UFOs and ufology

Notable sightings and hoaxes
Kenneth Arnold sighting 1947 wave Roswell Mantell crash Chiles-Whitted Gorman dogfight McMinnville photos Mariana film 1952 flap Sightings in outer space Flatwoods monster Barney and Betty Hill Travis Walton Rendlesham Forest Belgian wave Alien autopsy hoax Phoenix Lights Pentagon UFO videos
Government investigations
Operação Prato - Brazil Project Magnet - Canada GEIPAN - France Institute 22 - Soviet Union Flying Saucer Working Party - UK Project Condign - UK History of government investigations - US All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office - US NASA's UAP independent study team - US Condon Committee - US Project Blue Book - US
Conspiracy theories
Area 51 Bob Lazar Majestic 12 Men in black Serpo
Religions
Aetherius Society Church of the SubGenius Heaven's Gate Nation of Islam Raëlism Scientology Unarius Academy of Science
Lists of organizations, sightings, studies, etc.
UFO organizations Reported UFO sightings Sightings by country Investigations of UFOs by governments Identification studies of UFOs Ufologists Alleged extraterrestrial beings
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This is a list of notable non-governmental UFO organizations located around the world.

Belarus

UfoCom

Estonia

AKRAK (inactive)

Sweden

Archives for the Unexplained (AFU)

Russia

Kosmopoisk

United Kingdom

British UFO Research Association (BUFORA)

United States

Active

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI)
Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS or JAHCUFOS)
International UFO Congress (IUFOC)
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)
To the Stars

Inactive / defunct

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO)
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS)
Civilian Saucer Intelligence (CSI)
Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR)
National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci)
National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)
UFO Investigators League (UFOIL)
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)

See also

Ufology

Claimed sightings

General	List of reported UFO sightings Sightings in outer space
Pre-20th century	Ezekiel's Wheel (circa 622–570 B.C.) Air ship of Clonmacnoise (740s) 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg 1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel 1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund José Bonilla observation (1883) Airship wave (1896-7) Aurora (1897)
20th century	Los Angeles (1942) Ängelholm UFO memorial (1946) Kenneth Arnold (1947) 1947 craze Flight 105 (1947) Roswell (1947) Rhodes (1947) Mantell (1948) Chiles-Whitted (1948) Gorman Dogfight (1948) Mariana (1950) McMinnville photographs (1950) Sperry (1950) Lubbock Lights (1951) Nash-Fortenberry (1952) Washington, D.C. (1952) Flatwoods monster (1952) Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955) Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956) Antônio Villas Boas (1957) Levelland (1957) Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961) Lonnie Zamora incident (1964) Solway Firth Spaceman (1964) Exeter (1965) Kecksburg (1965) Westall (1966) Falcon Lake (1967) Shag Harbour (1967) Jimmy Carter (1969) Finnish Air Force (1969) Pascagoula Abduction (1973) John Lennon UFO incident (1974) Travis Walton incident (1975) Tehran (1976) Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977) Operação Prato (1977) Zanfretta incident (1978) Valentich disappearance (1978) Kaikoura Lights (1978) Robert Taylor incident (1979) Val Johnson incident (1979) Manises (1979) Cash–Landrum incident (1980) Rendlesham Forest (1980) Trans-en-Provence (1981) Japan Air Lines (1986) Ilkley Moor (1987) Voronezh incident (1989) Belgian UFO wave (1990) Ariel School (1994) Varginha (1996) Phoenix Lights (1997)
21st century	USS Nimitz UFO incident (2004) Campeche, Mexico (2004) O'Hare Airport (2006) Alderney (2007) Norway (2009) USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents (2014) Jetpack man (2020–21) High-altitude object events (2023) David Grusch claims (2023)
Confirmed hoaxes	Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic 12 (1985) Gulf Breeze (1987–88) Alien Autopsy (1995 film) Morristown (2009)

Sightings by country

Types of UFOs

Types of alleged
extraterrestrial beings

Studies

Hypotheses

Conspiracy theories

Involvement

Abduction claims	History Entities Claimants Narrative Perspectives Insurance
Other	Implants Cattle mutilation Close encounter Contactee Crop circles Government responses GEIPAN Organizations Ufologists

Culture

Skepticism

Category

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