This is a list of notable

non-governmental A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from g ...

UFO An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are id ...

organizations located around the

world In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

Belarus

* UfoCom

Estonia

* AKRAK (inactive)

Sweden

* Archives for the Unexplained (AFU)

Russia

Kosmopoisk Kosmopoisk (russian: «Космопо́иск», full name: Общеросси́йская нау́чно-иссле́довательская обще́ственная организа́ция, ОНИОО, translated "All-Russian Research Publ ...

United Kingdom

British UFO Research Association The British UFO Research Association or BUFORA is a UK organisation formerly registered as "BUFORA Ltd"; dedicated to investigating UFO phenomena in the British Isles. In 1997 the organisation was reported to have around 1,000 members. History ...

(BUFORA)

United States

Active

* Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) *

Center for UFO Studies The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a privately funded UFO research group. The group was founded in 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, who at the time was chair of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois.Franch John, ''The Secret ...

(CUFOS or JAHCUFOS) * International UFO Congress (IUFOC) *

Mutual UFO Network The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is a US-based non-profit organization composed of civilian volunteers who study reported UFO sightings. It is one of the oldest and largest organizations of its kind, claiming more than 4,000 members worldwide wi ...

(MUFON) * National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) * To the Stars *

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and other anomalous phenomena, sometimes termed unidentified aerial phen ...

(UAPTF)

Inactive / defunct

* Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) *

Aerial Phenomena Research Organization The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) was a UFO research group started in January 1952 by Jim and Coral Lorenzen, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The group was based in Tucson, Arizona after 1960. APRO had many state branches, it remai ...

(APRO) *

Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) was a freedom of information activist group that advocated for the release of classified information regarding UFOs. Agenda Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) was a non-profit organization formed in 1977 to adv ...

(CAUS) *

Civilian Saucer Intelligence Civilian Saucer Intelligence (CSI) was an independent unidentified flying object research group founded in New York City in 1954. It was initially called Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York, but the "New York" was quickly dropped from their name. ...

(CSI) *

Fund for UFO Research The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) was a non-profit UFO research group based in Mount Rainier, Maryland. Founded in 1979, FUFOR stated its goal was to further the scholarly research of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), and to secur ...

(FUFOR) *

National Institute for Discovery Science The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci) was a privately financed research organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and operated from 1995 to 2004. It was founded in 1995 by real-estate developer Robert Bigelow, who set it up to ...

(NIDSci) *

National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) is an unidentified flying object (UFO) research group most active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s. It remains active primarily as an informational depository on ...

(NICAP) *

UFO Investigators League The UFO Investigators League (UFOIL) was a UFO group founded by Timothy Green Beckley in the early 1970s. They were a member of the Coalition of Concerned Ufologists and branched into state chapters. The group re-emerged in 1990 at the following a ...

(UFOIL)