Staff Reports
SANBORN — The Western New York group MUFON is bringing one of the “founding fathers” of UFOlogy to the area for a lecture on landing and material evidence cases.
Philip Haseley, an anthropology professor at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn and the section director of the Mutual UFO Network, calls UFO researcher Ted Phillips the “world’s pre-eminent authority on UFO landing and evidence.”
Phillips will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at Niagara County Community College, Room E-142.
Phillips is director of the Center for Physical Trace Research, an institute that has collected and analyzed more than 3,000 UFO landing and material evidence cases.
He began his career as an investigator under the guidance of astronomer J. Allen Hynek in 1964. To date, Phillips has personally investigated more than 600 UFO cases. His investigation of a UFO landing in Delphos, Kan., in November 1971 is considered a classic in UFO studies.
Phillips has appeared on national television in programs such as “In Search Of,” “NBC News White Papers,” “CBS News Special Reports” and in the documentary movie “UFOs are Real.” He has been recently featured in two History Channel documentaries — “UFO Hunters” and “Alien Encounters,” as well as in dozens of national radio and Internet interviews.
Haseley, a Middleport native, said that while the subject of UFOs has gotten a silly label, “there’s a great deal more to it than meets the eye.”
Admission to Thursday’s event is free, but a voluntary $3 donation to benefit Niagara Hospice will be collected at the door.
