Kevin Randle
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PersonResearcherKevin Randle is an American author and retired Army officer known for decades of Roswell crash research, including books with Donald Schmitt and a study of Project Moon Dust.
Kevin Randle is an American author and retired Army officer known for decades of Roswell crash research, including books with Donald Schmitt and a study of Project Moon Dust.
Kevin Douglas Randle is an American writer, military veteran and UFO researcher, born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1949. He is best known for more than three decades of work on the 1947 Roswell incident. His books with Donald Schmitt helped shape the crash-retrieval account of Roswell that dominated the early 1990s. His later doubts about its key witnesses made him one of the few major Roswell researchers to publicly revise his own conclusions.
Randle's military service ran from 1968 to 2009. He flew UH-1 helicopters with assault helicopter companies in Vietnam and later served in the Air Force as a public affairs and intelligence officer. After the September 11 attacks he joined the Iowa National Guard as an intelligence officer, deployed to Baghdad in 2003 and 2004, and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Iowa and later graduate degrees. He has also written dozens of science fiction, military and historical novels, some under pen names. He began investigating UFO reports in high school and published his first UFO article in 1972. In 1975 Jim Lorenzen, of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, asked him to investigate cattle mutilations.
UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) and The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994), both written with Schmitt, argued that the Army Air Forces had recovered an unusual craft. They placed Randle alongside Stanton Friedman among the case's best-known investigators. He followed with Project Moon Dust (1998), about the Air Force's Cold War effort to recover foreign space objects and its overlap with UFO reports, and Case MJ-12 (2002), on the disputed Majestic 12 papers. In May 2013 he sat on the Roswell panel with Schmitt, Friedman and Jesse Marcel Jr. at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington.
In Roswell in the 21st Century (2016), Randle wrote that none of the people who had claimed to see alien bodies had turned out to be telling the truth. UFO historian Jerome Clark called the book the first recantation by a major figure in the controversy. Randle has not accepted the Air Force's balloon explanation, however. In a September 2026 blog post he again argued that Project Mogul cannot account for the debris, because the balloon flight usually blamed for it was cancelled at dawn and never flew.
He remains active in 2026 through his blog, A Different Perspective, and an interview series. Recent guests have included Kathleen Marden on the Betty and Barney Hill case and Mike Rogers, the logging crew boss in the Travis Walton case. On the Roswell panel at the 2026 Roswell UFO Festival, he said no records of the crash had surfaced in that year's federal document releases. Researchers reexamining the Moon Dust and Blue Fly programs continue to draw on his archival work. Across combat aviation, intelligence work and decades of research, Randle has become one of the longest-serving and most self-critical investigators of the Roswell case.
Part 16 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Balloon-and-reflector equipment fits contemporary debris descriptions; Mogul Flight 4 is a further inference. GAO documented destroyed records, not their motive. Later events are possible sources for body stories, not established explanations for every witness. Failed later claims do not resolve the retained material-and-secrecy testimony. Earlier in the series: Part 1 — Before the Saucers: How Cap...
Part 7 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Pacelli’s “pistol” remark describes pressure on the Church in Germany. It does not identify a recovered craft. Concordat negotiations began before the alleged June crash. The genuine secret annex concerns military service. Ciano’s “great impression” appears in diplomatic damage control over Hess’s peace mission. The diary has real textual and editorial problems. They do not identify removed Magenta...
Kevin Randle thinks Aztec was a hoax. Jerome Clark thinks Aztec was a hoax. Dr. Eric Davis doesn't think Aztec is a legit crash retrieval case. For another [Quoted] Coming out with a pretty insane deep dive on the Aztec UFO crash in 1 hour... probably the wildest, most dramatic case on U.S. soil ever. And with more evidence than Roswell! Chris Ramsay (@chrisramsay52) and I visited the crash site directly
Just an FYI on the alleged 1948 Aztec crash, from my Nov. 2025 post: "I asked Dr. Eric Davis his opinion of this case and he said that, based on the informatio [Quoted] Excited for everyone to finally see the Aztec investigation! Suzanne and Scott Ramsey dedicated a huge part of their lives to this case and you’ll get to see why on @AlchemyAmerican ‘s video! https://t.co/R4RD9RL6Ur
Why Del Rio matters now This alleged crash has become relevant to the current disclosure debate because two prominent government-linked UAP figures have presented it as an NHI biological-recovery case, not merely an old sighting story. In an August 23, 2026 interview, physicist Eric Davis referred to alleged recoveries in the United States and in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, in December 1950. He categorized them as biological rather than technological: “Those are wetware—that’s what we call wetware....
In my last post, a commenter, u/sixties67, pointed me towards a competing narrative to the MJ-12 documents based on the work of Kevin Randle which I found quite compelling. Prior post: How MJ-12 Documents, Corso's Pentagon Files, Grusch, and Elizondo Tell the Same 70-Year Cover-Up Story This pipeline matters because it turns crash retrieval from an abstract allegation into a historically documented capability: trained field teams could investigate, recover, transport, and deliver unusual aero...
In my last post, a commenter, u/sixties67, pointed me towards a competing narrative to the MJ-12 documents based on the work of Dr. Kevin Randle which I found quite compelling. Prior Post: How MJ-12 Documents, Corso's Pentagon Files, Grusch, and Elizondo Tell the Same 70-Year Cover-Up Story (https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/HkEUVB86bi) Dr. Kevin Randle is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel with a military career spanning several decades. During the Vietnam War, he served as a UH-1...
I went into this story thinking Project Moon Dust was a classified Cold War program for recovering Soviet satellites that occasionally brushed up against UFO cases. After going through the Air Force records, Project Blue Book files, State Department cables, FOIA correspondence and decades of work by researchers including Kevin Randle, Clifford Stone, Robert Todd and Barry Greenwood, I don’t think that description goes far enough. Moon Dust and Blue Fly were a documented crash-retrieval archit...
Here's another interesting video I found from 1994. The video features interviews with renowned researchers, physicists, and military personnel (such as Stanton Friedman, Dr. Steven Greer, and Kevin Randle), debating physical evidence, secret technology, and sightings. It's a fascinating document to see how the extraterrestrial mystery and Area 51 were discussed on television in the 1990s, long before the recent official declassifications.
Not only that… around the same time, Disney hosted a 2-week UFO conference with names like Budd Hopkins, George Knapp, Don Schmitt, and Kevin Randle. We break all of this Disney UFO stuff down on the latest Sound Light & Frequency on Thursday. https://t.co/W5jD1TYnxn [Quoted] In 1995, Disney aired a serious UFO special, “Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland,” blending real alien/UFO stories to promote the 'ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter' ride. 👀 https://t.co/sI9GXsmEMG
