Paul van Leuwen (Earth-5875)

"There have been people wandering that region of space for over twenty years and they never complained about any hostile organism."

- - Paul van Leuwen to Ellen Ripley

Paul van Leuwen was the chairman of the Interstellar Commerce Commission by 2536, who held a tribunal reviewing the destruction of the Nostromo and the accounts of Ellen Ripley, the ship's only survivor. After concluding that Ripley's version of events about an unidentified alien species having killed the rest of the crew, he judged her decision to self destruct the ship to be "questionable", and thus suspended her flight license.

Biography
"The analysis team which went over the Lockmart Starcub lifeboat centimeter by centimeter found no physical evidence of the alien species you describe, nor its resemblance to any of the Covenant's species. Good! That's because I blew it out of the goddamn airlock! Like I said. And it's not Covenant!"

- - Paul van Leuwen and Ellen Ripley In 2536, Paul van Leuwen headed the tribubal board of the Interstellar Commerce Commission on Ellen Ripley aboard Gateway Station to ascert what led her to destroy the freighter Nostromo. After he heard Ripley's testimony for the next hours, and concluding that the Nostromo had landed on Acheron, he dismissed the claims she had about an unidentified alien species, citing the fact it did not match any of the known member species of the Covenant nor was a trace of it founded aboard the Narcissus. While the destruction of the Nostromo led to a huge loss of investment in both the ICC and the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, he decided not to press charges against Ripley, but ultimately he revoked her pilot license for psychiatric evaluation. After the end of the tribunal, Leuwen approached Ripley, stating that another reason he did not believe her claims was because spacers had been traveling through the Reticulum constellation, in which the Zeta Reticuli system is located, for years, and had never found a trace of the organism she described.