Dr. Donald R. Burleson, a retired college professor having taught mathematics for fifty years, has served as State Director of the New Mexico chapter of MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) for over twenty years. He is the author of many books, both fiction and nonfiction, including the UFO-related novel Arroyo and novella The Roswell Genes, and the nonfiction works UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe and UFO Secrecy and the Fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Dr.
Burleson and his wife Mollie have lived in Roswell, New Mexico since 1996.