CAUS Bulletin / UFOrmant

History

Before Citizens Against UFO Secrecy published under the title "Just Cause," it produced an earlier newsletter called UFOrmant from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. Publication ceased in January 1982. Two years later, in September 1984, Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood revived the newsletter as "Just Cause (New Series)" from PO Box 218, Coventry, Connecticut 06238. Fawcett served as Publisher, Greenwood as Editor. Subscriptions ran four issues for $8 domestic ($15 foreign).

Fawcett and Greenwood had just finished writing "Clear Intent" (later reissued as "The UFO Cover-Up"), published by Prentice-Hall in 1984. The book compiled FOIA-released government documents into a narrative argument that U.S. agencies had been systematically concealing evidence of UFO encounters. They started the newsletter because the book alone was not reaching enough people: "We began writing CLEAR INTENT in August 1982 when it became evident that the facts about UFO secrecy just weren't getting out to the widest possible audience."

The New Series ran quarterly from September 1984 through the early 1990s, reaching at least sixty numbered issues. Each issue typically combined current FOIA case updates, analysis of newly released documents, investigative reporting on specific sightings, and tracking of the legal and bureaucratic machinery that kept UFO records classified.