Dr. John C. "Jack" Kasher is professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he was a Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor from 1981 - 1987. He also received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1985 and the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award in 1986.

From 1975 - 1992, he was a consultant and summer employee at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he specialized in electromagnetic theory and, among other things, did work on the Star Wars defense system. He spent the summer of 1991 working at NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and has continued his research with NASA since that time, studying the surface of the sun. He has published 35 articles and reports in various journals, including The Physical Review and The American Journal of Physics, and has delivered or co-delivered six papers at national meetings.

Dr. Kasher is a consultant in physics and Nebraska state director for MUFON and is past president of Paranormal Claims Research, a now-disbanded statewide organization dedicated to the scientific study of paranormal phenomena. He has spoken more than one-hundred times on UFOs during the past 23 years, including appearances on local and regional radio and local, regional, and national television.

Dr. Kasher did a detailed analysis of the STS-48 shuttle mission video that shows anomalous objects moving in space in a controlled manner within view of the shuttle’s cameras.

This analysis report entitled, "A SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE VIDEOTAPE TAKEN BY SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY ON SHUTTLE FLIGHT STS-48?" can be found here:

http://www.nicap.org/muj_kasher_sts48.htm

 

Sources:

http://beyondthedial.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/dr-jack-kasher/
MUFON 1994 International UFO Symposium Proceedings