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📖 Almanac X · people

People in UAP / UFO history

Witnesses · researchers · journalists · officials. Sorted by how often they're mentioned in our corpus.

Bob Lazar

👁️ Bob Lazar

110 items
witness

Self-described former S-4 / Area 51 physicist; claims of Element 115 reverse-engineering propulsion.

George Knapp

📰 George Knapp

106 items
journalist

KLAS-TV journalist; broke the Bob Lazar story in 1989; "Weaponized" podcast.

David Grusch

👁️ David Grusch

91 items
witness

Former NGA / NRO; whistleblower under DoD IG protection; July 2023 House Oversight testimony.

Ross Coulthart

📰 Ross Coulthart

89 items
journalist

Australian investigative journalist; NewsNation UAP reporting; "In Plain Sight" (2021).

Jeremy Corbell

📰 Jeremy Corbell

82 items
journalist

Filmmaker; "Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers" (2018); "Weaponized" podcast w/ George Knapp.

Steven Greer

🔬 Steven Greer

78 items
researcher

Disclosure Project founder; orchestrated the 2001 National Press Club witness event.

Jesse Michels

📰 Jesse Michels

59 items
journalist

American Alchemy YouTube channel; long-form investigative interviews with witnesses & insiders.

Luis "Lue" Elizondo

🏛️ Luis "Lue" Elizondo

50 items
official

Former Pentagon AATIP director; whistleblower; "Imminent" memoir.

Richard Dolan

🔬 Richard Dolan

37 items
researcher

Historian; "UFOs and the National Security State" series.

Tim Burchett

🏛️ Tim Burchett

33 items
official

US Representative (TN); House Oversight subcommittee on UAP.

Anna Paulina Luna

🏛️ Anna Paulina Luna

13 items
official

US Representative (FL); House Task Force on Declassification; UAP advocate.

Jacques Vallée

🔬 Jacques Vallée

12 items
researcher

Computer scientist & ufologist; co-developed ARPANET; hyperdimensional hypothesis.

Christopher Mellon

🏛️ Christopher Mellon

11 items
official

Former Deputy Asst Secy of Defense for Intelligence; key figure in 2017 NYT disclosure.

Harold "Hal" Puthoff

🎓 Harold "Hal" Puthoff

11 items
academic

Physicist; SRI remote-viewing program; TTSA cofounder; Skinwalker Ranch research.

Leslie Kean

📰 Leslie Kean

11 items
journalist

Investigative journalist; "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record" (2010); 2017 NYT.

Sean Kirkpatrick

🏛️ Sean Kirkpatrick

11 items
official

Former AARO director (2022-2023); critic of NHI claims.

Edgar Mitchell

👁️ Edgar Mitchell

10 items
witness

Apollo 14 lunar module pilot; advocated openness about UFOs and ETs in his later life.

Tom DeLonge

🔬 Tom DeLonge

8 items
researcher

Musician (Blink-182); To The Stars Academy cofounder; bridge to AATIP material.

David Fravor

👁️ David Fravor

7 items
witness

Cmdr USN; Tic Tac primary witness; CO of VFA-41 "Black Aces" during Nimitz 2004 incident.

Ralph Blumenthal

📰 Ralph Blumenthal

7 items
journalist

NYT journalist; co-byline on the 2017 "Glowing Auras" piece that broke AATIP into mainstream.

J. Allen Hynek

🎓 J. Allen Hynek

6 items
academic

Astronomer; Project Blue Book scientific consultant; coined the "Close Encounter" classification system.

Travis Walton

👁️ Travis Walton

6 items
witness

Logger; subject of the 1975 Snowflake, AZ abduction; "Fire in the Sky".

Marco Rubio

🏛️ Marco Rubio

5 items
official

Former Senate Intel Vice Chair; pushed UAP transparency provisions in NDAA.

Robert Salas

👁️ Robert Salas

5 items
witness

Former USAF officer; Malmstrom AFB 1967 missile-shutdown event during a UFO sighting.

Barney Hill

👁️ Barney Hill

4 items
witness

Co-witness of the 1961 New Hampshire abduction case.

John E. Mack

🎓 John E. Mack

4 items
academic

Harvard psychiatry professor; Pulitzer-winning biographer; abduction researcher.

Linda Moulton Howe

📰 Linda Moulton Howe

4 items
journalist

Investigative journalist; "Earthfiles" creator; cattle-mutilation reporting.

Stanton Friedman

🔬 Stanton Friedman

4 items
researcher

Nuclear physicist; "Original Civilian Investigator of Roswell"; long-time MUFON figure.

Donald Keyhoe

🔬 Donald Keyhoe

3 items
researcher

Marine Corps major; NICAP director; influential 1950s-60s UFO author.

Kenneth Arnold

👁️ Kenneth Arnold

3 items
witness

Pilot whose June 24, 1947 sighting near Mt. Rainier coined the term "flying saucer".

Betty Hill

👁️ Betty Hill

2 items
witness

Co-witness of the 1961 New Hampshire abduction case.

Chuck Schumer

🏛️ Chuck Schumer

2 items
official

Senate Majority Leader (D-NY); 2023 UAP Disclosure Act sponsor.

Lonnie Zamora

👁️ Lonnie Zamora

2 items
witness

Socorro NM police officer; reported 1964 craft landing.

Ryan Graves

👁️ Ryan Graves

2 items
witness

Former F/A-18 pilot; 2023 congressional witness; Americans for Safe Aerospace founder.

Budd Hopkins

🔬 Budd Hopkins

1 items
researcher

Painter and abduction researcher; "Missing Time" 1981, "Intruders" 1987.

Charles Halt

👁️ Charles Halt

1 items
witness

Former USAF colonel; Rendlesham Forest deputy commander; the Halt Memo.

Daniel Sheehan

🔬 Daniel Sheehan

1 items
researcher

Constitutional litigator; New Paradigm Institute; long-time UAP disclosure advocate.

David M. Jacobs

🎓 David M. Jacobs

1 items
academic

Temple University history professor; abduction researcher.

James E. McDonald

🎓 James E. McDonald

1 items
academic

Atmospheric physicist at the University of Arizona; pushed for serious UFO research in the late 60s.

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👁️ Alex Dietrich

0 items
witness

Former USN F/A-18 pilot; co-witness of the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac event.

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🏛️ Kirk McConnell

0 items
official

Former Senate Armed Services Committee; involved in early UAPTF/AATIP oversight.