The NICAP A-Team



Effective  Nov. 16,  2011

Currently the NICAP Action Team is made up of 28 members.  Our mission is to have and maintain a peer-reviewed source for the best UFO information in the world. All the major organizations are represented in our A-Team and it includes some of the best-known experts in the UFO field.


Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator & Archivist. Former NICAP, CUFOS, MUFON FI & State Director (Indiana), Coordinator, Nuclear Connection Project

Jean Waskiewicz
NICAP site materials archivist, NICAP Global Sighting Information Database. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Dan Wilson
Project Blue Book researcher, member Nuclear Connection Project.

others in alphabetical order:

Jan Aldrich
Project-1947, consultant on "foo-fighters" and early UFO sightings. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Don Berliner
Chairman of the Fund for UFO Research

Joel Carpenter
Pilot, Consultant of early UFOs and "foo-fighters". Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Keith Chester
Author/researcher. In 2007 published first in-depth study of aerial phenomena observed by Allied pilots during Second World War, "Strange Company".

Peter Davenport
Director, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, WA

Tom Deuley
Co-Founder, Fund for UFO Research & Corporate Secretary, Mutual UFO Network

Robert Durant
Pilot. Articles in Mufon Journal, IUR, others. Member NARCAP advisory group.  Main interest, Roswell.

Carl Feindt
Through the years has produced a collection of water-related cases which contains 1,165 cases from the year 1067 thru February 02, 2009

Raymond Fowler
Writer, investigator, researcher, his contributions to UFOlogy are respected by UFO researchers throughout the  world. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Richard Hall
Deceased. Primary Consultant & Former Acting Director of NICAP, former Chairman of the Fund for UFO Research, Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Donald A. Johnson
Maintains a computer database of over 150,000 UFO reports for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, called UFOCAT. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Steven Kaeser
Executive Board Member, Fund for UFO Research

Don Ledger
Pilot & television producer. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Bruce Maccabee
Former Chairman of the Fund for UFO Research, US Navy optical physicist and expert in analysis of UFO photographs, Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Vice-president and Research Director, Fundación anomalía , consultant & authority on UFO photos, SPAIN

Ted Phillips
Executive Director, The Center for Physical Trace Research, 5600 Physical Trace cases documented, 4104 involving UFO visual sightings (CUFOS).

Robert Powell
Director of Research at MUFON. Co-authored "UFOs and Government" (2012) with Michael swords.

Kevin Randle
Author, Investigator & Researcher into Roswell, Blue Book, abductions. Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Mark Rodeghier
Scientific Director and President of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference (441 Cases). Member of Nuclear Connection Project.

John Schuessler
Scientific Associate for the Center for UFO Study, Director, Mutual UFO Network (2000-2006)

Martin Shough
The originator of RADCAT (radar catalog) and an authority on radar cases.

Brad Sparks
Researcher.  Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns. Over 1600 cases listed.

Rob Swiatek
Secretary & Treasurer, Fund for UFO Research

Michael Swords
Professor emeritus, leading authority on UFO history, author, UFOs & Government, member of Nuclear Connection Project.

Rebecca Wise
Project Blue Book Archives.