Colm A. Kelleher

Biography

Colm A. Kelleher is an Irish-American biochemist specialising in cell and molecular biology who earned his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin in 1983 — and has been, since the mid-1990s, one of the operationally most important investigators in American UAP research. He served as Deputy Administrator and project manager at the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci, 1995–2004) and led the investigations at Utah's Skinwalker Ranch from 1996 onwards. In 2008 he also took over day-to-day operations of the Pentagon-funded AAWSAP program. - Ph.D. in biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin (1983), focus on cell and molecular biology - Deputy Administrator and project manager at NIDSci (Bigelow's institute) from 1995 to 2004 - Led the scientific investigations at Skinwalker Ranch from 1996 - Day-to-day operations of AAWSAP (DIA-funded, $22 million over 27 months, 50 full-time staff) - AAWSAP as direct predecessor of AATIP, the UAP Task Force and AARO - Co-author of *Hunt for the Skinwalker* (with George Knapp and James T. Lacatski) - Co-author of *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon* — insider account of the AAWSAP program Kelleher embodies the operational continuity between privately funded and government-funded UAP research: at Bigelow's institute, at Skinwalker Ranch and inside the Pentagon program he sat each time at the interface between science and field investigation. His two books are the most important inside perspectives on AAWSAP and make him an indispensable witness of the institutional history of modern UAP research.