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MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, headquartered in Morrison, Colorado, is the oldest and largest of the three groups. Established in 1969, it now has more than 3000 members, field investigators and research consultants worldwide. It publishes the monthly MUFON UFO Journal (Dwight Connelly, editor) and an annual collection of Symposium Proceedings. Membership dues of $45 per year ($55 outside US) include a subscription to the Journal. John F. Schuessler, is the international director. MUFON is located at P.O. Box 369, Morrison, Colorado 80465-0369. CUFOS, the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, was founded in 1973 in suburban Chicago, where its co-founder, the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, was a professor of astronomy at Northwestern University. CUFOS publishes the quarterly International UFO Reporter, the annual, refereed, Journal of UFO Studies, and the occasional monograph and book. The current scientific director is Dr. Mark Rodeghier. CUFOS is located at 2457 West Peterson Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60659. IUR, the International UFO Reporter, edited by Jerome Clark, George M. Eberhart & Mark Rodeghier is published four times a year by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), 2457 West Peterson Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60659. Each issue consists of 32 pages. Friends of CUFOS known as Associates support CUFOS with their subscriptions to International UFO Reporter. FUFOR, the Fund for UFO Research, was established as a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia on August 1, 1979. FUFOR is not a membership organization per se. Instead, it raises and disperses research funds for proposals approved by a national board. Each year, the Fund also awards a cash prize, the Donald E. Keyhoe Journalism Award, to both the print and electronic media journalist whose work about UFOs is judged the best among those submitted. FUFOR also issues a number of reports and monographs each year, the sales of which support future UFO research projects. For further information, or an application for the Fund's journalism award, write the Fund for UFO Research, PO Box 227, Mount Rainier, Maryland 20712. The UFO Research Coalition is a collaborative effort by the three main UFO investigative organizations in this country. Its goal is to share personnel and other research resources, and to fund and promote the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon. The coalition's members are MUFON, CUFOS and FUFOR, the Fund for UFO Research.