Project Archives
The Research Record
What the investigators themselves produced, from 1893 to 2026: the published periodicals of the civilian research organisations, the independent field studies, and the sceptical counter-literature.
Looking for government records? Browse digitised frames from Project Blue Book, the USAF's official UFO investigation programme (1947 to 1969).
Flying Saucers Over Papua
Rev. N.E.G. Cruttwell's field study of 79 sightings across Papua New Guinea, 1953 to 1959, including the Boianai encounter watched by 38 witnesses. An independent researcher's handwritten reports, digitised and cross-referenced.
Sceptics Corner
Debunking periodicals, held separately with editorial context on their institutional starting position: Philip Klass's Skeptics UFO Newsletter, SUNlite, The Bent Spoon, and others.
Featured Collections
APRO Bulletin
258 articles indexed
MUFON UFO Journal
200 articles indexed
Cosmic Awareness
631 articles indexed
NICAP UFO Investigator
120 articles indexed
Space Review
128 articles indexed
Just Cause
70 articles indexed
Pursuit (SITU)
92 articles indexed
Australian UFO Bulletin
170 articles indexed
Saucers (Max B. Miller)
57 articles indexed
All Periodical Titles by Country
Indexed data from the largest collection of civilian UFO periodicals, including publications from APRO, NICAP, MUFON, CUFOS, and dozens of independent researchers and regional groups. Also includes records from FBI FOIA releases, NARA UAP records, NASA documents, and other official sources.
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Canadian civilian UFO research publications.
Brazilian civilian UFO research has produced one of the longest-running national periodical traditions in South America. Editora UFO under Ademar José Gevaerd has anchored the country's documentary record since 1985.
Home of Flying Saucer Review, one of the most internationally respected UFO journals, plus the earliest periodical in the archive: W. T. Stead's quarterly Borderland (1893 to 1897).
French civilian UFO research periodicals, including the long-running monthly Lumières Dans La Nuit founded by Raymond Veillith in 1958.
Italian civilian UFO research publications. The principal national bodies are the Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) in Turin, publisher of UFO Rivista and Notizie UFO, and the Centro Ufologico Nazionale (CUN) in Milan, publisher of Notiziario UFO.
Spanish-language UFO research publications, including coverage of the Canary Islands wave and the UMMO contact case.
Belgian civilian UFO research publications. The 1989 to 1990 Belgian wave and the SOBEPS investigation framework anchor the Belgian institutional record.
Swedish UFO research publications. The Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) in Norrköping is the principal Nordic preservation institution, holding extensive international collections.
Belarusian and Soviet-era UFO research publications.
Australian UFO research periodicals from VUFORS, UFORA, TUFOIC, UFOIC, and other state-based groups.
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Japanese UFO research and contactee publications, including the GAP-Japan English edition that carried Hachiro Kubota's translations of the George Adamski tradition into the international Anglophone readership across the 1985 to 1998 period.
South African UFO research publications, including coverage of regional sightings and the broader African civilian-research tradition.
African UFO research publications, including coverage of the 1994 Ariel School encounter.
Publications spanning multiple countries or published in English without a fixed national base.
Periodicals are compiled from the archive's primary-source holdings: original issues, microfilm reels, photocopied runs from researcher estates, and scans donated by the publishing organisations or held in institutional archives. Each collection page links to its source material. Collections marked Exhibition have been expanded into full documentary deep-dives with narrative history, primary-source pull quotes, and cross-references to cases and people.
