Mark Rodeghier
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| “ | Mark Rodeghier has been President and Scientific Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies since 1986. Born in Hammond, Indiana in 1953, he earned a B.S. in astrophysics from Indiana University in 1975. After a year of graduate study at the University of Sussex in England, he returned to complete a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in sociology. His dissertation, Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward Controversial Research : Quantitatively Disentangling the Social from the Scientific, explores the attitudes toward the study of extraterrestrial intelligence by the scientific community. Other publications include numerous articles for IUR and the Journal of UFO Studies, and UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference: a Catalog and Data Analysis (Evanston, IL: Center for UFO Studies, 1981).[1] | ” |
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- Names: "Thank you, all of McDonald's academic colleagues at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and various Departments of the University of Arizona at Tucson who granted me interviews or otherwise helped with documentation: Drs. Paul E. Damon, Benjamin Herman, Philip Krider, Richard Kassander, Paul S. Martin, Al Mead, William Sellers, Dean Staley, Cornelius "Corny" Steelink, Raymond M. Turner. Thanks to his colleagues in other university and government settings who kindly gave interviews: Professor Charles B. Moore, Margaret Sanderson-Rae, James Hughes, Ethel Carpenter. I thank our colleagues in the UFO research field: Drs. Eugene Epstein, Eric Kelson, Mark Rodeghier, Dave Saunders, Bert E. Schwarz, Robert M. Wood, and to Ted Bloecher, David Branch, Paul Duich, George Earley, Idabel Epperson, Marilyn Epperson, Richard H. Hall, Rex E. Heflin, Henk Hinfelaar, Brenda Hinfelaar, Gordon Lore, Marty Lore, Bill Moore, Paul Norman, Roy Russell, Pearl Russell, James Westwood. Thanks also to Philip J. Klass, Jan McDonald, Dr. Robert Nathan, Stephan A. Schwartz.
Thank you, my writing buddies, for your constant help: Dorothy Shapiro, Alice Nordstrom, Helevi Nordstrom, Elton Boyer, Dr. Louise Ludwig. And a special thanks to my sweet husband, Charles K. Druffel, a true UFO skeptic who recognized in Jim McDonald a genuine manifestation of the reality of the UFO phenomenon and who, a few months before his own passage into the transcendental realm, accomplished a final edit, with his own red pencil, of the voluminous manuscript."[2]
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- ↑ "Center for UFO Studies - Interview with Mark Rodeghier". http://www.cufos.org/bio_markrod.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-04.
- ↑ Druffel 2003: pp. VII-VIII
References
- Druffel, Ann (2003). Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science. Columbus, NC: Wild Flower Press. ISBN 0-926524-58-5.
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| Founded | 1973 |
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| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Key people | Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Founder |
| Website | CUFOS |
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The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a privately-funded UFO research group. It was founded in 1973 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois.
Dr. Hynek was also a scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's official study of the UFO mystery from 1948 to 1969. Although Dr. Hynek started out as a skeptic and helped the Air Force to debunk most UFO reports, he gradually became convinced that a small number of UFO cases were not hoaxes or explainable as misidentifications of natural phenomena, and that these cases might represent something extraordinary—even alien visitation from other planets. When the Air Force shut down Project Blue Book in 1969, Dr. Hynek decided to establish his own organization to continue to study UFO reports in a scientific and unbiased manner.
Started in Evanston, Illinois, but now based in Chicago, CUFOS continues to be a small research organization stressing scientific analysis of UFO cases. Its extensive archives include historically valuable files from defunct civilian research groups such as NICAP, one of the most popular and credible UFO research groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Following Dr. Hynek's death in 1986, CUFOS was renamed the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in his honor. The current Scientific Director of CUFOS is Dr. Mark Rodeghier, who holds a masters in Astrophysics from the University of Sussex, and a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Illinois. Prominent ufologists who have served on the CUFOS Board of Directors are Jerome Clark, an award-winning UFO historian and author of the "UFO Encyclopedia"; Dr. Michael Swords, a retired professor of natural sciences from Western Michigan University; and Dr. Thomas E. Bullard, a folklorist at Indiana University.
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| Actor | E. Philip Krider +, Albert Mead +, Raymond M. Turner +, Charles B. Moore +, Ethel Carpenter +, Eugene Epstein +, Eric Kelson +, Mark Rodeghier +, Bert E. Schwarz +, Robert M. Wood +, David Branch +, Paul Duich +, George Earley +, Idabel Epperson +, Marilyn Epperson +, Rex E. Heflin +, Henk Hinfelaar +, Brenda Hinfelaar +, Gordon Lore +, Marty Lore +, Paul Norman +, Roy Russell +, Pearl Russell +, James Westwood +, Robert Nathan +, Stephan A. Schwartz +, Dorothy Shapiro +, Alice Nordstrom +, Helevi Nordstrom +, Elton Boyer +, Louise Ludwig +, and Charles K. Druffel + |
| Date | 1986 +, 1953 +, and 1975 + |
| Date of birth | 1953 + |
| Location | Hammond,Indiana +, Indiana +, and England + |
| Organization | Indiana University +, University of Sussex +, and University of Illinois + |
