Nuclear Connection Project NCP

Francis L. Ridge

The Project Coordinator. Francis Ridge, married with four children, was born in 1942 and lives near Evansville, Indiana (Mt. Vernon). Coordinator of the NCP Working Group. Ridge is an experienced investigator officially involved in serious research of the UFO phenomena since 1960. Starting out as head of the seven- man NICAP Subcommittee (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) in Indiana in 1960, he became Indiana's MUFON State Director and FI for the Center for UFO Studies in 1989. Ridge has investigated hundreds of cases. His computer database lists over 4,000 entries for the region covering Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & Tennessee. He operated and directed the MADAR Project (UFO detection) from 1970 to 1995. As head of The Indiana Group he also was in charge of Indiana's Rapid Deployment Team of over 30 FIs. In 1994 he wrote a book describing his efforts, "Regional Encounters: The FC Files".
 

Loren Gross

Loren Gross, born 1938. Mr. Gross became interested in UFOs as a teenager when he was a member of the civilian Ground Observer Corps in the 195Os. After graduation from high school, he served four years in the U.S. Air Force as a radar operator with the Air Defense Command. In 1966 he received his B.A. degree in social science from the University of California at Chico and has since completed postgraduate work in physical science, history, and art. Mr. Gross is the author of many booklets on the early history of the UFO problem: The UFO Wave of 1896 (1974), The Mystery of the Ghost Rockets (1974), and Charles Fort, The Fortean Society, and Unidenufied Flying Objects (1976). His most well-known works are the UFOs: A History series of booklets.
 

 
Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Donald A. Johnson is an industrial/organizational psychologist and test developer with many years of consulting experience in career and leadership development, executive coaching, outplacement counseling and personnel selection. Dr. Johnson graduated from the University of Washington (Seattle) with a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1987 and from the University of Colorado (Boulder) with a BA in Anthropology in 1975. Dr. Johnson has had a long term interest in the UFO phenomenon and maintains a computer database of over 150,000 UFO reports for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, called UFOCAT. He is the author of The UFO Phenomenon: A Guide for the Perplexed (in press). He is also an avid student of the effects of rapid climate change events (RCCE) on human cultural and genetic evolution, and is currently doing research for a book on the effects of a bubonic plague epidemic on the population of Iceland.
 

Born 1952. After receiving a BA in Physics from The Lincoln University located near Oxford, PA in 1974, he joined the U. S. Navy, obtaining his Surface Warfare Officer qualifcation. He served as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1976 to 1986. Since leaving the Navy, he has worked in the ASW field for various government contractors, specializing in software test and evaluation. He served in the Connecticut Army National Guard from 1983-86. He is now working for Logicon-Syscon Corp. in Dahlgren, VA, .  Married, with 2 children.  Is concentrating on the Indian subcontinent for NCP-related sightings, using open sources.

Kevin Randle

Kevin D. Randle is a professional, investigative journalist who, for almost thirty years, has been studying the UFO phenomenon. During that time he has traveled around the United States and interviewed hundreds of witnesses. Randle was one of the first to examine the infamous Project Blue Book files, the official U.S. Air Force investigation of UFOs. More recently, he investigated the alleged crash of an extraterrestrial ship in the Roswell, New Mexico area. Randle's credentials include journalism and military intelligence training. As a former member of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and currently a special investigator for the  J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, he is considered an expert in the field. For those organizations, he has researched abduction cases, landing trace reports, and occupant sightings. Randle, a respected author, has published more than fifty magazine articles about UFOs.

Larry Hatch
Larry Hatch graduated from San Jose State college in California in Music.   He taught high school music for a year and a half, then just simply played for a living for some years. He went back to college and half-completed another degree ( engineering ) when personal matters intervened. He became directly interested in UFOs when he first read Hynek's seminal book, "The UFO Experience" ( Close Encounters). He was into home computers from the start, and began what became the *U* UFO Database as a way of sorting out the many sightings he read about as he built up his UFO library. Advancing thru several platforms (computers ) he finally got a 386 machine with enough graphics and memory to map sightings, and perform all sorts of statistical and other routines. This took off after a very favorable review in the MUFON Journal around 1995. He came into contact with several well known authors when he mailed inquiries about the dates and locations of various sightings, necessary data for any good database. He went online with his most recent computer ( a Pentium II ) around  November of 1997, and has been corresponding with the UFO community at large since then. The *U* Database now lists some 17,710 filtered sightings as of this date,  17 Sept 2000.

Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall was born in 1957 just northwest of the Hanford nuclear reservation, is married with two children and resides in Edmonds, Washington. He has been in the aerospace electronics field performing mechanical packaging design for 20 plus years. Interests in UFO began at the age of 11, but weren’t strongly pursued until the early 1990’s. Military related sightings received primary attention, and through efforts to separate conventional findings from nuclear, certain patterns were noted. At the urging of a fellow researcher from Japan, he became familiar with the history of nuclear weapons development globally and in 1999 began applying that military/political history to nuclear sighting data to search for correlation. He is now dedicating all efforts to studying and documenting this apparent correlative activity in an attempt to understand intent around the nuclear weapons issue.