The UFOCOM or Belorussian UFOlogical COMmunity (previous and inner-used - Ufological Committee of Belarus) is a non-commercial, non-government, non-registered public organization in Belarus. Founded in 2001, in Gorky, Belarus, as a group of enthusiasts, mostly students of Gorky state University, studiing 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.
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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-Belorussian 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 Belorussian regional branch of Kosmopoisk Unity(Kosmopoisk-Belorus). 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, Gorki 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 hold in close cooperation with Belorussian national Academy of sciences and its facilities.
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.
Online activities
Web-site http://ufo-com.net (in Russian)