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1991 STANTON T. FRIEDMAN
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Nuclear
Physicist-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman has managed to carve
out three
different professional careers since receiving his M.S.
Degree in Physics
from the University of Chicago in 1956.
His
employers have
included General Electric, General Motors, Aerojet
General
Nucleonics, Westinghouse and TRW. The
programs involved
nuclear aircraft,
fission and fusion rockets and nuclear systems for
space
applications.
He first became
interested in UFOs in 1958. Between 1970
and 1982 he
devoted full time
to lecturing, investigating, and writing about UFOs.
He has now given
his always changing program "Flying Saucers Are Real"
at more than 600
colleges and to dozens of professional groups in all
50 states, in 8
provinces of Canada
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OF ARTICLES
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The MUFONET-BBS
Network is proud to present this series of short
biographies
concerning researchers involved in UFO and related
scientific
fields. The biographies are provided with
the approval of
the Mutual UFO
Network, (MUFON) 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, Texas
78155.
The biographies
are brief, covering basic education and experience of
each individual
and their respective field(s) of pursuit.
These files
in no way contain
all the biographical information about an
individual, but
are offered to provide some understanding of the
researcher's
background.
John Komar
Administrator - MUFONET-BBS
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State Director -
Tennessee/MUFON
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1991 JOHN S. CARPENTER
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John S. Carpenter
obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology
from DePauw
University. He then received a Masters
of Social Work
from Washington
University in St. Louis. He was trained
in Clinical
Hypnosis at the
Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in 1980.
In 1983
he joined the
Academy of Certified Social Workers. He
has been a
member of the
American Group Psychotherapy Association for Marriage
and Family
Therapy. For the last twelve years he
has provided
individual
therapy, group therapy, marriage counseling, and family
therapy for a
wide variety of hospitalized psychiatric patients in the
Springfield, Missouri
region.
Parallel to his
professional growth is his long-standing interest in
UFOs ---ever
since he could first read as a little boy.
He became the
State Section
Director in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for counties
in southwest
Missouri in 1988 and began receiving referrals for
investigative
research and hypnotherapy with alleged abductees from
other researchers
such as Budd Hopkins, Stanton Friedman, Walt Andrus,
Linda Howe and
Ted Phillips. He was involved in the
professional
conferences -- TREAT
I in 1989, and 1991's National Conference on
Anomalous
Experiences held in Philadelphia. He has
been a speaker for
the 1989 Close
Encounters Forum in Aspen, Colorado, the 1990 SHOW-ME
Conference in
Missouri, the 1991 Ozark UFO Conference in Eureka
Springs, and now
the 1991 International MUFON UFO Symposium in
Chicago.
He and several of
his cases were featured in Linda Howe's 1990
documentary
sequel to her Emmy Award-winning "A Strange Harvest".
More recently,
John has received international recognition for his
investigative
hypnosis with Gerald Anderson, a saucer crash witness
from 1947,
referred by Stanton Friedman. His
research into the
abduction mystery
has taken him to work with people from many
different
geographical locations.
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1991 Michael M. Chorost
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Michael M.
Chorost was born in 1964 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He
received his B.A.
from Brown University and a M.A. in English
Literature from
the University of Texas as Austin in 1990.
Michael is
now working
toward a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature
and Philosophy
of Language. After becoming intrigued with the mystery of
the crop
circle
phenomenon, during June and July 1990, he traveled to England
spending three
weeks studying the enigma firsthand.
Mr. Chorost
published his first article on the subject, titled "The
Summer 1990 Crop
Circles" coauthored with Colin Andrews in the
December 1990
issue of the "MUFON UFO JOURNAL".
He serves on the
MUFON staff as
the Crop Circles, in Puerto Rico, the District of
Columbia and in
England.
Stanton moved to
Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1980.
Since 1982, he
has combined
continued lecturing with a busy career as a science
consultant
working in such areas as food irradiation, seed stimulation
with radiation,
the recovery of waste heat from power plants, the use
of electron
accelerators for commercial applications and flue gas
treatment to
reduce acid rain emissions. He was
awarded $16,000, the
largest research
grant ever made by the Fund for UFO Research, to
continue his
extensive research into the validity of Operations
Majestic - 12 and
the story behind the Roswell crash. Over
the years
he has visited a
total of 14 different document archives.
He has also
appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including
"Nightline",
"Merv Griffin" and a host more.
He was very heavily
involved in the
writing and filming of the prize winning documentary
movie "UFOs
Are real" and also participated in several others
including
"UFO Cover-UP?...Live". He has
spoken at more MUFON
symposia, than
anyone, starting in 1971, attesting to his popularity.
He was elected to
the MUFON Board of Directors in 1990 as Director of
Special
Investigations, having served as a Consultant in Nuclear
Physics since
1972. he will coauthor a new book on
Roswell with Don
Berliner in 1991
or early 1992.
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1991 LINDA MOULTON HOWE
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Linda Moulton
Howe is a graduate of Stanford university with a Masters
Degree in
Communications. She has devoted her film
and television
career to
documentary and studio productions concerning science,
medicine and the
environment. Miss Howe has received
local, national
and international
awards, including three regional Emmies for her
documentaries.
One honored
"A Strange Harvest", a film which explored the worldwide
animal mutilation
mystery which haunted the U.S., Canada, Mexico,
Central and South
America, Australia, parts of Europe and the Canary
Islands off the
African coast since the late 1960's -- and continues
to date.
In 1989, she
produced a synthesis of her last ten years of research
and personal
experiences with the alien phenomena in a book entitled
"An Alien
Harvest - Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilation and
Human Abductions
to Alien Life Forms". She also
worked in 1989 as
Director of
International Programming for "Earthbeat," an
environmental
series broadcast on WTBS Superstation from Atlanta.
Linda is
developing a paperback edition of her book "An Alien
Harvest". Her most recent television productions in
1990 included the
creation of the
CNN Reel News series for theater release in New York
City; a two-hour special "Earth Mysteries:
Alien Life Forms" in
association with
WATL/FOX 36 in Atlanta, Georgia; and a half-hour
documentary about
International child survival efforts for UNICEF, New
York, entitled
"The Pressure of Fact." 1991:
Supervising Producer and
Writer,
"Mysteries of the Universe" Hour Special for the Fox network.
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1991 DAVID M. JACOBS
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David M. Jacobs
is Associate Professor of History at Temple
University,
specializing in twentieth century American History.
He has been a UFO
Researcher for twenty-five years. He
wrote his
doctoral
disertatation in the field of intellectual history at the
University of
Wisconsin, Madison in 1973 on the controversy over UFOs
in America. His first book, "The UFO Controversy In
America", was
published by
Indiana University Press (1975). It
remains the only
book that takes a
positive viewpoint toward UFOs ever published by an
academic
press. He has given numerous speeches
and written many
articles and
papers on the subject of UFOs. he is a
Consultant in
history to
MUFON. For the past fourteen years he
has offered the only
regularly
scheduled undergraduate course on UFOs at any university in
the U.S.A.
In recent years
he has turned his attention exclusively to the UFO
abduction
phenomenon. he has conducted over 300
hypnotic regressions.
he and Budd
Hopkins recently put on a conference at Temple University
for researchers,
psychiatrists, psychologists, and other therapists
from around the
country on the abduction phenomenon. He
is the
recipient with
Budd Hopkins of a $200,000 grant to conduct a poll to
discern the
magnitude of the abduction phenomenon and to compile
compendium of
abduction accounts. His new book
"Secret Life: The
Structure and
Meaning of UFO Abductions", will be published by Simon
and Schuster
early in 1992.
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1991 BRUCE S. MACCABEE
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Dr. Bruce
Maccabee was born May 6, 1942 in Rutland, Vermont. He
received a B.S.
in Physics from Worchester Polytechnique Institute
(1964) a M.S. and
Ph.D. in Physics from American University in 1967
and 1970,
respectively. After serving as a Laser
Physics Consultant
in private
industry, in 1972 he assumed his current position as a
Research
Physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Silver
Spring, MD. He has worked on optical data processing,
underwater
sound, high
energy lasers and, most recently, on various aspects of
the Strategic
Defense Initiative (DSI).
Bruce was a
member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena (NICAP)
from 1968 until its demise. He became a
member of
the Mutual UFO
Network (MUFON) in 1975 and was subsequently appointed
State Director
for Maryland and Consultant in Photo Analysis and Laser
Physics. In 1979, he and several other Washington,
D.C. area
UFOlogists
established the Fund for UFO Research, of which he is the
chairman. Bruce has carried out numerous UFO case
investigations,
specializing in
photographic cases. He is, perhaps, best
known for
his analysis of
the McMinnville, Oregon photo case (May 1950), the New
Zealand multiple
witness/film/radar sightings (December 1978) and more
recently, the
Gulf breeze, Florida sightings. he has
also done some
historical
research and was the first person to publish articles on
the FBI
"flying disc" file which he requested and obtained under the
Freedom of
Information Act.
Dr. Maccabee is
the author or coauthor of about three dozen technical
articles and
about an equal number of UFO related articles.
he is
listed in
"American Men and Women of Science" and in "Who's Who in
Technology
Today". He has been interviewed by
the news media numerous
times and has
appeared on national TV and radio talk shows, most
notably the
"Larry King Show", "Good Morning America" and "Night
Line".
In his spare
time, Bruce is active musically as a pianist, having
played solo and
with bands in the Washington area. Also,
he has given
several formal
concerts in the Washington and Baltimore areas.
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1991 JEAN-PIERRE PETIT
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Professor Jean-Pierre
Petit is a specialist in plasma physics and
General
Relativity Theory. He is a senior
researcher at the French
Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique and has been a member of
the Observatory
of Marseille for 15 years. He has
published his works
in the most
prestigious scientific journals of theoretical physics,
such as
"Modern Physics Letters".
He is the recent
author of a new book titled "Enquete sur les Ovnis"
(Investigating
UFOs) published by Albin Michel (1990).
Petit explains
the reasons why
"we cannot exclude the possibility that UFOs are
piloted by beings
originating elsewhere in the universe."
In an
interview with
Jean-Pierre Petit by Marie-Therese de Brosses,
originally
published in the August 9, 1990 issue of "Paris match", his
theories,
scientific conclusions on UFOs, and possible propulsion
methods were
delineated. This superb interview was
translated from
the Paris
"Match" article by Robert J.
Durant and his wife and
published in the
"MUFON UFO Journal", Number 273, January 1991.
A quotation from
this interview reflects Professor Petit's philosophy
regarding UFOs -
"To manufacture such a machine would require that the
engine develop an
amount of power equivalent to that of a large
nuclear power
generating plant. And if there is
anything not amenable
to
miniaturization, it is a nuclear plant.
Conclusion: the machines
seen in Belgium
are not of terrestrial origin."
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1991 GENE M. PHILLIPS
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Gene M. Phillips
founded the Ancient Astronaut Society on September
14, 1973,
incorporated in Illinois as a non-profit, tax-exempt
organization
operated exclusively for scientific, literary and
educational
purposes. The objectives of the Society are
to search for
evidence to
determine whether a highly-developed, technological
civilization
existed on earth before our recorded history, and to
determine whether
our planet was visited by intelligent beings
from outer space
in the remote past.
Mr. Phillips was
born in Beaver, West Virginia in 1926.
He has a
Bachelor's degree
in Business Administration from Virginia Tech, a MBA
degree from
Harvard University and a Juris Doctor degree from
Northwestern
School of Law. He is currently a
practicing corporate
attorney in
Highland Park, Illinois. Since founding
the Ancient
Astronaut
Society, Mr. Phillips has earned a world-wide reputation in
the field through
extensive reading and research and visiting
archaeological
sites and museums throughout the world. he has
presented many
lectures and slide presentations and has appeared on
numerous radio
and television programs. Mr. Phillips is
the President
of the Society
and the Editor of the English edition of "Ancient
Skies".
In 1977 and again
in 1983, Gene Phillips visited Peru and flew over
the Plain of
Nazca in a small plane at an altitude of about 500 feet
and personally
photographed the area. Many of these photos were
presented at the
1991 MUFON UFO International Symposium, held in
Chicago,
Illinois, and are contained in the video tapes from this
symposium.
Mr. Phillips has
accepted the challenge to solve this fantastic
mystery just as
ufologists have dedicated themselves to resolving the
UFO enigma. Through his on-sight investigations and
historical study
of previously
authored books, he has found that the mystery cannot be
explained as
casually as some authors and investigators have done in
the past.
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1991 ZECHARIA SITCHIN
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Zecharia Sitchin
was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he
acquired a
profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other
Semitic and
European languages, the Old testament, and the history of
archaeology of
the Near East. He attended the London
School of
Economics and
Political Science, and graduated from the University of
London, majoring
in economic history.
A leading
journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives
and writes in New
York. he is a member of the Israel
Exploration
Society, the
American Oriental Society, and the Middle East Studies
Association of
North America.
His four books in
"The Earth Chronicles" series have been published
and re-published
in both hardcover and paperback editions and widely
translated into
many languages, including German, French, Spanish,
Portuguese,
Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese.
The scientific
advances since
the publication of the first book, "The 12th Planet",
in 1976 have
confirmed many of the innovative and pioneering theories
and conclusions
of Sitchin's books, attesting to the accuracy of
Sumerian
knowledge 6,000 years ago. His first
book was followed in
1980 by "The
Stairway To Heaven" and in 1985 by "The War Of Gods And
Men"; book IV of the series titled "The Last
Realms" (1990),
encompasses the
ancient events and civilizations of the Americas.
Sitchin's latest
book, "Genesis Revisited", was published October 1990
by Avon in
paperback and in January 1991 by Bear and Co. in hardcover.
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1991 DENNIS STACY
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Dennis Stacy was
born in 1946 and graduated from the University of
Texas at Austin
in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English.
Widely traveled,
for the past decade he has been a free-lance writer
based in San
Antonio.
Stacy's articles,
interviews and pictures have appeared in a wide
variety of
magazines, newspapers and anthologies both in this country
and abroad,
including "New Scientist", Smithsonian "Air & Space",
"Omni",
the "New Age Journal", "southwest Spirit" and "Fortean
Times",
among others.
He is the author
of two unproduced screenplays and served as a
consultant on two
segments produced for NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries"
program. He currently edits the "MUFON UFO
Journal" and reviews
computer hard and
software products for two popular industry
publications
while continuing his outside writing career.
Stacy has
contributed
chapters to at least three UFO compilations, including
"Phenomenon,
UFOs 1947-1987" and the just-published "UFOs: The
Definitive
Casebook".
With Michael
Chorost, and as director of the Complete Circle Project,
he is at work
compiling a comprehensive bibliography of Crop Circle
and related
writings, and welcomes any and all contributions.
beginning this
year, his column, "Science Watch", will appear
regularly in
"Fortean Times". His self -
published papers include
"The Marfa
Lights: A Viewer's Guide" and the "Crop Circles
Bibliography"
compiled by Michael Chorost.
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1991 MICHAEL D. SWORDS
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Michael D. Swords
is a Professor of Natural Science at Western
Michigan
University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He
graduated from the
University of
Notre Dame in 1962 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry, and
also holds an
M.S. degree from Iowa State University
in Biochemistry
(1965), and a
Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve university (1972).
His major
professional and involvements are teaching and writing in
the areas of
general sciences and anomalous phenomena.
His teaching
centers about
human biology, the history and philosophy of science,
scientific
methodology, and the "parasciences" of which UFOlogy is a
member. His writings have concentrated mainly on
topics in UFOlogy,
parapsychology,
and cryptozoology, and several have been published in
the "MUFON
UFO Journal". He has won
University's Teaching Excellence
Award (1978).
Dr. Swords is a
member of several professional and parascientific
societies
including the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the
American Association of University Professors, the
Society for
Scientific Exploration, and the Mutual UFO Network
(MUFON). He serves as a MUFON consultant and was in
the same capacity
for the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organization, the International
Fortean
Organization, and as a member of the advisor panel for the
Society for the
Investigation of the Unexplained. he is
a Board
member of the J.
Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, and is the editor
of UFOlogy's
academic journal: "The Journal of UFO Studies".
Dr. Swords
originally spoke at the MUFON 1986 UFO Symposium in East
Lansing,
Michigan. He has recently presented
materials at the
"Abductions"
Conferences of TREAT II (VPI, 1990) and NCAE (Temple,
1991), as well as
the National Science Teachers Association (Phoenix,
1989).
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