Actors in the UAP debate

Control System

For sixty years he was the leading intellectual counterweight to the…

Plurality (UAP Codex position)

He is the highest-profile scientist applying forensic laboratory analysis to…

Plurality (UAP Codex position)

An astrophysicist who began as an official debunker for the US Air Force and,…

Plurality (UAP Codex position)

The only physicist with full academic credentials who devoted himself full-time…

Classical Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH)

The only nuclear physicist who devoted more than fifty years full-time to the…

The most important private patron of research into the phenomenon in the United…

A physicist who built an uncommon bridge between the state's classified…

A theoretical physicist tied to the Pentagon's advanced-propulsion programs. He…

A scientist who brings together three planes rarely combined: the state program…

Psychospiritual Contact

A Harvard psychiatry professor and Pulitzer winner, he was the most prestigious…

A pioneering investigator of the UFO phenomenon in Africa. Born and raised in…

Classical Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH)

He is the most visible defender of the extraterrestrial hypothesis within…

An unlikely cultural catalyst: the musician who funded and assembled the team…

Analytical Valencian ufologist (b. 1948), a reference for the rigorous,…

Chilean sociologist and ufologist (b. 1963), founder and director of AION…

Commercial airline captain (MD-80/88 commander at Aeroméxico, 1981–2007),…

Argentine architect and social psychologist, the dean of the country's…

Argentine journalist, writer and producer (b. 1963), one of the most rigorous…

Argentine psychologist (University of Buenos Aires) and…

Aviation technician —he worked at Mexico City International Airport— and…

Economist from the University of the Andes and an expert amateur astronomer, a…

Experimental psychologist (PhD, Michigan State, 1964) and research scientist at…

A chemist by training, with experience directing laboratories and a…

Canadian science writer and educator, trained in astronomy, who has studied the…

Australia's leading UFO researcher, with a background in chemistry and…

Uruguayan science journalist and ufologist, a pioneer of the rigorous study of…

Engineer and astrophysics PhD at CNES who in 1977 founded and led GEPAN, the…

A Norwegian engineer and researcher at Østfold University College, who in 1983…

Brazilian writer and ufologist (Rio de Janeiro, 1957). He has investigated the…

Optical physicist (PhD, American University) who worked for decades for the…

Aerospace engineer who worked at McDonnell Douglas on NASA's crewed programs…

Analyst who in the 1950s worked at the Battelle Memorial Institute on Project…

He is the phenomenon's leading contemporary skeptic. From his site Metabunk he…

A physicist and former NASA Ames researcher, professor at SUNY Albany,…

An astrophysicist who leads VASCO (Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a…

A Stanford plasma astrophysicist who chaired the 1997 Pocantico workshop (the…

Astronomer at the Purple Mountain Observatory (Nanjing), of the Chinese Academy…

Soviet astronomer and mathematician, Doctor of Science and docent of Cosmology…

One of the most prolific and rigorous British field investigators. She…

He spent decades documenting the recurring pattern of UAP activity over U.S.…

The most prolific skeptical investigator of his generation: for more than four…

A Virginia emergency physician who left medicine in 1998 to devote himself to…

The first professional director of the US Air Force program to investigate the…

The first public figure to formally denounce a cover-up by the Air Force.…

An Army lieutenant colonel with a real intelligence career who in 1997…

The highest-ranking former official driving the opening of information. He was…

In July 2023 he testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee that…

He directed the advanced aerospace threat identification program (AATIP) within…

A Navy fighter pilot who reported almost daily encounters with unidentified…

A Navy fighter-squadron commander who chased the object known as the 'Tic-Tac'…

A Navy pilot who accompanied Fravor during the 2004 Nimitz incident. Her public…

A retired Army colonel with thirty years in defense intelligence. In 2023 he…

The first director of the Pentagon office created to resolve cases of anomalous…

Peruvian Air Force pilot who, on 11 April 1980, aged 23, scrambled from La Joya…

Lawyer and investigative journalist from Lima (b. 1961). When the Peruvian Air…

An optics engineer at CNES (the French space agency) and, for more than two…

A major general (retired) of the Belgian Air Force, with a long career that…

British Ministry of Defence civil servant who from 1991 to 1994 held the 'UFO…

Commander (ret.) of the Peruvian Air Force, pilot and radar-operation…

Commodore (retired) and test pilot of the Argentine Air Force (Class of 1980),…

Retired general of the Chilean Air Force and former combat pilot, with a career…

Captain and pilot of the Chilean Army, engaged with the study of the phenomenon…

Colonel (naval aviator, retired) of the Uruguayan Air Force and, since 2008,…

He served 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a meteorology and oceanography officer,…

USAF officer who, on March 16, 1967, was on duty as Deputy Missile Combat Crew…

Former division chief of the FAA's Accidents & Investigations branch. He…

A career intelligence officer who led the UAP Task Force, the Pentagon's…

He came forward publicly in 2025, in the documentary and News Nation coverage…

An analyst who says he worked for the Department of Defense and the Department…

The senior radar operator aboard USS Princeton during the Nimitz Carrier Strike…

He spent 25 years at the CIA as a signals-intelligence (ELINT) analyst…

She heads the bipartisan congressional task force to declassify federal…

He co-leads, with Anna Paulina Luna, the congressional task force for…

Representative for Missouri's 7th district since 2023 and a member of the House…

The principal legislative architect of the U.S. government's UAP…

Co-author —with Republican Senator Mike Rounds— of the UAP Disclosure Act of…

One of the most active Democratic voices on UAP in the House. From the…

A civil-rights litigation attorney with over five decades of practice —Pentagon…

The foundational political actor of the modern disclosure cycle. In 2007,…

Former Minister of Defense of Brazil and a long-standing political figure. In…

A behind-the-scenes architect of the legislative oversight of the phenomenon:…

The highest-ranking government official in the world to publicly state that…

Japanese LDP politician, known for his direct style and international presence.…

An investigative journalist who broke the news of Grusch's testimony in June…

She co-wrote the New York Times report of December 2017 that changed the public…

An investigative journalist with 45 years at the New York Times and a member of…

The only mainstream-media journalist to cover the phenomenon and secret…

American filmmaker, artist and UAP investigator (b. 1977), based in Los…

Investigative journalist and academic at Sheffield Hallam University (b. 1967).…

Chemist by training and Brazilian ufologist (Maringá, 1962 – 2022). In 1983 he…

Director of some of the most-watched disclosure documentaries: 'I Know What I…

A Hollywood producer who directed 'The Age of Disclosure', a documentary that…

Psychospiritual Contact

Her book American Cosmic (Oxford University Press, 2019) was the first…

He broke off a traffic pursuit to investigate a roar and a flame, and found an…

He was working his field at dawn when he came upon an egg-shaped object resting…

His case is the one that best withstands the standard objection to abductions…

Her 1961 account set the template the rest of abduction ufology would use for…

He was the more reluctant half of the Hill marriage: unlike Betty, he did not…

He stepped away from his detachment on the Atacama altiplano to confront two…

He was on night guard in the fuel area of an air base when the sequence began…

He stepped out of his house at night because of his dog's barking and made out,…

He was skiing with a companion through a snowy forest when both stopped in a…

He was with Aarno Heinonen the afternoon both said they saw an object descend…

Separated from his group at nightfall, he climbed a tree to sleep safely and…

His 2007 case on the Cape Fear River is one of the few where a civilian…

He is one of the few experiencers whose account was examined by a university…

Her sons came home saying something bright had fallen on a nearby hill, and she…

He was 42 and fishing with a 19-year-old companion when both said they were…

He was the younger of the two and the one who fared worst: he was paralyzed…

He was about seven and skating with a friend when both said they saw two orange…

He was skating with Masato Kawano the evening both said they saw an orange…

He was watching the family cattle with his younger sister when they said they…

She was nine and watching the cattle with her older brother when both described…

The investigators never published his real name: the literature knows him only…

He was driving before dawn delivering goods when the darkened street suddenly…

He was with Gustavo González the early morning both said they found a luminous…

His account is chronologically prior to the Hills' and to the very existence of…

His case has a feature almost no other contact account offers: the encounter…

She claimed to have been lifted by a beam of light from the twelfth floor of…

Psychospiritual Contact

His book Communion (1987) introduced the figure of the 'gray' into mass…

He was around seventy, ufologically illiterate, and living in communist Poland…

He climbed Phoenix Mountain believing he was investigating a downed helicopter…

In May 2024 he revealed on a television interview that in 2012 —twelve years…

He came back from the canoe trip with recurring nightmares and health problems…

He was in the canoe with his identical twin, Charlie Foltz, and Chuck Rak the…

He was camping with the Weiner twins and Chuck Rak at Eagle Lake when the group…

He shared the canoe, the campsite, and the fifteen regression hypnosis sessions…

In a series of public lectures he claimed to have survived a 1979 firefight…