Rob Swiatek

Rob Swiatek graduated in both physics and earth science from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. He shortly worked at NASA on the Seasat satellite project, then spent his career at the US Patent and Trademark Office in Virginia as a physics patent examiner. A longtime member of Mutual UFO Network , he has long managed the Fund for UFO Research in the Washington, D.C., area. He is a board member of both MUFON and the National UFO Historical Records Center.

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Three U.S. States Stride into the UFO Arena

Rob Swiatek

17/04/2026 Reading 5 min

Three U.S. States Stride Into The Ufo Arena

After more than 70 years of UFO study being largely the province—the “sphere of activity,” as it were of individual researchers, nonproﬁt corporations, assorted other organizations of devotees, and the federal government, the states of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont have introduced bills in their legislatures that would mandate the study of unidentiﬁed aerial phenomena. In the case of New Jersey, its bill has become law.