The IF Advisory Committee was organized by Budd Hopkins to assist in planning and carrying out Intruders Foundation activities. Some committee members have worked with Budd previously on IF-related projects and all volunteer their time. The IF Advisory Committee meets with Budd twice a month.

Sal Amendola
Although typecast as a cartoonist, Sal's artistic experiences and interests have been quite eclectic. Besides Batman, Superman, Archie, etc., he has done "real" illustration, advertising art, and still does portraits and so-called "fine" arts. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1974, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and at other schools. His interest in the sci-ences, he knows, is not in conflict with his interest in UFO phenomena. They are - or should be! - the same thing. On June 3, 1988, while still hard at work on his (self-published) manuscript, Other Intelligences; A So-ciopolitical View, Sal met IF founder, Budd Hopkins; which led to a long friendship and "professional" UFO-research association. Most notably, Sal did the drawings for Budd's "H.I.R.T. test", and articles on the "Linda Cor-tile case". He is trying to sell the completed manuscript for a Young Adult novel, The Yoomee Adventures; Book I: "Foreverywhere". Primarily a sol-idly-written mystery adventure story, it speaks to bullying and child abuse; and those who know will recognize references in the story related to facets of the UFO phenomenon. Sal fantasizes about a day when the world will learn the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth behind the UFO phenomenon; that the reality will prove, ultimately, benign; and that he and Budd can go back full-time to their respective artistic and literary pursuits.

Dennis K. Anderson has been the Director of the Wagner College Planetarium since 1990. As an adjunct lecturer he teaches a lab course on the Solar System. He has appeared as an astronomical consultant on: Saturday TODAY In New York, CBS Evening News, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, Channel 11 News, WCBS News Radio 88, and in The Staten Island Advance newspaper. His study of UFO phenomena began nearly forty years ago. His most recent investigation was of the Carteret, New Jersey UFO sightings. He appears regularly as a panelist on a local tv show - "UFO ENIGMA". He feels his recent appointment to the IF Advisory Committee to be a privilege and a pleasure.

John W. Horton began his interest in space travel and later UFOs at a very early age. John recalls the many news reports and his interest about UFOs in his early years. John's seriously became interested in UFOs in high school and college. While at Franconia College John pursued and graduated with a Double-Major B.A. degree in Visual Arts and Music Composition. Although an Art and Music Major, John and other students started a "UFO Study Group" that was sponsored by the college. Since the college was in New Hampshire John and two other students were able to contact and set up an interview with Betty Hill in 1975. John and the other students were so impressed they were convinced that there was indeed something to the UFO Abduction phenomena. After college John joined the Arizona based Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) as a field investigator headed up by Jim and Coral Lorenzen. John worked several sighting cases and an apparent early evening attempted abduction with multiple witnesses. John was written up in several local newspapers in New Jersey in regard to his UFO related investigations.. Through his research and investigations John believes that UFO Abductions are quite real, and that the many world governments, including the United States, know more about UFOs and their occupants then they are telling their citizens.
As John became involved in family life he stopped investigating, however, his interest in UFOs never waned. John became more intrigued by the UFO Abduction phenomena with the release of Budd's book "Intruders", and later "Witnessed". John decided he wanted to get back into UFO research and investigations and joined The Intruder's Foundation. John considers it a great privilege to work with Budd Hopkins and the other IF members. John has recently taken on the responsibility as the IF Bulletin and IF Website Editor.

Peter Robbins has been involved in UFO studies for more than twenty years, as a researcher, investigator, writer, and lecturer, and as the author, along with Larry Warren, of the British best-seller Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge UFO Incident, Its Cover-Up and Investigation. Currently he is executive assistant to Budd Hopkins and the Intruders Foundation, and head of the UFO Media division of Central Park Media, a Manhattan-based multimedia corporation. He is a native New Yorker and holds a BFA in Painting and Film History from Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, where he was also a member of the faculty.