Widely regarded as the UFO field's leading historian. Author of the multi-volume 'The UFO Encyclopedia' (1st ed. 1992, 3rd ed. 2018) and 'The UFO Book', winner of the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award. Longtime editor of Fate and the International UFO Reporter, and a CUFOS board member.
Jerome Clark, born in 1946 and raised in Canby, Minnesota, is a writer, reporter and editor who has spent decades chronicling the UFO phenomenon with a documentary, historian's rigor. He edited Fate magazine and the Center for UFO Studies' International UFO Reporter, and sits on the CUFOS board. His signature achievement is 'The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning', first published in 1992 and expanded through a 3rd edition (2018, two volumes, Omnigraphics) covering sightings, close encounters, investigations, personalities, hoaxes, debunking campaigns and government programs across the full history of the field. His companion volume 'The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial' won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award for Science/Environment. He has appeared on ABC News, Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings and A&E discussing UFOs and other anomalous topics, and is also a country and folk music songwriter.