Robert Bigelow

Las Vegas real estate mogul and philantropist. Through his organization, the Bigelow Foundation, he has funded many studies of UFOs, psychic ability, and related issues. He is closely associated in this pursuit with John Alexander. Some of the ufologists he has funded include Budd Hopkins, Bob Lazar, and Linda Moulton Howe.
"Training programs, begun in 1992 with the leadership and support of Las Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow, and organized in various American cities by abduction investigators John Carpenter, Budd Hopkins, and David Jacobs, are familiarizing many mental health professionals with the abduction phenomena."
(Mack, John, Abduction, Ballantine Books, 1994, pg 13)
He funded Lazar through the Zeta Reticuli Corporation, which reportedly dissolved before any projects were started.

He previously funded the work of Dean Radin at the Consciousness Research Division, University of Nevada.

His latest project is the National Institute of Discovery Science.

(What's New at Area 51 and Ufomind: 9/96)

At one point, Bigelow offered to provide funding to the tune of a million dollars for a cooperative research effort of the "big three" of ufology - MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies), and FUFOR (Fund for UFO Research). This effort, sometimes referred to as "the Coalition" fell apart, reportedly when Bigelow tried to control the direction of the group. UFO skeptic Philip Klass reportedly accused John Alexander of causing the break-up, although Alexander denies it.
In April, 1997, Bigelow donated $3.7 million dollars to the University of Nevada to found the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies, which allows students to take undergraduate courses dealing with parapsychology for college credit. These courses are related, though not formally linked, to Dean Radin's research at the University's Consciousness Research Laboratory, which Bigelow once funded.
(Patton, Natalie, "Mind Frontiers, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 4/15/97)
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