John Craig

Background and Early Interest

John Clark Craig is a Denver-based software engineer with approximately three decades of professional technology experience spanning programming, data analysis, and electronics. He became interested in UFOs following a childhood sighting and has pursued UAP research intermittently throughout his adult life. This early encounter motivated decades of investigation and observation, leading him to join the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) as a formal member. Craig approaches UFO phenomena with both scientific rigor and personal experiential understanding, combining technical expertise with investigative curiosity.

Professional Career and Technical Expertise

Craig's background as a software engineer and programmer equipped him with skills particularly suited to modern UFO research. Beyond traditional programming, his expertise extends to data analysis, electronics, and photo forensics—disciplines increasingly relevant to documenting and analyzing UAP evidence. He has authored technical content on platforms including Udemy, where he teaches programming courses, and maintains an active publication record on Medium, where he analyzes historical and contemporary UFO phenomena with technical precision. His approach represents a modernization of UFO investigation methods, applying computational tools and rigorous analysis to a field historically dominated by anecdotal accounts and subjective observation.

UFO-Track Platform and Innovation

Craig's most significant contribution to contemporary UFO research is the development of UFO-Track.com, a platform he co-created with his spouse E.J. Craig, a mathematician. Launched in the mid-2020s, UFO-Track represents a paradigm shift in how citizen researchers document UAP activity. Rather than relying on after-the-fact sightings and retrospective reporting, the platform combines real-time sensor technology with crowdsourced citizen participation to generate simultaneous multi-witness and multi-camera events as they occur. When the system detects potential UAP activity, it alerts nearby registered users instantaneously, enabling coordinated observation and documentation in real-time. This innovation addresses a critical challenge in UFO research: the problem of corroboration. By triggering simultaneous observations from multiple witnesses at different vantage points, UFO-Track generates the kind of multi-perspective evidence that strengthens any subsequent investigation.

The platform specifically targets Colorado's known UAP hotspots, drawing on both historical sighting data and contemporary reports. Craig has published detailed analysis of these zones, including investigative pieces on Colorado's most active UFO regions and specific incidents such as the Guffey UFO Skywatch phenomenon. His articles, published via the UFO-Track Medium channel, combine historical research, witness testimony, and technical analysis to contextualize contemporary sightings within longer patterns of activity.

Contemporary Research and Public Engagement

Craig has maintained an active public presence in the disclosure-era UFO research community, appearing on podcasts including Podcast UFO where he discusses emerging UAP detection methodologies with other researchers and investigators. His written work demonstrates engagement with both contemporary incidents and historical mysteries—he has published pieces analyzing historical UFO photographs, including claims about the world's oldest UFO photograph and hidden details revealed through modern forensic analysis. This combination of contemporary technology development and historical research situates Craig within the broader disclosure-era research framework that emphasizes scientific legitimacy and empirical evidence.

His personal experience as a multiple-time UFO witness informs both his research priorities and his communication style. Rather than maintaining the detached stance of purely academic investigators, Craig speaks from a position of informed personal experience, making his technical contributions to UFO research particularly resonant with the experiencer community while maintaining credibility with skeptically-inclined researchers who value methodological rigor.