Ken Cherry is a fifth generation Texan and a US Marine Corp veteran who served from 1966 to 1970 in the Vietnam era. Ken attended the University of Texas at Arlington Business College and graduated Summa Cum Laude in Finance and Economics.

Ken was the Texas State Director for MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) for over 10 years. At the time of the Stephenville event he headed up a team of investigators and scientists that conducted extensive research and analysis of the mass sighting for an entire year. Unknown to most people after the widely reported sightings in January of 2008, the UFO returned in October of that year. Interviews with numerous witnesses and analysis of radar reports yielded the same results. A UFO – not a conventional aircraft – had returned to the Stephenville area as reported by reliable witnesses.