Who's Who

Pilot whose 1947 sighting near Mount Rainier gave the world the phrase "flying saucers".

Roswell 1947 Kenneth Arnold Maury Island Columbus AFB

West Virginia writer who launched the Men in Black legend.

Mothman Men in Black

Founder of an early UFO club who said three men in black suits told him to stop.

Maury Island Men in Black

Albuquerque scientist and businessman who became the target of an Air Force disinformation campaign.

Paul Bennewitz Dulce Serpo

Author of The Bermuda Triangle (1974) and co-author of The Roswell Incident.

Roswell 1947 Hangar 18 Bermuda Triangle Plains of San Agustin

Las Vegas businessman who funded UFO and paranormal research, including at Skinwalker Ranch.

Skinwalker Ranch Jay Stratton

Tennessee congressman and one of the loudest voices for UAP disclosure.

Kona Blue David Grusch

Missouri congressman who hired David Grusch as a staff member.

General Neil McCasland David Grusch

US senator whose 1975 to 1976 committee exposed abuses by the CIA, FBI and NSA.

Project MKUltra Mockingbird COINTELPRO MKNAOMI Midnight Climax Operation Chaos Church Committee Project Shamrock Project Minaret

British journalist and folklorist who studied UFO lore and the Ministry of Defence's UFO files.

Calvine Broad Haven RAF Cosford 1993 Alderney Milton Torres

CIA director from 1973 to 1976 who revealed the agency's "Family Jewels" to Congress.

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Cryptozoologist, author and founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum.

Mapinguari Skunk Ape Enfield Horror

Physicist who led the Air Force-funded University of Colorado UFO study of 1966 to 1968, whose report led to Project Blue Book's closure.

Shag Harbour Falcon Lake Lakenheath-Bentwaters McMinnville Ubatuba Rb-47 Mariana Film Condon Report Fort Belvoir

Filmmaker who made the 2018 Bob Lazar documentary and has released leaked UAP footage.

Jay Stratton Bob Lazar

Musician who founded To The Stars Academy in 2017 with former officials.

Gimbal and Gofast General Neil McCasland David Grusch

Former Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent linked to disinformation aimed at UFO researchers.

Paul Bennewitz Dulce Serpo

Science writer and host of the Skeptoid podcast.

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US president from 1953 to 1961.

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Former Pentagon intelligence official who says he ran the AATIP UFO programme, and went public in 2017.

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French astronomer who also collected and studied reports of hauntings.

Émilie Sagée Calvados Castle

Psychoanalyst and psychical researcher who investigated poltergeists and Gef the talking mongoose.

Gef the Mongoose Thornton Heath Margery the Medium

American writer who collected reports of strange phenomena, and gave his name to the word Fortean.

British Scareships Devil’s Footprints Spring-Heeled Jack Orang Pendek Thylacine Kentucky Meat Shower

UFO investigator and author, best known for The Andreasson Affair.

Allagash Kingman Andreasson Affair

Navy commander who chased the Tic Tac off San Diego in 2004.

Nimitz Tic Tac Event Gimbal and Gofast David Grusch

Nuclear physicist turned UFO lecturer who revived interest in Roswell in the late 1970s.

Roswell 1947 Majestic 12 Plains of San Agustin

CIA chemist who ran the MKUltra mind-control programme.

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Former Navy F/A-18 pilot who testified to Congress in 2023 about UAP his squadron saw almost daily.

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Founder of the Disclosure Project, which presented military witnesses in 2001.

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Former Air Force intelligence officer who told Congress under oath in 2023 that the US holds craft and bodies of non-human origin.

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Researcher who gathered military testimony about UFOs at nuclear weapons sites.

Minot AFB F.e. Warren AFB Serpo

CIA director from 1966 to 1973 who ordered most MKUltra records destroyed.

Project MKUltra Operation Chaos Project Bluebird MKSEARCH Operation Often

Investigative journalist whose reporting exposed My Lai and CIA domestic spying.

Project MKUltra Church Committee

New Hampshire couple whose 1961 encounter became the first widely known alien abduction case.

Hill Abduction Travis Walton Villas Boas Serpo Columbus AFB

Director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972.

COINTELPRO Huston Plan Aztec 1948

Artist and author who popularised abduction research in the 1980s.

Villas Boas Linda Napolitano Copley Woods

Journalist and documentary maker known for her work on animal mutilations.

Skinwalker Ranch Serpo

Astronomer and the Air Force's scientific consultant on UFOs from 1948 to 1969, who came to believe some cases were real and founded the Center for UFO Studies.

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Historian and abduction researcher.

Villas Boas Levelland

SS general in charge of Nazi secret weapons projects, who vanished in 1945.

Kammler Jonastal Die Glocke

Journalist who co-wrote the 2017 New York Times story on the Pentagon's UFO programme and broke David Grusch's story in 2023.

Kecksburg David Grusch

Journalist and author of The Mothman Prophecies.

Mothman Men in Black

Retired Marine major, bestselling author and longtime head of NICAP.

Mantell Goose Bay Kinross

Physicist and the first director of the Pentagon's AARO, from 2022 to 2023.

Jay Stratton VASCO

Aviation journalist and the best-known UFO sceptic of his era.

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Las Vegas investigative reporter who broke the Bob Lazar story in 1989.

Skinwalker Ranch Area 51 Jay Stratton Bob Lazar

Physicist who says he worked on alien craft at S-4, near Area 51, in 1988 and 1989.

Area 51 Bob Lazar

US Navy optical physicist who analysed UFO photographs and films for decades.

McMinnville Kaikoura Gulf Breeze Carp Del Rio 1950

University of Chicago biologist who led expeditions to Loch Ness and the Congo.

Emela-Ntouka Mokele-Mbembe

Retired Air Force major general and former head of the Air Force Research Laboratory, missing since February 2026.

General Neil McCasland David Grusch

Atmospheric physicist at the University of Arizona who investigated UFO cases and pressed Congress to take them seriously in the 1960s.

Levelland Gorman Dogfight Chiles-Whitted Red Bluff Fort Belvoir

Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and a leading voice for UAP disclosure.

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Co-author of The Roswell Incident (1980) who later admitted passing disinformation to UFO researchers.

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Investigator for the Skeptical Inquirer, known for on-the-ground studies of hauntings, monsters and miracles.

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US president from 1969 to 1974.

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National Security Council staffer at the centre of the Iran-Contra affair.

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Rodeo rider who, with Bob Gimlin, filmed the famous 1967 Bigfoot footage at Bluff Creek.

Patterson-Gimlin Enfield Horror

Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman and a longtime advocate of UFO disclosure.

General Neil McCasland David Grusch

Former UK Ministry of Defence civil servant who handled UFO reports in the early 1990s.

Warminster RAF Cosford 1993 Isle of Lewis

British psychical researcher who made Borley Rectory famous.

Gef the Mongoose Borley Rectory Brown Lady Hinton Ampner

Former Air Force officer and author of several books on Roswell.

Alien Autopsy Kingman Del Rio 1950 Plains of San Agustin

US president from 1981 to 1989.

Iran-Contra Dulce Serpo

Host of The Joe Rogan Experience, where David Grusch and Bob Lazar have both told their stories.

Kona Blue General Neil McCasland David Grusch Havana Syndrome Nazca Mummies Paracas Skulls Hawara Labyrinth Bob Lazar VASCO

Air Force captain who headed Project Blue Book from 1951 to 1953 and popularised the term UFO.

Washington 1952 Lubbock Lights Gorman Dogfight Chiles-Whitted David Grusch

Canadian UFO researcher and author, best known for his work on Falcon Lake.

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Naturalist and writer on cryptids and unexplained phenomena.

Kecksburg Kongamato Minnesota Iceman

Researcher who collected testimony about crashed saucers and recovered bodies from the 1970s on.

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US president from 1945 to 1953.

Majestic 12 PBFORTUNE Del Rio 1950

US president, whose 2026 order led to the PURSUE releases of UAP records.

New Jersey Drones David Grusch

Computer scientist and researcher whose Passport to Magonia linked UFOs with folklore.

Magonia Trinity 1945

Swedish astronomer who leads VASCO, the search for vanishing lights on old sky plates.

David Grusch VASCO

German rocket engineer brought to the US under Operation Paperclip, later NASA's chief rocket designer.

Paperclip Kammler

American paranormal investigators behind the Annabelle and Amityville stories.

Smurl Haunting Annabelle

Sceptic and analyst of UAP videos, founder of Metabunk.

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