Dear Loren,

  I hope all is well.  I am not sure if you are aware of the passing of local UFOlogist and paranormal researcher Dan Lowenski.  I just found out about it yesterday and felt compelled to address it.  His wife Cathie informed me that he passed away on August 25, 2015 at Hospital.

  Dan was a passionate, dedicated and objective researcher who served as the New York State director of the Staten Island based SBI (Scientific Bureau of Investigation) which was founded by Pete Mazzola..  He is a former police officer and emergency management consultant who was one of their main investigators/researchers.

In the first SBI Annual Symposium (August 1983), Dan was described thusly:

                 “Dan Lowenski was born on December 21, 21952 and has been involved in UFO research for over 15 years.  In 1975
he enrolled as an APRO Field Investigator and, later, after the SBI formed he became a Field Investigator for them as well.  In only                    four short years he has been promoted twice and holds the title of STATE DIRECTOR of New York for the SBI.
He is employed as a police officer upstate, where he resides, and has an AAS Degree in Police Science from Schenectady
County Community College and a BS Degree in Criminal Justice from the State University College in Buffalo.  He also holds cert.
from Staff College in Michigan and from the New York State Civil Defense Commission for RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING and a
Certificate for CLINICAL HYPNOSIS.”
He has been instrumental in many avenues of the SBI’s progression– in fact, an asset– and has enrolled numerous recruits into the
organization.  In 1979, he implemented his own SBI SEMINAR in upstate New York, whereby new investigators could learn how to
conduct proper and extensive type investigations using scientific equipment and techniques in order to accomplish the doc.
of a UFO case.  He has been recognized numerous times by the SBI for his valuable and dedicated contributions in the organization
and to ufology in the form of awards or through praise in The SBI Report.
Recently, he devised and implemented PROJECT DIOGENES (Project; D) which you are about to read about, and which is the first
project and exercise of its kind in the world.
He has written several articles for The SBI Report; investigating numerous UFO reports (of every kind), including a major abduction
case that transpired in upstate New York and now being prepared for book by SBI; lectured extensively on the subject; appeared on
numerous radio and television programs as an expert on the subject; and has appeared in numerous interviews/articles by
newspapers.”

  I lectured on the same stage as Dan at multiple conferences over the years including the July 2011 “Paranormal Expo” held in Lake George, New York.  He talked about various beings associated with UFO cases and offered insight into the Indian Lake, NY 1978 UFO abduction
investigation.  We had a great time.
At that time he was an advisor to the Northern New York Paranormal Research Society (NNYPRS) founded in 2001 by Merrill McKee, of Malone, New York.  He is described in that EXPO’s booklet as follows:

               “Dan Lowenski is a semi-retired emergency management consultant who owns and operates Emergency Technologies Training
Group, that provides planning and training services to government and industry.  He has actively investigated paranormal events
since 1976, coinciding with the beginning of his 15 year career in law enforcement.
Specializing in UFO investigations, Dan has also investigated and researched other aspects within the paranormal realm, such as
ghosts, ancient sites and crypto zoological events.  he has been an investigator for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization,
the Mutual UFO Network and Chief Investigator for the Scientific Bureau of Investigation (SBI).  While with the SBI, he was promoted
to the position of Deputy International Director.  He has been featured in SAGA’s Magazine’s “UFO Report” and in FATE Magazine as
well.  His professional and ad vocational activities have taken him to many places, ranging from the nuclear test site in Nevada to
America’s Stonehenge in New Hampshire and of course, Roswell, New Mexico.  Dan currently investigates for Scientific Phenomenon
Investigations, applying crime scene investigative techniques and procedures whenever possible.  He is closely associated with
NNYPRS and serves as an advisor, trainer and investigator.
Dan holds an AAS degree in Police science and a BS in Criminal Justice from Buffalo State.  He had an extensive training in the
handling of radioactive and hazardous materials.  He has developed technical curriculum for NYSEMO and FEMA and has responded
to national disasters for the American Red Cross as NYS Disaster Liaison.  He has provided emergency planning and safety services
to the nuclear and pharmaceutical industries as well as the Washington DC Metro Transit Authority’s Police, Safety and Legal divisions.
He has been trained and certified in the use of Hypnosis and has used techniques in numerous criminal investigations for local, state
and federal authorities.”

  In October 2011, I lectured with Dan at the Plattsburgh, NY Paranormal Expo.  Dan presented a talk called “Mothman:  A Paranormal Archeological Expedition to Point Pleasant West Virginia and Into the Mind of John Keel.”  His son Paul did the artwork for the cover of his presentation.  Always crafty, Dan constructed a life-size replica of Mothman and unveiled it there.  His wife informed me that it has since been donated to the Mothman Museum.
Dan also had a great passion for science fiction and was known in his neighborhood as “Mr. Halloween” because of the intricate and assorted Halloween designs he built and proudly displayed for that holiday.
Dan’s interest and dedication to paranormal studies continued to the end.  We both attended the 2014 Cherry Hill, NJ MUFON Symposium where my fondest memories are of having a lively discussion on various aspects of the paranormal in the hotel restaurant with our wives.  Dan wasn’t only a dedicated researcher/investigator, he was a fun person and very well-informed personality who could talk with ease on a variety of scientific topics.

  It is hard to believe that this vibrant and intelligent original thinker has passed away.  He will be greatly missed by his family, colleagues and friends.

Dan, thus specifically, did cryptozoological studies of John Keel and Mothman.  For the 2011 Plattsburgh talk, he had multiple visits to Point Pleasant and had interviewed various alleged Mothman witnesses….That was where he unveiled the Mothman replica which has been donated to the Mothman Museum.

  Take care,

Paul Bartholomew