John Hanson is a retired CID Officer in the West Midlands Police and first became interested in the UFO subject in January 1995, after colleagues sighted a UFO hovering over some trees. This was the trigger for his curiosity; prior to that the very mention of UFOs and 'flying saucers' was impossible for him to accept as having any reality in the modern world.
The publication of ten plus Volumes of Haunted Skies which painstakingly catalogue thousands of reports of UFOs/close encounter experiences by the public from 1940 onward, is a project that John has been working on for many years. His objective is to educate the public and therefore he's published the books at his own expense since the inception of the project.
Initially, I purchased a volume so that I could at least say that I supported his work. I ended up buying a complete set.
When it comes to CE3K/AE reports I have amassed many, particularly from the UK which was and still is a back water for such things and I expected a few reports of interest since I am a historian but I was surprised. Hanson came up with reports I had never heard of before and many had not been in print before. Each volume presented me with surprises and Hanson managed to do something Ufologists had not bothered with before: he tracked down and spoke to percipients/observers to these cases from the 1950s on.
Above: Hanson with Lt. Col. Halt on a visit to Rendlesham Forest (c)2022 J. Hanson
For this reason Hanson is worthy of mention. Another reason he is worthy of mention is that he has met and spoken to observers who are (or should be) well known to British UFO history and has added much more than we knew before about them, their observations and the aftermaths.
Hanson has also visited Rendlesham Forest and the work he has published on the alleged UFO incident/crash there is far more concise and readable than much of the already existing literature. He has also become friends with the senior officer involved in "The Rendlesham Incident", Lt. Colonel Charles Halt. Hanson has written two dense volumes based on what Halt has revealed -The Halt Perspective and The Halt Perspective 2.
Hanson has also set up the Great British UFO Archives.
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