---
aliases:
- Donald M. Kerr, Jr.
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
summary: Acting director of defense programs at the Department of Energy who directed
  the Nuclear Intelligence Panel study of the 1979 Vela satellite flash, concluding
  it was a nuclear bomb.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Stargate
- Nuclear
- Israel
---

Donald M. Kerr, Jr. served in the [Carter](/people/jimmy-carter/) administration as acting director of the defense programs at the Department of Energy, making him responsible for [America](/places/united-states/)'s nuclear bombs. He directed the secret Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) study into the 1979 [VELA Satellite](/concepts/vela-satellite/) sighting. Kerr stated that the NIP had no doubt it was a nuclear bomb and believed the [Ruina](/people/jack-p-ruina/) panel's mandate was driven by politics "to find a different explanation."[^1]

### Sun Streak

Donald M. Kerr was the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in [New Mexico](/places/new-mexico/). He was a member of the new science panel for the [Sun Streak](/programs/stargate-project/) program, which was established on January 31, 1986[^2].

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 20.
[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.