1. John Olsen Lear was an American aviator and UFO conspiracy theorist.
27 Facts About John Lear
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John Olsen Lear was born on December 3,1942, to industrialist and future Learjet founder Bill Lear and his wife Moya Marie Olsen Lear.
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John Lear was named after his maternal grandfather, famous comedian John Olsen.
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John Lear graduated from the Institut Le Rosey boarding school in Switzerland and attended Wichita State University.
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In 1962, John Lear crashed a biplane during stunt flying at his boarding school; He underwent an emergency tracheotomy, a five-hour surgery, and a long convalescence.
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That year, John Lear agreed to attend a Pasadena, California Art College.
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John Lear was given $5,000 to pay the tuition fee but lost it in the stock market.
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John Lear testified at the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation into the crash.
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John Lear flew planes for the CIA between 1967 and 1983.
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In 1980, John Lear was covered in local press when he lost a billing dispute with his natural gas provider.
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John Lear argues that "Germany may have recovered a flying saucer in 1939" and discusses the 1946 American military investigation into the Ghost rockets reported over Sweden.
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John Lear's Statement includes government-sanctioned alien abductions, alien implants, and Alien-Human hybrids.
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John Lear described UFOs in connect with cattle mutilations and even claims that human mutilations have occurred.
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John Lear's statement influenced Thomas Allen LeVesque, pen name "Jason Bishop III", who later admitted to fabricating stories about Dulce Base.
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John Lear had been posting "wild conspiracies about secret government relations with aliens" to Paranet.
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The New Republic argues John Lear's theories were "the kind of thing no one took very seriously".
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In March 1989, John Lear journeyed to the outskirts of "Area 51".
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John Lear introduced journalist George Knapp to UFO whistle-blower Bob Lazar and his tales of Area 51.
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John Lear's supposed employment at a Nellis Air Force Base subsidiary has been discredited by skeptics, as well as by the United States Air Force.
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In 1989, John Lear served as State Director for The Mutual UFO Network, hosting their 1989 annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 1,1989.
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John Lear's speakers were slated to provide allegedly independent verification of the Bennewitz claims.
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One of those speakers, Bill Cooper, would later break with John Lear after accusing him of being an intelligence agent.
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John Lear remained a prominent voice in the UFO conspiracy theory community until his death.
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John Lear made multiple appearances on TV shows, including Ancient Aliens, America's Book of Secrets, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, and The Unexplained Files.
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From 2003 to 2015, John Lear was a regular guest on Coast to Coast AM.
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Cooper and John Lear were the tip of a spear asserting that the number one thing we had to fear was not little green men, but the government that colluded with them, appropriating their technology against us.
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In 1970, John Lear married Marilee Higginbotham, owner of a California fashion modelling agency, at a ceremony in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.