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14 January 2026

• 20:0620:06, 14 January 2026 Posadas, Juan (hist | edit) [5,200 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Juan Posadas was an Argentine Trotskyist leader best known—outside specialist political history—for an unusual and enduring contribution to UFO culture: a theoretical essay arguing that “flying saucers” could represent technologically advanced extraterrestrials whose social organization might reflect socialist development. Posadas’ UFO relevance is not based on field investigation, witness testimony, or evidence analysis. Instead, it em...")
• 20:0020:00, 14 January 2026 Popovich, Marina (hist | edit) [4,771 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Marina Popovich was a celebrated Soviet aviator and test pilot who became a recognizable public voice in Russia’s UFO discourse. Her ufology relevance rests on social authority: as an elite pilot, she represented the archetype of a technically trained witness presumed less likely to confuse ordinary aerial objects for extraordinary ones. In post-Soviet media ecosystems, Popovich’s public interest in UFOs and willingness to discuss anomalous p...")
• 19:5019:50, 14 January 2026 Pope, Nick (hist | edit) [5,756 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Nick Pope is a British author and media commentator best known for his association with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) unit historically tasked with receiving, logging, and assessing UFO reports. In contemporary ufology, Pope functions as a prominent “official-context” narrator: a figure whose former institutional role gives his commentary disproportionate influence in debates about government knowledge, secrecy, and the proper...")
• 18:4818:48, 14 January 2026 Pinotti, Roberto (hist | edit) [2,894 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Roberto Pinotti is an Italian ufologist recognized for decades of organizational leadership and public advocacy. He is most strongly associated with structured Italian civilian ufology, where he has promoted case collection, institutional dialogue, and the framing of UFOs as a serious societal question.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Pinotti emerged from Italy’s postwar environment of aviation enthusiasm, Cold War anxieties, and media curiosity ab...")
• 18:4318:43, 14 January 2026 Pilkington, Mark (hist | edit) [2,795 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Mark Pilkington is a British writer best known for his analysis of UFO culture through the lens of disinformation, rumor, and belief dynamics. His work focuses on how sensational UFO narratives can be cultivated, curated, and sustained by a mix of sincere believers, opportunists, and institutional secrecy.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>With interests spanning counterculture history and intelligence-era folklore, Pilkington approached ufology as a c...")
• 18:3818:38, 14 January 2026 Peebles, Curtis (hist | edit) [2,915 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Curtis Peebles is an American author recognized for accessible, chronologically organized books on UFO history and related aerial mysteries. His work typically emphasizes case cataloging, historical context, and aviation/spaceflight framing rather than advocacy for a single grand theory.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Peebles’ writing draws on the conventions of popular history: synthesis, narrative pacing, and thematic grouping of incidents. He p...")
• 18:3318:33, 14 January 2026 Paz Wells, Sixto (hist | edit) [3,528 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Sixto Paz Wells is a Peruvian contactee leader and UFO spirituality organizer associated with Misión Rahma, a movement that presents extraterrestrial contact as a disciplined, group-oriented practice. He is widely cited in Spanish-language ufology as a contemporary successor to mid-20th-century contactee traditions, blending mysticism, moral instruction, and “field work” framed as repeatable protocols.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Emerging fr...")
• 04:1004:10, 14 January 2026 O'Brien, Christopher (hist | edit) [5,363 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Christopher O’Brien is an American researcher and author known for long-term investigation of UFO reports and related anomalous phenomena, particularly in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. His work is closely associated with the “regional ecology” approach to ufology: the idea that certain geographic areas show persistent clustering of unusual events over time, often involving multiple categories of anomaly such as UFO sightings, unusual lights...")
• 04:0404:04, 14 January 2026 Oechsler, Robert (hist | edit) [4,808 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Oechsler was an American UFO investigator and media personality whose work is closely associated with late-20th-century ufology’s most visible “photographic evidence” controversies. He became widely known for involvement in cases where imagery—photographs, video, and televised presentations—played an outsized role in shaping public belief. In an era when UFO culture increasingly relied on broadcast media, Oechsler functioned as b...")
• 04:0004:00, 14 January 2026 Obsequens, Julius (hist | edit) [4,448 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Julius Obsequens was a late Roman author best known for compiling a list of prodigies—extraordinary events interpreted in Roman culture as omens. His surviving work, often transmitted through later manuscripts, preserves brief notices of unusual occurrences, including atmospheric and celestial phenomena that modern readers may find evocative of “aerial anomalies.” In UFO literature, Obsequens is frequently invoked as an early historical wit...")
• 03:5403:54, 14 January 2026 Oberg, James (hist | edit) [6,102 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James Oberg is an American spaceflight analyst and writer best known in UFO discourse for arguing that a substantial fraction of high-profile “space-related” UFO claims can be resolved through careful reconstruction of astronomical and aerospace events. Although not a ufologist in the tradition of field investigation of terrestrial sightings, Oberg became one of the most prominent skeptically oriented commentators on astronaut narratives, sat...")
• 01:5001:50, 14 January 2026 Li, Ning (hist | edit) [9,261 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ning Li (1943–2021) was a Chinese-American physicist whose name became widely associated with late-20th-century “gravity control” proposals involving superconductors. Best known for a series of theoretical papers in the early 1990s and subsequent claims about the feasibility of producing measurable gravitomagnetic fields in condensed-matter systems, Li occupied a rare position at the intersection of mainstream academic affiliation and highl...")
• 01:3801:38, 14 January 2026 Noyes, Ralph (hist | edit) [3,989 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ralph Noyes is a British author and former civil servant whose work became influential in UK ufology by combining discussion of UFO reports with reflections on governmental process, institutional psychology, and the limits of conventional explanation. He is frequently classified within the “official-insider” tradition: writers whose proximity to government structures gives their commentary special resonance in UFO communities, even when they...")
• 01:3301:33, 14 January 2026 Nolan, Garry (hist | edit) [4,806 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Garry Nolan is an American scientist who emerged as a prominent figure in contemporary UAP discourse through public discussions that combine biomedical language, claims of anomalous materials or effects, and references to government interest in the topic. In the disclosure-era media ecosystem, Nolan’s importance is symbolic as well as substantive: credentialed academic affiliation functions as a credibility amplifier in a field long associated...")
• 01:2501:25, 14 January 2026 Noory, George (hist | edit) [4,368 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>George Noory is an American radio host best known for leading the overnight program <em>Coast to Coast AM</em>, a flagship broadcast for UFO, paranormal, and conspiracy-themed discussions. In modern ufology, Noory is not primarily an investigator but a cultural infrastructure figure: his platform has functioned as a central distribution channel where UFO stories are introduced, legitimized through repetition, contested through caller feedback, an...")
• 01:1801:18, 14 January 2026 Nickell, Joe (hist | edit) [5,636 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Joe Nickell is an American investigator, author, and prominent public skeptic known for examining paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, including UFO sightings, alien abduction narratives, contactee stories, and UFO-related hoaxes. In the history of ufology, Nickell occupies a central oppositional role: he treats UFO claims as investigable propositions that frequently fail under reconstruction, documentary verification, and controlled reasoning...")
• 00:5700:57, 14 January 2026 Nye, Bill (hist | edit) [3,354 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Bill Nye is an American science educator and media personality whose relevance to UFO discourse comes primarily through his role as a mainstream scientific authority. Although not a ufologist, Nye is often cited in debates about the evidentiary value of UFO sightings, the plausibility of extraterrestrial visitation, and what kinds of data would be required to justify extraordinary conclusions.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Nye’s cultural prominen...")
• 00:3900:39, 14 January 2026 Novella, Steven (hist | edit) [3,618 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Steven Novella is an American physician and science communicator known for his work in organized skepticism and public critique of pseudoscience and paranormal claims. Although not a ufologist in the traditional sense, Novella is a prominent figure in UFO discourse because skeptics function as an integral counterpart to belief-driven ufology—challenging claims, analyzing evidence quality, and emphasizing psychological and methodological explana...")
• 00:3500:35, 14 January 2026 Noel, Christopher (hist | edit) [3,492 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Christopher Noel is a UFO/UAP journalist and author associated with contemporary media-driven ufology. In a landscape where modern UAP discourse blends official statements, pilot testimony, leaked imagery, and online analysis, Noel’s role is primarily interpretive and communicative: presenting cases, summarizing developments, and sustaining public attention through accessible narrative.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Modern ufology increasingly re...")
• 00:2800:28, 14 January 2026 Nelson, Buck (hist | edit) [3,157 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Buck Nelson was an American contactee associated with the 1950s “space brother” era, a period when UFO experiences were often framed as benevolent contact carrying moral, spiritual, and cautionary messages. Nelson’s claims placed him within the contactee tradition that preceded the later abduction-centered era, emphasizing friendly beings, repeated meetings, and a quasi-prophetic worldview oriented around peace and human development.</p> <...")
• 00:2400:24, 14 January 2026 Napolitano, Linda (hist | edit) [3,939 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Linda Napolitano is an experiencer figure in modern ufology best known for claims of an “urban alien abduction” occurring in New York City, often associated with the Brooklyn Bridge/Manhattan waterfront area. Her account became one of the most widely circulated abduction narratives of the late twentieth century, notable for its setting (a densely populated city), its claims of multiple corroborating observers, and its subsequent promotion wit...")

13 January 2026

• 23:2923:29, 13 January 2026 Monroe, Robert (hist | edit) [3,882 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Monroe was an American consciousness explorer best known for out-of-body experience (OBE) reports and the development of techniques intended to induce altered states. Although not primarily a ufologist, Monroe became deeply influential in UFO culture because his framework supports interpretations of non-human intelligence that are not limited to physical spacecraft. For many modern UAP communities, Monroe provides a foundational model: the...")
• 23:2323:23, 13 January 2026 McCampbell, James (hist | edit) [3,649 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James McCampbell is an engineer and UFO author associated with technically framed arguments that UFOs represent advanced non-human technology. His work belongs to a long tradition of “engineering ufology,” where the goal is to interpret sightings and case reports as evidence of craft performance beyond known human capabilities. McCampbell’s influence lies in offering a structured, seemingly quantitative narrative for believers who want UFO...")
• 23:1623:16, 13 January 2026 McGaha, James (hist | edit) [3,326 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James McGaha is a UFO skeptic and commentator whose background in aviation and military contexts has made him a credentialed voice in critical analysis of UFO claims. In the broader discourse, McGaha represents an important counterpoint: the idea that trained observers can still misinterpret, and that extraordinary interpretations require strong evidence beyond testimony and ambiguous imagery.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>In UFO debates, aviation...")
• 23:0823:08, 13 January 2026 Marden, Kathleen (hist | edit) [3,360 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Kathleen Marden is an American UFO investigator and author best known for her association with the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case—one of the foundational narratives of modern experiencer ufology. Her work focuses on preserving case history, clarifying documentary records, and maintaining public attention on the Hills as a central reference point for later abduction claims.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Marden’s significance derives from c...")
• 22:5822:58, 13 January 2026 Menzel, Donald H. (hist | edit) [3,768 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Donald H. Menzel was an American astronomer whose public skeptical writings made him one of the most influential anti-UFO voices of the twentieth century. In ufology history, he represents the institutional scientific rebuttal: a confident insistence that UFO reports can be explained by natural phenomena, observational error, and psychological factors. His role is central because it shaped how mainstream science and media treated UFO claims for d...")
• 22:4822:48, 13 January 2026 Menger, Howard (hist | edit) [3,520 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Howard Menger was an American contactee whose claims of friendly extraterrestrial meetings placed him among the defining figures of the mid-century contactee movement. Unlike later abduction-era narratives focused on trauma and medical procedures, the classic contactee tradition emphasized benevolent visitors, moral teachings, and spiritual transformation. Menger’s story contributed to this optimistic, message-centered phase of UFO mythology.</...")
• 22:4122:41, 13 January 2026 McMoneagle, Joseph (hist | edit) [3,877 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Joseph McMoneagle is an American former U.S. Army intelligence officer widely known for his association with remote viewing—claims that individuals can perceive distant or hidden targets through anomalous means. While remote viewing is not inherently ufology, McMoneagle became a significant crossover figure because remote-viewing narratives often intersect with UFO mythology, including alleged hidden bases, non-human intelligences, and classifi...")
• 22:3222:32, 13 January 2026 McDivitt, James (hist | edit) [3,493 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James McDivitt was an American astronaut whose name entered UFO history through a widely discussed mid-1960s sighting episode associated with spaceflight operations. In ufology, McDivitt is used as an exemplar of “elite observer credibility”—the idea that highly trained pilots and astronauts provide especially weighty testimony. His case illustrates how observational ambiguity can persist even with skilled witnesses, becoming a long-lived d...")
• 22:2522:25, 13 January 2026 Marcel Jr., Jesse (hist | edit) [3,319 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jesse Marcel Jr. became a notable figure in Roswell mythology due to his claims that he saw unusual debris at home as a child after his father, intelligence officer Jesse Marcel, participated in the 1947 recovery. His testimony functions as a second layer of witness support—often cited as “family corroboration” that the material appeared strange. While not a ufologist, he became embedded in ufology as a recurring documentary and interview p...") originally created as "Marcel, Jesse Jr."
• 22:1722:17, 13 January 2026 Marcel, Jesse (hist | edit) [3,698 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jesse Marcel was a U.S. Army Air Forces intelligence officer whose role in the 1947 Roswell incident made him one of the most important military-linked figures in UFO history. Although Roswell’s initial headlines quickly shifted toward mundane explanations, later decades transformed the event into the archetypal “crash retrieval” story. Marcel’s later recollections became pivotal in this transformation, helping turn Roswell from a brief n...")
• 22:0622:06, 13 January 2026 Méheust, Bertrand (hist | edit) [3,751 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Bertrand Méheust is a French researcher whose work treats UFO narratives as culturally structured phenomena. Rather than focusing solely on whether craft are physical and extraterrestrial, Méheust analyzes how encounter stories echo older mythic, folkloric, and cultural patterns. His approach is influential among scholars and ufologists who argue that the phenomenon must be understood as an interaction between external stimulus (if any) and hum...")
• 21:5921:59, 13 January 2026 Michel, Aimé (hist | edit) [3,864 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist whose work helped shape European approaches to UFO reports as patterned phenomena. Rather than treating sightings as isolated curiosities, Michel emphasized waves, geographic distributions, and the possibility that UFO events exhibit structure. His concept of “orthoteny” became one of the best-known attempts to extract hidden order from the sprawling, inconsistent UFO report record.</p> <h2>Back...")
• 21:5221:52, 13 January 2026 Mitchell, Edgar (hist | edit) [3,957 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut and Apollo moonwalker whose later-life advocacy made him one of the most prominent “astronaut voices” in modern ufology. Mitchell’s importance lies in the cultural weight of his background: a spaceflight hero publicly asserting that UFOs were real and that secrecy had shaped public understanding. His post-NASA career positioned him as a bridge between mainstream institutional legitimacy and the discl...")
• 21:4921:49, 13 January 2026 Mellon, Christopher (hist | edit) [4,734 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Christopher Mellon is a U.S. national security professional whose public advocacy helped catalyze the modern UAP era. Unlike traditional ufologists, Mellon’s importance is rooted in institutional credibility and policy leverage. He became a pivotal figure in reframing UFOs—rebranded as UAP—as an issue of airspace safety, intelligence collection, and governmental oversight rather than purely as a fringe mystery.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>M...")
• 21:4221:42, 13 January 2026 Meier, Billy (hist | edit) [3,900 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Billy Meier is a Swiss contactee who became internationally famous for claiming sustained contact with extraterrestrial “Pleiadians” and for producing a large archive of alleged UFO photographs, films, and extensive writings. In ufology, Meier represents the modern apex of contactee culture: a single individual generating a comprehensive narrative universe with supporting media artifacts, spiritual teachings, and apocalyptic warnings.</p> <h...")
• 21:3121:31, 13 January 2026 Moore, Bill (hist | edit) [9,061 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Bill Moore was an American UFO researcher whose career became inseparable from the 1980s era of leaked-document narratives, insider sources, and the Majestic-12 controversy. Within ufology, Moore is remembered both for shaping a highly influential style of “paper trail disclosure” and for becoming emblematic of how intelligence-adjacent interactions can destabilize research integrity.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Moore emerged in a period when...")
• 21:2021:20, 13 January 2026 Marzulli, Lynn A. (hist | edit) [3,309 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>L. A. Marzulli is an American author and filmmaker prominent in “Christian ufology,” a subgenre that interprets UFO/UAP phenomena through biblical and spiritual warfare frameworks. Rather than treating UAP primarily as unknown technology or extraterrestrial visitation, Marzulli’s work emphasizes deception, metaphysical agency, and theological implications.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Marzulli’s background is rooted in evangelical media an...")
• 21:1221:12, 13 January 2026 Marler, David (hist | edit) [3,492 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>David Marler is a UFO historian and archivist recognized for documentation-first contributions to civilian ufology. His work emphasizes primary-source preservation and careful reconstruction of classic cases—an approach that aims to reduce folklore drift and provide reliable historical baselines for debate.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Marler’s reputation is anchored in archival competence: collecting, organizing, and interpreting documents su...")
• 20:5020:50, 13 January 2026 Maussan, Jaime (hist | edit) [3,728 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jaime Maussan is a Mexican journalist and television personality who became one of the best-known UFO popularizers in Latin America and beyond. His work is defined by media amplification: packaging sightings, witness accounts, and alleged evidence into public-facing narratives. Maussan’s reach made him a gateway for many Spanish-speaking audiences, but that same reach also made his controversies unusually consequential in shaping public percept...")
• 17:4217:42, 13 January 2026 Malone, Robert W. (hist | edit) [2,963 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Malone is not primarily a ufologist, but he appears in some UFO-adjacent lists because disclosure-era media ecosystems frequently cross-pollinate with broader alternative-public-sphere figures. In such contexts, Malone’s significance is not grounded in case investigation, technical analysis, or archival UFO research; rather, it stems from overlap in audiences and platforms where institutional distrust and “hidden truth” narratives ci...")
• 17:2017:20, 13 January 2026 MacFarlane, Robert (hist | edit) [3,980 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Macfarlane is primarily known as a literary writer on landscape, place, and cultural memory, but he is sometimes invoked in ufology-adjacent “high strangeness” discussions because his work takes the uncanny seriously as a human experience embedded in environment and story. In these circles, Macfarlane functions less as an investigator of UFO events than as an interpretive guide for how unusual experiences become meaningful—how they a...")
• 05:1505:15, 13 January 2026 Malanga, Corrado (hist | edit) [4,696 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Corrado Malanga is an Italian researcher associated with the abduction and experiencer wing of ufology, known for constructing detailed models of alleged non-human interference with humans. He is widely discussed for his reliance on hypnosis-derived testimony and for developing elaborate typologies of entities and mechanisms of control. Malanga’s work occupies a highly controversial zone: it is influential among believers who see abduction narr...")
• 05:0705:07, 13 January 2026 MacLaine, Shirley (hist | edit) [3,865 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author whose relevance to ufology is primarily cultural: she helped popularize New Age spirituality and cosmic narratives that overlap with contactee and experiencer belief systems. While not a UFO investigator in the conventional sense, MacLaine’s books and public persona influenced the social environment in which UFO and “expanded consciousness” ideas became mainstream-adjacent in the late 20th...")
• 04:5604:56, 13 January 2026 McKinnon, Gary (hist | edit) [4,218 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Gary McKinnon is a British figure widely known in ufology-adjacent culture as the “UFO hacker,” accused of unauthorized access to U.S. government-related computer systems in the early 2000s. His case became a cultural landmark because it blended two powerful narratives: the belief that definitive UFO proof exists within classified systems, and the idea that determined outsiders might uncover it through digital intrusion. The resulting legal s...")
• 04:4704:47, 13 January 2026 McDonald, James E. (hist | edit) [4,422 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James E. McDonald (commonly referenced in ufology discussions as James E. McDonald) was an atmospheric physicist whose advocacy for serious UFO study made him one of the most prominent scientific voices in mid-20th-century UFO debates. He argued that while many reports were explainable, a significant residue—often involving credible witnesses such as pilots—remained unexplained and warranted methodical investigation. His work is often invoked...")
• 04:3804:38, 13 January 2026 Maccabee, Bruce (hist | edit) [4,201 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Bruce Maccabee is an American optical physicist and long-time civilian UFO researcher known for technical approaches to photographic and film evidence. Within ufology, Maccabee is often positioned as a “scientific-minded” investigator who sought to apply quantitative reasoning to a subject frequently criticized for anecdote-driven claims. His work is part of a broader tradition: using physics, optics, and image analysis to argue that certain...")
• 04:3104:31, 13 January 2026 Mack, John E. (hist | edit) [5,802 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>John E. Mack was an American psychiatrist whose engagement with alien abduction claims made him one of the most consequential—and polarizing—figures in late-20th-century ufology. Unlike traditional UFO investigators focused on radar, photographs, or aircraft performance, Mack centered his work on the testimony and psychological profiles of self-described abductees. His central public argument was not that abduction claims were easily “prove...")
• 04:1204:12, 13 January 2026 Laffoley, Paul (hist | edit) [3,474 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Paul Laffoley was a visionary artist and theorist whose work is ufology-adjacent through its integration of UFO motifs, interdimensional speculation, and elaborate systems-thinking presented in diagrammatic visual form. Rather than investigating sightings, Laffoley treated UFO and contact concepts as components of a broader metaphysical-technical architecture—an interpretive cosmology where consciousness, technology, and hidden dimensions inter...")
• 04:0504:05, 13 January 2026 Lore, Gordon (hist | edit) [3,048 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Gordon Lore is a UFO researcher and organizer remembered for long-term participation in case-file and organizational ufology. His influence is rooted in continuity work: helping preserve reports, sustain networks of investigators, and keep classic cases accessible to new generations of readers and researchers.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Lore’s relevance emerges from the pre-internet era of ufology where organizations, newsletters, and conferen...")