2001 in UFO history
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2001 in UFO history
| Year | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Events | 10 |
| Decade | 2000s |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| Timeline | 2001 on the UAP Timeline |
2001 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 10 events in 2001, mostly about secrecy & cover-up and government programs. People named in these events include Jacques Vallée, Eric W. Davis, Steven Greer, Colm Kelleher, Kenneth Rommel.
Events
- Advanced Deep Space Transport group (2001) — A deep-space propulsion study group examines exotic propulsion.
- Army helicopters and cattle mutilations (2001) (24 February 2001) — Vallée hears of cattle mutilations linked to Army helicopters.
- Project Zodiac (3 March 2001) — Eric Davis tells Vallée about a story called 'Zodiac' involving real researchers.
- Disclosure Project briefing to Congress (2001) (April 2001) — CSETI briefs members of Congress that a covert group controls parts of the UAP issue.
- Don Phillips testimony (April 2001) — Former contractor Don Phillips claims Lockheed studies extraterrestrial technology.
- Westwood on MJ-12 disinformation (2001) (5 May 2001) — A consultant tells Vallée the MJ-12 documents are disinformation.
- Mark McCandlish and the Alien Reproduction Vehicle (9 May 2001) — Illustrator Mark McCandlish says gravity propulsion was reverse-engineered from recovered craft.
- Mach effect experiments (June 2001) — Researchers publish an experiment on changing the mass of test samples.
- NIDS black triangle study (3 November 2001) — Over 150 black triangle sightings are tallied at a NIDS meeting.
- Howard Cross's own sighting (17 December 2001) — A researcher finds a Blue Book file showing a Battelle scientist reported his own sighting.
People
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Steven Greer — Physician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
- Colm Kelleher — Biochemist who helped run NIDS and BAASS and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- Kenneth Rommel — Former FBI agent whose 1980 report attributed most cattle mutilations to natural causes.
- Dale Graff — Physicist who managed remote viewing at Wright-Patterson and later the Stargate program.
- Don Phillips — Engineer who gave Disclosure Project testimony about Lockheed.
- Jim Westwood — Former CIA consultant who studied the MJ-12 papers.
- Robert M. Wood — McDonnell Douglas engineer who ran an in-house UFO study and later promoted the MJ-12 documents.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
Programs, places and terms
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