Chair of the AIAA's UAP Community of Interest and a former Navy lieutenant that reported routine sightings of UAPs while completing training missions off the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Navy pilot who observed what has become known as the Tic Tac incident. Sent out to fly out over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004, Dietrich and her team members witnessed something they described as unsettling and unexplainable.
Jacques Vallée witnessed a UFO over his home in France in 1955, and it impacted his life. A top figure in UFO studies for decades, he said he believes UFOs exist but is still unsure of what they are.
Co-wrote the seminal 2017 New York Times article "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program" that examined the U.S. government program that studied unexplained aerial phenomena.
Investigative journalist who broke the 2017 story that the US government has been tracking and studying UFOs through its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Navy pilot who observed what has become known as the Tic Tac incident. Sent to fly out over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004, Fravor and team witnessed something they described as unsettling and unexplainable.
A Marine Corps Naval aviator who wrote multiple articles about UFOs and believed they were interplanetary objects that the U.S. government needed to take seriously and be transparent with the public.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence believed that UFOs could be a serious threat to our national security and should be properly investigated.
Documents from the 1950s report that the prime minister ordered a RAF bombing crew's encounter with a UFO be hidden from the public for 50 or more years to avoid "mass panic."
Journalist who interviewed some of the top ufologists in the world and wrote numerous books on the subject including an in-depth report on the Trinity Crash in New Mexico.
Pilot of a private jet and former Marine Corps F-18 pilot reported 4 to 7 unidentified flying objects hovering about a mile above him which became part of the "Racetrack UAPs".
Initially skeptical of UFOs, Hynek, a professor of astronomy, was recruited by U.S. Air Force in 1948 to serve as astronomical consultant for Project Sign. He later became the founder and first head of the Center for UFO Studies.
Harvard professor who headed the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Later in life, he became a leading researcher in understanding the psychology of people who claimed to have experienced alien encounters.
One of the earliest reputable scientific researchers of UFOs, McDonald grew frustrated with the USAF Project Blue Book and pushed Congress for serious investigations.
United States Senator who helped obtain funding for the government's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated reports of UFOs.
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