Dr. Harley Rutledge was a physicist and the chairman of the physics department at Southeast Missouri State University. He is best known for Project Identification, a rigorous, multi-year field study utilizing scientific instrumentation to track and measure anomalous light phenomena occurring in Piedmont, Missouri. Rutledge's key contribution was his empirical observation that the phenomena appeared to react intelligently to the presence and actions of his scientific team. His published findings
Dr. Harley Rutledge was a physicist and the chairman of the physics department at Southeast Missouri State University. He is best known for Project Identification, a rigorous, multi-year field study utilizing scientific instrumentation to track and measure anomalous light phenomena occurring in Piedmont, Missouri. Rutledge's key contribution was his empirical observation that the phenomena appeared to react intelligently to the presence and actions of his scientific team. His published findings represent one of the few long-term, hard-science field investigations into UAP ever conducted by an active academic physicist. His work challenged the purely passive observation model by highlighting the interactive nature of the anomaly.