Frank Thayer, Ph.D., co-author of the newly-published The Aztec UFO Incident, came to the Aztec Incident project in 2009, when Scott Ramsey shared witness information of the recover at Hart Canyon. Thayer is a New Mexico native with extensive journalistic and journalism education experience. Now a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University in Las Crusces, he has professional experience as a writer, editor, photographer and educator both in New Mexico and Canada where he also lived and taught for 11 years. He is a published book author and is co-author of the Ramseys’ successful 2012 The Aztec Incident: Recovery at Hart Canyon.