Marty Pilch

Martin Pilch served as a staff member and chaired meetings for the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a private research organization founded by Robert Bigelow in the mid-1990s to investigate UFOs, UAPs, and related paranormal phenomena. He chaired the thirteenth NIDS Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting on 11 July 1998, where topics included the Sturrock/Rockefeller project on UFOs and updates from Colm Kelleher on the Skinwalker Ranch investigation. NIDS aimed to attract world-class scientists to study UAP events, though sightings at the Utah ranch were infrequent. No birth/death years, nationality, publications, or testimony by Pilch are documented in available sources. His role appears administrative within this key private UFO research effort linked to government-adjacent figures like Jacques Vallee.