Kenny Young (Ufologist)
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| Born | 1966 |
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| Died | January 31, 2005 |
| Occupation | Television Producer Director Writer |
Kenny Young (1966 - January 31, 2005), webmaster of UFO Research: Cincinnati!, was a multi-award winning television producer, director and writer and a State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a public relations director of Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (TASK).[1]
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[edit] Biography
He was an independent UFO researcher and often lectured to large audiences about the UFO mystery. He served as a host, panelist and debater on several Northern Kentucky / Cincinnati based TV programs including "UFO Update: LIVE!" and the award winning documentary "UFO REPORT". He and his cases were featured on "UFOs: The Field Guide" (Sci-Fi 2003), "Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?" (NBC 1999), and "Sightings".
In addition to evaluating UFO and related claims, conducting field investigations and interviewing eyewitnesses and public officials, Young worked successfully to obtain secret UFO video recordings held by the Department of Energy and has also obtained numerous 9-1-1 audio tapes of police UFO incidents. In addition, he employed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to petition the U.S. government for release of UFO-related documents.
His articles have appeared in the "MUFON UFO Journal", "UFO Magazine", "FATE Magazine" and "Equinox Magazine". He was the host and organizer of the 39th Annual National UFO Conference (2002) held in Cincinnati, OH.
He has appeared on numerous radio programs including "Strange Days Indeed with Errol Bruce Knapp", "The Jeff Rense Show", "Coast to Coast A.M. with Art Bell", "Late Night with George Noory", "The Sci-Zone with Bill Boshears", "The X-Zone with Rob McConnell", "The Jim Hickman Report" and many others.
Kenny Young lived in Florence, Kentucky. Outside of Ufology he was a musician and artist and he was employed as Infochannel Coordinator for a cable television operation in the Greater Cincinnati area. He was also a freelance videographer and editor, specializing in graphic design.
Young remained skeptical and objective concerning UFOs, but felt "that a sober evaluation of the data suggests the phenomena warrants further scrutiny."
His most famous quote was written on 12/26/2001 in an email to fellow Ufologists Sean Feeney and Paul Koch:
The UFO research and investigation business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps of corrupt ideology run free, agenda dictates, delusion is rampant and ignorance prevails. The infestation of wrongful motivation and the beggarly depths of belief reign supreme amidst a universal disregard for truth and factual actuality... where good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...
—Kenny Young, [2]
[edit] Background
Young studied under the direction of Leonard H. Stringfield in the early 1990s.
In 1998 he and fellow ufologist Chris Coffey interviewed Larry Rogers and Curt Robinson, the authors of "Ice Man Down", a still unpublished revelation on the Roswell UFO incident. This interview provides the only published insights into the book.[3]
[edit] Publications
- Report on the UFO Incident at the Lebanon Correctional Institute, April 8, 1993.
- Report On The 1994 Fernald UFO Disturbance
- Report on the Trumbull County, Ohio UFO Incident, 12/14/1994.
- A Report On The March 26, 1997 UFO Sightings from Southern Ohio and the March 13th Arizona Connection
- Report on the Saucer Crash at Cape Girardeau, 1941.
- The Truth about TWA Flight 800 – The UFO Controversy.
- Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge – The Clermont County Recording.
[edit] Obituary
Kenny died due to leukemia on January 31, 2005. His UFO-related materials were left to fellow ufologists: the website was left to Sean Feeney, his digital files to Bob Leibold, and his paper files to Donnie Blessing. His paper files were then passed to the Ohio MUFON State Director William E. Jones, who donated them as follows:
"These were, for the most part, what I will call raw files, i.e. emails, letters, notes, drawings and so forth about specific cases or issues with regard to UFOs that had gotten Kenny’s attention. There were many news clippings scattered through out the collection, some connected to cases and specific issues, but most not. Some of these carried the name and date of the newspaper from which they came, but others unfortunately did not. Going through these files was a daunting task, but as it turned out, the effort was well worth while. I want to document for you what I have done with these files.
"A small number of items were stand alone documents that were unrelated or not closely related to the rest of Kenny’s files. Each was what I will call bibliographical, i.e. they can be referenced for research as identifiable documents, such as copy of a newsletter, booklet or report. Most of those were donated to the Ohio State University collection or, if they were specific in some way about the State of Ohio, they were donated to the Ohio Historical Society here in Columbus. They are not labeled at those places as being part of Kenny’s files, although I told each institution where they came from. For example, you can’t go to either and ask for Kenny’s collection of these items.
"Most of Kenny’s news clippings that were unrelated to his specific case or special interest files were donated to the Archives for UFO Research (AFU) in Sweden.
"Kenny’s case and special interest files were collected and bound up by various means, mostly in three ring notebooks, and donated to the Ohio Historical Society. I asked that each of these special files by listed under Kenny’s name. In case you want to use these collections some day once they are indexed and put on the shelf, here is a list of what was donated.
- Norwood, Ohio UFO Searchlight Case, 1949 – 1950, research notes and papers (three volumes).
- Report on the Saucer Crash at Cape Girardeau, 1941.
- Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge, Ohio UFO Sightings.
- Report on the UFO Incident at the Lebanon Correctional Institute, April 8, 1993.
- Trumbull County, Ohio UFO Incident, Fall 1994.
- Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge, Background.
- The Truth about TWA Flight 800 – The UFO Controversy.
- Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge – The Clermont County Recording.
- Information on the UFO Sighting Near Waynesville, Ohio, April 25, 2001.
- (10) The Mantell UFO Incident, January 7, 1948, Miscellaneous Documents.
"I trust that some of you will be curious enough about Kenny’s files to look at them someday. These files represent Kenny’s works in progress. A web site is being maintained at http://kenny.anomalyresponse.org/ that presents Kenny’s finished products. Kenny accomplished a lot in his few years of investigating the UFO mystery across Ohio and in other places. His work deserves to be remembered. And maybe somewhere within his work the answer lies, still hidden from us.[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ UFO Research: Cincinnati
- ^ Personal correspondence, Kenny Young, 26 Dec. 2001
- ^ Roswell Revelation
- ^ Personal correspondence, William E. Jones, 9 Feb. 2007
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