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People (47)

  • Alex Dietrich Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a U.S.
  • Ben Rich Lockheed engineer who headed the Skunk Works from 1975 to 1990, developed the F-117, and closed lectures with a line about taking E.T. home that listeners later reported as an admission.
  • C.B. Scott Jones Navy fighter pilot and intelligence officer who served as Senator Claiborne Pell's special assistant for psychic and UFO matters from 1985 to 1991, then ran the Human Potential Foundation, financed by Laurance Rockefeller.
  • Christopher Mellon Christopher Mellon served for nearly two decades in the federal government, holding high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches.
  • Chuck Schumer In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act.
  • Daniel Inouye As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
  • Dave Fravor Retired Navy commander and commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 who led the November 14, 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac intercept and testified to a House Oversight subcommittee on July 26, 2023.
  • David Grusch In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee.
  • Diana Walsh Pasulka Professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, author of American Cosmic (2019) and Encounters (2023), who said on September 11, 2023 that she was joining the Sol Foundation board.
  • Eric Davis Astrophysicist and AATIP contractor with high-level security clearances, alleged author of the Wilson-Davis Memo on UAP crash retrieval programs.
  • Garry Nolan Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at Stanford University, specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics.
  • Garry Reid According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP.
  • Harry Reid Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation.
  • Helene Cooper Helene Cooper, a New York Times Pentagon correspondent and co-author of the paper's December 16, 2017 report on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was assigned to work with Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal.
  • J. Allen Hynek Astronomer who served as scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO projects from 1948 to 1969, attended the Robertson Panel as an associate member, and in 1973 founded the Center for UFO Studies.
  • Jaime Shandera Los Angeles television producer who received the roll of 35mm film bearing the Eisenhower briefing document on December 11, 1984 and found the Cutler-Twining memorandum at the National Archives on July 18, 1985.
  • James E. McDonald University of Arizona atmospheric physicist who from 1966 pressed for scientific study of UFOs, testified to a House committee on July 29, 1968, and died on June 13, 1971.
  • James Forrestal 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.
  • James Lacatski Rocket scientist and DIA program leader who headed AAWSAP, the precursor to the AATIP UFO investigation program.
  • James Mattis Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority.
  • Jay Stratton In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
  • Jim Semivan Semivan joined the CIA in 1982 and served for twenty-five years, retiring in 2007 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service.
  • John E. Mack Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize biographer of T. E. Lawrence who from 1990 studied abduction reports, founded PEER in 1993, and was reviewed by a Harvard committee in 1994 and 1995.
  • John Gibbons 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.
  • Karl Nell Retired U.S. Army colonel and aerospace executive named as the Army's liaison to the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022, vouched for David Grusch in 2023 and spoke at both Sol Foundation symposia.
  • Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation.
  • Laurance Rockefeller Son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., chief stockholder of Eastern Air Lines, venture investor, conservation commissioner, and from 1993 to 1996 petitioner to the Clinton White House on UFO declassification.
  • Leslie Kean Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010), and a co-author of the New York Times AATIP report of December 16, 2017.
  • Linda Moulton Howe Denver television producer of A Strange Harvest (1980) who, under a March 1983 HBO development contract, said AFOSI agent Richard Doty showed her a 'Briefing Paper for the President' at Kirtland on April 9, 1983.
  • Luis Elizondo Elizondo's upbringing was unconventional and deeply shaped by his father, Luis D.
  • Marco Rubio Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Director of National Intelligence to produce an unclassified report on UAP, which led to the landmark June 2021 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.' He has been a vocal advocate for taking the UAP issue seriously,
  • Morris K. Jessup Author of The Case for the UFO (1955), whose annotated paperback reached the Office of Naval Research and was retyped by Varo; he died in Dade County, Florida, on April 20, 1959.
  • Paul Bennewitz Albuquerque instrument maker whose 1979 and 1980 films and radio recordings near Kirtland AFB led to AFOSI interviews, calls from two senators, and the disinformation operation Richard Doty described in 2005.
  • Peter Skafish Anthropologist (PhD, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and was named to Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026.
  • Ralph Blumenthal Ralph Blumenthal, a New York Times reporter from 1964 to 2009 and later a Baruch College lecturer, co-wrote the December 2017 AATIP report and wrote The Believer, a 2021 biography of John Mack.
  • Richard Doty Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent at Kirtland AFB from 1979 who interviewed Paul Bennewitz in 1980 and in 2005 said he had run disinformation operations against UFO researchers on orders.
  • Robert Bigelow Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries.
  • Robert M. Collins 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.
  • Ron Blackburn 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.
  • Ronald Moultrie In his testimony, Moultrie acknowledged the reality of UAP and the potential threat they pose to national security.
  • Ronald Pandolfi Scientist described as working for the CIA, who briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1998 on Hughes and China, appears in a purported 1993 UFO briefing telecon, and was listed as Pelican by Richard Boylan.
  • Rosemary Caine 'Rosemary Caine' is the pseudonym for a former intelligence case officer who, along with Jay Stratton, recruited Luis Elizondo into the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
  • Roswell L. Gilpatric The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger.
  • Ted Stevens As a long-serving and powerful senator, Stevens was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
  • Tim Gallaudet Retired Navy rear admiral and oceanographer who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and acting NOAA head, testified to the House Oversight Committee on UAP on November 13, 2024 and advises several UAP groups.
  • Tom DeLonge DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue.
  • William L. Moore Co-author of The Roswell Incident (1980) who told the July 1, 1989 MUFON symposium that from 1980 to 1984 he supplied AFOSI, through Richard Doty, information on Paul Bennewitz, APRO and others.

Organizations (12)

  • Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio contract research institute that held the Air Technical Intelligence Center's UFO support contract (Ruppelt's Project Bear, the Robertson Panel's Project Stork) from late 1951 and produced Blue Book Special Report No. 14.
  • BDM Corporation McLean, Virginia defense and intelligence contractor founded in 1959 as Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, owned by Ford Aerospace from 1988 and by a Carlyle-led group from 1990, and sold to TRW in 1997.
  • EG&G Massachusetts instrumentation contractor founded in 1947, Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy test-site contractor in Nevada, Groom Lake radar test operator and, in witness accounts, the Las Vegas boarding point for Groom Lake.
  • Foreign Technology Division Wright-Patterson scientific and technical intelligence unit, the Air Technical Intelligence Center from 1951, Foreign Technology Division from 1961 and NASIC since 2003, which housed Project Blue Book and analyzed UFO reports by regulation.
  • Human Potential Foundation Nonprofit founded in 1989 by C. B. Scott Jones and Senator Claiborne Pell, funded chiefly by Laurance Rockefeller in its first years, which sponsored the 1995 conference When Cosmic Cultures Meet and dissolved in 1998.
  • Lockheed Skunk Works Lockheed's Burbank advanced development unit, begun in 1943 under Kelly Johnson, builder of the U-2, A-12 and F-117, and in some accounts a custodian of recovered craft, which the Pentagon denies.
  • Mellon Family The Mellon family of Pittsburgh includes Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Mellon, Richard Mellon Scaife and Christopher Mellon, the Senate and Pentagon intelligence staffer who later became a UAP disclosure figure.
  • Program for Extraordinary Experience Research Abduction research and support program founded in 1993 by John E. Mack under the Center for Psychology and Social Change, begun on a Human Potential Foundation grant and, per the Mack Institute, Laurance Rockefeller funding.
  • Radiance Technologies Employee-owned Huntsville, Alabama defense contractor with National Air and Space Intelligence Center awards, employer of Jay Stratton and Travis Taylor from 2022, and named by Daniel Sheehan in December 2023.
  • Sol Foundation California public benefit corporation launched August 15, 2023 by Garry Nolan and Peter Skafish to study unidentified anomalous phenomena, with a 2024 Form 990 showing $937,625 in revenue and one $10,000 white paper grant.
  • The Aviary Name applied in UFO literature to the bird-named military and intelligence contacts who supplied UFO information to William L. Moore in the 1980s, and to a later roster published by Richard Boylan.
  • Varo Manufacturing Company Garland, Texas electronics manufacturer for the military whose Military Assistance Division retyped an annotated copy of M. K. Jessup's The Case for the UFO after it reached Office of Naval Research officers.

Programs (4)

  • Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group Informal group convened in 1985 by Army colonel John B. Alexander, meeting in a BDM secure facility at McLean, Virginia, to determine whether evidence supported a research program on UFOs.
  • Project Aquarius Name of a purported compartmented UFO project that first appears in a November 17, 1980 AFOSI teletype copied to William Moore and in a June 14, 1977 'Executive Briefing' he photographed in March 1983.
  • Project Blue Book U.S. Air Force program, run from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, that collected and evaluated unidentified flying object reports from 1952 to 1969 and was terminated on 17 December 1969 with 701 of 12,618 cases unidentified.
  • Rockefeller Initiative A 1993 to 1997 effort by Laurance S. Rockefeller, with Henry L. Diamond and C. B. Scott Jones, to obtain a review of government UFO information from the Clinton White House through its science adviser.

Events (5)

  • Condon Committee University of Colorado study of unidentified flying objects under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract (1966 to 1968), directed by Edward Condon, whose report preceded the termination of Project Blue Book.
  • December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report On December 16, 2017 the New York Times and Politico published separate accounts of a Pentagon program funded at Harry Reid's request, the Times piece credited to Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean.
  • Majestic-12 Documents describing a 1947 presidential committee on flying discs, received by Jaime Shandera in 1984 and reported found at the National Archives in 1985; the FBI wrote in 1988 that the briefing document was bogus.
  • Robertson Panel CIA-convened panel of five scientists (January 1953) that found no threat in unidentified flying objects and recommended a training and debunking program and the watching of civilian UFO groups.
  • UFO Cover-Up Live Two-hour syndicated television special of October 14, 1988 in which the shadowed, voice-altered sources Falcon and Condor described Majestic-12 and a living extraterrestrial held by the United States.

Concepts (1)

  • Foreign Materiel Exploitation Department of Defense practice of acquiring, disassembling, testing and reverse engineering foreign weapon systems, run by the Air Force at NASIC, by the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and by Army and Navy centers, with contractor laboratories.

Places (1)

  • Area 51 Classified Air Force operating location at Groom Lake, Nevada, chosen in 1955 for the CIA's U-2, confirmed in the CIA's own history in 2013, and covered from 1995 by annual presidential exemptions from waste disclosure.