📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Lincoln LaPaz
Meteor expert who argued the 1948–49 green fireballs over New Mexico were not ordinary meteors.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Anthony Mirarchi
Air Force scientist behind Project Twinkle who publicly challenged the balloon explanation in 1951.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Urner Liddel
Office of Naval Research physicist who said in 1951 that Skyhook balloons explained saucer reports.
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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 · · 8 min read
Coral Lorenzen
Co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Cliff Booth
Engineer named in an APRO account of a cigar-shaped object filmed at Holloman AFB in 1950.
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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
John Homer
Fort Bliss commander who investigated the 1947 Mexican "mystery missile".
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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 · · 9 min read
Roscoe Hillenkoetter
First Director of Central Intelligence (1947–50) and later NICAP board member; named in the disputed MJ-12 papers.
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