In 2023, I started a new section in my online archive hosted by the AFU in Sweden- this time for the most interesting / significant articles about UFOs from scientific / academic journals.
[Edit to add: In 2024, I am thinking about considerably expanding this collection and have some ideas about doing this efficiently (if I can get a bit of help from a current science university student or two, willing to do a few hours of boring work).]
To begin this section, I've uploaded over a couple of hundred journal articles, and developed a list created by Chris Rutkowski to make a partial index (as a PDF and as a table in a Microsoft Word file which can be sorted by date and by author's name):
The directory with this material from scientific / academic journals is at the link below:
If there is interest in collaborating on this folder of scientific journal material about UFOs, I could develop it further.
If anyone has any favourite scientific journal articles about UFOS not currently in that folder, I would - of course - be more than happy to add them.
2. 1950 10 00_Hoosier Folklore - Vol 9 No 4 - Peckham
3. 1952 08 14_Journal of Philosophy - Vol 49 No 17 - B A G Fuller
4. 1952 10 00_Journal of the Franklin Institute - Vol 254 No 4
5. 1953 00 00_Journal of Optical Society of America - Vol 43 No 4 - Hynek
6. 1953 04 00_Journal of the Franklin Institute - Vol 255 No 4 - Levitt
7. 1953 04 00_Physics Today - Vol 6 No 4 - Beiser
8. 1953 07 31_Science - Vol 118 No 3057 - Davidson
9. 1953 07 31_Science - Vol 118 No 3057 - Wiley
10. 1953 08 08_Nature - Vol 172 No 4371 - Brooks
11. 1953 09 00_Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society - Vol 57 No 513 - Cleaver
12. 1953 09 21_American Journal of Physics - Vol 21 No 6 - Chapman
13. 1953 10 10_Nature - Vol 172 No 4380 - Flying Saucers
14. 1953 12 00_School Science and Mathematics - Vol 53 No 9 - Miller
15. 1954 01 00_Leading Edge - Vol 19 No 1 - Steenland
16. 1956 00 00_Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society - Vol 60 No 552 - C H Gibbs-Smith
17. 1956 12 00_Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society - Vol 60 No 552 - C H Gibbs-Smith-
18. 1958 04 00_Weatherwise - Vol 11 No 2 - Reed - INCOMPLETE
19. 1959 00 00_American Psychologist - Vol 14 No 9 - Crumbaugh
20. 1959 09 19_Nature - Vol 184 No 4690 - Cocconi and Morrison
21. 1960 00 00_American Scholar - Vol 29 No 1 - Werkman
22. 1960 05 28_Nature - Vol 186 No 4726 - R N Bracewell
23. 1963 00 00_Planetary and Space Science - Vol 11 No 5 - Sagan
24. 1964 11 00_Physics Today - Vol 17 No 11 - Hynek
25. 1966 05 00_Transaction - Vol 3 No 4 - Buckner
26. 1966 10 14_Science - Vol 154 No 3746 - Condon To Head UFO Study
27. 1966 10 21_Science - Vol 154 No 3747 - Hynek
28. 1966 12 23_Science - Vol 154 No 3756 - Burke-Gaffney and Cannon
29. 1967 01 00_BioScience - Vol 17 No 1 - Frank B Salisbury
30. 1967 01 27_Science - Vol 155 No 3761 - Stibitz
31. 1967 04 07_Science - Vol 156 No 3771 - W T Powers
32. 1967 05 13_Science News - Vol 91 No 19 - Flying Saucer from Earth
33. 1967 06 09_Science - Vol 156 No 3780 - Hughes
34. 1967 06 23_Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol 23 No 6 - Carl Sagan
35. 1967 09 15_Science - Vol 157 No 3794 - Markowitz
36. 1967 11 03_Science - Vol 158 No 3801 - Heiman
37. 1967 12 00_Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol 23 No 10 - Munday
38. 1967 12 08_Science - Vol 158 No 3806 - Various
39. 1967 12 15_Science - Vol 158 No 3807 - Page
40. 1968 00 00_Journal of the American Medical Association - Vol 203 No 12 - Meerloo
41. 1968 02 00_Classical Journal - Vol 63 No 5 - Wittmann
42. 1968 07 00_Physics Bulletin - Vol 19 No 7 - R V Jones
43. 1968 09 00_Physics Bulletin - Vol 19 No 9 - Evans
44. 1968 11 00_Physics Bulletin - Vol 19 No 11 - R V Jones
45. 1968 12 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 27 No 3 suppl - D R Saunders
46. 1969 00 00_Nature - Vol 221 - A Sledgehammer for Nuts
47. 1969 03 00_General Science Quarterly - Vol 53 No 2
48. 1969 03 00_Physics Today - Vol 22 No 3 - Condon Study Rebuts UFOs
49. 1969 09 00_Physcis Teacher - Vol 7 No 6 - Melba Phillips
50. 1969 10 00_American Journal of Physics - Vol 37 No 10 - Thornton Page
51. 1969 11 00_Icarus - Vol 11 No 3 - Hong-Yee Chiu
52. 1969 11 00_Icarus - Vol 11 No 3 - James E McDonald
53. 1969 11 00_Icarus - Vol 11 No 3 - National Academy of Sciences Panel
54. 1969 11 00_Icarus - Vol 11 No 3 - Peter M Millman
55. 1969 12 00_Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol 25 No 10 - E U Condon
56. 1969 12 00_Physics Today - Vol 22 No 12 - Rothberg
57. 1970 00 00_ Phi Delta Kappan, V 51, I 8 - Lots of People Think They See Flying Saucers - Romano
58. 1970 01 00_American Scientist - Vol 58 No 1 - Hynek
59. 1970 11 06_Science - Vol 170 No 3958 - Warren
60. 1970 11 21_Nature - Vol 228 No 5273 - Earthquake Lightning
61. 1971 03 12_Science - Vol 171 No 3975 - Cowgill
62. 1971 04 00_Journal of Social Psychology - Vol 83 No 2 - Littig
63. 1971 06 32_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 32 No 3 - Stuart Appelle
64. 1971 09 17_Science - Vol 173 No 4002 - Templin
65. 1971 12 00_Origins of Life - Vol 3 No 2 - Wichman
66. 1972 10 00_Nature - Vol 239 No 5374 - D G King-Hele
67. 1974 10 04_Nature - Vol 251 - Ian Ridpath
68. 1975 00 00_Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 8 No 4 - John Keel
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70. 1975 08 00_BioScience - Vol 25 No 8 - Frank B Salisbury
71. 1977 00 00_Social Studies of Science - The case of UFOs - Westrum
72. 1977 02 00_British Journal of Social Work - Vol 27 No 1 - Paley
73. 1977 07 00_American Behavioral Scientist - Vol 20 No 6 - Balch
74. 1977 08 00_Social Studies of Science - Vol 7 No 3 - Ron Westrum
75. 1977 09 00_Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 11 No 2 - Stupple
76. 1977 10 08_Science News - Vol 112 No 15 - Soviet UFO
77. 1978 00 00_ Social Studies of Science, V 8, I 4 - The Case of Meteorites - Westrum
78. 1978 07 20_Nature - Vol 274 - Vera Rich
79. 1978 07 27_Nature - Vol 274 - Vera Rich
80. 1978 11 01_Applied Optics - Vol 17 No 21 - Philip S Callahan and Mankin
81. 1979 00 00_American Scientist, V 67, I 3 - Review of Messages from the Stars - Frank Drake
82. 1979 00 00_Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union - Vol 60 No 6
83. 1979 00 00_Indiana folklore - UFO legends - Lowe
84. 1979 00 00_Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Vol 20 - Kuiper
85. 1979 05 00_Sociological Review - Vol 27 No 1 suppl - Joseph A Blake
86. 1979 08 15_Applied Optics - Vol 18 No 16 - Paw U
87. 1979 08 15_Applied Optics - Vol 18 No 16 - Philip S Callahan
88. 1979 08 15_Applied Optics - Vol 18 No 16 - R W Mankin
89. 1979 12 00_Futures - Vol 11 No 6 - Livingston
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91. 1980 00 00_Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Vol 21 - Frank Tipler
92. 1980 05 00_Sociological Review - Vol 28 No 2 - Ashworth
93. 1980 06 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 50 No 3 - Persinger
94. 1980 09 00_Christianity and Literature - Vol 29 No 4 - M J Post
95. 1981 04 00_Current Anthropology - Vol 22 No 2 - Sanarov
96. 1981 09 00_Physcis Teacher - Vol 19 No 6 - Theodore Spickler
97. 1981 11 05_Nature - Vol 294 - Ben Zuckerman
98. 1982 02 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 54 No 1 - Persinger
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100. 1983 00 00_Science Fiction Studies, V 10, I 3 - E.T. as Fairy Tale - Andrew Gordon
101. 1983 02 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 56 No 1 - Persinger
102. 1983 12 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 57 No 3 - Persinger
103. 1984 06 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 58 No 3 - Persinger
104. 1984 06 00_Psychological Reports - Vol 54 No 3 - Gregory LLittle
105. 1984 07 00_Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences - Vol 40 No 7 - Persinger
106. 1984 10 00_Journal of Humanistic Psychology - Vol 24 No 4 - Lane
107. 1985 01 00_Deviant Behavior - Vol 6 No 4 - Troy Zimmer
108. 1985 05 00_Government Publications Review - Vol 12 No 3 - Lapham
109. 1985 08 01_Nature - Vol 316 No 6027 - Weber
110. 1986 00 00_Fusion Technology - Vol 10 No 2 - Houlberg and Lacatski
111. 1986 06 00_Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 20 No 1 - Sandels
112. 1987 07 00_Gifted Child Today Magazine - Vol 10 No 4 - Anstaett
113. 1987 09 00_Isis - Vol 78 No 3 - Ron Westrum
114. 1988 00 00_Journal of Near-Death Studies - Vol 6 No 4 - Davis
115. 1989 00 00_Journal of American Folklore - UFO Abduction Reports - Bullard
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117. 1990 12 06_Nature - Vol 348 - Earthquake lights
118. 1991 03 00_Anthropology of Consciousness - Vol 2 No 1-2 - Robert E Bartholomew
119. 1991 06 00_Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin - Vol 1991 No 6 - Menkus
120. 1992 00 00_Journal of American Folklore - Vol 105 No 416 - Bill Ellis
121. 1992 00 00_RQ - Vol 32 No 2 - Maxwell
122. 1993 00 00_Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica - Ghost Rocket hysteria - Bartholomew
123. 1993 00 00_Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Vol 102 No 4 - Spanos
124. 1993 06 00_Journal of Near-Death Studies - Vol 11 No 4 - John B Alexander
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126. 1994 00 00_Transition - Alien Nation (Book Reviews) - Luise White
127. 1994 11 00_Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - Vol 42 No 4 - Gifford
128. 1994 11 17_Nature - Vol 372 - Susan Blackmore
129. 1995 00 00_Grand Street - No 54 - Gerald Heard
130. 1995 00 00_Journal of American History - Vol 82 No 2 - Jacobs
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133. 1995 02 00_Communication Research - Vol 22 No 1 - Sparks
134. 1995 04 00_Studies in Popular Culture - Vol 17 No 2 - Chris D Bader.pdf
135. 1995 05 00_Nature - Vol 375 No 6526 - Nadis
136. 1995 08 10_Nature - Vol 376 - Steve Nadis
137. 1995 12 00_American Historical Review - Vol 100 No 5 - Powers
138. 1996 00 00_Journal of American Folklore - Vol 109 No 431 - Banks
139. 1996 00 00_Nature - Vol 380 - Sullivan
140. 1996 00 00_Psychological Inquiry - Vol 7 No 2 - Banaji
141. 1996 00 00_Psychological Inquiry - Vol 7 No 2 - Bowers
142. 1996 00 00_Psychological Inquiry - Vol 7 No 2 - Clark and Loftus
143. 1996 00 00_Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Vol 37 - Cole
144. 1996 01 00_English Today - Vol 12 No 1 - DuBose
145. 1996 04 00_Psychological Inquiry - Vol 7 No 2 - Newman
146. 1996 05 00_Physcis Teacher - Vol 34 No 5 - Katherine Sopka
147. 1996 10 00_Journal of Contemporary Religion - Vol 11 No 3 - Porter
148. 1997 01 00_Russian Social Science Review - Vol 38 No 1 - Dmitrieva
149. 1997 03 00_Systems Research and Behavioral Science - Vol 14 No 2 - Albert A Harrison
150. 1997 04 10_Communication Reports - Vol 10 No 2 - Glenn G Sparks
151. 1997 06 00_Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology - Vol 16 No 2 - Leonard S Newman
152. 1997 07 16_Journal of the American Medical Association - Vol 278 No 3 - Lamberg
153. 1997 08 00_Bulletin of Science Technology and Society - Vol 17 No 4
154. 1997 08 00_Social Studies of Science - Vol 7 No 3 - Ron Westrum
155. 1997 09 00_Personality and Individual Differences - Vol 23 No 3 - Chequers
156. 1997 10 00_Journal of Contemporary Religion - Vol 12 No 3 - Rothstein
157. 1997 12 00_Perceptual and Motor Skills - Vol 85 No 3 - James Houran
158. 1998 00 00_Michigan Historical Review - 1897 Michigan airships - Bartholomew
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160. 1998 06 00_Communication Quarterly - Vol 46 No 3 - Glenn G Sparks
161. 1998 12 00_Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 32 No 3 - Ramet
162. 1999 00 00_Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies - Alien Abductions A Return to the Medieval- Enns
163. 1999 06 00_Intelligence and National Security - Vol 14 No 2 - Gerald K Haines
164. 1999 06 00_Intelligence and National Security - Vol 14 No 2 - Ziegler
165. 1999 09 00_Christianity and Literature - Vol 48 No 4 - Parks
166. 1999 12 00_Theological Studies - Vol 60 No 4 - Guinan
167. 2000 00 00 _Oregon Historical Quarterly - Vol 101 No 2 - Bartholomew
168. 2000 00 00_Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Vol 70 No 3 - Platov
169. 2000 00 00_Isis - Vol 91 No 2 - Michael J Crowe
170. 2000 00 00_Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - Vol 30 No 3 - Goldberg
171. 2000 04 00_Psychological Reports - Vol 86 No 2 - Musgrave
172. 2000 04 00_Technology and Culture - Vol 41 No 1 - Morton
173. 2000 10 00_Nova Religio - Vol 4 No 1 - Sentes
174. 2001 00 00_Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences - Vol 13 No 4 - Persinger
175. 2001 00 00_Physiologia plantarum - Vol 111 - Haselhoff
176. 2001 02 22_Nature - Vol 409 - Jack Cohen
177. 2002 00 00_Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Vol 111 No 3 - Susan Clancy
178. 2002 00 00_Utopian Studies - Vol 13 No 1 - Mike Wilson
179. 2002 00 00_Utopian Studies - Vol 13 No 1 - Wilson
180. 2002 06 01_British Journal of Sports Medicine - Vol 36 No 3 - McCrory
181. 2002 11 00_The Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 36 No 2 - Michael Sturma
182. 2002 12 00_Isis - Vol 93 No 4 - Michael J Crowe
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184. 2003 01 00_Art Journal - Vol 62 No 3 - Jane D Marsching
185. 2003 02 00_Leonardo - Vol 36 No 1 - Michael Punt
186. 2003 03 00_Think - Vol 1 No 3 - Law
187. 2003 08 00_History of Religions - Vol 43 No 1 - Joel Sweek
188. 2003 12 00_Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion - Vol 42 No 4 - Bader
189. 2004 00 00_Psychological Science - Psychophysiological Responding Abductions - McNally, Clancy
190. 2004 00 00_Psychological Science - Vol 15 No 7 - Richard McNally
191. 2004 00 00_Qualitative Sociology - Vol 27 No 1 - Anne Cross
192. 2004 07 00_Religion - Vol 34 No 3 - Partridge
193. 2004 11 00_Nova Religio - Vol 8 No 2 - Ellwood
194. 2005 03 00_Acta Physica Polonica - Vol 36 No 3 - Silagadze
195. 2006 00 00_Nova Religio - Scaling Heavens Gate - Zeller
196. 2006 04 00_Southwestern Historical Quarterly - Vol 109 No 3 - Kessell
197. 2006 05 00_Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions - Vol 9 No 4 - Dawson
198. 2006 06 00_Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion - Vol 45 No 2 - Murguia
199. 2006 06 00_Physics World - Vol 19 No 6 - UFOs debunked
200. 2006 11 00_Nova Religio - Vol 10 No 2 - Saliba
201. 2006 11 00_Socialism and Democracy - Vol 20 No 3 - Horstemeier
202. 2006 12 00_New Scientist - Vol 192 No 2581 - Bob Park
203. 2007 00 00_Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - Vol 92 No 5 - Laura King
204. 2007 00 00_Sociology of Religion - Vol 68 No 2 - Dawson
205. 2007 03 00_New Scientist - Vol 193 No 2597 - France releases UFO files
206. 2007 03 08_Social Identities - Vol 13 No 2 - Saethre
207. 2007 10 00_Classical Journal - Vol 103 No 1 - Richard Stothers
208. 2007 12 00_Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - Vol 13 No 4- Saethre
209. 2008 01 00_New Scientist - Vol 197 No 2638 - Robert Bigelow Interview - From UFOs to space stations
210. 2008 03 00_New Scientist - Vol 197 No 2649 - Brooks
211. 2008 08 00_Folklore - Vol 119 No 2 - Bennett
212. 2009 00 00_Sociology of Religion - Vol 70 No 1 - Mencken
213. 2009 01 00_Applied Cognitive Psychology - Vol 23 No 1 - Otgaar
214. 2009 09 17_Nature - Vol 461 - SETI at 50
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217. 2010 10 00_Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Vol 72 No 16 - Paiva - Hessdalen
218. 2010 11 00_Nova Religio - Revisionism in ET-inspired religions - Thomas
219. 2010 11 00_Nova Religio - V 14, I 2 - Bible Lessons with Rael - Thomas
220. 2010 12 00_Acta Astronautica - Vol 67 No 11-12 - Hauge - Hessdalen
221. 2011 00 00_Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion - Vol 50 No 2 - McKinnon
222. 2011 04 00_New Scientist - Vol 210 No 2808 - UFO search engine
223. 2011 04 00_Scientific American - Vol 304 No 4 - Michael Shermer
224. 2011 11 01_Religion Compass - Vol 5 No 11 - Zeller
225. 2011 12 12_Journal of Experimental Psychopathology - Vol 3 No 1 - McNally
226. 2012 00 00_Chaotic Modeling and Simulation - Vol 2 - Krasnoholovets
227. 2012 05 00_Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Vol 80 - Paiva - Hessdalen
228. 2012 05 00_Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics - Vol 117 No 1-2 - Paiva - Hessdalen
229. 2012 09 00_History and Technology - Vol 28 No 3 - Geppert
230. 2014 07 03_Journal of Transatlantic Studies - Vol 12 No 3 - Eghigian
231. 2014 07 03_Theology and Science - Vol 12 No 3 - Albert A Harrison
232. 2015 09 15_Dialog - Vol 54 No 3 - Adam Powell
233. 2015 12 06_Public Understanding of Science - Vol 26 No 5 - Greg Eghigian
234. 2016 01 02_Cultural and Social History - Vol 13 No 1 - Sharples
235. 2016 08 00_Nova Religio - Vol 20 No 1 - E E Curtis
236. 2017 01 02_Folklore - Vol 128 No 1 - Mark Norman
237. 2017 04 27 - Journal of Popular Culture - Vol 50 No 2 - Tromly
238. 2018 02 12_American Ethnologist - Vol 45 No 1 - Lilith Mahmud
239. 2018 03 08_Astropolitics - Vol 16 No 1 - Adam Dodd
240. 2019 00 00_Religious Studies Review - Vol 45 No 2 - Lukas Pokorny
241. 2019 01 30_Nova Religio - Vol 22 No 3 - Kelly Hayes
242. 2019 04 03_American Journalism - Vol 36 No 2 - Hutchison and Strentz
243. 2020 00 00_Antipoda - Vol 41 - Espirito Santo
244. 2020 00 00_Journal of Coastal Research - Vol 101 sp 1 - Greenwood
245. 2020 00 00_Scientia Canadensis - Vol 42 No 1 - Matthew Hayes
246. 2020 08 13_Journal of Tourism Futures - Vol ahead No ahead - Daniel Wright
247. 2020 10 15_Diogenes - Vol 62 No 3 - Karbovnik
248. 2021 00 00_International Journal of Dream Research - Vol 14 No 2 - Raduga
249. 2021 00 00_Journal for the Study of Religious Experience - Vol 7 No 1 - Jack Hunter
250. 2021 00 00_Social Sciences and Humanities Open - Vol 3 No 1 - Escola Gascon
2022 01 00_Progress in Aerospace, Vol 128 - Improved instrumental techniques - Nolan, Vallee, Jiang, Lemke
