NUCLEAR PHYSICIST WAS A LEADING UFO RESEARCHER

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, his daughter Melissa Friedman confirmed Tuesday. She said he was on his way home to Fredericton from a speaking engagement in Ohio. She did not disclose the cause of death and asked that the family’s privacy be respected. Friedman built a reputation as a leading authority on unidentified flying objects, alien abductions and the socalled Roswell incident, considered by many to be the definitive UFO event. He said his belief in extraterrestrials was based on data about UFO events he found buried in U.S. government documents over the years.