A Brief Biography...

James Clarkson lived in San Francisco, CA and graduated First Honors from a college prep school. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and later Saint Martin's University in Washington State. In 1974 he enlisted in the Army and served as a Military Police Investigator at Fort Lewis, WA, earning an Army Commendation Medal for his investigative work prior to his honorable discharge in 1977. His military service resulted in an ongoing interest in the field of investigations.

James Clarkson is a career investigator. He served for 20 years with the Aberdeen, WA Police retiring as a Sergeant with assignments as Detective Sergeant, Patrol Sergeant, Fatal Accident Team Supervisor and Field Training Officer Supervisor.

He has successfully completed 20 years of ongoing and specialized training in the field of criminal investigation and police operations from the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. He has been certified as a First Level Supervisor, Technical Accident Investigator, and Child Victim interviewer. He later worked as a Child Abuse Detective for a Children's Advocacy Center until he was hired for his current position as a fraud investigator for the State of Washington.

As a young man James heard a radio broadcast in 1966 when John G. Fuller was interviewed about the famous Exeter, New Hampshire UFO's. Thus began a lifelong quest to learn what is behind the Mystery. In 1987 James Clarkson joined MUFON and began over 20 years of being an advocate to his fellow officers and the public, lecturing at regional libraries in 5 Washington-state counties, and becoming known as the UFO Cop to the deputies and officers in Grays Harbor County on the southwest Washington coast.

In 1993 James Clarkson met June Crain and became both her friend and the primary researcher into her past when she worked in classified laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB from 1943 to 1953. June Crain described from experience what the scientists and engineers of WPAFB knew about UFO's and how very different their "common knowledge" was from what the public is told.

June Crain asked James Clarkson to "tell my story" before she died in 1998. Her revelations became an important testimony in support of the Majestic Documents research project. June Crain's story is available on the Majestic Documents website and has been featured in "The Secret" as seen on the SCI-FI Channel and on an episode of the UFO Files titled "Hangar 18."

James Clarkson currently lives in Olympia, WA his wife Joanne.

Contact Information

James E. Clarkson
Chief Investigator
Mutual UFO Network
Washington State
PO Box 12328
Olympia, WA 98508

E-mail: chiefinv@ufoinv.net