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A U.S. defense-linked aerospace engineer/inventor best known for a cluster of “Navy UFO patents” (2015–2019 era filings) describing exotic-sounding concepts like inertial mass reduction, high-frequency gravitational waves, compact fusion, and room-temperature superconductivity.
Those applications drew major public attention because the language resembles “breakthrough propulsion” and UAP lore, while critics questioned feasibility and speculated about bureaucratic, strategic, or even disinformation motives.
In ufology-adjacent communities, Pais is a central “patent evidence” figure—cited as proof that advanced propulsion concepts were at least formally pursued on paper within U.S. military IP channels.

Religious-studies scholar who brought UFO/UAP belief, “contact” narratives, and space-age mythmaking into mainstream academic conversation.
Best known for American Cosmic, which frames UFO discourse as a modern religious imagination shaped by institutions, media, and technology.
Influential in UAP culture for interviewing insiders and mapping how belief, secrecy, and experience produce “new religious movements.”

Former law-enforcement officer turned bestselling anomaly author, famous for the “Missing 411” series about unexplained disappearances.
Often overlaps UFO/Bigfoot/Fortean communities by framing disappearances as pattern-driven and possibly nonconventional.
Highly influential in modern paranormal media; heavily criticized for selective sourcing and interpretive leaps.

A Peruvian “contactee” figure best known for founding/leading Misión Rahma (Misión Rama) and organizing group contact expeditions.
Promoted claims of recurring communications with non-human intelligences and “scheduled encounters.”
A major Spanish-language presence in modern contactee spirituality and UFO esotericism.

A prolific American author best known for writing survey histories of UFO waves, myths, and aviation-related mysteries.
Often approached UFO claims through an aerospace/aviation lens, emphasizing documentation and chronology.
A staple reference name for readers seeking broad overviews rather than insider conspiracy narratives.

A British writer who became a defining voice on UFO mythmaking and disinformation through Mirage Men.
Highlighted how intelligence culture, hoaxes, and belief communities can mutually reinforce UFO narratives.
Influential among skeptical and “UFO-as-psyop” interpretations.

An Italian ufologist long associated with CUN (Centro Ufologico Nazionale) and Italian UFO case documentation.
Known for promoting Italian military/aviation UFO narratives and advocating institutional seriousness.
A central public face of mainstream Italian ufology for decades.

Former UK Ministry of Defence desk officer who became a flagship public voice for “government UFO files” and the UK’s official UFO history.
Best known for media commentary on the British UFO desk era and for elevating cases like Rendlesham Forest into mainstream awareness.
A disclosure-era “insider narrator” whose credibility is praised by proponents and challenged by skeptics over scope and interpretation.

Soviet test pilot and aviator celebrity whose later-life UFO advocacy made her a prominent “military aviation voice” in Russian UFO culture.
Known for publicly supporting the reality of anomalous aerial phenomena and engaging with Russian UFO researchers and media.
Her status as a celebrated pilot amplified the persuasive power of her claims, while critics argued authority did not equal evidence.

Trotskyist political theorist notorious for arguing that “flying saucers” could represent advanced beings emerging from socialist development—and should be engaged politically.
Authored one of the strangest fusions of Marxist futurism, nuclear-war pessimism, and extraterrestrial speculation in modern political history.
In UFO culture, he is famous less as an investigator than as an ideological meme: “the communist UFO guy.”

Physicist and engineer central to “high strangeness” defense-adjacent research: remote viewing programs, zero-point energy claims, and modern UAP-era speculation.
Co-led the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing work that fed into U.S. government psychic-intelligence efforts.
A major figure in contemporary UAP circles via associations with advanced propulsion concepts and organizations like TTSA-era networks.

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