Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, November 22nd, @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)
DAVID MARLER has had a lifelong interest in the UFO subject and has actively investigated and researched the subject for 31 years. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. Since then, he has served as Field Investigator, State Section Director, as well as Illinois State Director.
During his tenure with MUFON, he had conducted numerous investigations into alleged UFO sightings and related experiences. He has discussed the subject of UFOs on numerous radio and television news programs over the years. He has also lectured on the subject to numerous school and adult audiences including at the university level.
David has assisted the History, Learning, Discovery, Science, and Smithsonian Channel as well as numerous independent UFO documentary productions from various countries over the years. He was seen in the Australian 7 News Spotlight show, The Phenomenon, with mainstream journalist, Ross Coulthart. He also has appeared on live Russian TV news, RTVI, to discuss the UFO subject. He has established himself as an internationally-recognized UFO researcher.
David has one of the largest personal libraries of UFO books, journals, magazines, newspapers, microfilms, audio recordings, and case files from around the world that covers the last 75+ years. With this he has been examining the detailed history of UFO sighting reports and related patterns.
Evidence of his historical research is his acclaimed book, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation. Here, he has provided a comprehensive analysis of triangular UFOs. He has collected, collated, and analyzed hundreds of reports. In the process, he has created a detailed profile of these objects and written a rich narrative of their history.
In November of 2020, he became the recipient of the world’s single-largest historical collection of UFO case files in the world. These files include the historic NICAP and CUFOS case files in addition to Dr. Hynek’s original Project Blue Book files. Due to his role as curator for these files and his track record of credible historical research, he was offered the rare invitation of serving as a full Board Member with Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s Center for UFO Studies (or CUFOS). David willing accepted this invitation and now serves in the role as their official Archivist.
David received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). He received his Certification in Hypnotherapy from Mottin and Johnson Institute of Hypnosis in St. Louis, Missouri.
David is a Registered Polysomnographic Technician (RPSGT) and assisted in diagnosing and treating patients that suffered from various sleep disorders for several years at a major St. Louis-based medical facility. He also worked for a global medical equipment company for 13 years. David currently works in the healthcare field for a large New Mexico-based hospital network and resides in the Albuquerque, NM area with his wife and two daughters.
BARRY GREENWOOD has pursued UFO and other aerial phenomena topics since 1964. Served as an investigator and state section director for Massachusetts MUFON for ten years. Specialized in researching government documents in the late 1970s, leading to co-authoring the book “Clear Intent” (with Larry Fawcett) in 1984. Also edited the newsletter “Just Cause” for “Citizens Against UFO Secrecy” (CAUS) from 1984 to 1998. Other research has been published in the “MUFON Journal,” “Flying Saucer Review,” “International UFO Reporter,” “Stendek,” “Lumieres dans la Nuit” and a variety of other national and international publications since the mid-1970s. In more recent years, he has specialized in UFO history, compiling “The New England Airship Wave of 1909” and editing “U.F.O. Historical Revue,” a newsletter issued from 1998 to date. Also contributed to the history book “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” (2012). Continued HERE
Good day,
I listened to this podcast this evening and I would like to offer my
expertise.
I am a data architect by profession. I think its great that you will
be digitizing all these articles/records and loading them into a
database. The database will need a good data model and metadata for
researchers to find what they need. For example, metadata on the
record itself: who provided it, when was it provided, the date of the
record, the format (i.e. paper, video, audio, image), length (words,
duration of audio/video), the publisher (i.e. newspaper name), has it
been verified, links to similar records (i.e. different reports of the
same “event”). And metadata on the content such as location (sky, sea,
land), geographic area (city, state, river, lake, etc), time of day,
(or if unknown day or night), abduction involved, visual involved,
impact (i.e. burns, headaches, mental anguish), creature observed
(true/false), length of sighting (if applicable), etc. If you want to
achieve search capability and accuracy similar to google, you will
probably want to consider a knowledge graph. I am happy to discuss
this more at length.
Thanks,
Mike