15
May

National Institute for Discovery Science

The National Institute for Discovery Science was founded by Bigelow Robert as a way to channel funds into the proper scientific study of paranormal phenomena. They were very interested in cattle mutilation and for a while they were the FAA’s sole recipient for black triangle reports. Most famously they bought Skinwalker Ranch”in Utah 1996. Rumors […]

15
May

Robert T Bigelow

A hotel entrepreneur with a keen interest in space flight. He made his fortune through the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. Founder of the National Institute for Discovery Science. References Inflatable Spacecraft’s Other Goal: Space Walks For Tourists wayback machine: http://www.nidsci.org/bios/bigelow.php http://www.aliendave.com/UUFOH-TheRanch3.html

15
May
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Mount Palomar

Mountain north of San Diego. Location of the Palomar Observatory. George Adamski claimed his first alien contact was here. In Alchemical Conspiracy and the Death of the West”Michael Hoffman writes of Parsons. Hoffman tells us that the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) had a temple on nearby Mount Palomar. The local Indians regarded the mountain as […]

14
May

Douglas Eugenio

On October 12, 1963, just before dawn it was raining hard between the villages of Monte Maiz and Isla Verde in Argentina. Douglas was driving his truck with a load of coal when a bright light like headlights bore down on him. The light became so bright, he had to pull off the road and […]

Robert J Friend

aka: Colonel Friend Air Force Major. One-time head of Project Blue Book. Alleged co-author with of the alleged Report 13 which Bill Moore and Bill English claimed to have seen.

GICOFF

Göteborgs Informationscenter för Oidentifierade Flygande Föremål Swedish UFO research group, disbanded in 1978. Their archives were transfered to the Archives for UFO Research (AFU) References Håkan Blomqvist´s blog – Rapport-Nytt och dess föregångare Archives For the Unexplained Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige – ufoorganisationer UFO – en kort historik

14
May

Truman Bethurum

(August 21, 1898 – May 21, 1969) One of the classic 1950s contactees, who claimed to have spoken with humanoid space aliens and entered or ridden on their flying saucers. He seemed directly inspired by his immediate forerunner, George Adamski. The business card he gave Long John Nebel described himself in the following way: Construction […]

14
May

James E Lipp

Working for the Rand Corporation, James Lipp wrote one of two scientific overviews for the final report on Project Sign (later called Project Grudge and Project Blue Book), which was completed in February 1949 and classified Secret. “This may have been the first U.S. government sponsored study of non-human life in the universe,” writes skeptic […]

14
May

Project Grudge

An early Air Force project investigating UFOs. Declassified on July 23, 1997, Project Grudge was originally released in August of 1949 as a SECRET Technical Report (NO 102-AC 49/15-100) by the headquarters of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio. Approved by Lt. Col. Hemstreet and Col. Watson, it is 406 pages long […]

14
May

Edward J Ruppelt

Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952. He remained head of Blue Book until late 1953. Author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1955) He is generally credited with coining the term “unidentified flying object” to replace “flying saucer” References wiki: Edward […]

14
May

Stanton Friedman

Stanton T Friedman associated with MJ-12 A dual citizen of the USA and Canada Nuclear physicist, with very high level government security clearances. Received BSc and MSc degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as GE, GM, […]

14
May

Jim Hurtak

aka: James J Hurtak, JJ Hurtak Founder and President of The Academy for Future Science. Egyptologist who helped find the “Osiris Tomb” in Egypt through remote sensing. Described star shafts”in the Great Pyramid. Claims to be the first to have predicted pyramidal landforms on Mars. Alleged CIA consultant Channeler/author of the Keys of Enoch References […]

13
May

Majestic 12

aka MJ-12, MAJI, MAJIC, Majority, Majesty Majestic 12 is the name of a super-secret UFO research group first headed by Vannevar Bush. The members of the performance troupe were: Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Dr. Vannevar Bush James Forrestal (replaced after his death by Gen. Walter Bedell Smith) Nathan Twining Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg Dr. Detlev Bronk Dr. […]

13
May

Battle of Los Angeles

During the night and morning of February 24-25 1942, things were seen flying over southern California and a citywide blackout was declaired from the Mexican border to the San Joaquin Valley. A yellow alert lasted from about 7:18 pm and was called off at 10:23 pm. A blackout was called at 2:25am until 7:21am. Some […]

13
May

John Keel

John Alva Keel (b. March 25, 1930) A researcher who dismisses both the extraterrestrial hypothesis and the scientific-skeptic explanations of UFOs as equally crazy. “I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs . . . I feel that the ultimate solution [to […]

12
May

Donald Keyhoe

Writer and UFO researcher. Author of: The Flying Saucers Are Real (1950) Flying Saucers From Outer Space (1953) Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955) Flying Saucers: Top Secret (1960) Aliens From Space (1973) References wikipedia: Donald_Keyhoe http://www.hallrichard.com/keyhoe.htm The Flying Saucers are Real

12
May

Thomas F Mantell

On 7 January 1948, 25 year old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, died while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object near Fort Knox. The so-called Mantell Incident is among the most publicised and infamous UFO reports of the early modern era. The Air Force’s J Allen Hynek suggested he had […]

12
May

George Van Tassel

(b: Mar 12, 1910 – d: Feb 9, 1978 ) In 1947, George Van Tassel relocated his family to , a site in the California Desert near Joshua Tree, an area which was eventually called Landers. He leased the air strip next to a sixty-foot high boulder: the “giant rock” itself. In 1951, Van Tassel […]

9
May

Roswell Incident

In early July of 1947, something crashed in the desert about 40 miles outside of the town of Roswell, on the ranch of Mac Brazel. The wreckage (weather balloon/atomic test detection device/wayward UFO and/or its accompanying alien corpses) was first taken to Roswell Army Air Field, which at the time was the site of the […]

29
Apr

Joe Simonton

A chicken farmer who lived alone in the vicinity of Eagle River, Wisconsin. He was about sixty years old when a flying saucer landed in his front yard. On April 18, 1961 at about 11AM, he heard a noise outside his house like “knobby tires on wet pavement.” Outside was a silvery object the shape […]

29
Apr

Plan 9 from Outer Space

aka: Graverobbers From Outer Space, Revenge of the Dead Joanna Lee as Tanna and Dudley Manlove as Eros Repeatedly voted by critics as the worst movie ever made and usually digested with choruses of derisive laughter, the magnum opus of director Ed Wood contains far too much truth for most people to comfortably face. Plan […]

29
Apr

Saucerian Convention

Took place at Giant Rock in the 50’s and 60’s. At it’s peak, there were upwards of 40,000 attendees References http://www.elfis.net/rnr/rnrx/giantrock.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1904.htm

29
Apr

Archives for UFO Research

Founded in Sweden in 1973. “The collection represents more than 600 meters on our shelves.” AFU maintains a number of other services: A photo copier – sponsored by UFO-Sweden Collection of Access databases (also available on CD) Yahoo Mailing-list of recent Swedish UFO clippings (.pdf format) AFU Newsletter, four issues/year Lending library (for Swedish citizens […]

29
Apr

The Robertson Panel

The CIA’s first official interest in UFO’s, a change of attitute provoked in part by the Robertson Report. Members of the Panel were: Dr. H.P. Robertson, head of the Panel Dr. Samuel A Goudsmit Dr. Lloyd V Berkner Dr. Luis Alvarez Dr. Thorton L Page Associate members: Dr. J Allen Hynek Frederick C Durant III, […]

29
Apr

Robertson Report

Issued by the Robertson Panel in 1953, this report set policy. Super important policy. Hella important, man. Project Blue Book for the next sixteen years. The report concluded that there was no logical explanation for some UFO. But the report also said that flying saucers did not constitute a threat to national security, so somebody […]

29
Apr

SCEAU

Sauvegarde Conservation des Etudes et Archives Ufologiques French for Preservation and Conservation of Ufological Studies and Archives. Founded in February 1990. References SCEAU Archives Euro UFO: SCEAU http://www.afu.info/recdons02.htm

29
Apr

klaatu

The silver-suited space traveler In the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still who brings the police robot Gort to Earth to enforce peace… or else. Klaatu is killed and Gort nearly destroyes the Earth. The command which halts Gort’s destruction of humanity is: Gort, Klaatu barrata nicto!

29
Apr

Long John Nebel

Radio and TV show host. The Art Bell of the 50’s. Author of Way Out World (1961) George Adamski (left) with Long John Nebel References http://mimufon.org/1960%20articles/ContacteesIHaveKnown.htm

29
Apr

Fred Crisman

aka: Fred Lee Crisman, Jon Gold (b.July 22, 1919 – d.December 10, 1975) From Wikipedia: Fred-Crisman Fred Crisman was an writer, educator, minor political provacateur, broadcaster and self-described “disruption agent” from Tacoma, Washington. He is a bizarre and enigmatic figure, whose name pops up in unusual circumstances, paranormal events, and conspiracies in the middle decades […]

29
Apr

Integratron

A dome shaped building built by George Van Tassel at Giant Rock. The structure is 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, made entirely out of wood, and is said to be “accoustically perfect.” Its design was based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions fromfrom extraterrestrial intelligences, in particular an […]

29
Apr

Jim Keith

(September 21, 1949 – September 7, 1999). aka: Jay Katz, Commander X Author of many works of X-FIles era paranoia, including Gemstone File (1992),Black Helicopters over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order (1994), Casebook on Alternative 3: UFO’s, Secret Societies and World Control(1994), Casebook on the Men In Black (1997), Black Helicopters II: The […]

29
Apr

James T Anderson

Supreme Commander of APEN (Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network). This individual quite possibly never existed. (Revelations, 222-223) References mysteriousbritain: Messengers Of Deception

29
Apr

Dr. H P Robertson

Howard Percy “Bob” Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University. In 1943, he was asked to investigate if the German flying bomb […]

29
Apr

ET Law

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Adopted on July 16, 1969. NASA revoked the rule in 1977. Officially removed April 26, 1991. This regulation gave the Administrator of NASA the extra-judicial right to quarantine under armed guard anyone who became “extra-terrestrially exposed.” ‘Quarantine’ means the detention, examination and decontamination of any […]

29
Apr

Robert Emenegger

UFO documentary film maker. Worked with DAVA. Music composer for Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, a live-action Saturday morning series featured a cast of talking chimpanzees. see also: Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson AFB References wiki: Lancelot_Link,_Secret_Chimp hidden experience: Hangar 18 and predictive weirdness Paranormal TV – Bob Emenegger on UFO Documentaries

29
Apr

Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

Defunct UFO research group. From their history: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) in the early 80s, was an organization known principally, if not solely, for being the plaintiff in two actions under the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for 57 documents withheld pursuant to a previous court decision. From 1987-1998 CAUS has survived solely on the […]

29
Apr

Orfeo M Angelucci

Long John Nebel’s favorite UFO contactee: “As far as I’m concerned, although I don’t buy any of these bits, this man’s was, and is, the most imaginative, the most beautiful, and the most fascinating of them all.” (Way Out World, p37). Angelucci’s first experience with a UFO was August of 1946 in New Jersey. He […]

29
Apr

Jacques F Vallée

(b: 1939 – ) French computer scientist and UFO researcher. Masters in astrophysics, Ph.D. in computer science. Served as Manager of Information Systems at Stanford University. The French scientist in the movie Close Encounters is based on him. His books on UFOs include: Anatomy of a Phenomenon (1965), Challenge to Science (1966), Passport to Magonia […]