Dr. R. Cedric Leonard (1934 - )

 Dr. R. Cedric Leonard (1934- ).  He first appeared on the stage of the unexplained when he published a book in 1969, "Flying Saucers, Ancients Writings and the Bible"

. He worked in geology and anthropology for some time but soon was carving out a life and profession as an author and lecturer on the pseudohistorical belief in ancient astronauts and the mythical city of Atlantis.

Leonard was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1934. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma, with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Classical Culture. At Oklahoma City University he majored in Koine Greek language. Then returning to the University of Oklahoma he took Homeric Greek and Attic Greek language, as well as Classical Greek composition. During these studies, by special arrangement, he also completed a Greek Studies program with Sanskrit as its object. He completed his doctorate in Comparative Religion at the unaccredited Neotarian College of Philosophy in Kansas City, Missouri. He is self-taught in Canaanite inscriptions and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Source: http://wikibin.org/articles/r.-cedric-leonard.html

He worked with several early Unidentified Flying Objects groups, including the Oklahoma based group founded by Oklahoman Hayden C. Hewes known as the International UFO Board and the Midwest UFO Network which soon become the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). 

According to pieces in local newspapers in Oklahoma, he taught some no-credit classes at local Oklahoma City institutions such as South Oklahoma City Junior College in 1974, and spoke to local events at the New Age Center in Oklahoma City and an annual Psychic Research event. 

His published works include: 

“Flying Saucers, Ancient Writings and the Bible,” Exposition Press, New York, 1969.

“Report on Project Lahoma: Pleistocene Bone Site,” (field report), Geology Department, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1971.

“UFOs in Antiquity,” Conference Proceedings, MUFON, Quincy Illinois, June 17, 1972.

“The Thera Volcano: With emphasis on the Bronze Age eruption,” (class paper) Geography Department, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1975.

“A Geological Study of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,” Special Paper No. 1, Cowan Printing, Bethany, 1979.

“The Vestiges of Atlantis,” Special Paper No. 2, Cowan Printing, Bethany, 1979.

“Quest for Atlantis,” Manor Books, New York, 1979.

“Quest for Atlantis II,” Books by Lulu.com, World-Wide-Web, 2005

Atlanteans in America. https://atlantisquestscience.wordpress.com/science/atlanteans-in-america/