Elaine Douglass has been a UFO researcher since the mid-1980s and she is a 25-year member of MUFON. For many years she was MUFON state director for Washington, DC and for the past 12 years she has been MUFON state director for Utah.

Elaine is an editor of JAR, the Journal of Abduction-Encounter Research, an email quarterly magazine on UFO abductions. In the 1990s she was an organizer for the group Operation Right to Know, which held street demonstrations protesting UFO secrecy. She holds a masters degree from MIT in military policy. Elaine lives in Utah and she is self-employed as a marketing consultant.

Elaine is one of 4 state directors and 2 assistant state directors purged from MUFON in December 2010. As a result, she is a participant in the newly-formed Committee to Reform MUFON (CRM), which is calling for significant change in MUFON.