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21 January 2026

• 21:5721:57, 21 January 2026 Williamson, George Hunt (hist | edit) [3,181 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>George Hunt Williamson was a prominent contactee-era UFO author whose writings helped build the “Space Brothers” mythology of the 1950s. His work sits at the intersection of ufology, esotericism, and new religious movements, presenting UFO contact as both an informational event and a spiritual intervention aimed at human evolution.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Williamson’s worldview blended occult and metaphysical currents with the era’s f...")
• 21:5121:51, 21 January 2026 Wilkins, Harold T. (hist | edit) [2,882 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Harold T. Wilkins was a British writer known for popular books on mysteries, archaeology speculation, and anomalous historical claims. While not a “ufologist” in the modern sense, his work is frequently absorbed into ufology-adjacent traditions—especially ancient-astronaut style narratives—because it offers a pre-UFO era reservoir of “mystery data” later reinterpreted as evidence of nonhuman influence.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Wilk...")
• 21:2921:29, 21 January 2026 Wilcock, David (hist | edit) [3,280 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>David Wilcock is an American New Age author and media personality whose UFO relevance comes from “cosmic disclosure” culture: a hybrid of extraterrestrial narratives, spiritual metaphysics, and conspiratorial claims about hidden institutions. His work sits far from classical case-file ufology and instead operates as a synthesis of prophecy, channeling-adjacent motifs, and alternative history.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Wilcock’s public ide...")
• 21:1921:19, 21 January 2026 West, Mick (hist | edit) [3,454 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Mick West is a prominent skeptic and technical analyst whose work has become inseparable from contemporary UAP debate. Rather than functioning as a “ufologist” advocating nonhuman explanations, West represents the counter-institution of internet-era skepticism: applying geometry, optics, aviation knowledge, and sensor behavior to argue that widely publicized UAP evidence is often misinterpreted.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>West’s background...")
• 21:1521:15, 21 January 2026 Weidman, Katrina (hist | edit) [2,762 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Katrina Weidman is a media-facing paranormal investigator and television personality whose relevance to ufology is primarily adjacent. In modern “unknown phenomena” entertainment, boundaries between hauntings, cryptids, and UFOs are porous; Weidman’s work participates in that blended genre, introducing audiences to anomalous narratives through on-screen investigation formats.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Weidman’s professional identity is...")
• 20:1120:11, 21 January 2026 Webre, Alfred Lambremont (hist | edit) [3,148 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Alfred Lambremont Webre is a futurist and advocacy-oriented figure in modern UFO/exopolitics culture. His role in the UFO ecosystem is best understood as narrative and political framing: presenting extraterrestrial presence as an issue of governance, secrecy, and the reorganization of human institutions rather than merely a question of aerial mystery.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Webre’s public persona blends futurism, activism, and disclosure-e...")
• 20:0720:07, 21 January 2026 Warren, Lorraine (hist | edit) [3,207 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Lorraine Warren was an American paranormal investigator and claimed clairvoyant whose relevance to ufology comes through “high strangeness” crossover: entity reports, missing-time style narratives, and the broader interpretation that UFO experiences may be spiritually mediated. Her public identity helped shape how many audiences interpret UFOs not as technology mysteries but as morally charged encounters.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Lorraine...")
• 20:0320:03, 21 January 2026 Warren, Ed (hist | edit) [3,412 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ed Warren was an American paranormal investigator best known as one half of the Warren partnership. Although primarily associated with hauntings and demonic-possession narratives, the Warrens intersected UFO culture through broader “paranormal umbrella” interpretations—treating UFO reports and entity encounters as part of a unified spiritual phenomenon rather than a purely extraterrestrial mystery.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Warren’s pub...")
• 19:5719:57, 21 January 2026 Wang, Sichao (hist | edit) [2,915 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Wang Sichao is a Chinese astronomer whose connection to ufology is largely mediated through public discourse: explaining unusual observations, contextualizing astronomical and atmospheric phenomena, and commenting on the sociology of UFO reports. While not a ufologist in the investigative tradition, he is frequently referenced in UFO contexts as an expert voice representing scientific skepticism or naturalistic interpretation.</p> <h2>Background...")
• 19:5319:53, 21 January 2026 Walters, Ed (hist | edit) [3,425 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Ed Walters is an American UFO claimant best known for the Gulf Breeze incident(s) of the late 1980s. Walters’ photographs and testimony turned Gulf Breeze, Florida into a modern “UFO hotspot,” fueling books, TV segments, and a national debate about photographic evidence and the sociology of belief.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Walters emerged in an era when consumer cameras, tabloid-style TV, and expanding UFO organizations created a ready p...")
• 19:4819:48, 21 January 2026 Walton, Travis (hist | edit) [4,213 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Travis Walton is an American experiencer whose 1975 abduction claim became one of the most famous and polarizing cases in modern ufology. Unlike investigator-centered ufology biographies, Walton’s importance derives from a single event narrative that entered mass culture: a reported close encounter involving a logging crew, followed by Walton’s disappearance and later return, with claims of onboard medical procedures and nonhuman entities.</p...")
• 19:1219:12, 21 January 2026 Vasin, Michael (hist | edit) [4,033 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Michael Vasin is best known in UFO-adjacent culture as a co-originator of the “Spaceship Moon” hypothesis, which proposes that Earth’s Moon may be an artificial construct created by unknown intelligences. While often invoked in ufology and ancient-astronaut media, the idea functions more as a speculative engineering narrative than as a conventional UFO case investigation.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Vasin’s background is typically...")
• 19:0719:07, 21 January 2026 Vilas-Boas, Antônio (hist | edit) [4,012 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Antônio Vilas-Boas was a Brazilian farmer (later a lawyer) whose 1957 account of abduction by extraterrestrials became one of the earliest widely discussed abduction narratives. The case is historically significant because it appears before the abduction concept became a mass-media genre; as a result, it is often used to argue either for authenticity (early emergence) or for cultural borrowing (from earlier contactee motifs).</p> <h2>Background...")
• 19:0219:02, 21 January 2026 Valentich, Frederick (hist | edit) [3,717 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot whose 1978 disappearance over Bass Strait became one of the most frequently cited aviation mysteries in ufology. While Valentich was not a ufologist, the case is repeatedly treated as a “classic” pilot-UFO encounter because the event includes contemporaneous radio communication describing an unknown object and a sudden loss of contact.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Valentich’s aviation experience le...")
• 18:5518:55, 21 January 2026 Ventura, Jesse (hist | edit) [3,795 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jesse Ventura is an American public figure—politician, wrestler, actor, and media personality—whose relevance to ufology comes primarily from hosting conspiracy-oriented television. Rather than functioning as an investigator in the classical ufology sense, Ventura’s role is that of a cultural amplifier: presenting UFO-adjacent themes as plausible, suppressed, and worthy of suspicion-driven inquiry.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Ventura’s ba...")
• 18:4718:47, 21 January 2026 Ventre, John (hist | edit) [4,164 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>John Ventre is an American UFO investigator and MUFON-associated organizer best known to mainstream audiences as a recurring participant on *Hangar 1: The UFO Files*. His public profile blends organizational credibility (association with an established civilian UFO network) with a popularizing mission: presenting UFO history and case patterns in an accessible, investigator-oriented format.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Ventre’s background and pub...")
• 18:4318:43, 21 January 2026 Volke, Igor (hist | edit) [4,330 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Igor Volke was an Estonian ufologist and anomaly researcher best known for building an organized framework for collecting reports of UFO sightings and related “environmental anomalies.” Unlike many Western ufologists whose careers revolve around international conferences and English-language publishing, Volke’s significance is strongly national: he functioned as Estonia’s primary public interpreter of UFO and anomalous-event reports for d...")
• 18:3818:38, 21 January 2026 Vigay, Paul (hist | edit) [3,757 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Paul Vigay was a British computer consultant whose public notoriety came from crop-circle and UFO-adjacent research. Within the crop-circle subculture, he was repeatedly cited as a technically minded analyst who treated certain formations as structured “signals” rather than casual vandalism.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Vigay’s technical background in computing shaped his public posture: he approached crop-circle geometry as something that c...")
• 18:2818:28, 21 January 2026 Van Tassel, George (hist | edit) [4,792 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>George Van Tassel was a prominent American contactee-era UFO personality whose influence came less from investigative casework and more from a charismatic synthesis of spiritual cosmology, “space brother” narratives, and alternative technology claims. He is most associated with Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert and the Integratron—an iconic dome-like structure he said was designed via extraterrestrial guidance.</p> <h2>Background</h2>...")
• 17:4417:44, 21 January 2026 Vallée, Jacques (hist | edit) [5,978 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist and long-running ufologist known for treating UFO reports as a complex sociotechnical and cultural phenomenon rather than a straightforward question of extraterrestrial visitation. Across decades of writing and investigation, he advanced a style of “case-driven” ufology that emphasizes consistency of witness testimony, patterns across time, and the role of narratives, hoaxes, media fe...")
• 01:3701:37, 21 January 2026 Utts, Jessica (hist | edit) [7,973 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Jessica Utts (born 1952) is an American statistician and professor known both for prominent leadership in mainstream statistics and for long-standing involvement in parapsychology, particularly research and evaluation related to “remote viewing” and other alleged psi phenomena. Within ufology and adjacent subcultures, Utts is frequently cited as an establishment-credentialed authority who argued that certain experimental findings suggest the...")
• 01:3201:32, 21 January 2026 Underwood, Peter (hist | edit) [6,478 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Peter Underwood (1923–2014) was an English author, broadcaster, and parapsychologist whose work helped define popular paranormal investigation in postwar Britain. While he is not primarily identified as a UFO investigator, Underwood is frequently included in the broader “ufology-adjacent” ecosystem because the UFO field historically overlaps with Fortean and psychical-research communities—shared conferences, publishers, magazines, and med...")
• 01:2701:27, 21 January 2026 Underwood, Chad (hist | edit) [7,171 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Chad Underwood is a U.S. Navy aviation veteran best known within modern ufology for his role in capturing forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imagery of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) during the 2004 USS <i>Nimitz</i> carrier strike group incident. Although not a “career ufologist” in the classic sense, Underwood occupies an unusually central position in contemporary UFO history because his recording—taken through a weapon-system targe...")
• 00:4700:47, 21 January 2026 Thomas, Gordon (hist | edit) [3,381 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Gordon Thomas was a British investigative journalist and prolific author whose work focused heavily on intelligence services, secrecy, and geopolitical covert operations. While not primarily a ufologist, he is frequently cited in UFO-adjacent culture because UAP narratives often frame themselves as a secrecy problem, and readers of intelligence exposés commonly overlap with disclosure audiences.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Thomas built a...")
• 00:4300:43, 21 January 2026 Thomas, Kenn (hist | edit) [3,513 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Kenn Thomas was a conspiracy writer, archivist, and publisher best known for Steamshovel Press and for promoting “parapolitics,” a framework that studies hidden power structures, covert operations, and the overlap between official narratives and concealed activity. In ufology-adjacent culture, Thomas is significant for connecting UFO lore—especially mid-century cases and rumors—to broader intelligence and political contexts.</p> <...")
• 00:3500:35, 21 January 2026 Tyson, Neil deGrasse (hist | edit) [3,331 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and science communicator whose relevance to ufology comes primarily through his skeptical commentary. Tyson is not a ufologist; instead, he serves as a prominent public standard-bearer for evidence norms, often emphasizing that extraordinary interpretations require robust, shareable data rather than anecdote.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Tyson’s background in astrophysics and public science educati...")
• 00:3100:31, 21 January 2026 Thompson, Keith (hist | edit) [3,430 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Keith Thompson is an author and journalist known within UFO literature for works that interpret the UFO phenomenon through the lens of myth, symbolism, and cultural imagination. Rather than arguing primarily for a specific extraterrestrial technical hypothesis, Thompson’s approach treats UFO narratives as meaningful cultural artifacts—modern equivalents of earlier angelic or visionary traditions.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Thompson’...")
• 00:2500:25, 21 January 2026 Tart, Charles (hist | edit) [3,683 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Charles T. Tart was an American psychologist and parapsychologist widely known for his foundational work on altered states of consciousness. Although not a conventional UFO case investigator, Tart became influential in UFO-adjacent culture because many UAP narratives—especially abduction and high-strangeness accounts—are mediated through altered states, memory questions, and extraordinary subjective experience.</p> <h2>Background</h2>...")
• 00:2100:21, 21 January 2026 Tingley, Brett (hist | edit) [3,305 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Brett Tingley is a journalist whose work intersects with contemporary UAP discourse through coverage of defense-related documents, patents, and official reporting. In the modern UAP era—where the conversation often revolves around memos, reports, and bureaucratic posture—journalists play a structurally significant role similar to classic ufology editors: they select, interpret, and contextualize what the public sees.</p> <h2>Backgroun...")
• 00:1000:10, 21 January 2026 Tibando, Terry (hist | edit) [3,090 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Terry (Terence) Tibando is an author known for the multi-volume series <i>A Citizen’s Disclosure on UFOs and ETI</i>, which presents a curated archive of UFO-related material framed as evidence of a persistent extraterrestrial presence and institutional concealment. His work fits a compendium genre: large-format, image-heavy volumes that function as both reference library and argument.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Tibando’s approach is...")
• 00:0000:00, 21 January 2026 Truzzi, Marcello (hist | edit) [3,583 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Marcello Truzzi was an American sociologist whose work bridged academic study of extraordinary claims and the institutional rise of modern scientific skepticism. While not a “UFO believer” investigator in the conventional sense, he is deeply important to ufology because he helped define the rules of argument: what counts as evidence, who bears the burden of proof, and how skepticism can become ideological rather than methodological.</p...")

20 January 2026

• 23:5523:55, 20 January 2026 Turner, Karla (hist | edit) [3,451 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Karla Turner was an author and researcher whose work became highly influential in the alien abduction subculture, particularly for its emphasis on deception, coercion, and psychological harm. Her books helped crystallize a “dark abduction agenda” interpretive frame, challenging more benevolent or purely spiritual readings of the phenomenon.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Turner’s public profile developed through writing and experiencer-...")
• 23:5023:50, 20 January 2026 Thomas, Andy (hist | edit) [3,431 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Andy Thomas is a British author and lecturer known for covering UFOs, crop circles, conspiracy theories, and unexplained mysteries in an accessible “big picture” style. He occupies a gateway niche in ufology-adjacent culture: presenting condensed overviews that encourage readers to see hidden connections among phenomena ranging from aerial anomalies to political secrecy narratives.</p> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Thomas’s public profile...")
• 23:4423:44, 20 January 2026 Tompkins, William (hist | edit) [3,753 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>William “Bill” Tompkins is a prominent figure within modern “secret space program” and testimony-driven ufology, best known for the <i>Selected by Extraterrestrials</i> book series. His work is presented as first-person recollection of classified aerospace involvement and alleged nonhuman influence, positioning him as an insider narrator in a subculture where personal testimony functions as a primary evidentiary form.</p> <h2>Back...")
• 23:3423:34, 20 January 2026 Temple, Robert K. G. (hist | edit) [4,074 bytes] Robert.francis.jr (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<html> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Robert K. G. Temple is an author best known in ufology-adjacent culture for <i>The Sirius Mystery</i>, a work that argues certain traditions associated with the Dogon people of Mali preserve knowledge consistent with extraterrestrial contact originating from the Sirius star system. Temple’s work occupies a key position in modern pseudoarchaeology: it treats ethnographic claims and mythic narratives as repositories of technical informatio...")
• 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...")