CHRIS AUBECK is the founder of the historical research group Magonia Exchange, an international archival project. He is the author of a dozen articles in English and Spanish, contributes to radio programs in Spain, and delivers talks on the subject of the evolution of UFOs as cultural history. He is the co-author of Wonders in the Sky (2010) with Jacques Vallee and OOPARTS: Objetos Fuera de su Tiempo (2015) with Juan José Sanchez-Oro. In May 2015, he organized the first two-day conference on historical UFOs, "The Inhabited Sky," in La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Aubeck currently lives in Andalusia. MARTIN SHOUGH is a Research Associate for National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP). He has been involved in a number of notable sighting investigations and is author or co-author of various papers and other publications, including: "Radar and the UFO" (1987); "A Review of Radar UAP Contact Reports Generally Related to Aviation Safety" (NARCAP, 2002); "A Social History of Ball Lightning" (2003/2014); "Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena Observed Near Channel Islands, UK," (2008, with Baure, Clarke and Fuller); "Radar Cross-Section of a Sphere" (2009); "Spheres in Airborne UAP Imagery" (2009, with Ballester-Olmos); "Study of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed by BOAC Aircrew over Labrador, Newfoundland" (2009); and "Double Trouble: e Science & Superstition of Multiple Suns" (2011). He has been a photolithographer, graphic designer, and gallery owner. He lives in the Highlands of Scotland.
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