UAP Personalities

Valentich, Frederick
- Central figure in one of aviation’s most famous UFO-linked disappearances (1978 Bass Strait incident).
- His final radio transmissions (“It’s not an aircraft”) became a cornerstone of pilot-UFO lore.
- Case is repeatedly re-framed by ufologists as abduction/attack, while official/skeptical explanations persist.
Vallée, Jacques
- Built a career as a “scientific ufologist,” pushing UFO research away from simple extraterrestrial narratives and toward folkloric / “control system” interpretations.
- Authored influential case-driven books (notably the Alien Contact Trilogy) that helped shape modern “high-strangeness” ufology.
- Associated with major 20th-century UFO networks and high-profile cases, while remaining publicly skeptical of easy answers.
Valone, Tom
- President of Integrity Research Institute and longtime editor of the Future Energy newsletter/eNews, known for curating “frontier” energy and propulsion claims.
- Editor/author behind widely-circulated alt-propulsion compilations on electrogravitics and zero-point energy, frequently cited in UAP-adjacent “breakthrough physics” circles.
- A visible conference/podcast-era advocate for unconventional research (energy, propulsion, bioelectromagnetics), praised as a curator and criticized for platforming speculative claims.
Van Tassel, George
- 1950s–70s “contactee” figure who claimed recurring telepathic/physical contact with space beings.
- Founded the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions, a major mid-century contactee gathering.
- Built the Integratron, promoted as a rejuvenation/time-travel/anti-gravity device based on alleged extraterrestrial instruction.
Vasin, Michael
- Co-originator (with Alexander Shcherbakov) of the 1970 “Spaceship Moon”/artificial Moon hypothesis.
- Proposed the Moon is a constructed object—an alien megastructure—later recycled across “hollow moon” and ancient-astronaut lore.
- Became a recurring citation in fringe UFO/ancient-aliens media as a “Soviet scientists said…” authority hook.
Ventre, John
- MUFON-affiliated investigator/organizer who became a TV-facing figure via Hangar 1: The UFO Files.
- Promoted “UFO history as evidence,” publishing multiple books aimed at investigators and fans.
- Publicly tied UFOs to broader paranormal/religious frameworks in some of his commentary and presentations.
Ventura, Jesse
- Celebrity politician and TV host who mainstreamed conspiracy/UFO themes via an entertainment-investigation format.
- Hosted episodes touching UFO hot-spots (e.g., Area 51/“Skinwalker”-style topics) and framed them as suppressed truths.
- Became a recurring reference point for “UFOs as government cover story” narratives in popular media.
Ventura, Tim
- Founded American Antigravity (2002) after years of independent “antigravity” research, becoming a major hub for electrogravitics / lifter experimentation and fringe-propulsion discussion.
- Co-founder and host/moderator of the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC), a recurring online event focused on warp drives, gravity modification, and UAP-adjacent propulsion physics.
- Best known today as a long-form interviewer and curator of “breakthrough propulsion” ideas—bridging serious aerospace/physics topics with speculative, controversial claims and community-driven replication efforts.
Vigay, Paul
- UK-based UFO/crop-circle researcher who became known for technical pattern analysis and “decoded” interpretations of formations.
- Built tools and published analytical write-ups that treated formations as information-bearing designs rather than pranks.
- His death (2009) was widely discussed in fringe UFO circles and sometimes mythologized as “mysterious.”
Vilas-Boas, Antônio
- One of the earliest widely publicized alien-abduction claims (Brazil, 1957), predating the Hill case’s cultural explosion.
- Story introduced motifs later repeated in abduction lore: forced boarding, medical examination, missing time, and sexual encounter narrative.
- Became a foundational “proto-abduction” reference point in both believer and skeptic literature.
Volke, Igor
- Estonia’s best-known ufologist for decades; founded AKRAK to collect/analyze anomalous-environment reports nationwide.
- Public-facing media figure explaining UFO reports, poltergeist-style anomalies, and environmental “X-files” claims.
- Authored multiple Estonian-language UFO books compiling cases and commentary.