An Encyclopedia and Go to Source for All Things UAP

UAP Personalities

    • The alleged firsthand source behind the leak of the "Alien Reproduction Vehicle" aka "Fluxliner" that he told to fellow aerospace designer Mark McCandlish, and later Gordon Novel, that he witnessed at a presentation for VIP at Norton Air Force Base in 1988.
    • "Brad" visited the base for an air show with a high level DoD client, rumored to be Frank Carlucci, who passed him off as an aide to see the VIP presentation in a hanger at the air base during the air show.
    • In addition to producing a line art blueprint he also reported on the ARV's components as revealed by the general giving the presentation. The general stated the ARV could exceed the speed of light.
  • Baker, Robert
    • Abduction/experience researcher
    • Sleep and perception angle
    • Skeptical-method voice
  • Barker, Gray
    • Early “Men in Black” popularizer
    • Sensational ufology publisher
    • Controversial lore builder
  • Bassett, Stephen
    • Disclosure-era political activist
    • Press + lobbying strategy focus
    • Public “Disclosure” campaigns
  • Bayless, Raymond
    • Early anomalous investigator-writer
    • UFOs + paranormal overlap
    • Cataloging/report synthesis role
  • Beckjord, Jon-Erik
    • Bigfoot + UFO crossover promoter
    • High-strangeness megaphone
    • Loved by some, dismissed by others
  • Beckley, Timothy
    • UFO publishing machine
    • Newsletter-to-book pipeline builder
    • Amplifier more than investigator
  • Belanger, Jeff
    • Paranormal historian-storyteller
    • Gateway figure for “unexplained” media
    • UFO-adjacent through broad anomaly coverage
  • Belanger, Michelle
    • Occult/paranormal author-brand
    • Esoteric culture crossover
    • UFO-adjacent via shared audiences
  • Bell, Art
    • Syndicated late-night radio host who created and originally hosted Coast to Coast AM, becoming one of the most influential voices in modern paranormal/UFO talk radio.
    • Known for making “open lines” storytelling and high-drama long-form interviews a defining style of UFO/paranormal media, shaping countless later podcasters and hosts.
    • Also hosted/created companion projects such as Dreamland, and later returned with Midnight in the Desert during the podcast-era transition.
  • Bender, Albert
    • Early “Men in Black” cornerstone
    • IFSB founder
    • Secrecy-intimidation lore prototype
  • Bennewitz, Paul
    • Dulce/underground-base lore catalyst
    • Disinformation cautionary tale
    • One of ufology’s darkest storylines
  • Bergara, Ryan
    • YouTube “Unsolved” era host
    • Made mystery content feel mainstream
    • UFO-adjacent entertainment gateway
  • Bergier, Jacques
    • European “mysteries” intellectual
    • Fantastic realism influence
    • UFO-adjacent culture shaper
  • Berliner, Don
    • Aviation-leaning UFO investigator
    • Evidence + interviewing emphasis
    • Research-organization contributor
  • Berlitz, Charles
    • Mass-market mystery author
    • Triangle/anomaly bestseller era
    • UFO-adjacent myth amplifier
    • Co-founder associated with The Sol Foundation’s early buildout, helping enable a “legitimacy-first” UAP organization that blends academic branding with disclosure-era interest.
    • Known within ufology primarily through organizational association rather than personal case investigations, becoming part of the Sol network that convenes scholars and former officials.
    • In Sol-adjacent narratives, his significance is structural: supporting the creation of a forum where UAP discussion is framed as research governance and policy rather than tabloid UFO culture.
  • Bethurum, Truman
    • 1950s contactee-era staple
    • “Space people” narrative booster
    • Classic testimony-first ufology
  • Biddle, Kenny
    • Modern skeptical investigator
    • Methods + testing emphasis
    • Counterweight to viral “evidence”
  • Bigelow, Robert
    • Deep-pocket UFO patron
    • Skinwalker/NIDS era powerhouse
    • Secrecy + influence magnet
  • Biglino, Mauro
    • Ancient-text revisionist
    • Ancient-astronaut friendly readings
    • UFO-adjacent alternative-history influencer
  • Binder, Otto
    • Sci-fi author near saucer era
    • Fiction-to-belief cultural feedback
    • UFO-adjacent imagination builder
  • Birnes, William
    • UFO magazine/TV-era gatekeeper
    • Sensational + polarizing media figure
    • Big footprint in pop ufology
  • Bloecher, Ted
    • Classic-era case cataloger
    • 1950s wave documentation
    • Archive value over fame
  • Blumrich, Josef F.
    • NASA-era engineer whose technical credentials made his UFO-related publishing unusually influential.
    • Best known for building engineering-style arguments from ancient texts (Ezekiel) to propose advanced craft interpretations.
    • A key figure in “ancient astronaut”/technological reinterpretation literature.
  • Bourdais, Gildas
    • French UFO author-researcher
    • Roswell/crash-retrieval discourse booster
    • Cross-Atlantic ufology translator
  • Brennan, James
    • Occult/paranormal author
    • UFO-adjacent “mysteries” contributor
    • Synthesis over investigation
  • Broome, Fiona
    • “Mandela Effect” term popularizer
    • Collective-memory anomaly culture
    • High-strangeness community catalyst
    • Propellantless propulsion pioneer best known for the Biefeld–Brown effect where high voltages applied to a capacitor will cause the capacitor to move in the direction of the negative to positive electrode.
    • Brown believed he had found a link between electricity and gravity which became known as electrogravitics and spent decades researching the effect including filing patents and courting government interest.
    • The Montgolfier Project reveals Brown worked with the French company SUD Aviation in the 1950s and revealed to them that dynamic applications (pulsed DC voltages) of the BB effect were now classified by the U.S. government.
  • Buell, Ryan
    • Paranormal TV-era face
    • Gateway to anomaly culture
    • UFO-adjacent through audience overlap
    • Lead electrostatics researcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, known for safety-critical work on spacecraft charging and dust/electrostatic mitigation (notably the Electrodynamic Dust Shield program).
    • Co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, which claims a “propellantless” thruster based on asymmetric electrostatic pressure/divergent electric fields producing net force in vacuum tests.
    • A highly polarizing figure in the UAP/alt-propulsion ecosystem: widely cited in “breakthrough propulsion” media while facing substantial skepticism because extraordinary thrust claims remain publicly unverified by independent replication.
  • Bürgin, Luc
    • European Fortean author
    • Subterranean mystery themes
    • UFO-adjacent anomaly compiler
    • Claims to be a former “black project” microbiologist (also known as Daniel Crain) who worked at a Papoose Lake/S-4–type facility and medically interacted with an extraterrestrial entity nicknamed “J-Rod.”
    • A cornerstone figure in late-1990s/2000s Majestic / Dulce / S-4 lore, describing “Project Aquarius,” underground labs, compartmented committees, and biomedical work on nonhuman biology.
    • Highly polarizing: believers treat him as a rare “science-role insider,” skeptics view the narrative as an accretion of classic UFO motifs with weak public verification and heavy secondhand amplification.
  • Burns, Patrick
    • UFO TV-era investigator-host
    • Organizer + advocate style ufology
    • Polarizing “media ufologist”
    • Claims to have conducted free-fall experiments showing magnets fall at different rates than normal objects and strongly emphasized that good experimental data trumps theory.
    • Lockheed Martin Senior Scientist with 30 public patents while there and a research engineer at Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics and Texas Instruments over his 40 year career.
    • In his deathbed confession he claimed to have worked with aliens from a star system approximately 68 light years from Earth while at Lockheed Martin.

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