{"name": "Ian Ridpath", "key": "/authors/OL23004A", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q5982720", "isni": "0000000121302700", "viaf": "44304452", "gnd": "133642674"}, "personal_name": "Ian Ridpath", "source_records": ["ia:etoilesetplanete0000unse", "amazon:0760735158", "amazon:4254150172", "bwb:9780600311072", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-11-14:KU-056-713"], "birth_date": "1947-05-01", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [7004157], "alternate_names": ["Ian William Ridpath"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "**Ian William Ridpath**\u00a0is an English science writer and broadcaster best known as a popularizer of astronomy and a biographer of constellation history. As a UFO sceptic, he investigated and explained the [Rendlesham Forest Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_Incident \"Rendlesham Forest Incident\") of December 1980. \u2014 [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Ridpath&oldid=1352785391)"}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-28T08:34:27.543779"}}