Stanton Friedman
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 11:14 am
Stanton Terry Friedman has passed at the age of 84. I just read the sad news in Filer's Files. He was a world renowned ufologist and author who often spoke at conferences, universities and was often an important part of UFO documentary programs. He will greatly missed for his intellect and pleasant personality. Stan was indeed a one-of-a-kind person. He was intelligent, articulate, open-minded and very, very good at UFO research
Stanton was a retired nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who resided in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the famous Roswell incident.
One of my best friends, who was a bit of an entrepreneur, actually brought Stanton to Australia for a sold out lecture tour. I was fortunate to get the chance to meet him. I felt I had a part to bringing him down under as I had previously convinced my formerly skeptical mate that the UFO phenomenon was indeed real. There are many "Stantonisms" I remember. One of my favourites was the answer to the question "If the aliens are here, why haven't they made contact? His answer was along the lines that "why would they bother to make contact with a primitive race whose main occupation is tribal warfare". It is truely staggering how many armed conflicts have been fought on planet Earth since WW2. More than 40 are taking place as I write this.
Wikipedia says Stanton Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1955 and a Master of Science degree in nuclear physics in 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric (1956–1959), Aerojet General Nucleonics (1959–1963), General Motors (1963–1966), Westinghouse (1966–1968), TRW Systems (1969–1970), and McDonnell Douglas where he worked on advanced, classified programs on nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and compact nuclear power plants for space applications. Since the 1980s, he did related consultant work in the radon-detection industry.
In 1970, Friedman left full-time employment as a physicist to pursue the scientific investigation of UFOs. Since then, he has given lectures at more than 600 colleges and to more than 100 professional groups in 50 states, 10 provinces, and 19 countries outside the US. Additionally, he worked as a consultant on the topic. He published more than 80 UFO-related papers and appeared on many radio and television programs. He also provided written testimony to Congressional hearings and appeared twice at the United Nations.
Friedman was the first civilian to document the site of the Roswell UFO incident and supported the hypothesis that it was a genuine crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. In 1968 Friedman told a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that the evidence suggests that Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial vehicles.
Stanton Friedman believed that UFOs may originate from relatively nearby sun like stars. A piece of evidence that he often cited with respect to this hypothesis is the 1964 star map drawn by alleged alien abductee Betty Hill during a hypnosis session.
May he rest in peace.
Stanton was a retired nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who resided in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the famous Roswell incident.
One of my best friends, who was a bit of an entrepreneur, actually brought Stanton to Australia for a sold out lecture tour. I was fortunate to get the chance to meet him. I felt I had a part to bringing him down under as I had previously convinced my formerly skeptical mate that the UFO phenomenon was indeed real. There are many "Stantonisms" I remember. One of my favourites was the answer to the question "If the aliens are here, why haven't they made contact? His answer was along the lines that "why would they bother to make contact with a primitive race whose main occupation is tribal warfare". It is truely staggering how many armed conflicts have been fought on planet Earth since WW2. More than 40 are taking place as I write this.
Wikipedia says Stanton Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1955 and a Master of Science degree in nuclear physics in 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric (1956–1959), Aerojet General Nucleonics (1959–1963), General Motors (1963–1966), Westinghouse (1966–1968), TRW Systems (1969–1970), and McDonnell Douglas where he worked on advanced, classified programs on nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and compact nuclear power plants for space applications. Since the 1980s, he did related consultant work in the radon-detection industry.
In 1970, Friedman left full-time employment as a physicist to pursue the scientific investigation of UFOs. Since then, he has given lectures at more than 600 colleges and to more than 100 professional groups in 50 states, 10 provinces, and 19 countries outside the US. Additionally, he worked as a consultant on the topic. He published more than 80 UFO-related papers and appeared on many radio and television programs. He also provided written testimony to Congressional hearings and appeared twice at the United Nations.
Friedman was the first civilian to document the site of the Roswell UFO incident and supported the hypothesis that it was a genuine crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. In 1968 Friedman told a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that the evidence suggests that Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial vehicles.
Stanton Friedman believed that UFOs may originate from relatively nearby sun like stars. A piece of evidence that he often cited with respect to this hypothesis is the 1964 star map drawn by alleged alien abductee Betty Hill during a hypnosis session.
May he rest in peace.