Fund for UFO Research

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| name = Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR)

| image = Fufor logo.png

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| formation = 1979

| location = Mount Rainier, Maryland, United States{{cite news|title=Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency's UFO Documents|author= Ward Sinclair|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=3 November 1981|page= A5}}

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| website = {{URL|http://www.fufor.com/}}

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The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) was a non-profit UFO research group based in Mount Rainier, Maryland.{{cite news|title=UFO Believers Point to Reports by Air Force|author=Brienza, Julie|work=Los Angeles Times|date=16 Dec 1983|page=c12}} Founded in 1979, FUFOR stated its goal was to further the scholarly research of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), and to secure the release of alleged classified U.S. government documents pertaining to these.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena|author=Jerome Clark|year=1993|page=119|chapter=Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR)|publisher=Gale|isbn=9780810388437}} Since 2011, the Fund for UFO Research has not had any active presence on the internet or in print.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

According to its promotional material, from its founding in 1979 through 2006, FUFOR provided over $700,000 in research grants, and supported numerous UFO-related investigations, including investigations into the secrecy behind the MJ-12 papers and the US Air Force's Project Blue Book.{{cite web

|title=FUFOR: Funding Research and Education

|publisher=FUFOR

|url=http://www.fufor.com/funding.htm

|accessdate=2006-11-20

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716123607/http://www.fufor.com/funding.htm

|archivedate=2006-07-16

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}} In 1980 FUFOR director Bruce Maccabee represented the organization as a panel member of The Smithsonian's "Symposium on UFOs".{{cite news|title=Tempest In a Saucer: The Smithsonian's Symposium on UFOs The UFO Identity Crisis|author=Stuart Rohrer|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=8 September 1980|page= B1}} In 1996 FUFOR director Don Berliner filmed a cameo role as himself for an episode of The X-Files.{{cite news|title=Channel surfing|author=Allan Johnson|work=Chicago Tribune|date=25 December 1996|page= B15}}