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Named individuals connected to anomalous phenomena.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany, referenced in the sources for his regime's invasion of Poland, his interest in Wernher von Braun's rocket programme, and various claims about his occult beliefs and the coincidence of his birthdate with several NASA mission dates.
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard was an American astronaut who piloted the Freedom 7 sub-orbital flight in 1961 and commanded Apollo 14 in 1971, when he hit the first golf shot on the Moon and took part in an in-flight study of cosmic-ray light-flash phenomena; a photograph from his book Moon Shot has separately been described by a researcher as deliberately faked.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist renowned for the General Theory of Relativity, who in later life made public and private remarks on extraterrestrial life, nuclear weapons and the Roswell reports that are frequently quoted in UFO literature.
Aleister Crowley
English occultist and leader of the Ordo Templi Orientis who claimed his Book of the Law was dictated to him by an entity called Aiwass, and whose Los Angeles circle later drew in rocket engineer Jack Parsons and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Alex Dietrich
American former US Navy pilot who, alongside David Fravor, was one of the aircrew involved in the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter.
Andrija Puharich
American parapsychologist who brought Uri Geller to the United States in 1971 and, according to Jacques Vallée, engaged over several years in taped communications attributed to an alleged cosmic intelligence called SPECTRA.
Anna Paulina Luna
Anna Paulina Luna is a member of the US House of Representatives for Florida who has taken a leading role in congressional hearings and legislative efforts on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Anne Strieber
Anne Strieber was the wife of writer Whitley Strieber and, from March 1986, the subject of hypnosis sessions in which she recalled her own experiences on the nights her family reported anomalous encounters at their Ulster County cabin.
Art Bell
American radio broadcaster best known as host of the late-night programme Coast to Coast AM, on which he gave extensive airtime to the Face on Mars imagery from Cydonia and to a 1996 correspondence describing alleged Roswell metal samples known as Art's Parts.
Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction author and futurist best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, who told Space.com in 2001 that he was convinced life had been discovered on Mars and spoke publicly about zero-point energy and other speculative forms of energy.
Arthur Exon
Arthur Exon was a United States military officer who was assigned commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and whom Whitley Strieber has quoted describing a cover-up of nonhuman material recovered after the 1947 Roswell crash.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, whose administration's officials feature in accounts of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and who has repeatedly discussed unidentified aerial objects in televised interviews.
Barney Hill
Barney Hill was an American civil rights activist from New Hampshire who, with his wife Betty Hill, reported a UFO sighting and a period of missing time on the night of 19 September 1961, an experience later explored under hypnosis by psychiatrist Benjamin Simon that became one of the earliest and most widely examined alien abduction accounts.
Ben Rich
Ben Rich was an American aerospace engineer who led Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and became known for cryptic remarks suggesting the United States possessed advanced, undisclosed aerospace technology.
Betty Hill
American civil rights activist who, with her husband Barney Hill, reported a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire; hypnotherapy sessions that followed produced one of the earliest and most widely discussed alleged abduction accounts, including a hand-drawn star map later associated by some researchers with the Zeta Reticuli star system.
Bill Chalker
Australian scientist and UAP researcher who investigated Peter Khoury's alleged alien encounters, including DNA analysis of a hair sample recovered from the case.
Billy Meier
Swiss contactee and farmer who since 1946 has claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings, producing tens of thousands of pages of contact notes, thousands of photographs, films and metal samples that have been examined by researchers and remain the subject of dispute.
Bob Lazar
Bob Lazar is a Nevada businessman who came to public attention in 1989 claiming to have worked as a physicist reverse-engineering the propulsion systems of recovered alien spacecraft at a secret facility near Area 51.
Budd Hopkins
Budd Hopkins was an American abstract painter and sculptor who became a prominent investigator of alleged alien abduction cases, best known for his 1987 book Intruders and his use of hypnosis with self-reported abductees including Whitley Strieber.
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is a former NASA astronaut who was the second man to walk on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, and has since described a UFO that paced his spacecraft, a religious ceremony he conducted on the lunar surface, and a monolith he says exists on Mars's moon Phobos.
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung was a psychologist and mystic who wrote about UFOs as a psychological and mythological phenomenon, corresponded with physicist Wolfgang Pauli on the mystery of the fine structure constant, and developed concepts including synchronicity and amplificatory interpretation later drawn upon by UFO researchers.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was an astronomer at Cornell University who worked on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and stated repeatedly that no evidence supported the existence of unidentified aerial objects or extraterrestrial visitors, a scepticism that put him at odds with Mars-anomaly researchers such as Richard C. Hoagland and John Brandenberg.
Chad
Chad is a cousin of former US Navy pilot David Fravor, who has said Chad recorded video footage of the object encountered during the 2004 USS Nimitz incident and reviewed its infrared imagery for signs of propulsion.
Chad Underwood
Former United States Navy weapon systems officer who recorded the forward-looking infrared video during the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter.
Charlie Hickson
Charlie Hickson was a shipyard worker in Pascagoula, Mississippi, who in October 1973 reported that he and Calvin Parker were abducted aboard an unidentified flying object, an account on which he later passed a polygraph test.
Chris
Chris is a name that recurs across three unconnected accounts: a young man reported to have died in a car accident and to have later communicated through a medium, a boy said to have interacted for years with a house apparition named Lois, and the narrator of a 2024 analysis of drone footage from a Quebec wildlife encounter.
Chris Ramsay
Chris Ramsay is a magician and YouTuber who hosts the DEBRIEFED video series and podcast, interviewing witnesses and researchers on UFO, UAP, and psi-related topics, and who has recounted his own reported orb sightings and out-of-body experiences.
Christopher Bledsoe
Christopher Bledsoe is a Baptist, former pilot and construction business owner from North Carolina whose account of a profound UFO sighting split his congregation, some of whom described the experience as demonic.
Christopher K. Mellon
Christopher K. Mellon is a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence who co-founded To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and has since campaigned publicly, including before Congress, on the subject of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood is a Pentagon spokesperson who made public statements disputing Luis Elizondo's role in the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and addressing the release of Navy UAP videos.
Colm Kelleher
Colm Kelleher is a biochemist who administered investigations for the National Institute for Discovery Science and later served as deputy administrator of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies during the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program.
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Dana White
Dana White is a former Pentagon spokeswoman and Trump administration political appointee who told Politico that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) existed and was run by Luis Elizondo, a statement a Pentagon colleague later said he could not confirm.
Daniel Dunglas Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886) was a nineteenth-century spiritualist medium, born in Scotland and raised in America, who was studied for many years under controlled conditions by the chemist and physicist William Crookes, who documented phenomena including materialised hands and apparent levitation.
Daniel K. Inouye
Daniel K. Inouye was a United States Senator for Hawaii and World War Two Medal of Honor recipient who, as a senior member of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee, helped secure classified funding for early Pentagon aerospace research programmes.
David Charles Grusch
Former US intelligence officer and Air Force veteran who filed a federal whistleblower complaint alleging illegal concealment of programmes recovering and reverse-engineering craft of non-human origin, and later testified to this effect before the United States Congress.
David Fravor
David Fravor is a retired United States Navy Commander who, as Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41, piloted the F/A-18F that intercepted a Tic Tac-shaped object during the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter, and who later testified about the incident before the US Congress.
David Grush
David Grush is a UAP whistleblower who publicly came forward in June 2023 and testified before the United States Congress that the US military and intelligence community hold extensive visual and sensor evidence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
Diana Walsh Pasulka
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies whose fieldwork among UFO researchers, scientists and religious experiencers is recorded in her book American Cosmic (2019).
Donald Keyhoe
Donald Keyhoe was a retired United States Marine Corps major and author who headed the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and argued, in his book Flying Saucers Are Real, that the US Air Force was concealing evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation.
Donald Klein
Psychiatrist and forensic hypnotist who was Director of Research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and hypnotised Whitley Strieber in March 1986 to explore his reported abduction memories.
Donald Menzel
American astronomer at Harvard University known as a prominent public sceptic of UFOs, who was posthumously revealed to have held a clandestine top-secret security clearance and associations with US intelligence and military agencies.
Donald Trump
President of the United States who has made repeated public comments on UFOs and UAP, including remarks at a 2026-08-11 cabinet meeting and the signing of an executive order on UFO-related declassification.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States, whose administration authorised Cold War reconnaissance programmes including the U-2 and CORONA satellite projects, and who recurs across UFO folklore, alleged extraterrestrial treaty accounts, and the disputed Majestic 12 documents.
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E. H. Lamont
A ship's captain associated with the discovery of the ruined stone complex of Nan Madol on Pohnpei in the mid-nineteenth century.
Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Mitchell was a NASA astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, who founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to study consciousness and later became a prominent advocate for UFO disclosure while privately confiding to friends that he had witnessed anomalous phenomena during his own spaceflight.
Edward Ruppelt
US Air Force officer who led the reestablished Project GRUDGE and became the first director of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's principal UFO investigation programme of the 1950s.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller was a physicist named in testimony as having coordinated a 1950 conference on unidentified anomalous phenomena, as one of the scientists identified in photographs associated with the Majestic 12 group, and as a possible influence on Bob Lazar's hiring at a secretive Nevada facility.
Edward U. Condon
Physicist and former Director of the National Bureau of Standards who served as scientific director of the Condon Committee, the United States Air Force-funded University of Colorado study whose report concluded there was no evidence for the reality of UFOs.
Edwin C. May
Edwin C. May directed the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory from 1986, overseeing its remote-viewing research until Project STARGATE was terminated in November 1995, and served as a director of the Stargate Project.
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX, whose rocket programme and business dealings feature in second-hand accounts recounted by fighter pilot David Fravor.
Eric Burlison
US Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district who has pressed the Department of Defense and intelligence community for answers on unidentified anomalous phenomena and appointed David Charles Grusch as a special advisor.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis is an American astrophysicist and government contractor who worked on the Pentagon's classified programmes studying unidentified anomalous phenomena and is the source of a disputed memo describing a 2002 meeting with a former Defense Intelligence Agency director.
Erlendur Haraldsson
Icelandic psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Iceland whose research covered after-death communications, drop-in communicators, and child reincarnation cases.
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Francisco Marto
Francisco Marto was a Portuguese shepherd boy from Aljustrel who, with his sister Jacinta Marto and Lúcia, reported a series of apparitions of an angel and a Marian figure at Fatima in 1916-1917, and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2000.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States, whose administration received a letter from Albert Einstein that set the United States on the path to the atomic bomb, and who sources describe as both the target of an attempted coup and the recipient of Vatican-channelled reports about a UFO crash.
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Garry Nolan
Garry Nolan is a Stanford University pathology professor and biotechnology entrepreneur who has analysed purported anomalous materials and examined brain scans of self-described UAP experiencers alongside William Livingston and Jacques Vallée.
Garry Reid
A United States Department of Defense official who oversaw Luis Elizondo within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and led the department's response to his 2017 resignation.
George Herbert Walker Bush
American intelligence official and politician who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and later as a President of the United States, credited with proposing the Space Exploration Initiative in 1989 and, according to associates, with describing a UFO-related briefing from his time at the CIA.
George Knapp
George Knapp is an American investigative journalist for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, known for decades of reporting on UFO and UAP subjects, including the 1989 interview in which Bob Lazar first spoke publicly about his claimed work on a recovered extra-terrestrial craft.
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Harold E. Puthoff
Harold E. Puthoff is a theoretical physicist and engineer who worked for decades on classified US government research, including CIA-sponsored extrasensory perception studies, the Stargate remote-viewing programme, and later UAP-related contract work for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
Harry Reid
Harry Reid was a United States Senator for Nevada and Senate Majority Leader who secured congressional funding for Pentagon investigations into UAP, including the programme that became the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, said in later UAP research to have received briefings on anomalous craft and to have overseen the classified handling of recovered material during his administration.
Harry Turner
Australian nuclear physicist and Defence Department scientist who authored a classified 1954 review of UFO sightings for the Royal Australian Air Force and a 1971 report arguing the phenomenon was real and deserved scientific investigation.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton served as US Secretary of State and was the Democratic nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election, with sources describing an interest in UFO and UAP reports dating from her time in the Clinton White House through to her own presidential campaign.
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Ingo Swann
Ingo Swann was an American artist and psychic credited with helping develop the systematic remote-viewing methodology used by Stanford Research Institute (SRI) researchers and later by US military intelligence programmes.
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J. Allen Hynek
American astronomer who served as scientific consultant to the US Air Force's Project Blue Book and later organised an informal network of UFO researchers known as the Invisible College.
Jacinta Marto
Portuguese child visionary who, with her brother Francisco Marto and cousin Lúcia (Fatima seer), reported a series of Marian apparitions at Fatima in 1917 and died in 1920 at the age of nine.
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons was an American rocket propulsion engineer and chemist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet Corporation, and who was also a leading figure in the Los Angeles branch of the occultist Ordo Templi Orientis, where he practised ritual magic including the Babalon Working.
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Vallée is a French computer scientist, astronomer, and long-time UFO researcher, known for his liaison work with the Condon Committee, his undercover investigations of contactee groups such as the Order of Melchizedek, his later collaboration with religious studies scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka, and his continuing involvement in analysing material recovered from reported UAP incidents for US government investigators.
James E. Oberg
James E. Oberg is a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of ten books on spaceflight who frequently offers sceptical explanations for UFO sightings.
James Lacatski
James Lacatski is a Defense Intelligence Agency scientist and rocket engineer who initiated and managed the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, and whose investigation of anomalous phenomena and Skinwalker Ranch has been recounted by colleagues including Luis Elizondo.
James MacDonald
American physicist and University of Arizona professor who, while employed by the United States Navy, spent 1967 travelling through Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania interviewing UFO witnesses and pressed the United Nations to take up the subject.
James Mattis
James Mattis is a former United States Secretary of Defense who received Luis Elizondo's 2017 Pentagon resignation letter raising concerns about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
James R. Clapper
James R. Clapper is a former US Director of National Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency director whose Pentagon career intersected with the early history of US government UAP programmes and with Luis Elizondo's tenure at the Department of Defense.
Janine Vallée
Janine Vallée is a UFO researcher who conducted field investigations alongside her husband, Jacques Vallée, including a 1973 sighting inquiry in France.
Jay Stratton
Jay Stratton is a former US Navy intelligence officer and 32-year military veteran who investigated UAP for the US government for sixteen years, including as the first director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
Jeremy Corbell
Jeremy Corbell is a documentary filmmaker whose work on unidentified aerial phenomena includes In Plain Sight and Sleeping Dog, and who with George Knapp has brought leaked government video material to the attention of the United States Congress.
Jesse Mitchells
Jesse Mitchells is a YouTube-based UFO researcher whose channel covered whistleblower David Grush's 2023 congressional testimony, and who has personally investigated reported UFO crash sites and the Cold War history of anti-gravity propulsion research.
Jim Semivan
Jim Semivan is a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer and co-founder of To The Stars Academy, a UAP research and media organisation.
Jim Slaight
Jim Slaight is a former Weapon Systems Officer who flew with David Fravor during the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter and gave a detailed account of the Tic Tac craft's appearance and manoeuvres.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, reported personal sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena and whose administration investigated, but never fully disclosed, what it knew about the UFO question.
Joe Biden
President of the United States whose administration was involved in UAP-related legislation, the 2023 Balloongate shoot-down controversy, and congressional whistleblower testimony on UAP.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, whose proposals to merge the US and Soviet space programmes and remarks on government secrecy have been cited by some researchers as possible motives for his assassination in Dallas, Texas, on 1963-11-22.
John Glenn
John Glenn was an American astronaut, one of NASA's original Mercury Seven, and later a US senator for Ohio, who died in 2016.
John Greenewald
John Greenewald is the founder of The Black Vault, a Freedom of Information Act archive, whose reporting has scrutinised US government UFO-related disclosures and figures such as Luis Elizondo.
John Lear
John Lear is a figure in ufology known for extensive claims about extraterrestrial presence and activity, including assertions about alien populations, the sun, and Venus that a former associate has publicly disputed.
John Mack
Harvard psychiatrist who studied people reporting alien abduction experiences and whose clinical conduct in this research was subject to a confidential Harvard Medical School review.
John Paul II
John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, led the Roman Catholic Church from 1978, survived a 1981 assassination attempt in St Peter's Square, and went on to link his survival, and the fall of Soviet communism, to the Marian apparitions at Fatima and their long-withheld Third Secret.
John Podesta
American political consultant and former White House chief of staff whose correspondence with Robert Fish and Tom DeLonge about UAP became public after his emails were hacked by Russian military intelligence during the 2016 US presidential campaign.
John XXIII
John XXIII was pope from 1958 to 1963 who, in 1959, opened the sealed Third Secret of Fatima envelope at Castel Gandolfo and decided not to publish its contents, a decision his successors maintained and one later discussed at length by Vatican insiders and Fatima researchers.
Joseph McMoneagle
Joseph McMoneagle is a former United States Army officer who worked as a remote viewer within the US military's Project STARGATE programme, later becoming a professional remote viewing researcher, instructor and author.
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Kenneth Arnold
Kenneth Arnold was a businessman and private pilot whose June 1947 sighting of nine unidentified objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, gave rise to the term flying saucer.
Kevin Day
Kevin Day is a retired United States Navy chief petty officer and radar specialist who tracked the anomalous objects observed during the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter from aboard USS Princeton.
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L. Ron Hubbard
American science-fiction writer who founded Dianetics and the Church of Scientology, and who later accounts describe as rocket engineer Jack Parsons' partner in 1940s occult rituals in Pasadena, California, a period the Church of Scientology has separately characterised as a US Navy intelligence assignment.
Leslie Kean
Leslie Kean is an American investigative journalist known for reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena, including the 2017 and 2023 New York Times stories on Pentagon UAP programmes and government whistleblower claims, and for research into evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.
Linda Moulton Howe
American researcher who has investigated the Art's Parts metal samples, cattle mutilation cases and other reported anomalous phenomena, including a 1995 interview with a scientist identified only as Dr Craig McPherson.
Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo is a former United States Department of Defense intelligence officer who led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the Pentagon's investigation into unidentified anomalous phenomena, before resigning in 2017 and co-founding To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the United States who, as Vice President, helped secure Houston as the site of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center and succeeded John F. Kennedy after his assassination on 1963-11-22.
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Marco Rubio
US Senator from Florida who co-sponsored UAP transparency legislation and pressed the Pentagon for a coordinated response to unidentified objects.
Maria of Agreda
Maria of Agreda was a seventeenth-century cloistered nun and mystic in Spain, author of Mystical City of God, whose reported bilocations to New Mexico were investigated by Spanish churchmen and are discussed by modern researchers of anomalous religious experience.
Mark C. Carlotto
Mark C. Carlotto is an imaging scientist and Department of Defense contractor who has analysed the Cydonia region of Mars since the 1980s and published papers examining unidentified phenomena filmed during the Space Shuttle STS-48 and STS-80 missions.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last head of state of the Soviet Union, who introduced the perestroika reforms and resigned as Soviet president in December 1991, and whom sources describe as the Soviet counterpart to whom Ronald Reagan once suggested the US and Soviet Union cooperate in the event of an alien invasion.
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Nat Kobitz
Nat Kobitz was the former Director of Science and Technology Development for the United States Navy who, in the years before his death, told journalist Ross Coulthart that he had been briefed into programs involving recovered non-human spacecraft.
Nathan Twining
US Air Force general whose 1947 investigation of flying disc reports, while heading the Air Materiel Command, led to Project Sign and Project SAUCER.
Neil Armstrong
US astronaut who commanded Apollo 11 and became the first person to walk on the Moon, on 1969-07-20, after the Lunar Module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base.
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Oke Shannon
Oke Shannon is a former United States Navy officer described in a 2002 meeting record as an intermediary who tried to arrange contact between Admiral Thomas Wilson and researcher Eric Davis, and who later featured in accounts of the disputed Admiral Wilson Memo.
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Pat Price
Pat Price was an American psychic who worked as a remote viewer for the Stanford Research Institute's 1970s remote-viewing programme, known for producing notes describing four alleged underground UFO bases during a 1973 session for Harold Puthoff.
Patrick Hughes
A US Lieutenant General who served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and met with UFO researchers at the Pentagon in 1997 and 1998.
Paul Kaminski
Paul Kaminski was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics in the US Department of Defense, a position he left, along with government service, in December 1997.
Peter Khoury
Peter Khoury is a Sydney man whose reported lifelong series of anomalous encounters, including a 1992 bedroom episode that yielded a hair sample, became the subject of researcher Bill Chalker's 2005 book Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions.
Phil McGraw
Phil McGraw is an American television personality and psychologist who has produced televised commentary reviewing declassified US government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, and who serves on the Presidential Commission for Religious Liberty.
Pius XII
Pius XII was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, born Eugenio Pacelli, who corresponded with the Fatima seer Lúcia, kept custody of the Third Secret of Fatima under his own control, and reported witnessing a repeating solar phenomenon in the Vatican gardens in 1950.
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Ralph Blumenthal
Journalist and former New York Times staff reporter known for co-reporting on claims of UAP crash retrievals and non-human craft alongside Leslie Kean.
Richard Gordon
A physician specialising in internal medicine who served as Robert Monroe's family doctor from 1942 until his death, and who is also named, in Apollo 12 mission audio, as present aboard the spacecraft Yankee Clipper.
Robert Bigelow
American aerospace entrepreneur and hotelier who founded the National Institute for Discovery Science and Bigelow Aerospace, and whose company received Pentagon funding for UAP research.
Robert Monroe
Robert Monroe was an American businessman who conducted a systematic investigation of out-of-body experiences, founded The Monroe Institute, and wrote the book Journeys Out of the Body.
Robert Weiss
Robert Weiss, also known as Rob Weiss, was executive vice-president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works advanced development division until 2019, and has been identified in published accounts as the Lockheed executive Tom DeLonge referred to as 'BossMan' during discussions about UAP disclosure.
Roger Leir
Roger Leir was a California podiatric physician and surgeon who, from 1995, arranged and performed surgical removals of alleged alien implants for laboratory analysis, and who later investigated testimony connected to the 1996 Varginha, Brazil UFO incident.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was President of the United States from 1981, whose United Nations remarks about a possible alien threat and reported briefings on unidentified phenomena recur throughout later UAP research and testimony.
Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Roscoe Hillenkoetter was a US Navy rear admiral who became Director of Central Intelligence in 1947, later sat on the board of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, and publicly pushed for congressional hearings into UFOs.
Ross Coulthart
Australian investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on UFO and UAP disclosure, historic Australian sightings, and the Majestic 12 documents.
Russell Targ
American physicist and laser pioneer who co-founded the remote viewing research programme at SRI International with Harold Puthoff after being approached by the CIA.
Ryan Graves
Ryan Graves is a former US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot who reported unidentified anomalous phenomena encounters off the US East Coast from 2014, and founded Americans for Safe Aerospace to gather similar accounts from military and commercial aircrew.
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Sam Khoury
Older brother of UAP witness Peter Khoury, who was present in the family home during Peter's 1988 encounter and who, according to Peter Khoury, later described to researcher Bill Chalker having witnessed Peter being levitated by three beings.
Steve Justice
Aerospace engineer and former Lockheed Martin Skunk Works executive who headed the aerospace division of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
Steven Greer
American disclosure advocate and founder of the Centre for the Study of Extra-terrestrial Intelligence and the Disclosure Project, known for his accounts of briefing senior US military and intelligence officials on an alleged UAP cover-up.
Stewart Alexander
Stewart Alexander is a British physical medium whose decades of weekly séances with the same small circle have featured trumpet levitation, materialisation, and direct-voice phenomena, investigated by journalist Leslie Kean and witnessed by novelist Whitley Strieber.
Susan Gough
Susan Gough is a spokesperson for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) who has issued public statements and responses on behalf of the Pentagon regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Ted Stevens
US Republican senator from Alaska who used his position on a defense spending subcommittee to help fund the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Thomas Wilson
Thomas R. Wilson is a retired United States Navy admiral and the 13th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, named in a disputed memorandum as having privately described a secret Pentagon investigation into a reverse-engineering programme built on recovered technological hardware - an account he has categorically denied.
Tim Burchett
US representative for Tennessee, a born-again Christian and former owner of a trailer repair shop, who has pressed for UAP transparency in Congress and visited Eglin Air Force Base to seek answers on a UAP incident there.
Tom DeLonge
American musician and Blink-182 frontman who co-founded To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and has said senior US military, intelligence and aerospace figures secretly briefed him on recovered anomalous craft and technology.
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UAP Gerb
UAP Gerb is a UAP researcher, investigator and podcast host who has discussed alleged historical US government programmes involving recovered anomalous materials and the mechanisms used to keep them classified.
Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-born entertainer and self-described psychic known for claimed abilities in metal-bending and telepathy, whose case was investigated by ufologist Jacques Vallée and who was brought to the United States for laboratory study by parapsychologist Andrija Puharich.
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Vannevar Bush
American engineer and science administrator who directed the US Office of Scientific Research and Development and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, later named in UFO-related accounts as an organiser of early government study of reported flying saucers and as a purported founding member of Majestic 12.
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Walter Haut
Walter Haut was the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base who issued the July 1947 press release announcing recovery of a flying disc, and who signed a 2002 affidavit, released after his 2005 death, describing an object and bodies he said he was shown in a base hangar.
Wernher von Braun
German-born rocket engineer who developed the A4/V-2 ballistic missile for Nazi Germany, was brought to the United States under Project Paperclip after World War II, and later directed NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, developing the rockets that powered the US space programme.
Whitley Strieber
American author best known for Communion (1987), his account of claimed encounters with beings he calls the visitors, which became a bestseller and helped popularise the image of the grey alien.
Wilbert Smith
Wilbert Smith was a Canadian radio engineer with the Department of Transport who wrote a 1950 memo recounting an American scientist's remarks on US government secrecy around flying saucers, and who later headed Canada's Project Magnet UFO research effort.
Willard Miller
Willard Miller is a retired Lieutenant Commander of the US Naval Reserve who took part in 1997 and 1998 briefings of senior Pentagon and Defense Intelligence Agency officials, alongside Steven Greer and Edgar Mitchell, alleging a government cover-up of alien visitation, and later offered UFO researchers leads on classified recovery programmes.
William Cohen
Former United States Senator who was later appointed United States Secretary of Defense, whose Senate legislative assistant, Christopher K. Mellon, followed him into the Pentagon in 1997.
William J. Clinton
William J. Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, whose administration made documented enquiries into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) records and who has since spoken publicly about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation.
William Lynn III
William Lynn III is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense who was asked by Senator Harry Reid to grant heightened secrecy protections to a Pentagon aerospace threat programme, a request he ultimately declined.
William Perry
William Perry is a former United States Secretary of Defense whom Thomas Wilson's testimony credits with reorganising a set of unacknowledged special access programs in 1994, and whom, according to the book In Plain Sight, the Admiral Wilson memo names as having directed Wilson toward related Pentagon files.
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