Timothy Good is a British Ufologist and professional violinist.
He was born in 1941 London and educated at , Canterbury before being granted a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the violin.
Musical career
Good's career as a professional violinist began in 1963 when he won a place with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He played for fourteen years with the London Symphony Orchestra, and went on to freelance with a number of other notable orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
He has also freelanced as a session player for television dramas, commercials, feature films, and recordings with pop musicians. Among those he has recorded for are Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, George Harrison, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, and U2.
Ufological career
In addition to his background in classical music, Good grew up with a strong interest in aviation and space which became an interest in UFOs in 1955 after he encountered the writings of Major Donald Keyhoe. In 1961, after reading a book by U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Good began conducting his own research into the UFO phenomena, eventually becoming a well known authority on the subject.
After the end of the cold war, and the collapse the Soviet empire, Good became the first Western Ufologist to be interviewed on Russian television. He was also invited to the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002, to discuss UFOs and other related matters, and has acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations.
Timothy Good is probably best known among ufologists for his ground breaking book "Above Top Secret" which is an eye-opening look at the structure of sensitive top secret info that is kept under wraps in various Governments around the world. According to ufologist Timothy Good (in his books Alien Liaison and Alien Contact), after death his wife reported that one day in 1973 Gleason had come home extremely shaken. He confided to her that because of Gleason's interest in UFOs, U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was a friend of his, had arranged for him to view bodies of extraterrestrials at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, under conditions of extreme secrecy. Gleason had found the experience very troubling.
Books
* George Adamski, The Untold Story (with Lou Zinsstag) (1983)
* Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987)
* Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991)
* Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996)
* Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998)
* Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000)
* Need to Know: The Military and Intelligence Reports That Prove UFOs Exist (2006), also published as Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006)
He was born in 1941 London and educated at , Canterbury before being granted a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the violin.
Musical career
Good's career as a professional violinist began in 1963 when he won a place with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He played for fourteen years with the London Symphony Orchestra, and went on to freelance with a number of other notable orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
He has also freelanced as a session player for television dramas, commercials, feature films, and recordings with pop musicians. Among those he has recorded for are Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, George Harrison, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, and U2.
Ufological career
In addition to his background in classical music, Good grew up with a strong interest in aviation and space which became an interest in UFOs in 1955 after he encountered the writings of Major Donald Keyhoe. In 1961, after reading a book by U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Good began conducting his own research into the UFO phenomena, eventually becoming a well known authority on the subject.
After the end of the cold war, and the collapse the Soviet empire, Good became the first Western Ufologist to be interviewed on Russian television. He was also invited to the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002, to discuss UFOs and other related matters, and has acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations.
Timothy Good is probably best known among ufologists for his ground breaking book "Above Top Secret" which is an eye-opening look at the structure of sensitive top secret info that is kept under wraps in various Governments around the world. According to ufologist Timothy Good (in his books Alien Liaison and Alien Contact), after death his wife reported that one day in 1973 Gleason had come home extremely shaken. He confided to her that because of Gleason's interest in UFOs, U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was a friend of his, had arranged for him to view bodies of extraterrestrials at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, under conditions of extreme secrecy. Gleason had found the experience very troubling.
Books
* George Adamski, The Untold Story (with Lou Zinsstag) (1983)
* Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987)
* Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991)
* Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996)
* Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998)
* Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000)
* Need to Know: The Military and Intelligence Reports That Prove UFOs Exist (2006), also published as Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006)
Nigel Watson (July 30, 1954) is a British writer, researcher and UFO consultant.
Biography
Watson became interested in ufology, UFOs and alien contact in the early 1970s. He helped found the Scunthorpe UFO Research Society and has since contributed articles to Magonia, Fortean Times and Flying Saucer Review, as well as many other magazines and books.
In the 1970s, he investigated several UFO encounters that took place in Northern England. These investigations were published in Magonia magazine and included in his book, Portraits of Alien Encounters (VALIS Books, 1990).
In the 1980s he attended a TV production course in Leeds and after that wrote articles about video techniques and ideas for several film and Camcorder magazines. He also trained unemployed people how to make videos and produced a video for the Scunthorpe Probation Service, and for the University of Warwick Careers Service. He was employed as a video producer for the Hull Health Authority, where he made programmes for private and public use.
The influences of popular culture on UFO reports has always interested him and this partly made him decide to take a degree in Film and Literature at the University of Warwick. At University he shot and edited a weekly magazine programme for the student TV service in the second and third years. And, he also assisted other students to shoot and edit their own productions.
In 1988 he moved to London where he worked as a copywriter for Micromark. On moving to Plymouth in 1997 he gained short-term employment with SAA Consultants before becoming a freelance writer for the local newspaper the (Plymouth) Evening Herald and a range of publications.
Since the 1970s he has been interested in the historical aspects of ufology and has written extensively on the subject of the phantom airships seen in the late 19th century and early decades of the 20th century. He gained a degree in psychology from the Open University and applied this knowledge to the study of alien abduction stories.
Watson has concluded that many men in black reports may be due to witnesses being in stress-induced altered states of consciousness. Citing Watson's work, Mike Dash writes that many Men In Black witnesses "are often undergoing some sort of mental upheaval at the time of their encounter." (Dash, 162)
Books
In 1992 he started producing a film magazine, Talking Pictures, which ran for 21 editions. In 2000 this became the Talking Pictures website, which now contains over 600 pages of reviews, articles and interviews. In January 2003 Watson attended the Bangkok International Film Festival at the invitation of the Thailand Tourism Authority.
Portraits of Alien Encounters. A groundbreaking look at contact with alien beings in Northern England. VALIS Books, 1990.
Supernatural Spielberg was co-authored with Darren Slade. It reviews such films as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Published by VALIS Books in 1992.
The Flying Saucer Cinema.
This looks at how the images and stories of spaceships and aliens have evolved on our cinema screens over the past 100 years. From the earliest days of movie making they were the ideal material for 'trick photography' and exotic adventures. After these innocent beginnings aliens were shown to be more sinister and threatening in the space operas of the 1930s and 1940s. It was not until the landmark year of 1947, when the term 'flying saucer' was coined, that the floodgates opened for issues about alien contact and intervention to be fully explored. Since then saucer films allow for exciting, frightening and thought-provoking stories that reflect worries in the real world. This
guide opens up the world of cinematic UFOs and aliens so that you can enjoy and appreciate them to the full.
The Origin of UFOs: Phantom Airships 1807 to 1917.
Phantom airships mark the transition between fears and superstitions about Gods and spirits in the sky to the UFOs of today. From the 19th century began seeing what they thought were manned aerial vehicles flying in the sky. Sometimes only lights in the sky were seen, many witnesses said they saw the craft and in some instances actually met the crew of these craft. The most exceptional Phantom Airship 'panic' took place in the USA from 1896 to 1897. There were thousands of
witnesses and newspaper stories including many accounts of meetings with the secret inventor of this fabulous craft. Later, throughout Europe sightings of similar Phantom Airships sparked off rumours of foreign spies and potential invaders. This booklet surveys this material and provides internet and bibliographic references.
In collaboration with Granville Oldroyd and David Clarke, he researched newspaper reports of mystery airships seen over Britain in 1909 and 1912-1913. This culminated in a catalog of the latter airship scare for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) and a book about the worldwide airship scares of the early 1900s, The Scareship Mystery: A Survey of Worldwide Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918 (DOMRA, 2000).
Phantom Helicopters over Britain was co-authored with David Clarke and published by the Fund for UFO Research.
'The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs: 1947-1987 edited by Hilary Evans
with John Spencer, Fortean Tomes, 1987.
'Before The Flying Saucers Came', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs: 1947-1987 edited by Hilary Evans
with John Spencer, Fortean Tomes, 1987.
'Flying Saucers in the Cinema', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs and Ufology - The First 50 Years, by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith, Blandford, 1997.
'The Alien Deception: An Exploration of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon' was published by YouWriteOn in March 2009. This is a major survey of the mythology, history, transmission and perception of the alien abduction phenomenon. A newer version of this book will be available in 2010.
Articles
* “Government UFO Files”, Beyond, Issue 5, April 2007.
* “John, Paul, George, Ringo, ET”, the Beatles and UFOs. UFO Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 4, 2006.
* “Death By UFO”, Fortean Times, No. 147, June 2001.
* “The Scareship Mystery Part 1.” Strange Magazine, Issue 12.
* “The Scareship Mystery Part 2.” Strange Magazine, Issue 13.
* “The Sheerness incident: Did a German airship fly over Kent in 1912?” Fortean Studies 4, 1998, 151-159. Co-authored with Granville Oldroyd.
Biography
Watson became interested in ufology, UFOs and alien contact in the early 1970s. He helped found the Scunthorpe UFO Research Society and has since contributed articles to Magonia, Fortean Times and Flying Saucer Review, as well as many other magazines and books.
In the 1970s, he investigated several UFO encounters that took place in Northern England. These investigations were published in Magonia magazine and included in his book, Portraits of Alien Encounters (VALIS Books, 1990).
In the 1980s he attended a TV production course in Leeds and after that wrote articles about video techniques and ideas for several film and Camcorder magazines. He also trained unemployed people how to make videos and produced a video for the Scunthorpe Probation Service, and for the University of Warwick Careers Service. He was employed as a video producer for the Hull Health Authority, where he made programmes for private and public use.
The influences of popular culture on UFO reports has always interested him and this partly made him decide to take a degree in Film and Literature at the University of Warwick. At University he shot and edited a weekly magazine programme for the student TV service in the second and third years. And, he also assisted other students to shoot and edit their own productions.
In 1988 he moved to London where he worked as a copywriter for Micromark. On moving to Plymouth in 1997 he gained short-term employment with SAA Consultants before becoming a freelance writer for the local newspaper the (Plymouth) Evening Herald and a range of publications.
Since the 1970s he has been interested in the historical aspects of ufology and has written extensively on the subject of the phantom airships seen in the late 19th century and early decades of the 20th century. He gained a degree in psychology from the Open University and applied this knowledge to the study of alien abduction stories.
Watson has concluded that many men in black reports may be due to witnesses being in stress-induced altered states of consciousness. Citing Watson's work, Mike Dash writes that many Men In Black witnesses "are often undergoing some sort of mental upheaval at the time of their encounter." (Dash, 162)
Books
In 1992 he started producing a film magazine, Talking Pictures, which ran for 21 editions. In 2000 this became the Talking Pictures website, which now contains over 600 pages of reviews, articles and interviews. In January 2003 Watson attended the Bangkok International Film Festival at the invitation of the Thailand Tourism Authority.
Portraits of Alien Encounters. A groundbreaking look at contact with alien beings in Northern England. VALIS Books, 1990.
Supernatural Spielberg was co-authored with Darren Slade. It reviews such films as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Published by VALIS Books in 1992.
The Flying Saucer Cinema.
This looks at how the images and stories of spaceships and aliens have evolved on our cinema screens over the past 100 years. From the earliest days of movie making they were the ideal material for 'trick photography' and exotic adventures. After these innocent beginnings aliens were shown to be more sinister and threatening in the space operas of the 1930s and 1940s. It was not until the landmark year of 1947, when the term 'flying saucer' was coined, that the floodgates opened for issues about alien contact and intervention to be fully explored. Since then saucer films allow for exciting, frightening and thought-provoking stories that reflect worries in the real world. This
guide opens up the world of cinematic UFOs and aliens so that you can enjoy and appreciate them to the full.
The Origin of UFOs: Phantom Airships 1807 to 1917.
Phantom airships mark the transition between fears and superstitions about Gods and spirits in the sky to the UFOs of today. From the 19th century began seeing what they thought were manned aerial vehicles flying in the sky. Sometimes only lights in the sky were seen, many witnesses said they saw the craft and in some instances actually met the crew of these craft. The most exceptional Phantom Airship 'panic' took place in the USA from 1896 to 1897. There were thousands of
witnesses and newspaper stories including many accounts of meetings with the secret inventor of this fabulous craft. Later, throughout Europe sightings of similar Phantom Airships sparked off rumours of foreign spies and potential invaders. This booklet surveys this material and provides internet and bibliographic references.
In collaboration with Granville Oldroyd and David Clarke, he researched newspaper reports of mystery airships seen over Britain in 1909 and 1912-1913. This culminated in a catalog of the latter airship scare for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) and a book about the worldwide airship scares of the early 1900s, The Scareship Mystery: A Survey of Worldwide Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918 (DOMRA, 2000).
Phantom Helicopters over Britain was co-authored with David Clarke and published by the Fund for UFO Research.
'The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs: 1947-1987 edited by Hilary Evans
with John Spencer, Fortean Tomes, 1987.
'Before The Flying Saucers Came', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs: 1947-1987 edited by Hilary Evans
with John Spencer, Fortean Tomes, 1987.
'Flying Saucers in the Cinema', chapter by Watson appears in UFOs and Ufology - The First 50 Years, by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith, Blandford, 1997.
'The Alien Deception: An Exploration of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon' was published by YouWriteOn in March 2009. This is a major survey of the mythology, history, transmission and perception of the alien abduction phenomenon. A newer version of this book will be available in 2010.
Articles
* “Government UFO Files”, Beyond, Issue 5, April 2007.
* “John, Paul, George, Ringo, ET”, the Beatles and UFOs. UFO Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 4, 2006.
* “Death By UFO”, Fortean Times, No. 147, June 2001.
* “The Scareship Mystery Part 1.” Strange Magazine, Issue 12.
* “The Scareship Mystery Part 2.” Strange Magazine, Issue 13.
* “The Sheerness incident: Did a German airship fly over Kent in 1912?” Fortean Studies 4, 1998, 151-159. Co-authored with Granville Oldroyd.
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith (1910 in Lethbridge, Alberta - December 27, 1962) was a Canadian electrical engineer, radio engineer, ufologist and contactee.
A longtime employee of the Canadian Department of Transport (DOT), Smith also led the small Canadian UFO research called Project Magnet from 1952 until it was formally discontinued in 1954; Smith afterwards funded Magnet until his death in 1962.
Jerome Clark describes Smith as "one of the most curious figures in UFO history, occupying a role no one had ever filled before and no one is likely to fill again."
Biography
In 1933, Smith earned a B. Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1933, where he also earned his M. A. Sc. in 1934. He afterwards worked as engineer at several commercial radio stations before co-founding the Canadian Association of Broadcast Consultants. In 1939, he was hired by the DOT, which then oversaw Canadian radio stations.
Another notable achievement was the 1947 establishment of stations to measure the ionosphere.
At his death, Smith was the Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering for the DOT, an organization responsible for licensing broadcast facilities, setting equipment standards and performing other acts of commercial radio regulation.
Smith died on December 27, 1962, of intestinal cancer.
Smith and UFOs
Though the fact was not disclosed until well after his death, Smith claimed that, in the late 1940s, he received what a friend described as "mental messages from space people" Smith related this claim to very few people during his life.
In 1950, Smith's interest in UFOs was further piqued by a book written by retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, claiming that flying saucers were real and their existence being covered up by the U.S. government, and by Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers, which claimed that several crashed UFOs had been recovered by U.S. officials and they operated on magnetic principles.
The Scully story is now widely regarded as a hoax perpetrated on Scully by two con-men. However, according to a memorandum located by Arthur Bray, Smith met in 1950 with U.S. Defense Dept. physicist Robert Sarbacher, who confirmed the core elements of Scully's story as accurate, and who further claimed that American scientist Vannevar Bush was involved in a secret, high-level UFO research group operating out of the Defense Department's Research and Development Board (DRB) looking into the modus operandi of the saucers.
The interview with Sarbacher was arranged by the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. after Smith asked them to find out from U.S. officials whether the flying saucers were indeed real. Sarbacher, a consultant to the DRB, confirmed that they were and added that the subject was classified higher than the H-bomb. Contacted 33 years later, Sarbacher confirmed the interview had taken place and the substance of Smith's memo.
Immediately afterward, Smith lobbied the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) and the DOT to establish a UFO research group; Project Magnet was the result. Founded in December 1950, it operated under DOT auspices and DRB assistance until 1954. Smith wrote several reports for Magnet, concluding that UFOs were likely extraterrestrial in origin, and used principles of magnetism to travel. After Magnet's funding was ended in 1954, Smith was allowed to use Magnet's facilities at his own expense.
Also after Magnet's formal funding ended, Clark writes, Smith "became more open about his fascination with what many considered ufology's fringe aspects."<ref name="Clark, 2005"/>. Smith met or corresponded with contactees like Frances Swan, and used séances to contact "ufonauts". Smith was satisfied with results, which he thought confirmed his opinions about UFOs.
In 1957, Keyhoe asked Smith to join the advisory board of NICAP, the UFO research group Keyoe headed, citing Smith's notable achievements in radio and electronics. Smith declined, largely because he disagreed with NICAP's skepticism towards cases where UFO occupants were purportedly witnessed.
A longtime employee of the Canadian Department of Transport (DOT), Smith also led the small Canadian UFO research called Project Magnet from 1952 until it was formally discontinued in 1954; Smith afterwards funded Magnet until his death in 1962.
Jerome Clark describes Smith as "one of the most curious figures in UFO history, occupying a role no one had ever filled before and no one is likely to fill again."
Biography
In 1933, Smith earned a B. Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1933, where he also earned his M. A. Sc. in 1934. He afterwards worked as engineer at several commercial radio stations before co-founding the Canadian Association of Broadcast Consultants. In 1939, he was hired by the DOT, which then oversaw Canadian radio stations.
Another notable achievement was the 1947 establishment of stations to measure the ionosphere.
At his death, Smith was the Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering for the DOT, an organization responsible for licensing broadcast facilities, setting equipment standards and performing other acts of commercial radio regulation.
Smith died on December 27, 1962, of intestinal cancer.
Smith and UFOs
Though the fact was not disclosed until well after his death, Smith claimed that, in the late 1940s, he received what a friend described as "mental messages from space people" Smith related this claim to very few people during his life.
In 1950, Smith's interest in UFOs was further piqued by a book written by retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, claiming that flying saucers were real and their existence being covered up by the U.S. government, and by Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers, which claimed that several crashed UFOs had been recovered by U.S. officials and they operated on magnetic principles.
The Scully story is now widely regarded as a hoax perpetrated on Scully by two con-men. However, according to a memorandum located by Arthur Bray, Smith met in 1950 with U.S. Defense Dept. physicist Robert Sarbacher, who confirmed the core elements of Scully's story as accurate, and who further claimed that American scientist Vannevar Bush was involved in a secret, high-level UFO research group operating out of the Defense Department's Research and Development Board (DRB) looking into the modus operandi of the saucers.
The interview with Sarbacher was arranged by the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. after Smith asked them to find out from U.S. officials whether the flying saucers were indeed real. Sarbacher, a consultant to the DRB, confirmed that they were and added that the subject was classified higher than the H-bomb. Contacted 33 years later, Sarbacher confirmed the interview had taken place and the substance of Smith's memo.
Immediately afterward, Smith lobbied the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) and the DOT to establish a UFO research group; Project Magnet was the result. Founded in December 1950, it operated under DOT auspices and DRB assistance until 1954. Smith wrote several reports for Magnet, concluding that UFOs were likely extraterrestrial in origin, and used principles of magnetism to travel. After Magnet's funding was ended in 1954, Smith was allowed to use Magnet's facilities at his own expense.
Also after Magnet's formal funding ended, Clark writes, Smith "became more open about his fascination with what many considered ufology's fringe aspects."<ref name="Clark, 2005"/>. Smith met or corresponded with contactees like Frances Swan, and used séances to contact "ufonauts". Smith was satisfied with results, which he thought confirmed his opinions about UFOs.
In 1957, Keyhoe asked Smith to join the advisory board of NICAP, the UFO research group Keyoe headed, citing Smith's notable achievements in radio and electronics. Smith declined, largely because he disagreed with NICAP's skepticism towards cases where UFO occupants were purportedly witnessed.
Thomas Eddie Bullard (born 1949) is an American folklorist best known for his research into UFOs and the abduction phenomenon. His articles have been published in the Journal of American Folklore and the Journal of UFO Studies, among other journals.
Biography
Interested in UFOs since childhood, Bullard read books and magazines by the likes of Ray Palmer, Major Donald E. Keyhoe, and many NICAP publications.
He studied at the University of North Carolina, and earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1982. His doctoral thesis was titled "Mysteries in the Eye of the Beholder: UFOs and Their Correlates as a Folkloric Theme Past and Present".
In the 1980s, Bullard began a large-scale comparative analysis of about 300 alleged cases of alien abduction, some of them dating to the mid-1950s. His study was published in 1987 as "UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abduction Reports." It was perhaps the first time an academic had examined the phenomena, and it remains a landmark effort. Though he disagrees with some of Bullard's conclusions in the study, Martin Kottmeyer nonetheless calls it "massively impressive." Dr. Michael D. Swords lists this and other of Bullard's research as some of the very rare "serious, objctive and scholarly" work in ufology.
When asked in a 2001 interview to explain his conclusions regarding alien abduction, Bullard said:
:I’ll have to hedge a bit on that. I found a degree of consistency that I could not explain in any of the psychological or folkloric terms such as urban legends. None of the conventional explanations that came readily to mind would account for this. So either there is literal truth to the accounts or it’s a very interesting socio-psychological problem of a sort that take us into uncharted territory. I can’t go one way or the other.(see "external links" below for full interview)
Biography
Interested in UFOs since childhood, Bullard read books and magazines by the likes of Ray Palmer, Major Donald E. Keyhoe, and many NICAP publications.
He studied at the University of North Carolina, and earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1982. His doctoral thesis was titled "Mysteries in the Eye of the Beholder: UFOs and Their Correlates as a Folkloric Theme Past and Present".
In the 1980s, Bullard began a large-scale comparative analysis of about 300 alleged cases of alien abduction, some of them dating to the mid-1950s. His study was published in 1987 as "UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abduction Reports." It was perhaps the first time an academic had examined the phenomena, and it remains a landmark effort. Though he disagrees with some of Bullard's conclusions in the study, Martin Kottmeyer nonetheless calls it "massively impressive." Dr. Michael D. Swords lists this and other of Bullard's research as some of the very rare "serious, objctive and scholarly" work in ufology.
When asked in a 2001 interview to explain his conclusions regarding alien abduction, Bullard said:
:I’ll have to hedge a bit on that. I found a degree of consistency that I could not explain in any of the psychological or folkloric terms such as urban legends. None of the conventional explanations that came readily to mind would account for this. So either there is literal truth to the accounts or it’s a very interesting socio-psychological problem of a sort that take us into uncharted territory. I can’t go one way or the other.(see "external links" below for full interview)