Dr. Parkfield
Background
Dr. Roger Parkfield works at the SSR Institute in Los Angeles, California.
During the events of The Return (1980) played by Steven Hirsch
Jennifer is at work when Dr. Parkfield gives her some satellite images and invites her to dinner. She tells him she is too busy until tomorrow and he complains she can put her work aside for a little while. Jennifer presents the Skycon 1 System images to Dr. Parkfield, Dr. Kramer and Dr. Mortorff. Dr. Mortorff asks what she noticed and she shows them smudges on one of the images and says it may be a system malfunction. Dr. Mortorff suggests they send someone to check it out and suggests Jennifer and Dr. Parkfield suggests she doesn’t have enough experience and he should go, but Dr. Kramer says Jennifer will go by herself. Dr. Kramer tells SSR Institute Employee to gather everything they have on aerial phenomenon and has a meeting with Dr. Mortorff and Dr. Parkfield and tells them Jennifer has revealed evidence of alien contact. He shows them a map of space and says the aliens left them a message from where they are from. Dr. Mortorff says he will figure out when they stars from the message were aligned and Dr. Kramer tells Dr. Parkfield to get a plane ready. After they arrive in New Mexico, a spaceship zooms by Homer, Dr. Kramer, Dr. Mortorff and Dr. Parkfield.