Milton Hourcade

Biography

Uruguayan science journalist and ufologist, a pioneer of the rigorous study of the phenomenon in his country. In 1958 he founded CIOVI (Center for the Investigation of Unexplained Flying Objects), Uruguay's first private institution to investigate UFO reports with a scientific method, which operated until 2008 while keeping a good relationship with the academic community. Skeptical and rational in approach —seeking conventional explanations before exotic ones—, he was a science and technology journalist and worked for twenty years at Voice of America in Washington. In 2008 he founded UAPSG/GEFAI, which he directs from Iowa. He is the civilian, scientific pole of Uruguayan ufology, contemporary with the official CRIDOVNI commission of the Air Force.