Meet My Experts
George M. Eberhart
Bibliographer and Librarian for CUFOS
George has a background and degrees in journalism and librarianship. He has lived in Chicago since 1980 and has been on the board of directors of the Center for UFO Studies since 1984. He is the author of UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography (1986) and Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology (2002).
Jolada Morancy
Aerospace Engineer at Blue Origin
Jolada is a recent graduate from the University of Chicago with a degree in Astrophysics. Their current interests lie within the fields of human spaceflight, planetary science, and astrophysics. They recently published their first children’s book Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life. Right now, they live in Washington working as an aerospace engineer at Blue Origin for their lunar landing program.
Thomas Stout
Former USAF & Commercial Airlines Pilot
Thomas started his career in flying at the University Texas at Arlington. He spent 10 years in the Air Force and has been a pilot for over 40. He’s been a Captain for close to 31 years and has a lot of experiences of flying. When not flying he can be seen admiring classic cars and hanging with his family in Texas.
Frank Alterman
Bar Owner and UFO Witness
Frank lives on the northwest side of Las Vegas. He’s currently retired but was bar owner for many years and has storied career in sales. Since living in Las Vegas, and about 75 miles south of the famous Area 51, Frank and his wife, Loretta, have seen several UPA’s. Mostly attributed to the fighter and test jets from Nellis Air Force Base. Frank has enjoyed viewing the UPA’s from the comfort of his porch.
Clifford Bruder
USAF Pilot, & UFO Witness
Cliff Bruder is a United States Air force veteran and a current airbus pilot for American Airlines. In his over 40 years of flying history Cliff has seen his fare share of oddities in the air. Once as a young teenager and then again in his early twenties while in the Air Force, Cliff has seen what can only be described as a real life UFO.
Rob Swiatek
Board of Directors and Investigator at MUFON
Rob Swiatek received his undergraduate degree from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, where he double majored in physics and Earth science. Except for a brief time spent at NASA HQ working on the Seasat satellite project, Swiatek’s career was spent at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Virginia as a physics examiner. He worked for years in the class of aeronautics and astronautics, as well as disparate other “arts.” His interest in UFOs has spanned his life from the time he was a teenager to the present day. In 1976 he joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and, in 1986 when he was living in the Washington, D.C., area, he began his association with the Fund for UFO Research. Being part of the Fund meant involvement in all aspects of ufology, from hot-button issues like Roswell and abductions to archival research and day-to-day UFO sightings. Rob is currently on the board of directors of both MUFON and the National UFO Historical Records Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.