1982 in UFO history
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| Year | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Events | 8 |
| Decade | 1980s |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Government programs (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
1982 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 8 events in 1982, mostly about secrecy & cover-up and beings & bodies. People named in these events include Leonard Stringfield, Linda Moulton Howe, Jacques Vallée, Harold Puthoff, Christopher "Kit" Green.
Overview
The UAP Timeline's 1982 entries mostly come from private conversations and anonymous sources rather than public events. Several are reported by Jacques Vallée. On 6 April NASA scientist Richard Haines told Vallée he had visited Vandenberg Air Force Base and come back "certain" there was a secret government project to study UFOs.[1] On 29 September Harold Puthoff told Vallée of a friend at Sandia whose relative by marriage was said to have studied a crashed saucer in the 1950s and copied an antigravity device. Puthoff said the man was later found dead in disturbing circumstances.[2] The CIA physician Christopher "Kit" Green said that in 1982 a retired senior Air Force officer and physician told him that stories of "alien incursions, recoveries and information are true." The officer promised to have him cleared for the programs, which never happened.[1]
In July Frederick "Skip" Atwater, who ran the Army's remote-viewing unit, found intelligence material from 1973 in which SRI viewer Pat Price described "underground" bases from which UFOs emerged. Atwater tried to corroborate it.[1] Atwater oversaw the unit, later known as the Stargate Project, until 1987 as an aide to Major General Albert Stubblebine.[3] On 25 February the civilian group Ground Saucer Watch received no reply from the State Department to a records request, though the timeline says the department's science bureau regularly monitored UFO reports.[1]
Other entries are anonymous claims collected by Leonard Stringfield and Linda Moulton Howe. They include a General Electric contractor said to have been taken blindfolded to an underground morgue at Wright-Patterson, an Air Force colonel who said he was harassed after founding a UFO group, and a captain's story of a pilot who saw a hidden underground opening at an airfield at Fort Hood, Texas.[4]
Events
- GE contractor taken underground claim (1982) — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
- Air Force colonel harassed over a UFO group (1982) (1982) — An Air Force colonel says he was harassed after founding a UFO group.
- Fort Hood hidden opening claim (1982) — An Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
- Kit Green's Air Force physician source (1982) — Kit Green says a retired Air Force physician told him crash recovery stories are true.
- Ground Saucer Watch and the State Department (1982) (25 February 1982) — A civilian FOIA group gets no answer from the State Department about UAP records.
- Richard Haines's conviction about a secret project (1982) (6 April 1982) — NASA scientist Richard Haines tells Vallée he is sure a secret government UAP project exists.
- Pat Price's alien base reports (July 1982) — The Army's remote viewing chief finds 1973 reports of claimed underground UAP bases.
- Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982) (29 September 1982) — Puthoff relays a story of a scientist who studied a crashed saucer and copied an antigravity device.
People
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Donald Flickinger — Air Force physician and space medicine pioneer named as a source by Kit Green.
- Richard Haines — NASA Ames scientist who founded NARCAP to study aviation UAP reports.
- Pat Price — Remote viewer at SRI who described four alleged alien bases in 1973.
- Russell Targ — Physicist who co-led the SRI remote-viewing research with Hal Puthoff.
- Skip Atwater — Head of the Army's remote-viewing unit in the early 1980s.
Nearby years
1981 in UFO history · 1983 in UFO history
References
- UAP timeline published with Michael Shellenberger's 2024 congressional testimony, entries for 1982 (Kit Green) to July 1982 · oversight.house.gov
- UAP timeline (Shellenberger testimony), entry for 29 September 1982 · oversight.house.gov
- Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- UAP timeline (Shellenberger testimony), undated 1982 entries · oversight.house.gov
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia article “Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit)”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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