UFOArchives: Your Guide to finding UFO-related archives in libraries: Major Collections

These are highly-recommended, premier archival collections of UFO researchers and experiencers, housed at Rice University's Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center. NOTE: New collections are being continually added to the Archives of the Impossible, so check back often!

Archives of the Impossible at Rice University

https://libguides.rice.edu/impossiblearchives

Direct links to important collections:

Anne and Whitley Strieber Collection 

http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1124 

Jacques Vallee UFO and paranormal phenomena papers -- under embargo until 2028. 

http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1085 

Richard F. Haines Ufology papers 

http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1404 

Brenda Denzler Ufology archive   

http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1348 

Larry W. Bryant UFO research collection 

http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1390 

NEW:

John E. Mack Archives - Archives of the Impossible at Rice University

John Mack was a Harvard professor and psychiatrist, and a key figure in the UFO abductee/experiencer movement. Rice University acquired the John E. Mack archives in 2023. It is primarily a print collection of circa 200 boxes, with a companion archive located at Harvard University (also unprocessed as of Summer 2023). More descriptive information to come as processing begins:

https://libguides.rice.edu/impossiblearchives

AFU - Archives for the Unexplained (Largest collection of research materials on UFO's and the paranormal in the world, based in Sweden)

https://afu.se/

Anomaly Archives (non-profit organization that seeks to preserve and disseminate scientific research into anomalous phenomena, including UFOs)

https://anomalyarchives.org/

J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies

The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), founded by pioneering UFO researcher and Project Blue Book scientific advisor J. Allen Hynek in 1973, promotes serious scientific interest in the UFO phenomenon, and serves as an archive for reports, documents, and publications about the UFO phenomenon.  Site contains rich archive of original case reports, documents, and articles from many CUFOS publications, including the seminal International UFO Reporter.

https://cufos.org

Expanding Frontiers Research (non-profit research organization committed to collecting, preserving, and archiving historical information regarding UFOs, including FOIA documents, correspondence from major UFO researchers, and more)

https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org

J Allen Hynek personal papers (Northwestern)

https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/6/resources/373

William E. Jones Collection on UFOs (Ohio State University) 

https://library.osu.edu/finding-aids/ead/RARE/SPEC.RARE.0018.xml 

Betty and Barney Hill Papers, 1961-2006 (University of New Hampshire)  

https://library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/betty-barney-hill-papers-1961-2006