Kevin D. Randle

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Dr. Kevin D. Randle (1949-), is a major in the US Army Reserves, as well as a prominent ufologist. Within the UFO Community he is often regarded as one of the leading experts on the reported crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.

1 Background
2 UFO Work
3 Books By Kevin Randle
4 Source

[edit] Background

Randle was born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa, and he holds a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a US Army helicopter pilot. He has also served as an intelligence officer in the US Army. In addition to his UFO research, Randle has written over 80 novels, including several science fiction novels, under such pseudonyms as Eric Helm, James Butler Bonham, B.R. Strong, and Cat Brannigan.

[edit] UFO Work

Randle became a UFO investigator for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in the 1970s. He has also worked as a "special investigator" for the Center for UFO Studies, based in Evanston, Illinois. To date he has published more than a dozen books and fifty magazine articles dealing with the UFO phenomenon. Although he believes that alien spacecraft have visited the Earth, he is skeptical of many aspects of the UFO mystery, especially the alien abduction phenomenon, and he has written numerous critiques of alien abduction stories. He is also skeptical of the authenticity of the infamous Majestic-12 papers, which are supposedly U.S. government documents from a top-secret government agency designated to deal with UFOs and aliens. In Randle's opinion, the papers are forgeries. His primary area of expertise, and interest, is the now-famous crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947 (see Roswell UFO Incident). Randle was one of the first ufologists to investigate the case, and he remains a strong supporter of the theory that an alien spacecraft crashed on a ranch outside the city. His 1991 book, UFO Crash at Roswell, was developed into the 1994 movie Roswell for the Showtime television network. In a position statement Randle writes: "I believe that we have been visited by extraterrestrial creatures. I base that conclusion on my research into the Roswell UFO crash, my interviews with the men and women involved on that case, and the limited documentation available." However, Randle also states that "I believe that the visitations have been extremely rare. Most of the information circling in the UFO field today has little factual base. Many of the subsets of ufology...have little or no factual basis. They are made of hoaxes, lies, fabrications, misidentifications, and anonymous and useless documents."

[edit] Books By Kevin Randle

The Roswell Encyclopedia, 2000, Collins Press, ISBN 0380798530
UFO Crash at Roswell, 1991, Avon Books, ISBN 0380761963
Project Blue Book Exposed, 1998, Marlowe & Company, ISBN 1569246912
The Randle Report: UFOs in the 90s, 1998, M. Evans and Company, Inc., ISBN 0871318598
Case MJ-12: The True Story Behind the Government's UFO Conspiracies, 2002, HarperTorch, ISBN 0380814730
Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol, 2001, HarperTorch, ISBN 0380814706
Signals: The Exploration Chronicles, Book One, 2003, Ace Publishing, ISBN 0441010393
Starship: The Exploration Chronicles, Book Two, 2003, Ace Publishing, ISBN 0441011284
F.T.L.: The Exploration Chronicles, Book Three, 2004, Ace Publishing, ISBN 0441011926
The Gate: The Exploration Chronicles, Book Four, 2006, Ace Publishing, ISBN 0441013988