Summary

Navy optical physicist who conducted a parallel 36-year career analyzing UAP photographic and film evidence while employed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Maccabee applied professional optical instrumentation and image-analysis methods to high-profile cases including the McMinnville photos, New Zealand Kaikoura film, and Gulf Breeze series, and co-founded the Fund for UFO Research in 1979. He remains one of the few credentialed physical scientists to have dedicated a full career-length effort to UAP evidence review.

Roles

• -Optical Physicist - Naval Surface Warfare Center
• -Co-founder - Fund for UFO Research
• -Senior Research Analyst - MUFON

Organizations

Education

• -Ph.D., Physics (Optical Sciences), American University, 1970
• -B.S., Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1964

Early Career

• -Joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (later Naval Surface Warfare Center) at White Oak, Maryland, as an optical physicist in 1970
• -Began investigating UAP reports as a private researcher in the mid-1970s while maintaining full-time Navy career
• -Became active in NICAP and later MUFON; applied Navy optical instrumentation methods to photo and film analysis