Peter
Davenport, Director
of the National UFO Reporting Center since July 1994, was born
in
St. Louis, Missouri, where he lived to the age of 14. He received his
undergraduate
education at Stanford University in California, where he earned
bachelor's
degrees in both Russian and biology, as well as a translator's
certificate
in Russian translation. Peter's graduate education was completed at the
University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned an M.S. degree in
the genetics and biochemistry of fish from the College of Fisheries, as
well as an M.B.A. degree in finance and international business from the
Graduate School of Business. He has worked as a college instructor, a
commercial
fisherman, a Russian translator in the Soviet Union, a fisheries
observer
aboard Soviet fishing vessels, a flight instructor, and a businessman.
Peter was the founding president of a Seattle-based biotechnology
company, which currently employs over 300 scientists and technicians.
In
1986, Peter was a candidate for the Washington State legislature, and
in
1992, he was a candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives. Peter
has had an active interest in the UFO phenomenon from his early
boyhood.
He experienced his first UFO sighting over the St. Louis municipal
airport
in the summer of 1954, and he investigated his first UFO case during
the
summer of 1965 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Peter has also served as the
director
of investigations for the Washington Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network.
<>Notable
Articles:
MUFON
Presentation on Passive
Radar (pdf file)
Exeter,
NH, UFO sightings:
Derry News (Derry, NH), Sept 1965
National
UFO Reporting
Center: National Emergency Number Association Magazine, Cashocton, OH,
June 1996.
Several
entries in the
"Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters," Ronald D. Story,(2001)
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