International UFO Reporter (Magazine)
International UFO Reporter (Magazine)
International UFO Reporter (IUR) is the quarterly journal of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). It was launched in the mid-1980s as a newsletter for supporters of the center which had been organized by J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986) to focus scientific research on UFOs following the devastating blow to the field delivered by the Condon Report. Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University and former consultant to the U. S. Air Force on UFOs, had concluded that the Condon Report had been far from the final word on UFOs and that further attention by scientists was needed. As one of the few pro-UFO, he became a key person in the reestablishment of UFO studies.
After several years during which the format and appearance of IUR changed on several occasions under the editiorship of Jerome Clark; in the 1980s a format was finally settled upon. Each issue contains two to three lengthy articles reporting on current research or discussing current issues, the 1990s being dominated by discussions of UFO abductions. In discussing individual UFO cases, IUR has shied away from simple reports of UFO sightings to emphasize research of more formal investigations of prominent incidents. Address: 2457 W. Peterson, Ave., Chicago, IL 60659.
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International UFO Reporter. Chicago, n.d.