# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-moseley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:02:47.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-moseley"
name: "James W. Moseley"
slug: "james-w-moseley"
description: "James Willett Moseley was an American observer, author, and commentator on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Over his nearly sixty-year career, he exposed UFO hoaxes and engineered hoaxes of his own. He was best known as the publisher of the UFO newsletters Saucer News and its successor Saucer Smear, which became the longest continuously published UFO journal in the world."
tagline: "American ufologist (1931–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UFO_author_and_investigator_James_W._Moseley_in_1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1931-08-04"
deathDate: "2012-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.85
  momentum:             3.075221238938053
  historical:           3.754609333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جيمس دبليو موسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C._%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جیمز وای. موسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Moseley"
    title: "James W. Moseley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Moseley"
    title: "James W. Moseley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6144858"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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