Kevin Jacobs

David M. Jacobs (born August 10, 1942) is an American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University, specializing in 20th-century American history and ufology. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 with a dissertation on the UFO controversy in America, published as The UFO Controversy in America (1975), the first sympathetic academic book on UFOs. For over 25 years, he taught the only regular university course on UFOs in American society. Since 1986, Jacobs has conducted over 1,200 hypnotic regressions with more than 150 abductees, developing the first scientific typology of the abduction experience. Key books include Secret Life (1992), The Threat (1998), and Walking Among Us (2015), arguing aliens pursue a hybrid infiltration program to control humanity. He collaborated with Budd Hopkins on the 1992 Roper poll and lectured widely.