Martin Thomas was born near Cardiff and is proud of his Welsh heritage. He was educated in a Quaker school, and gained his BSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham in England.He then worked for the UK Ministry of Defence, undertaking evaluations of military vehicles. He later transferred to the UK Home Office (the equivalent of an US Department of State) where he led a team evaluating fire-fighting equipment and tactics.He has always been a keen reader of Science Fiction and, on retirement, he decided to bring his years of experience to the evaluation of the Ancient Astronaut Theory, as described in programmes on the Blaze Television channel. This is a field where there is a conflict between eyewitnesses of unnatural phenomena, and those determined to refute this evidence at any price. But he is a firm believer in the Engineering Method: When it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.