Chris Rutkowski is, in the UFO field, a class act. Heis a Canadian science writer and educator, with a background in astronomy but with a passion for teaching science concepts to children and adults. Since the mid-1970s, he also has been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research.Chris was a contributing editor of International UFO Reporter and was the editor of the Swamp Gas Journal, an occasional ufozine first published in 1978 when he was part of Decadent Winnipeg Fandom. He is a past-president of the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society and was part of the Winnipeg SF community that gathered Saturdays at the home of the legendary “first fan” Chester Cuthbert. He is also a past-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Winnipeg Centre and has degrees in science and education. Chris Rutkowski blogs at: uforum.blogspot.com
Rutkowski has nine published books, including: Visitations? (1989); Unnatural History (1993); Mysterious Manitoba, co-authored with Dave Creighton and Brian Fidler (1997); Abductions and Aliens (2000); The Canadian UFO Report, co-authored with Geoff Dittman (2006); A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009), The Big Book of UFOs (2010) and When They Appeared, co-authored with Stan Michalak (2019).
His last book was Canada's UFOs — Declassified (2022), and he has been working on his new book for the last several months. He was recently in Ottawa at the National Archives, digitizing government docs about UFOs, and meeting with the Sky Canada Project team. He is also currently working on the 2024 Canadian UFO Survey.
Rutkowski also has contributed chapters to many anthologies such as Phenomenon, Frontiers of Reality and UFO 1947-1997, a 50th anniversary review of the UFO phenomenon.
His Substack account is: Stay in Canada and try a Weird Canadian Vacation This Year!
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