Michael D. Swords
Michael D. Swords is an American scientist.
In 1962 Swords graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S.. He studied biochemistry at Iowa State University (where he earned his M.S.), and at Case Western Reserve university (where he earned his Ph.D. in 1972).
As of 2006, Swords is a Professor of NATURAL sciences at Western Michigan University, where he received a Teaching Excellence award in 1978.
Swords is also interested in ufology, and is seen as an authority of the Condon Committee. He was a prominently featured talking head on the prime-time 2005 television special Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs â Seeing Is Believing, discussing the early history of the U.S. Military's UFO invesitgations (see also Project Sign and Project Grudge.)