Rubén Lianza

Biography

Commodore (retired) and test pilot of the Argentine Air Force (Class of 1980), with more than 3,000 flight hours in 20 aircraft types and a career oriented to flight testing and research and development: he was head of the FAA's Flight Test Center, project pilot at Vought Aircraft (Dallas) and Pampa Program liaison at Lockheed Martin Argentina. He holds a degree in aerospace systems and is a certified analyst in the IPACO image-analysis software. Since the mid-2010s he has directed the official aerospace-phenomena commission, which he reorganized as CIAE (Aerospace Identification Center). His team analyzed more than 400 reports without finding a single 'craft': he applies technical analysis of photos and videos to distinguish the extraordinary from an insect, a reflection or a satellite. A critic of traditional ufology, he cites Carl Sagan to warn that some sectors 'do not seek to solve the mystery but to preserve it'.