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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

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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 Network

State Director - Tennessee/MUFON

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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