American researcher who founded the Reptoids Research Center in 1988 and is credited with popularising the term 'reptoid' to describe the reptilian humanoid beings reported in abduction and contact accounts. He distinguishes his work from conspiracy culture, treating reptilian entity reports as a genuine empirical phenomenon to be documented.
John Rhodes is an independent researcher who has spent several decades collecting and cataloguing reports of reptilian humanoid encounters from around the world. He founded the Reptoids Research Center as a dedicated archive for such accounts and coined the term reptoid as a neutral descriptor for these beings. Unlike David Icke, whose work he publicly distances himself from, Rhodes treats reptilian entity reports as an empirical dataset worthy of serious investigation rather than as evidence of a global elite conspiracy. His compilations draw on regression testimonies, indigenous traditions, and direct witness reports, and represent one of the most systematic attempts to document this category of encounter independently of broader conspiracy frameworks.