Richard Haines's conviction about a secret project (1982)
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| Date | 6 April 1982 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Richard Haines, Jacques Vallée |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 94 |
| Year | 1982 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
According to Jacques Vallée's journals, on 6 April 1982 research scientist Richard Haines returned from a visit to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California convinced that a secret government UFO project existed. The entry does not record exactly what convinced him.[1]
Haines
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Haines worked at NASA's Ames Research Center in California on human factors in aviation and spaceflight, and became one of the most methodical researchers of pilot reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. He was also a co-founder, with Ted Roe, of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), one of the first organisations to focus on UAP as an aviation-safety issue.[1][2]
Context
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Vandenberg, on the central California coast, is the principal U.S. base for launching military satellites and test missiles into polar orbit and over the Pacific. It has a long history of UFO reports; in 2023 former Navy pilot Ryan Graves told a House subcommittee of a reported 2003 sighting of a large red object over a launch facility there.[3][4]
Vallée's journals
The entry is one of a series in which Vallée and his colleagues swung between belief and doubt about a hidden programme. In 1980 Vallée had written that he no longer believed the government had an ongoing project; Haines's conviction in 1982 and Richard Niemtzow's remarks in 1985 pushed him back towards believing one existed, but by September 1989 he wrote that he had found no evidence, "not even a hint", of an active black project.[1]
People and topics
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- Richard Haines — NASA Ames scientist who founded NARCAP to study aviation UAP reports.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- NARCAP — An aviation safety group founded by Richard Haines in 2000.
- Vandenberg Space Force Base — The California missile and space launch base.
On the Timeline
- Ground Saucer Watch and the State Department (1982) (25 February 1982) — A civilian FOIA group gets no answer from the State Department about UAP records.
- Pat Price's alien base reports (July 1982) — The Army's remote viewing chief finds 1973 reports of claimed underground UAP bases.
See every 1982 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Was there secret US government research?", UFOs Scientific Research (Oct 2016) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "Ted Roe", The Debrief · thedebrief.org · archived copy
- Vandenberg Space Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Big red UFO hovered over Vandenberg in 2003, congressional witness testifies", Santa Barbara Independent (Aug 2023) · independent.com · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Richard F. Haines — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Vandenberg Space Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · 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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