📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Howard P. Robertson
Caltech physicist who chaired the CIA's 1953 Robertson Panel.
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#unidentified flying object articles
Investigations, analysis and news from the community.
📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Linda Moulton Howe
Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Timothy Good
British author of books on UFO secrecy including Above Top Secret and Need to Know.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 10 min read
Edward Ruppelt
Head of Project Blue Book in 1952–53 and author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Dewey Fournet
Pentagon Air Force intelligence liaison to Project Blue Book who produced a 1952 study of UFO motions.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
J. M. Hungerford
Author of the 1950 RAND memorandum on exploiting superstition for psychological warfare.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Joseph Bryan III
Reported head of CIA psychological warfare in the early 1950s who later sat on NICAP's board.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Henry J. Taylor
Radio commentator who announced in 1950 that flying saucers were secret U.S. weapons.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Tim Cooper
California researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Albert Collins
Metallurgist described by author Tim Cooper as having studied recovered crash material; his existence is unconfirmed.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Robert B. Landry
Truman's Air Force aide who said the president asked for quarterly oral briefings on UFOs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. president (1945–53), in office during the first flying disc wave and the start of official UFO studies.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 13 min read
Leonard Stringfield
Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Harry H. Pretty
Army intelligence officer in Berlin who wrote the December 1947 memo on the Horten brothers.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Horten brothers
German aircraft designers of the Ho 229 jet flying wing, investigated in 1947 as a possible source of the discs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Selman Graves
Pilot who told author Timothy Good he saw a crash recovery near Paradise Valley, Arizona, in October 1947.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 9 min read
Nathan Twining
Commander of Air Materiel Command who wrote the 1947 memo calling the flying discs "something real".
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
George Schulgen
Air Force intelligence general who asked for the 1947 Twining memo and issued the Schulgen memo on flying discs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
George Garrett
Air Force intelligence officer who compiled the 1947 "mini estimate" of flying disc reports.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Art McQuiddy
Editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch in July 1947 who later described receiving the base's "flying disc" press release.
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