Andrew Basiago and Project Pegasus
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Contents 6
| Date | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | Andrew Basiago |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 92 |
| Year | 1981 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1981 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
Andrew Basiago, a lawyer in Vancouver, Washington, has claimed since the late 2000s that as a child he took part in a secret U.S. government time-travel and teleportation program called "Project Pegasus". No documents or independent witnesses support his claims.[1][2]
The claims
Basiago says he joined the program in the autumn of 1969, aged about seven, and that some 140 children and 60 adults — whom he calls "chrononauts" — took part, his father accompanying him on his first "jump". He says he was moved back and sideways in time dozens of times, visited Ford's Theatre on the day of Abraham Lincoln's assassination six times without seeing the shooting, and attended the Gettysburg Address dressed as a Union bugle boy; he says a famous Gettysburg photograph shows him. He also describes trips to Mars and says he met Barack Obama when Obama was a child.[1]
Promotion
Basiago has repeated the claims in interviews and at conferences and in a signed affidavit, in which he also claims the program gave the Defense Department foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks. He has linked his story to the "Montauk chair" legend, and ran a brief, unsuccessful campaign for president in 2016.[2][3]
Assessment
His only visual evidence is the Gettysburg photograph. Journalists who examined his claims, including KOMO News in Seattle, could not confirm any part of the story. The testimony includes them as an example of extraordinary claims that circulate in the UAP world, and notes that real quantum teleportation experiments, which began in the 1990s, transfer information between particles, not people.[1][2]
People and topics
- Andrew Basiago — Lawyer who claims he took part in a secret time-travel program called Project Pegasus.
- Project Pegasus — The alleged time-travel program described by Andrew Basiago.
- Montauk chair — Montauk chair
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Hangar 18 (film) (July 1980) — The film Hangar 18 depicts a government cover-up of a crashed UAP.
- GE contractor taken underground claim (1982) — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
See every 1981 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Wash. attorney: 'I have physically traveled in time'", KOMO News · komonews.com · archived copy
- Andrew Basiago — RationalWiki · rationalwiki.org · archived copy
- "10 people who claimed to have traveled to the future", Listverse · listverse.com · archived copy
- bibliotecapleyades.net · bibliotecapleyades.net · archived copy
- scribd.com · scribd.com · archived copy
- phys.org · phys.org · archived copy
- futurism.com · futurism.com · archived copy
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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