Randle, along with Stanton Friedman, is generally acknowledged as one of the leading researchers into the Roswell story and the UFO question.
He was promoted several times and completed his Air Force Reserve duty as a captain and the director of intelligence for an airlift group.
After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Randle joined the Iowa National Guard as an intelligence officer.
His unit, the 234th Signal Battalion, deployed in Iraq in June 2003, to the Baghdad International Airport, returning in May 2004.
Throughout the 1970s, he published a number of articles concerning a variety of UFO sightings including tales of alien abduction, photographic cases, and those involving some sort of physical evidence.
He has also written more than two hundred magazine articles including his exploration of Iowa's Cold Water Cave and accounts of the war in Vietnam.
[2] Interviewed by Skeptical Inquirer's Robert Sheaffer Randle was asked about his current status of belief in UFOs.