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Ian Ridpath
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<p>Ian William Ridpath (born 1 May 1947, in <a href="/facts/Ilford/6gmv2BDT">Ilford</a>, <a href="/facts/Essex/cuUqAlzH">Essex</a>) is an <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">English</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Rendlesham_Forest_Incident/Fb8uIxRb">Rendlesham Forest Incident</a> of December 1980. </p>