Stanton T. Friedman

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Stanton T. Friedman (born July 29, 1934, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is a physicist and ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is arguably the best-known UFO lecturer in North America, and has made a living writing books and giving paid lectures about his views regarding the UFO phenomenon at hundreds of colleges and universities in the USA, Canada, and Europe for the past 29 years.

1 Life
2 UFO Research
3 Theories/Ideas regarding UFOs & Roswell
4 UFO Books
5 External links

[edit] Life

Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago, where he earned degrees (BSc 1955 and MSc 1956) in nuclear physics.

He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas. Most of his time in this area was focused on paper studies on projects such as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and nuclear powerplants for space. It is not known if Friedman's engineering efforts or ideas were ever produced as hardware or a test article for these programs. On Coast to Coast with George Noory, at 3:55 AM EST, September 27, 2006, he said "We spent 100 million dollars on nuclear projects, I don't consider that a paper study."

[edit] UFO Research

Friedman became interested in UFO's early in their modern perception (>1947) and in the mid-sixties eventually departed engineering work entirely to make a full time living in a career as a UFO studier/promoter. He was perhaps the first investigator and definitely the first and best promoter of the Roswell UFO incident. A significant portion of Mr. Friedman's lectures and ideas are derived from the Majestic 12 documents, and the results of his research in archives of various U.S. Government institutions and Presidential Libraries. He has published more than 80 UFO-related scientific papers, albeit not in refereed journals and not containing any empirical or experimental data.

Friedman is combative with critics of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH^{[citation needed]}) notion in general, and critics of the ETH/government cover-up theory of the Roswell UFO incident especially. He regards more "conventional" E.T.-related scientific efforts such as the SETI Project with a particular contempt. Friedman is a tireless and the most significant promoter of the UFO-ETH idea. Since 1967 he has lectured on the subject at more than 600 colleges and over 100 professional groups in 50 states, 9 provinces, and 14 other countries and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs. He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings, appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer in many aspects of Ufology including the Roswell, Majestic 12, the Betty Hill-Marjorie Fish star map work, and analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case. He was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Leeds, England, in September, 2002, by UFO Magazine of the UK. A documentary Stanton T. Friedman IS Real was broadcast in Canada in 2002. Stanton Friedman is rare amongst the subject's advocates in that he has a degree in a discipline of the physical sciences with an engineering background; nor has Mr. Friedman ever embellished his credentials, or otherwise fabricated stories and facts about his background. Stanton Friedman's ideas have remained consistent for years; he has not branched off into other pseudoscientific/paranormal subjects such as telepathy or ghosts, unlike many promoters in the UFO field.

[edit] Theories/Ideas regarding UFOs & Roswell

Friedman has reached the conclusion that a small fraction of documented UFO reports are observations of physical machines designed, built, and flown by an alien species from another planet to visit/study the earth. He is unique amongst those who advocate such ideas in that he believes these machines are designed and operate according to physics and technologies that are entirely plausible within modern human understanding...albeit beyond present human engineering.

Given his engineering background and work on the Hill Star Map in addition to Roswell, Friedman has concluded that in July 1947 an electrodynamically propelled scout vehicle from a large, interstellar "mothership" originating from Zeta Reticuli crashed in the New Mexico desert, perhaps due to a lightning storm. The U.S. Government is in possession of both the craft's and occupants' remains, and maintains a cover-up of the highest and sinister intrigue to prevent this becoming public knowledge. Mr. Friedman has published and lectured at length regarding the myriad details and accounts he has accumulated throughout his years of study that have led him to that conclusion.

[edit] UFO Books

UFOs—myth & mystery;: 1971 Midwest UFO Conference (sponsored by Midwest UFO Network - MUFON, 1971)
Ufology and the search for ET intelligent life: Presented at MUFON Symposium 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, June 16, 1973 (Friedman, 1973)
Flying saucers and physics: Presented at Mufon Symposium 1974, Akron, Ohio, June 2, 1974 [sponsored by] Mutual UFO Network (UFORI, 1974)
Crash at Corona with Don Berliner (Marlowe & Co., 1992)
Roswell revisited: For MUFON, 1995 Symposium, Seattle (UFORI, 1995)
TOP SECRET/MAJIC (Marlowe & Co., ISBN 1-56924-741-2, 1997)
Top Secret/Majic : Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government's UFO Cover-up with Whitley Strieber (Marlowe & Company, 2nd edition, 2005)