“A New Day for UFO Research”,
15 March 2000 (Space.com)
Article on the civilian U.S. UFO research organisation National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) (now defunct) and NIDS’ investigation into the 5 January 2000 Southern Illinois UFO incident:
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/nids_investigation_000315.html
NIDS was founded and financed by Las Vegas businessman Robert T. Bigelow.
Wikipedia article: “National Institute for Discovery Science”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Discovery_Science