1968 in UFO history
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1968 in UFO history
| Year | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Events | 5 |
| Decade | 1960s |
| Topics | Government programs (topic), Military encounters (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| Timeline | 1968 on the UAP Timeline |
1968 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 5 events in 1968, mostly about government programs and military encounters. People named in these events include James E. McDonald, Robert Low, Edward Condon, Nick Cook, Lyndon Johnson.
Events
- Northrop electroaerodynamics research (1968) (1968) — Northrop researchers publish work on reducing drag with electric fields.
- Lyndon Johnson's informal UFO study (1968) — A study for President Johnson reportedly says UAP are real and under intelligent control.
- F. Robert Naka and NORAD space tracks (14 February 1968) — A MITRE scientist tells the Condon study that NORAD radars have tracked UAP arriving from space.
- Nepal space debris (1968) (March 1968) — The DIA tracks a crashed circular metal disc recovered in Nepal, later tied to Project Moon Dust.
- Condon Report (15 November 1968) — The Air Force-funded Condon Report concludes that UAP study has added nothing to science.
People
- James E. McDonald — University of Arizona atmospheric physicist who campaigned for serious UFO research in the 1960s.
- Robert Low — Project coordinator of the Condon Committee.
- Edward Condon — Physicist who led the University of Colorado UFO study (1966–68).
- Nick Cook — Jane's Defence Weekly aviation editor and author of The Hunt for Zero Point.
- Lyndon Johnson — 36th U.S. president, said to have requested an informal UFO study.
- Frank Rand — Aide who described an informal UFO study for President Lyndon Johnson.
- Kelly Johnson — Lockheed Skunk Works designer of the U-2 and SR-71 who reported a UFO sighting in 1953.
- Arthur Lundahl — Director of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center from 1953 to 1973.
- John B. Alexander — Retired Army colonel who organized the 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group and wrote UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities.
- F. Robert Naka — MITRE radar scientist and later chief scientist of the Air Force.
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