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20 January 2026
- 23:2723:27, 20 January 2026 Targ, Russell (hist | edit) [3,680 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Russell Targ is an American physicist and parapsychology researcher best known for coining and developing the term “remote viewing” during work at Stanford Research Institute. While not a classic ufologist, Targ’s work became entangled with UFO culture through overlapping communities—government secrecy narratives, consciousness-based interpretations of anomalies, and the broader “hidden capacities” worldview common in high-stra...")
- 23:2423:24, 20 January 2026 Twining, Nathan F. (hist | edit) [3,686 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Nathan F. Twining was a senior United States Air Force figure whose name became embedded in ufology history through references to early internal evaluations of reported “flying discs.” Although Twining was not a civilian ufologist or investigator of individual cases, his institutional position made him a recurring reference point in claims that the U.S. military took UFO reports seriously in the post–World War II period.</p> <h2>Bac...")
- 23:1923:19, 20 January 2026 Teodorani, Massimo (hist | edit) [3,909 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Massimo Teodorani is an Italian astrophysicist associated in public discourse with field investigations of anomalous luminous phenomena, particularly the Hessdalen lights in Norway. Although Hessdalen is not a classic “flying saucer” case category, it occupies an important place in the broader UAP-adjacent landscape as a repeatedly reported, instrumentable anomaly that invites measurement and modeling.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Teodo...")
- 21:3321:33, 20 January 2026 Taylor, Travis S. (hist | edit) [4,070 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Travis S. Taylor is a scientist, engineer, and author who became a prominent media figure in UAP-adjacent culture through televised investigations of alleged anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch. His public role positions him as a “science forward” interpreter of extraordinary claims, emphasizing instrumentation, controlled tests, and repeatability—while operating in a format shaped by entertainment constraints and audience expectations.</p...")
- 21:2721:27, 20 January 2026 Thomas, Chan (hist | edit) [3,769 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Chan Thomas is most frequently referenced in alternative-research circles as the author associated with <i>The Adam and Eve Story</i>, a text that frames human history as punctuated by repeating global cataclysms. While not a conventional ufologist focused on sightings, Thomas’s work intersects with the ufology ecosystem through “suppressed knowledge” narratives and the broader tendency to interpret declassified archives as signals o...")
- 21:2121:21, 20 January 2026 Trench, Brinsley (hist | edit) [4,298 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Brinsley Le Poer Trench, an aristocratic writer and prominent promoter of UFO-related “secret history,” became known for an extensive body of work arguing that extraterrestrial beings influenced or engineered human civilization. His writings positioned UFO phenomena as part of a broad cosmological narrative spanning ancient myth, hidden archaeology, and alternative explanations for religious origins.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Trench...")
- 21:0421:04, 20 January 2026 Tsoukalos, Giorgio A. (hist | edit) [4,798 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a television personality and producer most closely associated with the modern popularization of the “ancient astronauts” hypothesis—the idea that extraterrestrial intelligences visited Earth in antiquity and shaped early human culture, religion, and technology. While variations of these claims existed for decades, Tsoukalos became a central figure in presenting them to mass audiences through long-running telev...")
- 20:2920:29, 20 January 2026 Stratton, Jay (hist | edit) [4,173 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jay Stratton is a modern UAP-era figure associated with U.S. government investigative and analytical efforts regarding unidentified aerial phenomena. In contrast to classic ufology personalities—writers, field investigators, and organization leaders—Stratton’s significance derives from his connection to institutional UAP processes: internal reviews, case triage, and the management of military-origin report streams. He is therefore best unde...")
- 20:2420:24, 20 January 2026 Semivan, Jim (hist | edit) [4,486 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jim Semivan is a former intelligence officer who became notable in contemporary UAP culture through his association with To The Stars Academy and related disclosure-era media. Unlike classic ufologists who build reputations through decades of civilian field investigation, Semivan’s relevance comes from his perceived proximity to intelligence culture and his willingness to speak publicly in a domain historically burdened by stigma and secrecy. H...")
17 January 2026
- 23:2023:20, 17 January 2026 Swann, Ingo (hist | edit) [4,210 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ingo Swann was an American psychic, artist, and writer best known for his association with remote viewing research and its later cultural mythology. In ufology-adjacent discourse, Swann is significant because he offered a model in which anomalous intelligence gathering and “contact with the unknown” occur through consciousness-based techniques rather than physical encounter. His later writings extended these themes into overtly UFO-adjacent t...")
- 23:1523:15, 17 January 2026 Sturrock, Peter A. (hist | edit) [3,927 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Peter A. Sturrock is a physicist best known in ufology for advocating a scientifically respectable approach to UFO reports. Rather than attempting to “prove” extraterrestrial visitation through sensational cases, Sturrock emphasized that a persistent residue of unexplained reports, coupled with the social taboo surrounding the topic, justified a careful re-examination. His contribution lies in framing UFOs as a subject for structured inquiry...")
- 19:3419:34, 17 January 2026 Strieber, Whitley (hist | edit) [4,484 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Whitley Strieber is an American author whose writings became central to the late-20th-century “abduction era” of ufology. Unlike investigators focused on external sightings and physical traces, Strieber’s influence derives from first-person narrative: claimed experiences with “visitors” that blend memory, fear, intimacy, and existential uncertainty. His work helped set the emotional and visual vocabulary of abduction culture—especiall...")
- 19:2919:29, 17 January 2026 Stringfield, Leonard H. (hist | edit) [4,748 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Leonard H. Stringfield was an American UFO researcher best known for compiling and preserving accounts of alleged UFO crashes and recoveries. While many ufologists focused on sightings and radar-visual incidents, Stringfield specialized in a controversial subgenre: testimony and rumor about downed craft, recovered materials, and alleged bodies. His impact on ufology is difficult to overstate because later crash-retrieval narratives—both serious...")
- 19:2319:23, 17 January 2026 Swords, Michael D. (hist | edit) [4,251 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Michael D. Swords is an American UFO historian and scholarly organizer known for meticulous work on the documentary history of official UFO investigations. In a field often dominated by sensational narratives, Swords’ influence derives from discipline: reconstructing what agencies actually did, how conclusions were formed, and which documents demonstrate uncertainty, bias, or internal disagreement. He is frequently associated with efforts to pr...")
- 19:1019:10, 17 January 2026 Sheaffer, Robert (hist | edit) [4,571 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert Sheaffer is an American skeptical author and commentator known for his sustained critiques of UFO claims. While not a “ufologist” in the proponent sense, he is a central figure in UFO discourse because he engaged the field’s best-known cases with a forensic reading style—tracking provenance, identifying narrative drift, and challenging the rhetorical move from “unexplained” to “extraterrestrial.” His work helped professiona...")
- 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...")
