- Nick Redfern
Nicholas "Nick" Redfern (born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, West Midlands) is a British Ufologists now living in Dallas, Texas, USA. His is an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncovered thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on UFOs dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office and currently works as a feature writer and contributing editor for "Phenomena" magazine. - J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 - April 27, 1986) was a U.S. astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is probably best remembered for his UFO research: Hynek acted as scientific advisor to three consecutive UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force: Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and finally, Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969); for decades afterwards, he conducted his own independent UFO research. - Stanton T. Friedman
Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934) is an American physicist and ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Friedman has written books on the UFO phenomenon and was the first civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident. Since 1967, he has spoken about UFOs at more than 600 colleges and universities and more than 100 professional groups in the USA, Canada, and 16 other countries. - Art Bell
Arthur "Art" W. Bell, III (born June 17, 1945) is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as the founder and longtime host of the paranormal-themed radio program "Coast to Coast AM". He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, "Dreamland". Semiretired from "Coast to Coast AM" since 2003, he hosted the show on many weekends for the next 4 years. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007, … - Whitley Strieber
Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is a US writer best known for his horror novels "The Wolfen" and "The Hunger" and for "Communion", a non-fiction description of his experiences with non-human entities (see alien abduction). Along with co-author Art Bell, he also inspired the blockbuster movie about sudden climate change, "The Day After Tomorrow". - Linda Moulton Howe
Film/TV Background: Howe reported news and produced the weekly live news program, "Inquiry", at KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, 1968-1974; produced and wrote "House Call" with Timothy Johnson, M. D., WCVB-TV, Boston, 1974-1978; Director of Special Projects, KMGH-TV, Denver, 1978-1983; Owner Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 1983 to present; produced, wrote, directed and edited three documentaries for UNICEF, including "UNICEF's 40th Anniversary" in New York City, … - Jacques Vallée
Jacques F. Vallée, Ph.D., (September 24, 1939) is a French-born ufologist, computer scientist, and former astronomer, currently residing in San Francisco, United States. (He should not be confused with the distinguished Canadian astronomer Jacques "P". Vallée.) - Philip J. Corso
Philip J. Corso (May 22, 1915 - July 16, 1998) was an American U.S. Army officer. He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1942 to March 1, 1963., and earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Late in his life in the book "The Day After Roswell", Corso claimed that he was involved in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash. - John Keel
John A. Keel (born March 25, 1930) is a ufologist, parapsychologist and journalist currently residing in New York, USA. John Keel is arguably one of the most widely read and influential ufologists since the early 1970s. Although his own thoughts about UFOs and associated anomalous phenomena have gradually evolved since the mid 1960s, Keel remains one of ufology's most original and controversial researchers. - George Noory
While still a teenager, George joined NICAP, the UFO organization that was a precursor to today's MUFON. George immersed himself in the field, "so much so that I decided I wanted to go into broadcasting in order to do unusual stories in the paranormal and stories that the mainstream media didn't want to touch," he told After Dark. - Jim Marrs
Jim Marrs (December 5, 1943) is a conspiracy theorist, news reporter, college professor, and author of books and articles on a wide range of assorted conspiracy theories. Marrs is an important figure in the JFK conspiracy press and his book "Crossfire" was a source for Oliver Stone's film "JFK". He has also written books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy and secret societies. - Bruce MacCabee
Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D. (May 6, 1942) is an optical physicist employed by the U.S. Navy, and a leading UFO researcher. He is listed in "Who's Who in Technology Today" and A"merican Men and Women of Science". In addition, he is a noted contemporary UFO investigator specializing in technical analysis and photoanalysis of UFO cases. The following information is derived primarily from his website's biography page. - Michael Salla
Dr. Michael Emin Salla, Ph.D. (September 25, 1958) is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the mediums of the internet, UFO and New Age conferences, and radio appearances. Salla's most recent academic position was in Washington at American University, Center for Global Peace. - Jerome Clark
Jerome Clark (1946 -) is an American researcher and writer, specializing in unidentified flying objects and other anomalous phenomena; he is also a songwriter of some note. Clark is one of the most prominent UFO historians and researchers active today. Although Clark's works have sometimes generated spirited debate, he is widely regarded as one of the most reputable writers in the field, and he has earned the praise of many skeptics. - Billy Meier
"Billy" Eduard Albert Meier (February 3, 1937) is a citizen of Switzerland and alleged contactee. He is also the source of over 1000 photographs of objects claimed to be UFOs. Meier claims regular contact with the Plejaren, a group of extraterrestrials, and presents much spiritual and philosophical information from these meetings. He describes the Plejaran as humanoid much like the humans of Earth. - George Adamski
George Adamski was a Polish-born American who became notable known in ufology circles after he claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with "Space Brothers", and to have taken flights with them. He considered himself to be a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher." - John Lear
John Lear (b. 1942) is an accomplished former pilot and well-known UFOlogist. He is the son of aviation pioneer and inventor Bill Lear. - Paul Hellyer
Paul Theodore Hellyer, PC (born 6 August 1923) is a Canadian politician and commentator who has had a long and varied career. - Steven M. Greer
Dr. Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an alleged contactee, an emergency and trauma physician, a former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina, and a lifetime member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Greer is known for introducing the close encounter of the fifth kind, and for founding the Disclosure Project, the Space Energy Access Systems, Inc. - James Gilliland
James Gilliland, a Southern California native, is an author, teacher, ufologist, spiritual counselor, energetic healer, and the founder of the Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ECETI) organization. He studied 6 years of Yoga, and has received "The Teaching of the Inner Christ" certificate and the "Rigdzin Norbu" ("Jewel of Pure Awareness") certificate. - Jenny Randles
Jenny Randles (October 30, 1951-) is a British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA). - Donald Keyhoe
Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 - November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps officer with some flight experience, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of the promotional tours of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh. In the 1950s he became well-known as an engaged, knowledgeable UFO researcher, arguing that the U.S. government should conduct appropriate research in UFO matters, … - Paul Bennewitz
Paul Bennewitz (? - 2005) was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping the development of UFO Conspiracies since the 1980s. A brief summary of the case was written by Jerome Clark: Bennewitz "became the target of intimidation after he monitored electronic signals emanating from a nuclear installation near Kirtland Air Force Base. Bennewitz decided the messages were of extraterrestrial origin ... The signals, which were not illusory, … - Jaime Maussan
Jose Jaime Maussan Flota (May 31, 1953) was born in Mexico. - Bill Moore
Bill Moore (William L. Moore) is a well-known UFOlogist. Prominent in the 1980s, he has co-authored several books with Charles Berlitz, including "The Roswell Incident" - the first book written about the alleged Roswell UFO crash/retrieval. Bill Moore was a central figure in the release of the controversial Majestic 12 documents. - George Knapp
George Knapp is an American investigative journalist. Residing in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1979 and working primarily for KLAS-TV since 1981, Knapp has investigated and reported on many subjects, but outside of Las Vegas, he is probably best known to the general public for his work on various anomalous phenomena. In the late 1980s, Knapp broke the story of Bob Lazar (who claimed to have worked on extraterrestrial UFOs at the secretive Area 51). - David Wilcock
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant, clairvoyant, visionary, channeller, and popular speaker. He has appeared on television interviews and a large number of radio talk shows (like Coast to Coast AM), lectured in the United States and Japan, and is author of a number of magazine articles, an online book, and co-author of "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce", … - Philip J. Klass
Philip Julian Klass (November 8 1919-August 9 2005) was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Merritt Island, Florida. He was an electrical engineer by training, and also a journalist, but he is probably best known as a leading debunker of UFOs, arguing especially against the extraterrestrial hypothesis. In the ufological and skeptical communities, Klass tends to inspire strongly polarized appraisals. Klass has been called the "Sherlock Holmes of UFOlogy". - David Clarke
Dr. David Clarke is a British university lecturer. He obtained his Ph.D in "Folklore and Cultural Tradition" in 1999, and now teaches Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He also lectures on the subjects of supernatural belief and urban legends at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (part of the University of Sheffield). David Clarke is also a freelance journalist and author, … - Leonard H. Stringfield
- James E. McDonald
James E. McDonald (May 7, 1920 to June 13, 1971) was an American physicist. He is probably best known for his research regarding UFOs. McDonald was senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson. McDonald campaigned vigorously in support of expanding UFO studies during the mid and late 1960s, arguing that UFOs represented an intriguing, … - Kevin D. Randle
Dr. Kevin D. Randle (1949-), is a captain in the US Army Reserves, as well as a prominent ufologist. Within the UFO Community he is often regarded as one of the leading experts on the reported crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. - Glenn Dennis
Glenn Dennis (born circa 1925) is a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, which opened in September, 1991 and self-professed witness to the 1947 Roswell UFO incident - Edward J. Ruppelt
Edward J. Ruppelt (July 17, 1922 - September 1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best-known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term "unidentified flying object", to replace the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk," which had become widely known; Ruppelt thought the latter terms were both suggestive and inadequate. - Kenny Young
Kenny Young (1966 - January 31, 2005), webmaster of "UFO Research: Cincinnati!", was a multi-award winning television producer, director and writer and a State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a public relations director of Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (TASK). - Carol Rosin
Dr. Carol Sue Rosin (b. March 29, 1944 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments and the intelligence community. She is the current President of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) which she co-founded with Alfred Webre. Dr. - Karla Turner
Dr. Karla Turner (born 1947) was widely respected in the UFO community for her research on alien abduction. A scholar and professional educator, she earned a Ph.D. in Old English studies and taught at the university level in Texas for more than ten years. But in 1988, she and her husband and son endured a shocking series of experiences and recollections that forced them to recognize that they were all abductees. - Daniel Fry
Daniel William Fry (1908 - 1992) was an American contactee who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft on July 4, 1949. - Morris K. Jessup
Morris Ketchum Jessup (March 2, 1900 – April 29, 1959), though employed for most of his life as an auto-parts salesman and photographer, is probably best remembered for his pioneering ufological writings and his role in uncovering the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. - Michael Persinger
Dr. Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945), a cognitive neuroscience researcher and university professor, has worked since 1971 at Laurentian University, Canada.
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