From dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Sun Nov 17 14:18:27 1991 Path: aramis.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tarpit!bilver!dona From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors Subject: Bio file of some UFO researchers Message-ID: <1991Nov17.191827.103@bilver.uucp> Date: 17 Nov 91 19:18:27 GMT Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Lines: 494 The following is a short bio of some of the researchers involved in MUFON. ------Begin included text--------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DESCRIPTION OF MUFON BIOGRAPHY SERIES OF ARTICLES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 JOHN S. CARPENTER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 Michael M. Chorost ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Specialist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 STANTON T. FRIEDMAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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, 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 LINDA MOULTON HOWE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 DAVID M. JACOBS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 BRUCE S. MACCABEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 JEAN-PIERRE PETIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 GENE M. PHILLIPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 ZECHARIA SITCHIN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 DENNIS STACY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHO'S - WHO IN UFOLOGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) MUFON 1991 MICHAEL D. SWORDS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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). =END= Don -- -* Don Allen *- InterNet: dona@bilver.UUCP // Amiga..for the best of us. USnail: 1818G Landing Dr, Sanford Fl 32771 \X/ Why use anything else? :-) UUCP: ..uunet!tarpit!bilver!dona - Why did the JUSTICE DEPT steal PROMIS? /\/\ What is research but a blind date with knowledge. William Henry /\/\