Director of the Center for Physical Trace Research established in 1998.
Engineer, professional photographer, professional musician.
Participant in the Vanguard Satellite Tracking Program, &field engineer - Minuteman Missile Project.
Began investigating UFO reports in 1964. A research associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek from 1968 until Dr. Hynek’s death in 1986. It was at Allen Hynek’s suggestion that he began specializing in physical traces associated with UFO sightings in 1968.
Phillips has personally investigated some 600 UFO cases.
He has participated in meetings and presentations, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meetings, along with Hynek, Vallee and Saunders.
He was a member of a select team invited to meet with the United Nations Secretary-General at the UN in New York, along with Hynek, Vallee and Gordon Cooper.
Phillips has given numerous lectures and gave two presentations at the First International UFO Congress. A presentation at the first MUFON symposium and several afterwards.
He has appeared on national television on In Search of, NBC News White Papers, CBS News Special Reports and the documentary movie - UFOs Are Real. Most recently he was a part of the History Channel documentary series UFO Files. He was featured in two documentaries, UFO Hunters and Alien Encounters.
Ted Phillips has written two books, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings & The Delphos Report.
Current research projects into active sites in Missouri, Arkansas, and Slovakia/Ukraine
"Physical trace landing events push us to the edge of what we can or should believe. They are incredible, but the witnesses remain credible, the residue unexplained. They seem to represent a visit, however brief, by something unknown."
