Donald R. Todd

Donald R. Todd is an American independent UFO researcher renowned for his contributions to the Roswell incident investigation. Active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Todd first connected the 1947 Roswell debris to Project Mogul, a classified U.S. military balloon program designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests, in 1990. He contacted fellow ufologists with this finding, challenging extraterrestrial crash claims. His research influenced Karl T. Pflock's 1994 book Roswell in Perspective, which endorsed the Mogul explanation. Todd's work preceded the U.S. Air Force's official 1994 Roswell Report, bolstering the prosaic balloon theory over alien spacecraft narratives. No birth or death dates are publicly known; he remains a pivotal figure in debunking Roswell mythology.