First interested in UFOlogy after seeing Spielberg’s movie CE3K, David joined BUFORA in 1980 and was accredited as an investigator in 1985.

A BUFORA council member from 1988-1991 and press officer in 197-98, he was founder member of the IUN (Independent UFO Network, 1987-1994), which published UFO Brigantia, and was instrumental in setting up Project Pennine (a UK version of Project Hessdalen), contributing to Paul Devereux’s research which appeared in Earthlights Revelation (London, 1989).

A founder member of UFOIN (UFO Investigators Network) since 1998, he has been on the board for the European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies (1999-2003).

David is a journalist, author of seven books and a lecturer at Sheffield University (he’s got a Ph.D. taken at Sheffield’s Centre for English Cultural Tradition and teaches the only undergraduate module available at an English university where students can study aspects of supernatural belief and tradition at degree level).

He worked for weekly, evening and morning newspapers in Yorkshire before becoming a freelance journalist. Today he is regular contributor to BBC History Magazine and The Fortean Times where he writes a monthly column. He is also a frequent contributor to a number of other magazines dealing with strange phenomena, ghosts, UFOs and folklore.

Alongside his journalism he has acted as researcher and contributor to a range of radio and television productions dealing with folklore and unexplained phenomena including a series, `Britain’s X-Files, for BBC Radio 4 in 2003-4 and a BBC2 Timewatch documentary, Britain’s X-Files (January 2004).

His books include: Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs, a Modern Myth? (with Andy Roberts, 1990); Supernatural Peak District (1999); The UFOs that Never Were (with Jenny Randles and Andy Roberts, 2000); Out of the Shadows: UFOs, The Establishment and the Official Cover up (with Andy Roberts, 2002).

E-mail: cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk or D.Clarke@sheffield.ac.uk

Ricardo Campo Pérez was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in 1965. He
graduated in philosophy. He´s presently developing a thesis on New Age ideology (philosophical antecedents and ET and paranormal beliefs).

He has been an active investigator since 1988, expecially on local sightings in the Canarias Islands, and has published several articles in Cuadernos de ufologia (but also in the Spanish Air Force magazine Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica), as well as two books: Luces en los cielos (2003), and Los
Ovnis ¡vaya timo! (2006).

He also taught university lessons on UFO and paranormal beliefs from a skeptical point of view since the early 2000’s.

e-mail: rcampo@ull.es

Born in 1958, graduated in physics, has been professor of civil engineering at the Universities of Marne-la-Vallée and (presently) Bordeaux.

Since 1985 he has been coordinating Project Bécassine, aimed at an electronic coding, catalogue and statistical analysis of more than 2300 humanoid reports worldwide.

He wrote several articles about the above-mentioned project, published mainly in French UFO journals, and published a series of project updates.

Some contributions were also published in UFO books (e.g. De l’indiscernabilité identifiés – non identifiés in the collective book OVNIs: vers une anthropologie d’un mythe contemporaine [1993]).

e-mail: denys.breysse@wanadoo.fr

Born: 12 January 1967 in Drammen, Norway. Works as a DBA consultant with ErgoGroup in Oslo. Reads Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/English and some German. Writes Norwegian and English. Interested in science fiction – both books and movies. Collector of DVDs.
Has been interested in UFO phenomena since 1984, and has since 1989 been webmaster, co-editor, chairman, etc with UFO-Norge. Author of several Norwegian articles and booklets, with a few articles published in AFU Newsletter, INFO Journal, and IUR. Presented a few lectures at UFO congresses in Sweden and England, and has been interviewed on radio and TV (mostly in Norway).

Address: Karl Staaffsvei 70, N-0665 Oslo, Norway.
Phone: +47 22 65 12 02.
Mobile: +47 990 31 699.
Email: widescreen@getmail.no
Website: http://www.ufo.no/

Born in July 1947 (vintage year for ufology!). Graduate in chemistry in 1970 (Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium), he has a PhD in History of Sciences and Technics (Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III – France) since 1995.
Teacher of chemistry at the Athénée Provincial de La Louvière (Hainaut – Belgium) since 1970 and professor at the University of Mons-Hainaut (Lectures on history of experimental sciences) since 1996.

In 1972, he took a hand in the creation of the Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux (SOBEPS) and since 1976, he is the President of this society, chiefly involved in the edition of the periodical publication Inforespace.

In 1975, he has directed the edition of the collective book Des soucoupes volantes aux OVNI (From Flying Saucers to UFOs), and in 1977, he wrote a book upon old UFO sightings, La chronique des OVNI (The UFO’s Chronicle), edited by J.-P. Delarge, Paris. At the end of 1991, he has directed (and written some parts of) the first report on the Belgian UFO wave of 1989-91: Vague d´OVNI sur la Belgique. In the beginning of 1994, the second report was published (Vague d´OVNI sur la Belgique. 2. Une énigme non résolue). This second volume was prefaced by Isabelle Stengers, a well known philosopher and historian of science.

Actually, he claims to be somewhat eclectic and, besides ufology and history of science, he takes an interest in several other fields. So, he has published a critical study on the reforms introduced in the education: L´école et ses dupes (School and its Dupes), éditions Labor, 1996, collection Education 2000.

He is a corresponding member of the Comité National de Logique, d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (within the framework of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique).

Here are his main publications as historian of sciences: La chimie de Nicolas Lemery, Brepols, Turnhout, collection De Diversis Artibus, tome 40 (N.S. 3), 1999. Scientific Editor of Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharmacy, volume XVIII des Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, July 1997), Brepols, Turnhout, collection De Diversis Artibus, 2002.
Several contributions in the following works: Histoire des sciences en Belgique. 1815-2000, Dexia Banque-La Renaissance du Livre, Bruxelles-Tournai, 2001, première partie, article: En exergue de la chimie: Jean Baptiste Van Mons, pp. 146-153; De l’alchimie à Lavoisier: quelques jalons dans la constitution de la chimie, in La Bibliothèque de l’Université de Mons-Hainaut 1797-1997, Mons, 1997, pp. 112-123; Reflet d’une science en ‘révolution’, in Sciences et lumières à Mons. 1792-1802, Classe des Sciences, Académie Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles, 2005, pp. 251-301.

E-mail: michelbougard@hotmail.com

Manuel Borraz Aymerich was born in Barcelona in 1961 and graduated in telecommunication engineering in 1987. After working with some industrial companies, he is now managing his own enterprise.
An active investigator with CEI since the early 80s, he published several articles mostly on analysis and revision of case histories.
He was also author of two monographs: OVNIs: historias increíbles con explicaciones creíbles (1997), about sightings having astronomical explanations, and Los gigantes de Gáldar (1992), on the mass sightings of the 70s in the Canarian islands.

E-mail: maboay@teleline.es

Born in Karlstad, Sweden, 1952. University studies at Stockholm University: history of religions, philosophy, ethnology.

Present occupation: librarian at the Norrköping Public Library.

A member of UFO-Sweden since 1970 (currently as vice-chairman). Co-founder of Archives for UFO Research (AFU) in 1973 and currently chairman.

Published works:
UFO – I myt och verklighet (UFO in myth and reality), 1993.
 
 
 
Främlingar på vår jord. Ufokontakter i Sverige (Aliens on Earth. Ufo contacts in Sweden), 2009
 
 
En resa i tiden: Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige 25 år 1970-2010 (A journey in time: The national organization UFO-Sweden 25 years 1970-2010), 2010.
 
Hundreds of articles in various magazines and newspapers.

Special interests:
Contactee cases, psychological, philosophical and religious aspects of the UFO phenomenon. The theosophical/esoteric tradition and its relation to the UFO phenomenon. Building of archives for the preservation of UFO history.

E-mail: hakan1952@gmail.com
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/ufologist52/
Blog: http://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/

Born in Siena in 1973, he graduated in law at Siena University in 1997; since 1999 has been an attorney in Siena.

Interested in UFOs since 1990, he was a member of Centro Ufologico Nazionale (CUN) between 1991 and 1996, and has been a member of Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) since 1992 (a regional director for Tuscany since 2002 and a national board member for a few months in 2005).

As such he has not only investigated dozens of local sightings, but also built up a provincial file and wrote a book on UFOs Visiting Siena (1996).

Since 1995 he has been coordinating USOCAT, the national catalogue of Italian USO (Unidentified Submerged Objects) reports. A preliminary edition of UsoCat was released in 1996, and a second (enlarged and revised) edition was published in 2003. All USOCAT cases have been translated to English at Carl Feindt’s WaterUFO website.

He also re-investigated a famous CE-III with ground traces and physical effects, which took place in Torrita di Siena, in 1978, and published a full book about it in 2008.

After publishing an history of all known Tuscanian ufologists and UFO groups in 2008, he is now working on the (much wider) regional catalogue of UFO reports over Tuscany.

For details, see Marco Bianchini’s Bibliography

Address: via del Cavallerizzo 4, I-53100 Siena, Italy
Phone/fax: +39 (0577) 42397
E-mail: marcobianchini@hotmail.com

Born in 1972 near Paris, France. Interested in drawing and unexplained phenomena since a child. Gratuated as a software engineer and got particularly interested in UFOs since 1996. Developed the RR0 website and work on developing software tools for ufology, such as the UFO@home and Archipelago projects. Started playing drums also 🙂

Website: http://rr0.org

Born in London in 1971, in 1991 he moved to Cáceres, Spain, and since 2000 he has lived in Madrid, where he teaches English.
In 2003, after a lifelong interest in UFO reports from the pre-1947 era and a short infatuation in the Ancient Astronauts Theory, he chose to specialize in the collection and analysys of pre-Arnold and co-founded (and is the driving force behind) the Magonia Exchange Project, a data-sharing initiative aiming to apply modern technology to historical research, with an emphasis on accumulating original accounts of anomalous aerial phenomena from the past centuries.

A UFO witness himself, he nevertheless retains a sceptical view of claims of a paranormal or Fortean nature and prefers to measure such claims in terms of their sociological and literary impact.

e-mail: caubeck@gmail.com
blog: http://postcardfrommagonia.blogspot.com/
Magonia Exchange website: http://www.magoniax.com