UFO Reporter

History

UFO Research (NSW) launched UFO Reporter as its quarterly journal in March 1992, with an editorial committee comprising Bryan Dickeson, Evelayn Hoctor, and Coralee Vickery. The publication carried ISSN 1038-1015 and was available free to members or by subscription at $20 per year (four issues). The archive holds issues from Volume 1 (1992) through Volume 7 (2012), though publication appears to have been intermittent in later years.

The inaugural issue set an ambitious standard. Its contents read as a roster of international ufological talent: Bill Chalker on Australian UFO reality, Keith Basterfield on close encounters of an Australian kind, Jenny Randles on circular logic (crop formations) and on abduction cases, Jerry Clark on both government involvement and extraterrestrial entities, Brian O'Leary (former NASA astronaut-scientist) on consciousness and physics, Antony Drew on world grid patterns, Brian Crowley on solar system evidence, and Colin Andrews on crop circle research. Leonie Starr contributed Australian crop circle coverage.

The publication included a draft Code of Conduct for UFO Investigators, signalling the group's emphasis on professional standards. This was not a contactee bulletin or a speculative magazine; it positioned itself as a research journal with editorial oversight and ethical guidelines for fieldwork. The editorial committee maintained that contributors' views did not necessarily reflect the organisation's positions, standard practice for research journals but unusual for UFO newsletters of the period.

By the mid-1990s, UFO Reporter had established itself alongside the longer-running Victorian and Queensland publications as one of Australia's primary UFO research outlets. The gap between Volume 5 (1996) and Volume 7 (2012) in the archive may reflect either a publication hiatus or incomplete holdings rather than a sixteen-year silence from the organisation.