Stanton Friedman

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Stanton T. Friedman was a nuclear physicist and pioneering civilian UFO researcher who revived the Roswell case and argued for extraterrestrial visitation.

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Stanton T. Friedman was an American-born Canadian nuclear physicist who worked on industrial research involving fission and fusion before becoming a full-time UFO lecturer and investigator. Beginning in the late 1960s, he traveled widely, debated skeptics, filed records requests, and argued that some UFO cases represented extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Friedman studied physics and worked for major industrial firms on nuclear and aerospace projects before becoming a full-time lecturer and researcher. That technical background gave him authority with public audiences, while his energetic speaking style made the case for UFOs accessible far beyond specialist groups. He traveled widely, debated skeptics, and accumulated correspondence and records over several decades. More than any single claim, his career professionalized the image of the civilian UFO lecturer as a researcher with an archive and a sustained historical argument.

Friedman played a decisive role in reviving the Roswell incident after locating and interviewing former Army Air Forces intelligence officer Jesse Marcel in 1978. He also researched the disputed Majestic 12 documents, the Betty and Barney Hill case, and the history of government secrecy. His technical background and energetic public speaking gave civilian ufology a professional voice, although critics challenged his conclusions and his acceptance of contested documents or testimony.

Friedman is a foundational figure in crash retrieval and government secrecy. He was an advocate as well as a researcher, openly concluding that some craft were extraterrestrial. His lasting importance comes from finding witnesses, preserving interviews, and defining the evidentiary arguments that later generations of disclosure researchers inherited.

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Im sure that many of you here are aware of the Varginha, Brazil Ufo crash/alien encounter case that happened on January 20th, 1996, where at least 2 creatures or aliens were supposedly seen and captured in the fairly large and modern city. It was about 6 months after the incident(in June) that there was a ufo conference in Brazil, where 3 well-known ufologists were in attendance. Those 3 were Graham Birdsall from England, Stanton Friedman from Canada/US, and John Carpenter from the US. After...

There is a small issue regarding provenance here. I guess in a way it is a trust me bro type situation, as this particular tape to which I refer is virtually impossible (for me anyway) to find online. It was definitely in 1971, as there is a small piece of footage still surviving. Posted here, for reference. Now I remember this Marcel/Friedman interview really well. Being a long-term amateur researcher going back to the late '70s, Stanton Friedman was one of our main go-to guys when it came t...

Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman spent decades researching UFO cases and described the U.S. government’s alleged concealment of recovered craft as a “Cosmic Watergate.” Stanton alleged that a small group of officials had known about recovered extraterrestrial craft and non-human bodies since 1947 and that extreme compartmentalization through fragmented information among separate programs and personnel had allowed this extreme secret to endure for decades.

When a post contains info. (or claims) that people don't wanna hear, that post does crappy. Like this one. Colm Kelleher: "Disclosure/confirmation hasn’t happened since the 1940s, is not happening now and will not happen." Jacques Vallée: "I read this with total agreement." 2013 [Quoted] 🌎 Stanton Friedman: Sudden Disclosure Would Start Too Many Troubles Around the Planet 🌍 "...one of the thermostat functions of the Control System is to keep hidden knowledge hidden." ~Kelleher Also: Some of...

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It is essential to address a common fallacy which has proliferated in the UFO research sphere — that UFOs seem to defy the laws of physics. The structured craft which make up a portion of UFO reports, particularly the ones that seem highly unconventional, do not defy the laws of physics (semantics aside, such a thing is an impossibility); nor do they defy our current understanding of physics. The problem presented by these objects is simply one of mystery, not of science. I.E. because experts...

Bob Lazar claims he helped reverse-engineer alien technology at a secret facility called S-4 near Area 51. But how much of his story can actually be verified? This documentary examines five major reasons researchers still have serious doubts, including Lazar’s education claims, his alleged role at Los Alamos, the lack of independent evidence for S-4, the Element 115 controversy, and alternative explanations for what he says he witnessed. Featuring discussion of Stanton T. Friedman, Christophe...

Physicist Stanton T. Friedman believed that the evidence already showed some UAPs were non-human craft. “The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.” https://t.co/1NyzkvmMqN

Earlier today I stumbled upon the UFO records in the Presidential Records section of the National Archives and found a lot of really interesting stuff. Lee M. Graham of Monrovia's name has popped up plenty the past few years regarding this topic and his communications over the years and FOIA requests he made regarding the MJ-12 files starting in 1985 after they were first released and ramping up in 1987 when the second batch was leaked to the likes of Stanton Friedman and other researchers. F...

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