Brad Sparks

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I personally hold Brad Sparks in very high esteem. The thumbnail didn't transclude properly from The Red Pill so here's a local copy.

Brad Sparks was co-founder of CAUS, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. Verbatim from Red Pill.

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He served as the assistant research director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), founded by the late Coral and Jim Lorenzen, for APRO's last decade until 1988. He is also cofounder of BlueBookArchive.org which is putting online on the Web the entire U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files, which he considers the best collection of publicly available UFO evidence in existence. He has produced the ongoing work-in-progress the "Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project Blue Book Unknowns," which is available on the NICAP, CUFOS, NIDS and other websites. He is a Research Associate of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) founded by Dr. Richard Haines, and is a MUFON member and consultant to the MUFON director.[1]

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Contents 1 Ufological Involvement 2 Media Work 3 Notes 4 References 5 Further Reading 6 External Links

Ufological Involvement

(Transcribed from The Red Pill)

Sparks was cofounder of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) and principal consultant in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits managed by CAUS against the CIA and NSA. He served as the assistant research director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), founded by the late Coral and Jim Lorenzen, for APRO's last decade until 1988. He is also cofounder of BlueBookArchive.org which is putting online on the Web the entire U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files, which he considers the best collection of publicly available UFO evidence in existence. He has produced the ongoing work-in-progress the "Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project Blue Book Unknowns," which is available on the NICAP, CUFOS, NIDS and other websites. He is a Research Associate of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) founded by Dr. Richard Haines, and is a MUFON member and consultant to the MUFON director.

Following a stint working at NASA-Ames, Sparks investigated astronaut UFO cases, including interviewing Skylab-3 astronaut Dr. Owen Garriott shortly after his return to earth. He conclusively refuted the official skeptical explanation for the Gemini 11 case, but recently found an explanation for this longstanding unexplained incident as well as explanations for the Apollo 11 and 12 incidents. However Skylab-3 remains a mystery with the color photos and optical ranging yielding an approximate 800-foot size of the space UFO, much larger than the largest satellite then in space (the 150-foot Skylab-3).

Sparks has also worked on photographic and optical analysis of UFO cases. In cooperation with optical physicist Dr. Bruce Maccabee he investigated the McMinnville UFO photos, Based on his Lockheed training in radar systems, he has also worked with radar physicist Gordon Thayer and other scientists on analysis of the Lakenheath-Bentwaters AFB radar-visual sightings of UFOs, the RB-47 electronic intelligence UFO case, and other radar and electromagnetic cases.

Sparks has been a lifelong skeptic of Roswell and the ETH (Extraterrestrial Hypothesis for UFOs), although he remains open to new evidence. For example, in 2000 (while working on non-UFO-related research), he accidentally discovered the TOP SECRET U.S. government policy response to Roswell, which should not exist if Roswell was essentially a non-event as he had long believed. He also has moved on from his belief in the "Mogul balloon" explanation for Roswell, after discovering that the supposed Mogul balloon flight path was a fabrication. He worked with Dr. David Rudiak in plotting the correct probable balloon path, which passed nowhere near the Roswell Debris Field.

Media Work

(Transcribed from The Red Pill)

Sparks was the principal consultant for the Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings television and DVD documentary produced by Redstar Films, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2005 (released worldwide 2007).

Notes

References

Further Reading

External Links

• BlueBookArchive.org
• Brad Sparks' controversial paper at the 2007 UFO Symposium, "The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12"
• Google video of Brad Sparks interviewin Best Evidence
• "Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project Blue Book Unknowns"

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