2025, the Year in Review
It was a year of unprecedented UAP events. Here is a chronicle of what happened.
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Welcome to the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a non-profit organization that includes scientists, professionals, academics, investigators, and others, all volunteers, dedicated to the study and analysis of the UFO phenomenon. Our purpose is to promote serious scientific interest, investigation, and research on UFOs, to serve as an archive for reports, documents, and publications about the UFO phenomenon, and to be an educational resource for the public.
CUFOS has, from its inception, not been a membership organization. We have scientific and professional consultants and a community of interested supporters. You can join our community by signing up below.
Our site contains an enormous amount of material, especially original sighting reports, investigations, and official government documents. CUFOS publications available include all issues of our periodical International UFO Reporter, our academic publication Journal of UFO Studies, along with bulletins, newsletters, and CUFOS monographs. Additionally, there is an extensive UFO timeline of events throughout history, educational resources about the UFO phenomenon, and publications of NICAP, an early important UFO organization. We encourage you to explore these in areas of interest.
CUFOS currently engages in several ongoing activities and if you are interested in volunteering and supporting the work, please read about this in our Get Involved page.
Features
Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Six
Just about dusk on September 12, 1952, in Flatwoods, West Virginia, a bunch of kids playing ball, the one adult (Kathleen May, the mother of two of them), and 17-year-old Eugene Lemon, all witnessed some very strange things.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Five
The oft-discussed Tremonton, Utah, UFO film shot by Naval photographer Delbert Newhouse on July 2, 1952, rattled the Air Force Pentagon community, all the way to the point of thinking about changing USAF public policy. The available files indicate both complexity and gaps in our knowledge. The true story is tough to crack.
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