"To pay the bills, Doug was a groundskeeper for a local school district in Denver.
But his real calling — his vocation — was the search for truth.
Specifically: the search for truth about aliens, whose existence and technology he believed the U.S. government discovered decades ago and kept hidden from the public."
"In his other world, Doug was the recently promoted Director of Investigations for the Mutual UFO Network, founded in 1969 to dig into unidentified flying objects and alleged extraterrestrial encounters. Through screens and servers, Doug explained, he and scores of other volunteers under his helm sifted through hundreds of UFO reports filed each month through MUFON’s website and by telephone. They used flight trackers, weather reports, satellite trajectory maps, and interviews to evaluate whether self-described witnesses had seen something extraordinary or just common blips of modern life in the sky."
"Doug first became interested in UFOs in the late 1960s, he said, when he was in the fifth or sixth grade and the U.S. Air Force — overrun with reports of UFO sightings — commissioned a scientific research committee at the University of Colorado.
It was the first thing Doug ever followed closely in the news. He envisioned the illustrious scientists at this fancy university reviewing evidence together."
"Doug’s suspicions were heightened when he learned about a secret panel of scientists convened by the C.I.A. in 1953 that recommended a “broad educational program” to reduce public interest in UFOs, including through mass media; the full meeting notes were declassified and released in 2013."
Källa, Washington Post 3 september 2021:
A UFO conspiracy theorist’s search for the truth - Washington Post
