BRIAN ADAMS
Field Investigator
Springfield, Mo.   Greene County
Email: ufosource@hotmail.com

Brian's interest in UFOlogy began in late March 1973 with the sighting of several white objects in the skies over west St. Louis County. In 1977 he attended a lecture by Dr. Harley Rutledge speaking on the  Piedmont, Missouri flap of 1973. After attending a 1992 UFO conference in Springfield, his interest intensified and he began attending  local meetings hosted by abduction researcher, John Carpenter. He is a founding member of the Missouri Investigators Group.

Brian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.  Brian has worked in weather forecasting and currently works with an air quality control agency. 

BARBARA BECKER
Public Relations / List Manager
Columbia, Mo.    Boone County.
Email: UFOMIG@yahoo.com

Barbara's interest in UFOlogy began in 1973 after an eventful trip to UFO flap area, Piedmont, Mo. In 1978 she investigated a five month UFO flap in the northern Missouri town of Elsberry as well as the Winscher car lift case in Union, Missouri.  In October 1999, while visiting family in Kansas City, Missouri, she witnessed a huge boomerang shaped object with hundreds of yellowish lights on its underbelly, drifting slowly overhead.

In 1990 she became interested in the Ed Walters / Gulf Breeze Sightings case in Florida. Her paper, One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, uses copyright information provided by Mr. Walters to disprove his claims of personal recurring sightings.  A copy of the paper can be found at the UFO Research Network website.  She has had articles published in Orbiter Magazine and International UFO Reporter published by CUFOS, the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies.

In the late 1980's she hosted The UFO Research Network, one of the first BBS on the Internet. Previous associations include MUFON, CUFOS and the UFO Contact Center International for whom she served as Missouri State Director for ten years.  She was a member of the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis and was Assistant Editor for the group publication, The Enigma. She was a member of the planning committee for the 1985 MUFON Symposium held in St. Louis, Mo.  Barbara is a founding memberof MIG. 

JOE PALERMO
Chief Field Investigator                                                                              Audio / Video Production
Chesterfield, Mo.   St. Louis, County.
Email: josephpalermo3434@sbcglobal.net

Joe first became interested in UFO's in the summer of 1972 when he and several friends sighted a circular object over their homes just South of Lambert International Airport in St. Louis County. In August of 1977, Joe and a friend were on a camping trip in DeSoto, Missouri and witnessed two lights chase each other across the midnight sky in a "dog fighting" fashion

In September of 1976 Joe had what he believd to be a bigfoot sighting in Creve Couer park in St. Louis County. For six years Joe researched and investigated Bigfoot sighting reports. While many things were uncovered, the trail of this legend ended in an unresolved mystery.

During this same time frame, Joseph simultaneously maintained several jobs, and video free-lance work while serving for both the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis and the Missouri Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. He has been videographer, historian, librarian, editor and publisher of the newsletter The ENIGMA, president and board member for the UFO Study Group, and has served as State Director of Public Information and Education as well as Assistant State Director of Investigations for Missouri MUFON. His investigations range from simple lights in the sky  to alien encounters and alien communications.

Beginning in 2002, he joined the Board of Directors for UFORC, a global UFO investigation organization. As of September 2006, he was re-nominated and accepted as a board member of the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis, Inc. In 2007 he accepted the position of Chief Field Inverstigator for MIG.