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People

Witnesses, whistleblowers, investigators, officials, journalists and scientists who appear in the corpus. Each lists a public role, a side, a status for whether the person and position are independently confirmed, their appearances and the claims they have made.

194 records · 17 documented, 28 well-supported, 23 contested, 16 thin, 2 unsupported, 108 without a band · open the map

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UAP / RECORDAlbert BenderSource-led dossier
Albert Bender
no band Founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau who said three men in dark suits silenced him in 1953
Bender ran a saucer-research club from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and closed it abruptly in 1953, later writing in Flying Saucers and the Three Men…
1 being · 1 source
UAP / RECORDAldo RebeloSource-led dossier
Aldo Rebelo
contested Former Brazilian Minister of Defence who has said publicly that major Brazilian UFO cases are real
Rebelo, a Brazilian politician who served as Minister of Defence (2015–16), tells the host on camera that the country's major UFO cases, including…
1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDAlex DietrichSource-led dossier
Alex Dietrich
no band Former US Navy pilot who flew as Fravor's wing during the 2004 Tic Tac encounter
Dietrich, a lieutenant in 2004, went public in 2021 and confirmed the object's appearance and departure while declining to speculate on its origin.
1 craft · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDAllen DullesSource-led dossier
Allen Dulles
no band Director of Central Intelligence (1953–61)
Dulles (1893–1969) directed the CIA through the Eisenhower years, the period of the Robertson Panel and the U-2 programme.
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDAndrew GallimoreSource-led dossier
Andrew Gallimore
documented Neurobiologist and author of Alien Information Theory on DMT
Gallimore argues that the entities reported under DMT may be information from another reality rather than hallucination and has proposed…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDAnna Paulina LunaSource-led dossier
Anna Paulina Luna
no band US Representative from Florida; member of the House UAP caucus; chairs the 2025 task force on federal secrets
Luna helped organise the 2023 House hearing and has said members were denied access to information at Eglin Air Force Base.
2 events · 1 source
UAP / RECORDAvi LoebSource-led dossier
Avi Loeb
no band Harvard astrophysicist; head of the Galileo Project; argued 'Oumuamua could be artificial
Loeb chaired Harvard's astronomy department and in 2018 proposed that the interstellar object 'Oumuamua might be a thin artificial object.
1 source
UAP / RECORDBeatriz VillarroelSource-led dossier
Beatriz Villarroel
well-supported Astronomer at Nordita; leads the VASCO project on transients in 1950s sky surveys
Villarroel's Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project found short-lived point sources on Palomar plates from before…
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDBen RichSource-led dossier
Ben Rich
no band Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works (1975–91); subject of second-hand quotes about 'taking ET home'
Rich (1925–1995) led the F-117 programme.
1 site · 1 source
UAP / RECORDBetty and Barney HillSource-led dossier
Betty and Barney Hill
no band New Hampshire couple whose September 1961 account became the first widely publicised abduction report
Betty and Barney Hill reported that on 19 September 1961 a craft followed their car through the White Mountains and that they later recovered, under…
1 being · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDBill SweetmanSource-led dossier
Bill Sweetman
no band Aviation journalist (Jane's, Aviation Week) who pieced together public evidence for classified aircraft, including the 'Aurora' programme
Sweetman spent four decades reporting on military aviation and became known for inferring black-world programmes from budget lines, patents and…
1 craft · 1 source
UAP / RECORDBob LazarSource-led dossier
Bob Lazar
unsupported Self-described former S-4 technician who says he worked on a recovered craft near Papoose Lake
Lazar came forward in 1989 through George Knapp's KLAS-TV reports, saying he had been hired to study the propulsion of a disc-shaped craft at a site…
2 crafts · 1 being · 3 sites · 1 event · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDBrandon FugalSource-led dossier
Brandon Fugal
contested Utah real-estate executive; owner of Skinwalker Ranch since 2016
Fugal, chairman of a Salt Lake City commercial real-estate firm, bought Skinwalker Ranch from Robert Bigelow in 2016 and opened it to a television…
1 site · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDBrent FriedmanSource-led dossier
Brent Friedman
contested Television writer-producer; co-creator of Dark Skies (1996) with Bryce Zabel
Friedman's credits include Dark Skies, Mortal Kombat, Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
1 being · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDBrian MurareskuSource-led dossier
Brian Muraresku
thin Lawyer and author of The Immortality Key (2020) on psychedelic sacraments in ancient religion
Muraresku spent twelve years tracing evidence that the Eleusinian mysteries and early Christian rites used psychoactive sacraments, publishing The…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDBryce ZabelSource-led dossier
Bryce Zabel
contested Television writer-producer and former Television Academy chairman; co-creator of Dark Skies and co-author of A.D. After Disclosure
Zabel, a former CNN correspondent, created Dark Skies with Brent Friedman and chaired the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
1 being · 1 event · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDBudd HopkinsSource-led dossier
Budd Hopkins
no band Artist who pioneered abduction research; author of Missing Time (1981) and Intruders (1987)
Hopkins (1931–2011) interviewed hundreds of people reporting abduction and used hypnosis to recover accounts, shaping the 1980s abduction literature.
2 beings · 1 source
UAP / RECORDCalvin ParkerSource-led dossier
Calvin Parker
no band Pascagoula, Mississippi fisherman who reported an abduction with Charles Hickson in October 1973
Parker (1954–2023) and Hickson said robot-like beings floated them aboard a craft while fishing.
1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDChad UnderwoodSource-led dossier
Chad Underwood
no band US Navy pilot who recorded the FLIR1 video after the Fravor intercept
Underwood filmed the object with his F/A-18's targeting pod on 14 November 2004, producing the clip later called FLIR1.
1 craft · 1 footage · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDCharles BuhlerSource-led dossier
Charles Buhler
contested NASA electrostatics engineer; founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies; claims a propellantless drive
Buhler led electrostatics work at Kennedy Space Center and in 2023 announced a 'new force' from electrostatic pressure producing thrust without…
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDCharles HallSource-led dossier
Charles Hall
thin Former USAF weather observer who says he met 'tall whites' at Nellis Range in the 1960s
Hall's Millennial Hospitality books describe encounters with tall pale beings near Indian Springs, Nevada, while he served as a weather observer.
1 being · 1 site · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDCharles HaltSource-led dossier
Charles Halt
no band USAF lieutenant colonel; deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters during the December 1980 Rendlesham events
Halt wrote the 1981 memorandum describing lights and a landed object near RAF Woodbridge and recorded an audio tape during the second night.
1 site · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDCharles HapgoodSource-led dossier
Charles Hapgood
no band Historian who proposed earth-crust displacement and wrote Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966)
Hapgood (1904–1982) argued that the Piri Reis map showed Antarctica before its ice and that the crust had shifted.
1 source
UAP / RECORDCharles HicksonSource-led dossier
Charles Hickson
no band Pascagoula witness with Calvin Parker in 1973
Hickson (1931–2011), a shipyard foreman, described the 1973 encounter in interviews and a book.
1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDCharlie FoltzSource-led dossier
Charlie Foltz
well-supported One of the four Allagash (1976) witnesses; former US Navy submariner
Foltz, a former Navy submariner, was one of four art students who report a missing-time encounter while canoeing on Maine's Allagash Waterway in…
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDChris BledsoeSource-led dossier
Chris Bledsoe
well-supported North Carolina experiencer whose 2007 encounter drew NASA and intelligence visitors; author of UFO of God
Bledsoe says he and his son saw orbs and beings near the Cape Fear River in January 2007 and that visions followed.
1 craft · 2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDChris RamsaySource-led dossier
Chris Ramsay
well-supported Magician and YouTube host whose remote-viewing documentary and Mars-anomaly posts feature in the corpus
Ramsay, a Canadian magician and puzzle YouTuber, hosts the Area 52 channel.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDChristopher DunnSource-led dossier
Christopher Dunn
no band Machinist and author of The Giza Power Plant (1998)
Dunn argues from tool marks and geometry that the Great Pyramid was a machine and that Egyptian stonework implies advanced tooling.
1 site · 1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDChristopher MellonSource-led dossier
Christopher Mellon
no band Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; advocate for UAP transparency
Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Presidents Clinton and Bush and later on Senate Intelligence Committee…
2 documents · 3 footage · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDChuck SchumerSource-led dossier
Chuck Schumer
no band US Senate Majority Leader; co-sponsor of the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act amendment
Schumer introduced the UAP Disclosure Act with Senator Mike Rounds in July 2023, proposing eminent domain over recovered materials and a review board.
2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDClas SvahnSource-led dossier
Clas Svahn
well-supported Swedish journalist; head of the Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) in Norrköping
Svahn leads the world's largest archive of UFO material, which holds the papers of many researchers and organisations.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDColm KelleherSource-led dossier
Colm Kelleher
no band Biochemist; NIDS and BAASS scientist; co-author of Hunt for the Skinwalker and Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
Kelleher led the National Institute for Discovery Science's on-site work at Skinwalker Ranch and later managed BAASS research under the AAWSAP…
1 site · 1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDCorrado MalangaSource-led dossier
Corrado Malanga
no band Italian chemist; co-author of the 2022 and 2025 Khafre pyramid radar-tomography claims
Malanga, formerly of the University of Pisa, co-authored papers with Filippo Biondi claiming synthetic-aperture radar reveals internal structures…
1 site · 2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDDan FarahSource-led dossier
Dan Farah
no band Film producer and director of The Age of Disclosure (2025), a documentary built on interviews with officials about UAP
Farah, a producer whose credits include Ready Player One, directed The Age of Disclosure, which premiered at South by Southwest in 2025 and features…
1 source
UAP / RECORDDan ShermanSource-led dossier
Dan Sherman
contested Former USAF electronic-intelligence specialist; author of Above Black (1998)
Sherman says he was trained as an 'intuitive communicator' in a programme called Project Preserve Destiny and received messages from non-human…
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDDaniel SheehanSource-led dossier
Daniel Sheehan
contested Constitutional lawyer (Pentagon Papers, Karen Silkwood, Iran-Contra); counsel to Luis Elizondo; runs the New Paradigm Institute
Sheehan says that in 1977 he saw photographs of a crashed craft in a Library of Congress vault while assisting Carter's proposed UFO inquiry.
2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDDaryl BemSource-led dossier
Daryl Bem
no band Cornell social psychologist; author of the 2011 'Feeling the Future' precognition paper
Bem's 2011 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported nine experiments suggesting precognition and became a flashpoint in…
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDDave RossiSource-led dossier
Dave Rossi
no band Engineer and self-described experiencer who says non-human contacts taught him physics; channel guest in 2025
Rossi appeared on the channel in February 2025 to describe lifelong contact experiences and technical ideas he attributes to them.
1 source
UAP / RECORDDavid FravorSource-led dossier
David Fravor
no band Retired US Navy commander; lead pilot in the November 2004 Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter
Fravor commanded the Black Aces (VFA-41) aboard USS Nimitz when, on 14 November 2004, he and three other aviators were vectored to an object he…
1 craft · 1 site · 1 footage · 2 events · 1 source
UAP / RECORDDavid GruschSource-led dossier
David Grusch
thin Former USAF intelligence officer and UAP Task Force liaison at the NRO and NGA; 2023 whistleblower
Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…
4 documents · 2 events · 1 source
UAP / RECORDDavid JacobsSource-led dossier
David Jacobs
no band Temple University historian who used regression hypnosis to study abduction accounts; author of The Threat (1998)
Jacobs, a historian at Temple University, interviewed hundreds of self-described abductees under hypnosis from the 1980s onward and argued in The…
1 being · 1 source
UAP / RECORDDean RadinSource-led dossier
Dean Radin
no band Chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences; psi researcher
Radin has published meta-analyses of psi experiments and books such as The Conscious Universe.
1 source
UAP / RECORDDeep PrasadSource-led dossier
Deep Prasad
well-supported Quantum-computing entrepreneur who described a 2019 encounter with non-human beings
Prasad, founder of ReactiveQ, said publicly that beings appeared in his room in 2019 and showed him images, after which he began work on UAP.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDDennis AsbergSource-led dossier
Dennis Asberg
contested Swedish commercial diver; co-founder of the Ocean X Team that located the Baltic Sea anomaly in 2011
Asberg and Peter Lindberg found the Baltic Sea anomaly on side-scan sonar in June 2011 while hunting a champagne wreck, and later dived on it.
1 site · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDDerrel SimsSource-led dossier
Derrel Sims
thin Investigator of alleged alien implants; worked with Roger Leir
Sims, a former military police officer, has collected alleged implants and encounter accounts since the 1970s.
1 source
UAP / RECORDDiana PasulkaSource-led dossier
Diana Pasulka
well-supported Professor of religious studies at UNC Wilmington; author of American Cosmic (2019) and Encounters (2023)
Pasulka studies UFO belief as a religious phenomenon.
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDDonald HoffmanSource-led dossier
Donald Hoffman
documented Cognitive scientist at UC Irvine; argues that consciousness is fundamental and spacetime is an interface
Hoffman's 'interface theory of perception' and conscious-agent model hold that physical objects are icons rather than reality.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDDylan BorlandSource-led dossier
Dylan Borland
no band Former USAF imagery analyst who says he saw a large triangular craft at Langley AFB in 2012
Borland, a former Air Force imagery analyst, has said publicly that he watched a large, silent triangular craft take off at Langley Air Force Base…
1 craft · 1 source
UAP / RECORDEdgar MitchellSource-led dossier
Edgar Mitchell
no band Apollo 14 astronaut; founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences; said he believed Roswell involved a crashed craft
Mitchell (1930–2016) walked on the Moon in 1971 and later founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to study consciousness.
1 document · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDEdward CondonSource-led dossier
Edward Condon
no band Physicist; director of the University of Colorado UFO study (1966–68)
Condon (1902–1974) directed the Air Force-funded study whose 1968 report concluded further study was not justified, leading to Blue Book's closure.
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDEdward RuppeltSource-led dossier
Edward Ruppelt
no band USAF captain who directed Project Blue Book (1951–53); author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Ruppelt (1923–1960) headed the Air Force investigation in its most active years and coined the term 'UFO'.
4 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDEric DavisSource-led dossier
Eric Davis
well-supported Astrophysicist; EarthTech and AATIP contractor; reputed author of the Wilson-Davis notes
Davis worked with Hal Puthoff at EarthTech International, wrote AAWSAP reference papers on wormholes and warp drives, and is widely identified as…
2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDEric HaseltineSource-led dossier
Eric Haseltine
no band Neuroscientist; former NSA director of research and associate director of national intelligence for science and technology
Haseltine ran Disney Imagineering research before becoming the NSA's director of research in 2002 and the intelligence community's chief technology…
1 source
UAP / RECORDEric HeckerSource-led dossier
Eric Hecker
unsupported Former contractor mechanic at Antarctic stations including the IceCube observatory who describes unexplained power loads
Hecker worked as a mechanic and plumber for a contractor at Antarctic research stations and says that while de-energising cables at the IceCube…
1 source
UAP / RECORDEric WargoSource-led dossier
Eric Wargo
documented Author of Time Loops (2018); argues precognition explains many anomalous experiences
Wargo, a science writer with a PhD in anthropology, argues that dreams and intuitions draw on the experiencer's own future and that this explains…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDEric WeinsteinSource-led dossier
Eric Weinstein
contested Mathematician and podcaster; commentator on physics, secrecy and the UAP debate
Weinstein, a mathematical physicist and former managing director at Thiel Capital, has discussed whether hidden physics programmes could exist and…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDFilippo BiondiSource-led dossier
Filippo Biondi
well-supported Italian radar engineer; co-author of the Khafre pyramid SAR claims
Biondi developed the Doppler-tomography method applied to Sentinel-1 radar over Giza.
1 site · 2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDFlint DibbleSource-led dossier
Flint Dibble
no band Archaeologist at Cardiff University; debated Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience in 2024
Dibble argued in the 2024 debate that the archaeological record shows no trace of a lost Ice Age civilisation.
1 source
UAP / RECORDFrank BormanSource-led dossier
Frank Borman
well-supported USAF colonel and NASA astronaut; commander of Gemini 7 (1965) and Apollo 8 (1968)
Borman commanded Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, the first crewed flight around the Moon, and died in 2023.
1 site · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGarry NolanSource-led dossier
Garry Nolan
well-supported Stanford immunologist who analysed alleged UAP-related materials; co-founder of the Sol Foundation
Nolan, a professor of pathology at Stanford, studied brain imaging of people reporting anomalous encounters and co-authored a 2022 isotopic analysis…
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGary McKinnonSource-led dossier
Gary McKinnon
no band Scottish systems administrator who accessed US military and NASA computers in 2001–02 and says he saw a list of 'non-terrestrial officers'
McKinnon was indicted in the United States in 2002 for intrusions into Army, Navy, Air Force, Pentagon and NASA networks; the UK blocked his…
1 craft · 1 site · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGeorge AdamskiSource-led dossier
George Adamski
no band 1950s 'contactee' who published photographs of claimed craft and described meeting a Venusian
Adamski (1891–1965) ran a café near Palomar Mountain and in 1953 co-wrote Flying Saucers Have Landed, describing a meeting with a fair-haired being…
2 crafts · 1 being · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGeorge KnappSource-led dossier
George Knapp
no band Las Vegas investigative journalist who first broadcast Bob Lazar's account in 1989; co-author of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
Knapp, a KLAS-TV reporter, broke Bob Lazar's story in 1989 and has covered Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch and the Pentagon programmes for over three…
2 sites · 1 document · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGilbert LevinSource-led dossier
Gilbert Levin
no band Principal investigator of the Viking Labeled Release experiment (1976)
Levin (1924–2021) designed the Labeled Release experiment on the Viking landers and argued until his death that its positive results indicated…
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGiorgio de SantillanaSource-led dossier
Giorgio de Santillana
no band MIT historian of science; co-author of Hamlet's Mill (1969)
De Santillana (1902–1974) argued with Hertha von Dechend that world mythology encodes precessional astronomy.
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGordon CooperSource-led dossier
Gordon Cooper
no band Mercury and Gemini astronaut who said he saw film of a landed disc at Edwards AFB in 1957
Cooper (1927–2004) said that as a project engineer at Edwards he watched a camera crew's film of a disc landing on a dry lakebed and that the film…
1 source
UAP / RECORDGraham HancockSource-led dossier
Graham Hancock
documented Author of Fingerprints of the Gods; argues for a lost Ice Age civilisation
Hancock, a former Economist correspondent, has argued since 1995 that a lost civilisation was destroyed around the Younger Dryas.
1 site · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDGray BarkerSource-led dossier
Gray Barker
no band West Virginia author and publisher whose They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956) launched the 'Men in Black' lore
Barker published the Saucerian Bulletin and books on Albert Bender's silencing, the Flatwoods monster and Mothman, and later admitted to hoaxes and…
1 being · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDGreg BishopSource-led dossier
Greg Bishop
contested Author of Project Beta (2005), the account of the Bennewitz affair
Bishop, a writer and podcaster, documented how AFOSI and William Moore manipulated Paul Bennewitz in Project Beta.
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDGregory RogersSource-led dossier
Gregory Rogers
contested Former USAF flight surgeon who says he saw a saucer-shaped craft flown in a hangar at Cape Canaveral in 1992
Rogers says that while assigned to Patrick Air Force Base he was shown a video of a disc hovering inside a hangar and told it was a test.
1 craft · 1 site · 1 source
UAP / RECORDHaim EshedSource-led dossier
Haim Eshed
no band Former head of Israel's space security programme; said in 2020 that a 'galactic federation' is in contact with governments
Eshed, a retired general who ran Israel's satellite programme for decades, told Yediot Aharonot in December 2020 that aliens had agreements with the…
1 source
UAP / RECORDHal PuthoffSource-led dossier
Hal Puthoff
well-supported Physicist; co-founded the SRI remote-viewing programme; AAWSAP and AATIP contractor; To The Stars co-founder
Puthoff ran the CIA-funded remote-viewing research at SRI International in the 1970s, founded the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, and…
1 site · 2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDHarald MalmgrenSource-led dossier
Harald Malmgren
thin Economist and aide to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford; late in life said he had handled 'otherworld' material
Malmgren (1935–2025) advised four presidents on trade and strategy and had a long career in Washington.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDHarry ReidSource-led dossier
Harry Reid
no band US Senate Majority Leader (2007–15) who arranged the 2008 AAWSAP appropriation
Reid (1939–2021), Democratic senator from Nevada, secured $22 million for the DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program in 2008 at…
1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDHenry KissingerSource-led dossier
Henry Kissinger
no band US National Security Advisor (1969–75) and Secretary of State (1973–77); subject of a corpus episode on alleged UFO oversight
Kissinger (1923–2023) served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
1 site · 1 source
UAP / RECORDIngo SwannSource-led dossier
Ingo Swann
no band Artist and psychic who helped develop coordinate remote viewing at SRI; author of Penetration
Swann (1933–2013) worked with Puthoff and Targ at SRI and later wrote Penetration (1998), describing a claimed covert remote viewing of the Moon.
2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDItalo VenturelliSource-led dossier
Italo Venturelli
well-supported Brazilian neurosurgeon who says he stood face to face with a living being captured at Varginha in January 1996
Venturelli, a neurosurgeon, says he spent three or four minutes with a living non-human being at a hospital during the Varginha events of January…
1 being · 1 site · 1 event · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJ. Allen HynekSource-led dossier
J. Allen Hynek
no band Astronomer; scientific consultant to Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book; founded CUFOS
Hynek (1910–1986) advised the Air Force for two decades, coined 'swamp gas' for the 1966 Michigan sightings, and later argued the subject deserved…
3 documents · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJack ParsonsSource-led dossier
Jack Parsons
no band Rocket engineer and JPL co-founder; occultist who led the Agapé Lodge of the OTO
Parsons (1914–1952) co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet, invented castable solid rocket fuel, and led Aleister Crowley's California…
6 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJacques ValléeSource-led dossier
Jacques Vallée
well-supported Astronomer and computer scientist; author of Passport to Magonia; co-author of a 2022 materials paper with Garry Nolan
Vallée worked with J.
1 site · 4 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJaime MaussanSource-led dossier
Jaime Maussan
no band Mexican television journalist and UFO promoter who presented the Nazca 'tridactyl' bodies to Mexico's Congress in 2023
Maussan, a long-time Televisa journalist, has presented a series of contested artefacts, including the Nazca three-fingered bodies shown to Mexican…
1 craft · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJake BarberSource-led dossier
Jake Barber
contested Former USAF helicopter pilot who says he flew recovery missions for non-human craft; founder of Skywatcher
Barber came forward in January 2025 on NewsNation, saying he flew recovery missions and once carried an egg-shaped object.
1 craft · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJames ClapperSource-led dossier
James Clapper
no band Director of National Intelligence (2010–17); earlier DIA Director and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Clapper led the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and then served as Director of National Intelligence.
1 source
UAP / RECORDJames FoxSource-led dossier
James Fox
contested Documentary filmmaker; The Phenomenon (2020), Moment of Contact (2022) and The Program (2024)
Fox has produced UFO documentaries for two decades, including The Phenomenon, a film on the 1996 Varginha case, and The Program on the 2023…
1 site · 2 events · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJames LacatskiSource-led dossier
James Lacatski
no band DIA officer who ran the 2008–10 AAWSAP programme; co-author of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
Lacatski, a Defense Intelligence Agency rocket scientist, visited Skinwalker Ranch in 2007 and became programme manager for AAWSAP.
1 site · 2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJames MaddenSource-led dossier
James Madden
thin Philosophy professor who writes on consciousness, Plato and how those frames apply to UAP discussion
Madden teaches philosophy and appears in the corpus discussing Plato's cave, consciousness and the philosophical questions raised by UAP reports.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDJason Reza JorjaniSource-led dossier
Jason Reza Jorjani
well-supported Philosopher; author of Closer Encounters; argues the phenomenon may be human time-travellers
Jorjani, a former lecturer in philosophy, argues in Closer Encounters (2021) that the phenomenon is a 'breakaway civilisation' from the future.
1 being · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJay StrattonSource-led dossier
Jay Stratton
no band Former DIA officer who directed the UAP Task Force; earlier worked on AAWSAP and AATIP
Stratton, a career Defense Intelligence Agency officer, worked with the AAWSAP effort in 2008–10 and led the Navy's UAP Task Force from 2020.
1 site · 1 document · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJeff NuccetelliSource-led dossier
Jeff Nuccetelli
contested Former Vandenberg AFB security officer who describes the October 2003 'red square' incursion and later incidents
Nuccetelli served in Vandenberg's security forces and describes an October 2003 report of a large red square object over the base and further…
1 source
UAP / RECORDJeffrey DrumSource-led dossier
Jeffrey Drum
documented Independent researcher based in Egypt who runs the 'Amazing Land of Khem' channel; co-interviewer of Filippo Biondi
Drum, an American researcher living in Egypt, proposes that the pyramids were chemical plants and takes part in water-testing work at the Osirion.
1 site · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJeremy CorbellSource-led dossier
Jeremy Corbell
documented Documentary filmmaker; directed Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018); released the 2020–21 Navy UAP videos
Corbell made the 2018 Lazar documentary and, with George Knapp, has published leaked military footage including the 2019 'pyramid' and 'sphere' clips.
1 event · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJesse MarcelSource-led dossier
Jesse Marcel
no band Intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group who recovered the Roswell debris in July 1947
Marcel (1907–1986) collected material from the Foster ranch and was photographed with balloon debris in General Ramey's office.
1 site · 2 documents · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJesse MichelsSource-led dossier
Jesse Michels
documented Host of the American Alchemy channel; the interviewer throughout the corpus
Michels produces and hosts American Alchemy, the long-form interview channel this corpus is built from.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDJim PennistonSource-led dossier
Jim Penniston
no band USAF security sergeant who says he touched a landed craft at Rendlesham Forest in 1980
Penniston says he approached a triangular object, touched its surface and later wrote down a binary sequence he received.
1 craft · 1 site · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJim SemivanSource-led dossier
Jim Semivan
no band Retired CIA operations officer; co-founder of To The Stars Academy
Semivan spent twenty-five years in the CIA's Directorate of Operations before joining Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy in 2017.
1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDJim WeinerSource-led dossier
Jim Weiner
documented One of four art students in the 1976 Allagash Waterway abduction account
Weiner and his twin Jack, with Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz, reported a light over their canoe in Maine in August 1976 and later recovered abduction…
1 document · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDJoe RoganSource-led dossier
Joe Rogan
well-supported Podcast host whose interviews with Lazar, Corbell and others brought the subject to a mass audience
Rogan's 2019 interview with Bob Lazar and Jeremy Corbell reached tens of millions of listeners, and he has since hosted many of the figures in this…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDJohn AlexanderSource-led dossier
John Alexander
no band Retired US Army colonel; non-lethal weapons pioneer; author of UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities
Alexander worked on Army intelligence and non-lethal weapons programmes, took part in the National Institute for Discovery Science, and searched…
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UAP / RECORDJohn BlitchSource-led dossier
John Blitch
documented Retired US Army Special Forces officer and former DARPA Tactical Mobile Robots programme manager; describes a 1995 missing-time event
Blitch, a West Point graduate who ran DARPA's Tactical Mobile Robots programme and later worked in Air Force research, appeared on American Alchemy…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDJohn BrandenburgSource-led dossier
John Brandenburg
documented Plasma physicist who argues isotopic evidence points to ancient nuclear explosions on Mars
Brandenburg, who worked on defence and space programmes, has published papers since 2006 arguing that Mars's xenon-129 excess reflects a natural…
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UAP / RECORDJohn BurroughsSource-led dossier
John Burroughs
no band USAF security policeman at Rendlesham in 1980; later received VA disability for injuries he attributes to the event
Burroughs was with Penniston on the first night and says the VA acknowledged injury linked to the incident in 2015.
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UAP / RECORDJohn KeelSource-led dossier
John Keel
no band American journalist and author of UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and The Mothman Prophecies (1975)
Keel argued that UFOs, monsters and apparitions were faces of one phenomenon that adapts to the observer and conceals itself, and he coined the term…
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UAP / RECORDJohn LearSource-led dossier
John Lear
no band Airline pilot who introduced Bob Lazar to George Knapp and promoted 1980s conspiracy narratives
Lear (1942–2022), son of the Learjet founder, held many pilot records and became a leading voice for alien-base and Dulce claims in the late 1980s.
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UAP / RECORDJohn MackSource-led dossier
John Mack
no band Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer-winning biographer who studied people reporting alien abduction
Mack (1929–2004) won a Pulitzer for his biography of T.
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UAP / RECORDJohn RamirezSource-led dossier
John Ramirez
no band Retired CIA officer who says he was a childhood experiencer and discusses agency awareness of the subject
Ramirez spent twenty-five years in the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology and has said since 2021 that he believes he was contacted as a…
1 source
UAP / RECORDJon KosloskiSource-led dossier
Jon Kosloski
no band Physicist; director of AARO since August 2024
Kosloski, a former NSA scientist, took over AARO in 2024 and has presented cases the office cannot resolve while maintaining it has found no…
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UAP / RECORDJonathan WeygandtSource-led dossier
Jonathan Weygandt
thin Former US Marine who says he saw a crashed craft in Peru in 1997
Weygandt told the 2001 Disclosure Project that while guarding a radar site in Peru he came upon a downed craft in a ravine, was detained and…
1 source
UAP / RECORDJordan JozakSource-led dossier
Jordan Jozak
contested Entrepreneur who says childhood schooling included training he now links to an alleged psionic programme
Jozak, a New York entrepreneur, says that as a child between about 2005 and 2010 he was moved into a special programme he now believes trained…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDJoseph McMoneagleSource-led dossier
Joseph McMoneagle
well-supported US Army remote viewer 'Remote Viewer No. 1' in the Stargate programme; conducted the 1984 Mars session
McMoneagle was the Army's first operational remote viewer and received a Legion of Merit for intelligence work.
2 documents · 2 sources
UAP / RECORDKarl NellSource-led dossier
Karl Nell
thin Retired US Army colonel; UAP Task Force liaison; said at the 2024 SALT conference that non-human intelligence exists
Nell served thirty years in the Army, including as the Army's liaison to the UAP Task Force, and vouched for David Grusch's credibility in 2023.
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UAP / RECORDKenju TerauchiSource-led dossier
Kenju Terauchi
no band Japan Airlines cargo captain who reported large objects pacing JAL 1628 over Alaska on 17 November 1986
Terauchi, a veteran JAL captain, reported two lights and then a very large object shadowing his Boeing 747 freighter for about fifty minutes near…
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UAP / RECORDKenneth ArnoldSource-led dossier
Kenneth Arnold
no band Private pilot whose 24 June 1947 sighting near Mount Rainier began the modern era
Arnold (1915–1984), a businessman flying near Mount Rainier, reported nine objects moving at what he estimated as over a thousand miles an hour.
2 crafts · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDKevin DaySource-led dossier
Kevin Day
no band Former US Navy senior chief radar operator on USS Princeton during the 2004 Nimitz encounter
Day tracked groups of slow-moving objects at 28,000 feet for days before the Fravor intercept and says the data were removed afterwards.
1 craft · 1 site · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDKevin KnuthSource-led dossier
Kevin Knuth
documented Physicist at the University at Albany; analysed reported UAP accelerations; UAPx member
Knuth, a former NASA researcher, co-authored a 2019 paper estimating accelerations of thousands of g from the Nimitz reports and takes part in UAPx…
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UAP / RECORDKirk McConnellSource-led dossier
Kirk McConnell
no band Former Senate Armed Services Committee staffer who drafted UAP legislation
McConnell spent decades on Senate committee staff and worked on the provisions that created the UAP Task Force reporting requirements and later AARO.
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UAP / RECORDKirsan IlyumzhinovSource-led dossier
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
documented Former president of Kalmykia and of FIDE; says he was taken aboard a craft in 1997
Ilyumzhinov has said since 1997 that beings in yellow suits took him from his Moscow apartment onto a craft and returned him.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDKirsten GillibrandSource-led dossier
Kirsten Gillibrand
no band US Senator from New York; author of the 2021 NDAA provision that created AARO
Gillibrand's amendment to the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act established the office that became AARO and set reporting duties.
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UAP / RECORDKit GreenSource-led dossier
Kit Green
no band Physician and former CIA analyst; studied injuries in people reporting close encounters
Green served in the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence and later, as a neurologist, examined patients reporting injuries after anomalous…
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UAP / RECORDKy DickensSource-led dossier
Ky Dickens
well-supported Documentary director of The Telepathy Tapes (2024)
Dickens produced the podcast documenting claims that non-speaking autistic people communicate telepathically with parents.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDLeonard StringfieldSource-led dossier
Leonard Stringfield
no band Ohio researcher who compiled crash-retrieval accounts from the 1970s
Stringfield (1920–1994) published status reports collecting anonymous military accounts of recovered craft and bodies.
1 source
UAP / RECORDLeslie KeanSource-led dossier
Leslie Kean
no band Journalist; co-author of the 2017 New York Times AATIP story and the 2023 Grusch report
Kean wrote UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010) and co-wrote the December 2017 New York Times story revealing…
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UAP / RECORDLinda Moulton HoweSource-led dossier
Linda Moulton Howe
no band Documentary journalist; investigated cattle mutilations; shown the 'Aquarius' document by Richard Doty in 1983
Howe's 1980 film A Strange Harvest examined animal mutilations.
2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDLonnie ZamoraSource-led dossier
Lonnie Zamora
no band Socorro, New Mexico police officer who reported a landed egg-shaped craft and two figures in April 1964
Zamora (1933–2009) said he saw an oval object on legs with a red insignia and two small figures before it rose with a roar.
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UAP / RECORDLuis AlvarezSource-led dossier
Luis Alvarez
no band Nobel physicist; used cosmic-ray muons to scan the Pyramid of Khafre in 1970; member of the Robertson panel
Alvarez (1911–1988) sat on the 1953 Robertson panel and in 1970 published a muon survey finding no hidden chambers in Khafre's pyramid.
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UAP / RECORDLuis ElizondoSource-led dossier
Luis Elizondo
thin Former Pentagon counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP; author of Imminent (2024)
Elizondo, a former Department of Defense counterintelligence officer, resigned in 2017 and appeared in the New York Times story that revealed AATIP.
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UAP / RECORDLuke CavernsSource-led dossier
Luke Caverns
well-supported Independent explorer and ancient-history presenter; sceptic of the 2025 Khafre radar claims from inside the alternative-history community
Caverns runs expeditions and a channel on ancient sites in the Americas and Egypt, mentored by Mayanist Ed Barnhart.
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UAP / RECORDLyn BuchananSource-led dossier
Lyn Buchanan
contested Former US Army remote viewer in the Stargate programme
Buchanan served as a remote viewer and database manager in the Army's Fort Meade unit during the 1980s and later taught controlled remote viewing.
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UAP / RECORDMac BrazelSource-led dossier
Mac Brazel
no band Ranch foreman who found the debris field near Corona, New Mexico, in June or July 1947
Brazel, foreman of the Foster ranch, collected debris scattered across a pasture and reported it to the Chaves County sheriff on 6 or 7 July 1947…
1 craft · 1 site · 2 documents · 1 event · 1 source
UAP / RECORDMarco RubioSource-led dossier
Marco Rubio
no band US Senator (later Secretary of State); pushed the 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee UAP report requirement
Rubio, as acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, inserted language in 2020 requiring the ODNI's 2021 preliminary assessment and has said…
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UAP / RECORDMarik von RennenkampffSource-led dossier
Marik von Rennenkampff
contested Former State Department analyst and The Hill columnist on UAP policy
Von Rennenkampff served in the Obama-era State Department and writes analysis of the Pentagon's UAP statements and congressional legislation.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDMario WoodsSource-led dossier
Mario Woods
well-supported Former USAF security policeman who reported an object over a Minuteman silo at Ellsworth AFB in 1977
Woods says that in 1977 he and a colleague saw a large object over a missile site, lost time, and later suffered health effects.
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UAP / RECORDMatthew BrownSource-led dossier
Matthew Brown
no band Former Defense Department analyst identified as the author of the 2024 'Immaculate Constellation' report
Brown, described as a former Defense Department and intelligence community employee, wrote a twelve-page report alleging an unacknowledged programme…
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UAP / RECORDMatthew PinesSource-led dossier
Matthew Pines
documented Intelligence and security consultant who analyses the UAP policy record
Pines, a national-security consultant, writes on the structure of classified programmes and congressional oversight.
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UAP / RECORDMichael HerreraSource-led dossier
Michael Herrera
no band Former US Marine who says he saw a large craft and an armed unit in Indonesia in 2009
Herrera says that during a 2009 humanitarian mission in Sumatra his squad came upon an octagonal craft the size of a building, guarded by…
1 source
UAP / RECORDMichael MastersSource-led dossier
Michael Masters
thin Anthropologist at Montana Tech; author of Identified Flying Objects (2019), the future-human hypothesis
Masters argues that the beings reported in encounters are humans from the future, citing their bipedal humanoid form.
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UAP / RECORDMichael ShellenbergerSource-led dossier
Michael Shellenberger
thin Journalist and founder of Public; published the Immaculate Constellation report in 2024
Shellenberger, known for environmental and censorship reporting, published a whistleblower's report about an alleged programme called Immaculate…
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UAP / RECORDMichael ShermerSource-led dossier
Michael Shermer
documented Founder of Skeptic magazine; sceptic of UFO and paranormal claims
Shermer has debated believers for decades and argues that extraordinary claims require physical evidence.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDMick WestSource-led dossier
Mick West
well-supported Sceptical investigator; founder of Metabunk; author of prosaic analyses of the Navy videos
West, a former video-game programmer, runs Metabunk and has argued that the Navy videos can be explained by camera artefacts, parallax and ordinary…
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UAP / RECORDMiguel AlcubierreSource-led dossier
Miguel Alcubierre
no band Mexican theoretical physicist; author of the 1994 'warp drive' paper
Alcubierre's 1994 paper in Classical and Quantum Gravity described a spacetime geometry allowing faster-than-light travel with exotic matter.
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UAP / RECORDMike RoundsSource-led dossier
Mike Rounds
no band US Senator from South Dakota; co-sponsor of the UAP Disclosure Act
Rounds co-sponsored the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act with Chuck Schumer and has spoken of the need to review classified records.
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UAP / RECORDMike TurnerSource-led dossier
Mike Turner
no band US Representative for Ohio's 10th district, which includes Wright-Patterson AFB; chaired the House Intelligence Committee 2023–25
Turner, a Republican congressman whose district contains Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on…
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UAP / RECORDNancy MaceSource-led dossier
Nancy Mace
no band US Representative for South Carolina who questioned David Grusch about 'biologics' at the July 2023 House hearing
Mace sat on the House Oversight subcommittee that heard David Grusch, David Fravor and Ryan Graves in July 2023.
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UAP / RECORDNathan TwiningSource-led dossier
Nathan Twining
no band USAF general; commander of Air Materiel Command in 1947; author of the 23 September 1947 memorandum
Twining (1897–1982) wrote the 1947 memo stating the phenomenon was 'something real and not visionary or fictitious', leading to Project Sign.
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UAP / RECORDNick CookSource-led dossier
Nick Cook
contested Former Jane's Defence Weekly aviation editor; author of The Hunt for Zero Point (2001)
Cook spent a decade investigating claims of anti-gravity research in the aerospace industry and Nazi Germany, publishing The Hunt for Zero Point in…
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UAP / RECORDNick PopeSource-led dossier
Nick Pope
no band Former UK Ministry of Defence civil servant who ran the MoD's UFO desk in the early 1990s; author and commentator
Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence from 1985 to 2006 and handled its UFO reports between 1991 and 1994.
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UAP / RECORDNing LiSource-led dossier
Ning Li
no band Physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who proposed 'AC gravity' from rotating superconductors
Li (1943–2021) published theoretical papers in the 1990s on gravitational effects from superconductors and left academia for a company, AC Gravity…
1 source
UAP / RECORDPat PriceSource-led dossier
Pat Price
no band Former police officer and SRI remote viewer whose 1970s sessions described underground bases
Price (1918–1975) produced some of the SRI programme's most-cited sessions, including a Soviet site and claimed alien bases.
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UAP / RECORDPaul BennewitzSource-led dossier
Paul Bennewitz
no band Albuquerque businessman who reported lights over Kirtland's Manzano storage area in 1979–80 and became an AFOSI target
Bennewitz (1927–2003), an electronics manufacturer near Kirtland Air Force Base, filmed lights over the Manzano weapons area and believed he was…
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UAP / RECORDPaul SmithSource-led dossier
Paul Smith
contested Former US Army remote viewer; author of Reading the Enemy's Mind
Smith served in the Fort Meade remote-viewing unit from 1983 to 1990 and wrote the unit's training manual.
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UAP / RECORDPeter LevendaSource-led dossier
Peter Levenda
well-supported Author of Sekret Machines (with Tom DeLonge) and books on Nazi occultism
Levenda wrote Unholy Alliance and co-wrote the non-fiction Sekret Machines volumes for To The Stars.
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UAP / RECORDPhilip CorsoSource-led dossier
Philip Corso
no band US Army lieutenant colonel; author of The Day After Roswell (1997)
Corso (1915–1998) served on Eisenhower's National Security Council staff and in Army R&D.
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UAP / RECORDPippa MalmgrenSource-led dossier
Pippa Malmgren
no band Economist and former special assistant for economic policy in the George W. Bush White House; daughter of Harald Malmgren
Pippa Malmgren advised the Bush White House on economic policy and later worked in finance and technology.
1 source
UAP / RECORDRalph BlumenthalSource-led dossier
Ralph Blumenthal
no band Journalist; co-author of the 2017 New York Times AATIP story; biographer of John Mack
Blumenthal, a longtime New York Times reporter, co-wrote the December 2017 story with Leslie Kean and Helene Cooper and published The Believer, a…
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UAP / RECORDRalph LarsonSource-led dossier
Ralph Larson
thin Self-described career US intelligence officer who recounts personal time-travel experiences
Larson is presented in one corpus episode as a former intelligence officer, billed in the title as a CIA chief, who describes personal experiences…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDRandall CarlsonSource-led dossier
Randall Carlson
well-supported Geomythologist and builder; argues for catastrophic Younger Dryas flooding
Carlson lectures on evidence for catastrophic meltwater floods and comet impact at the end of the Ice Age and appears often with Graham Hancock.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDRandy AndersonSource-led dossier
Randy Anderson
thin Former US Army soldier who says he saw a craft and beings during a 1980s deployment
Anderson has described an encounter while serving that he says he was ordered to keep quiet.
1 source
UAP / RECORDRaymond FowlerSource-led dossier
Raymond Fowler
no band Investigator and author of The Allagash Abductions (1993) and the Andreasson books
Fowler, a former MUFON investigator, documented the Allagash and Betty Andreasson cases.
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UAP / RECORDRichard BarrSource-led dossier
Richard Barr
well-supported Former USAF air policeman at Vandenberg AFB (1963–65) who describes a 1964 missing-time encounter at a Minuteman site
Barr served with a combat defense squadron at Vandenberg and says that in September 1964, on guard at a missile site, he saw a figure in fog, lost…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDRichard BissellSource-led dossier
Richard Bissell
no band CIA Deputy Director for Plans (1959–62); architect of the U-2 and Corona programmes and of the Groom Lake test site
Bissell (1909–1994) ran the CIA's U-2 and Corona reconnaissance programmes and chose the Groom Lake site later known as Area 51.
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UAP / RECORDRichard DolanSource-led dossier
Richard Dolan
contested Historian and author of UFOs and the National Security State
Dolan has written a multi-volume history of the US government's handling of the subject and coined the term 'breakaway civilization' for a…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDRichard DotySource-led dossier
Richard Doty
no band Former AFOSI special agent at Kirtland AFB linked to the Bennewitz affair and 1980s UFO disinformation
Doty served with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Kirtland in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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UAP / RECORDRichard HoaglandSource-led dossier
Richard Hoagland
no band Author who promoted the 'Face on Mars' and lunar-artefact claims; Dark Mission (2007)
Hoagland, a former science-museum curator and television consultant, argued from the 1980s that Viking images of Cydonia showed artificial…
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UAP / RECORDRizwan VirkSource-led dossier
Rizwan Virk
thin MIT-trained computer scientist, video-game entrepreneur and author of The Simulation Hypothesis
Virk founded Play Labs at MIT and writes on the simulation hypothesis, quantum indeterminacy and consciousness.
1 source
UAP / RECORDRobert BigelowSource-led dossier
Robert Bigelow
no band Aerospace entrepreneur; owned Skinwalker Ranch 1996–2016; his company BAASS held the 2008 AAWSAP contract
Bigelow, a Las Vegas hotel developer, founded the National Institute for Discovery Science in 1995, bought Skinwalker Ranch, and later founded…
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UAP / RECORDRobert HastingsSource-led dossier
Robert Hastings
well-supported Independent researcher and author of UFOs and Nukes (2008); compiled testimony from nuclear-weapons personnel
Hastings spent four decades interviewing former military personnel about unidentified objects at nuclear weapons sites and published UFOs and Nukes…
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UAP / RECORDRobert JacobsSource-led dossier
Robert Jacobs
contested Former USAF officer who says a 1964 film showed an object disabling a dummy warhead over Big Sur
Jacobs, then a lieutenant filming missile tests at Vandenberg, says the film of an Atlas launch showed a disc firing beams at the warhead and that…
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UAP / RECORDRobert McGwierSource-led dossier
Robert McGwier
no band Former NSA and CIA contractor in signals and radio engineering; friend of Chris Bledsoe
McGwier, a radio and signal-processing engineer who worked as a contractor for the NSA and CIA, visited Chris Bledsoe after Jim Semivan introduced…
1 source
UAP / RECORDRobert SalasSource-led dossier
Robert Salas
no band Former USAF Minuteman launch officer who describes the March 1967 Malmstrom missile shutdown
Salas was a deputy missile combat crew commander at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
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UAP / RECORDRobert TempleSource-led dossier
Robert Temple
no band Author of The Sirius Mystery (1976) and A New Science of Heaven (2022) on plasma as a substrate of life
Temple argued in The Sirius Mystery that Dogon astronomy preserves knowledge given by visitors from Sirius, a thesis anthropologists reject.
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UAP / RECORDRoger LeirSource-led dossier
Roger Leir
no band Podiatric surgeon who removed alleged implants from experiencers
Leir (1934–2014) performed seventeen surgeries removing small objects from people reporting abduction and said some showed unusual isotopic ratios.
1 source
UAP / RECORDRoss CoulthartSource-led dossier
Ross Coulthart
contested Australian investigative journalist; author of In Plain Sight; interviewed David Grusch for NewsNation in 2023
Coulthart, a veteran of Australian current-affairs television, published In Plain Sight in 2021 and broke Grusch's story on NewsNation in June 2023.
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UAP / RECORDRupert SheldrakeSource-led dossier
Rupert Sheldrake
well-supported Biologist who proposed 'morphic resonance'; author of A New Science of Life
Sheldrake, a former Cambridge biochemist, argues that memory is inherent in nature and has run experiments on telepathy in animals and people.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDRussell TargSource-led dossier
Russell Targ
no band Laser physicist; co-founded the SRI remote-viewing programme with Hal Puthoff
Targ co-directed the SRI International psi research from 1972, publishing in Nature in 1974 with Puthoff.
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UAP / RECORDRyan GravesSource-led dossier
Ryan Graves
documented Former US Navy F/A-18F pilot who reported objects off the US east coast in 2014–15; founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace
Graves flew Super Hornets with VFA-11 off USS Theodore Roosevelt and says his squadron tracked unidentified objects almost daily in 2014 and 2015…
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UAP / RECORDSalvatore PaisSource-led dossier
Salvatore Pais
documented US Navy aerospace engineer whose 2016–19 patents describe inertial-mass reduction and a 'pais effect'
Pais filed patents through the Naval Air Warfare Center for a craft using an inertial mass reduction device and a room-temperature superconductor.
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UAP / RECORDSean KirkpatrickSource-led dossier
Sean Kirkpatrick
no band Physicist; first director of AARO (2022–23); principal author of the 2024 Historical Record Report
Kirkpatrick led the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office until December 2023 and oversaw the report that found no evidence of retrieved craft or a…
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UAP / RECORDStanton FriedmanSource-led dossier
Stanton Friedman
contested Nuclear physicist and lecturer who reopened the Roswell case in 1978 and defended the MJ-12 documents
Friedman (1934–2019) worked on nuclear aircraft and rocket programmes before lecturing full-time on UFOs.
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UAP / RECORDSteve ColbernSource-led dossier
Steve Colbern
well-supported Chemist and materials analyst who worked with Roger Leir on alleged implant recoveries; reports his own regression and a removed object
Colbern, a chemist, analysed objects removed by the podiatrist Roger Leir and reports isotope ratios and nanostructures he considers anomalous.
2 sources
UAP / RECORDSteve QuayleSource-led dossier
Steve Quayle
no band Author and radio host on biblical giants who first publicised the 'Kandahar giant' story
Quayle, a Montana-based author and frequent Coast to Coast AM guest, has written for decades on giants in scripture and folklore.
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UAP / RECORDSteven GreerSource-led dossier
Steven Greer
thin Physician; founder of the Disclosure Project (2001) and CSETI; organiser of witness testimony events
Greer, an emergency physician, founded CSETI in 1990 and gathered military and intelligence witnesses for the 2001 Disclosure Project press…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDThomas Townsend BrownSource-led dossier
Thomas Townsend Brown
no band Physicist and inventor who patented 'electrogravitic' devices; claimed a link between electric fields and gravity
Brown (1905–1985) filed patents from 1928 to the 1960s for devices he said produced thrust from high-voltage asymmetric capacitors, an effect now…
2 documents · 1 source
UAP / RECORDThomas WilsonSource-led dossier
Thomas Wilson
no band Retired US Navy vice admiral; Director of the DIA (1999–2002); subject of the Wilson-Davis notes
Wilson served as Director of Intelligence for the Joint Staff and then of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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UAP / RECORDTim BurchettSource-led dossier
Tim Burchett
no band US Representative from Tennessee; co-led the 2023 and 2024 House UAP hearings
Burchett has pressed for hearings and records since 2022 and co-chaired the July 2023 session at which Grusch, Graves and Fravor testified.
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UAP / RECORDTim GallaudetSource-led dossier
Tim Gallaudet
no band Retired US Navy rear admiral and oceanographer; former acting NOAA administrator; testified at the November 2024 House hearing
Gallaudet commanded the Navy's Meteorology and Oceanography Command and later served as acting administrator of NOAA.
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UAP / RECORDTim PhillipsSource-led dossier
Tim Phillips
no band Acting director of AARO after Sean Kirkpatrick (2023–24)
Phillips led the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office on an acting basis and oversaw the release of the Historical Record Report's first volume in…
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UAP / RECORDTimothy AlberinoSource-led dossier
Timothy Alberino
thin Author of Birthright; argues the phenomenon fits a biblical account of fallen beings
Alberino, a Christian researcher and explorer, interprets encounters through Genesis 6 and the Nephilim tradition.
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UAP / RECORDTom DeLongeSource-led dossier
Tom DeLonge
no band Musician; founder of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (2017)
DeLonge, of Blink-182, founded To The Stars Academy in 2017 with Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Hal Puthoff, Jim Semivan and Steve Justice.
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UAP / RECORDTravis TaylorSource-led dossier
Travis Taylor
no band Aerospace engineer and physicist; UAP Task Force chief scientist 2019–21; investigator on The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
Taylor worked for decades on Army and NASA projects in Huntsville and appears as lead scientist on the History Channel series about Skinwalker Ranch.
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UAP / RECORDTravis WaltonSource-led dossier
Travis Walton
no band Arizona forestry worker who reported being taken aboard a craft near Snowflake in November 1975
Walton was part of a logging crew who said a beam from a hovering craft struck him on 5 November 1975; he reappeared five days later.
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UAP / RECORDUAPGerbSource-led dossier
UAPGerb
well-supported Pseudonymous open-source researcher who maps DoD organisation charts, FFRDCs and alleged UAP programme offices
UAPGerb is an anonymous online researcher who assembles organisational charts, contracts and personnel moves to argue where a hidden UAP programme…
2 sources
UAP / RECORDWhitley StrieberSource-led dossier
Whitley Strieber
documented Novelist whose 1987 memoir Communion described his encounters with 'visitors'
Strieber, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger, published Communion in 1987, describing entities he calls visitors and refusing to say what they are.
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UAP / RECORDWilbert SmithSource-led dossier
Wilbert Smith
no band Canadian Department of Transport engineer; author of the 1950 'Project Magnet' memo
Smith (1910–1962) wrote a top-secret memorandum in November 1950 saying he had learned in Washington that flying saucers existed and were the most…
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UAP / RECORDWilliam MooreSource-led dossier
William Moore
no band Co-author of The Roswell Incident (1980); recipient of the MJ-12 film; admitted in 1989 to working with AFOSI
Moore co-wrote the first Roswell book with Charles Berlitz and in 1984 received the Majestic-12 'Eisenhower briefing' film.
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UAP / RECORDZahi HawassSource-led dossier
Zahi Hawass
no band Egyptian archaeologist; former Minister of Antiquities; critic of alternative Giza theories
Hawass has directed excavations at Giza for decades and publicly dismisses claims of lost civilisations or hidden structures.
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