Wesley Andrés Watters

Wesley Andrés Watters is an American associate professor of astronomy and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wellesley College. He holds degrees from MIT and specializes in planetary science, studying impact craters and landscape evolution on Mars and the Moon, with publications in journals like Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets and Icarus. In UAP research, Watters is a member of the Galileo Project led by Avi Loeb, developing optical all-sky tracking stations and radar for detecting unidentified aerial phenomena. He co-guest-edited a special issue on UAP instrumentation in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation and spoke at the 2025 AOTI conference on astronomy, physics, and ontology related to UFOs. In 2025, he critiqued papers claiming UFOs in 1950s Palomar Sky Survey data, attributing transients to prosaic causes like nuclear test debris. Watters advocates using eyewitness testimony to motivate scientific investigation, drawing parallels to historical meteorite acceptance.