📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Jeffrey Kripal
Rice University religious studies professor behind the Archives of the Impossible.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Whitley Strieber
Author of Communion (1987) who has written about abduction experiences and childhood memories.
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📖 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 · · 6 min read
John C. Lilly
Neuroscientist who invented the isolation tank and later claimed contact with cosmic intelligences.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 12 min read
Thomas Townsend Brown
Physicist and inventor who promoted "electrogravitics" and proposed Project Winterhaven.
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📖 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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