| Born
on October 13,
1942, Mr. Ridge is an experienced and respected researcher and
investigator
involved in the serious study of the UFO phenomena in an official
capacity
since 1960. Starting out as head of the NICAP Subcommittee (National
Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena) in Indiana (1960-1970), his 7-man team
was
one of the rapid response teams used by the University of Colorado UFO
Project in 1968. Ridge served as State Section Director for the Mutual
UFO Network (1972-1986) and later became the MUFON State Director
(1986-1995).
As head of the MUFON Indiana Group he was in charge of Indiana's Rapid
Deployment Team of over 30 FIs, gleaned from over 150 hand-selected
trainees.
Ridge was also a Field Investigator for CUFOS (J. Allen Hynek Center
for
UFO Studies). He has investigated hundreds of cases and his
computerized
Regional Sighting Information Database lists over 4,000 entries for the
region covering Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky &
Tennessee.
Ridge simultaneously operated and directed the UFO Filter Center and
UFO
detection effort called the MADAR Project (1970-1995). In 1997
Mr. Ridge began official work on a website which was authorized on
December 15th as the NICAP UFO web site, a major special evidence
cataloging project
for internet use based on evidence collected by the National
Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena. He is also the project coordinator for
The
Nuclear Connection Project, a small group of researchers working on
reports
of UFOs over nuclear sites.
Book
written by Francis
Ridge:
Regional Encounters: The FC Files".
(1994)
Mr.
Ridge and his wife,
Carolyn, live near Evansville, Indiana, in a little town called Mt.
Vernon.
They have three sons, one daughter, and four grandchildren.
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