OUR COLLECTIONS

Overview

The National UFO Historical Records Center brings together many valuable collections of records documenting the history of the UFO/UAP phenomenon. Records include official and civilian case files, audio and video recordings, correspondence, photographs, books, magazines, news clippings, research notes, microfilm, and digital and physical artifacts. These records are critical to understanding the evolution government, scientific and civilian investigations in the topic as well as the social and cultural impacts of the phenomenon.
OUR THREE MAJOR HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF UFO CASE FILES

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)

NICAP was founded on October 24, 1956, by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown. The board of governors included several prominent men, including Donald Keyhoe, Maj USMC (Ret.), and former chief of the Navy's guided missile program RADM Delmer S. Fahrney USN (Ret.). NICAP had the most extensive network of investigators and the largest membership of any UFO organization of the time. It collected UFO reports until 1980.

The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)

The United States Air Force investigation into the subject of UFOs was known as Project Blue Book. Their Chief Scientist, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, later founded CUFOS in 1973 to continue to collect and study UFO reports after Blue Book shut down in December 1969. Ufologist James W. Moseley wrote that CUFOS was "... the first real attempt to set up a private research group genuinely dedicated to scientific investigations and study of UFOs."

The Aerial Phenonomena Research Organization (APRO)

APRO was the first serious American UFO research group started in January 1952 by Jim and Coral Lorenzen, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. It was later based in California, New Mexico, and finally in Tucson, Arizona. APRO had UFO investigators and consultants worldwide. It remained active until late 1988.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER COLLECTIONS

A collection of collections

We preserve their work and memory

The founders of The National UFO Historical Records Center have collectively toiled to preserve the work of UFO orgnizations as well as dedicated researchers over the years. Some of these researchers are well known while others are not. Here is a list of some of the smaller private collections hosted by our archives.
  • Jan Aldrich (Project 1947)
  • Lou Farish
  • Bill Pitts
  • Antonio Huneeus
  • David Schroth
  • Ray Nelke
  • Dewey Fournet
  • Mike Christol
  • Timothy Green Beckley
  • Lee Speigel
  • David Perkins
  • Andy Roberts
  • Philip Mantle
  • Rick Hilberg
  • Cleveland UFOlogy Project (CUP)
  • UFO Research Committee of Akron OH (UFORC)
  • UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis
  • And many more scheduled to arrive over the next few years!
Consider donating your UFO/UAP collection to our growing archives
If you or someone you know has a collection of UFO/UAP materials, please consider us as a final repository for it. 
Too many collections were discarded over the years due to lack of a succession plan. 
Help us preserve the history of the subject by preserving these collections. It will not only assure its preservation but also afford the opportunity for others to learn from the materials gathered here.