Raymond Eveleth "Ray" Fowler is an American author and er.
Education
He graduated with honors when he received the degree magna cum laude. Fowler joined the United States. Air Force in 1952, attended a special school for electronic espionage, after which he was assigned to the United States Air Force Security Service under the auspices of the National Security Agency.
Career
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts from Gordon College (Massachusetts). His civilian career included work on United States government projects including the Minuteman Project weapons system. Fowler is best known for his unidentified flying object (Unidentified Flying Object) investigations and books focusing primarily on unidentified flying object sightings and close encounters in the New England area of the United States., including the Betty Andreasson Luca Alien case written about by Fowler.
He also investigated and wrote about the Allagash s, an alleged multiple persons abduction case.
Fowler served as Director of Scientific Investigations for MUFON and authored an older edition of the MUFON Field Investigators Manual. He also served as the Scientific Associate for the Center for unidentified flying object Studies.
Fowler had also served as an associate member and eventually chairman of NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena). J. Allen Hynek, who developed the Hynek unidentified flying object classification system (see Close Encounter), recognized Fowler as one of the outstanding investigators in the unidentified flying object field
"An outstanding unidentified flying object investigator.
I know of no one who is more dedicated, trustworthy or persevering," Hynek said about Fowler"s investigative work. Fowler was recognized for his many scientific efforts, and his work in Astronomy, and his private observatory was featured in the Sky & Telescope journal. Fowler also taught off-campus courses in Astronomy and UFOs at his Massachusetts home.
He continues to teach amateur astronomy at his private observatory located at his Kennebunk, Maine home.
Later in life Fowler wrote about being an abductee himself sharing this information, most indepth, in his autobiographical book unidentified flying object Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee. During an interview with Rosemary Ellen Guiley Fowler listed some of his abduction experiences which seem to correlate with other abductee testimony such as Betty and Barney Hill abduction and Betty Andreasson Luca.
Fowler"s claim of being an abductee, and his as a whole, was not always welcome by his family members, because of their religious beliefs on the subject of UFOs. Fowler"s extensive investigations in the unidentified flying object field lessened after the publication of The Watchers I and The Watchers II, in which Fowler initially acknowledged his unidentified flying object abduction experiences.
He continued writing books on the subject, however, including his own experiences as well as local investigations he had not previously published, in unidentified flying object Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee.