Twelve officials to study UFOs (1974)
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| Date | 2 June 1974 |
|---|---|
| People | Harold Puthoff, Jacques Vallée, Christopher "Kit" Green |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 79 |
| Year | 1974 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1974 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 12 |
Jacques Vallée's published journals record that on 2 June 1974 physicist Hal Puthoff passed on a message from CIA physician Kit Green: a group of twelve highly placed people had decided to fund and focus quietly on the study of UFOs. The group was never identified, and no documents describe it.[1][2]
Background
The entry is one of a series in Vallée's journals for 1972–1974 about rumoured secret government interest in UFOs after Project Blue Book closed in 1969. In October 1973 Puthoff told Vallée that a government UFO project did exist and had asked him for psychic input and remote viewing, and that a CIA group monitoring UFOs had been run by a middle manager Vallée calls "David M.", later replaced by a biologist. In February 1974 Vallée met Green, who agreed a secret effort probably existed and suggested it might be run within private industry.[1]
The "Group of Twelve"
After Puthoff relayed Green's message on 2 June, Green and Vallée met on 16 June 1974 with "David M." and a man introduced as a member of the "Group of Twelve". Vallée was unimpressed, calling them "space cadets" whose research was no better than the civilian group NICAP's. Earlier, in March 1974, after a meeting at the CIA, he had written that the people in the room knew less than he did.[1]
Later entries
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In April 1975, according to the journals, astronomer J. Allen Hynek asked Donald Rumsfeld, then White House chief of staff, about a secret study and was told he did not have a need to know. In January 1978 Green told Vallée that the CIA had no mission to monitor UFOs, while in 1978 a contact at McDonnell Douglas described a well-funded secret project said to be monitored by the CIA.[1]
Majestic 12
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The number twelve inevitably invites comparison with the "Majestic 12" legend, but the MJ-12 documents did not surface until 1984, a decade later. Vallée himself remained cautious about these reports, and they rest on his contacts' second-hand statements.[1][3]
People and topics
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
On the Timeline
- Contractor guard breakdown claim (1974) (April 1974) — A defense contractor employee claims a guard broke down after seeing a non-human being.
- Vallée's doubts about Kit Green (1974) (16 June 1974) — Vallée wonders whether his UAP talks with Kit Green are a CIA cover story.
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References
- "Was there secret US government research on UFOs?", UFOs Scientific Research (Oct 2016) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée", Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Kit Green in Vallée's journals — Forbidden Science Dispatches · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green, Garry Nolan and UAP-related injuries — IBTimes · ibtimes.co.uk · archived copy
- Former CIA officer on UFO-related injuries — TweakTown · tweaktown.com · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Garry Nolan on UFO materials and Kit Green's patient studies (Vice interview) · exo.substack.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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