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UFO Forums and mailing-lists
Summary: In a Web 2.0+ world, many people believe that all the action is in blogs, podcasts, RSS, etc. It's true that a lot of good discussion happens on blogs, but there are also gems to be found from reading forums.
Typically the most informed (and civil!) discussions take place in semi-private mailing-lists run by and for UFO researchers. Next are pre-moderated lists. The "signal-to-noise ratio" at UFO forums used by the general public can vary widely, but even in the high-traffic forums one can still find insightful posts. You may still want to check the UFO blogs and podcasts page.
Web-forums:
AboteTopSecret.com UFO-Alien sub-forum, at one of busiest forums site in the Internet. All UFO/alien posts fall into a single subforum. [Tip: frequent posters who typically contribute interesting material include: easynow, jkrog08, Gazrok, internos, karl12, ArMaP, IsaacKoi]
Whitley Strieber's unknowncountry.com(note: regardless of what one thinks about Strieber's own stories, due to the popularity of his 1988 book "Communion: A True Story", which became a NY Times best-seller, his web-forum tends to attract people who think they may have had similar "alien abduction" experiencers)
CosmicView group at MSN embraces the stories (or tales if you will) of "contactees" (people who claim to have been contacted by extraterrestrial beings), with the goal to "help people understand WHERE extraterrestrials and UFOs come from - WHY they visit Earth and WHAT we can do about these visitors". Has a library with interviews and photos of claimed contactees, such as Paul (Apolinar) Villa (US), Luciano Galli (Italy) etc
Ed Mitchell UFO forum astronaut of Apollo14 mission, maintains an UFO forum on his website
Professional Pilots Rumor Network pprune.org forum. Several UFO threads: 154622, 371584
Mailing-lists:
[Members-only since Oct-2007] virtuallystrange.net UFO Updates, www.ufoupdateslist.com mailing list archive, with over 67000 messages archived since Dec-1996. Active members include many veteran Ufologists, with several decades of UFO study "under their belts". Reviewing the archive of prior years' posts can be a gold-mine.
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