The UFO Investigators League (UFOIL) was a UFO group founded by Timothy Green Beckley in the early 1970s. They were a member of the Coalition of Concerned Ufologists and branched into state chapters.

The group re-emerged in 1990 at the following address: Box 753, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. At this time the group was seeking to expand its international network of UFO investigators. Membership perks included a membership card, investigators certificate, field manual, and a subscription to the group's newsletter.

Publications

• UFO Investigators League Field Manual. Compiled by Harold D. Salkin and Timothy Green Beckley. 1979. Revision in 1992.
• UFO Spotters Newsletter. 1990.
• Govt.-Alien Liaison? Top-Secret Documents. New Brunswick, NJ: UFO Investigators League, D.d.

Kentucky (KUFOIL)

Founded by Gary Webster and Rick Ziegler in 1981. It was based out of Covington, Kentucky

Covington, Kentucky

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people, 18,257 households, and 10,132 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile . There were 20,448 housing units at an average density of 1,556.5 per square mile...

. This chapter collected monthly membership dues which mostly went to the high costs of reproductions of their field manual, which was based on the UFOIL Manual and MARCEN Manual. The group also investigated ghost

Ghost

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...

 hauntings

Haunted house

A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property...

 and Bigfoot

Bigfoot

Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is an ape-like cryptid that purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid...

 sightings in addition to UFO's. A drop in reports and dwindling membership numbers resulted in the groups breakup in late 1982.

Notable Cases

• Big Bone Lick State Park
  Big Bone Lick State Park
  Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. It is located on Beaver Road and between the communities of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. The mammoths and other creatures are believed to have...
  
   Trailer Park case in 1981. The trailer park no longer exists today, but residents there in the early 1980s reported Bigfoot sightings.
• Fouke Monster
  Fouke Monster
  The Fouke Monster, also known as the Southern Sasquatch, is a legendary cryptid reported near the town of Fouke in Miller County, Arkansas during the early 1970s, where it was accused of attacking a local family. Initial sightings of the creature were concentrated in the Jonesville/Boggy Creek...
  
   (Arkansas) case in April 1982.

Ohio (OUFOIL)

The earliest reference to this group places it as having a UFO hot line operating in 1973. Its Director was Charles Wilhelm and his wife Geri, and it was based out of Fairfield, Ohio

Fairfield, Ohio

Fairfield is a city in Butler County in the U.S. state of Ohio, near Cincinnati. Fairfield was incorporated in 1955. The population was 42,510 at the 2010 census. The city school district is one of the largest in Ohio, with Fairfield High School graduating 842 students in June 2009. Fairfield is...

. OUFOIL coordinated raw incoming data during the flap of 1973 with Leonard H. Stringfield

Leonard H. Stringfield

Leonard Stringfield was an American Ufologist who took particular interest in crashed flying saucer stories. His contacts in the medical field gave him the first descriptions of the alien bodies allegedly recovered at Roswell or elsewhere....

. Ron Schaffner, publisher of the cryptozoology

Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven...

 journal Creature Chronicles, was the Investigations Director. He joined in 1976 after finding a public service flier in a news room advertising the group.

Notable Cases

• Landing and humanoids sighting in Goshen, Ohio in 1973. Wilhelm arrived in the area a few days after the event and interviewed witnesses. No physical trace evidence was found.
• Loveland Lizard (Ohio) case of March 1972, reopened by OUFOIL in 1976. Two police officers witnessed a creature "three or four feet tall, weighing around 50 to 75 lbs. Its body looked like leathery textured skin, and had a face resembling a frog or lizard."
• Mothman
  Mothman
  Mothman is a legendary creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, entitled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something"...
  
   case of 1966, reopened by OUFOIL in the summer of 1976. Investigators travelled to Point Pleasant, West Virginia
  Point Pleasant, West Virginia
  Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census...
  
  to interview witnesses.
• Preble County, Ohio Creature case in 1977. County authorities considered the possibilities of UFO involvement, so they contacted OUFOIL.
• Ross, Ohio Landing Case (April 10, 1983). Three OUFOIL investigators made it to the scene with investigative equipment on the same night as the landing, but nothing unusual was found aside from indentations and broken branches.