Ron Regehr has been a UFO researcher for more than 40 years, and he is a retired aerospace engineer with 30 years experience at Douglas Aircraft and Aerojet ElectroSystems working in space and space surveillance systems. He is MUFON co-state director-Utah, and a MUFON research specialist in space satellite technology. Two of his major areas of contribution in UFO research are satellite detection of UFOs and analysis of photos and other data associated with the Roswell case.
Aerospace Engineering
From 1969 to 1998 Ron was an engineer with Douglas Aircraft (now Boeing) and Aerojet (now Northrop Grumman). At Douglas he was part of the Saturn/Apollo design team responsible for the electrical interface between stages of the Apollo rocket. Later he developed the requirements for the first US space station, Skylab, working closely with the astronauts, NASA headquarters, and Douglas designers.
At Aerojet, Ron was part of the team which developed specifications for one of our nation’s top spy satellites, the Defense Support Program or DSP. The team developed ground data processing software and interfaces with other program elements. During his career, he held various security clearances up to the level of top secret Q, and he was frequently called upon to assist government specialists in evaluation of classified programs.
UFO Research
Ron first became interested in the UFO phenomena in the mid-1950s as a young volunteer for the Ground Observer Corps. Through the years he continued reading everything available on UFOs, and in the mid-1980s he became seriously involved in UFO research when his knowledge of classified data indicated to him the US government was not telling the pubic the truth about UFOs.
In particular, based on technical details in the 1976 Iranian UFO case, Ron became convinced that US spy satellites were detecting UFOs. Between 1988 and 1994 he published a series of articles establishing that this was true, culminating in his April 1994 MUFON Journal article, “Do Spy Satellites See UFOs?” Also in 1994 Ron made the information available to a national audience as a guest participant in a documentary on the Iranian UFO case on the TV program “Sightings.” In 1998 Ron published a monograph “How to build a $125 million UFO Detector,” which is an analysis of the technical problems involved in satellite detection of UFOs. Ron’s current Iranian UFO paper, which won 1st prize in MUFON’s 2006 “Best Evidence” contest, combines newly published information (Pratt; Maccabee) with Ron’s analysis to show that the 1976 event in Iran provides irrefutable evidence of the reality of UFOs.
Other research done by Ron Regehr has contributed to knowledge about the Roswell case. Ron’s Feb. 2000 MUFON Journal article “Not Enough ‘Foil’,” shows that the 200-yd. diameter debris field described by Mac Brazel was far too large to have been caused by the impact of a Mogul research balloon.
In 1998-2000 Ron played a key role in bringing to fruition research on the Roswell Ramey office photos carried out by (Morris; Leveoux; and Johnson). Careful analysis of the photos, rescued from 50 years of obscurity, revealed the times of day the photos were made, that two photographers made photos, that the debris pictured in the photos could not have been that of a Mogul balloon, and even that portions of the teletype held by Gen. Ramey were readable.
Ron has been a guest on the television programs “Strange Universe” and “Sightings,” and on the Learning Channel, and a guest on the Art Bell radio program numerous times. He was a speaker at the 2004 Las Vegas Crash/Retrieval conference, on the topic of the Ramey office photos; at the Roswell UFO Festival in 1999 and 2006; at the UFO Friendship Campout at Rachel, Nevada in 1997; at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in 2000; at HUFON (the Houston UFO Network) in 1994; and at MUFON Orange County, Calif. numerous times. He has published articles in the MUFON Journal and UFO Magazine, and in 1998 he presented a workshop at the MUFON National Symposium.
Ron lives in Moab, Utah where he owns and manages a recreational property. He is the father of 3 grown daughters and grandfather of 4 boys.