My interest in water-related UFOs was preceded by my fascination with aircraft. As a boy, I carved balsa replicas of flying machines and in my teens flew model aircraft. I followed my passion and became a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol. After graduating from high school, I went on to study aircraft engineering at the Academy of Aeronautics in New York City (off La Guardia Airport's runway). Following two years of service in the Air Force, I was forced to return to civilian life due to a family hardship. I joined a major airline where I worked in customer service for over three decades.

      Upon retirement I was interested in becoming active in ufology (the study of UFOs), about which I had been reading since the early 1960s. A wonderful opportunity presented itself when Jan Aldrich, a UFO researcher, asked for volunteers to do local newspaper searches. Over the course of eight years, I studied microfilm rolls at the University of Delaware, exhaustively covering the years between 1923 and 1967. To my amazement, I found approximately 750 UFO-related articles in Delaware, the second-smallest state in the United States!

       Intrigued by the fact that aircraft, as we know them, cannot emerge from water or submerge into water, I started assembling water-related UFO cases. My research endeavor into this aspect of the UFO mystery has grown into an increasingly large data base and website.