---
aliases:
- Fred Zachariasen
category: "Scientists & Researchers"
tags:
  - Person
  - Stargate
summary: "Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee."
born: 1931
died: 1999
location: "Chicago, Illinois"
---

Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]] and a ranking member of the [[Department of Defense]]'s elite [[JASON Committee]]. He was a member of the new science panel for the [[Stargate Project|Sun Streak]] program, which was established on January 31, 1986[^1].

### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.