Adp: Col. Kevin Randle (ret), Phd

Ray Stanford might be best known for his 1976 book, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry, which describes his investigation into the 1964 Socorro UFO landing witnessed by police officer Lonnie Zamora. He was a pioneer in using optical and electronic instruments to successfully obtain propulsion-diagnostic evidence of what he terms Anomalous Aerial Objects (AAO) instead of the more common UFO. In the 1970s and the 1980s he was able to document, in the field, multi-witness UFO sightings and obtained high resolution images.He is the only person in UFO studies and research who has discovered and documented a new species of dinosaur Propanoploaurus marylandicus, which is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. He found the new dinosaur inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway. It is the only armored dinosaur hatching ever reported and it is the only dinosaur hatching of any kind to be found in the entire eastern United States.