The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) Records Have Been Transferred

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) was one of the oldest and largest civilian UFO research organizations in the world. The research files of this organization have been transferred to the National UFO Historical Records Center (NUFOHRC) in Rio Rancho, NM.

Press Release The UFO Chronicles 11-28-23

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, former Scientific Adviser to U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book, cited APRO and NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) the best civilian UFO groups of their time. Both of these collections of UFO archival records along with the files of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) are now housed at the headquarters of NUFOHRC.

APRO was founded in 1952 by Jim and Coral Lorenzen, later based in Tucson, AZ. NICAP was started in 1957 in Washington D.C. by Major Donald Keyhoe. CUFOS was founded in 1973 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek in Chicago, IL. All of these records are in the process of being digitized for electronic storage, analyzation, transfer, and ease of access.

The collective files of APRO, NICAP, CUFOS, as well as Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s original U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files, constitutes the largest civilian historical UFO case file collection in the United States, if not the world.

An appropriate site is being sought in the Albuquerque, NM area for a permanent facility to house this massive collection of UFO research data. The facility will allow for public access to the UFO data as well as viewing of historic photos and artifacts from the UFO research field. NUFOHRC plans to cooperate with civilian, scientific, and governmental UFO research efforts.

Never in U.S. history has such a vast quantity of UFO records (numbering in the tens of thousands) been centralized in one location.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, a tax-deductible donation may be made to NUFOHRC to fund a free-standing public archive building which will make these files and other historical materials more readily accessible for UFO researchers, academics, scientists, and U.S. government organizations. Donations can be made online or via mail.

For more information, contact Executive Director David Marler at: dbmarler@outlook.com

National UFO Historical Records Center
P.O. Box 15541
Rio Rancho, NM 87174
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EFR Announces Online UFO Archive

Expanding Frontiers Research (EFR) is set to launch an online archive about UFO reports and investigators. The Salt Lake City nonprofit organization will publish the archive

By EFR 9-14-2023

Thursday, Sep. 14, at its website, Expanding Frontiers Research dot org. Records spanning decades will be freely accessible to researchers and anyone interested in browsing and downloading the material. Historic documents and audio recordings reflecting events surrounding UFO investigations, correspondence between high-profile researchers, the intelligence community and much more will be featured.

EFR Executive Director Erica Lukes says the timing of publishing the archive couldn't be better, given all the recent interest in UFOs and what some are calling UAP. “With the UFO hearings in Washington and all the public interest,” Lukes said, “the archive launch comes at an exciting and critical time to look at this subject, understand its history, and see the potential for disinformation and spy games, all while considering the possibility of life out there.”

Lukes began collecting UFO memorabilia several years ago. People started donating their personal collections to her growing file cabinets of material. Donors included investigators who spent lifetimes compiling case files and correspondence. Lukes now maintains a substantial physical collection making up one of the most important UFO archives in the United States. She subsequently co-founded Expanding Frontiers Research in 2022 and got to work scanning records and preparing them for posting.

The online archive will include selections from the special collections of the late UFO research pioneers Ann Druffel and Gordon Lore, as well as records donated by longtime archivist Barry Greenwood. Work and correspondence with scientists J. Allen Hynek and James McDonald, as well as famous alleged alien abductee Betty Hill, will be featured. “While UFOs can be a fun and fascinating topic to explore, it's important for people to get a complete view of the individuals who made up the UFO subculture over the decades,” Lukes explained. “When we can browse the notes made by investigators and their contacts for ourselves, it better informs our perspectives than when we are limited to cherry-picked data that promotes a single point of view. At EFR we strive to publish reliable information that helps peel back some layers and show what's really been happening. That includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

The Emma Woods Special Collection will be among the sections maintained in the online archive. “Emma Woods,” a pseudonym, became a controversial figure in the UFO genre after she voiced objections to the actions and methodologies of UFO investigator and author David Jacobs. Her complaints arose out of her 2002-2007 interactions with Jacobs which included his highly questionable uses of hypnosis. Woods has been contributing records to the EFR archive for publication.

The archive will also highlight records obtained from intelligence agencies through the Freedom of Information Act. This includes FBI documents pertaining to intelligence officers who were active in the UFO community throughout their careers. EFR conducts FOIA requests as an ongoing part of its standard operations.

“More clearly understanding the past helps us more accurately understand the present,” Lukes explained, “and there are no better ways of learning the past than through official documents and going right to the original sources.”

Browse the Expanding Frontiers Research archive when it goes live Sep. 14 and learn more about the organization's activities at expandingfrontiersresearch.org.

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The National UFO Historical Records Center is Born

"Our mission is to collect, preserve, and provide historical UFO materials to the general public and interested parties. With the accumulated data, we hope to assist with serious research endeavors and aid in an accurate chronicling of UFO/UAP history for present and future generations regardless of belief or non-belief in the subject."

Subject: Introduction of the newly-established National UFO Historical Records Center (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)

PRESS RELEASE The UFO Chronicles

Who: An assemblage of the leading U.S. UFO/UAP Historians and Archivists led by David Marler that includes: Jan Aldrich, Rod Dyke, Barry Greenwood, Dr. Mark Rodeghier, Rob Swiatek, and others.

What: The establishment of the largest historical archive dedicated to the preservation and centralization of UFO/UAP information in the United States.

Where: Physical archive to be based in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area.

Why: Our mission is to collect, preserve, and provide historical UFO materials to the general public and interested parties. With the accumulated data, we hope to assist with serious research endeavors and aid in an accurate chronicling of UFO/UAP history for present and future generations regardless of belief or non-belief in the subject.

Context: In recent years, there have been successive U.S. government disclosures acknowledging the UFO/UAP subject as a genuine phenomenon. Subsequently, multiple U.S. military, intelligence, and scientific agencies have started adopting programs to study the subject such as NASA and the AIAA. In addition, within the civilian sector, there has been an influx of new researchers into this field of inquiry. Many academics and scientists are included in this group.However, most of these parties do not have access to the vast array of historical materials and data sets in the hands of civilian U.S. UFO/UAP historians and researchers.

In conjunction with this new-found respectability regarding the UFO/UAP subject is the growing need to create more space for these historic materials. Individual U.S. researchers and historians have amassed large collections of data over the decades. These have been home-based archives scattered throughout the country. The National UFO Historical Records Center has been created to gather and centralize this historical UFO data in the United States into a singular freestanding facility. With the physical holdings residing in the Albuquerque area, these will be made available to those who visit in-person while efforts will be underway to actively digitize these materials for global accessibility.

A vast array of UFO files and collections are already destined to be added to the growing inventory during the course of the next 1-2 years. Currently, the collection consists of materials from over 25 countries derived from 70+ U.S. and foreign individuals. Some of the largest U.S. collections serve as the cornerstone for this center. This includes diverse materials from The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). We are also interested in anyone wanting to donate historical UFO/UAP materials to us.

Efforts are underway to acquire a building to house this national treasure and make it readily accessible to researchers,academics, and the general public. Funding and donations will be vital to making this vision a reality. Thus, the creation of this non-profit organization to facilitate achieving that goal.

We look forward to working collaboratively with similar free-standing worldwide UFO/UAP archives and those within the university setting. Together, we can preserve the history and, perhaps, gain insights into the mystery.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

National UFO Historical Records Center P.O. Box 15541 Rio Rancho, NM 87174 www.nufohrc.org

David Marler Executive Director dbmarler@outlook.com

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Unique UFO Archive Hidden in Warehouse

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By Clas Svahn
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     One of the biggest UFO archives in the world is tucked away in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. There were approximately 15,000 UFO cases contained in the archive for the once influential UFO organization APRO. But no one is allowed to have a peek. Here is the story of how this historical material went adrift.

One of the best American UFO archives, besides the archive held by the UFO organisation Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS), is the archive that was managed by APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation). It was founded in 1952 by the husband and wife team of Jim and Coral Lorenzen. The pair also published several books on the subject and maintained connections around the globe, especially in South America. The Swedish ufologist and author, Gösta Rehn, was one of many who supplied APRO with material.

For years, the archive was getting larger and larger, containing witness reports and photographs, as well as original correspondence from ufologists around the world. The archives were located in Tucson, Arizona, where the Lorenzens lived for many years.

When astronomer and ufologist Allen Hynek moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1984, he did so partly on the promises of two enthusiasts, Brian Myers and Tina Choate. They helped Hynek get in touch with a millionaire interested in the UFO phenomenon. With a modest amount of funding, Hynek, Myers and Choate opened a small office. Shortly afterwards, however, Hynek decided his partners couldn't be trusted and severed all connection with them. About that same time, Hynek fell ill and, suffering the effects of a brain tumour, died in 1986.

After Hynek's death, Myers and Choate continued the management of the office, now renamed the International Center for UFO Research (ICUFOR). Then Coral Lorenzen, too, died in 1988. The APRO board lacked management skills and found themselves with a very extensive UFO archive that they had no interest in mantaining.

- The board wasn't accustomed to acting autonomously, but instead doing what the Lorenzens told them to, Mark Rodeghier explains, president of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. But because there were no instructions left in Coral's will (and APRO was an independent organization, in any case), the decision on what to do with the archive remained with the board.

- They could not hand the archive over to MUFON, since Coral had hated MUFON because its president, Walt Andrus, a former member of APRO, had broken away to start up his own organisation. But there was also CUFOS. And we were interested. We started a collection with the aim of purchasing the archive (as we did with the NICAP archive), when something unexpected happened. Someone spoke to Larry Lorenzen, Coral and Jim's son, and convinced him that the files should not go to CUFOS, either.

- Hence Larry contacted the board of APRO and advised them not to hand the material over to us. He also expressed the opinion that the archive should stay in Arizona. The tragedy is that Coral surely would have said yes and allowed CUFOS to purchase the archive if had she been alive. Whoever spoke to Larry Lorenzen did so for malicious reasons.

That's when Brian Myers and Tina Choate reappeared. They not only lived at the time in Scottsdale, outside Phoenix, Arizona; they had also collaborated with Allen Hynek. The board of APRO had no knowledge of Hynek's breakup with the pair.

- When Myers and Choate received news that the board didn't know what to do with the archive, they contacted and explained to the board that they were willing to take it off their hands. The board happily accepted and gave it all away for free. All that Myers and Choate had to do was to drive down there and get it, Rodeghier tells us.

Other sources, however, states that Myers and Choate payed 6.000 dollars for the files that consists of at least 18 filing cabinets of which at least twelve are case files. According to Mark Rodeghier it must have contained at least 15.000 sighting reports, many duplicated nowhere else.

- Although ICUFOR had a small office, most of the archive was kept for many years in Myers and Choates' garage. I personally visited them in 1991, but was not even allowed to see the material. No one, to my knowledge, has been allowed to see it since it ended up with the pair. All I've been able to extract are a few copies of cases, such as the Trindade case. Fortunately, several thousand early cases have been documented on microfilm, but the majority of the cases are not available to ufologists.

Nowadays Brian Myers and Tina Choate live in Scottsdale. They have on several occasions been offered money for the APRO archive, but have refused every offer made. One of the few people who have been able to visit the archive is the famous abductee Travis Walton.

- It's a tragedy, Mark Rodeghier says. Ufologists interested in research and history all around the world could benefit from having access to the archive. In its present state, it is of no use. It's all very sad.

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EXCLUSIVE Tonight's Joiner Report: Primary Eyewitness Known As 'Oregon Bob' Will Go Public and Detail The Paranormal Activity Going On There

The Joiners DON’T Know What They Saw, Part 3, with guest “Oregon Bob”

By Angelia Joiner
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     The Joiner Report version of We DON’T Know What We Saw will continue on Friday, March 5., when Angelia and Frank Warren of UFO Chronicles will interview “Oregon Bob.” If you missed the first reports on Feb. 19 and 26 when Angelia interviewed Jamie McDowell and then with Frank Warren of UFO Chronicles interviewed Jack W. Peters about their encounter at an Oregon location, then be sure and listen to the archives.

During this Friday’s show, “Oregon Bob” will tell how he first stumbled onto this paranormal area and why he’s kept quiet for so many years. At this time Bob’s full name will be revealed. This exclusive event will be co-hosted with Frank Warren.

Jamie described mysterious balls of light, a vibration along her spine, and some sort of energy hitting her camera making it inoperable, which also knocked her and the camera operator to the ground. Jamie talked very candidly about her experience, which led her to counseling and profoundly impacted her life.

During the last show on Feb. 26, Angelia and Randell Joiner described seeing in the fall of 2008 what appeared to be a craft on the ground near the same location as Jack and Jamie’s experiences. A red light suddenly appeared at the edge of the road in the dense vegetation, which moved to the right in a straight horizontal line and quickly disappeared. Jack had also described the balls of light and his impression of how Jamie intuitively knew where the lights would appear. He is planning to make a documentary of the events, all of which began with a phone call from “Oregon Bob” to relate some unusual activity in the Pacific Northwest.

Be certain to tune in for this segment of The Joiner Report on Friday, March 5, 9-10 p.m. CST on the UFO Paranormal Radio Network or join us in the virtual chat room at www.paltalk.com.

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     The Joiner Report version of We DON’T Know What We Saw will continue on Friday, Feb. 26. If you missed the first report on Feb. 19 when Angelia interviewed Jamie McDowell (www.verticalstudios.net) about her encounter at an Oregon location, then be sure and listen to the archive so you will be up to date.

Jamie describes mysterious balls of light, a vibration on her back, and some sort of energy hitting her camera making it inoperable, which also knocked her and the camera operator to the ground. Jamie talks very candidly about her experience, which led her to counseling and profoundly impacted her life.

In the fall of 2008, Angelia Joiner called Jamie to get her “take” on what was occurring in the region. After speaking with Jamie and others involved, Angelia and her husband Randell decided to make the trip to investigate. They encountered something neither of them could explain in the same Oregon location as Jamie. Up until now, the couple has only shared this event with close friends.

Angelia and Randell will describe what it was they saw to Frank Warren of UFO Chronicles and leave you the listener to draw your own conclusions.

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Swedish Association Opens 'World's Largest' UFO Archive

By news@thelocal.se
5-11-09

     The world's largest UFO archive, with over 18,000 Swedish reports, pictures and foreign reports over mysterious happenings was opened to the general public in Norrköping in eastern Sweden on Sunday.

"There was a great interest," said Clas Svahn at UFO Sweden.

A Swedish pilot in a Draken plane was flying over Småland in a training exercise in the 1970s. He received the order to break the exercise and fly towards an unidentified object lying still on the water.

As he approached the object suddenly shoots straight up - and the pilot takes up the chase. Despite full speed the pilot soon loses the object and it is never identified.

The event which confounded the pilot, is just one of the reports recorded in the world's largest UFO archive in Norrköping in southern Sweden. It is one of up to 1,000 reports worth taking a closer look at, according to Clas Svahn.

The Swedish UFO association held a series of lectures on Saturday in connection with the temporary opening of the archive.

"175 came to listen and there was a great interest. There were more than we have seen in recent years and there was a serious interest. We are very happy," he said.

There were then around 70 people in Norrköping for the opening of the archive on Sunday.

The archive is now closed once more, as the association works on a voluntary basis and does not have the time to do more than show the archive to, for example, researchers.

"One can come and have a look but in that case you have to arrange an appointment."

In response to the question over whether he believes in the existence of UFOs, Svahn answered:

"I am completely convinced that there is life in space. If life can exist here then it can exist elsewhere. But can they travel here? There is no conclusive evidence, but I do not want to answer for certain. There are mysterious phenomena that we can not identify, and they are not only optical illusions," Clas Svahn said.

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