4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Scottish WWII soldier who survived the fall of Singapore, the Death Railway construction as a Japanese POW, a hellship sinking, and a nuclear bomb — his survival account The Forgotten Highlander containing the most extreme concentration of individual wartime suffering and survival of any personal memoir.
American Air Force veteran and former intelligence official who in 2023 testified before Congress that the US government possesses non-human craft and biological remains — triggering the most significant institutional engagement with UAP claims since Roswell.
American Olympic distance runner who survived 47 days adrift on a raft in the Pacific after his WWII bomber was shot down — then survived 2 years in Japanese POW camps — and whose story of survival, PTSD, and religious transformation was told in Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.
American politician, Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, and former Democratic Congresswoman who left the Democratic Party in 2022 — becoming a prominent heterodox voice on foreign policy, civil liberties, and media criticism before serving as Director of National Intelligence.