This is a scan of “The Ufologist Establishment,” an article by Jesse Kornbluth from the November 1976 issue of OUI magazine. Written in the immediate aftermath of the Travis Walton case, it examines the competing roles of APRO, NICAP, MUFON, and independent researchers—along with the personality clashes, competing methods, and credibility concerns within 1970s UFO investigation.

[Retweeted] Former A.P.R.O investigator Allan Lavigne: "The [Presidential UFO disclosure] speech is imminent and it's going start rolling out today." Allan's sources are allegedly within the Executive "wing". And the roll out of the speech was tied to yesterday's DOW PURSUE whistleblower memo that went out. And other journalists also were given the scoop. Interesting series of events... Full interview, via @pavelibarrameda https://t.co/aMFUZZLzhf

Was interested to note DOD's acquisition of NUFOHRC includes records from APRO. As many will remember, APRO is the organization Mr. Paul Bennewitz was a member of while he was investigating the cattle mutilation phenomenon in Dulce, NM (along with NM Trooper Gabe Valdez, Manny Gomez and others). It was during this time that Bennewitz came into contact with Special Agent Rick Doty AFOSI, who was ordered to disinform Paul and use him to conduct an information war against the broader UFO communi...

One hypothesis - The Americans created the ufo flap and Roswell leak as an Intentional propaganda tool. Low flights in WW2 resulted in plasma phenomenon being witnessed. The Americans wanted a secret cutting-edge tech directly after Hiroshima, their own mythical Woner weapon. They funded studies and groups like APRO and Bluebook from airforce-controlled staff. They funded movies, publicly when the U.S. look strong and enemy’s look weak (well-documented), but used CIA fronted investors to perp...

Gene Sticco’s August 1 X post carries a Blackgrove Business News analysis of Washington Headquarters Services’ reported plan to sole-source AARO a multi-year subscription to the National UFO Historical Records Center’s pre-1990 archive. It examines the notice’s commercial-product language against the Center’s public statements about continuing digitization and cloud-access funding, separating reported procurement terms from Blackgrove’s interpretation and the records still needed to verify the award.