FigureGarry Nolan (b. 1961)

Stanford University professor of pathology; over 300 peer-reviewed publications; inventor of the GeneSwitch system (acquired by Valentis) and a co-founder of multiple biotech firms. In 2018 Nolan and colleagues published genomic analysis of the Atacama humanoid (“Ata”) in Genome Research — a 6-inch desiccated specimen previously claimed by Steven Greer’s Sirius (2013) film to be possibly nonhuman. The Nolan study concluded Ata was a human female fetus with multiple severe skeletal mutations, not an alien — a result he emphasized was definitive. Nolan has nonetheless spoken publicly (in lectures at Stanford and in interviews with the New York Post, 2021–2023) about MRI brain-imaging studies of self-reported UAP percipients, alleging an elevated incidence of basal-ganglia and caudate-putamen density patterns. He has reported being approached by CIA personnel in 2012 to evaluate brain scans of intelligence officers exposed to anomalous events. The Stanford CyTOF tools he developed are in use worldwide; this is his deflection against being dismissed as fringe.