Chris Aubeck was born in London in 1971. In 2003, after a lifelong interest in UFO reports from the pre-1947 era, he co-founded the Magonia Exchange Project with an aim to apply modern technology to historical research in his chosen field.

A UFO witness himself, he nevertheless retains a sceptical view of claims of a paranormal or Fortean nature and prefers to measure such claims in terms of their sociological and literary impact.

In 1991 he moved to Cáceres, Spain, and now resides in Madrid, where he teaches English.

R. Dean Brock has been involved in the study of anomalous phenomena for many years. Prior to his involvement in the Magonia Exchange project, he was the Science Section Leader at the MSN UFO Forum, where his role was, in his own words, to "Triumph the Rule of Right Reason - with precious little success." His views on the nature of Fortean phenomena remain critical and skeptical but open-minded; he is the author of Aliens Ate My Buick, a blog which comprises critical and satirical commentary about the ufological "fringe."

Mr. Brock was formally educated at Western Washington University, receiving his B.A. in physical geography in 1992. He currently resides in Washington State, near Seattle, the "Emerald City."

Jacques F. Vallee serves as a General Partner of Euro-America, a Silicon Valley group that invests in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology. He was born in France, where he received a B.S. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille University.

Coming to the U.S. as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, Jacques later moved to Northwestern University where he received his Ph.D. in computer science. He went on to work at SRI International and the Institute for the Future, where he directed the project to build the world's first network-based conferencing system as a Principal Investigator on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet.

Yannis Deliyannis was born in 1973 in Paris where he still resides today. He obtained a master degree in Archaeology at the Sorbonne university in 1998. He took part in various field works in France, Greece and Turkey. He worked in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque universitaires des Langues Orientales where he contributed to the development of a manuscript computer database. He was also involved in 2001 in the creation of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris. He has a strong interest in studying accounts of celestial phenomena in ancient and medieval primary sources.

Daniel Günther was born in 1976 in Berlin, Germany. After many years studying post-1947 UFO phenomena, he just recently switched his focus to the much older history of strange events on which Magonia Exchange is based. Daniel studied four semesters comparative religion at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the creator of a sightings database called JTC ("Just the Cases"), but remains a regular contributor to the Magoniax project.

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