Israel Norkin
Norkin, Israel
March 27, 1914 – February 28, 2000 (aged 85)
Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth place from "About the Author" on back cover of his 1957 book Saucer Diary. Year of birth via <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Norkin%2C%20Israel%2C%201914%2D">the online books page</a>. Mote Data from familysearch.org. The author apparently changed his name to John I. Norkin and is also called Isadore Norkin.