Karl T. Pflock

Karl Tomlinson Pflock (January 6, 1943 – June 5, 2006) was a CIA intelligence officer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, strategic planner, UFO researcher, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He was best known for his book Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe. His interest in UFOs started as a young boy when he overheard his friends' fathers discussing a flying saucer containing "little alien guys" that had, allegedly, crashed in the Southwest.

He attended San Jose State University and, in 1964, graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science.

On February 7, 1986, Pflock married Mary E. Martinek, a government affairs director.

From 1989 to 1992, Pflock worked as a senior strategic planner for BDM International, the U.S. Department of Energy and other corporate agencies.

In 1994, Pflock wrote his findings in a report titled Rosewell in Perspective published by the Fund for UFO Research. After the report was made public, Pflock drew the ire of the UFO community, who called him, derisively, a "debunker". In the book, Pflock outlines his journey from "hopeful agnostic" to a close examination of the photos, drawings, eyewitness reports, and declassified accounts of the incident which lead him to conclude that no evidence existed to support claims of a crashed flying saucer at Roswell. It was Project Mogul, with its high-altitude balloons designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests, not an alien space ship or bodies, that the government wanted kept secret in their, purportedly, botched press conferences. Research for the project was conducted by New York University on behalf of the U.S. Army Air Force. The materials found at the crash site in New Mexico, with its alleged "hieroglyphics", were made by a novelty company based in New York and consistent with reports made at the time by people who were at the crash site.

Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited

Pflock's next book was Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited, published by Anomalist Books posthumously.

Death In 2005, Pflock was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. UFOs for RAND Use Only (1997) What's Really Behind the Flying Saucers? A New Twist on Aztec (2000)

Books Roswell in Perspective (1994) Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe (June, 2001) Shockingly Close to the Truth: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, with James W. Moseley (March 2002) Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited, co-editor with Peter Brookesmith