UFO expert Dr. Harley Rutledge, 80
Posted: Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 5:59 amDr. Harley Rutledge, 80, former chairman of the physics department at Southeast Missouri State University and UFO expert, died Monday at the Missouri Veterans Home. …
Rutledge first gained national notoriety through an organization he launched in 1973 called “Project Identification.” The project was a response to a flurry of UFO sightings near Piedmont, Mo. Over the next six years, Rutledge and crews of students, scientists and amateur enthusiasts spent 150 nights scanning the skies in Franklin County with cameras, audio recorders, telescopes and tools measuring electromagnetic field disturbances. …
In 1980 he published a book also called “Project Identification,” which took a scientific approach to cataloguing the UFO activity. He tracked the velocity, distance and size of the objects he caught on video and said he was careful not to let his own hypotheses get in the way of the data. … Read full obituary
