# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-oberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:16.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-oberg"
name: "James Oberg"
slug: "james-oberg"
description: "James Edward Oberg is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs. He had a 22-year career as a space engineer in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous. Oberg is an author of ten books and more than a thousand articles on space flight. He has provided multiple explanations of UFO phenomena for media outlets. He is also a consultant in spaceflight operations and safety."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ObergTrainer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1944-11-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.355797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jamesoberg.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Оберг, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "چيمس اوبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oberg"
    title: "James Oberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oberg"
    title: "James Oberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oberg"
    title: "James Oberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oberg"
    title: "James Oberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oberg"
    title: "James Oberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3806694"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump