Martin Marietta engineer's papers (1965)
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| Date | 17 May 1965 |
|---|---|
| People | Jacques Vallée, J. Allen Hynek |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 67 |
| Year | 1965 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1965 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, on 17 May 1965 an engineer from the aerospace company Martin Marietta visited him and became upset when someone present saw papers the engineer was not supposed to show. Vallée noted rumours that many aerospace companies were running their own secret UFO studies.[1]
The follow-up
On 23 July 1966 Vallée recorded that the observatory where he worked had received a letter from the same secretive engineer asking for its "twenty best cases", a request recently made by a mysterious group of scientists from Wright Field. Vallée wondered whether the man worked for an intelligence agency or for the secret study McDonnell Douglas was rumoured to be starting.[1]
Context
Vallée then worked with J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory. Other journal entries describe interest in UFOs at McDonnell Douglas, where engineer Robert Wood later ran a company-funded study, and at Douglas Aircraft in the 1950s.[1][2]
Assessment
The engineer is not named, and no Martin Marietta document about a UFO study has surfaced.[1]
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- J. Allen Hynek — Astronomer and Air Force UFO consultant from 1948 to 1969 who later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
- Forbidden Science — Jacques Vallée's published journals.
- McDonnell Douglas — The aerospace company that ran several quiet studies of UFOs and propulsion.
On the Timeline
- Philip Moore's Atlas missile site sighting (Late 1964) — An Atlas launch officer reports a UAP near his missile site in New Mexico.
- F.E. Warren missile site sightings (1965) (31 July 1965-2 August 1965) — An Air Force memo logs 148 objects reported by 143 personnel at F.E. Warren missile sites.
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References
- "Aerospace companies and UFOs 2", UFOs – scientific research (Jan 2010) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "Aerospace companies and UFOs 3", UFOs – scientific research (Jan 2010) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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