William Moore

William Leonard Moore (born October 31, 1943) emerged as a key figure in UFO research during the late 1970s to 1980s. Fascinated by UFOs since his teens, he graduated from Thiel College in 1965, taught high school, and served as Arizona state director for the Mutual UFO Network before becoming a freelance writer. He co-authored The Philadelphia Experiment (1979) with Charles Berlitz, exploring alleged naval invisibility tests, and The Roswell Incident (1980), the first book on the purported 1947 UFO crash and government cover-up.

Partnering with Jaime Shandera, Moore received anonymous MJ-12 documents in 1984, purporting a secret group overseeing UFOs; they circulated them in 1987 with Stanton Friedman. Contacting intelligence figures like "Falcon" from "The Aviary," he traded UFO community intel for leaks. Controversy peaked in 1989 when Moore admitted at a MUFON conference to spreading disinformation against Paul Bennewitz for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He later exited ufology, occasionally discussing his past on podcasts. (578 characters)