Lately, I'm being pulled back to the realms of UFOlogy as people I met through the decades are returning to my life one way or another. This is a well needed diversion from the world we live in today which has become a showcase of dysfunctionality and not at all where I belong.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Maccabee - who passed last month - in the early days of my UFO journey through a group called MUFON. I was very impressed by what he had to say along the lines of physicist Stanton Friedman.

Along the way I met most of the keynote players in UFOlogy - some going on to do great things - others pulling back as they became more involved with the emotional dynamics of the field vs. scientific research.

This was a time Simulation Theory was not as yet spiking in the grids of human consciousness - but I never forgot that as we got closer to the end the creators would remember and activate.

There were the abductees, the contactees, those who had seen lights or other anomalous objects in the sky, those who are interested in the creation story of humanity linked to something not of this world, and as per human programming the conspiracy theorists. Interesting times. Interesting programming.

So who was Dr. Maccabee - a man from my generation with similar interests?

Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee was an American optical physicist employed by the U.S. Navy, and a ufologist. His UFO research and investigations included:

the Kenneth Arnold sighting (June 24, 1947),

the McMinnville, Oregon, (Trent) photos of 1950,

the Gemini 11 astronaut photos of September, 1966,

the Tehran UFO incident of September 1976,

the New Zealand sightings of December 1978,

the Japan Airlines (JAL1628) sighting of November 1986,

the numerous sightings of Gulf Breeze UFO incident, 1987-1988,

the "red bubba" sightings, 1990-1992 (including his own sighting in September, 1991),

the Mexico City video of August, 1997 (which he deemed a hoax),

the Phoenix lights sightings of March 13, 1997,

2004 Mexican UFO incident and many others.

Maccabee also carried out historical research and was the first to obtain the secret "flying disc file" of the FBI (what he calls "the REAL X-Files"). In addition, he collected documents from the CIA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and other government agencies.

Maccabee was the author or co-author of about three dozen technical articles and more than a hundred trade articles about UFOs over the last 30 years, including many which appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal and MUFON Symposium proceedings. Among his papers was a reanalysis of the statistics and results of the famed Battelle Memorial Institute Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, a massive analysis of 3200 Air Force cases through the mid-1950s. Another was a reanalysis of the results of the Condon Committee UFO study from 1969.

In addition, he also wrote or contributed to half a dozen books on the subject of UFOs and appeared on numerous radio and television shows and documentaries as an authority on the subject.