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6 January 2026

• 23:3823:38, 6 January 2026 Berlitz, Charles (hist | edit) [3,771 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Charles Berlitz was a best-selling author who helped popularize modern “mystery nonfiction”—books that present anomalies as evidence that reality contains hidden forces. While not a classic “UFO researcher,” he influenced ufology indirectly by expanding the general public’s appetite for extraordinary explanations. In other words, he helped build the mass audience that UFO narratives later tapped. <h2>Background</h2> Berlitz’s public i...")
• 23:3223:32, 6 January 2026 Bergara, Ryan (hist | edit) [3,653 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Ryan Bergara is a digital-media personality whose work helped make paranormal and mystery content feel mainstream for younger audiences. He is not a traditional ufologist, but he matters to ufology as a gateway figure: modern audiences often encounter UFO ideas through broad mystery entertainment rather than through case files or academic debate. His impact is in presentation style and audience formation. <h2>Background</h2> Bergara rose in the int...")
• 23:2323:23, 6 January 2026 Bergier, Jacques (hist | edit) [3,995 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Jacques Bergier was a French writer and intellectual figure who shaped European “mysteries” culture in ways that overlap strongly with ufology. He mattered less as a UFO case investigator and more as a worldview architect: encouraging readers to treat anomalies, hidden history, and unconventional ideas as a legitimate domain of curiosity. For UAPedia, Bergier fits as a major cultural influence on how UFO-adjacent thinking spread in Europe. <h2>...")
• 23:1823:18, 6 January 2026 Bender, Albert (hist | edit) [3,834 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Albert Bender is a foundational figure in classic “Men in Black” UFO lore, remembered for both organizing early UFO enthusiasts and later claiming he was forced to stop his work after frightening encounters. His story matters because it helped establish a central ufology trope: that the phenomenon is surrounded by coercive secrecy, and that witnesses or researchers can be pressured into silence. Whether literal or symbolic, Bender’s narrative...")
• 23:0523:05, 6 January 2026 Bennewitz, Paul (hist | edit) [5,090 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Paul Bennewitz is one of the most infamous names in modern UFO history because his story is frequently told as a tragedy: a mix of intense belief, ambiguous data, rumor networks, and alleged manipulation that spiraled into personal harm. Unlike many ufology figures who are remembered for books or organizations, Bennewitz is remembered as a warning sign—about how vulnerable people can be pulled deeper into fear-based narratives. His case sits at th...")
• 22:3422:34, 6 January 2026 Belanger, Michelle (hist | edit) [4,101 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Michelle Belanger is an occult and paranormal author whose relevance to ufology is primarily adjacency: she occupies the same cultural neighborhood where UFOs, hauntings, esotericism, and alternative spirituality cross-pollinate. She is less a “UFO investigator” and more a public-facing figure in the modern esoteric publishing scene. For a UAPedia-type project, she matters because ufology does not exist in isolation—its audiences overlap heavi...")
• 22:2622:26, 6 January 2026 Belanger, Jeff (hist | edit) [4,059 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Jeff Belanger is a paranormal author and media figure whose work often overlaps with UFO culture through the larger “unexplained phenomena” umbrella. He’s best understood as a historian-storyteller: someone who takes reports, locations, folklore, and witness narratives and packages them into accessible, compelling accounts. His relevance to ufology is that many people enter UFO interest through exactly the kind of broad anomaly media he produc...")
• 22:1722:17, 6 January 2026 Bell, Art (hist | edit) [7,630 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Art Bell was a talk radio host whose work—especially Coast to Coast AM—reshaped the public face of UFO and paranormal culture. He didn’t become famous by solving cases; he became famous by building a nightly arena where extraordinary claims could be heard, debated, and dramatized. In many ways, modern UFO “media ufology” inherits its tone, pacing, and audience expectations from Bell’s era. <h2>Background</h2> Bell operated at the inters...")
• 03:2703:27, 6 January 2026 Beckley, Timothy (hist | edit) [4,455 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Timothy Beckley was best known as a UFO publisher and promoter—someone who helped keep ufology alive as a media ecosystem. While many ufologists chase specific cases, Beckley’s impact was in distribution: selecting stories, packaging themes, and maintaining a steady flow of UFO content for dedicated audiences. If ufology is a marketplace of narratives, Beckley helped keep the shelves stocked. <h2>Background</h2> He emerged from the small-press...")
• 03:1903:19, 6 January 2026 Beckjord, Jon-Erik (hist | edit) [4,672 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Jon-Erik Beckjord was a paranormal personality known for pushing “high strangeness” connections—especially the idea that Bigfoot reports and UFO phenomena are linked. In ufology-adjacent culture, he’s remembered less for careful case files and more for bold synthesis claims that appeal to audiences who believe the categories of the strange bleed into one another. His work sits squarely in the “everything is connected” wing of the anomaly...")
• 03:0003:00, 6 January 2026 Bayless, Raymond (hist | edit) [5,471 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Raymond Bayless was a mid-20th-century researcher and author who operated in the overlapping space between ufology and broader paranormal/psychical research. Rather than building a reputation off one blockbuster case, he became known for gathering reports, comparing patterns, and presenting “what the literature says” to readers who wanted a structured view of anomalies. He’s an example of the quieter, research-library side of the field: less s...")
• 02:3902:39, 6 January 2026 Bassett, Stephen (hist | edit) [2,019 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Stephen Bassett is a disclosure-era activist known for pushing a political and media strategy aimed at normalizing UFO discussion and pressuring institutions toward transparency. <h2>Background</h2> He is commonly described as working through advocacy frameworks—events, interviews, and organized messaging—rather than scientific research. <h2>Ufology career</h2> Bassett’s niche is political theater and public persuasion: framing UFO disclosur...")
• 02:2602:26, 6 January 2026 Barker, Gray (hist | edit) [2,382 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Gray Barker was a mid-century UFO writer and publisher best known for pushing “Men in Black” style lore into mainstream UFO conversation, influencing how secrecy and intimidation narratives took root. <h2>Background</h2> Based in West Virginia, Barker worked as a writer and promoter in a period when flying-saucer culture was forming its core myths, newsletters, and personalities. <h2>Ufology career</h2> Barker operated as a narrative engine: c...")
• 01:5201:52, 6 January 2026 Baker, Robert (hist | edit) [1,973 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Robert Baker was a psychologist often referenced in UFO/abduction discourse for applying sleep, perception, and memory concepts to extraordinary experiences. <h2>Background</h2> He worked in psychology and approached unusual reports with an emphasis on how human perception and recall can be shaped by context. <h2>Ufology career</h2> Baker’s role is primarily interpretive and critical: examining why certain narratives feel compelling and how expe...")
• 00:0000:00, 6 January 2026 Aykroyd, Dan (hist | edit) [4,133 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Dan Aykroyd is an actor and writer widely known in UFO culture as a high-visibility enthusiast and host of UFO/paranormal-themed media. His significance to ufology is not rooted in case investigation, but in cultural reach: he has helped keep UFO interest normalized in mainstream entertainment and introduced “UFO curiosity” to audiences far outside traditional research circles. <h2>Background</h2> Aykroyd became internationally famous through f...")

5 January 2026

• 23:5223:52, 5 January 2026 Auerbach, Loyd (hist | edit) [4,043 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Loyd Auerbach is a parapsychologist and investigator whose work sits in the wider anomalous phenomena world where UFO topics often overlap with hauntings, psi claims, and other extraordinary experiences. In this ecosystem, he is typically positioned as a “method-first” voice—someone who emphasizes documentation, careful interpretation, and avoiding conclusions beyond the evidence. <h2>Background</h2> Auerbach is commonly described as a paraps...")
• 23:4623:46, 5 January 2026 Arnold, Kenneth (hist | edit) [4,170 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Kenneth Arnold was an American aviator whose June 24, 1947 report is widely treated as the first modern-era UFO sighting to explode into national media. His account is central to ufology history not only because of what he claimed to see, but because it helped trigger a cascade: widespread public attention, a wave of new reports, and the emergence of “flying saucer” as a cultural label. <h2>Background</h2> Arnold was a pilot and businessman. Hi...")
• 23:4023:40, 5 January 2026 Applewhite, Marshall (hist | edit) [4,630 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Marshall Applewhite founded and led Heaven’s Gate, a UFO-centered new religious movement that became internationally infamous after the 1997 mass suicide of its members. In ufology-adjacent history, Applewhite is significant not because he investigated UFO cases, but because he demonstrates how UFO belief can become the foundation for a totalizing religious worldview. <h2>Background</h2> Applewhite’s biographies often describe a background in m...")
• 23:3223:32, 5 January 2026 Appelle, Stuart (hist | edit) [3,971 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Stuart Appelle was an American psychologist known for engaging UFO- and abduction-related topics through the lens of perception, memory, and experience interpretation. In ufology, his role is most often described as academic-adjacent: he is not primarily a celebrity investigator, but a contributor to discussions about how extraordinary experiences are reported and understood. <h2>Background</h2> Appelle held academic roles and built expertise in ps...")
• 23:2423:24, 5 January 2026 Appel, Jean-Paul (hist | edit) [4,319 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Jean-Paul Appel is associated with the founding and leadership of Siderella, a French UFO-centered new religious movement that evolved from earlier organizational forms. In ufology-adjacent history, he is relevant primarily as a movement organizer and doctrinal leader rather than as an investigator of sightings or cases. <h2>Background</h2> Public summaries describe Appel within the context of contactee spirituality—where alleged extraterrestrial...")
• 23:1623:16, 5 January 2026 Apostol, Dan (hist | edit) [3,830 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Dan Apostol was a Romanian writer and researcher known for popular nonfiction about UFOs and other “mysteries” topics. His work is often grouped with authors who synthesize wide ranges of material—history, science, folklore, and anomalous claims—into accessible narratives for general audiences. <h2>Background</h2> Biographical summaries commonly describe broad interests spanning science, aviation, archaeology, and speculative interpretation...")
• 23:0823:08, 5 January 2026 Angelucci, Orfeo (hist | edit) [4,510 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Orfeo Angelucci was an American contactee-era author and speaker who rose to prominence during the 1950s wave of “friendly visitor” UFO narratives. He is best known for presenting UFO encounters as spiritually meaningful experiences and for helping popularize a worldview in which benevolent visitors were warning humanity about war and moral decline. <h2>Background</h2> Angelucci’s background is commonly described in relation to Southern Calif...")
• 23:0023:00, 5 January 2026 Alvis, Brandon (hist | edit) [3,586 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Brandon Alvis is a modern paranormal investigator and media creator whose work sits in the broader “unexplained phenomena” ecosystem. While not primarily known as a traditional ufologist, he operates in the same cultural space where UFO topics commonly overlap with hauntings, witness stories, and anomalous claims presented through documentary-style entertainment. <h2>Background</h2> Public profiles typically describe him as an investigator, pro...")
• 22:3522:35, 5 January 2026 Alford, Alan (hist | edit) [4,610 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Alan Alford was a British author known in UFO-adjacent circles for writing popular books about ancient myths, alternative history, and the origins of “gods” narratives. He is notable not only for promoting ancient-astronaut-style ideas early on, but also for later pivoting away from literal alien interpretations and arguing that myth may preserve symbolic memory of catastrophic cosmic events. <h2>Background</h2> Alford’s biographies commonly...")
• 22:0922:09, 5 January 2026 Alexander, John (hist | edit) [8,360 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> John Alexander is an American author and UFO researcher often described as a former U.S. Army colonel who writes about government, secrecy, and how UFO claims circulate. <h2>Background</h2> He is commonly presented as having a military career background and later became a public-facing speaker and author engaging UFO-related questions from an institutional angle. <h2>Ufology career</h2> Alexander became known for discussing whether any hidden “U...")
• 21:5421:54, 5 January 2026 Aho, Wayne (hist | edit) [2,214 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Wayne Aho was a 1950s-era UFO “contactee” who claimed ongoing communication with extraterrestrial beings and later founded a New Age religious movement. <h2>Background</h2> Aho worked as a logger and served in the U.S. Army. He reported “contact” experiences beginning in childhood and framed later activity around a spiritual mission. <h2>Ufology career</h2> He became known during the contactee wave for describing friendly, humanoid “spac...")
• 21:3521:35, 5 January 2026 Agrest, Matest (hist | edit) [1,939 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> Matest M. Agrest was a Russian-born mathematician who became known in ufology for promoting early versions of the ancient astronaut (“paleocontact”) hypothesis. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} <h2>Background</h2> He trained in mathematics and related sciences in the USSR, later emigrating to the United States after retirement. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} <h2>Ufology career</h2> Agrest’s ufological influence is mainly...")

4 January 2026

• 20:4120:41, 4 January 2026 Adamski, George (hist | edit) [4,226 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>George Adamski (1891–1965) was a Polish-American UFO “contactee” and author who became one of the most famous public figures in 1950s ufology. He is best known for UFO photographs and for claiming friendly contact with “Space Brothers,” including a Venusian he called “Orthon.”</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>In the 1930s, Adamski operated in Southern California in spiritual/philosophical circles and later established himself near Paloma...")

2 December 2025

• 23:0223:02, 2 December 2025 Bob Lazar (hist | edit) [9,060 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> <html> <div class="container p-0"> <div class="align-items-center p-2 row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-3"> <img class="portrait img-fluid" src="https://backend.uapedia.wiki/images/a/a8/Bob-lazar-portrait.jpg"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-9"> Mark McCandlish leaked to the world the existence of the "Alien Reproduction Vehicle aka Fluxliner" back in 1988, in 2001 at the Disclosure Project Press Club Briefing, an...")
• 22:1522:15, 2 December 2025 Fouche, Edgar (hist | edit) [9,906 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> <html> <div class="container p-0"> <div class="align-items-center p-2 row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-3"> <img class="portrait img-fluid" src="https://backend.uapedia.wiki/images/c/c3/Edgar-fouche-portrait.png"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-9"> Edgar Fouche is known for making the claim that the black flying triangle UFOs were a U.S. government spacecraft called the TR-3B. Some notable claims about the TR-3B w...") originally created as "Edgar Fouche"
• 21:4221:42, 2 December 2025 Novel, Gordon (hist | edit) [10,474 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> <html> <div class="container p-0"> <div class="align-items-center p-2 row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-3"> <img class="portrait img-fluid" src="https://backend.uapedia.wiki/images/d/d3/Gordon-novel-portrait.png"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-9"> Gordon Novel after many years of work published the book "Supreme Cosmic Secret", an attempt to figure out exactly how the "Alien Reproduction Vehicle" leaked to the wo...") originally created as "Gordon Novel"
• 20:4620:46, 2 December 2025 Bushman, Boyd (hist | edit) [5,566 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> Lockheed Martin Senior Scientist Boyd Bushman is the first person to claim that magnets fall at different rates than ordinary objects. It is this claim that inspired Robert Francis Jr to conduct magnet free-fall experiments with an ordinary magnet falling in the direction of its North to South pole, South to North pole, and two combinations of repulsively coupled magnets NS/SN and SN/NS. RFJ's results consistently show anomalous accelerati...") originally created as "Boyd Bushman"
• 19:5519:55, 2 December 2025 McCandlish, Mark (hist | edit) [10,621 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> Mark McCandlish leaked to the world the existence of the "Alien Reproduction Vehicle aka Fluxliner" back in 1988, in 2001 at the Disclosure Project Press Club Briefing, and in several interviews and documentaries. He created a line drawing with all the witnessed components of the ARV which included what appeared to be a slightly asymmetrical parallel plate capacitor array on the bottom of the craft tying it's propulsion system to the Biefe...") originally created as "Mark McCandlish"
• 02:0602:06, 2 December 2025 Biefeld-Brown Effect (hist | edit) [11,360 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> Let’s breakdown the Biefeld-Brown effect and analyze what the different contributing factors are to producing, and most importantly, maximizing the effect for real world propulsion. There are many factors that together combine to create the Biefeld-Brown effect, the propulsive force observed in the direction from lower voltage to higher voltage plate in an asymmetric parallel plate capacitor. It is my hypothesis that the biggest factor...")

1 December 2025

• 22:2322:23, 1 December 2025 Alien Reproduction Vehicle aka Fluxliner (hist | edit) [20,601 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<p class="fs-3 mb-1">TL;DR</p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <h2>History</h2> In 1988 a man by the name of Brad Sorenson according to Mark McCandlish or a man by the name Leonardo Sanderson according to Gordon Novel attended an air show with a VIP client of theirs who was said to be a high level DoD official, possibly former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. It is unknown who the real person was who attended the air show, Sorenson or Sanderson, or if in fact it was another...")