1991 in UFO history

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1991 in UFO history
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Year1991
Events16
Decade1990s
TopicsBeings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic), Military encounters (topic)
Timeline1991 on the UAP Timeline

1991 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 16 events in 1991, mostly about beings & bodies and secrecy & cover-up. People named in these events include Leonard Stringfield, Jacques Vallée, Linda Moulton Howe, Tim Cooper, C. Richard D'Amato.

Events

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People

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  • Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
  • Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
  • Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
  • Tim Cooper — California researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
  • C. Richard D'Amato — Senate Appropriations Committee counsel who looked into black budgets for Sen. Robert Byrd.
  • Robert Byrd — Senate leader for whom C. Richard D'Amato and Christopher Mellon investigated black programs.
  • Paul Bennewitz — Albuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
  • Kevin Thomas — Navy photographer who described a black triangle rising from the sea near the USS Nimitz in 1991.
  • David Fravor — Navy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
  • Valdamar Valerian — Pseudonymous author of the Matrix books.

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