Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Richard F. Haines
NASA Ames research scientist (PhD experimental psychology, 1964) who, after retiring, studied pilot sightings of UAP as an aviation-safety issue.
1999 CE · 37.41, -122.06 · status: account
The account
Haines joined NASA in 1967 and worked on Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Station Freedom, becoming chief of the Space Human Factors Office at Ames in 1986. Separately he worked with CUFOS and NICAP and was chief scientist of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), which has gathered pilot reports since 1999. His papers are held at Rice University.
The sceptical view
Pilot reports are valuable but subject to the same perceptual errors as other sightings; NARCAP's case database has not produced evidence of exotic craft.
Connections in the atlas
- Japan Air Lines 1628
- O'Hare Airport
- Tehran incident
- Ryan Graves
- Jeffrey Kripal
- Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)