Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
Privately funded UFO research group founded in 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, then chair of astronomy at Northwestern University.
1973 CE · 42.06, -87.68 · status: account
The account
CUFOS set out to collect and investigate reports with scientific methods after the Air Force closed Blue Book. Its staff and volunteers, including chief investigator Allan Hendry in the 1970s, built up case files that remain an important archive; it still operates from Chicago as the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies.
The sceptical view
Critics such as Philip Klass argued that decades of CUFOS work never established that any case involved something extraordinary.
Connections in the atlas
- Bruce Maccabee
- J. Allen Hynek, Air Force consultant turned investigator
- J. Allen Hynek
- Coral and Jim Lorenzen (APRO)
- Allan Hendry
- Richard F. Haines
- J. Allen Hynek
- Project Blue Book closes