Ufologists & Researchers

74 people who shaped the field — pioneers, investigators, skeptics, and the UAP era.

Avi Loeb

1962–

Harvard astrophysicist who founded the Galileo Project after proposing the interstellar object 'Oumuamua could be alien technology.

Uap Erawhistleblower

Christopher Mellon

1957–

Former Pentagon intelligence official who engineered the connections behind the 2017 New York Times AATIP revelations.

Uap Eramilitary

David Fravor

1965–

Commanded the 2004 'Tic Tac' UFO intercept off the USS Nimitz, the case that anchored the 2017 New York Times disclosure story.

Uap Erawhistleblower

David Grusch

1980–

Former intelligence officer whose 2023 sworn congressional testimony alleging a UAP crash-retrieval program made him disclosure's central whistleblower.

Uap Eraauthor

Diana Walsh Pasulka

1969–

Religious-studies scholar whose American Cosmic examined UFO belief as an emerging technological religion among scientific and tech elites.

Uap Erascientist

Eric W. Davis

1958–

Astrophysicist who authored classified Pentagon AAWSAP studies on warp-drive and wormhole propulsion physics.

Uap Erascientist

Garry Nolan

1961–

Stanford immunologist leading forensic laboratory analysis of alleged UAP materials and pilots' anomalous physiological effects.

Uap Erajournalist

George Knapp

1952–

Veteran investigative journalist who broke the Bob Lazar/Area 51 story and has spent decades covering Skinwalker Ranch and UAP secrecy.

Uap Erascientist

Harold E. Puthoff

1936–

Physicist who directed CIA remote-viewing research and later authored Pentagon AAWSAP studies on exotic UAP propulsion physics.

Uap Erajournalist

Jeremy Corbell

1977–

Documentary filmmaker who obtained and released several leaked Navy UAP videos and profiled Bob Lazar.

Uap Erajournalist

John Greenewald Jr.

1981–

Founded The Black Vault at age 15, filing over 10,000 FOIA requests and building one of the largest declassified-document archives in the world.

Uap Eramilitary

Karl E. Nell

1970s–

Retired Army colonel and former UAP Task Force liaison who publicly corroborated David Grusch's disclosure claims.

Uap Eramilitary

Kevin Day

1968–

Radar operator who first detected and tracked the 2004 Nimitz 'Tic Tac' objects on the USS Princeton's AEGIS system.

Uap Erawhistleblower

Luis Elizondo

1972–

Former head of the Pentagon's AATIP whose 2017 resignation and public statements catalyzed the modern UAP disclosure movement.

Uap Erainvestigator

Robert Bigelow

1944–

Aerospace and hotel entrepreneur who funded the Pentagon's AAWSAP UFO study and decades of private research at Skinwalker Ranch.

Uap Erajournalist

Ross Coulthart

1962–

Australian investigative journalist whose UAP reporting for NewsNation broke the David Grusch whistleblower story.

Uap Eramilitary

Ryan Graves

1986–

First post-2017 active-duty-era Navy pilot to testify to Congress about routine UAP sightings; founded Americans for Safe Aerospace.

Uap Erascientist

Sean M. Kirkpatrick

1965–

First director of the Pentagon's AARO, whose 2024 report found no evidence corroborating whistleblower crash-retrieval claims.

Uap Eramilitary

Timothy Gallaudet

1962–

Retired Navy rear admiral who testified to Congress that a 2015 UAP warning email was scrubbed from Navy servers.