Massachusetts-based investigator who moved from NICAP to MUFON as the former wound down, and authored an early edition of the MUFON Field Investigator's Manual. Best known for his multi-decade investigation of the Betty Andreasson case.
Raymond E. Fowler was a civilian UFO investigator whose career spanned the transition from NICAP to MUFON as the leading U.S. civilian research body of the 1970s and 80s. A former U.S. Air Force Security Service employee and 25-year defense-contractor engineer, he brought a methodical, document-driven approach to fieldwork. His defining project was the decades-long investigation of Betty Andreasson's reported 1967 abduction, conducted through extensive hypnotic-regression sessions and published as 'The Andreasson Affair' (1979), a book credited with introducing the topic of alien implants to ufology. He later investigated the 1976 Allagash Waterway case involving four Maine canoeists. Fowler's meticulous, multi-year case-file method became a template for serious civilian abduction investigation.