Fund for UFO Research

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The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) is a UFO research group based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1979. FUFOR states its aims as being to further the scholarly research of UFOs and ETH, and to secure the release of classified government documents pertaining to the above. [1]

According to its own promotional material, FUFOR has provided over $700,000 in research grants, and has supported numerous UFO related investigations, including investigations into the secrecy behind MJ-12 and Project Blue Book. [2]

[edit] Board of Directors

Current FUFOR directors include

  • Don Berliner (Chairman) - Aviation and science writer
  • Thomas E. Bullard, PhD - Folklorist, University of Indiana
  • John B. Carlson, PhD - Astronomer, Director of the University of Maryland Center for Archaeoastronomy
  • Thomas P. Deuley
  • 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 Hall - Writer
  • 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 Maccabee, 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)

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[edit] Reference

  1. ^ FUFOR: Official Statement of Policy. FUFOR. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
  2. ^ FUFOR: Funding Research and Education. FUFOR. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
  3. ^ FUFOR: Board of Directors. FUFOR. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.

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