Thomas Bullard

Thomas Eddie Bullard, born in 1949 in North Carolina, USA, is a folklorist and prominent UFO researcher. He earned his PhD in folklore from Indiana University in 1982, with a dissertation on UFOs, including historical analysis of 1896-1897 airship sightings. Key achievements include compiling 'The Airship File' (1982), a catalog of pre-1947 reports; leading the Fund for UFO Research's study resulting in 'UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery' (1987), analyzing 300 abduction cases for common patterns; and authoring 'The Sympathetic Ear' (1995) on investigator findings. He contributed to the 1992 MIT Abduction Study Conference and explored UFO phenomenology in 'The Myth and Mystery of UFOs.' Bullard's work emphasizes historical, cultural, and narrative aspects of UFOs, bridging folklore and ufology.