Fund for UFO Research
Encyclopedia
The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) is an UFO
research group based in Alexandria, Virginia
. Founded in 1979, FUFOR states its aims as being to further the scholarly research of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis
(ETH), and to secure the release of classified U.S. government documents pertaining to these.
According to its own promotional material, FUFOR has provided over $700,000 in research grants since the 1980s, and has supported numerous UFO-related investigations, including investigations into the secrecy behind the MJ-12 papers and the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
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Unidentified flying object
A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...
research group based in Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...
. Founded in 1979, FUFOR states its aims as being to further the scholarly research of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis
Extraterrestrial hypothesis
The extraterrestrial hypothesis is the hypothesis that some unidentified flying objects are best explained as being extraterrestrial life or non-human aliens from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth.-Etymology:...
(ETH), and to secure the release of classified U.S. government documents pertaining to these.
According to its own promotional material, FUFOR has provided over $700,000 in research grants since the 1980s, and has supported numerous UFO-related investigations, including investigations into the secrecy behind the MJ-12 papers and the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects conducted by the United States Air Force. Started in 1952, it was the second revival of such a study...
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Board of directors
Current FUFOR directors include:- Don Berliner (Chairman) - aviation and science writer
- Thomas E. Bullard, PhD - folklorist, Indiana University
- John B. Carlson, PhD - astronomer, Director of the University of Maryland Center for Archaeoastronomy
- Thomas P. Deuley - electrical engineer, Lt. Cmdr - US Navy (retired), former NSA engineer
- Barry H. Downing, PhD - theologist
- David Gotlieb, MD - child psychologist
- Richard F. Haines, PhD - physiological psychologist, former head of the NASA Ames Research Center Human Factors Office
- Richard H. HallRichard H. HallRichard H. Hall was a leading Ufologist and proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings; he also wrote books and articles dealing with the role of women in the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- writer; UFO historian and researcher - Robert Hall, PhD - Director of the University of Illinois Office of Social Science Research (Retired)
- Richard C. Henry, PhD - astrophysicist, research physicist at Johns Hopkins University, former Deputy Director of NASA's Department of Astrophysics
- Bruce MaccabeeBruce MaccabeeBruce Maccabee is an American optical physicist formerly employed by the U.S. Navy, and a leading ufologist.- Biography :MacCabee received a B.S. in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., and then at American University, Washington, DC,...
, PhD - research physicist to the Naval Surface Weapons Center - Rob Swiatek (Secretary-Treasurer) - physicist, physics patent examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Robert M. Wood, PhD - McDonnell Douglas Aerospace physicist (retired)