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RICHARD F. HAINES is a senior research scientist who worked at NASA–Ames Research Center from 1967 to 1988 on projects such as Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and the International Space Station, and managed the Joint FAA/NASA Head-up Display Evaluation Program. He was appointed Chief of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA–Ames in 1986. Dr. Haines has published more than seventy-five papers in leading scientific journals and over twenty-five U.S. government reports for NASA. Since retiring in 1988, he worked as a senior research scientist for the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, RECOM Technologies, Inc., and Raytheon Corporation. Currently, he serves as Chief Scientist for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).
CHARLES I. HALT was a Lieutenant Colonel when he was assigned to RAF Bentwaters, England—the largest Tactical Fighter Wing in the U.S. Air Force—as Deputy Base Commander and then as Base Commander. After becoming a full Colonel, he was Base Commander at Kunsan Air Base in Korea, the F-16 base responsible for any offensive action required on the Korean peninsula, and also was instrumental in establishing the Cruise Missile Base in Belgium. Finally, he served as Director, Inspections Directorate, for the DoD Inspector General, with total inspection oversight of the entire Department of Defense. Colonel Halt retired in 1991 and now manages a large gated community.
OSCAR SANTA MARÍA HUERTAS was a jet fighter pilot with the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) for many years, with flying experience in T-41D, T-37, A-80, T-33, A-37, MB-399, and SU-22 aircraft. He was stationed in numerous military bases throughout Peru and was chief of the Academic Department and a flight instructor in the Officers School of the FAP. Santa María also spent eleven years in the Air Force Accident Prevention and Investigation Department. He retired with the rank of comandante (equivalent to a colonel) in 1997 but remains active, currently working as a consultant in Flight Safety and Accident Prevention for the airline industry in Peru.
PARVIZ JAFARI is a retired General of the Iranian Air Force. After joining the Air Force, he spent two years training in the United States, at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Craig AFB in Alabama, and Nellis AFB in Nevada. In his country, Jafari served as a base commander for several bases and an Air Force Headquarters operations officer. As a General, Jafari became the coordinating officer between the Iranian Army, Navy, and Air Force. He retired in 1989 and lives in Tehran.
DENIS LETTY is a well-known fighter pilot and Major General in the French Air Force. He was head of the Fifth Fighter Wing, Strasbourg Air Base, French Air Force South East Defense Zone, and the French Military Mission near Allied Air Forces Central Europe. As a commander, he was decorated with the Legion of Honor. After retiring, General Letty served as president of the joint venture company Aviation Defense Service, which provided electronic warfare training for the armed forces. He also became chairman of the COMETA group, a private, in-depth fact-finding committee formed to study the UFO phenomenon, which published the report “UFOs and Defense” in 1999.
JAMES PENNISTON entered the Air Force in 1973 and was assigned to the Strategic Air Command Elite Guard in Omaha, Nebraska, working security for the SAC Command Post. Subsequent assignments took him to RAF Alconbury in England and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, as a Flight Security Controller for the protection and launch