UfoCom

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The UFOCOM or Belarusian UFOlogical COMmunity (previous and inner-used - Ufological Committee of Belarus) is a non-commercial, non-government, non-registered public organization in Belarus.^[1] Founded in 2001, in Horki, Belarus, as a group of enthusiasts, mostly students of , studying paranormal phenomena in local area. Later, group developed into a statewide networked community of volunteers, performing both local and statewide field, monitoring and analytical research projects.

Kosmopoisk relations[]

Since 2005 UfoCom acts as a part of Kosmopoisk international movement, serving as officially non-registered office and public nod of all-CIS network of anomalistic/UFO researches. All-Belarusian annual field meetings are held jointly by Kosmopoisk and UfoCom in most notable and attractive from researcher point of view places statewide. Coordinator of UfoCom also serves as a coordinator for Belarusian regional branch of Kosmopoisk Unity (Kosmopoisk-Belarus). Since 2006 UfoCom coordinator is Ilya Butov.^[2]

Orthodox Church relations[]

In 2005 UfoCom was included into the list of destructive religious organizations of Belarus due to a series of Church-unfriendly articles, published by UfoCom's previous leader, . Problem was eventually solved with Linnik withdrawal from Ufocom activities in 2006

Structure[]

UfoCom consist of a number of local groups in large cities of Belarus - most active in Minsk and Brest, also in Vitebsk, Horki and some others - together with a number of individual members and corresponding members from Belarus and foreign countries. In addition exists a special urban explorers team called 'Diggers of Brest'(performs researches of underground like Brest Fortress and abandoned ancient and Soviet-era fortification installations), and an archaeological team called 'Artefact'. UfoCom focuses on studying various anomalous phenomena (UFOs, crop-circles, poltergeist), meteorite impact sites, civilian, military and religious historical sites. Researches are being held in close cooperation with Belarusian national Academy of sciences and its facilities.

Co-operation and partnership[]

Joint research activities[]

UfoCom widely participates and supports in Belarus various networked(mostly Kosmopoisk-based) initiatives

Awards[]

Since 2005, a number of UfoCom members and implemented activities were nominated for Kosmopoisk annual award. In 2007, two UfoCom volunteers were awarded diplomas from March for Parks, hold by Biodiversity Conservation center, Russia, international environmental programme(first time in history of post-USSR members of ufological communities received award for nature protection actitities)

Media coverage[]

UfoCom collects and makes available for researches a library of various literature devoted to anomalous phenomena, including rare items. For promoting researches and their results, a periodical newspaper 'Anatomy of Phenomena' is published on a non-commercial basis.^[3]

Online activities[]

Web-site http://ufo-com.net (in Russian)

Notable studies and expeditions[]

Field work[]

• Investigation and excavation of Stolbtsovsky meteorite impact site ^[4]
• Discovery of a previously unknown Adolf Hitler command bunker in Belarus^[5]
• Study of Kupa archaeological site, which is supposed to be a 'Belarusian Stonehenge' ^[6]
• Investigation of snow cropcircles site ^[7]

Investigations[]

See also[]

• List of UFO organizations
• Kosmopoisk

References[]