2002 in UFO history
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2002 in UFO history
| Year | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Events | 17 |
| Decade | 2000s |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic) |
| Timeline | 2002 on the UAP Timeline |
2002 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 17 events in 2002, mostly about secrecy & cover-up and government programs. People named in these events include Jacques Vallée, Christopher "Kit" Green, Eric W. Davis, Harold Puthoff, Nick Cook.
Events
- Puthoff on black-budget physics (2002) (2002) — Puthoff tells author Nick Cook there is solid evidence of secret aerospace programs.
- Niemtzow declines McDonnell study (10 January 2002) — A retired colonel tells Vallée he declined to join a secret McDonnell UAP study.
- Two Roswell materials claim (2002) (1 March 2002) — A general reportedly tells Eric Davis two unusual materials were recovered at Roswell.
- Disguised UFO sensor network claim (2 March 2002) — Kit Green says hidden UAP sensors were disguised as environmental monitoring stations.
- Flickinger autopsy material claim (5 March 2002) — Kit Green says an Air Force physician told him he saw alien autopsy material.
- Will Miller's offer to Davis and Puthoff (25 April 2002) — A retired Navy commander offers his services researching crash retrievals.
- Thomas Bearden's list of energy researchers (May 2002) — Thomas Bearden lists researchers he says work on related energy technology.
- Vallée on privatized UFO research (2002) (6 May 2002) — Vallée writes that UFO research has likely been privatized in the U.S.
- Alexander's A-12 explanation for Holloman (11 May 2002) — Col. John Alexander says the Holloman landing story covered up a failed spy-plane test.
- Jean Kisling's airline stranger (29 June 2002) — A French officer tells Vallée a stranger on a 1950s flight claimed to work on recovered craft.
- Boeing and Podkletnov (BBC report, 2002) (29 July 2002) — BBC News reports Boeing researchers are looking at a Russian scientist's antigravity work.
- Project GRASP (29 July 2002) — Jane's reports Boeing's Project GRASP says gravity control would transform aerospace.
- Norton AFB UFO files claim (1 September 2002) — A couple tells Vallée they saw a large collection of UFO files at Norton AFB in 1985.
- Nevada weapons storage orb (2002) (October 2002) — A three-foot orb is reported moving along fences at a Nevada nuclear weapons storage area.
- Wilson–Davis notes (16 October 2002) — Eric Davis allegedly meets Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson about a secret UAP program.
- Gary McKinnon (November 2002) — Hacker Gary McKinnon is arrested and claims he saw a UAP image in NASA files.
- Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry (27 November 2002) — A federal commission on the aerospace industry delivers its final report to Congress.
People
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Nick Cook — Jane's Defence Weekly aviation editor and author of The Hunt for Zero Point.
- Thomas Wilson — Former DIA director named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
- David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
- Eugene Podkletnov — Russian engineer who claimed spinning superconductors reduce gravity.
- Richard Niemtzow — Air Force physician interested in UFO-related injuries.
- Robert M. Wood — McDonnell Douglas engineer who ran an in-house UFO study and later promoted the MJ-12 documents.
Programs, places and terms
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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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