Jerome Clark
From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
Jerome Clark is an American researcher and writer, specializing in unidentified flying objects and other anomalous phenomena, and he is also a songwriter of some note. He is widely regarded as one of the most prominent UFO historians and researchers active today.
Clark was born in 1946 in Canby, Minnesota, and he attended South Dakota State University and Moorhead State University in Minnesota. He became interested in the UFO phenomenon in the 1960's. He has served as a writer, reporter, and editor for a number of magazines which cover UFOs and other paranormal subjects.
From 1976 to 1989 he was the editor of Fate magazine. Clark is a board member of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), one of the few UFO research groups with credible scientific support. Since 1985 he has served as the editor of the CUFOS journal, International UFO Reporter. He has also been the editor of the Journal of UFO Studies, the only peer-reviewed publication in Ufology.
Perhaps his greatest accomplishment in the field of UFO studies came in the 1990's with the publication of his massive, three-volume UFO Encyclopedia (now available in an updated two-volume edition). This encyclopedia is widely regarded by most UFO researchers, and even many skeptics, as one of the best-researched and most credible publications on the often-controversial subject of UFOs. An abridged version of the encyclopedia, entitled The UFO Book, won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Science/Environment category from the Publishers Marketing Association.
Clark is also the 1992 recipient of the Isabel Davis Award (given by the Fund for UFO Research) for promoting rationality in the study of UFOs. He is an active participant in debates and discussions on the "UFO Updates" message boards and website.
In addition to his duties as a writer, researcher, and editor, Clark has also written songs for musicians such as Emmylou Harris, Mary Carpenter, and Tom T. Hall. After living for many years in the Chicago area, where CUFOS is headquartered, he returned to his hometown of Canby, Minnesota, where he currently lives and works.
Sources
- Story, Ronald D. (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, New American Library, 2001.
