Center for UFO Studies
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| Type | Organization |
|---|---|
| Also known as | CUFOS |
| On the Timeline | 5 events, 1966–1979 |
The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), renamed the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies after its founder's death, is a privately funded, nonprofit American UFO research organisation founded in 1973 by astronomer J. Allen Hynek.[1]
Founding
Hynek, then chair of the astronomy department at Northwestern University in Illinois, had been the scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book. After Blue Book closed in 1969 he founded CUFOS to keep collecting and studying UFO reports scientifically. The centre began in Evanston, Illinois, and is now based in Chicago.[1][2]
People
Mark Rodeghier has been director since 1986, the year Hynek died. People who have served on its board include Jerome Clark, author of The UFO Encyclopedia, Michael D. Swords, a retired professor of natural science at Western Michigan University, and folklorist Thomas E. Bullard of Indiana University.[1]
Archives
CUFOS holds the files of defunct civilian groups, including those of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the largest UFO group of the 1950s and 1960s, together with books, articles, documents and sighting reports open to researchers. In November 2020 its case files were moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the National UFO Historical Records Center looks after them on CUFOS's behalf.[1][3]
On the UAP Timeline
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- China Lake surveyors' sighting (1966) (18 January 1966) — Two surveyors at China Lake see a UAP pass low overhead and maneuver.
- Lyndon Johnson's informal UFO study (1968) — A study for President Johnson reportedly says UAP are real and under intelligent control.
- Hynek's The UFO Experience (May 1972) — Blue Book adviser J. Allen Hynek writes that Blue Book was a cover-up and the problem was glossed over.
- Dyess AFB weapons storage incident (1973) (October 1973) — A security policeman at Dyess AFB says his squadron encountered a UAP near nuclear bombers.
- Hynek on the Robertson Panel's legacy (1979) — Hynek says the Robertson Panel set an unwritten Air Force rule to play UAP down.
References
- Center for UFO Studies — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- John Franch, "The Secret Life of J. Allen Hynek", Skeptical Inquirer (Jan/Feb 2013) · skepticalinquirer.org · archived copy
- "National UFO Historical Records Center coming to Albuquerque", AP News (2022) · apnews.com · archived copy
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