Contact
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Incidents
25 incidents
The Utsuro-bune IncidentEvidence rated ContestedA mysterious hollow vessel carrying a non-human woman washed ashore on the Japanese coast in 1803, documented in four historical texts.Gulf Breeze UFO FlapEvidence rated DebunkedLocal contractor Ed Walters claimed to photograph a UFO 32 times over several months; sparked a genuine mass wave of sightings across the community but Walters' own photographic evidence was exposed as a probable hoax when a styrofoam model was discovered in his former attic in 1990.Cussac Close EncounterEvidence rated DocumentedTwo children witnessed a silvery disk and four small humanoid beings in a rural meadow, later verified as genuine by official French government investigation.Ummo UFO Contact Case (Madrid, 1966–1967)Evidence rated DebunkedElaborate 20-year Spanish UFO contact hoax involving hundreds of typewritten letters and physical sightings, later admitted as a social experiment by creator José Luis Jordán Peña.'Oumuamua 2017Evidence rated ContestedFirst confirmed interstellar object detected entering the solar system, with anomalous properties sparking scientific debate about possible artificial origin.Kofu UFO IncidentEvidence rated ContestedTwo young schoolboys witnessed a UFO landing and close encounter with a fanged humanoid creature in rural Japan—one of the country's most famous Close Encounter of the Third Kind cases.Ariel School EncounterEvidence rated ContestedOver 60 primary school children witnessed a silver craft land near their school in Zimbabwe and reported contact with non-human beings.Ariel School UFO IncidentEvidence rated ContestedOn the morning of September 16, 1994, some sixty schoolchildren at a private primary school outside Harare reported watching a silver disc land in a nearby field and one or more black-clad, large-eyed beings deliver a wordless warning about environmental destruction.Mexico's Congressional UAP HearingEvidence rated DocumentedMexico's Chamber of Deputies held a historic UAP hearing featuring testimony from international military experts and allegations of recovered extraterrestrial remains.Kearney EncounterEvidence rated ContestedGrain dealer Reinhold Schmidt's reported close encounter with a disc-shaped craft and occupants claiming to be from Venus along the Platte River southeast of Kearney, Nebraska.Ariel School IncidentEvidence rated DocumentedOn September 16, 1994, 62 schoolchildren at Ariel School near Harare, Zimbabwe reported witnessing a large silver craft land on school grounds with small humanoid beings emerging.Frederick Valentich DisappearanceEvidence rated DocumentedA 20-year-old Australian pilot vanished over Bass Strait after reporting a hovering UFO with four bright lights via air traffic control; his aircraft was never found.Ripperston Farm EncountersEvidence rated DocumentedExtended series of close encounter events at a Welsh farm involving the Coombs family, including UFO sightings, humanoid figures, electrical interference, and Ministry of Defence investigation.Isla de Lobos Lighthouse IncidentEvidence rated ContestedA Uruguayan Navy corporal guarding a remote lighthouse reports a landed craft and three humanoid figures, paralysis, and a telepathic warning not to fire his weapon.Fatima Miracle of the SunEvidence rated ContestedOn October 13, 1917, an estimated 30,000–70,000 people witnessed a spinning, multicolored luminous disk perform aerial maneuvers near Fátima, Portugal. The phenomenon, claimed as proof of a Marian apparition, later became a case study in mass UFO sightings.Ariel School EncounterEvidence rated ContestedOn September 16, 1994, 62 schoolchildren at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported witnessing a silver disc-shaped craft land nearby with humanoid beings emerging, claiming telepathic contact.Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide (Hale-Bopp, 1997)Evidence rated DocumentedThirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate movement died in a rented Rancho Santa Fe mansion over several days in March 1997, believing a UFO trailing Comet Hale-Bopp would carry their souls away.Adamski Desert Encounter (1952)Evidence rated FringeOn 20 November 1952 George Adamski told companions he met a human-looking visitor from Venus, 'Orthon', beside a landed craft in the California desert, an event that launched the modern contactee movement.Lead Masks Case (Niterói, 1966)Evidence rated ContestedTwo Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a Niterói hill wearing lead eye masks and holding a note about swallowing capsules; the cause of death was never determined, and a minority of ufologists have linked the case to attempted contact with extraterrestrials.Project SerpoEvidence rated FringeA series of anonymous 2005 emails claimed that twelve US military personnel had spent 1965–1978 on a planet called Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli system under a secret exchange with aliens; no verifiable evidence has surfaced, and investigators have traced the material to a hoax.Rafael Pacheco Pérez Cessna Incident (1976)Evidence rated ContestedOn 21 June 1976 a 20-year-old student pilot on a practice flight in a Cessna 150 reportedly vanished from radar, reappeared over 250 km away near Acapulco, and later described a strange radio message claiming extraterrestrial origin; no verifiable official records survive.Dundy County Hoax (1884)Evidence rated DebunkedA June 1884 Nebraska State Journal story of a crashed cylindrical 'celestial visitor' on the Nebraska plains was a newspaper fabrication, admitted as a hoax in 1927, and is among the earliest American UFO-type stories still cited by ufologists.Fishersville Virginia Landing Report (1964)Evidence rated ContestedOn December 21, 1964, Harrisonburg gunsmith Horace Burns reported a large object landing in a field beside Route 250 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, a claim Project Blue Book investigated and ultimately dismissed as unsubstantiated.Ängelholm UFO Landing Claim, 1946Evidence rated FringeRailway worker Gösta Carlsson said he saw a disc-shaped craft land in a forest near Ängelholm in May 1946 and met its crew; the claim, first made public in 1971 and memorialised in 1972, rests on his testimony alone.Roskovec Landing Case (2006)Evidence rated ContestedOn 4 May 2006 residents of Roskovec in southern Albania reported a disc-shaped object briefly touching down on a village road; the next day dark circular marks were photographed on the asphalt. Albania's best-known UFO case, it rests on witness testimony and a photograph with no official or scientific analysis.
Personalities
276 people
Dr. Deirdre BarrettEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard psychologist applying dream analysis and hypnosis methodology to UFO abduction narratives and altered consciousness studies.Father William Booth GillEvidence rated DocumentedAnglican missionary whose two-night sighting at Boianai, Papua New Guinea in June 1959 — 38 witnesses, waving humanoid figures, and independent corroboration by J. Allen Hynek — remains one of the best-attested mass-witness UFO encounters on record.Gary KinderEvidence rated DocumentedSeattle-based nonfiction author whose 1987 book Light Years is a long-form, investigative account of Swiss contactee Billy Meier's claims.Timothy LearyEvidence rated FringePsychedelic pioneer and transhumanist theorist who framed extraterrestrial intelligence as an evolutionary driver and consciousness expansion mechanism.Steven M. GreerEvidence rated ContestedAmerican emergency physician turned UFO disclosure activist who founded CSETI and The Disclosure Project, and whose flagship physical evidence — the Atacama 'alien' skeleton — was later proven human.Fernanda PiresEvidence rated DocumentedBrazilian ufologist and MUFON International Director who organized Brazil's historic 2025 Congressional UFO hearing.Dr. Fred BellEvidence rated FringeNASA/DoD consultant and Pleiadian contactee claiming extraterrestrial technological transferBrian KeatingEvidence rated DocumentedCosmologist, public intellectual, and podcaster bridging academic physics with consciousness and anomaly research.Monique KlinkenberghEvidence rated DocumentedDutch crop circle researcher and founder of the Crop Circle Exhibition Project in Wiltshire, featured in Ancient Aliens and documentary television.Kenneth RingEvidence rated DocumentedPsychology professor who pioneered academic research linking near-death experiences with UFO encounters and proposed the 'encounter-prone personality' theory.Joshua CutchinEvidence rated DocumentedParanormal researcher and author who explores the convergence of UFO phenomena, folklore, mythology, and faerie contact.Mitch HorowitzEvidence rated DocumentedAmerican author and television host bridging academic rigor with paranormal and UFO/UAP research since 2024.Walter N. WebbEvidence rated DocumentedAstronomer and pioneering UFO investigator who documented the Betty and Barney Hill abduction and championed rigorous case methodology for four decades.Urandir Fernandes de OliveiraEvidence rated ContestedBrazilian ufologist and entrepreneur who founded Dakila Pesquisas and established the world's first lato sensu graduate program in Ufology in 2026.Michel DesmarquetEvidence rated FringeFrench-Australian contactee who claimed benevolent abduction to an alien planet in 1987 and authored *The Thiaoouba Prophecy*.Maureen PuddyEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian abductee and UFO researcher whose 1972 encounters featured vehicle interference, telepathic contact, and official police investigation.Mac TonniesEvidence rated ContestedTheorist who challenged the extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis with the cryptoterrestrial model, proposing unknown terrestrial civilizations as alternative explanations.Miriam DelicadoEvidence rated FringeExtraterrestrial contactee and founder of The Great Gathering of Humanity, bridging Tall Blonde alien contact claims with indigenous prophecy advocacy.Vincent GaddisEvidence rated ContestedAmerican journalist who popularized anomalous phenomena; coined 'Bermuda Triangle' and documented UFO/sea mysteries.Chandra WickramasingheEvidence rated ContestedMathematician, astronomer, and panspermia theorist who argues non-human intelligence pervades the cosmos via cometary seeds of life.Tony DoddEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering British UFO investigator and police sergeant who specialized in alien abduction and military-alien interaction cases.Betty Andreasson LucaEvidence rated DocumentedMost extensively investigated abductee; claims of alien contact, medical procedures, and mysterious 'blue book' documented through lie detection and psychiatric evaluation.Joe FirmageEvidence rated FringeSilicon Valley internet entrepreneur who resigned from a billion-dollar company after claiming an extraterrestrial contact experience, then spent two decades and a fortune chasing exotic propulsion — a saga that ended in fraud and elder-abuse allegations.Massimo FratiniEvidence rated DocumentedItalian medical radiologist and pioneering UFO researcher who founded Rome's first ufological research group and organized landmark international conferences.Budd HopkinsEvidence rated DocumentedPioneer of alien abduction research; founded the Intruders Foundation and authored influential books on UFO abductions.Rauni-Leena Luukanen-KildeEvidence rated ContestedFinnish physician and UFO researcher known for claims about alien implants and government mind controlOren LyonsEvidence rated DocumentedHaudenosaunee Faithkeeper bridging indigenous cosmology with contemporary environmental and spiritual advocacyTruman BethurumEvidence rated Contested1950s contactee who claimed repeated encounters with Aura Rhanes, female captain of an extraterrestrial spacecraft from the hidden planet Clarion.Kathleen MardenEvidence rated DocumentedLeading abduction researcher, trustee of Betty and Barney Hill estate, MUFON directorJames W. PennistonEvidence rated DocumentedUS Air Force Staff Sergeant and primary witness to the 1980 Rendlesham Forest encounter; claims direct contact with a non-human craft.Nancy LiederEvidence rated FringeWisconsin-based self-described contactee and founder of ZetaTalk, best known for predicting a catastrophic Nibiru-driven pole shift in May 2003 — one of the internet era's most documented failed prophecies.Dan ShermanEvidence rated ContestedUSAF officer claiming NSA training as telepathic communicator with extraterrestrialsDuncan TrussellEvidence rated DocumentedComedian, podcaster, and producer whose vast platform has centered UFO disclosure, consciousness studies, and the cultural dimensions of official UAP acknowledgment.Ilia DelioEvidence rated DocumentedTheologian and scholar exploring consciousness, evolution, and the theological implications of extraterrestrial life.Robbert van den BroekeEvidence rated ContestedDutch paranormal medium and self-described UFO-contactee claiming crop circle prediction and spirit photography abilities.Wendelle C. StevensEvidence rated DocumentedUSAF lieutenant colonel who founded the world's largest private UFO photo archive and spent six decades investigating contact cases across the globe.Jim SemivanEvidence rated DocumentedFormer CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer and co-founder of To The Stars Academy, now a prominent disclosure advocate proposing interdimensional theories of UAP.Maurice MasseEvidence rated DocumentedFrench lavender farmer whose close encounter with a landed UFO and humanoid beings became one of Europe's best-documented contact casesBarbara LambEvidence rated ContestedClinical psychotherapist and pioneering regression therapist who has worked with thousands of UFO abductees since 1991.Reg PresleyEvidence rated DocumentedThe Troggs frontman who spent his later years investigating crop circles and UFO phenomena.Robert K. G. TempleEvidence rated ContestedAuthor of The Sirius Mystery, advancing the ancient astronauts hypothesis through Dogon cosmology and extraterrestrial contact claims.Elizabeth KlarerEvidence rated ContestedSouth African aviator and contactee who claimed repeated extraterrestrial encounters and a romantic relationship with an alien being named Akon.Michael HesemannEvidence rated DocumentedGerman historian and Vatican-accredited journalist whose decades-long UFO investigations span the Billy Meier case, Carlos Diaz encounters, and Roswell autopsy footage.Shari AdamiakEvidence rated DocumentedCSETI executive director and CE-5 investigator who formalized human-initiated contact protocols during the early post-Cold War UFO research renaissanceAnn DruffelEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering UFO researcher and abduction investigator who documented systematic case studies and defense techniques against alleged alien encounters.R. Leo SprinkleEvidence rated DocumentedCounseling psychologist who pioneered large-scale clinical work with UFO abductees using hypnotic regression therapy.Paul VillaEvidence rated ContestedAlbuquerque mechanic and UFO contactee who claimed prearranged photographic encounters with extraterrestrial beings from 1963 onward.Gustavo GonzalezEvidence rated DocumentedCuban businessman and truck driver involved in the famous 1954 Petare humanoid encounter in Venezuela.Coral LorenzenEvidence rated DocumentedCo-founder of APRO and pioneering civilian UFO researcherAndré MaldonadoEvidence rated FringePuerto Rican fisherman who claims ongoing contact with an advanced non-human entity named AmaronLloyd PyeEvidence rated FringeAlternative knowledge researcher and proponent of extraterrestrial intervention in human evolution, known for leading the Starchild Skull Project investigation.Klaus DonaEvidence rated FringeAustrian archaeologist and curator specializing in out-of-place artifacts and forbidden archaeology.Dr. Frank E. StrangesEvidence rated FringeEvangelical minister and UFO researcher who claimed contact with Valiant Thor, a visitor from Venus, in 1959.Andrija PuharichEvidence rated ContestedMedical doctor and parapsychologist who brought Uri Geller to scientific prominence and claimed to channel a cosmic council called The Nine.James Albert HarderEvidence rated ContestedUC Berkeley engineer who pioneered hypnotic regression techniques for investigating UFO abduction claims.Preston E. DennettEvidence rated DocumentedProlific UFO author and field investigator with 53+ published books and hundreds of documented witness interviews since 1986.Robbie GrahamEvidence rated DocumentedFilm scholar and UFO researcher who examined how Hollywood and popular culture shaped narratives of contact and disclosure.John Salter Jr.Evidence rated DocumentedCivil rights organizer and sociology professor who reported a 1988 UFO abduction encounter with his son, later known as Hunter Gray.George NooryEvidence rated DocumentedWeeknight host of Coast to Coast AM and the most influential paranormal media figure of the 21st century.Lon StricklerEvidence rated DocumentedFortean researcher and author documenting paranormal phenomena and UAP encounters through Phantoms & Monsters.Emanuel SwedenborgEvidence rated Documented18th-century Swedish scientist and mystic who documented visionary encounters with non-human intelligences from other planets.Ray StanfordEvidence rated ContestedSelf-taught Texas UFO researcher known for controversial photographic evidence claims and Project Starlight International.George C. AndrewsEvidence rated DocumentedUFO researcher and author who systematically documented extraterrestrial contact evidence and entity taxonomy.Desmond LeslieEvidence rated DocumentedBritish aviator and author whose historical UFO research shaped early contactee literature and UFO discourse.Enrique Castillo RincónEvidence rated FringeCosta Rican electrical engineer and Pleiadian contactee whose detailed contact narratives became one of the most documented extraterrestrial contact cases in South America.Thom PowellEvidence rated ContestedScience educator and field investigator who bridges UFO and Bigfoot research, proposing interconnected paranormal phenomena in the Pacific Northwest.Jay AndersonEvidence rated ContestedYouTube UFO researcher and self-identified experiencer who founded Project Unity, gaining mainstream attention through the Joe Rogan Experience.Elisabet SahtourisEvidence rated DocumentedEvolutionary biologist and systems theorist who integrated consciousness studies with extraterrestrial intelligence and Gaia hypothesis research.Jorge MartínEvidence rated ContestedPuerto Rican investigative journalist and UFO researcher specializing in Caribbean phenomena and alleged extraterrestrial bases.Kewaunee LapseritisEvidence rated ContestedSasquatch-UFO contactee and telepathy researcher claiming 40+ years of interdimensional ET communicationJason ShurkaEvidence rated FringeEntrepreneur and self-proclaimed alien contactee who founded UNIFYD World and leads the DISCLOSURE interview series on non-human intelligence contact.Freddy SilvaEvidence rated DocumentedBestselling crop circle investigator and sacred sites researcher who spent 30 years bridging Earth mysteries, consciousness, and potential extraterrestrial phenomena.Elena DanaanEvidence rated ContestedFrench archaeologist and self-described extraterrestrial contactee claiming decades-long contact with benevolent off-world civilizations and the Galactic Federation.Corrado MalangaEvidence rated ContestedItalian organic chemistry professor and veteran UFO abduction researcher who developed breakthrough therapeutic methods for liberation from alien contact.Reinerio HernandezEvidence rated DocumentedAttorney and co-founder of FREE Foundation studying consciousness and extraterrestrial contact experiencesDaniel William FryEvidence rated ContestedEarly UFO contactee and founder of Understanding Inc., claiming a 1950 spacecraft encounter at White Sands Proving Ground.Samuel Eaton ThompsonEvidence rated FringeEarly North American UFO contactee whose 1950 Venusian encounter claim may predate George Adamski's widely publicized contacts.Paola Leopizzi HarrisEvidence rated ContestedItalo-American investigative journalist and photojournalist who spent over four decades interviewing military witnesses, whistleblowers, and abductees — and co-authored with Jacques Vallée the landmark study of the 1945 Trinity UFO crash predating Roswell.Enrique BarriosEvidence rated FringeVenezuelan author and UFO contactee whose Ami book series conveyed extraterrestrial messages of universal love to millions.Rosemary Ellen GuileyEvidence rated ContestedProlific paranormal researcher who investigated UFO abductions, interdimensional contact, and connections between alien encounters and folkloric entities.Jim SparksEvidence rated ContestedAmerican contactee with claimed 95% conscious recall of 19 years of contact with non-human beings, author of 'The Keepers'Carlos Diaz VilchisEvidence rated ContestedMexican photographer who documented decades of alleged direct contact with extraterrestrial beings through the 'Ships of Light' encounters beginning in 1981.David Hatcher ChildressEvidence rated FringeProlific author and ancient astronaut theorist who popularized extraterrestrial archaeology through books, publishing, and television.Sixto Paz WellsEvidence rated ContestedPeruvian author and contactee who founded the Rahma Mission, a systematic protocol for facilitating extraterrestrial contact through group meditation.Credo Vusamazulu MutwaEvidence rated ContestedZulu sangoma and author who integrated alien abduction accounts into African oral tradition, linking UFO encounters to ancestral spiritual knowledge.David BrinEvidence rated DocumentedAstrophysicist and award-winning science fiction author exploring the Fermi Paradox, first contact protocols, and existential risks of broadcasting Earth's location into space.Sheila Pryce BrooksEvidence rated ContestedConsciousness researcher who reframes sleep paralysis as threshold contact experience, bridging neuroscience and UFO contact phenomena.Cedric AllinghamEvidence rated DebunkedFictional UFO contactee created by Patrick Moore as a satirical hoax exposing UFO research credulity.Marius DewildeEvidence rated DocumentedFrench railway worker whose 1954 encounter with small humanoid beings became the centerpiece of the historic French UFO wave.Luis Fernando Mostajo MaertensEvidence rated FringeBolivian architect and UFO contactee claiming direct ET contact since age 13; author and international speaker on extraterrestrial contact and spiritual preparation.Peter KolosimoEvidence rated FringeItalian journalist and founder of pseudoarchaeology who popularized ancient astronaut theories in the 1960s–70s.Marcus LowthEvidence rated DocumentedContemporary UFO researcher, podcaster, and editor-in-chief of UFO Insight platform covering contactee accounts and paranormal connections.George Hunt WilliamsonEvidence rated FringeEarly 1950s contactee and occultist who pioneered radio and Ouija board communications with alleged extraterrestrials.George AdamskiEvidence rated FringePioneering UFO contactee whose 1952 Desert Center encounter launched the 'space brother' movement of the 1950s–60s.Glenn StecklingEvidence rated DocumentedDirector of the George Adamski Foundation and curator of one of the oldest enduring UFO organizations, bridging the 1950s contactee movement with contemporary UFO research.Jacques BergierEvidence rated ContestedFrench esotericist and author whose bestseller The Morning of the Magicians (1960) established UFOs, alchemy, and occultism as serious intellectual subjects.Gregg BradenEvidence rated FringeGeologist, systems engineer, and bestselling author who bridges science and spirituality, proposing that human DNA acts as a receiver of cosmic consciousness and exploring extraterrestrial influence on human evolution.Darryl AnkaEvidence rated FringeCanadian filmmaker and channeler of Bashar, a claimed extraterrestrial contact specialist from the future.John G. FullerEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering investigative journalist who legitimized UFO research by breaking the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story and investigating the 1965 Exeter incident.Rob MacGregorEvidence rated DocumentedAmerican journalist, author, and UFO researcher; co-authored definitive Bermuda Triangle electronic fog studies with witness Bruce Gernon.Marjorie FishEvidence rated DocumentedAmateur astronomer and teacher whose 3D star map model became central to the Betty & Barney Hill case analysis, later retracted with scientific integrity.Mary RodwellEvidence rated ContestedBritish-born Australian nurse turned hypnotherapist who built one of the world's largest experiencer databases and argues that contact with non-human intelligence is quietly reshaping human evolution.Sean David MortonEvidence rated ContestedParanormal researcher, UFO documentarian, and Coast to Coast AM fixture whose remote-viewing claims and apocalyptic predictions led to federal conviction for investment fraud.Giorgio BongiovanniEvidence rated FringeItalian stigmatized contactee and UFO researcher who claims direct extraterrestrial contact and mystical experiences.Dr. Michael P. MastersEvidence rated DocumentedAnthropologist proposing that UAP entities may be future human descendants visiting the past via temporal mechanics.Randall CarlsonEvidence rated DocumentedAmerican geologist, catastrophism researcher, and podcaster who brings scientific framework to discussions of ancient advanced knowledge, cosmic catastrophes, and consciousness.Gerald LightEvidence rated ContestedOccultist and UFO witness who claimed to observe five types of alien aircraft at Muroc Air Force Base in 1954Maurizio BaiataEvidence rated FringeRome-born journalist and entrepreneur who built Italy's UFO media industry from the ground up, then went on to claim his own alien contact experience.Matías De StefanoEvidence rated ContestedArgentine spiritual educator and indigo child claiming lifelong memories of extraterrestrial existence and non-human contact.J.Z. KnightEvidence rated FringeNew Age author and purported channeler of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old Lemurian being; founder of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment and prominent advocate for extraterrestrial contact.Scott CorralesEvidence rated DocumentedHispanic ufology researcher and founder of Inexplicata journal, specialist in Latin American UAP phenomena and paranormal encounters.Reinaldo RíosEvidence rated ContestedPuerto Rican educator and ufologist who pioneered Caribbean cryptozoological research and founded the Ruta Extraterrestre.Regina MeredithEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering television journalist bridging mainstream and disclosure communities through three decades of UFO/UAP and consciousness media.Steven SpielbergEvidence rated DocumentedIconic filmmaker with seven decades of UFO fascination; director of Close Encounters and Disclosure Day; recent public advocate for extraterrestrial contact reality.Meade LayneEvidence rated FringePioneering UFO researcher and founder of Borderland Sciences who developed the interdimensional hypothesis before Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEvidence rated ContestedSherlock Holmes creator who devoted his later life to investigating spiritualism, fairies, and non-human intelligence.Erich von DänikenEvidence rated FringeSwiss author and ancient astronaut theory pioneer whose 1968 bestseller 'Chariots of the Gods?' transformed public discourse on extraterrestrial contact and human origins.Nancy du TertreEvidence rated ContestedAttorney, paranormal investigator, and remote viewer who applies comparative linguistics to the study of extraterrestrial communication.Kimberly S. EngelsEvidence rated DocumentedPhilosopher and phenomenologist studying consciousness, experiencer testimony, and the lived experience of UAP contact.Chan ThomasEvidence rated ContestedAerospace engineer and ufologist who conducted classified UFO research for McDonnell Douglas and published a CIA-suppressed theory of catastrophic pole-shifts.Dr. Ardy Sixkiller ClarkeEvidence rated DocumentedCherokee/Choctaw academic and UFO researcher who documented indigenous Star People contact traditions.Colm A. KelleherEvidence rated DocumentedIrish biochemist and paranormal researcher who led investigations at Skinwalker Ranch and co-authored the landmark study of anomalous phenomena.Barbara MarciniakEvidence rated FringePleiadian contactee and trance channeler whose bestselling books became foundational texts in post-New Age spirituality and UFO contact lore.Jim PennistonEvidence rated ContestedUSAF Security Sergeant who claims to have touched a UFO and received binary code at Rendlesham Forest in 1980Reinhold O. SchmidtEvidence rated DebunkedNebraska grain buyer and twice-convicted fraudster whose 1957 'Kearney Incident' contactee claim became a footnote in Carl Sagan's own writing after Sagan testified against him at his fraud trial.Dr. Anil MenonEvidence rated DocumentedNASA astronaut and emergency physician conducting direct extraterrestrial life detection experiments aboard the International Space Station.Jack ParsonsEvidence rated ContestedRocket scientist and occultist whose 1946 Babalon Working ritual is speculatively linked to the modern UFO boomMike ClellandEvidence rated DocumentedAuthor and UFO researcher who bridges wilderness expertise with systematic investigation of owls, UFO contact, and synchronicityRaël (Claude Vorilhon)Evidence rated FringeFrench contactee who says a small extraterrestrial anointed him messenger of humanity's creators in 1973, and who built that encounter into the Raëlian movement, a global UFO religion later entangled in a disputed human-cloning claim.Salvador FreixedoEvidence rated FringeExcommunicated Spanish Jesuit priest who became Iberian and Latin American ufology's foremost theologian of contact, arguing that UFOs and religion are the same phenomenon in different costumes.Tony RodriguesEvidence rated FringeAmerican SSP experiencer, remote viewing instructor, and author of covert consciousness research programs involving extraterrestrial contact.Dolores CannonEvidence rated FringePioneering hypnotherapist and author who used past-life regression to investigate UFO abductions and extraterrestrial contact claims.Mark RichardsEvidence rated FringeIncarcerated secret space program officer claiming off-world military service and battles against extraterrestrial forces.Len KastenEvidence rated FringeUFO researcher and author who documented 30+ years of extraterrestrial contact evidence and classified military programsSheldan NidleEvidence rated FringeAmerican Sirian contactee and founder of the Planetary Activation Organization; channeled messages about galactic first contact for three decades.Buck NelsonEvidence rated FringeMissouri farmer and early UFO contactee whose 1956 account of interplanetary travel became a landmark of 1950s-60s contactee movement.Dr. Edith FioreEvidence rated DocumentedClinical psychologist and regression therapist who pioneered hypnotherapy treatment for alleged UFO abductees.TuellaEvidence rated FringeChanneler who shifted the Ashtar Command narrative from technological intervention to spiritual ascension through UFO contact claims.James GillilandEvidence rated FringeFounder of ECETI Ranch, prominent contactee and multi-dimensional contact researcher based in Washington.Warren P. AstonEvidence rated DocumentedInternational UFO researcher and author known for documenting the world's longest-running alien contact case, the Amicizia Friendship phenomenon.Robert Anton WilsonEvidence rated FringeAmerican author and philosopher who explored UFOs, consciousness, and reality through fiction, essays, and media appearances.Michael P. MastersEvidence rated ContestedAnthropologist proposing that UAP encounters represent future humans conducting temporal archaeology on their evolutionary pastBruno SammacicciaEvidence rated ContestedItalian scholar and primary witness to the Friendship case, claiming decades of contact with tall humanoid extraterrestrials in post-WWII Italy.Richard Sharpe ShaverEvidence rated FringePulp author and self-proclaimed contactee whose 'Shaver Mystery' narratives of underground civilizations profoundly influenced post-war UFO and paranormal mythology.Rebecca Hardcastle WrightEvidence rated ContestedAmerican consciousness researcher and self-described lifelong contactee who coined the term 'exoconsciousness' and founded the Institute for Exoconsciousness to study the psychology of extraterrestrial contact.J. PosadasEvidence rated FringeTrotskyist revolutionary who synthesized Marxist theory with belief in extraterrestrial communist civilizations observing humanity's path to socialism.Matilda O'Donnell MacElroyEvidence rated FringeArmy Air Force nurse who claimed to have telepathically interviewed the Roswell alien being in July–August 1947John E. MackEvidence rated ContestedHarvard psychiatrist who brought academic rigor to alien abduction research despite institutional resistanceAlan SteinfeldEvidence rated DocumentedHost of 'New Realities' for 30+ years and longest-running emcee of Contact in the Desert, the world's largest UFO conference; author of the bestselling anthology 'Making Contact.'Paul LaffoleyEvidence rated FringeVisionary artist and architect who mapped a claimed alien brain implant into decades of intricate cosmological paintings, becoming a singular bridge between contactee testimony and outsider art.Albert S. RosalesEvidence rated DocumentedWorld's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases; creator of comprehensive database cataloging 18,000+ humanoid sighting reports since 1993.Eugenio SiragusaEvidence rated FringeItalian UFO contactee and founder of Fratellanza Cosmica who claimed direct contact with extraterrestrials beginning in 1962Dr. Benjamin SimonEvidence rated DocumentedPsychiatrist who pioneered regressive hypnotherapy in UFO abduction investigation through the landmark Betty & Barney Hill case.Andrew CollinsEvidence rated DocumentedBritish UFO researcher and ancient astronaut author who investigates connections between early civilizations, astronomical alignments, and non-human contact.Rodrigo FuenzalidaEvidence rated DocumentedChilean ufologist and founder of AION, the media-facing figure who took Chilean UFO research onto the international stageValiant ThorEvidence rated FringeAlleged Venusian visitor who reportedly resided at the Pentagon during the Eisenhower administration (1957–1960) to advocate for nuclear disarmament.Andrew TomasEvidence rated ContestedRussian-born UFO researcher and pioneering ancient astronaut theorist who became Australia's foremost voice in extraterrestrial archaeology.Stella LansingEvidence rated ContestedPioneer UFO videographer whose 50+ reels of Super 8 film documented humanoid encounters, geometric anomalies, and Men in Black phenomena from 1961 to 1991.Sarah ScolesEvidence rated DocumentedScience journalist and author who examines UFO culture as an anthropological phenomenon, balancing skepticism with open inquiry.Fernando SesmaEvidence rated ContestedSpanish contactee and UFO researcher who founded one of Europe's first organized UFO groups and became the central figure in the UMMO affair.William HenryEvidence rated FringeAlternative historian and author who interprets ancient art and spirituality as evidence of extraterrestrial intervention and advanced ascension technology.Edgar CayceEvidence rated FringeIconic "Sleeping Prophet" whose 14,000+ recorded readings include cryptic references to extraterrestrial visitation and cosmic reincarnation.Gloria Lee ByrdEvidence rated Fringe1950s–60s airline flight attendant and UFO contactee who claimed Venusian communication through automatic writing and founded the Cosmon Research Foundation with ~2,000 members before her death in a Washington D.C. hunger strike in 1962.Dr. Jon KlimoEvidence rated DocumentedParapsychologist and chair of the FREE Foundation's landmark study on UFO contact experiencers; 45+ years bridging academic psychology with consciousness and contact phenomena research.Philip K. DickEvidence rated ContestedVisionary science fiction author who reported a profound contact experience with a transcendental intelligence in 1974.Kary MullisEvidence rated DocumentedNobel Prize–winning biochemist who publicly disclosed a close encounter experience and remained open to paranormal phenomena.Shirley MacLaineEvidence rated DocumentedOscar-winning actress and bestselling spiritual author who publicly advocated for UFO disclosure and reincarnation beliefs.Gabriel GreenEvidence rated ContestedUFO contactee, founder of AFSCA, and write-in presidential candidate advocating for Space Brothers disclosure.Karl L. VeitEvidence rated DocumentedCo-founder of DUIST and UFO-Nachrichten, pioneering German UFO researcher and publisher who established one of Europe's first organized UFO research organizations.Eugene H. DrakeEvidence rated FringeObscure 1950s UFO contactee whose claimed extraterrestrial encounters and spacecraft illustrations predated more famous contactees like George Adamski.Dr. Claude SwansonEvidence rated ContestedPhysicist whose unified-field and torsion-field research bridges conventional quantum mechanics and alternative explanations for UFO propulsion.Orfeo Matthew AngelucciEvidence rated ContestedItalian-American UFO contactee who claimed repeated encounters with extraterrestrial beings starting in 1952 and published influential accounts of space travel and alien messages.Stefano BrecciaEvidence rated ContestedItalian electrical engineer and documentarian of Italy's largest mass UFO contact case (Amicizia), which involved over 100 witnesses across decades.Air Marshal Sir Peter HorsleyEvidence rated ContestedRAF Air Marshal and royal equerry who investigated UFOs for Prince Philip and claimed contact with an extraterrestrial entity.Stephen HawkingEvidence rated DocumentedRenowned theoretical physicist who warned against contacting extraterrestrial civilizations but skeptically dismissed UFO visitation claims.Preston B. NicholsEvidence rated FringeLong Island electronics engineer whose 1992 book The Montauk Project launched the Camp Hero time-travel and mind-control legend.Brinsley Le Poer TrenchEvidence rated ContestedIrish peer who brought UFO research to the British Parliament and pioneered organized civilian investigation.Shaun RyderEvidence rated ContestedHappy Mondays frontman and public UFO/alien contactee who claims ongoing extraterrestrial encounters since age 15.Giorgio DibitontoEvidence rated FringeFormer Catholic seminarian turned Italian contactee whose 1980 encounters with beings he called "extraterrestrial Angels" produced a bestselling book and a small devotional movement.Carlos CastanedaEvidence rated ContestedAnthropologist and author whose controversial Don Juan books pioneered the New Age movement and contemporary Western shamanism.Charles-Maxence LayetEvidence rated DocumentedFrench science journalist and parliamentary aide who documented European UAP research and electromagnetic phenomenaRobert CharrouxEvidence rated FringeFrench author and pioneer of ancient astronaut theory in Europe; published speculative histories of extraterrestrial contact with ancient civilizations in the 1960s.Dana RedfieldEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee and author who documented alleged alien abduction experiences through visionary fictionJim SchnabelEvidence rated DocumentedScience writer and investigative journalist renowned for exposing America's secret psychic espionage program and skeptical analysis of UFO abduction phenomena.Ray PalmerEvidence rated DocumentedScience fiction editor and publisher who popularized the flying saucer phenomenon and shaped modern UFO discourse through pulp magazines.Stefan MichalakEvidence rated DocumentedPolish immigrant mechanic whose close encounter at Falcon Lake, Canada (1967) left grid-pattern burns and became the country's most-documented UFO case.Maria OrsitschEvidence rated FringeAustrian-German medium and founder of the Vril Society who claimed telepathic contact with extraterrestrials from Aldebaran in 1917.Dr. James E. HouranEvidence rated DocumentedClinical psychologist and parapsychologist whose research examines the psychological and perceptual mechanisms underlying UFO sightings and paranormal encounters.Francisco Mourão CorrêaEvidence rated DocumentedPortuguese exopolitics researcher and founder of Exopolitics Portugal, pioneering UFO disclosure advocacy in Southern EuropeGabriele AmorthEvidence rated DocumentedItalian Vatican exorcist who performed 60,000 exorcisms and viewed UFO phenomena as demonic deception.J. Gordon MeltonEvidence rated DocumentedReligious studies scholar and founder of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, specializing in UFO religions and extraterrestrial contact movements.Konstantin Eduardovich TsiolkovskyEvidence rated DocumentedRussian space theorist and panpsychist philosopher who believed in universal extraterrestrial life and proposed the zoo hypothesis decades before Fermi.Dr. Robert E. BartholomewEvidence rated DocumentedMedical sociologist and researcher of mass delusions, social panics, and UFO phenomena from a skeptical academic perspective.Andy MarcialEvidence rated DocumentedPuerto Rican UAP researcher and documentarian who leaked DHS videos and co-created Transmedium documentary series investigating Caribbean anomalies.Susan Demeter-St. ClairEvidence rated ContestedCanadian scholar bridging military research and esoteric approaches to UFO and anomalies studiesChris ImpeyEvidence rated DocumentedUniversity Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at Arizona who bridges rigorous exoplanet science with public discourse on extraterrestrial life and contact preparation.Lawrence R. SpencerEvidence rated FringeUFO author and editor of *Alien Interview*, which presents alleged 1947 Roswell contactee testimony.Barry H. DowningEvidence rated DocumentedPresbyterian theologian who pioneered ancient astronaut theory through biblical interpretationJavier Cabrera DarqueaEvidence rated FringePeruvian physician and curator of the Ica Stones museum, who spent over four decades documenting and promoting controversial engraved stones claimed to depict ancient advanced knowledge.Woodrow DerenbergerEvidence rated ContestedWest Virginia salesman whose November 1966 highway encounter with a self-described visitor named 'Indrid Cold' helped seed the Mothman legend and a decades-long contactee mythology.Terence Kemp McKennaEvidence rated FringeEthnobotanist and consciousness researcher who connected psilocybin experiences to extraterrestrial contact and alien intelligence.Ellen CrystallEvidence rated ContestedNew Jersey-based UFO researcher and author who put the Pine Bush, New York sightings on the national mapRichard BoylanEvidence rated FringeAmerican self-described psychologist and abduction researcher who moved from clinical practice into 'star kids' and star-visitor contact claims.Josef F. BlumrichEvidence rated ContestedNASA aerospace engineer who interpreted the biblical Book of Ezekiel as an eyewitness account of alien spacecraft technology.Nikola TeslaEvidence rated ContestedVisionary inventor whose advanced technology designs are frequently cited in UFO propulsion and alternative energy research circles.Ruth MontgomeryEvidence rated FringeVeteran Washington correspondent who became a channeling author and popularized the 'walk-in' idea in New Age and UFO circles.Paolo ToselliEvidence rated DocumentedItalian ufologist, founding member and president of CISU, specialist in IFO methodology and UFO psychology.Bill HerrmannEvidence rated ContestedSouth Carolina diesel mechanic and abductee who claimed contact with extraterrestrials from Zeta Reticuli in 1977–1979.Virgilio Sanchez-OcejoEvidence rated DocumentedCuban-born UFO researcher and journalist who bridged Spanish and English-language UFO research traditions through Miami-based investigations and publications.Andrew GallimoreEvidence rated ContestedComputational neurobiologist and pharmacologist researching DMT as a tool for contact with non-human intelligence.John E. MackEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard psychiatrist who legitimized alien abduction research as a credible phenomenon deserving rigorous clinical investigation.Whitley StrieberEvidence rated ContestedHorror novelist turned abduction advocate whose 1987 bestseller *Communion* defined the modern alien-encounter narrative.James W. MoseleyEvidence rated DocumentedPublisher, prankster, and self-described "grave-robbing ufologist" whose Saucer News and Saucer Smear chronicled — and gleefully sabotaged — six decades of UFO culture.Diane TessmanEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee, former APRO/MUFON field investigator, and self-described psychic channel who says a being named Tibus — part of a crew she believes to be time-traveling humans from Earth's own future — has communicated with her since a childhood abduction in November 1952.Timothy AlberinoEvidence rated FringeAmerican author and explorer who interprets UFO phenomena as manifestations of fallen angels and Nephilim, blending biblical theology with alternative history research.Diana Walsh PasulkaEvidence rated ContestedReligious studies scholar whose ethnography of Silicon Valley UFO believers argues that belief in extraterrestrial intelligence is emerging as a modern quasi-religion.Douglas A. VakochEvidence rated DocumentedAstrobiologist and president of METI International, leading advocate for active signaling to extraterrestrial intelligence.Claude Vorilhon (Raël)Evidence rated FringeFrench journalist and former pop singer who, as "Raël," turned a claimed 1973 alien encounter into the International Raëlian Movement, a global UFO religion built around genetic-engineering cosmology, cloning research, and a prophesied 2035 return of humanity's extraterrestrial creators.Derral SimsEvidence rated ContestedPioneering abduction researcher and founder of SABER who shifted the field toward physical evidence collection and forensic methodology.Michael GarrettEvidence rated DocumentedSETI astrophysicist and chair of the 2026 IAA post-detection protocol revision.Jordan Eric PiersonEvidence rated FringeEmerging interdisciplinary researcher proposing a unifying framework linking UAP phenomena with consciousness studies and human evolution.Emily HarnettEvidence rated DocumentedPhiladelphia-based writer and cultural critic analyzing Silicon Valley's appropriation of UFO mysticism and cosmic transcendence narratives.Jean CocteauEvidence rated DocumentedLegendary French filmmaker and poet who became seriously engaged with UFO research in the 1950s, influencing the orthoteny theory through his friendship with Aimé Michel.Linda Moulton HoweEvidence rated ContestedEmmy-winning investigative journalist and UFO documentarian who popularized the alien-mutilation hypothesis and founded Earthfiles.James IandoliEvidence rated ContestedUFO researcher and podcaster specializing in CE-5 consciousness-based contact protocols and experiencer advocacy.Greg MallozziEvidence rated DocumentedDocumentary filmmaker known for investigative deep-dives into paranormal and esoteric history, including the decade-long project 'Mind Traveler' about CIA-linked parapsychology research.Ingo SwannEvidence rated ContestedRemote viewing pioneer, Stargate Project participant, and UFO contactee whose claimed extrasensory experiments bridged military intelligence and paranormal claims.Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr.Evidence rated DocumentedCofounder and leader of Heaven's Gate, who taught that human bodies were vessels for consciousness that could ascend aboard alien spacecraft, leading 39 followers in a coordinated mass suicide in 1997.Helané WahbehEvidence rated DocumentedDirector of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences; pioneer in consciousness research and anomalous experience studies bridging scientific inquiry and UAP phenomena.Dr. Stanley KrippnerEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering psychologist whose 60+ year career legitimized paranormal research within mainstream academia and explored connections between consciousness, altered states, and anomalous experiences including UFO encounters.Eben AlexanderEvidence rated ContestedNeurosurgeon and consciousness researcher whose near-death experience pivoted him from skepticism to a prominent advocate for consciousness beyond the brain.James FowlerEvidence rated ContestedTechnologist and co-founder of Skywatcher, pioneering consciousness-based UAP contact research through hybrid machine calling and psionic calling methodologies.Nigel KernerEvidence rated ContestedBritish UFO theorist who argued Grey aliens are bio-mechanical probes engaged in 40,000-year genetic and consciousness manipulation of humanity.Brent RaynesEvidence rated DocumentedEditor and founder of Alternate Perceptions magazine; 59-year UFO and paranormal researcher bridging ufology with parapsychology and Jungian psychology.Haim EshedEvidence rated ContestedIsraeli Brigadier General and former director of Israel's space program who claimed in December 2020 that the US and Israel are in contact with a 'Galactic Federation' of extraterrestrials.Vladimiro BibolottiEvidence rated DocumentedItalian UFO researcher and president emeritus of Centro Ufologico Nazionale who bridges philosophy and science in analyzing UAP phenomena.Albert BuddenEvidence rated ContestedBritish UFO researcher who attributed close encounters and sightings to electromagnetic hypersensitivity and environmental EM pollution.Erik DavisEvidence rated DocumentedContemporary scholar who frames UFOs as spiritual and cultural objects within a long history of esotericism and visionary experience.Caroline CoryEvidence rated ContestedFilmmaker and consciousness researcher who bridges UAP investigation with energy medicine and paranormal phenomena through documentaries and institutional research programs.Stanislav GrofEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering consciousness researcher and founder of transpersonal psychology who documented encounters with non-human intelligences in altered states.Jason Reza JorjaniEvidence rated ContestedPhilosopher and author of seven-framework analysis of close encounters, critical of official UAP disclosure narratives.Mark Christopher LeeEvidence rated ContestedAward-winning documentary filmmaker who claims rare access to Vatican archives investigating UFO phenomena and the Church's preparation for extraterrestrial contact.Jason SandsEvidence rated ContestedRetired Air Force whistleblower claiming direct encounter with a telepathic 'blue being' at Area 51-S4.Carla L. RueckertEvidence rated ContestedLibrarian and channel who transmitted the Law of One, a multi-volume cosmological teaching attributed to the extraterrestrial intelligence Ra (1981–1984).John KeelEvidence rated DocumentedJournalist and influential ufologist who linked UFO phenomena to paranormal and historical folklore; author of The Mothman Prophecies.François BruneEvidence rated DocumentedFrench Catholic priest and paranormal scholar who bridged institutional theology with near-death experiences and explored Vatican connections to extraterrestrial phenomena.Bernard CarrEvidence rated DocumentedTheoretical physicist bridging consciousness research and paranormal phenomena; former SPR president seeking psycho-physical paradigmDonald L. WorleyEvidence rated ContestedIndiana UFO investigator who conducted 150+ abduction case interviews and developed a Christian theological interpretation of extraterrestrial contact as spiritual warfare.Dennis McKennaEvidence rated DocumentedEthnopharmacologist and consciousness researcher who studies DMT, ayahuasca, and the phenomenology of contact with non-human intelligence through altered states.Otis T. CarrEvidence rated FringeAmerican promoter who claimed Tesla tutelage and an anti-gravity Moon saucer (OTC-X1), sold stock in it, missed his 1959 launch date, and was convicted of securities violations in Oklahoma in 1961.David AdairEvidence rated FringeSelf-taught rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who claims to have designed a fusion rocket engine at age 17 and encountered alien propulsion technology at Area 51 in 1971.Marcel VogelEvidence rated ContestedIBM materials scientist turned crystal and plant-consciousness researcher whose 1970s analysis of a metal sample from Billy Meier's 'contact' case became a cautionary tale about misreading instruments.Daniel W. FryEvidence rated Contested1950s contactee who claimed telepathic contact and a flight in a flying saucer near White Sands, then built Understanding, Inc., one of the movement's longest-running groups.Duncan LunanEvidence rated ContestedScottish science writer and amateur astronomer who in 1973 claimed a radio message from an alien probe in lunar orbit, a claim he later withdrew.Chris Bledsoe Sr.Evidence rated ContestedNorth Carolina contractor and contactee whose 2007 UFO encounter sparked NASA and CIA interest and claimed healing from chronic illness.Billy (Eduard) MeierEvidence rated DebunkedSwiss farmer who claims ongoing contact with extraterrestrials from the Pleiades star system since 1942, producing hundreds of UFO photographs widely regarded as elaborate hoaxes.George KingEvidence rated FringeBritish yogi and taxi driver turned self-proclaimed 'Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel' who founded the Aetherius Society after claiming a disembodied voice ordered him to become the voice of an Interplanetary Parliament.Art BellEvidence rated DocumentedLegendary broadcaster who built Coast to Coast AM into America's highest-rated late-night radio program, giving 15 million nightly listeners a forum for UFO research, paranormal testimony, and government secrecy.Frank DrakeEvidence rated DocumentedRadio astronomer who founded modern SETI and authored the Drake Equation, transforming the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into legitimate science.Antônio Vilas-BoasEvidence rated ContestedBrazilian farmer who reported one of the world's first detailed alien abduction accounts in 1957, predating the Hill case by four years and establishing the template for the modern abduction narrative.Corey GoodeEvidence rated FringeSelf-described secret space program whistleblower and Blue Avian contactee, central figure in modern disclosure narratives despite heavy skeptical criticism.Brad SteigerEvidence rated ContestedProlific paranormal and UFO author whose syndicated investigations documented extraterrestrial encounters and contactee phenomena across 170+ books and decades of field research.Berthold Eric SchwarzEvidence rated DocumentedPsychiatrist who brought clinical psychiatric analysis to UFO and paranormal investigations.Rudy SchildEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard astrophysicist and consciousness-centered UAP researcher who bridged mainstream astronomy with contact phenomenon studies.Arthur C. ClarkeEvidence rated DocumentedScience fiction visionary and lifelong UFO observer who claimed six personal sightings and explored extraterrestrial contact.Courtney BrownEvidence rated ContestedEmory University political scientist who applies remote viewing to UFO and extraterrestrial research through the Farsight Institute.Bettina Rodriguez AguileraEvidence rated ContestedCuban-American diplomat, lawyer, and 2018 Congressional candidate who publicly claimed lifelong alien contact and abduction since age 7Anne StrieberEvidence rated DocumentedAbduction researcher and co-founder of Unknown Country; curated 200,000+ first-person accounts of close encounters.Antonio RiberaEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering Catalan ufologist and founding voice of Spanish UFO research, famous for his investigation of the controversial Ummo extraterrestrial contact phenomenon.Giorgio A. TsoukalosEvidence rated FringeSwiss-American TV producer and ancient astronaut theorist; host of History Channel's Ancient Aliens since 2009.Chico XavierEvidence rated ContestedBrazilian spiritist medium who claimed extraterrestrial contact and prophesied humanity's galactic future.Alex CollierEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee who says he has been in telepathic and physical contact with blue-skinned "Andromedans" since childhood, and whose 1996 book Defending Sacred Ground became a touchstone of 1990s alien-contact literature.Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron DowdingEvidence rated DocumentedBattle of Britain RAF legend and pioneering UFO advocate, spiritualist researcher.Colin AndrewsEvidence rated ContestedBritish electrical engineer and pioneering crop circle researcher who coined the term and documented the phenomenon since 1983.George Van TasselEvidence rated FringeAeronautical engineer and pioneering contactee who orchestrated the Giant Rock UFO conventions and built the Integratron time-travel machine.Howard MengerEvidence rated ContestedNew Jersey sign painter turned 1950s contactee whose photographs of Venusian visitors and 'reincarnated' romance became a foundational — and thoroughly disputed — chapter of the saucer movement.