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17 January 2026

• 19:0519:05, 17 January 2026 Schuessler, John A. (hist | edit) [4,775 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>John A. Schuessler is an American engineer and long-standing UFO investigator best known for his leadership in MUFON-affiliated research in the Houston region and for his prominent role in the Cash–Landrum incident’s modern documentation. In ufology, Schuessler represents a pragmatic “organizational investigator” archetype: a figure who builds local investigative capacity, standardizes reporting workflows, and helps transform dramatic wit...")
• 18:5818:58, 17 January 2026 Sanderson, Ivan T. (hist | edit) [6,077 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ivan T. Sanderson was a Scottish-born naturalist, writer, and broadcaster whose public career spanned wildlife education, cryptozoology, and anomalistics. In ufology, he is best remembered as a major popularizer of “occupant” and humanoid encounter reports and as a theorist who resisted simple extraterrestrial-visitor explanations. Sanderson’s UFO significance lies in his insistence that UFOs belong to a broader class of persistent, recurri...")
• 18:0518:05, 17 January 2026 Blumrich, Josef F. (hist | edit) [4,752 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Josef F. Blumrich was an engineer whose later-life prominence in UFO-adjacent discourse came from applying technical imagination to ancient religious texts. His best-known work interprets the Book of Ezekiel’s visionary imagery as a description of a craft-like mechanism. In ufology’s broader ecosystem, Blumrich functions as a credentialed bridge figure: he did not investigate modern sightings as a primary vocation, but his engineering status...")
• 17:5717:57, 17 January 2026 Salas, Robert (hist | edit) [4,937 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Salas is a former U.S. Air Force officer best known for his role in one of the most frequently cited “UFOs and nukes” narratives: the claim that an unidentified aerial phenomenon coincided with the disabling of multiple nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967. Salas’ importance to ufology lies in the strategic setting of his testimony. Nuclear weapons infrastructure is treated by many UAP advocates as a context where mis...")
• 17:4517:45, 17 January 2026 Salus, Bill (hist | edit) [4,461 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Bill Salus is a Christian prophecy author whose work intersects UFO culture through a theological lens rather than through case investigation. He is representative of a long-running subtradition—especially prominent in American religious media—in which UFOs are interpreted not as extraterrestrial visitation but as spiritual deception, psychological warfare, or a sign of the approaching end times.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Salus’ backgroun...")
• 05:0305:03, 17 January 2026 Salla, Michael D. (hist | edit) [5,562 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Michael D. Salla is an author and lecturer known for advancing “exopolitics,” a disclosure-era framework that treats UFO/UAP secrecy as a matter of political science and covert governance rather than as a purely scientific mystery or folkloric phenomenon. In Salla’s model, extraterrestrial presence is taken as real and strategically managed through compartmentalized programs, clandestine agreements, and information control. He is significan...")
• 04:5804:58, 17 January 2026 Schindele, David (hist | edit) [6,088 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>David Schindele is a former U.S. Air Force missile officer whose public significance in ufology stems from his association with Cold War-era reports of anomalous aerial activity near nuclear missile facilities. He is best known as the author of <i>It Never Happened</i>, a book that frames such incidents as historically real, institutionally sensitive, and subject to long-standing suppression. Schindele belongs to a distinct category of UFO figure...")
• 04:4904:49, 17 January 2026 Saunders, David (hist | edit) [5,814 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>David R. Saunders was a psychologist whose lasting significance in UFO history stems from his role in the University of Colorado UFO Project, commonly known as the Condon Committee. Rather than being famous for championing a particular UFO case, Saunders became notable for arguing—after direct participation—that the project’s structure and leadership produced a predetermined outcome. His subsequent critique became a cornerstone of ufology...")
• 04:4104:41, 17 January 2026 Santilli, Ray (hist | edit) [5,459 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ray Santilli is a British producer best known in UFO history for the 1995 release of the so-called “alien autopsy” footage—a pseudo-documentary artifact marketed as authentic film of extraterrestrial bodies allegedly connected to the Roswell incident. The broadcast event became a global sensation and remains one of the most famous modern UFO hoaxes. Santilli’s importance is not as a theorist or investigator but as a catalyst: he demonstra...")
• 03:5403:54, 17 January 2026 Sagan, Carl (hist | edit) [5,766 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Carl Sagan was an American astronomer and one of the most influential science communicators of the twentieth century. Within UFO history he occupies a distinctive role: not a field ufologist, but a primary architect of the modern scientific attitude toward UFO claims. Sagan combined a willingness to consider extraterrestrial life plausible in the universe with a strong insistence that UFO conclusions demanded disciplined evidence. His writing and...")
• 03:5003:50, 17 January 2026 Sagan, Nick (hist | edit) [4,778 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Nick Sagan is an American novelist and screenwriter whose connection to UFO culture is chiefly mediated through entertainment and science-popularization television about extraterrestrial life, contact scenarios, and “alien encounter” themes. Unlike field investigators or archival ufologists, Sagan’s role is that of a media creator: translating speculative questions about life beyond Earth into formats designed for broad public consumption.<...")
• 01:5001:50, 17 January 2026 Ramirez, John (hist | edit) [4,802 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>John Ramirez is a former U.S. intelligence professional who emerged as a recognizable personality in contemporary UAP media. Unlike mid-century ufologists who built reputations through case files or field investigations, Ramirez’s significance lies in the modern disclosure ecosystem: long-form interviews, podcasts, and conference appearances where former government affiliation is treated as a marker of insider proximity.</p> <h2>Background</h2...")
• 01:4301:43, 17 January 2026 Reed, Thom (hist | edit) [5,653 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Thom Reed is an American UFO claimant and public advocate whose name is most closely associated with a cluster of alleged UFO sightings and abduction accounts in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on the night of September 1, 1969. In UFO culture, the “Berkshire incident” is often presented as an unusually large, multi-witness episode, positioned as a regional counterpart to other landmark American close-encounter narratives. Reed’s prominenc...")
• 01:2301:23, 17 January 2026 Rutkowski, Chris A. (hist | edit) [4,692 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Chris A. Rutkowski is a Canadian UFO researcher recognized primarily for systematic cataloging of UFO reports and for public-facing annual summaries that attempt to quantify trends in Canadian sightings. In contrast to celebrity-driven ufology, Rutkowski’s influence is administrative and archival: he builds continuity across years, promotes consistent categorization, and treats each report as an entry in a long-running dataset. This makes him a...")
• 01:1501:15, 17 January 2026 Rutledge, Harley D. (hist | edit) [4,705 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Harley D. Rutledge was an American physicist remembered in ufology for an unusually sustained attempt to study recurrent UFO reports using a quasi-field-laboratory approach. His best-known work, commonly associated with “Project Identification,” focused on repeated observations in a localized region over an extended period. Rutledge’s significance lies in method and endurance: instead of relying on isolated anecdotes, he attempted a longitu...")
• 01:0801:08, 17 January 2026 Rockefeller, Laurance S. (hist | edit) [4,504 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Laurance S. Rockefeller was an American philanthropist and member of the Rockefeller family whose role in modern UFO history is distinctive: he is remembered not as an investigator or theorist, but as an elite patron who helped move UFO discussion into higher-status rooms during the 1990s. In disclosure-oriented ufology, Rockefeller’s involvement symbolizes the moment when UFO advocacy intersected with wealth, networking power, and a strategy o...")
• 00:1600:16, 17 January 2026 Rogo, D. Scott (hist | edit) [4,986 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>D. Scott Rogo was an American parapsychological researcher and author whose work frequently intersected with ufology through the concept of “high strangeness”—the idea that UFO reports share motifs with other anomalous experiences such as hauntings, poltergeist episodes, altered states, and psi phenomena. Rather than treating UFOs strictly as aerospace mysteries, Rogo framed them as one expression of a wider, poorly understood class of even...")
• 00:0700:07, 17 January 2026 Reed, Jonathan (hist | edit) [8,270 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jonathan Reed is the public name associated with one of the most debated “evidence-forward” alien encounter narratives to emerge in late-1990s North American ufology. The Reed story—popularized through television appearances and a substantial online afterlife—combined several high-impact elements that reliably drive UFO notoriety: a claimed face-to-face encounter with a nonhuman entity, an alleged fatal confrontation, purported physical a...")

16 January 2026

• 23:5523:55, 16 January 2026 Ramsey, Scott (hist | edit) [9,362 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Scott Ramsey is an American UFO researcher and author best known as the leading contemporary investigator and public advocate for the alleged 1948 Aztec, New Mexico flying saucer crash/recovery story. While the Aztec narrative circulated widely in the early “flying saucer” era and was later treated by many writers as a classic example of UFO-era fraud, Ramsey helped reintroduce the case to modern audiences by arguing that it contains a core o...")
• 23:0923:09, 16 January 2026 Ruppelt, Edward J. (hist | edit) [4,534 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Edward J. Ruppelt was a U.S. Air Force officer best known for directing Project Blue Book and for authoring <em>The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects</em> (1956). In ufology, Ruppelt occupies a unique position: he is neither a later-era speculative writer nor a purely dismissive official spokesperson. Instead, he documented a messy institutional reality—waves of reports, uneven investigation quality, internal disagreement, and the tension b...")
• 23:0323:03, 16 January 2026 Robertson, Howard P. (hist | edit) [4,332 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Howard P. Robertson was a physicist whose enduring relevance to ufology comes from chairing the 1953 scientific committee commonly referred to as the Robertson Panel. Within UFO history, the panel functions as an institutional pivot: it treated UFOs less as a mystery to be solved than as a management problem—something that could stress defense systems through mass reporting, media frenzy, and public anxiety. Robertson’s name therefore appears...")
• 22:5522:55, 16 January 2026 Roberts, Andy (hist | edit) [4,579 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Andy Roberts is a British author and researcher who approaches ufology primarily as folklore, media history, and social psychology rather than as a straightforward question of extraterrestrial technology. In the UK scene, Roberts is known for analyzing how famous cases gain authority, how witness narratives evolve, and how the UFO subject functions as a cultural language for uncertainty, experience, and belief. His work is often read as an intern...")
• 22:4822:48, 16 January 2026 Ridpath, Ian (hist | edit) [4,470 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ian Ridpath is an English science and astronomy writer who became a significant figure in UFO discourse as a skeptic specializing in how astronomical and atmospheric phenomena are misperceived as anomalous craft. In British ufology, Ridpath is especially associated with skeptical reinterpretations of celebrated cases and with an insistence that the “unknown” category often reflects gaps in observation rather than exotic technology.</p> <h2>B...")

15 January 2026

• 01:0501:05, 15 January 2026 Redfern, Nick (hist | edit) [4,677 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Nick Redfern is a British author and journalist whose work sits at the intersection of ufology, conspiracy culture, and Forteana. He is best known for an expansive bibliography that treats UFOs not merely as aviation mysteries but as a gateway topic connected to intelligence agencies, folklore, psychological operations, religious motifs, and occult traditions. In modern ufology, Redfern occupies the role of prolific synthesizer—assembling dispa...")
• 01:0101:01, 15 January 2026 Randle, Kevin D. (hist | edit) [4,697 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Kevin D. Randle is an American ufologist and author best known for his work on the Roswell incident. In the modern Roswell research canon, he functions as both builder and gatekeeper: he advanced crash-retrieval interpretations while also challenging dubious claims, inconsistent witnesses, and documentary forgeries. This combination—advocacy paired with internal skepticism—has made him a durable reference point in English-language Roswell dis...")
• 00:5600:56, 15 January 2026 Randles, Jenny (hist | edit) [4,779 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jenny Randles is a British ufologist and author whose influence on late 20th-century UK ufology is hard to overstate. Rising through investigative roles in British UFO organizations, she became a prolific writer who helped shape both the public narrative of key cases and the internal methodological debates within ufology. Her career is marked by a distinctive arc: early advocacy of extraordinary interpretations, followed by later emphasis on psyc...")
• 00:3700:37, 15 January 2026 Randi, James (hist | edit) [4,309 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>James “The Amazing” Randi was a magician and public skeptic whose career became a defining force in late 20th-century skepticism. While not a ufologist, his influence on ufology has been profound: he provided a toolkit—methodological suspicion, performance-based analysis of deception, and public challenges—that skeptics and journalists used to interrogate UFO claims, contactee narratives, and alleged evidence.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>...")
• 00:3300:33, 15 January 2026 Ramey, Roger M. (hist | edit) [4,817 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Roger M. Ramey was a high-ranking U.S. Army Air Forces officer whose name became permanently intertwined with the Roswell incident of 1947. In ufological literature, Ramey is discussed less for personal UFO beliefs than for institutional behavior: how military commands responded to a rapidly escalating story of recovered “flying disc” debris. His involvement made him a recurring figure in arguments about whether Roswell represents miscommunic...")
• 00:1900:19, 15 January 2026 Radford, Benjamin (hist | edit) [5,509 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Benjamin Radford is an American writer and scientific paranormal investigator associated with organized skepticism. Within the UFO discourse, Radford is best known for treating UFO reports as a subset of broader anomalistics—claims that can be examined through observation, documentation standards, and the sociology of belief. His role in ufology is primarily adversarial and methodological: he argues that many celebrated cases persist because th...")

14 January 2026

• 23:3223:32, 14 January 2026 Quayle, Steve (hist | edit) [4,353 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Steve Quayle is an American alternative-media publisher and author whose UFO-related influence comes primarily through a theological and conspiratorial interpretation of the phenomenon. In his framing, UFOs are not a neutral mystery requiring technical investigation but a component of spiritual conflict—often articulated through themes of fallen angels, genetic corruption narratives, and apocalyptic expectation.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Quay...")
• 23:2523:25, 14 January 2026 Quintanilla, Hector (hist | edit) [5,100 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Hector Quintanilla Jr. was a United States Air Force officer best known as the final head of Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official, long-running program for receiving, evaluating, and cataloging reports of unidentified flying objects. His tenure coincided with Blue Book’s terminal period, when public pressure, internal skepticism, and interagency interests converged to narrow the program’s scope and harden its explanatory posture.</p>...")
• 23:0023:00, 14 January 2026 Podkletnov, Eugene (hist | edit) [9,395 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Eugene (Evgeny) Podkletnov is a physicist best known for extraordinarily controversial claims involving superconductors and gravity. In the mid-1990s he reported that a rotating, levitated superconducting disc could produce a small reduction in the apparent weight of objects placed above it—an effect widely dubbed “gravity shielding” or the “Podkletnov effect.” In later years, he was also associated with claims of impulse-like gravitati...")
• 21:0321:03, 14 January 2026 Pasulka, Diana (hist | edit) [8,971 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Diana Walsh Pasulka is an American scholar of religion widely recognized for bringing the UFO/UAP phenomenon into serious academic discourse as a subject of contemporary religious imagination, institutional authority, and modern mythmaking. Rather than treating UAP as a physics problem or a purely sociological curiosity, Pasulka approaches the subject as an evolving cultural system: a set of experiences, narratives, texts, objects, and communitie...")
• 20:2720:27, 14 January 2026 Puthoff, Harold (hist | edit) [9,799 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Harold E. Puthoff is an American physicist and engineer whose career is unusually influential in the overlap zone between mainstream technical research, intelligence-linked experimentation, and ufology-adjacent speculation. He is most widely known for co-leading research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) into “remote viewing,” a form of purported anomalous cognition that later became associated with U.S. government programs aimed at explor...")
• 20:1220:12, 14 January 2026 Paulides, David (hist | edit) [5,273 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>David Paulides is an American author and media figure best known for the “Missing 411” series, which argues that certain missing-person cases exhibit recurring, nonrandom patterns that resist conventional explanation. Although not a traditional UFO investigator, Paulides is deeply relevant to ufology-adjacent culture because his work occupies the same interpretive ecosystem: “high strangeness” hotspots, anomalous clusters, and the suggest...")
• 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...")