An optical physicist with the US Navy. Bruce Maccabee worked at the Naval Surface Weapons Center and studied some of the field's best-known photographs and films. He held the McMinnville negatives from 1974 to 1999. By his analysis the object was large and distant, with no thread visible. In 1978 he spent about a month in New Zealand studying the Kaikōura film. He concluded it showed unknown objects or phenomena. He later said the Gulf Breeze photographs had a good chance of being real, a claim that drew sharp debate.
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Physicist who reportedly argued the objects were not meteors
Researcher who analysed the case and rejected the kite and blimp explanations
Researcher who published the Navy report from FBI files in 1978
Optical physicist who analysed the negatives and defended the photos
researcher, documented the case from FBI files
Researcher who contributed the FBI document scans to NICAP and commented on the lack of follow-up
Physicist who re-analysed the report's statistics
Fund for UFO Research; FOIA requests that led to the 1985 release
Analysed the slide's optical power output; published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (1999)
Physicist who analysed the photographs in 2000 and judged the object unidentified
Analyst who reportedly estimated the source's optical power from a Kodachrome slide
Analyst who, with Brad Sparks, argued the object was truly anomalous
Fund for UFO Research investigator at the 1987 mini-conference
US Navy optical physicist who analysed the film
Researcher who argued the case was unexplained
Navy optical physicist who analysed the photographs
US Navy optical physicist who found the film too grainy for proper testing
Physicist who received FBIS translations and reported CIA interest
Physicist and researcher who worked with Oechsler and disputed the helicopter explanation
Optical physicist who analysed the video and concluded it was a hoax
UFO researcher who analysed the footage and radar data
Retired Navy physicist whose analysis favoured insects
Retired US Navy physicist who reviewed the photographs for Kean