Richard Hall is a legend in the serious study of UFO phenomena and a well-respected researcher among his peers. He's a former Assistant Director and Acting Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and consultant to the University of Colorado UFO Project, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He is a former editor of the MUFON Journal and past Chairman of the UFO Research Coalition (UFORC). He maintains his own website.

Richard's UFO-related publication credits include:

• 1968 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year article; the introduction and epilogue in the 1968 Prentice-Hall book 'Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective', he edited the book 'UFO Evidence' ; and several articles and a major appendix with byline in the 1980 Doubleday Encyclopedia of UFOs.

• 1988 'Uninvited Guests: A Documented History Of UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters & Coverups'

• 'The UFO Evidence, Volume II - A Thirty-Year Report' covers 30 years of UFO sightings since 1964 with related data and descriptive features organized by category. In this report, the sightings are arranged by witness categories