Hayden Hewes and the International UFO Bureau Hayden C. Hewes (December 29, 1943 – September 13, 2017) was a pioneering UFO researcher who founded the International UFO Bureau (IUFOB) in Oklahoma City in 1957—remarkably, while still a teenager attending high school  What began as a passionate hobby quickly grew into a serious organization involving law enforcement, astronomers, scientists, and international witnesses reporting UFO sightings .