Ufologists & Researchers
74 people who shaped the field — pioneers, investigators, skeptics, and the UAP era.
A. J. Gevaerd
Founded Revista UFO and Brazil's Central UFO Research Bureau, conducting over 700 field investigations across three decades.
Auguste Meessen
Belgian physicist who led the scientific investigation of the 1989-90 Belgian UFO wave.
Bill Chalker
Australia's leading UFO researcher and chronicler of the Westall 1966 mass sighting.
Chris Rutkowski
Canada's leading UFO researcher and chronicler of the 1967 Shag Harbour incident.
Edison Boaventura Jr.
Founded Brazil's Grupo Ufológico do Guarujá in 1985 and built one of the country's largest private archives of declassified military UFO documents.
Erich von Däniken
Popularized the 'ancient astronaut' hypothesis with Chariots of the Gods? (1968), selling over 70 million copies despite comprehensive scholarly rejection.
Jaime Maussan
Mexico's most influential UFO broadcaster, whose career spans major regional sighting investigations and repeated, widely debunked hoax presentations, including 2023's 'alien mummies' shown to Congress.
Jean-Jacques Velasco
Directed France's official government UFO investigation unit SEPRA for nearly two decades, later declaring publicly his belief in extraterrestrial origin.
Jenny Randles
Prolific British author who coined the 'Oz Factor' and helped establish the early witness record for the Rendlesham Forest incident.
Nick Pope
Ran the UK Ministry of Defence's 'UFO desk' from 1991 to 1994, becoming Britain's most recognized government-insider UFO commentator.
Roberto Pinotti
Founder of Italy's Centro Ufologico Nazionale and organizer of the World UFO Symposium.
Rony Vernet
Founded UAP Brazil and used freedom-of-information law to declassify Amazon UAP records, culminating in a 2024 multi-sensor field expedition to a Yawanawá village in Acre.
Timothy Good
British author whose 1987 bestseller Above Top Secret introduced the American UFO-cover-up narrative to international audiences with extensive original UK research.
Uyrangê Bolivar Hollanda Lima
Commanded Brazil's 1977 Operação Prato, one of the only known military operations tasked directly with investigating and countering UFO activity.
Yves Sillard
As CNES director-general, provided the institutional backing that established GEPAN in 1977, embedding UFO research within the French space agency.