# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lear
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:48:28.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lear"
name: "John Lear"
slug: "john-lear"
description: "John Olsen Lear was an American aviator and UFO conspiracy theorist. A son of Learjet magnate Bill Lear, Lear set multiple records, later flying cargo planes for the CIA during the Vietnam era. In the 1980s, he began speaking of alien collusion with secret governmental forces, and in the second half of the decade, Lear was \"probably the most influential source\" of UFO conspiracies."
tagline: "American pilot (1942–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/John_Lear_screenshot_8News_broadcast_on_Lear%27s_death-_cropped-downrezed.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-12-03"
deathDate: "2022-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.558914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear"
    title: "John Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear"
    title: "John Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear"
    title: "John Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19664566"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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