Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, born in 1948 in Valencia, Spain, is a pioneering Spanish ufologist who has investigated UFO phenomena since 1966. He founded and chaired CEONI (1968-1973), the first UFO organization on a Spanish university campus, and served as Director of Investigations at Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios (1992-1999) and Vice-president and Research Director of Fundación AnomalÃa (1997-2004). A key figure in declassifying Spanish Air Force UFO files (1992-1999) through collaboration with military intelligence, he received the 1983 Alvin Lawson Award with John Schuessler for advancing scientific UFO comprehension and a 1982 Fund for UFO Research scholarship. Member of MUFON, CUFOS, SSE, and Euro UFO Network steering committee, he has lectured internationally and maintains an extensive UFO bibliography from 1965-2022.