Raymond E. Fowler is an author and UFO researcher. He received a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Gordon College (Massachusetts)

Gordon College (Massachusetts)

Gordon College is a liberal arts college located on the former Princemere estate in Wenham, Massachusetts, northeast of Beverly. Founded by Baptist minister A. J...

. He graduated with honors when he received the degree magna cum laude. His working career was spent working on US government projects including the Minuteman Project weapons system.

UFO research

Fowler is best known for his UFO Unidentified Flying Object

Unidentified flying object

A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...

 investigations including documenting the Betty Andreasson Luca Alien Abduction case which was documented and written about by Fowler. Fowler also investigated and wrote about the Allagash Abductions

Allagash Abductions

The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting and alien abduction which is alleged to have occurred in 1976.-The UFO incidents:The witnesses said the incident started on August 20, 1976 when four men, all in their early-twenties, ventured on a camping trip into the wilderness near Allagash,...

.

He 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 UFO Studies.

J. Allen Hynek

J. Allen Hynek

Dr. Josef Allen Hynek was a United States astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive names: Project Sign , Project Grudge , and Project Blue Book...

, who developed the Hynek UFO classification system (see Close Encounter

Close encounter

In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific...

), recognized Fowler as one of the outstanding investigators in the UFO field. "An outstanding UFO investigator ... I know of no one who is more dedicated, trustworthy or persevering," Hynek said about Fowler's investigative work.

Scientific work

Fowler was recognized for his many scientific efforts, and his work in Astronomy

Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

, and his private observatory

Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed...

 was featured in the Sky & Telescope

Sky & Telescope

Sky & Telescope is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following:*current events in astronomy and space exploration;*events in the amateur astronomy community;...

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

Kennebunk, Maine

Kennebunk is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,075 people at the 2000 census. Including Kennebunkport , the population totals 14,196 people...

 home.

Abduction

Later in life Fowler wrote about being an abductee, and offered this information in his book UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee. During an interview with Rosemary Guiley Fowler listed some of his abduction experiences. Some of those experiences seem to correlate with other abductee testimony such as Betty and Barney Hill abduction

Betty and Barney Hill abduction

Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of New Hampshire on September 19–20, 1961....

or Luca.

Fowler's claim of being an abductee, and his UFO research, was not always welcomed by family members. His contributions to the UFO field stopped after the publication of The Watchers, in which Fowler acknowledged his UFO abduction experiences. For a brief time, Fowler's own grandchildren were not allowed to visit his home. Things have since resolved and the family has once again allowed visitation.

Books

• The Allagash Abductions, 1993
• The Andreasson Affair, 1979
• The Andreasson Affair - Phase Two, 1983
• The Andreasson Legacy, 1997
• Casebook of a UFO Investigator, 1981
• The Melchizedek Connection, 2001
• SynchroFile. Lincoln, 2004
• UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, 1979
• UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee, 2002
• The Watchers, 1991
• The Watchers II, 1995

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External links

• Raymond Fowler.org
• National Investigations Committee on Ariel Phenomena (NICAP)
• Crowded Skies.com
• Visionary Living.com
• Maine Mutual UFO Network web site
• Paul Rutgers.edu
• UFO Testament Anatomy of an Abuductee, Raymond E. Fowler, Writer's Showcase, 2002