Professor Wendt is a board member of UFODATA.
The project, and team, started out several years ago as a simple conversation between Alex Wendt and Mark Rodeghier about the concept of a crowd-funded automated UFO surveillance network. Since then our group has grown slowly but surely through targeted invitations to specific individuals and through people with relevant expertise enthusiastically volunteering once they learned about UFODATA. Despite our varied backgrounds, we were all attracted by the simplicity of the concept and its potential power to break through the UFO taboo and do some real science on the problem.
When we began we had little idea how many different kinds of expertise would be required to put UFODATA’s simple idea into practice – including scientific, engineering, computing, organizational, and legal. We now have amassed considerable expertise in many of these areas, but there are still important gaps in our current and future needs that we very much hope others who are equally attracted to the simplicity and power of our idea will step up to fill.
For more information please visit our website UFODATA.net.