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Frances Lee Ridge, remembered by UFO History Buff and author Charles Lear.
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On January 20th, 2026, Frances Lee Ridge passed away. His contributions to UFO investigation
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and research spanned six decades. And thanks to his efforts, a treasure trove
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of historical UFO-related material is available to anyone with an internet connection.
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According to Ridge's bio at nicap.org, he was born on October 13th, 1942.
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In 1960, he became an active investigator as head of the National Investigations Committee
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on Aerial Phenomena, Indiana Subcommittee, and remained in that position until 1970.
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In 1970, Ridge began a project called Maedar, multiple anomaly detection and automatic recording,
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which he continued throughout his life. He created detection and recording systems to gather data
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on geomagnetic, electromagnetic, and background radiation anomalies, and monitored them at his
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home in Newberg, Indiana. In April 2016, a new idea was conceived to create a network of affordable
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devices. This resulted in the creation of the Maedar 3 data probe system with the help of Maedar
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member, Rich the Tello, and his team at AUU Phan, after a costly and disastrous faults start
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in the fall. By May 2018, the system was operational, and as of 2023, there was a network operating
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with 221 members operating 168 sites, 56 of which were DAS equipped throughout the world.
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In 1972, Ridge became Indiana State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network,
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and State Director in 1986. He was also a field investigator for the Center for UFO Studies.
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He investigated hundreds of cases and created the regional citing information database,
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which, as of the last update in 2023, had 4,000 entries covering the area of Missouri, Illinois,
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Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He also ran the UFO filter center doing computer studies
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on regional and nationwide sightings. In 1997, Ridge was authorized to start work on a website
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for NICAP. The site contains a wealth of information for historical researchers, including NICAP
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case files, biographies, chronologies, publications, documents, and links to other resources.
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Ridge was project coordinator for the Nuclear Connection Project, which focused on UFO reports
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around nuclear sites, and in 2006, he led a reinvestigation into the Mantell case,
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which concluded that Mantell was chasing a real UFO. The report in book form titled
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The Mantell Incident, Anatomy of a Reinvestigation, was published in 2010.
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Along with a link below the bio to the Mantell book, there is a link to his 1994 book,
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Regional Encounters, the UFO Center Files, and his 2021 book, Cap Point, a series of staggering
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events with global implications for everyone on planet Earth. At the bottom is a position statement
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regarding the UFO mystery. There is no question or doubt that most UFOs are actually
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IFOs identified flying objects. For the subset of events that cannot be explained,
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there is a small group of sightings that demonstrate solid objects under intelligent control.
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I am convinced that these objects are somebody else's craft. Although I cannot prove that the
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intelligence behind the phenomena is ET in nature, I consider the ETH to be the least unlikely.
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I also feel that there is a nuclear connection, or one that indicates a cause and affect
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relationship with serious world events that could lead to a nuclear threat, and that the evidence
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in the form of military sightings indicates we are being observed and are obviously scientifically
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and militarily inferior to this presence. In Ridge's detailed biography, also found on the
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NiCAP website, there is much more information regarding his activities. There are also links
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to his aforementioned books and several papers written by him. An updated version now begins with
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his obituary written by his friend Phil Leach. Francis Lee Ridge made a huge contribution to
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UFOlogy and his efforts are greatly appreciated, particularly by those of us who are passionate
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about the history of the subject, RIP. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators
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