Karl PflockEditor Karl T. Pflock was a writer, consultant, and UFO researcher, and at various times served as a CIA intelligence officer, congressional staffer, and deputy assistant secretary of defense. He held a degree in philosophy and political science fromSan José State University. His articles on UFOs appeared in such journals as Omni, Fortean Times, the International UFO Reporter, The Anomalist, Fate, The MUFON UFO Journal, Cuadernos de Ufología (Spain), and the MUFON 1995 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, and he contributed a chapter to UFOs 1947-1997 (Evans and Stacy, eds.). His Roswell in Perspective, a book-length monograph on his investigation of the Roswell "crashed-saucer" incident through March 1994, was published by the Fund for UFO Research in 1994. His Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe (Prometheus, 2001) is now in its second printing, and a French edition is planned. Shockingly Close to the Truth! (Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist), written in collaboration with James W. Moseley, was published by Prometheus Books in 2002. In 1998, he was named Ufologist of the Year by the National UFO Conference. His interest in UFOs was virtually lifelong, inspired in part by his own sighting as a boy in 1951 or 1952. In latter years Karl Pflock lived and worked near Albuquerque, New Mexico; he passed away at home on June 5, 2006. Read More Read Less