Beings & bodies (topic)

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Beings & bodies (topic)
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TypeTopic overview
Events186
Years1947–2023
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Beings & bodies is one of the twelve topics on the UAP Timeline. It covers reports and claims about non-human beings, bodies and biological material. The Timeline lists 186 events on this topic, from 1947 to 2023.

Key people

Jacques Vallée 2024
Jacques Vallée 2024 Photo: Cmichel67 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Steven Greer — Physician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
  • Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
  • Dan Sherman — Former Air Force sergeant who claimed in Above Black that he was trained to communicate with aliens.
  • David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
  • Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
  • Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
  • Tim Cooper — California researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
  • Robert Hastings — Researcher who has collected accounts of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites, author of UFOs and Nukes.
  • Garry Nolan — Stanford immunologist who studies UAP-related injuries and claimed materials.
  • Paul Bennewitz — Albuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
  • John Petersen — Futurist who founded the Arlington Institute.
  • Ross Coulthart — Australian journalist who reported David Grusch's claims.

Programs, places and terms

The 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio received its first C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 21,2010. The aircraft is on loan from…
The 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio received its first C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 21,2010. The aircraft is on loan from… Photo: United States Air Force · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
  • Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
  • Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
  • U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
  • Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
  • Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
  • Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
  • Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
  • U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
  • Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
  • AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
  • MUFON — The largest civilian UFO organization in the United States.
  • Alien abduction — The claimed taking of people by non-human beings.
  • Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
  • Above Black — Dan Sherman's 1997 book.
  • AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.

Events

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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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