Summary

Nuclear physicist who spent more than five decades as the world's foremost civilian researcher on the Roswell incident and government UAP concealment. Friedman located and first interviewed Jesse Marcel Sr. in 1978, resurrecting the Roswell case from obscurity and launching the modern crash-retrieval discourse. He coined the phrase 'Cosmic Watergate' to describe systematic government suppression of UAP evidence, and his rigorous application of FOIA requests and document analysis to MJ-12 papers established a methodology that influenced an entire generation of researchers.

Roles

• -Nuclear Physicist
• -UFO Researcher and Lecturer
• -Author - Flying Saucers and Science (2008)
• -Author - Top Secret/MAJIC (1996)

Organizations

Education

• -B.S., Physics - University of Chicago (1955)
• -M.S., Nuclear Physics - University of Chicago (1956)

Early Career

• -Worked as nuclear physicist for GE, Aerojet General Nucleonics, General Motors, Westinghouse, and McDonnell Douglas over 14 years
• -Held security clearances and worked on classified nuclear aircraft and fission/fusion rocket propulsion programs
• -Began researching UFOs while working in industry; gave his first public lecture in 1967
• -Left aerospace career in 1970 to become the first person to make a full-time living as a UFO researcher

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