime UFOlogists as well as newcomers. The organization successfully reinterprets vintage UFO sightings. Secondary interest: UFOs and links to American presidents.
  • Grupo UFOlógico de Guarujá: (GUG; Brazil) Established in the early 1980s as a self-described “grass roots investigation group.” GUG has uncovered and studied UFO cases informed by direct involvement of the Brazilian military (local cases) and military branches around the globe—branches that have been slow to be candid about years of sightings.
  • Hong Kong UFO Club: (China) Well-funded group, established in 1996 to investigate UFO reports via seminars, film viewings, and independent study. Particular interest in ancient astronauts and the United States’ role in UFO reports. The group hosts the biannual HK International UFO Congress.
  • Independent Network of UFO Researchers: (INUFOR; Australia) Established in 1989 as an outreach group that offers investigation and support to UFO witnesses. INUFOR develops researchers that work in concert with counterparts from other Australian groups, and groups located abroad.
  • International Development Research Centre: (Ukraine) Investigatory group that studies declassified USSR and Ukraine government documents and accounts of abductees. Members have a special interest in accounts of past lives, particularly when the past lives are alien.
  • Klub Psychotroniky a UFO, o.s.: (KPUFO; Czech Republic) Self-described “non-political” paranormal investigations group with a broad range of interests: UFOs, ancient astronauts, and alternative medicine. The group invites written UFO testimonials. Since 1994, KPUFO has sponsored more than twenty UFO expeditions to France, Austria, Malta, Italy, England, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Peru, Indonesia, and Egypt. Publisher of the ZAZ Journal.
  • Klub Psychotroniky a UFO v Slovenskej Republike: (KPUFO.SK; Slovak Republic) Studies UFO accounts past and present, ancient astronauts, “mysterious places,” and crop circles. Publishes Azimut Záhad (Azimuth Mysteries).
  • Leicestershire Unidentified Flying Object Investigation Network: (LUFOIN; United Kingdom) UFO research organization, established 1969 to focus on sightings in the Leicestershire and Warwickshire regions of the UK dating from 1706 to the present. LUFOIN maintains an impressive archive of relevant UFO reports from that considerable span of time. The group solicits new UFO reports from its own geographical bailiwick, and from abroad. Secondary areas of study: UK crop circles and international ghost reports.
  • London UFO Studies: (LUFOS; United Kingdom) Established 1995 to “fully investigate and evaluate” UFO sightings across the UK. Much of the group’s attention is commanded by abductions, human and animal mutilations, and, especially, “grays.”
  • Nautilus Foundation: (Poland) Photo and video analysis, and discussion of abductions and implants; plus ancient astronauts, astrology, numerology, conspiracy theory, antigravity, Nostradamus, ecology and climate change, Bigfoot, and Chupacabra.
  • NLO Srbija: (Serbia) Investigates and discusses UFO sightings in Serbia dating to the 1970s. Reports also on close encounters of the fifth kind, and abductions.
  • The Phenix Project: (France) aka The Phenix Project for Humanity, established to discover and understand ancient extraterrestrial artifacts on Earth. The organization’s hope is that concerted research will lead to new energy sources. The group actively solicits money for “fundamental research” from individuals and businesses willing to be “investors, partners, sponsors, and donors.”
  • Puerto Rico UFO Network: (PRUFON; Puerto Rico) Established in 2009 to conduct “no nonsense” UFO investigation in Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean. The abduction phenomenon is a key area of interest.
  • Russian UFO Research Station: (RUFORS; Russia) Founded in 1996 as a clearinghouse for news about UFOs and lost civilizations, and to encourage UFO-related scientific tourism. In 2002, the group urged President Putin to authorize the release of non-secret UFO-related government documents.
  • Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center: (Turkey) Investigative organization established in 1998 to study witness reports, and UFO photographs and videos. The group remained very busy during 2001–02, when Turkey was swept by a wave of UFO sightings. Sirius founded the Istanbul UFO Museum in 2001.
  • SOS Ovni Belgique: (Belgium) Interdisciplinary UFO data collection and analysis group that works with consultants schooled in astronomy, biology, acoustics, and materials analysis.
  • Strange Phenomena Investigations: (United Kingdom) Founded in 1979, and active in government-disclosure efforts.
  • Study Group of Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena: (GEFAA; Brazil) Investigative group with a Brazilian emphasis on UFOs; little or no activity pertaining to the paranormal. This is a science-based organization that maintains a unit of field investigators that utilizes spectroscopic technology to assist in study of discrete cases.
  • Skandinavisk UFO Information: (SUFOI; Denmark) Established in 1957 to promote UFOs as extraterrestrial spaceships, SUFOI later altered its mission after questioning the accuracy of eyewitness accounts. The group now researches explainable UFO sightings. SUFOI published a magazine, UFO-Nyt, from 1958 to 2010, when it became Web-exclusive.
  • Suomen UFOtutkijat: (FUFORA; Finland) The Finnish UFO Research Association has emphasized “critical thinking and open-mindedness” since its founding in 1973. The group has no predigested central opinion about UFOs; rather, it simply follows the evidence, case by case. FUFORA also educates and trains UFO researchers from across Finland.
  • UFO and Paranormal Research Society of Australia: (UFO-PRSA; Australia) Founded in 2000 to follow “a multi-disciplinary approach covering everything possible under the Paranormal [sic] banner.” Conducts field investigations of reported sightings and abductions. Interested also in psychic abilities, cryptozoology, and ghosts.
  • UFOBC: (Canada) Nonprofit registered with British Columbia, dedicated to on-site investigation of local UFO sightings. Particular areas of interest: abductions, animal mutilations, crash retrieval, and crop circles.
  • UFOCUS NZ Research Network: (New Zealand) Investigative and research body that offers support for contactees. The group’s activities are informed by an objective, scientific approach. Special attention is given to UFOs that compromise the safety of New Zealand airspace and reports that coincide with volcanoes and other seismic activity.
  • UFO Experience Support Association: (UFOESA; Australia) Research and support-group organization headed by a male abductee who encountered two humanoid women during an abduction and was sexually abused.
  • UFO-Finland: (Finland) Helsinki-based research and investigation group founded in 1999 to encourage witness and contactee investigation, in Finland and abroad.
  • UFOlats: (Latvia) Latvian-centric organization that looks at UFOs in the context of new developments in astronomy and aviation. Interested also in folklore and cryptozoology.
  • UFO-Norge: (Norway) Established 1973 to “collect, process, and study all available information on UFOs in Norway.” Although receptive to a variety of hypotheses, the group is dedicated to science and the scientific method.
  • UFO Report: (Japan) Clearinghouse for UFO reports gathered from around the world.
  • UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated: (Australia) Public group established in Sydney in 1991 to develop public-sponsored UFO investigation and “promote a greater understanding of all aspects of the UFO phenomenon.” Sites in Sydney’s CBD (central business district) host monthly public meetings and film nights.
  • UFO Research of South Africa: (UfoRSA; South Africa) Founded in 2011 to encourage mainstream discussion of South African UFO events.
  • UFO Research Queensland Inc.: (Australia) Nonprofit organization established 1956 “to receive, record, and research UFO sightings.” The group works from the premise that unexplained UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials.
  • UFO-Sweden: (Sweden) Sweden-wide group dating to 1970, with links to more than two dozen local and regional Swedish UFO organizations. UFO- Sweden maintains an active partnership with various official Swedish agencies, including the Swedish Defense Research Agency, and keeps the Archives for UFO Research. With thousands of books and more than thirteen thousand case histories, UFO-Sweden’s UFO archive is the largest in Europe.
  • UFO Werkgroep Nederland: (The Netherlands) Compiles the latest news, and maintains a UFO-news archive going back to 2000.
  • Victorian UFO Action: (Australia) On-site investigative group, UFO-news clearinghouse, and abductee-support group, founded in 2010.
  • Welsh UFO Research Network: (WUFORN; Wales) Disclosure-activist group that petitions the Welsh and larger UK governments to open UFO files, in order for the public to know the truth about UFO incidents in Wales and elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The group is presently working its way through some nine thousand pages of declassified Ministry of Defence UFO documents.