Stanton Friedman

A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails. In 1985 Stanton T. Friedman worked alongside Shandera and Moore. In declassified files at the National Archives, the three found the Cutler-Twining memo, dated July 14, 1954. It became part of the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) story. The documents went public after the London Observer ran the story on May 31, 1987. On June 24, Friedman defended them on ABC Nightline. His opponent in that debate was Philip Klass.

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The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'

September 23, 1947 · Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

United States

UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources

28Thinly documented

Researcher who argued a SECRET letter would not mention higher-classified crash material

Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955

May 5, 1955 · Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio (for Project Blue Book, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)

United States

UAP · Disc / saucer · 32 sources

35Partially documented

Pro early

Senator Richard Russell's Train Sighting of Two Discs over Transcaucasia

October 4, 1955 · Baku to Tbilisi rail line between Alyat and Hajıqabul (Kazi-Magomed), Azerbaijan SSR

Azerbaijan

UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources

41Partially documented

Researcher credited with FOIA requests for the Air Force report

The Cuban MiG-21 Disintegration Incident

March 1967 · Airspace northeast of Cuba (radio traffic overheard at Key West Naval Air Station, Florida)

Cuba

UAP · Sphere · 19 sources

19Thinly documented

Nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer who received the analyst's statement in 1978

The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Documents

December 11, 1984 · Jaime Shandera's home, Burbank, California (some sources say North Hollywood)

United States

UAP · Being / humanoid · 45 sources

30Partially documented

Nuclear physicist and ufologist, chief defender of the documents