I've been asked for a full bio. Now THAT would take a lot of space! Instead I am going to present my
Terry Hooper-Scharf [A very brief] Biography
Born in Bristol,England,6th
June,1957,Terry became interested in nature and wildlife. While attending Greenway Boys
School, the interest in
science and mysteries of nature increased resulting into several local investigations
of natural phenomena. At the same time, having
accidentally picked up a copy of Brinsley le poer Trench [later Lord Clancarty]
“The Flying Saucer Story”, Terry began studying UFO reports and local
sightings.
Between 1974-to date, Terry has acted as a wildlife
consultant to UK police
forces on exotic animals living in the UK, being a noted naturalist. Also in 1974,Terry set up the Bristol UFO
Investigation Team [BUFOIT],joined the British UFO Research Association
[BUFORA],covering much of the West of England as an investigator and Regional
Investigations Co-ordinator.
Circa 1976,Terry joined the oldest UK UFO group, the British
Flying Saucer Bureau [f.1952] and became an investigator, later Head of
Research & Investigation and also editor of the UFO News Bulletin.
In 1977,as an attempt to promote more scientific approach to
UFO investigation, Terry set up UFO International [see Sachs, M., Encyclopaedia
of UFOs].
Having established contact with Lord Clancarty and Air Vice
Marshal Sir Victor Goddard [a former head of RAF Intelligence and outspoken UFO
believer],in 1977 Terry, along with late colleague Franklyn A. Davin-Wilson, visited
London for a meeting with Clancarty ,Goddard and others having submitted a
document calling for a National Aerospace Commission [NaComm]. Hooper was asked to mount an unofficial
investigation into all aspects of the UFO phenomenon –a limited fund for
travelling and living expenses was agreed upon.
In January,1978,the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau
[AOP B] began its work building up a data base on every aspect of UFOs
–historical cases, trace, physio and psychological, animal disturbance, EM
cases and much more.
Original members of the AOP B were:~
Graham F.N.Knewstub [deceased]
Dave Cowdy [deceased]
Franklyn A.Davin-Wilson [deceased]
Terry Hooper
Between 1978-1984 there was much unofficial assistance given
to the Bureau by professional astronomers [some publicly sceptical],former
members of the Armed Forces, Air Ministry, Ministry of Defence as well as
serving members of the Armed Forces and Police Forces. A network of UFO investigation & research
groups was set up including GUFOI&RG [Gloucestershire],Wessex UFO I&R
Group [Somerset],Wiltshire
UFO I&R Team and so on.
Much of this cooperation continued well past the closing of
the Bureau in 1995,though Governmental changes in policy since then have
restricted any cooperation.
In 1984 a 2000 pages “British Report On Unidentified Flying
Objects [UFOs]” was completed. This was
later reduced to 1500pp on editing. Lord
Clancarty, Sir Victor Goddard and others, including members of the House Of
Lords UFO Study Group, stated that the Report was “…the closest thing the UK
will ever have to a Project Blue Book”.
Although copies went to the Ministry of Defence and Sir
Victor kindly passed copies on to former subordinates and ex-heads of RAF
Intelligence, private UFO groups and Ufologists condemned the Report without
even having seen the Summary offered.
The Report is currently being up-dated with more contemporary evidence
being added.
Terry edited the in-house AOP Bulletin which it is hoped
will re-appear in late 2006.
Apart from this work Terry has specialized, since 1974, on
Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Entity cases and provided the data for
BUFORA to contribute to Ted Bloecher’s HUM-CAT.
He has also written many articles on Ball Lightning, meteor-
ites, astronomy, CE-3Ks and Alien Entity cases as well as
reporting on UFO incidents
[of which he has investigated approx. 2000 since 1974].
Terry re-opened the AOP Bureau on 1st
January,2006 to continue the original work, aligned to no other groups or
investigators.
Current study includes cases involving non-humanoid
alien-entities associated with UFOs, video footage evidence and continued study
of “spooklight” phenomena.
Back in the 1970s was also a consultant for the Kentucky UFO
Investigators League, a member of the Society for the Investigation of The
Unexplained [SITU],of which he operated a UK branch –investigating the Dead
Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island and other incidents.
Terry also maintained links with Bigfoot/Sasquatch
researchers such as The Bay Area Group
[BAG],Bigfoot Investigation Team, Dmitri Bayanove, etc.. Terry maintains files on lake and sea
creatures, ghosts and most other unexplained or explained phenomena he has
looked into –these include ghosts and hauntings.
Terry has written three books on unsolved/solved mysteries
–Some Things Strange & Sinister (2009), Some More Things Strange &
Sinister (2011), Pursuing The Strange And Weird (2012) as well as one book on
Canids including UK
mystery canids and the history of foxes –Red Paper: Canids (2012). He is currently working on a new book
–Phenomena X.
