Ufology is an evolving research discipline that is currently homeless. Just like environmental studies and its multi-disciplinary nature in its early years, traditional academia and other scientific institutions do not acknowledge it as existing, nor know what strategy to use to study the problems.  As a result, UFO researchers have relied on common historical and forensic approaches used by media and law enforcement.  In this era of big data, it is time for ufology to utilize 21^st century methods to measure the scope of the phenomena.