Todd Curtis has spent most of his career in some aspect of aviation safety, particularly analyzing aviation safety data and understanding aviation risks. Over the last several decades, he has been directly involved in several accident investigations and has also analyzed thousands of incidents and accidents. Based on those experience, Todd has also developed and have had published systematic approaches to analyzing this kind of data to uncover trends and patterns in the data.

While Todd has been aware of UFO / UAP issues for decades, it was the 2006 Chicago O'Hare event, and in particular, the lack of any substantive official response to the event, that made him realize that these phenomena had both an aviation safety and av national security dimension that deserved a more serious and systematic approach that, until recently, had been absent at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

 In the last few years, that has begun to change, and one result may be a much greater willingness on the part of the civil aviation community to report UAP events. In the last two years, Todd has worked to both educate that community about UAPs, and provide practical advice on how to share their experiences with others in the community, especially through appropriate U.S. government reporting options such as NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System.

Appearing within recent Flight Safety Detectives podcast episodes is the kind of approach that Todd is taking to inform the aviation community. He is seeking opportunities to share the same message with a broader audience, the same kind of audience that the HDA is also trying to reach.