Brad Sparks

Brad Sparks is an American UFO researcher known within the field primarily for painstaking statistical case cataloguing and for his role as one of the earliest and most technically sophisticated critics of the Majestic 12 documents, the purported 1947 briefing papers describing a secret group managing recovered alien technology that Stanton Friedman and William Moore promoted as authentic. Sparks, working alongside other Center for UFO Studies-affiliated researchers, published detailed forensic critiques identifying anachronisms and internal inconsistencies in the MJ-12 papers that most serious researchers now cite as evidence the documents were fabricated, a conclusion that placed Sparks at odds with prominent believers within the same research community. He has also contributed extensively to case cataloguing projects, including work on comprehensive UFO chronologies and radar-visual case databases used by other researchers as a factual baseline. Sparks maintains a comparatively low public profile relative to media-facing figures in the field, rarely appearing at conferences or in television documentaries, reflecting a research style oriented toward archival and documentary analysis rather than public advocacy. His MJ-12 critique remains an important, if lower-profile, example of internal quality control within a field frequently criticized for insufficient self-policing of dubious documentary evidence.