Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Bruce Maccabee
US Navy optical physicist (1942–2024) and leading technical ufologist, co-founder of the Fund for UFO Research.
1979 CE · 39.04, -76.98 · status: account
The account
Maccabee worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland (later part of the Naval Surface Warfare Center) from 1972 to 2008. He analysed photos and films in cases such as the 1978 Kaikoura lights and the Gulf Breeze sightings, obtained the FBI's 'flying disc' file, and chaired the Fund for UFO Research, founded in 1979.
The sceptical view
Gulf Breeze, one of the cases he analysed, is widely regarded as a hoax, and photo analysis cannot by itself establish what an object was.