Ron Westrom – 2013 MUFON Symposium

SCIENCE AND HIDDEN EVENTS

RON WESTRUM is an emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan, where he has taught for 40 years. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard University (honors, 1966) and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Chicago (1972). He is a specialist on the sociology of science and technology, and on complex organizations.

He has spoken to numerous international conferences on organizational safety in aviation, nuclear power, and medicine, published about forty articles and written three books, the most recent of which is Sidewinder: Creative Missile Design at China Lake (1999). For many years, he was the editor of the newsletter “Social Psychology of Science.” He has been studying UFOs since college, and has conducted field investigations of anomalies as well as written articles. He was formerly a Sociology Consultant to MUFON, and is working on a book entitled Hidden Events: Information Flow about Anomalies.