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[[Dale Graff]] is a [[U.S. Air Force]] civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]]. He worked in the Foreign Technology Division at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] in Ohio, where he was responsible for keeping the Air Force and [[Department of Defense|DoD]] planners aware of cutting-edge military research in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[China]].[^1]
[[Dale Graff]] is a [[U.S. Air Force]] civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]]. He worked in the [[Foreign Technology Division]] at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] in Ohio, where he was responsible for keeping the Air Force and [[Department of Defense|DoD]] planners aware of cutting-edge military research in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[China]].[^1]
Graff's interest in [[Psi|psi]] phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound [[Out-of-Body Experience|out-of-body experience]] while caught in a rip current. This led him to research anomalous mental phenomena, and he later sought to integrate psychic abilities into military applications.[^1]

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tags:
- Person
- UFO
alias:
- Dave Fravor
- David Fravor
- Commander David Fravor
summary: "Commander Dave Fravor is a retired U.S."
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Commander [[Dave Fravor]] is a retired U.S. Navy pilot who is best known as the lead eyewitness in the 2004 [[Tic Tac]] involving the [[USS Nimitz]] Carrier Strike Group. His credible testimony and detailed account of the encounter have been instrumental in bringing the issue of [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) to the attention of the public and the U.S. Congress.[^1]

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### Scientific Career and Government Work
Dr. Davis has a long history of consulting for aerospace and defense contractors, including EarthTech, the company founded by [[Hal Puthoff]]. He is known for his brilliant and maverick approach to science, and he has an eidetic memory. He has provided the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) and has briefed numerous DoD agencies and congressional committees on the UAP issue.[^1]
Dr. Davis has a long history of consulting for aerospace and defense contractors, including [[EarthTech International|EarthTech]], the company founded by [[Hal Puthoff]]. He is known for his brilliant and maverick approach to science, and he has an eidetic memory. He has provided the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) and has briefed numerous [[Department of Defense|DoD]] agencies and [[U.S. Congress|congressional committees]] on the UAP issue.[^1]
### Involvement with AATIP
Dr. Davis was a key scientific contractor for AATIP, working closely with [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Luis Elizondo]]. He was instrumental in analyzing the physics of UAP and exploring theoretical concepts such as warp drives and traversable wormholes. His expertise was crucial in helping the AATIP team to understand the advanced capabilities of the craft they were investigating.[^1]
Dr. Davis was a key scientific contractor for AATIP, working closely with Hal Puthoff and [[Luis Elizondo]]. He was instrumental in analyzing the physics of UAP and exploring theoretical concepts such as warp drives and traversable wormholes. His expertise was crucial in helping the AATIP team to understand the advanced capabilities of the craft they were investigating.[^1]
### The Wilson-Davis Memo
Dr. Davis is best known as the alleged author of the [[Wilson-Davis Memo]], a document that details a 2002 conversation with Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, then the Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA). The memo describes Admiral Wilson's discovery of and subsequent denial of access to a secret UAP reverse-engineering program. The leak of this memo has been a significant event in the UAP disclosure movement, providing a detailed account of the existence of a "Legacy Program" operating outside of normal government oversight.[^1]
Dr. Davis is best known as the alleged author of the Wilson-Davis Memo, a document that details a 2002 conversation with Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]], then the Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA). The memo describes Admiral Wilson's discovery of and subsequent denial of access to a secret UAP reverse-engineering program. The leak of this memo has been a significant event in the UAP disclosure movement, providing a detailed account of the existence of a "[[Legacy Program]]" operating outside of normal government oversight.[^1]
In 2020, Dr. Davis made headlines when he told the New York Times that the U.S. government was in possession of "off-world vehicles not made on this earth." His public statements and briefings to Congress have been a major factor in the growing momentum for UAP transparency.[^1]
In 2020, Dr. Davis made headlines when he told the [[New York Times]] that the [[U.S. government]] was in possession of "off-world vehicles not made on this earth." His public statements and briefings to Congress have been a major factor in the growing momentum for UAP transparency.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.

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born: 1930-10-18
died: 2018-06-03
location: "Scranton, Pennsylvania"
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Carlyle Group]]"
start: 1989
role: "vice chairman 1989 to 1993; chairman and managing director from 1993"
fn: 2
- type: director_of
with: "[[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]]"
role: "listed as a director in BDM's 1995 and 1997 filings"
fn: 2
updated: 2026-10-03
---
[[Frank Carlucci]] was a prominent American government official who held several high-level positions, including former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] deputy director and later [[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]]. He was also a member of the board of directors for [[Wackenhut Corporation]].[1]
[[Frank Carlucci]] was a prominent American government official who held several high-level positions, including former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] deputy director and later [[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]]. He was also a member of the board of directors for [[[Wackenhut Corporation]].[^1]
Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with [[Harold Okimoto]] reportedly working under his auspices for years. Okimoto, a figure linked to the [[Yakuza]] and alleged to be a top Japanese organized crime figure, was also described as an intelligence person who performed services for the [[United States|U.S. government]] during [[World War II]].[1]
Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with [[Harold Okimoto]] reportedly working under his auspices for years. Okimoto, a figure linked to the [[Yakuza]] and alleged to be a top Japanese organized crime figure, was also described as an intelligence person who performed services for the [[United States|U.S. government]] during [[World War II]].[^1]
### Carlyle and BDM
Carlucci served as chairman of the board of [[BDM Corporation]] from October 1990, when a [[Carlyle Group]]-led investor group bought the company's business and assets for about 126.5 million dollars, until its sale to [[TRW]] in December 1997 (TRW completed its tender offer on December 24 and the merger on December 29, 1997). His filed biography gives him as vice chairman of Carlyle from 1989 to 1993 and chairman and a managing director from 1993, after service as [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] from 1987 to 1989; the 1995 filing lists his other directorships as [[Ashland Oil]], [[Bell Atlantic]], [[East New York Savings Bank]], [[General Dynamics]], [[Kaman Corporation]], [[Neurogen Corporation]], [[Northern Telecom]], [[The Quaker Oats Company]], [[SunResorts]], [[Texas Biotechnology Corporation]], [[The Upjohn Company]] and [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]]. The Carlyle stockholders agreement of October 23, 1990 provided for seven directors designated by Carlyle, five by management and three independent directors, with the board fixed at 13. By 1997 he chaired BDM's compensation committee and sat on its executive and nominating committees. BDM paid Carlyle an annual fee of 500,000 dollars plus expenses; Carlucci owned 35,934 shares before the 1995 offering and 75,560 in 1997. Under the November 1997 merger agreement Carlyle's affiliates, holding 7,660,000 shares (25.8 percent), agreed to tender at 29.50 dollars a share.[^2] The Los Angeles Times of September 19, 1990 reported that [[Loral]] said on September 18 it would sell BDM International to the Carlyle Group for 130 million dollars (the SEC filings give a closing price of about 118 million dollars, adjusted to about 126.5 million dollars in 1991), that Carlyle with partner [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] had bid unsuccessfully for all of [[Ford Aerospace]], and that Carlyle said it would name "former Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci chairman of BDM."[^3]
---
### Footnotes
[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
[^2]: BDM International, Inc., Form S-1/A, June 26, 1995 (accession 0000950112-95-001766), "Management" and "Certain Transactions"; Form DEF 14A, April 11, 1997 (0000912057-97-012636); Schedule 14D-9, November 26, 1997 (0000950152-97-008353), all at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/ followed by the accession and .txt; TRW Inc., Form 8-K (0000950152-97-008891), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100030/0000950152-97-008891.txt.
[^3]: Dean Takahashi, "Loral to Sell BDM to Carlyle Group for $130 Million," Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles), September 19, 1990, p. 46, https://www.newspapers.com/image/175530103/

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category: "People"
tags:
- Person
- SecretaryOfDefense
- SecretaryOfTheNavy
- DillonRead
- NationalSecurityAct
- BethesdaNavalHospital
- WillcuttsReport
- MJ12
- UFO
alias:
- James Forrestal
- James V. Forrestal
- James Vincent Forrestal
- Jim Forrestal
- Secretary Forrestal
- Forrestal
summary: "Wall Street banker, Secretary of the Navy and first Secretary of Defense who died in a fall from Bethesda Naval Hospital in May 1949 and is named in the Majestic-12 documents."
location: "Washington, D.C."
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Dillon, Read and Company]]"
start: 1916
end: 1940-06
role: "bond salesman, partner 1923, vice-president 1926, president 1937 (Navy service 1917 to 1919)"
fn: 1
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Department of the Navy]]"
start: 1940-08
end: 1947-09
role: "Under Secretary of the Navy from August 1940; Secretary of the Navy from May 1944"
fn: 1
- type: head_of
with: "[[Department of Defense]]"
start: 1947-09
end: 1949-03-28
role: "first Secretary of Defense; succeeded by Louis Johnson"
fn: 1
- type: member_of
with: "[[Majestic-12]]"
start: 1947-09-24
end: 1949-05-22
role: "named as a member in the Eisenhower briefing document and as addressee of the Truman memorandum of September 24, 1947; the FBI file copies carry a hand-lettered word BOGUS"
fn: 3
- type: subject_of
with: "[[U.S. Navy]]"
start: 1949-05-22
role: "board of investigation into his death under Rear Admiral M. D. Willcutts; proceedings approved July 13, 1949; digitized by Princeton from the Forrestal Papers (Box 94, Folder 11)"
fn: 2
created: 2026-10-02
updated: 2026-10-03
---
James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 to May 1949) served as [[Under Secretary of the Navy]] from August 1940, Secretary of the Navy from May 1944 and the first [[Secretary of Defense]] from September 1947 until his resignation on March 28, 1949, after a career at the [[Wall Street]] firm [[Dillon, Read and Company]].[^1] He died in a fall from a window of [[Bethesda Naval Hospital]], on May 22, 1949 according to the Navy's board of investigation under [[Morton D. Willcutts]] and on May 23 according to the [[Princeton University]] finding aid to his papers.[^1][^2] The [[Majestic-12]] documents list him as a member and as the addressee of a memorandum attributed to [[Harry S. Truman]]; the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] marked copies of those documents "BOGUS."[^3]
### Dillon Read and the Navy
The finding aid to the Forrestal Papers at the [[Mudd Manuscript Library|Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library]], Princeton University, states that he began on Wall Street in 1916 as a bond salesman for William A. Read and Company, later Dillon, Read and Company, served in the Navy from 1917 to 1919, became a partner in 1923 and the "right-hand man" of [[Clarence Dillon]], vice-president in 1926 and company president in 1937, and left in June 1940 to become an assistant to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] before his appointment as Under Secretary of the Navy under [[Frank Knox]] in August 1940. It records that he married [[Josephine Ogden Forrestal|Josephine Ogden]] in October 1926 and that they had two sons, [[Michael V. Forrestal|Michael]] and Peter.[^1] It names [[Ferdinand Eberstadt]] as "a close advisor to Forrestal throughout his military career" and as the author of the compromise plan that became the basis for the [[National Security Act of 1947]], which created a [[National Military Establishment]], the [[Department of the Air Force]] and the [[National Security Council]].[^1] As Secretary of the Navy he formed the [[Navy Industrial Association]] to bring Navy personnel and civilian suppliers together.[^1]
The collection history records that his diaries were purchased from the [[New York Herald Tribune]] and donated to Princeton by Clarence Dillon and [[Laurance Rockefeller]] in December 1952, that Josephine Ogden Forrestal gave the papers in January 1953, and that the Forrestal Diaries, edited by [[Walter Millis]], were published in serial form in the Herald Tribune and in book form by [[Viking Press]] in 1951. The correspondence series includes folders for Laurance Rockefeller (1940), [[Nelson Rockefeller]] (1940 to 1948) and [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] (1945 to 1948).[^1]
### Resignation, hospitalization and death
Forrestal resigned on March 28, 1949 and was succeeded by [[Louis Johnson]].[^1] A modern editor's note on the [[Charlotte News]] of May 23, 1949 states that he was committed to Bethesda on April 2 following a stay at the home of [[Robert Lovett]] at [[Hobe Sound, Florida]], that [[Drew Pearson]] had reported earlier suicide attempts, that a book of poems edited by [[Mark Van Doren]] containing a partial handwritten transcription of the chorus from [[Sophocles]]' Ajax was found in his room, and that Captain [[George N. Raines]], chief of neuropsychiatry, was the attending psychiatrist from before admission to May 18.[^4]
The two dates of death sit side by side in the sources. The Navy's board of investigation, convened by precept dated May 22, 1949, found that the body was found on a ledge outside room 384 of Building One of the National Naval Medical Center at 1:50 a.m. and pronounced dead at 1:55 a.m., "Sunday, May 22, 1949."[^2] The Mudd finding aid's biographical note states that Forrestal "committed suicide on May 23, 1949" at the National Naval Medical Center lists among its sources [[Walter H. Waggoner]]'s [[New York Times]] article of May 23, 1949; the same finding aid reproduces Truman's statement that Forrestal "was as truly a casualty of the war as if he had died on the firing line."[^1] The Eisenhower briefing document in the Majestic-12 file gives May 22, 1949.[^3]
The Associated Press dispatch of May 22, 1949, printed in the [[Kennebec Journal]] of [[Augusta, Maine]] on May 23, reported that Forrestal, 57, "committed suicide today" and was found dead on a third-floor ledge, the roof of the passageway of the third floor, below the sixteenth-floor window at Bethesda. It quoted the official hospital statement that he took his life "at 2 a.m. (1 a.m. est)" by climbing out of the window adjacent to his room, and stated that a nurse on the seventh floor heard the falling body. The board of investigation gives 1:50 a.m. for the finding of the body (see above); the wire gives "2 a.m." in its own words and attributes it to the hospital statement. The same dispatch reported a bathrobe cord knotted tightly about his neck, said that he wore a dressing gown with the sash wrapped around his neck and that his wristwatch was still running, and said the AP could not tell whether he had contemplated attaching the cord to a radiator and leaping or hanging himself. It reported that a book, "An Anthology of World Poetry," lay open on his radiator to the poem "Chorus from Ajax," with the lines "When reason's day sets rayless, joyless, quenched in cold decay, better to die and sleep" (the dispatch's dashes rendered here as commas) Per Rear Admiral [[Leslie Stone]], the hospital commandant, and the official statement, as the AP reported them, Forrestal had declined his usual sedative that evening, left his room by a door onto the corridor, avoiding the second room of the suite where a doctor was on duty, crossed to the diet kitchen and knotted the cord about his throat; the windows of the room had been enclosed with heavy wire screening. The AP reported that he had entered the hospital seven weeks earlier with "nervous exhaustion resulting from overwork," had been described as greatly improved and permitted visitors and free use of the telephone, and had been visited by Truman on May 6 according to the [[White House]]; that Willcutts ordered a Navy board of inquiry; and that the board was to determine "among other things" why Forrestal was left unattended long enough to reach the window.[^5]
The AP dispatch of October 11, 1949, printed in the Cumberland News of [[Cumberland, Maryland]] on October 12 under the headline "Navy Cleared In Forrestal Death," reported that the Navy court of inquiry found the death "was not caused in any manner by the intent, fault, negligence or inefficiency of any person or persons in the naval service or connected therewith." It stated that Forrestal was admitted on April 2 with "operational fatigue" according to Navy doctors, that the findings were released by Navy Secretary [[Francis P. Matthews]] without explanation of a delay of more than four months, and that a five-man board convened on May 23 on Willcutts's orders and concluded its hearings on May 30, after which the report was drawn.[^6] The Mudd Library scan records that the board reconvened and revised its finding on July 13, 1949 (see below); the AP report states that the hearings concluded on May 30 and does not mention the July session.
### The Willcutts Review Board report
The Mudd Library finding aid for the Rogow Papers on Forrestal states that files on the 1949 board of investigation, "popularly called the 'Willcutts Report,'" are online on the Mudd Library website under the title "Admiral M.D. Willcutts Report on the Death of James V. Forrestal."[^7] The Forrestal Papers finding aid lists a folder, "Willcutts Report on Forrestal's Death" (Box 94, Folder 11), with a digitized scan of 65 images, which includes a [[Judge Advocate General of the Navy|Judge Advocate General's]] cover letter of April 6, 2004 to a [[David Martin (Chantilly)|David Martin]] of [[Chantilly, Virginia]], replying to a [[Freedom of Information Act]] request of March 5, 2004. The letter encloses a copy of the Board of Investigation (309 pages, of which 100 were charged free) and states that exhibit 1 (photographs of the body), exhibit 4 and exhibit 5 (photographs of injuries) were withheld under the privacy exemption of 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6).[^2]
The precept of May 22, 1949, signed by Rear Admiral M. D. Willcutts, Medical Officer in Command of the National Naval Medical Center, named Captain [[A. A. Marsteller]], Medical Corps (retired, on active duty), as senior member, Captains [[Vincent Hernandez]] and [[Harold J. Cokely]], Commander [[William W. Ayres]] and Lieutenant Commander [[James D. Wharton]] as members and Lieutenant [[Robert F. Hooper]] as recorder. The board met on Monday, May 23 at 11:15 a.m. with closed doors, examined the body at the morgue, viewed rooms 1618 and 1620 (the room and the diet kitchen on the sixteenth floor of the tower) and the roof where the body landed, and took testimony beginning May 24.[^2] A photographer's mate testified to taking ten photographs of the body, and a hospital corpsman chief to eleven photographs of the room and building, among them one of a rug with broken glass about two feet from the end of the bed in room 1618.[^2]
Captain Raines testified that Forrestal was admitted at about five in the afternoon on Saturday, April 2, 1949. He described a flight on March 31 with Admiral [[John Gingrich]] to [[Stuart, Florida]], a meeting at Robert Lovett's house with Lovett and [[Artemus Gates]], and the arrival of Eberstadt with [[William C. Menninger]] at Hobe Sound; Raines said that Forrestal had told Menninger he tried to hang himself with a belt, that he and Menninger doubted it, that Forrestal had named sleeping pills and hanging as the two means he would use, and that Forrestal had once sent him a concealed razor blade. Raines said Forrestal's stated means had not included a window, and referred to the bathrobe cord.[^2] The Charlotte News editor's note reproduces parts of the same colloquy.[^4]
The board's finding of facts states that Forrestal died "on or about May 22, 1949" of "injuries, multiple, extreme, received incident to a fall from a high point in the tower," that his behavior in the hospital "was indicative of a mental depression," that treatment and precautions accorded with accepted psychiatric practice, and that the death was not caused by "the intent, fault, negligence or inefficiency" of any person in the naval service. The Secretary of the Navy returned the record in an endorsement stating that "on or about" was ambiguous and "ill advised," since it might imply that Forrestal could have fallen before midnight without the staff knowing; the board reconvened on July 13, 1949 and changed the finding to "about 1:50 a.m. on May 22, 1949," and Willcutts approved the proceedings in revision the same day. Letters in the folder from [[Winfred Overholser]], [[John C. Whitehorn]] and [[Edward A. Strecker]] to the Judge Advocate General state their agreement with the findings.[^2]
[[Hugh Turley]], writing for the [[Hyattsville Life and Times]], stated in 2009 that the [[History News Network]] announced the report's availability in 2004, and that the report offers "new evidence of a struggle in Forrestal's room" in the form of broken glass found on the bed and photographed on the floor. Turley wrote that the transcribed testimony of a corpsman, asked when he last saw Forrestal, was "one forty-five, sir," that Forrestal "was in his bed sleeping," and that the corpsman was in the room; he wrote that the report says nothing of the book of poetry, that the board "did not comment on why the sash" of Forrestal's dressing gown "was around his neck," and that the report "did not conclude Forrestal committed suicide." Turley's article reports that the historians [[Keith W. Olson]] and [[Martin J. Sherwin]] were invited to comment: Olson said "the need for such a study is obvious," and Sherwin wrote "I have always thought Forrestal committed suicide, but this is not because I investigated the manner of his death." Turley's own inference, in the article, is that the report indicates assassination.[^8]
### Majestic-12
The Eisenhower briefing document, dated November 18, 1952, lists Secretary James V. Forrestal among the twelve members of Majestic-12 and states that his death on May 22, 1949 left a vacancy filled on August 1, 1950 by General [[Walter Bedell Smith]]. The Truman memorandum of September 24, 1947, bearing a signature reading "Harry Truman," is addressed "Dear Secretary Forrestal" and states that the matter shall hereafter be referred to only as "Operation Majestic Twelve." The FBI file on Majestic 12 reproduces both with the word "BOGUS" hand-lettered across them.[^3] [[Stanton T. Friedman]] wrote in 2004 that if the briefing document, the Truman-Forrestal memorandum and the [[Cutler-Twining memorandum]] were genuine, "Aliens are visiting earth," the government had recovered "at least one crashed saucer and several alien bodies," and a group of American scientists and military leaders had "kept secret all kinds of information about the visitors."[^9]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Princeton University Library, "James V. Forrestal Papers, 1907-1958 (mostly 1940-1949)," MC051, collection creator biography, collection history, immediate source of acquisition and series 1 folder list, https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC051.xml (EAD export, opened 2026-10-03).
[^2]: "Willcutts Report on Forrestal's Death," Forrestal Papers, Box 94, Folder 11, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, digitized at Princeton Figgy (IIIF manifest https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/97bd9b5d-cc16-4f8c-94bf-0763b7228def/manifest), finding aid entry https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC051_c04531. Page images (Judge Advocate General letter of April 6, 2004; precept of May 22, 1949; findings; endorsements of June and July 1949; testimony) read directly for the precept and findings pages and by machine OCR for the remainder; names in the testimony transcribed from OCR and not individually verified against the images.
[^3]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01, pages reproducing the Eisenhower briefing document and the Truman memorandum, https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/at_download/file (Wayback copy used; page images not machine readable; wording cross-checked against the existing Majestic-12 page).
[^4]: Site editor's note on The Charlotte News, Monday, May 23, 1949, W. J. Cash site, https://www.wjcash.org/WJCash17/Charlotte.News.Articles/5-23-49.htm (a modern summary quoting the board testimony, not the 1949 page).
[^5]: "Forrestal Death Leap / Ex-Defense Sec'y Jumps from 16th Story Hospital Window," Associated Press, Washington, May 22 dateline, Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine), May 23, 1949, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/857767711/
[^6]: "Navy Cleared In Forrestal Death," Associated Press, Washington, Oct. 11 dateline, Cumberland News (Cumberland, Md.), October 12, 1949, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/58094016/
[^7]: Princeton University Library, "Arnold A. Rogow Papers on James V. Forrestal," MC240, related material note, https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC240 (Wayback snapshot of September 24, 2021), linking http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/willcutts/index
[^8]: Hugh Turley, "Historians Support Inquiry into the Death of James Forrestal," History News Network, citing the Hyattsville Life and Times, https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/historians-support-inquiry-into-the-death-of-james Turley's article is the sole source for the passages so cited.
[^9]: Stanton T. Friedman, "Update on Operation Majestic 12 Documents," April 2004, The Black Vault, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/update-on-operation-majestic-12-documents/

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---
created: 2026-05-15
updated: 2026-09-21
updated: 2026-10-02
title: John B. Alexander
aliases:
- John B. Alexander
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summary: "Army lieutenant colonel who published The New Mental Battlefield in Military Review in 1980, served under Stubblebine at INSCOM during Center Lane, and later ran non-lethal weapons work at Los Alamos."
born: 1937-01-01
location: "New York, New York"
relations:
- type: founded
with: "[[Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group]]"
start: 1985
role: "convener of the invitation-only group, by his own account in 2011"
fn: 5
- type: employed_by
with: "[[U.S. Army Materiel Command]]"
start: 1984
role: "by his account assigned to the office managing the Army technology base, then in 1984 to the New Thrust project; listed as AMC/USA on Oke Shannon's 1985 attendee list"
fn: 5
- type: member_of
with: "[[The Aviary]]"
role: "membership as alleged: listed as Penguin in a roster published by Richard J. Boylan"
fn: 10
---
Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander is a former Green Beret and Special Forces commander in [[Vietnam|Vietnam]] and [[Thailand]], earning the moniker Assassin Six. He holds a PhD in thanatology, the study of death. Alexander became a prominent figure in the [[U.S. Army]]'s exploration of anomalous mental phenomena and human potential[^1].
Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander is a former [[Green Beret]] and [[United States Army Special Forces|Special Forces]] commander in [[Vietnam|Vietnam]] and [[Thailand]], earning the moniker Assassin Six. He holds a PhD in thanatology, the study of death. Alexander became a prominent figure in the [[U.S. Army]]'s exploration of anomalous mental phenomena and human potential[^1].
In December 1980, Alexander authored an article titled "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock," published in *Military Review*, an official U.S. Army publication. This article was the first time [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] were discussed in an official Army publication, asserting that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated"[^1]. The article, based on personal experience and open-source information, gained national attention after *Washington Post* columnist [[Jack Anderson]] wrote about it under the heading "Voodoo Warriors of the Pentagon"[^1].
In December 1980, Alexander authored an article titled "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock," published in *[[Military Review]]*, an official U.S. Army publication. This article was the first time [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] were discussed in an official Army publication, asserting that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated"[^1]. The article, based on personal experience and open-source information, gained national attention after *[[Washington Post]]* columnist [[Jack Anderson]] wrote about it under the heading "Voodoo Warriors of the [[Pentagon]]"[^1].
Alexander's esoteric interests caught the attention of [[First Earth Battalion|Task Force Delta]], a high-level Army organization. In 1981, [[Richard G. Stilwell]], the deputy undersecretary of defense, arranged for Alexander's transfer to [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] under Major General [[Albert Stubblebine]]. Here, Alexander was put in charge of the Advanced Human Technology Office, interacting with Stubblebine's High Performance Task Force[^1].
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He also played a role in the [[Stargate Project|Grill Flame]] program, particularly after the [[James Randi]] hoax. Alexander suggested using magicians as consultants, and worked with [[Doug Henning]] and [[Jack Houck]] on psychokinesis research, observing spoon-bending parties to understand the phenomena[^1].
After retiring from the military, Alexander joined [[Psi]]'s corporate board in 1990, though he later stated it was a mistake[^1].
After retiring from the military, Alexander joined [[Psi Tech|Psi]]'s corporate board in 1990, though he later stated it was a mistake[^1].
### Publications
* "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock" (*Military Review*, 1980)
### The Documents
John B. Alexander, a lieutenant colonel of the [[United States Army|Army]] who had served with the Special Forces in Thailand and Vietnam, published "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock'" in *[[Military Review]]* in December 1980. Its author note placed him on the staff of the Army's inspector general in Washington after heading the human resources division of the organizational effectiveness office at [[Fort McPherson]].[^2]
John B. Alexander, a lieutenant colonel of the Army who had served with the Special Forces in Thailand and Vietnam, published "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock'" in *Military Review* in December 1980. Its author note placed him on the staff of the Army's inspector general in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] after heading the human resources division of the organizational effectiveness office at [[Fort McPherson]].[^2]
### The New Mental Battlefield
The article's note gave him as "with the Inspector General Agency, Department of the Army, Washington, DC," with a B.A. from the [[University of Nebraska]], an M.A. from [[Pepperdine University]], a Ph.D. from [[Walden University]], and a 1980 diploma from the Command and General Staff College. It opened: "Psychotronics may be described as the interaction of mind and matter. While the concepts may stretch the imagination of many readers, research in this area has been underway for years, and the possibility for employment as weaponry has been explored. To be more specific, there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." Citing the DIA reports of 1972 and 1975 by [[John LaMothe]] and Louis Maire, [[Thomas Bearden]]'s "Soviet Psychotronic Weapons" in *Specula* (1976), Henry Gris and William Dick's *The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries,* and Ostrander and Schroeder, it stated that "it is generally believed that the Soviets and their allies are well in the lead"; that "the ability to heal or cause disease can be transmitted over distance, thus inducing illness or death for no apparent cause. While this has been demonstrated on lower organisms, flies and frogs, the present capacity for human death is still debated"; that "telepathic behavior modification, which includes the ability to induce hypnotic states up to distances in excess of 1,000 kilometers, has been reported"; that the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] work of Targ and Puthoff "tends to support claims that relatively accurate information can be obtained"; that "the intelligence-gathering capability available through remote viewing or OOBE travel is obvious"; that the Soviets "have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in Moscow" with "extremely-low-frequency (ELF) emissions" of "psychoactive characteristics"; and that "the use of telepathic hypnosis also holds great potential. This capability could allow agents to be deeply planted with no conscious knowledge of their programming. In movie terms, the Manchurian candidate lives and does not even require a phone call." It concluded: "It has been suggested that whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons." "Clearly, psychotronic weapons already exist; only their capabilities are in doubt."[^3]
The article's note gave him as "with the Inspector General Agency, Department of the Army, Washington, DC," with a B.A. from the [[University of Nebraska]], an M.A. from [[Pepperdine University]], a Ph.D. from [[Walden University]], and a 1980 diploma from the [[Command and General Staff College]]. It opened: "Psychotronics may be described as the interaction of mind and matter. While the concepts may stretch the imagination of many readers, research in this area has been underway for years, and the possibility for employment as weaponry has been explored. To be more specific, there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." Citing the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] reports of 1972 and 1975 by [[John LaMothe]] and [[Louis Maire]], [[Thomas Bearden]]'s "Soviet [[Psychotronic Weapons]]" in *[[Specula]]* (1976), [[Henry Gris]] and [[William Dick]]'s *The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries,* and [[Sheila Ostrander|Ostrander]] and [[Lynn Schroeder|Schroeder]], it stated that "it is generally believed that the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] and their allies are well in the lead"; that "the ability to heal or cause disease can be transmitted over distance, thus inducing illness or death for no apparent cause. While this has been demonstrated on lower organisms, flies and frogs, the present capacity for human death is still debated"; that "telepathic behavior modification, which includes the ability to induce hypnotic states up to distances in excess of 1,000 kilometers, has been reported"; that the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] work of Targ and [[Hal Puthoff|Puthoff]] "tends to support claims that relatively accurate information can be obtained"; that "the intelligence-gathering capability available through remote viewing or OOBE travel is obvious"; that the Soviets "have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in [[Moscow]]" with "extremely-low-frequency (ELF) emissions" of "psychoactive characteristics"; and that "the use of telepathic hypnosis also holds great potential. This capability could allow agents to be deeply planted with no conscious knowledge of their programming. In movie terms, the Manchurian candidate lives and does not even require a phone call." It concluded: "It has been suggested that whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons." "Clearly, psychotronic weapons already exist; only their capabilities are in doubt."[^3]
### INSCOM
He served under Major General Albert Stubblebine at INSCOM during the [[Center Lane]] years. The project manager's record of a meeting with Stubblebine on November 30, 1983, notes "an update on the RAPT training" and that the general "confirmed his decision to hold a 'bonding' ceremony and that it would be lead by LTC Alexander." At a meeting on January 6, 1984, the "recent LTC Alexander problem concerning the debriefing of Russell Targ" was raised: "The CG stated that he was unaware that there was a problem as he had not instructed LTC Alexander to debrief [[Russell Targ|Targ]] because Alexander was not a trained intelligence officer. The CG stated that he would get with Alexander and resolve the issue."[^4]
### Advanced Theoretical Physics Group, 1985
After INSCOM, Alexander wrote in 2011, he was assigned to the [[U.S. Army Materiel Command|Army Materiel Command]], as "the only military officer working in an office comprised of senior civilians that managed the Army's technology base," where in 1984 he was "abruptly given an assignment to take over a huge, but failing project called New Thrust" and met [[Ron Blackburn]], a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel then at the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] [[Skunk Works]] in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]]. With Blackburn he drew up an invitation list for a group that he named the [[Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group|Advanced Theoretical Physics project]], meeting in the secure facility of the contractor [[BDM Corporation|BDM]], where his former commander Stubblebine was a vice president. He wrote that he used the name "advanced theoretical physics" to "legally avoid answering any UFO [[Freedom of Information Act|FOIA]] requests," and that "as the person responsible for conducting the sessions, I never wrote any reports before or after meetings."[^5] A [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] visit request of May 8, 1985 names the BDM McLean facility and the purpose, as typed, "Advance Theoretical Physics Conference (20-25 May 1985)," and a page of notes by Houck of May 21, 1985 states the group's objective as "Does the evidence support an R+D project?" [[Oke Shannon]] of [[Los Alamos]] listed Alexander as "AMC/USA" among the attendees of a later meeting.[^6] The attendee list appears on the page for the group.
[[Jacques Vallee]] recorded in 1989 that Hal Puthoff "confirmed John Alexander had gone very high to get [ATP] funded"; Puthoff said that Alexander "briefed the head of [[NORAD|Norad]], the head of the [[United States Space Command|Space Command]], the top guy at [[Strategic Defense Initiative|SDI]]," and that Alexander "was in charge of Directed Energy Weapon work for the Army, over a billion-dollar budget" when he was reassigned to Los Alamos and "lost his power base." Vallee wrote that he was "unconvinced." Vallee's journal for May 11, 1986 records his refusal "to become part of the outer skin of some shadowy organization whose chief's I don't trust."[^7]
A press release and survey packet forwarded to the [[White House]] science adviser [[John Gibbons|John H. Gibbons]] by [[C. B. Scott Jones]] of the [[Human Potential Foundation]] on June 13, 1994 reports "The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey," conducted by [[Victoria Alexander]] of [[Santa Fe]], [[New Mexico]], and funded by the [[Bigelow Foundation]] of [[Las Vegas]] (see [[Robert Bigelow]]); a mailing to 1,000 clergy drew a response above 23 percent, with 77 percent disagreeing that proof of extraterrestrial life would cause a religious crisis. It includes a two-page "Commentary by John B. Alexander, Ph.D." that begins "The results of this survey are very important" and says the data are "counter to the widely held belief frequently posited by many in the UFO community predicting doom and destruction in the wake of verifiable contact," while listing caveats (the respondents were clergy, "approximately 77% did not" return the survey, n=230). Its acknowledgments thank "my fabulous husband, John B. Alexander."[^8]
### Afterward
He retired as a colonel in 1988, his last post the advanced systems concepts office of the Army Laboratory Command, and went to [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], where he worked on non-lethal weapons with [[Janet Morris]] of the [[U.S. Global Strategy Council]], the body chaired by [[Ray Cline]]. His books include *The Warrior's Edge* (1990, with Richard Groller and Janet Morris), *Future War* (1999), and *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011).[^5]
He retired as a colonel in 1988, his last post the advanced systems concepts office of the Army Laboratory Command, and went to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on non-lethal weapons with [[Janet Morris]] of the [[U.S. Global Strategy Council]], the body chaired by [[Ray Cline]]. His books include *The Warrior's Edge* (1990, with [[Richard Groller]] and Janet Morris), *Future War* (1999), and *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011).[^9]
[[Richard J. Boylan]] listed Alexander as Penguin in a roster of the [[The Aviary|Aviary]], describing him as an Army Intelligence and Security Command lieutenant colonel and director of the non-lethal weapons department at Los Alamos.[^10] [[Melinda Leslie]] told the authors of the [[Loose Threads Report]] that Colonel [[Charles Halt]] said in 2009 that Alexander "aggressively called" him soon after the December 1980 events near [[RAF Woodbridge]] and seemed to know "every detail," which made Halt "very concerned about John Alexander's role in ufology"; the Loose Threads authors write that Alexander has called [[Howard Blum]]'s account of a Pentagon UFO working group "pure poppycock."[^11] In the 2011 book, as quoted there, Alexander wrote of the premise of the group: "While many researchers, and even the general public, indicate they believe the U.S. Government is withholding critical information about UFOs; that is not a position in which I concur."[^5]
### In the Press, 1993 and 1997
*The [[Santa Fe New Mexican]]* of March 1, 1993 printed a story identifying Alexander as a Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher and describing non-lethal weapons as he presented them: infrasound generators that "could be tuned to incapacitate humans," anti-traction lubricants delivered by aircraft, a computer virus to disrupt enemy computers, and weapons to destroy the optical systems of tanks. The story quoted him that such weapons go after command, control and logistics ("If you can take that away, they can't fight"), that he considers them "humane" because they are designed to damage hardware rather than people, and, answering critics who said they could be lethal, that "nothing is 100 percent safe."[^12]
The *[[Deseret News]]* reporter [[Zack Van Eyck]], in a story reprinted in *The [[Uintah Basin Standard]]* of April 29, 1997, identified Alexander as the director for scientific liaison of the Las Vegas-based [[National Institute for Discovery Science]] and as a former director of nonlethal weapons testing at Los Alamos. Alexander was quoted on the institute's observation post on the ranch of [[Terry Sherman|Terry]] and [[Gwen Sherman|Gwen]] Sherman near [[Randlett, Utah]], which Robert Bigelow had bought in September 1996: "There have been some minor observations, but nothing you would stand behind," and "It's like a watched pot." He said any findings would be posted on the institute's web page.[^13]
### Footnotes
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[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index; the December 1980 issue itself was not obtained. Author note as summarized in search results, not read in the original.
[^3]: Alexander, John B. "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock,'" *Military Review,* vol. 60, no. 12, December 1980, pp. 47-54, read in a Wayback Machine copy of the Army University Press PDF.
[^4]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
[^5]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records.
[^5]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 17-22, 28-29, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened (lending-only). Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^6]: DOE F 5631.20, May 8, 1985; Houck note of May 21, 1985; Shannon "Attendees" page, as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15, 166, 188 (page images read directly).
[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27, and in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened.
[^8]: Jones, C. B. Scott, letter to John H. Gibbons, June 13, 1994, with press release and "The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey," OSTP document 9401410, Clinton Presidential Library, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 17, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/ (file "1994 06 13_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons").
[^9]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records.
[^10]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source.
[^11]: Loose Threads Report, p. 32, quoting Leslie and Halt; Alexander's characterization of Blum's book also as quoted there. Second-hand; sole source for the passages so cited.
[^12]: Staff story on John B. Alexander and non-lethal weapons (headline and byline partly illegible in the viewer), *The Santa Fe New Mexican*, March 1, 1993, p. 1, continued p. 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/583579533/ and https://www.newspapers.com/image/583579542/.
[^13]: Zack Van Eyck, "No UFOs or ETs have dropped in at spooky ranch," *The Uintah Basin Standard* (Roosevelt, Utah; reprinted from the *Deseret News*), April 29, 1997, p. 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/725294178/.

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category: "Political Figure"
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- Person
- Physicist
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- OTA
- ClintonWhiteHouse
- OakRidge
- UFO
alias:
- John Gibbons
- John H. Gibbons
- John Howard Gibbons
- Jack Gibbons
- Dr. John H. Gibbons
- Dr. Gibbons
summary: "Physicist, director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 and of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993, point of contact for Laurance Rockefeller's UFO inquiries."
born: 1929
died: 2015-07-17
location: "Washington, D.C."
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John H. "Jack" Gibbons (January 15, 1929, to July 17, 2015) was born in [[Harrisonburg, Virginia]], took bachelor's degrees in mathematics and chemistry from [[Randolph-Macon College]] in 1949 and a doctorate in physics from [[Duke University]] in 1954.[^1][^2] The [[White House]] biography states that he spent fifteen years at [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] studying atomic nuclei, with emphasis on the role of neutron capture in the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in stars, became in 1973 the first director of the [[Federal Office of Energy Conservation]], directed the [[University of Tennessee]] Energy, Environment and Resources Center for two years, and in 1979 became director of the Congressional [[Office of Technology Assessment]], where he served two six-year terms before his presidential appointment on February 2, 1993 as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]].[^1] He was a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].[^1] The [[National Academy of Engineering]] lists his years as 1929 to 2015, and the [[American Institute of Physics]] obituary gives his death at [[Crozet, Virginia]].[^2]
### Contacts with Laurance Rockefeller
Gibbons met [[Laurance Rockefeller]] and [[C. B. Scott Jones]] in April 1993, three months into his term, after a request from Rockefeller's attorney [[Henry L. Diamond]] of March 29, 1993; Rockefeller's letter of April 21, 1993 records that Gibbons said he had "not learned that the [[United States]] Government has a body of knowledge on UFOs or ETI that is being withheld from the public."[^3] In the further correspondence described under the [[Rockefeller Initiative]] Gibbons suggested approaching the [[Department of Defense|Defense Department]], proposed an informal inquiry into agency records on the 1947 [[Roswell Incident]], and received from Secretary [[Sheila Widnall]] an interim status report on May 24, 1994, the full Roswell report on February 27, 1996 (with the request to pass it to Rockefeller) and the second volume, *The Roswell Report: Case Closed*, on June 20, 1997. Rockefeller's letter of February 14, 1994 credited Gibbons with the suggestion to begin with a specific incident, and Gibbons's note of August 1994 to Rockefeller says he received the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] material "yesterday."[^3] A handwritten note on Jones's letter of February 17, 1994, signed "JHG" and dated 3/29/94, reads: "Scott Jones used to be associated with Senator Pell. He was formerly a [[United States Navy|Navy]] pilot. The [[Human Potential Foundation]] is funded in part, I believe, by L.R."[^4] In a note to Rockefeller dated 8/19/94 he wrote that he had told Senator [[Claiborne Pell]] of the Air Force report the day before, and a note to "Clay" of the same date encloses the report's summary text and a lecture of his own and thanks Pell for lunch.[^5]
On August 4, 1995 he wrote to President [[Bill Clinton]] that Rockefeller would likely see the President in the [[Grand Teton National Park|Tetons]] and "will want to talk with you about his interest in extrasensory perception, paranormal phenomena, and UFO's"; that "I persuaded Rockefeller to not bother you with this issue but instead to let me talk with defense officials"; that "all evidence points to a failed U.S. Air Force balloon experiment, and no evidence of a 'flying saucer' or cover-up conspiracy"; and that "I've made no secret about my conviction that we must not be too diverted from more earthly imperatives."[^6] A draft letter from Rockefeller to the President of August 23, 1995 proposed that "Your Science Advisor, Jack Gibbons, might be the right person" to coordinate government information on the subject.[^7]
The OSTP files include a letter from the physicist [[Bruce Maccabee]] of January 2, 1997 stating that in April 1993 "at the request of Dr. [[Ronald Pandolfi]] of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]" he had faxed Gibbons an information paper on UFOs, and Gibbons's reply of April 26, 1995 to the [[Government Accountability Office|General Accounting Office]] that his office had "no direct knowledge of what occurred at Roswell and no records, except for the information I received from the Air Force."[^8]
### Footnotes
[^1]: The White House, "Biography of Dr. John H. Gibbons," Clinton White House archive, https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/director/Gibbons_Bio.html.
[^2]: National Academy of Engineering, "John H. (Jack) Gibbons 1929-2015," https://www.nae.edu/192022/john-h-jack-gibbons-1929-2015; "John Howard Gibbons," *Physics Today*, December 2015, https://physicstoday.aip.org/obituaries/john-howard-gibbons (birth date and place of death).
[^3]: Henry L. Diamond to Gibbons, March 29, 1993; Rockefeller to Gibbons, April 21, 1993 and later letters; Widnall to Gibbons, May 24, 1994, February 27, 1996 and June 20, 1997, and Rockefeller to Gibbons, February 14, 1994, at http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm.
[^4]: Jones to Gibbons, February 17, 1994, with note signed JHG and dated 3/29/94, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-2-17-94.htm.
[^5]: Gibbons, handwritten notes to Rockefeller and to Pell, RID-8-17-94.htm and RID-9-19-94.htm, same site.
[^6]: Gibbons, memorandum for the President, "Inquiry from Laurance Rockefeller," August 4, 1995, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-4-95.htm.
[^7]: Rockefeller, draft letter to President Clinton, faxed August 23, 1995, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-23-95.htm.
[^8]: Maccabee to Gibbons, January 2, 1997, RID-1-2-97.htm; Gibbons to William Hunt, GAO, April 26, 1995, RID-4-26-95.htm, same site.

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- Kit Green
- Christopher Green
created: 2026-05-17
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updated: 2026-10-02
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- Person
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- Esalen
- AATIP
- LifeSciences
summary: "Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and published research on UAP encounter injuries."
summary: "Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, handled Uri Geller's tests, and later contributed to AATIP."
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Christopher "Kit" Green was a physician and neurophysiologist who served in the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s Life Sciences Division, where he functioned as the agency's primary scientific reviewer and liaison for the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] remote viewing program from its inception in 1972. He was among the small number of CIA officers who maintained long-term engagement with anomalous phenomena research, and later continued that work in both academic and government consulting contexts after leaving the agency.
Christopher "Kit" Green was a physician and neurophysiologist who served in the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[Life Sciences Division]], where he functioned as the agency's primary scientific reviewer and liaison for the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] remote viewing program from its inception in 1972. He was among the small number of CIA officers who maintained long-term engagement with anomalous phenomena research, and later continued that work in both academic and government consulting contexts after leaving the agency.
### CIA Career and SRI Liaison
Green was working in the CIA's Life Sciences Division when physicist [[Hal Puthoff]] initiated contact with the agency regarding proposed research on anomalous mental phenomena. On June 27, 1972, Puthoff wrote to Green at the CIA outlining remote viewing as a legitimate area for scientific investigation, proposing formal experiments at SRI to assess whether the phenomena could be reproduced under controlled conditions. This letter - subsequently released under FOIA and housed in the CIA Reading Room - established the institutional relationship between SRI and the CIA's scientific analysis staff that would persist for more than two decades.[^1]
Green was working in the CIA's Life Sciences Division when physicist [[Hal Puthoff]] initiated contact with the agency regarding proposed research on anomalous mental phenomena. On June 27, 1972, Puthoff wrote to Green at the CIA outlining remote viewing as a legitimate area for scientific investigation, proposing formal experiments at SRI to assess whether the phenomena could be reproduced under controlled conditions. This letter - subsequently released under [[Freedom of Information Act|FOIA]] and housed in the [[CIA Reading Room]] - established the institutional relationship between SRI and the CIA's scientific analysis staff that would persist for more than two decades.[^1]
Green served as the primary CIA officer receiving and evaluating SRI's experimental results during the early years of the program, which was organized under various code names before being consolidated as the [[Stargate Project|STAR GATE]] program. In this capacity he reviewed classified experimental data, participated in briefings, and maintained the agency's formal interest in the research while keeping it within the Life Sciences Division's medical and scientific framework rather than the operational framework of the Directorate of Operations.[^2]
Green served as the primary CIA officer receiving and evaluating SRI's experimental results during the early years of the program, which was organized under various code names before being consolidated as the [[Stargate Project|STAR GATE]] program. In this capacity he reviewed classified experimental data, participated in briefings, and maintained the agency's formal interest in the research while keeping it within the Life Sciences Division's medical and scientific framework rather than the operational framework of the [[Directorate of Operations]].[^2]
### Uri Geller and the SRI Experiments
Green served as the CIA's primary handler and scientific overseer during [[Uri Geller]]'s testing at SRI in 1972-1973. Geller, an Israeli entertainer claiming psychokinetic and clairvoyant abilities, underwent a series of formal laboratory tests under the direction of Puthoff and Russell Targ. Green was responsible for reviewing the experimental protocols, receiving the results, and assessing their implications for the agency. He administered or oversaw medical evaluations of Geller, including neurological and psychological assessments designed to identify physiological correlates of the claimed abilities.[^2]
Green served as the CIA's primary handler and scientific overseer during [[Uri Geller]]'s testing at SRI in 1972-1973. Geller, an [[Israel|Israeli]] entertainer claiming psychokinetic and clairvoyant abilities, underwent a series of formal laboratory tests under the direction of Puthoff and [[Russell Targ]]. Green was responsible for reviewing the experimental protocols, receiving the results, and assessing their implications for the agency. He administered or oversaw medical evaluations of Geller, including neurological and psychological assessments designed to identify physiological correlates of the claimed abilities.[^2]
Green's assessment of the Geller results was qualified: he acknowledged that the experiments produced results he could not explain through conventional means while maintaining that the data did not constitute proof of psychic ability as conventionally understood. He was skeptical of organized programs to train multiple personnel as psychic operatives, believing the evidence supported only that a small number of individuals produced anomalous results under controlled conditions.[^2]
### Sugar Grove and Sensitive Facility Remote Viewing
Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the Sugar Grove incident, in which [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified [[NSA]] signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions - which included internal organizational details not publicly available - created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.[^2]
Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the [[Sugar Grove, West Virginia|Sugar Grove]] incident, in which [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified [[NSA]] signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions - which included internal organizational details not publicly available - created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.[^2]
### Esalen and the Soviet Exchange Program
Green's name appears in CIA documents related to monitoring of the [[Esalen Institute]]'s Soviet-American Exchange Program in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His connection to Puthoff and the SRI remote viewing program placed him in the intersection between the CIA's interest in Soviet parapsychology research and Esalen's role as a civilian forum for U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange, including exchange specifically touching on parapsychology and consciousness research. The CIA maintained passive collection on Esalen's Soviet contacts, and Green's position made him a natural node for any intelligence bearing on Soviet research in related areas.[^1]
Green's name appears in CIA documents related to monitoring of the [[Esalen Institute]]'s [[Esalen Soviet-American Exchange Program|Soviet-American Exchange Program]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His connection to Puthoff and the SRI remote viewing program placed him in the intersection between the CIA's interest in Soviet parapsychology research and Esalen's role as a civilian forum for U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange, including exchange specifically touching on parapsychology and consciousness research. The CIA maintained passive collection on Esalen's Soviet contacts, and Green's position made him a natural node for any intelligence bearing on Soviet research in related areas.[^1]
### Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Investigation
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### Post-CIA Career
Following his departure from CIA, Green continued academic and research work in neurophysiology and forensic medicine. He was associated with Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he worked in forensic pathology and neurological research.[^2]
Following his departure from CIA, Green continued academic and research work in neurophysiology and forensic medicine. He was associated with [[Wayne State University School of Medicine]], where he worked in forensic pathology and neurological research.[^2]
Green contributed as a consultant and scientific advisor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ([[AATIP]]), the Pentagon's UAP research program that operated from approximately 2007 to 2012 under the direction of [[Luis D. Elizondo III|Luis Elizondo]]. His contribution included review of reported physical and physiological effects on individuals claiming proximity to anomalous aerial phenomena. He published research examining injuries reported by people claiming UAP encounters - a category he termed "exotic wounds" - applying forensic neurological analysis to the reported symptom patterns. This work represented the extension of his long-standing interest in the medical and physiological dimensions of anomalous phenomena from the SRI era into the post-AATIP period.[^3]
Green contributed as a consultant and scientific advisor to the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP), the Pentagon's UAP research program that operated from approximately 2007 to 2012 under the direction of [[Luis D. Elizondo III|Luis Elizondo]]. His contribution included review of reported physical and physiological effects on individuals claiming proximity to anomalous aerial phenomena. He published research examining injuries reported by people claiming UAP encounters - a category he termed "exotic wounds" - applying forensic neurological analysis to the reported symptom patterns. This work represented the extension of his long-standing interest in the medical and physiological dimensions of anomalous phenomena from the SRI era into the post-AATIP period.[^3]
A Defense Electronics article of July 1993 in the CIA's Star Gate files, on closed briefings by the Russian scientist Igor Smirnov on "a computerized acoustic device allegedly capable of implanting thoughts in a person's mind," held from March 17 in northern Virginia and later at the University of Kansas Medical Center, lists among "the non-military attendees" "Dr. Richard Nakamura of the National Institute of Mental Health and Dr. Christopher Green, director of General Motors Corp. (GM) biomedical research department in Detroit"; whether this is the Green of this page the article does not say.[^900]
A [[Defense Electronics]] article of July 1993 in the CIA's Star Gate files, on closed briefings by the Russian scientist [[Igor Smirnov]] on "a computerized acoustic device allegedly capable of implanting thoughts in a person's mind," held from March 17 in [[Northern Virginia|northern Virginia]] and later at the [[University of Kansas Medical Center]], lists among "the non-military attendees" "Dr. [[Richard Nakamura]] of the [[National Institute of Mental Health]] and Dr. Christopher Green, director of [[General Motors]] Corp. (GM) biomedical research department in [[Detroit]]"; whether this is the Green of this page the article does not say.[^4]
### UFO-Related Contacts, 1986 to 1997
[[Mark Pilkington]] wrote in *[[Mirage Men]]* of a meeting with Green, whose interest in UFOs, he wrote, went back "some three decades to his time as the CIA's 'keeper of the weird' at the Office for Science and Technology," adding: "Really he was a senior science analyst, but a small part of his work involved intelligence to do with remote viewing (RV), UFOs and other hot paranormal topics of the 1970s." Pilkington described Green as "a close and long-standing friend of Rick Doty" ([[Richard Doty]]), whom he "talked about with unguarded warmth and respect." Asked about silver spheres from [[Yosemite National Park|Yosemite]], Green said, in Pilkington's account, "We have reconnaissance craft that fit that description," and of quiet helicopters "disguised" as UFOs to probe security and nuclear installations, "I'm pretty sure that it happened." Pilkington wrote that at a Denny's restaurant "back in 1986" Green, Puthoff and [[Jacques Vallee]] "distilled what they knew about the subject into what has become known as the 'core story,'" and quoted Green as stating the core story: "The ETs came here, maybe once, maybe a few times. Either through accident or design, the US government acquired one of their craft. The only problem was that the physics that powered the craft were so advanced that for decades we humans have struggled to understand it or to replicate it." He described "paraphrenia," a delusion a person can "confine and control," as the category into which many believers fall.[^5]
Vallee wrote in May 1986 that he intended to present "strong comments about the Secret Onion project" to Green; Vallee's name for the project is the [[Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group]] of [[John B. Alexander]]. According to the [[Loose Threads Report|Loose Threads]] authors, Puthoff said Green received an invitation to the group's meetings but did not attend, and Green told Vallee in 1989 that he was reluctant to take part unless the initiative had an official funding stream. In an entry of August 1990 Vallee recorded Green as dismissing [[Howard Blum]]'s 1987 account of a secret UFO group as an allusion to the proposal of Alexander and [[Ron Blackburn]] that "went nowhere," adding that he had gone to see [[Jack Vorona]], who "told me, 'They never let me in on it!'" In February 1990 Vallee wrote that Blackburn "had co-organized a national panel on UFOs" with Green, "who never told me about this." Green's 2007 curriculum vitae, as quoted by the authors of the Loose Threads Report, lists him as chairman of an "Independent Science Panel, Office of the Undersecretary, Operations Research, DO Army (1989 to present)" and as a member of the [[National Research Council]] Committee on Biotechnology in the Year 2020 from 1989 to 1992.[^6]
An April 15, 1993 transcript of a call between [[Ronald Pandolfi]] and [[C. B. Scott Jones]] has Pandolfi say, of the briefing prepared for [[Laurance Rockefeller]]'s visit to the [[White House]] science adviser [[John Gibbons|John H. Gibbons]], "Kit was supposed to meet with Jack yesterday and supposed to give us some guidance today if there is any additional follow-up or what his reactions were." The person who supplied the transcript to the White House called it "purported."[^7] In a letter of March 29, 1997 [[Richard Farley|C. Richard Farley Jr.]] wrote to Gibbons that Green "terms 'myth-making'" the efforts of "cultists and culture-change agents employed in ongoing efforts by Laurance Rockefeller, with his attorney [[Henry L. Diamond|Henry Diamond]] and former Pell aide (and intelligence 'rogue') C.R. 'Scott' Jones."[^8] [[Richard J. Boylan]] listed Green as Blue Jay in a roster of the [[The Aviary|Aviary]]; the passages of the Pilkington interview read do not use the term.[^9]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Puthoff, Harold E. Letter to Christopher Green, CIA, June 27, 1972. CIA FOIA Reading Room, cia.gov/readingroom. CIA document CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030006-8 (released). Kripal, Jeffrey J. *Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion*. University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 381-385.
[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^3]: Lacatski, James T., Kelleher, Colm A., and Knapp, George. *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UAP Program*. RTMA, 2021. Elizondo, Luis. *IMMINENT: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs*. Morrow, 2024.
[^900]: "DoD, Intel Agencies Look at Russian Mind Control Technology, Claims," July 1993, reprinted from *Defense Electronics,* CIA-RDP96-00792R000600150001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The article gives no CIA affiliation and the identification is not confirmed.
[^4]: "DoD, Intel Agencies Look at Russian Mind Control Technology, Claims," July 1993, reprinted from *Defense Electronics,* CIA-RDP96-00792R000600150001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The article gives no CIA affiliation and the identification is not confirmed.
[^5]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men.* 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat," https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. The "keeper of the weird" and Denny's statements are Pilkington's narration; the "core story" and "paraphrenia" passages are quoted from Green. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^6]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of May 11, 1986 (*Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 242, as quoted in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/), and February and August 1990 (as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," pp. 21 and 66-67, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, which does not name the volume; the period is that of *Forbidden Science: Volume Four*). Neither book was opened. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^7]: "Telecon: Ron Pandolphy and Scott Jones," April 15, 1993, enclosure to Farley's letter of April 29, 1995, Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 46, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/1995%2004%2029_C.%20Richard%20Farley,%20Jr.%20to%20John%20Gibbons%20-%20OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022%20-%20item%20no%2046.pdf.
[^8]: Farley, C. Richard, Jr., letter to John H. Gibbons, March 29, 1997, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 75, same collection.
[^9]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source.

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Paul Fredrick Bennewitz, recorded by the [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] (AFOSI) in October 1980 as a civilian born on September 30, 1927 in [[Kansas]], was the president of [[Thunder Scientific]], an [[Albuquerque]] maker of humidity equipment with contracts at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], and lived in the Four Hills section of Albuquerque, adjacent to the northern boundary of the base's Manzano area.[^1][^2][^3] By his own account to AFOSI he had spent fifteen months by October 1980 photographing lights and recording electronic signals over Manzano and Coyote Canyon; he took the material to AFOSI and was interviewed by [[Richard Doty]]. In 2005 Doty said that AFOSI had convinced Bennewitz the signals were alien in order to protect what was happening at Kirtland, and that the effort included planted objects and helicopters near [[Dulce, New Mexico]].[^4]
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Moore wrote in FOCUS in 1989 that in September 1982 there were, as far as he knew, only three copies of the Aquarius document: one that he had passed to Bennewitz for safekeeping, one in safekeeping elsewhere, and one in his briefcase on a trip to [[San Francisco]]. There he had a morning meeting with a man who turned out to be an associate of the New York researcher [[Peter Gersten]]; that afternoon his car was broken into and his briefcase stolen. Four months later a copy of the same document, with annotations Moore had pencilled on it, turned up in Gersten's hands, and Moore wrote that he had never received a satisfactory explanation of how Gersten obtained it. The 1990 report adds that the break-in occurred on September 13, 1982 and was reported to the San Francisco police, and states that the government had motives of its own in wanting to discredit Gersten, who at the time was pursuing [[Freedom of Information Act]] suits and planned to make a federal case of the [[Cash-Landrum incident]]. According to the authors Gersten began circulating the document to a few members of the UFO community in early 1983 without endorsing it as authentic; they wrote that whether the break-in was engineered remains unknown.[^15] Klass wrote that the researcher [[Robert Todd]] established in early 1983 that the teletype Doty had provided to Moore was bogus.[^16]
### The Albuquerque Tribune, April 8, 1983
The Albuquerque Tribune of Friday, April 8, 1983 printed on page 6, as a jump from page A-1 under the headline "U.S. reports tell of sightings," an account of Air Force reports on Kirtland. It described Bennewitz as "president of a local electronics firm" living adjacent to the northern boundary of the Manzano base, and reported that he said he saw four "saucer or hat-shaped objects lined up behind the outside fence" of the Manzano area on February 2, 1980, and filmed them from about 2,500 yards. It quoted an Air Force report written months later as saying he produced still photographs and 2,600 feet of 8mm film "depicting unidentified aerial objects flying over and around Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon Test Area," and reported that the investigator, Miller, a former Project Blue Book investigator, concluded only that "no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat to Manzano-Coyote Canyon areas." It reported that on November 19 (1980) Bennewitz was told the Air Force would not investigate and "was not in a position to evaluate the information and photographs he has collected," and that former Senator [[Harrison Schmitt]] had inquired why the Air Force declined; the AFOSI forms above date the corresponding statement to Doty and November 17, 1980.[^17]
The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17] A search of the newspaper archive also lists an [[Albuquerque Journal]] item of April 9, 1983, page 5, and an [[Alamogordo Daily News]] item of April 11, 1983, page 12, which were not read.
### Moore's account
At the 1989 MUFON symposium Moore, quoted by [[Curt Collins]], said: "I would play the disinformation game, get my hands dirty just often enough [while trying] to learn as much as possible about who was directing it and why." He said Bennewitz was convinced he was receiving alien radio transmissions and had written a home computer program to translate them into English, that the program could as easily assign "alien" translations to ordinary Morse code, and that [[J. Allen Hynek]] had also examined it.[^17] In a 2000 letter to the newsletter [[Saucer Smear]], Moore wrote that Hynek's role was providing Bennewitz a carefully crafted means of decoding the supposed alien transmissions; on a radio program in 1994 he said that Hynek "was under contract to the Air Force and I have a copy of that contract in case anybody wants to contest this."[^17] The researcher Janet Smith wrote to Saucer Smear in 2000 that Moore had told her in the early 1980s that he had "squirreled Bennewitz away in Canada for his own protection."[^18]
At the 1989 MUFON symposium Moore, quoted by [[Curt Collins]], said: "I would play the disinformation game, get my hands dirty just often enough [while trying] to learn as much as possible about who was directing it and why." He said Bennewitz was convinced he was receiving alien radio transmissions and had written a home computer program to translate them into English, that the program could as easily assign "alien" translations to ordinary Morse code, and that [[J. Allen Hynek]] had also examined it.[^18] In a 2000 letter to the newsletter [[Saucer Smear]], Moore wrote that Hynek's role was providing Bennewitz a carefully crafted means of decoding the supposed alien transmissions; on a radio program in 1994 he said that Hynek "was under contract to the Air Force and I have a copy of that contract in case anybody wants to contest this."[^18] The researcher Janet Smith wrote to Saucer Smear in 2000 that Moore had told her in the early 1980s that he had "squirreled Bennewitz away in Canada for his own protection."[^19]
William L. Moore said that he first became aware of Bennewitz through the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization board after moving to [[Arizona]] in 1979, in connection with the hypnotic regression by Dr. [[R. Leo Sprinkle|Leo Sprinkle]] of a woman who reported watching a cattle mutilation and being taken aboard a craft, and Bennewitz's belief, as a physicist with electronics equipment, that the aliens had implanted a communication device in her; that Bennewitz called his effort "Project Beta" and told APRO in late 1979 that he had detected signals from UFOs; that [[James Lorenzen]] described Bennewitz as "prone to make great leaps of logic on the basis of incomplete data"; that he first met Bennewitz in early 1981 and kept in fairly regular contact until mid-1985; and that "the prime objective of the counter intelligence people who swarmed around Bennewitz between 1980 and 84 seemed to be the maintenance of a high-level security net around the radio signals he was intercepting," which he was "unable to determine why" was a priority.[^20]
Moore said "there is no question that Paul was receiving some sort of electromagnetic signal on his equipment, and it is equally certain that his photos and films do depict unusual lights," most filmed over the Kirtland-Sandia complex, and that "the real question" was whether they were UFO related or related to "some classified government project." He said that by mid-1982 Bennewitz's account contained two groups of aliens, a secret treaty with the government broken by the "grays," an underground base under Archuleta Peak near Dulce, and an atomic powered ship that crashed there; that he and others who examined Bennewitz's photographs and independently obtained pictures of the same area could not see what Bennewitz saw; that Bennewitz's home computer program assigned words and sentence fragments to individual pulses and could as easily be applied to Morse code, and that shuffling the components of the printouts produced messages saying "virtually the same thing"; and that J. Allen Hynek had independently examined the program.[^20] He described driving to West Mesa after Bennewitz pointed out maneuvering lights as alien craft, finding helicopters with searchlights, one passing about 300 feet overhead, and being told by Kirtland the next day that a search and rescue training mission had been flown there; Bennewitz was still making the same claims in 1984.[^20]
Moore said that "the entire story of a secret treaty between the US government and the aliens, of exchanges of technology... of aliens allegedly having implanted hundreds of thousands if not millions of human beings" came about "as a result of the disinformation process," that he provided "regular reports on its effectiveness to some of the very people who were doing it to Paul," and that "I watched Paul become systematically more paranoid and more emotionally unstable": Bennewitz kept guns and knives around his house, installed extra locks, said the aliens came through his walls at night and injected him, suffered insomnia, and on one visit ate none of his lunch while smoking 28 cigarettes in 45 minutes. Moore said he urged him to drop the subject, that Bennewitz said things were getting bad, and that "not long afterward, I heard he had been hospitalized and was under psychiatric care." He added that "perhaps Paul had merely stumbled upon signals generated from some sophisticated high-level government project whose security people had hit upon UFO related disinformation as their ultimate cover," or had found "a real although somewhat less sensational government UFO project, which elected to disinform him," and that "from what I knew of all of this, its purpose was strictly to discredit Bennewitz and nothing more."[^20]
[[Mark Pilkington]], writing from the videotape of the speech and from Greg Bishop's *Project Beta* (2005), gave a narrative in which Moore met "Falcon" at a restaurant in Albuquerque after a call on or about September 8, 1980, and at a second meeting on September 30 Falcon came with Richard Doty and said he worked for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]; none of these details appear in the caption transcript of the speech, which says only that Moore was approached in early September 1980 by a well-placed individual in the intelligence community and that Doty was the liaison. Moore denied ever being paid.[^21][^20] Moore wrote in the 1990 report that "Falcon" designated Doty as middle man in October 1980 and that the anonymous Weitzel letter sent to APRO in July 1980 was "bait" written by Doty, which Moore, then the APRO board member in charge of Special Investigations, received for action.[^10]
Pilkington reported Moore's account that Hynek brought a computer to Bennewitz in mid-1981 which Moore said Hynek told him the Air Force had instructed him to deliver, without saying where it came from, and that the printed "decodes" of pulses it produced included lines such as "VICTORY OUR BASES OBTAIN SUPPLIES FROM THE STARSHIP."[^21] Pilkington wrote that after Bennewitz's presentation at Kirtland on November 10, 1980 the only people remaining were AFOSI and [[National Security Agency]] representatives, that the NSA decided to let him continue intercepting, and that an NSA intercept of a Soviet communication mentioned Bennewitz as a possible source; the last two points are Pilkington's statements without a cited document, and differ from the account Bishop gave on *Coast to Coast AM* in 2005, already on this page.[^21] Pilkington wrote that when Moore last visited Bennewitz in 1987 Bennewitz was barely sleeping or eating.[^21]
### Doty's account and the hospitalization
Doty described what he called a two-tier approach. AFOSI first showed intense interest in everything Bennewitz had; the National Security Agency later became involved because it was extremely interested in his equipment, which Doty said was tapping a type of communication he should not have been able to receive. AFOSI then became friends with him, which Doty called what one does in counterintelligence, began vetting him and began feeding him information. According to Doty, AFOSI did not have to say much because Bennewitz already had the idea; Bennewitz had told the agents that if he tapped into something he wanted to be told, which AFOSI would not do because it did not know who his friends were. Doty said the agents told him instead that he had tapped into something unknown and proposed to work on it together, and turned everything he gathered around so that it appeared alien in origin. He said that disinformation was a primary tactic of United States intelligence in the 1960s, 1970s and into the 1980s, that the most effective version gives the target enough credible information to lead him along, and that "this is an art that is taught. I didn't come up with all of this by myself, I was trained," at a counterintelligence and counterespionage school.[^4]
Doty said on Coast to Coast AM that AFOSI chose to convince Bennewitz rather than obtain a search warrant and seize his property, which "would cause a lot of publicity." Asked whether Bennewitz had needed psychiatric care, Doty said, "Yes, and I visited Paul a number of times," and that he tried, through Bennewitz's son, to tell him the earlier information was untrue, against his commander's orders.[^4] In a letter to Saucer Smear in 2000 Doty wrote that he never believed Bennewitz was in contact with extraterrestrials, and Moseley wrote that Doty told him the National Security Agency independently worked to steer Bennewitz deeper into his belief system and tapped his telephone; Klass replied that the agency does not tap the lines of resident citizens.[^5][^18] Bishop said on the same broadcast that Bennewitz spent about three months in a mental hospital around 1988, that intelligence officers wanted to learn what he knew and with whom he was speaking, and that the [[Soviet Union]] was their concern. Bishop also said the base was then tracking Soviet satellites, a point he said he drew from the testimony of a few people who worked at Kirtland.[^4]
Doty said on Coast to Coast AM that AFOSI chose to convince Bennewitz rather than obtain a search warrant and seize his property, which "would cause a lot of publicity." Asked whether Bennewitz had needed psychiatric care, Doty said, "Yes, and I visited Paul a number of times," and that he tried, through Bennewitz's son, to tell him the earlier information was untrue, against his commander's orders.[^4] In a letter to Saucer Smear in 2000 Doty wrote that he never believed Bennewitz was in contact with extraterrestrials, and Moseley wrote that Doty told him the National Security Agency independently worked to steer Bennewitz deeper into his belief system and tapped his telephone; Klass replied that the agency does not tap the lines of resident citizens.[^5][^19] Bishop said on the same broadcast that Bennewitz spent about three months in a mental hospital around 1988, that intelligence officers wanted to learn what he knew and with whom he was speaking, and that the [[Soviet Union]] was their concern. Bishop also said the base was then tracking Soviet satellites, a point he said he drew from the testimony of a few people who worked at Kirtland.[^4]
Doty said there were four operations pertaining to UFOs; he named those against Bennewitz and [[Linda Moulton Howe]] and said there were two others against groups of people.[^4] Bishop said Bennewitz died about a week before Bishop first travelled to Albuquerque to begin interviews for his book.[^4]
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[^14]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Document (Feb. 1981)" and "The Aquarius Teletype," pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8.
[^15]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Teletype," pp. 8 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13.
[^16]: Philip J. Klass, Skeptics UFO Newsletter no. 44, March 1997, pp. 1 to 3, https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN44.pdf
[^17]: Curt Collins, "Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations," Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022, https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html , quoting Moore's speech at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989 (published in the MUFON UFO Journal, November and December 1989), Moore's letter in Saucer Smear, August 10, 2000, and Moore on Don Ecker's UFOs Tonite, June 11, 1994. The speech text itself was not obtained.
[^18]: James W. Moseley, ed., Saucer Smear, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, "Missives from the Masses" (letters of Richard Doty, Philip J. Klass and Janet Smith), http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (printout of June 14, 2013), pp. 6 to 8.
[^17]: "U.S. reports tell of sightings," Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque), April 8, 1983, p. 6 (jump from p. A-1; no byline visible), https://www.newspapers.com/image/784735876/
[^18]: Curt Collins, "Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations," Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022, https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html , quoting Moore's speech at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989 (published in the MUFON UFO Journal, November and December 1989), Moore's letter in Saucer Smear, August 10, 2000, and Moore on Don Ecker's UFOs Tonite, June 11, 1994. The speech text itself was not obtained.
[^19]: James W. Moseley, ed., Saucer Smear, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, "Missives from the Masses" (letters of Richard Doty, Philip J. Klass and Janet Smith), http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (printout of June 14, 2013), pp. 6 to 8.
[^20]: William L. Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, video recorded by Ron Regehr (Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render names ("Benowitz," "Dodie") and quotations follow the caption wording.
[^21]: Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men* (2010), chapters "Aviary," "The ET Factor" and "The Bennewitz affair" sections, https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf

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summary: "Richard Bissell was the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans from 1958 to 1962 who managed development of the U-2 spy plane program, authorized ZR/RIFLE (the assassination planning unit) under William Harvey, and organized the Bay of Pigs invasion - resigning in February 1962 after the invasion's failure."
summary: "Richard Bissell was the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans from 1958 to 1962, managed the U-2 program, authorized ZR/RIFLE under William Harvey, organized the Bay of Pigs invasion and resigned in February 1962."
born: 1909-09-18
died: 1994-02-07
location: "Washington, D.C."
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### The U-2 Program
Bissell's most technically significant achievement was managing the development of the Lockheed U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft from 1954 onward. Working with Lockheed's Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works division at a secret facility ([[Area 51]] at Groom Lake, Nevada), Bissell managed the program from concept to operational deployment in approximately eighteen months. The U-2 conducted its first operational overflight of the Soviet Union in June 1956.
Bissell's most technically significant achievement was managing the development of the Lockheed U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft from 1954 onward. Working with Lockheed's Kelly Johnson and the [[Skunk Works]] division at a secret facility ([[Area 51]] at Groom Lake, Nevada), Bissell managed the program from concept to operational deployment in approximately eighteen months. The U-2 conducted its first operational overflight of the Soviet Union in June 1956.
By 1960, the U-2 program had produced invaluable intelligence on Soviet nuclear and missile programs, bomber deployments, and military-industrial infrastructure. The program was ended as a Soviet overflight tool when [[Francis Gary Powers|Gary Powers]] was shot down over Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960. The diplomatic crisis that followed - [[Dwight Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] first denied then admitted U.S. responsibility, collapsing the Paris Summit - was a direct consequence of the program Bissell had managed.[^1]

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with: "[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]"
role: "said in 2005 that the FBI investigated him in 1988 or 1989 over the MJ-12 documents"
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with: "[[The Aviary]]"
start: 1986
role: "as alleged by Robert M. Collins in Exempt from Disclosure, 'the surrogate Falcon'; Doty denied in 1989 that he was the Falcon of the 1988 television program"
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Richard Charles Doty served in the [[U.S. Air Force]] from September 17, 1968 to September 30, 1988, retiring as a master sergeant at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], and was commissioned an officer of the [[New Mexico State Police]] on December 1, 1988.[^1][^2] From May 29, 1979 his recorded assignments were with units of the [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] (AFOSI) at Kirtland, where he was the special agent named in the October 1980 reports on [[Paul Bennewitz]].[^3][^4] In 2005 he told the radio host [[Art Bell]] that he had given Bennewitz disinformation on orders.[^5] [[Robert Hastings]] and [[Philip J. Klass]] have named him as "Falcon," the intelligence source whom [[William L. Moore]] described as the origin of material on [[Project Aquarius]] and the [[Majestic-12]] papers; Doty and Moore have both denied it.[^6][^7]
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On November 30, 1988 the chief of the New Mexico State Police told Officer Richard C. Doty that he was commissioned effective December 1, 1988 as a junior patrolman at an annual salary of $19,279, assigned to [[Grants, New Mexico|Grants]].[^2] The personnel file released in 2021 under the state Inspection of Public Records Act, 321 pages, records a Hazardous Materials Safety Board Level I certificate issued in June 1989, a notice that he was not selected for the explosive ordnance disposal team in May 1991, his appointment as a team member on December 1, 1994, and his appointment as temporary commander of the unit on December 27, 1999. On April 25, 2000 the chief assigned four other officers to report to Sergeant Doty in Albuquerque on April 28 for explosive ordnance disposal support to the [[Secret Service]] during Vice President [[Al Gore]]'s visit. He was removed from the team effective July 2, 2005, per correspondence submitted by his lieutenant and himself. A benefits record dated February 9, 2015 gives December 1, 1988 as his date of hire, February 13, 2015 as the end of coverage, and "Employee retired" as the reason. The state withheld his military discharge, disciplinary records and performance appraisals. The requester's description of the file as beginning "circa August of 1988 as a Staff Sergeant" does not match the commission letter.[^2]
### Letters and statements of 1988 and 1989
On March 5, 1988 Doty wrote to [[Larry W. Bryant]], who had sought his service record under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] and had written to the *[[Alexandria Journal]]* about Doty and [[Linda Moulton Howe]], that "a total of sixteen writers, journalists and newspaper reporters have tried to obtain information about me through the FOIA channels over the past seven years" and none had succeeded; that Howe had telephoned him in early 1983 about the 1980 Kirtland incident and that he met her in April 1983 in the offices of AFOSI District 17 after receiving permission from his supervisor, the meeting lasting about an hour and being "monitored by two of my supervisors"; that her questions "were centered around MJ-12, extraterrestrial beings, Project Aquarius and some other subject matter about the history of UFOs," on which he told her he had no knowledge; that "I can say, without a doubt, I never showed her any such document"; that she herself raised "a so-called 'Project Aquarius' briefing paper for [[Jimmy Carter|President Carter]]"; that the government investigated him over it and "I was totally cleared"; that he made only a "Memo for Record" of the April 1983 meeting, filed in his safe for a year and destroyed; that he had telephone conversations or short meetings with her over eighteen months and none after August 1984; and that "I know of no Government operation past or present that involved Ms. Howe or her research about UFOs." The letter ends with the sentences "I know of no secret Government investigation of UFOs. I have never heard of MJ-12 or any secret Government agency that investigates UFOs."[^20]
Howe's own account differs: she wrote that in the April 9, 1983 meeting Doty showed her a "Briefing Paper for the President of the United States of America," said he would call her using the code name "Falcon," followed by calls from others including a "Tom," and in June 1983 said he was officially out of the project; she responded to the denial with a sworn statement and her correspondence.[^20] The statement Hastings attributed to her, that Doty identified himself as Falcon and said Moore gave him the name, is not in her book. See Linda Moulton Howe.
In a letter of March 3, 1989 to a correspondent whose name is deleted, Doty wrote that he had spent eight years with AFOSI at Kirtland and had been assigned in West [[Germany]]; that "my last two years of service was in the Services career field, but not as a cook"; that while assigned to AFOSI District 70 at Wiesbaden he "performed duties as a counterespionage specialist" and in 1986 "was involved in a sensitive operation" that supervisors "seen ... as being unauthorized," so that "I was asked to leave AFOSI, which I did voluntarily"; that "I never lost my top secret security clearance"; that "If I should base my decision on information that I had access to during my Government Service, I would have to say, yes, Earth has been visited. However, I am not 100 percent certain that the information I had access to was entirely accurate"; that his father was never a Blue Book investigator but an uncle was; and that "the story that I am the Falcon mentioned in the Television program last October" was untrue, "I have been exonerated by Government Investigative Agencies regarding that matter."[^21] He also wrote that a book due out that fall would discuss "inaccurate statements made by CAUS regarding me" and that "this matter involving CAUS will come to an end soon after legal action has been taken." The 1984 chronology on this page shows no 1986 entry; Klass had written in 1997 that Doty was dismissed from AFOSI within two years of a 1985 transfer for turning in bogus claims about his activities.[^7]
### Moore's statements about Doty, 1989
William L. Moore said on July 1, 1989 that the liaison who contacted him after Falcon's approach of September 1980 was "AFOSI agent Richard Doty, a man who has since become quite controversial in his own right and who many people have mistakenly assumed is the Falcon himself"; that the name Falcon was coined by himself and Jaime Shandera in 1984 and Doty was "the Sparrow" in their usage; that in mid-1987, at Falcon's suggestion and with Doty's concurrence, they began hinting that Falcon might be Doty; that Doty was "much better at following orders and implementing the schemes of others than he is at coming up with ideas of his own"; that Doty, stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base at the time, was involved in the 1977 humanoid episode there, which Moore called "a special counterintelligence training exercise in the creation and dissemination of this information," though "not in any capacity where he would have been responsible for creating the documents"; and that Doty wrote the Weitzel letter of July 1980.[^22]
### Chapter in Exempt from Disclosure
In a chapter of *[[Exempt from Disclosure]]* credited to him and headed as "taken from a set of four interviews done by Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera in the 1980s and later updated," Doty stated that he was born February 15, 1950 in New York State and "retired from the United States Air Force in November 1988 as a Master Sergeant" (the personnel record on this page gives September 30, 1988); that in July 1969 at a top secret facility 15 miles southeast of [[Indian Springs|Indian Springs Air Force Base]], where he was a security policeman, a civilian who gave his name as Mr. Blake spoke to him after a saucer-shaped object was towed from a hangar and said "someday you'll know the true story about that object"; that after arriving at AFOSI District 17 at Kirtland in May 1979 he was briefed in his first year into three special programs, the second on collecting information about UFOs, the briefing for which Mr. Blake attended, and the third on safeguarding Air Force technology by methods that included "disinformation"; that a UFO incident at Ellsworth Air Force Base "turned out to be a hoax and the sergeant involved in faking the DD 1569 was punished and dismissed from the Air Force"; that he read an official document that "mentioned a 'Project Aquarius,' which contained 16 volumes of information"; and that [[Kit Green]] related that [[Richard Helms]] told him "Always believe what Richard Doty tells you about UFOs."[^23] In a statement of February 21, 2005 quoted in the same book Doty said Moore "had several sources within the U.S. Government," that he met Moore "with an NSA investigator" on one occasion, and that "during the Bennewitz affair, I met Moore with FBI agents."[^23]
[[Mark Pilkington]] wrote that in late 1981 Doty and Moore, with Bob Pratt, planned a book to which Doty would contribute as "Ronald L. Davis," titled first "Majik 12" and then "The Aquarius Project," a source Pilkington attributes to Brad Sparks and Greenwood's 2007 paper (not obtained).[^24]
### Statements in 2000
In June 2000 the publisher [[James W. Moseley]] reported in Saucer Smear, after telephone interviews, that Doty told him he had visited [[Area 51]] and had been told alien technology was kept there, though his clearance was not high enough to see it, and that Doty said he told Bennewitz years afterward that he had been hoaxed.[^20] In a letter to the July 2000 issue Doty wrote that Moore "was a coded source for OSI," "was paid for his information" and "was used to provide disinformation to Ufologists"; that "two alien spacecrafts crashed in the desert of New Mexico in the summer of 1947" and the government recovered five bodies and one live alien that lived until 1952; that "we don't have any UFOs at Area 51"; and that "during my OSI days, I did perform disinformation operations against many different targets, but everything I did was sanctioned by our Government." Moore wrote in the same issue that he could confirm Doty's comments about Bennewitz and the "energy balls," one of which he had seen briefly in Bennewitz's home.[^8]
In June 2000 the publisher [[James W. Moseley]] reported in Saucer Smear, after telephone interviews, that Doty told him he had visited [[Area 51]] and had been told alien technology was kept there, though his clearance was not high enough to see it, and that Doty said he told Bennewitz years afterward that he had been hoaxed.[^25] In a letter to the July 2000 issue Doty wrote that Moore "was a coded source for OSI," "was paid for his information" and "was used to provide disinformation to Ufologists"; that "two alien spacecrafts crashed in the desert of New Mexico in the summer of 1947" and the government recovered five bodies and one live alien that lived until 1952; that "we don't have any UFOs at Area 51"; and that "during my OSI days, I did perform disinformation operations against many different targets, but everything I did was sanctioned by our Government." Moore wrote in the same issue that he could confirm Doty's comments about Bennewitz and the "energy balls," one of which he had seen briefly in Bennewitz's home.[^8]
### Statements in 2005
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On the same broadcast Doty said he was briefed in a room at the Air Force special security office on a recovery at Roswell by a colonel and a civilian, with a classified 16mm film, and that his 1979 briefing included the statement that in the early 1950s the government had placed Air Force intelligence personnel as advisers to motion picture companies, beginning with a film he named as The Day the Earth Stood Still, to condition the public for a release. He also said that he learned after leaving OSI, in a room with six or seven retired intelligence officers, that a government operation from 1977 or 1978 until 1982 had taken organs from cattle, horses, elk and deer for a biological agent prevention system, and that it had been arranged so that the public would attribute the mutilations to aliens; he said he had no official knowledge of it at the time.[^5]
On July 11, 2013 Rojas wrote to the Air Force asking whether Doty had acted under orders when, as Doty has said according to Rojas, he lied to two senators, broke into a civilian's home and distributed forged documents. AFOSI released records on Rojas's [[Freedom of Information Act]] request on August 2, 2013; Rojas wrote that its public affairs office then stopped speaking with him and that he had received no answer. Rojas wrote that Gabe Valdez of the New Mexico State Police told him he was present when Doty flew Bennewitz over Dulce, that Doty told Bishop and retired Army Colonel [[John B. Alexander]] of the break-in, and that Doty says he was demoted at one point, which the military records Rojas obtained do not show.[^21]
On July 11, 2013 Rojas wrote to the Air Force asking whether Doty had acted under orders when, as Doty has said according to Rojas, he lied to two senators, broke into a civilian's home and distributed forged documents. AFOSI released records on Rojas's Freedom of Information Act request on August 2, 2013; Rojas wrote that its public affairs office then stopped speaking with him and that he had received no answer. Rojas wrote that Gabe Valdez of the New Mexico State Police told him he was present when Doty flew Bennewitz over Dulce, that Doty told Bishop and retired Army Colonel [[John B. Alexander]] of the break-in, and that Doty says he was demoted at one point, which the military records Rojas obtained do not show.[^26]
### Footnotes
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[^17]: Susan Cooksey, Freedom of Information Manager, Air Force Intelligence Service, letter to Peter L. Clarke, KOB Television, December 5, 1983 (reply to request of November 18, 1983), printout of a reproduction at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/KOB-TV-Bennewitz-FOIA.pdf
[^18]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Document (Feb. 1981)" and "The Aquarius Teletype," pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8.
[^19]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01, 24 pages: SAC Dallas airtel to Director, October 25, 1988; Director to FBI Dallas, teletype, December 2, 1988; https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/at_download/file
[^20]: James W. Moseley, "The Paul Bennewitz Case Revisited," Saucer Smear, vol. 47, June 15, 2000, http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000615.htm (printout of June 7, 2013), pp. 1 to 3.
[^21]: Alejandro Rojas, "Open letter to the U.S. Air Force regarding allegations of UFO disinformation," Open Minds, May 6, 2014 (letter sent July 11, 2013; AFOSI FOIA case 2013-03291-F), https://openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/ ; Rojas, "Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies," HuffPost, May 13, 2014, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exair-force-law-enforceme_b_5312650
[^20]: Linda Moulton Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 159 to 162 and Appendix 4 (Doty letter of March 5, 1988 to Larry W. Bryant, pp. 261 to 263), https://archive.org/details/howe-l.-m.-an-alien-harvest-2nd-ed-2014 (OCR text read)
[^21]: Richard C. Doty, letter of March 3, 1989 to an unnamed correspondent (reply to a letter of January 9, 1989; address Grants, New Mexico), http://textfiles.com/ufo/doty.ufo. Quotations are as in the file, which has "Weisbaden" and "seen" for "saw."
[^22]: William L. Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, video recorded by Ron Regehr (Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render names ("Dodie") and are corrected here.
[^23]: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure: The Black World of UFOs* (copyright notice 2010), Section 2, Chapter 4, "Richard Doty: AFOSI Counter-Intelligence and Raven Addendum, the Wilderness of Mirrors," and reference 4 to the introduction, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure (OCR text read).
[^24]: Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men* (2010), chapter "Aviary" (Doty), https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf
[^25]: James W. Moseley, "The Paul Bennewitz Case Revisited," Saucer Smear, vol. 47, June 15, 2000, http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000615.htm (printout of June 7, 2013), pp. 1 to 3.
[^26]: Alejandro Rojas, "Open letter to the U.S. Air Force regarding allegations of UFO disinformation," Open Minds, May 6, 2014 (letter sent July 11, 2013; AFOSI FOIA case 2013-03291-F), https://openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/ ; Rojas, "Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies," HuffPost, May 13, 2014, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exair-force-law-enforceme_b_5312650

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summary: "Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries."
born: 1944-05-12
location: "Las Vegas, Nevada"
aliases:
- Robert T. Bigelow
- Robert Thomas Bigelow
- Bob Bigelow
relations:
- type: funded
with: "[[Never Back Down Inc.]]"
role: "contribution of 20,000,500 dollars reported March 30, 2023"
start: 2023-03-30
fn: 8
- type: funded
with: "[[Make America Great Again Inc.]]"
role: "contributions of 14,175,400 dollars in 2024 and 250,000 dollars in January 2025"
start: 2024-02-09
fn: 8
- type: funded
with: "[[Friends for Harry Reid]]"
role: "10,800 dollars in 1998, 2003 and 2010"
start: 1998-08-07
fn: 7
- type: funded
with: "[[Searchlight Leadership Fund]]"
role: "5,000 dollars (June 13, 2003) and 5,000 dollars from Bigelow Development Aerospace LLC (June 30, 2004)"
start: 2003-06-13
fn: 7
- type: director_of
with: "[[Robert Thomas Bigelow Educational Foundation]]"
role: "president and director, and treasurer and director, per Form 990-PF for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024"
start: 2024-01
fn: 9
- type: director_of
with: "[[Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation]]"
role: "president and director, and treasurer and director, per Form 990-PF for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024"
start: 2024-01
fn: 9
updated: 2026-10-02
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[[Robert Bigelow]] is a billionaire hotelier, developer, and aerospace magnate known for his long-standing interest in [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) and paranormal research. His company, [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]] (BAASS), was the primary contractor for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP).[^1]
[[Robert Bigelow]] is a billionaire hotelier, developer, and aerospace magnate known for his long-standing interest in [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) and paranormal research. His company, [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]] (BAASS), was the primary contractor for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).[^1]
### Interest in UAP and Paranormal Research
Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries. In the 1990s, he founded the [[National Institute for Discovery Science]] (NIDS) to study UAP and the paranormal. He also purchased [[Skinwalker Ranch]] in Utah, a property known for its long history of strange and often terrifying phenomena, so that his scientists could study the anomalous activity there.[^1]
Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries. In the 1990s, he founded the [[National Institute for Discovery Science]] (NIDS) to study UAP and the paranormal. He also purchased [[Skinwalker Ranch]] in [[Utah]], a property known for its long history of strange and often terrifying phenomena, so that his scientists could study the anomalous activity there.[^1]
### Role in AATIP
Through his friendship with Senator [[Harry Reid]], Bigelow became a central figure in the establishment of AAWSAP. His company, BAASS, was awarded the $22 million contract to conduct research for the program. BAASS was responsible for investigating UAP incidents, including the [[Colares Incidents]] in Brazil, and for compiling a massive database of UAP encounters. The company also continued the investigation of [[Skinwalker Ranch]] under the auspices of the AATIP program.[^1]
Through his friendship with Senator [[Harry Reid]], Bigelow became a central figure in the establishment of AAWSAP. His company, BAASS, was awarded the contract to conduct research for the program, with a total award amount of 21,948,810 dollars on one released copy of the order form and 10,000,000 dollars on another.[^2] BAASS was responsible for investigating UAP incidents, including the [[Colares Incidents]] in [[Brazil]], and for compiling a massive database of UAP encounters. The company also continued the investigation of Skinwalker Ranch under the auspices of the AATIP program.[^1]
Bigelow's involvement was crucial to the operation of AATIP, and [[Luis Elizondo]] wrote that he spent his own money to front some of the program's costs. However, his role as a private contractor also drew scrutiny from within the [[Pentagon]] and was used by detractors to create a false impression that the program had gone rogue.[^1]
### Federal awards to Bigelow companies
[[USASpending.gov|USAspending.gov]], which holds federal contract data from fiscal 2008 onward, lists these awards to [[Bigelow Aerospace]] entities (companies, not Robert Bigelow personally), all from [[NASA]]: contract NNH13CH31C to Bigelow Aerospace LLC, "to provide and operate the [[Bigelow Expandable Activity Module]] (BEAM) on-board the [[International Space Station]]," phase 2 of the BEAM demonstration project, awarded after full and open competition, period December 20, 2012 to July 1, 2018, 17,839,858 dollars obligated;[^3] contract NNH15CN82C to Bigelow Aerospace LLC for [[NextSTEP]] conceptual studies leveraging the B330 habitat, resulting from broad agency announcement NNH15ZCQ001K, period July 31, 2015 to June 30, 2020, with 12,244,738.15 dollars obligated against a potential value of 16,044,796.15 dollars and 4,875,578 dollars in outlays;[^4] and three delivery orders to [[Bigelow Space One]] LLC for BEAM support: 80JSC021F0007 (October 19, 2020 to December 15, 2021, not competed, 5,006,667 dollars obligated, 5,000,000 dollars outlaid), 80JSC019F0011 (150,000 dollars) and 80JSC018F0024 (40,000 dollars).[^5] The obligations listed total 35,281,263.15 dollars. USAspending returns no award record for contract HHM402-08-C-0072 or for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies; the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] documents for that contract state the paying office as the [[NSA]] Finance and Accounting Office.
### Lobbying registrations
Senate [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] filings (searchable at lda.gov) show Bigelow Aerospace LLC as a client of [[Carliner Strategies]] LLC from the second quarter of 2014 (lobbyist [[Paul Carliner]], who disclosed a prior position as subcommittee staff director on the [[Senate Appropriations Committee]]) and of [[Brimley Group]] Inc. from the fourth quarter of 2014 (lobbyists [[Jessica Nickel]] and [[Thomas Culligan]], who disclosed prior positions with Representatives [[Rob Portman|Robert Portman]], [[Thomas Petri]] and [[Frank Wolf]]). The disclosed issues were funding for NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems account and the FAA [[Office of Commercial Space Transportation]]. Carliner reported 10,000 dollars (second quarter 2014), 30,000 (third), 70,000 (fourth) and 30,000 per quarter through 2015, a total of 230,000 dollars; Brimley reported 20,000 dollars (fourth quarter 2014) and 30,000 per quarter through 2015, a total of 140,000 dollars. From the second quarter of 2016 Bigelow Aerospace LLC registered as its own lobbying firm (lobbyists [[Christopher Hearsey]], listed as director of legislative affairs, and [[Ryan Noble]]) and reported expenses of 77,000 dollars (second quarter 2016), 110,000 (third and fourth quarters 2016), 110,000 (first through third quarters 2017) and 10,000 (fourth quarter 2017), a total of 637,000 dollars, on "commercialization of in-space expandable habitats" and "concerns arising from the authorization and supervision of commercial space activities," with the House, Senate, [[Office of Management and Budget]], [[Federal Aviation Administration]] and [[State Department]] listed as contacts. The searches found no filing by Bigelow entities that mentions unidentified anomalous phenomena.[^6]
### Federal campaign contributions
[[OpenFEC]] schedule A records list the following contributions by Robert T. Bigelow and Bigelow companies (receipts dated 1979 to 2025).
To committees of Harry Reid: [[Friends for Harry Reid]], two entries of 1,000 dollars on August 7, 1998, two of 2,000 dollars on June 12, 2003 and two of 2,400 dollars on June 8, 2010 (10,800 dollars in all); and the [[Searchlight Leadership Fund]] (Reid's leadership PAC, per its [[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] registration), 5,000 dollars on June 13, 2003 and 5,000 dollars on June 30, 2004 from Bigelow Development Aerospace LLC (the same date carries a 5,000 dollar memo attribution to Bigelow personally).[^7] The same Bigelow Development Aerospace LLC gave 5,000 dollars to [[Friends of the Big Sky]] on April 2, 2004. The [[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]] received 28,500 dollars from Bigelow on September 28, 2007 and 28,500 dollars on June 30, 2008 (employer "Bigelow Investment Company"). Reid's July 2008 supplemental appropriation language and the September 22, 2008 award to BAASS fall between and after those two dates.
To Republican and other federal committees before 2022: [[Friends for Bryan]] (1,000 dollars, March 23, 1988); [[Committee to Elect Demar Dahl]] (1,000, October 28, 1992); [[Berkley for Congress]] and related Berkley committees (1,000 in 1997, 2,000 in 1999, 4,800 in 2010, 2,000 for Berkley for Senate in 2011); [[Rehberg for Congress]] (two entries of 2,000 dollars on June 23, 2003 from Robert T. Bigelow, and two of 2,000 dollars on March 31, 2004 recorded under "Mrs. Robert T. Bigelow," occupation "hotel/real estate developer"); [[Ensign for Senate]] (2,100, September 11, 2006); Committee to Re-elect Congressman [[Dana Rohrabacher]] (2,000 in 2004, 2,300 in 2008, 500 in 2010) and Rohrabacher for Congress (5,400 on November 21, 2017); [[Chambliss for Senate]] (2,300, 2008); the [[National Republican Congressional Committee]] (15,000 dollars, April 7, 2010); the [[Nevada Republican State Central Committee]] (10,000, October 8, 2010); [[Heller Victory Committee]] (30,800 dollars, December 31, 2011, with the same amount attributed to the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]]); [[Heller for Senate]] (2,700 in 2018 as joint-fundraising attribution) and [[Heller Senate Victory Committee]] (14,600, March 1, 2018); and [[Team Hardy Nevada Tough Victory Fund]] (240,000 dollars, October 24, 2018).[^8]
In 2022: [[Take Back the Senate]] (255,000 dollars, August 17), [[American Resolve PAC]] (200,000 dollars, August 26), the [[Noem Victory Fund]] (25,000 dollars, June 13), [[Maggie's List]] (5,000 dollars on December 27, 2021 and 5,000 on January 4, 2022), [[Kat for Congress]] (5,742 dollars), [[Becker for Congress]] (5,800) and [[Committee to Elect Sam Peters]] (5,800, with a 2,900 dollar memo reversal), and a 2,900 dollar memo entry to [[Michelle Steel for Congress]]. [[Morning in America PAC]] received 5,000,000 dollars from Bigelow on August 11, 2022, recorded as three entries (2,000,000, 2,000,000 and 1,000,000), all listing the employer as Bigelow Aerospace and reported on a 2023 filing.[^8]
In 2023 and after: [[Never Back Down Inc.]] (FEC committee C00834077, a super PAC), 20,000,500 dollars, reported March 30, 2023; [[Make America Great Again Inc.]], 5,000,000 dollars (February 9, 2024), 4,175,400 dollars (March 28, 2024) and 5,000,000 dollars (June 26, 2024), then 250,000 dollars on January 23, 2025; and [[Trump 47 Committee]], Inc. (a joint fundraising committee), 824,600 dollars on March 29, 2024, with memo entries of the same date allocating amounts to the [[Republican National Committee]] and 40 state and territorial party committees (10,000 dollars each, 400,000 dollars in all, dated March 29, June 27 and June 28, 2024).[^8]
### Foundations
The [[Robert Thomas Bigelow Educational Foundation]] Inc and the [[Robert Thomas Bigelow Medical Foundation]] Inc were recognized as 501(c)(3) private foundations in March 2024 at 4640 S Eastern Ave, [[Las Vegas]], Nevada. Their Forms 990-PF for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024 list Robert Thomas Bigelow as president and director and as treasurer and director, [[Donna Stauch]] as secretary and director, and [[Colm Kelleher]] and [[Jody Erickson]] as directors, with no compensation reported on the Educational Foundation return (and 7,231 dollars for Jody Erikson on the Medical Foundation return); each foundation reports 62,000 dollars in contributions, all from Robert Thomas Bigelow, and the preparer is [[McCarthy Kaster Guerrero]] CPAs Ltd.[^9] For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, the Educational Foundation's Form 990-PF reports contributions of 643,050 dollars (639,700 dollars from Robert Thomas Bigelow), total expenses of 658,557 dollars, officer and director compensation of 254,134 dollars (Stauch 95,769, Kelleher 93,365, Erickson 65,000), and 151,195 dollars in grants to six recipients described as "challenge grant award winners for the 'Survival of Human Consciousness After Death' contest." The Medical Foundation's return for the same year reports contributions of 94,100 dollars, all from Bigelow, and total expenses of 131,828 dollars.[^10] National Institute for Discovery Science does not appear in the [[ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer]] database.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Standard Form 1449, order HHM402-08-C-0072, signed September 22, 2008 (FOIA-00269-2018, block 26); and the copy attached to modification P00001, effective September 2, 2009. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/FOIA-00269-2018-.pdf and https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/Contract_FY10.pdf
[^3]: USAspending.gov, award CONT_AWD_NNH13CH31C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-, Bigelow Aerospace LLC, NASA. https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_NNH13CH31C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
[^4]: USAspending.gov, award CONT_AWD_NNH15CN82C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-. https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_NNH15CN82C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
[^5]: USAspending.gov awards CONT_AWD_80JSC021F0007_8000_80JSC018D0001_8000, CONT_AWD_80JSC019F0011_8000_80JSC018D0001_8000 and CONT_AWD_80JSC018F0024_8000_80JSC018D0001_8000 (Bigelow Space One LLC). https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/awards/CONT_AWD_80JSC021F0007_8000_80JSC018D0001_8000/
[^6]: Senate Office of Public Records, Lobbying Disclosure Act database, filings with client or registrant name "Bigelow Aerospace," 2014 through 2017 (23 filings in all, including three registration reports), retrieved October 2, 2026. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Bigelow+Aerospace
[^7]: Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API, schedule A receipts, committees C00204370 (Friends for Harry Reid, Senate) and C00327395 (Searchlight Leadership Fund, sponsor candidate Harry Reid), sub_ids 3061920110006449337, 3061920110006449338, 1070820110008097328, 1070820110008097329, 2072820101127880321, 2072820101127880567, 4070920041040043086, 4072020041040387575, 4072020041040387576. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/
[^8]: Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API, schedule A, contributor name search "Bigelow, Robert" with contributor_state NV, retrieved October 2, 2026; full row list with sub_ids in _LEDGER_M1.md. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/
[^9]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search e-file data, Forms 990-PF for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, object IDs 202403379349100410 (Educational Foundation, EIN 93-3962948) and 202413379349100411 (Medical Foundation, EIN 93-3974535), in https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2024/2024_TEOS_XML_12A.zip ; ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 933962948 and 933974535. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/933962948.json
[^10]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search e-file data, Forms 990-PF for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, object IDs 202522589349100222 (Educational Foundation) and 202512589349100631 (Medical Foundation), in https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2025/2025_TEOS_XML_09A.zip

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category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
tags:
- Person
- UFO
- AirForce
- MJ12
- Aviary
- Author
alias:
- Robert M. Collins
- Robert Collins
- Bob Collins
- Condor
- Captain Robert Collins
summary: "Air Force physics analyst at Wright-Patterson from 1985 who wrote in Exempt from Disclosure that he was the source code-named Condor on UFO Cover-Up Live; Robert Hastings reported in 1989 that Collins denied involvement."
location: "Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico"
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[U.S. Air Force]]"
start: 1985
role: "analyst in theoretical and applied physics, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, from the summer of 1985; stationed at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, in 1988"
fn: 1
- type: member_of
with: "[[The Aviary]]"
start: 1986
role: "code name Condor, as alleged by Collins in Exempt from Disclosure; Robert Hastings reported on March 1, 1989 that Collins denied involvement in the MJ-12 affair"
fn: 1
- type: participant_in
with: "[[UFO Cover-Up Live]]"
start: 1988-10-14
role: "shadowed interviewee code-named Condor, as alleged by Collins; identified to Robert Hastings in December 1988 by a member of the production team, per Hastings"
fn: 3
created: 2026-10-03
updated: 2026-10-03
---
Robert M. Collins wrote that he came to the UFO subject in the summer of 1985 as an analyst in theoretical and applied physics at the [[Foreign Technology Division]] (FTD) of [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]], [[Ohio]], now the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]], and that in the group around [[William L. Moore]] he was given the bird name Condor.[^1] [[Robert Hastings]] reported on March 1, 1989 that a member of the production team of [[UFO Cover-Up Live]] had identified the second source on the program, Condor, as Collins, then recently a captain in the [[U.S. Air Force]] at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], and that "both Doty and Collins deny any involvement in the [[Majestic-12|MJ-12]] affair."[^3] The copyright page of *[[Exempt from Disclosure]]: The Black World of UFOs* ([[Peregrine Communications]], 2010) names Collins as author, with [[Richard Doty]] and [[Timothy S. Cooper]] as "contributors and writers."[^1]
### Service, as described by Collins
Collins wrote that his FTD assignment began in the summer of 1985 and that he had "18 years" in the subject by the time of writing, against Doty's "20 + years."[^1] He described himself as an FTD analyst in the areas of theoretical and applied physics, and in the account of his meetings in 1988 as "stationed at Kirtland AFB, [[Air Force Weapons Laboratory|Air Force Weapons Lab]]."[^1] Hastings, who wrote that he knew "very little" about Collins, reported that at his departure from the Air Force, in late 1988, Collins was a captain assigned to a plasma physics group at [[Sandia National Laboratories]] on Kirtland.[^3] [[Mark Pilkington]] called Collins "a former Air Force physicist."[^4] Collins wrote that he once had a "[[Detachment 22|DET 22]]" escort on a mission in [[Germany]] and [[France]]; that detachment, he wrote, accompanies personnel in technical intelligence capacities on risky travel.[^1]
### The group around Moore
Collins wrote that FTD led him to ask about stories of bodies stored at Wright-Patterson, and so to retired Lieutenant Colonel [[Ernie Kellerstrauss|Ernie Kellerstrass]], whose last assignment had been FTD and who in 1985 worked for [[Systems Research Laboratories]] in [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]]. According to Collins, Kellerstrass named [[Anthony J. Cacioppo]], then chief FTD scientist, and [[Dale Graff]], reassigned from FTD to the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]], as informed, and described a meeting at a ski lodge north of [[Albuquerque]] in 1968 about a wave of sightings.[^1] In the spring of 1986, on a temporary duty trip to consult the technical staff of [[TRW]] in [[Los Angeles]], Collins met Moore in his motel room for about an hour; Moore mentioned a "Mr. X" who had contacted him in 1980.[^1] Collins wrote that from 1986 onward Moore, [[Jaime Shandera]], Kellerstrass, Doty, [[Hal Puthoff]] (from 1987), [[Kit Green]] (from 1989) and he held a series of meetings, referring to MJ-12 as "the Committee," while the introduction to the same book dates the group's coming together to 1985.[^1]
In the fall of 1987, he wrote, Kellerstrass hosted Moore, Shandera, Puthoff, Colonel [[John B. Alexander]], "Scott Jones (assistant for Senator Pell)" ([[C.B. Scott Jones]], aide to [[Claiborne Pell]]) and Collins at dinner at his house in [[Beavercreek, Ohio]].[^1] The bird names, by his account, were Doty "the surrogate 'Falcon' when the real Falcon (DIA's, Dale Graff?) couldn't be found," Kellerstrass "Hawk," Puthoff "Partridge," Jones "Hummingbird," Green "Blue Jay," Alexander "Chickadee," and himself "Condor."[^1] He also wrote of "Heron ([[Jerry Miller]])."[^1] In the references he wrote that "in June/July 2012 the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] Falcon was disclosed as none other than" [[Harry Rositzke]], who died on November 4, 2002 in [[Warrenton, Virginia]]; that "very few people were in a position to know who the real Falcon was," the two he knew of being Moore and Doty; that Moore "provided a name to his friend [[Greg Bishop]] in 2005"; that [[Brian Parks]], who had known Moore closely from the early 1980s until he left UFO research around 1994, "gave Brian the very same name as Bishop had"; and, in another reference, that "according to Bill Moore and known by Rick Doty it's Harry August Rositzke, born in [[New York]], 1910." He added a redacted 1961 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] memorandum on Rositzke supplied by Parks and Parks's statement of "07-20-012." The name is Collins's report of what Moore said to others; Moore did not publish it.[^1] Moore had said in 1989 that he and Jaime Shandera invented the name Falcon in 1984 and that hints in 1987 that Doty was Falcon were a diversion.[^7] Pilkington asked whether Colonel [[Barry Hennessey]], who ran the AFOSI special projects unit at the [[Pentagon]] during the MJ-12 release and the Bennewitz affair and later directed Air Force counterintelligence and special program security, was Falcon, and wrote that Hennessey and Moore had both denied it.[^4]
### Howe and Lear, November 1987
Hastings wrote that [[Linda Moulton Howe]] told him that in November 1987 Collins was "frantically" trying to meet her in Albuquerque; that at the meeting, also attended by [[John Lear]], Collins showed them MJ-12 documents "primarily relating to a live alien allegedly held captive by the U.S. Government"; and that Collins said he had worked "behind the scenes" with Moore for years.[^3] Howe's own book does not name Collins.[^5]
### The program, 1988
Collins wrote that in August 1988 he, Moore, Shandera, Doty and Kellerstrass met at a state park near Dayton under arrangements Kellerstrass drew up, with the executive producer [[Michael Seligman]] present; that Seligman wanted to see picture identification and engaged a congressional investigator, and that the men "all checked out."[^1] In September 1988, in Albuquerque, Moore and Shandera filmed him as Condor.[^1] He wrote that after the broadcast of October 14 two high-level contacts approached Moore and Shandera, and that in April 1989 he attended a "mini-summit" at an Albuquerque motel with Puthoff, Green, Doty, Moore and Shandera on "the aftershocks" and "disclosure strategies" proposed by Green.[^1] Howe quoted Condor on the program as saying that an agreement had been signed with the extraterrestrials under which "we won't disclose your (ET) existence if you do not interfere in our (Earth human) society," and that the base was at [[Area 51]], "Dreamland."[^5] Moore said on July 1, 1989 that he was "convinced that at least some of that information falls under the category of disinformation" and "equally convinced that some of it is true."[^7] [[Barry Greenwood]] wrote in *[[Just Cause]]* in September 1989 that "a fair portion of the last hour [was] wasted in presenting what Moore admits to be false data."[^6]
### Later publications
Pilkington wrote that Collins and Doty "would reunite in 2005 as the authors of *Exempt from Disclosure*," cited the book as published by Peregrine Communications in 2006, and described Collins as one of the people who might be reached by telephone during the 2005 [[Serpo]] episode alongside Doty.[^4] Collins signed the book's introduction "Author: http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/."[^1] The archive.org copy carries a copyright notice of 2010 and refers to events of June and July 2012, so the passages on Rositzke come from a later revision than the editions Pilkington cited.[^1] Among the "Bird Code" samples the book prints, dated "87/88," one reads that "the Eagle mated with the Blue Jay," that "the new breed and rarest bird is called the Condor," and that "the Condor must open the apartment."[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure: The Black World of UFOs*, introduction, Section 1 (Chapter 1, "FTD Is Not a Florist," with the sections "Go west as they say," "Summits without the Cocktails, the fall of 1987," "And We Became Birds: The Aviary," "August 1988: Cloak & Dagger," "September 1988," "April 1989") and Section 2, Chapter 4 with references; Internet Archive copy, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure (copyright notice 2010, Peregrine Communications; text cites material of June and July 2012; ISBN printed as 09766426-2-/ and 978-0976642626). Collins's account is the sole source for the passages so cited. The book was read in OCR text.
[^3]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, Wayback Machine capture of October 28, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161028084620/http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm. The production-team member who named Collins is not identified in the text. Howe's account of November 1987 reaches the page through Hastings only.
[^4]: Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men* (Constable, 2010), chapters on Doty and on Serpo and chapter notes, https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf
[^5]: Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed., pp. 195 to 196 (statements of "Falcon" and "Condor" in the broadcast of October 14, 1988); the book's index lists "Condor" at p. 196 and has no entry for Collins.
[^6]: "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo, quoting Barry Greenwood, *Just Cause*, September 1989.
[^7]: William L. Moore, address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, from the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po (video of the Ron Regehr recording, Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon); names corrected from mis-rendered captions.

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category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
tags:
- Person
- UFO
- Lockheed
- AirForce
- ATP
- 1980s
alias:
- Ron Blackburn
- Ronald Blackburn
- Dr. Ron Blackburn
- Colonel Ron Blackburn
summary: "Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel at Lockheed in Burbank whom John B. Alexander named as co-founder of the 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group, and who appears in contemporaneous notes of its meetings."
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Lockheed Aircraft Company]]"
start: 1984
role: "Skunk Works, Burbank, according to John B. Alexander"
fn: 1
- type: member_of
with: "[[Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group]]"
start: 1985-05-21
role: "listed under Lockheed in Jack Houck's note of May 21, 1985 and in Oke Shannon's attendee list"
fn: 2
created: 2026-10-02
updated: 2026-10-02
---
Ron Blackburn is a retired [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] lieutenant colonel who, according to [[John B. Alexander]], was working at the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] [[Skunk Works]] in [[Burbank, California]] in 1984, when the two met after Alexander took over the Army's [[New Thrust]] project. Alexander wrote in 2011 that UFOs were "among areas of common interest between Blackburn and me." The [[Loose Threads Report|Loose Threads]] authors, summarizing Alexander's book, write that the two met in a secure facility at Lockheed to compare notes and create an invitation list for the [[Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group]].[^1]
### In the 1985 Notes
[[Jack Houck]]'s handwritten page of May 21, 1985, headed "Advanced Physics," places the name "Ron Blackburn" and a second name that may be read "[[Don Keuble]]" with the word "Lockheed" beside the circled objective "Does the evidence support an R+D project?" A page of [[Oke Shannon]]'s notes headed "Attendees," from a meeting the Loose Threads authors date to August 7, 1985, lists under the heading "Others," and the label Lockheed, Ron Blackburn, [[Milt Janzen]] and Don Keuble.[^2]
### In Vallee's Journals
[[Jacques Vallee]] recorded in February 1990, in a passage quoted by the Loose Threads authors, "Over lunch today the enigmatic Colonel Ron Blackburn decided to come clean with me in anticipation of our trip to [[New Mexico]]. . . He'd co-founded what I jokingly nicknamed the 'Secret Onion' group and co-organized a national panel on UFOs. In the first case, his co-founder was John Alexander; in the second case, it was none other than [[Kit Green]], who never told me about this."[^3] The Loose Threads authors write that Blackburn "indicated to Jacques Vallee that he was directly involved in the [[TRESTLE]]'s construction during his time with [[Air Force Weapons Laboratory|AFWL]]" (the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]]), quoting Vallee as recording him saying, "Those are the electromagnetic pulse testing facilities I built for the Air Force. Thousands of volts flow between those towers."[^3] They also write that a May 1990 entry in Vallee's journal says Blackburn had developed "magnetic UFO detectors" at Kirtland, and that a 1990 entry has Vallee taken by [[Ed Dames]], Blackburn and other Army personnel to a high mesa in New Mexico to watch for UFOs at a location said to have been determined by the remote viewing initiative [[Stargate Project|GRILL FLAME]].[^3] In August 1990 Vallee recorded Kit Green as saying that [[Howard Blum]]'s account of a secret group "simply alluded to John Alexander's and Ron Blackburn's proposed project," and that "it went nowhere."[^3]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, p. 20, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened.
[^2]: Houck and Shannon notes as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15 and 188 (page images read directly; originals not seen).
[^3]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of February, May and August 1990, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 21 and 66-67 and the sections on EMP testing and on Ed Dames, which gives volume numbers only for the May and "1990" mesa entries (*Forbidden Science: Volume Four*); the February and August 1990 entries fall in the period of that volume. The books were not opened. No Blackburn publication or Air Force Weapons Laboratory record was found. Sole source for the passages so cited.