UfoCom


The UFOCOM or Belarusian UFOlogical COMmunity is a non-commercial, non-government, non-registered public organization in Belarus. Founded in 2001, in Horki, Belarus, as a group of enthusiasts, mostly students of Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, 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. Since 2006 UfoCom coordinator is Ilya Butov.

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, Ruslan Linnik. 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', and an archaeological team called 'Artefact'. UfoCom focuses on studying various anomalous phenomena, 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 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

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.

Online activities

Web-site http://ufo-com.net

Notable studies and expeditions

Field work