Canadian-American nuclear physicist. Located the original Roswell witnesses in the late 1970s, kicking off a generation of investigation. Maintained the strongest public ETH advocacy of any credentialed physicist until his death.
Stanton Friedman was a nuclear physicist who worked on highly classified government aerospace projects before becoming the first civilian UAP investigator to dedicate his life fully to the subject. He is most famous for being the original civilian investigator to break the 1947 Roswell UFO crash story to the broader public in the late 1970s. Friedman's key contribution was his relentless scientific advocacy for the extraterrestrial hypothesis, utilizing his academic background to argue that interstellar travel is physically feasible. He vigorously pursued the authentication of the Majestic 12 documents and constantly debated academic skeptics on national television. His methodical, physics-based approach lent crucial early credibility to the study of flying saucers.