# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-j-ruppelt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:26:48.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-j-ruppelt"
name: "Edward J. Ruppelt"
slug: "edward-j-ruppelt"
description: "Edward James Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He is generally credited with coining the term \"unidentified flying object\", to replace the terms \"flying saucer\" and \"flying disk\" — which had become widely known — because the military thought them to be \"misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance. For this reason the military prefers the more general, if less colorful, name: unidentified flying objects. UFO for short.\""
tagline: "American UFO researcher (1923–1960)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Edward_James_Ruppelt_at_Bluebook_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-07-17"
deathDate: "1960-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.59
  momentum:             2.304526748971194
  historical:           12.53125066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ادوارد جيه. روپيلت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Едуард Дж. Рупелт"
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    title: "Edward J. Ruppelt"
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    title: "Edward J. Ruppelt"
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    title: "Edward J. Ruppelt"
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    title: "Edward J. Ruppelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "愛德華·魯佩爾特"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump