Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Robert Sheaffer
American writer and UFO sceptic (b. 1949), author of the 'Psychic Vibrations' column in Skeptical Inquirer from 1977 to 2017.
1977 CE · 42.98, -78.80 · status: explained
The account
A founding member, with Philip Klass and James Oberg, of CSICOP's UFO subcommittee, Sheaffer has written six books critiquing the extraterrestrial hypothesis and investigated cases such as Jimmy Carter's 1969 sighting, which he attributed to Venus.
The sceptical view
UFO researchers accuse him of debunking from a fixed position rather than investigating.